Chapter 38 – Promise (1)

“Are you okay?”

I reached out my hand toward Raize. I thought that this boy who had taken a handful of fear would not be able to get up on his own.

Raise ignored my hand and raised myself. He got up and brushed off the mud from his robe his, giving off dirt.

“…… Do you know who is your lover?”

‘Isn’t it a kid?’

If you look at Raize, who is even smaller than the smaller Eunha in the group, he only looks like a young boy, but he didn’t bother to say that.

Traditionally, young children who work at this age tend to have a complex at their age.

It was not a good thing to bring it out and scratch his complex. I changed the subject, being careful not to touch his complex.

“So, you said you’d show me what magic is?”

“… I was careless, now I know. It will be different next time.”

“Okay, do better next time.”

Scary to say, wolves started running from afar. The color of his fur his, which has adapted to the black darkness, stands out to the point of awkwardness now that light is prevalent.

Looking down at Raize, he immediately picked up his staff and started chanting in an incomprehensible language.

Only when the faces of the wolves are approaching enough to be distinguished, the magic is completed.

“Lightning Spear.”

I’ve seen circus wizards put on magic shows on festival days. It was nothing but magic.

So, no matter how good magic is, he thought that it would be inferior to or equal to Seoyoon’s ability her.

However, the magic of the orthodox wizard was not only that much.

“Good.”

Raize’s spear flies along with the demon.
At that moment, lightning and thunder filled the dungeon.

* * *

A wizard is like a cannon. An incarnation of the battlefield that delivers lethal power in one blow.
It was only natural that such mages did not challenge the dungeon.
Just as it takes time to fire a cannon, a wizard also needs time to prepare.
So, a dungeon full of darkness was a very difficult place for a wizard to be active.

Just like not moving a loaded cannon, it was impossible for a wizard to walk around with his magic ready.
However, in a situation where all the blackout from the 1st floor to the 10th floor disappeared.
Wizards became more threatening than anything else.

“Whoa…….”

Pajijik, lightning flashed from Raise’s body his. Due to his own strong magic resistance his, all of the current flowed to the ground.

After taking a deep breath, Raise looked at Dojin with a confident expression. It was such a arrogant expression, Dojin wanted to pinch that cheek mercilessly.

“Awesome. Is this magic? So what I’ve been seeing…”

“… If you’re a true wizard, how not to show off your magic easily. I learned to use magic recklessly, but there is only chaff.”

Raise said that and shrugged. He was silent about the fact that he had to use magic to catch a monster that could be caught with a sword.

Hey, since you said you came because you wanted to know your resistance to magic in the first place…… Saying so, Dojin picked up the magic stone and put it in his bag.

Seeing that, Raize’s eyes twinkled.

“Is that a magic stone?”

“Uh, why? Haven’t you seen it?”

“I’ve never dealt with it before. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen something just made like this.”

“Would you like to see it?”

Saying that, Dojin held out her magic stone. Raise accepted the magic stone, looked it up at the lamp hanging from the ceiling, smelled it, and even tasted it by licking or biting it with his tongue.

After completing the confirmation process, she realized that there was no difference between her magic stone and spat out the blood and dirt from the corner of her mouth.

“There is nothing else.”

“Yeah, they’re all the same magic stones.”

After putting the magic stone that Raise passed into the bag, Dojin left to find the next monster. Fortunately, monsters reappeared somewhere after some time, and unlike the first floor, there were more monsters on the fifth floor than people.

“Come to think of it.”

Rajee, who was preparing her magic, immediately stopped her chant and looked at Dojin. Dojin looked down at her with an expression as if asking what she was doing.

“I need leather to test magic resistance.”

“Leather? That’s right. How do you get monster skins?”

“I don’t know? While going on an advanced adventure.”

“…… No, you know yes.”

In fact, even Do-jin does not know. But, without realizing it, I lied. She had just become an adult, but she couldn’t easily say that she didn’t know or didn’t know in front of her children.

Soon after, Do-jin came up with her method. Monsters turn into magic stones when they die, so I thought that if I took off my skin while alive, I wouldn’t die.

Whether it is actually possible or not, the moment I said I would do it, several ways to make it possible came to my mind.

‘I don’t think I need that much.’

Do-jin’s sword strikes the head of the shadow wolf. Then, and then, the sword attack continued.

As if painting with a single stroke of a brush, the sword continues endlessly. She was a master of the sword who achieved what she wanted without wasting an inch.

However, Raize, who was unfamiliar with swords, had the idea that all high-level adventurers do that.

“Wake up!”

I grabbed the remaining shadow wolf by the neck and slowly cut off the belly skin. The monster moaning in pain scratches Dojin’s arm with its teeth and claws, but it is weakly unable to pierce the manifested diamond.

Moments later, Do-jin, who completely peeled off his skin, handed it over to Raize.

“Now, do a quick experiment. It will disappear when he dies.”

