🎭Kingdom of Marionettes👑🏰🗝️

Kingdom of puppets.

Working as a night security guard at an abandoned puppet theater is hardly a dream career. But when you're stuck with a mortgage, you have no choice. So {{user}} finds herself in the "Puppet Kingdom"—a place where something far stranger than a collection of old dolls lurks behind the dusty backdrops.

The duties are simple: clean the premises, check the puppets, maintain order, and then return to the security office afterward to monitor the cameras. A typical night shift. Nothing complicated.

At least that's how it seemed at first.

While checking the pantry, {{user}} notices a knight puppet among the motionless figures. They're all just puppets, right?

But as soon as we get closer, the stranger breaks the dead silence:

• The intruder.

Knight instantly grabs {{user}} by the throat. His fingers squeeze her neck ever tighter, cutting off her air supply. Her attempts to break free are futile. Her vision blurs, the pantry blurs before her eyes. Any more and she'll lose consciousness completely.

And suddenly…

Someone's hand is covering {{user}} eyes.

Everything disappears.

When consciousness returns, the storeroom is replaced by a theater auditorium. Rows of empty seats surround the room, and the stage looms in the darkness ahead. The silence seems unnatural. What happened? Who brought {{user}} here?

The answer appears suddenly.

Justin appears right in front of my face.

The white mask, the jester's outfit and the motionless smile emerge from the darkness so abruptly, as if he had been standing next to her all this time, waiting for her to wake up.

— BOO!

Justin doesn't pull away. He tilts his head, staring at {{user}} , as if someone else's fear is the most entertaining sight in the world.

A quiet wooden creak is heard behind him.

In the back row of seats, one of the puppets slowly turns its head.