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Left (3)
“… … .”
“… … .”
Silence.
Not even the sound of footsteps can be heard. Both of them are taking each step with great care, not wanting to disturb each other’s thoughts, and even their breathing is being controlled as much as possible.
“that.”
“…yes?”
“No. I mean the marks on the wall.”
“Claw marks?”
Hong Seok-young continued speaking in a soft voice.
“I think that’s what Yuhwa left behind.”
“… … .”
He said that it seemed to have been left behind by a bipedal monster. However, that alone is not enough to believe that it was left behind by Kim Yu-hwa.
If it had been blunt and crumbled, you might think it was left by hand, but it was sharp and rough, as if it had been left by an animal.
“When I looked at the oil painting earlier… I saw the gloves.”
“Gloves?”
“It’s sharp, as if something was added to the nail. Yuhwa originally found swords cumbersome, so she may have changed her fighting style while infiltrating the ark.”
I nodded and then realized that no matter how capable he was, he didn’t have the talent to look behind his back.
“Other than that?”
“There was some gravel stuck in there.”
This is pretty solid evidence.
“Well, there’s no way to know if he just left it there while touching the wall, or if he was trying to mark something… but either way, I think it was Yuhwa.”
“I hope it doesn’t happen because it would be a headache if an unidentified monster appeared here, right?”
Hong Seok-young laughed quietly.
“That’s true too.”
After those words, silence continued again.
“… … .”
Still, there is not even a sound of footsteps. I concentrate all my energy on taking each step. If I don’t, I’m afraid I’ll be consumed by all sorts of thoughts.
Many thoughts come to mind and then disappear.
Then, only what cannot be erased remains in the mouth.
Is my brother alive?
“… … .”
I still don’t know.
I don’t want to get my hopes up, and if my brother were still alive, he wouldn’t have left Uirok like that.
We were able to check on the orphanage thanks to Kang Tae-woo’s help, but my brother didn’t need to go through such a complicated process.
And the whereabouts of my sister’s sword… .
“That’s it. I can’t go any further.”
Hong Seok-young, who was walking ahead, stopped.
I squinted my eyes. My vision was blocked.
As you go further into the passage, the ceiling is getting lower and lower. You don’t notice it at first, but soon you will notice it when your head touches the ceiling and you have no choice but to bend down.
I looked at the wall over Hong Seok-young’s shoulder.
“Is it blocked?”
“No. But you can’t go in here.”
As Hong Seok-young stepped aside, a small hole at the foot of the stairs became visible. At best… hmm. It would have to be the size of a small dog to pass through.
“… There really should have been a wizard.”
I knew I couldn’t bring him anyway, but I grumbled anyway. Hong Seok-young also picked and laughed, making a sound like the wind was going out.
“Are you trying to tell me you’re from the future?”
“I would like to talk and feel more comfortable.”
“If you want to do it, I won’t stop you.”
I quickly looked back at Hong Seok-young.
Are you in your right mind?
Hong Seok-young scratched his chin.
“If it’s Mr. Kim, I can trust him… If a great wizard like Mr. Kim were to move together, there would be more information that could be found out. Surprisingly, wizards are quite useful.”
“… That’s true. It would have been more comfortable if Mr. Kim had been here even now.”
We had a similar conversation last time.
“Yes. That’s important. Especially since with Mr. Kim’s magic, things like this won’t be blocked. Those vines are really good… I want to grow one myself.”
Hong Seok-young bent his knees and looked inside the hole. I sat down next to him.
“Will we still be carrying magicians around like we do now? Is there no way around things like runes?”
“Runes aren’t omnipotent….”
The inside is hard to see with the light from the glow stick.
“I used drones mainly.”
“…Electronic devices won’t be able to function properly inside the dungeon due to interference from magical powers?”
“Sandra Gamble has filed a number of patents.”
Now I think that patent will be published in the name of this guild… big.
“It seems spacious inside?”
Hong Seok-young put his arm all the way into the hole. He could see a little more inside, but it wasn’t enough to satisfy him.
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“I feel like there’s something there.”
Hong Seok-young extended his hand to me.
“… …Are you comfortable?”
Hong Seok-young nodded, holding the glow stick I gave him.
“It’s nice that he takes care of everything without me having to say anything. That’s why everyone thinks of him as a son, a son.”
“I think that’s a different issue.”
“What’s good is good.”
Hong Seok-young threw a glow stick into the hole.
… bang.
The glow stick rolled around and hit something and stopped.
“A stone? It seems like there’s more space at the back.”
The light doesn’t spread because it’s blocked by the rocks. It’s hard to tell whether the space beyond the wall is wide or narrow.
“There’s some space… should I try breaking it?”
“What are you going to do if it collapses?”
“If it was going to break from this level of impact, it should have collapsed earlier.”
“but….”
As we were discussing what to do, we started hearing strange sounds.
Knock. Knock knock.
Very small. A irritating sound.
Hong Seok-young and I both shut our mouths at the same time, because we could hear sounds coming from beyond the wall.
Tok, tok, tok.
The sound of something very small and light moving around.
“… … .”
Knock. … Knock.
And then there’s this sound of something hitting a wall, and then it’s like something’s hitting a wall.
The sound that had been wandering aimlessly soon found its direction. It was getting closer.
