July 11th, afternoon following the meeting with Gastella.
Ke Mingye sat cross-legged on the bed in his bedroom, his eyes downcast as he fiddled with his cellphone. On the wooden table beside the bed, a handheld fan rotated slowly, facing his face—the weather was hot enough to roast the cicadas that chattered noisily in the trees.
In the email he had just replied to his second brother, he stated that he was unclear about Gastella's intention of disguising puppets as himself.
However, in truth, he knew that Gastella had done so for two main reasons:
The first was to test whether the players had already discovered her true identity;
The second was that if other players were aware of her appearance, by disguising her puppet in her own image, she might be able to lure out players who were lying in ambush nearby. Then, those three members of the Blood Clan who were Hunters could capture these players all at once, hopefully discovering the player who had a vampire hidden at home.
