Chapter 875 – 875. Hero Academy (6)
“… Don’t you think it’s strange?”
It was a question that Sung Soo-ah, who was exploring the dungeon together, asked quietly.
I opened her mouth to her question without taking her gaze away from the perimeter.
“… It’s strange.”
No matter how you think about it, it was strange.
After entering the dungeon, she had never met a proper monster.
If she had at least encountered them, they were only members of the organization sent by the church and monsters.
Even Sung Soo-ah didn’t know their exact identity, but she already knew that they didn’t exist inside this dungeon.
“I’ve never heard of a dungeon like this before. Do you have any information you know?”
“… I don’t know either.”
“Okay…”
Seong Soo-ah didn’t ask me more if he believed me.
But the story didn’t stop.
“In addition, the shape and scale of the dungeons are very different from the dungeons I have been to so far.”
“…”
As if I sympathized with Sung Soo-ah, I nodded softly and looked around.
An elaborate structure reminiscent of the inside of a pyramid.
Beautiful murals painted all over the walls.
Various ornaments that have no function, but have outstanding historical value…
It was not a dungeon where a hero risked his life to enter, but a place where archaeologists would cheer when they entered.
After listening to Sung Soo-ah’s story, I answered with just one line.
“It’s much better than a stinky, damp dungeon.”
“…”
Seong Soo-ah stared blankly at me for a while…
“Pooh… Yes.”
Suddenly, he started laughing and smiling.
I asked while tilting my head at the sound of Sung Soo-ah’s laughter.
“Is there anything funny?”
“No. Rather than laugh… I just did it because I was curious.”
“Are you curious?”
“You entered an unfamiliar dungeon. But instead of worrying about future dangers or fallen comrades, you act as if you were entrusted with a troublesome task.”
“?”
I didn’t want to criticize you, but…
“It’s as great a courage as your ability.”
“…”
It was a compliment, not a criticism.
The wariness I felt when I first saw Sung Soo-ah had long since completely faded.
That’s why I couldn’t erase her basic distrust because she was hiding her identity, but at this point in this dungeon, she was treating me like her ally.
While exploring the dungeon in such a relaxed atmosphere…
“… Stop.”
There was something that caught my eye.
“Yes? Why are you like that?”
“… Someone over there.”
Four substrate windows were captured in my field of vision.
Naturally, all four temperament windows were those of those related to me.
Members of an organization secretly run by the Church…
After hearing my words, Seong Soo-ah corrected the expression that had loosened up just a moment ago, tightened his eyes, and asked me.
“What direction?”
“It’s over there.”
“If it’s that way… Doesn’t sound like my colleague.”
“Roughly… I think it’s about a kilometer away. The number of people is four.”
“… Can you feel it here?”
Seong Soo-ah stared at me with her bunny eyes.
I wasn’t surprised to just feel the presence of a being outside the range of 1 kilometer.
If they were hiding in a place like this, they would of course be walking around hiding their presence as much as possible.
However, I seemed to be surprised by the fact that I had caught such an existence.
“It’s a level where you can feel it roughly. Unless it’s you and my teammates… I know roughly who it is.”
“… Are you going to catch it?”
Sung Soo-ah looked at me and waited for my answer.
Seong Soo-ah, who usually always leads me, leans on me like that, and I feel better than I thought.
Looking at Seongsuah like that, I nodded her head and moved forward.
“You can’t just walk away knowing that.”
“… All right.”
Seong Soo-ah nodded her head and started following me.
..
..
The battle ended more briskly than expected.
The reason the battle ended blandly was simple.
I asked as I kicked the fallen guy in the stomach.
Fuck!
“Keoouk!”
“What? Are you alone? What about those strange monsters?”
It was because they didn’t have monsters.
Even when heading here, of course, I expected a fierce battle, thinking that there would be a monster next to them.
But contrary to expectations, the battle ended in just 30 seconds.
I hadn’t even been involved in the fight a while ago.
To subdue four gang members in an instant…
“Whoa…”
Sung Soo-ah was alone.
The reason I did not participate in this battle and Seong Soo-ah went alone was simple.
“And… Did this really work?”
It was to test the machine I gave to Seong Soo-ah.
Of course, I didn’t push my back, Seong Soo-ah voluntarily wanted to test it, so I allowed it.
“Of course it works. Do you really think I lied?”
“I didn’t say it out of suspicion. I apologize if I offended you.”
