「No, is this real Indi○na huh.」
「Or perhaps, this is The M○mmy or To○b Raider isn't it.」
That was their impression of the grueso death of a person in front of their gaze. From the view point of the people who had the experience of repeated adventure in another world, they had already seen even more grueso death, so perhaps it could only be said that their reaction couldn't be helped.
「Even so, there should be nothing inside that ruin though……」
Below, people were gathering around the man who died with lting face and yells were flying around. Haji whispered dubiously while watching that.
「Did we fail to notice it?」
「Let's confirm it from now.」
*rustle rustle*, the familiar figures of the jack of all trades Arachne-san that beca regular made appearance. One of the Arachne-san swung its leg as though to say 「You bastards! It's ti for workkk!」 before leading all the other Arachne ahead.
Their figures simultaneously heading to the ground by grappling on string looked like the rappel of a special army unit.
Shia was watching that sight with an expression like 「As expected they really have a will isn't it? But as expected it's scary so I can't ask!」, while beside her Haji took out his smartphone.
It was hybrid smartphone that combined the modern technology with crustal display made in another world. Basically, the smartphones of Haji and co were all of hybrid made, it could contact another world, displayed status, fired laser of concentrated super small sunlight with the thickness of a needle, anyway it was multifunction.
Right now, one of its functions, the function of sight sharing with Arachne was activated. At the sa ti, the screen was a bit small to be watched together with Shia, so the hologram function (midair display) that was created from earth's programming technology, another world's magic (space magic and so on), and special ore like distant penetration stone etc. was activated.
In the air before the eyes of Haji and Shia, the field of vision of Arachne-leader that was projected from the smartphone was created three dinsionally. At the corner of the main projection, there were also small reflections lining up in a vertical line. Those were the field of vision of all the other Arachne.
「Yosh, there is no problem with the sight linking. Erst until Funfte go toward the ruin. Sechste until Neunte, head inside the surrounding tents.」
Haji who sounded like he was giving instruction to the Arachne caused Shia to crack her necks while putting so spirit 「Yo~sh, I'm going to put in tsukkomi nooww~」.
「Haji-san Haji-san. Haji-san is controlling all the Arachne-san aren't you!? Why are you making them saluting like 『Rogeer!』 while following your order!? As I thought they have will aren't they!? It's true isn't it!?」
Haji showed a doubtful expression as though saying 'This bunny, just what is she spewing on?'. Shia was irritated.
「Don't say scary thing like that, Shia. They aren't Myuu's golem squadron. There is no way they have will or anything right? I just programd them to act to so degree when they receive voice input. They are golem, but I'm also equipping them with earth's robot technology you know?」
「……That salute is also included in that?」
「Yeah. After all I used Arachne a lot for situation that demand secrecy. I put in the program based on the reference from the action pattern of special squad, but I've gone through that much trouble, so putting in salute movent while I'm at it should be okay right?」
If that was the case, then it wasn't strange……was it? Shia's rabbit ears dropped down powerlessly.
When she glanced at the display, she caught sight the Arachne bunches were skillfully raising two of their legs, doing reaction as though expressing 「Good griefyare yare」.
「Their performance is really detailed isn't it. Is that also an action pattern that is inserted into them?」
「Hm? Which one?」
Haji returned his gaze from Shia toward the display. All the Arachne-san already resud their action in order to accomplish their work.
「No, that's why I said, it's their movent of shrugging their shoulders as though saying 『good grief this girlyare yare daze』.」
「That's why I'm telling you Shia, stop that. Do you want to scare ? There is no way they can move like that even though I'm not giving instruction right?」
「……」
Shia stiffened still. Her rabbit ears were standing on end with shudders. Shia wanted to insist 「The one who is scared is desuu! As I thought, those Arachne-san, they are possessed by sothing for sureee!」, but it didn't seem like it wouldn't be just rely a snake that would co out if she poke the bush.
And so, 「After this, I'll consult with Myuu-chan, let's do that」 Shia swore inside her heart while she made tsukkomi at another matter.
「Cough-. Then one more thing. Does Haji-san nad those Arachne-san?」
「More or less. It will be more convenient in various things if they have individual na right?」
「Their na sounds terribly familiar for though.」
The platinum apostles flashed at the back of her mind. The people who Shia worked hard to beat to death.
