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“Yum yum yum.”

“Is it delicious?”

“Ugh. It’s sweet.”

Om-nyom-nyom-nyom.

I smiled at Liliana, who was holding chocolate in both hands and eating it like a hamster.

A few days have passed since I met Dr. Hyorin Kang and decided to join the investigation team.

Now is the time to contact me.

“Didn’t you say you had work today?”

“Yes. But I don’t know when it will go out.”

“Cheer up. Let’s get something to eat.”

“Okay, okay.”

I smiled as I watched Liliana eat.

You eat well.

They say that the ghosts that die after eating them are pretty, but I think Liliana will be pretty even when she dies.

‘This is what the pandemic did, right?’

A flower dungeon where mana measurement failures often occur.

It is said that today’s investigation will find out the detailed reason.

It is said that branches of the Iris Guild all over the world are collecting information at the same time, so perhaps combining that information will yield different results.

A fairy tale of Earth and Hell.

This is a phenomenon in which Earth’s dungeons are gradually becoming hell.

I don’t know why, but the pandemic’s plan was speeding up.

Because the future scenarios I knew were already happening.

‘Is it because I became stronger? Or did you attack the heroine too quickly?’

I tilted my head and hugged Liliana from behind.

It was just frustrating because it was a problem that didn’t come up with an answer no matter how much I thought about it.

It could be because I really got stronger, or it could be because I attacked the heroine too quickly.

In a world where fate exists, something like that would be possible.

Or maybe the butterfly effect I created in the process of becoming stronger will come back as a typhoon.

In the end, it was something I did.

I have to solve it too.

But for now, let’s rest and touch the soft Liliana.

I put my hand into Liliana’s stomach.

How can I not have belly fat when I eat like this?

“Why the boat?”

“Just to hold you.”

“I understand. It’s okay to touch my breasts.”

Liliana surrendered herself to me as if she was used to it.

Touching my body had become a part of my daily life, so it wasn’t particularly awkward for me.

I thought as I hugged Liliana.

‘Maybe the Demon King will appear soon.’

In France, it was discovered that Liliana was the daughter of the Demon King.

Since then, every time I see Liliana, my heart aches.

The daughter of the Demon King seen in Chiron’s memory orb.

Liliana Calliope.

That image still lingers in my mind.

“….”

I closed my eyes tightly and shook away those memories.

Even if there is something that bothers you, if you decide to believe it, you must believe it until the end.

If I trust Liliana and Liliana trusts me, it will make no difference whether the Earth becomes hell or the Demon Lord appears before our eyes.

I took a deep breath and composed myself.

“Why are you sighing behind me? I said it’s okay to touch my breasts. Or even underneath is okay.”

“… It’s nothing. Let’s stop snacking and eat something. I’m hungry.”

“Ugh. Okay. I want to eat chicken.”

“Why do I only eat chicken every day?”

“I don’t know! Buy it for me! Order it quickly!”

Liliana was clinging to me, whining, asking for chicken.

okay.

I feel more at ease when I act like this.

Even if the devil appears, I think I’ll kill him quickly and tell him to eat chicken.

Tiring-

When I was about to order chicken, my smart watch rang.

“Wait a minute, just let it go. I’ll let you do it.”

“Then please have aloe chicken!”

“…Why on earth does a chicken restaurant like that exist?”

I checked my smartwatch.

– Dr. Hyorin Kang: Cadet Hoyeon Lee. Departing today at 7pm. I will attach a photo of the meeting place.

– me : yes. All right.

They said they would contact me that day, and they actually notified me on the same day.

It’s probably moving like that because there are security or other issues.

“… There really is aloe chicken, right?”

I ordered the chicken that Liliana wanted to eat and closed my smartwatch.

*

7:00 pm.

I arrived around the meeting point.

Although it was quite far from the academy, there was a pretty cool mountain.

Beautiful natural scenery and well-maintained hiking trails.

It was a well-maintained hill behind a neighborhood.

“… But why is the meeting place here?”

There was a beautifully maintained hiking trail, and the meeting place was behind it.

A mountain slope with no roads or signs.

The Iris guild members naturally gathered in front of him.

“hello.”

“Yes, nice to meet you.”

“nice to see you.”

“Please take care of yourself today, Cadet Hoyeon Lee.”

I approached the investigation team and said hello.

Dungeons appear randomly with no creation conditions.

It could be somewhere like this.

Among the personnel were Irene and Dr. Hyorin Kang.

Those two are probably the core of the investigation team.

“Now that we’re all gathered, let’s move.”

Dr. Hyorin Kang opened a barrier surrounding the investigation team and began climbing the mountain.

The Iris guild members climbed the mountain as if they were used to it.

You seem to have a lot of experience like this.

“Why is it so steep?”

I muttered quietly.

As we moved as a team like this, I remember chasing Chiron in France.

If you think about it, Irene was there back then too.

I spoke to Irene.

“Mr. Irene. The road is very rough, isn’t it?”

“… Yes. Because this dungeon has not yet been reported to the Hunter Association.”

“aha.”

So the road was rough.

It was a place that the Iris Guild exclusively investigated.

“Irene, do you have a lot of experience like this?”

“… quite?”

Irene gave short answers and avoided conversation with me.

Can we talk on the way up? I’m bored.

“Did you two have a bad relationship? They asked me to put you on the investigation team, so of course I thought it was good.”

At that time, Kang Hyo-rin joined the conversation.

Irene’s eyes widened as if she was slightly surprised by Kang Hyo-rin’s words, and I smiled and sat next to her.

“No, we’re close, right? Irene.”

