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Countermeasure meeting (1)
Finally, Han Tae-kyung has gone crazy.
I couldn’t think of anything else.
What was the problem? Calling Han Tae-kyung as a gatekeeper? Leaving him alone to guard the gate?
But Han Tae-kyung was always strange… . I still believed that he wouldn’t do anything foolish when it came to dungeons, but it seemed that it was time to revise that evaluation.
“No, listen to me.”
Han Tae-kyung waved his hands wildly as if he was being treated unfairly. It was an exaggerated and reckless gesture.
If you look closely, Han Tae-kyung’s actions are exaggerated, perhaps because his favorite comics are American comics. Is that why he got along well with the kids there whenever he was sent to the US?
I took my gaze away from Han Tae-kyung.
“Then first… should I report this?”
Hong Seok-young also turned his head.
“I can’t not report it.”
“But it’s a bit too much to say it like that.”
“I’ve never heard of anyone seeing that guy before… How on earth did he manage to hide?”
“We didn’t even notice.”
“That’s what I’m saying!”
According to the dungeon raid procedure, you must report when a new monster is discovered inside the dungeon.
But isn’t the situation delicate? We have something to check inside that dungeon. Did Alex Hope tell us about this dungeon because he knew that there were fairies inside the dungeon? Are those fairies related to the ark? No, they may be related, but what kind of relationship are they?
Why did my older sister enter this dungeon and come out after failing to conquer it?
“I’m not just saying that!”
Above all else, if you want to clear the dungeon, you need to catch a fairy that raises waves outside of those standards!
Hong Seok-young and I, two people, won’t be enough. Even if Kim Chae-min is there, I don’t think we can stop that mud wave. We need more wizards. Or… .
“I think it would be a good idea to ask Mr. Kim.”
“Wizard?”
“Yes. Even the teacher can overcome that on his own….”
I paused for a moment and looked at Hong Seok-young.
“Do you have it?”
“hmm….”
Hong Seok-young nodded his head from side to side.
“I didn’t feel any magical power from the mud itself… so let’s assume it’s just normal mud.”
Hong Seok-young muttered something as if he was calculating something, then continued.
“If you just want to kill without worrying about anything, you can do it.”
“…Ah yes.”
“No, the one who asked was Heejae, so why are you looking so diffident?”
“What did I see and how did I see it?”
“Like that now!”
Hong Seok-young shouted with a serious expression. It’s not that scary.
“Excuse me, could you please listen to what I have to say?”
“Anyway, you can kill me.”
“Okay. What should we do?”
“What should I do?”
I asked Hong Seok-young the opposite question. Hong Seok-young thought for a moment and then answered.
“Should I try catching it once and if that doesn’t work, kill it?”
“As soon as you enter, you start making waves again.”
“It feels a bit awkward to just kill him.”
While Hong Seok-young and I were both thinking about something, there was a brief moment of silence when Han Tae-kyung couldn’t stand it anymore and shouted.
“So I’m going to go in and take a look!!”
Finally, Hong Seok-young took interest in Han Tae-kyung.
“You’re not just saying that?”
“You were listening to everything! Why did you ignore me?”
“No, because you’re talking nonsense.”
“I’m also a pretty knowledgeable hunter!”
Han Tae-kyung pouted his lips, as if he was quite upset. The Han Tae-kyung I know is the kind of person who would talk nonsense regardless of whether others ignored him or not, and would only stop when his excitement had completely died down.
I keep making the same mistakes. That Han Tae-kyung doesn’t exist. That Han Tae-kyung and this Han Tae-kyung are so consistent that I treat them the same, unlike the kids.
“Where can I go and not be ignored like this…?”
“hmm.”
“My senior called me and I came after arranging everything else, but the school didn’t ask me to do anything… .”
I sneaked behind Hong Seok-young.
Hong Seok-young tried to grab me urgently, but this really wasn’t something I should be doing. What about the kids, Han Tae-kyung?
Although Tae-kyung Han calls me “senior” because we’re colleagues, I shouldn’t forget that. Tae-kyung Han is the one who picked a fight with me to see if I deserve to be called his senior…
So isn’t it Hong Seok-young’s responsibility to bring Han Tae-kyung here? If I’m responsible… Well, I won’t deny that I was a little harsh to Han Tae-kyung because of old memories.
No, well. Park Seo-hyun and Oh Hyun-wook had big differences in appearance, but Han Tae-kyung didn’t have any of those differences. The Awakened ones age slowly to begin with… Of course, that doesn’t mean they can avoid twenty years of time, but Han Tae-kyung wears those damn sunglasses as if they were his own body. There were even joking rumors that those sunglasses were tattoos.
Han Tae-kyung with sunglasses and a pink cat-like painting is so familiar to me. Honestly, I still get goosebumps whenever Han Tae-kyung calls me senior. I probably will never get used to it.
“Even if it’s like that at school, you shouldn’t ignore what I say when clearing a dungeon, Senior. You’re the one who taught us that we should always listen to what a hunter has to say, no matter how trivial or ridiculous the suggestion may be.”
“Ugh… .”
“I know that you took me as your disciple, but still! How much time has it been since I, Han Tae-kyung, have known you, my senior!”
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That annoying weirdo Han Tae-kyung is now in his twenties, younger than me. He lives for the pleasure of bullying his teenage sister. And he’s crazy about a certain cat character.
“Yeah… It was my fault. I apologize.”
