Lightning struck my head in that instant.
Had I forgotten because I was too engrossed in sex?
“Crazy guy!”
Did I lose my thoughts because I have no brain? This is serious. I wasn’t this bad!
“What? Are you saying Ah? Isn’t Jang Arang a woman?”
“Uh? Uh… The leader of the beastman party I mentioned earlier…”
“No, why are you confessing that! You should deny it!”
But perhaps it was because a promise to never lie to Yeon-hee was deeply etched in my mind, words poured out as if I pressed a print button.
“First of all… isn’t it a bit nosy in the dungeon? I saved that woman’s life, so I must have looked quite cool. Was Il-wol aiming for that?”
“Ah, no. That’s not—”
“When I sent you off with such a big heart saying you’d do something great… You ended up prowling around for your favorite girls like a black panther, huh?”
“…”
“Now you won’t even answer?”
“Uh? No, I-I’m sorry.”
“What are you sorry for?”
“……”
That’s a typical line I’ve heard somewhere.
I never thought I’d hear this question in my life. Good grief.
“All of it.”
“Hah? You’re just going to brush it off like that?”
Every word that slipped out made Yeon-hee’s brows shoot up dangerously.
It wasn’t as scary when I was caught by Dnarr Panijial, but now I felt a cold sweat on my back.
Yeon-hee’s questions seemed never-ending.
I felt like a prisoner under torture, laying everything bare and saying it as it was.
“Since you asked with such resolve, how can I resist?”
This was clear proof that the master-servant relationship between Yeon-hee and me was still valid.
“A nest of beastmen! Doesn’t that sound like a suspicious place? Don’t you want to see it?”
I tried to change the topic as best as I could.
“Not really? Why would I go there? It’ll just be full of rabbit beastmen, right? Ah~ you’re so lucky! You’ll get to meet pretty and slim rabbit beastmen to your heart’s content!!”
“Uh…”
This was a self-inflicted wound.
“Anyway! I just exchanged numbers to prepare for when we go to the nest of the beastmen! Take a look. We haven’t sent each other a single text.”
“… I probably deleted it on the way.”
“No. Yeon-hee. Look into my genuine eyes. It’s true. I swear.”
“Just as soon as we go outside, you exchange numbers with another girl… and it’s even with the most beautiful rabbit beastman among them…”
She had already repeated that statement a dozen times.
But since when were rabbit beastmen considered the prettiest? Wasn’t Flora or Shimashu some mixed-blood beastman?
“What do you mean pretty!! There’s no one in the world prettier than you, Yeon-hee.”
“Hmph…”
Yeon-hee turned her back on me and fiddled with my phone for a long time.
Of course, digging deeper wouldn’t yield anything more.
“Haseirin also sends a lot of texts…”
Still there.
‘Should I just delete everything?’
But I guess I still need to receive daily reports?
Yeon-hee tapped Haseirin’s texts with her finger, her violet eyes sparkling as if she was falling into them.
“Yeah. I’ve disliked this woman since the moment she showed up. The way she looked at me seems like she wanted to get close, and at that moment, I just thought, ‘Agh!’”
“……”
My skull felt cold. This was seriously scary.
Yeon-hee started naming twins and Mari.
Thinking about it, there were quite a few female hunters under my command.
The only relief was that I hadn’t heard from Arang.
‘If I hadn’t told her not to contact that woman at the end, I might have really died.’
Thinking back to Arang’s rampage, she must have bombarded me with texts.
I suddenly realized that a single word could alter the turning point of my life.
“I should have kept my phone banned; why did I do that? I didn’t know I was a guy who would act like this. Yeah, there’s no choice but to prepare that thing I was working on before… tying her up with rope…”
Sinister words kept popping up in my mutterings.
Before it got too late, I had to stop her.
I embraced Yeon-hee from behind, who was sulking.
“Stop it! I really told you not to!”
Yeon-hee resisted my attempts at physical contact, but I was sure that if I decided to hold on, even a Twin Head Ogre couldn’t get loose.
Her breathing grew heavier.
Kissing from her ear down to her neck, I raised her body temperature once more.
“Don’t… ah…”
She must have been shocked.
But we’ve transcended death and confirmed our feelings for each other, so this wouldn’t cause any issues.
Stimulating Yeon-hee, who was resisting, while slowly merging back together provided a uniquely thrilling sensation.
The excitement from conquering my master? The desire to dominate, which had been fading, reignited.
“Uhhh…”
Finally, after the third round, she seemed satisfied and went to bed.
I didn’t even see her flirting with anyone, nor were there any particularly noteworthy texts, so making up was the natural course of things.
‘Still, I must be careful. The chilling energy I felt at first reminds me of the time I was sent to ‘Iris Cass’…’
She’s a delicate one, indeed.
All I could do was be careful.
“Ah! Yeon-hee, you need to release my summon! Oh? Don’t close your eyes, wake up!”
I had forgotten the most important thing while getting immersed.
“Ugh? Where are you planning to go again… No way, you can’t go!”
Of course, it was just words, and she immediately released the summon.
With her cheeks puffed, she waved her hand at me, and her face slowly faded away.
*
It had been a while since I entered the Dark Space.
As usual, I rushed toward Rainy, but suddenly stopped.
