"So...it seems that our personalities got reversed."
That was what they manage to conclude after they prevented an all out brawl. Hinata had lost her brazen personality and courage, hence why she is now cradling herself while pulling down her hat so that she doesn't have to look at the roaches. Meld, Shu, and Akira all lost their kind nature and their fondness for each other, which is why they nearly wanted to kill each other earlier.
As for the rest...
"How cute!"
"Look at them scurrying around like that."
"I can't believe we were so afraid of these things before."
The girls stared at the swarm with full adoration, as if they were looking at a whole bunch of cuddly kittens. Everyone but Hinata had also lost their disgust for the roaches. As for the boys...
"We'll be fine, as long as we rely on Hinata."
"Isn't that the opposite reason of why we came here?"
Kouki seems to now have some sort of admiration for Hinata. And due to his simple personality, Ryutaro didn't change much, other than how he feels about roaches and his friends, that and the fact he sounds a bit smarter.
"It seems the next trial is for us to work together while having our emotions reversed." Tio stated.
"Yeah... it's annoying as fuck." Meld groaned.
"And what's more, the roaches are just too adorable to kill." Akira added.
"As annoying as it is, I do agree with you...Ok, let's kill them, Air Cannon."
"A shame, but see ya roaches, Purgatory Blaze."
Meld fires a sphere containing vacuum wind blades that shot right through the barrier. It managed to charge right through the swarm and hit the humanoid roach, getting rid of a chunk of it's left half. As for Akira, he had summoned multiple fire tornadoes around them to eliminate the roaches that were there. The others didn't have time to react until they saw the scorched platform filled with burnt roaches.
Meld then grabs the back of Hinata's hoodie and makes a powerful jump towards the swam with Akira following by flying.
"Wait-" Tio was simply ignored as he called to them.
"KYAAAAAAAAAHHH! WHY DID YOU BRING ME ALONG?!" Hinata screamed as she saw all the roaches surrounding them. Any roaches that clung on to them were immediately warded of by Lightning Field
"If I had left you behind, you would've just cowered behind everyone. Like hell I was gonna let that happened." He stopped at midair with Aerodynamic. "You may have lost your courage, but not your skills or survival instincts..." He then lets go of Hinata. "So hurry up and make yourself useful!"
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH YOU BASTARD!" Hinata cried as she fell. the Synergist barely managed to catch herself with Aerodynamic. She didn't have time to let out a sigh of relief as multiple roaches started flying at her. She brought out her flamethrower in a panic and started to try and aim everywhere.
After dropping Hinata, Meld launched himself at the humanoid roach at lightning speed. But just a he brought his sword down the roach was gone.
It had moved at high speed to dodge Meld's attack. It then extended it's right hand screeched. It seemed to be issuing a command. Soon, a bunch of individual roaches started flying at Meld like bullets.
As he was about to block it, the incoming roaches was swallowed by massive dragon made of fire that was flying quite close to Meld, causing to nearly fall back. Meld turns his head and sees Akira having just casted his Five Heavenly Dragons, each dragon was comprised of a different element.
"Hey dumbass, you nearly fried me back there!" Meld shouted.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Would you preferred it if I had used the thunder one?"
"Why you..." Meld gritted his teeth and clenched his fist.
While they were bickering, the humanoid roach had time to fly into a sphere made of tiny roaches. After he emerges out of it, the wound Meld had inflicted was gone.
"It recovered?"
"It must've consumed the small ones to make up what it lost. It is a combination of them after all."
The cockroach begins it's counterattack, it spews a big black haze from it's mouth. Meld knew it wasn't regular smoke, so he makes a gust of wind to blow it away. The smoke hits one of the branches and Meld and Akira witness as the branch start to rot and crumble into dust.
"That attack...huh?" Meld then notices the roach flying away from them and in the direction of Hinata, who was still frantically defending herself with the help of her drones.
"Look out damn it!"
"Huh?" Hinata heard Meld's warning and spots the incoming monster, immediately panicking. "KYAAAAAAAAAAAAA! GET AWAY!" Hinata summons her missile launcher and fires at it.
The roach easily dodged it and the missiles started headed towards Meld, who had tried to pursue it. "Aw hell..." Meld redirected the missiles with Updraft and the missiles ended up hitting the swarm, which was being kept at bay by Akira.
