# Chapter 31
The siren went off.
And Kyun In appeared first.
“You’re coming with me, right?”
Byun Tae-young appeared beside him, but Kyun In grabbed my arm and ran, like he absolutely couldn’t miss this chance.
“Byun Tae-young. Stop wasting your energy. I’ve just been letting you win all this time. If I really tried, I wouldn’t lose to you. I could use my telekinesis right now, but I don’t want to waste energy before we enter the dungeon, so back off.”
After hearing Kyun In’s words, Byun Tae-young seemed to realize he had no choice and appeared to give up on me.
Oh wow. I didn’t know Kyun In had this side to him?
Among other differences, I became curious about how even Byun Tae-young couldn’t easily deal with Kyun In when he made up his mind.
I’d been seeing him as somewhat easy-going since he usually smiled gently and joked around, but I might need to reconsider that impression.
While I was wondering if I should really go with Kyun In, I saw Lee Ha-min approaching Byun Tae-young.
Oh! It looks like Byun Tae-young might teach Lee Ha-min?
I wish I could have gone there too.
I was thinking that, but we had already reached Kyun In’s car.
“Let’s get in quickly. We need to leave first so others can get out more easily.”
He didn’t strike me as someone who usually worried about such things, but he was being extremely enthusiastic.
“Are we going alone?”
When I asked him this, seeing that he was about to leave without choosing any other team members, he glared at me.
“Seo Eunwoo Esper. People should have something called conscience. Don’t you know that just the two of us are more than enough as a team?”
“Are you that confident?”
“What are you saying? I’m the one trusting in Seo Eunwoo Esper and being cocky about it!”
“……”
He seems to be burning with determination to finally uncover my abilities, but it’s going to be difficult, Kyun In.
Still, spending time with him wasn’t that uncomfortable.
Since coming here, I had prejudices about the other S-class Espers, but I definitely had more preconceptions about him.
It was because of the harsh words he used to say to Lee Ha-min in the novel. But after hearing Lee Ha-min say that none of the S-class Espers had ever verbally or physically abused him, only scolded him, I had asked him directly about it.
At that time, Lee Ha-min was shocked and said that Kyun In Esper took care of him the most warmly.
-But they still scold you, right?
-They do scold me. But that’s all for my own good. I know I can be annoying sometimes. You scold me too, Eunwoo. Compared to how you scold me, what they do is just like a gentle pat on the back. If you’re spicy, they’re mild. Not even mild, they’re bland. They’re just like plain water, plain water.
I felt so guilty then.
Lee Ha-min didn’t seem like he would lie for the S-class Espers, and when I recalled how he had been around them, his words seemed true.
‘This must be a revised edition. Sister’s writing must have been heavily edited before publication.’
Whatever the case, I thought it was a good thing as I fell into meditation in the car.
I thought Kyun In might talk to me, but that didn’t happen.
It was so strange that I opened my eyes slightly and saw Kyun In looking at me before he turned away.
He must be extremely curious.
But should he stare like that?
I glanced at him with a smug expression and closed my eyes again.
“We will arrive at sector A-H01-25388 in three minutes. The dungeon has been sealed, and all nearby residents have evacuated. The danger level is maximum, and the seal is unstable. From now, we can only guarantee the seal for about 7 minutes.”
The center employee sitting in the front seat informed us, and we made our final preparations with that information in mind.
A maximum danger level dungeon.
Naturally, I felt zero tension.
Kyun In looked at me and shook his head.
When we entered the dungeon, what spread before us was a huge snake-shaped monster coiled up.
This kind of monster is really difficult.
Personally, I thought this type was the most challenging.
Bird types are difficult too, but a snake this big not only had the advantages of reptile types but also almost all the advantages of bird types.
In this case, “advantages” means advantages for the monster.
The speed at which they drop their heads while supporting their bodies is extremely fast and sometimes unpredictable, which is why this type of monster often causes a lot of damage.
First of all, until we enter the dungeon, what we can know about it is extremely limited.
We couldn’t even know what form the monster inside would take, which worked to the disadvantage of Espers.
We had to start our attack while surprised, shocked, and anxious.
I glanced at Kyun In.
Fortunately, he didn’t look nervous.
‘Does he think it’s manageable?’
