Week 5 - Chapter 10 Danger In The Maze
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While the 7 executors were discussing Jin Kazama and Claris Lily, Jin and his friends were heading back towards the labyrinth crossroads.
After a while of walking, Jin's group and Drogoz's group had returned at the labyrinth's junction.
“Which direction should we take? Go to the right or the way to the left?”
Hazama asked Claris who seemed to know a lot of information in here.
"I do not know either. Hazama, don't ask me as if I know everything."
Claris shook her head in ignorance.
"Are we just guessing?"
Hazama was a little disappointed when he heard that.
"What's with that disappointed expression of yours, even though I don't know it but at least I can guess which way is right."
“If you look carefully, you will see that on the left side there is thick mud on the floor.”
"Meanwhile on the right, the mud is not too thick."
Claris Lily showed an important clue in the right direction.
“Does it have anything to do with finding the right direction?”
Drogoz then followed the conversation between the two of them. He had absolutely no idea why such things were related.
“Of course it's interconnected! Do you remember the path we took?”
Claris Lily asked to make sure they all remembered it.
"Ah that's how it is, I understand what you want to say."
Naoto and Crush simultaneously suddenly understood what Claris meant.
"Naoto what do you understand?"
Hazama asked Naoto after seeing that he already knew.
“Crush, you also understand what this girl means?”
Drogoz asked Crush with a confused face.
Crush and Naoto looked at each other, then Naoto saw Crush nodding.
“Let me explain what this lady wants to say, Boss.”
Crush stepped forward onto the left path then crouched down to pick up the muddy ground.
“Isn't the road we've been on before that doesn't have any wet soil? But why is there suddenly muddy ground here?”
"If you look at the thickness of the mud on the left, it is clear that the road on the left is a dead-end and it is certain that it is a muddy road."
“Although some of the mud here has dried up, judging by a large amount of mud on the left, it is certain that people who have passed this route have come back here because of a dead end.”
"Then they passed the road on the right, that's why the road on the right had not much mud."
Crush points to some muddy ground while explaining what he got after being given a hint by Claris Lily.
"Oh, that's how it goes."
Hazama and Drogoz nodded together, their faces both like people who had understood something after listening to Crush's explanation.
Then Hazama froze in silence as he realized something.
'Since when did my intelligence start on par with Drogoz?'
'Alas, this seems to be the result of when my mind was always filled with grudges.'
Hazama sighed as he thought about the things of the past.
Then he started to come back to reality.
"Let's move on to the next layer, looks like you guys are the last group after I saw the mud below us has dried up."
Jin Kazama, who never followed the flow of the conversation, immediately interrupted them to find out the time and place.
"That's right, we've spent in this labyrinth for about 4 hours."
Hazama who out of nowhere took out a watch.
"Oh that's right, you must be thirsty right?"
Then Hazama took out a plastic bag containing 7 soda cans in his hand.
"Well please drink this."
Hazama distributed the six of them and left one soda for himself.
After that, the two groups walked down the aisle to the right.
They walked down a very long and dangerous maze.
Sometimes, a single misstep would bring out a weapon from behind their sidewall.
“Hey, you guys be careful! Just now I accidentally stepped on a trap trigger!”
Naoto shouted for everyone to hear.
After hearing the screams just now, everyone started to look more carefully at their surroundings.
Suddenly the wall beside Hazama came out with a machine gun.
"Oh my god."
Hazama was instantly speechless when he saw the muzzle of the gun pointing at him.
Tatatatatata!
There was a continuous gunshot from behind them, where Hazama was.
After a few moments passed, the sound began to no longer be heard. It looks like the bullets from the machine gun are empty and run out.
“Oy Hazama, are you still alive?”
Claris Lily shouted at Kazama who was hit in a teasing tone.
“Huh, why did it have to be me who got hit instead of the one who triggered the trap?”
Hazama irritably kicked the empty bullet that was beneath him.
Unexpectedly the bouncing bullet actually triggers another trap.
