Oh goodie, so even Niikura didn't have any information on this infamous basement. Other than the possibility of mythological Egyptian monsters, anyway. Great. Wonderful. Couldn't get much more insane than that. But perhaps insanity was expected in an insane asylum. Go figure.

The lock seemed a little formidable, but just one padlock wasn't anything to a Shou. She would have expected he had some sort of lock-picking technique in his large repertoire but by the sound of it, a good smack was as far as he had thought. Well, maybe she could help, then.

"Wanna use my bat?" She offered the metal baseball bat freely. It was meant to bludgeon and it wouldn't lose its purpose from just one little dent.