78 – The Unqualified Person -2-
[Q. An Unqualified Person to Misunderstand]
There is a girl in love.
A boy with red hair and honest eyes. Most students thought he had a scary appearance that made them want to avoid him, but to the girl, he had a handsome appearance that “clicked” in her heart.
The girl’s love was shy.
Just being together made her happy, and just eating together made her pleased, spending sleepless nights in the dormitory bed with a pounding heart. Until the problem with the witch the boy served happened, that is.
The boy tormented the girl.
He locked her in the wardrobe, claiming it was dangerous. He played pranks that would hurt the girl’s feelings, sprinkling wine on her dress with a sadistic smile. He relentlessly continued to play jokes that would leave scars on the girl’s heart.
But still, the girl liked the boy. comforting herself by saying there must be a reason.
However, as the incident in the dungeon unfolded, the girl started to dislike the boy.
Being abandoned by her supposed friends in the dungeon. Doubting the boy who saved her as if he had been waiting for her.
Why was he there?
Why did she always get involved in bad situations? The girl began to fear.
The girl was suspicious.
She wondered if the events she thought were untoward were not due to the boy’s will. Or if the bad things that surrounded her were not happening because of the boy.
The day I was abandoned in the dungeon.
The boy did his best to protect you, but…
The boy thinks of himself as bad. It may be true, but I wonder how it looks to you.
(!) The day I was abandoned in the dungeon. Find the memory you misunderstood.
1. Enter the Foundation of Greed. (0/1)
2. ‘Persuade or eliminate’ the ‘Hans’ tainted by greed. (0/1)
Reward: You can read the 12th special edition “A Person Without the Qualification to Misunderstand”.
In case of failure: “A Person Without the Qualification” will be changed to the 42nd special edition “A Person with No Qualification” and will be forcibly read.
*
Yuria stopped in her tracks when she saw the blue window.
Because the blue window, which had a creepy contents written on it, grabbed her ankle with a clear sound.
When Yuria stopped walking, she felt as if her blood was freezing.
The words telling her to kill her friend.
And her own story, written in detail.
Her own story that she had never told anyone. And the turning point where she began to dislike Ricardo was clearly written on the blue window, making Yuria feel as if her body was freezing.
“What is this…”
“What did Ricardo do…?”
“What about Hans…?”
Yuria blinked her eyes and asked Mikhail, who was checking the condition of his sword.
“Mikhail… Am I seeing something strange…?”
“Something strange?”
Yuria pointed at the blue window with her finger.
Mikhail followed Yuria’s hand, but he saw nothing in the air. Not understanding what she was saying or pointing at, Mikhail said with a confused expression.
“I don’t see anything. Are you just too tense?”
“…You don’t see anything?”
Yuria bit her lip tightly.
She thought that maybe it was just because she was too tense, like Mikhail said, but she couldn’t easily deny the clearly visible words.
Yuria swallowed the doubts that came to her lips.
She didn’t want to cloud the atmosphere by saying something strange. She didn’t want to show her nervousness before exploring an undiscovered area with an unknown source.
Yuria clenched her fists and spoke to Mikhail.
“No… I think I must have seen something empty for a moment.”
“Really?”
“Well… it’s okay. Don’t worry about it.”
Mikhail looked at the bewildered Yuria with concern. He could guess why Yuria was acting like that.
An incident that happened more than a year ago.
The fall of the dungeon.
Mikhail didn’t know about the events from a year ago. He wasn’t present and only heard about it through rumors.
The only thing he vividly remembered was Ricardo, who had become pale, carrying Yuria. He remembered that much clearly.
At that time, Mikhail was interrogating the students who had returned to the academy.
“Tell me honestly…”
“I don’t know, how are we supposed to know where she went!”
“I heard that someone saw her going in with you… and yet you deny it?”
“…No… it’s just…”
“Say it. Before I report this to the student council president.”
“Sigh… it’s not because we wanted to…!”
“Stop beating around the bush and just say it…”
While he was interrogating, Ricardo appeared.
“Damn, I thought I was done for.”
Pale Ricardo handed Yuria over and abruptly left.
That was all that Mikhail remembered about that day.
Ricardo remained silent.
