Fell in the Highest Difficulty Dungeon 35

Chapter 35 – District 1 (T2) (8)

8. Zone 1 (2 tracks) (8)

Awkward.

If I had to describe the current atmosphere in one word, it was the perfect word.

It was good until they officially recruited a warrior named Shay once again, talking openly with each other with sincerity.

However, sincerity recognizes its destructive power, but there was also a fact that the aftermath was also formidable.

The silence was just so fucking awkward.

In the meantime, I got self-feedback and became dumb because of something in her, and Shay is probably also feeling the aftermath of her showing her body.

But to stand up and go out, isn’t this my tent?

To break the awkward atmosphere, Shay had no choice but to get out, but instead of going out for some reason, she lay down on her floor again.

[Relationship diagram]
Kaya: 4
Shay: 2

‘It’s nice to have a relationship back together, but it’s not good to sleep like this.’

All the warriors have now are the cheapest tents you can buy in Salem. It meant that it was a tent that could only function as a minimum windbreak and a moisture barrier rising from the floor.

In such a tent, you should be able to rest well if you have a comfortable posture, but you have to be stiff in the corner while paying attention not to touch the skin of the person next to you.

It was really awkward to say it, but I barely said it for the sake of my condition.

“Shay. Well, if you’re done talking, I think you might as well rest in peace now.”

“I see.”

Fortunately, he seemed to understand my meaning.

‘Whoa. At least one thing that bothers me has been resolved, so I’ll be able to rest more comfortably than before.’

However, according to her feelings, even after waiting for more than a minute, Shay was still lying down.

“Shay?”

“You know what? I’ve never seen my back, Kaya unnie either.”

“That, is it?”

“I’ve never seen the Crusader I trained with, nor the Master. Including both women and men. Not to mention touching.”

Ah. Except for a handshake or a light hug while wearing armor.

I added it urgently as if I had left out an important fact, but I still couldn’t understand it. What are you going to do

Then there was the sound of the floor sweeping. It was the kind of sound you hear when something moves on the floor. I was lying still, so this time it’s Shay.

“That’s why I always slept alone.”

Her voice seemed a little closer.

“So if I’m sleeping here today, you’ll be the first to grow up and sleep with someone.”

“Weren’t Kaya at the inn too?”

“I slept alone in my bed.”

That’s right That’s right, how did the flow turn out like this?

“I have no intention of embarrassing the captain. I’ll just lie down.”

That’s what’s difficult You can’t rest comfortably.

“It’s limited to the captain and Kaya, but… I want to endure the light touch of a pat on her shoulder. I want to get used to it, to the point where I don’t care about that much later.”

Efforts are imaginary…

“It is already inappropriate at the point of expressing that I endured it. You don’t have to force yourself to do something that hard.”

“Because I want to.”

“Why?”

“Because the only person who would embrace me as a whole and go to the end was the captain.”

Swoop-

The sound of the floor dragging was heard again.

“Until now, everyone had their own expectations based on my appearance and background. Because it’s Justitia’s Crusader. Because the outer shell looks good enough to look at. But to them, it was just a way to make money for a fortune, and it didn’t fit me, who wanted to destroy heresy itself more than money and wanted to go deep into it.”

Her voice came closer than before.

“Even within the church, I was treated as a half-baked child. That’s too extreme The mentality of the servants following the goddess is too lopsided. Only my teacher, the head of the temple, understood my meaning. If it wasn’t for him, the Crusader might have quit halfway through.”

“Mmm.”

“I had to wear a mask. I had to act. People look at my appearance and predict and expect my behavior and personality. And I’m kind of disappointed. After living such a life… You don’t have to wear a mask. There is a person in front of me who says that I don’t have to act, but that I will achieve what I want together. Even me, wouldn’t I want to be close to someone like that?”

Once more, Shay came closer. She faintly felt her exhalation.

“You swore that you would carry me with you until the end.”

“That.”

“It can not?”

Scratched his head.

They say they want to practice skin-to-skin contact, but what can’t be done?

The only problem is that I’m too tired right now.

Still, thinking of Shay, who might be bringing out the courage of her life, she exercised her patience.

“Ruler.”

“… !!”

I moved a little further in from the corner, then groped next to her and grabbed Shay’s hand. Then she became a wooden doll again.

“I heard that shaking hands was fine?”

“This, this, this is not a handshake, right? Cow, are you holding hands?”

I couldn’t tell if the shaking of my hands was due to a rejection reaction out of fear, or if it was because I was trying to restrain myself from trying to slash my hands.

Ah.

Shay’s hands were louder than her cellphone’s vibration, and she couldn’t sleep.

“Shay.”

“Yes, yes?”

“Can’t I kick or punch me? Did you tell me beforehand?”

“To. Big, boss? What the hell ah.”

I hugged her lightly. She casually put her arm behind her neck and lightly wrapped one arm around her shoulder.

“Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.”

Shay’s body stiffened as she got closer, and she could feel the dampness of her frantic exhalation in her throat.

‘Shit. Is this a real fan?’

Hearing Shay’s breathing made me wonder if she was dying of hyperventilation from her panic. So she nudged her to pull her away… She was not pushed out.

Before I knew it, she was holding my chest.

“Shay. Are you okay?”

“Ha, ha, ha.”

“Shay?”

“Mi, I think I’m going crazy. My heart is beating too fast, my breath is too fast. So.”

“No, so get away for now!”

“Yeah, if you step away from here, everything will be more difficult next time… !”

No, why is it like this?

It was something I really didn’t know.

It’s not like Kaya said anything strange.

