Illustration for Of The House, from the adult visual novel The Bell-house

The ordinance says whoever holds the rope when the bell stops is of the house, and the bell stopped, and there were two of them on that rope for six hours.

MioneThe strokes column. Look at it. It has added one to my name and I never finished a quarter in my life.

CorvinaYou were on the rope at the stop. It does not care who was deciding. It only cares who was holding on when it stopped.

MalfoidThen we are both of this house now. Both of us, on a rope, in a tower, at twenty past four in the morning.

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