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610 – All Done!

610 – All Done!

“Ugh, ugh…”

He groaned, buried among the storage materials.

Startled, I hid behind the vault and observed the situation.

“You, you…!”

Hanyeoreum looked furious, to the point where it seemed difficult to calm her down.

Even though I knew she was angry for my sake, her furious expression was terrifying.

“Um…”

I cautiously approached Hanyeoreum.

When I lightly tugged at the hem of her clothes, she turned around in surprise.

“Gyeoul! Are you okay?!”

“Yes, I’m fine, but…”

That person doesn’t look fine at all.

I pointed at the male teacher who had flown away, conveying that meaning.

However, Hanyeoreum’s expression as she looked at him only grew more menacing.

“That guy deserves it.”

“Well… his hands were bad.”

“Did you know they were bad hands?”

Hanyeoreum, who had been approaching the teacher with her fist raised, suddenly stopped in her tracks.

Turning her head to look at me from her stance, she had a look of horror on her face.

“It’s something I always had to be careful about when I lived alone in the tent.”

Just in case, I wore a hood and lived with my body covered in dirt.

Remembering my past appearance, Hanyeoreum let out a short sigh.

“Ah… you did that on purpose to protect yourself…?”

“Yes. In the end, I managed to protect myself.”

I puffed out my chest proudly, not wanting to see Hanyeoreum sad about something that had already passed.

“…As expected, it’s Gyeoul. Your mental strength is on a whole different level compared to my sister.”

“Hehe.”

Hanyeoreum gently ruffled my hair.

Thanks to that, I was able to release the tension that had built up to the tips of my hair.

“Ah, that must have been really scary.”

“No, it wasn’t scary at all.”

“Huh? Really?”

“Yes. I’m the one investigating. Instead, I thought, ‘I caught this guy!'”

“Wow, Gyeoul is really brave.”

Just then, while I was chatting with Hanyeoreum, the sound of the storage door breaking was quite loud, and several people from the school rushed toward us.

Among them were Teacher Kang Jin-kyung and a plump middle-aged man in a suit.

“W-What on earth is going on?! No matter how much of a dawn it is, this kind of thing…”

At the middle-aged man’s shout, Hanyeoreum took out her smartphone from her pocket and played a video.

In the video, the male teacher was inappropriately touching my hand and waist.

It could have turned into a violent incident, but thankfully, the video was well-captured on his glasses.

“T-That crazy person…!”

The middle-aged man’s forehead bulged with veins after watching the video.

The seemingly innocent person had suddenly transformed into a monster.

The now monstrous middle-aged man entered the storage room.

Feeling scared, I deliberately avoided looking, and Teacher Kang Jin-kyung let out a sigh of relief.

“Looks like he got caught in the end…”

“…So you knew too, Teacher?”

“Uh, huh? Did you hear?”

Startled, Kang Jin-kyung nodded as if she had resigned to everything.

She didn’t seem like a bad person, but I was curious.

“Why didn’t you let anyone around know if you knew?”

“…”

Kang Jin-kyung bowed her head silently.

In her stead, Hanyeoreum spoke up.

“Maybe there’s someone backing him up.”

“Backing him up?”

“Yeah. There are twisted parents who wouldn’t hesitate to resort to illegal means for their child’s grades and records. Especially in this neighborhood…”

Dawn was a neighborhood where quite a few upper-class families lived.

It wouldn’t be strange if a cartel formed for children’s grades.

“…All I could do was keep an eye on things and separate the kids from that kind of person.”

“Ah.”

So she was able to rush over as soon as the incident happened because she had been watching closely.

I felt like I understood the kind of battles Kang Jin-kyung had been fighting.

‘Was that why she suddenly hit me on the head, to keep me away?’

Children knew how to avoid scary people.

I understood why Kang Jin-kyung had suddenly hit me.

“…Hanyeoreum, you should be careful too. It seems like there’s someone quite high up backing him.”

“Is it because of our Gyeoul…?”

“Gyeoul?”

“Yes, Gyeoul.”

Hanyeoreum glanced at me.

Then, Kang Jin-kyung, who had been staring at me, opened her mouth wide in surprise.

“Th-That was it…”

Kang Jin-kyung nodded as if she understood.

I didn’t want to feel proud, but the people backing me were indeed impressive.

I may not be anything special, but my family was the best in the world.

After informing Dahee and Woosung about the incident, we returned to the guild to wrap things up.

Since it was a somewhat scary situation, I let the kids play in the swimming pool.

“Gyeoul, I looked into it, and it seems like he isn’t someone who has bad intentions toward kids…?”

“Huh? He touched my hand like this…?”

“Yeah. It’s not that he likes Gyeoul, but rather, he enjoys acting immorally using his power.”

“Hmm…”

Indeed, he didn’t cross the line in the storage room.

