Chapter 144 – Meeting (2)

Do-jin and the unidentified girl kept their distance from each other, wary of each other. First of all, since it was a human, it was not immediately hostile, but it did not dismiss the possibility that it was the first humanoid monster discovered.

“…… That one, what’s your name?”

“You say your name is Dojin, what about you?”

“You don’t know me? Also a monster…… !”

“Aren’t you overconfident?”

“…… Platinum Hero Emilia.”

“A platinum warrior?”

“Couldn’t he say he doesn’t even know the name?”

“Know.”

I do not know.

However, Do-jin had a hunch that if she answered that she did not know, she would come straight away.

It wasn’t too difficult to defeat her, but it seemed very difficult to subdue her without hurting her, as she seemed to be an adventurer.

‘It’s quite fast for a greatsword.’

Being able to move so fast with a sword that big was a skill, but it required physical abilities to match.

Look at those thin forearms, it would be difficult to hold a greatsword with forearms that don’t seem to have a single muscle fiber in them, but she swung her sword casually.

A physically impossible task – in other words, she is a superhuman who transcends the laws of physics. She was a strong person who had leveled up.

‘Being on this floor is at least level 2, and hopefully level 3 strong.’

And no matter how strong Dojin was, it was impossible for her to subdue an opponent of the same level without hurting her.

Even more so if that opponent misunderstands you as a monster and resists with all your might—

Clap-.

As Do-jin drew her sword, she showed that she had no will to fight first. Of course, even though Dojin delivered the sword, Emilia did not put her sword in her.

Do-jin, thinking that she would not attack, took her hand off her sword and tried to talk.

“So, why are you here?”

“What a stupid thing to say…… Why do you come to the dungeon to hunt?”

“Alone?”

“Are you alone too?”

Emilia said that while looking Dojin up and down her. No, in fact, there were more important things than that.

“In the first place, what happened? Didn’t you meet other people in the dungeon?”

“Well, I want to ask.”

Do-jin pretended not to know and tried to change the subject and move on to another story. Anyone can see that this situation happened because he had jumped to the 30th floor.

It’s just that she did n’t notice because the fact that she could rule the dungeon and handle it to her heart’s content her didn’t spread, but there was a possibility that Do-jin would become suspicious if something was given.

However, Emilia was not so flustered by a situation she had never experienced before.

She was determined to somehow find out the cause and prevent the same thing from happening again.

“Um, no. What’s the problem Shall we go all the way downstairs together?”

“…… No, because I came to go upstairs.”

“It doesn’t matter if you go upstairs.”

“…….”

Seeing Emilia clinging to her tenaciously as if she would not fall to the end, Dojin looked around for a while.

I couldn’t feel the presence of the monster approaching from around me. That meant that even if she was momentarily incapacitated, she wouldn’t be in trouble.

Dojin closed her eyes and focused on her power her. Dominion grants me the ability to access the ground I am stepping on and change the shape of the dungeon.

Of course, it wasn’t my original ability, so there wasn’t much that Dojin could do. The most effective of them. Clearing the dungeon’s blackout.

The blackout curtain that swallowed all the light beyond 5 meters was lifted, and soon the true face of the dungeon was revealed.

“Uh, uh-!?”

The fourth dimension, which can never be understood by the human brain, is projected into reality. The appearance of other dungeons that I thought were different worlds, over hundreds of thousands of dungeons, were revealed.

It was like the pupils of a monster with thousands of eyeballs, and at first glance, it felt disgusting enough to induce hallucinosis.

Naturally, Emilia, who faced him for the first time, couldn’t accept her fourth-dimensional information and fell into confusion.

‘In this gap…….’

Do-jin teleported to a lower level while she was looking elsewhere.

And at the same time he disappeared, the missing blackout screen reappeared, and Emilia, who regained her sanity, looked around her and looked for Do-jin.

“…… No?”

Of course, Dojin’s appearance had long since disappeared.

* * *

‘I’m glad I got rid of it.’

Dojin sighed from the floor below and took a breath.
I almost became annoyed with Emilia or something, with some eccentric adventurer.

‘It would be a big deal if more women joined here.’

It was a yard where there were so many women clinging to it that I could not count them all even if I used both fingers.

If even one more person was added here, no matter how much Dojin did, her body couldn’t handle it.

‘It’s best not to make a relationship at all.’

Of course, there is no law that says Emilia must fall in love with Do-jin, but doesn’t she know?

An encounter in a dungeon known to be impossible.
The relationship that continues and the love that blossoms within it.
Dojin couldn’t conclude that it wouldn’t happen.

‘It’s just a headache if I get involved in such a thing for no reason.’

And above all else, the reason he met Emilia in the dungeon was because he used his control authority to warp within the dungeon.

I don’t know what principle or how the two met…… Anyway, what if he had gone down the dungeon with Emilia?

