The Answer

Hup! As soon as Lev jumped into the manhole, he was expecting a musty smell, or the sewer water seeping through the boots he wore. He was expecting a dark place where one wouldn't be able to see the usual direction from left and right due to the pitch-blackness. Of course, it was normal for him to expect something like that even though he had never been down a sewer all his life. The nearest thing he'd gotten from jumping into the manhole is falling on an open one while he was walking to the office. At that time, he managed to step forward before he completely fell over so only his foot reached the insides of the sewers. '

But this time it was different since he willingly jumped inside the manhole. It was all thanks to Dmitri giving him the push he needed to step out of his unnecessary comfort zone.