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The Residents of Cranberry Street – Part 04

“Up we go.”

The next room was as bizarre as expected. Hanging from the ceiling were upside-down trees and benches, and a chandelier sat upside down on the floor. The left wall was filled with bookshelves, but the books were arranged upside down. It was a room designed to flip everything on its head.

Kazuya looked around, surprised, while Victorique walked to the right wall. He followed her.

Several black-and-white photos were pinned to the wall.

“I put those up,” the woman explained.

The three of them stared at the photos.

In the first, a black-haired girl and a blonde young man were standing in a forest. The girl wore an old-fashioned dress, and the young man, dressed in shabby immigrant clothes, was sitting on a bicycle. Dense trees loomed behind them.

The old woman squinted. “This is… Arthur and me when we were young. Arthur was… about your age. I was still a child. I…