Seong Soo-ah sincerely bowed her head and apologized to me.
I snorted with a shy gesture at the sight of Sung Soo-ah.
“Familiarize yourself with the cautions I told you earlier. Don’t break your ankle by running amok like a colt.”
“Hey, you’re a foal!?”
I let go of Sung-soo, who blushed, and looked at the fallen guys again.
Three passed out, and one was fortunately conscious.
I asked again as I kicked the stomach of the guy who was still sane.
Fuck!
“Keep it off!”
“Do you want to speak? Where are your pets?”
I kicked several times and asked the guy the same thing.
But the answer came back…
“This… Eat this! Kyaaak! Wow!”
“…”
It was spit mixed with the blood he had spit out.
Of course, I lightly dodged the spit containing the red liquid he spat…
Whoops!
“Keo-eo-eok!”
He kicked his lips to prevent him from spitting again.
Even while I was violently beating the gang members like dogs…
“…”
Seong Soo-ah narrowed her eyes and glared at her.
By the way, I wasn’t the one she was staring at.
It was the organizers.
If it was the Seongsoo I know, she would have somehow stopped her from using violence, but…
“Your mouth is really heavy.”
Rather, she looked at my violence and comforted me.
Seong Soo-ah’s kind and docile personality was what she showed in a society where morality and ethics were firmly established.
As a hero entering the dungeon, Sung Soo-ah was cold-hearted.
Even now, the beings I am beating were the same mortal enemies who drove their comrades to death.
Seong Soo-ah was quiet because she was looking at me, but she seemed to want to torture herself.
However, I did not give Sung Soo-ah that opportunity.
With my lips hit and covering his mouth, I stepped on the calf of the guy who was rolling on the floor and started crushing his bones.
Quadduk!
“Quaaaaagh!!”
“Noisy.”
I continued torturing him like that.
I kicked his foot and made his wounds, crushed the bones of the wounds, hit them again where they hit them, and broke them where they broke them again.
If he was a normal human, he should have died long ago…
Wow!
A white light radiating from my hand healed his torn flesh and broken bones.
After repeating the same action about fifteen times, the organizer began to plead with me, wiping out tears and runny nose.
“Quaaaaagh! Stop it! I’ll tell you everything! I will tell you!”
Then I stopped torturing myself and waited for his words.
The guy who was being tortured by me started talking gibberish and blowing everything.
“Shit, the dungeon gimmick was activated during the fight, but monsters and monsters scattered together.”
“Aha, you mean you didn’t throw it away?”
“Mind… That’s right.”
“That’s it.”
“… What?”
“That was all I wanted to know. Bye.”
As if my business was over, I reached out to them and slowly began to let out my murderous intent.
Sensing my murderous intent, he began to plead loudly.
“Wait a minute! Don’t you guys have the information you want too!? If you save me, I’ll tell you everything!!”
“What information do you want?”
As I tilted my head and relaxed my hands, he began to persuade me to see if he thought it was a chance to live.
“Yeah, yes! My organization, its purpose and… That, and I’ll give you my info too! Come on, if you let me live, I’ll even embroider!”
Seeing the guy persuading me like that, I started laughing without realizing it.
Not only the members of the organization, but also Sung Soo-ah, who was next to me, had a puzzled look at my smiling face.
I opened my mouth with my hand outstretched.
“Seo Jeong-ho.”
“!?”
“?”
At the name that suddenly popped out, the organization member made a shocked expression, and Seong Soo-ah tilted her head.
After mentioning the man’s name, I slowly recited information about him.
Name, age, origin, organization name…
The man who had heard all of my words trembled his lips and managed to get his words out.
“Uh, how… That… ?”
“How did I find out…”
I shook my horse’s tail and stretched out my hand, then blew a lot of life into my hand.
And he recited the vague words over and over again.
“From now on, talk hard with your colleague who will die.”
“Ah… Ah… Buy, save… !”
The moment you try to kill them…
“Wait a minute.”
Seong Soo-ah grabbed my arm and restrained me.
Of course, I shouted at Seong Soo-ah, who stopped me.
“Why are you blocking me?”
“As the author says, we need information. You can’t just kill me carelessly.”
“Under…”
I could understand Seong Soo-ah’s position, but it was unnecessary.
I already knew all about their identity and purpose.
That guy’s information didn’t help me at all.
However, it would have been different from the position of Sung Soo-ah, a member of the tower.
