Chapter 1739 – 1739. Savior Of The Academy
Seong Hari thought.
Was she really inside a dungeon?
It was too vast and wide to be called a dungeon. More than that, there were people who seemed to be residents. They spoke Japanese as a matter of course. Usually, this would make one think that this wasn’t a dungeon… but their attitude and reactions were strange. It was as if they were dolls.
Feeling uneasy, she decided to distance herself from the people and focus on her own task. Monster hunting. If she found and killed the boss monster somewhere, she would be able to get out of the dungeon.
Kill and kill again.
Seong Hari killed every monster she saw as she moved forward.
「Level Up.」
「Name: Seong Hari
Affiliation: –
Level: 24
Class: Wanderer」
A glance. Seong Hari looked at the notification window and information window that appeared in front of her. To be honest, she didn’t understand what it meant. However, as the number called level increased, she gained skills. At first, she didn’t care, but as time passed, they became quite useful.
For example, skills like these:
「Wanderer’s Steps
Level: 3
Movement speed increases.」
「Stealth
Level: 3
Conceals your presence.」
「Wanderer’s Experience
Level: 6
Reduces the chance of being affected by the environment.」
She especially liked Wanderer’s Experience. Every time she wandered around the Forest of Bewilderment, strange notification windows popped up, but after gaining Wanderer’s Experience, the frequency of those annoying notifications decreased significantly.
She slowly wandered through the Forest of Bewilderment. Her motivation was low. The dungeon was too large, and she had no idea where the boss monster was.
She couldn’t find the boss monster, and there was no way out of the dungeon. Seong Hari walked forward in a depressed state.
Then, she discovered an unexpected figure.
‘Oppa?’
Seong Yujin.
The person she had been trying to find for the past time, but couldn’t, was right in front of her. He was wearing a school uniform for some reason, but it was definitely Seong Yujin.
Seong Hari’s face, which had been gloomy, was instantly filled with vitality. Just as she was about to shout, her face brightened like a blooming flower. There was an unbelievable presence next to Seong Yujin.
‘…Me?’
She, wearing a school uniform, was next to Seong Yujin.
Seong Hari’s eyes shook.
‘This is an illusion…’
It wasn’t an illusion.
When an illusion appeared, a notification window popped up to inform her. More than that, it acted completely differently from the illusions that had appeared so far. Illusions tried to confuse her by talking to her, but… they didn’t even notice her presence right now.
They were real.
No, were they really real? This was inside a dungeon. They could also be illusions created by the dungeon.
“……”
Suddenly, she remembered what Seong Yujin had said before he disappeared with Machina. He had said that he was from another world. Then, could this be Seong Yujin’s world?
‘It’s not impossible to understand that there’s another me. I think I heard something about a parallel world at the academy.’
Anyway, she decided to stop pretending to know him and observe. She was reluctant to have another version of herself sticking to Seong Yujin’s side.
Herself and Seong Yujin wearing school uniforms.
It was unfamiliar. At the same time, she felt envious of her other self. If she had gone to the academy with Seong Yujin… that would have been really enjoyable just imagining it.
‘…It’s impossible.’
Right before she parted ways with Seong Yujin, she chose revenge. She fulfilled the contract she had made with the Spirit King. As a reward, she was able to gain power. However, as a price, she became a wanted criminal on the run. She became a villain, not a hero.
‘If I had made a different choice… no, it’s no use regretting it now.’
Even if she regretted it, those days would not return.
Seong Hari shook off her thoughts and used mana to enhance her eyesight and hearing. She was curious about what Seong Yujin and her other self were talking about so happily.
She was startled as she listened.
‘Mom?’
Seong Yujin clearly called her other self that. Listening again, he was calling her that again. Her other self accepted it naturally.
‘Playing house? There’s no way they’d be playing house at that age, right? And it’s not like playing house…’
It was too natural.
She thought that her other self and Seong Yujin might really be mother and son.
“……”
Seong Hari looked at her other self, confused. Looking at her again, she had the same face as her. It was to the point that if she said they were twins who had been separated a long time ago, she would believe it right away. However, looking at her more closely, she felt that she was different. She could feel the differences.
As she focused, things she hadn’t seen before began to appear belatedly.
‘What, what is it? The school uniform is a bit small?!’
The skirt barely covered her thighs. The sailor-style top was also small. Her pure white abdomen was slightly visible. Her eyes focused even more. Her abdomen was visible. It was a firm abdomen. But compared to her own abdomen, it looked soft.
Her chest and even her hips seemed a little bigger than hers.
‘She’s got some meat on her. Is she chubby?’
Was it because of that? Her other self seemed to have a softer atmosphere than her. She also seemed a bit older than her.
