"Kupo..." Is all the moogle can muster, anyway, if you by chance counted on something more elaborate. Unfortunately for Hanafuda, Ace's faith in her competence seemed to have temporarily taken precedence over the kind of protectiveness he had developed for his companion over the months, resulting in his rather passive stance towards her attempts at fending off the danger. After all, she would never learn otherwise.

"That, or other Heroes might have cleared this place before us."

However, the more they walked, the more Minato's prophecies were starting to get into his head, no matter how he tried to resist the feeling of uneasiness that they brought. Corridor after corridor presented nothing but an absolute void, though Ace could swear that the temperature was getting slightly lower with each step they took. Lightly brushing his hand against the carvings in the walls, he tried to investigate the source of that drop, only to be taken aback by a mysterious wailing sound coming from the distance - except their location made it only harder to get a better idea, with how the voice bounced against the stone.

Whatever it was, it might have as well been lurking around the corner.