They hated themselves for abandoning her like this when she needed their help the most, they hated themselves for being weak and coward but it's the only way to survive now.
People who always talk about being hero and they talk about how they going save everyone are usually the most coward and disgusting bunch who only talk about this things to boost their ego.
In face of fear even strong one also run away to preserve their life instead of saving weak and helpless.
As they were running suddenly world become dark again because of that while turning to his left side James collided with container cargo ahead of him.
"Oouch." James rub his forehead with his hand.
"After turning left we would arrived at where underground storage room door is." James said to everyone, after saying that James turned to left side and they arrived at place he was talking but it was every other place in container terminal.
There was no door anything like that, only container cargo stacked together on both sides of road.
"James, where is that underground storage room door you were talking about." Yui asked him with clear frustration in her voice.
"Don't be rash that door is inside the container, it won't be outside like any other door think about it." James is clearly scared and frightened now after seeing those nightmare creatures and fireball.
It wasn't something that would exists in reality but in fantasy stories and in anime, manga and webnovel.
Its the horror beyond his imagination, he was refusing Yui words from the beginning about the nightmare realm, he thought she was crazy in the head that's why she making up this weird stories but now everything she said turned out to be true.
This isn't the place he knows about this is completely different world compared to their chthon planet.
James started to look at every container door near him with torch light in his hand then he would move on to next one with anxious expression on his face.
"You sure know there's something like underground storage room here, you are not lying to us right?" Yui asked once again as this eerie feeling is keep growing inside her ever since she saw that fireball in sky.
Now, that fireball has disappeared that means whoever it was targeted at will be in great danger but the most scary part who's the target of this attack that would need to create such huge fireball in first place.
"James don't hide anything to us, tell detail or anything that you are looking for the door we may able to help you." Noah said to James as he isn't feeling good about their current situation.
"Look for the container door with SE 1 BA 2536 written on it, that's the container cargo with underground storage room." James said in hurry as sooner they find the door is safer they would be, James whole clothes are now covered in his sweat as anxiety keep growing inside him.
Noah and Yui start to look for the container cargo door with SE 1 BA 2536.
"I found the door, I found the door." Noah said with joyous expression on his face that only last for few seconds as they now have to open the door to check whether it really had door or not.
Noah found the container cargo door with SE 1 BA 2536 to opposite side of container cargo of James.
Yui run back to Noah side and look at the container cargo door and it indeed have SE 1 BA 2536 written on it, James heard Noah voice but he couldn't see him even though he holding torch light in darkness.
James vision is limited compared Noah and Yui in darkness as he normal mortal, Yui run back to James and the girls and walked towards the Noah together with them.
James look at container cargo door behind Noah, it was indeed same SE 1 BA 2536 written on it.
James stood infront of the door and first lifted the latches above the handles and pulled the both handles at the same time to release the door the right side door is opens now and he did same with left door and opened it up.
Now, container cargo door is opened. Inside the container cargo is completely empty and because of that Yui and Noah could see the one handle of trapdoor on the floor.
All of them enter inside the container cargo, James opened up the first trapdoor but second one beneath was made of heavy metal and wouldn't bulge no-matter how much strength he use and even togather with Noah help both of them couldn't open it.
"Hurry up both of you." Yui d with anxious expression on her face as she worried and feared about something more scary then skinomore.
"We are doing our best." Both James and Noah said at the same time.
Exactly at this moment they heard huge explosion sound, sound was almost comparable to nuclear explosion as if someone really used nuclear bomb, it almost felt like their eardrum going to burst open now.
It wasn't the end soon after the explosion sound came shockwave as the fireball explode in sea and explosion shockwave came like worst nightmare for them it destroys the all the windows of office and the container terminal become chaotic as shockwave pushed and throw the container cargo from their place
Sea water washed over the sea port and containers cargo terminal along with nightmare realm sea creatures as explosion shockwave passes through the sea water but that wasn't the worst part.
The worst part was the huge wave is coming towards the sea port because of explosion in sea but few seconds after the explosion sound came high piercing shrill cry from the sea.
The shrill cry was so terrifying that everyone who heard it start to loose their vision and lost their consciousness they all dreamed about terrifying creature made of tentacles and pus living in the deepest part of the ocean, this creature don't have any eyes or mouth just tentacles and pus coming out of its tentacles.
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James slowly opened his eyes and looked around his surroundings, he saw Yui and Noah sitting on the floor infront of him.
They seems to be inside the room, he look around starting to get familiar feeling from the room and he remembered this is the same underground storage room he was talking about to everyone but the question remains who opened the door?
One by one other girls also wake up they look around the unfamiliar place, the whole room giving of gloomy vibes as the whole storage room is dark and only source of light is torch light.
No one knows how much time has passed after they heard high piercing shrill cry from the sea.
James look at the Noah who's condition seems to be worsed than before as there's new bloody claw marks on his chest.
"Noah for how long I have been unconscious?" James asked as he's head is still hurting and he could vividly image the things that he saw inside his dream while he was unconscious.
The existence beyond human comprehension that lives in deep ocean of nightmare realm ready to devour its prey the moment it gets mark by it, James shook his head to forget about this things as there are more urgent matters to focus on.
"I don't know maybe its hour or something." Noah absant mindedly as he thing about other things but can't talk about that to anyone.
"How did you guys bring us here?" James asked as he still remember he and Noah couldn't opened the trapdoor but now they are here and before he loose his consciousness he remembered the high Piercing shrill cry.
The reason behind the lost their consciousness was this shrill cry, whatever this shrill cry came out of isn't something he ever want to see or heard again in his life but he also feels like the monster he saw in his dream is behind that shrill cry.
He doesn't even want to remember that dream anymore, looking at other girls face they seems to share same opinion as him.
"Its obvious by carrying you all here." Yui answer to the James question.
"Me and Noah both of us carried you all one by one here in underground storage room." Yui said as she looks at all of them.
"What really happened out there, when we lost our consciousness and both of you seems to be exhausted and Noah seems to have worst injuries here." One of the girl said even though none of them talk or made kind of noise after they left container cargo where they first caged.
But now they felt little bit more safe compared to before and take a look around the room.
They saw one of the girl is missing from the group before they lost consciousness she was together with them but now they opened their eyes here they couldn't find her.
They didn't make obvious about this as they know this isn't their place to question three of them from the way it looks only Noah and Yui knows what happened to her but they didn't asked both of them as all other girls except for Yui shared same unspoken agreement that they won't ask such questions.
The place seems similar but it completely different world and they know being alive for this long is best case scenario for them.