Illustration for What She Would Give, from the adult visual novel The Ninth Window

The room turns to Malfoid and she is sitting up with the sheet around her waist and the pin in her fist.

MalfoidI would give the name. All of it. The house, the seat, the bracelet. I would take one morning where nobody in this country knows who my father is.

The wall writes nothing. The wall has stopped writing, and that frightens Mione more than anything it has said.

MioneIt has stopped. That means it is not offering. It means it is listening for whether you meant it.

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