An odyssey to go home(Arifureta x male reader)

Pandora's box (Part 1)

Hajime and Y/N's journey continues. They advanced 50 levels deeper since the tar level. Their speed to complete levels was astonishing.

But how long exactly was? What day it is today? What time it is? For how long they were in this hell? Who knows, their sense of time had no use there. During that time, "time" was the last thing that they thought.

Countless times they had encountered stronger monsters, and battled for their life. Not only for the monsters, also for the state of the floor.

Like that level where a poisonous fog was covering the whole floor. That also had a frog of two meters who spits poisoned sputum, and a moth that could paralyze you with its scales.

If it wasn't for the [Ambrosia], they would have died long time ago; if not for hunger, for the dangers.

However, the monsters wasn't the hardest problem that they had to face, the food was. They knew that eating the monsters that they killed was a necessity, not only to satiate their hunger, but also to gain power, which was the main reason for eating them. But some "meals" weren't pleasant.

Even thought, they were kind of fine with the frog; with the moth, it was a completely different situation, since the appearance and texture was worse than their previous "meals". But the pros overwhelmed the cons, so after emptying their minds, the moth and frog were eaten. Hajime had the necessity to puke but he could hold it. On the other hand, Y/N ate it with ease; not because he had a strong will nor a shitty food taste, it was because he took the prevention to the next level: he burned his tongue and esophagus to the point that he could not feel a shit of the texture of the meat.

Even thought, he was in pain until he drank some [Ambrosia], he felt that it was worth it. Since, he didn't want to feel that texture in his palate. Little he knew that the next "meals" will be worse that the moth.

Fortunately, some of the monsters' meat was better. The frog's one was the best, assimilating the taste of a burned cardboard, which was better that the plain taste of shit.

After some time, they arrived to the fiftieth floor since the Tars level. Where something or someone was waiting for them.

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Hajime and I were walking on a long corridor, still cautious for any attack, but strangely we didn't encounter with any monster, instead, a double door of three meters was in front of us.

Y/N: Seems the only way to go, what do you think, Hajime?

Hajime: It gives me a bad feeling.

Y/N: Yeah, me too. But, what can we do? Let's go.

I tried to open the door, but then a shiver went through my spine. I instinctively stepped back and grabbed [L'Etranger]. But this only lasted a moment; I immediately tried to keep the composure and sighed to calm myself. However, for my imminent action, Hajime went full alert.

Hajime: !! ... What happened?!

Y/N: Nothing, it's just... it's just that this really gives me a bad feeling...

With a serious face, I walked again to the door.

Y/N: Anyway, let's just check the door. This is different of what we have encountered this far.

Indeed, this was different. Considering that so far we didn't encounter any kind of door. Which gave the feeling of mystery and danger.