'Hiyahhhh!!!!!' Ban yelled loudly, waking up Kazuma.
'Shut up dude! I'm trying to sleep here!' He said, exasperated at Ban's inconsiderate actions.
'You're gonna die if you just slack around.' Ban replied.
Kazuma narrowed his eyes as he gave an expression that said: 'I know but I still want to sleep.'
'Anyway, I thought you are immortal?' Kazuma questioned. Ban nodded.
'Yeah but I sure as hell don't wanna get pooped out.' He explained. Kazuma nodded his head to show his understanding.
'Anyway, you got a weapon to lend me' Ban asked as he finally gave up and took a seat beside Kazuma.
Kazuma hugged Chunchunmaru protectively.
'I am not letting you destroy it! It's expensive! Plus it's not like it can pierce through the walls!' Kazuma ranted.
Ban sighed exasperatedly as he planned to continue punching the walls when groans could be heard.
It turned out that Naruto had woken up. He groggily looked around before jerking up and getting into a battle stance.
'What happened?!' Kazuma sighed as he explained the entire situation.
Time skip
Naruto looked down dejectedly. Not only did they fail to thwart the Akatsuki's operations, he lost control and rampaged.
'How's your arm?' Kazuma asked Kakashi. Kakashi merely gave a thumbs up in response.
He then struggled to stand up since, well, he lost an arm. Then, he walked over to the walls and placed his ear beside it.
'It seems that the monster's stomach is pretty thick.'
Ban laughed as he stretched his strained and stiff muscles.
'What do you think? It's Hawk Mama we're talking about here.'
'You know the monster we are in?' Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow. Ban nodded.
'Well, my team were just exploring this place when some asshole appeared and injected everyone with some kind of virus.'
The others listened carefully to Ban's explanations as they expect there to be important information.
'Then, they started getting weird red marks that corrupted the fuck out of them. Hawk Mama also got affected and became a damn beast!' Ban said as his eyes hardened, clearly angered at what happened.
Naruto clenched his fist as he recognised the symptoms of the corruption.
'They didn't die?' Naruto asked darkly.
'They appeared to die, but then soon they revived as mindless minions…' Ban replied.
Then, Naruto let a breathe of relief. He was going to rampage if he knew they could be saved but since they ended up as mindless brutes, he sure was relieved that Sakura didn't go through such humiliation and simply died.
He knew that it was wrong of him to think of it in such a way but he couldn't help but feel relieved indeed.
Kakashi picked up on Naruto's actions and while he wasn't sure he approved of what Naruto thought, he was glad that Naruto had relaxed.
'How did you survive then?' Kazuma questioned.
'Heh...kid. I'm called Undead Ban for a reason. I simply overcame that damn corruption!' Ban boasted proudly, his hand pounding his chest.
'Kazuma! Let's get out of here!' Megumin randomly announced.
Kazuma sweatdropped as he didn't know how to escape.
'It ain't that easy.' Subaru said as everyone looked at him.
He finally came back from recon. He was one of the first person to wake up from the concussion.
'Why?' Naruto asked.
'There isn't any clear way in getting out of here.' He explained.
Subaru told them how the walls all were evenly distributed with muscles and that there was no weak spots.
The only way was to simply overpower it with either Naruto's berserker form or his own unconscious form which Kazuma then refused, saying it was too dangerous to use them.
'Maybe we can try crawling out from the mouth?' Megumin asked. Ban shook his head.
'I tried it. But the throat literally fucking forces you to be deep-throated.' Ban answered crudely.
'Well, we sure as hell can't survive being shitted out!' Naruto chimed in.
'I can!' Ban said with a smirk. The others ignored his antics, much to his chagrin.
'Well, with enough time I could use Kamui. But it's gonna take some time, and it won't be accurate.' Kakashi gave a suggestion.
'It'll take way too long for you to recover enough chakra!' Subaru answered.
'Hey. I got a question.' Kazuma asked.
'I mean, yeah we need a escape plan...but has anyone actually figured out how this world works?' Kazuma continued.
Megumin cupped her chin in thought.
'Kazuma is so useless that he doesn't know the history of this world?' She insulted with a smirk.
Kazuma crossed his arms as he stared straight into Megumin's soul.
'Well, do you know anything then?' Megumin began sweating bullets.
'Uh…' Kazuma smiled, his eyes turning into ovals comedically, laughing at Megumin's inability to argue, much to her chagrin.
'I for one don't know much. I guess I did see a few monsters running around wearing some kind of white masks.' Kakashi said.
'I think those are called Grimm,' Subaru said. 'There are also Wolgarms from my world here.'
'So, monsters from each of our worlds are in here? Doesn't that mean surviving would be harder?' Naruto asked.
'I bet it is. Definitely harder than before our arrival here, that's for sure.' Subaru explained.
'Well, if you guys have some time, I can give you a general layout of the world.' Ban said as he pulled out a piece of paper from nowhere.
'Well...give it to us. We'll need it when we get out of this guy.' Kazuma said.
'Well,' Ban started, digging his sharp nails into the paper to form a map. 'When I first arrived here, I was at...I guess north.'