Yuria couldn’t remember.
They couldn’t say anything about this incident.
Before entering a place emitting a gloomy atmosphere, Mikhail reached out his hand to the exhausted Yuria and said,
“If it’s too tough, let’s go back. We’ll come down with Luhin and investigate again.”
“…”
Yuria weakly raised her head.
“No, it’s just because it’s cold.”
Ignoring the floating blue window in the air, Yuria refused Mikhail’s gesture.
“What if Hans got injured? You guys can’t use healing magic.”
(Note: Some sentences were rearranged for better flow and phrasing in English, while maintaining the atmosphere of the excerpt.)
Because it was the right thing to do, Mikhail couldn’t respond.
Although they heard someone scream, fleeing was against Mikhail and Uriah’s beliefs.
The two fools who had tried to save heretics. After hearing the screams, they couldn’t contemplate turning back.
Uriah stood up forcefully and said, “Let’s go. We can do it.”
A dark hole pierced through the dungeon’s wall.
As if proving that no human hands had touched it, a pitch-black space without torches or light awaited the three.
Ruine was excited about discovering an undiscovered area.
Mikhail felt a sense of foreboding.
And Uriah, worrying about her friend.
The three swallowed their saliva and moved towards the depths.
The moment their feet stepped beyond the wall.
A creepy sound resonated with a ‘thud,’ and mysterious letters appeared before Uriah’s eyes.
[Enter the Foundation of Greed. (1/1)]
Uriah ignored the stern expression on the blue window.
‘It’s probably nothing…’
While calming her pounding heart.
*
The space beyond the wall was nothing special.
No powerful monsters.
No dangerous traps, just an ordinary space.
The only thing different was its intense darkness.
Other than that, it was no different from an ordinary dungeon, with walls, a path, and a recurring pattern in certain sections.
After about 10 minutes.
Ruine, feeling bored, started to grumble.
“What’s this? No monsters, no items… I expected something, but is it reasonable for there to be nothing? Didn’t that guy Hans take everything?”
“Quiet down. Monsters could still appear.”
“Quiet? Seriously. We haven’t seen a single monster until now.”
“So that’s why you’re being cautious. You’ll take responsibility if there’s any irregularity, right?”
Lucien was annoyed by Mikhail’s conservative behavior. It didn’t sit well with his temper to walk hesitantly like this, and as they walked deeper, an indescribable stench grew stronger.
With furrowed brows, Lucien glared at Mikhail as he said, “Your breath… Ugh. Go brush your teeth.”
Mikhail, mixing condescension, stepped closer to Lucien, who was taking steps back, and Lucien muttered a string of curse words.
“Are you mad? Does it bother you?” Snicker…
“Stop playing around and focus.”
“Chuckle… Stop playing around… Ah!!!”
Crash! Lucien, who was taking steps back to avoid Mikhail, tripped over something dull and fell.
“Hi… Damn it…”
In the moment he reached out to get up from his fallen body, Lucien felt something slimy in his hand.
He started to lower the sphere that had been floating in the air towards the ground.
“Why are you doing that?”
“No… Just for a moment, something felt off.”
An eerie sensation made Lucien freeze. It wasn’t like a rock. Rather, it felt a little…
A rough texture.
At the same time, he also felt a softness.
It wasn’t like a rock, but more like sitting on a living being.
Cautiously, Lucien lowered the sphere that illuminated the front towards the ground.
An obstacle slowly revealed its appearance in the light of the sphere.
“Aah!”
Startled, Lucien jumped up from the sitting figure of a person. Sticky bodily fluids clung to his clothes.
In front of the source that had made his nose crinkle all this time, Lucien took a rough breath.
“…f*ck…”
Seeing the corpse that had taken shape, Lucien covered his mouth.
“Gross…”
“Why are you like that, Lucien… Eek!”
Yuria screamed at the sight of the corpse on the floor and took steps back. Bending over, she dry heaved.
The face that was tired of the green color.
A body with open eyes and stopped breath.
It was a body wearing the patrol uniform of the exploration team in charge of managing the dungeon.
Not just one, but several lined up in a row.
Mikhail, who saw the bodies scattered on the floor, tried to maintain a blank expression and bowed his head.
