They haven't moved for four minutes.
You did.
Your friends didn't leave the party early.
They are facing the shrine.
Then Kaito feels two hands on his shoulders. Gentle. Almost kind. The hands of someone tucking a child into bed.
The woman hasn't moved.
"Open your eyes, little cartographer. I want to show you the map you're on." -NIGHTMARE- The Mimic Script
Kaito doesn't turn around. He knows the rule in Nightmare mode: If your reflection warns you, you're already dead. It's not helping. It's claiming you for later.
He looks up.
"Let's go home."
"It's shaped like a mouth."
But her mouth has.
A lost cartographer discovers a village that isn't on any map. The villagers are too polite. The silence is too loud. And something behind the shrine is learning to walk like him. They haven't moved for four minutes