It is right outside. Let's go!"
"Nh."
"Y-Yes!"
With Hajime's instructions, the three slowly went outside. And although it was a closed room they didn't know anything about, just like what Hajime said, upon reaching it with "Divine Interruption," they immediately stood before a place they understood was the gate. While Yue adjusted the barrier, they arrived right in front of the hatch, and the three were finally able to board on the submarine. And instinctively, Hajime's party were relaxed.
And at that moment,
DOOORUUUUUUNNNG!!!
A tremor far greater from the ones before now attacked the entire space. The magma suddenly began to flow into one direction with a tremendous momentum. The submarine was swept by the swift current. Inside it, Hajime's party were as if they were inside a mixer as they keep spinning in all of directions.
"Guwah!?"
"Nnya!?"
"Hau!? It hurts!"
Each of them had their bodies thrown all over the wall and screamed. Yue immediately activated "Absolute Calamity," used the small, black, swirling orb to pull them, and they somehow managed to get out of the shaker-like situation.
"P-Phew. Thank you, Yue."
"Thank you very much, Yue-san."
"Nn... more importantly."
Yue moved the "Absolute Calamity" and carried Hajime to the place that seemed to be the control seat. Hajime supplied his magic power and tried to control the submarine inside the viscous and intensely flowing magma, but as he thought, the rudder could not be controlled.
"Tch, if it is an eruption then being thrown outside is a lucky thing."
"... Is there something else?"
Hajime's bitter expression made Yue tilted her head.
"Ah. I have installed a certain stone just like the one in Cross Bits to lose sight of directions inside the magma. I know the location of the shortcut in the ceiling from the Cross Bits going outside of the dungeon before they exploded, but... this flow is moving away from the exit."
"Eh? Does it mean we are diving underground?"
"Yeah, well, rather than diving underground, it is more like it's moving diagonally... Now then, I wonder where it's connected to... Yue, Shia. We can't return immediately after all. There's nothing we can do except to go with the flow."
Hajime's resolute expression made Yue and Shia only relaxed their gaze and quietly drew close to him.
"... I will be by your side until the end. I don't have any complain as long as that is fulfilled."
"Fufu... Literally, even if it is inside the fire and the water, eh. Me, too, I will go "anywhere" as long as I can be together with the two of you!"
"... I see. I am the same."
Hajime relaxed and returned a smile towards the two.
Hajime's group of three were drawing close to each other inside the submarine while they were swept by the scorching torrent.
* * *
At the time Hajime's party were swept by the magma underground into the unknown after being unable to escape from «Guryuu-en Great Volcano», a shadow was flying unsteadily above the brown, raging sand of «Guryuu-en Great Desert».
Needless to say, it was the "Dragonformed" Tio.
"Ugh... this is rather bad... for the love of, that was a nasty Breath... there's no other way. Master, sorry about this."
Having forcibly broken through, Tio was basked in a large amount of beam whose toxin ended up aggravating her wounds. As such, judging she would be collapsed before she arrived at Ancadi, Tio apologized to Hajime for taking out from "Treasure Box" and crunched the vial of the special potion, the Holy Water, without permission.