Cat Mask

Outside an ordinary inn in Tiranis.

Outside the inn that had suddenly announced it wouldn’t accept guests for a week, where rumors had begun to spread that a wealthy man from a distant land had settled.

“Please, please……. Without it, I…….”

A man was crawling along, looking utterly haggard.

His hair was terribly disheveled, as if he’d been like this since last night.

His trembling hands were smeared with dirt and dust.

Even his trouser legs were stained with blood from his scraped knees.

It was a pitiful sight.

Yet despite his wretched appearance, no one mistook him for a homeless man.

Though covered in dust, his clothes looked expensive and had an unfamiliar design. He wore a cat mask that covered his entire face, as if he were attending the upcoming masquerade ball...