The Place I Was Brought to Without Knowing Turned Out to Be an Extremely Dangerous Zone

<S, s-s-Sealed Island Vera Kenu!? And a Calamity, you saaaaay!!?>

Omake-sama latched onto the keywords Lairine murmured!

She's weirdly excited for some reason; do you know something, Omake-sama!?

<Ah! P, pardon me! Yes, yes, I know it very well indeed! Sealed Island Vera Kenu! It's a place name that has come up time and time again in Isekai Reincarnation Broadcasts!>

R, really!?

So this island has been the stage for protagonists' adventures again and again?

<No, that's not it!>

Okay?

<Sealed Island Vera Kenu! Originally, this was the setting of a certain myth! It is the land where a hero once sealed away a monster that had invaded from outside the world!>

Okay.

<And for some reason, the way the name sounds is just so cool!>

Okay?

<For the reasons above, the name Sealed Island Vera Kenu is often used as a flavor element to add depth to the world-building!>

Okay!?

<What I mean is, for example, a young boy protagonist dreams, ‘Someday I'm going to be an adventurer and travel the whole world!’, and a guardian figure or a master figure tells him something! Something like, ‘The bottom of the Eserem Great Sea of Fog, the heart of the Sazarintford Storm Wasteland, and Sealed Island Vera Kenu...... this world is full of unexplored lands sung of in legend!’ That's how they stoke the protagonist's and the viewers' excitement for adventure!>

Unexplored......?

A totally baffling woman has gone and built a mansion here like it's nothing, though......?

<In the eyes of the general public, it is an unexplored region. I see, so this is Sealed Island Vera Kenu, huh~......!>

......Omake-sama is an Isekai Reincarnation Broadcast maniac.

That's why she sometimes reacts like this out of nowhere, like an otaku who's just set foot on sacred ground.

But Omake-sama, sorry to interrupt while you're savoring the moment, but you haven't finished explaining.

What's a Calamity, anyway.

<Speaking of Sealed Island Vera Kenu, among Isekai Reincarnation Broadcast maniacs, it's a famous island that ranks high on the ‘Ranking of place names that are mentioned suggestively but never actually appear in the story’! The first time its name was brought up was in the Isekai Reincarnation Broadcast of the late Machine God, and at that time......>

......Omake-sama.

Hey, hey.

Omake-sama?

......It's no use, she's not listening anymore!

“......What's a Calamity.”

Giving up on Omake-sama, who had devolved into a mere otaku, I let out a sigh and reluctantly asked Lairine.

Lairine begins to explain, beaming happily.

“‘Calamity’ is the general term for powerful beings who do not submit to the gods, you seee! For all sorts of reasons, they're sealed away all over the wooorld!”

Who do not submit to the gods......?

Does that mean......

“They're dangerous guys?”

“That's riiight, dangerous guyyys!”

So they are dangerous guys......

<Ah, a footnote. The Black Dragon we ran into in the demon realm before ranks at the very top of the Calamities in terms of strength.>

They REALLY are dangerous guys!!

Calamities are on that level!?

I mean, that chattering black lizard is a Calamity!!

“Mom, you seee, has been given a ‘request’ to manage one of those Calamities...... ‘Odokato Se Kenu’! That's why I built a house on such an out-of-the-way island and live heeere! Well? Isn't that amaaazing!”

Saying that, Lairine puffs out her chest and brags, but wait, wait, wait up?

“It's sealed. So why, manage it? Does it need managing?”

With a bad feeling about this, I ask timidly.

Then, Lairine began to reveal something outrageous with total nonchalance.

“Because this seal is about to come undone any time now, you seee”

Haaaaaa!?

“Even a legendary barrier from the age of myth can't beat wear and tear, you seee...... Look, this barrier's transparent, right? So seabirds crash into it quite a lot, you knooow. Bird strikes, riiight”

Bird strikes......!?

“The impact of bird strikes, piling up bit by bit over the ages, has been wearing down the barrier from the age of myth and is trying to punch a hole in the seal, you seee? The power of time is really something, isn't iiit”

<It's like the water drop that wears a hole in the rock. Amazing, isn't it.>

No, Omake-sama, I'm glad you're back in the conversation and all, but this isn't about ‘Amazing, isn't it’......

“That. Is it really okay, to be so laid-back about it?”

“Who knooows? Lately, Kenu-chan's been trying to escape now and then, and sometimes pokes its face up to the surface, you seee?”

Haaaaaa!!?

“DON'T BRING ME TO SUCH A DANGEROUS PLAAAAAACE!!!”

It was a dangerous zone!

Contrary to its peaceful surface, this island was a super dangerous zone with a time bomb planted underground!!

The fact that I'd been dragged to a place like this without being asked made my head boil with rage, and I threw a full-power right punch at Lairine's left cheek as she laughed away without a care!!

But she catches it with ease!

Damn it!!

“Ah, wait, wait, Emi-chan, you mustn't, if you run wild near a barrier like this......”

Lairine keeps parrying my flurry of blows, but I can see a little panic in her expression.

What does this mean?

If I keep this up, can I push through!?

Right fist, then left!

Lairine leaps back to put some distance between us, so I kick the rock at my feet to pieces and send countless pebbles flying at her!

“I told you to wait, didn't I, Emi-chan! If you run wild in a place like this, the impact will carry to the barrier! Then the seal, will weaken! Kenu-chan, will come ooout!”

Lairine shouted in a panic while dodging the pebbles, and it was then!

Some of the flying pebbles collided with the barrier and shattered, and then......!

Mishiri.

Just like that, an ugly sound rang out.

<<<Oo...... Oaa...... Oaaa...... Aa...... A......>>>

On top of that, a ghastly groan like that echoed all around, and the whole island began to tremble in small shudders.

......The clear blue sky had, before I knew it, for some reason been dyed deep red!