‘…She’s not really Oppa’s mom, right? She’s too young to be that.’
If they were really mother and son… wouldn’t she not age like her other self when she got older? That was a little pleasing.
“Uh, uh?”
Seong Hari’s eyes widened. Seong Yujin suddenly reached out to her other self and slipped his hand under her skirt. Then, he massaged her butt. Her other self blushed slightly and looked around. After confirming that no one was there, she sighed and scolded Seong Yujin with words. That was all her reaction.
‘Mo, mother and son, you said?!’
They weren’t mother and son, but why were they doing such intimate skinship like lovers while thinking of each other as mother and son?
Maybe being mother and son was a kind of concept play.
‘Is the me in this world dating Oppa? That seems right… Oh. Maybe this is the future. It’s obvious when I see me and Oppa. Oppa also touched my body as he pleased last time…’
Seong Hari let her imagination run wild. Most of it was positive. Otherwise, she might have gone crazy with jealousy towards her other self.
They continued to move through the forest.
Seong Yujin closed his eyes. He must have lost his sight to the forest. And an illusion appeared. It must be an illusion related to her other self.
‘Who is that man… and that’s Park Hanmi. That annoying bitch. Jiyoung is here too. It’s kind of nice to see them like this.’
And what appeared next was an unknown being. It looked like a human, but also like a spirit, and also like a mysterious being separate from that. At least, it wasn’t someone Seong Hari knew.
An enemy appeared.
The man summoned undead and attacked Seong Yujin and her other self.
‘It’s nothing. It wouldn’t take 10 seconds to take care of that.’
However, the situation went differently than expected.
Her other self was much weaker than she had thought. Strength, speed. All of those things didn’t match her. Her body movements were pretty good. Except for her swordsmanship.
‘What kind of swordsmanship is that? She’s just swinging it around recklessly.’
Her other self was getting tired quickly for some reason. The spirit that Seong Yujin summoned was targeting her other self for some reason.
‘It looks like she’s in a tight spot.’
She could help. She could intervene now. But she didn’t want to. A feeling that she wanted her other self to die was slowly rising. Seong Yujin could be saved by her later.
‘…Why am I like this? Is it because I saw another me?’
A person who looked exactly like her existed. That alone was very unpleasant.
The victor of the battle was her other self. But a new enemy appeared. Her other self was exhausted and collapsed. She was not in a state to fight. On the other hand, Seong Yujin regained his sight and stood up.
Seong Yujin’s expression caught her eye. It was an expression she knew. He would fight to the end, even if it meant dying. He would never abandon her other self.
‘…Are Oppa and my other self really mother and son?’
Even in a desperate situation, their relationship didn’t change.
Seong Hari bit her lip. She grabbed her spear.
It was okay for her other self to die. But she couldn’t stand by and watch Seong Yujin die. Even if it wasn’t the Seong Yujin she knew.
Seong Hari threw her spear.
The spear, which flew faster than the speed of sound, fell, and the shockwave swept away the enemies. Seong Hari kicked off the ground.
• • •
I clearly saw the shockwave from the falling spear sweep away the Jiangshi. What was even more shocking was that it was controlled so that it wouldn’t harm me and Seong Hari.
‘What kind of monstrous spear throwing skill is that…’
But the battle was not over yet. The man who summoned the Jiangshi was far away, so he was fine. The man put his hands together and chanted an unknown spell. The overturned ground shook, and six Jiangshi rose from the ground.
And Seong Hari fell from the sky. The shockwave also swept away the Jiangshi that were just rising. She didn’t stop there and swung her fist at the man.
Her fist didn’t reach. Of course. There was a distance of more than 5 meters between the man and her. However, the shockwave that came out of her fist alone made the man’s body explode.
There was no technique or anything.
Simple power.
Overwhelming power.
I stared blankly at Seong Hari who had appeared in front of me. She was different from the Seong Hari next to me. Her appearance was the same, but the clothes she was wearing and her atmosphere were different.
“Uh, two moms…?”
“I’m not your Oppa’s mom.”
The woman in the coat pulled the spear out of the ground and slung it over her shoulder. And she gave a confident smile.
I guessed her identity.
She was definitely the Seong Hari from the dungeon world. It was certain when she called me Oppa. But why was she here?
No, more than that, wasn’t Seong Hari next to me right now?
“Oppa. But who is that woman calling you mom? She looks just like me… is she a doll? If you say you made her because you were too lonely, I’ll understand. I heard there are men who like strange play… I can tolerate that much.”
“…Yujin. Who is this rude woman? Is she a doppelganger who just borrowed my appearance?”
Seong Hari and Seong Hari glared at each other. It was as if sparks were flying between them. I felt cold sweat forming on my back.
