22 – #022 Garden of the Beast King (4)
‘… I must have died.’
This was the first impression Jim felt when he received a report from the guards four hours ago.
It was a surprisingly common accident for students who were overconfident in their skills to pass the guards and enter the dungeon without permission and die.
It is an academy where talented people who have received rigorous education from all over the continent gather, but everyone tends to overestimate their skills, perhaps because they have strong pride.
There are one or two easy-going guards in front of them, so after defeating them, the more confident students go straight to the dungeon and die in the first real battle.
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“I thought I would just skip it this year… Anything else to report?”
“Yes? Yes… uh, no.”
Seeing the rookie stuttering for some reason, Jim felt a bit uneasy, but he thought it was because of his mood and just let it go.
Actually, this new guard lied.
He only reported the fact that John Doe assaulted the guard, leaving out the fact that he had not let them in under the pretext of inspecting the permit.
I tried to tell the truth, but I couldn’t because he said that since he was there, you would also be blamed.
‘And you got a permit, but can you go in there and come out alive?’
At those words, even the new recruits collapsed. No matter how much permission was obtained, it was absurd for a student to enter the Beast King’s garden alone and return alive.
Hundreds of years have passed since the Beast King’s Garden was discovered, but during those hundreds of years, only a handful of people have attacked the dungeon.
None of the adventurers who made a name for themselves in various places and the professor who confidently declared an attack came back alive.
The academy had only Vivian, Marianne, and the vice-president, Pride, to clear this dungeon and return, so they knew how dangerous it was.
Since it is doubtful whether the corpse is maintaining its original form, let alone survival, it would have ended with a case in which a student died while performing a passenger plane.
However, because of the incident that happened before entering the dungeon, I couldn’t let this one go like that.
Jim, who received the report even belatedly, immediately reported it to the academy, and as a result, an order came down to wait here until the person in charge arrived.
‘Honestly, it’s boring….’
Jim thought it was lax, even to himself, but it was true.
There was no way he would return for assaulting a guard, so the risk of this mission was less than that of patrolling the streets.
Since there were no dangerous elements, it was only natural that even the well-trained guards at the academy would be somewhat lax.
“Captain, shall we go for a drink after finishing?”
“Idiot, still on the mission. Stop talking nonsense and go back to your place.”
“Ah… It seems that it is still a long way from coming to a high-ranking person from the academy.”
The moment a guard trembled and continued talking, they were speechless at the sound of the door being thrown open and the intense bloody smell that came out.
“Uh… ?”
Undoubtedly, the one who opened the door that had been firmly closed a moment ago and appeared was a man who seemed to have taken a bath in blood.
The man, holding a spear stained red with blood in each hand, looked up at the guards.
Although they only looked at them, their bodies did not move as if they were frozen, even though they did not show hostility or raise their weapons to threaten them.
“Ah… Are you sick? I told you not to think it would end like this….”
As he moved forward with slow, weary-looking steps, there was a muddy, muddy footstep.
Wanting something, I looked at my feet and saw that half-hardened blood and flesh were sticking to my feet, making a grotesque sound.
“… Is that why you all came to die together?”
“Tea, open the window!!!”
The captain of the guard shouted at what could be said to be the first hostility, but no one followed his words.
The guards, who felt that their lives were in danger, rather threw away their spears and started running away one by one.
“…… What are those bastards?”
While the person who threatened them was taken aback, the guards continued to leave, and within a minute, only luggage and a handful of guards were left in the alleyway.
“… It’s not something I’m concerned about. Is your organization okay? Why are you all running away….”
As soon as the ridiculous spectacle of being pityed by an enemy was staged, the fear that had sprouted in Jim’s heart disappeared and was replaced by shame.
“Que, kill it!!!”
“I don’t like it, bastard. I want to take a shower, so get out of the way.”
“Shut up you criminal!! Even if I die here, I will not let you go!!”
“Huh… ….”
