That night, Raditia couldn't sleep.Not because of noise.But because of a silence that was too orderly.
He stood in the middle of the hall, staring at people who pretended to be calm.
"We're not playing," he finally said."No one disappears because of rules.""And none of us were appointedto watch over the others."
Some people avoided his gaze.Others stared back with cold conviction.
"If we keep going like this," Raditia continued,"what remains won't be good people.""But people who are the most certainthat they are right."
Kazuhiro stepped beside him."I don't know when this started," he said honestly."But I know one thing—we've gone too far to pretend this is normal."
Hansol clenched his fists."If Aoi is right," he said quietly,"then the most dangerous thing isn't this place."
He lifted his head."It's us."
There was no answer from the sky.No sign that the game had begun.
Only humans—standing in a pause,with choices they never asked for,yet must bear.
And in the distance,a door slowly closed.
Not by the system.Not by the game.But by human conviction.
Episode 16To be continued