Illustration for The Door Lets One In, from the adult visual novel Hollow Chapel

At ten past five somebody tries the door from the other side and it opens for them, and not for Mione, which is the whole rule in one gesture.

PorterI heard a chisel. It is five in the morning and I heard a chisel and then the door unlocked itself and I do not like either of those things.

MioneYou are on the wall. Your name is cut above the vow. Get in here and do not stand outside where I cannot see whether you are lying.

He gets in. The door shuts behind him without being pushed, and the two of them stand in a warm chapel at five in the morning waiting for a stone.

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