CH 34

“A swordsman with an invisible blade… the characteristics are clear, yet how come I never heard of it?”

Detective Hwang Hon talked to himself.

He seemed to be getting more and more lost in his own thoughts. Zio became nervous.

‘Ah no. Don’t dig deep, you son of a b*tch. I’m not ready yet.’

“I-I just hid it well……?”

“Nyangachi-nim, have you been to Mars? If you’ve been in and out of the training center, there’s no way the information wouldn’t go around.”

“I am a reclusive outsider, so I didn’t have a presence.”

“Kid, what’s your place in the ‘secret’ ranking?”

“It wasn’t that good, so it didn’t make it to the top…”

A growing number of lies.

Thanks to this, the setting of the sword-wielding master was also becoming great.

Gyeon Zio, who hid well and became a reclusive outsider with no presence and not that good of a skill, quietly shut up.

‘Seems like the supporting character got ruined.’

She wanted to fold it and raise it again.

However, despite the master’s effort to spit in his face, Hwang Hon was still serious.

“I’ve been doing this stuff for a while now, so I am well informed about stuff like this.”

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Name: Hwang hon, age 24.

Occupation: 〈Dawn〉 Guild leader (Gangster boss).

“However I’ve never heard of an ability like yours before. Aren’t you almost like a ghost?”

‘Cause I just made it up.’

“It can’t be explained unless it’s about erasing yourself in general. Why are you hiding like this, master?”

‘Don’t suddenly speak in a Seoul accent and set the tone.’

Point of Crisis Part II.

Kenshin, no, Zio began racking her brains again.

But today’s lie went over the limit. The newly acquired “miraculous dog logic” characteristic was also unlikely to turn on.

“Nyangachi-nim?”

Oh, she got it.

Zio slurred her lips.

“I, I… just.”

“Just?”

“A-Am embarrassed……?”

[The deity, ‘reader of fate’ mumbles saying that he is ashamed of himself when he sees you.]

‘F-F*ck.’

She was really ashamed so she hid her strength, T-Tomato *ㅜ^ㅜ!

*(토마토지롱ㅜ^ㅜ! = Tomatojirong, the jirong part is something added to the end of words to make it sound teasing or funny, doesn’t have an actual meaning. And the word itself is like a Korean meme I guess. But it’s not so popular so I couldn’t find a decent explanation.)

The ears of the sword-wielding master, who shouted with emotion, were red.

[His baby cat can’t lie but he says that’s okay since you are still cute, says ‘reader of fate’ while trying to hide his solemnity.]

‘Son of a b*tch, you’re the worst.’

Zio sighed and lifted her head. She was going to fix this somehow…

“……”

“What’s with that look?”

The hell was this Tofu doing.

Pitiable itself.

Hwang Hon was looking at Zio with an expression like Son Dam-bi looking at a pitiful thing.

“Is that right……”

“What’s right?”

“A reclusive master who has chosen to help others from the shadows rather than being known in today’s ‘shameful’ world that clings to seasonal fame…”

“……?”

“I’m impressed, sword-wielding master.”

‘What…’

What the hell did she say besides ‘I am ashamed’ for him to get this?

The side story was completed in just a minute to the point where she felt sorry for the settings added in spur of the moment.

‘There is a saying that a person who works hard cannot beat a person who enjoys it….’

Was this the difference between ‘real’ and ‘fake’?

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While Zio was stunned by the surprising difference, Hwang Hon seemed to have already settled in.

Spoke with a face that said he was a senior in life.

“But you can’t do that, Nyangachi-nim. You have to take care of what people need to take care of.”

“……”

“Who will know of the sacrifice from someone unknown? Isn’t the corpse supposed to have flesh on it so that a flock of crows can gather on it?”

A very serious voice.

Zio realized that the one in front of her was the king of the underground who would never lose to anything.

‘……Yes. It’s not like those bottom bastards touch and risk their lives for it.’

That’s when it gets a little serious.

And Hwang Hon’s conclusion follows.

“It can’t be helped. From today onwards, I will take responsibility to raise Nyangachi Hoobae-nim*.”

*(Hoobae is often used when referring to people of lower rank/underclassmen)

……

……huh? Wait a minute, that conclusion.

“I’ll push you hard! Trust this Sunbaenim*!”

*(Sunbae is used to refer to people with more experience/upper classman)

Huh!

Hwang Hon raised his thumb.

***

Meanwhile

When the two S-Ranks were marching in a fool’s path due to the birth of an unexpected secondary character.

6th Floor. The situation in the study zone on the sixth floor, which was just upstairs, was getting worse.

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[You have entered the incubation room for ‘Contamination in the cracks (UR level)’]

[Entering the center of the contamination site will directly expose you to the pollution of the dungeon.]

[Severe fatigue accumulation. Title characteristics are not activated.]

[No pollution resistance]

/[Weak] Pollution – Your body is being polluted by the forces of another world. If the condition continues, your health will receive critical damage./

Yoon Eui-seo lowered his head.

It wasn’t because of the despair of the situation. But because of the self-hatred that he had long gotten used to.

‘I shouldn’t have made such a promise. To take responsibility for everything… when I can’t even take care of myself properly.’

“How can you not?”

Seo Gahyeon whispered, her hands and feet were tied as she laid on her stomach.

There was a colorful mushroom sprouting above her high ponytail.