"Gale Sovereign." Meld increases his speed to overtake the roach, that kept dodging Hinata's frantic attack. Just as it got close to her, it uses it's fingers to summon wind blades and fired it at Hinata.
CLANG
Meld lands between the two, blocking the blades. However the strength of the blades were still strong enough to make a cut at Meld's cheek and knocked them back.
Right after they got their landing, the roach was already charging at them again. But fortunately, it was intercepted by Akira's dragon.
"What will you two do without me?" Akira asked as he flies to them. While the roach was preoccupied with the dragons, Hinata was properly able to aim her drones and blast it. The roach decided to retreat again.
The three of them were now all huddled up while being surrounded, much to their frustration.
"Hey, pipsqueak." Meld called out.
"Y-Yes?" Hinata sheepishly answered.
"You noticed it too didn't you? Something about that thing feels... " Meld trails off.
"...Familiar." Hinata finished.
"I think I get what you two are saying." Akira said.
"It's strength, it's speed, and it's form of attacks...it reminds me of Noint, or at least a slightly weaker version."
It is just as Meld have said. The humanoid roach was able to fly nearly as fast as Noel, it's wind blades carry the same sharpness and force as Noint's twin swords, it shoots tiny roaches as Noint would with his feathers, the smoke it spewed is like the disintegration ability and finally, the vast amount roaches represents an apostle's infinite mana for recovery.
"Last time, we beat him by taking out his mana crystal."
"But this monster's mana comes in the form of all those roaches."
"There's no way we can fight for that long!"
"And it gets worse, look over there." Meld points his sword upward. They all see a bunch of humanoid roaches.
"Kyaaahhhh they multiplied!" Hinata cried.
"Alright, listen up idiots." Akira called out. "I have a spell that can take care of this, but I'm gonna need some time. So..."
"You want to use us as meat shields." Meld figured.
"Yup."
Despite his irritation, Meld knows Akira might he their best chance. "That spell better work." Meld used Hallowed Ground, and dragged a still scared Hinata to face the incoming horde of humanoid roaches. The ones in the front each spewed black smoke right at the two.
"Hmph, Cloudburst." Meld simply created a wall of wind to block it. After that, he readies his sword. If Hinata is gonna keep cowering, then it's up to him to-
"Take this sucka!"
Meld's eyes widened as he a large beam of light come from behind him and taking out multiple roaches.
"Hinata?!" Meld turns to the girl, who is now holding her rail gun. "Are you-"
"Yeah, and you just called me by name. Which means the spell's wearing off ." She switches to her handguns. "Now let's go!"
The two of them face the incoming horde and only one thing to say.
""Limit Break!""
The two of them charge forward and begins the slaughter. With their new boost in power they were able to match the roaches speed. But due to the sheer numbers, some did get past them and head towards Akira, only to be shot down by Hinata.
She would have used her drones, but unfortunately the roaches were smart and had sent the swarm of the little ones to attack Akira. So she had to use her flamethrower equipped drones to keep most of them at bay. The few that made it through couldn't get past Meld's barrier.
This battle kept going on until...
"It's done." Akira bursts out of the barrier holding his hands together. He slowly opens them, revealing a bright blue light that illuminated the room.
It is revealed that Akira was holding a tiny blue flame. "Cull..."The flame floats upward and sends out ripples of light throughout the room. "Divine Purgatory." In an instant, all only the cockroaches touched by the light was reduced to nothing but ash.
As they watch the obliteration of their enemies, the three of them got back together. "Woah, what spell is that?" Hinata asked while watching the spectacle.
"It's a combination of gravity and spirit magic. I used gravity to compress my fire spells and then used Spirit magic Cull to make the flames only attack roaches."
"Another brilliant spell I see." Meld complimented. The flame then disappeared after completing it's job. And they all returned to the others.
They can see that all of them were still alive, which was a big relief. "You all seem to be fine, I'm glad you were all able to work together too despite your altered emotions." Meld said.
"Well...it was actually thanks to Tio." Shu admitted.
"Huh, Tio?"
Hinata strokes her chin. "Oh yeah...if his emotions were swapped too..."
"Yeah, you should've seen him back there. He acted like an amazing leader." Seiji said.
"But even so...shouldn't he have hated all of you?"
"That's what i said." Kaori spoke up. "But then he said..."
