Chapter 132 – The Undercity

Why camping?

I run down the slope and fall into agony. Senior Socheon, who was behind the wheel of the camper, said that she had experienced camping with her old father several times, and forced me to go camping on a chilly day like this.

‘Brother, what is this…?’

What kind of trick did Han Ye-rin, who returned to normal after public opinion was released? I sent her on a trip by giving gifts to her younger siblings, including her mother, and kidnapped me in the name of camping when I was left alone in her house.

She even joins Seol-ah and reassures her parents, saying, “Don’t worry, we’re going out with friends.”

She said that she would bring her in somehow. When you sit in a spacious camper, the scenery outside the window passes breathlessly.

It’s been a long time since I’ve gone this far, and it’s the first time I’ve been out with so many people. It’s half-kidnapped, but what about it, I’m already used to it.

Fallen leaves fluttering in the north wind cling to the white camper that runs through the pine forest full of pine needles. When you open the window slightly, the chilly cold fills the inside of the car. Winter is just around the corner.

“Ugh, it’s so cold…”
“Because it rained last night.”

Because it rained in the evening, the ground is full of puddles. As the road gets closer to the end, the pavement is covered with soil, and in the end, the meaning of distinction is lost.

You can feel the road surface as it is on the wheel that shakes. Feeling cold, Seol-ah jumps up and closes the window, blocking the cool wind from entering her lungs.

“It’s very, very far…”

Han Ye-rin is a little embarrassed. Her thoughts are the same as mine. When she asks Ar-Rin Lee why she goes so far, she reassures her that there is no better place than here and that she will find out when she arrives. As her sisters breathe, they instill anticipation in her, saying that they are ‘enchanted by the scenery’.

“By the way, have you guys ever gone camping?”

I ask honestly. Seol-ah doesn’t answer in silence, Han Ye-rin shakes her head, and only Lee A-rin and So-cheon senior nod her head. I’ve never tried it either… As I drive downhill and winding mountain roads, I see an open field in the distance.

“Arrived!”

Socheon-senpai looked behind her and shouted. To be honest, it’s not that I’m not expecting it at all. It’s her first time camping, and the only trip she’s been to is Jeju Island. Except for the fact that she was forcibly brought there, anticipation tickles a corner of her heart.

“Let’s get off…”

When Seol-ah opens her mouth, everyone gets out of the camper wearing thick padding. Her breath overlaps as the wind passes fiercely between her sides. Yes, you should enjoy what you have been waiting for. Isn’t there a saying, if you can’t avoid it, enjoy it. In the autumn wind, Ciri hits her cheek with both of her hands and comes to her senses.

“First of all, let’s set up the tent quickly!”

Ia Lynn pulls her tent out of the storage space under her Tak Tak car. When she looks around, it’s not a camping site, she doesn’t see anyone.

“I have a camper, do you pitch a tent?”
“Camper cars don’t have sensibility! Sensibility! You should sleep in a tent in a place like this. Tehoya, a camper is just a decoration!”
“That’s right. If you’re going to enjoy it properly, you should play with a tent.”

What is this… No, you don’t really use a camper…? I try to ask more and close my mouth. Holding the heavy tent in both hands, they exchanged glances with sparkling eyes. It just goes like that and moves on.

“It’s incredibly big…?”

Seol-ah is surprised. Look… It’s a six-person tent. Ia-Lin says something like ‘quickly, quickly!’ And she hurries to release the contents inside her, harming her.

“I will help you.”
“I’ll help too…”

My sister Lee Je-ga and I, Seol-ah and Han Ye-rin all stick together and assemble the tent. Since she does it, she’s annoying. She asks Seol-Ah if she can do it with her magic, but her sister next to her says no. She says not to resort to magic, but to do it with her hands, and she just says it’s ‘sensibility’.

“Is this the right thing to plug in here?”
“No no, not there! Ah, I plugged it in the other way.”
“Aww! The bar is blown away by the wind!”
“What? This, Cee… Hold on! Hold on!”

He is busy pitching a tent, which is no different from a fight against the father. No, have you guys really been camping?

