Their faces were symmetrical with their bodies moving in was not thought possible. They are dripping. Or is it their bodies stretching through The fabric of reality? Either way, we knew it was the end.
5 hours have passed and you go back to the entrance of the exam hall again. You stare at your phone, debating whether or not to call Kento, or use this opportunity to block his number. Before you could finish that though, you reserve a call from Kento that snaps you back into reality. You greet each other and he suggests that you two meet up again to see if you are either gonna study, or try to get closer to the entrance. You look in front of you as you see an endless amount of people in front of you. Most of them are swarmed around the sign up station, and you remember the guy who helped you sign up. You give a prayer for God to help him and his fellow co-workers. Kento laughs at your reaction. He says "Seeing this crowd on a screen is way different than in real life. Thank God that the 6th family and the Barrier forces agree to help each year to keep everyone safe."
Context: The Barrier force and the 6th family have an agreement with Grandviville that each year they use their powers to keep everyone safe from being stomped on by one another as the great numbers of participants got greater, the more fatalities due to people running on each other. But with the help of the Barrier forces and the 6th family's, and a little contribution of detection from the 4th family with their technology, the fear of people squishing each other is no more as the energy barrier force field will constantly keep everyone safe and have the ability to breathe. But still, being stuck or in an uncomfortable position is a you problem.
Kento ask where you are at the moment so you two can meet up. You try to think of a way out of this, but none come to mind so you relent and ask for where he is instead and you will come to him. Kento says "I am near the entrance. On the right a bit next to the sign station chaos." Now that the exam is so close to starting, there are so many people there that you can't even see the sign up station. Only a never ending sea of people, so it took a lot of searching and a lot of calls to finally reunite with Kento. When you finally reach him, you raise your hand to dap him up, but he just gives you the hand shake, so both of your hands were in an awkward position for a seon till you relented to the hand shake hand position. Kento remarks how he never really expected it to be this crowded in real life, so they both should use this time to try and reach the entrance gate to the halls instead of study and practice. You don't get why the rush to the gates as the energy barrier things will keep them safe anyway. He tells you that even if you two are safe, you can still be overwhelmed by the crowd of people and not be able to finish the exam on time, which is an automatic disqualification.
34 minutes later and you two are still fighting through the layer of people to reach the gate. You two haven't even made that much progress in all this time. Not only that, but Kento also was almost swallowed up by the swarm many times due to his small size and stature. Thankfully he was able to keep himself in place till you came for the rescue. As you are taller than Kento, he keeps asking you how long is it till the gate as he can't see for himself. "It's still a long way. " You rely. "Really?! Oh no, at this rate, we will never be at a safe distance from the gate to guarantee that we are not disqualified by the time deadline." He says. As much as you don't want to admit it, he is right. You think if you vibrate the ground and make a lot of people trip and fall you two can just walk on top of them and continue running on people till the gate, but you drown the thought as it just feels wrong to do something like that.
Then suddenly, people for some reason just opened up a huge path to the gate. You use this opportunity to what you thought was a shift in the people's flow to start running to the gate as now there is an insignificant amount of people in the way. Kento kept calling out for you but you just thought it was him going to tell you again to slow down as he couldn't catch up. You can't blame him though because you have also been complaining your fair amount too due to fatigue. Now that you think about it, people's voices started to get quieter and the amount of sheer noise that was happening a moment ago is now almost gone to just a whisper of what it was once before. You then heat this voice in your head telling you to look behind you then go to the left side as quickly as possible. It sounded like Kento, and this was your first time hearing him using it on you.
You look back to see people walking in the distance but you can't really make out who they are. You listen to Kento anyway and run to the left side of the split crowd where you spot him after he pings you again and tells you that he is to your far left. When you reach him, you ask him what's happening. He says "The next generation of some of the 11 families have arrived." You are a bit confused as most of the 11 families's next generations mostly come way before the clock is up by a few hours, but it's 20 minutes before time ends. You look back and see that it might be members of the Zoldic and Lawirio families. As you are not really up to date yourself with what the 11 families are up to, because you don't care, you don't really know who they are opening the way to. As they finally reach the gate, it opens and they enter.
