32 – #032 Nogada (3)
[Repeat Quest!]
[Black Dog’s Fang]
[Collect Black Dog Fang Fragments to craft Black Dog Fangs! You can take this quest any number of times! Black Dog’s Fang Fragment (2/10)]
[Success Reward: Black Dog’s Fang]
[Failure Penalty: None]
It appeared when Vivian suddenly made her fuss and hugged me.
It was a recurring quest that appeared behind Vivian’s back, a kind of quest that I had never seen before, but I could roughly guess what it was like from the name and description.
‘Is the black dog’s fang a consumable item that can be obtained any number of times?’
There was no way they would give multiple items that would not disappear even after using them, so there was a high possibility that they were consumable items like potions that would disappear after one use.
Since you now have 2 pieces, you have to defeat the black dog 8 times to clear the quest.
However, if you deal with only one black dog, you don’t know how many days it will take to defeat hundreds of monsters that stand in your way and defeat the black dog eight times.
But with Vivian’s help, I can just focus on the black dog and not worry about the small puppies.
“Why should I catch eight more, not just once?”
“Actually, I have obsessive-compulsive disorder, so if anything doesn’t fit to the scale of 10, I feel very anxious.”
“…… Wasn’t there a better excuse?”
“I didn’t think of anything to make an excuse for, I just shouted…. Anyway, it’s all meaningful, so can’t you help me a little? If not, I’ll just do it myself.”
With her face buried in my chest, Vivian thought for a while, then raised her head and said.
“What are you hiding?”
“Yes, you are hiding something. Actually, it doesn’t matter if I say it, but I can’t say it because I don’t trust the professor very much.”
“Uh… ?”
As if he thought he was just going to cover it up, when I clearly conveyed his meaning, Vivian silently looked at me with a bewildered expression.
But even that was short-lived, Vivian immediately frowned and shouted at me in a way that could be so.
“What bullsh*t!! If you don’t trust your teacher, who can you trust!!”
“How much trust can there be in a teacher-teacher relationship that has only lasted a week? Or have you never doubted me?”
“Uh, um….”
When I questioned how many times he remembered doubting me, Vivian couldn’t answer and just laughed awkwardly.
I don’t suspect her to be an admirer of hers who honestly drank her. His identity is more certain than anyone else, and above all, he has no motive to seek the resurrection of the Demon God.
Of course, she would jokingly say that she would like to fight her Demon God at least once, but actually doing it is a completely different story.
Also, even if I tell her the truth, I wonder if she will believe it.
Right away, I couldn’t believe my father, my father, and even burned the strategy guide. How will Vivian, who is a disciple but a stranger, react?
It’s good if you just don’t believe it. If you think it’s a joke and spread this fact to others, and this fact even reaches the ears of demon worshipers….
I don’t know if she’s a student or a professor, but she can’t say for certain that there won’t be demon worshipers in the academy.
It was necessary to be prudent in order to prepare for any contingency.
“It’s impossible right now, but I will definitely tell you when the time comes.”
“… When is that time?”
“When I treat the professor more openly… For example, it’s when we got along well enough to be able to use informal language with the professor.”
It doesn’t matter if this secret is known to demon worshipers after it’s strong enough that it doesn’t matter if you use plain language to Vivian.
Depending on what you hear, this can also be heard as saying that I don’t trust you at all, so I was prepared to take a hit.
But no matter how long I waited, there was no response, so when I slowly opened my eyes, for some reason, Vivian was lost with her face blushing.
“What, what… Were you thinking that far by yourself? Ah, my face turns red because it suddenly jumps in… !”
“…… Yes?”
I don’t know what it is, but after looking at it, it wasn’t a threatening atmosphere.
The hands holding my body were getting stronger, but it didn’t seem like they were trying to break my back like this.
“… Won’t you hit me?”
“Huh? Yeah, I think I’d be a little upset if someone else said that. I’ll take special care of you!”
Somehow the conversation didn’t fit, but it wasn’t a bad flow for me, so I roughly nodded.
“Then let’s reset the dungeon right away. But before that….”
“Huh?”
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“Could you please let go of this? I can’t move because you keep holding me.”
“… No.”
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After that, Vivian didn’t let go of his hand, so John Doe had no choice but to drag the half-hanging Vivian out of the dungeon countless times.
