(+ Jin Ye-seul rough illustrations)
“~~~~!!!”
Raune, holding a small spirit stone in one hand and what appeared to be a plant nutrient in the other hand, began to dance, roaring with excitement.
The reason I said something like a dance was that it was too ridiculous and embarrassing to call it a dance.
But he looked so happy that he didn’t even care about that.
“Do you like it that much?”
“… !!!”
When I asked while preparing the tank for the newly delivered guy, he nodded.
Then, holding her own items in the parcel, she started walking around.
I looked up to see what he was doing, and while I was preparing the tank, he was collecting things to say that he was getting ready for his own tank.
Seeing the guy who looked so excited, I burst into laughter without realizing it.
“Come on, here. I put your stuff in the canister so you can put it away without getting wet.”
“… !”
When I showed him the tank that was ready, he took his things he had gathered in a corner as if he had been waiting, and started moving things back and forth into the tank.
“Can I help you?”
At my suggestion, he shook his head, sticking his roots forward as if he was okay with it.
I thought that there would be nothing dangerous because I made a staircase similar to the tank to make it easier for him to move around.
“Come on, you too, eat rice.”
After watching the guy come and go for a while, I also sprinkled the fish with food and looked at the delivery box that arrived with my share.
There were loads of all kinds of medicines inside, and it was no joke that I could open a pharmacy right now.
“Let’s see… Omega 3, multi-vitamin, multi-vitamin, krill oil, eye drops and lactic acid bacteria… … .”
As I was rattling through the amount of medicine boxes that I couldn’t eat all by myself, I found the notes inside.
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On the note was written in Lee Ye-eun’s cursive handwriting, which she had seen before, with a simple greeting, saying she was worried that she looked too weak, and that she sent a little medicine, so please eat this and take care of her health.
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On the second note, there were foods or fruits that should not be eaten together while taking medicines.
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On the last note, the timetable for the week and what day of the week and what time to take what medicines were written in detail.
… I didn’t want any seriously ill patients to receive this much special care.
Unknowingly, I could feel my expression turning pale at the sight beyond my imagination.
“I don’t know if I’m going to die from eating this… .”
I sat down on the bed, putting the heavy delivery box to one side due to the many medications.
“Whoa.”
I exhaled a little and relaxed.
Then he took out the body fragment of Sbangali that had been kept in Henir’s shadow.
“… … .”
After putting it on the table, Henir’s shadow and the branches of the world tree were pulled out.
Seeing that, Laune felt something strange, so she stopped moving things and climbed onto the bed and sneaked over to me.
“hey.”
He looked at it and spoke as if tossing it.
No reaction.
Laune also wanted to do something, so she stood by my side and looked at me and the fragments of Svengali in turn.
“wake up. Because I already know everything.”
I couldn’t shake the feeling of something strange, reluctant.
And at times like this, the most difficult things always grabbed my ankles.
“… … .”
A fragment of the Seven Evil species that lost their lives, with no way to remain.
The root of the rotten World Tree.
The corpse of the Seven Evil species, with no information being assessed.
It was thanks to Laune who was right next to me that I was able to be sure of that.
“Laune, did you say that you were an alter ego of that Svengalli?”
“… … ?”
Hearing my words, he suddenly looked up at me as if he was bringing up that story.
I silently picked him up and put it on my shoulder.
Because it was possible that Raune might be in danger.
“If it’s enough to create a creature called Mandragora as a clone, there’s nothing strange about having your own spare ready just in case.”
“… … !!!”
At those words, Laune was startled and stuck to my face.
I just moved Henir’s shadow and the branches of the world tree a little bit.
[…] This is the one.]
A voice sounded like scraping iron.
Svengali’s body cracked, and a human mouth appeared on the surface.
I felt my expression hardening.
[It’s really over.]
How the hell did you find out
The boy who burst out laughing mumbled that.
I snorted at such a guy and moved the shadow and world tree as it was.
Even if he lost all his strength and power as a Seven Evil sect and only dregs remained, that was no reason to keep him alive.
* * *
“Wow, I think I’m going to vomit… .”
As she walked out of the warp gate, Lee Yu-na covered her mouth with her hand.
He looked really pitiful to see a little guy with pale skin and pale skin because he wasn’t white though.
Jin Ye-seul, who patted her back while pretending not to be next to her, took a piece of gum from her arms and handed it to her.
