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... one answered him. The silence that followed was thick, heavy—like the air itself didn’t want to move. The faint hum under their boots hadn’t stopped. It was slow, steady, rhythmic—almost like breathing.

Ichika rubbed her arms, glancing toward the sealed stairwell. "So... what, we just wait until that thing breaks through?"

"No," Riku said. "We get ahead of it."

Sato frowned. "You’re suggesting going deeper?"

"That’s where it came from," Riku replied. "If we don’t ...

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