Chapter 5

So Dark It’s Scary (怖いくらいの闇の中, Kowai kurai no yami no naka) is the 5th chapter of the Dai Dark manga series.

Characters

 * Zaha Sanko
 * Avakian
 * Misetani Box

Summary
Jumping towards the black hole, Zaha and Avakian see an elderly spaceling. They warn him its dangerous for normal spacelings, but the old man explains he is researching black holes and wants to enter one before he dies, as he had discovered a living world exists in it. Zaha confirms, stating its called "Darknest", however as he keeps trying to warn the spaceling, they start to get sucked and the old man is splint into hundreds of pieces, then put back, then turned inside out. Arriving in Darknest, the old man had turned into a "Shadow" due to environmental effects his flesh and mind had mutated.

They head looking for Misetani Box merchant, but a darknester attacks them wanting Zaha's bones, however it gets easily defeated. As they find Misetani, she attacks them, stating to Zaha to hand over his bones, but the reveals she is just joking. Zaha gives bones, some dead bodies, and spaceling rawhide and flesh. Misetani asks them what they want in return and Zaha and Avakian quickly choose a Dark Core to complete their Dark Ship. They also buy some Sakamanju from her and decide to go and enjoy them first before heading towards their ship.

While eating, Zaha comments he would have wanted a new Dark Hide, as his current one is getting ragged and some attacks start to get through, but Akaviak tells him to resist as with their ship, they will be able to get to travel back and forth between Darknest and other stars, and eventually find the one who started Zaha's bones legend. As they finish eating, some other residents of Dark attack them to take Zaha's bones, but are easily defeated. They head out towards their ship and install the Dark Core and then take off.