Chapter 607 – Door That Won’t Open Unless You Do XX (1)

“Run quickly, quickly!”

“Yes yes!!”

President Seo Ok-hee runs desperately, holding my arm in the collapsing dungeon.

I followed her closely and asked about the anxiety factors the boss had mentioned earlier.

“I heard it was circulating earlier! If we continue like this, won’t we end up stuck in a collapsed dungeon?!”

“For now, I’m going to move in a way that will allow me to last as long as possible! Avoid blocked roads as much as possible! “Don’t have any unnecessary doubts. For now, just think about holding on as long as possible!”

“All right!”

As the boss said, it seemed important to hold on as long as possible, so I walked quickly after her.

President Seo Ok-hee led me to one side without hesitation at every intersection she appeared in.

-Rumble! … Kugugoong!

Meanwhile, behind me, the sound of something collapsing is getting closer and closer.

It meant that the dungeon was collapsing faster than the boss and I could run and was approaching us.

It seemed that the boss’ steps were not enough to escape the collapsing dungeon.

No matter how much she strengthens her body by providing electrical stimulation to her muscles, there will be physical limitations to her body, which has almost no muscles attached.

Deciding that this couldn’t go on, I grabbed CEO Seo Ok-hee’s arm and immediately held her in my arms.

“Excuse me, boss!”

“… Okay.”

Despite being suddenly held in my arms like a prince, the boss nodded his head surprisingly easily without any resistance or reaction of surprise.

Even in this situation, he must have made a cool-headed decision. I decided that it would be much faster and safer to move while being held by me rather than clumsily running with my own legs.

In addition, the boss may have read my thoughts about her in advance and prepared my mind for her.

With that thought, I held the light body of President Seo Ok-hee in my arms and ran a little faster on my two legs.

The sound of the dungeon collapsing, which was approaching faster and faster behind me, seemed to be keeping a certain distance and was running at my speed.

‘As expected, it’s faster to run while holding it.’

While I was running with that thought in my head for a moment, a fork in the road appeared before my eyes.

I asked the woman in my arms which of her two paths to take.

“Uh, where are we going?!”

“Right!”

It was a confident answer from owner Seo Ok-hee, who, unlike me, was able to navigate quickly, so without hesitation, I followed her words and entered the right fork.

From then on, we navigated several intersections together, relying on my boss’s desperate search skills.

“What about this time?!”

“To the left!”

“Yes! Ah, another crossroads…”

“It’s on the left again! “Go left!”

“Yes!”

“And in the middle of the three-way road that will pop up soon! After that…”

While holding me in my arms, I followed the instructions of Seo Ok-hee, who was diligently guiding me along the way, and went through all the crossroads that appeared.

After getting past several crossroads, something that looked like the exit of a dungeon finally appeared in front of me.

… An unidentifiable white door that no one can tell is artificially made.

“Well, we should go in first, right?!”

“… I think we should do that for now. “Because I can’t get caught in a collapsing dungeon.”

It was a door that looked so foreign and suspicious that it raised my guard, but as she said, I had no choice but to go in.

I put aside the doubts I was facing right now, grabbed the white door in front of me, opened it, and entered…

-Clap! Clap, clap, clap!

“Uh, huh?!”

But no matter what, contrary to the judgment of the owner and I who were trying to open the door and go inside, the white door was locked and did not welcome us.

While we were hesitating about how to avoid this situation, the collapsing dungeon was getting closer and closer to us.

“Hey, this won’t open?! What should I do now!!”

“I’m going to open it, so get out of the way!”

After removing my hand from shaking her door handle roughly, owner Seo Ok-hee immediately grabbed her door handle with his own hand.

Then she immediately began to pour out her energy into the inside of her handle, showing her carefully focused expression.

That’s how I knew right away that she was using her awakening ability to open the lock inside her handle.

In an attempt to somehow prevent the collapsing dungeon, I deployed a large-scale cold spell against the back.

“Oh, freeze!!”

As my cold magic was activated, the dungeon instantly froze except for the area where I and the boss were.

Fortunately, the dungeon that was collapsing towards us was stopped by a thick wall of ice and quietly stopped the collapse.

When I thought the situation had calmed down to some extent, I was able to turn my gaze to the back and assess the situation.

“Well, since the collapse has somehow been stopped, I think you can open it carefully.”

“… Huh. “I’m concentrating as much as I can right now, so don’t talk to me again until I open it.”

“… Yes.”

… Still, for now, was the crisis somehow averted?

This situation is where I prevent the dungeon from collapsing with my awakening ability, and President Seo Ok-hee uses her awakening ability to unlock the locked door.

It was a moment when the thought naturally occurred to me that this might be the first cooperative operation since entering this dungeon.

In many ways, it was fortunate that at least it didn’t end up being her burden or bonus. I made it all the way to the mystery dungeon, but it would have been bitter in many ways if I had ended up just following in the footsteps of the boss.

