Chapter 599 – Mine
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Even though I was away for a few days, my small room didn’t seem to have changed much.
What will change?
Even if there was a thief, there was nothing to take.
In the first place, only my body came here.
The day was setting, and the room was dark.
There were no lights or anything.
‘Should I at least light a candle?’
But there was no candle.
Where do I need to get supplies separately?
Or is it getting dark, so I should just sleep?
Of course, I had a body that was unaffected by darkness, so it didn’t matter whether the room was bright or dark.
I lay down on the bed, the only resting place and furniture in the bleak small room, with my hands clasped together as a pillow.
“It’s small…”
The bed is small.
Feet go outside the bed.
The gap feels even bigger because just a few hours ago, I was rolling around in a big, soft bed, surrounded by female bodies.
Even if you complain that the bed is small, it doesn’t seem like they will change it…
As I stare blankly at the ceiling, the haughty face of Cowra, whom I just met, comes to mind first.
Her advice may be foolish.
But she didn’t feel bad.
That too is interest.
If she’s not interested in me, there’s no reason for her to act like that.
Judging from the fact that she came and worried about me, she was a person with a secret tsundere temperament.
“Is this… Green light?”
〈Would you like to keep drinking kimchi soup? 〉
Cosmos is denying reality.
〈Who is denying reality? 〉
Next time, it might not be a bad idea to invite someone into the room.
Prepare some delicious snacks.
To do that, would it be a good idea to bring in at least a small table?
The bed is king-size…
Is the room too small?
I need to move…
〈Do you want to open a newlywed house? 〉
Cosmos puts the brakes on my delusion, which is racing forward with no end in sight.
“Hmm…”
As I’ve been spending more time alone since being captured by Zephyria’s army, I feel like my useless delusion ability has only increased.
During the three days she was out, she drank cool water without sleeping at all, so it seemed like she could sleep comfortably without worrying about wet dreams.
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I was having a deep sleep for the first time in a long time… When I felt a stinging gaze for some reason.
When I lifted my eyelids, I could see the face of a beautiful woman looking down at me.
The woman wearing a nun’s uniform was Nora, the head of the Helena Liberation Front.
-Kkkkuk
When I look at the bright room, it seems like the day is bright.
Just as the question of why she was here began to arise, Nora’s mouth opened.
“Maybe you should lock the door?”
The reason I found my room so easily was because they saw the number on my jumpsuit… I don’t remember closing and locking the door when I came in yesterday.
The lock in this room is not automatic.
It is manual.
It was a classic key lock and latch that was hard to find even on Earth.
I can’t even remember the last time I tried to lock down a door.
‘I’ll automatically do the locking.’
They are petty guys.
“We decided to go mining magic stones together, but what if you’ve been sleeping until now?”
Yesterday, Nora and I parted ways with a promise to mine magic stones together.
The exact meeting time has not been set.
I just asked to meet at the front gate of the accommodation in the morning.
In the end, it seemed like Nora couldn’t wait and came up to my room.
“Did you wait?”
“Yes! Making her lady wait. Isn’t that too much?”
“I’m sorry.”
If I had a cell phone, I would have set an alarm…
This is all Gregory’s fault.
I got out of bed, cursing Gregory in my mind and scratching my head.
And I picked up the pickaxe that was lying in a corner of the room.
“Eggplant.”
“You don’t even wash your face?”
I didn’t even have any eye bags…
And is there any point in tax revenue if we are going into dusty mine shafts anyway?
It’s not like I’m going out on a date, and I didn’t feel the need to.
And I took a shower yesterday.
… In the entertainment district.
It hasn’t even been 24 hours since you showered.
“I’ll go and wash up… Are you planning on going to the mine in that outfit?”
I asked, looking through Nora’s clothes.
Nora is carrying a small cross-body bag in her nun’s uniform and holding a heavy mace in her hand.
Mace, that’s right… A nun’s uniform is a bit of inappropriate attire for entering a mine.
“What about my clothes? You said these clothes don’t attract dust and are waterproof? By the way, is it time for you to worry about my clothes, Bark?”