Haji grinned widely,
「Great na right?」
He said such thing. It really sounded like sarcasm. The nas of the opponents who she once carried out mortal combat with were used to na subordinate golems……
「If the people of Tortus heard it, it's easily sothing that they will yell 『Accursed thing!』 for……」
「The civilian doesn't know as far as the nas of the apostles so it's fine. In the first place, Shia, try looking at Japan's literary work. Whether it's god or devil, they are toyed around a lot just as anyone liked in their work don't you see. Even things like erogeerotic ga won't blink an eye to do it. Like a certain archangel, just how much terrible experience that angel t in the past……」
「Can you stop talking about eroge in front of your lover!? Besides I think that Japanese people's karma is just too deep desuu!」
「I cannot deny that huh. Recently anything will get turned into story character, and even after that it will be anything goes for them following where the creator's heart is going. But, I'm proud from the bottom of my heart toward such people in that business.」
Haji said such thing with a serious and tense expression. Toward such Haji, Shia thought 「This person, no rather Japan is totally no good. There is no saving them anymore desuu」 while holding her rabbit ears. She wanted to see the face of the parents who raised such son. Although the parents were manga artist and ga company president. The father was in the middle of diligently producing a new eroge!
While they were making such stupid talk, the group of Arachne who were given the na of god's apostles accomplished infiltration into their respective target safely.
Haji put his finger on a midair display and slid it to the center in order to make the vision of Sechste who infiltrated the nearest tent as the main screen. The screen could be directly controlled with the concept of touch panel.
Sechste was sticking on the ceiling through the tent's frawork, taking a bird's eye view to overlook the whole tent.
「This is……how should I say it, my heart is fluttering.」
「Isn't that right! My heart is drumming fast here!」
What was displayed in the midair display was a single room that was covered with transparent curtain and people wearing protective outfit who seed to be researchers. No matter how they looked at it, it was a sterilized room, or perhaps a quarantine room.
Those factors that didn't suit as facility for ruin investigation caused the eyes of the two to sparkle with curiosity.
The image from Siebte and others who also accomplished their infiltration into other tents didn't project only the image of excavation equipnts, there were also a lot of things like so kind of asurent devices and sensor equipnts.
One of the Arachne circled to the back of Wilford.
Wilford was investigating the condition of the lted man. He then gave so kind of new instruction, persuaded the scared locals to make them return to their work. Perhaps because of that he looked a bit tired and shrugged his shoulders in exasperation. It seed that he kept making exaggerated gesture like drama even when no one was looking.
The Arachne who stuck on his shoulder without getting noticed then……
「Haji-san. This Arachne-san, it's mimicking the movent of Luffy-san and then pointing using its leg see. Ah, this ti its putting two legs on its mouth while twitching. I can hear its voice of heart saying 『You saw the reaction just now? Laa~~e! Gi~ggle giggle』.」
「Eh, strange. This guy……Neunte, you again. Co on, Neunte! Work properly! Don't make strange movent! Okay, movent check! Lift upper right! Lift upper left! Don't lower your right, lower your left! Ah, oi! Don't lower your right! What are you doing lowering it along with the left! Is the voice recognition blurred?」
「……Sohow, Neunte and Erst are coming to mind though. Being able to see them following Haji-san's order playing raising the flag ga is really surreal.」
The god's apostles expressionlessly raising and lowering their hand. Sotis they made mistake and beca flustered.
Certainly, it was a terribly surreal sight.
By the way, Shia was calling Wilford as Luffy was because in the end the two were unable to recall his correct na, and as the result of the two of them complenting each other's mory, they decided that the guy's na sounded like Luffy, should be! And so they called him like that. The self-proclaid businessman Wilford-san might be aiming to beco a pirate king before long like this.
「Leave alone Neunte. What about Erst?」
They switched the screen to the vision of Erst who was at the main objective. The timing was just right when Erst arrived at the room where a lot of workers were gathering. It stuck at the corner of the ceiling and took overhead view.
