Chapter 885 – 885. Hero Academy (6)
“Get this girl out!”
(Approval.)
“Crawl… !!!”
Yeriel hurriedly stretched out her hand toward the man, but…
“… Ryo! Happ!”
Thud!
All she held in her hand was the darkness filling the empty space.
Yeriel looked at her surroundings with her empty eyes, with her butt on her buttocks.
“…”
The place in front of me now had a similar atmosphere to the place I had been before.
But Yeriel, she quickly admitted the reality, got up from her floor and dusted herself off.
“… I will be back.”
Yeriel believed.
Considering the man’s actions so far, she couldn’t help but believe it.
No, I wanted to believe.
“… I will be back.”
I received too much help to part with it, and I was curious about too many things.
If the man did not appear in front of her again, she would be helped so much that Yerriel would be plagued with guilt for the rest of her life.
She saved the ambushed search party and Sung Soo-ah, helped herself in the middle, and even saved her life.
A man who reversed a situation that could have been annihilated in one fell swoop.
In fact, it was like solving all the cases that happened in the dungeon.
Yeriel patted her shoulder, where her man had hugged her, she murmured.
“I will come back. Certainly…”
It was the moment she muttered and waited for a man.
Taat!
“!?”
Yeriel hurriedly turned around to check on her with a look of anticipation at the footsteps behind her.
And her presence as she turned her body to face her…
“Yeriel! You’re all right!”
“Ah…”
It was Sung Soo-ah.
Yeriel forced a smile as she felt the disappointment engulf her heart.
“You are also safe.”
Not long after meeting Seong Soo-ah, all the members were able to gather in one place.
Among the crew was an advance party that had gone missing before.
One of the pitiful looking advance party members bowed his head to Yeriel and apologized.
“Yeriel… We apologize for causing concern.”
“No. I’m glad you’re safe.”
The vanguard said that they quickly regained consciousness after escaping from the cane’s influence.
Their condition was not good, but they seemed to be able to quickly return to their former state if they got enough rest.
And the remaining beings…
“Who are you?”
“…”
It was an unidentified organization that ambush the search and advance party.
There were those who ambush Yeriel and Seongsuah, and there were also those who ambush the advance party when they entered.
However, no matter how much interrogation was conducted, the members of the organization did not open their mouths.
After such fruitless interrogation, Sung Soo-ah quietly asked Yeriel.
“My mouth is really heavy. Where do you belong? Monster? Or the monster’s follower… ?”
“…”
Despite Seong Soo-ah’s question, Yeriel just stared into the darkness with an expressionless expression.
“Yeriel?”
“…”
“…”
After Yeriel briefly exchanged her regards with her colleagues, she didn’t say a word out of her mouth.
She just stared blankly into the darkness.
‘… After all, something happened to that man.’
Not only did Yeriel tell her crew, she didn’t even tell Seong Soo-ah what she was going through in her ring.
I thought that was the least courtesy for a man in a cloak.
‘At least you don’t have to agree. Come out quickly.’
Yeriel was worried that she might accidentally pass on the wrong information about the man in the cloak while talking about what she had been through.
One of the crew members approached Yeriel, who was standing there blankly, and spoke to him.
“Yeriel-sama, since the rescue operation has been completed, I think we should get out soon.”
“…”
Yeriel remained silent, and Sung Soo-ah and Daewon looked at each other with troubled expressions.
It wasn’t that Yeriel didn’t listen to the two of them.
But she was struggling to make a decision.
‘… I’ll have to stay and wait.’
Yeriel said she was obliged to remain here and wait for the man.
In contrast, her crew had no reason or need to do so.
‘For now, I’ll stay alone and wait, and send the rest back…’
It was the moment she was about to make that decision.
“It’s noisy, so it’s perfect for finding out where it is.”
“!?”
All the members of the tower stood up in an instant and looked at the place where the voice was heard.
She prepared to attack as soon as everyone checked the figure of the other person.
But only one person didn’t.
Wow!
Yerriel flew to where she heard the voice and then ordered her crew behind her.
“Everyone put your hands down.”
Her crew were bewildered by Yeriel’s voice, but meekly lowered their arms.
After Yeriel confirmed that her crew had all lowered their hands, she let out a sigh of relief and opened her mouth to where her voice had come from.
“I didn’t know you really came out.”
With Yeriel’s voice…
“I told you. Please wait outside.”
A man in a cloak appeared leading his companions.
..
..
All the basics have been sorted out.
The tower rescued all of the advance party, which was the goal, while surviving, and now, if they could escape this dungeon, they would have finished the mission perfectly.
However, there was a big problem to be solved apart from completing the mission.
Yerriel distanced herself from her allies in order to talk to her cloak man who could solve the problem.
After making sure that Yeriel had fallen so far that her voice could not be heard by her crew as she continued walking, she opened her mouth to the man.
The first word was thank you.
“Thank you. Thanks to you, we were able to save everyone safely.”
“… Strange. Shouldn’t you be grateful for saving yourself first?”
“The lives of my comrades are far more precious to me than my own.”
“… Well, it seems that kind of personality.”
Yeriel, who had been exchanging conversations with her private feelings, asked with her expression hardened.
“Then tell me now. Why did you find me?”
“Take this.”
Cloak Nam took two items from her pocket and threw them to Yeriel.
One was the size of a knuckle, and the other was a shiny object the size of a fingernail.
