Chapter 453: Yomi?
At first, there had been fractured skies and land. A forestry of jagged trees and hoards of monsters to fight through. Too many monsters. They went deeper and deeper and fought until they reached their limit. They decided to go to enter a cave.
After what seemed to be weeks, they reached its end too.
Marta Kowalski stood at the edge of oblivion. The cave was smaller than they had hoped. It had an end—and the strangest kind of end too. A bottomless pit of despair. Marta had tossed some torches. Let’s just say they never help.
Walking corpses walked everywhere in this cave. They were teaming with death and this peculiar aura of death. But the corpses never attacked them. It was these other monsters, these birds and half-dead tanukis and kitsunes that attacked Marta and Sasaki Kojiro. Marta pursed her lips as she stared down at the bottomless pit, then over her shoulder at the platform she was on.
Sitting at a fire, tossing chunks of rotting flesh from previous monsters, was Sasaki Kojiro himself. The fire was unnatural and black in colour. It was as though the very properties of this realm were different from the real world.
How many days had they been here? Too long to count for either.
"Look, is that a smart idea?" Marta proceeded to ask.
"I’m smart and it’s an idea," Sasaki Kojiro replied, "so it must be."
"Smartass," she murmured. "The fire is going to attract attention. Look, can’t you see them?"
This was not a cliff with a comfortable amount of height. This was just a platform in a cave. There wasn’t that much of an advantage.
"Marta Kowalski of Poland, do you know where we are?"