「They are digging a hole. What's more they are really going all out.」
「Looks like it. There might be sothing underground. Zweite. Go right above them.」
Haji kept Erst's overhead view in position while he gave instruction to Zweite to take the recording from right above the hole. Shia showed a deeply emotional feeling thinking 「Aa, that person who I shaved to death using 100 ton hamr drill」.
「This thing……it seems, there really is a path going underground.」
「Path……is it? It looks like a rectangle well though?」
「No, try looking closer. There, look.」
Saying that, Haji magnified the image while pointing.
Inside the image, a rectangle hole was projected. It had the size where there would still so space left even if a lot of n were lining up inside it. The rectangle hole was hardened with stone on its four sides, stretching to straight below.
Indeed, it was just as Shia said, in a glance, it was more fitting to call it as "well" rather than "path".
But, if one looked closer at where Haji's finger was pointing at, protrusion like ladder was jutting out in regular interval from the stone wall, furthermore, sothing like a tube that was giving out so kind of white smoke was sticking out.
「You will get it if you look at that tube's surrounding. The man whose face lted just now. Most likely, when he was in the middle of going down that ladder, the acid or sothing flying out from that tube got him. Don't you think it's really dangerous for just a well?」
「Certainly, after all it might enter into water for daily life if that's a well.」
In other words, it was a vertical route to underground.
What's more, the word "secret" was attached to it. Around that vertical path, the stone floor was destroyed by heavy machinery, and the soil beneath it was dug up and wreckage was scattered around. From the condition there must be no mistake of this conclusion.
And then, looking from how even now there were the figures of locals excavating the vertical path until around five ter below, it could be seen how that path was completely buried with rock and soil. And fairly severely at that.
「Putting aside the floor and stone, there are quite a lot of stones covered with soil. What's more they are manufactured to be like that to a certain degree.」
「In other words……」
「The path wasn't buried naturally. It was intentionally blocked by covering it with several layers of soil and processed huge stone.」
When Haji said 「This thing is looking more and more like India○-san huh!」, Shia went 「No no, if I have to say which is this, then this must be Ra○der-san you know, surely! Ah, but, an ancient mummy just like in The Mu○my! That possibility cannot be dismissed yet!」 Their tension was rising.
「Now then, Shia-san, what to do yah.」
「Of course, we are going to expose the secret sleeping underground, Haji-san yah.」
Haji and Shia chuckled 'fu-fu-fu' suspiciously while facing each other. It seed they couldn't help but feeling their heart fluttering from encountering an ancient secret at their travel.
「Suppressing these guys and then asking them just what kind of information they got is the fastest way but……」
「I am in the faction of conquering a ga without looking at the strategy guide desu.」
「An adventure has to be like that I guess. My transmutation magic will shine here. Let's slip underground using different route from them and pay our respect to the ancient secret faster than them.」
This was an excavation team that spent money for this enterprise. They also had special equipnt and machinery. In that case, this wasn't a simple academic investigation. Ahead there should be a profit that would worth the investnt for sure. A profit in the form of treasure.
「Haji-san Haji-san. Let's do that. Leaving behind a ssage, just like phantom thief!」
「That's good idea! 『We will receive the treasure first――」
「――by demon king and rabbit』 isn't it!」
The demon king-sama and the bug rabbit-san of the forest bumped their fist while going 'yaa~y' with their motivation going through the roof.
Both of them kept their presence hidden while jumping down from the tree. Then they turned back to inside the thick forest where the ard guards couldn't see them at all.
Shia's rabbit ears were swooshing-swooshing around 「Quu-iick! Quu-iick!」 while she was frolicking around. Haji sent a glance at such her before he activated transmutation magic while smiling.
While the crimson spark surged vividly, a large hole that the two could enter easily even if they walked side by side was opening. Furthermore it was stair shaped. In addition, so that there wouldn't be even the slightest chance for the soil to collapse, the surrounding was thoroughly reinforced with tal plate.
Like that, they went down the stair to underground while advancing the transmutation. It didn't even take ten seconds until their figure vanished completely from view.
「For now, when we reach the depth of around 8 ter, how about we try connecting the path to that vertical path right from the side?」
Haji confird the angle of the path and transmuted a cave aiming to the depth that had been dug until this point plus three ter. He didn't make any change to the ground, but he transmuted the wall and ceiling into tal plate while setting chemical light on the wall in order.
