After recovering their stamina, Zich and his companions began to move again. They found a passageway at the end of the area they were in, and there was a rectangular entrance identical to the one they had used to enter. Zich decided to use the same method as before. He took out iron chains and handed them to Hans. However, he didn’t go down immediately, and he looked at Lyla.

“Will you really be alright?”

After wiping off her sweat, she looked fine, just a bit tired, but Zich couldn’t help but worry about her. 

“We can rest some more before we leave. We can even return to the city for a bit and come back.”

Lyla shook her head. “No, there’s no need for that. I am just a bit tired. It’s not like my condition is ruined. I can still respond to unexpected situations.”

“Well, I know you have good judgment, so I don’t need to say more. Let me just ask you one more time. Are you really fine?”

“You are not acting like your old self—completely opposite of Moore.”

“The current me is myself anyways. I quite cared for my companions too even back then.”

“Yeah, that’s true.”

As they exchanged words that Hans, Snoc, and Elena couldn’t understand, the two smirked. 

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