Kuromi looked around the empty room as she step through the doorway nonchalantly, feeling a bit doubtful.

"Do you think we went the wrong way? There isn't another door here..." the girl asked.

'Hmmm, if you think about it, there were no other doors in the last rooms,' Kiyoko recalled. 'We must have went the right way... If not, what if there was or is a door up on the ceiling?'

The negative girl taking over the body looked up to check if the assumption of her other self was correct, but to much of her dismay, she was wrong this time around.

"Nothing.. If this room is filled with plenty of traps, then we're dead," Kuromi said, looking around once more with a frown. "I see... at least five triggers in here. They haven't identified the stop watch just yet, so we're lucky."

Kuromi sneaked over to an empty wall where none of the triggers could sense the stopwatch on her wrist and then tried kicking that same wall she approached to, attacking it constantly.

"I-it's.. not... working!" she grunted every time she attacked it. "Do you think we have to trigger the traps to get out of here? That's just crazy.."

As Kuromi continued to attack, the dirt on the wall slightly crumbled and dusted away, revealing dark characters on the supposed empty wall.

'Wait.. I see something out in front of us. ...Quit attacking the wall already, you're going to get us both injured!' Kiyoko said.

Kuromi abide Kiyoko and completely stopped hitting the wall, slumping to the ground disappointingly and looking at her bruised and scratched up knuckles.

'Okay, so can you brush the area you were releasing anger out to with your hand?'

"Yeah, yeah... More like looking for an escaped route to live," Kuromi said, standing up and brushing dirt off the wall with her palm.

Something that looked like instructions were uncovered from the dirt and carved into the area clearly. The two read the words carefully and then concluded that they did need to trigger trap panels, but just in a certain order or they will really be triggered and kill them.

'IN ORDER TO LEAVE THIS ROOM, ONE MUST SOAR CAREFULLY TO WHERE THE SUN KISSES THE HORIZON IN THE AFTERNOON. IF NOT, YOUR WHITE WINGS WILL ONLY BURN TO CRISP AND DROP YOU WILL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN. UPON THAT DROP, YOU WILL DROWN TO THE BOTTOM AND MEET THE UNDERWORLD OR YOU MAY REACH BACK UP TO THE SURFACE WHERE LAND, SKY, AND SEA MEET.'

"What the heck?" the girls said, looking back at the triggers.

Clearly none of them had labels on them to help, but where they were all located slightly helped them.

'Go west,' Kiyoko suddenly said. "The sun sets in the west side of the world."

"Wish I didn't take over.." Kuromi muttered in frustration, walking carefully towards one of the triggers. "Other than that, you'd be doing all the work. Tch."

'This should be the first activator...' Kiyoko said as Kuromi came over to the panel, lifting her hand above her head and waving her wrist at it.

Nothing happened. Or so it seemed.

"... Let's just move onto the next.. If nothing happened, then that should be a good sign," Kuromi said cautiously.

'Alright, there are four more triggers, right? Where are they all located?'

Kuromi looked around the area once more and tried to locate all of remaining traps she saw earlier.

"One is on the floor in the middle of nowhere and I mean nowhere, another is on the wall behind us near the ground, and... There's two... their both on the same wall.. They aren't next to each other, but they are pretty close."

'Activate the one on the ground first and then the one near the ground. Do NOTHING for the last. I have no clue what to do for that one... Not yet..' Kiyoko instructed.

Kuromi nodded to herself and then walked over to the panel on the floor, passing the device on her wrist over it. She then headed over to the one that is located to where the floor and ground connected, repeating the action she did earlier to the last two triggers.

'Are you sure there are only five in this room?' Kiyoko asked again.

"I think so.." Kuromi answered, turning around.

'Look again carefully...'

"I am..." she grumbled angrily, scanning once again. "I still don't see anything.."

The girl walked back to where the instructions were and read it again several more times. She suddenly caught an extra carving that was still covered with dirt below the text, brushing it off. It was a picture of an arrow pointing to the left of it.

"..."

The girl read the tiny text next to the sign.

'GOOD JOB NOT BEING AN IDIOT! THE LAST PANEL IS HERE. I JUST WANTED TO THROW YOU OFF WITH A RIDICULOUS RIDDLE.'

"More like you want to kill us.."

Kuromi tried brushing the area being pointed at, but still saw nothing. Instead, she quickly swung her hand to where the arrow was indicating, making the wall collapse out of nowhere.

"Holy crap, what-" she exclaimed, cutting herself off as she shielded her body with her arms.

The floor continued to shake as the rubble in front of her kept crumbling down before her. When it finally stopped, Kuromi slowly removed her arms from her view and stared into another empty room that was identical to the one she stood in. The rooms were now connected, but really, there wasn't anything different about it.

"... Do you think we need to trigger more traps?"

'Please tell me we don't,' Kiyoko muttered.

"Is it just me or did this tower just move? I swear I felt the ground shake," Tonpa said anxiously.

"I think you're just going crazy. I sure didn't feel anything..." Leorio said in a deadpan tone. "Probably your own weight making you feel that way."

Tonpa growled at Leorio and gave him a sharp glare.

"Me going crazy? Yeah right... I'm sure it happened!" he exclaimed. "It just made my skin crawl from anxiety and a cold shiver travel through my spine!"

"Do you mean because of this?" Gon asked innocently, pointing at Killua's hand.

Killua was smirking at Tonpa as he held the dark multiple legged creature up close to his face, making him go pale.

"It must have been this..." the boy said mischievously.

