Chapter 872 – 872. Hero Academy (6)
“Because it is heavy. Would you like to wake up soon?”
“Wow!?”
Sung Soo-ah was startled by the man’s voice and shook him off.
Then he hurriedly took up his stance and took a fighting stance towards him.
But even though he was in a fighting stance, he didn’t attack.
There were two reasons for not attacking.
The first was that I didn’t feel any hostility from the supposed male.
And the second…
‘What… What? Body… It feels like I’m refusing to attack.’
It was because I felt as if Sung Soo-ah’s body was screaming to stop attacking him.
And Seong Soo-ah could see the fact that her instinct was the right choice by looking around him.
“All… Did you finish it all?”
All the monsters were lying on the floor as if they were dead.
The man who hid his identity while wearing a cloak did not answer Seong Soo-ah’s question, but he only spoke his own words.
“Looking at it, it seems that I am not alone. How about taking care of your colleagues first?”
“Oops!?”
Seong Soo-ah hurriedly turned around to check his scepter.
Compared to the offensive that had been pushed forward like a wave, the number of enemies had clearly decreased.
But the battle was not yet over.
‘First of all, this man is not an enemy. I have to help others first!’
Seong Soo-ah flew towards his colleagues, deciding that he should take care of the safety of his colleagues first rather than the identity of the man.
As soon as Seong Soo-ah arrived back at the headquarters, his colleagues asked urgently.
“You were surprised to suddenly fly away! Are you okay!?”
“Yes I’m okay!”
“Ugh… Let’s talk about this once we’re done.”
The seniors seemed to want to pour out criticism on Sung Soo-ah, but they seemed to have decided that passing the current situation was the priority.
And their choices weren’t wrong.
When Sung Soo-ah arrived, the arrows that had been pouring suddenly decreased…
“Keeeeek!”
“Gueek!”
The monstrous creatures that attacked them also started to run away.
A battle that seems to end only when one of the two groups dies…
“Haha… Did you run away?”
It ended more haphazardly than I thought.
“Ha… Is that the right place?”
The hall, which had been proud of its magnificence until before, was suddenly filled with the corpses of monsters.
The wizards each threw a word while being healed by the healers.
“It’s the first time in my life that I’ve had such a tough fight…”
“Okay? I used to…”
They were laughing and relaxing to the point where they wondered if they were the people who had been fighting for their lives up until now.
But not everyone was so relaxed.
“Why did you do that?”
“… Sorry.”
“I’m sorry it ended well, what would have happened to us if you had a problem?”
“… Sorry.”
The only thing that could come out of Sung Soo-ah’s mouth was an apology.
She was definitely Seong Soo-ah, who had been determined to take this position with the mindset that she would not make a small mistake because she was blinded by her great performance until a while ago.
But her momentary sense of responsibility drove the Holy Beast Ahin to her limb.
‘I promise I won’t make that mistake…’
And fortunately…
“A unit whose commander dies is the end. Keep that in mind.”
Her co-workers who were pushing her didn’t just drive this situation down to her selfishness.
“That’s right. The responsibility is high, but please don’t leave us feeling guilty.”
“… Sorry.”
“Apologize even there. You are in charge Excessive apology will only decrease your public confidence.”
“… Yes.”
The senior, who had driven Seong Soo-ah to death with one voice, put his hand on her shoulder and gave her the last words.
“And… Good job. If you hadn’t acted like that, there would have been casualties.”
Everyone nodded their heads as if agreeing with her words.
Seong Soo-ah, despite such a soft atmosphere, her head went down heavily.
“Go… Thank you.”
“But, like I said earlier, don’t forget that you are in the position of the person in charge.”
“Yes…”
I was able to sort things out that way.
However, Seong Soo-ah organized the inside like that, but on the other hand, she remembered what she couldn’t organize.
“Are you still there? Come out.”
“?”
As Seongsu-ah raised her voice toward the darkness, everyone began to stand up with puzzled expressions.
Let’s all put ourselves on alert…
“I call you quickly.”
A man in a cloak slowly began to walk out.
Unlike the other members of her staff, Seong Soo-ah couldn’t be wary of him.
‘He’s the one who saved me. There must be a reason.’
Because she saved herself.
No matter how unidentified she was, she couldn’t recklessly spit out death at the person she saved.
Seong Soo-ah opened her mouth in a calm voice.
“For what purpose did you help us?”
Seong Soo-ah’s question allowed her colleagues around her to get a rough idea of the situation.
The fact that Seong Soo-ah wasn’t the only one who dealt with the enemy hiding in the dark…
The man responded with a voice that seemed to be a mixture of arrogance and crookedness.
“I just dealt with it because it was making noise while passing by by chance.”
“… Do you think we will believe that?”
“What if I don’t believe you?”
He was a man who couldn’t find cooperation without washing his eyes.
