After a while, there were noises and curses from outside the door.
"You stupid dog, why are you chasing me again?"
The dog ignored it, simply chasing and biting.
"Stay away from me! Your drool is almost on me!"
Strange cries for its parents sounded from outside the door, but no matter how much it begged for mercy, the dog still followed closely behind it, while Bai Yuze looked indifferent, with no intention of opening the door.
"Inside! Control this stupid dog!"
"Ah? I don't understand, -smida!"
Bai Yuze replied specifically to maintain politeness.
"I eat lemons, -smida!"
"Oh ho! Still cursing! Aminos, -smida!"
So Bai Yuze and the anomaly began a "-smida" competition, both using highly 'horse-laden' -smida rhetoric to "friendly" communicate with each other.
Thus, this highly influential moment was named "-smida Horse Race" by others!
"Alright, don't let it get bitten to death."
To let both sides' 'horses' rest, Yukino stopped this "friendly" spar. Bai Yuze's childishness was something Yukino couldn't understand; even after so many cycles, a childish streak still existed in Bai Yuze.
"Alright then."
Bai Yuze's ears were also ringing, and his mouth was sore. The anomaly was still useful for now, so he couldn't push it too hard.
Bai Yuze opened the door, and the familiar scolding sound was there again, while the dog obediently stopped.
Seeing this scene, the anomaly suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu. It widened its eyes and asked Bai Yuze with a puzzled expression.
"The reason this dog is chasing me... did you make it do it?"
"How could that be? How could I do such a thing!"
Bai Yuze looked indignant. The anomaly was stunned by this scene. Could it have really misunderstood the human in front of it?
"Are you really not lying to me?"
"Really! I, Yamauchi Haruki, never lie with my eyes open."
"But isn't your surname 'Bai'?"
"Ahem, I, Old Bai, never lie with my eyes open!"
"Then open your eyes!"
"Sand got in my eyes, I can't open them."
Anomaly: ...
Even though only one dog was chasing it, it felt like there were two dogs here at this moment. How strange!
"Let's not talk about that. Are you going to help or not?"
"No!"
As soon as the anomaly turned around, Bruce started howling again.
Anomaly: ...
"There's a strange door! I suddenly remembered! What a coincidence!"
The anomaly's speed of changing its attitude was comparable to flipping a book. Bai Yuze never expected to see an anomaly perform a face-changing act for him in an anomaly dungeon, and the anomaly never expected that it had already died once and was almost going to die again!
"It's this door."
The anomaly led the two people and one dog to an old iron door. This iron door was covered in rust, and a slight touch would cause a lot of rust flakes to fall off.
"Good heavens, this door is probably older than me, isn't it!"
Bai Yuze had seen rooms with three layers of dust, but this was his first time seeing a door with three layers of rust. This wasn't an iron door at all! It was a door made of rust!
"As far as I know, this is the most unique door in this basement. See if it's the door you're looking for?"
The anomaly tried to sneak away while speaking, but after seeing Bruce's direct gaze, it gave up the idea of escaping.
"There's no keyhole here either."
Bai Yuze pressed his hand against the door, carefully searching for a keyhole. Although his hand would get covered in rust, there was no other way now.
At this moment, the door shook slightly.
"I didn't shake it!"
Bai Yuze realized something was wrong and immediately took a few steps back.
The door began to vibrate slightly, and as the vibration became too strong, the rust on the door body kept falling off.
After a while, most of the rust on the door fell off, and a line of text appeared on the door.
["The Path of Light exists at the junction of the present and the future"]
"Alright! Let's go back."
Bai Yuze called out, then started walking back.
Out of trust in Bai Yuze, Yukino didn't say much. She followed behind Bai Yuze, pondering why they needed to go back.
"The junction of the present and the future... isn't that today and tomorrow? The junction is midnight, twelve o'clock."
Yukino thought for a moment and then understood, but the anomaly was still completely confused.
"Human, is the door wrong?"
"It's right, but the time is wrong."
The anomaly immediately breathed a sigh of relief when it heard this. Since it hadn't led them astray, did this mean it could leave?
"In that case, I won't bother you. I'm leaving!"
The anomaly was about to slip away, but Bai Yuze called out to it.
"You can't leave!"
But the anomaly didn't care about anything and just slipped away.
"Bruce..."
Woof woof woof!
Bruce charged out, while Bai Yuze and Yukino returned to the green-doored house.
Soon, Bruce returned, carrying the anomaly, which had already given up struggling.
"I'm tired. Do whatever you want."
The anomaly never expected to encounter a "living anomaly" in an anomaly dungeon. This made it temporarily unable to distinguish whether it was the anomaly or if Bai Yuze was the anomaly!
"I don't want your life. I just saw that you were quite sensible, so I invited you back, that's all."
Bai Yuze said with a shrug and a smile, and the anomaly also laughed... out of anger.
"Then your hospitality is truly unique. It's the first time I've seen a host retain a guest by having a stupid dog chase and bite them! If the guest's leg is bitten off, then you can retain them, right?"
"You just haven't achieved your goal of retaining them, have you! And! Don't call Bruce a 'stupid dog.' He's my best friend!"
Bai Yuze corrected the anomaly's address, righteously declaring Bruce's importance to him.
"You two, be a little quieter."
It must be said that Bai Yuze had a magical ability, which was being able to chat with anyone, an ability that transcended whether the other party was human or not!
If one day Yukino saw Bai Yuze lying on the road chatting with a rock, she wouldn't be surprised at all, but would choose to call a mental hospital...
"Ahem, let's get back to the main topic. I still have a promise to fulfill, so you can't leave yet."
Bai Yuze stopped arguing, and his words piqued the anomaly's curiosity.
"Promise? What promise?"
"That is to take you out."
"Upstairs? Forget it, there's a restriction here. I can't get out, otherwise, I would have left long ago!"
The anomaly shrank its neck. It had tried to leave before, so it secretly possessed a person who broke in here, attempting to leave with him. As soon as that person entered the door, it was annihilated, without even a chance to react.
However, it remembered that the person was also leading a dog at the time, but he ultimately left the dog here. Speaking of dogs, the anomaly subconsciously looked at Bruce, who was biting it.
Hmm! Yes! Very similar to this one that's biting me!