I Found a Hole in my Yard. It Might Be a Dungeon, but That’s Now my Garbage Dump

o me.
To make a living, I require this hole.
The hole also requires waste.
I can feel it.]

 

 

When Hiroki stared at him, Ishida turned pale and averted his gaze.

 

 

[I…… I see.
Is that so? I understand.
A- Anyway, I’ll be taking my leave today.]

 

 

As Ishida tried to slip aside and exit the door though, Hiroki gently grabbed him.

 

 

[I’ve told you this much.
I can’t have you going home like this.]

 

 

[Pl…… Please unhand me.
……Let me go, d*mn it! Let me go or I’ll call the police!]

 

 

In fear, Ishida flailed his arm to free himself from Hiroki’s grip on his shoulder, but he was unable to resist Hiroki.

Meanwhile, Hiroki was composed enough to make his grip gentler so as not to crush his shoulder in the process.

 

 

[Ishida-sensei, I mentioned earlier that I’ve met with some trouble lately, haven’t I? I was actually attacked by some hooligans the other day.
All under the direction of the local petty yakuza.]

 

 

Remembering how frustrated he was at that time, Hiroki seemed to have put a little pressure on the hand that grabbed Ishida’s shoulder, making him scream in pain.

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[H- Hyiiiii……]

 

 

[It was then that I realized that I feel much healthier since this hole appeared.
Thanks to the hole, I can do things like this.]

 

 

Saying those words, Hiroki grabbed Ishida’s ankle with his other hand and hung him upside down.

 

 

Ishida was a little short, so his head didn’t hit the ground, but his hand could still reach the ground.

What’s happening at that moment makes Hiroki feel like it isn’t as cool as what could be shown in movies, but holding Ishida’s feet, Hiroki mutters to himself.

 

 

[U- Uwaaa…… What are you doing!? Let me go! Let go of me!]

 

 

Still, the experience of being hung upside down by the person he had been talking to seemed to have enough of a panic-inducing effect on Ishida.

Flailing his arms and legs, he shouted to put him down.

 

 

[Should I really let you go?]

 

 

Ishida’s flailing about was annoying him, so Hiroki changed the place he hung Ishida upside down.

More specifically, right above the pitch-black hole.

 

 

As if he understood what was under him, Ishida stopped flailing about and started to plead.

 

 

[D…… Don’t let me go! No, go back! Move away from here!]

 

 

[How troubling.
In the first place though, is there any reason why I should listen to Ishida-sensei’s instructions? I’m just dealing with a swindler after all.]

 

 

When Hiroki said this with a sigh, Ishida began to unsightly refute her.

 

 

[W- What are you talking about!? You…… You’re out of your mind!]

 

 

[I told you I’ve gotten much healthier, didn’t I? It’s not only my physical strength that’s gotten healthier.
My hearing is much better too.]

 

 

[……W- What of it!?]

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[I heard it when I was sitting in the bathroom.
The conversation between Ishida-sensei and your henchman, I mean.
It seemed like you’re having quite the fun, eh?]

 

 

[T- That doesn’t prove anything at all!]

 

 

[Pfff…… I told you how I had faced quite the trouble just now, didn’t I? Did you really think that I wouldn’t at least have installed recording devices around my home?]

 

 

When Hiroki pointed out that he had proof, Ishida began to tremble.

If the contract had been forcefully taken away, and on top of that, there is audio recording data, it’s him who will be ruined.

The university would surely cut off Ishida for causing a huge scandal, and no university would be willing to pick him up as a researcher after that.

 

 

[……Gomi-san, no, President Gom, let’s talk about this.
It seemed like there was a misunderstanding.]

 

 

[Yes.
I wanted to discuss this.
That is why I called you here.]

 

 

As he suspended Ishida over the hole with one hand, Hiroki smiled broadly.

Hanging in midair, Ishida shivered and nodded again and again.

 

 

Within Ishida’s mind, Hiroki’s black, piercing eyes were more frightening than the hole below him.

 

 

 

 

 

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A few weeks later, a small article appeared on the university’s website and in the local newspaper: 「With the Launch of a Ground-Breaking, New Waste Treatment Technology, A University-Launched Venture has been Established」

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

T/N: With this chapter, the novel’s 1st Arc is finished.
I won’t be posting any further chapters for I would be focusing on translating another one.