episode_0068

As soon as Hyeji and Elsia arrived at the villa, they were busy washing up.

It was understandable, as it was a hot enough time of year.

So now there are three people who have seen this secret passage.

Me. Jeong A-yeon. And the lizard Suin who was watching us.

In Jeong Ah-yeon’s case, her reaction wasn’t much different from mine.

A face full of curiosity as to what this is.

However, the lizard man’s reaction was quite different.

A person’s hands and feet are shaking violently and their pupils are moving dizzily.

In addition, the upper and lower teeth were hitting each other with a clicking sound.

‘Jung Ah-yeon didn’t know, but… it seems the Argonian maid knew. What should we do?’

[Let’s hear the circumstances first. It’s not too late to decide after that.]

I quickly approached the lizard man.

At that moment, the lizard man, who had his eyes tightly shut, also made a slightly determined expression.

“What’s in there?”

“It’s better not to enter.”

“You know but you don’t say anything? Choose your answer carefully.”

“……Please don’t go in.”

I’m sure he knows what’s inside.

But he was begging me not to come in.

“That place is the very essence of ugliness.”

“No, I’m not an intelligent person so my head doesn’t work, so tell me clearly.”

“……Please don’t go, it’s beyond your imagination.”

“Please give me a detailed explanation.”

I stared into the lizard man’s eyes.

Those eyes that are filled with so many emotions.

Only negative emotions such as despair, resignation, and fear are visible.

I turned around and started walking briskly towards the secret passage.

There were some things the lizard man didn’t say anything else though.

Because I didn’t want to ask that question to someone like that.

Meanwhile, Jeong A-yeon began to try to dissuade me from entering the secret passage.

“Confucius! Are you trying to go in there?”

“Don’t worry. I’ll reveal the truth in my grandfather’s name.”

“It looks like a serial murder is about to happen, so stop talking nonsense!”

[Don’t you say the line, “There is always only one truth!”?]

‘If I tell you that much, I feel like I’m really going to lose everything.’

A villa in a remote mountain area.

It’s already an ominous word.

‘This isn’t a mystery novel, it’s a light novel.’

[Go down quickly first.]

I asked Jeong Ah-yeon to take Hye-ji and Elsia and hide somewhere else for a while.

I just didn’t feel right.

Because the villa looked like the owner would come looking for them at any moment.

After entering the secret passage, I closed the door.

Then, what came was complete darkness.

It wasn’t pitch-black darkness.

It was so dark that I couldn’t see even an inch ahead.

[You look like the future.]

‘It also seems like the future of this novel.’

I turned on the flash on my phone and looked around.

It wasn’t a natural cave, and the inside was relatively clean.

Probably someone created it artificially.

Finally, a staircase appears right in front of you.

I started to slowly go down the stairs.

How far did it come down?

After coming down for a while, the stairs that seemed like they would never end finally came to an end.

And a single, tightly shut iron door is visible in the field of vision.

I grabbed the doorknob and pulled with all my might.

……didn’t move at all.

‘No, what the hell, it’s blocked here?’

[Shouldn’t it be pushed?]

The words that Koreans most often confuse are PULL and PUSH.

This could be confusing enough.

I thought it was PUSH and not PULL, so I pushed with all my might, but the iron door did not budge.

Suddenly, I felt a surge of irritation and kicked the handle with my right foot, pivoting on my left foot.

At that moment, the door opens slightly.

‘……Some guy put a handle on it and made it a sliding door.’

[Is there anyone with a normal way of thinking in the academy?]

I grabbed the handle and pushed the door to the side, and it opened very smoothly.

As if the situation just a moment ago was a lie.

I closed the door and started walking into the darkness again.

5 minutes on your phone.

But it felt like I had walked for almost 30 minutes.

It’s a space that is quite draining.

The only fortunate thing is that the path I am walking now is a single path.

And then I started seeing faint lights in the distance.

As soon as the light came into sight, I ran madly like a moth flying to a flame.

‘Let there be light!’

[Please don’t just bring in fucking dangerous stuff!!]

The path I was walking on gradually widened and became a huge hollow.

At first, it was so narrow that only two people could barely pass through.

Then it gradually grew large enough for four people to pass through.

Finally, we arrived at the place where there was light.

It has become wide enough for a large crowd to pass through without any problems.

As soon as I reached my destination, I looked around.

It’s like that there.

