Apart from the unlucky one, as Zachary had thought, some of the hiders had transformed into the likeness of pursuers in the game, but it was unknown if these transformed hiders also had the ability to kill pursuers as in the game.
Furthermore, Zachary did not believe that the few hiders he had just captured outside were all of the hiders who had become pursuers—there were certainly others who had followed different people into the manor.
Unlike the imbalance in the number of volunteers in the previous selection, this time, because it was randomly distributed, the number of pursuers and hiders should not differ greatly.
However, when the pursuers first entered the competition field, nobody counted the exact number of pursuers, and after everyone had entered, nobody verified the total number of pursuers again.
