Chapter 54 – #17. Rumor (3).

#17. Rumor.

It was easy to deal with the general soil disease.
In other words, it meant that there was nothing you could get other than coins with ordinary earth bottles.

“Let’s go into the forest.”

Dahee Yu took the lead with her sword and shield.
Eloin would be the strongest person in the party, but Eloin did not step forward and just quietly followed.

It was because Elisha was stuck next to Dahee Yu.

We passed through a short, if short, plain and entered the forest.
I didn’t know when and where native soldiers would appear and attack me, so I moved in a state of tension.

Susut-.

How much did it move
The soil floor rose up, and soil bottles were created.

It wasn’t a weapon, but he was holding something made of earth.
If you think of it as a stick, it was an appropriate stick.

“Since there are four, block them one by one.”

Here, the player with the weakest combat power is Elbarun.
It’s on the same level as me, but I have a Shadow Spirit.

If it was 2 to 1, there was a chance against a native soldier who was a little stronger than me.

The soldier swung the baton at me.
It seemed that martial arts were entered or not.
Except for the physical specs, it wasn’t much different from me.

“It hurts so much… !”

Except for the physical specs that were close to that of a weapon.

Even though I blocked it with a shield, my arms are numb.
If you hit it wrong, it might break right away.
Then I had no choice but to buy a potion and drink it.
However, since this is not an academy, the problem is that the potions are so damn expensive.

Academy potions cannot be brought because of the ‘system’.
It’s a service that was strictly prepared for use only at the academy.

‘Let’s avoid it as much as possible.’

So, the dangerous role is left to the shadow spirits.
Even if that bitch gets hit, it won’t hurt.

─ It’s a joke!
“Shhh!”

The shadow spirit who blocked the stick with his body screamed.
Since this bastard hadn’t yet revealed that it could make noise, I pointed my index finger at it and sounded a warning.

“You pretend to be sick.”

The Shadow Spirit hesitated as he rubbed his left arm with his hand.
It was as if he was protesting that he didn’t want to play the role of a tank and that he wanted to be a damage dealer.

Perhaps it was because the root was an ancient spirit, and it was much more assertive than the natural spirit.
I had no choice but to bring the aggro of the native soldiers.

Poo-!

Exchange of exchanges.
Damage is accumulating.
It was a promiscuous battle that gnawed at each other.
Fortunately, it was comforting that other people besides me were also busy.

“Huap!”

… Eloin just cut the earthenware.
He easily cut through the black earthenware that overflowed with mana.

“Princess Elisha! We are here to help.”

Eloin was attached to Elisha.
Elisha broke the earthenware as soon as the potential was created.

‘At this point…’

Again, only I remain and become a spectacle.
Right now, we have to defeat the native troops.

But there is no way.
At my current level, a long-term battle with evil and evil was essential.

I wish I had a chance to aim for one shot.

‘Ah.’

I remembered the protective color that I had forgotten.
A poor protective color inherited from kobolds.
It’s useless against players because it’s in plain sight, but it might work against a native soldier like this idiot.

[The ‘protective color’ is activated.]

Take a deep breath and assimilate with the air around you.
At that moment, the soil soldier rode on the spirit and attacked the shadow spirit.

─ Nope!

The Shadow Spirit is being beaten.
Patter, scattering my shadow.

I took a chance
And with the perfect chance, he threw himself at the tobyeong.

He cut the soldier’s throat with a sharp, shining sword.
The native soldier’s head rolled over the dirt floor.
A native disease that turns into powder and disappears.
It was a clean victory.

“It’s Dahee!”
“… Ah… Are you okay. Do not worry. You don’t have to help.”

While I was defeating the soldier, Dahee Yu was beaten by the soldier and rolled on the dirt floor.
My pants were covered with dirt.

It didn’t look like it was hurting that much, but it looked like it was a little embarrassing, so I glanced at Elena and put on the helmet properly.
Dahee Yu competed for several moves and defeated the native soldiers.