'We were all concentrated in the south.' Kakashi explained. Ban nodded as he continued on his speech.
'In the north, there was a Residential Area, and towns that mainly focus on apartment selling throughout the entire world. Plus, there's some investing shops.'
'The south sells miscellaneous items like alcohol and radio. There's also a Residential Area.' Kazuma said.
'I headed east for a bit before meeting my friends,' As Ban said that, his gaze darkened. ' Then, I met the fucking Overseer, whom killed all my friends and TURNED THEM INTO SLAVES!'
The others were visibly shocked at Ban's outrage, seeing as he was a happy-go-lucky person.
'Who is this Overseer?' Megumin now requested.
'He said that he was some scientist from a world where monsters known as Honkai roam, and that he was assembling a team of fighters to help him, but it didn't seem that way when what I believe to be the Honkai themselves under his command!' Ban answered.
'So he's an enemy.' Naruto said as he began biting on his nails, a habit he got after Sakura died whenever he gets nervous.
'Anyway, he was also seemingly commanding monsters that were from this world.' Subaru's eyes widened.
'How do you know they're from this world?'
'Well, I've met my fair share of monsters and that freaky vine plant thing was rooted so deep that I couldn't break it's main source. Plus, it had so much moss and dirt on it it's hard to believe it's not from this world...but I guess it could be from the ones who arrived years ago, if there are any.'
'There are. But, Okabe clearly said they didn't have monsters back in their world…' Megumin noted.
'What about Nep and friends?' Kazuma said.
'They mentioned that their world had monsters like Dogoos, some blocky things and other cute ones. Heck, they even said the dragons in their world appeared more dumb than scary!' Megumin stated.
'Eh...Ancient Dragons sound dangerous, but it really isn't. What about their plant monsters though?' Kazuma once again brought up another question.
'Walking flowers they were.' Megumin stated like it was the most naturally thing in the world.
'So, that plant is almost guaranteed to be from this world…' Kakashi and Subaru both said at the same thing, before looking at each other and smiling.
'KRK!' Kakashi suddenly groaned as the stump on his right shoulder started bleeding once again. It dripped onto the gross stomach muscles.
'Sensei!' Naruto shouted in concern as he held onto Kakashi.
'I'm...fine…' Kakashi managed to say. Kazuma shook his head as he looked at Kakashi.
'I sure hope you can last until we get back to Aqua for her to heal you-wait…' His eyes suddenly lowered. The others looked at him strangely.
'Oh…' Megumin said softly as she seemed to have figured out why Kazuma acted that way.
'Oh c'mon! Just say it already dattebayo!' Naruto urged them.
'Well...Aqua...lost most of her healing powers...it's the reason why she couldn't revive anyone back then…' Kazuma whimpered.
Naruto and Kakashi's eyes widened. Aqua could revive people, yet she somehow lost her powers?! They were about to ask what happened when they recognised Kazuma and Megumin's look.
They had zero clue as to what had happened.
'Well...I'm sure she can still heal a lost arm...right?' Subaru said with uncertainty.
'...I guess if I only have one arm, it matches the single normal eye/Sharingan look I'm having.' Kakashi chuckled as he said it.
Everyone looked at him with a blank face.
'Okay...maybe that wasn't the best way to lighten the mood…' Kakashi replied apologetically.
'After losing my friends, Hawk Mama here under the corruption ate me. And after days, you guys joined me.' Ban steered back to the topic on hand.
'Is the map done?' Subaru asked. Ban gave a nod, confirming that the map was indeed completed.
He then took a map out of his pocket. This map was the one Yang and Weiss got from the communication tower but it only had information on the south area.
' I wonder…' Subaru suddenly said. Kazuma looked up quizzically.
'Okabe and Neptune said that the area around used to be incredibly dangerous, that's why they didn't leave the south area, and even built the base and camera and all.' He elaborated. Speaking of the Hideout, it was thoroughly destroyed from the fight with Kisame.
'Yeah?' Megumin asked this time.
'So why has our travelling been so easy all this time? It's almost as if...it's a game...where once the protagonist appears...everything works out for him because progression is required…' He said it ominously.
'Don't be creepy! There's no way the boss behind it all is taking this like a game!' Kazuma cried out as he quickly piece the two maps together to create a map consisting of the north and south areas.
'I would expect the east and west to have a Residential Area as well.' Ban said as he visualised a completed map of the entire world.
'So we have a clue as to what's outside. When do we escape?' Kazuma asked.
'Well, that I'm not sure. But judging from how long Hawk Mama usually takes to completely digest her food and poop it out, I'll say we have about an hour left before we die...or you guys at least.' Ban said, pouring the cold truth on everybody's heads.
'...RUN! I CAN'T DIE A VIRGIN!' Kazuma began crying rivers of tears as he punched the stomach walls, much to Ban's joy.
'EVERYONE! UP, UP AND AWAY!' He yelled with a smirk.
'EXPLOSION!' Megumin screamed as she punched the wall as well.
'COME!' Naruto roared as he kicked the walls too.
'...Idiots…' Kakashi and Subaru once again muttered the same words at the same time. They looked at one another, before breaking into a chucke this time.
