Chapter 4 – The Thing Which I Dug Up – Part 2

Zuun, Zuun, the irregular whispering sounds tell me to wake up.

──Saa, let’s destroy everything.

I wiggle my wings covered in dust.

I will get out of this dark and deep place and kill those annoying humans who sealed me in here.

The Ancient Dragon『Tempest』is waking up with such intentions.

The animal which can compare to one million soldiers declares with a burning passion.

──Then…… Let’s…… create ……. last…… ultra……. deep hole……

The wild beast is able to hear human voices with its keen hearing.

Just right.

Let’s harvest the life of that person first.

It was at the time he raised his body in order to send his breath above.

Bagannnn!!

──!?

He can feel a sharp pain running through his forehead to the back of his head all of sudden.

Something pierced him.

His vision became dark the moment he understood.

Ridiculous, impossible.

To so easily pierce through this body which even a Holy Sword couldn’t scratch……

The tragedy, however, didn’t end with that.

This time, a hot liquid gushed out from the bottom.

The liquid which was sealed together with him suddenly gushed up and took away all oxygen.

『Guooooooooon……!!』

A roar.

However, that was the last futile testament of his existence.

After desperately struggling with his destroyed head, he was soon robbed out of oxygen and stopped moving.

Before long, the silence set in again.

The ever feared Ancient dragon『Tempest』known as the most powerful existence, finished his life deep, deep under the ground.

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Bagan!!

A deep, deep hole appeared together with a few roaring sounds.

I approach the smoking hole timidly.

「Uo. That’s deep alright. I definitely wouldn’t survive if I fell into that」

Looking into the hole, all I can see is darkness darker than night.

I throw a stone in for science.

When I do, instead of a sound of colliding,

「Are, there’s something on the bottom?」

I hear a guoooon from the hole, a sound similar to a cry of a dinosaur.

「Hiu…… this voice is……」

Tina starts trembling.

As if she saw something dreadful.

「N? What’s wrong, Tina……」

The moment I spoke to Tina, it came up.

Dobababababababa!!

「Kya……!!」

Water gushed out from the hole!

It raises approximately 2 meters in the air and begins to pour down on the surrounding area like a heavy rain.

「Underground water!? No, it’s too warm for that!」

「Whawhawhat is this……!?」

Tina asks while clinging to me.

A warm water from a 2000m deep hole.

This phenomenon is definitely──

「Onsen!?」

I can’t think of anything else!

「Amazing!! This solved the bathing problem!! Hyahou!!」

The god didn’t abandon me!

Discovering a natural onsen is far higher joy than that of making a bath. I dance madly around the gushing water.

──Without noticing that I became one of the few people throughout the history of this world known as『Dragon Slayer』……