Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou

Bonus Story From Blu-ray Box 2^nd Season

Remnant of Myth and Maiden of the Lake

Prologue

That place was an abnormal place for this world.

It was a vast facility with multiple floors located underground.

It was terribly decayed, but the rooms and passages were made from metal with terribly obvious uniformity.

The corpses of things that seemed to resemble living organism were scattered here and there.

Items and equipments with unclear utility and usage method.

But, the magic circles that were engraved everywhere looked like the only common point of this place with this world.

In that place that was once isolated from the outside world and passed the time secretly until even the history had forgotten it.

A fierce vibration shook it that day.

Fragments crumbled down from the cracked spots. The tremor was gradually getting stronger. It continued for very, very long. The vibration came from the battle that was going on far above.

Before long, a conspicuously greater booming sound that felt like earthquake was transmitted. It was a collapse. There was a collapse somewhere. From there the sound of battle entered along with a lot of living organisms.

Therefore, it happened. It woke up.

The deepest spot of this place. A faint light turned on inside a room that was locked in darkness. *Jiji-, jiji-* Particles that were shining like sandstorm burst forth and gathered. It projected a human shape that looked unstable.

That silhouette looked up.

Then, the debris all over the facility became tinged with light. They started to squirm like a badly made puppet.

Next, the silhouette looked toward the back of the room. It was as though it was looking through the wall.

――a……Aa……

Something that sounded like a faint groaning resounded.

It was a sound that made the listener felt the feeling of deep longing inside a heart-crushing suffering.

Then a terrific triple roars shook the facility, as though to disregard that sound as something trivial.

Something, an outrageous existence appeared to have woken up.

After listening to all those till the end, the silhouette dropped its gaze.

There was a corpse. It was the corpse of someone that had been reduced into mere bones while remaining in the posture of falling face down on the ground.

The silhouette, wasn’t a human. It also didn’t have any will or emotion. Because it was nothing more than the remains of its creator who created it solely for managing the facility and accomplishing its objective.

But, perhaps because it was simply a remains, the silhouette that continued to stare at the corpse finally……

――What I cannot understand, must be evil

There was no sound. But, its lips that were distorted as though it was sneering, or perhaps grinding its teeth in rage and hatred, looked as though they were muttering those words.