‘I warped as soon as I entered the dungeon… The time should not be recorded.’

What if the guild finds out that he met Emilia on the 30th floor while a guild employee resides in front of the dungeon and manages the entry and exit of adventurers?

You may not know that Do-jin is the culprit who created the elevator by taking control, but you can’t help but suspect that there is something special about him.

And the vested interests who learned that Do-jin had something might annoy him.

‘There’s no need to make scraps.’

Huh, Do-jin, who exhaled lightly, regained his sharpened mind in an instant. He then raised his sword and looked around.

The monsters, who had become weaker because they descended to the lower level, greeted Do-jin. The 29th floor, it was a monster that could hear monsters enough…….

‘Lack.’

A monster of this level could not satisfy himself.
He looked up at the ceiling of the dungeon and smacked his lips.

‘…… How does monster blood on the 40th floor taste?’

I was hoping it wouldn’t be too bad. Do-jin, who was scanning Emilia’s position with her dungeon’s control authority, realized that she had descended to the lower layer, and she immediately warped to the 30th floor.

She went straight down the stairs, and Do-jin climbed the stairs to the 40th floor.

To the nest of monsters that give oneself the fear of death and thus make one realize that one is alive.

* * *

“So! Did you really exist!?”

“Yes Yes……I am Emilia. But if there is no evidence…….”

“Oh really! What do you mean I’m lying!”

The guild staff sighed inwardly as they saw the adventurer screaming and rambling in front of them.

If it wasn’t for Emilia, the Platinum Hero, who is said to be the next promising player of the Adventurer’s Guild, she would have called the guards right away and took her away from her.

What is that promising prospect? The employee just sighed and reversed what Emilia had said.

“So… According to Emilia-sama… You met a humanoid monster in a dungeon, right?”

“Okay! He looked exactly like a human, and he was strong enough to block my sword!”

“I’m talking.”

“Uh!”

“However, it is so strong that Emilia-sama, who is a promising player, cannot catch it. You mean this?”

“…… No, that’s it.”

The strength of a dungeon monster does not deviate from its hierarchy. As if a monster on the 1st floor was a goblin no matter how strong it was.

No matter how strong the monsters on the 30th floor were, they couldn’t escape that level. It meant that they were trivial mobs no more than a handful away from Emilia, who was chosen by God and was gifted with her skills.

But a monster so powerful that she couldn’t overcome it appeared? Even such a monster has humanoid intelligence?

“Please refrain from demoralizing by spreading misinformation like that…….”

“…… This is not incorrect information.”

“And even if that were true, it would be a problem. So now adventurers have to look at other people and even question whether they are monsters or humans?”

There was another reason why the staff didn’t listen to her.
A humanoid monster that perfectly resembles a human that has never been reported? There can’t be such a thing, and there shouldn’t be.

Wasn’t the dungeon completely open up to the 10th floor? In the meantime, if I have to doubt whether the person next to me is a human or a monster…… The adventurer returns to the distrustful society again.

If done well, false rumors about monsters escaping the dungeon and roaming the city might spread.

“…… Okay.”

After persistent persuasion from the guild staff, Emilia gave up her argument and bowed her head sullenly.

Seeing her so full of confidence made her feel her heart weakened by her staff, but she couldn’t help it.

If this industry is swayed by emotions like that, nothing will work out—.

While I was thinking, Pion, who was sitting next to me, got up and packed her things to her.

“Ah, Fion. Are you going already?”

“Yes. Dojin-nim came to pick me up.”

“It’s very extreme. I envy you, hey.”

“Ahaha, what?”

The guild staff looked at Pion with envy as she walked down the flowery path of life.

Emilia turned her head towards Peon at the name she had heard somewhere.

At the place where she turned her head, the man she had been looking for so long, Do-jin, was standing there with her head held high.

Do-jin, who had come to pick up Pion, also found Emilia glaring at him, and tried to get out of the guild with Pion straight away, with her expression hardened.

“For a moment.”

Of course, Emilia wasn’t the one to look at that. Emilia, who stood in front of the two with quick movements, pulled out her greatsword and aimed it at Dojin.

“What are you- what is your true identity?”
“Eh, Emilia-sama!?”

The guild staff came running in fear when they saw it. However, Emilia did not lower her sword even when the guild staff dissuaded her.

She looked at him intensely, as if she would not get out of the way until Do-jin answered.

Looking at her like that, Do-jin tilted her head and asked her in her role her.

“What are you?”

“What?”

“What are you blocking my way? You know me?”

“Of course, in the dungeon earlier…… !”

“What in the dungeon?”

“We met in a dungeon! Don’t pretend!”

“What is he saying now… How do we meet in the dungeon?”

At those words, Emilia lost her words. Yes. She had no way to prove that she met Do-jin.

Because she was the only one who met Do-jin in the dungeon.