Chapter 1154 – 1154. Savior Of The Academy
[What do we do now?]
Makina, in her spirit form, asked.
I looked around the musty warehouse. The inside was barren. Through the window, I could see the man who was monitoring us.
My mana was sealed. It was the effect of the handcuffs. Therefore, it was impossible to materialize Makina.
‘Can you get out of the barrier?’
[I’ll try.]
Makina flew towards the window, but she didn’t pass through it, as if blocked by something. Makina pounded on the barrier with her fists and feet, then gave up and approached me.
[No, I’m completely trapped.]
‘They set up a pretty thorough barrier.’
In less than an hour, they had set up a barrier that could block a spirit. It was just like an academy teacher.
[Are we going to die like this?]
‘…You seem kind of happy?’
[I didn’t even think that I’d be free if you died!]
‘If I die, you can’t leave this dungeon. You’ll disappear with this dungeon.’
Makina’s face turned pale.
[R-really?]
I didn’t know either. The player in the original story would start over if they died. The original story didn’t tell us what happened to those who were left behind.
[Wh-what do we do? I can’t disappear like this…. There’s a fun new game coming out next month…. Hey, Seong Yujin! Wake up! There’s no time to sleep! Get up!!]
Makina was being noisy. It was a relief that she wasn’t materialized. At least she wasn’t touching my body.
I closed my eyes tightly.
Just like the last dungeon, this dungeon would eventually collapse.
•••
Creak.
I woke up to the sound of the warehouse door opening.
“You’re sleeping so peacefully.”
It was Seong Hari who had opened the door. She approached me with a spear in one hand, walking confidently. She took a key out of her skirt pocket and unlocked the handcuffs.
[Auntie! I knew Auntie would come to save us!]
Makina, who had been sleeping next to me, jumped up. Seong Hari smiled and waved at Makina.
“…How did you get in? The teachers were guarding the entrance.”
I asked, rotating my stiff wrist.
“I told you during the day. If you only consider combat power, I’m stronger than the teachers.”
I looked towards the entrance. I could see the man who had been knocked out. She must have knocked out the teacher to get in. And there was another female student at the entrance.
“I can’t understand. Did you really have to go this far?”
It was a woman with long, dark brown hair.
It was Kang Jiyoung, who would later become the head of Maruhan Academy. She looked exactly like the Kang Jiyoung I knew.
‘Looking closely, she’s shorter and her chest is smaller.’
Anyway, she had the same aura of a strong, capable woman.
“Thanks for helping, Jiyoung. I’ll take all the responsibility. I was going to quit the academy anyway. I’m just causing a little trouble before I leave.”
“…This isn’t just a little trouble. What you did is clearly a crime. The Hero Association could issue a warrant for your arrest.”
“Let them if they want to.”
Kang Jiyoung sighed. She looked at me as I got up, then turned away.
“It’s your choice. You deal with it.”
“…Thank you, Jiyoung.”
“……”
Kang Jiyoung disappeared.
“What about Ryu Hana?”
“Ryu Hana? Oh, that girl who was next to you? I don’t know. Don’t you know?”
“…Let’s get out of here first.”
We left the warehouse. We passed the unconscious teacher and headed towards the back mountain.
“You managed to break the barrier.”
“Jiyoung helped. Jiyoung isn’t good at magic, but she’s good at interpreting and breaking barriers. Jiyoung also got the handcuff key. She’s also good at planning.”
“She’s not good at magic? She broke the barrier in this warehouse?”
“She said that breaking barriers and magic skills aren’t related?”
“……If she says so, then I guess it’s true.”
I entered the back mountain and used Spirit Eyes and Heavenly Eyes. I tried to find Ryu Hana by piercing through the darkness.
‘Considering Ryu Hana’s personality, she’s likely to be nearby… but I can’t see her.’
I had been searching for more than 10 minutes, but I couldn’t find her. I scratched my head.
“Oppa. Think about how to get out of here. The teachers will track us down if time passes. It’ll be hard to go out head-on.”
“It’ll be hard to climb over the wall too. Because of the barrier.”
“That’s right. You know it well.”
I had Makina roam around the academy. I could share her vision using Spirit Eyes. I searched every corner of the academy, but I couldn’t find Ryu Hana.
‘Did she leave the academy? That might have been a more reasonable choice for Ryu Hana….’
If she had stayed in the academy, she might have been caught.
“Hana isn’t here. It seems like she’s not in the academy.”
Makina, who had returned, hung onto Seong Hari’s shoulder as if it was natural.
I nodded and summoned a space-movement scroll. With the scroll, getting out of the academy was easy.
“Are you really going to follow us?”
“If I wasn’t going to, I wouldn’t have saved you. You’re not going to abandon me here, are you?”
“……What if I abandon you here?”
“I’ll chase you. And I’ll beat you to a pulp and make you regret it.”
“Just imagining it gives me chills.”
I handed her the space-movement scroll.
•••
A week had passed. I was still inside the dungeon.
Now, I had to find a way to escape the dungeon.
‘Laplace. That guy is the culprit. I have to find him to get out of the dungeon.’
