Chapter 92 – Memoirs (2)

One.

“Are you late? Being the youngest, you can’t move quickly! Even in battle, I know how to discipline you.”

I ran into the crevasse-like entrance of the red dungeon, where everyone had left me, and protested against Exit Line, who was talking nonsense.

“What the hell are you doing! Are people’s lives a joke?”

As if surprised by the irrefutable argument, Excitraine narrowed her eyes slightly, rounded her lips and oh. He did and admired it.

“Oh, do you know how to worry about that? He’s a surprising guy. Okay, let’s do it well.”

And he tapped me on the shoulder, and that was the end of it, really ridiculous.
As if she didn’t even hear what I was saying, she moved her steps to the place where the raid team members were, and in the end, I couldn’t stand it and grabbed her shoulder roughly and shouted.

“You think I’m kidding? This is an S-class dungeon. For an F-class Awakener, it’s a harsh space where life is consumed just by breathing! Regardless of what purpose you brought him in, I rightly demand that you get him out immediately!”

The S-class dungeon itself was a disaster.
It was the S-class dungeon where even the transcended Awakeners could not survive if they did not achieve the minimum level.
With the blood and lives of numerous Awakened seniors, mankind learned that fact, and as a result, entry restrictions were created in all dungeons.
But right now, the woman EXIT LINE in front of me was acting on her own, ignoring the rules of her awakened person.
As the successor of the Julie family and an awakened member of the famous family, this is an act that cannot be ignored. I had to stop her madness even with force.
Also, as I was looking at her, with the thought in her heart that I would immediately freeze her whole body if she trembled and overcame her disgusting slyness, she stopped laughing, perhaps sensing her unusual mood.
Instead, she put her hand on my shoulder and opened her mouth as she looked straight at me with her squint eyes.

“But I’m already in, so how can I get it out?”
“·····································.

As for the exit lines, she was reluctant to admit anything, but her words were the truth.
The S-class dungeon ‘Fire Kingdom’ we entered this time is a drop-entry dungeon, literally a dungeon in which you enter by falling down. .
Normally, it is easy to enter S-class dungeons, but there is a characteristic that it is not easy to go out, and the Kingdom of Fire followed that point thoroughly.
Therefore, the only way to get out of an S-class dungeon was to find an exit somewhere in the dungeon, catch the boss, or destroy the dungeon core.
The Kingdom of Fire is obviously an unexplored dungeon, but someone who explored it found an exit and escaped, so it was given a specific name: the Kingdom of Fire.
So, if you lead him to the exit, you can escape the F-class Awakener, Paster.
My head went blank for a moment at the fundamental question of how to get out, but I came up with a method with the clear brain unique to the Julie family and opened my mouth to Exit Line with a confident smile.

“You just have to find a way out. The reason this dungeon was given the name Fire Kingdom was because someone who had entered the dungeon and had seen it figured out its characteristics and came out. I’ll have to suffer more… But it’s still better than people dying.”

If you think about it common sense, this was a theory that you don’t have to worry about.
Protecting people’s lives is the duty and responsibility of the strong, and it was none other than Exit Line who brought Pastor, her weakling, to such a demonic realm, so she had to take responsibility accordingly.
However, her answer that came after a long and long thought was not what I expected.

“No.”

What should not be denied has been denied too lightly.
When I was denied by Exit Line’s slightly annoying voice, the patience I had barely endured in my head was also cut off.
I pressed her teeth towards her, creating her glacial crystals in her hands.

“Are you completely incapable of grasping the situation?! If you say no, even if I’m alone…!”
“Wait a minute. Don’t rush, Lapis Julie. Listen to me.”

When I expressed my legitimate anger, Exit Ryne raised her hands and assumed a posture of surrender, interrupting what could have been a divisive comment.
Although he is very angry, it is clear that what can be solved through dialogue can be resolved through dialogue. I looked at her after briefly removing her glacial crystals.

“Yes, try it. Word.”
“It’s gotten very rough. Well… Actually, it’s a secret, so I tried to hold on. If you hold on, you’ll use force, so there’s nothing you can do about it. Well, it’s because it’s Lapis Julie, who will become S-rank by destroying the dungeon this time. Do you think I found out a little earlier?”

After muttering something to herself and eagerly completing her self-justification, Excitrine looked at me and flicked her fingers lightly.
Then, a wheezing wind blew, creating a hemispherical wind curtain, and the two of us were trapped inside the curtain and cut off from the outside world.

“It’s a story that even Paster himself doesn’t know, and that even our team 2 kids shouldn’t hear about. So, from now on, I promise to keep quiet about what I am about to hear.”
“I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, but yes. I promise.”

