CH 309

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“Chapter 309: New Territory”

One month after I was eaten by the whale, we finally managed to discover an unexplored area.

After the stomach would be… the intestines. But this isn’t an ordinary whale, so who knows what we’ll find.

The effects of the explosion have ceased, but so have the lives of the dark jerks, so it doesn’t matter anymore.

– Not much has changed. So far it’s the same as the stomachs, but narrower (Deko)

– Well, here’s a dead end. Can we climb?

The path was straight, although sometimes up, down, left or right.

We had lost any sense of direction at this point.

But then we crossed what we feared.

– Different paths…

Either keep going straight, climb up, or climb down.

– Takaya, what do we do?

– We’ll have to explore all of them, as annoying as it is. I’ll leave a mark-

As soon as I stabbed the walls, a tiny wave of digestive juices reached our feet.

A ball of gelatinous slime was shot my way.

– Takaya, get down! (Mira)

Mira’s arrow successfully hit the nucleus of the slime, causing it to fall down the hole.

– Be on guard. (Mira)

– Sorry about that, but thank you.

A small portion of the slime landed on the tip of my shoes.

They immediately turned black and disintegrated.

Quite the powerful acid. I can’t imagine what would’ve happened if that hit my face.

I left a piece of cloth to mark our path and continued down the hole where the slime went. I hope Mira’s arrow was some signal of good fortune.

But no such luck

– A dead end.

An hour later, we hit another stop.

– It’s okay, don’t get discouraged. Come on, let’s go… What’s wrong?

– Well… I’m interested in this “wall”.

I took out Nebula and stabbed the wall.

As soon as it made contact, a torrent of red liquid and yellow gas started pouring out.

– Are you trying to dig our way out of this?

– Of course not. But I felt like it was different from the rest of the walls. Softer, maybe. *Cough*

– Come on, I told you to be on guard. Are you okay?

– Yeah. I’ve gotten used to the smell in here, I guess. Take a look at this.

– What!? (D/M)

– Whale gunpowder. I can’t believe it’s stored here.

There’s so much of it that igniting it would severely injure the whale, but we’d get turned to dust in the process.

– Let’s leave this here for now. We can find another path.