“…… Okay.”

After being handed her hide, she began to experiment. Soon after, the wolf that died from the infection turns into a mana stone, so the experiment continues against new monsters…….

After obtaining data against dozens of monsters in that way, Rai now succeeded in obtaining the desired result.

* * *

In the elevator heading to the first floor, Raize spoke to her first.

“…… A week, I said.”

“What?”

“My colleagues are taking a break. You said it was a week.”

“Ah, it was.”

“Then—for a week, I’ll be with you.”

“What?”

“Party.”

Raise said that and looked up at me. You could read her expression. It was a look I didn’t think I would refuse.

Haha, at this age, children were people who believed that their thoughts were unconditionally right. If she thrives there, she’ll become a self-respecting leader, and if she fails, she’ll become a whimper.

And my specialty is taking care of children. It was because it was elementary school and kindergarten students who were widely spread in the kendo gym my father ran.

“Nope?”

“…… Why?”

“Just?”

Hearing those words, Rise chewed on her lips as if thinking about what to say. But before he could get his word out of her, he got to the first floor.

The door opened and we headed out of the dungeon. Even on the way, Rise, who was deep in thought, trudged along in a daze.

“If you do it with me.”

“Yes?”

“If you organize a party with me. …… Let me tell you a secret.”

“Secret?”

“It’s a secret that only I know. I never told anyone.”

Raize seems to have thought that I would be interested in those words. But it’s ten years too early to deceive adults with such words, kid.

I just blew the balm off his forehead. Raize immediately grabs his forehead.

“Ah!”

As he looked up at me with tears in his eyes, I slightly knelt down and brought him to eye level.

“When you ask an adult for something, don’t you have something to say? It’s a secret or something, you must have peed on the futon.”

“Muh, what! … I have never been tired.”

“Okay, I got it.”

Raise listened to me and grabbed my robe tightly. His fists his trembled, which seemed quite resentful. No, am I scared?

But after a while, he spoke in a trembling voice.

“Boo, please…….”

“Yo. This?”

“Whoa, whoa. Please, have a party, please…….”

Seeing him trembling with a red face, I thought it was good to tease him. However, I had a hunch that he would get angry if he joked around here, so I patted his head and nodded.

“Ok, fine.”

“Go, thank you…….”

“I don’t have to say thank you.”

“Ugh….”

Watching him tremble at those words, for some reason, I felt that my heart was full.

After coming out of the dungeon, we each shared the loot and parted ways. We made an appointment to meet again tomorrow morning.

Outside, it was past lunch and the sun was setting. Twilight is coming soon. The twilight seen from the medieval city was superb. A guard approached, as if watching the sunset seemed very suspicious.

“There will be an inspection.”

“Ah, yes.”

A guard with a high-pitched voice for a man, a voice that seemed excited, started talking.

I tilted my head and held out my guild card. In this city of adventurers, it was an item that was no different from an identification card.

The guard who received the card looked over it a few times before grabbing my arm.

“You are the one who has been reported theft.”

“Yes? What is that……”

“The thief of my heart.”

“…… ?”

Joking around, the guard raised his face shield. A familiar face popped out of the helmet.

“Is it work?”

“Long time no see!”

It was Ilone, the chief of the city’s guard.

* * *

“Did you wait?”

“No, not so much.”

After that, I headed to the guard with Ilone. It wasn’t that he was arrested for stealing his heart, it was because Ilone needed to return home from work.

Coming out of her normal clothes, she straightened her outfit with a slightly shy face.

The clothes she was wearing were really only for her commute her, so she was embarrassed to be seen by me.

We headed straight to the tavern. It wasn’t the pub I used to use as an inn, it was a slightly more upscale pub.

“Can I eat at a place like this?”

“It’s okay, I’ll live.”

“No, but you…….”

“What, do you even see this?”

I pointed to my guild card. The silver-plated item was owned by very few in this city, and it also meant that my income was at the very top.

Maybe my daily wage is about the same as her salary her, she did n’t bother to say it out of her mouth. If it did, she might feel discouraged.

As soon as we sat down, we forgot the basic snacks the staff had prepared for us and immediately ordered beers. Two glasses of ice-cold lager were served, and after a toast, he lightly drank a glass.

“What have you been doing?”

“Me? Well, thanks to you, I wiped out the illegal organizations, and thanks to that, I received a reward and some land from the lord, and I just lived like that.”

“I lived a busy life.”

“Right. Been busy To the point where I couldn’t even keep my promise.”

“Promise?”

“Did you eat it? You promised then.”

It’s been over a month, so it took me quite a while to remember what she was saying.

But she eventually remembered her. The fact that she arranged a date after the festival.

‘Ah, dear.’

“Let’s make an appointment first while meeting like this. How about this weekend?”

Ilone smiled and talked. Because I couldn’t reject that smiling face,

I knew, she nodded her head in agreement.