"I understand."
Oda Mai calmly uttered those two words before she picked up her knife and plunged headlong into the darkness.
Understood?
Behind Mutou Yi Lin, Li Changge and Xu Anjing both wore baffled expressions due to Oda Mai's response.
How do you just 'understand'?
What's with this Riddler-like back-and-forth?
We didn't get it, how did you?
"What... does she understand?"
It took a while before Li Changge, still staring at the spot where Oda Mai had disappeared into the darkness, asked to himself in a murmur.
"She probably really does understand, right?"
Xu Anjing said it like that, though her tone was full of doubt.
"Let's see... should it be this direction?"
After Oda Mai left.
Xu Anjing, while keeping a wary eye on Mutou Yi Lin, bit a flashlight in her mouth and closely examined a yellowed sewer construction diagram, trying to discern the right direction.
"Drip, drip, drip."