The paladin sword hit Ray's hat. It disappeared when it touched it. The dark mist scattered around. The mist gathered in the air and Charletto emerged. She was floating in the air.

  Charletto: "Charletto can cut anything. Charletto can't cut the Owner."

  Ray stood up. Her eyes were gazing at an opening between two Renees. She ran there and jumped through, managing to get out of the crowd. She ran to the corridor and across it, encountering the rest of the Renees. They were asleep, unlike the others in the chamber.

  Ray: "Aren't we seventeen people?"

  She came to her room after running for a while. It was at the end of the Limited Eternal Dimension. The entire dimension was as wide as could be finished within an hour of running. Ray kicked the door open, entered, then closed it shut. The lock of the door broke apart. But it repaired itself. That was ordinary to Ray.

  All Renees had their own rooms across the LED.

  Ray looked around. There was a mattress on the floor. A box of items was next to it. A light bulb was hanging from the ceiling. A shower was in the corner near the entrance door. There was no window.

  The horde of Renees neared outside. A few of them rapped at the door. Ray felt no fear. Instead she was perplexed. The door was shaking and they were punching it from behind.

  Ray thought: "The door is protected under the safety spell. Only Charletto can cut through it. I have to leave this place before Whisper comes. How to leave LED? I have my page as the key! My page! Whisper had taken it!"

  Ray fell to her knees. "I am doomed. I can't win against her. Wait! Charletto didn't cut me. She mentioned the name of the Owner."

  She remembered her new clothes. It had once belonged to Owner Jacobine.

  Ray thought: "That's a big plus if Charletto is not in the game. The rest are still dangerous, though. An--"

  Two blades stuck through the door as she thought. They caused two openings across it. Ray saw Whisper through them. A few of them pushed their arms through the openings. One hand held a fireball. She threw it. The fireball bounced from one wall to the other wall. It flew at Ray and it hit her. Ray covered herself with her arms as her clothes caught fire.

  She rolled to the side on the floor. "I am burning alive!"

  But the flames didn't cause any harm. They diminished in seconds.

  Ray thought: "Where are the flames?"

  Suddenly she felt heat in her hand. She opened her palm. And a fireball was floating right above it. Glowing.

  Ray thought: "Owner Jacobine's ability! Wait! Did I just steal an ability like her?"

  Renees broke the door. Whisper ran in while the rest walked in.

  Ray thought: "For some reason they act slower and dumber than usual. Their eyes are still closed and they are crying. I have to get that paper. How am I going to use this fireball?"

  Ray threw the fire ball. It flew into the crowd at the door. It exploded like a grenade. Whisper jumped away inside the room to escape the explosion. The other Renees were on fire. A few died and their bodies disappeared.

  Ray thought: "That's my chance. The explosion has opened enough space."

  She ran to the door. She felt something wrapping around her neck as she left. It was pulling her backwards. She turned and saw Whisper. A pink whip was in her hand. The rope-like whip was now choking Ray.

  Ray said: "Charletto! You don't touch the Owner!"

  Charletto appeared floating in the air.

  Charletto said: "That's the whip of Renee Pink!"

  Ray was disappointed to hear the name Pink. Because Pink's skill was the weirdest among all the Renees. Her whips turned everyone they touched into lustful slaves. The opponent had to have sex all day. Or they would die.

  Ray said: "Fine. I will find a prostitute afterwards. Don't just stay there, Charletto! Do something!"

  Charletto: "I only obey Whisper."

  Ray: "I wouldn't have thought otherwise. I will have to be my own savior then."

  Ray started to run towards Whisper's direction. She crashed into her and pushed Whisper. She fell and hit her head against the wall. She slid down to the bottom of the wall.

  Ray checked the Whisper's pockets. Charletto landed from the air near Ray.

  Charletto: "The target page is not there. It is in the Hunter Book."

  Hearing this Ray started to run to the door. She jumped over some Renees. She crossed the corridor. She was running. She noticed she was holding a pink whip in her hand. She threw it away but it reappeared in her hand. She accepted her fate. She saw Knife as she came to the Chamber. There were a few Renees around.

  They didn't allow Ray to get to the bookshelf.

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  Ray looked at the pink whip in her hand. "I will have to make a confession in a church for this."