When I approached the exit of the dungeon, I thought that Vivian would let go of his hand in shame, but Vivian did not let go and clung to him like a child clinging to his parents.
“Professor… Can’t you tell me why you’re doing this?”
“I hate it.”
“Couldn’t you have hugged in a fit of anger and then miss the timing to end the hug and continue hugging to alleviate embarrassment?”
“… ….”
When John Doe, who accepted the silence as an affirmation, tried to take Vivian away once again, Vivian pretended to be invincible and descended from John Doe’s body.
“If you feel embarrassed, don’t hug me from the beginning….”
“No, it was something like that… More than that, don’t forget what you said earlier?”
“Yes?”
“I said that if you treat me without fault, I will tell you everything. Don’t forget that.”
John Doe guessed that the conversation wasn’t meshing well, but he nodded his head as he couldn’t say anything else now.
On the other hand, Vivian, who accepted everything differently when he became an opponent who could speak plainly, blushed again as he recalled the words a while ago.
As Vivian recognized, the words earlier were actually a proposal.
There is only one relationship in which two people, a teacher and a disciple in private and an honorary nobleman and a commoner in public, can talk casually.
‘Because when you become a couple, you become a family…. That means you’ll tell me when you’re strong enough to be my husband, right?’
Somewhat… No, there was a considerable leap of logic, but Vivian’s heart, who had feelings for someone for the first time in 34 years of living, did not notice it.
‘It’s not like I’ve never imagined that… My heart trembles when I hear it suddenly. I hope he had such a mind. In the Orient, this situation is called a love affair?’
While walking with that thought in mind, I arrived at the entrance to the first dungeon I entered before I knew it.
Even if you defeat the monster inside the dungeon and the head of the monster commonly referred to as the boss, once you leave the dungeon and re-enter, everything returns to its original state, including the damaged dungeon environment.
This is called a reset by adventurers, but if even one person remains in the dungeon, the reset will not activate, so some intentionally hid in the dungeon to interfere with it and demand money.
“Su, thank you for your hard work!! Are you done with your business now?”
“No, I will go back in.”
After waiting outside for a while, when I went inside, not only Vivian was broken, but everything that had been damaged in the fight with the black dog was restored to normal.
There was no trace of mana or prayer being used in this phenomenon. Many scholars have studied to find out the identity of this phenomenon, but no one has been able to give a clear answer so far.
However, only John Do knew the identity of this reset phenomenon with the knowledge he received from his father, Han Nam.
‘It just respawned. If the dungeon disappears after clearing it once, there will be no place to work, so it was made that way as a game permit. Seeing as there was no mention of it in the setting book, the director probably didn’t think much of it either.’
Even now, honestly, I don’t understand half of what that means, but I only understand that it’s useless to think about it.
“Professor, please.”
“Come!”
When Vivian stomped her foot, a shock wave hit the ground with a huge vibration that felt like an earthquake, sweeping away all the enemies standing in her way.
The black dog appeared again just like it did just a moment ago, but there was no reason why he couldn’t defeat the opponent he had knocked down twice.
There was no great difficulty in defeating the black dog as I had the experience of defeating it twice.
The more you repeat the fight, the more you get used to fighting the black dog, and the time it takes to defeat the black dog starts to decrease as the number of repetitions increases.
“Haa…. Ha….”
The only problem was the loss of stamina caused by fighting, but even then, Vivian restored John Doe’s stamina with the power of the spirit.
After eight fights with the black dog, the exhausted John Doe let out a sigh of relief, thinking that it was finally over….
[Crafting quest occurs!]
“…… ?”
[Black Dog’s Fang Necklace]
[Collect Black Dog’s Fangs to make a Black Dog’s Fang Necklace! Black Dog’s Fang Necklace is a powerful item with special enchantments in addition to increasing stats! Fangs of the Black Dog (1/10)]
[Success Reward: Black Dog’s Fang Necklace]
[Failure Penalty: None]
What I thought was the end was not the end, but the beginning. Looking at the newly appeared quest, John Doe sighed in disbelief.
“The plague….”
“What? What’s the matter?”
“… Professor, I’m really sorry, but I’ll have to go around the dungeon a few more times.”
“Huh? How much more do I have to go around?”
“… ….”
Number 90….
John Doe, who couldn’t bear to say the words, just looked at the quest window resentfully.