Ana no Naka
あなのなか
Synopsis
Garden digger finds glowing rock fragment, gets pulled into underground crack by mysterious force.
"I" dug a hole in the garden and noticed a faint glow on the wall of the hole. Wondering what it could be, I gently touched the wall, and where I touched it, the boundary between the layers of rock lifted up! Behind it was a "fragment" of something that emitted light... As soon as I grabbed the fragment, I was pulled by a strong force and fell into a crack in the earth's layers... (Source: NHK, translated)
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