CH 103

I caught hold of the hand in the nick of time. It was a cold, soft hand.

I couldn’t see anything in the dark, but the boy walked with my hand in his hand as if he knew the way. The soft light surrounding the boy’s body leads me.

Is it because of that light? My mind was strangely calm and I wasn’t scared anymore. I felt a slight warmth through my palms.

It’s a lot smaller, but that steady walk….

As expected, they look alike.

“Hey, do you have a brother?”

“….”

“Or a relative. He’s about this tall, don’t you know someone who looks a lot like you?”

“….”

The boy was still silent.

Can I trust and follow this boy? Maybe he’s pretending to help me like this, then he will lock me up here?

It was a situation where such doubt would remain.

“….”

Our eyes met.

It was hard to explain in words, but I felt that I could trust this boy. I held the boy’s hand and silently followed him.

The lost path of light reappeared. The glistening light moved quickly and formed a path. At the end of the path, there was an exit.

“Okay, I can finally get out of here! Boy, you … huh….?”

I was startled when I turned my head. I was definitely holding the boy’s hand tightly until just now, yet the boy’s figure was nowhere to be seen.

A bright light surrounded me, and I felt like my body was being sucked into somewhere.

***

The view became bright in an instant.

The first thing I saw was the high stone wall of the Great Dungeon Abyss. I could feel the cold air. The dry, chilly wind of early winter knocked on my cheeks. My eyes are blinded by the clear morning sun. It was a change that made the memory of being in a midsummer night’s dungeon a while ago felt like a dream.

Next, as promised, I saw the store building, which arrived first and was well placed in its original place.

Thank God. Everyone except me seems to have arrived safely. In front of the store, I could clearly see the faces of the group looking up at me.

Wait. Why are they looking up at me?

I felt a sense of freedom in my feet. It’s as if I’m floating in the air….

“Whoa, uaaaaah…..!”

Tiling!

[The connection will be reset. 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 … 100. Done.]

[Achievement: Light up the Darkness

Congratulations!

You were on the verge of getting lost by the bad by the bad ´Ï¾Ë¶óÅäÅÜ, but you returned safely.

Who was it that guided you?

Reward: Comfortable Walk-Through Counter (★★☆☆☆)]

There was no time to carefully read the status window that appeared in front of me.

The point where I appeared was the air a little above the roof of the store. For now, I was floating as if I was not affected by gravity, but my body was about to plummet down.

Don’t you think there’s been a lot of falling incident since I awakened? How many times have I done this already?

“….Uhh!”

I swallowed a scream. I felt my body going down.

Let’s stay calm. Now I’m an expert in falling.

‘The Bond of a Cup of Coffee!’

It was the moment I was about to use Choi Yichan’s defense skills that I copied straight away.

The falling body floated up again. A thin net of light that was barely visible wrapped around my body and held me up so that I wouldn’t plummet to the ground.

I have seen this skill many times already. I called the name of the person who used the skill out loud. Even though it had only been two days since we met, I was extremely happy.

“….Yoohyun-ssi!”

My body, wrapped in the net of light, slowly descended. Just before my feet touched the ground, Ki Yoohyun reached out his arm to hold me.

I stared at Ki Yoohyun for a while in that position. My eyes were still dazzled as I suddenly came out into bright place, but I could clearly see the eyes under the shadowed eyelashes. He looks surprised.

The soft hair blowing in the wind and those white cheeks really suited Ki Yoohyun.

As I was doing it for a long time, Ki Yoohyun secretly avoided my gaze. A soft word followed.

“I was surprised. I received a call, so I came to see what happened, and the building disappeared and appeared again. Rieul-ssi fell from the sky….”

I was very surprised, too. My heart is still pounding.

“You’ve been through a lot of incidents.”

“I didn’t mean to …. more than that, are you really Yoohyun-ssi?”

“Do I even have a fake?”

He looked puzzled.

“Do you have a younger brother with a big age difference…..”

“I don’t have any brothers.”

“Then…..”

It was a time when I went back to my memory to describe in more detail the boy who took me out of the path of stars.

“Ahem, hmm, hmm!”

A coughing sound came from behind. It was Kwon Jiwoon. He was deliberately making exaggerated sounds as if he wanted it to be heard.

It looked awfully awkward. It is fortunate that Kwon Jiwoon’s job is a Hunter. He doesn’t seem to have any talent for acting.