Of course, Haji had "Night Vision", and Shia was also a beastman, so her night vision was in the effective side. In addition, she possessed super excellent rabbit ears that could grasp the space three-dinsionally to a certain degree from the echo of footsteps even inside a complete darkness, so they wouldn't be that troubled even without lighting.
Having said that, being inside total darkness would depress the mood by quite much. In fact, their feeling was eased to so extent by the green light illuminating the underground path.
As though to express such feeling, the path that was illuminated by green chemical light looked like Orcus Great Labyrinth. The two of the looked at each other and smiled.
The smartphone was showing the position of Erst that was left behind at the surface, so without any mistake in the angle, the underground passage collided into a stone wall before long. A subtle vibration was transmitted through it, so without a doubt right above them was the vertical passage that was being worked on.
Surely the people above there would never imagined even in their wildest dream, that there was already people right below the passage that they were desperately digging while trembling with fear from the risk of lting liquid trap flying at them anyti.
「We are going to follow along the vertical passage to below just like this.」
「I wonder how deep this passage is going to continue.」
A spiral staircase was created vertically along the stone wall.
While digging down deeply underground, in the midway, there were devices set up along the wall everywhere. There wasn't just lting liquid, gadget that fired short arrow, chanism that thrust out spears, a set up of rotating sword ca flying, etc, etc……
It would be pitiful if the number of the locals that got sacrificed increased, so Haji casually destroyed them. 'What a consideration that is really like a Japanese people', was the praise that Haji sang in his heart.
Most likely there were other traps at surface other than the wall. If he was a person who really thought about the locals, he would destroy all of that but……Haji-san ignored that aspect.
Before long, they dug down until a depth that felt really deep, and around the ti they were thinking just when this vertical path would end, they finally reached stone paving under their feet.
「……So deep.」
「From the bodily sensation, it feels like it's around forty ter deep.」
「asuring our distance with Erst……it's a total of 43 ter. If the height until the ceiling is excluded, then certainly it's around 40 ter.」
Haji asured the distance using his smartphone while transmuting the stone paving under his feet. Under the opened hole, darkness spread like a gaping open mouth. A really indescribable sll stabbed the nose.
Based from what he could confirm using "Night Vision", he couldn't see anything really strange. Haji looked at Shia, but her rabbit ears weren't particularly reacting.
Just in case, Haji tried dropping a chemical light. It raised *clong* sound at about three ter below and rolled, but there was nothing around the light. He could only see stone paving. There was nothing reacting at all.
Haji and Shia nodded at each other and leaped down to the underground space.
And then……
A sound rang from below Shia's feet.
*Gakon-* It sounded.
It was a strangely nostalgic ominous sound.
The stone floor sank down slightly. Shia tilted her rabbit ears saying 「Eh?」. At that mont, spear jutted out from the wall at the side!
「Hyowa!?」
「Nuwah!?」
Shia bent backward to dodge the spears. Haji who was right behind her unusually raised a small scream and caught the spear. The spear tip stopped right before his right eye. It was relatively close.
「Shia, why did you dodge huh? I thought you are going to catch or hit the down, so I got a bit surprised there.」
「So, sorry. Sohow I was reminded of the past and I reflexively dodged.」
「At Raisen huh……」
At Raisen Great Labyrinth, Shia once fell into whole load of booby trap and she evaded with desperation. It seed that the mory of that ti was resurrected inside her.
When they looked around the surrounding once more, the path that was made from stone stretched deeply into the left and right. The passage was splendidly created with width of five ter and height of three ter. There was tallic door on the wall, most likely if they passed through the vertical passage, they would co out from there.
Haji got it. The trap just now, then this passage, certainly it was a vivid reminder of Raisen Great Labyrinth.
「Even so……is this really an ancient ruin? If that's the case, the stone making technology at that ti really surpassed the imagination.」
「At television or internet, theory like 'the ancient civilization possess advanced technology!' often cos out though.」
Even though many years had passed to the degree that the stone had weathered, the trap was still working, the underground passage was still properly remaining without caving in. Furthermore the depth was forty ter. Certainly, "an ancient civilization that possessed advanced technology" that might be featured in television could be slt here.