“…… Yes. We’re close. I’m not in a good mood today.”

Gun gun gun.

Irene shook her head and took the lead up the mountain.

Kang Hyorin, who was next to me, tilted her head and started climbing the mountain again.

“Here it is.”

And the guild member who was leading the way found the entrance to the dungeon.

If it’s hidden like that, it’ll be really hard to find.

It was a place where no one walked, and the entrance was extremely narrow.

The investigation team bowed and entered the narrow entrance, and I followed them.

“There probably isn’t much risk. We’ve already dealt with the dungeon’s boss in our preliminary investigation.”

“…?”

While listening to the guild member’s briefing, I felt strange.

‘There is no risk, so why did so many people come?’

It may not seem like a big deal, but if you think about it, it’s strange.

The investigators’ force was not strong.

That’s why I thought Dr. Hyorin Kang and Irene followed.

But if there are no risk factors, there is no need for Irene and Dr. Hyorin Kang to come.

I spoke to Dr. Hyorin Kang, who was walking next to me.

“Dr. Hyorin Kang.”

“Huh? What’s going on?”

“If you’ve taken care of the dungeon boss, there’s no risk. Why did Irene and Dr. Hyo-rin Kang come?”

Dr. Hyorin Kang listened to me, thought for a moment, and then spoke.

“Originally, only investigators would come. But when Irene added cadet Lee Ho-yeon, she said she would come too.”

“Oh really?”

“Yes. Did you say surveillance…? I’m not sure why.”

“aha….”

Only then did I nod my head.

Irene followed me to personally monitor me in case I did something strange.

Then you will understand.

For some reason, the investigators seemed nervous the entire time they arrived. I guess it was because Irene suddenly intervened.

“I feel somewhat sorry for Dr. Kang Hyo-rin. It must be uncomfortable if your boss suddenly gets involved in your plans.”

“No. I heard that Irene was participating, so I came myself.”

“… why?”

“I thought something interesting would happen.”

“….”

After all, she is a strange woman.

The investigation team is the most pitiful.

How burdensome must it be that two executives suddenly intervened?

I left Dr. Hyorin Kang, who was laughing heartily, and followed Irene.

The inside of the dungeon was quite interesting.

As you entered through the narrow passage, you came across a large cavity, and throughout the cavity, unpleasant vines were climbing the walls.

These were plants I had never seen before, and their appearance seemed to have changed strangely as they consumed the dungeon’s abundant mana.

‘If I think about it, this is my first time in a real dungeon.’

Excluding the dungeons I entered for training at the academy, it was my first experience entering a naturally generated dungeon.

It’s kind of funny that they decided to create a fake dungeon but never actually went to the actual dungeon.

I’ll have to go with Rebecca next time.

When all the guild members came in together, the oldest member of the investigation team looked at everyone and said.

“From now on, we will go to each location. All monsters, including the dungeon boss, have been eliminated, so you can rest assured.”

“Okay! Scatter away!”

The investigators were scattered throughout the dungeon.

They’ll probably check things like mana concentration.

‘Should I move alone too?’

You can just hear the results of the investigation team, but if that’s the case, there’s no reason to come in person.

It will definitely be helpful to walk around and feel the magic of the dungeon directly through my mana sensitivity.

“Seup, haa. Seup, haa.”

I felt magic as I entered the dungeon without the investigation team.

‘It sure is strange.’

Although I could not feel the hellish magic that Liliana had mentioned, the concentration of magic was changing in real time.

Even at this moment when I am thinking about it, there was a change in the mana concentration increasing and then decreasing.

‘Is this a phenomenon unrelated to the pandemic?’

By chance, a phenomenon similar to the one in the original scenario may appear.

It’s unlikely, but I’ll have to consider that possibility.

I concentrated and sensed the mana of the dungeon.

‘I guess I can make this surprisingly roughly?’

I smiled pleasantly.

Although the existence of dungeons is an unknown area to humans, there are many areas that have been revealed.

The most basic of these is checking the danger of the dungeon.

This method calculates how strong the enemies are inside by calculating the mana concentration and size of the dungeon.

However, if mana concentration changes randomly like it does now, the data accumulated so far becomes useless.

Even if a new type of dungeon comes out, there will be less suspicion.

In other words, even if my fake dungeon lacks detail, I can sneak past it.

‘I could get help from the Iris Guild’s investigation team.’

I was planning to open the fake dungeon at the academy anyway.

At that time, you just need to get help from the Iris Guild’s investigation team, which happens to be on good terms with the academy.

If only Irene, who is part of the investigation team, would say one thing while investigating together, ‘This is a new abnormal phenomenon.’ .

“That’s enough.”

My head is spinning today.

The plan was perfect too.

As expected, Irene needs to be dragged into the fake dungeon plan.

‘Things are going well, so should I join now?’

I also need to hear what the dungeon investigation team is investigating.

There may be other things I don’t know about.

Ssss-

That time when we tried to go back together.

I stopped walking due to the magical power felt inside the dungeon.

“… hmm?”

An unpleasant magical power that I have encountered so many times that I am now familiar with it.

It was the magic power of Mine.

Thump-thump-

Wa da da da-

The unpleasant magical power was rapidly approaching from the inside of the dungeon.

It was an urgent movement, as if running away.

‘Why is Mine here?’

I clearly said that all risk factors had been eliminated.

That means Mine came in after the preliminary investigation was over.

Is it also related to the pandemic?

‘Let’s think about killing them first, no, subduing them.’

If you hit him, he will tell you information.

I raised my magic power and prepared for battle.