I’m not sure how to accept the fact that I was able to use that opportunity to play only after going through a crisis that caused the dungeon to collapse.

With that thought in mind, while silently watching the owner’s back as she worked hard to open the lock on the doorknob, I also barely noticed the black electronic display board installed above the door she was trying to open.

I was in a hurry earlier and couldn’t even check the contents properly, but the fact that such an electronic display board exists in the first place is quite foreign…

“A door that won’t open unless you kiss”

“… Uh?”

A ridiculous phrase on an electronic display board at the end of my vision.

I felt quite embarrassed by that phrase, and despite the boss’s warning not to talk to me, I had no choice but to say something stupid.

A door that won’t open unless you kiss it.

My eyes wandered to an incomprehensible phrase that did not change even after looking at it again.

Immediately, I couldn’t help but think carefully about what that phrase meant.

‘No way, the sense of discomfort I felt from the first time I entered the dungeon…’

Was it not a natural dungeon, but a dungeon created by someone, so it had this incomprehensible structure?

Surely then, I could understand to some extent what had happened so far.

The strange monsters that inhabit this narrow, dark dungeon, and the dungeon is reorganized into a circular form that changes form.

I don’t know why, but I found the dungeon suspicious, as if it had a strange intention to create a sense of crisis for me and the boss.

Even if it was all an ‘artificially created dungeon’, most of the suspicious issues were roughly resolved.

Of course, we don’t know about the technology to create a dungeon like this artificially or the purpose of creating a dungeon like this.

… No, maybe I can vaguely understand the purpose itself.

“A door that won’t open unless you kiss”

How should I explain that phrase above the door to the owner who is concentrating hard on opening the door?

Although I felt a moment of vague conflict in my head, I couldn’t hesitate for too long.

Because I don’t know when this dungeon, which I’m currently freezing with cold magic, will start to collapse again, I don’t think I can afford to relax that much.

‘… ‘I don’t really like messing with a woman who owns me.’

If you are CEO Seo Ok-hee, you must have a husband or lover. A man who truly loves her for who she is.

Otherwise, there was no way she could have been active for over 30 years while maintaining her awakening ability and youth.

As someone who doesn’t want to get involved in other people’s relationships, it wasn’t an option I really liked, but in the current situation, it seemed like the only solution.

I carefully called out to Seo Ok-hee, who was concentrating on unlocking the locked door.

“What on earth is it structured like?” ? It seems like the structure inside the handle keeps changing…”

“President.”

“… Sorry, I can finish it soon. Just wait a little longer…”

“Could you please check the electronic sign above the door for a moment?”

“… “Electrical sign above the door?”

After hearing my words, CEO Seo Ok-hee lifted her gaze to check the electronic display board above the door that did not open immediately.

And as soon as she saw the phrase “Doors that won’t open unless you kiss” Written on the black board, she reacted with embarrassment.

“What?!”

No matter how many mystery dungeons she had explored, the absurd conditions that appeared before her eyes seemed absurd.

And then behind her, carefully, was the owner, Seo Ok-hee, who turned her head and made eye contact with her.

“Oh, don’t get me wrong.”

“Yes?”

“I didn’t bring you here thinking it was a dungeon like this. I came in with you because I thought I would do something with you…”

“… “I don’t have that misunderstanding even if you don’t tell me.”

Just by looking at that embarrassed face, anyone would be able to tell that it wasn’t intentional.

As it is a mystery dungeon, when I first explored it, I naturally had no choice but to start in a state of ignorance, and especially in the case of this dungeon, where the warp gate disappeared as soon as the boss and I entered, it would have been impossible to explore even a little bit in advance.

So, I didn’t make any unnecessary misunderstandings about that part. It’s just the other part that worries me.

… I wondered if the boss in front of me was unwilling to kiss me, that was all.

“That, … “It doesn’t really matter.”

“Yes?”

“… “You don’t have to worry about the part you’re worried about.”

“Ah…”

… Now that I think about it, you said that you can read my thoughts.

The boss’s reply that it didn’t matter was the same as permission to kiss him.

Still, my conscience was strangely pricked, so I asked myself one question before putting my face straight.

“Are you really okay? What your husband or boyfriend doesn’t like…”

“… “I didn’t really deny it because I didn’t feel the need to correct it, but there is nothing like that, so don’t worry about unnecessary things.”

“… Yes?”

“… They are husbands and boyfriends, and they have no relationship with men at all. “If you live as a hunter for 30 years, the only people you meet are women.”

“…”

So how on earth was he able to maintain his awakening ability for nearly 30 years, and how was his physical growth suppressed until now?

It was a moment when many such questions were in my mind, but anyway, it seemed that what I needed to resolve now was not this useless curiosity.

I slightly bent her knees to match the height of Seo Ok-hee, and carefully raised my head toward the president’s face.

Because right now, this was the only way for me and her to get out of this dungeon alive.