「And, which path we are going to take?」
「Let's see……. Shia, how about trying to use "Assumption Future"? You are a diviner (lol) right? Isn't it your role to show the future?」
「Please don't add (lol) at soone's vocation.」
「Because, your vocation is "MonkMartial Artist" no matter how you think about it right? Or else "Asura" or "Martial Arts God"……or perhaps "Berserker"? At the very least, you ain't a fortune teller showing the future who is living quietly deep inside the forest.」
If she kept silent, then her appearance would "fit" her vocation. Her faint bluish white hair, her beautiful features. If she would even wear a shrine maiden outfit and lived quietly in place like a shrine deep inside forest, then she would really look like a mystical fortune teller that see through the world.
Even by mistake, a person who used ability only for battle like 'Seeing through the opponent's movent several seconds ahead and beating them to death by making the first move! Super warrior who is impossible to get ambushed by detecting every fatal surprise attack!' couldn't be called as "the forest's honored fortune teller".
Shia averted her gaze. "Assumption Future", an ability that essentially was to see through the future by the assumption of "What happen if this option is picked?". She almost never used it, so she couldn't really argue back. Though she objected just in case.
「But but, divination is my forte. My fortune telling often hit the mark, and it's popular among the girls. Especially the girls in the class, they often consult you know?」
「The problem is, that even though divination is your forte, you yourself doesn't particularly like it or anything. Your hobby is martial arts and bike. ――Fortune telling? I can do any kind of variety and it will co true with high probability but, it's not like it's my hobby desu――right?」
「……」
Shia averted her gaze and rabbit ears. And then, as though evading that topic, she used "Assumption Future". What if they went to the right passage? In case of left passage? Like that.
Her rabbit ears were bobbing up and down *myon myon*.
「Mumuh, I'm getting it Haji-san! No matter which way is totally filled a lot with traps!」
「……」
Haji's fixed staring stabbed her.
「Bu, but it's fine! I don't feel any danger! Because generally I'll pulverize them all right from the front!」
Haji wordlessly took out a chemical light. And then, he held it so it stood on the ground and he released his finger. *Pote-* It fell toward the left passage.
「Yosh, let's take the left. The light pointed to the left. It's a good on.」
「……Just what in the world I who consud vast magic power to divine the future was doing……」
Behind Haji who quickly advanced to the left passage, Shia was following him while directing a sad gaze.
A few hours after that.
Just like Shia's divination, the two of them t a storm of traps.
――Countless spears stabbing out from the ground
Shia blasted them altogether with the ground using tremor step.
――lting liquid sprayed in misty shape from the wall
Shia blew it away with fist pressure.
――The hanged ceiling fell
Shia pulverized it with Shouryuu○ that pierced the sky.
――A pitfall trap with line of spears set up below
By using tamorphosis magic "Steel Clothes", she destroyed the spears like that.
※Shia's tamorphosis magic "Steel Clothes" : Just like Tio's "Dragonification", it was a technique that morphed a part of her body into steel. It made its first appearance at the main story's last arc chapter 「The Young Girl With Rabbit Ears is Excelling」.
――Rolling giant rock
Nijuu ○ Kiwami! (TN: A fist technique from Rurouni Kenshin)
And then now……
*Ranranra~n♪* The passage that Shia was walking through with light footsteps had fla with terrifying amount of heat jetting out from both side of the walls and the ceiling.
At the beginning of the passage, Haji was staring at Shia who was swallowed by fla with an expression that couldn't say anything. Rather, he was even harboring sympathy to the creator of this underground space that was littered with traps.
「What a trifleee! Spirit defensee-!!」
Shia did sothing. Shockwave ran to all direction and pushed back the fla. The walls and ceiling cracked and the fla also stopped.
Naturally, let alone scald, Shia wasn't even sooty.
「……Shia. What is spirit defense?」
「I created it using a certain muscle head bug character as reference, a technique that do spirit defense!」
Haji thought. That ain't explaining it at all.
Perhaps, it was the defensive technique, "Vajra" that Haji used, which she learned using spirit?
While advancing forward, Haji asked Shia with a twitching expression.
