Chapter 32 – District 1 (T2) (5)
8. District 1 (2 tracks) (5)
“Leader…”
“Whoa… Sorry. Seriously, I have no face.”
“No. It’s okay. Really.”
The moment Kaya’s lips bled, and the moment she ate saliva mixed with the blood, she came to her senses. The top of Kaya’s heavy armor, which had been taken off to take care of me while I was suffering from nightmares, was half off, and her shoulders and neck were red all over.
Her face was covered with dried tears, but mine is worse than that.
Anyway, I was sorry that I couldn’t come to my senses and hurt Kaya. So this time I gently hugged her and stroked her.
“Excuse me… Captain?”
“Ah.”
Haha. Great.”
That’s right. It wasn’t just the two of us.
Shay had also taken off her heavy armor. She also had some swelling around her eyes. She took off her armor in a dungeon. It was nonsense, but I was in no position to point it out.
“I was also very depressed, sad, and angry because of the nightmares that suddenly came over me… Seeing that the captain and my older sister love so passionately, did things get better?”
“Sorry. I couldn’t care.”
“No. It was really good. I don’t know the captain, but Kaya’s unnie is responding so actively…”
“Shay.”
“How are you? Lol. It was the first time I saw it, and it is still the same now. It was nice to see.”
Shay laughed hard at Kaya’s embarrassed face. It would be fortunate if you looked at me and Kaya’s actions that way, but… Still, I had to keep what I had to protect and do what I had to do.
After letting Kaya out of her arms, I approached Shay. She was startled, perhaps because she approached suddenly. She didn’t run away though.
“What, Captain?”
“Sorry.”
“Ah, it’s okay. Really!”
“No, you must have had the same nightmares. I couldn’t care, I couldn’t take care of it.”
“…”
“I won’t ask what nightmare you had.”
The same goes for Kaya, and the same goes for Shay. It wasn’t to carelessly dig into or touch other people’s trauma. I think I suffered particularly badly this time, but that doesn’t mean that the nightmares my colleagues suffered were weaker than mine.
“I’m not the one who was the last to come to my senses and showed the most unseemly appearance, but I endured it well.”
“… Captain.”
“Great job.”
I tried to pat Shay on the shoulder as a sign of hard work. She thought it was a level of light skinship that would be enough for a colleague of hers she had just met. But the moment my hand touched her shoulder.
Jjaak-
“Ah.”
“Damn, boss. This, this.”
Shay’s hand darted out and slashed my hand. I wasn’t hurt or hurt, but it was a bit of a shock. But it wasn’t exposed. My mentality was very bad, and emotions could build up from trivial things.
“Ahhh. No. This.”
“Sorry. It may have been unpleasant, but I was thinking of myself again.”
“No, not that…”
I inadvertently did it to Kaya. I regretted it. Shay is not Kaya. She has a different personality from Kaya, and her relationship is different.
[Fear seeps into the hearts of the warriors.]
[Shay mentality -4]
[Kaya mentality -3]
[Eugene mentality -3]
Holy shit.
The aftereffects of not being able to wake up from the nightmare seemed bigger than I thought. Only the monsters didn’t appear here, but they forgot that they were inside the dungeon.
“Kaya, Shay. Armed both. It’s not over yet.”
“Ah. Yes. Leader.”
“… Yes.”
The two quickly put on their armor. Their expressions were the opposite of what I expected. Kaya, who thought she would blame herself for this happening because of her, was calm except for her blushing, and Shay was restless.
I wanted to listen to the story and give mental care, but this place was not a resting place.
“Kaya. Do you have any idea how long it’s been?”
“At least the time I woke up and the time the captain woke up are not very different. 5 minutes at most…”
“I see.”
It was highly likely that the actual time had not passed that far. That would mean that the speed at which your mentality decays when you’re still is that fast.
“Shay.”
“Nye?”
“Please.”
“Ah…”
“Don’t worry. No matter what happens, we can get through it.”
[Box of Horror Result]
Shay put her hand on her box with her slightly trembling hand as I and Kaya looked at each other in silence.
[Despair Followed by Fear]
“… Ah.”
“Aaaaagh!”
“Keep it off!”
[All heroes take damage equal to 30% of their max HP.]
[Shay’s remaining HP 11/17]
[Kaya remaining HP 10/14]
[Eugene remaining health 9/15]
At the same time as the message was moxibusted, a tremendous pang of pain came over my whole body.
… For a while, we couldn’t care less about our mentality and had to struggle in pain.
**
Tumble- Tumble-
The dungeon was basically dark and quiet. Creepy was the default option, and as time passed, frustration and nervousness increased. Such a phenomenon tended to accelerate as the mentality became darker.
Having passed through the ‘box of fear’ worthy of the name, we had no choice but to move forward with both our bodies and minds in tatters.
‘Is it a reaction to eating 1-2 raw?’
It seemed like they were doing a balance patch in real time. It seemed to adjust that this was the highest difficulty play that got it right. As if it made no sense for three level 1 players to gather and catch the elite monsters that appeared in 1-2 so easily, in 1-3 they took a lot of damage without a single fight.
[Mentality]
Shay: -48
Kaya: -45
Eugene: -44
It wasn’t good. Originally, in The Long Terror, the fate of the warriors was tossed around in an instant, but this was too severe. The condition that was brisk after leaving 1-2 came back as a rag.
