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Seiya and Isuzu investigate an abandoned property with three mascots. They find a hidden passageway behind a secret door in a cave. Upon entering the passageway, the door closes behind them, trapping them inside.

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Boots

Seiya and Isuzu investigate an abandoned property with three mascots. They find a hidden passageway behind a secret door in a cave. Upon entering the passageway, the door closes behind them, trapping them inside.

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boots.

She had a large backpack on, too; all-in-all, she looked more like she was on an
expedition in some secluded South American or African region than scouting a commercial
property.
Then, perhaps because he was alone in the forest with Isuzu, Seiya was feeling a little agitated.
Things were still murky after the events around the interviews the other day, and he couldn’t
stop noticing the beautiful lines of her legs which were revealed by her hot pants. He’d
originally said, “I’ll go alone,” but she’d replied, “I’ll accompany you, as your secretary,” and
ended up tagging along. He still couldn’t understand what she was after.
“Hey, Sento.”
“Yes?”
“Were you...” Were you looking for a chance to be alone with me? Seiya wondered. Should he
ask it with a straight face? Like it was a joke? Like he was asking about tomorrow’s weather? He
ran various simulations in his mind, but none of them seemed workable. “...No, never mind.”
“I see,” she replied. “If you don’t need anything, could you not talk to me?”
Then there was this. Even more inscrutable.
“We should almost be there,” Isuzu announced. “...There it is.”
They had covered a lot of ground, but then, they were on the grounds of an amusement park. It
had taken them about ten minutes to arrive at their destination.
Tucked into the ground, between the tree-covered hills, sat a hollow of sorts. An old fence had
been erected in front of the hollow. A faded sign pinned to it read “Authorized Personnel Only.”
“Is that it?” Seiya asked. “But, wait...”
Three familiar mascots were crouched in front of the fence.
“Took you long enough, fumo.”
“We’ve been waiting all day, ron.”
“Let’s get a move on, mii.”
Moffle, Macaron, and Tiramii. The usual AmaBri triumvirate spoke up with utmost indignation.
There were cigarette butts at their feet; empty plastic bottles and convenience store lunch
boxes littered the ground around them. Utterly delinquent behavior—he’d have to make them
clean it up later.
“What are you doing here?” Seiya demanded. “Today’s a standard business day. I don’t
remember giving you permission to loaf around.”
The three scowled immediately in response.
“Listen to him, fumo. The great acting manager!”
“It’s not like we didn’t have better things to do, ron. But Isuzu-chan asked us...”
“...So we came here to help out, mii. We’re gonna pitch in on the search, mii.”
Seiya glared at Isuzu. “Sento. Would you please explain this?”
“It’s just a precaution. You heard what happened to Dornell, didn’t you? What if we take a
wrong turn and get lost in some strange labyrinth? We’ll need support. We can’t afford to lose
you, you know,” Isuzu said, her tone earnest.
“Look... you know I didn’t actually come here looking for treasure. I just don’t want any
questionable places in the second park going unreported, so I wanted to scout it out. Besides,
even if we do run into trouble, you expect them to be support? These guys? They’re as
unreliable as you can get. They’re basically parasites.”
All three scowled at this outspoken criticism.
“That’s horrible, mii!”
“The impudence of youth, ron...”
“Well, well. So you still don’t acknowledge my skills as the last student of Cus D’Amato and a
former member of Maple Land’s strike recon squad... Seiya, you really are stupid, fumo.”
The three each spoke in turn.
Annoyed, Seiya just waved his hand as if to say Fine, whatever. “We’re on a strict timetable,” he
lectured them sternly. “...It just looks like a little dip in the hillside, anyway. So stop hanging
around like rubberneckers and let’s go.”
They’d investigate the little cave, find nothing, and be done with it. Then, he’d give the
disappointed group a long lecture on the way back to the park. The future seemed to unfold
before Seiya’s eyes. “Come on, let’s go. Just open it.”
Isuzu nodded and brought out the key to the heavy padlock on the fence.
After pushing the creaking gate open, the five of them—Seiya, Isuzu, Moffle, Macaron, and
Tiramii—proceeded into the hollow.
“For the love of...” Seiya commented acerbically. “This is going to take five minutes. Why do we
need all these people?”
There was, indeed, a cave there. Its entrance was hidden by the tall, wild grass. It led them into
a tunnel, which extended inwardly for about ten meters before hitting a dead end.
“Okay, see?” he continued. “There’s nothing here. Clearly, it’s just an air raid shelter. Maybe
the missing people tried to start a fire here. Maybe they collapsed from oxygen deprivation, or
started hallucinating—”
Flashlights in hand, Moffle and the others began searching the walls.
“There’s a hidden switch, mii!” Tiramii declared.
“Uh?” Seiya blinked.
“This little rock,” Tiramii explained. “See?”
Indeed, there was a round stone about the size of a 100 yen coin embedded in the rock wall.
Tiramii put his ear to the wall, then carefully moved the stone. “Hmm... it’s camouflaged, but
there’s definitely a button and a lever, mii. Let’s try up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B,
A.”
“Only people over thirty will get that joke, ron.”
“Ah, I got it, mii!”
Immediately, the dead end wall let out a rumble and began to slide open: it was a hidden door.
“This is ridiculous!” Seiya said, dumbfounded, as the three mascots squealed with glee.
“That’s the Tiramii I know. You really know what you’re doing, fumo.”
“Let’s hear it for the man who got thrown into prison for cracking the Maple Bank safe, ron!”
“Hee hee... I’m blushing, mii.”
What the hell? He has a record? Seiya thought. He would have liked to dig deeper into this
topic, but at the moment, he was more distracted by the long passage extending on past the
hidden doorway. The corridor ahead curved slightly as it disappeared into darkness.
“It’s an underground maze, ron! The legends were true!”

This had gotten complicated. Was it possible that the story surrounding Dornell’s disappearance
wasn’t a complete flight of fancy? Even if he ignored the possibility of a real treasure existing,
he couldn’t just turn back now, pretending like this passage didn’t exist.
We might as well check it out... was the shared opinion of the group, so they cautiously
proceeded into the passageway. It was pitch black, but they all had flashlights, which served
well for illumination.
“Strange,” Isuzu whispered as she knelt down in the center of the passage.
“What is?” Seiya asked.
“There’s practically no dust accumulated here. Every nook and cranny is spotless. It’s impossible
that no one has been here in ten years.”
“Hmm...” Seiya’s thoughts were interrupted by a sudden rumbling behind them. They turned in
time to see the door closing.

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