Fell in the Highest Difficulty Dungeon 8

Chapter 8 – Money and People (1)

4. Money and People (1)

[Relationship diagram]

The relationship diagram is an indicator of your relationship with fellow warriors.

Relationships range from -5 to 5.

Kaya: 1

‘What is this random indicator?’

Kaya just asked me the reason for going to the dungeon. In a very serious atmosphere. But suddenly this indicator has been opened?

Another instability rose. But it was on a different level than what I had experienced before.

The ‘forced expulsion’ gimmick experienced in the box room of fear was within the acceptable range to some extent. In the end, one shitty element was added to the roulette in the box room, and it was enough to say that it was unlucky to draw it from the beginning.

However, this relationship could not be covered in that way. The genre of the game was completely different.

This place is about 500 million light years away from hope, love, and dreams. This place is not strange no matter who searches for it at any time.

In the game 〈 The Long Terror 〉, the side stories of the characters and the chemistry between the characters were almost non-existent. If you get attached to it, you can easily lose track of it, so it was comfortable for gamers and characters who play beyond the 4th wall to deal with each other in a business way.

But what kind of a sign is it that this indicator has come up late?

‘Are you suggesting that we refrain from clearing with the eyes of a rational gamer? Fellow warriors are not consumables, but really like comrades who cross the line of fire together?’

Is it too paranoid to think that it is a paving stone to feel affection for even insignificant colleagues and get closer to them and then make them more frustrated when they die?

Or it could have simply been the unkindness unique to this game…

Either way, I had the optimal clearing route in my head, and as soon as I saw the relationship chart, I felt cold water.

“… Is it difficult to say I understand.”

Did I interpret the silence caused by my analysis and worry as not wanting to answer? Kaya bowed her head and snuggled into the old, worn-out single-seat sofa. She seemed to be trying to get her to sleep somehow.

“What are you doing inconveniently there? Come to bed.”

“Without the captain’s money, I couldn’t have stayed at the inn in the first place. Just not being homeless right now is enough for me…”

“I am not enough. It seems that the viewer is guilty.”

I grabbed Kaya’s hand and forced her up. Even though she was in her normal clothes, she weighed quite a bit, but he led her to her bed without expressing her feelings.

“It’s not too wide, but it’s not so narrow that you can’t sleep together. It’s short, but I went to the dungeon, and at least I should rest as comfortably as possible when I rest.”

“… Is that so.”

“Isn’t it obvious? If I go to sleep like before, my condition will get worse.”

I sighed and lay down on one side. Kaya then carefully lay down. It was a movement to avoid contact with my body as much as possible. As a result, it seemed that he was lying on his side at the end of the bed. It seemed that even the slightest roll or tap would send him to the floor.

Wait. Come to think of it, we slept together one night before entering the dungeon, how did we end up sleeping together?

“Then fall. It’s okay to lie down a little more.”

“It’s okay.”

“Or is it uncomfortable just lying with me?”

“Not like that.”

“Then what is it?”

Kaya muttered with her back still showing.

“Isn’t it better to lie down comfortably than to both lie down uncomfortably?”

“…”

I wondered why Kaya was doing this. If you were going to give that reason, why don’t you get up from the couch in the first place. Don’t you know that it’s more uncomfortable from the point of view of the person who asked to lie down with you when you lie down in an uncomfortable position?

The moment I tried to open my mouth like that, the relationship was flickering.

Kaya: 1

A relationship that is just a number. Usually, the default value for this is 0.

But she asked me the reason for going to the dungeon, and the relationship was released, and as soon as it was released, a 1 appeared in the relationship value, which ranged from -5 to 5.

Does that mean that she is an important question in the relationship between her and me? Or did she sense something from me during her brief time with her?

The unfriendly system didn’t explain that. In some novels I’ve enjoyed, the system is so kind that even the inner thoughts of the other characters come out, or even the system and the main character talk and negotiate, and the goal is changed.

The system I went through was really minimal, I felt like I just threw in the explanation that I had to do and let it go.

Write.

‘Before going to the dungeon, when we slept together, Kaya, who was lying next to her without any inspiration, now has this attitude… Could it be because I was silent about the question earlier?’

My head hurt. My 〈 The Longer Terror 〉 has over 3,000 hours of playtime, but that doesn’t include a single minute of what’s called a good game. I was not confident. I had never touched a game like Miyeonsi, where sesame seeds were poured and sweet honey flowed. Real or 2D!

However, I had a vague feeling that she wouldn’t be able to spend the night with her.

‘Can I trust my instincts, as I’ve never been in a fucking relationship and don’t even know what a woman is?’

Instead of forcing her to lie down, she just opened her mouth.

“Do you know why the corps of warriors was named like this?”

“…”

She suddenly opened her mouth and there was no answer from her, but I could see Kaya’s body twitching slightly. Confirming that she was listening, I continued to mutter.

