We all went back to the basement level and came to the entrance.
　The fellow monsters who had been waiting there all climbed onto Alice's shoulders at once.

　Just as the fellow monsters had told Alice, the entrance had disappeared.

''It's really gone, what does that mean?''
I have a theory. Let's test it first.
So that means I have to get out for once.
Yeah.

　He nodded and forced the entrance open with normal ironclad bullets.

　If it's just my buddies, we'll be fine with the normal amount.

'Let's go out and reset the entrance once we're out there.
Yoda, Eve is still downstairs.
'That reminds me. I didn't see you when you came back, where are you hiding?
Even if we got out, the entrance is crappy.
Alice, can you find Eve?
Hmmm, why don't we look for the missing monsters?
I see.

　I can't detect any sign of Eve, but I'm assuming she's there, which means she's probably in the same place where the monster disappeared.

'Don't worry, you don't have to go that far.

　Celeste waited on Alice. Her face was full of confidence.

'Do you have a better idea?'
Yeah, I'm on it.

　Celeste said and took a carrot out of her pack.
　Gently dropping it on the ground.

　I knew that since the carrot = Eve, I would do something with it, so I watched silently after that - but Celeste didn't do anything more.
　What does that mean?　And you think.

　Dodo dodo--Eve has appeared!

　She came running at a tremendous pace, kicking the ground with the same momentum of her rush and head sliding from ten meters away.

　She ran straight into it and picked up the carrot like she was snatching it up.

''Hey.''
No, no, no.
'Ah!　You can't just eat a dropped carrot as it is.
Don't worry. Carrots are on the 300-second rule.
It wasn't even three seconds ago!

　Celeste dropped the carrot, or rather, right after you put it down, it was already here.

'I mean, why now?'
Where there's a carrot, there's a rabbit.
I've heard that line before!

　Like the third book in the popular series, The Great Demon King.

Oh well, I'll get to that first.

　Celeste, who had summoned the rabbit, took over for me as I ran into Eve, and finished the scene.
　We followed suit and got out one by one.

　Now that we were all out, the entrance had been restored.

　We entered the dungeon together again, which was back to normal.
　Eve followed with a bite of a carrot.

'Well then, same as before. Just follow Alice.'
Riley!

　Alice's fellow monsters jumped off her shoulders again.

'Everyone watch the entrance. If there's anything to close, I want you to watch the moment it closes.
Okay, you know what I'm talking about.
I'll do my best!
......

　After asking Celeste, Emily, and Eve to help me, I proceeded to the back of the dungeon with Alice, with Vanadium in tow.
　Alice guided me through the dungeon without encountering any encounters.

I'm sure you're not the only one who is afraid of that. Even when I was locked in, I was totally fine with it.
I think it's only people, I'm afraid.
Okay.
'And isn't it even safer in a dungeon? Even if it's someone else's dungeon.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm relieved it's not my dungeon. I think this is the happiest I've ever been in my life, using your dungeon as a house.
Okay.

　I've never been particularly concerned about it, but it's true that the situation we're in now might be heavenly for Alice, who was born in a dungeon.

　As I was thinking this, I came to the stairs leading to the second basement level.

'Alice,'
Yeah!

　The three of us went down to the basement floor.
　I looked at Alice, who shook her head.

　This time we climbed the stairs and went back down to the basement floor.
　I look again, still shaking my head.

　And then, trying to get back upstairs again--

Lyota!

　One step, the moment I descended the stairs, Alice shouted.

'Closed?'
Yeah!
I knew it was going to be 'stop coming back'.
Stop going back?
It's just an expression of convenience. Don't you usually go upstairs when you leave?
Yeah, they usually stay on the same floor the whole time.
"So it's 'back' to go upstairs,
'Oh, yeah, I kind of get it. Sometimes I feel like, 'I need to do some more,' and that's what I mean.
All right. All right, I'll join you guys and get this--

　Instantly, the landscape changed.

　All at once, the ceiling, walls, and ground that had been glowing blue-white until then disappeared and became a pitch-black space.
　In the midst of all this, only one lane of the roadway could be seen underfoot.
　It wasn't shiny, but it was clearly visible in the pitch black.

What is this place? Oh, are you okay?
...... (pulp)

　Alice wasn't there, but Vanadium was with her, holding her hand.
　Vanadium seemed to be frightened in some way, and his linked hands were shaking.

'It's okay, we're together,'
......(country)
Let's just move on. We can't stay here.

　We walked down the street, holding hands.

　It's a strange feeling.
　There's nothing around me, the road, too nicely done to compare.
　I'm walking, but I can't feel whether I'm making progress or not, and I'm beginning to feel lightly intoxicated.

　Vanadium's hands were still shaking. He was walking slow, and he was one step behind me, holding my hand.
　I hold it as tightly as I can without it hurting.
　I'll stay with you, I'll never let you go. With the message "I'm with you, I'm not letting you go.

　I want to take away as much of the fear as possible.

　I'm walking for a while, and then suddenly, a light appears in front of me.

"Looks like a way out, you're gonna be okay...

　I turned around to reassure him - at the moment, he stopped moving.

　As to why, the first thing I can say is that it was a hunch. I felt a tremendous sense of discomfort and danger on a hunch.
　After the movement stopped on a hunch, my head searched for the reason.

　An uncomfortable feeling.

　It was the trembling of vanadium.
　Fear of vanadium, why fear?
　Wasn't she afraid of ...... people?

　Of course, it's not impossible that this space could have something to do with the death of her in her previous life - Erythrolium.
　But ...... my gut was screaming that it wasn't.

'......'

　I stopped turning around and continued on with Vanadium's hand in mine.

　When I came to the glowing area, I saw a stone statue there.
　A mountain of stone statues, many of them decayed and broken.

　I took a glance at them.
　They were all stone statues of the "moment I turned around".

'That's a nasty trap,'

　I tweeted and walked past the stone statue.

　A strange sensation develops.
　I feel something.

　It's a sensation much clearer than intuition, a sensation similar to the five senses.

　If I were to use an analogy, I'd say that I feel a hot wind blowing on my skin, and it's dangerous because it's hot.
　That's a clear sensation on a five-sense level.

　I was lured by these sensations, and I continued on my way. And then we stop on the road that goes on and on.

　Stopping - for more than ten seconds.
　The landscape popped off. It shattered like glass.

'Lyota!'
......!

　Just as my eyes flashed in front of me, Alice's voice and Vanadium's impatience came through my connected hands.

　I look around, near the stairs on the second basement floor.
　There, Alice and Vanadium are looking into my face with concern.

'Am I the only one who went to ......?'
What are you talking about?　Are you okay, Lyota?
Yeah, I'm fine. More than that.

　I look around, scurrying around and pointing in the direction my 'senses' are leading.

'That way, right, the stairs leading to the third floor?'
'What?　Yeah, yeah, I know.
Okay.

　This was the moment I began to somehow understand Alice's senses (、、、、、、).