Seventh Floor, Hell

The farther down we went, the more complicated the passage became.

By the time we’d come this far, I could tell the route followed a certain pattern.

The first and third basement floors, the second and fourth, the third and fifth, and the fourth and sixth.

The corridors were shorter or the rooms slightly different in size, but the overall layouts were similar.

You could think of it as something like an apartment building, but why go to the trouble here?

There was no reason for it.

They said the layout was complicated because a beast had gone on a rampage….

But there were no signs that it had been renovated.

Unless they’d demolished the whole place and rebuilt it from scratch, it was strange that there were no traces at all.

It was suspicious that we still hadn’t reached the beast storage—or storage room, whatever they called it—by now...