'Sigh. This person, General Ameri, I hope I don't come across her.'

Crawling through the air tunnel, the puny human thought as he looked at the purple gas around him.

His face was covered by a black mask that allowed him to breathe without worrying about the gas. Gas mask, the second tool he got from the mysterious lady.

'Thank God the memories had information regarding this,' he thought.

He was glad that the memories were turning out to be true.

If things go smoothly, he could escape.

'But it's not that easy.'

The puny human thought as he looked forward.

Bones. All he could see were bones. Bones of animals, bones of mice, and mostly bones of humans

'No wonder there isn't an escapee.' He thought as he pictured General Ameri as a huge and scary woman.

'God, please keep her away.'

--

Scribble scribble... Crack

In a room lit orange by the light, a cracking sound erupted as the scribbling sound stopped.

General Ameri, who was focused on her writing document, stopped as she looked at her hand.

The pen on her palm appeared to be broken.

...Sigh

After staring at it for a moment, she threw it in the trash bag as she looked around for another pen.

Unfortunately for her, there wasn't a pen on her desk.

Looking at the other officer's desk, she couldn't find any.

Sigh

She sighed again as she stood up and looked around, but she still couldn't find any.

If there were guards here, she could have ordered them to bring a pen, but since she was alone, she decided to go by herself.

"Hmm?"

As she walked, she saw some files on the senior's desk as she remembered her recent conversation.

'Oh. I almost forgot about it.' She thought as she picked up the document.

"Another year, another wanna-be escapee," she muttered as she looked at the content of the file.

The file was that of the criminal who had tried to escape the prison.

Just like the senior said, the criminal was, as they would say, average.

While no criminal was an average human, in this prison that locked away many wonders, there were.

'Although he might be dead by now,' she thought as she was no longer interested in the document.

Closing the document, she walked outside the office as she headed towards the store room.

"Hmm. Who are you?"

As she walked outside, she felt a presence behind a pillar as she looked straight at the pillar.

Cling cling

With the sound of bells ringing, a woman wearing black clothes that covered her whole body walked out of the pillar.

Her black clothes had small golden bells attached to them. General Ameri got an ominous feeling from the bells as she frowned.

On her hand, she was holding a brown bag, from the bottom of which blood was dripping to the ground.

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Staring at the woman for a moment, General Ameri kept her frown as she opened her mouth.

"What are you?"

She asked, as she got the feeling that the woman in front of her wasn't a human.

"For you to sense me not being a human, the general of this prison sure lives up to her title."

The mysterious lady spoke as she smiled within the black cloth that was covering her face.

"That still doesn't answer my question." She said this as she extended her hands forward.

Swoosh

Black iron chains appeared out of thin air as they wrapped around the mysterious lady, pinning her on the spot.

"Please don't be so hasty." The mysterious lady said as her figure disappeared and appeared beside her initial position.

"An illusionist?"

Bam Bam

General Ameri became alarmed as she swung the iron chain around her surroundings hitting the walls and ground.

The figure of the mysterious lady again disappeared, but this time she didn't appear as the iron chains kept swinging.

General Ameri, alarmed, observed her surroundings since illusionists were dangerous for her.

"Not quiet"

But despite that, she felt a whisper around her ear as she quickly bent down and swung the iron chains.

"Don't be so alarmed; I'm just here to observe you."

The mysterious lady's sound resounded as General Ameri's frown deepened.

"What is your objective?"

She asked as the iron chains froze mid-air.

"Who would be stupid enough to reveal their objective?"

The mysterious lady giggled.

General Ameri became silent for a moment. She took a deep breath as she closed her eyes.

The surroundings became silent for a moment.

After closing her eyes for a moment, General Ameri opened her eyes as she stood straight and started walking towards her destination.

"What happened?"

The mysterious lady asked as General Ameri ignored her question and kept walking.

"It seems like you can't attack me."

General Ameri finally said this as the mysterious lady went silent.

"Interesting. Hehe, you foreigners are sure interesting." The mysterious lady spoke as her presence disappeared.

General Ameri stopped on her track as she tried to process what she said.

'Foreigners?' She frowned as she looked upwards.

'So there are others beside me.' She thought as she turned around.

She was about to walk in the opposite direction when

"SENIOR."

She suddenly heard a scream from a room.

Some guards ran towards the room as General Ameri, feeling something bad, turned around and ran.

"What happened?"

She asked as she entered the room.

All the guards, alarmed, looked towards her, then at the source of the commotion.

"This is?"

General Ameri walked forward as the guards walked backward, allowing her to walk.

"Do you know how this happened?"

General Ameri said as she bent down.

In front of her, there was a headless body lying on the ground.

"He was alone in this room." A guard said this as General Ameri remembered the mysterious lady she met.

The lady was carrying a brown bag that was dripping with blood.

'It's that woman.' She thought as she stood up.

"There's a criminal on the loose. She is wearing black clothes with small bells attached all around. Look for her and be careful; she uses some kind of illusion sorcery." She said this as all the guards quickly straightened up and saluted.

"Roger General."

--

'Argh. It's too much.'

The puny human, crawling uphill, thought as he looked forward.

He has been continuously crawling, but still, there was no ending.

'When is this fucking thing going to end?' He was annoyed by every little thing.

The poison gas was still here. He had to be careful not to cut himself by the bones, or else he was going to be poisoned. He had to keep conjuring the little amount of mana he could for light.

His eyes were starting to get a little heavy.

'...Should I sleep?' He thought, but quickly shook his head, as sleeping between poisons was dangerous.

'I just have to crawl some more.' He thought as he kept crawling without stopping.

Glint

As he was crawling, he saw something shining in front of him. He was excited by the thought of it being an opening, but when he reached the source, he was disappointed to see that it was just a green marble.

'What even is it?' He thought as he carefully picked up the marble. No matter how he looked at it, it looked exactly like marble.

Crack

As soon as he picked it up, the marble cracked as a green light emerged from it and entered his body.

'Wha-'

Taken off guard, the puny human crawled back a little, but nothing happened as the marble just turned into dust and disappeared.

'What is that?'

It wasn't something mentioned in his memories.

'...Wait, I feel a little refreshed.'

Feeling a little life coming back to him, he started crawling as he wondered if he would find some more of that.

But, after some time of crawling, the little life he got ran away as his condition became what it was.

Then, soon, he found himself before three paths in the air tunnel.

'When you reach the three entries, take the middle path.' He recited the memory as he crawled towards the middle entry.

Glint

But something familiar occurred on the left path.

The glint of the marble from the left path caught his eye as he turned around.

'...'

He hesitated for a moment, wondering if he should really go.

'Fuck it.'

At the end, overcome by his heavy eyes and exhaustion, he decided to enter the left path, planning to return after collecting the marble.

'It shouldn't be a problem.' He thought as he crawled.

Soon enough, he found himself crawling more and more as he kept finding more marbles.

The path was full of green marbles, and he couldn't stop collecting them.

He hadn't realized it, but he was becoming addicted to the marble.

Every time he held the marble, it cracked into a green light that gave him the relaxation he wanted.

Before realizing it, the puny human found himself far from the path he was actually supposed to take.

Crack

"Hmm?" Hearing something, he stopped as he looked down.

CRASH

"AHHHH"

The path broke as he fell down.