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While Ganra took point, Masato walked several meters ahead of Gilly, Zetun, and Ayame, carefully sniffing the air and the ground for any presence other than their own, and traps. There were several that weren't there the last time they visited, likely set by William's ilk to prevent access or discourage intrusion and Masato marked them with a simple spell he knew ("faeriefire"), which made them glow with a faint purple light, be they tripwires, pressure plates, or something else. He'd been trained from an early age to detect such things and being in fox form made detecting them even easier. However, as he went, the slight wind that coursed through that level of the library cued his nose off to somebody's presence. It wasn't a demon, but rather, human and whoever they were, they weren't doing a very good job hiding while watching them from atop one of the taller bookshelves. Perhaps the he could teach them something...something that could save them a lot of hurt later on.

Masato quickly formed a shadowy kunai beneath his paw, stuck it in his mouth, and threw it at the figure, whose outline he could faintly see. The kunai sliced through the air and embedded itself into the edge of the shelf, right between the figure's feet (a little higher and it could have hit his crotch), firmly stuck and telling the figure he'd been spotted (Masato and Ayame's mentor, Asuhara Taizo did the something similar to tell them he could see them). However, so long as he didn't interfere with their mission or cause them trouble, he wouldn't get any trouble from them.

Ganra dismissed Shuya for the most pat, more concerned about the other traps... different ones...

Though the moment Shuya seemed to get down from the book case, he instantly jumped over with ease seeming to try and keep him from moving. "No sudden movements..." he whispered, his eyes peering into his briefly before quickly slamming his tail right next to Shuya's left foot, seeming to swat something.

A sudden hiss echoed and a small demonic rune began to glow before fading. It appeared the demon had disarmed the trap somehow, but then again, this was something new.

Aside form regular traps, it appeared William;s horde were using magic and even demon magic based traps.

"That's not good. William's resorting to this too... He must be going all out to keep anyone away from his lair." Chibi Zetun commented, and then finally climbed his way out of Ayame's pocket before changing into his original form.

"Best be more than just on your guard, then."

Still wet behind the ears, this other ninja was. He nearly stepped on a demonic rune, which could have blown his legs clean off and sent him catapulting several meters into the air, or worse...something that was fatal within minutes without immediate and competent medical attention. Masato and Ayame, with Gilly and Zetun nearby, soon came to Shuya and Ganra's position, carefully avoiding the traps Ganra found and those Masato sniffed out and marked with faerie fire. These traps were getting more potent and complex, going from mundane to darker forms of demonic magic. Masato stopped in his tracks with one paw raised and sniffed carefully for a moment before casting "detect magic" and faerie fire again and revealing a large web of runes...a big one covering the walkway in front of them and more than a dozen smaller ones lining the shelves on both sides of them, all of which lit up slowly as the spell took effect. There were even faint magical lines zigzagging between them all, like tripwires rigged to set off a whole lot stash of mines and demolish an entire area if someone so much as clipped one.

"Someone really doesn't want us to come here..." Masato spoke calmly and matter-of-factly as his ears twitched and he looked the spell circles over. carefully Runes of detonation with strong necromantic incantations lining the outer circles. Just a couple more steps in their present direction and they would have set those things off, leveling the entire walkway and obliterating the entire area around them. And if they didn't get incinerated by the blast or torn apart by a dense shower of bony shrapnel, they would have been swallowed up by a massive sinkhole and sent plummeting into the depths below them. Not a pretty way to go. Not at all. "So...Zetun, Ganra, should we take a detour or is this the only way we can get to where we need to go?" Ayame asked with her arms casually crossed, keeping a sharp ear and a wary eye about in case William's ilk suddenly decided to launch an ambush, while Masato did likewise nearby.

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A detour it was. Too many traps in that direction and one would be insane to try to get past what was in front of them. Even a ghost would risk triggering that thing and getting sent to the other side for good, regardless of any “unfinished business” it had in this world or the prime material plane. “We’re taking a detour, Gilly-san and you can fly over on one of the shelves. Just be sure to follow us. We’ll make sure the path ahead of you is safe,” Masato said before jumping into Ayame’s arms. “You can come with us as well. Just don’t get yourself killed,” Ayame told Shuya before crouching slightly with Masato in one arm and then jumping, her image swiftly blurring as she flew back through the air like a shadow, prior to landing lightly and silently on a distant shelf. There were rows and rows of those shelves towering over the stone walkways, almost all of which were rigged to blow, according to a detect magic spell Masato cast while Ayame was holding him, revealing a good number of them for a short time; though the one they were on previously was rigged more heavily than the others. If they proceeded in that general direction over the shelves and kept and eye out for traps and ambushes, they were bound to find their target before long...possibly cutting William's ranks down by one more demon.