If it happened on alternating nights, then it would be dangerous. But there was no telling for certain. 'Monsters,' she had said, in the plural. "We'll have to go quickly."
He started walking, but stopped and turned back. "—If you wouldn't mind?"
If monsters sometimes hung out in the middle, it must be guarding the room that led to the front door, he thought belatedly as his mind caught up to the implications. But he and Ryuugamine had gone there once, and hadn't met anything. It was possible that the door to that room becoming a portal had short-circuited the monster program, but the problem really was that Ryusei didn't know how it worked. The intercom announcements seemed to imply that the nighttime occurrences were deliberate, maybe arbitrary. No point in trying to guess it. Still, he was torn between the options of going straight through and stopping to check the door. That depended on whether anything was there in that hallway tonight, but there was also the possibility that the ghost needed time to manifest—time they would be giving her by taking a detour. "We could take the stairs instead...."
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He started walking, but stopped and turned back. "—If you wouldn't mind?"
If monsters sometimes hung out in the middle, it must be guarding the room that led to the front door, he thought belatedly as his mind caught up to the implications. But he and Ryuugamine had gone there once, and hadn't met anything. It was possible that the door to that room becoming a portal had short-circuited the monster program, but the problem really was that Ryusei didn't know how it worked. The intercom announcements seemed to imply that the nighttime occurrences were deliberate, maybe arbitrary. No point in trying to guess it. Still, he was torn between the options of going straight through and stopping to check the door. That depended on whether anything was there in that hallway tonight, but there was also the possibility that the ghost needed time to manifest—time they would be giving her by taking a detour. "We could take the stairs instead...."