I patted her on the back and let her breathe deeply.

“Sup- haa-.”
“Sup- hoo-.”

I could hear Shay’s thumping heartbeat, but she never left me. Her body was still stiff, but… At least she didn’t shake as badly as if her phone vibrated. I continued to gently pat her on the back. Until you fall asleep.

“I’m trying to understand what my sister said. Any.”

Shay, who confirmed that the man in front of her was asleep, held her desire to leave immediately, and she rather clung to him even more.

“You are a very strange person.”

**

Her whole body was heavy. I could barely sleep, but it never felt like a good night’s sleep. Should I say it’s the feeling of camping during training in the cold weather?

‘In a word, it’s fucking shit.’

I thought that I would definitely improve the quality of the tent as long as I could break through the first zone. The area clear reward will be quite salty as the difficulty level has increased.

‘Looks like Shay woke up first.’

After tidying up her hair, she left the tent. Then, I saw the two colleagues rekindling the embers of the bonfire and preparing rice.

“Ah. Leader. Are you awake?”

“Captain? Did you get a good rest?”

“Uh. Did you guys sleep well too?”

It’s the usual tone. She acted like nothing happened yesterday.

Okay. It was this. This was the atmosphere I was looking for.

[Mentality]
Shay: -43
Kaya: -41
Eugene: -42

Even if it was an incomplete sleep, rest was a rest, and the mentality was considerably recovered. Besides, there was still one more chance left.

Eating, that is, eating rice.

When it comes to rice, it’s basically just melted solid soup and dried food, but if you eat it with warm soup, it’s still enough to eat when you’re hungry. If you think of it as combat rations, there was nothing you couldn’t eat.

[Health]
Shay 15/17
Kaya 13/14
Eugene 13/15

[Mentality]
Shay: -33
Kaya: -31
Eugene: -32

When I checked again after eating, my physical strength recovered by 25% of my maximum physical strength, and I was able to recover an additional 10 points of mentality. I thought it was a possible result because I brought plenty of food. In fact, even in The Long Terror, when we arrived at the resting place, there were cases where our physical strength and mentality were lost due to lack of food.

After cleaning up and reorganizing, we stood in front of the exit of the rest area. After resting, it was time to move forward again.

“In the future, there may not be a resting place until we meet the boss of the area. It means this could be our final break.”

“I am prepared.”

“I had a good rest!”

Same with Kaya and Shay. The atmosphere before arriving at the resting place was nowhere to be found. Certainly, if not completely, it showed signs of rejuvenation.

I took this as a lesson. Other than the shame revealed by mentality, I believed that my natural mental barrier would have been strengthened a little.

“Let’s go.”

“Yes! Captain!”

No one is perfect. That’s why there are colleagues, and we support each other’s shortcomings. Just as I supported Kaya in the first playthrough, Kaya and Shay supported me in the second playthrough.

So even if there were problems, we were able to solve them and move forward.

Kiik-

As soon as we got out of the relatively less spooky resting place, the dungeon air welcomed us wildly. It was not that the temperature was absolutely low, but that the atmosphere was. But no one was trembling. Rest and meals gave strength to the warriors.

[The light of hope burns in front of the warriors.]
[Brightness: 98]

He moved forward without hesitation. I was thinking of moving forward as much as possible when my condition was good. There was no problem except for the brightness of the magic torch to never go below 50, and to be careful of the traps that pop up from time to time.

[Kaya avoided the trap.]
[The hero gains a little confidence.]
[Kaya mentality +2]

Even a small mental recovery wasn’t bad.

‘Around this time, it’s time for a fork in the road or the next room.’

It’s been over 30 minutes since I left 1-4. The length of the aisle gradually increased as it passed through the rooms, but considering that the breakthrough speed was faster than before, it was normal for something to come out.

“Captain.”

“Uh.”

Also.

The fact that Shay, who was in the lead, called me must mean he found something. Shay stepped aside and pointed her finger forward. When Kaya and I looked there, there were some junk and long papers scattered around.

‘No way, a book of divine words… ?’

The Divine Words were books or papers that the fear worshipers in the dungeon compared and analyzed the doctrines of existing denominations and their own doctrines in order to make their worship more intense in the setting of The Long Terror. It was an object that could be found in rooms or passageways of elite monsters or higher with a low probability.

“Is it a trap?”

“It seems obviously suspicious that there are papers and books in the dungeon, and in the middle of the aisle.”

“But sister. Is that blocking the aisle?”

“Um…”

Prophecy.

In The Long Terror, it was something I didn’t even pay attention to.

‘There is a high probability that he will go crazy and immediately acquire negative characteristics.’

What would be crazy if there were only the doctrines of the existing church, but the doctrines of the fear worshipers were cleverly mixed, and the official setting was that just reading them would engulf your head in fear and cause you to go crazy in various ways depending on your personality. .

So, normally, I would treat it as junk and say let’s skip it, but the reason I’m hesitating right now is…

‘The Crusader and the Battle Nun. They’re both priests, and they’ve got enough holy water.’

It’s because we weren’t in a good situation right now.

“Let’s go closer and take a look. Because there don’t seem to be any monsters.”

“Yes. Leader.”

If you read it, you will go crazy with a high probability, but on the other hand, if you succeed in Haeju, it was a lottery item that gave a significant buff until the next room for the year and even gave a positive feature with a low probability.

Cleric class + holy water was the worst thing to eat the whole book of prophecy. In other words, there was no risk of going crazy.

‘Let’s revive the momentum.’

Let’s scratch the lottery once.