CH 16

Lee Jehee put one hand on Baek Taera and my shoulder and smiled indefinitely. It was an irritated smile.

“I’m going to die of annoyance, so don’t put any effort into useless work, and let’s finish it quickly and get out. Hm?”

“…Okay.”

Oh my. Is it true that the person who answered gently now is really Baek Taera? That famous Taerapy, right? 

I thought so, but I kept my mouth shut because I was afraid that if I asked openly, I’d be beaten to death and then healed right before my death.

Meanwhile, the body pushed by Lee Jehee was steadily moving forward. Chorok, who had been standing in front of the entrance for a long time, looked at me and Lee Jehee alternately. He turned his head like an idiot and opened the door by himself. Inside, there was a dark black tent swaying as if it had been covered.

It looks very, very, very ominous.

However, Kim Hana, who had an indifferent face, walked straight into the darkness. Following that, the sulky Chorok went in.

I stamped my heels on the ground, as if in rebellion, to show that I didn’t want to go. Nevertheless, Lee Jehee, who was strong enough, dragged me like that and moved forward without any hesitation. 

Am I really going in like this? Am I really leaving?!

With the entrance to the dungeon I had only encountered through the game, I closed my eyes tightly. At that moment, Baek Taera, Lee Jehee and I entered the dungeon.

That was the first step in clearing the dungeon.

*****

In an instant, the vision turned dark and quickly shone back into light.I felt the glare on my closed eyes and tried to open them after covering them with my hands. And I stopped breathing for a while in front of the wide grassland. 

Seeing the scenery that I had only seen through the monitor evoked a surprising feeling. I turned my head to look at the peaceful scenery that was all green. A wind full of grass scent that could not be felt in the city blew out, and my hair was fluttered.

A sun-like sphere hovered above my head, illuminating the foreground, as a beautiful forest waited in the distance. A cute deer with glittering eyes grazes on the grass in the big field in front of us—.

“Kiiiiik!”

“Whoa! What’s that!”

The deer— No, the monster in the form of a deer stopped grazing and suddenly got up on both feet and ran towards us. Then, a terrifying face engraved as if possessed by an evil spirit was seen roaring with its mouth wide open. 

Wow, it’s so scary!

[Party member ‘Kim Hana’ activates the attack skill ‘Baekbal Baekjung’.]  (t/n : I don’t know how to put it as skill name but 백발백중 means hitting the bull’s eye all the time; hitting the mark all the time. So I will just use baekbal baekjung as the skill name to make it easier.) 

At the same time as the monsters rushed in, Kim Hana raised her hand in the air. Then a slender long bow with a hazy figure appeared, taking on more and more specific forms, revealing its complete form.

Kim Hana pulled and released a long bowstring that did not have an arrow on it. At that moment, dozens of arrows appeared above her head and rained down on the swarm of monsters.

Baekbal Baekjung. I guess that doesn’t mean she shot 100 times and hit 100 times, but it must have been a skill that meant shooting 100 arrows. 

[Party member ‘Kim Hana’ has killed ‘Giant Horn Deer’]

[Party member ‘Kim Hana’ will gain 70 EXP for killing a ‘Giant Horn Deer.’]

[Party member ‘Kim Hana’ has killed ‘Giant Horn Deer’]

[Party member ‘Kim Hana’ will gain 70 EXP for killing a ‘Giant Horn Deer.’]

[Party member ‘Kim Hana’ has killed ‘Giant Horn Deer’]

[Party member ‘Kim Hana’ will gain 70 EXP for killing a ‘Giant Horn Deer.’]

[(….)]

I changed the setting so that the message related to EXP does not come on the status window that blinks continuously enough to hurt my eyes. In the midst of that, the Chorok dug through the arrows Hana had used. 

[Party member ‘Han Chorok’ activates the attack skill, ‘Straight Cut’] 

[Party member ‘Han Chorok’ has killed ‘Giant Horn Deer’]

[Party member ‘Han Chorok’ has killed ‘Giant Horn Deer’]

[Party member ‘Han Chorok’ has killed ‘Giant Horn Deer’]

[(….)]

When he took out his long sword and swung it horizontally, the sword, which was longer than his height, swept away the monsters at once. Then, without even checking the monster he had killed, he immediately activated another skill.

[Party member ‘Han Chorok’ activates the attack skill Gravity Cut.]

[Party member ‘Han Chorok’ has killed ‘Giant Horn Deer’]

[(….)]

Chorok-ah, stop cutting. I really wanted to say that.

