Kirigiri Novel Book 2

Chapter 7-Part 2 The Detective Crossing the Fog

Kirigiri shoved back the hair that was on her cheek and tried to leave the room.

"W-wait, where are you going?"

She is leaving without solving a bunch of mysteries.

Kirigiri didn't answer. She just left the room, walked along the corridor, and headed for the stairs.

She stopped on the landing. She stood still on it.

Starting from the first step, the stairs above were damaged and completely missing.

"The places not related to the game process are sealed with cement walls. But here, the stairs aren't sealed with cement. I don't think this is accidental. It's probably for the sake of fair play as well."

"Fair play... Is there any secret there?" Kirigiri nodded.

What's up there?

But, I can't go up there even if I wanted to.

I looked from the missing steps, and I could see the landing of one floor below. Some small rubble made a rustling sound and fell down. Although this height isn't enough to make people feel the threat of death, at least it will give a little scare.

Why make this place look like a ruin.

I wonder what it would take to get over this missing staircase.

The missing span of the stairs is about two or three meters, but the location of the landing on the opposite side is higher than my line of sight.

"We can take some sheets and twist them into a rope and hang them on the opposite side. What do you think?"

Kirigiri proposed.

However, at first glance, there's nowhere to hang a rope on the opposite side.

"I guess this is where I come in."

This distance is not impossible to jump over.

I'm very confident in my jump. The problem is that there is no place for a run-up in this place, and the landing point on the opposite side is too high.

After I made up my mind, I went down the corridor, intending to start a run-up from here.

"Wait, onēsama, you're going to jump over by yourself? I think that's still too much of a stretch."

Kirigiri said worriedly.

"Just leave it to me. If we want to keep going, then danger is unavoidable. In order to solve this mystery, we can't stand still, right?"

"No, onēsama, if you are injured, there's no way to take you to a hospital right away. It's better to use your mind to think before acting blindly. There must be a better way, don't you think? onēsama."

Kirigiri began to panic.

"It's okay, if I get hurt, I'll let you take care of me." I did my stretching exercise.

I hope that the prison life these days didn't make my legs dull.

The stairs are straight down the hallway, then 90 degrees to the left.

here I go.

I'm going to use my high jump technique. Then as the stairs came into view.

Jump—

The height difference on the opposite side is almost the same level as my line of sight.

I never thought I could land on both feet.

Once I manage to reach the upper half of my body there, all I have to do next is crawl up with the strength of my arms.

—After a short time in the air.