The dim passage was silent, with thick stone walls on either side. Nothing unusual was apparent for the moment.
After they walked a little farther, the daylight outside could no longer reach them, leaving the passage pitch-black, like a night without moonlight or stars.
Snap!
Yae Miko snapped her fingers as she walked on her snowy-white legs, and several fox-shaped balls of Electro light appeared ahead, illuminating their surroundings.
"Have you never been here before?"
Li Qiuzhi naturally took Yae Miko's hand, gently kneading it as he asked.
"Of course not. When Lady Kitsune Saiguu was the Guuji of the Grand Narukami Shrine, I was only a little girl. How could I have dared to come somewhere so frightening?"
Yae Miko's lips curved into a smile before she continued:
"So you'll have to protect me later, all right~?"
With that, she hugged Li Qiuzhi's arm, the snowy skin exposed at the side of her chest pressing lightly against it, like a delicate, helpless woman.
"Of course."
Li Qiuzhi patted his chest with a leave-it-to-me air, playing along with her reply.
As they chatted, they finally reached the end of the utterly lightless passage.
The little foxes formed from Electro continued floating in midair, as did the golden "Lumine's Sword God."
With their light, Li Qiuzhi and Miko could see the rather grand sight before them with their naked eyes, without using Psychic Power!
Emerging from the stone passage, they entered a cylindrical structure with a hollow center and many levels built into its walls.
Each level had more than ten prison cells, and this cylindrical structure where Li Qiuzhi and Miko stood had at least seven or eight levels, in addition to those dozen or so cells on each.
By a rough estimate, this Subduing Evil Domain could imprison around