ahh excellent Saida keep going

Saida to the rescue then.

Nah, I'm sure it's fine.

Oh no she/he found the m*rder room

The part of the adventure game where you have to click on the whole screen and try every item in your inventory to progress.

If I were there to put in words in what to do next my choice of words would be this in order to save a certain ghost fox from unrelenting insanity: THERE! GO!! NOW!!!

yes keep going! that scarf is a sign but be careful!

Follow the dead body road, follow the dead body road, follow follow follow the follow the dead body road!

I feel we're about to see her try to open in, fail and then just use Brand's strength to burst it down.

I like how Saida is wearing the page number like a hair tie. Gotta keep that mane nice and proper!

Jeez, just in time to see it before it blew off.

Wow that timing, had she arrived 3 seconds later Roko would be done for.

Well maybe not, he probably has a few years left before anything noteworthy happens.

Yeah, Hime, that's a dead body and congrats, you found the breadcrumb before the war going on above blew it off. Time to go into the dungeon and start ransacking the place like a good adventurer.

NOw, we just have to hope Suzo was an incredible baka who didn't put deadly traps in place in case someone who was NOT HIM tries to access his lab.... I dunno, Saida'\s probably in for a LOT of peril.

Honestly? Suzocon-sama? He didn't think anyone would even FIND the place. And normally, he'd be right! She never would have thought to look for that door if it wasn't for the blindingly obvious breadcrumb of Roko's scarf... which Suzocon did not see him place. And it still nearly backfired - the wind from the fight blew it off just as Saida locked eyes on it.

Still. if this were a D&D campaign, you're right: When messing around in an arcane artificer's lair ABSOLUTELY look for deathtraps.

He strikes me as being paranoid enough to at least set an alarm... but yeah, he's been both cocky and caut9ious, so it depends which side of him was in charge when he built the thing...

An alarm, that I can believe. But as someone said, he comes and goes from there pretty regularly, and it would be annoying (and potentially dangerous) to have to deactivate and activate the traps every time. Forget once, and you get hoisted on your own petard. It's just much easier to put a magic lock on it, like he did the deployment crank for the shrine defenses.

THAT would not surprise me: The door isn't terribly secret, which means it's most likely magic-locked. But hey, you have a volcano dragon with both brute strength AND magic ability! He seriously underrated Saida's potential threat level already.

I quite look forward to his reaction when he finds his nasty little Dr. Frankenstein lab after Saida and Roko get through with it.

Wouldn't it be easierr to set a magical trap that detects if you are the one entering? And if so, deactivate all traps??? I dunno, a thought is all./

When a scarf "conveniently" sways on that post till it comes free at the exact time a protagonist comes along ^^.

He dead bruh....
Oh wait! he was already dead!

https://youtu.be/y49b8aiQVBg?si=kcFZTSp7JgSw9reV

Exactly the mood

'Eugh, what's that smell? Oh, dead body.'

Miyo to scarf to balloon to magic mirror and what's left of Roko.


Breadcrumbs.

And then it's time to loot trash Suzocon's little Re-Animator dungeon.

The very last panel is the very first scene in the nes game shadowgate.

Soon she will find the distorted soul of Roko.

<3

If Saida is anything like me, she’ll hesitate because she won’t be sure if breaking the mirror will free or friend or trap him inside forever.

Isn't he trapped between 2 mirrors? I'd try just turning one away to break the loop.

Yes...!

Poor Miyu tho

I'm a sucker for the second panel pov