“Senior Socheon, whoa… Whoa… When did you go camping?”
“…When I was 10?”
“Yes? No, what?”

Is 10 years old the last? Fuck that’s it! I wrestled with the tent for a while. Just finished the tent for the winter. Everyone is exhausted and lies on the floor, rubbing their foreheads with the back of their hand.

“Ha ha… Ha… This is more difficult than a marathon…”
“Arina, have you ever run a marathon…?”
“Yeah… I think it’s harder than then…”

There’s no such thing as too much shit. As summer passes and winter approaches, the sun sets earlier. He is now in the middle of nowhere, but he never knows when he will run away. I shake off the fallen leaves on my back and legs and stand up.

“Has everyone eaten breakfast?”

When I asked, they all shook their heads together. Yes, that means…

“Looking inside the camper, there’s a fishing rod inside… But why don’t you go fishing in the nearby lake?”

When I propose, Seol-ah nods brightly. It’s been a while, so expectations are soaring. Ia-rin says that she has fished before, goes inside the camper and takes out five fishing rods. It’s in good condition, and it’s also a prestigious family, so I use good things.

“Are you fishing?”

Han Ye-rin asks.

“Huh.”
“Did you like fishing?”
“No, I don’t really like it. I used to do it sometimes.”
“Let’s go now!”

She looks at Socheon senior and Ia-rin in her hands. Fishing tackle is not one. No… What, do you have traps? I can’t let him carry it alone, so he grabs the floating pole and the ice box and heads for the lake far away. Arriving at the lake, the wind is fiercer than before, and the chair Han Ye-rin is holding flutters.

“Here you go.”
“Here…”

Han Ye-rin and Seol-ah put five fishing chairs on the floor. Maybe because the width of the river is wider than expected, the wet oak forest is reflected in the lake as it is, creating a picture.

“Teho, do you know what? That during the human-monster war in the past, so many monsters hid around here, dug in and widened the lake.”

Senior Socheon opens her mouth. Originally it wasn’t this wide, she says. It explains that a medium-dangerous monster that looks like a mixture of a mole and a fish burrowed around the lake like that, eroding the ground, and later, being caught up in a ‘freshwater explosion’, all the weakened ground was swept away to form teeth.

“Right now, in a clean area without a single monster, the water is very clear and there are a lot of fish that can be caught, so I was going to upload it later… Uhm.”

My plan went awry…

Socheon-senpai smiles awkwardly. Each other holds a fishing pole, hangs the half-cut bait on the hook, and throws it far away. A float that touches the 1/5 point of the lake goes down and then comes up. All the other guys are fishing, so I sit down with a sigh of peace beyond my imagination.

I put the thrown fishing rod on the support, and I stare at the still flowing clouds. Can this be so peaceful? After being hit by so many things lately, sitting on a camping trip fishing, I realize that I have lived a life without rest.

“Profit, profit…!”

If you lie still on a chair, Seol-ah makes strange noises.

“Should I stand?”

“Ugh… This, this doesn’t go very well… I want to throw it far away…!”

Seol-ah stomps her feet as if annoyed. She’s a little cute when she rolls around, and it makes me laugh.

“Can I help you?”

“Yes?”

Seol-ah grabs the fishing rod she was throwing, winds her line, and then throws it away. Her flying body falls into the lake.

“Oh, thank you…”

Seol-ah says thank you and blushes. When he gave Seol-ah the fishing rod he had thrown, he put it on the support pole without saying a word. Looking to her side, it’s been a long time since the other guys have been throwing pokes. Everyone is waiting for a signal.

Pine branches sway in the cool wind, and the quiet river is like my heart. I slowly close my eyes in the silence. It’s unexpected as I expected that the five of them would meet and talk loudly and not have any ears left.

‘Okay. Sometimes you have to give it a break.’

I glanced around and saw everyone sitting on chairs looking at the clouds, the forest, and the vast lake. Looking at Han Ye-rin, she is lying down stretching herself, and on the contrary, her sisters are excitedly chatting with each other, unable to control their overflowing energy.

“Whoah…”

Han Ye-rin stretches her back and stands up. In the distance, the porridge falls under the fondant.

