[The grim truth didn't need to be told. Takane, despite being incredibly naive a times, was far too aware that this may not go the same way that fiction would. Still, she somehow manages to keep her composure, maintaining the casual conversation as if the two were not at the mercy of the elements.]

… I must confess, that thought also occurred to me when I first noticed your presence. At the time, it was more akin to that of a fairytale, or those shoujo manga frequently consumed by one hailing from my agency, but I now see that the genre is wholly different.

[She would have continued to ramble, but the instinctual jolt of something being ‘off’ caused her to flinch slightly. She glanced towards the steep incline of the cliff-like formation, only to notice something different. Where there should have been solid rock, was a large opening, which inexplicably seemed to extend a significant way deeper.

A cavern? Takane would have considered themselves somewhat fortunate, if it weren’t for the fact she clearly remembered there being nothing but a solid wall of rock at that spot… She frowned slightly with disbelief.]

How mysterious… Tenshouin-sama, my eyes do not deceive me, do they?