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Eventually, they came upon a crossroads.
A crossroads, once again. The passageway stretched east to west, and to the south there was a steel door.
“So, um, how are you doing?”
“I’m so happy right now. I just passed the Robot National Exams on my first try. By the way, do you have a Road Pass?”
“A Road Pass? O-of course I have one.” Alisa pulled it out and showed it to him.
—And so just like that, Alisa and her comrades were able to get inside the prison.
“But still, where the heck is this Lutz guy? He may be an esper or whatever he is, but he sure picked a strange place to be in,” remarked Tyrone.
They came to a T-fork.
Alisa peeked inside the entrance of the cave. Could it be that Medusa was really in there? With her heart pounding, she stepped inside.
The cave was dark, damp and musty.
She immediately came upon a fork in the road.
“God, this is just exasperating!”
And so it was. The Zombie had already decomposed down to muscle. No matter how many times Alisa sliced her sword at the Zombie, its muscles only splintered and the Zombie showed no sign of being slowed down.
But then suddenly, the Zombie grasped at its head. Myau had come in from behind and drug his claws into it.
“Oh, I get it. You just have to destroy the head to take it down! Out of the way, Myau!”
Alisa thrust her sword down with all her might. This time, it was really dead.
Now having escaped from her crisis, Alisa sees an L-shaped corridor and decides to:
Up ahead, there’s an L-shaped corner. Go around the corner, or go back?
There’s a 4-way intersection. A door was visible on the northern section of the passageway…