「Is there, any other technique you created using that certain bug character as reference?」
「Of course there is! Next I had finished learning Shia Impact and Eternal Shia Fever!」
「Serious, ly……」
Shia was radiant in this codic exchange, would sothing rush out from her whole body……?, thinking so, Haji directed an expression that could be seen as trembling with fear toward Shia. At the sa ti, he hallucinated the vision of Shia turning into a brawny lump of muscles taking a pose of most muscular.
Haji went around and cut in front of Shia who was walking ahead in a good mood, the he grabbed both her shoulders hard and pleaded from very close distance.
「Shia, keep being as you are forever, forever.」
「Ye, yes? What's with you Haji-san, so suddenly. Your eyes are so serious it's scary though……」
Shia was sowhat creeped out. That was just how much Haji was serious. He didn't want to see a macho Shia!
「At any rate, this underground space, it's wider than I thought. Geez, rather than calling it a space it's completely a labyrinth. The mountain of physical traps too, it's seriously like Raisen Great Labyrinth.」
「It's far better with no annoying comnts coming out at all though~」
When thinking that under the vertical passage there was this space and a treasure was sleeping there beyond doubt, then it was rather that the main event was starting from there. The vertical passage seed to be nothing more than the entrance into the underground labyrinth.
Around this ti they beca genuinely curious about the objective of Wilford and co.
「An amazing treasure might be sleeping here.」
「Is it treasure of gold and silver I wonder~. If we discover it, it feels like we are going to beco the man of hour isn't it~」
They were chatting idly like that while crushing the mountain of booby traps that were highly filled with killing intent from the front (mainly by Shia) and advanced for a while.
Haji suddenly 「Oh?」 leaked out a voice.
「What's wrong?」
「The excavation work is halted. ……Looks like while we are getting absorbed with the exploration here, around three more people beco sacrifice. The locals are getting really scared. Luffy is saying sothing.」
Haji gave instruction to Neunte to pick up the voice of Wilford.
「……Looks like he is making them staying by raising up the compensation reward. Also, it looks like the lowering of their moral is really bad, that today he is giving rest to everyone.」
「How much their progress has advanced?」
「Around fifteen ter I think. Tomorrow, it feels like they will reach the bottom just before noon at the latest.」
「Co to think of it, the date already changed to the next day. Fun ti makes it feels like the mont just flies away isn't it~」
The underground labyrinth that normally would produce dead victims in unit of dozens seed to be no different than an attraction at amusent park for the current Shia.
But, at that ti, *kyuu~~~* such sound rang out. Shia pushed on her stomach in a flash.
「Ehehe. I'm hungry.」
「Co to think of it, we didn't take dinner huh. We got too high spirited.」
Shia blushed shyly. Haji smiled warmly while proposing a break.
「Those guys reaching the underground space will be tomorrow noon anyway, even at the fastest it will be a few hours after the sun rise. They won't catch up. Let's us rest for today too.」
「Yee~s. Theenn, I will prepare the dinner quickly~」
The two of them picked a spot casually. Shia took out the "Anywhere System Kitchen" from her treasure warehouse and quickly began to cook. Beside her, Haji took out sofa bed and table set and endeavored in forming a pleasant space. Of course, he also didn't forget setting up Sentori-senseisentry gun.
Like that, by the ti Shia finished making dinner……
Well, how should it be said. The dreary ancient underground labyrinth that was overflowing with highly murderous traps was changed into a lovely space that was decorated by warm lantern light.
Antique table set, the sofa bed of highest class, Sentori-sensei, and then hearty beef stew that stirred up the appetite.
The technique of the artisan was shining there.
After saying 'itadakimasu', Haji wolfed down the dinner greedily.
「Second.」
「Geez-, are you chewing properly? Beef stew isn't a drink you know?」
Even while saying that, it seed that Shia was happy seeing Haji engrossed in eating her cooking yummily, so Shia's expression was warm and loose. Her rabbit tail was fluttering around *furifuri*, and her rabbit ears were bobbing up and down *myo~n myo~n*.
Surely eve the ancient people would never even imagined it in their wildest dream. Even though they were making "labyrinth that would absolutely kill the intruder", a sight of newly wedded spouses were developing there instead.