What’s wrong with him?

When I just stared at him, he covered his mouth with his hand and coughed loudly this time.

“……!”

Only then did I realize that I was too close to Ki Yoohyun in front of others.

As Ki Yoohyun caught my falling body, I was half-hugged. Our faces were close. My arm wrapped around Ki Yoohyun’s shoulder, and Ki Yoohyun’s arm supported my back and waist. If I tilted my head a little more, I could hear the sound of breathing.

“That, hey, Yoohyun-ssi, your arm….”

When I panicked, Ki Yoohyun immediately loosened his arm. I dropped my body quickly.

Kwon Jiwoon, who approached with a frown on his forehead, asked.

“What happened?”

According to Kwon Jiwoon, others returned through the path of stars without any problems. The time I disappeared was less than seconds, even though the time felt much longer for me. When they arrived, they noticed that I was invisible, and soon I appeared from the sky.

Umh….

I checked the system window that just popped up again.

Some letters were broken and unreadable, but the nuance that someone interfered with me was clear. That’s all, no more information. Only unanswered questions piled up one after another.

‘Give me some hints and then ask me to guess….’

Could it be the crazy pseudo-religious man from last time? There was no evidence, but the eyes caught up in the madness were enough to make this speculation.

When I thought of him, I felt both uneasy and resentful at the same time.

Why only me?!

I felt like my life is gradually flowing in a different direction from my goal.

Maybe it’s already went to that direction a long time ago, and I only realized it too late?

It seems likely. I shuddered at the frightening possibility.

“….Rieul-ah.”

This time, Choi Yichan came close to me.

“Do you have a second? I have something to say….”

Although he said so, Choi Yichan’s eyes were not on me, but on Ki Yoohyun next to me.

Oh. The two are seeing each other for the first time. Even when Choi Yichan had a temporary part-time job here, the time was different from when Ki Yoohyun visited.

What’s going on? Choi Yichan’s shoulders drooped and his expression remained stiff. I spoke in a bright voice on purpose.

“Ah! Yichan-ah, it’s your first time seeing him, right? This is Ki Yoohyun, he’s a Hunter from Cheongna. Yoohyun-ssi, as you probably know, this is…..”

“Of course I know. Choi Yichan, the S-Class Hunter. Nice to meet you.”

With a smile, Ki Yoohyun held out his hand first.

However, Choi Yichan did not accept the hand. He only looked at Ki Yoohyun with a serious expression.

“…….”

There was a moment of silence followed by a slight tension.

“Yichan-ah?”

“Rieul-ah, wait….”

It was the moment when Choi Yichan was about to say something,

“Team leader! There he is, we found him! Hunter Choi Yichan!”

“I won’t miss him this time. Let’s go together.”

Government officials appeared from somewhere and surrounded Choi Yichan. It was Hunter Kang Hyunwoo and Kim Jina. This time, they were firmly armed with the determination not to miss this wild S-Class Hunter.

It hasn’t been ten minutes since we came back here. How did they get here so fast? They have an amazing information source.

“You came all the way here, how did you know?”

Hunter Kang Hyunwoo answered with shining eyes.

“I heard the news that Choi Yichan Hunter appeared in The White Silver Guild. So, I thought the only place where he would appear next was here, Cafe Rieul.”

Did he go undercover?

“Heugh, I can finally go home and sleep today … I kept crouching down, and my turtle neck came back.”

He really went undercover.….

Looking at them carefully, the public officials were dressed in a sense of hardship. The area under the eyes looked hollow.

“It won’t take long. Please listen to us.”

However, Choi Yichan waved his hand with a troubled expression.

“Uh, wait, I need to talk to her for a moment … I have something to say to Rieul-ah.”

“Yes, as much as you like. I’ll be waiting here, so you can take your time.”

“Yes, we’ve been waiting so far, but we can wait a little longer. Although the deadline for updating the measurement ranking is today … if we’re late, we’ll be called in by the Director again….”

“Ha, haha….”

It’s incredibly burdensome.

It was hard to ignore the eyes of public officials who were watching Choi Yichan just one step away in case they missed him. It would be even more burdening since it was Choi Yichan, who enjoys helping others. In the end, Choi Yichan dropped his shoulders.

“Sorry … I’ll be right back.”

“Yes, go with them. I’ll hear what you want to tell me when you get back.”

The incident of flying the entire store to the dungeon ended with Choi Yichan got arrested by the Dungeon Management Office.

