episode_0099

Clunk. Clunk.

Familiar rocking. A longed-for sensation embracing the back and buttocks.

Jeong Yu-shin opened his eyes.

“What.”

He was sitting in a train seat.

Jeong Yu-shin blankly looked around. An empty train car. No one was there.

He turned his gaze.

Outside the train window. The sea stretched out.

The evening sea sparkled with sunset light. Vermilion. Nature’s gift at the end of the day.

Clunk. Clunk.

In time with the rocking, Jeong Yu-shin’s mouth gradually opened.

“What on earth is this?”

He killed the Giant Spider in the forest area and met the deer beastman.

He doubted it when Ashur sent him, but he believed it when he showed him the sandbag.

His memory ended there.

Did an accident happen on the way back?

So, did he transfer again?

He was dragged into this different world for no reason, so he might have transferred to another place.

No.

That’s not it. Maseo adaptation. The phenomenon of the body mutating due to magic. It was highly likely to be what people call leveling up.

It’s a dream.

As he came to a conclusion, his seething heart quietly calmed down.

He leaned back comfortably in his seat and enjoyed the sea. He enjoyed the leisure in the empty train car.

The train was going somewhere.

The fact that it wasn’t stagnant, whether it was an image or whatever, soothed his heart.

“Hmm?”

An anomaly occurred. Two people appeared at either end of the train car.

Karin and Mion.

For some reason, both of them were wearing school uniforms.

“Karin…? Mion…?”

Is this a dream or reality? Could it be that the wicked tricks of the mind have created this illusion?

Karin wore a short skirt, revealing her healthy thighs, and a leopard-print bra was faintly visible over her white shirt.

On the other hand, Mion wore a neat skirt, but thanks to her plump thighs, it was tightly fitted without her intending it. She wore a long-sleeved cardigan, but her shirt was about to burst open due to her heavy chest, revealing her black lace bra.

The two approached quickly and sat right next to Jeong Yu-shin.

“Karin, Mion, how are you here…?”

The two sat quietly, only glaring at each other as if they couldn’t hear Jeong Yu-shin’s words.

“Lady Karin, I can take better care of you, so why are you here?”

“Mion, what are you doing here? I’m the one who should take care of the master since I’m Scathach.”

“That’s nonsense. Why are you here in the first place? Everyone else is working hard downstairs. There’s no reason why only Lady Karin would be up here.”

“Ge…get away!”

“I…I don’t want to. You get away, Lady Karin.”

As the two got closer and closer, he suddenly felt suffocated.

A sensation as if something heavy was pressing down.

“Huff…huff. Please move away for a moment.”

Jeong Yu-shin said, floundering, but the two continued to argue as if he wasn’t even on their minds.

“Just…just a moment, I’m suffocating too much…!”

Jeong Yu-shin opened his eyes.

“Hufububub.”

Something huge was heavily pressing down on his face.

“Bub…move away.”

“Ah…!”

“You’ve…you’ve woken up! Master Scathach!”

Immediately, something heavy disappeared. A strong milky scent remained in his nose.

And Karin and Mion were visible. In their original forms.

Karin in a shirt and leather pants.

Mion in her cleric’s outfit.

Here was his room, his bed.

Had he returned alive?

For some reason, his body was overflowing with strength. A strange sense of omnipotence swirled and passed through his body.

Level up.

Had he survived?

He was lucky.

“What are you two doing here?”

“…”

At Jeong Yu-shin’s question, Karin and Mion exchanged glances in silence.

What is it?

“How long have I been lying down?”

“About 5 days.”

Karin replied.

“That’s quite a long time.”

“You can say that again. You were practically a corpse. What on earth happened there?”

“Didn’t the party members tell you?”

“When I went to pick you up, everyone was lying down in the shelter?”

“Are they okay?”

“They were all fine…except for the cleric.”

“Why the cleric?”

“She had a lot of spider eggs implanted in her shoulder, so she had a hard time. The deer beastman said that the amount of pesticide was too small, so there was no other choice?”

“I see…so everyone survived?”

“That’s right.”

“I see.”

That’s a relief.

He survived. Everyone, not just him.

That fact made him happy.

Jeong Yu-shin smiled and looked up at Karin and Mion.

“But what are you two doing here? Please tell me honestly.”

Only then did Karin confess.

“You wouldn’t wake up, so I was going to nurse you. But this big-boobed cleric keeps getting in the way.”

“Bi-big-boobed cleric? How indecent! Lady Karin!”

Mion glanced sideways at Jeong Yu-shin, and Jeong Yu-shin had nowhere to look but the ceiling.

No. You have to get over this flexibly.

“Ah! Thank you, Cleric Mion. During this forest area, there was a colleague who was possessed by an evil spirit, and I drove it away. I couldn’t have done it without Cleric Mion’s blessing.”

“···Yes?”

“Didn’t you rub your tongue on my cheek last time? I misunderstood, but Cleric Mion had all the insight.”

