Chapter 110 – Dungeons

#110.

Today is the 3rd day since the festival started.

“Is everyone ready?”

At the words of the class president, everyone nodded in affirmation.

“Whoa..”
“Tina. Are you nervous?”
“It’s just that it’s annoying.”

Standing on stage alone with me, Tina took a deep breath as if she was nervous.

However, she pretends to be fine on the outside and makes excuses.

I cupped her cheeks with my hands and whispered as I brought her face closer.

“Are you okay. I can do it. If you make a mistake, don’t worry because I’ll take care of everything.”

Did my sweetheart work?

Tina’s tremors slowly began to subside.

Then he removed my hand and took a step back.

“You are very careful. What if the escort knight carelessly puts his hands on the princess?”
“Haha.. I see. Princess Cristina.”

Judging from the jokes, I think I’ve definitely gotten better now.

While exchanging laughter, the class president approached and she said.

“We will start in one minute. Get ready. Even the professor.”

With a nod, the class president headed back to the back of the stage, and as he had said, after a minute, the curtain was drawn with the sound of the stage starting.

At the same time, the lights were turned on on the dark stage, revealing the audience.

I looked up at Tina, who was on her knees in front of her.

“My name is Lai Yusty, who has been serving the princess since today.”

Even so, it wouldn’t make sense for a commoner to escort the princess.

So while I kept my real name, I made up my last name appropriately.

“Is it so. Kyung is the escort knight who will accompany me from today. Please take good care of me.”

Tina, in fact, reached out her hand by playing the princess brilliantly, making one wonder if she was not an illegitimate child of a kingdom.

I took her hand and kissed her on the lips.

Side!

“I swear I will defend it with my all.”

─Wow…

It wasn’t just the aristocrats in the play.

Aristocrats and commoners were also mixed, but they exclaimed as if it seemed like a romance to adolescent commoner girls.

– Tina. How big is the response? If you kiss me, I’ll go crazy.
-Concentrate.-

When I sent the doctor, Tina pecked inwardly, putting off her dignified expression.

I erased my thoughts and started spitting out the lines of the escort knight again.

The first part was about how the escort knight and the princess became close.

Then, a strange atmosphere began after the escort rescued the princess who was trying to fall off the horse by mistake.

“Thanks to you, I was safe in the morning.”

I smiled softly as I looked down at Tina as she laid on her bed and thanked her.

“Didn’t you swear to keep it? It was natural.”
“Is that so? Then.. Please continue to be by my side. It is an order.”
“Of course.”

After those words, Tina fell asleep as if she had consumed all her strength, and I looked down and carefully reached out her hand.

Then he gently stroked his cheek.

“Princess. Don’t get hurt My heart aches so much.”

I looked down at Tina vaguely as I clutched her chest as if my heart was going to break.

‘Oh, it’s cheesy.’

In this way, the princess and the escort knight, who gradually developed feelings for each other, face a crisis due to the maid’s betrayal.

“Lie!”
“Princess. Come back!”

On the stage, there were 5 black masked people surrounding me and Tina in a circle.

I desperately started exchanging swords while protecting Tina.

Kang! Kaga River!

I already matched the sum, and there was no one higher than me, so I rather overpowered and defeated the masked people.

However, he made the mistake of taking his guard away from the opponent who was not yet dead, and the masked man who had been knocked down attacked Tina.

“Ah..!”
“I’m a princess!”

I screamed desperately and ran to rescue Tina by car.

In the process, when her right arm is injured, Tina begins to cry and worry.

What follows is what anyone would expect.

In the middle, support comes from the kingdom, and the two of them are left alone in the carriage.

“Lai… Because of me… I’m sorry.”

‘Ugh… Pretty things.’

How can Tina be so talented? She’s also good at acting.

Gently stroking Tina’s teary cheek, I stood up.

“Keugh..!”

As I grabbed her right arm and groaned, Tina came right up to me, and I kissed her as if I was aiming for that moment.

After enjoying her lips for a moment, she hurriedly lowered her head.

“Sorry. I made a mistake.”
“…Is that so? Then… I have to apologize. I made a mistake too.”

Tina said that and kissed her again to me.

That’s how the relationship between the princess and the escort knight deepens…

Finally, the long-awaited scene came out.

‘Bite Moria tight!’

The cuff lifted again and there were me, Tina, and Moria on the stage.

“Princess. They say it was this one. He is a traitor who leaked information to other countries.”
“…Moria. Why… Did you betray me?”

Tina grieved at my words, her tears streaming down her face.

