Sky and Ai strolled in the huge underground space they fall into, they found that it's actually a natural crystal mine that filled with all sorts of colorful crystals and gems, the tiny ray of light shined on it and refracted resulting in a really unique and beautiful scene. However, there is a weird awkward atmosphere around the two...
"This place looks more mythical and dreamy than the surface." said Ai out of amazement.
"Yes, it is. Hmm... If Chris was with us, he will certainly love this place." said Sky, try to hide his weird awkwardness when alone with Ai.
"Mmm, he surely will. Maybe we can collect some for him?" said Ai, trying to break that weird awkwardness.
"That's a good idea." said Sky.
They probably had forgotten about Seito and the others who are probably still trapped in the same space as them.
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At the other side of the underground space, Seito, Itsuki, Yuki, and Junior had landed in the same area, all of them had escaped the boulders and debris and found each other, Itsuki who lost track of Ai is very worried and anxious.
"Ai is not with us, where is she?" said Itsuki, quite anxious.
"I believe she might be at the other area, but don't worry, with Sky's barrier, she should be alright." said Seito.
"Tsk... I remembered she was with me the whole time, how did she separate from me?" said Itsuki, a bit confused.
Junior looks at these two brothers and pretends that he did not push Ai towards Sky's direction when they were about to fall...
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Sky and Ai continue strolling and exploring the environment around them while collecting some crystal and gemstones that they thought will be useful, however, the weird awkward atmosphere is still there.
"Uhm... You know... Actually, I could escape those boulders by myself just now, but I remember from one of that safety awareness speech, they said it would be quite dangerous to do so, so I did not do it." said Ai out of the blues, which caused Sky to burst into a small laughter.
"Just what speech is that? Why don't I have any recollection about it?" said Sky, a bit more relaxed compared with a moment ago.
"The one we have in school just after that slime pandemic, I remember you were there too." said Ai, in a casual tone.
"I remember about that, but are you sure it's not you that misheard the content?" Sky asked, a bit teasing.
"It's not! I am very sure about it." said Ai, a bit unhappy with that teasing from Sky.
"Ahaha... Sorry, I'm just joking." said Sky as he noticed Ai's 'anger'.
"It's doesn't really sound like a joke... Hmm? Hey, look! There's a really unique crystal on that rock." said Ai while pointed at a huge rock a few meters away from them.
Sky look at the rock pointed by Ai, indeed, there is a colorful crystal on it, it has a really unique shape of iris flower.
"This is really pretty, I wonder what it is?" said Ai, trying to touch that crystal, but before she could reach it, it shattered.
"Ah..."
Ai is a bit shock by the sudden occurrence, while Sky stared at the scattered crystal, trying to figure out what was going, but before he could think of anything, he heard some familiar voices calling for Ai, it's Itsuki and the others.
"Itsuki-kun! We are here!" Ai shouted and successfully drawn Itsuki's attention.
As soon as Itsuki noticed Ai, he quickly ran towards her and grabbed her hands.
"Ai, are you alright? You are not injured, right?" Itsuki asked as he carefully checking on Ai.
Sky look at them without saying anything, he refused to believe that Itsuki actually repeated what he said and did a moment ago.
"It's a bless that everyone is alright, but how are we going to escape this place?" Junior asked.
"Ah! Damn! Who the hell that said we should land and leave Seiryu at the bottom and climb up the mountain on our own?" said Sky, obviously this time it's not him.
"I remember it's Dr. Ben, he said he is interested in the plants on this mountain." said Junior.
"Ah... Just pretend I didn't say anything just now. Junior... Uhm... Can you fly?" Sky asked all of a sudden which Junior respond with a 'are you serious?' look.
"My wings are just some sort of 'decorations', even if it does functional, it would not more than five meters." said Junior, totally rejected Sky's stupid plan that he hadn't had a chance to say out.
"Don't worry, I'm just trying to be humorous. Anyway, whether you all have realized it or not, there is an unusually heavy magic press in here which is stronger compared to Null Dimension, so we can only do some really basic magic, which is why my barrier breaks quite fast on its own, this indicates we are unable to use our magic to escape this place, even if I brought Seiryu with us, I would not be able to summon him or even maintain his dragon form." said Sky.
"Ah, now you mentioned that, I do felt something wrong about my magic since just now." said Seito.
"What should we do now?" Yuki asked.
"Tsk..."
Sky looks around the geographic structure of the underground space to find if there is some standing point they can use to climb out of this underground space, suddenly, he saw a group of humanoid creatures walking towards them...
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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