Or maybe we lucked out. There probably aren't any monsters nearby, which just made our job a lot easier.

[And, almost as if on cue, the temperature of the room drops to a good ten degrees cooler. The rug that they are both standing on starts shaking, and several vases on a far shelf fall to the ground.]

[Okay, maybe that shakes Zelos, but he's going to do his best to keep calm.]

And the old man booby trapped the place before he died. Peachy.