“No way, I can’t show her such a brutal thing.”
The priority was assembling the remnants of the hunters; it was wrong to show such a scene to pure Rainy, who was as innocent as morning dew.
Of course, since I couldn’t rescue them here, I had to do it outside.
‘I’ll have plenty of time to start working tomorrow morning.’
I quickly sat down and concentrated my senses.
Wooooo—
Imagining pulling things out from the space, pieces of flesh that once belonged to people came flying towards me at lightning speed and aligned neatly in front of me.
‘······.’
Even when the dismembered corpses gathered in a line, I felt no emotional turmoil.
Sometimes, when I see myself like this, I can’t help but run my hand over my face.
I don’t know how many days I’ll have left to live, but I fear that after a long time passes, I’ll end up as a monster who feels no emotion.
‘Sigh— More pointless worries.’
Repeating the same concerns isn’t good.
Always focus on the present.
Let’s start with the easiest people to piece together.
With my telekinesis ability, I cautiously attached the body that had been severed diagonally from shoulder to head.
The cleanly cut end looked as if it had been processed by a water jet, sticking firmly in place as soon as I brought it near.
The blood adhered to the cut surface, still in liquid form, enhancing the adhesive property even more.
‘I felt this when I was piecing together Arang’s body, but the level is completely different from the pieces I cut myself.’
The subtle difference made me feel the disparity between Dnarr and me once again.
I poured Irmana’s all-purpose potion over the attached pieces.
Drip drip drip—
Soon, the cut surfaces began to slowly connect, and before long, I was able to let go of them.
‘Amazing. I could become filthy rich just by selling this later.’
This water wasn’t originally capable of this much.
It was an item that affected mana and mental aspects rather than physical recovery.
It’s clear that my closer connection to the goddess had influenced this; after all, what kind of being was Goddess Irmana to make this possible?
‘Hmm, how would I know? Anyway, it seems the work is going well.’
I continued my work and soon reached the finishing stage.
The final corpse looked like it had taken all the blows of a light blade, shattered into dozens of pieces, which was quite challenging even for me.
‘I should have done a 100-piece puzzle beforehand. I don’t even know which is which.’
I finished my work with great difficulty and lightly brushed over the eyes of the people lying straight on the floor.
‘It seems they went without feeling any pain. How pitiful.’
Seeing the peaceful faces of the hunters made me question whether resurrecting them was the right thing to do.
Especially considering the future that awaited them.
When that day comes, A-rank hunters, who have been so proud until now, won’t be able to take a break, clinging to their frail lives and fighting against monsters.
At that time, I wouldn’t just be facing the orc legion.
As I fought to hold them back, monsters that were already being managed in existing dungeons would inevitably spill out.
In other words, the world would turn into chaos.
Some hunters schemed, stuffing edible goods into the space and hiding away in comparatively safer dungeons like the Dire Wolf dungeon.
Of course, that wouldn’t last long either.
‘… Is that all? I’ll handle these people tomorrow.’
Concluding my work, I rushed to Rainy.
(Il-wol! Il-wol!!)
As always, Rainy greeted me with a bright smile.
It felt as warm as being back home.
‘It’s been a while. How are you doing?’
Rainy had pushed herself while making the Life Potion.
Looking at her, she still hadn’t fully recovered to her original state.
She looked alright on the outside, but her green aura was still growing in saturation as if she were in the process of maturing.
(I’m doing great!! But more than that, tell me about what happened! I’m so curious about all the exciting things that have happened!)
I was the only connection to the outside world.
Rainy fluttered toward me, urging me for a conversation with her signature gestures.
What should I start with? Should I tell the story of kneeling before the terrifying Demon King named Yeon-hee? Just as I was pondering this, I felt my master’s aura from afar.
‘Oh?! Master!!’
(Ah, that d*mn old man shows up at the important moments!)
As master appeared, Rainy stepped back, putting distance between us.
I couldn’t help but feel grateful for Rainy, who always thought of my training first.
[Ho ho ho, it’s been a while.]
This was my first meeting with my master since the last time I met The One Who Shows the Way.
‘Master! Thanks to the help I received then, I’ve been freed from my constraints!’
[Is that so.]
My master rotated around me, the orb circling me.
I could almost imagine him nodding with a contented smile.
‘By the way, I’ve received teachings from that ‘Pawilrun’ being, can you please take a look?’
[Oh? Show me what you’ve got.]
I unfurled each form I learned from Marshall Dragard.
The connection movements that had previously been so difficult had become much smoother, and my mindset for close combat, as well as the basic postures, were now laid on top of each other, allowing me to display even more fluid movements.
The success rate of the absolute evasion technique ‘Bran’ had noticeably risen as well.
[What do you think?]
I asked my master with a fair hint of worry.
Even if I think I’ve improved, it might look different to someone else.
With a thump—
My master bounced around like a rubber ball for a moment and then spoke with intense emotion.
[To have developed this much in such a short period is indeed amazing!]
He showed a reaction far greater than I had expected.
He went on to say that whoever taught me had probably spent their whole life honing their martial arts while gaining astonishing insights.
I nearly choked on the words that I had killed such a great Dragard and even drained his life force.
But I held it back.
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