Nora looks me up and down with an expression asking who is pointing out who.
A human wearing an orange prison uniform received as supplies and carrying a pickaxe… And a beautiful woman wearing a nun’s uniform.
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How… I can feel a significant status gap.
“Are you going to keep wearing that prison uniform? How about buying a set of clothes?”
I don’t think she knows that I’ve borrowed up to the limit. And the fact that she squandered most of that money.
As her man, it’s embarrassing to tell her wife that she doesn’t have money.
“Hmm… Then let’s leave.”
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Nora, the head of the Helena Liberation Front, approached me asking to find Helena together.
Her first impression wasn’t very good, but she had no reason to refuse an offer that seemed to scratch an itch, so she accepted.
‘Is Nora trustworthy?’
Actually, that’s something she should be more worried about than me.
Because Nora recruited me, not me.
She seemed certain, but objectively speaking, recruiting me was a risky move.
If I let her Karaz manager know that I had received such an offer, it would be her who was screwed, not me.
I am her first meeting.
But what do you believe?
‘If you think about it that way, it seems like she can be trusted a little?’
Of course, it is dangerous to take action to find Helena right now.
Nora had the same thought as me.
She knew that she would need to be quiet for a while, so she decided to go mining for magic stones together.
After spending some time with her, she thought it would be okay to bring Suni over if she felt trustworthy.
I followed Nora and headed to the magic stone mine.
I don’t know the geography of this city.
I remembered well the road to the entertainment district.
“Are we heading to the eastern mine?”
“Yes, I plan to go there.”
There were two locations for Maseok mining: east and west.
“What about the western mine?”
“I heard that the western mine is more dangerous than being able to mine high-quality magic stones? This is your first time, Bark, right? It would be better to think about the western mine after experiencing the eastern mine first.”
“Have you ever mined magic stones?”
“Yes, I did it once at the eastern mine.”
I asked Nora, a senior miner, various things about the mine.
It was also convenient to have a guide.
“That’s the mine management office. You can only enter the mine through that management office.”
Nora said, pointing to the long wall and the rectangular stone building in the middle.
I could see people entering the building one after another.
I felt like I was in Pantera.
This is because I saw people wearing classic protective gear and holding sharp-edged cold weapons.
Everyone is dressed as if they are going to battle rather than mining.
It’s only natural that monsters appear inside the mine. Mining magic stones also required survival.
Inside the mine management office, many people were crowded since morning.
Looking at the anklets on their left ankles, almost all of them looked like prisoners.
And I also see people wearing eye-catching orange prison uniforms like me.
For some reason, they were wandering around here and there, looking shabby and without proper equipment.
What are they doing?
Did you notice my questioning gaze?
Nora whispers in my ear.
“These are people who, while wandering around the village, were robbed of the money they had borrowed by thugs or pickpockets.”
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Suddenly, I think of the gangsters I met in the back alley a few days ago.
First, the problem is giving the loaned money in a bundle of cash. Prisoners who carry wads of money are pretty good prey for them.
On the contrary, I took money from the gangsters… But people who had no combat experience, like those who accessed Pantera, would have been helplessly robbed.
What’s more unfair than anything is that I’m being looked at similarly to those pathetic guys.
〈Why are you feeling unfair? You got robbed too? 〉
Cosmos scratches my insides once again.
‘What! I didn’t rob the money, I spent it!’
〈Ugly spirit wins.〉
“…”
“It’s good to get training when you first come here. What do you plan on doing?”
Nora asked me.
“Education? What education?”
“Well… It’s a simple video education. It contains information such as how to mine magic stones in a mine, things to be careful of, and rules to follow.”
“Is that education really necessary?”
“It’s freedom.”
“Did you get it?”
“Yes, it’s not a bad thing to get an education in terms of getting information.”
“Then, let’s pass.”
Korean gamers don’t do tutorials.
And Nora has already received an education.
All she had to do was go with her and get the information she needed at the time.
“Okay. Then, let’s go straight to the mine.”
As I was following Nora, I saw an unusual sign.
〚Slave house.〛
“What is that?”
