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Muddy (3)
A dungeon deep in the mountains of Jirisan. No matter how much the government tries to manage it, dungeons like this are not managed in the first place.
The directive from the management is to close it immediately.
Resources… come out, but they aren’t that valuable, and they can be easily replaced. Since they’re S-class, they’re not hard to conquer, so is there a reason to keep them? It’s easier to just close them and forget about them.
Look, this dungeon in Jirisan also had a lot of illegal trespassing when we came. Now that I look at it, these… they might have been left behind by the corpses, but there must have been people who really sneaked in and just harvested and left. Considering that the existence of fairies was unknown, that must be the case.
If it weren’t for Tati, we would have gone around the dungeon and destroyed the core. There was no need to leave the suspicious dungeon. After all, once the dungeon is closed, there’s no way to know who raided it. You could think it was naturally destroyed.
But Tati’s words changed the situation a little.
“this?”
“huh!”
I looked at the bastard’s face. Hong Seok-young stroked his chin.
“Do you know how to draw?”
“…Why all of a sudden?”
“You can’t take pictures with your cell phone camera inside the dungeon. Or is it not possible to take pictures with that?”
Hong Seok-young pointed to my magic watch.
I shook my head.
“No filming allowed.”
That was in the plan, too. It ended up just as a concept. Maybe if I had a little more time, I could have done it. Right now… there’s nothing I can do with just one magic watch.
It would be faster to just pester them about gambling.
“Have you ever wanted to try art?”
This old man is persistent.
“I can not.”
“no….”
“I don’t think I can draw this face properly. I think it would be faster to go to America and look up the identities of the members of Lehman’s gang.”
Hong Seok-young listened to what I said and thought for a moment.
“That’s a good idea.”
“This wallet is black with gold hardware… Yes, that one. There must be an ID card inside.”
“good.”
Of the hunters who entered and exited this dungeon, Tati clearly killed them with a purpose.
If it was a monster that killed humans who entered the dungeon, then the story would be easy. However, Tati only dealt with Heejae, the ones who chased our brother.
What on earth did you teach that monster?
… was honestly the first thought that came to my mind.
Second, why was my brother being chased?
No, there are many reasons to be chased. What happened to my brother? Did he just sit there and do nothing and then suddenly disappear? He cooperated with Kim to escape the ark and that’s how it happened.
We don’t know exactly under what circumstances Kim died, but he probably didn’t die suddenly from a heart condition or something.
Mr. Kim was caught. His internal collaborator was caught too.
But what I don’t understand is… there was a cleaner in the lab, that is, inside the ark, who was in charge of such work. But why was this kid chasing his brother?
“Tati.”
While I was looking at the dead human with a subtle expression, Hong Seok-young started asking Tati various questions on my behalf.
“Is this the first human to come in?”
“huh?”
“Are you the one who chased your friend first?”
“Ah… the very first. Yeah. The first.”
“Can you tell me what the situation was? I think it might help me find this guy’s brother.”
It was a bit odd to say such things to a monster, but Tati had a meek expression on his face.
“Hijae, you said there are humans.”
“Human? What kind of human?”
“The human being that is chasing me.”
“this guy?”
“huh.”
The words that he could find his brother were like magic words to that monster. Tati said, settling the mud.
There is none of the wariness that was initially shown.
“After that, they kept coming… they kept coming.”
“What about your brother? Did you come in after chasing your brother?”
Tati shook her head.
“No. But, Hijae, I told you. Humans, they’ll come again. And.”
“and?”
“Just kill them.”
What on earth have you been doing with Kim Yu-hwa, hyung?
“Hyung, you keep coming to the dungeon too?”
“I came. I came.”
Tati’s expression darkened.
Eventually, the footsteps stopped.
It’s starting to make sense why Alex Hope wrote about this dungeon. If Henry Lehman kept sending people to some dungeon in Far East Asia, even Alex Hope would think it was strange.
Oh, I don’t know.
If I could meet my brother again, I would like to ask him what on earth he was thinking while doing this.
Hong Seok-young knew my complicated feelings and ruffled my hair without saying a word.
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“…What about gloves?”
“ah.”
“Do you know what you just touched?”
“Just wash, just wash.”
This guy is real.
It just doesn’t give me any room to linger.
* * *
“Hijae, find it for me.”
Tati escorted us to the gate. The mud, which had been quiet for a while, was dripping again. I don’t know where the mud was coming from.
However, when I first saw it, it did seem to fit the stereotype that comes with the name ‘fairy’.
But now?
If you didn’t know her original form, you wouldn’t be a fairy…
“Tati.”
Why does a monster’s appearance change so drastically?
I’m not a monster ecologist, so what would I know?
“huh?”
“Your mud. You didn’t do that last time.”
“Mud?”
“Yeah. It’s flowing now.”
Tati looked where my fingers were pointing. The mud that covered her entire body was leaving dark stains on the floor, as if it was coming out of her pores.
Tati looked at me quietly.
<@*%$*!!>
ah.
A voice that reaches straight into your head.
A voice as clear as the sound of a bird. Tati smiled.
“That’s why.”
“…what?”
