#6
He felt like his body was floating up, then immediately felt like he was falling down.
The strong dizziness made his body sway. Even though Seo Yi-young’s body wouldn’t be entering a dungeon for the first time, it was difficult to adapt, perhaps because the consciousness inside that body was different.
Seo Yi-young gritted his teeth to avoid being caught feeling nauseous like motion sickness. However, that soon disappeared as well. It was because he lost himself in the scenery that unfolded before his eyes.
On one side there were snow-covered trees, while on the other side there were trees bursting with flower buds, and the sky was dyed in a fantastic landscape from purple to pink. About five white moons of different shapes floated in the sky, looking exactly like something from a picture book.
He found himself staring with his mouth naturally agape.
Thinking it might be okay to take a photo, Seo Yi-young picked up his phone but frowned at the screen that had gone dead. He couldn’t tell whether it was broken or what had happened. It had definitely been fine just moments ago.
Seo Yi-young tried touching the phone screen and pressing buttons to turn it on, but there was still no response.
“You’re quite leisurely.”
At the voice pointing this out unhurriedly, Seo Yi-young flinched and shrank back. He slowly turned his head toward where the sound came from.
“What are you trying to do by bringing something like that into a dungeon when you know it won’t work?”
He really doesn’t say anything nicely.
Seo Yi-young narrowed his eyes and looked at Choi Do-jun, then turned his head away sharply.
However, he had just gotten a clue from his words. It seemed that outside electronic devices don’t work inside dungeons.
“I’ll check the frequency.”
When a hunter who came in with them spoke, each person took something out from their chest – it was exactly that walkie-talkie-like thing Seo Yi-young had seen at home.
Ah. That walkie-talkie-like phone was for dungeons.
Unlike regular phones that have set numbers, it seemed they matched frequencies to communicate with people inside the dungeon.
It was good that he gained this understanding, but at the same time, he became very troubled.
He hadn’t brought a dungeon phone.
He hadn’t bothered to bring it, wondering where someone would use such a thing. How could he have possibly thought that thing was for dungeons? He had just thought of it as an ugly phone.
“Um, Hunter Seo Yi-young-nim?”
“……Ah.”
He couldn’t just mumble his way through this. Seo Yi-young immediately spoke honestly.
“I’m sorry. I forgot.”
This was his mistake, so there was no way to make excuses. When Seo Yi-young politely apologized, silence fell for a moment.
“Ah. ……Oh, I see.”
Kim A-rin awkwardly laughed and broke the silence.
“That can happen! You can forget sometimes, right!”
He knew it was absurd. But what could he do? Since they had already entered the dungeon, they couldn’t go back out now. They couldn’t wait several days for Seo Yi-young to go get a walkie-talkie.
So he thought it would just pass like that, but he heard the sound of a big sigh.
Choi Do-jun was shaking his head while lifting one corner of his mouth, not hiding his expression of being fed up.
Seeing that smile, Seo Yi-young unconsciously hardened his face.
Seo Yi-young suppressed the emotion that had flared up for a moment. It’s not Choi Do-jun’s fault. His reaction is naturally expected. That’s right. Entering a dungeon for the first time is entirely Seo Yi-young’s circumstance. To other people, it’s nothing more than a skilled S-grade hunter absent-mindedly not properly bringing necessary items for the dungeon.
He understood it perfectly in his head. But honestly, in terms of emotions, Choi Do-jun’s behavior of acting fed up with him made him realize anew that he hated that bastard.
Anyway, he had to endure it somehow until they left the dungeon.
“Let’s go.”
“Ah, yes. Then first, since we don’t know how many days the conquest will take, I’ll stay by your side the whole time.”
“……Days?”
Seo Yi-young asked back.
The search results hadn’t mentioned that conquest time could take several days. He might have missed it because he searched too hastily.
“Ah, right. Days……”
Seo Yi-young coughed and covered his mouth.
“But, well. Since Choi Do-jun-ssi is here. It probably won’t take several days, right?”
He said while glancing at Choi Do-jun.
It was a provocation saying let’s see if you can do it. He didn’t know if he’d take the bait, but he threw it out anyway. If Choi Do-jun reacted, that would be good, and if not, he wanted to pick a fight anyway so he thought it was fine. What’s the point of living while enduring? Living while enduring is my loss. Since it’s a life you only live once anyway, I should live doing what I want.
What’s the point of worrying about other people’s gazes?
He might not know about the previous dimension, but here he doesn’t need to worry about things like other people’s gazes. Because he has the ability to back it up!
Seo Yi-young looked at Choi Do-jun in front of him.
Right. Besides, there’s no need to humor someone who’s picking fights with me.
Not just anyone, but him.
“Well. Let’s go first.”
“What? Ah, Hunter-nim……! Wait, ……!”
It was when Seo Yi-young took a step forward.
He heard a shrill scream from behind. There was no time to think about why they were doing that.
He felt something rushing at him with a swoosh. His gaze met the bright red eyes of that something.
The mob type was supposed to be plants……!
He felt like protesting whether they call something with eyes a plant.
At the same time, something like a premonition that he would die like this flashed by, and chills ran down his spine.
