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Once Aya and Hioki gathered the most valuable stuff from the adventurers who were killed, both of them prepared themselves to see what this wall was about and how the same party of adventurers were so interested in it to the point where they had to kill Aya.
Hiroki, who was now in possession of one of those adventurers, understood that they were not interested in taking any materials from the dungeon.
Their main goal had to be something related to the last dead end with a wall containing binary numbers that contained words and numbers from his previous world.
"I don't understand what they wanted here. They followed me until the last level and even helped me out. So why would they want to attack me?"
Aya inquired as she looked at the dead corpses, which were lying some meters away from the wall with inscriptions.
"I even told them that I didn't want any of the materials from the dungeon…"
"They didn't care about the monsters in this dungeon." Hiroki calmly explained as he looked at the dead end. "What their goal was… the deepest part of this dungeon."
"This wall?"
"As much as I hate to say it, yes. They clearly had a goal in mind when they entered this dungeon. They even went as far as paying that ridiculous amount of money just to enter a dungeon where the possibility of death is much higher. So getting rid of you in the end is no surprise."
Aya looked at her side, reflecting on everything that had happened until now.
Amidst the conversations and feelings shared during the adventurers' facade, she couldn't help but recall every moment spent with them. Despite her discernment of their manipulative intentions and her efforts to distance herself, a weak part of her heart still couldn't escape the sorrow she felt for the group of adventurers.
But the other part of her heart was clearly not interested in them, accepting the fact that they all deserved their deaths for targeting her.
"Do you feel bad for them? You should know that they had probably planned this out from the beginning. You, coming here, was nothing else but a bait to them until they would reach their destination."
"N-no, that's not it."
Aya immediately responded to the obvious and twisted way the group of adventurers had probably planned their objective.
"It just feels... weird to think of how easily they died."
"Are you scared?" Hiroki inquired, his red eyes looking through all of the emotions and movement patterns of the girl's body.
Aya's eyes widened for a split second before she wryly smiled at the worried-looking Hiroki in front of her. She knew very well that what Hiroki was asking wasn't because of the unsightly view of the corpses lying around.
"It's nothing. Sorry for making you feel worried."
"..."
Although Hiroki wasn't entirely comfortable with Aya's deception, he chose to let it go to avoid making her feel uneasy.
Both Aya and now Hiroki, who was possessing one of the adventurers, were looking at the wall in front of them to understand what the adventurers were trying to accomplish here.
"There are weird drawings on this wall..." Aya expressed her awe at the weird numbers of one and zero that were put in chronological order.
"It's not just random drawings. It's information." Hiroki explained, "Or, to be more exact, instructions."
"You can understand that?" Aya asked in surprise.