4 guards summoned a huge amount of power and said, “EXPANSIONED”. Then, I saw all the power covered the park and an intense light spread. I couldn’t see anything because of the brightness. When it was reduced, I opened my eyes and found a new place instead of the park. Everything has changed. The park became violet coloured and there were walls everywhere.
Then, Mr. Son said, “Here you will undergo the 3rd stage and as you can see, everything around has changed. If I say more specifically, you are standing in a Maze. Here you have to reach the finishing line and you will have only 1 hour 10 minutes. As you can see, 60 passed the 2nd stage. You all 60 can team-up with others if you want. To team-up, you will get 5 minutes.
I went to Shin and asked if we could team-up. Shin agreed. Then Shin asked if he could add Nanami also. I agreed and Shin went to Nanami and asked if he could team-up with us. But, Nanami declined and said, “I won’t team-up with you guys. You don’t interest me at all, get lost!” Shin angrily regretted his decision to team-up with a guy like Nanami. Shin came and said to me what Nanami said. But, I said, “It doesn’t matter.”
After 5 minutes, Mr. Son told us to prepare for the test. Everyone prepared them. Then, Mr. Son signaled us to start. All teams and individuals started. All of them were trying to find the finishing line. Mr. Son said, “They think it’s all about finding the finishing line which is easy but they have to face something unexpected.”
Shin And I were looking for the finishing line. At one point, I told Shin
Noya: It feels like we are going the same route again and again.
Shin: What? I thought we were on the right path!
Noya: You should try the other routes also. Besides, we don’t have time spinning in the same route
Shin: To be honest, I think we are at the center of the Maze.
Noya: How do you know that?
Shin: My father taught me this technique. To reach the finish line, we have to go to the left and again left and then to the right.
But, suddenly Shin stopped. I asked what happened. Shin replied, “But there are two routes now, which is the right route? I started thinking about it and said ,” We shouldn’t take the right route. Take the left route instead.” Shin asked me why and I replied that I know it is left because the route connecting to the right has a trap full of arrows and bows. Shin asked me how I knew this much. I said, “I don’t know. It just came to my mind.”
After taking the left route, Shin said that he is sensing the finishing line means we are so close to the finishing line. When we found the final one way route, we encountered a huge snake waiting for us. We both were shocked and said, “Does that mean we have to defeat this huge snake to reach the 4th stage?”
But, on the other side, someone reached the finish line. Mr. Son was shocked as well as the others. Because, he completed this stage 20 minutes before the final time. He said, “It’s nothing compared to me.” This guy is none other than Nanami Kurotsuchi.
