When Ben and the others left the hotel, Dorothy was following them at some distance, camouflaging herself using her magic.
According to the plan, Ben and Valentine would act like a couple while Mary and Anny would act like the bodyguard's House Ruth had hired.
This was to not arouse any suspicion of the killer when he noticed Valentine was going around the street like nothing had happened.
Meanwhile, Dorothy would keep her eyes on them and the surroundings in a third-person view to find anybody or anything suspicious happening around them.
Time moved on and everything seemed normal; she didn't find anything out of place.
Sigh~
'Well, seems nothing unusual.'
With a tired sigh, Dorothy lay on the cloud she summoned, which she would usually take a little nap on when she felt bored.
By coincidence, her eyes fell on a cat that seemed to observe Ben and the group.
"Hehe~ Now it's getting interesting..."
Looking at the white cat with brown patches all over its body, observing Ben and the group who were sightseeing along the way to the Harmonic Tower, Dorothy's lips curled up.
The cloud she was lying on, while her chin was supported by her hand, started to move close to the cat.
Twitch... twitch...
When Dorothy arrived behind the cat, suddenly its ears started to twitch, and it began to look to its left and right sides, feeling something was off.
Seeing no one, the cat once again started to look at Ben and the others.
With each turn they took, the cat would follow them and start watching the group.
After Valentine verified her identity at the Harmonic Tower gate and entered inside while holding Ben's hand with Anny and Mary, who were disguised as two guards, the cat left the area.
Dorothy was still following the cat to see where it would take her.
It came to one area of the wall where the guards were patrolling regularly.
When a guard passed through, the cat jumped into one of the bushes and hid from the guard.
When the guard passed without noticing it, the cat jumped out of its hiding spot and started climbing the tree near the wall.
Sitting on the trunk of the tree, the cat tried to jump on top of the wall to climb it.
Stud~
But it failed and fell. Noticing the wall was taller than the tree, it moved from one place to another, trying to climb it somehow, but miserably failed.
Observing the cat's unusual behaviour, Dorothy already became certain that the cat must be controlled by the psycho killer who wanted to stalk and kill Valentine or the cat must be controlled by him.
While the cat was searching for a loophole in the wall to break into the Harmonic Tower, unfortunately for the cat, there were no loopholes in the defensive system on the wall around the Harmonic Tower.
Moving all around the tower, the cat came once again to the entrance gate where a large crowd was waiting in queue to get inside.
Meow~
Realizing there was no loophole it could use to enter the Harmonic Tower, the cat cursed under its breath.
Suddenly its eyes landed on the carriage moving towards the gate, which the guards were checking.
Seeing the carriage, the eyes of the cat twinkled with joy and moved stealthily towards the carriage.
Just after the guards finished checking the carriage, the black cat jumped inside the carriage through the gap before the door of the carriage was closed.
The carriage was carrying goods for the music festival, and it was hidden inside it.
Seeing the cat succeed in entering the tower, Dorothy also entered the tower in her camouflage behind the carriage.
When the carriage moved towards the storage area of the tower, the cat jumped out of one of the windows.
With a victory grin on its face, the cat jumped out of the carriage.
Looking at the cat's victory grin, Dorothy started casting one of her spells.
"Dream Magic: Thinking Bubble."
While whispering the spell when the grimoire opened, Dorothy cast the spell, and the magic formed in the form of violet mist and entered the cat's head.
After the violet magic mist entered the cat's head, small bubble clouds appeared on top of the cat's head and started to show what the cat was thinking.
If the cat thought of eating something delicious, the bubble cloud would show the cat enjoying the delicacy and how it wanted to savour it.
The bubble cloud started to show the cat's thoughts.
Seeing the thoughts displayed by the bubble clouds, Dorothy confirmed her suspicion.
The bubble cloud displayed Ben, who was accompanying Valentine, being tormented by a man with blue bushy curl-haired man with a big moustache, smiling evilly while amputating Ben's hands and limbs.
Valentine was looking desperate, seeing her lover getting tortured and begging the man.
The man looked pleased, seeing Valentine's reaction, and once again started tormenting Ben.
Just when the cat was about to go look for Valentine, it noticed Valentine and the young man holding hands, leaving through the exit while giving him a warm smile and chatting happily.
The cat's face turned ugly just when it decided to trail behind them and find the opportunity to kill Ben and teach Valentine a lesson.
"Dream Magic: Mind Prison."
Noticing the psycho killer was about to get away, Dorothy, with narrowed eyes, cast another spell on the cat, coming out of the camouflage.
The cat, hit by the spell, suddenly couldn't react in time, and its eyes rolled, passing out.
Unknown room...
Cough... cough...
In a dimly lit room, the man who was shown in the thoughts of the cat started to cough while holding his head in pain, while nerves were bulging on the verge of tearing through the muscles.
His eyes were bloodshot, and blood was trailing from his nose, ears, and mouth, along with tears of blood from his eyes.
"Damn... who the fuck broke my spell."
The man screamed in anger and pain.
"It's all his fault... just wait, my darling, tonight I will prepare a gift for you in your room. When you wake up, hehe, just think about the reaction you will make. Ah... it feels satisfying like anything."
Hahaha~
The man with a cruel smile and laughter echoed in the room.
Knock... knock...
"Mr. Gendo, are you in there?"
A voice came from the door.
Suddenly, he heard a knock on the door, which made him stop his laughter.
His face, just a second ago showing a crazy expression, now turned into a soft smile and exuded a gentle aura.
Hotel room...
After coming from the Harmonic Tower, Ben and the others met with Dorothy and discussed with her.
When they heard Dorothy found the psycho killer who stalked them, everyone was shocked that they couldn't find any abnormalities when they were moving in the street.
Looking at the shocked faces, Dorothy started to explain how she found the psycho killer.
Sigh~
"Unfortunately, he slipped my hands... I cast one of my spells to imprison his consciousness inside the cat's body and capture him, but due to the cat's fragile mind, the connection was cut off."
With a sigh, Dorothy pouted that she let the psycho killer escape.
"____"
Noticing the bad mood of the captain of Coral Peacock, Ben knew next time the psycho killer met her, he would never wake up from his dream.
Everyone went to their room after Valentine met with her family to sleep soundly.
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