Tata, tata, tata.
Hong Seok-young stepped on the guy crawling out of the hole.
“…young?”
“… … !!!”
It’s the size of a well-fed, well-grown rat. It has four legs and a thick tail. However, it has no fur, and instead has silver skin that’s transparent enough to show off its internal organs. Well, yeah. It looks like a lizard, not a rat.
The sharp teeth, like sawtooth, opened and closed with all their might to attack the foot that was holding them. Hong Seok-young put a glow stick between the opened teeth and examined it here and there. The eyes, which were clearly visible because of the pigmentless skin, were extremely disgusting.
“Yeah… I guess you can’t be dirty from birth.”
“Then do you know what’s inside?”
“I thought it was a rock… Aren’t the eggs small compared to the size of those crocodiles?”
I shrugged my shoulders at the baby crocodile.
“Like fish, they can lay hundreds at once.”
“is it….”
“I don’t know how the structure is over there. Judging from the way the baby popped out here… it didn’t go down, but rather came up this way.”
“Fall off a cliff?”
“There’s no way a passage like this exists for nothing.”
“It’s not even a lion.”
Hong Seok-young simply killed the baby crocodile. There was no need to look into it further.
Hong Seok-young shook his head from side to side after pushing the dead monster’s corpse aside.
“how will we do it?”
“Huh? What?”
“No, should I just break the wall and destroy everything?”
“Why go through all that trouble?”
“No, I thought it might help me clear the dungeon.”
“I think it would take a long time for someone like me to grow to that size.”
Hong Seok-young hesitated for a moment at my words and then nodded. However, he looked inside the hole again with a somewhat uneasy expression on his face.
“These guys should all be wiped out.”
“Since it’s not the nuclear location anyway, let’s write it down in the report.”
Hong Seok-young sat up with a look of regret after hearing those words.
Still, I waited a little longer in case there was another crocodile jumping out like before. After all, there wasn’t much time. Besides, even if I went back, I would have to see that space again. There was nothing but soot there.
After some time had passed, whether I was waiting for the crocodile or simply needed to prepare myself mentally, I spoke to Hong Seok-young.
“Let’s go back.”
“okay.”
This time, Hong Seok-young followed me.
When I raise my head, I see darkness. Even the glow stick I’m holding doesn’t light up the road.
I thought to myself, “That sounds like my situation right now,” and then shook my head.
At least this is a path that you can just follow without any forks in the road. It’s much better than mine.
* * *
“Now that you mention it,
“hmm?”
“Would an explosion of that magnitude completely burn a body?”
I know that, even though it’s a field I don’t know much about. It takes a fairly high temperature for a human body to burn. Kim Yu-hwa’s body wasn’t dried up like a mummy.
Hong Seok-young blinked and looked at me. He was collecting and organizing the stakes and ropes that were driven into the dungeon wall.
Since you can change the dungeon environment, you should collect as many used items as possible in dungeons that you leave without clearing. If you fail to clear, you can only get your body out, but this isn’t like that, so you have to clean it up. I’m a conscientious and righteous hunter.
“Of course not.”
“But you rode it, right?”
“It wasn’t an ordinary explosion, was it?”
“Use runes to increase firepower….”
“no no.”
Hong Seok-young shook his head.
“It’s the same fire as the sword you use.”
“yes?”
“I don’t know how he did it… but he must have done it somehow. It’s a fire filled with magic power, so it wouldn’t be strange for him to have such talent.”
“No, yes?”
“Why are you so surprised?”
Aren’t you surprised then?
“I’m writing… yes?”
That and that… are the same?
Hong Seok-young looked at me as if asking why I was so surprised.
“No, the color of the flame was the same.”
“Most flames are red or blue anyway!”
“It’ll probably be mostly red!”
“But how do you know it’s the same?!”
Blue flames are rarer than red, but not that rare. They come out just by turning on the gas stove.
… No, I think this is a bit off. However, when magic is mixed roughly, it usually turns blue. Even the flames of wizards are usually blue. It’s harder to find other colors.
“The feeling you get when a spark occurs.”
But Hong Seok-young still spoke firmly.
“That’s the same.”
“… … What is that?”
“I said it feels the same.”
“So, what does it feel like?”
“I feel it.”
“What is that…?”
“Oh, if I’m the same, then it’s the same! Well, I’m not saying it’s exactly the same. The direction the sparks come from? Something like that?”
Hong Seok-young scratched his head as if he was frustrated.
“Anyway, that’s similar to what you feel when you create sparks with it! Usually, that feeling is when you use the same item.”
“… … .”
I slowly began to understand Hong Seok-young’s words.
No, should I call this understanding?
Of course, I came to know that there was a side to my father, a man named Hong Seok-young, that I didn’t know about when I went back in time.
But, that.
“… Do you understand?”
“Let’s say that’s true.”
I was instinctively chasing the flow of magical power that I could only know by seeing it with my own eyes?
This is a monster.
I looked at Hong Seok-young with tired eyes.
Although my father has aged as much as the twenty years have passed, he has gained just as much experience.
The head of the Agency for Abilities Management was a bigger monster than the man in front of me.
As poisonous as the raccoon was physically and metaphorically, could it alone have killed my father?
What on earth happened in Seoul that day?
Fantasy, contemporary,