After passing through several similar spaces, the two arrived in a chamber with a pillar.
"Ah, Miss Cynthia! Look! Something different!"
"A pillar, yes. But it looks a little different from the first one."
Compared with the pillar they had seen upon entering the cave, this one had a simpler structure. Hoping it might offer a clue to either finding Giratina or leaving this place, Cynthia approached it. Small letters were carved into the pillar. They shone their flashlights on them and read.
1
Five
The numbers were written vertically on the pillar.
"Those are one and five, right? I don't know what they mean."
Hikari tilted her head as she studied the numbers.
Cynthia rested a hand against her chin and sank into a sea of thought.
Numbers... what do these numbers represent? They must mean something. Speaking of pillars, I remember a sentence on the first one. Beyond three pillars... before thirty... was that how it went? This pillar, the number thirty, and the one and five written here... I can see one meaning the first of the "three pillars," but this five? Fifty-five? Surely not...
Cynthia recalled the number of spaces they had passed through so far. If her memory served her, they had passed through five in total. Perhaps the number on the pillar represented how many spaces they had crossed.
"Perhaps these numbers represent the number of pillars and the number of spaces we've passed through."
"The number of pillars and the spaces we've passed through?"
"Yes. Apart from the pillar at the entrance, this is the first pillar we've found along our route. That would explain the 'one.' I think the other number counts the spaces we've passed through. I wasn't counting precisely, but I believe it's been about five."
"Maybe... but besides the