“Uh, huh?”

Han Ye-rin jumps up in a hurry, grabs the fishing rod, and turns her steering wheel wildly. As soon as she realizes that her strength has taken a tremendous amount of support, her legs begin to bend at random.

“I asked! Ugh, ugh, this is power…! No, I think I’ll miss it!”
“Hey, let me help you!”

Iarin, who was watching, quickly stood up and grabbed a fishing rod. Holding her posture as if hugging her from behind, wind her rope.

“What is this…?!
“Yes yes?!”
“I’ll help you a little! Stay still!”

While Han Ye-rin is flustered and confused, Lee A-rin calmly controls the fishing rod. She wrestled with her fish for 3 minutes, adjusting the dynamics accordingly. While everyone is watching, the fish is finally pulled out.

“Aww…!”
“Bethda! What size…”

Pooh-! The fish jumps out and starts flapping like crazy as it gets closer. Everyone covers their faces as the water splashes in all directions. Got the thing right from the start.

“Ice box! Is there an ice box!?”

As soon as this Arin ran out of words, she hurriedly handed me the icebox next to her. She puts her bess inside. From the beginning, he said that he was lucky and when Arin Lee smiled, Yerin Han said thank you. Really, just a few days ago, we fought with the momentum to kill each other… Her head hurts from the cognitive dissonance.

“Wait a minute…”

Seol-ah gets up from her seat and suddenly heads towards the camper. When she asks where she is going, she says there is such a thing, and she sits down and waits for me. As she sits still and watches the passing clouds, Seol-ah brings something from far away.

“You should drink something…”

Starting with hot tea, fill up with cool drinks and distribute them to everyone. She stops thinking about the peace that borders on silence. She thanks Seol-ah for receiving her ion drink.

When she sits still, Ia-rin pats Seol-ah at random, saying, ‘Isn’t she really cute?’ Senior Socheon, who was next to her, also joins in petting her. Han Ye-rin, who was just staring at her, shyly thanked her when she received her drink.

‘Why aren’t they fighting?’

I’m afraid.

As time passes and the ice box becomes heavy, the surroundings become noisy. Lee A-rin and Han Ye-rin chatter while holding jerky they don’t know when they brought it. A bright smile while talking about something is no different from a friend now.

“Tae-ho… Do you want to eat?”

Next to me, Seol-ah pulls a chair and sits down, handing me beef jerky.

“Thank you.”

After receiving the jerky and unpacking it, the salty smell tickled the tip of my nose. If you chew the jerky, the meat that has not moved for a while will fall down.

“What?!”

Surprised, I stood up from my seat and grabbed a fishing rod, and all eyes were on me. Ignoring it and adjusting the intensity accustomed to it, a fish jumped up and was caught in my left hand. A fish so strong that your hands tremble a little.

“Hold on!”

Ia-Lynn is startled and she brings an icebox that is already heavy.

A snail, as large as the first bass she caught, flutters in her hand. When one heavy snakehead is placed in an icebox, there is no more space.

“When are you going to finish eating this?”
“Let’s release some.”

When Iarin asks, Socheon grabs the easy-going guy and throws it into the lake. She’s been getting dark for a while, and she’s starting to get cold. She stood up from her seat as if everyone had the same idea.

“Eww, I-I haven’t caught one yet…”

Feeling sorry for Seol-ah, she winds up the fishing line. She says it’s okay and I stroke her hair, and she naturally sticks by my side. She took it off slowly, so she coughed briefly, then took up a fishing rod and a chair and headed for the camping site. She is peaceful enough to be a little ominous.

She returns to the tent with all her belongings. A cool breeze touches her leaves at her feet.

“Guys. Do you want to boil Maeuntang or just bake it? Wait…”

Senior Socheon went through her storage space… Panicked and said, ‘Huh? Huh?”

“Why is this not there? Arin, did you bring firewood when you came?”
“Huh? Didn’t your sister bring it?”
“Huh?”

You didn’t bring firewood? Then, is there a burner?

“Didn’t you bring a burner?”

“I left it to bring firewood…? Wait, is anyone there?”

