"Hmm... I have a feeling, I'll find it soon! Let me see... where did I put it..."

Inside the warm barrier, the petite Sakuragi anxiously watched the clumsy Sakuragi, whose little feet were sticking out from a mountain of junk, and couldn't help but urge,

"Okay... is it ready? If we don't hurry up, she might catch us soon!"

The petite Sakuragi originally planned to set off immediately, but the clumsy Sakuragi insisted she had something very important to bring...

Now, after who knows how long of searching, she still hadn't emerged, leaving the petite Sakuragi feeling impatient, worried that the demon would find them.

"Alright, alright..."

True to her name, the clumsy Sakuragi hadn't tidied up any of her things.

Except for her bedroom upon first arriving at the barrier, everywhere else was piled with movie props and souvenirs from various places.

After searching for a long while, the clumsy Sakuragi, wearing a samurai helmet, seemed to finally find a mysterious prop.

Then she wriggled her way out of the junk pile with her butt sticking out...

"Alright, I'm all set!"

Once she climbed out, the petite Sakuragi noticed that she was covered in various items...

A pair of red running shoes, a katana tucked at her waist, a bright flashlight, and...

A locket containing a black and white photo of Yan Huan!

"You... you were looking for all this?"

"Of course not! I was looking for the secret weapon, but I've hidden it now, so I can only use it at a critical moment!"

Saying that, the clumsy Sakuragi didn't explain further, she just kissed the black and white photo of Yan Huan on her chest, then went to the door,

"Come on, let's start our grand adventure!"

The petite Sakuragi flew onto her shoulder, watching as she reached and grabbed the doorknob.

"Buzz!!"

Upon contact, the door seemed to connect to some barrier.

"Click, click, click..."

But when the clumsy Sakuragi pulled the doorknob, she couldn't open the door at all.

"It's locked?"

"Yeah... many Sakuragi, who know about the perfect Sakuragi, just lock the barrier. With such barriers, we can't pass through..."

"Then wouldn't locking up our doors be enough? How does the perfect Sakuragi kill?"

"I don't know either, but she seems to have some way to unlock the locked barrier..."

The petite Sakuragi pursed her lips, then suggested,

"Anyway, let's try doing something about other barriers first, eventually we'll find one that's not locked."

"Alright!"

The clumsy Sakuragi licked her lips, and each time she pulled, the door before her transformed in an instant.

Wooden doors, security doors, sliding doors...

Until after countless refusals, even the petite Sakuragi started feeling despair...

When the door finally turned into a dark iron door, the clumsy Sakuragi suddenly managed to twist open the bolt.

"Click!"

"It's open!"

Not waiting for the two Sakuragis to rejoice, the heavy iron door emitted an extremely harsh creaking sound as it swung open,

"Creak... screech..."

And beyond the door was complete pitch darkness.

Only the slight breeze indicating the spaciousness of the deep inside.

"Hiss..."

The petite Sakuragi and the clumsy Sakuragi both stood by the door, peering into the darkness, swallowing with hesitation,

"This room seems quite scary... shall we try another... one?"

"...We've already tried for so long, if we don't go in now, who knows how long it'll take to randomly find this door again next time."

With sweat beading on her forehead, the clumsy Sakuragi thought for a second, then as if resigning herself to fate, she opened the locket revealing Yan Huan's black and white photo, raised it over her head, and shakily stepped inside,

"Don't be scared, the President will bless us!!"

"..."

The petite Sakuragi stared blankly at the clumsy Sakuragi's back, hesitated for several seconds, but still summoned the courage to follow.

"Creak～"

As soon as they entered, the iron door behind them closed, plunging the space into complete darkness, startling both of them into shivers,

"Eek!!"

The larger and the smaller Sakuragi hugged each other in the darkness, not daring to move, only able to feel each other's rapid breathing and quickened heartbeats.

For a long while, they just stared wide-eyed at each other, before the petite Sakuragi finally spoke,

"...Didn't you bring a flashlight? Wh... why aren't you using it?"

"Oh, right! I forgot..."

The next second, a beam of light illuminated from the clumsy Sakuragi's hand, instantly lighting up the surrounding space.

It turned out to be a very spacious yet empty corridor, only leading to a room at its end without a door.

"Let's go, have a look over there."

"Mm..." 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Immediately, the clumsy Sakuragi drew her katana and quietly headed that way.

Just upon reaching the entrance, and shining the flashlight inside, both the clumsy Sakuragi and the petite Sakuragi were stunned.

Inside, in a space as vast as a factory, numerous obsolete televisions of varying models, with their screens facing outwards, were stacked into small mountains rising and falling.

Amidst the darkness, in the farther distance, only the outlines of more TV mountains were faintly visible, thus making it all the more overwhelming.

"Whose Sakuragi lives here, displaying so many TVs?"

The clumsy Sakuragi, with the katana rested on her shoulder, wondered aloud in confusion.

However, just as she spoke, one of the televisions on a TV mountain in front of her suddenly lit up.

"Hiss... hiss hiss..."

The two of them quickly looked over, only to see a screen of static emitting a screeching noise.