Storm of Fate

Chapter 8

In the dead of night, women who have lost all hopes of ever living were weeping in their sleep. Deep in the unknown dungeon, a small group of particular women stayed up taking turns of keeping watch. They sat near a pipe after receiving instruction to do so and they did. Among them however is a guy disguised as a woman. Somehow he managed to not get discovered, even though he was surrounded by them all the time.

'How much longer is this gonna take?' Inosuke thought feeling absolute boredom

"Anything yet?" Aoi whispered to the ones closest to the pipes

"Nothing thus far. It's total silence."

"Hmm, there's possibility of other pipes other than this one. The message itself was too vague." Aoi caress her chin as she thinks

"Did we decipher the message correctly?"

'I deciphered it myself. Pipes. Midnight. Waiting. Hmm, why bothered write waiting instead of wait? This whole thing doesn't feel right.'

Feeling the absolute boredom of a man sitting among the women simply waiting for something, Inosuke taps the pipes to break the utterly deafening silence in the dungeon. He does it several times often to a tune he heard quite a while back. Inadvertently because of his action, the group of women who seemed to be hopeful in front of him become disappointed when they discover where the origin of the sound comes from.

"What are you doing?"

"We're trying to listen here. Don't make any noise."

"This is tiresome I know." Aoi grab one of his shoulder and met her eyes with his. "But if you feel exhausted, just go and rest. We will keep watch."

Ting ting....

Suddenly the pipes reverberates a clear tapping sound all over. Like a tunnel carrying the sound to the far end, they could hear the tapping noise consistently. One of which is impossible to be a natural noise from dripping water or someone accidentally tapping the pipes.

"Someone heard us."

"They're trying to send a message."

"Write it down somewhere."

As the women desperately tries to capture the noise with their ears, Inosuke sat there with his eyes closed and focused his senses to the fullest. Sensing the vibrations coming from within the pipes itself, he concluded that it was yet another morse code.

'H-E-L-L-O.... Just a hello huh?' He thought

"Eh? It went silent again."

"Oh no, what do we do?"

The women panics, yet the man is calm. He already deciphered the code and knew that the person on the other side is waiting for a response. As calmly and casually as he goes, he taps the pipes in a precise manner the same way how he had received the message from them. Moments after he sent the message, he already got a reply.

'E-S-C-A-P-E-?.... Heh, now we're talking.'

"D-did you find something?" Aoi asked with a concerning voice after seeing him smiling after just a few taps

'We're escaping.' He replied to her with the confidence of a thousand men

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