"You mean there's a way out inside the box?"
"We've searched almost every inch of this place except that box." Tetsu no Sosuke sighed. "What I regret most now is not catching a few more rabbits. Then even if we were trapped here for days, we wouldn't starve."
Shinobu Kocho sat down against the wall and looked up at the ceiling. "We must be beneath the swamp now. But what worries me most isn't our own situation."
Tetsu no Sosuke nodded.
Earlier, he had asked Yuichiro to deliver a message, which was why Shinobu Kocho had come.
If they stayed here, would someone else come looking for them?
And if they did, would they run into the one up above?
If they did... would they die?
The thought filled Tetsu no Sosuke with dread.
He sat down on the floor and spread out everything he had obtained that day about the Mechanism Arts. He studied it page by page, examining each tiny component.
He had to solve the problem of the box as quickly as possible.
Otherwise, the very thing he least wanted to see might happen outside.
Seeing this, Shinobu Kocho immediately came over to help, but... there was nothing she could do.
She had heard of the Mechanism Arts and seen them in use, but she had never studied them.
Chapter 434: Urgency
According to the Silk Scroll, there had been nine Heavenly Artisans in all!
Each of them had likely left behind an inheritance of vital importance.
But obtaining those inheritances was far from easy.
A person could exhaust all their ingenuity and still count themselves blessed by heaven to obtain even one.
Tetsu no Sosuke wanted all nine... Naturally, that would take nine times the effort anyone else had to make.
He did not know whether