Despite it being a very difficult monster, Kyun In didn’t seem intimidated at all.
So I thought I’d have some expectations for his skills, but guess what?
Kyun In’s attack didn’t work.
He lifted dungeon debris with telekinesis and threw it at the monster, but it only seemed to anger it.
‘No. What? Even I would be angry if someone attacked like that.’
It wasn’t like he was throwing to kill, but more like to provoke, as if he wasn’t using his full strength but just casually flinging it. It was frustrating.
Then he quickly dodged, and the angry monster targeted me.
‘What’s this? Is he deliberately trying to start a fight? To make me reveal my ability?’
At first it was just a passing thought, but it seemed to make sense.
‘Was Kyun In an intelligence character?’
But that didn’t mean I had to move according to his wishes.
I was confident I could dodge just as well as Kyun In.
Let’s see, Kyun In.
Who’s going to get soaked.
Kyun In seemed to notice what decision I’d made and appeared visibly flustered before hesitating for a moment.
He seemed to be figuring out what to do.
But the opponent was definitely not an easy monster.
Meaning it wasn’t an opponent that Kyun In could treat lightly and play around with.
‘If he’s going to act like this, it’s disappointing.’
I was somehow cheering for the monster now.
And the monster, perhaps feeling insulted too, started to attack.
At me.
No. Why me? What did I do?
I ran behind Kyun In.
Kyun In looked at me as if he couldn’t believe it, then shook his head.
He seemed to have realized for sure that I had no intention of fighting at all.
To clear the dungeon, he had to step up, so from now on, Kyun In would probably use his full ability.
I thought I’d just watch, and Kyun In, as if resigned, slowly began to use his ability against the monster.
His hand moved in the air as if conducting.
Then the house-sized monster was thrown against the wall.
And before it could right itself, its body was torn apart as if grabbed and ripped by a huge hand.
No telekinetic in the world should be able to do that…
I watched, forgetting that my mouth was hanging open, unable to take my eyes off the scene.
The monster writhed, and Kyun In continued to use his ability on top of that.
He wasn’t just sloppily torturing it and ending there, but seemed to be trying not to miss the opportunity to completely kill the monster when the chance came.
“Now will Seo Eunwoo Esper help a little?”
He said as if annoyed, and I felt awkward continuing to pretend, so I threw a few punches to help.
Even after suffering such treatment from Kyun In, the monster still moved and looked for openings.
Each time, deadly poison was sprayed from its fangs, and wherever it touched melted away without a trace.
“Seems like you came to play games, Seo Eunwoo Esper.”
Hearing Kyun In’s nagging from behind, I finally had to show some of my ability.
Then, while pretending to be weak, I let myself get knocked back once, stumbling, and glanced at Kyun In, who shook his head as if I was disgusting.
Um… that didn’t work?
While I was standing there blankly, Kyun In finally made his last attack on the monster.
What we didn’t know until then was that the monster had another head at the back, positioned lower than the one at the front.
The monster seemed to have thoroughly hidden it until the very last moment to look for an opportunity.
Even as its body was torn apart and beaten thoroughly by my punches and kicks, nearly dying, it endured to seize that one last chance.
Even though it was an enemy, it was truly amazing and admirable.
“Ugh!!”
Kyun In tried to quickly pull his body back but lost balance and tumbled, and the monster revealed its fangs and sprayed poison toward the fallen Kyun In.
Knowing what happened to areas where the poison was sprayed, I threw myself forward to snatch Kyun In, and as the monster turned its head looking for us, I ran towards it and swung my leg.
The monster had been suffering such attacks continuously, so it probably thought it knew how strong my kick would be, but that was its mistake.
When I attacked with strength I had never revealed before, the huge monster’s body bent backward.
As I threw a punch at the head of the monster that had collapsed like it was folded, I felt the bones at the point of contact crumble like dust.
I showed Kyun In something I didn’t want to show, but I had no choice.
I couldn’t let Kyun In dissolve just to keep my secret, could I?
“……”
As I approached, Kyun In looked at me with a surprised face.
“It seems to be over.”
“Yes… it seems so.”
Then his condition began to deteriorate rapidly.
Perhaps because the tension was released seeing the monster fall, or the effects of overusing his ability were now appearing.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