Then the roof on the ceiling opened and dropped a huge hammer on Drogoz's head.
"Oops."
Hazama subconsciously let out a surprised voice when he saw that he had been careless.
Then the hammer fell and hit Drogoz.
Bro!
There was a loud noise at the front where Drogoz was. Surprisingly, even though the sound was loud and the hammer looked very heavy, for some reason the ground beneath them didn't c***k at all. It was as if the ground was tougher than the big hammer.
“Damn you Hazama.”
Drogoz whose hand had started to turn like a blade roared at Hazama.
"Hey, wait a minute. I really didn't do that on purpose."
Hazama dodged Drogoz's attack, but unexpectedly Drogoz was still chasing after him.
Then unknowingly, the two of them stepped on the trigger of another trap.
“Oops, looks like the trap this time is bigger than before.”
The two of them suddenly hugged each other out of fear. When they feel a vibration coming from beneath them.
Even though the power of the trap was definitely not too strong for them, it was still scary if it came suddenly.
It turned out that what they had hoped for had indeed begun to come true, the floor below them suddenly opened.
They saw that there was a very sharp nail and a purple liquid at the end. It looks like a very dangerous poison.
“What the...”
After seeing that, they were immediately frightened. Even though they have abilities, their bodies are still human. The human body still couldn't beat poison in the slightest unless it had the ability to regenerate and transform that was resistant to poison. Because the stronger the transformation, the more he can withstand the poison with their skin or hard flesh.
Seeing that, Jin Kazama immediately grabbed Naoto and Crush. Then he jumped high and then turned his palms up which took out a long blade from both of his palms.
The blade was stuck at the top of the ceiling, even though Jin Kazama's hand had touched someone's body but didn't know why he was still able to use Drogoz's power.
Drogoz gritted his teeth after seeing Jin Kazama use his abilities a step further than the original owner like him.
"s**t, don't think you're better than me."
Drogoz who was currently being hugged by Hazama immediately reached towards Crist who was beside him.
"Hey, you two hold on tight to my body."
Then Drogoz stretched his arms out to the side, both hands appeared a very large blade. After the large blade stuck into the wall, Drogoz's body managed to stay in the air.
"If you are no longer strong enough to hang on to me or hang on to the roof, you can stand on the blade of my big arm."
Drogoz shouted, especially he shouted towards Jin Kazama who was above him.
Upon seeing this, Jin Kazama and the others didn't hesitate and immediately dropped into Drogoz's large blade. They are firmly standing there.
"As expected from the boss's ability."
Crist raised his thumb to praise Drogoz.
"Hey is that woman going to be okay?"
Jin Kazama asked everyone here.
“Ah, it seems you don't know it yet, Jin, Claris Lily's ability is that it can penetrate anything as long as it has a surface. She himself said so."
Naoto explained it to a worried Jin.
"Oh? Isn't that a very useful ability for exploring different places?”
Jin Kazama raised his eyebrows in amazement.
“This is indeed a very useful ability, but it also has some drawbacks.”
“The only downside is that the owner's clothes will come off when using this power.”
Suddenly a female voice appeared from beside them.
"Oh? An ability that can not only penetrate objects but can also walk within them? What an interesting ability!”
Jin Kazama looked at Claris Lily's head that appeared on the wall and saw that her clothes were stuck to the wall Beside her.
“It seems you are experienced in using your abilities.”
Jin Kazama was impressed when he saw what Claris Lily had done.
Before she could use his ability, she took off his clothes quickly and stabbed them into the wall with his sharp weapon.
"Yes like that."
Claris Lily responded in her usual manner then returned to the wall again.
After 10 seconds had passed, the floor began to close again.
Then they all jumped to go downstairs.
Tap!
"Let's continue our journey again."
Jin Kazama said it while walking.
Everyone then started to follow him, they left Claris who was wearing her clothes.
*Claris Lily always wears a blue short dress.*
(She wears that outfit to make it easier for himself when she wants to use the ability to penetrate the surface of any object)
- Writer
