　もう一度、見回す。すると、千早は閉鎖された食堂のすぐ手前に、下に通じるハッチがあるのを発見した。　
　（これって）…ひょっとして、綾が下から押しても開かなかった、船倉に繋がるハッチではないだろうか。

Chihaya desperately took another look around. Then there it was - a hatch just several steps away from the hall's closed door. Chihaya pondered, and then it dawned on her: isn't this the passageway that Aya tried to pull her through the other day, when she came in through the rupture in the hull and the lower decks?