Going off-path in Swan Lake Paradise is exactly as bad as Yeon Yujun expected.
The undergrowth that had looked merely dense from the trail is, up close, something else entirely. The roots surface at ankle height, the branches come low and deliberate, and the ground itself feels slightly wrong underfoot, soft in places it shouldn't be, firm in places that should give way. Like walking across something that is paying attention to where they step.
'The whole garden is the boss's territory,' he thinks, slashing through a wall of interlocked branches with
"Stay tight," Chae Yuna says behind him, her sword already cutting a parallel line through the growth to his left. She moves efficiently, no wasted motion, carving a path for Ki Yeonbom and Gim Haesung to follow through.