"Don't focus on your emotions! Only your personalities were altered, not your memories. I have over 400 years worth of memories of serving my clan. My emotions cannot triumph over that. So remember, why are you here? Why do you want to clear the labyrinth? Use the answers to drive yourselves to fight!"
"And what's more, he even gave us personal words of encouragement."
"Wow..." The three who left earlier were in shock. They stare at the dragon, who shyly look away because of the looks of amazement.
They all wondered one thing. If Tio had acted on his memories, does that mean that he was capable of this all the time?
After some rest, the top part of the tree started glowing and a brand started growing down towards them. As it descents, the branch start to slowly morph into stairs.
"I'm really hoping this was the last shit we had to deal with." Hinata groaned, and she was not alone in that sentiment. They go up the stairs and found a familiar looking hollow and magic circle. They go inside, and the light enveloped them.
After the light disappeared, they found a view with no forest or the inside of the tree. Instead, they find a beautiful garden that had a circular canal filled with clear water, trees with delicious looking fruits on their branches, fresh air, and clear skies.
They safely assume that they finally clear the labyrinth, once they saw there were not any monsters or anything and breathe sighs of relief. The only odd thing is that beyond the garden's borders were nothing but clouds.
Tio looks over the edge and gasped in shock. "Master, I believe that we are at the summit of the tree."
"What?" They all rushed to the edge and saw what Tio saw, it was the sea of fog of Verbergen.
"Uwah! That's definitely Verbergen, I would notice it from here, no doubt." Shu assured.
"Wait a minute, how come we didn't see it when we were on Hinata's airship?" Kaori asked.
"It was probably hidden by magic." Akira gave his opinion. "This garden could actually be in different space, or perhaps our visions were clouded by Spirit Magic. With ancient magic and enough creativity, nearly anything is possible."
Deciding not to question it any further, the group goes to their next destination. They went over to a tree in a garden that towered over the other trees and had a stone tablet in front of it. It was placed in the center of the circular canal.
After the crossed the bridge over the canal, both the tablet and the waters in the canal started to glow and Hinata's party felt a familiar sensation.
It seems the canal itself was a magic circle. After it was done, they were about to discuss the magic they obtained.
However, their attention turned towards the big tree when a part of it started moving. They watch as it slowly molds into the shape of an elf woman's top half.
"Is that...?"
"First, allow me to congratulate you for making it this far. I am Lyutillis Haltina." She begins the usual liberator speech. While everyone was listening, Hinata walked over to the side of the tree...and proceeds to dig her knife right into Haltina's shoulder.
"Hinata?!" Everyone shouted.
Hinata sees that Haltina was still talking. "Damn, it's just another hologram. I was hoping it was like Miledi."
"Why did you do that?!"
"After everything she made us go through? Bitch's lucky I didn't decapitated her right away. The only thing she did right was making this place only for experienced challengers." Hinata walks back to the group while frowning. Haltina started explaining the magic they had obtained, evolution magic. Basically it can boost any power, even other ancient magic, which actually sounds amazing. That means that-
"But that is not it's true value."
"Oh?" Hinata suddenly got interested.
"The ancient magic is powerful enough to control the fundamental forces of this world. If you have collected the other 6 ancient magic and evolve them, then you can use the power that is considered godlike...Concept magic."
"Concept...magic...?" Hinata said in awe. Her expression was the same as everyone, completely astonished.
"As the name suggests, it can conjure any concept brought by your imagination. Although it is powerful, it is not easy to use. You cannot use it simply because you have it, for it is not powered by theory, but by unbelievably powerful will."
"Will...?"
"Even with all of us liberators together, we had only created three Concept Magic. I shall now bestow one of those upon you now."
The stone tablet in front of the tree shifts to the right and reveals an object. Hinata picks it up. "A pocket watch?" The back had Haltina's crest while the front had a circular glass with one needle beneath it, making Hinata realized it was a compass
"This object is called the Compass of Eternal Paths. It can guide it's user to anything it desires."
"Say what?!"
"Be it a missing person, hidden treasure, or even...another world."
Everyone gasped at that example. Hinata knew that Haltina had meant the world where the gods reside. But she also knew it could lead her back to her original world.
Hearing Haltina say that made Hinata feel something swell up inside her...it was relief. Soon, Haltina bids farewell and goes back into the tree.