The worse factor was that the mentality was evenly covered. If anyone’s mentality explodes… You will cross an irreversible river because your mental bursts are serially like sausages.
The silence between us made the air even colder. The cold air stayed on the skin, but the chilly sensation penetrated the tattered mind through the skin. I wondered if it would feel like this if I was standing in the wilds of Siberia wearing only my underwear.
There was no crossroads. So there was no reason to speak out. She went all the way. A trap was triggered in the middle, but luckily I was able to avoid it. Although their mentality was slightly restored, as if they were making fun of us, their mentality immediately went down.
It was frustrating. Clearly, it was I who forbade small talk while on the move. However, the silence before this and the silence now felt different. The atmosphere itself was just somber. It wasn’t good. Right now, I have a strong feeling that I am standing at the initial point of the vicious cycle of mentality collapse.
So, I looked at Kaya first. Sensing my gaze, she turned her head. She tilted her head slightly as if she had something to say, but I shook her head. At first glance, there didn’t seem to be any major problems.
‘Shay.’
Then the problem was Shay.
If the trigger that touched Kaya’s trauma was ‘looking back at her body’, it was most likely that the trigger that touched Shay’s trauma was touching her shoulder.
Comparing before and before going to the dungeon, there was only one thing.
A tap on her shoulder over the armor, and a tap on her bare shoulder.
I blamed myself for wanting things to turn out like this because of a really trivial act, and I suddenly cried.
‘Fuck if I’m doing this too much.’
Is it too greedy to ask for negative characteristics or relationships to appear in the items? No matter how many people say there is no hero without a story, it feels like a ticking time bomb has been opened. At least Kaya solved it without any external threat when she was outside the dungeon, but Shay… What did Sei say?
[Darkness covers the hearts of the warriors.]
[Shay mentality -4]
[Kaya mentality -5]
[Eugene mentality -3]
‘This.’
Because of the mentality decline message, I realized belatedly that the brightness had become considerably darker. Being in a dungeon with low brightness increases the rate of mentality decline, so I had to keep it bright, but this was a mistake even beginners wouldn’t make.
Chi Ik-
I belatedly filled with oil to raise the brightness, but the mentality that had already been blacked out did not return.
‘It’s a mess.’
As the brightness rose, Shay’s figure was glimpsed, but the detailed expression was unknown. But she seemed to know. She was now missing not only her speech, but also her characteristic liveliness.
I don’t know if it wasn’t there from the beginning, but I don’t know if it’s there, so I can feel my presence that much more.
Shay’s changed mood had a bigger impact on her warrior squad than she thought.
‘I’d rather have a battle.’
To the extent that she thought of such nonsense, she was frustrated. It’s like you have a lot of phlegm in your throat. I want to scream out loud But then again, nothing happened.
Fuck you. It’s definitely a good thing, but it’s not bad, but it’s fucked up. No one did anything wrong, but things were just going badly. Clearly, reason was shouting that it was because of the air in the ‘dungeon’ and to wake up, but her sensibility was not.
So she wanted to blame someone.
It’s definitely going wrong, so isn’t it because someone made a mistake? Then I remembered what happened in 1-3.
Okay.
I definitely picked a good one.
After me, I drew -30 mentality and -30% physical strength consecutively.
It wasn’t enough that my mental state was shattered, and even physical pain was applied in that state, so I became very dirty.
What? From being swayed by pure luck, to simply being that way because of bad luck?
So what the fuck, the result is a gutter. Just because you’re unlucky doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Therefore.
Should have done well
Should have tried
Wasn’t it because he rejected the box so badly that the box was also fucked up? Uh? What do you think about it. No?
Fuck! Are you okay! There’s no way it’ll be okay! I remembered something I didn’t want to remember because of someone, something I’d tried to bury!
I’m a dick too, do I have to take on other people’s dick too? Am I a kindergarten teacher? Are you a psychiatrist? Are you a counselor? I’m a dick, and you’re a dick too, why should I be twice as fucked. Uh?
Is it because someone doesn’t know how to hold weight like that? Do you know who likes to keep their mouth shut? Why do you fucking make the atmosphere of the warriors corps into shit? Uh?
Fuck really fuckin’ I’m trembling, fuckin’ bitches… !
Chin-
It was only for a moment that the chain of rage that had lost its way and whose cause was unknown in the first place was cut off.
Blinking my eyes a couple of times, there was a firmly closed door in front of me. Circumstances seemed to be doors 1-4.
“Kaya. Shay.”
“…”
“Kaya?”
“… Yes, boss.”
The one-beat late reply and silence bothered me. There is such a big door, but I didn’t notice it until I got right in front of it. I was worried about why my colleagues didn’t say anything to me, but… My head and chest felt like they were about to explode.
Fuck, I want to chop something with an axe.
He opened the door casually muttering something that would have frightened Han Yujin.
[You have entered the rest area.]
[At the resting place, the effect of the dungeon is very small.]
[The efficiency of eating and resting increases in the rest area.]
“Under…”
A space where you can light a bonfire, and a relatively less shady space.
It was the space I wanted so much, but I swung an ax right away, shattered my bones and scattered my brain…
Brains with an ax…
Brain water…
I now, now… What were you thinking?
