Chapter 99 – Memoirs (Complete)
One.
The senior’s answer to the question of how he would help me was this.
“Even if I did this, I was very good at running away. So if I run away while dragging the aggro of the dungeon owner or something, you gather your strength and blow it away in one shot. How are you, aren’t you okay?”
“·····Her.”
I didn’t intend to say it while looking at the savior of the savior of my life, but it was really reckless.
The dungeon master was incredibly fast.
No matter how much seniors have the ability to move in space to go anywhere, there was no way that seniors with physical abilities higher than F-class awakeners and lower than D-class awakeners could recognize the speed of the dungeon master.
Unless you get to the point where you sense the enemy’s hostility before it even arrives and avoid it, you’ll be cut in half and die without even seeing him try to swing something.
Of course, the senior was able to say this because he had never encountered the dungeon lord.
Well, since the senior has the ability to travel anywhere in an instant, he might hit the best run in the world.
However, in order for the phrase ‘if you run away while attracting aggro’, as the senior said, the senior had to evade, not run away.
And that’s under the constraints of making it annoying so that his eyes can’t reach me.
But there was no way he wouldn’t recognize that I was making thirty snowflakes.
No matter what the senior does to him, his attention will eventually turn to me before he can make all the snowflakes, and I will die with the senior’s efforts meaningless.
So, even if the senpai helps me, he can’t have any effect on defeating the dungeon lord.
Having judged that, I opened my mouth to the senior who was still looking at me with his chest open.
“Senpai, even if I refuse, I think you will follow me, so I will tell you one by one why it is meaningless even if you help me. If you are persuaded by my words, you can just leave. You know?”
At my cold offer, the senior smiled and said,
“If I contradict everything you say, then I will go with you.”
When I thought about it with common sense, there was no way I could refute the reason why seniors aren’t helpful. That’s why I nodded my head slightly with a cynical smile.
“Yes. Please. If you can.”
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“Okay, okay? Was it a perfect rebuttal? Then it is decided that I will help you.”
After a brief argument of about 3 minutes, I stopped aggressively talking to the senior who was smiling triumphantly.
“…Senpai, are you kidding me right now?”
“No, I am serious. I want to quickly get rid of that dungeon owner or whatever monster over there and go back.”
“How can someone so serious make a rebuttal like that?”
The senior’s rebuttal was a mess.
Even if I gave a reason and said that there would be no point in helping the senior, the senior refuted me with a single word.
‘I can do it’. That’s nonsense.
Even though he said that with his senior’s physical ability, he would be split in half and die without even recognizing the dungeon master’s attack.
Even when the dungeon lord said that he had to be constantly harassed so that he could not turn his attention to me, who was gathering strength.
In the end, no matter what the senior did, his eyes will turn to me before I can gather all my strength and he will come to kill me, so the senior’s efforts will be meaningless.
With a voice full of confidence, the senior replied confidently, “No, I can do it.”
I was dumbfounded by the helpless answer, and when I heard the senior say that I had a perfect refutation and that it was decided to help, I was more than dumbfounded and angry.
So he got angry. He was ready for death, so he could be angry with the benefactor of the saver of life.
“Senior, are you saying that you are of no help in fighting the dungeon lord? The ability of seniors is obviously amazing. Rescuing the team leader and teammates from this situation deserves praise. But, that’s it. If I go, she will die meaninglessly.”
The senior’s ability was so great that even an S-class Awakener could not imitate it.
I didn’t want a senior with such ability to die because of me in a place like this.
So, in order to save him, I can be angry with my benefactor.
“And how can saying you can be a perfect rebuttal? Anyone can say that they can do it. Doesn’t say how can you do it, just say you can do it without any countermeasures? Where are you talking so irresponsibly?”
I don’t know exactly what the senior thought confidently saying that he could do it, but at least it sounded like a suicide wisher to me.
So, his refutation cannot be established as a refutation. He wasn’t even refuted by that answer in the first place.
“Finally, I don’t need any help from seniors. As the senior said, I don’t have the confidence to win, and it’s true that I’m going to die. Still, I made a choice, and it’s something I have to take responsibility for. So don’t worry anymore and go back to the guild.”
It was said with an honest heart. It was better to die than to live a life worse than death.
It was the only way to protect my family’s honor, so I didn’t regret it.
If I die fighting, at least I won’t be called a coward.
The senior just listened to me without saying anything, as if he was at a loss for words because of my harsh feelings.
Yeah, if you talk like this, you should understand.
I felt sorry for being cold toward the person who eased the burden on my heart by saving the team leader, but I couldn’t help it because if I didn’t do it like this, I wouldn’t listen.
To the hard-faced senior, I made a slightly shameless request because I was on my way to die.
“Oh, please listen to me one last favor before I go back, senior. It’s a will. To the Head of the Julie family, Mother, I fought for the honor of the family until the very end…”
Dismissed! Aww!
“Kyaagh!?”
It was the same finger crack as before, but this time it wasn’t the senior’s finger that hurt, it was my forehead.
The pain that pierced the skin, crossed the skull, and penetrated deep into the head made tears well up in the eyes.
I looked at the senior’s face while holding onto my tingling forehead.
The senior furrowed his eyebrows as if he was very angry, clicked her tongue once as if he was annoyed, and then yelled at me.
“Where is this unlucky sound? Say those words and go back and do it yourself!”