‘…No matter how I look at it, it’s a prison?’

[It looks like that at first glance.]

Long iron bars stretched out on both sides.

This place is probably some kind of prison.

However, it seemed far from being used to confine people.

Because the iron bars were too thick and the gaps between them were wide.

Moreover, the moment I arrived at this space, a faint smell of fucking night flowers wafted in.

[You? Even so, isn’t it a bit odd to say this here?]

‘I didn’t do it, you piece of shit.’

The only light source here is a single, dimly lit light bulb in the center.

It was a light bulb that flickered like a candle in the wind, but it was still doing its job well.

If this is a prison, it must be there to confine something.

I started checking the contents of the cell by turning on the flash of my cell phone to see what was being held there.

A portrait seen deep inside the prison.

However, because the light was dim compared to the huge prison, it was impossible to determine exactly what it was.

Then, I felt something move and went closer to the iron bars.

– BAM!!!!!!!!

A sudden impact against the iron bars.

I hesitated and took a big step back in a completely unexpected situation.

“Surprise!!! Turn on your blinkers and come in!!!”

[You! Shine the flash!]

The source of the shock was some mass inside the prison.

At that moment, my eyes and the yellow eyes that were attached to that mass met each other.

– Krrr!!!

A threatening cry began to echo eerily through the prison.

The huge lump that I confirmed by holding up my phone’s flashlight was none other than that.

It was a monster.

‘…Why the hell is there a monster here?’

[This prison seems to be meant to contain monsters… but isn’t it perhaps conducting secret experiments?]

A giant black wolf monster with numbers above its head.

It was growling at me now.

Starting with that crying sound, different crying sounds slowly began to resonate from each room.

– Krrr!!

– Kaaah!!

– Kieek!!

– Kkeueeek!!

Two cries merged into one, and then four more cries were added and merged again.

A sight where all the cries come together and harmonize, creating one ensemble.

Normally, you would be intimidated and tremble in fear at the sound of this menacing sound.

however.

“영역 다툼하고 싶으면 나와, 이 개새끼들아!!!!”

Mountain range.

The one at the top of the Kemono Friends.

Their cries had no effect on me whatsoever.

The prison suddenly became quiet.

In preparation for the monsters that might rush in, I circulated my magical power to strengthen my entire body.

The moment I was ready to fight, Peace suddenly shouted.

[You!! Look closely!! Something is strange!!]

‘Huh???? No, fucking monsters are all monsters.’

[hurry!!!!]

Unable to break Peace’s urging words, I ended up bringing Flash closer to the wolf-shaped monster.

A huge body trembling. Eyes glaring at me fiercely.

Sharp teeth visible through the gap in the mouth. Claws sharp enough to cut through anything.

Finally, there is the image of him desperately struggling to break free from the chains that bind him.

‘…chains?’

[These monsters… they all seem to be tied up.]

I made the light brighter than before and shined it on the monster.

The monster squinted its eyes and glared at me menacingly because of the brighter light, but I didn’t seem to care.

Thick chains were layer upon layer binding the monster’s body.

A little too much.

In the case of the monster that rushed at me, it was possible because part of the chain was broken.

However, the monster was just breathing heavily, as if the rush from just a moment ago had been its last struggle.

Just in case, I looked around the other cells one by one.

The types did not overlap at all.

There were so many of them that if only the iron bars were removed, it could be mistaken for Noah’s Ark.

But there is one thing in common.

All the monsters were bound in thick chains and couldn’t move.

[What do you think, my lady?]

‘How are you going to take a certification shot?’

[……Do as you wish. I’m tired now.]

I tried to take a selfie with my foot on the monster’s snout, which was close to the iron bars.

At that moment, a monster with a number above its head rose and aimed its teeth fiercely through the iron bars at me.

Naturally, I put my head against those teeth.

Without an inch of embarrassment, now it’s so natural.

– Bam!

Naturally, one of the monster’s teeth was broken.

The monster had only a bewildered expression on its face, with the red numbers above its head going up.

[…..Even if you have a cerebrovascular disease, you won’t be able to have a craniotomy.]

‘Yeah~!! If I kill myself, that’ll be the end of it~!!’

I tried to step on the monster’s snout and take another selfie.

Unfortunately, the surroundings were too dark for the monster to be captured properly on camera.

Trying to take another picture with the flash on.

I began to hear the sound of slow footsteps from afar.