"Stop shouting!" Tam said as he tried to reach the desperately struggling man hanging in the air by the rope tied to his waist.

Earl's face was ashen as Tam pulled him to safety.

The others' expression told Saki that getting them to cross now is going to be a struggle.

She went to the bridge and confidently stepped on it. She noticed that the wooden steps slightly thrummed. She examined one particularly rotten step and tapped it with her walking stick.

It felt impossibly SOLID.

She looked at Hamarr who was still holding the wood post. Hamarr, in turn, looked at Hunter.

"I'll tell you more about it later. But for now, we have to move before we lose the light," he whispered to Saki.

She crossed the bridge without any more words and motioned for Kazuki to follow.

Jiro and Jake were terribly slow and were visibly shaking but they managed.

Only Hunter and Hamarr remained.

Saki saw them talking but couldn't make out what they were saying.

Hunter did not walk or run like Calad; he sauntered, much to Saki's consternation.

"Talk about your cocky bastard…" she muttered under her breath but she saw Tam looking at her and they both laughed.

"See you all later!" Hamarr shouted as Hunter crossed.

He let go of the post and the moment he did, most of the wooden steps immediately fell down as if by command. The rotten ones, anyway.

Saki turned to see if her team saw it but all of them huddled near Earl and was excitedly talking about his 'show'.

"How about the old guy?" Saki asked Hunter.

"He will meet with us later. He knows another route. For now, we have to make do without him," he said it loud enough for the rest to hear.

Calad is nowhere to be seen and Duren is now ranging out in front of the whole group.

Tam is curiously near Saki as they went on.

The sound of their footsteps are broken only by the occasional bird noises.

Almost everyone was shaken by their experience at the bridge.

Saki understood that; not a single one of them had near-death experience except maybe for Milo and Frank but she is bothered by the fact that Hunter's men made them look like total amateurs.

She made a mental note to remedy that.

The darkness came so suddenly that Jiro shouted in surprise.

"WHA…! Holy f*ck, I thought I was blind for a second!" He fumbled for his flashlight.

Tam was the first to get close to Saki in a stance that she didn't recognize. He is holding a double dagger as low to the ground as possible.

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