A rough and emotional figure that is completely different from the calm, caring and caring appearance that her seniors have shown her so far, as if the accumulated things have exploded.
Even so, what he said was kind, saying, ‘Do it yourself after you return alive.’
Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.
Her heart started to throb at the sight of the rough but still kind senior.
Something I had never felt before made my heart race, but nothing changed.
I decided to fight the dungeon lord, and I have no intention of reversing that decision.
“Oh no, I’m not going! Until we defeat the dungeon lord…”
“So I’m helping you! Didn’t you hear me telling you to trust only seniors?”
“How can I help you! You only say you can do it, but how can I believe it…”
“Like this!”
Dismissed!
When I asked how he would help me, the moment the senior approached and grabbed my arm, his vision reversed in a flash.
“Uh huh? What is this?”
Dismissed! The moment I heard the sound, I was tucked into his wide bosom, with my back and hamstrings supported by his strong arms.
This posture is commonly referred to as “Embracing the princess.” When I was young, I happened to see it in a book, dreamed of it once, but gave up saying it didn’t suit me.
To be able to do such a dream-like thing in real life, and to be subjected to it by a senior.
Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.
His heart beat faster, and the heat rose in his face.
Seeing his face from below while being hugged by his senior was much more masculine than seeing him from the front.
Seniors are more handsome when seen up close… No, what stupid thoughts am I thinking right now?!
It wasn’t something that would come to mind when looking at an F-class Awakener.
I quickly circulated mana to cool my heated head, and when I was about to ask my senior what he was doing, the senior who was glaring at me opened his mouth first.
“When you gather strength, your posture doesn’t matter, right? She’s an S-class, and she’s the heir to the Julie family, so it’s okay to feel uncomfortable like this.”
“Yes Yes?”
“What are you? Hey. I’ll hug you and avoid the dungeon master’s attack, so you just gather your strength and when you’re all together, just shoot.”
“Yes? No, seniors can’t avoid the dungeon master’s attack? Impossible by common sense…”
“Hey, Lapis Julie.”
There was an irresistible pressure in the voice of the senior who interrupted me and called my name.
The moment he called my name, I became a dumb dumb, and he spoke as if it was natural to me, who had become quiet.
“I run far better than you think. The bigger the imagination, the better. Don’t try to trap my abilities in your narrow common sense.”
“…!”
What the senior said was the same as what I said to her, ignoring her team leader’s legitimate advice.
However, me and my senior at that time were completely different.
I said such arrogant words because I was overconfident in my own strength, and the senior said that he could do it even though he knew his own limits.
As evidence of that, his heartbeat, expression, and even the trembling of his muscles. Everything that could feel his emotions was calm and unconcerned.
Maybe that’s why I wanted to believe what the senior said, even though it was hard to believe, even though it was common sense.
Ugh… Why, why did this happen? I’ve been drying it since I was hugged by the princess. If you come in like that, you can’t help but want to believe it.
Imposing momentum, unwavering confidence, unexpectedly strong muscles, and even the trust that only comes from someone with more experience than me, a senior.
After all of that, I, who was finally stopped by my senior, squeezed out the last of my rebellious spirit and asked bluntly.
“Why, why are you trying to help me? Whether I die or not, what does it matter to you!”
“As you just said, I am your senior. Where in the world is there a senior who leaves a junior who is needlessly going to die?”
“…!”
The question I spat out full of rebellious spirit to feed even one shot came back as a powerful straight thrust straight into my heart.
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
Her face went red, her breathing quickened, her heart pounding.
The first feeling in my life, every time my heart beat, the sunbae looked more and more handsome.
He was handsome before, but he was becoming more handsome than that.
As I stared at the senpai’s face in awe, the senpai lifted one corner of her mouth and smiled, pointing in the direction of the dungeon master.
“Then, let’s go and do it properly as a senior.”
With those words, the moment the senpai stepped on her, jjouong! The iceberg exploded and the Dungeon Lord appeared holding a white flame whip with both arms.
2.
“Therefore? So how did it go?”
“How is it? I shook, shush shook. While avoiding all swings of the whip, Raffy… Su gathered snowflakes and froze it and the dungeon core at the same time with the family’s special move, the strongest ‘Snow Flower Dance – Absolute Zero’.”
“Wow…That’s what happened. I haven’t heard of it for the first time in over a year.”
“I am talking for the first time. By the way, Sister Exy, why did you suddenly ask about that time?”
“Uh? Well, I was bored while waiting for the doctor. Lately, the world has been buzzing about Lapis Julie, so I suddenly thought of something.”
“I see. Anyway, now the question is solved, right? So now it’s my turn to ask a question?”
“Uh? Do you have any questions for me? Well, ask me anything.”
I spoke of the reason I satisfied Sister Exy’s curiosity by even bringing out the story that I had kept secret to further increase Raffy’s honor.
“Why is Sister Exy included in the promise the doctor brought out?”
The ex-Team, Liar’s Trap’s second team leader, and currently the advisor to Extramus, which Wool Blonde belongs to.
That she appeared at a private appointment with her doctor could not have been a coincidence.
At my sharp question, Sister Exy smiled like a fox and spoke in a playful voice.
“Why, they are there to secretly take out a talented person who is not being treated well even though he is competent.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Paster, I’m serious. Would you like to come to Extramus?”
