Ayame tapped her fingers together nervously as it seemed to be that the performers were lost in thought. Sighing, she glanced at the time and outside the inn before noticing that Suki and Umichi had returned to the inn, declaring that sleep would probably be the best thing to do.

"Well... Time passed by quickly..." she said to herself as she glanced out the window once more. "I sure hope Hideki returns soon..." she said quietly before walking up to her room and tried to rest for the night.

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Ayame stretched as she woke up the next morning, the early time that she had slept definitely having an effect of her. Of course, that wasn't the only thing that worried her- Hideki's strange exit had kept her awake for most of the night. As she got out of bed, Ayame carefully exited her room and, as quietly as possible, walked over to Hideki's room. As she tried to knock on the door, however, it seemed to simply part and show nothing more than an empty room, cleanly made almost as if nobody had been there in the first place. This unnerved her immensely; it meant that Hideki hadn't returned from yesterday's little trip, which was by no means a good sign to her. Keeping her worries down as well as she could, Ayame noticed Suki heading downstairs. Fully awake, Ayame swiftly bounded down the stairs and quickly ran up to Suki, her usual smile replaced by a worried frown.

"Suki, did you by any chance see Hideki anywhere last night? His room was completely untouched from what I saw last night, and I'm afraid that..." she trailed off before shaking her head. "No, it couldn't be. A-anyways, I'm worried about him. Could we try looking for him as soon as everyone's awake?"

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Fujiwara sighed as he leaned against the labyrinth wall. A bunch of people had dragged him into trying to clear deeper areas of the dungeon when he went out to train, and for some reason he had decided to go along with them.
Oh, how badly things went... And at the same time, how miraculous things were.
The people he had been tagging along with were swarmed by dozens of monsters, which to him weren't that troublesome. However, the people he had been escorting weren't as... adept at fighting as he was, so to speak. Though it had taken him what was more or less his entire stash of potions and crystals, he had by some miracle or another managed to stall the monsters from getting to that party in order to let them escape. Sadly, that meant that he was stranded in the dungeon, too tired to make his way back to town. To make matters worse, he had given his teleport crystals to the heavily wounded in that party in order to make sure they all got out safely. By making his way to a small crevice withing the dungeon, he had managed to survive, but two questions remained, weighing heavily : Would he manage to make it out alive? Was what he did really worth it?

"Geez, Paka's lecture really did a ton to me." he sighed, leaning against the nearest wall. "You know, maybe I should have done this earlier..."
Opening up his menu, Fujiwara sent out a PM to the rest of the party, carefully monitoring the area around him for any sign of trouble. Noticing a pack of Ruin Kobolds moving towards him, Fujiwara quickly sent out a single word in his message before griping his katana and preparing for battle. Exhausted and sleepless, Fujiwara gritted his teeth and prepared for a fight, sincerely hoping it wouldn't be his last.

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As Ayame asked Suki for help, the PM notification sound rang out. Ayame quickly opened up the inbox and saw a message from Hideki. She breathed a sigh of relief as she noticed his name, but that relief turned into even more worry as she saw the message. It was blank, save for a single word in the title of the PM itself.

SOS.