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“……Let’s go. Us too.”
Gyeon Riok, who had been listening intently beyond the door, jerked his chin.
The two of them had only kept in contact from afar and hadn’t seen each other in a long time either, but it was still too early to rejoice in their reunion.
Whether Jin Gyeoul had deliberately done them a favor or not, an opportunity was still an opportunity.
They needed to get out now, while he had taken every priest with him and disappeared.
“Hyung. If this is the prayer room, then this is the one, right?”
“Give me a second.”
Baek Dohyun carefully ran his hand over the wall.
He had spent ten years inside the Holy Temple.
Because this was a place they knew they would inevitably have to come to someday, the two of them had not only memorized the internal structure of the Holy Temple down to the last detail, but had also secured several escape routes.
Rrrrrumble……!
“Got it……!”
A seam split open in the wall of the ancient stone chamber, revealing a secret passage.
Baek Dohyun nodded.
“If we go out this way, it leads straight to the underground waterways. There should be little boats the workers use down there, so we can take one and— Riok?”
“What.”
“……No, your face.”
Once he said it aloud, it seemed even stranger.
Taking his hand off the…