46.2 Difficulty?

I have no idea what I'm doing. And quite frankly, so did everyone else. Clearly, I didn't get the memo when I thought that Shizu wouldn't come running down here fast enough to catch up to me.

"Moriya?!"

And yet here she was, staring at me with a bright smile on her face and her eyes glowing black and green as she lunged at me. I didn't even have the time to brace myself as she gave me the tightest hug of my life, some of the blood in my body moving to places I really didn't want them to be right now as her soft, yet athletic body crashed against my poor self.

"S-Shizu... Can't breathe..."

"O-Oh! Sorry!"

Feeling her let up, I took in a short breath as I composed myself in front of her. Sure enough, the princess had somehow caught up to me, probably using her eyes to cheat and take the shortest and easiest routes down into the darkest depths of this facility. Still, for her to be here meant that the others might follow suit.