"Well that was a waste of time" you say after things get less tense. Kento replies to you in an angry voice "What were you doing?! Do you realize that you almost walked on the same floor that Zoldic and Delta was going to walk on!! Thankfully you got out of the way just in time, and if you didn't, do you understand what they could have done to you!!!" You reply "Relax bro. Everything turned out okay, so there is no need to be worked up about it." Kento facepalms himself gave you a look of 'Is this idiot serious!' But before he can say anything, you both then notice that people are now running to the gate again and closing the way that was opened by Delta and Zoldic. You both start running to reach the gate as much as possible.
As you are both now panting next to the gate you hear a loud voice say "Possible students of Grandviville, for the first patch, the test will begin as soon as this gate opens, so good luck and begin." After the broadcaster finishes the gate suddenly opens and you and Kento are now being pulled by the wave of people. You and Kento were really tired, so the wave of people moving you two helped as you two couldn't rest as when you reached the gate, the exam started, so this was a good change in pace. Right as you think that things are finally going to be a bit easier now, a net catches and holds a bulk of people right next to you. Other ropes thin wrap around and carry many others in the distance. Kento screams to tell you "This isn't the first phase of the exam! What's going on!" You reply "Do I look like I know!!" You can't hear what he us saying anymore from everyone's screams. Kento then uses his power to talk to you and you are able to trace where his signal is coming from like he is sending you his location or something. When you look back, only is hand is visible, so you swim on top of the people and grab his hand and pull him out. You two communicate through his telepathy and you ask him if he is okay. He tells you that he is fine and he has new information. From his power he was able to know that this is an elimination round that Zoldic forced the Ropest to do to take out in his words 'The unworthy', which was everyone if he sent the Ropest to block their way. You understand what is happening now, but it doesn't help that now you know you are going up against the Ropest. You then grab him and tell him to hold on to your back as you will carry him on it till one of the halls. He affirms your plan and you look into the horizon of the gate and how it's a dark hallway and the ropes are appearing from it's darkness. You joke how this would have been slightly easier if they just opened the lights instead of using the sunlight.
He gets on your back and holds on tight. While running, you constantly vibrate and collect your vibrations and release them as the end of your legs to give you a bit of forward thrust. You also purposefully hit the ground with your legs with as much force as possible with each step so that you could also use the vibrations produced by those harsh steps to slightly boost your speed too. This technique makes you much faster than normal, but it's exhausting you, and Kento being on your back isn't helping at all. As you are running, many ropes come your way, trying to catch you, but you effortlessly dodge all of them like you knew exactly where they all were going to come from and how they were going to move before you seeing it happen. You figure that it might be Kento sending you the thoughts of Ropest so that you can know where the ropes will come from. You are in awe at how good he is at using his power and you can't even imagine how much time it took to have such mastery and control over his power.
While running deeper and deeper you find it harder and harder to dodge the ropes. Kento says "At the rate that the ropes are increasing in number, I don't think we will be able to make it!" You reply "I noticed, and I don't think I can running that much longer, my stamina is running out fast!" While running, you both sense that a bunch of ropes are going to amerge simultaneous and they look like they are aimed at you two as you were in the lead and closest to any of the halls, and from what you two sense, there is no dodging this one. You try to run back the way you came, but a thin string of rope wraps itself around your left hand, you scream out to Kento "Yo! I thought you hand the ropes covered, so why did this rope feel like it came out of nowhere!!" He replies "That rope was too fast for either of us to react! It seems like they don't want any one today to even try this test!" You reply "You are telling me that with all of this, the Ropest is still holding back?!!" You look back and see that almost everyone is being held in a large net of ropes, and there is not was of escape like the people were bugs in a spider's net. "Damn, this is it huh." You say with a defeated voice.