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Gene (3)
Bam. Bam!
“… … !!!!”
The fox’s movements are violent.
I don’t know much about monster ecology, but I know that it’s not a pleasant behavior.
The foxes were quickly following me. This time, even the little ones that had been clinging to the trees as if they had no brains were mixed in. It was an even more disgusting sight. I was seriously considering whether to leave the gate like this. I destroyed the core, so they wouldn’t be able to follow me!
Fortunately, Hong Seok-young was not too far away, so I held back. I should tell him to leave quickly.
But Hong Seok-young said something unexpected.
“I beg your pardon?”
“I’ll tell you how monsters from the future behave.”
“…yes?”
No, I came here to avoid the annoying and unpleasant tasks, not to learn something grand.
But he stopped quietly next to Hong Seok-young. Hong Seok-young wouldn’t have said something like that without a reason. It was obvious because his father was a teacher who liked textbooks. Maybe that raccoon… .
Well, I guess so.
“Okay, first one.”
Hong Seok-young began to speak slowly.
Unlike his usual fierce smile, he is smiling sadly and kindly. However, I am not so naive as to be fooled by that. You can tell by looking at him that he is holding back his laughter.
“It’s not hard to tell the difference if you know human language. If you fight for a while, you’ll end up losing first.”
The comically easygoing tone of speech gradually becomes more and more aggressive.
“Second. Even if you don’t know human language, if you can make sounds, you can observe the tone. If you imitate people’s speech, the pitch is similar. It’s especially easy to understand if it’s a person’s name. You’ll be able to imitate it better than you think.”
Hong Seok-young smiled softly and recited his own name. Hong Seok-young.
Then, he opened his mouth and made a sound with a clumsy pronunciation. Like a baby who has just learned to talk. Like imitating the pronunciation of a foreign language he is hearing for the first time.
If you look at that sound separately, it would be difficult to tell that it was Hong Seok-young, but if you knew what he was saying, you could never not know.
And for Hong Seok-young, it must have been something he had to hear countless times to be sure that it was his name.
“Third. The type that doesn’t understand human language and can’t make a sound. In fact, these guys are the easiest.”
The fox is circling around Hong Seok-young. It is very alert. It looks like it is going to attack, but it is not easily able to pounce.
Why? I was about to attack right away?
…Because the person in front of you is Hong Seok-young? And not just any ordinary person?
“Those guys are usually so low in intelligence that they just rush at me without thinking twice. How convenient.”
I quietly measured the distance between me and the fox.
It’s a strange distance. It’s too close to be far, but it’s too close to be within arm’s reach.
But it was a familiar distance to me. When I raised my spear, that was the range I could attack without lifting my feet. And I learned how to use the spear from my father. The size of my spear and mine were almost the same, so for Hong Seok-young, this distance was just right… .
I understand why Hong Seok-young was upset. Even if I were to enter a dungeon for the first time, and fight a monster I’ve never seen before, if the monster showed signs of knowing me well…
It won’t end with just feeling bad.
“The fourth one… these guys are the most difficult.”
“A guy who can understand speech but can’t make a sound?”
“Yeah. If you pretend, you pretend. After all, I said he’s my son.”
“There’s only one left… .”
“So he is my son.”
Hong Seok-young laughed with a voice that was cracked at the end. I pretended not to know and asked.
“So why is it the most difficult?”
“Hmm. I’m quick-witted.”
“You have a knack for observation.”
“He’s smart too.”
“Head.”
The raccoons still surrounded us. Funny enough, they seemed to be listening to us.
That’s nonsense.
But if there’s one thing I’m more certain of than anything else about dungeons, it’s that there’s nothing that can’t happen inside a dungeon.
You shouldn’t look for common sense in a dungeon.
Hong Seok-young looked at my face and smiled proudly. It was as if he was praising me for figuring out the answer.
Hong Seok-young added kindly.
“These guys, they were hiding so well and then suddenly popped out. Why is that?”
“… … .”
“huh?”
I remember the lessons I had with my father.
My father and Yu Ji-eun always asked me, regardless of whether the answer was right or wrong, to think about it first.
I think it’s a good teaching method, but does it end here?
“Huh? Why?”
Hong Seok-young felt somehow excited and urged the answer.
For some reason, I don’t want to tell you straight up.
“What do you want to know?”
I gave a curt answer without realizing it. But Hong Seok-young didn’t care.
“What do you think is the reason?”
“… … .”
“It’s okay if I’m wrong, so just tell me.”
Oh, damn it. This won’t end unless I say something.
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“I guess you thought you had no chance of winning.”
“why?”
“… … .”
There is no need to recall the conversation with Hong Seok-young up until just now.
If only those raccoons had understood what we were saying.
“Because I said I would destroy the nuke.”
Hong Seok-young laughed brightly.
“yes.”
I feel daunted when I see your excited face. I just want to get out of here as quickly as possible.
“In the end, it’s all the same, just a little weaker.”
Hong Seok-young slowly lowered his waist. As he took a step forward, the foxes retreated back accordingly.
“Just stay still and slowly attack while observing their mood. Just because you don’t know human language doesn’t mean you can’t understand them, right?”
“I guess so.”
“You’re aiming for my neck at the most optimal moment. Oh, I know you must be in a hurry now.”
“yes.”
I agreed with Hong Seok-young’s words indifferently. I want to get out of here quickly.
“Probably below here… .”