After that, they did things like harmoniously cleaning the plates side by side and cleared away the al before falling sound asleep on the sofa bed while clinging closely to each other.
Next morning.
The excavation work already resud on the surface ground. By the ti the work reached a point of just several ter above the underground space, the two sleepyheads finally woke up and aid to the deepest part in a bit of hurry.
Like that at the destination that they reached.
There, for the first ti the two discovered "that" which wasn't strange to be there originally.
「Finally huh. All this ti I have been thinking that it's strange but……」
What they found was a corpse that had already turned into skeleton. There were also things like sword and armor falling around. Looking at this labyrinth that was fully loaded with lethal traps, it wouldn't be strange even if there were a lot more corpses lying around everywhere. It was also strange how they only found a corpse at the deepest part.
「It can also be seen as though it's protecting that door.」
Just as Shia said, the corpse was found at the deepest part, lying down with its back leaning on the door. From its equipnt too, in a glance it gave the impression that it was protecting the door to the death so no one would pass.
For the ti being, thinking to check inside the door, Haji avoided the corpse and put his hand on the door.
It was a large tallic door. It didn't move even with Haji's physical strength. Thinking that perhaps it was a sliding door, he tried moving it aside, but as expected it didn't move.
「Haji-san, what is this depression here?」
「Hm? ……Keyhole, perhaps?」
「In that case, without a key normally no one cannot enter then.」
Shia ran her gaze at the spot around the corpse. But, she didn't find anything that looked like key.
「Can't be helped. We already used cheating technique to enter the underground space anyway, we don't need to search a key or anything at this late.」
Haji said that and put his hand on the tal door. Crimson spark surged and the door was changed into re ingot.
Haji and Shia stepped inside the door that was forcefully opened.
「Corpse again huh……」
「It's not silver and gold treasure isn't it. Ah, but, that corpse-san, it's holding sothing.」
From its skeletal fra, it must be a female corpse. Inside the room that was around the size of six tatami, a single skeletal corpse was lying down. They didn't find any precious treasure, rather it was a dreary room.
Therefore, the blackened tallic box that the corpse was holding looked even more standing out. It was as though a mother was embracing her child, especially with how the body was curled up embracing it like it was a precious treasure.
「This must be it. This is those guys' objective.」
「Must be. Quickly, let's take a look at the content!」
*Waku wakuthrill, doki dokiexcitent*. It seed that there was sothing really important entered inside.
But, no matter how tough the lid was, no matter who secure the seal was, as long as it was made from mineral, it was aningless against Haji.
'Now, I'm opening it', Haji used transmutation magic――
Just before he could.
「-!? Do, don't, Haji-san!!」
「!?」
Shia sent the tal box flying from Haji's hand. Her rabbit ears stood tensely on their end, her eyes that were shining with curiously was dyed with the color of vigilance.
「O, oi, Shia. Just what is it?」
「……That is, a bad news. It activated after so long.」
Haji guessed it from her words. At the sa ti, his vigilance jumped up to the highest level.
「You got a vision?」
Shia nodded briskly.
Since the legendary decisive battle, because there was no existence or phenonon that was a threat to the bug character Shia, one of her ability, the characteristic magic "Future Sight" hadn't activated anymore all this ti.
It was the "vision of death" that would automatically activated regarding a future that was directly connected to Shia's death.
In other words, the inside of that black tal box wasn't anything like precious treasure……
It was "sothing" that could possibly kill even the demon king and the bug rabbit.
AN: Thank you very much for reading this every ti.
Thank you very much too for the thoughts, opinions, and reports about misspelling and omitted words.
※Joke explanation just in case to those who don't get it
A certain lump of muscle bug character
It's Ja○ Rakan-san of Negi○. The character that Shirako super liked. Volu 27 tightly grab my chuuni heart.
※Arifureta Nichijou latest chapter, is updated!
The cuteness of stability and the amusent of toying with the main story.
Sotis I'm doing reimportation of joke material lol (Like Shia-mama or macho Shia)
My overwhelming gratitude to Mori Misaki-sensei!
It can be seen from the hopage of Overlap-sama, so please go take a look without fail.
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