“Chew this. Then it will be better.”
“eww… Thanks, Yeseul… .”
I looked around as I watched her mumble and chew gum.
Jin Ye-seul also stood a little further away from me and started looking around.
We were in the race.
Even if I didn’t have to look for it, the surrounding area was full of people who seemed to be tourists.
Even in the midst of it, I could notice that the eyes of the people around me were focused on Yu Na and Jin Ye Seul.
Even so, the two of them looked really good.
as much as an outsider.
Lee Yu-na didn’t care about her surroundings, probably because she didn’t have time to do that, but Jin Ye-seul looked like she couldn’t hide her annoyance at the glances of those around her no matter who looked at her.
“Let’s move right away. There is no need to waste time.”
I told her to calm down and immediately called a taxi.
Jin Ye-seul looked at me as if she was annoyed, but shook her head.
The taxi headed to the place where the dungeon was hidden, and we were soon able to reach the tourist-heavy ruins.
“Would you like to start with a tour?”
I laughed out loud at Lee Yu-na’s question.
“No way.”
We got out of the taxi and started walking around the ruins.
Lee Yu-na looked around as if in a strange way, and Jin Ye-seul just followed me without saying a word.
After a while, we arrived in front of the half-collapsed stone statue.
I looked around and luckily it was a sparsely populated place.
I looked at Jin Ye-seul and said.
“Try to duplicate that statue by touching it while wearing the mirage gloves.”
“… Yes.”
Jin Ye-seul moved as I said without saying a word.
After taking the gauntlet out of her arms and wearing it, she grabbed the stone statue, and the stone statue, which had been shaking and trembling, stretched into two as if splitting, revealing the door to the underground dungeon underneath.
“Okay then, let’s get ready and go in. As soon as we enter, the entrance will disappear, so there is no need to worry about anyone breaking in.”
While I was taking out the things I had prepared from my bag, Yuna muttered with a pale complexion, wondering if she was still upset.
“But yes, yes. Are you really okay? I’m okay with just helping you for free this time… .”
“This is what you are good at.”
Jin Ye-seul said in a dry voice as if stinging.
“You do what you are good at, so why are you so anxious to do it for free? When you do something you are good at, of course you should be paid for it.”
“Ah, yes… .”
Lee Yu-na answered in a gloomy voice, but looking at her expression, she seemed to be a little shy.
I first distributed the items I brought with them to two people.
“Okay, let’s use this first.”
“What is this?”
“… … .”
The first thing I handed out was a camouflage cream applied to the face.
“The dungeon we are going to this time can be divided into three main patterns.”
I mixed my fingers and spread it on my right cheek.
“In the first place, clones that look just like us appear… It’s literally like a reflection in a mirror. We are definitely weaker than the originals, but other than that, we can see that everything is the same. Voice, speech, facial expression, body… Anyway, it’s all about physical features.”
“But why… Oh, you said it was a mirror, right?”
“right. They’re upside down as if they were reflected in a mirror. If you put camouflage cream on the right side, all the clones will appear as if they were applied on the left side, so it would be easy to tell them apart. There will be no attack on the same side by any chance.”
He said that to Yuuna who nodded her head.
Without hesitation, she mixed the camouflage cream and started rubbing it on her right cheek.
Jin Ye-seul also applied the cream without saying a word.
After confirming that everyone had applied camouflage cream on their faces, I continued the explanation.
“Next time I say parkour, I don’t know if you’ll understand… To put it simply, you have to go over cliffs and obstacles. But since I have a branch of the World Tree, I will be able to pass through it without any problems.”
“… And what about the last?”
Jin Ye-seul asked that without looking at my face.
I put the camouflage cream I brought into my bag and answered.
“Twin Head Ogre. But because the two are put together, they have four heads, four arms, and four legs.”
It also has four times the regenerative power.
Jin Ye-seul frowned upon hearing my words, but Yu-na murmured as if she was happy.
“Oh, then it will be easy to catch. If I go there, can you spare me a little time? Those kinds of monsters can be corrected by me.”
“Yeah, then.”
With those words, I immediately reached for the handle on the ground.
“Let’s go in.”
We opened the huge door that didn’t even make a sound, and we flew straight into the dungeon.
* * *
The dungeon was not damp, humid, and smelly, but rather a cozy atmosphere and a good smell.