“Oh, come on, Oppa you’re a ranker. From channel 1 too! Korea’s First Line! High Ranker!”

“The debuff is stronger than I thought…”

“No, what kind of high-rankers can’t deal with the low-rankers because they got a debuff?”

“Ones like me, Gahyeon-ah… It’s been a while since I’ve changed…”

“Still!”

Seo Gahyeon looked frustrated.

It was understandable. It didn’t make sense even when Yoon Eui-seo thought about it.

[‘……’ is not responding]

[The summoner is currently in an unresponsive state. You failed to connect with your partner.]

Tamer’s summoners were divided into three categories. Partner/Guardian/Pet.

Among them, as the name suggested, partners were the main summoners who shared everything with their Tamer.

A tamer without a partner was like a person walking without arms or legs.

That’s exactly the situation Yoon Eui-seo was in right now.

‘I should’ve stayed by his side…’

He was in a hurry because he was worried for his brother, so he rushed over without looking back.

“Y-Yeonjung-ah…”

Seo Gahyeon struggled as she saw her friend being dragged unconsciously.

Due to the strong movement, the string prison where they are tied also shakes.

“Gahyeon-ah, stop moving like that, Gahyeon-ah…! Doing that will get their attention! I told you earlier that this line is connected to the incubation room.”

“But my friend… “

“It won’t be a big deal right now. There were people who had been dragged earlier.”

Parasitic monsters usually prefered strong hosts.

That was what he heard during the briefing.

Yoon Eui-seo was sweating and focused on freeing his hands and feets again.

When he woke up after he lost consciousness due to the fall from the 4th floor, he was already in the 6th floor incubation room.

The hunters who he fell with were not with him, and he could only see about half of the missing people.

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「Oppa, are you awake?」

「W-Who are you?」

「You’re Eui-seo oppa, right? Don’t you remember me? I am Seo Gahyeon. Yoon Kang-jae’s friend from high school.」

Seo Gahyeon told him that he was the last one to wake up and was very lucky.

The missing people were locked up since the dungeon began.

Suddenly, monsters started taking the people dozens of minutes ago, and his younger brother Yoon Kang-jae as well as the Hunters were all dragged away, but Yoon Eui-seo was the only one left.

‘They probably decided that I didn’t meet their standard…’

The bitterness of being cut off by parasites.

Taduk. Finally, his hands and feet were freed.

Yoon Eui-seo woke up to recall a pet and a python who had a hard time nibbling at the web.

“Gahyeon-ah.”

“Hu, why, uh? Oppa’s hands and feet!”

“Shh. You have to get out of here without being caught. Let’s move with just you and me first.”

“And what about my friends over there?”

Seo Gahyeon worriedly looked at her friends that were trapped in webs just a little distance away from her.

“Your situation is the worst. You are even growing mushrooms.That means that the bacteria is seriously spreading through your body.”

“What? Then what do I do!”

“In the group, there is an agent from the former team 1 named Tak Lamin. There has to be a cure. Let’s find him first.”

‘Honestly, there are other people I want to find first but…’

Yoon Eui-seo glanced at a party channel on one side.

He didn’t know whether he should reach out to him or not. He didn’t know how he would react if he accidentally revealed who he was.

Even if they belonged to the same channel, not everyone can feel the same bond towards each other.

To Ranker Yoon Eui-seo, the guild leader of 〈Dawn〉 was such an existence.

Someone more frightening, and far more terrifying than the parasites in front of them.

‘But the guy next to him… ‘

Let’s stop. What delusion are you having?

Yoon Eui-seo helped Seo Gahyeon get up while erasing that person with an expressionless face from his head.

“Can you walk by yourself?”

“Wait a minute… there is some blood.”

“I will move slowly. Our goal is to be as impossible as we can.”

The emergency exit stairs to the 7th floor were located near the elevator.

The invisible spiders that continued weaving threads as well as the insects that guarded them were located near the center of the incubation room.

Although there were a lot of insects, they didn’t have an ego because their only purpose was to move hosts and cultivate polluters.

Therefore, it was necessary to not get in the spider’s vision.

“Do you know how to crawl? Crawling on your stomach, I think spiders might be leading us so if we carefully avoid their field of vision and move…”

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“Oppa…”

“Huh?”

“I think it’s over.”

What?

Seo Gahyeon pointed a finger towards her back. Just then, when Yoon Eui-seo turned around and followed her finger.

“Iron-crushing fang. Wind Scar*!”

*(Inuyasha reference)

Kwagagak!

There was a strong gust of wind.

Yoon Eui-seo reflexively raised his arm and blocked it. It was such a big wind that his body staggered for a moment.

And as it died down, what was revealed was a spider’s corpse that had been cut in two as if a giant chainsaw cut through it.

“I think it’s over…”

Another voice that overlapped with Seo Gahyeon’s voice.

“Ma, Nyangachi-nim. Take it easy, easy. The missing people might get hurt.”

“Gangster Tofu-nim. Do I look like an amateur who can’t control such a thing?”

“More than that, I feel like I have seen that technique somewhere…  but where did I see it?”

“Ahem. Gahyeon, where’s Butler Seo?”

A familiar way of speaking. And a familiar scent.

Seo Gahyeon cried out in tears.

“Zio-unni!”

They were envious of the one or ten people that had raised the cat well.

Seo Gahyeon and Butler Seo had never felt the meaning of that saying as much as they did today.