"Get that away from me.." he gasped.

Killua just shrugged and threw it to the other side of the room, watching it scurry away in fear.

"Just what is this place?" Kurapika suddenly asked, looking at the room they were in.

By the looks of things, the area just had gaps from where they were standing, the ground in the middle of nowhere, and the side they needed to reach. There were a few cloaked figures standing on the other side, chuckling to themselves and watching the group of upcoming hunters enter.

"Well, well, well..." One of them said, making the group feel cautious.

"I don't see anything suspicious in here," Kuromi concluded after walking around the new room. "Yep, it's empty. For sure. Nooo doubt in my mind."

'How long have we been in here already? It feels like we've been running around dodging traps for hours...' Kiyoko suddenly asked.

Kuromi sighed and dropped onto the floor in a criss-cross position pushing down onto her knees with a frown on her face. The girl then looked at the watch on her wrist and noticed how much time had already passed with all the rooms they've been stuck in.

"Judging from the time we've wasted looking around one stupid room... and jumping around to dodge annoying pendulum axes, we spent.. let's just say the entire day."

'That's not good... and we don't know how much farther we need to go..' Kiyoko said a little worriedly. 'Do you think we'll make it on time?'

"Don't ask questions, just act, Kiyo," Kuromi stated with a hiss.

'Well, then. How do you suppose that we'll get out of here? Alive, of course.'

Just when Kiyoko finished asking her question the wall collapsed again. Kuromi blinked and looked around her to find the source of the collapsing wall next to her below her wrist.

"... I found it," the girl said, earning a facepalm.

Kuromi stood up and brushed off the dirt that caught onto her light colored clothes, then walked out through the hole created before her, meeting up with the person she wanted to avoid most unexpectedly.

'This must be a joke...' Kuromi and Kiyoko though, staring up at the person.

Hisoka was staring back at them with a dull yet curious looking face, slowly smiling like the joker he was.

"I'll just mind my own business then..." Kuromi said, heading to the area where the man just left.

"I came from that area just so you know. I'm sure you'll enjoy looking at the flowers as much as I would, but you'll just go right back to the beginning where I started," he stated, smiling at the girl fully.

Kuromi groaned uncomfortably and then turned back to head the other way where he was heading, keeping her distance from him as he just followed her carelessly.

'Flowers? I'm guess.. He means... Never mind..' Kiyoko said nervously.

Kuromi snuck a glance at the man who continued to follow her from behind, but kept walking forward as if she wasn't paying any attention to him. Hisoka's smile never left his face, which slightly creep both Kiyoko and her out, but in reality, he was secretly studying her for some odd reason. It's been passed half an hour and they were still going at it.

"You're not really you, are you?" he suddenly asked.

Kuromi didn't stop, but looked back to see his face quickly and then faced forward before he caught her expression.

"What do you mean by that?" she asked harshly.

"You have another person in you, right?"

"... No clue what you're talking about.."

"Well, that's too bad then.. Kuromi, was it? Then what happens to Kiyoko when you're present?" the man asked.

It was clear that he knew their names for hearing Leorio, Kurapika, and Gon call them every time he passed by the small group, but doubt still lingered in the air. The girls felt unnerved and remained quiet after hearing his little question.

"So there is another person in you, huh. How interesting," he said as he flickered the deck in his hands.

"... How do you know?" Kuromi asked cautiously. "You're the only outsider who found out about this without being informed so far..."

"Oh, I guess you can say... instinct."

'Instinct? Yeah, right...' Kiyoko and Kuromi said in unison.

"I can see that you don't believe me," Hisoka pointed out. "Let's just say that I pass your little travel group often then."

"That explains everything..." the girl growled, rolling her eyes to herself.

"You look like you're beginning to lag behind," the man said, watching her carefully.

Kuromi remained quiet. For sure, she was beginning to slow down due to weariness, but she didn't want to admit it. Not to him for sure.

"You can rest if you want. I'm not going to slow down," Kuromi said harshly.

"But if you damage your health any longer, I won't have the pleasure to kill you."

'Is that what he's worried about?' the girls thought nervously.

"I don't care if you won't get pleasure from trying to kill me. Just as long you stay AWAY from me. Now, STAY AWAY from me," Kuromi said, venom beginning to drip out from her words.

The girl picked up her pace and tried to lose the man at her tail. Instead of losing him, he only sped up with her and followed.

"Why are you following me..?"

"There's no other way to go in this pathway. Look around you, Girly," the man spoke, sending a cold shiver through her body and Kiyoko's spirit.

"Whatever..."

Kuromi dashed off as far as she could, trying to get away from Hisoka, but during the run, her stopwatch suddenly triggered a pit fall trap. The floor suddenly opened like a door beneath her feet, Kuromi catching the side of the pit quickly and hanging at the edge for dear life.

'Pull us out! If it begins to close, you'll lose you're grip and fall!' Kiyoko alerted, trying to figure out what was at the bottom.

"I know already, Kiyo! You don't have to tell me every time!" Kuromi growled, pulling herself up.

Hisoka suddenly stepped forward and grabbed her wrist, pulling her out of the trap himself.

"You should be more careful, Doll," the man said with a creepy smile, setting her back onto her feet.

Kuromi was surprised that he managed to catch up to her, but held a frown on her face.

"Don't. Call me that," the girl snarled furiously. "How did you catch up to me? The last time I looked, you didn't even take off when I did."

"Don't underestimate me," he said soothingly, earning a look of disgust.

'Okay, that's just creepy...' Kiyoko muttered.