I asked while looking at Seong Soo-ah who stopped me.
“Okay, let’s say I’ll save you as you said.”
“… ?”
“You don’t think you can control all four of them, do you?”
“That, that…”
Seong Soo-ah did not deny the reality.
Just the two of us taking those four with us in an emergency like now?
Trying to get a few more pieces of information, you will only experience dangerous situations incessantly.
Even so, Sung Soo-ah did not give up easily.
“Well, even if it’s just one person…”
“…”
Her position was completely understandable.
They probably want to find out the identity of the guys who attacked them anyway.
‘It’s just that I have a lot of responsibility…’
Seong Soo-ah was more focused on finding out who was targeting her tower than on her own safety.
The moment a subtle air current flows between Sung Soo-ah and me…
Drurrrr
An earthquake shaking the floor completely swallowed up the awkward atmosphere.
“!?”
“This, this can’t be!”
It was a precursor phenomenon that appeared before the transition gimmick occurred.
I was afraid that I might fall with Seong-su-ah, so I held on to her Seong-su-ah’s arm, who was holding mine.
It wasn’t long after the dungeon shook like that…
Aaaaa!
The four members of the organization who had been trying hard to capture had disappeared.
“Ah…”
Seongsu-a stared at the place where her gang members disappeared for a while with a devastated expression.
Then, as if coming to her senses, she began to gently turn her head toward me, rolling her lips into her mouth.
I sighed as I let go of her arm as she looked at me.
“I didn’t know that you meant to save lives like that.”
“I-I didn’t know that I would miss it like that… !”
Seong Soo-ah hurriedly began to make excuses for her, but she quickly realized her mistake and spoke to me with a sullen expression.
“I’m sorry. Because of me…”
I looked at Seong Soo-ah, who had a sullen expression on her face, and replied bluntly, as if it didn’t matter.
“It’s okay. I was going to catch it later anyway. If you catch it again then it will be over.”
“Ah…”
“And break the habit of blindly apologizing.”
“… Yes?”
In the current situation, if I forced her to take out one of her mistakes, she would only stop me from doing it.
Even the restraining time was not long.
Between the time I made up my mind to kill him and even carried it out, the transfer gimmick must have been activated.
In other words, she would not have been killed anyway.
“Even if you hadn’t blocked it in the first place, the teleportation gimmick would have been activated.”
“That…”
“It’s okay, so guide me quickly.”
“… Yes.”
It was the moment to sort things out and start again.
[Suho, it’s a big deal.]
‘Huh? What’s going on?’
[Now Lena and Jua Moon have moved to an unknown location due to the influence of the teleportation gimmick.]
‘What!? Where?’
[I’m trying to figure out the situation. Fortunately, the two arrived at the same place, and there are no enemies around.]
‘Whew…’
Once I was able to relax.
With Lena and Moon Joo-ah’s skills, you won’t be easily defeated, but you always have to be careful with variables.
‘I’ll have to tell Seong Soo-ah first.’
The moment I was about to tell Armonia the news I had heard, Seongsuah started checking her smart watch with a surprised expression.
“Uh!?”
“What’s the matter?”
“The transfer gimmick that happened earlier… It seems to have affected her co-workers as well.”
“More and more, Taesan…”
Since Lena and Moonjua were killed, the search party near them must have also been affected.
And the meaning of contacting Seong Soo-ah with her…
“It looks like it has transferred to our area!”
As Seong Soo-ah said, it meant that they had arrived at a place where they could share each other’s location.
“Good. Then decide. Would you like to go to your colleagues? Or would it be better to go to the head of the tower?”
Upon hearing my question, Seong Soo-ah looked at her smartwatch on her wrist and…
“… Let’s go to Yeriel.”
With a puzzled expression on her face, she made the decision to go to Yeriel.
“The reason is… ?”
“That is…”
The moment Seong Soo-ah tries to answer with a puzzled expression… A window of temperament was caught in my field of vision.
And that temperament window came quickly at a speed that was hard to understand by my standards.
“Looks like we don’t even need to go.”
“No way…”
After hearing my words, Seong Soo-ah looked at me with a surprised expression.
The moment Seong Soo-ah turned her gaze, her temperament window arrived right in front of her, and a girl’s silhouette appeared at the same time as the temperament window turned around the corner of the hallway.
“Whew… We finally met.”
Yeriel appeared floating in the air.