Jin Ye-seul could easily recognize that the smell was that of a flower.
The smell of flowers in the underground dungeon.
She took a small step forward and took a step forward.
Yoo Ji-hyuk and Lee Yu-na followed her in order.
In Yoo Ji-hyuk’s hand, a huge bow was held, and in Lee Yu-na’s hands, something like smoke was wrapped around constantly.
Jin Ye-seul was bare-handed as always, but both hands were clad in the gloves of a mirage, which was also the legacy of the Shadow Walker.
They quickly broke through the dungeon without any threats or problems.
A few traps were destroyed by Jin Ye-seul before they even worked, and the monsters that occasionally appeared were pierced by the arrows Yoo Ji-hyuk fired before they could do anything and fell down.
It was time to move forward without hesitation.
Jin Ye-seul found a large door and stopped walking slowly, and the other two also stopped.
“that… He’s a very annoying type.”
With her eyes narrowed, Lee Yu-na muttered as if complaining.
Jin Ye-seul also silently agreed with her opinion.
A stone statue with a human face in the body of a lion.
Also called the Sphinx, if it was a gatekeeper, you had to solve a riddle to pass.
[I will raise a question.]
The stone statue opened his mouth, raising his eyes as if glaring at the three of them.
Jin Ye-seul, who was not very close with riddles, doesn’t look like that at all from her usual attitude, but for the first time, she only hoped that Lee Yu-na, who was ranked first in the whole school, would pay for her name.
[This is an ardent heart and energy that burns like a flame. When your heart stops, it cools down, but if you crave something, it will burn again. What is this?]
“… What kind of bullshit is that?”
Jin Ye-seul spit those words out without me knowing.
When she turned her head to look at Yuuna, she was just contemplating something.
Then, when Jin Ye-seul’s eyes met, he mumbled with trembling eyes.
“I, too, are very weak at riddles… Wait, maybe the answer is blood?”
But the Sphinx remained silent.
Lee Yu-na licked her lips, and Jin Ye-seul was thinking that, after all, that was a kind of monster, and if she knocked it down, the door might one day open.
“Hot blood.”
Yoo Ji-hyeok said it like he was throwing it out with no sincerity.
Soon after, the Sphinx replied with a twinkle in her eyes.
[That’s correct. Move forward… .]
Soon after, the tightly closed door began to open, and Lee Yu-na immediately looked at Yoo Ji-hyuk with a surprised expression.
“Wow, what is it? how did you know? No, blood is the answer, isn’t it?”
“Originally, the Sphinx is very strict. Even if they mean the same thing, if they don’t say the same thing, they won’t recognize it.”
Yoo Ji-hyuk answered as if it was no big deal, but it seemed to have approached Lee Yu-na differently.
“Something is a bit embarrassing… .”
She muttered like that, but then smiled as if something was going on.
“Ah, I wish I had gotten it right. Still, I contributed a little to getting the answer right, didn’t I? The correct answer was blood, but I said blood first.”
“No, I did it by myself.”
“What? damn really… .”
Saying that, Lee Yu-na slapped him on the shoulder.
When he pretended to be sick, she giggled and burst into laughter.
“yes.”
After staring at him for a moment, Lee Yu-na suddenly clenched her fist and extended her arm to Yoo Ji-hyuk.
Yoo Ji-hyeok, noticing what she wanted to do with that appearance, also slowly extended his hand.
“Hi-fi… !”
“ah.”
Lee Yu-na, who was holding out her fist, suddenly opened her palms wide, and Yoo Ji-hyuk was in the middle of putting them out to make fists without thinking.
The two of them stood in an awkward position for a moment and lowered their arms as if nothing had happened.
“… … .”
“… … .”
“… … puff.”
“What makes you laugh so much?”
“No, just… .”
In the meantime, Lee Yu-na burst into laughter at what was so funny, and Yoo Ji-hyuk, who saw her smile, shook his head as if it was ridiculous and burst into laughter.
As they continued to teach, fight, and exchange advice with each other, the two became quite friendly enough to exchange pranks in this way.
“… … .”
And Jin Ye-seul looked at the scene without saying a word.
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Only she would have known what her eyes were thinking and what emotions were embracing them.
But at least, it was certain that those purple eyes contained Yoo Ji-hyuk and Lee Yu-na.