“hi.”
Tati pushed my back. I wasn’t paying much attention, so I ended up getting pushed towards the gate.
Before I could react, my vision blurred.
“… … .”
Came out of the gate.
This is the first time I’ve been treated like this by a monster. Was I not paying attention enough? Damn. I think I’m going to get scolded by Hong Seok-young.
I thought about going back into the dungeon, but Hong Seok-young followed me out of the gate. Hong Seok-young looked at me and was about to say something, but then he looked at my face and smirked unpleasantly.
“Do you know what I’m going to say?”
“… Always be alert inside the dungeon.”
“Just because you can understand doesn’t mean you can trust it.”
“Considering that, weren’t you treated by the teacher well?”
Hong Seok-young clicked his tongue and shook his head.
“That’s because there is information to be obtained.”
“…what if there is no information?”
“Honestly? If I wasn’t talking about you and your brother, I would’ve blown it the second I opened my mouth.”
In contrast to his cheerful voice, his eyes are extremely cold.
I nodded. This is the Hong Seok-young I know. Hong Seok-young checked the items he had taken out and collected from the body. Most of them were in the form of wallets. They were not noticeable and did not take up much space when carried in the arms. I also attached them to my wallet.
“I didn’t know they’d come out here.”
“Same thing. I didn’t know they would take the body out like this.”
“Yes.”
“I figured you might have heard something from your brother….”
Hong Seok-young made a somewhat suspicious expression.
“Why are you looking at me with that face?”
“No. I think your brother. Hmm.”
“He died?”
“… I think that’s not very likely.”
“I guess so.”
I took off my gloves. It felt awkward to put them back into the subspace, and it was a bit awkward to put them back on.
“I told you from the beginning. I wanted to find my brother. I never thought I would be able to find him alive.”
“… … .”
“If I had even a little bit of faith that my brother was alive, I wouldn’t have acted like a big brother to Irok.”
“… I guess so.”
Hong Seok-young opened the subspace of the guy who was first caught by Tati. The logos of famous brands flashed. The first thing Hong Seok-young took out was… .
“This looks like an ark item.”
It’s a pitch-black mask.
“It’s what the janitors at the lab used to wear. It’s shaped like an animal.”
“Your brother was a crow, right?”
“yes.”
What Hong Seok-young took out was a lion mask. The crude mane was ridiculous.
Hong Seok-young put his mask aside and searched through the subspace.
Something completely unexpected popped out.
“…passport?”
“What? Did that guy enter the country officially?”
“Even if they are part of a gang, if they don’t have a criminal record, they should be able to enter the airport without any problems….”
“In a way, it hit a snag.”
“Is that guy’s passport correct?”
Hong Seok-young threw his passport at me. Looking at the photo, it seems to be about right. Tati must have been very rough.
I looked through my passport. I don’t know if the immigration control in this era is the same as I knew. But the procedures for Awakened people entering the country probably haven’t changed much. They have to undergo stricter screening than civilians, and this guy… what was his name? Stephen Fowler?
If that mafia or gangster named Stephen Fowler really entered Korea through proper procedures.
“What are you looking for?”
Of course, you would have received an entry/exit stamp after the screening was completed.
“July 2, 2019.”
“hmm?”
“The date Stephen Fowler entered Korea.”
“Is that me?”
Special cases like Hong Seok-young will get a free pass, but regular hunters will get one of course. The date is stamped on the immigration stamp.
I waved my passport around. It seemed like I had been traveling around the world diligently. It was impossible for me to investigate this… Should I tell Im Ji-seon?
Before I knew it, Hong Seok-young had come over and was looking at my passport next to me.
Hong Seok-young narrowed his eyes.
“This guy has a license, right?”
“Looking at your passport rank, you’re a hunter.”
“… Then is it him?”
“Huh? Do you know him?”
Hong Seok-young took my passport from me. Hong Seok-young nodded while looking closely at the page with the entry and exit stamps, the photo, and the name.
“I don’t know him, but I’ve heard of him. The timing is right, so I think it’s him.”
“… … ?”
“Around that time, there was chaos because a hunter from America went missing.”
“…ah.”
“I didn’t come here to raid dungeons, I was just here to sightsee. But then I suddenly disappeared… It caused a lot of trouble.”
“How did you conclude?”
“How did it happen? We fought like dogs because we didn’t want to take responsibility for each other, and then we buried each other.”
I looked blankly at Hong Seok-young.
Hong Seok-young jumped as if he was stabbed by my gaze.
“What should I do!”
“I didn’t say much.”
“You don’t look like you’re saying anything….”
Hong Seok-young stuck out his mouth and grumbled.
“If there was evidence that he went into a dungeon, it would be different. If the dungeon break had been triggered, it would be different. But he told everyone around him that he was going sightseeing, and when he got there, he just went sightseeing. What would a person like that suddenly disappear? What would he be thinking?”
“Murdered?”
“… If he was a civilian, that might be possible, but he’s a hunter.”
Hong Seok-young sighed.
“Russia was in the middle of implementing a hunter migration policy. If they went there, it would have been a headache, so they decided to quietly let it go.”
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