“Heroes Against Terror. Warriors in the face of fear. I wanted to form a team of warriors who would go through dungeons with warriors like me. It’s a crazy word for a horse that’s only a level 1 newbie who’s neither a legendary hero nor a warrior with outstanding strength… I feel alive when I try to conquer that dungeon.”

The heart of this character, Hendrick, and the heart of Han Yu-jin on Earth were properly mixed. I couldn’t reveal that I’d cleared this dungeon over a hundred times and failed several times over. But the last words were sincere.

I liked this game and it was fun.

Still, isn’t it possible to say that entering a feared dungeon is good or fun? It was necessary to crush it properly so that it could be interpreted on its own.

Aren’t we still in a relationship where we’d have to reveal everything about our signatures?

“I don’t think I can do anything about that fear that has already become like a natural phenomenon. Just because there is a heat wave unprecedented in history, can the blazing sun drop the sun because it resents it? Can a flood fill the hole in the sky? You can’t make the land cry out in an earthquake.”

“…”

I could see Kaya’s body moving slightly this way. She could also see her ears, which were more pointed than humans and less pointed than those of elves, pricked in this direction.

“I don’t know what it would be like to say this in front of a nun, but I personally don’t like fate. Even if I try to die, if fate is the opposite of my intentions, so it must go that way, there is nothing more futile and fucked up than that. But there are exceptions. It feels like ‘destiny’ that I have to conquer that dungeon together with the band of warriors I have formed.”

“Captain, wasn’t it your first time just like me? But how…”

Kaya swallowed her words. What was she trying to say

“Going to the dungeon was the first time I acknowledged my destiny. The corps of warriors is also destiny, and Kaya, who joined the corps for the first time, is also your destiny. You can say that the warriors’ team is a community of destiny.”

“Fate, community…”

“I want to form a corps of warriors with people like me.”

I repeated what I said earlier and shut my mouth. How, I wish it was well packaged.

I rolled my eyes to the side and smiled involuntarily.

Kaya was completely straight. So, she ended up with her right half touching my left half.

I was taken aback by the feeling I felt through the thin clothes.

“I did not know that the captain had such a deep meaning in his heart. Thank you for confiding in me, and I’m sorry again. Instead of showing a trustworthy side, I only showed a disappointing side…”

Kaya let out a small sigh.

“This is the first time the word fate and destiny community has touched me like this. Perhaps it was this that made my heart pound when I left the monastery and when I met the captain for the first time.”

‘No, maybe it’s just because I’m nervous and nervous.’

How come, the packaging is too good for a picture?

“I am grateful for accepting me, a mongrel with an ugly appearance and poor talent, without hesitation to the fate of the captain. I am, for the first time since I was born, if my existence can be helpful to someone… I feel like I can do anything with a happy heart.”

“Does it look ugly? You? Are you the prettiest woman I’ve ever seen?”

“… …”

‘Write. Even I did not know.’

Was the tackle I made unknowingly a feeling of being kicked out immediately? Kaya froze, leaving her mouth open in a daze.

‘No, I don’t know anything else, but I can’t stand being called ugly for that appearance. Then I won’t even be able to eat half-dried squid.’

She didn’t mean it, but she said her words quite cheesy, and it was difficult for Rinna and Kaya, who still couldn’t get over her astonishment, to follow her further.

‘Fuck, it’s a compliment, but why is the atmosphere like this?’

I closed my eyes to escape this awkward atmosphere.

I didn’t even know if someone was watching me for a long time after that.

**

[The ‘Instance Dungeon’ item has been unlocked.]
[An instance dungeon is another type of dungeon that exists in the vicinity of Salem or inside the ‘dungeon’, separate from the ‘dungeon’.]
[The instance dungeon can be entered together even if it is not the same warrior team.]

“It’s fucking different. What is this? If you’re going to tell me, please let me know as soon as possible…”

“Are you awake, Captain?”

“Oh, Kaya. When did you wake up…”

I was swearing once again at the aggravating system message, but I heard Kaya’s voice, which seemed to have more energy than yesterday or the day before yesterday, and I turned my head there and froze.

“Before earning money in earnest, I want to stop by the Salem branch… I want to ask the captain’s permission.”

Kaya, who was wearing a different type of nun’s outfit, not the usual one from yesterday, disturbed my eyes.

“Is it ‘seriously’?”

“… Yes? Yes. I am serious.”

Nod-

I nodded my head more seriously and sternly than at any time since I fell into this world.

“Since that happened, let me go too.”

“Yes? But.”

“Isn’t that going to take a while? Well, if it’s personal, I can’t help it.”

Nod-

Kaya silently nodded her head. Her gray hair rippled.

“Before that, would you like to leave first? Get ready and I’ll go right away.”

“Yes. Leader. I will be waiting for you on the first floor.”

After she left, she muttered as she lifted the covers.

“Calm down…”

It was fortunate that I was the type that didn’t spill coffee.