Chapter Three: The Museum of Harm

【3. Before closing, return all harm that does not belong to you.】 【Closing in 00:59:59.】 Lin's chest retained the phantom ache of the spear, and the back of his skull throbbed from the proctor's correction. Fault Vision swept the sign, but no red annotation appeared. “No easy loophole this time.” “Because harm never makes mistakes,” a girl answered from deep in the gallery. She looked seventeen or eighteen. Barefoot, she sat atop a display case, her dark hair cut to her jaw. Every visible patch of skin was wounded—cuts, burns, blisters, sutures, some fresh, others ancient. She held an empty glass bottle. 【A-Man, Keeper of Scars. Sealed.】 【Failure condition: None.】 Another being without a failure condition. “The second escapee?” Lin asked.