Senior Socheon looks around. She averts her gaze as one. Is this a group assignment? Senior Socheon, who was moaning on her forehead, opens her mouth.

“Then let’s just pick it up and use it.”

Even a wet tree branch is a thought to write. Looking around, I saw that the fallen tree branches were all thin and small. Han Ye-rin next to me muttered softly, saying that she looks like a boyfriend. Kim Seok-Hyun, is he still upset when he comes here? It’s pitiful.

“I’ll dry it with magic…”

“First, let’s pick up useful branches.”

Seol-ah is there. After exchanging glances, everyone starts to pick up a branch that was dropped nearby. I don’t know how much I’ll use it, but I just have to catch it.

“Um… Huh?”

If you just pick up branches like that, you find something small in the distance. When you wake up, you are in the middle of a forest. As I carry both arms full of firewood, a small object rustles between the forest roads in the distance.

“…Cat?”

Holding the firewood in my arms, I slowly approached. It’s a cat gray cat.

“…For a moment.”

When the cat approaches you I feel strange.

“This, pupil…”

Not vertical

Like humans, it has round pupils. Something, a little something…

“Woah!”

“Ouch!”

I was startled and dropped all the firewood I was holding in my arms. As I hold my surprised chest with my hand, someone taps my shoulder next to me.

“Tae-ho. You can’t go out this far. Why, what’s wrong? Are you surprised?”

As I sweep his chest, I look to the side and a smiling senior Socheon pats my back in bewilderment. I was really, really surprised.

“I spilled all the firewood… I’m sorry. I’ll carry it.”

Senior Socheon is sorry and carries half the firewood. Even if she says it’s okay, she says no and she refuses.

“By the way, what were you watching?”

“It’s just that there’s a strange cat…”

“Cat? This?”

Senior Socheon points to the gray cat. Right. This is the cat

“Why is this?”

“That’s right, pupil…”

“Pupil? What is the pupil?”

“Huh?”

Looking at the cat, it was an ordinary vertical pupil. What?

Did I get it wrong? He scratches his cheek in a puzzling mood. The cat looks at me and meows.

“No, nothing…”

“Okay? Shall we go back now?”

As if senior Socheon was in a bit of a hurry, she smiled and touched my arm. She said okay and looked at the strange cat. Seriously, until now, it was a circular pupil, right? If you rub your eyes and look again, it’s a vertical pupil.

“What are you doing? Let’s go quickly.”

“Wait a minute…”

I stare blankly at the gray cat. The cat walks forward, ignoring both of us. After following the cat as if possessed, she discovers a strange tunnel in front of her.

“…What?”

“Taeho, let’s just go back… Huh? Wait, this… Why is this here?”

Senior Socheon is perplexed.

“Yes? What is this?”

“Taeho, don’t you know? It’s an ‘underground city’.”

“…An underground city?”

Senior Socheon clears her throat.

“Once upon a time, when the human-monster war was in full swing. People dug in to live, and the hole became a tunnel, and the tunnel grew as it met other tunnels, and eventually became a ‘hub’ for people to live in.”

“Ah.”

I was distracted and forgot. I remember hearing something like that in class. When demons filled the ground. It is the entrance to the ‘underground city’ where mankind has dug in and lived for the purpose of survival. I didn’t know because there were so many different entrances. However…

“How did Socheon-senpai see it and get it right?”

“Just.”

The old man goes overboard. Yes, that’s right. When I nod my head, Socheon sunbae smiles strangely and grabs my wrist.

“Since you’ve already found it, would you like to go inside?”

“Yes?”

No, didn’t I say we had to go back quickly?

“Because opportunities like this don’t come often.”

When I’m flustered, my eyes meet with the cat at my feet. Normal vertical pupil. Seriously… Did I see something wrong?

Senior Socheon keeps dragging me in. While doing so, the cat scratches its ears with its hind paws and disappears far into the forest.

“…All right.”

I don’t know.

I nodded, and Socheon sunbae smiled brightly.

…Strangely.

Come inside, a little. The anxious mind is washed away. Why? Keep going inside slowly, go deeper and deeper. You see an elevator in front of you. Elevator clunky and full of dust.