Mikhail brought his hand to the neck of the corpse and wet his head.
“He’s dead.”
It was Mikhail, who confirmed the kill.
Luen, who was supporting the bewildered Uriah, spoke while looking at Mikhail.
“What the f*ck… is this?”
“I don’t know either.”
“No… sigh…”
Luen swept his head in frustration.
A corpse.
In the dungeon of the capital.
Seeing corpses in dungeons is relatively common, but it was not easy to overlook the fact that there were abandoned corpses in the dungeons of the capital.
A dungeon adopted for the safety of academy students. It meant that there was something wrong for there to be a corpse in a place where final exams and most assignments for first-year students were conducted.
There were no monsters that threatened the lives of the students, and there were exploration teams who continuously managed the dungeon.
It was clear that a person was killed.
In an instant, a gloomy energy began to tickle the skin of the three startled people.
– aaack!
When the scream of the unfamiliar man was heard again, Luen’s hair stood on end.
The smile disappeared from Luen’s arrogant lips, and Mikhail, who had been standing expressionless, began to infuse his sword with magic power.
Leaving the inexperienced Auror behind as a last line of defense, Mikhail stood tense, looking around.
When the cold wind blew again.
Mikhail, who made a decision, looked at Uriah and Luen and said.
“Let’s go back.”
“What the hell are you saying?”
“I said let’s go back.”
Luen, who was irritated by the words “let’s go back,” began to retort to Mikhail. He was aware of the seriousness of the situation, but he was worried about his friend, Uriah.
Mikhail calmly spoke towards Ruin.
“Something is strange.”
Mikhail said.
Something is going wrong.
Mikhail started walking towards the entrance, hiding the wheezing Uria behind him.
“Let’s give up.”
“What?”
“Let’s give up and go back, it’s not our problem to solve.”
Mikhail said, suggesting they go back towards the entrance, but Ruin shook his head and replied loudly.
“What nonsense are you talking about? After bringing it all here…”
“We’ve come this far, let’s go back. Before it’s too late, let’s go back.”
“What about Hans? Are we just leaving him?”
Ruin, who thought Mikhail was being cowardly.
With such a mindset, what can be done, Ruin, looking down on Mikhail, walked towards the opposite side of the entrance. He started walking confidently towards where the man’s scream had come from.
“What’s there to be afraid of? Idiot.”
Mikhail reached out his hand, trying to hold Ruin’s hand, not wanting him to go any further. They should go back together. But…
“What is it?”
Seeing Ruin suddenly stop, Mikhail also stopped his steps.
It was a huge space.
A wide space that seemed like the dungeon boss was asleep.
Dark and high ceiling. A round, circular space came into view. In the middle, a huge blood-red magic circle, drawn with blood, appeared before their eyes.
And.
In the midst of the confusion, a familiar man was seen, laughing oddly.
A man with a modest appearance, wearing black glasses.
The boy with the perfect student-like appearance was the missing student they had been desperately searching for, Hans.
Ruin slowly walked towards the center of the magic circle.
Ruin, walking as if possessed. He walked with an expression of disbelief, as if he couldn’t believe that he was there.
“Hey… Hans, what are you doing here?”
Turning around at the sound of a voice, Hans looked at Ruin and casually said with a nonchalant face.
“Oh… it’s Ruin? Uria and Mikhail are here too…”
Hans, who had an indifferent expression in a place filled with corpses, sent shivers down Lune’s spine.
Hans was shaking his hand.
With blood-soaked hands, he was whispering creepy words.
“I didn’t know I would show you the first demonstration… Is this fate too?”
Lune, who had come close to Hans, tremblingly spoke in a shaky voice. Lune was confused, as this was not how he knew his friend.
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“What are you doing here…”
“If you look closely?”
“What?”
“I’m studying. Trying to keep up with talented people like you.”
Hans opened his innocent eyes and said to Lune.
“I was self-studying alone.”
“You’re not going to disturb me, right?”
Suddenly, the red magic circle under Hans’ feet began to shine.
“I don’t actually want to kill you. We are friends, after all.”
A supporting character corrupted by greed due to the gap in talent.
Hans looked at Lune and gave a innocent smile.