Entering the doctor's house via a ladder and upper-floor door, I found the corpse of an operated fog monster, which later vanished. After finding a drawer key that unlocked note detailing suspicious family practices, I discovered a doll, bloody claw marks, and an open, blood-smeared window.
I approached the front door of a house and knocked, only to find it locked with a broken mechanism that refused to budge. Hinako called out for a doctor to see if anyone was home, but the building appeared completely abandoned.
Spotting a ladder around the back of the house, I climbed up to check for an alternative way inside. Sure enough, I found an open upper-floor window leading through to inside.
Once inside, I followed a trail of bloodstains until a sliding door suddenly slammed shut and locked on its own. Hinako wondered if it was the doctor, though it felt far more like a spirit's doing.
Finding another operable door, I walked into a room housing the gruesome dead body of a fog monster. It looked like the creature's corpse had been surgically operated on, presenting a deeply unsettling scene.
With nowhere else to go on this level, I headed down the stairs into the lower areas of the sprawling apartment building.
Though devoid of living souls, as a doctor's home, I figured it should at least hold some medical supplies.
Examining a large piece of furniture, I searched a drawer and uncovered a small, inconspicuous key, leaving Hinako to wonder what it might unlock.
Investigating the upper hatch revealed a horrifying sight filled with massive eyes and layered fog masses, though it also helped me realize which locked drawer upstairs the key was meant for.
Returning to the upper room where I had previously found the fog monster's corpse, I noticed the body had completely vanished.
I tested the key on the stubborn drawer, and it popped right open, revealing a piece of paper: the local doctor's note. The note detailed how the trust placed in the long-standing physicians and remained unshakably strong.
Shortly after reading the note, I stepped out of the room and heard a strange noise echo through the hallway. Testing the previously stuck sliding door, I found it had slid open a fraction; pulling it the rest of the way open revealed no one inside, but I did find a doll used by the doctor.
Right beside it, unsettling claw marks scarred the wall, leading toward an open window smeared heavily with bloodstains, suggesting something monstrous had just escaped outside.