“Does it work?”

I pressed the button. It makes a strange noise and slowly rises up. Going down Gradually, the sight fills the city.

“Wow…”

Senior Socheon admires it. After going down for about 2 minutes, the elevator stops. Wait, but… It’s an underground city, and there must be no one there.

Why is the light on?

“For a moment…”

“Let’s go, let’s go!”

When I’m a little flustered, Socheon-senpai leads me into the underground city. When I go inside, there’s no one there, but the lights are on. The streets are full of dust, leaving only silence.

Senior Socheon keeps dragging me inside.

“Haa… I’ve always wanted to come to a place like this at least once.”

“Yes?”

“Let’s hurry.”

Senior Socheon smiles and grabs my wrist.

The street was quiet.

There is no one, just Socheon sunbaenim and me.

Just keep walking down the unpopulated streets. At some point, when I came to my senses, I arrived at some strange bar. He is sitting side by side with senior Socheon and looking around.

If you sit still and goof around, senior Socheon gets up from her seat.

“Let’s go play a little bit.”

With that said, she goes inside the table.

“Hang in there.”

Then go inside. Sing her hum When she is killing time, senior Socheon comes out. When she changes, she puts on her waiter’s uniform and leans back on her table.

“Have you ever had a drink, Taeho?”

“Yes?”

Senior Socheon picks up a drink near her with her familiar movement, and sniffs her. She says that she is fragrant, and she attacks me too, but she shakes her hand saying that it is okay, and she feels sorry for her senior. Then, she puts tequila and tonic water in her shaker, which she doesn’t know when she found it, and starts mixing it at random.

“Senior Socheon… Do you know how to make cocktails?”

“I tried a little bit because I was interested in the past!”

Socheon sunbae smiles brightly. Then, it is said to be complete. She puts ice in her cup, which she doesn’t know when it came out, and she pours a cocktail. This… Isn’t it?

“Isn’t this a tequila tonic?”

“Huh? How did you know?”

“I’ve seen it on video before.”

I’ve been looking for it with half interest the other day. She asks Socheon-senpai to try it, so she hurriedly shakes her hand saying she’s fine. She can’t drink here.

“Just have a drink.”

She asks her to drink while Socheon-senpai clings to her persistently. She can’t help but tip her glass.

“Uh, write…”

Socheon-senpai smiles when I frown on her face. Socheon-senpai pours the remaining tequila into her glass and drinks it. But… Usually when you drink, the reaction comes later?

“Is it just that I’m strong on alcohol?”

Not so drunk Even though I’ve sipped as a joke before, it’s actually my first time drinking… Are all first times like this?

“Ugh…”

“Senior Socheon?”

The senior stared at me with her wide-eyed eyes, probably already drunk. Did she get drunk so quickly by her senior? You must have seen him drink…!

“Would you like some more…”

“Senior? Senior?!”

Senior Socheon naturally blows her bottle trumpet. No, isn’t she drinking too little? I wasn’t even drunk. Senior Socheon sits next to me, tying her long blue hair behind her.

“Tae-ho…”

In the spirit of alcohol, senior Socheon clings to me. Wait, this feels…

“Know?”

Socheon-senpai naturally grabs my cock with her hand. No, fuck wait…!

“Seo, senior? Socheon senior?”

“Wait… I’ll do something nice…”

No. Can not be done. If I’m flustered, Socheon-senpai will tie me up. Being eaten here…?!

“Isn’t it too sudden?”

“Uh, ugh… I don’t know…♡”

Already too drunk He didn’t listen to me and rubbed her cock with her cool hands. Pillars go up in pleasure. Socheon sunbaenim’s body is even closer to me.

“Before others see… Let’s finish quickly♡”

Senior Socheon looks at me with her hazy eyes. Wait, so why did she drag her here… To fuck me?

“For a long time. Really, for a really long time…♡”

Gets eaten Also, get eaten.

Somehow, it was so fucking peaceful, the ominous feeling is not wrong.

Senior forced to take off his pants.

She grabs the cock with her hand.