Everyone stood in silence in complete shock until Hinata spoke up. "Akira, can't we just evolve spatial magic to go to other worlds?"
Her classmates gasps at the suggestion. Akira closed his eyes and thought of every possible way to fulfill Hinata's wish. When he opens his eyes, he frowns and shakes his head. "Sorry Hinata, I don't think we can." No matter what he imagined, spatial magic will always be bound to Tortus's space even with Evolution Magic's boost.
"I see, guess Miledi was right."
"TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL YOU'LL HAVE TO CLEAR ALL THE LABYRINTHS."
"So it is possible..." Hinata gives out a gentle gasp. "Then all we have to do is clear the last labyrinth. This one was a mess, but the rewards make it worth it I guess."
Her party an Kaori smiles at her, it was rare for Hinata to be this happy.
But as for the rest, they seemed a bit anxious. Suzu courageously walks up to her. "Uhm...N-Nagumo, do you think we can get back home with that Concept Magic thing?"
"We should be, we won't know for certain until we get it though."
"T-Then..w-when you do find a way... uhm..will you...you know..." Suzu was trying so hard to say her question, she can't help but be intimidated by Hinata. Considering how much she's been irritated by her and the others.
But luckily, Hinata can read her like a book. "You're wondering if I'm just gonna ditch all of you, right?" Suzu nods. Her worries are justified due Hinata's views on her classmate. However. "Don't worry, I wouldn't mind bringing all of you home if it's possible."
"R-Really?!"
"Yeah. After all, I really don't want your families to be bitching on me."
"Heh?!"
"Just think about it, if I go back on my own, I would be constantly be harassed by your families with stuff like "Where's my child?" Or "What happened to my daughter?" Ugh, who has time to deal with that? Meeting one Amanogawa is enough for a lifetime."
As much as they wanted to talk back to her, they quickly decided it's best to remain quiet. Considering that...
"Taniguchi, Sakagami, Amanogawa, none of you obtained the magic did you?" Hinata asked suddenly. The three are mentioned hung their heads in shame.
"I'm not surprised, and none of you better be either." She showed absolutely no mercy, they underestimated the labyrinth and this what they got. "Yaegashi, Kaori, you two got the magic right?"
"Yup, felt weird."
"Y-Yes, I did gain it too." Shizuku sheepishly admitted.
"Congratulations Shizushizu, Kaorin." Suzu while giving out small claps.
"Way to go guys!' Ryutaro cheered while raising his fist.
Suzu and Ryutaro showered their two allies in praise, even if they were a bit jealous. And Kouki was also smiling, but...
"Well at least Meld wasn't one 100% wrong. Alright, let's get out of here." With that, they go home for some much deserved rest.
The next day
Meld looks over the beastmen in the plaza of Verbergen. In the days they've stayed here, everyone has been helping with rebuilding, even Hinata. But even with all their help, there is still much to do. Such as reorganizing the army, fixing the infrastructure, and of course letting the reunited families spend some much needed time together. He sees such a pair, a father lifting up his small daughter.
The scene reminds him of what he had saw back in the labyrinth's second test. He can still remember it so vividly, him raising Hinata as his dau-
"Hey Meld."
"Ah!" Meld jumps when he hears Hinata's voice. He turns and sees the teen seeming quite tired. "Hinata! Uh...Did you get enough sleep?"
"Ugh, no. Because of freaking Yaegashi."
She grunted.
"Shizuku? What did she do?"
"I don't know, she was screaming at some trees for some reason. She had her katana, so she might've been training. All I know is, when I asked her to shut the fuck up, she got all flustered for some reason."
Meld couldn't help but wonder if Shizuku was also thinking back to her dream world.
Soon the two of them are joined by Hinata's harem plus Kaori. They were dealing with something related to Altina. Hinata wasn't really listening. All she got were the words, "wrestling", "Tio's influence", and that they seemed worried for the elf girl's future. The moment Tio's name was uttered was the moment Hinata lost any desire to learn any more.
Soon, they were joined by the rest. At first, they were hanging out as usual. With the guys arguing about Hinata, until suddenly..
"Nagumo! Please, take me to the next labyrinth!" Suzu shouted put of nowhere, surprising everyone.
"What?" Was all Hinata said.
