Chapter 28: Scouting Ahead
Jonas hadn't expected Elmo to be as enthusiastic as he was about the kiss. Jonas had been with several guys during the times he was locked up. Mostly because there wasn't girls around, so guys became the only option for many. Hence, where the term 'gay for the stay' came from. Though, Jonas hadn't been able to tell if he was that way or if he was really bisexual. He enjoyed women, but found that men had charms that women just didn't have. Not that he could say exactly what those were.
However, while Elmo was more into the kiss than he had expected, Elmo still held himself in check. Maybe it was because Stanley's group could easily come back and see them or maybe there were other reasons, but Jonas let Elmo pull back. Though, his reasons were mostly that he didn't want to be caught by Kim and Elin in a compromising position for whenever they finished and came out of the secret room.
Especially if they needed someone on the outside to open it, since he hadn't really paid attention inside that room to tell if it could be opened from the inside or not. As it is, even with Elin and Kim in there, it wasn't a concern since there was someone who could open it from the outside anyway.
After Elmo pulled away, he didn't say anything and merely walked over to the wall that didn't lead to any hallway and sat down. Apparently deep in thought.
Jonas shook his head, not understanding how anyone could think with the racket Kim and Elin were making inside the secret room. Whatever they were doing exactly, they were loud, Jonas had to give them that. Then there was the part that while they'd beaten three goblins, there was also the chance that more could appear, even though that didn't seem very likely.
At the moment, however, he was thinking of how they could save the girls and beat the goblins. Part of what he was concerned about was that they couldn't say that more goblins wouldn't be coming through the portal or that the portal would eventually close. Which meant that the longer they took, the more goblins there could be.
While on the other hand, if they attacked now, they could easily become overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Even if there was a way for them to nullify those numbers, they couldn't say that they'd be able to last long enough to kill all of them.
They only have a limited amount of stamina and MP and once they ran out, they'd be pretty much defenseless, as without stamina, they wouldn't' be able to even run.
Any fight he'd ever been in before never had the possibility of getting killed that high of a chance, but now if they didn't succeed, death would be all but assured. Which really changed things more than he would have anticipated. After all, he had actual risk involved that affected something that he really cared about. His own life.