The monsters in the area were pulled to the center of Chorok spot and easily cut at one point during a ‘gravity cut.’ With just the two of them, the monsters that filled the wide field were cleared up in an instant. 

If I hadn’t turned off the notification message for obtaining EXP, I might have had problems with my eyesight due to the crazily shiny status windows.

“Wow, it’s no joke.”

“Do you think the dungeon clear is a joke?”

“….”

Why do you keep leaving comments on what I’m saying? Did someone ask you to answer?

After entering the dungeon, Baek Taera stood close to me and just looked around with his arms folded. He despised a man who humiliated others without doing anything, so he said a lot of things, then sighed and turned his head.

Then, this time, Lee Jehee, who had been stretched out peacefully, lowered his gaze and made eye contact with me, and asked for something. 

“I’m so tired. Do you have any skills to use?”

“—Just say the skill you want. Don’t think about people.” 

It’s been a long time since I’ve been robbed of my business. I responded with dissatisfaction to the words  and activated my skill. This is not a status effect skill, just a buff that corresponds to a normal range skill, so contact was not required.

[Party member ‘Yeon Seonwoo’ activates the support skill ‘Refresh’.] 

At that moment, I felt the mana being consumed from my body, and a cool refreshing sensation washed away the whole body. Baek Taera looked surprised at the feeling of fatigue going away at once. Han Chorok and Kim Hana, who had been killing monsters mercilessly, looked back at me as if surprised. The person who looked the most fondly among them was Lee Jehee. 

“It’s really fun.”

“What’s so much fun? My skill?”

“No. I mean Yeon Seonwoo.”

“—Don’t people misunderstand if you say that? People might think you’re interested in me.”

That’s why you were criticized a little. He did it on all the characters in the game. 

Was it only for women? Even for the male character who appears often, there were many times when people who played the game commented on what this bastard is. It seems that the parties are not aware of any problems. 

“So what if I’m interested?”

“…Yes?”

“It’s not a misunderstanding.”

What are you talking about? I felt like I was hit by a thunderbolt while sleeping. I doubted him since he seemed fine to me, and he turned into a target character. There was no flaw in his appearance, no matter how I looked at it. The problem is—.

“…Do you like men too?”

“Pfft!”

Baek Taera, who was standing next to me, grabbed his stomach and burst into laughter. When I turned my head in surprise at the sudden loud sound, he was wiping his tears with his hands.

“That’s right. Jehee Hyung received a lot of misunderstandings like that. How many times is this?”

“As expected…”

Then, looking up at him with a face that said yes, Jehee smiled brightly and beautifully. 

[Warning: Be Loved is -1 because the master is upset] 

[Warning: Since the status of the skill to Be Loved is negative, “Melancholy” effect will be given] 

Wow, he’s faking it with his laughter now. If you don’t want to hear this, don’t do anything! 

“What is this? Why does he suddenly have a status effect? What’s melancholy? I think it’s the first time I’ve heard of it?”

It seems that it appeared on the party member status window while I was afflicted with a status effect. I saw Kim Hana, who was slaughtering monsters, looking back. Of course, Han Chorok, who knows the rough situation, was still catching only monsters.

Psycho Green. The nickname was a perfect fit.

However, the biggest problem is not Chorok cruelty, but the fact that I should relieve Lee Jehee’s mood. Since I’ve already lost strength from my body and my legs have been shaking. 

No matter how many non-human classes there were around me, I had to protect my body, and it was impossible for me to lose my strength in this dangerous dungeon.

“It meant that there were a lot of strange people attached to even non-trivial words because there are so many good things you do no matter what it is! It meant that, too!”

“What the hell… Hyung, I think he’s a weirdo.”

You’re the weird one.

Baek Taera was looking at Jehee no matter what kind of gaze I gave next to him, then he smiled as usual.

[The Master’s mood improves, giving you +1 to ‘Be Loved’.] 

[Because the state of the Be Loved skill has become 0, the ‘Melancholy’ status effect disappears.]

He’s a guy that can’t be beaten. I lowered my shoulder in despair, not knowing where he was getting offended and getting better.

Meanwhile, Baek Taera, who was staring at the air near where the status window might be, looked at Lee Jehee as if asking what was going on. However, Lee Jehee didn’t seem to want to talk much about this.

“It’s because he’s my fan.”

“I don’t think so, I think there’s something going on between you two—”

Baek Taera’s suspicious gaze touched the servant ring. And the master ring which looked the same was also worn on Lee Jehee’s finger.