  She then swung the whip. The whip touched the Renees and they started to mate. But Ray couldn't hit Knife because she was too fast. Knife didn't allow Ray to reach the bookshelf. Instead Ray strolled around it. She tried to whip Knife but Knife dodged all the attempts. Knife was not throwing any knives. Ray referred this to the knowledge of the Owner's ability. She had to make a plan.

  Ray said: "Stop this, Knife!"

  Then an idea came to her. She would do something interesting. She had to be fast as the others might come in at any moment.

  Ray thought: "My clothing collects powers. Can they collect the power of their users if I touch them? With my skin? With these gloves? Or hug them? It's risky. I can't risk my life with Knife. I don't have to steal her ability. The others are still there. I can use them instead."

  Ray looked at the other Renees.

  Ray thought: "They are in the middle of intercourse. I would like to join them. But I need their power. I hope they have something handy."

  Ray ran toward them and touched their asses.

  Ray thought: " That was satisfying. I could have touched their arms, though. Did my theory work?"

  Suddenly an image appeared in her mind. Inside the image, there were elements of powers mixing up with one another. The best parts of the three powers merged. The best for the current situation would come out from this mix. Then it came.

  A power of creating a pillowcase that wouldn't tear apart.

  Suddenly a pillowcase appeared in Ray's hand.

  Ray thought: "I want to cry. What will I do with a pillowcase?"

  Knife suddenly threw a knife. Ray jumped aside. The knife passed by her. It turned around, changing its rotation, and came back. It was about to stab into Ray's nape.

  The pillowcase suddenly flew to Ray's head. And It covered it entirely. The knife fell down as its tip touched the pillowcase.

  Ray said: "What's happening? I felt something on my nape!"

  The pillowcase flew off Ray's head. Then it flew at Knife's face. Knife could dodge it but the pillowcase kept chasing her. Ray seized the moment and ran to the bookshelf.

  The knife flew at her as she reached the Hunter Book. It was about to hit her neck. The pillowcase flew faster than the knife and caught it in the air. It swallowed it. Inside the pillowcase, the knife flew around like crazy. It couldn't tear any holes.

  Ray ran to the bookshelves but Knife ran faster. She jumped onto Ray and they fell. Ray was between her legs. She covered her face. Because she thought Knife would punch her to death. But Knife didn't punch. Instead she caught Ray's forearms and pulled them aside. She positioned them on the floor and pressed her weight on her. Knife locked her like that.

  Ray thought: "Why isn't she touching me? Shouldn't I obtain her power as I did for the others?"

  Ray looked at Knife's hands. She was shocked by what she saw. Knife had put socks on her hands. This way she could prevent the touch on the clothes. Ray could see her bare feet.

  Ray: "Kill me! Will you keep me here? Why don't you finish me off?"

  The bluff didn't work. She had to be quick. Otherwise the rest would come and terminate her. Ray still didn't know the reason for this fight. She had never read any book. Nor had she attended any schooling about the rules of Hunters. Jacobine had never forced her to read, unlike the rest.

  Ray thought: "I can't even read. I am sure I missed something. I should have been more eager to read. Instead, I chose to play games, and here I am. Think, Ray! How will you get out of this?"

  In a sudden moment, the idea roared in her mind - the answer to her freedom.

  Ray thought: "I will make a bridge between Knife's skin and the fabric of my clothes. Unfortunately I know how to do it."

  Ray moved her tongue in a specific way. The way she had developed to make her mouth produce more saliva. Especially a sticky saliva that was hard to pull apart. Flexible and stretchy like plastic.

  The tongue movement produced a mouth full of saliva. Ray spat it out like a gun. The spit hit Knife's face but Knife didn't let Ray go despite this. Her face looked angry.

  But gravity and weight pulled the saliva downwards, stretching it long enough. The saliva was stretching towards Ray's torso. Knife couldn't do anything. Her knife was still in the pillowcase, and she couldn't pull her hands off Ray's.

  Ray thought: "Please work!"

  The saliva had widened itself enough. It touched the fabric of Ray's red tie. One side of the saliva was glued to Knife's face. The other side was on the tie. Ray waited for a while, hoping for the best. And preparing herself for the worst.

  Suddenly a shockwave poured through the saliva from Knife to Ray. Ray felt something hard in her palm. She scrutinized it and found that it felt like the handle of a knife. Her theory had worked.