Hong Seok-young tapped the floor with the sole of his foot.
“These guys will have heads. I don’t care how they give orders. They’re probably from the future. They might be small. They haven’t been fed yet.”
“… … .”
“We talked openly about the future, so you probably realized that it wasn’t just the monsters trapped in the dungeon that came to the past. Well, even if we found out, there’s nothing we can do about it!”
Hong Seok-young started to laugh out loud. Slowly, the magic moved under Hong Seok-young’s feet.
“They’re all the same. Even the way you treat them.”
The laughter stops. The magic stops.
“Heejae, always keep that in mind.”
There is a sense of tense tension, like the calm before a storm.
“Whenever and wherever you find a monster moving suspiciously, kill it no matter what. If it’s difficult to kill, close the dungeon.”
A gust of magical power that crushes the entire body.
“…What if I can’t do it with my skills?”
I swallowed hard and asked.
“Then call dad.”
For some reason, I felt relieved when I heard an answer that was exactly as I had expected.
Could it be because the Siren Dungeon that killed Kim Chae-min in the future has disappeared, and the Jine Dungeon that killed my father and Yu Ji-eun twenty years later has disappeared?
It was truly a strange thing.
But as I said, all sorts of strange things happen in dungeons.
* * *
“How is it? Isn’t Dad cool?”
“What the hell are you talking about?”
“The monsters that Heejae couldn’t catch are like this and like that!”
“It’s not that I couldn’t catch it, it’s that I didn’t catch it.”
“Oh.”
“I was just venting my anger to you, teacher. Don’t get me wrong.”
“Oh my… .”
“If you can’t clear even one D-rank dungeon with that much experience, you should just go out and die.”
I held the recovered sword and lightly lit a flame. When Hong Seok-young looked at me with a puzzled look, I shrugged my shoulders.
“It’s disinfection.”
“… … Are there any dungeons that are difficult to enter?”
“No. There isn’t.”
“…bug?”
“Good catch.”
“I don’t think so.”
“Why should I catch someone else when there is someone else who can catch me instead?”
Fortunately, there aren’t many dungeons with insect-type monsters. And as far as I know, there are also dungeons with foxes… .
At least as far as I know, there is no other place like this in the country. There are other insect-type monsters, though.
Even though Hong Seok-young had a blast and the fire I had set was still burning, the foxes remained. The dungeon will be closing soon, so there’s no need to kill them all. Just turn around and leave the dungeon.
The raccoons, realizing the end, lost their will to attack along the way.
“The last evidence of intelligence.”
“… This is it?”
“You know the concept of hope, right?”
A forest burning. Dead foxes. A glass ceiling breaking.
He snorted as he walked slowly towards the gate.
If that giant raccoon had been hiding in this dungeon for so long, then even if we had cleared the dungeon as Yu Ji-eun had said, the raccoon would have grown so much that it would have jumped out and gotten in the way. It was the one that countless hunters, including my father, had to cling to and barely manage to kill.
Maybe Yu Ji-eun instinctively sensed the guy hiding in the dungeon? That’s why she thought she had to attack it, but she couldn’t say why.
Then it’s already too late. Even if you go in to attack, you’ll be wiped out.
Stupid lady.
sister.
If the world was going to be ruined because you didn’t clear a single dungeon, it would have been ruined a long time ago.
As I looked at the collapsing dungeon, I thought of the face of my only older sister, Yu Ji-eun, whom I saw for the last time.
“Heejae?”
“… Let’s go out.”
What the f*ck.
You should at least close your eyes.
I belatedly regretted it while holding my sister’s remains in my hands.
* * *
“so….”
Yujin nodded. Following her gaze, she found the TV remote control. Oh, damn it. The management office hunters need to know what that woman is doing.
When I picked up the remote control and threw it away, Yujin laughed unluckily.
“There’s no dungeon that you can’t enter, Sister?”
“then.”
Yu Ji-eun smiled confidently.
“Who am I? Am I the ace of the management office?”
“Wasn’t Ace Han Tae-kyung?”
“That old man is the ace of the management office. This time, he ended up having his license suspended.”
“Now?”
“The association and the government have been very considerate of the teacher’s face so far….”
Yu Ji-eun started to laugh out loud with a listless face. Looking at the way she was shaking her shoulders exaggeratedly, I thought that even for Yu Ji-eun, working with that old man would be difficult.
Yoo Ji-eun is also a regular at work, but she never leaves the show… I guess there’s nothing you can do about a real bae.
“Anyway, I can say that there is no dungeon this older sister cannot enter.”
“Oh yeah….”
“Do you feel respected now?”
“What? I’m not even a hunter.”
“It’s not cute.”
Yujin picked up my cup again.
What are you drinking again after drinking everything just now? Yu Ji-eun looked at the empty glass and licked her lips with regret.
“Still, uh, there are dungeons I hate.”
“bug?”
“no.”
Yu Ji-eun shook her head firmly.
“I hate cows.”
“cow?”
“A cow that makes a noise. I hate it even more when it has horns.”
“They’re scary?”
“No. It’s not because I’m scared.”
Yu Ji-eun smiled with a complicated expression just like before.
I haven’t seen Yu Ji-eun smile like that since I was first introduced to her by the old man, or to be exact, since she graduated from high school.
Just when I was starting to think that I had asked for nothing, Yu Ji-eun spoke up.
“I want to cut their throats so badly that my head isn’t working properly.”
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