"I know you only agreed to help us through one labyrinth. And it's not right to ask for more favors considering we only slowed you down back in the labyrinth. But I have to!" Suzu continued to beg.
"...Why are you doing this?" Hinata simply asked.
"You...won't help Eri, will you?"
"Are you seriously asking me that?" Hinata scoffed
"I know. That's why I need power. Wether I get it or not, I'm gonna go to demon territory." Everyone but Hinata gasped at Suzu's statement.
"Suzu, you can't-"
"Are you craz-"
"Back off!" Suzu shouted at her friends, who tried to talking. The intensity of her voice got them to back off. "I have to do this. I want to try and bring Eri back one more time. And if I do.." She looks at Hinata. "C-Can you bring her back to Japan? Please, I'm begging you!"
Hinata was silent for a moment before smiling. "Wow Taniguchi...you're more heartless than I thought."
"Huh...?" Suzu was confused, she was expecting to be insulted by Hinata, ready to be called stupid or even delusional.
But heartless...?
Hinata gave an amused smile. "And here I thought that I was the selfish one, talk about a surprise."
"Selfish, wha-what are you talking about?!"
"Nakamura killed over 500 people and almost took out the rest of the kingdom." Hinata reminded. "But all you care is getting your so called BFF back."
"That's..." Suzu struggled to come up with an answer.
"Kondo didn't tell you did he?"
"Reichii? What does he-"
"He called dibs on Nakamura's head." Everyone's eyes widened as Hinata continued. "And he's probably not the only one. Friends and family of the deceased soldiers and maybe even the princess, you know, the one whose father got killed by that bitch, they all probably wouldn't mind seeing Nakamura's head rolling on the ground."
"Lily..." Suzu whispered. Like the other students, she had considered her to be a friend. She finally realized of what she had just asked.
"But you don't care about that do you? Here you are, asking Nakamura to be let off scot free, instead of giving those people their rightful revenge." Suzu just kept panicking internally as she looks to the floor. "Well to be fair, I don't really I care about that either."
Suzu started heavily breathing in and out.
Seeing her in this state, Kouki wanted to step in. But he was instantly stopped by Akira drawing his sword. "Back off, she's still talking." The vampire warned. As for the others, they also wanted to comfort their friend, but they didn't know what to say.
"What's even more amusing, is that you actually thought Nakamura had any chance to live. Even if we went back to Japan without her, it would only be a matter of time until Meld kills her." Everyone looks at the man, who looks away with a dark expression, confirming Hinata's words.
"Oh, and P.S. Taniguchi, you don't have to go to demon territory to commit suicide."
Suzu finally looked up. "Suicide? No! That's not-"
"Isn't it though? You already know that you won't survive, even if you have Ancient Magic. You just thought it was better to die rather than accept the fact you never had a real BFF."
"N-No...that's wro-"
"You just don't want to admit that the time you spent with Nakamura meant absolutely nothing. Or rather, you meant nothing to her." Hinata points at the frightened girl.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Suzu suddenly screeched and bolted off to the forest.
"Suzu!"
"Wait, come back!"
Her friends gave chase to the barrier master, while Hinata, her harem, and Meld simply watched. Everyone but Hinata did feel sympathy towards the girl, but they knew Hinata's argument had merit...
Suzu let her emotions overwhelmed her, the girl was thinking with her heart, forgetting everything else. Even if she might've been ready to forgive Nakamura, many others would still be out for her blood.
Ryutaro desperately ran pass the trees, Suzu had managed outpace them, and now they've lost sight of her. They decided to split up to look for her.
He then notices something on the corner of his eye, something curled up near the base of a tree.
"There you are." Ryutaro said to Suzu, who was burying her face in her crossed arms. He can hear sniffling and sobbing from her.
He sits down next to her. "Hey, come on. We already know how harsh Nagumo can be. But don't let that get you down, ok?" He tried to cheer her up.
Suzu lifts her head and faces Ryutaro. "I'm not crying because she was mean. I'm crying because...hic..she was right."
After how bluntly Hinata put it, she had no choice to accept that.
"I was being selfish, even on that night, all of you were about to die, but all I can think about was still refusing to believe that Eri can do all that." Ryutaro remained silent as Suzu continued. "Back at the labyrinth, all I could do was just cry and scream, like a baby. I...was so useless."