Finding him was difficult. Unlike the last dungeon, this time he was hiding and not showing himself.
‘Did he make Ryu Hana disappear too? What happened to Ryu Hana?’
Did she die at the hands of Laplace? Or did she finish the trial and go outside? I didn’t know. It was more likely the former, but I hoped it was the latter.
“Ughhh. How can you use your ultimate like that, you bastard….”
Makina, who was lying next to me, mumbled in her sleep. She was a mechanical spirit, but she was dreaming about playing games.
I got up and looked around.
It was a motel.
I was currently a fugitive. I was wandering around, not staying in one place.
Click!
The door opened and Seong Hari came in.
“Oppa! The sun is high in the sky. Are you still sleeping… oh, you’re awake.”
Seong Hari came in wearing a white t-shirt and jeans. She was also wanted now. There was a bounty of 1 billion won on my head, and a bounty of 200 million won on hers. Unlike me, who could die, she had to stay alive.
The good thing was that they weren’t announcing the wanted status on TV or radio, so it didn’t affect our daily lives much. Ordinary people didn’t look for wanted posters.
“What’s going on in the middle of the day? You look happy?”
“I got a request from a broker. We don’t have to worry about running out of money.”
Seong Hari sat on the bed. She took out a document. I thought it was a request form, but it wasn’t. It was a method of contacting the client.
“This request is a bodyguard request. We just have to protect the client for a week. The payment is 100 million won per day, so it’s 700 million won in total. It’s huge, right?”
“They’re giving us this kind of request? It’s a bit suspicious.”
It had only been 5 days since we met the broker. There was no trust or anything.
“He must have recognized our skills. The broker’s commission is 20%. So, we’ll actually only get 80 million won per day.”
“…If we split it, it’s 40 million won each. Now that I think about it, it’s not that much…. Who’s the client?”
“It seems like a gangster based in North Hamgyong Province. They’re having a hard time being caught between the Chinese and Russian mafia.”
“Any other information?”
“No. They want us to meet the client directly and talk. If it’s suspicious, we don’t have to take the request. If we’re going to take it, we have to go to North Hamgyong Province by 8 PM.”
Seong Hari spoke with a strangely excited tone. She seemed excited about getting her first multi-million dollar request.
I stared at her, who was chattering away, and checked her favorability.
『Seong Hari’s Favorability: 55』
A favorability of 55 was a level where she felt romantic feelings.
Her favorability had gone up this much without me doing anything. It was strange.
“Oppa? Why are you like that? Are you still half asleep?”
I grabbed Seong Hari’s shoulders and pulled her towards me. The distance between us closed instantly, and we could feel each other’s breath. Seong Hari’s face turned red. She didn’t resist. It wasn’t that she couldn’t, but that she didn’t want to.
“……”
“……”
We exchanged glances silently.
Seong Hari’s eyelashes fluttered. She closed her eyes and tilted her chin slightly upwards. It was obvious what she was waiting for.
‘She’s waiting like this…. Of course, I have to do it.’
I put my hand on her firm waist and kissed her. My tongue forced its way into her soft lips. Our tongues intertwined. I marked the inside of Seong Hari’s mouth with my saliva.
I moved my hand up her waist and touched her right side. Seong Hari flinched. That was all.
‘…That’s right. The Seong Hari in front of me is fake.’
If it was the real Seong Hari, she would have reacted more intensely. I felt a strange sense of disappointment as I reached for her butt. I could feel the shape and elasticity of her nice butt through her jeans.
“Hic?!”
Seong Hari pulled away hastily, her mouth open. Her face was as red as a tomato, and her lips were wet and glistening.
“What’s wrong?”
“N-no. I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
I grabbed Seong Hari’s hand as she tried to run away. I got up from the bed and pushed her onto the bed. She blinked as she lay on the bed. I got on top of her. Our lips were close, in the same position as if I was about to pounce on her.
I kissed her before she could open her mouth. My hand went to her waist. I grabbed the end of her white t-shirt and prepared to lift it up.
“Haaam…. It’s been noisy since earlier…. Huh? Are you two having sex?”
Makina, who had woken up rubbing her eyes, said innocently. Seong Hari, who was startled, pushed me away and jumped up.
“W-we should eat lunch! I’ll go get takeout. Wait here!”
Seong Hari ran away.
I clicked my tongue and glared at Makina. If Makina hadn’t woken up, Seong Hari and I would have been on top of each other.
“That clueless thing.”
“What, why, what!”
Makina acted confidently.
“If you had kept sleeping, we would have already had sex. Just hold on a little longer. Can’t you even do that?”
“Why should I pretend to be asleep?! I’m wronged! You guys can do it somewhere else!”
“Look at you, not even reflecting and just yelling back.”
Thwack!
“Ack!!”
I smacked Makina on the head. Makina teared up and flew into the air, then kicked me. I smiled as I blocked her kick with my hand.
“Is that defiance? Alright, let’s do it.”
“Die, Seong Yujin!!”
Makina and I bickered until Seong Hari came back.