—
[Battle settlement…]
[Get 1,200 Coins!]
—

A battle settlement was made.
Compared to the difficulty of the battle, the supply and demand of coins was quite good.

“It seemed very difficult. Can we go further?”
“There are no men.”
“… Yes…”

Dahee Yu looked at me as if she was pathetic and walked forward.
He continued to move in the direction the prisoners pointed out.

Then we arrived at a wide open lake.
Across from us, a boy was stretching his hand towards the lake and talking all kinds of shit.

One of the first floor residents.
The difference from the 0th floor is that they live outside, not in a ‘safe area’.
This is possible because there are no native soldiers around this boy.

“… You go.”
“I? Why?”
“Because the kids would prefer a pretty girl to a boy.”
“… Just go with me.”

I pushed Yu Da-hee on the back.
Dahee Yoo, who was approaching the boy pretending to be invincible, suddenly turned around and asked.

“Hmm, does that mean you think I’m pretty?”
“Uh? Why are you talking like that?”
“… What! What’s the way you talk! You just answer my questions.”
“Uh…”

Because Dahee Yoo stopped, we all stood awkwardly in our places.

“We do it separately. Captain Elroin, Elbaron, Elena?”

Elisha led the elves and naturally broke away from the group.
Dahee Yu hurriedly responded by looking alternately at the elves who had estranged from me.

“Am I the prettiest? You ask, now.”
“Uh, uh. Of course. You are the prettiest It’s fucking pretty.”

Double sticks, double sticks, double sticks.
I’m not kidding, Dahee Yoo is the most beautiful.
The higher you go up the floor, the more top-class players in the ‘Tower of Struggle’ will rush to woo Da-hee, and because of that, she is so fucking pretty that she is suffering from hair loss due to stress.

I put my heart into it, but Yoo Da-hee didn’t seem to like my answer.

“By the way, why do you and Elena look so close? It felt completely different from Hana unnie’s time, didn’t it?”

Calmly sunken eyes, unmatched by the coldness.
Arms folded defensively, legs crossed as if setting up thorns.
I don’t know what the problem is, but it was Yu Da-hee’s signature motion in novels that comes out when she’s really pissed off.

But something felt different.
The feeling that I am not the target of my anger.

Yu Da-hee stammered and continued.

“To be honest, doing this might feel ridiculous from your point of view. Still… But we’re three, three, even having sex…”
“Ah.”
“Of course, since I attacked you, I think it’s absurd to be so obsessed with it and you can hate it. If you say I’m falling apart, I think I’m a little sad, but I can understand. But I really can’t stand this.”

Dahee Yu narrowed her eyes and glanced at Elena.

“Elena, her eyes are so strange. Ever since I came out of the academy. She’s glaring at you as if she’s about to attack you, but I can’t hunt because I’m worried.”
“That, it’s nothing…”
“Isn’t it okay? But Mr. Elena, her eyes looked quite sorrowful. If someone you don’t know sees it, she’ll think Elena has a crush on you.”

Because it’s a master-slave relationship, it’s more love-hate than unrequited love.
The sweet expression or eyes must be because of the vibrator.

Even now, the vibrator vibrates in Elena’s anus.

Yu Dahee let out a deep sigh and muttered inaudibly.

“I think there is a big temperature difference between my feelings and your feelings. I’m getting tired of returning alone and repeating myself…”
“Uh?”

It was a tempo that my brain couldn’t keep up with.
I’m sure I’ve been doing well until just now, but I’m suddenly angry as if I’m going to have a good time, and now I’m going to go to the middle of the day.
Still, I know that something slump has come to Yoo Da-hee.

A disease that cannot but be suffered because it is a regressor.
It becomes more and more lethargic as it keeps repeating the regression.
Even if you are growing little by little, how long do you have to repeat this, you can’t see the end, so it collapses.
The return was eating away at Yu Da-hee.

