"Ouch… That hurts." England rubbed his head and looked around. They were now in the middle of an enclosed room, but this one was much older and dustier, probably because it was underground. The room was very dark and the only light source was from the hole from which they fell into.
"That's why I told you not to move. This place has many traps and secret passage ways. Even though China almost worked people to death trying to find and deactivate the traps, a lot of them were still not found. " Hong Kong explained, stood up and dusted himself.
"So this must be one of the passage way that was not discovered. Alright! Let's move on and see what we can find!" England's pirate sprits had taken over.
"Sadly, no. This one was already discovered. Originally, there were huge metal spikes placed at where you are standing now. So, if you had fallen in before we could remove them, you would be dead by now." Hong Kong burst England's bubble and looked up. The hole was too high for neither of them to climb back up.
"Isn't that sort of dangerous? Why would China have these things lying around? Someone could easily fall into these traps and die!" England complained.
"That was why he asked me to guide you around. I was told of where most of the traps were situated. But you just had to walk in the front and activate a trap." Hong Kong reprimanded, still in his pan-flat tone.
"Now that you mentioned it…" England instantly felt guilty.
"It has been 15 years and you did not change the slightest I see." Hong Kong sighed.
"Well you did not change either! You still have that 'whatever happens does not concern me' attitude! " England refused to take that comment quietly.
"You are still a tsundere I see." Hong Kong stared at England.
"I AM NOT! I am a perfectly fine gentleman (cum pirate) and NOT a tsundere!" England folded his arms.
"Yes, yes, whatever you say." Hong Kong replied, but did not look the least convinced.
"Why you…"
"We can chat all we want, but I think we should get out of here first." Hong Kong interrupted.
"True. But how do you think we can do that?" England toned down.
"We can try shouting for help, maybe someone would hear us." Hong Kong suggested, but England quickly shook his head.
"Knowing that America was there, I doubt anyone could actually hear us." One America alone was enough noise pollution, not to mention the background music.
"And China would be busy running away from Korea." Hong Kong agreed.
"How about this door then? Maybe it would lead us somewhere." England suddenly asked, pointing to a door hidden in the shadows.
"That was weird; I did not remember any doors here." Despite being puzzled, Hong Kong went over and started prying the door open, along with the help of England, reveling a fleet of stairs leading down into the darkness.
"Then let's explore it! There may be hidden treasure here!" England's eyes were sparkling all of a sudden.
"You do know that even if we did find anything, they would belong to China and in the end we would be helping him, right?" Hong Kong pointed out. This guy's tone was always flat no matter how he was feeling.
"How realistic can you be? It is the adventure that counts!" Besides, with the photo of China in a pink maid suit Hong Kong sent him last year, England was sure that China would willing give him the treasure to keep that photo a secret.
Hong Kong looked as England grinned in an evil manner, emitting dark aura at the same time and facepalmed, how did he survived the 100 years living with this guy?
"Ahhh! My wall! Aru!" China wailed as he looked at the wall in front of him, the once clean and beautiful wall was not covered in Italy's doodle.
"We are very sorry China kun, we would try to fix this as fast as possible. With my newest invention, the easy clean 2000, it would be done in a flash." Japan assured as he pulled out a sparkling blue green bottle, with a sticker on it that read 'EASY CLEAN 2000, REMOVES ANY MARK INSTANTLY!'.
"Japan, why would you have that kind of product with you?" Germany asked, puzzled.
"Ah, yes. I was certain that it would come to use since a party usually creates mess. Also, this is specially made to remove any stain caused by Italy. That means tomato sauce stains, blood stains, crayon mark, marker mark, and anything Italy can come up with.
There are also many different coloured bottles to match your home and a different colour each season. Collect all 12 colours to redeem the rare golden colour bottle." Japan further elaborated, leaving the other countries stunned and amazed.
Squeezing some of the clear liquid from the bottle onto a tissue, Japan wiped the wall with the tissue and removed the crayon marks instantly and effortlessly, leaving a sparkling clean surface.
"AH! This is a miracle aru! It is so pika pika (basically, sparkly) and clean! " China exclaimed and hugged the wall.
"Da, Japan san, may I have a bottle of that?" Russia walked to Japan and asked, in his hand was a pipe identical to the one he gave China, except this one had very visible blood stain.
"Yes of course. May I ask what kind of stain you would like to remove?" Japan asked as he passed Russia a pink bottle.
"The blood stains, da." Russia replied, smiling brightly.
The crowd exhaled together.
"The… Blood stains?" Japan stuttered.
"Yup, you said that it could remove blood stains and for some reason, my pipe always has a lot of blood stains on it and it was quite a trouble cleaning it. Your product will work, right? Deshou? Deshou?" Russia asked and showed Japan the pipe.
The room was dead quiet.
"Ah, hai, I assure you that it would work perfectly, though I suggest that you clean your pipe with the Easy Clean 2000 every day for the best results." Japan, despite the strong urge to get as far as possible from Russia, kept his professional smile and replied after a total 5 minutes of silence.
"Hmhmm~ da, thank you." Russia chuckled contently and went back to join the crowd.
"Hey! Japan! Can I have a bottle of that too? Tony always complained about the hamburger sauce on my jacket. He said that it was very hard to wash and will ban me from hamburgers if I get them on my jacket again. Can your product remove the stain off my jacket?" America was next, pointing to a visible yellow spot on his brown leather jacket.
"Yes, of course. The Easy Clean 2000 also makes sure that it does not harm the leather and at the same time, makes the leather surface shiny and new." Japan introduced as he passed America a red bottle.
"It is actually selling?" Germany stuttered, and he thought China was good with selling stuff… Speaking of which, he should get one too, the pasta sauce on Italy's shirt was always a pain to wash. He thought and turned to look at Italy, who went on to tackling the plates of pasta on the table.
"Japan, I will take a dozen of that." Germany finally said and patted Japan on the shoulder.