It felt like he was walking a fine line.

“There are really a lot of strange people in this world.”

“He probably got drunk on suddenly having power and kept trying to test it.”

“Power?”

“Yeah. The fact that he can act immorally without being punished is quite a big… you know?”

“Yes…”

Sigh.

As I let out a deep sigh, Jeong Yuna hugged me tightly.

Jeong Yuna’s embrace was warm, and my tail swayed gently.

“Now Gyeoul can rest well; I’ll take care of the rest.”

“Okay.”

The rest probably referred to dealing with that person’s backing.

From there on, it wasn’t a problem I could solve.

I could only trust and wait for Hanyeoreum and my family.

“Then I guess I should go to the dungeon now. I saw one on the way.”

“…Not resting?”

“It wasn’t particularly hard work.”

**

Lee Joo-seon.

He was a well-known drunkard.

He would even drink inside the dungeon.

Drinking in the dungeon was strictly prohibited, but there was one place where it was allowed.

The Illusion Dungeon.

Illusions would come out between dungeons and torment adventurers.

There were several ways to prevent this, and one of them was drinking.

Since illusions touched people’s minds, those with altered mental states wouldn’t be caught.

Thanks to that, the drunkard Lee Joo-seon was primarily an adventurer who tackled the Illusion Dungeon.

To be able to drink while working.

What a happy dungeon that is.

Moreover, thanks to the strong physique unique to adventurers, his liver and kidneys didn’t get damaged easily.

‘Today, whiskey…’

As Lee Joo-seon checked his drink and was about to enter the dungeon, he noticed a child approaching him.

A child of the cat-like Beastmen with a completely white body.

Lee Joo-seon knew that the child was Gyeoul.

“Hello. Are you going to the dungeon?”

“Yeah. You too?”

“Yes.”

Gyeoul is going in too.

Then, would they compete over the boss?

Taking a sip of his drink, Lee Joo-seon hurriedly stepped through the portal into the dungeon.

And following him, Gyeoul entered the dungeon.

‘It’s a forest.’

The forest-shaped Illusion Dungeon was particularly dangerous.

There was a high probability of getting lost.

‘…I hope that doesn’t happen.’

Gyeoul was quite a capable adventurer.

Just as Lee Joo-seon was about to set aside his worries, he heard a sound.

“Uh-oh?”

Gyeoul, who had been walking ahead, suddenly changed direction.

She entered the bushes and bumped her head against a nearby tree.

‘What the heck.’

Did she come into the dungeon without any mental protection?

Just as Lee Joo-seon was looking at Gyeoul with a puzzled expression, white light began to fly out from the forest.

It was a wisp, known as the troublemaker of the forest.

Whoooosh-!

As the wisp condensed the light, startled, Lee Joo-seon rushed toward Gyeoul.

However, the wisp emitted light faster.

Boom-!

The light flying toward Gyeoul was blocked and disappeared behind a translucent wall.

Only then did Lee Joo-seon notice the turtle Divine Beast sitting on Gyeoul’s shoulder.

‘Ah.’

So she does have a physical protection measure.

Feeling relieved, Lee Joo-seon approached Gyeoul.

“Why does your head hurt…”

Watching Gyeoul rub her forehead against the tree, he looked down at the drink he had brought and pondered.

‘What should I do?’

It seemed Gyeoul didn’t have a proper mental protection measure.

All Lee Joo-seon had was alcohol.

He had no choice but to make her drink.

After all, she was an adventurer, so her body shouldn’t be harmed.

Unbeknownst to him, Gyeoul’s Mana was analyzing the illusion magic and gradually waking up, Lee Joo-seon placed the bottle of alcohol in Gyeoul’s mouth.

There was no need to make her drink a lot from the start.

Just a sip, or maybe even less, Lee Joo-seon poured a small amount of alcohol into Gyeoul’s mouth.

“Ugh, ugh?”

Just a few drops of alcohol.

However, since it had a bit of a kick, Gyeoul’s face quickly turned red.

Gyeoul, who had been blinking rapidly, began to tremble and walk forward again.

Lee Joo-seon watched Gyeoul from a distance.

‘Is it not working…?’

He decided to let her drink just a little more.

Just as Lee Joo-seon was about to approach Gyeoul again, she suddenly shouted, “All of you, come at me!”

Gyeoul raised her bow and shouted toward the forest.

Stumbling as she walked, she was accurately finding her way.

It seemed she had broken free from the illusion magic… but she also looked quite drunk.

Author’s Note

Thank you so much for reading today, PIA1747014585384!

And thank you for the comments and recommendations! They always give me strength!!

I wanted to show a drunk Gyeoul from the beginning…

But since Gyeoul is so young, I struggled and struggled and struggled again before finally being able to show it…!

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