"oi! eye patch!, how do we get out of this place??" after the battle, both of Soseki and Ogai wandering around this jungle to search for a way out, but they found none, Ogai at his end wits says that to Soseki

"how should i know? I'm as clueless as you are" Soseki replies to Ogai, lucky for them there's no more mandrake coming out after Soseki beat the mandrake, he finds a piece of paper, when he touches it, the mandrake data written in his books, with its name, illustration, history and many more

Soseki looks at his watch, either it is broken, or time doesn't move normally at this place, they already search for a way out for about 2-3 hours most likely, but the clock says they only spend around 3 minutes of time

"shouldn't a guide coming right now!? an animal guide? either bear or cat? something like that!?" looks like Ogai really at his end wits, even Soseki doesn't dare to tell about time anomaly on this place and just ignores him

(should i try to sleep? nose said i can go to that place by dreaming? but there's no chance that Kyouka will sleep at this time) Soseki actually at his wit ends to, and Soseki realize that they're lost on this jungle

Both of them just wander aimlessly, hoping on pure luck to find some way out, but rather than way out, he finds something else

".......ssst" Soseki gives a signal to Ogai to shut his mouth, Ogai that already at his wits "huh!? whaddya want!? ordering me around this time!?" , "no dumbass, lower your voice! there's something over there" Soseki answering Ogai by a whisper, the truth is until this time none of them know each other name, Soseki just calls him Punk, while Ogai calls him Eyepatch

In front of them, there's another bizarre figure than Mandrake, the figures this time has a woman face but donkey body

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"ugh..disgusting, eye patch hurry up and beat her" Ogai whisper this and urges Soseki to use Pan to beat the creature in front of them

Soseki replies Ogai with another whisper "are you stupid? what if that thing stronger than Pan? and is that supposed to be a whisper? lower your voice more punk"

While both of them arguing, the donkey-faced woman, stomping her feet, both of Soseki and Ogai look at the stomping sound, and finds that the donkey-faced woman already facing directly to them, the donkey-faced woman raised her head and a pair of ice chunk fly to them

"wtf!?" "uwaaa!!" the scream of Soseki and Ogai can be heard, the ice chunk doesn't fly at high speed, but it still surprising for them to see ice creates out of nowhere

"wtf this ugly woman want from us!" Soseki says after he evades the ice chunk

While Ogai on the other hand "yer donkey, yer only a donkey how can a stupid donkey create that!"

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The donkey-faced woman suddenly creates a shrill sound and run away from them, both don't know why she runs, but just feels gratitude about that

"....oi Punk, I've been wondering for a while but what do you mean by "spirited away" back then?" says Soseki not long after donkey-faced woman runs away, he actually doesn't believe on that kind of thing, but right now he's trying to be open-minded

Ogai replies Soseki question "tha....that's just a local folklore on this island, a person sometimes disappear, only to be found in a sleeping state"

".....say, if there are some chances that the person that's disappeared is sent to this jungle?" Soseki asks him back

"how should i know!? i never spirited away before" Ogai retort to his question

"lets... lets just rest for a while, looks like i starts to blabber some stupid thing" Soseki give his opinion in which Ogai agreed, Soseki rest in the shade of a tree, while Ogai choose some rock and sit down

While resting Soseki open his book, and try to read it... most of all it's only story, biography, illustration but on some pages, he found

Name Arcana Lvl STR MAG END AGI LUK Pan Fool 2 3 3 3 3 3 Garu Kouha             Mandrake Death 3 2 3 3 4 4 Poisma Bind Voice            

(Status? this is a little bit like a game huh, let's see... Poisma: creates a ball of poison, bind voice: high pitched scream.. hee, Mandrake is stronger than pan, but how can they be defeated so easily? oh weakness wind, i see) While Soseki concentrating at reading the book, Ogai starts to wander around the area

"Oi! Eyepatch!" Ogai talks to Soseki, he looks to where the voice comes from, and Ogai throw something to him, rather than something, what Ogai throw to Soseki is a dagger, while Ogai himself have an axe on his hand

"ooh..where did you find this?" Soseki playing the dagger at his hands while saying that, this scenery amazes Ogai and he says "....i thought you're some kind of a nerd, who would've thought that you can use something like that"

"this? this is only a hobby," Soseki answer while continue playing the dagger and reading the book, Ogai in his heart retort (...he just continue playing the dagger while reading a book like it was nothing!?)

"Mandrake" Soseki out of nowhere saying this, a letter comes out like before, making a circle and a mandrake formed, Ogai seems alerted by his action and readied his axe but Soseki says "no need to worry, Mandrake, search around this area and find us an exit" .. the figures that try to kill them before, giving Soseki a salute before went off

"Alright then Pan" Soseki this time want to use Pan and makes him search from the sky, but... there's nothing come out

"ah... so i can only use one at a time huh" he keeps experimenting and taking a notes on his regular notebook

Ogai that watches all Soseki action changes his mind and thinks (yup this guy is a nerd but...... eyepatch!! stops playing around with that dagger like that!)

After they have enough rest and decides to move out, Mandrake comes back, pulling Soseki pants, thinking that Mandrake finds a way out, both of them decides to follow him, and what they find is a hut, they're going inside and find a bookshelves, a desk, a hammock, a sofa, some food, but what's taking Soseki interest is the bell, he tries to ring it three times, following what Christina do

*Cring* *Cring* *Cring*

Out of nowhere, a storm of paper coming in, when they open their eyes, they already back to where they gone, minus the book and the dog

"oh" Soseki mutter this to himself

"......we're back? just like that? , that's somehow a little bit anti-climatic" Ogai in confusion say this to himself

"ah! school" Soseki looks into his watch and finds that they are only gone for 4minutes, he takes his back and starts walking toward the school

"...gah! i forgot my bag back then!" Ogai that forgets about his bag, follow Soseki from behind to the school