Nighttime falls into the Maple Forest ever since Shokei and her party left Egesul. The party continues to walk into the forest and up ahead, they see a tall Obelisk in the middle of the forest. From there, Shokei sees directional signs and she walks up to take a closer look. One of the signs look scratched out, making it hard for her to read it. The second sign indicates a monastery that is located on the left side and the other sign has the words that lead to a basin on the right.

  "If I can recall one thing," The said to everyone. "My sister might have gone off to explore an abandoned monastery in this forest."

  "Really...," Rei said and asked. "But why would your own sister go off alone without you?"

  "She said to me that it's too dangerous and she told me to stay behind." The replied. "Tanais did said that she would be back, but she has not returned."

  "I say that's ridiculous." Marie said.

  "Was she with anyone?" Shokei asked.

  "No." The responded. "She wanted to go alone."

  "I mean it's way too dangerous for someone to leave their sister behind to go off an adventure by herself." Rei said.

  "I agree." Shokei said. "But still, what was her purpose in going to the monastery? For what reason she was heading off there?"

  "...not sure..." The said, puzzled. "She didn't tell me at one point. She kept it a secret from me."

  Shokei and Rei looked at each other and then back at The.

  "This is suspicious." Shokei said. "Anyways, we need to find a spot to rest up for tomorrow. We'll have to explore that monastery when we can."

  "Same." Marie nodded.

  "I'm tired. It's been a rough battle today. I'm totally beat." Beatrice said with a yawn.

  Marie looks over and noticed that there is a Skogly Cabin, a walking distance from the Obelisk.

  "I found a cabin straight ahead!" Marie points out to everyone.

  "Good eyes, you." Rei said to her. "Good eyes."

  "Not sure if anyone lives in there, but we can check it out." Shokei said.

  Together, the whole party went over to the cabin. Approaching the cabin, Shokei peers through the window and there she can see that there was no one inside. The pce looks empty. Shokei gestures Rei to open the door. Rei turned the knob and surprise; the cabin is open.

  "Is it safe?" Marie asked in a whisper.

  "Let's check inside." Shokei said.

  Walking in, the cabin feels dark inside, but looking around, there was not one soul that was in the cabin.

  "Seems safe enough for all of us." Shokei said. "Ok, let's call it a night everyone."

  The party settles in the cabin and soon, all of them slept inside for the night.

  Later that night, as everyone is asleep, one of the party members woke up from sleeping. The looks around to see that everyone is resting. Stretching her arms, she gets up and decides to step outside. Looking around, The feels the slight breeze touching her face and can still see the night looking young and the moonlight illuminating brightly in the skies.

  I'm thirsty... The thought to herself.

  Walking away from the cabin, The wanders off in the forest alone. She sees a pond nearby and inspects it. The pond looks clean and does not appear to show any sign of contamination. The takes a handful of water and takes a sip of it. The water felt cold but refreshing after she test out the water. Feeling the water being safe, The takes a drink of water from the pond.

  Just then, out of nowhere, an unknown figure approaches behind The and grabs her by the arms, silencing her with its hand. The got scared instantly, fearing that she is about to get kidnapped by her intruder. She loses her grip of the doll that she carries with her and then the culprit takes a cloth, covering her face. The struggles to fight it out from her attacker, but a substance contained with a sedative was strong enough for her to pass out. After she passed out, another culprit comes out and picks up her doll from the ground. Holding the doll in hand, the second culprit looks at it and then attaches a note on the doll. That culprit leaves the doll right up to a nearby tree. The two culprits nodded, seeing that the capture was successful and then they left the scene.

  The next day, Shokei and her party wakes up from their rest. By waking up, the party stretch in different form as they are awake to continue their journey.

  "Ahh that was rexing." Marie said and yawned.

  "I could sleep all day if I wanted to." Sadako said.

  "Hmm?" Saeko looks around and asked. "Say, where's The?"

  "Eh?" Shokei gets her attention and noticed that The is missing.

  "Where did the lolita went off to?" Rei asked.

  "Don't tell me that she went off to find her sister without us." Marie said.

  "I doubt that she would do that." Shokei said. "Maybe she went to get water around here."

  "If that's the case, we should find her." Rei said.

  The party exits the cabin to search for The. Splitting up, the whole party looked around to find her. Rei and Lei explore the area in hopes of finding The. There, the two walk up to an area, where there is a small pond. The pond was the spot where the lolita girl was st seen. Seeing that The was nowhere to be seen, Lei notices the doll that was on the ground and the doll is pced near the tree.

  "Isn't that doll belonged to that...child?" Lei asked.

  "Hmm?" Rei notices the doll. "Yes. That's her doll, but..."

  "You don't think...something bad happened to her, right?" Lei asked.

  "Huh? There's a note attached to her doll." Rei said. "But even with her doll here..."