In the novel, Dahee Yoo and Dahee So overcome their identity through sex.
She overcame her slump by mixing her flesh differently with the men she met.
To compare it, it feels like I enjoyed the heroine capture through various routes.
With new relationships, new situations, and new reactions, I realized the benefits of regression.

‘It’s all because I didn’t rape.’

That advantage, I think I can enlighten it.

“It’s nothing, don’t worry about it. So? Can I go and ask him?”
“… Let’s just go together. I will do what you ask.”

I approached the boy who was still doing the show.
The closer he got, the more he could hear the boy’s screams.

“Haaaaa!”

He stretched out his hand toward the air and shouted loudly.
If I could part the sea with something like that, I wouldn’t have to go through all this trouble.

Seeing his idiot-like appearance in real life, I definitely felt something different.
Without realizing it, I threw it in a blunt tone and said.

“Friend. That way, when will you part the lake?”
“If you’re thinking of fighting, just go.”

As if this had happened only once or twice, the boy focused without even looking at me.

Dahee Yoo stabbed me in the side.
He said with her face, “Why are you talking like that?”

“Hmm, boy. May I ask what you are doing here?”
“… Practice how to part the sea.”
“How to part the sea? Can you part the sea? How?”

Dahee Yoo talked to the boy.
Hearing the unfamiliar woman’s voice, the boy glanced at Yu Da-hee.
And she answered with a stupid smile that Yoo Da-hee fell into her face.

“You have to train every day. I haven’t split this lake yet, but someday I’ll split the sea.”

Looking at the boy’s tragic eyes, I had no choice but to hide the mischief.
Tsk.
When I read it in writing, it was just like that, but when I felt it with my senses, I couldn’t say anything.

“Why? Why do you want to part the sea?”
“Why do you want to part the sea?”

When Yu Da-hee asked why, the boy began to be wary of us.
That’s because it’s a personal matter.

“Yes. Are you trying to part the sea? Something was so great that I wanted to hear the reason.”
“…”
“When people want to do something, they need a reason to motivate them. Whether the reason is small or big.”

The boy lowered his arm, which was outstretched in the air.
It seemed that he had an idea to talk about.

I can see the elves talking in the distance.
They didn’t come close to us, and it seemed like they were having a discussion among themselves.

“Then why are you climbing the tower?”
“Me? I am climbing the tower because I want to become stronger.”
“Why? Why do you want to become stronger?”
“Because there is someone I want to take revenge on.”

Dahee Yoo glances at me.
Certainly, Dahee Yoo knows that I am a masked man.
I’ve never seen Dahee Yoo suspicious of other players.
Every episode, I was the only one who doubted it, so it was right to assume that I knew it now.

“Revenge?”
“Yes. I want to kill the man who did bad things to me with my own hands.”
“Lord, do you even kill me?”
“Yes. I will kill you.”

Dahee Yoo asked while controlling her anger that had not yet rusted.

“Then you?”
“Yeah?”
“I also answered your question. Then you should too. Why do you want to part the sea?”
“That’s…”

Originally, at the first meeting, I only received a request and it ended.
So Da-hee asks this question in the next episode.

“… We have to go back to the original world and part the sea.”
“Uh? Can you go back?”
“An angel told me. If even one of the players clears the tower, they will send them back to their original world.”

It was not much different from the dialogue in the novel.

The boy wanted to gain strength before returning to his original world.
I don’t know if it actually works.
Because this novel ends with Yu Da-hee making a wish.
After that, I don’t know the story after reading the completion.

Probably couldn’t go back.
From the moment I am summoned to this world, the clone will live in the original world instead of me.

Dahee Yoo tried to hide her surprised feelings and asked.

“I don’t know if I can go back to the original world, but why the hell do we have to part the sea?”
“… Villagers are being chased by kingdom soldiers. Everyone is cornered by the sea. If I could cross the sea… Everyone can survive.”

The boy clenched his dainty fists, strengthening his will.