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[Adelle\'s POV]

It\'s been about a minute since Me, Raven, Alec, Aoi, Curtis, Eve, and Blake entered the [Labyrinth Of The Nurturer].

And we\'ve been walking down this long-ass staircase that whole time.

Our pace is neither slow or fast, it\'s because we\'re being wary of our surrounding too.

Especially Me and Aoi, we\'re in charge for detecting traps and enemies that we might encounter in this dungeon.

My skill, <Danger Sense>, doesn\'t really cover a big area.

So I\'m in the middle of our formation, Eve and Curtis are on my side.

Alec and Blake are on the front.

While Aoi and Raven are on the back.

Also, I noticed that Raven seems to be a lot calmer than any of us.

\'Does he know something about this dungeon?\'

I asked myself inwardly.

But I immediately shook my head at that thought.

\'Only the Lunar\'s staffs, the sophomores, and the tertiaries are able to access this dungeon.\'

We\'re just a very special case...

\'And asking the others who already entered this dungeon for informations is prohibited.\'

\'That\'s why we really have no clue about this place, except its name.\'

And that\'s probably the case for Raven too.

I\'m sure Miss Ruby wouldn\'t tell him a thing, and I know Raven wouldn\'t ask her a thing.

About why Raven\'s so calm, maybe he\'s just that confident in his strength.

"There\'s a pretty huge door made of rock at the end of the staircase."

It was then, Raven suddenly spoke.

And at his words, all of us looked at him.

"How do you know?"

Eve asked him out of curiosity.

"I saw it."

And Raven casually answered.

His answer just made all of us frown.

-Kyuu!

Then we saw Yuki, land on top of Raven\'s hair.

I was about to ask Raven where Yuki came from.

"Aoi, is what Raven said true?"

But Eve talked first.

She asked Aoi, who have the greatest eye sight in our group, if what Raven said is true.

Though at her question, Aoi frowned a little.

She glanced at Raven with complicated eyes.

"I don\'t know..."

Then Aoi mumbled.

"I can\'t see the end of the staircase yet."

And she added!

We all looked at Raven with questioning eyes.

And sensing our gaze, Raven looked back at us.

Then with a carefree expression on his face, Raven opened his mouth.

"Well, if you don\'t want to believe me..."

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Then he started walking down the stairs.

"Then don\'t."

And Raven statement.

"..."

And at his words.

Me, Eve, and the others just briefly looked at each other in silence.

And after a while...

"Let\'s just continue."

I suggested to the others.

""You\'re right.""

And they all agreed.

So, we followed after Raven.

\'That dumbass just really went down on his own.\'

Though, he\'s not really that far away from us yet as we can still sense his presence.

***

"This... It\'s true..."

I heard Aoi mumbled.

She seems to be in a big disbelief.

Why?

It\'s because after walking for a minute exact.

We reached the end of the staircase.

And what greeted us...

Is a huge door that\'s made of rock.

\'It\'s just as Raven said.\'

I stated in my head.

Then I immediately shifted my eyes at the back of our group.

There, I saw Raven with a smug smile on his face.

"How...?"

Then Aoi, who\'s beside Raven, asked him.

"I already told you guys earlier..."

"I saw it."

Raven answered.

Aoi opened her mouth again, I think she\'s gonna ask Raven another question.

"Adelle."

But before she could even speak.

Raven called me.

"Huh? Yeah?"

I replied, I didn\'t expect him to call me.

Raven pointed his finger in front of us, or to be specific, at the huge rock door.

"Can you sense any trap coming from the door?"

Then he asked me.

"Oh..."

His question is reasonable and you can say a top priority.

So I ignored the fact that he\'s trying to change the topic.

Aoi looks really frustrated...

Anyway, back at the huge rock door.

"I need to approach it first to be sure."

I told the others.

"Okay."

Then Eve replied to me, while the others just lightly nodded their heads.

After that, I walked toward the door...

Until I was only a few inches away from it.

I looked up at the door, and saw many cool looking symbols engraved on it!

"Wow..."

I unconsciously muttered.

"Cool right?"

"!?"

Then I suddenly heard a voice beside me!

I was surprised so I immediately snapped my head where I heard the voice...

"Fuuu..."

Then I let out a sigh of relief.

\'I was scared there for a second.\'

I thought.

It was just Raven, he\'s standing beside me and we\'re just a few inches apart.

He\'s also looking up at the door too.

"Why are you here?"

I asked Raven.

"I can\'t?"

Then Raven answered me with a question.

\'Man, he\'s really that type of people huh.\'

"Just let him be."

It was then, I heard Eve behind me.

"Okay..."

And following her words, I decided to just ignore Raven and get my work done.

So I closed my eyes.

"<Danger Sense>."

Then I muttered.

Swoosh-

And after a few seconds...

pαпdα Йᴏνê|,сòМ I opened back my eyes and I looked at the others.

"There\'s no trap around us."

Then I informed them.

"No enemies too."

And Aoi followed.

"So it\'s still the same huh."

Then, I heard Raven mumbled beside me.

I also noticed that he\'s looking at me when he said that.

"What did you just said?"

So I asked him.

"So it\'s still the same huh."

And Raven repeated his words earlier with a dead calm expression, just louder.

\'I really can\'t understand him sometimes.\'

I thought.

So I just shook my head to remove Raven\'s words in my head and brought my attention back to the big rock door.

And that\'s when I noticed a sign at the top of the door.

\'There\'s something written on it.\'

And I\'m sure that it\'s written in human language.

"Use a healing magic to the door to open it."

Then Alec suddenly read out loud what\'s written on that sign.

"Oh, there\'s an instruction huh."

Blake whispered to himself.

"Must be left by the others who already entered the dungeon to inform newcomers like us."

Curtis stated.

"That\'s most likely the case."

And Eve agreed to him.

After that, Eve looked at me.

"Adelle, you\'re the only one who can use healing magic in our group, so..."

She muttered.

"I got it."

And I responded with a smile.

"I\'m sorry for asking you for too much."

"Nah, I\'m fine."

After my few exchange of words with Eve.

I shifted my attention back to the rock door in front of me.

"..."

Raven is still standing beside me, but I just ignored him.

Instead, I placed my hands on the door.

"<Healing>"

Then I casted a low-class healing magic.

Swoosh-

Brrt-!

After that, a small trembling around us was felt.

Creeeak-!

And the huge rock door started opening itself for us after!

And seeing that, a satisfied smile appeared on my face.

\'I\'m glad that I was able to help the others right at the beginning.\'

I thought.

But it was then...

"!"

I sensed danger coming at me!

And before I could even inform the others or even response.

Swoooshâ€"

An arrow went flying toward my face!

\'It\'s poisonous!\'

I sensed that.

So I immediately raise my arms to block it as I can\'t avoid it!

\'Fuck!\'

Fwishâ€"

...

Tap!

"Eh?"

But then...

The arrow stopped right before it could reach me...

No, it was stopped.

"It will be really bad if this shit hit you."

Then Raven mumbled beside me with an annoyed voice.

I looked at him.

And I saw him holding a poisonous arrow in his right hand.

\'It\'s the arrow that was just about to hit me.\'

I\'m not an idiot.

I immediately realized what happened.

\'Raven caught the arrow.\'