Then Moria knelt down and began to clap her hands like flies.

“Sorry Princess! But I couldn’t help it! Because they caught my family. So..”
“I don’t want to hear it. Because of you… Rai was almost in danger. I can’t forgive you.”

Tina bit her lip and then she went right over and slapped Moria in the cheek with her full swing.

Aaaaa!!

“Aaaaagh!”

Then Moria, who had been slapped violently on the cheek, collapsed beside her with a tearing scream.

─Whoa…

‘It must be fucking painful..’

She trembled her hand that gripped her cheek and her tears flowed, but it didn’t look like her acting.

The audience also exclaims how realistic it is.

-Isn’t that too harsh?-

Ask Tina.

-I only hit one.-

Such an answer came back.

Certainly, Tina seems like a scary woman.

The long-awaited brawling scene passed and we finally reached the conclusion.

Like the story itself, the ending wasn’t that fresh either.

The escort knight was actually a prince who ran away when he was young, and it ended with usurping the throne from the rebel forces and getting married.

Of course..

“I love you. Cristina.”
“Me too… I love you. Lie.”

The last one also ended with a passionate kiss.

As she whipped her tongue around like mad, swallowing her saliva, Tina frowned and let out her displeasure.

– Do it in moderation! This is a play.-
-Isn’t it me?-
-This is real…-

In that way, the play ended with a happy ending.

***

“Ah, Mr. Rai!”

Time passed by in an instant and it was the last day of the festival.

When I headed to the waiting room to participate in the dungeon survival, Seria jumped out of the crowded crowd.

“How are you feeling?”
“Me? That’s good! That fact…”
“Hmm? What?”

She suddenly took notice of her surroundings and lowered her voice to put it in her ear, where she whispered softly.

“I succeeded in manifesting that aura.”
“Wow really?”
“Yes. Hee hee!”

I pressed the crown of Seria’s head as she smiled with confidence.

“Ah! Why are you! Her hair is ruined.”
“It’s good to be confident, but don’t be careless. Then it gets into trouble.”
“I know..”

She said she knew, but she didn’t seem to know at all.

She seemed very excited about the fact that she was able to manifest the aura she so longed for.

It would be nice if I didn’t go crazy like this…

“There are a lot of people..”
“Of course! Is this the main event of the festival?”

When she raised her head, a large crystal screen was spread out.

As I tried to stare at it, Seria vomited her exclamation.

“Wow… Isn’t that great? You can relay our fights with that…”

It was a magic tool that shared the field of vision with the creature called the Familiar that the wizards dealt with.

So it is said that it can do something similar to relaying.

‘What are they really doing?’

It was also said to have been borrowed from the Magic Tower, but I wondered why they kept such technology so tightly hidden.

But that’s not important right now.

She stared at the screen for a while, put on the number tag she had received yesterday, and moved her steps inside.

“So how exactly did it go?”
“Yes? Haven’t you read it? You got the paper yesterday.”

Yesterday, I received a piece of paper as I received my number, but since it was right before my date with Tina, I stuffed it into my inventory.

“So how does it go?”
“Ehh.. There must be a gate in the waiting area.
“Gate?”
“Yes. If you pass through it, you will be taken to the dungeon in the basement of the academy. I heard that the coordinates are set in multiple places, so there will be no overlapping in one place?”
“Is that okay?”

If someone tampered with the gate, the students would be slaughtered.

At my question, Seria shuddered! Chit! She waved her finger, and she continued.

“It can’t be. Unless you’re thinking of killing students throughout the academy, you can’t. It was made by several professors in collaboration with the Mage Tower.”
“What should I do, but…”

It wouldn’t happen if everyone in the academy didn’t plan to kill us.

It was hard to think that Tina would hide the fact knowing that it wasn’t like leaving the gate to just one person.

“If you go inside, they say they will give you magic tools for safety.”
“A magic tool?”
“Yes. It’s like a bracelet, but it’s said to absorb a certain amount of damage. You really can’t get hurt. I heard that if the bracelet receives more damage than it can withstand, it will be eliminated?”
“I’m sure you won’t be seriously hurt if you do that.”

It’s a little bit like there are casualties in events for spectacle.

Even the children of the imperial family did not have to take such a risk at the coming academy.

That way, while she was listening to Seria’s explanation, a man next to her started talking.

To be precise, to Seria, not me.

“Young lady! You are here!”
“Ah! Prince Vireys…”

It was definitely the guy I heard that he was the eldest son of Viscount Narocco or something.