However, Sung Soo-ah’s instinct is…
‘… Strange. No matter how I think about it, he doesn’t seem like a bad person.’
It just felt like he was crying out that he was on his side, not the evil one.
However, unlike Seong Soo-ah, the people around him lowered their voices as if they were offended by his sarcasm.
“You’re so picky when you’re alone?”
“I don’t know where you belong, but why don’t you speak a little prettily?”
It was a situation that could easily escalate into a fight.
‘No. At this rate, another real fight might break out…’
However, Sung Soo-ah could not figure out how to intervene.
When he sided with the search party he led, he was helped by an unknown man.
It was because he was on the side of a man with an ambiguous identity, and the search team noticed.
‘I have to intervene first.’
Seong Soo-ah tried to mediate by force, standing between the search party and the man.
Even if he was reviled, he would not take sides.
It was the moment when I stood between the search party and the man and tried to say something to the man.
“Huh… ?”
“Uh… ?”
“Ah…”
Suddenly, some of my colleagues started to fall over like puppets whose strings had been cut.
And other colleagues…
“Ouch… What, what… Go, suddenly…”
“Tongue, dizziness…”
“Rain, scream… !?”
“This… This poison… !?”
He began to exhibit abnormal symptoms, such as hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, and poisoning.
“Oh, what a sudden… ?”
Seong Soo-ah started to panic even more than during the battle with the monstrous creature.
The symptoms they complained of were all too familiar.
“Gimmick!?”
The dungeon gimmick was not a common element.
However, as if all the dungeon gimmicks were gathered in this place, he began to complain of various abnormal symptoms.
“Stop, no way!?”
Sung Soo-ah hurriedly turned her head and looked at the unidentified man.
The man was wearing a cape, so I couldn’t tell what kind of expression he was making, but it was clear that he was the culprit behind the phenomenon.
Sung Soo-ah screamed at the man with hostility.
“I don’t know what you’re doing, but stop!”
“… Good.”
After the man said a word, Sung Soo-ah looked at the search party again without lowering her guard.
The search party members…
“Quit…”
“What, what… Hey, this is… ?”
“Ha… Ha…”
He was distraught, as if he had been rescued from the brink of drowning.
The unidentified man laughed at the search party.
“There’s nothing wrong with talking arrogantly.”
“You… Uh, what are you doing…”
It was the moment when the members of the search party realized the seriousness of the situation and stood up with sincere vigilance.
The man looked at the search party and said a word.
“Don’t move recklessly. And from now on the other guys be quiet.”
At the man’s voice, all members of the search party hardened to stone.
There was only one opponent, but it was because he judged that the ability he showed now was much more dangerous than the monster creature and attack earlier.
The man said to Sung Soo-ah, satisfied with the appearance of the search party that had hardened like a stone.
“Are you the representative?”
“… Yes.”
“From now on, I will only talk to you. You’d better keep the other guys’ mouths shut. If you care about your colleagues.”
“…”
Seongsuah couldn’t answer carelessly.
Seong Soo-ah was the current head of the search team, and her answer represented her position on the search team.
Even so, she could not be angry at blindly defining men as her enemies.
It was because the mysterious man had proven that he could annihilate the search party here with just one use of his powers.
Seongsuah asked calmly.
“I will ask you just one thing. Are you our enemy Or are you an ally?”
I had a rough feeling that he wasn’t an enemy, but I couldn’t get over it without asking him directly.
Especially from the perspective of Seong Soo-ah, the representative of the search party…
At Seong Soo-ah’s words, the man remained silent as if staring in the darkness inside her cloak, and then spoke to her in a low voice.
“Neutrality.”
“… Are you neutral?”
“Yeah, at least until I meet and talk to your representative, I say neutral.”
“…”
Seong Soo-ah was able to understand the meaning of the man.
The man said back that he wanted to meet Yeriel.
It was only then that Sung Soo-ah was able to think of Yeriel.
‘Let’s report to Yeriel-nim for now.’
The man wanted to meet with Yeriel anyway, and Seong Soo-ah was obliged to report her current situation to Yeriel.
“Please wait for a while.”
After Seong Soo-ah said that to the man, she tried to call Yeri-el using her smart watch.
But…
‘… They don’t accept it.’
The call continued, but there was no sign of an answer.
‘No way… Are you fighting?’
It was the moment Seong Soo-ah tried to call again after hanging up.
“Huh?”
It was a call from a member of the search party led by Yeriel.
Seong Soo-ah hurriedly answered the call and started a conversation so that the surroundings could not hear the call.
“I was just about to call Yeriel-nim, but now Yeriel-nim…”
(Oh, that’s a big deal!)
“Isn’t it a big deal? What… ?”
As if the world had collapsed from the smart watch, an urgent voice pierced Sung Soo-ah’s ears.
(Suddenly, during the fight… The transfer gimmick was activated, and Yeriel-sama disappeared!)