After Yeriel magically caught the two items floating in her air, she confirmed.
One was USB, and the other was a fingernail-sized cubic.
Yeriel carefully touched the USB and the cubic, she asked.
“What’s this… ?”
“The USB contains information about the guys who attacked you.”
“…”
As soon as Yeriel heard the man’s words, she carefully put the USB into her pocket.
Then he looked at the small cubic and asked again.
“Then what about this?”
“An object developed by the guys who attacked you.”
“Then what is this?”
Yeriel opened her eyes wide and stared at her cubic.
I nodded and said.
“Okay. It is an object that forcibly disturbs the mana around it.”
“…”
Yeriel put it in her pocket as carefully as the USB she had received earlier.
Watching Yeriel, who left the cloak, pack her things, said firmly.
“Everything is on that USB. I gave you a chance, so I hope you don’t miss it like an idiot.”
“… I’ll keep that in mind.”
After Yeriel finished talking with the man in the cloak, she suddenly had a question about her.
‘If this is the only business, wouldn’t it be okay to forcefully give it to you earlier?’
It was Yeriel who said that she would put off listening to her business until later.
However, if she had a business like this, it wouldn’t have been a problem at all even if she had been forced to hand it over.
But the mantle…
“This is the end of the business.”
“…”
As if it were natural for her, she listened to her insistence on Yeriel and even helped her.
Even at her own risk…
Yeriel already owes her so much to the man she cloaked that her whole life would not be enough.
“Thank you so much. I will never forget this favor for the rest of my life.”
“I’m glad you know me well.”
“…”
But she cooled her heart and thought coldly.
‘… I still have to ask.’
Thinking so, Yeriel opened her mouth to the man with a calm expression.
“I know it’s rubbish to say this when you’ve got help. But I need to ask you something.”
“What?”
“The ability you used earlier… Are these really your abilities?”
What Yeriel asked was the ability that neutralized the Sphinx.
It could have been the pure ability of the cloaked man, or it could have been the ability of an item he had.
Yariel was obliged to know for sure which side of her ability it was.
“Tell me.”
As the head of the tower, she had no choice but to risk rudeness and ask.
The man who heard Yeriel nodded her head.
“It is my pure ability.”
“Whew…”
Yeriel let out a sigh of relief.
If the ability was item-based, and even had multiple items… Just imagining it was terrifying.
Yeriel nodded her head in relief.
“Thank you for your answer. And… I really don’t mind, but I’ll ask you one more question.”
Yeriel didn’t want to ask questions like this either.
As she continued to ask questions after receiving help, her conscience felt the pain of being stitched through countless times.
‘You have to do it anyway. Even if I get treated like trash…’
Yariel thought so, and she asked the last question.
“Inside the ring… Have you brought any other items?”
Yeriel said it back, but the man in the cloak understood right away.
“Are you talking about a cane?”
“That’s right. Is that… Did you bring it?”
Yeriel harbored her greed for the item, and she didn’t ask.
The [Stand of Osiris] That Pharaoh had.
If that thing goes out into the world and is used for someone’s self-interest…
‘It’s a real hell.’
Yeriel stared nervously at the man in her cloak.
As soon as Cloak Nam heard Yeriel’s words, he shrugged her shoulders and replied.
“Yes, I brought it out.”
“…”
Yeriel began to have hope in the man’s words.
Even if she fell for the lie, she had no way for Yeriel to see through the lie.
Even so, the man answered without lies.
The man sighed in the cloak…
“This is it.”
I took out a bracelet.
Yeriel asked, changing her gaze with one glance.
“… If I’m not mistaken, it looks like a bracelet, not a staff.”
“Because I took care of it, it was transformed for unknown reasons.”
“…”
Once she decided to trust the man she said.
But one last hurdle remained.
Yeriel sighed calmly and asked her last question.
“That… What are you going to do?”
Yariel knew that the answer had already been decided and she was asking a question.
The cloaked man answered exactly as Yeriel expected.
“From now on, this item belongs to me, so I have to think about it step by step.”
“…”
Yeriel bit her lip and closed her eyes tightly.
‘… I have to take it.’
She also knew Yeriel.
It was a fair price for the man in the cloak to own the bracelet.
She got it by solving all the cases and even defeating the last boss of the dungeon.
It was natural for him to own it.
But nonetheless…
‘If that man isn’t who I think…’
In Yeriel’s head, the imagination of the caped man turning the world into hell began to fill up.
‘But… I can’t take it away…’
It was the moment when guilt and responsibility were entangled in Yeriel’s head.
Whiik!
“Huh!?”
Suddenly, something flew into Yeriel’s face.
Yeriel panicked and snatched things and confirmed her identity.
The identity of the object…
“… Bracelet?”
It was the bracelet the man in the cloak was talking about.
The man in the cloak threw the bracelet at Yeriel and said in a carefree voice.
“You will need it to control the ones that attacked you. Take it.”
“… Are you giving it to me?”
The man in the cloak did not immediately answer Yeriel’s question and moved on.
Then, with his back to Yeriel, he turned his head away and let out a laugh.
“As I said before, the owner is me. I’m just lending it for now. Be sure to return it later.”
The man left those words and started walking calmly toward his companions.
Yeriel looked at the man’s back…
“… I will definitely return it.”
He smiled and followed after him, giving an answer he hadn’t heard.