Jim raised his voice and raised his spear, and the rest of the guards followed Jim and aimed their spears at John Doe.
Viewed from the side, it might look like a scene in which the guards captain and his men stop a criminal with the determination to risk their lives, but to John Doe, his party, it was just a comedy.
Just as John Doe was laughing in amazement, Pride and the two professors appeared from the other side of the alley with dry applause.
“I had the urge to disband the guards after seeing that pitiful appearance earlier, but I’m glad that there are still spirited guards left.”
“Boo, Vice President!!”
Jim and the guards blushed as Pride appeared with Vivian and Marianne.
After glancing at him, Pride moved his gaze back to John Doe and said in a calm voice that he wasn’t too surprised.
“Student John Do, you must have issued a one-week probation order, but you meet unexpectedly quickly.”
“That’s right. I am glad that someone who seems to be able to communicate with me now has come.”
“We’ll have to wait and see whether the words will work or not. So do you think you can get out of here again?”
John Doe, who kept his mouth shut for a moment as if thinking about something, responded with a smile after a while.
“Well…. Well, if it doesn’t work, you can just drop out.”
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“… You say the word “Dropout” Easier than you think.”
“I apologize if I sounded unpleasant. I almost died a little while ago, so dropping out seemed light.”
Dropping out meant death to me, but I thought that I would die someday anyway, so if I could take the entire continent as my travel companion, that wouldn’t be okay either.
Even if I die anyway, no one will be sad about it, and conversely, if someone dies, I won’t be sad.
It’s the first time I thought that the world would end, so I vaguely thought I had to stop it, but when I thought about it, there was no reason for me to stop the end of the world.
I have no one to love, and no one to love me. Do I care if the world perishes or not?
Yes~ Try expulsion~ Suicide with the whole world is enough.
“To briefly explain this incident, there was a small quarrel before entering the dungeon. So I played around with it, and he made a fuss like that and ran away.”
“Student John Doe, it has been reported that you have ruptured the guard’s intestines… Do you see it as a petty quarrel?”
“Did the report say that even though the permit was presented, the guards made strange excuses and refused to allow entry?”
Pride looked at Jim when he heard the story for the first time, but Jim just shook his head because it was the first time he had heard it.
However, if you think about it carefully, it was a story that you could understand right away, so Pride immediately agreed.
There was no reason for me to make a profit by assaulting the guards, and above all, it wasn’t so strange considering the Asian contempt prevalent in the continent.
“Speaking of permits, who gave them? I wouldn’t give it to a first-class student….”
When she glanced at Vivian behind Pride, Vivian’s face turned blue and she made an X with her hands and shook her head.
Seeing that, I smiled and pointed at Vivian.
“Professor Vivian over there gave it to me. As he handed over the permit, he said: If a problem arises, you take full responsibility.”
“When am I an idiot!!”
“No, it sounds like the truth. That is true.”
“Don’t berate me!! Shorty b*tch!!!”
“… Professor Vivian, write a letter of appreciation when you return.”
As the somewhat harsh atmosphere gradually began to soften, I had a hunch that I would be able to overcome this time as well.
“…… So, are there any injuries? From what I can see, it doesn’t look all right.”
“Compared to the many times I almost died, the wound is not that great.”
There were only attacks that would have been fatal if even one hit, so as a result of desperately avoiding them, there were minor wounds, but no major injuries.
“Who is the boss?! Did you catch the head of the dungeon?!”
When Vivian, who was sullen at the words to write a poem, asked me, I smiled and opened my inventory and took out the body of a black dog I had been keeping and threw it on the floor, wondering if I could use it somewhere.
“… ….”
Everyone fell silent when they saw the body of the black dog whose stomach had been ripped open as if it had been trampled on and its intestines spilled out.
Pride managed to keep her expressionless, but Vivian’s lips went up to her ears, and Marianne’s narrow eyes widened.
“This should be a good enough answer, right?”