Saif feels her pain. He feels how everyone is feeling as well. They are all in this together after all, and still are. Saif then puts a hand on her shoulder, which grabs her attention. He looks down at her, smiling, not using words to comfort her, but his presence. His understanding of how she feels, and it slightly works as she also gives him back a smile. They walk a little more and finally reach the door again. A long line could be seen in front of it with a lot of security checkpoints for going inside, but they walk past the line from the side, as VIPs after all. They have the privilege of skipping it in its entirety. The line is halted so that they can take their time in going inside without interruptions. As they all reach right in front of the door, everyone turns their attention to Saif and his family. Ethon announces, "As you are the only ones who haven't really went inside almost ever, minus Saif of course, you will have the privilege of going in first!" Oliver then blurts out, "If you can even call it that." Ethon turns his head to him and mutters to him in a frustrated tone, "Not helping!" Oliver covers his mouth with his hands and mouths back, "Sorry." Saif giggles when seeing their interaction which relieves the tension that was built up. Afterwards, everyone moves to the side for them, some cheering from the side lines. Surprise can be seen on Saif's face, as realised that others entered too when he thought only the others entered before him, but now he knows that the families entered too. He then looks at the door, then at his family, and then reassures them that there is nothing to worry about. They nod back in approval, but deep inside they were still scared, but knew that Saif was terrified yet was still standing and even comforting them which did make it work even better. He walks first, leading them closer and closer to the door. With each step, Saif's heart beat becomes louder and louder, with his legs feeling heavier, and his breathing deeper. He pushes on through the fear, his face tensing up. He can't stop. Not in front of his family after they thought that now he is okay. If he stops, they will think that something is back with him and that he shouldn't go inside due to their worries, and he knows the others will back them up due to them worrying too.
Sweat can be seen on everyone's faces as they see Saif walking, hoping he doesn't stop and goes inside again. When it was a few steps till getting inside, Saif just closes his eyes, letting his body flow and his mind empty as he lets himself inside, and suddenly, he feels that there is no more ground under, he quickly opens his eyes again and lands the large downward step to go inside Purgatory, as air from his lungs he didn't know he was holding escapes out of him. He pants in his place for a moment, before looking around, the terror in his heart fading away. Cheering could be heard from behind him as everyone was celebrating that he did it again. His family soon follows him, but all of them hesitate for a moment at the line between this world and Purgatory before finally going inside while he helps them down the large step. They all hug him as tears of joy fall from his mothers eyes, which makes them all have watery eyes.
Everyone else soon follows and cheers and celebrates for him as well. As the cheering died down, the only thing that could be heard was the murmuring of the people around them as they looked around the first level of Purgatory. Flashbacks of the first day come back to everyone, as they remember how there were cameras and a fake crowd, like this was a game show they thought they entered, but was actually a death trap designed for pure deception. Now it's a husk of what it was. Ethon finally gets in front of the group and says, "Alright everyone, welcome to Purgatory. I will be your guide for today as we are going to go into 5 levels today. They won't be in the order of levels, but they are the most friendliest ones in the beginning levels. And the first one we have today is this one called level 1!" He pauses as cheering erupted mostly from family members for Ethon's sake, not for being happy for what this level is. He continues and says, "This level has many names, but we will just call it level 1 alright. The next level we will go to is level Morphed world mazes, and you will know why it has a long name as the name basically describes the level. We didn't have that much creativity in naming the levels in the beginning. (Waits for the laughter to stop then clears his throat) Anyway, I won't be describing what you will see in those levels so that you could be surprised when you see them. The level after will be the Falling stairs. And the one after that will be the level dark rooms. Wo, scary names. And finally, our last destination will be Level Island. We don't mostly call it that as we used to actually call it the breath of heaven in this hell, but like all the levels in this place, it didn't end well, so we just kept calling it just as the Island." He pauses so that everyone can take in all the information he just said for a moment before continuing, "Alright everyone, before we head further inside, we need some ground rules to be made. As we aren't going the conventional way, we are going to do some unconventional tricks to enter other levels that we have learned over our time here, but it's still not absolutely safe unlike everything else. Don't worry, it's still safe, but you need to listen to us very carefully and do everything we say. But don't worry, it's really hard to mess up and you need to intentionally mess up to seem like you cheated, as we have refined it well to be as safe for us as possible when we were in there. And please don't ask me what the term 'Cheated' means as it's a long story. (Sigh) And for anyone asking, the reason why we are going to take these unconventional short cuts is because of how long the way will be if we all want to go to the Island, and this skip in-between levels is the fastest way there so we can have a good time for as much of today as possible, and still see a lot of the other levels too and explore them as much as we want. Is that clear to everyone? And if there are any questions, please ask me now or whenever, alright."
All the families looked at each other, nervous about this 'cheating' thing because of the skip and how dangerous they are due to how they need to do them accurately to a T. When they look at the other 10, they see them as nonchalant, like this isn't a big deal at all to them, even Saif who should be the most scared here. This brings reassurance back into their hearts about this. Ethon then prompted everyone now to follow him, and as they walk, everyone from the 10 starts to reassure everyone about the safety of the skips who aren't so sure, as in the beginning levels, skips are the easiest to do as they are the closest to the real world and its rules, as the further you go, the more the rules are forgotten by Purgatory.
As they were all walking, Saif suddenly starts to grunt loudly in pain as voices in his head start talking in tongue. As he collapses to his knees, All the families are shocked and want to check up on him, but are stopped by the 10. Saif's family gets closer to him, trying to comfort him from afar as this has already happened many times before, and when it happens now it's basically routine protocol to what to do, and they know they need to wait it out till he fights them off. A few more moments of him in pain went by till he could now breathe. He pants for a little bit on the ground till he gets back on his legs and wipes the dust off of his clothes. Ethon asks, "They felt that you were back?" And Saif just replies with a simple, "Yup." To his question.