That's what she was realized, nobody in her class wanted Eri to live. Suzu also knew that if she dies in demon territory, and Eri turned her to another puppet, she would just be killed instantly by Hinata.
She wouldn't be useful to her friends or enemies. That's the truth of her existe-
"Aren't you overthinking things?" Ryutaro casually asked.
"W-What?"
"I said, aren't you overthinking things?" Ryutaro repeated.
"Wha- How am I overthinking this? All of our classmates wants to kill Eri, including you, right?"
"Yeah, I do. I want to sock her right in that damn face...But, so what?" The monk shrugged
Suzu gawked at him. "W-What...?"
"Well...I want to punch Nakamura, that's it."
"What kind of answer is that ?!" Suzu started to get annoyed, forgetting her sadness. "You really are a muscle head, you're not making any sense."
Ryutaro chuckled at the outburst."Hehe, looks like you cheered up."
"What exactly are you trying to say?" Suzu said while giggling and wiping off her tear.
"Look, truth is, I don't really understand what Nagumo meant, but I do know that doesn't make you a bad person in any way."
"Really...?"
"I mean, wasn't Nagumo the one that told us to do what we want? Or something like that?" As idiotic as he is, not even Ryutaro can forget what Hinata said to her class in Heiligh.
Just then, Suzu had a revelation, and she recalls Hinata words as well, about desires and what people would do to achieve them.
"Yeah you're right." Suzu stands up. "I think I know what I want to do now."
Ryutaro also stands up, glad that his friend was feeling better. Just then, he suddenly felt a pair of arms around his waist.
"Thanks Ryutaro, you really helped me."
"Anytime."
Hinata's party stands in front of Hinata's airship, they were getting ready to depart. They were waiting for the others, wether it was to send them back to the castle of something else remains to be seen.
They see them all walking towards them, Suzu had reunite with her friends after her talk with Ryutaro. The two groups face each other. Then Hinata and Suzu each walked forward and stood before each other.
"So...you done crying yet?" Hinata kept harsh tone.
"Yes, I have. I needed it." Suzu didn't show any form of fear. "I also needed to hear what you said, so thank you."
Hinata did not give a response.
"You're right, in Eri's eyes, I was nothing but a tool...But that doesn't mean she's nothing to me!" Suzu loudly proclaimed, surprising everyone. "I still want to talk to her. I don't want to let these feelings go unresolved, I want to talk to the real Eri Nakamura. But knowing her, she won't ever give me a time of day. That's why I'll have to get her attention, by force if I have to. So, I need to ask you again, please take me to the next labyrinth, I'll pay you back with anything you want." Suzu once again bowed.
Ryutaro then stepped forward. "This might seem rude or something, but I still have to ask you to take me along, please!" Ryutaro gave his own powerful bow.
Kouki also begged. "Nagumo, I'm want to go too, please give me another chance. I need to talk to Nakamura too. I promise to be useful this time, and I-I'm sure I can pass the next-"
"HAHAHAHAHAHA..." After he said that, Hinata and her harem went into a laughing fit. After they stopped, they looked at the hero with bored expressions. "No you won't." Hinata replied.
"Surely won't."
"Definitely won't."
"Absolutely won't."
"Positively won't." Her harem had each chimed in one by one.
"Guhk!" Kouki could only grit his teeth. It felt like he was back in the dining hall, when proposed they continue to challenge Orcus and everyone shot him down. Everyone who used to rely on him...
Hinata looks the trio and after some thought, she shrugs. "Eh, you can't have too many favours." They all smiled at where this was going. "What the heck, it's only the last labyrinth, I've endured longer and worse. "
She then turns to Shizuku and Kaori. "So, are you two in?"
"Huh?" Although Shizuku was a bit surprised, Kaori was all too eager. "Yes, definitely! Shizuku?" Kaori turns to her best friend.
"Oh, uh..of course."
"Great, then let's go, to the last great labyrinth, the Frozen Caverns of Schnee, located in demon's territory, Garland." Everyone walks into the airship and it takes off, the party gets ready for their next challenge.
However...
KNOCK KNOCK
"Oy, Nagumo, I haven't gotten in yet!" Kouki bangs at the airship's closed entrance as hard as he can. The airship then starts to take off. "DAMN IT NAGUMO!"