The good thing about the old man is that he is a very neat person.
As he is capable, he also knows very well that he can do things that others cannot. In terms of mental aspects, he often makes thoughtless remarks like, “Why can’t I do that?”, but when it comes to physical aspects, such as combat, he is quick to understand. That’s because it is a field that he takes very seriously.
That’s why, even if you say things like, “Leave it all to me!” full of pride, you don’t ignore the criticism that says, “There’s a problem with that part!”
Because everything happens in the dungeon.
“I apologize too, Mr. Han.”
I also apologized to Han Tae-kyung. There was nothing wrong with what Han Tae-kyung said. Even if it was Han Tae-kyung, I couldn’t ignore what he said about the dungeon.
“Uh… yes.”
Han Tae-kyung looked back and forth between me and Hong Seok-young with a trembling face. He had tried to apologize out of frustration, but his expression said that he had not expected to receive an apology so quickly.
Even though I said I’ve known him for a long time, I still don’t know Hong Seok-young.
“Ahem. Right. That… You said that when you said you were going into the dungeon, it wasn’t just a lie, right?”
Hong Seok-young coughed a few times to clear the air.
“Tell me. But, if you say something that won’t work… .”
“I’m Han Tae-kyung! I’m not that kind of thoughtless man!”
“Yeah, yeah.”
Hong Seok-young pretended not to notice the sunglasses he wore even in the completely dark mountains and the tablet PC case covered in cat stickers of unknown origin.
Han Tae-kyung now spoke in a cheerful voice, as if his mood had completely lifted.
“From what I’ve heard from you two, isn’t it true that the guy inside was hiding well and showed his true colors because he thought it might be dangerous?”
“… Well, you could say that.”
Actually, I still don’t know what he was so angry about.
Burning the golem? No, even if that were true, if we had just stayed still, we would have passed without knowing about the fairy. We didn’t go in to raid the dungeon, either.
… I thought they would attack since they were heading straight for the nuke.
“And the waves… I don’t know what the waves specifically refer to, but they unleashed a tremendous attack that forced the two of you to run away.”
“I feel uncomfortable when you say ‘run away’.”
“sure?”
“It was a retreat point for operational purposes. I said we could have captured it if we had wanted to?”
Hong Seok-young said as if his pride was hurt.
“Ignore what the principal says. So?”
“Oh, yes. I can catch it like you said, but I can’t do that because I have something to check.”
“Because we need to check on the illegal awakened group. Whether they’re in the dungeon or not, there might be other clues.”
“Yes.”
Han Tae-kyung nodded.
“So that means I have to go in.”
“… … .”
“… … .”
I asked Han Tae-kyung while remaining as calm as possible.
“So… can you explain the abbreviated form as well?”
“Yes? Wouldn’t it be easier if I go in and check?”
“therefore….”
“What does he want to do?”
“yes?”
Han Tae-kyung shrugged.
“I’ve caught a few fairies in Europe, and the smart ones are really smart. I almost died a few times.”
“… … .”
“In my experience, people who change like that usually fall into two categories.”
Han Tae-kyung raised one finger.
“One of them was just trying to catch and kill the hunter who came in, but I missed.”
I frowned. Hong Seok-young also shook his head.
As we started to return to the gate, the waves slowed down. The area around the gate was even left empty on purpose. It was a signal to anyone who saw it to get out of this dungeon quickly.
“Then there’s another one. This one is really dangerous.”
Han Tae-kyung added one finger. A second.
“Don’t even think about entering this dungeon again, because there’s such a scary guy here.”
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“That makes sense.”
Hong Seok-young took Han Tae-kyung’s side.
“I’ve never experienced anything like this before, because I kill anyone who does this, whether they’re a fairy or something else… .”
“It sounds like I’m bragging, so don’t go around saying things like that.”
“… … .”
“Don’t be proud.”
“…I see, really!”
Anyway, Hong Seok-young continued speaking.
“Fairy dungeons have a high failure rate. Among the dungeons I’ve conquered, there were some that I failed at like that. I didn’t really care about the ecology of the monsters, so I never once thought about why they would do something like that.”
“Just kill them all?”
“hmm.”
“conceit….”
“I said I understand!”
The argument that Han Tae-kyung made based on the evidence he mentioned earlier is simple.
If you go in and they attack you, the fairy is warning you not to come in, or else she has another plan.
Something….
hmm.
It seems nonsensical, but it works. Isn’t it? Or is it the other way around? A subtle sense of unease lingers in my chest.
It’s like when the management office comes with a strange report saying that it’s a strategy that new recruits will use to finish off. It seems to make sense, but it’s also strange, and if you look for logical flaws, you can find them, but when you actually try to point them out, you hesitate because they don’t seem completely wrong… That kind of feeling.
“… I am completely against it.”
“why?!”
“Because it’s too dangerous.”
I shook my head.
“If you want to let people know that this is a dangerous dungeon, there’s a simpler way.”
“yes?”
“You just have to kill all the hunters that come in.”
“… … .”
“I don’t want to take risks. I’d rather have Mr. Hong go in and kill them.”
Han Tae-kyung, who was about to say something, closed his mouth. I waited for a moment, wondering if he had agreed with what I said, and Han Tae-kyung put his fingers under his sunglasses and pretended to wipe his eyes.
“You’re so worried about me… Senior, you’re a good person. This Han Tae-kyung, I’m very touched.”
Fantasy, contemporary,