[Luckily(?) Hijikata's ears are ringing too much for him to really parse Maribelle's complaint as an insult. As the water level reaches the bottom of the painting frames - it looks likes they were all strategically hung up at the same height - the flow stops, so at least they won't drown in this horrible cursed room, but the shaking and rumbling continues, and the oarfish is still swimming around. He picks up the other oar and starts paddling too, but since they're not in synch the small boat starts turning around its own axis.]
Where are we going?!
[Seeing how no door has magically appeared they can really only go... into one of the paintings. The one with the pond shows a bird's eye view, so they may risk a freefall in that one, and the group of three might just dump them in the deep sea. The lakefront seems most promising, though there are a few more they haven't properly inspected yet: the latter's neighbour, which depicts a river running through a forest and past an old decrepit mill, and the two on the last wall, one showing a waterfall, the other a nightly aquarium with bubbling tanks in which various small fish move around.]
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Where are we going?!
[Seeing how no door has magically appeared they can really only go... into one of the paintings. The one with the pond shows a bird's eye view, so they may risk a freefall in that one, and the group of three might just dump them in the deep sea. The lakefront seems most promising, though there are a few more they haven't properly inspected yet: the latter's neighbour, which depicts a river running through a forest and past an old decrepit mill, and the two on the last wall, one showing a waterfall, the other a nightly aquarium with bubbling tanks in which various small fish move around.]