I waved my hand at Choi Yichan’s back as he was helplessly moving away.

***

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[Chatting] How did Lime Love Team go to the garden on the 7th floor of Abyss?? (9)

Upvotes: 0 / Downvotes: 0

Writer: RubyCopyBug

I almost got well-done when I went into the Eternal Flame Garden after reading the camping review of Lime Love Team;;

If it weren’t for the teleport scroll, I wouldn’t have been able to write this post now TT

I heard that the moment you ride the warpgate, you’re supposed to set it on fire and go out

How do you camp there?

— Lime Love Team: want me to teach you?

└ RubyCopyBug: ;;; you appeared 30 seconds after I wrote this

— Lime Love Team: hoho it’s easy if you know the tricks. You shouldn’t get on the gate, but you have to use the item or skill that can leap in space on the 7th floor right right oh, make sure to stack stealth,, I don’t have a item, so I just take a space leap + use a stealth summoner to enter. Be careful not to get caught when taking coordinates.

└ OO: Whyrano,, you should write that if you know the tricks, you’ll get 99 levels in a week right away;

└ app**: If you don’t have an item to leap space, you can call a summoner. It’s easy, right? ^^! Hunchan Level Three Deceptions remarks

└ RubyCopyBug: Wow, that was really helpful information *^^* Just say I can’t get in—-

└ vva***: Lime always picked on me, but she was actually a deceiver.

— OO: But why did you go there? Did you want a real steamy camping?

└ Lime Love Team: You’ll find out about that after a while hahaha everything has a big meaning lol

[Chatting] Lightlightlight Ranking Updated (12)

Upvotes: 15 / Downvotes: 0

Writer: Pumplebot

Rank No.6 Choi Yichan (S-Class Berserker)

That’s what it says yeah

There’s a little change, except for the celestial realm. Check it out.

— Mangsucker Jonbeo: Jonbeo victory no matter what T__T Starting today, my nickname is Godsucker

└ app***: The one who took 6th place is Choi Yichan, but why are you so pleased as if you’re his proxy

└ Mangsucker Jonbeo: God.Suc.Ker.Num.Ber.One

— Pickled Radish Dumplings: Muwon is still the same, we can’t even see him, but why is he ranked first?

└ dtl***: Powerful-in-Hiding 1st place vs Suspected of Power Trip 2nd place,, is Korea okay as it is?

└ Pumplebot: f*ck again, I’m sick of this flow. If you want to fight, go somewhere else other than my post;;

— I love you Eunrang: huff life is lonely, alcohol is sweet today

└ OO: Whyrano,, whyrano what happened here

└ Kim Seonghyun: There was a rumor about a meeting between Bichihan and Kwon Jiwoon, that’s probably why hahaha

— Lime Love Team: huff life is lonely,,, alcohol is sweet today,,,

└ OO: You’re here again, whyrano…

Translator’s Corner:

Whyrano (wairano): it’s Korean internet (Twitter mostly) slang. It mean what’s going on? / what’s wrong?

Celestial Realm (천상계): Hmm … in gaming, it usually used to extreme the people who … you know, the elite players. It’s like pro gamers, the super-advanced players who show outstanding skills as if they are playing in the sky (hence, celestial realm). In this case, the OP was saying the ranking update doesn’t really affect anything other than the top rankers world.

Jonbeo: (존버) an abbreviation of “to hold out as fuck”, which means to persevere no matter what difficulties may come and hold out “until the better day comes.” Used to describe mindsets similar to “sticking until the end” or “last man standing”.

Sorry this was supposed to be posted yesterday but I just found out that the formatting that I use for the internet forum can’t be done on phone, so I went to the library today. Library is really a pretty cool place! Coolest in the world! Please visit your nearest library if you have time ^_< It would help the library to keep surviving in the digital community (high number of visitors is always good everywhere).

Hmm … I hope I don’t mess up anything. I’ll recheck this chapter again tomorrow, need to sleep early because I will start volunteer work tomorrow (someone in the past chapter mentioned that I’m probably cursed that’s why all the misfortunes happened, so I decided that I need to do something that contributes good to the nature djshsdjdskj it’s scary). The next chapter will probably posted in two days! I’m telling you guys this so you won’t have to check everyday for updates….

Ah and the holiday season is coming! but with this chapter, it ended our holiday arc~ hope you guys enjoy the story so far!