  "This is bad." Lei said. "We should inform the others about this."

  "We need to tell Shokei this." Rei said. "This is a bad sign."

  Rei takes the doll and then she and Lei returned to the party.

  "Guys, we found something!" Rei calls out to them.

  The party goes up to where Rei and Lei are waiting for them.

  "What did you find?" Shokei asked.

  "I found this." Rei said, showing The's doll.

  "A doll...that belongs to The." Shokei said.

  "Not only that, but a note also appears to be attached with it." Rei said, showing her the note.

  "Really?" Shokei takes the note and then said. "Who would leave a note on her doll?"

  Shokei unveils the note and reads the message written inside:

  I owe you. We have your hostage with us. If you want her back, there is no point in finding us. However, if you're wondering who we are, search this forest to find clues.

  The signature in the message reads...

  "Woundcw?" Shokei asked. "Who is Woundcw?"

  "I was asking the same name myself." Rei replied.

  "That's like a name of a group." Saeko said, taking the note and looking at it. "Perhaps this group are responsible for the kidnapping."

  "Where was the doll located?" Shokei asked.

  "It was lying behind a tree." Lei replied.

  "Then we will have to save The from this group." Shokei said and then turns to everyone. "Come, we'll just have to search out for her."

  The party makes a right in the forest as they proceed to search for The.

  During the search for the missing girl, Shokei and her party came up to another bridge where the river is flowing underneath. From there, they found a box that is attached on the bridge. Shokei walks up to check the continents of the box and opens it. Inside, there was another note. Shokei takes the note and reads it:

  You decided to find the kidnapped girl, eh? Hehe, good, good. Now, go across the bridge and follow the marked arrows to a nearby cabin.

  "...signed Woundcw." Shokei finished reading the note.

  "Follow the arrows?" Rei said, puzzled. "Why does it want us to follow the arrows to a cabin?"

  "Beats me." Kichiro responded. "Then again, there's a clue waiting for us."

  "This note feels incomplete." Rei said, checking the note again. "It's vague and it doesn't say much."

  "You think it's a trap?" Marie asked.

  "Who knows?" Shokei replied. "Somehow, we just need to see where all of this is leading us to."

  "Mmm I guess." Marie said with a shrug.

  "So, we just follow the arrows huh?" Rei asked. "This is becoming stupid now."

  "Even if it's stupid, we need to save The." Shokei tells her. "We just have to keep going."

  After reading the note, Shokei and her party walks across the bridge. Ahead of them they see their first arrow indicating north. Going further, the party continues north until they see another arrow pointing east. Moving onwards to east, the party follows the arrows until they turned west. From here on, the party keeps walking and seeing arrows that are forcing all of them to navigate.

  "Wait a minute...," Saeko wonders something and said, "All this walking feels like we're walking in a maze."

  "It does feel like it." Marie said.

  "You think The is located in a cabin?" Beatrice asked. "All of this seems way too suspicious."

  "I'm curious to where this is all going." Shokei said. "We need to take caution."

  The party continues to follow more arrows that they are forced to go through. From heading east and then walking up north, they finally walk on a trail until they find the cabin.

  "This is it." Shokei said, staring at the cabin.

  Everyone stood there to see the cabin in front of them. The cabin looks small and isoted. Everyone walks up to the cabin and Shokei inspects the door. The door looks wooden and solid and by turning the knob, the door appears to be unlocked. Shokei opens the door and the party followed her inside. Once inside, the party sees that The is nowhere to be found and the only thing inside the cabin is a treasure box.

  "Weird..." Marie said, looking around. "Nobody here but a box."

  "Seems like it." Saeko said. "But what's with the treasure box?"

  "Hmm..."

  Shokei walks up to the treasure box. She did not open it but only look at it.

  "Hey, be careful..." Rei tells her.

  Shokei breathes in and carefully opens up the treasure box. Opening carefully, she looks inside and there was nothing else but a note. She takes the note in hand and reads it.

  Got em! Hahahahaha!!

  Just then, a wave of thick smog surrounded the cabin through the floorboards. The smog turns out to be knockout gas and it is airing up the atmosphere inside the cabin. The party finds themselves in a trap!

  "No way!" Shokei cried out. "It's knockout gas!"

  "Shit! We got to get out of here..." Rei shouted.

  As Rei turns for the door, she tried to open the door, only that it became locked.

  "No, no!! We can't escape!!" Rei shouted.

  "Seriously?" Marie asked. "WE'RE STUCK IN HERE?!"

  "I think I...I..." Beatrice could not find words to finish as she passes out.

  "...feeling...sleepy..." Saeko added and faints on the floor.

  "Uhhh..."

  Shokei looks around as she can see her party is unable to withstand the heavy knockout gas. Shokei tries to fight it, but she succumbed to the trap, and she colpsed on the floor. The party is completely knocked unconscious.