"Sigh." She forced herself to calm down, propped up her chin, and carefully analyzed her current situation.
She was in a sealed stone chamber, with no doors or windows anywhere around her.
Considering that Nai Hyuga and Orochimaru were no longer beside her, she guessed that the black mist vortex might have some sort of teleportation effect, which had scattered them.
"But..." What puzzled her was why Xiao You had not been teleported away.
She turned her head and stared at Xiao You, leaving Xiao You baffled.
"Yui, what's wrong? Is there something dirty on me?" Xiao You asked in confusion.
Yui shook her head and lowered her eyes in thought. "Xiao You, how long after you woke up did I wake up?"
"Uh!" Xiao You scratched their head, trying to recall how much time had passed. "I think it was three hours, or was it six...?"
Xiao You counted on their fingers, then lowered their hands. "Oh, anyway! It definitely wasn't more than six hours."
"Six hours, huh!" Yui nodded in understanding. Hearing that, she inexplicably felt relieved. Not too much time had passed. That was good.
Still, she remained deeply anxious about Nai Hyuga's safety.
After thinking for a moment, she shook her head sharply. "There's no point standing here worrying. I should find a way out and track down Nai Hyuga..."
Having made up her mind, she temporarily pushed her feelings aside and searched around the stone chamber, trying to find a mechanism that would let her out.
The stone chamber was square and looked like a cage at first glance. Its walls were so smooth that Yui reckoned even water splashed onto them would run straight down without clinging.
The entire chamber felt unbearably oppressive. Long-extinguished candles hung from the ceiling.
Noticing them, Yui formed hand