Chapter 39

Chapter 39

Otherworld Cheat Harem.

Episode 39: Promise (2).

After that, I continued to drink with Ilone and chatted about various things. She seemed to have no intention of letting me go after seeing me for the first time in a month and a half.

Well, after teaching a virgin about sex and leaving her alone for a month, it was no wonder her lower part was burning the moment she saw my face.

“…Hey, aren’t you tired?”

“I have to go to the dungeon tomorrow morning.”

“Me too! I also have work tomorrow! Hmm? I’ll let you go before work…”

Ilone’s hand overlapped mine, pressing firmly. Her grip gradually strengthened as if she would never let me go.

I sighed lightly and said to her.

“I’ll just leave in the morning, okay?”

“Okay!”

Saying that, she led me towards the inn. She was in such a hurry that her steps were as light as a feather.

She arrived at the inn room in no time, booked a double room, pushed me inside, and threw off her clothes.

“Haa, haa…”

There was no way the captain of the guards would be tired just from speed-walking that distance, so this was the sound of her being excited.

I didn’t look at her status window. It was easy to tell she was aroused without looking.

“Today, I’ll take care of everything, so… just stay still.”

Saying so, she slowly approached me, and I spread my arms and legs, obediently presenting my body.

“Oh, what should we do? It’s already this late…”

“That’s why I said we should stop.”

“But! We don’t know when we’ll meet next!”

“Ugh, fine, just don’t fall asleep on the job. I’m worried you might get hurt.”

“…Hey, I’m wet again.”

“Shut up. I really have to go now.”

“J-just the tip! Only put in the tip!”

Ignoring her nonsense, I dragged my tired body from the all-nighter toward the dungeon.

In front of the dungeon, a crowd of people was waiting to form parties. I headed straight to the meeting spot.

Just like yesterday, Raize was sitting on the ground with a blank expression, hugging his knees.

“Hey.”

“…You’re late.”

“Late? I got here faster than yesterday.”

Raize slowly stood up and brushed the dirt off his backside. Then, he started to look me up and down.

“Dojin, don’t you have any clothes?”

“No? Why?”

“Then why are you wearing the same clothes as yesterday?”

“…Adults have their reasons.”

“Reasons? Are you so poor you can’t even change clothes?”

“…You’re wearing the same thing as yesterday too.”

“This is a different robe. It just looks the same.”

Raize claimed that he had at least 30 more robes like this in his quarters, insisting he was a neat person who wore different clothes every day.

‘They look the same to me.’

Raize approached me and sniffed, then wrinkled his nose, pinched it shut, and stepped back.

“You smell… Don’t come near me.”

“I did wash up.”

“Your clothes smell.”

“…Well, there’s nothing I can do about that.”

After saying that, Raize really walked far away. I didn’t get why he was acting like that since we’d have to stand close in the elevator, and when we hunt, the sweat would make it smell worse.

If I happened to get too close, he would really get furious and point his staff at me.

Indeed, no matter how skilled I was, I couldn’t dodge lightning or slice it, so I surrendered immediately and kept my distance from him.

‘He’s too sensitive.’

Is it because he’s a child?

Raize, whose body was significantly damaged from various magical experiments, had her senses heightened as if compensating for her broken physique.

Among them, her sense of smell became particularly sensitive, rivaling that of a dog or a bear, enabling her to distinguish between the scents of sweat or perfume on clothes.

‘A woman’s scent…’

Dojin’s body carried the scent of a woman. A strong smell of sweat from standing under the sun for a long time, and a faint perfume scent to mask that odor.

And lastly, the scent of a female in heat.

Women inherently tend to dislike the scent of other women. An instinct developed since humans were monkeys.

Even Raize, whose body was that of a child, was no exception.

‘Annoying.’

The smell alone was irritating. The fact that Dojin’s scent was buried under that smell, and that he had stayed up all night with a woman the previous night.

Taking the dungeon elevator, the two were spat out on the fifth floor, just like yesterday, and walked through the dungeon in silence.

After a while, a monster appeared. Dojin quickly drew his sword.

“I’ll take care of it.”

“…Okay.”

Dojin drew his sword and slowly stepped forward. The Shadow Wolves, seeing his movement, charged fiercely.

Watching the charging wolves, Dojin thought it was bothersome to even swing his sword due to the drowsiness that was coming over him.

He imagined having a special ability like Seoyoon, wishing he could easily crush and kill them as she did.

And Dojin’s imagination of ruling all areas below the 10th floor became a reality.

Boom!

“…Huh?”

The ceiling collapsed, crushing the wolves beneath it. Moments later, the ceiling melted away and was absorbed into the ground. Only a mana stone remained.

Dojin picked up the mana stone and slowly turned around. Raize was staring at him, unable to hide her astonishment.

‘Damn.’

It seemed like things were screwed.

The fact that I could control the dungeon was a secret known only to Deokgu among my companions. If I had to rank it, it was a top-secret that needed to be hidden as much as my own abilities.

I’d never mentioned it, even when drunk, nor during pillow talk after satisfying my desires with the women.

