Yui froze, then lowered her voice and asked, "Kazama Ya, is our destination a diamond-shaped stone monument?"
The monument was perfectly smooth and pure white, with strange black patterns carved into it. What surprised Yui was that it seemed to absorb all the sunlight shining on it, without reflecting even a trace.
At her words, Kazama Ya paused briefly, then hurriedly asked, "Is it white? With black patterns on it?"
"Yes," Yui answered distractedly, glancing behind her from time to time. The eyeball formed from Red Ants seemed to have stopped pursuing her and now hovered silently in the air, but it was still watching her.
Moreover, to her senses, the eyeball seemed to have grown more solid, perhaps because the Red Ants had packed together more tightly. That discovery left Yui uneasy.
"What exactly is that thing?" she murmured. It kept giving her the creeps.
She opened her mouth, about to ask, but Kazama Ya spoke first.
"Yui Hyuga, excellent! That monument really is our destination... get closer to it..." Suppressing the wild joy welling up inside, Kazama Ya urged Yui to hurry. "Quickly! We have to move as fast as possible. We can't afford any delay. If that thing sees us, we're done for."
At those words, Yui shuddered all over and instinctively glanced behind her. "If that thing sees us..." she said uneasily.
Kazama Ya paused, then nodded. "Yes. That thing is terrifying. If it sees you, you can forget about ever leaving this desert."
"Uh..." Hearing Kazama Ya say that, Yui began to panic a little. "Is there really something that terrifying here?"
"Yes, of course." Kazama Ya felt that Yui was acting strangely. Her voice seemed to have grown quieter a little while ago, though it had no idea why.
Still, Kazama Ya was in