TIMESKIP 1 WEEK...
"Ooo vintage~"
"It's just a film reel?"
"Vintage~~"
The others chuckled at a duo's reaction, going pair by pair through the orb with the film reel in the center...
...
"Considering there was an old film reel, this is rather modern."
The dancer nodded at the gamer, "looks like an expensive hotel lobby...
Although unlike a hotel... There was nothing in the room.
No chairs, no decorative plants... Not even a receptionist desk.
Although there was a door at the end of the hall, and a staircase off to the side behind them.
"Hey, do you hear that?"
Sakura pointed to the door, "there's voices coming from there."
"I highly doubt the rest of them made it to the main room of this world already... It must be another pair."
"Let's go check it out."
Chaeyeon nodded, "yeah, let's go."
~ ~ ~
"Woah..."
The two girls had teleported onto a circular stage, empty chairs surrounding the platform with the back covered in flora.
Fairy-like lights lit up the small indoor amphitheater, the duo walking down the surrounding steps as they looked around.
Hitomi awed at the sight, "I never been to a theater before..."
Nako glanced at the fluffy-cheeked girl, "never?"
The bartender shook her head, "had no one to take me, but it was always a dream of mine."
The shorter girl smiled, "if... no, when we meet in real life I'll take you to a musical."
"Really?"
"Really."
The simple word that spoke a silent promise gave flutters to Hitomi's heart, a light smile held always on her lips.
"Have you been to one?"
Nako hummed in response, "yeah my friends took me before a long time ago... I haven't gone recently though."
'And... they didn't really... buy a ticket... or tickets, at that.'
The two jumped as a door they hadn't realized was there opened, turning to the noise.
"Hitomi? Nako?"
"Chaeyeon-unnie! Kkura-chan!"
The four greeted each other, the older two spending a moment to take in the theater.
"There's... no other door..."
Sakura pointed behind her, "there was a staircase leading down but we heard you guys so we checked here first instead."
Chaeyeon nodded, "it must lead to the rest of the world then, let's go girls."
The group walked back into the sleek lobby, ivory-colored banisters along the edge of the grande stairs as fancy as the lobby itself.
"Woah-"
"That's a trippy hallway."
The girls stared down the corridor, and although it was short, the walls and ceiling had gaps between them, seeming to make the area longer than it really was.
"Well... Let's go through then."
~ ~ ~
Click.
'Huh?'
The librarian shielded her eyes from the sudden light that bounced off her face in the dark room, seeing that the source was an old projector.
'That explains the film reel...'
She turned around to see what it projected, only to widen her eyes in shock.
Her face showed on the wall the projector faced, and while others would have called her a natural beauty, she quickly whipped back around, covering her face to hide both her embarrassment and shock.
'Oh jeez...'
Minju crouched in hopes the projector would stop showing her, although she took no risk to turn back and check.
"Minju?"
The called girl took a peek through her fingers, seeing Chaewon come out from the darkness.
The older girl glanced past her, "ah..."
She jogged over to Minju, crouching down and giving the girl a tight hug.
"Hey, hey... Min it's alright, it's just you and me here..."
With the help of the orange-haired girl, Minju got back on her feet, unable to look her in the eyes.
"Hey... look at me."
Chaewon gently tilted Minju's head with a finger to her chin, giving her a gentle smile.
"You look beautiful too, lucky me."
The frog softly blushed, glad Chaewon was facing away from the screen.
"How are you lucky?"
The radish shrugged nonchalantly, "I get to see your beauty all by myself."
That broke the quiet girl.
Chaewon laughed at her reaction, holding out her hand, "let's get out of here, I teleported near an exit."
"Y-yeah let's go..."
But as soon as they held hands, the projector sounded a small click, signifying that it turned off, bringing the room into pitch darkness.
"Ah shi-"
Then the lights turned on, revealing what the room had been hiding.
"Oh."
It was rather small, and besides the projector in the middle of the room, the only other thing was a director's chair in front of a velvety drape that faced a camera, and a door.
The two looked around the room, at each other, and then to the door.
"Let's go?"
"Yeah."
~ ~ ~
"WooOoah woAh-"
Thud.
A certain duck rubbed her head as she lifted herself up by her elbows, a hamster calling out from across the room.
"Unnie is that you?"
"Yeah it's me Yuri-yah..."
As Yena was analyzing the new room, that was draped with soft pink and orange curtains, some that dropped to cover the floor, Yuri walked over to the still sitting girl.
"Are you okay? How'd you fall?"
Yena thanked the younger girl as she helped pull her up, I was walking and I slipped on that curtain.
"Good job you dummy."
Before Yena was able to retort back, she was startled as Yuri turned her this way and that.
"Are you okay though?"
"Yeah I'm fine, nothing hurts or feels sore."
The two looked around, seeing no door in sight.
"Maybe the exit's covered by the curtains?"
"Or maybe there's no exit at all~"
Yuri smacked the duck's arm, trying not to giggle as she walked to the nearest wall, "very funny unnie."
Yena went to the opposite side as she snickered, pulling away the curtains while almost tripping again a few times on the way.
"I... think this is the exit?"
Yuri scampered over, seeing a small opening past the curtains Yena held apart.
"It's not a door but it's a way out the room."
The opening went all the way up to the ceiling, and as Yena poked her head through, she nodded.
"Yeah it's a hallway, there's a left-turn at the end of the corridor.."
And so the two girls began to walk, not seeing the fancy staircase that led down at the other end of the hall as they went through the peculiar looking hall...
But as soon as they turned, the hallway turned into a normal one with cream-colored walls and ceiling, a glass door a little ways away perking the duo's interests...