Given that that’s generally her response to most problems, he figures he’d better nip it in the bud while he still can. Regardless, he lets her lead them down again, as he himself adjusts to the heavier darkness swallowing them up underground. He makes sure to keep Magnolia at his heels, at least, though he is unsure if the little one can even see all that well in the dark.

Eventually, however, Ren manages to stumble upon another living soul before he can sense it. In this case, it’s a Geodude, shaken up from its slumber when Ren had tripped over it. To the latter’s surprise the Pokémon floats up in the air, sprouting a pair of arms so sinewy they might as well have been hewn from the very rock.

Actually, there’s no doubt about it, and he’s already about to draw out his guns before Magnolia eagerly weaves his way between both his and Nora’s legs, eager to confront the creature before his master could stop him.