"..."
Wala Wala floated in the seawater, blinking in confusion.
Of course, she understood what Linsey meant.
After all, over the past two days, the girl had become familiar with most of his equipment and skills.
But when she thought of the malice that had just swept past them, along with the peculiar nature of the Sea of Wandering and the City of Law—
A sense of unreality and absurdity crashed against her heart like waves.
Wala Wala: Linsey...
Wala Wala: Normally, if this were a play or an opera, we should have to go through some trouble before finding a way into the core of the Sea of Wandering. Then we would face some dangers before truly arriving there.
Linsey: We Game Players have a term for that too.
Wala Wala: What?
Linsey: Sequence breaking.
Linsey: All right, keep up. If we can achieve our goal conveniently and quickly, why wouldn't we?
Linsey: Oh, stay in stealth. The enemy didn't spot us just now, but we can't let our guard down from here on.
Wala Wala: Okay—I know. Don't worry.
The conversation in the Friend Channel ended.
Linsey and Wala Wala moved on, continuing deeper into the Sea of Wandering.
Yet the Adventure Pointer did not guide them around the City of Law to dive farther down elsewhere and reach the true seabed.
Instead, following the pointer, they descended along the curve of the slope.
Until they reached what had once been the moat.
On the riverbed now filled by the Sea of Wandering, their path was blocked by a waterway entrance sealed with iron bars.
Wala Wala: Uh... are we going into the sewers?
Wala Wala: Other than when I was wandering, I haven't been somewhere this dirty in a long time.
Linsey: A moat isn't a sewage