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59.2

Ch. 59.2
There was some riddle hidden within the dancing statues.

Since they couldn't interpret the Persona Gate, they had no choice but to use their insight to solve the riddle.

"Hey, Commoner, have you interpreted this gate?"

Hong Bi-Yeon asked directly, and Baek Yu-Seol blinked before replying.

"No."

His answer was slightly disappointing.

"But I have a rough idea of how we can pass through here."

"... Really? You said you couldn't interpret it."

"If you look closely, you can understand some parts even without interpretation."

As Baek Yu-Seol said that, he pointed to the statues.

"If you look closely, you'll see that each statue has a different pose but is performing the same type of dance."

There were almost more than ninety statues, each intricately depicting the movements of a particular dance.

Hong Bi-Yeon nodded her head and spoke.

"The Requiem of the Dead Serena. It's a dance Serena, who couldn't bear her own tragedy, performed right before she died."

"That's right. You know it well."

"Dance is a fundamental part of culture."

"Then you must remember the movements well, right?"

"Well… uh."

Finally understanding Baek Yu-Seol’s intention through his smiling words, Hong Bi-Yeon hardened her expression.

"No way...?"

She urgently examined the movements of the statues carefully.

Now that she noticed... all the statues' movements were connected in sequence.

She initially thought there were just many statues dancing, but now she realized that those countless statues had arranged a single movement in chronological order!

But occasionally, there were empty movements.

There were precisely four movements.

It matched the number of people.

"So... if we fill in those empty movements with our own, will it work?"

"Uh, yeah? That seems to be the case."

That was the riddle of the first gate.

Since there were preceding and following movements, it wouldn't be too difficult to predict the intermediate movements.

"Alright, let's each take a movement starting from the end, no need to actually dance, just imitate it."

"I'll take this one."

"I'll take this one..."

Even without Hong Bi-Yeon explaining the movements, the students found their positions and performed the corresponding movements.

There were various reasons why this dance became so famous, but fundamentally, it was because dancing was considered an essential etiquette for nobles to learn.

As all four of them took the vacant positions, gears clicked into place!

With the sound of the grinding, the door at the end of the corridor opened.

"We did it!"

"Wow... It was easier than I thought. I'm glad to be in the same team as Baek Yu-Seol."

"Let's go. There will be more puzzles like this in the future."