It is obviously not a good thing to use the word promise carelessly, but the annoyance from curiosity and frustration outweighed the concerns, so I stopped saying that I promised.

“Okay, then I will tell you. Don’t be surprised, listen carefully. In fact, Pasta is…”

After hearing the answer from me, the exit line smiled and began to tell her story.

“You run away very well. Probably the best runner in the world?”

Excitrine’s sincere voice and the curtain of wind that cuts off the world only heightened the atmosphere.
She had been playful until now, but when she spoke so seriously, I became intoxicated by the atmosphere and asked a serious question.

“So what? What happens if Mr. Pastor runs away well?”
“Yes, Pastor is very good at running away. This means that in case of an emergency, he can take all of us and bounce. To put it simply, is it an insurance that allows you to live unconditionally in any situation as long as your life is attached to it?”
“······Yes?”
“Now, there is no time to talk. I really need to start According to the search log, if you stay in one place for more than 3 minutes, flame giants in human form will swarm.”

I spat out a question at her nonsense, but the exit line retracted her wind curtain as if she would not take any more questions, and she drifted away from me like the wind.
The back of her gray bobbed hair slicked back, and I realized that I had been teased again.

In the end, bullshit until the very end…! I really won’t let you go anymore!

At that time, she moves to tell Exitraine, who eventually crossed the last line, what will happen if she insults a member of the Julie family with her own body.

“Enemies! More than 500 fire giants are rushing towards us! At current speed, it should be within sight in about a minute!”
“It ends up like this. All ready for battle! Build an annihilation formation!”

The A-class Awakeners of Team 2, assigned the role of detection, announced the appearance of the enemy, and at the same time, the order to prepare for battle came from the mouth of Exit Line, the target of my revenge.

“Of course now!”

Now was not the time for revenge. I gritted my teeth in dissatisfaction and quickly ran to the seat of the ace in the middle of the back row.

“Oh, but you can tell the difference between public life and life, right?”
“Don’t talk nonsense and focus. Because I am really angry.”
“Yeah, yes.”

Among the back row formed in the form of a school uniform, my seat in the middle was right in front of the team leader who stood at the back to command everyone, so the gaze I felt from the back of my head was very annoying.
But now was not the time to be caught up in personal emotions, so I cooled my emotions for a while and filled my head with cold reason.

“Whoa…”

Each of the flame giants is a medium-ranking beast among A-class. At that level, no matter how much fire I put on it, I can freeze it as soon as I see it with my coldness. A large army of A-rank monsters was annihilated at once. Well. It’s perfect for the first part of Lapis Julie’s S-class dungeon raid story.

I thought that if I played an active role in this fight, I would be able to raise the honor of the Julie family and my prestige.
Honor is the most valuable thing that a member of the High House should pursue, and for my honor, I was collecting mana so that I could freeze all the flame giants as soon as I saw them, but an unexpected order fell behind my back.

“Oh, come to think of it, Paster could be dangerous? Because five hundred flame giants are coming. Wouldn’t someone have to thoroughly protect it so that something like this doesn’t happen?”
“… Are you talking to me right now?”
“So who is it? You were the one who started talking about Pastor, and the one who said people’s lives were the top priority was our youngest. Shouldn’t the youngest be responsible? Do you think you can save one person?”
“That, like that…!”

Truly, Exitraine was a mean person.
She was now returning to me the theories I had spit out to her earlier.

“No, it’s more efficient for me to take down so many opponents! The total amount of power is easy for me, who is rated as the top of the S class…!”
“Maknae, if you can do something easily, I can do it easily too. After all, it’s S-class. So, as you said earlier, protect the ‘weak’ Pastor.”

Saying that, Excitraine pulled me by the shoulder and removed me from her formation.
At the same time, hundreds of flame giants began to be seen walking from across the horizon, shaking the ground and shaking mana.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

The gigantic flame giants, which could have been 5m on average, stretched out from side to side and advanced toward us, it looked like a tidal wave of flames attacking the world.
It was clear that being active against such an enemy was the honorable thing I had always dreamed of.

“Hey, Lapis Julie? I’m fine so you can go and fight. With your power, which is famous in the world, you will be able to win the fight much easier.”
“Ughhhhh!”

When I saw this man who came next to me and started to be ridiculously considerate, he couldn’t bear to take his feet off.

“Beside me… They stick right next to me! If you don’t want to die!”
“Uh? Uh uh that, yes But I’m really fine…”
“It’s okay, listen! I’m really annoyed right now, so don’t say things like that!”
“····Yes.”

It’s just all annoying! Excitrine too! Even this weak man who had no complaints even though he was forcibly brought to the place of death!