"Li Xuan, we might be in some trouble..." Raiden Mei suddenly said with a hint of worry, interrupting Li Xuan's melancholic forty-five-degree gaze at the sky.
"What's wrong, Mei?" Li Xuan asked curiously. Did something happen while he was unconscious?
"Uh... we're trapped here. The entrance door is locked and won't open at all..." Raiden Mei said with a headache. As expected, they should have stayed far away from a place that appeared so suddenly. If only she had stopped Kiana, this wouldn't have happened, Raiden Mei thought. Her watery eyes dimmed with self-blame.
"It's okay, it's okay. We'll definitely get out!" Li Xuan said encouragingly, noticing Raiden Mei's downcast mood. At worst, he would just tear this place down. Could it be that Tyr's Wrist couldn't blast through a wall?! He was a man who could tear down buildings with his bare hands! Of course, that was only when he was wearing 'Knight Never Dies by Bare Hands'...
"Where are Kiana and Bronya?" Li Xuan glanced around and noticed that Kiana and Bronya Zaychik were nowhere to be found.
"Uh... Kiana got hungry, so she took Bronya to look for something to eat in the other small rooms," Raiden Mei said helplessly.
"..." Classic Kiana, Li Xuan was speechless. Probably only Kiana would think of finding food first instead of trying to find a way out when trapped...
"Raiden Mei!..." Suddenly, Kiana's sad voice came from behind them. Raiden Mei turned around, and a white furball, Kiana, threw herself into Raiden Mei's arms, nuzzling against her.
"Sob... Raiden Mei, I'm going to die," Kiana said, clutching her stomach in pain.
"Eh!! What's wrong, Kiana, are you hurt somewhere?!" This scared Raiden Mei, and tears started to well up in her eyes.
"I can't find any food, I'm starving to death..." Kiana said with the expression of a salted fish with no will to live, lying on the floor.
"..." Raiden Mei's feelings were complicated... I was so worried, and it's just this... Raiden Mei felt like her emotions had been played with.
Thump! A dull sound. Kiana Kaslana rubbed her head and jumped up from the floor. "Raiden Mei, why did you hit my head? What if I get dumber?" Kiana said, aggrieved.
'No, you're already pretty dumb...' This was the unanimous thought of everyone present.
"Hmm?... Then let me rub it for you~" Raiden Mei said with a smile. But behind her, it was as if a demon was smiling at Kiana... giving Kiana a strange sense of crisis, so much so that she was breaking out in a cold sweat.
"...No, thanks, haha~" Kiana forced a smile and scratched her head.
"I'm so hungry..." Kiana flopped onto the floor and went back to being a salted fish. "This is all because Kiana was running around, getting us trapped here..." Raiden Mei complained, a rare occurrence.
"Wuwuwu~..." Kiana let out a cry like a wounded animal.
"Sigh~ Here, for you," Li Xuan reached into his sleeve and took out a few bags of biscuits, patting them on the head of the salted fish-like Kiana. "Eh!! Food?!" Kiana, who had been on the verge of death just a moment ago, was instantly revived. She quickly, accurately, and fiercely grabbed the biscuits on her head. But Kiana, who had been crying about being hungry, didn't start eating immediately. Instead, she looked indecisively at Li Xuan and the others, her other hand hesitantly reaching out.
"It's fine, Kiana, you can have it. I still have more food..." Li Xuan turned his head away awkwardly, stopping Kiana's outstretched hand. He reached into his clothes with his right hand and took out a few more bags of biscuits and ham sausages, distributing them to everyone.
"Nice! Li Xuan, you're such a good person~" Kiana unhesitatingly gave Li Xuan a big 'good person' card. "I forgive you for groping my chest earlier~" Kiana said with her mouth full of biscuits, her words slurred. At the same time, she curiously stared at Li Xuan's sleeve... how could such a small place hold so much food?!
"..." Can you not mention that? Isn't punching me once enough to vent your anger? Li Xuan felt miserable inside.
"By the way..." Li Xuan popped a biscuit into his mouth and asked, "Have you guys tried to break down this wall with a gun or something?" As he spoke, Li Xuan glanced at the seven-star weapon 'Mjolnir' hanging from Kiana's waist. A weapon that could blast rocks to smithereens should have no problem with a wall.
"It's no use! It had no effect at all..." Kiana said with extreme helplessness. Her hand was almost sore from shooting, but the walls and door of this room were like they were made of diamond, completely indestructible...
"Really?!" Li Xuan said with some surprise. He knew that the seven-star 'Mjolnir' was incredibly strong... and even that couldn't break the wall?!
Li Xuan stood up, his hands empty. The five-star emblem pinned to his chest, 'Knight Never Dies by Bare Hands', flashed with a golden light.
Li Xuan took a deep breath, clenched his fist, bent his knees, twisted his waist, and threw his right fist out with all his might. In that instant, the force of his fist, nearly two hundred kilograms, was amplified by an unknown power by almost two hundred times, reaching a terrifying force of about forty thousand kilograms.
"BANG!" Li Xuan's fist made solid contact with the wall, creating a thunderous boom, and then... and then nothing. To Li Xuan's shock, the wall didn't budge, not a single crack, as smooth as new.
What happened to my ability to tear down buildings with my bare hands? This isn't scientific!! Li Xuan was dumbfounded...
"Hey, hey!! Everyone, look..." Kiana suddenly shouted from the side, pointing at another large door in the room. The TV screen next to the door, which had been dark and turned off, suddenly and eerily lit up.
On the now-white screen of the wall-mounted TV, a line of text suddenly appeared...
'The game has begun...'
(End of Chapter)