Chapter 218: Anima(Part 17)
"Huh? What the...? Where am I? It’s so dark, I can’t see anything," Akila muttered to himself with a frown, cautiously moving his hands out to try and find a wall to follow, before a startled squeal rang out as his right hand clamped around something small and soft.
"H-Hey...!"
"That voice...is that you, Kia? Oh, thank goodness, I thought I was alone in here. Which raises the question, where exactly is ’here’? I can’t see a thing?" Responded Akila, as he let out a sigh of relief.
"I-I don’t know, b-but, um...could you please let go?"
"Huh?"
"Y-Your hand is-...n-no, don’t squeeze!"
Akila’s eyes widened as he realized what he was touching, immediately letting go and jerking his arm back like it’d been shocked, a mortified look on his face.
"I-I’m so sorry, that wasn’t on purpose, I swear! Go on, you can punch me, as hard as you want! Or a kick, slap, stab, whatever you want, I-...!"
"N-No, it’s fine, I-I don’t want to do any of that. I know it was an accident, s-so it’s okay," She muttered, feeling relieved that he couldn’t see her face through the darkness, before shaking her head and adding, "M-More importantly, we need to figure out where we are and get out of here. I-I think it’s safe to say we were teleported."
"Yeah, but it doesn’t seem like any of the others are here. We were pretty close to each other when the floor began glowing, that must be why we ended up in the same spot. Looks like that Spell or whatever that made the floor glow was some kind of teleportation trap. Maybe random? We’re obviously inside a cave, it’s going to be hard to get around when it’s so dark," Frowned Akila, as he squinted and looked around.
There were dimly glowing crystals across the walls, but they barely gave off any real light. The pair’s eyes had somewhat adjusted to the darkness, but they could still barely see anything.
The two of them had been teleported deep inside a large, maze-like cavern inside a mountain in Anima, but of course, they had no way of knowing where they were.