But now, just by chance, with a party formed from a brief encounter, I ended up being caught using my power by Raize.

‘Should I kill him?’

Dead men tell no tales. This was a saying understood worldwide. This world was no different.

‘No way.’

But I quickly shook my head. Ever since I created a direct path from the 1st to the 10th floor of the dungeon, a registry for entering and exiting the dungeon had been established.

What if Raize dies? The first suspect would be me. After all, I’m a level 2 advanced adventurer, aren’t I?

Failing to protect a comrade on the 5th floor was an absurd notion.

‘Then how…?’

While pondering with my sword in hand, Raize asked me in a fluster.

“Wh-what was that just now?”

“…That just now was…”

“Is the dungeon always like this? How could something like this…?”

“…Huh?”

Pausing at his words, I fell into thought for a moment. He’s a novice who has just entered the dungeon, and he’s young, lacking discernment.

Naturally, even if the dungeon’s ceiling collapsed at will, he couldn’t possibly imagine that it was my doing.

‘…I was too sensitive.’

Sighing heavily, I picked up the stone, wondering what I was doing with a child as my opponent. Then I calmly replied.

“Well, sometimes things like this happen.”

“Unbelievable, that just now… defies the laws of nature…”

“A mage… what…”

Hearing such words from a mage who directly defied the laws of nature made me laugh. Upon hearing my words, Raize shouted back, asking what I was talking about.

“Magic is a discipline that strictly follows rules! At least not in such a messy way…”

“Yeah, I suppose so.”

Ignoring Raize, I continued to tackle the dungeon. However, deceiving other adventurers seemed impossible, unless it was just him alone.

‘Then, I just need to hide it.’

I soon imagined it. A new level completely isolated from this one being created.

The imagination soon became reality.

We found ourselves on another 5th floor without even realizing it. There were no other adventurers.

My own dungeon where I could hunt without any interruption was complete.

Three hours into the hunt, Raize started to sense that something was off.

‘What is this…?’

First of all, the smell changed. In a dungeon filled with the scent of others, the smell of others suddenly disappeared.

It was impossible. Unless the smell gradually decreased and disappeared, it wouldn’t suddenly go from 100 to 0.

That wan’t the only strange thing. The dungeon had been odd since a while ago.

‘No matter how much I think about it, it’s strange…’

She also had a brain. Every time Dojin moved, wolves accidentally get crushed by stones, or suddenly trip over protruding rocks. This couldn’t simply be attributed to luck or the dungeon’s peculiarity.

If the dungeon is supposed to be like this, then why didn’t any of this happen even once yesterday?

Does the dungeon have a biological clock that increases the ceiling drop probability on Tuesdays?

‘Does he think I’m a fool? Or does he really see me as a little kid?’

Raize didn’t like that fact at all. She decided that someday, she would have to let him know that she is a woman and quite old.

“Ah, Raize.”

“…Why?”

“Come to think of it, you. If you’re a mage, can you make magical tools or something like that?”

Faced with a rather stupid question, Raize simply returned the question.

“Dojin can handle a sword, so can you make a sword?”

“Ah… that’s true. Sorry.”

“Of course, since I’m a genius, making magical tools is simple.”

“…What? Are you joking?”

Dojin laughed and asked her what kind of tools she could make. Raize confidently said there was no tool she couldn’t make.

“Really? That’s amazing.”

“Are you teasing me?”

“No, I’m serious.”

No matter how mysterious the magical tools of this world were, Dojin was not surprised.

As Arthur Clarke said, sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic. And Dojin was a resident from the 21st century, who had already set foot in the realm of magic.

Dojin looked at Raize, recalling that she was a mage who used electricity.

‘If only I could make something like a charger… I could have used a smartphone.’

Unfortunately, Dojin did not know how to make a charger. He knew the principles of generators and motors, but he did not know how to reduce lightning over hundreds of millions of volts to 220V and flow just enough current so the smartphone battery wouldn’t explode.

The same went for the other kids. Unless they had graduated from a technical high school or majored in such fields in college, they wouldn’t know either. Dojin’s group were students from a general high school.

And above all…

‘If it couldn’t be made in this magical world, there must be a reason.’

This world was one where magic existed. A different world where electricity and flames could be produced from a person’s hands.

If the people of such a world couldn’t create it, there must be a good reason for it.

Even if the people from this world seemed primitive, it didn’t mean they were necessarily dumber than them.

“Let’s call it a day.”

“…Why?”

“Because I’m tired. Sorry, I think I can do it a bit longer tomorrow.”

Raize nodded at Dojin, who seemed exhausted. Well, it made sense; he must have stayed up all night doing that, so it was understandable that he was feeling sleepy.

The two left the dungeon. They promised to meet again the next day and parted ways.

When Dojin returned to the mansion, he was greeted by the icy stares of Seoyoon and the girls.

“…You’re back?”

“Uh, yeah.”

“You stayed out overnight.”

“Huh? Stayed out?”

“You’re really something.”

Watching Seoyoon disappear after saying that, Dojin could feel the fear of married life he hadn’t even experienced yet.