Not waiting for a response, Alya stepped away from the group and leaned against a nearby wall while waiting and tapping her foot, causing the sound to reverberate throughout the cave.
*TAP*
*TAP*
*TAP*
Leaving the main cast behind, I ventured deeper further into the cave, surveying my surroundings carefully as I walked.
I had to make sure that there were no exit routes to this cave so the main cast would be forced to fight the real body of the tree and finally put an end to the loop.
If they were just a random path out of here somewhere in this path, their group would most likely take it, leaving me behind alone to fight the tree's real body.
Surprisingly, though, as I continued deeper into the cave, the tunnel did not diverge, so there was only one path that could be taken.
Were my worries for nothing?
...did the tree spirit plan this so that we would be forced to kill it?