  Ray smiled and wished for her knife to fly. The knife flew up above and hung above Knife's head. It fell towards her nape. Knife rolled to the side before it could slash her neck. Ray directly stood up and ran to the bookshelves. Knife tried to follow Ray but the flying knife didn't allow her to get any closer.

  Ray pulled the original Hunter Book. She flipped through the pages until she found her target page. It was there! As if it had never been pulled off. The book was repaired but Ray didn't care about this detail. She just crammed it into her pocket.

  But nothing seemed to be happening.

  Knife was running from Ray's knife. It was chasing her. The other Renees were still having sex. Ray looked at the chamber's entrance and across into the corridor.

  Whisper was there. She was standing still with a sniper in her hands. She lifted it upwards and threw it like a spear.

  Ray recognized the sniper. It belonged to Renee Sniper. This sniper can snipe you until you die. It can fly and position itself around with an automatic sniping ability within 5 meters.

  The sniper flew into the chamber and positioned itself on the ceiling. It fired a bullet. Ray jumped under the table. The bullet missed her! Ray heard the sniper reloading and then firing again. The bullet went straight through the table. It made a hole. Ray could see it.

  Ray thought: "I can't stay here. This sniper will turn this table into a cheese with holes. I can't recall my knife here because it's keeping Knife away. My pillowcase is holding Knife's knife down. Therefore I am stuck."

  A grenade rolled under the table. Ray recognized it! Her instinct shouted: "Use your hat!" Ray pulled off her hat and put it on the grenade. It kept the grenade inside. The grenade exploded but Ray heard nothing. She felt the shock of the explosion. She pushed the hat aside and found that the floor hadn't taken any damage. Since it was designed to protect.

  Ray thought: "This place is too safe. Too much protection keeps me inside when I need to get outside!"

  The sniper flew downwards. It landed on the floor. It positioned itself at the same level as Ray. Ray saw this. The sniper fired and Ray covered her face with her arms. The bullet disappeared before touching her clothes. Ray looked at Whisper from under the table. Whisper was sitting in a meditation position. Her eyes closed with tears coming down.

  Ray realized Whisper's intention of erasing the bullet.

  Ray thought: "Whisper knew I can mimic her abilities. That's why she erased the bullet before it hit me hard. Because I could have mimic her ability through a touch. I better do something about this. I don't know how to leave LED. All I remember is this. Others implied that the target pages were the key. To the outside world. But they never mentioned how to use them."

  The moaning of the whipped siblings annoyed Ray. Because of this she covered her ears. She tried to think but found out she was bad at planning. Whisper had always been the mastermind.

  Ray shouted: "But they have never mentioned why the papers smell like a wafer!"

  The scent of the papers had resembled vanilla wafer. This had always interested Ray. She had always liked sweet things.

  Ray pulled out the paper from her pocket remembering this. She smelled the vanilla aroma. She touched the tip of her nose to the paper to smell.

  Suddenly the sniper fired but from another position. It had changed its location while Ray was thinking. The firing sound came from above. The bullet penetrated through the table. It went straight for the paper in Ray's hands. Ray hugged the paper to protect it.

  The bullet disappeared as it had before. Ray couldn't touch it to mimic the ability.

  Ray thought: "The sniper will find a spot to kill me soon. My nape is open. I can't cover my nape and face at the same time. I will die. That's for sure. I crave wafer now. The page smells like a wafer. Maybe it also tastes like a wafer."

  The sniper fired again! The noise echoed aloud. Ray instinctively put the paper in her mouth. Only to pretend to eat something sweet. The paper dissolved in her saliva. It tasted exactly like vanilla wafer. She felt the pleasure of gusto with every chew. She swallowed it after chewing. She was keeping her eyes closed. Due to the intense relaxation of satisfaction.

  Ray thought: "My target papers had never tasted like this. Maybe because this is the real target that demands a visit to the outer world. I always got my targets from the copy Hunter Book. If I had known the original's taste, I would have stolen it... Where is the killing shot? Why are my eyes closed? I didn't close them."

  Ray tried to open her eyes. Her eyes opened but she looked into a landscape. She wasn't seeing the chamber anymore. Nor was she hearing any gunshots. She wasn't sensing anyone.

  Ray thought: "Where am I?"

  The cold breeze was licking her skin. And her butt was sitting on the soft snow. She saw trees surrounding her. A running river was flowing nearby. She tried to comprehend her surroundings.

  The only thing she understood was that she had come to somewhere else by eating the target paper.