Whether it was a wish to avoid the situation, when Seo Yi-young instinctively squeezed his eyes shut, a bright light appeared and disappeared with a flash that he could feel even through his closed eyelids.
Splat!
There was a sound like a watermelon bursting, then something warm and sticky splashed onto his face.
When he opened his eyes that he had closed, fortunately he wasn’t dead yet. The moment he exhaled the breath he had been holding, a fishy smell rushed over him.
“……Ugh.”
Sticky liquid was all over his body.
“Hunter Seo!”
“Hunter-nim, are you okay?”
Seo Yi-young was so out of it that he couldn’t answer properly. Only after feeling someone wiping what was on Seo Yi-young’s face could he barely come to his senses.
“Are you originally this fearless? Didn’t you hear the dungeon attribute briefing when you came in?”
Dungeon attributes.
He had seen it.
“Plant, plants.”
“First strike.”
Choi Do-jun spoke in a firm voice as if correcting the information.
“First strike is what’s important. Haven’t you paid attention to such things because you’re a healer-nim?”
Looking at Choi Do-jun dusting off his hands as he spoke, Seo Yi-young frowned with complicated feelings. It’s true that he’s grateful for the help, it’s true that he saved his life because of that bastard.
Since that’s right, he should thank him first.
“Than,”
“Since you’re such a precious healer-nim, it’s hard to even hear a word of thanks.”
“……”
Choi Do-jun sighed as if showing off to Seo Yi-young. He was someone who made it hard to give thanks obediently.
How can I easily say thank you when he talks like that?
Choi Do-jun, who had sighed, glanced at him sideways.
Ah.
That expression.
It was exactly the expression Choi Do-jun used to make in his previous life no matter what Seo Yi-young said. Something snapped in his head. This is the limit now. I can’t endure any more. No matter how different a person he is from the previous dimension, how much more am I supposed to endure when he takes such an irritating attitude?
Seo Yi-young rubbed and wiped off the mob’s bodily fluid on his face with one hand. Since something that was on his lips seemed to have gotten into his mouth and tasted bitter, he spat several times. Since he knew the identity of that liquid all too well, he didn’t want to ingest even a little.
When his mouth no longer tasted of anything, Seo Yi-young rubbed his lips with the back of his hand and then spoke.
“What’s hard to hear? I was going to do it anyway. Thaaank you. You little shit with no manners.”
At the words he spat out, Choi Do-jun raised his eyebrows.
“You should give someone who’s already shocked some time to calm down, but you nag like that because you want to hear thanks? You wanted to hear that so badly? Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, sir. I’m really fucking grateful! Is that enough?”
He had tried to think that the Choi Do-jun from the previous dimension and this dimension’s Choi Do-jun were different people, but if he’s going to come out like this, there’s no need to, so it’s actually better. That personality-disordered bastard.
Seo Yi-young looked at Choi Do-jun with a smiling face.
“Now that that’s done, let’s conquer the dungeon.”
“Since when do you speak informally to me?”
“From now on. You speak informally to me too. You’re younger than me.”
“……”
“If you want me to speak formally, I will. But then you use honorifics and call me hyung too.”
“……”
“No, right? Speaking informally is better, right? I agree too.”
Choi Do-jun didn’t respond at all and just quietly stared at Seo Yi-young before turning his head. Whether it was because he had nothing to say back or because he didn’t feel the need, anyway, that meant it was okay to speak informally. Seo Yi-young concluded as he pleased.
Feeling the other hunters who heard the conversation between the two looking at each other nervously, Seo Yi-young looked at them and smiled.
“Hunter Choi Do-jun will take care of the mobs, so don’t worry and let’s go.”
“Um, Hunter Seo.”
“Yes?”
“Your clothes, clothes. You need to change into spare clothes……”
“……Ah.”
He only realized after being pointed out.
He needed to change clothes, but he hadn’t brought any. He didn’t know it would take several days. Seo Yi-young laughed hollowly and shrugged his shoulders.
“If it’s okay with you, would you like to borrow mine?”
Male hunter Nam Jun-seok carefully spoke up.
“Ah, if you lend them to me, I’d really be grateful. ……Hey, you heard that, right? I’m going to change clothes and come back?”
Seo Yi-young shouted loudly toward Choi Do-jun who had his back turned.
“You’re really something.”
It was quiet but definitely audible. Unnecessarily good diction, damn it.
Seo Yi-young glared in Choi Do-jun’s direction while thinking. Though he probably can’t even see it anyway.
Although Seo Yi-young was a bit taller than Nam Jun-seok who lent him the clothes, there was no problem wearing them and being active.
“It’s weak, but it has light resistance, so it should help a little.”
“Light resistance?”
“Yes. So that you won’t get hurt if Hunter Choi Do-jun attacks by any chance…… No, Hunter Choi Do-jun wouldn’t do that, and even if so, Hunter Seo Yi-young-nim is here. But just in case.”
Nam Jun-seok hurriedly made excuses.
Seo Yi-young could now understand what Choi Do-jun had said earlier.
So that’s why he was going on about light resistance and such.
He thought he was just picking a fight for no reason, but it seems that wasn’t the case.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