He looked back and forth between me and Seria, and he smiled softly.

“Haha.. It looks like the two of you are having a conversation. Are you in the way?”
“No! No. Right? Mr. Rai!”
“Huh. What is it?”

At first glance, I didn’t want to get involved in the feeling of jealousy, so I roughly nodded and distanced myself.

Then Seria thanked me with her eyes, and she continued the conversation with him.

Could it have been about 5 minutes?

Seria looked at her watch, and she said troubledly.

“Young master. I guess I should go now.”
“I’m holding on too much. I will cheer you on.”
“Thank you. Let it go. I will definitely be in the top 30!”
“I look forward to it.”

The two chatted happily like a young couple.

‘Were they originally that close?’

She wondered, as they were rarely seen together in class.

In addition, as a result of looking at it with a keen sense, the temperature difference between the two was significant.

Seria had the feeling that if she was genuinely kind, she would just answer in the prescribed way.

‘I have to warn you.’

Just in case you don’t know, I’ll have to tell Seria in passing.

Secretly, of course, without being noticed.

There is nothing more foolish than interfering with a man and a woman.

That, too, was the issue of marriage between aristocrats.

Because the work of nobles is not just an individual, but also a family affair.

After waiting for a while, Beerace left and Seria apologized to me.

“Sorry. Did it take too long? Go quickly!”
“Seria. How about the Viscount Narocco?”
“Yes?”

Seria, who was hastily heading into her waiting room, tilted her head.

“Just. What about the rumors?”
“Oh, rumors? Um… Nothing special. Don’t worry too much. Because you are a good person!”
“Okay? Be careful though. If you trust anyone, you’ll get into trouble?”

As she passed with a final warning and turned inside, she quickly caught up and cut in front of her.

She then looked straight up at her and said,

“Do not worry. I don’t trust anyone.”

When I saw Seria’s look in her eyes saying that she deeply trusted me, I felt embarrassed for no reason.

I smiled at the unnecessarily serious atmosphere and pushed my forehead.

“Who is blocking the way? Get out of the way, will you take responsibility if I’m late because of you?”
“Ah..! Chit! Song. Go!”

Seria grunted as if she had pouted when she skipped over what she had said, putting her shame on her knees.

It wasn’t like I was indifferent.

Thank you very much.

It’s good to know that someone trusts me deeply.

But..

‘It’ll be troublesome if I fall for you then.’

I don’t have any particular taste in NTL, and I refuse to do complicated things.

I looked at the back of my head and hurriedly ran to the side.

“Are you upset?”
“Isn’t it? Be more nervous than that. Don’t you know how famous Rai is among seniors? There are even rumors of a joint venture!”
“Okay? Then what can you do? All I have to do is sweep it all away.”

Seria strangely widened her distance and frowned at her, as if my remarks were unlucky.

“Ugh.. I’m not popular when I say things like that.”
“You don’t have to. I have Professor Cristina, so what?”

Shrugging her shoulders, Seria trembled as she wrapped herself around her body as if she were now completely sulking.

“Why are you dating Professor Rai? Professor, I miss you so much!”
“Is that so? If you fell for my charms, you wouldn’t come to your senses, would you?”
“Isn’t that the case? Hurry up before that!”

The more she talked with me, the faster Seria ran out as if she was at a loss.

She said this on purpose to get fed up, but the response is so good that I can’t stop.

‘Rather than that, I mean joint work..’

It’s not certain, but rumors can’t just spread.

It’s unlikely that she will scatter in the first place, but she can’t be completely ruled out.

As she walked down the aisle and reached the waiting room, a man approached her.

“Could you show me your ID?”

When I immediately handed out an ID check, the man took out a magic tool that looked like a scanner from his bosom, scanned his ID card, nodded, and handed out something like a belt.

“What is that?”
“It is a magic tool. There are barriers for safety.”
“Aha. This..”

She recalled what she had heard from Seria, and as soon as she accepted her bracelet, her information came to mind.

‘Absorbs a certain amount of damage applied to the wearer’s body.. That’s right.’

Not only that, but it also had the function of transmitting vital signals and even location tracking magic.

Perhaps it is to respond quickly to a dangerous situation.

Thinking that there was no problem, I put on her bracelet and headed inside with Seria.

There was something like a crystal ball all over the place, and the magic flowing there made me realize that it was too much for a camera.

I was able to notice that the flow of magical power is similar to the sight sharing formula, as if it was worthwhile to study magic.

“Then go quickly!”
“Okay.”

We moved forward, and soon we could see a door swirling with blue magic.