Shizuku herself was nearing her limit both physically and mentally, and she was gradually troubled by thinking of what to do. Thus, she decided to make an unable-to-read-the-mood-style gag with the resolution of dying a honorable death. However, when she considered again, she felt as though she felt herself breaking. Then, Nomura and Tsuji Ayako appeared from the improvised passage and they conversed.
"Fuu, I think it somehow turned into a good camouflation. But as expected, I am exhausted after using such a delicate magic... I'm already at my limit."
"It's not in your field of expertise to be able to transform it into wall without any sense of incompatibility... But you even used only one magic array to do that, so it can't be helped. Cheers for your hard work."
"You also worked hard to completely undo my petrification, right? Thanks."
From the conversation of these two people, the one who made this room and camouflaged the entrance into the surrounding wall was the "Earth Magic-user," Nomura Kentarou.
"Earth Magic-user" held high aptitude towards Earth-Element magic which directly manipulates the ground, but it could not do delicate work such as manufacturing and forming such as "Transmutation." For example, it could create a bulge in the ground, make rocks fly up from the ground, harden the ground to create a stone spear, or controlling clouds of sand. In addition, for someone high-ranked, they could use petrification spells and create Golems (completely non-independent doll). However, an Earth Magic user could not produce things by separating or mixing various minerals.
That's why, though it was possible to roughly create a hole on the wall using magic array at hand, to be able to "form" a wall similar to the surrounding walls, Nomura could do nothing but constructed it using only one magic array.
It should be noted that Tsuji Ayako had treated Nomura after he had undid his petrification.
"Thanks for your hard work, Nomura-kun. We should be able to gain some time with this."
"... I hope so. Well, with this I can do nothing but pray we won't be found until everyone has recovered. About Kousuke... we can only pray, too, huh."
"... Kousuke should be okay. He won't lose to anyone in term of the thinness of his shadow."
"No, Juugo. Don't say that, I feel bad just by hearing it..."
The talk about the increasing safety of their hiding place made the depressed atmosphere slightly relaxed, and Shizuku smiled as she treated Nomura kindly due to the cancellation of creating a black history of her.
On the other hand, Nomura had a bitter smile as he prayed and looked into the distance towards one of his bestfriends who was not here now.
That's right, currently one of their companions was not here. He was Endou Kousuke. With "Assassin" as his class, he was Nagayama Juugo and Nomura Kentarou's best friend. He was neither gloomy nor a poor talker, but his existence was a forgettable one. He was a normal high school boy who could speak casually with anyone, but somehow "his shadow is thin." His figure would be gone before anyone noticed it while saying, "Huh? Where is he?," as they looked at the surrounding only to be surprised that he was right beside them. He demonstrated elusiveness without any intention of doing it at all. And, of course, it was also the same story when they were still in Japan.