Mion’s body froze like ice.

“···Yes?”

“Wh-wh-what?! Mion! How dare you, this perverted boob freak!”

Karin was furious.

“Th…that’s. You were conscious. Yes, that’s right. I was just worried about Master Scathach, so I cast my own special divine magic.”

Mion, who was flustered, immediately changed her attitude and answered calmly.

“This damp and musty cleric! Get out of this inn!”

Karin shouted, pointing her finger.

“If we’re talking about dampness, Lady Karin is one step ahead, isn’t she?”

“Ugh…!”

Jeong Yu-shin looked at Karin.

What is it? What is it?

Karin is damp? Could someone who always teases people with a cool expression have something like that?

Knock knock.

At that moment, the sound of knocking was heard.

Karin and Mion stopped fighting and closed their mouths.

“Th…Master Scathach, guests have arrived.”

It was Tarman.

“I understand. I’ll be out soon.”

Jeong Yu-shin answered and looked at Karin and Mion.

“Could you two please go out for a moment? I need to change my clothes.”

“Okay.”

“Yes.”

Karin and Mion went out of the room, and Jeong Yu-shin was left alone in the room.

He got up from the bed. Whether it was because of the nursing or the level up, he certainly felt full of energy.

‘Is this the third level up?’

He had been feeling uneasy because there hadn’t been any progress for a while, but he didn’t know there would be such a reward.

Does a person get stronger the more they suffer?

Jeong Yu-shin smiled brightly, changed his clothes, and went down to the first floor.

When he went down to the first floor, Iron Mask, Mas, and Kubo were there. All the party members were gathered.

“You look good.”

Iron Mask said in a cheerful voice.

“You too.”

“Are you seeing through the mask? Amazing.”

The naked dwarf cleric bowed his head to Jeong Yu-shin.

“Scathach, thank you. I survived thanks to you.”

“Don’t worry about it. I just did what I had to do.”

Really.

If they hadn’t rushed in when his abdomen was pierced by the Giant Spider and he was being dragged away, his life would have ended there.

Considering the odds and being careful with his body was the virtue of an explorer, but in the end, what bound the party together was dedication and sacrifice.

Clatter.

Iron Mask put a pouch down.

“This is the payment. 1 gold coin and 75 silver coins for each person. It’s the amount for completing about 3 requests for the Giant Spider subjugation.”

Jeong Yu-shin smiled brightly and took the pouch.

“The subjugation payment is quite good? But Kubo, are you feeling okay?”

Kubo trembled and touched his shoulder.

“As you can see. Haa. It was really terrible. I didn’t have any strength in my body and my shoulder was itching, but I didn’t know that baby spiders were eating my flesh there. If it wasn’t for your pesticide, I would have already become spider food.”

“That’s why you should have trusted the engraving moderately. By the way, what about Brinn?”

“Her? That student went back to school. She was smiling, saying that she got a lot of extra credit and would graduate this time?”

Jeong Yu-shin’s mouth dropped open.

Unbelievable.

“Smile? Even after going through that mess, she was smiling? She has a lot of guts.”

“She’s generous.”

“Her nerves are tough.”

The party members nodded as if agreeing with Jeong Yu-shin’s words.

Still.

Jeong Yu-shin stroked his chin. He felt bitter that he had received a favor but had to send her away without any compensation.

“If I knew we were going to break up like this, I should have packed something for her.”

“Scathach, Brinn has already taken half of the Giant subjugation payment.”

Jeong Yu-shin’s eyes widened at Iron Mask’s answer.

“···Really?”

“Yes. She claimed that she had the biggest share. We acknowledged it. Brinn took the payment from the Explorer’s Guild.”

Really. He thought she was timid, but seeing her scrape together everything she could get, he was speechless.

Jeong Yu-shin looked at Iron Mask and opened his mouth.

“···I was wrong. The future of the Lionel Kingdom seems bright.”

“…”

Iron Mask glared at Jeong Yu-shin. Jeong Yu-shin turned his head and looked at the party members.

“So, when is the next labyrinth trip?”

“…”

Everyone was strangely silent.

“Why are you so quiet?”

“Isn’t the Blue Moon Festival coming up soon? Even if we go, shouldn’t we attend the festival first?”

Kubo scolded.

“You want to rest?”

“Ahem! I am a cleric. I have a duty to help with miscellaneous tasks at the temple to prepare for the festival. Besides…”

Kubo paused for a moment and grinned.

“The Blue Moon Festival is truly a festival of frenzy.”

Suddenly?

“What do you mean by frenzy?”

“This is it.”

The dwarf made a circle with one hand and stabbed it with another finger.

Copulation.

Sex.

Still, damn it.

He was seeing a naked dwarf lewdly smiling and sticking his finger in and out.

He wanted to slap the dwarf’s butt and then gouge out his own eyes.

But it wasn’t just for a day or two, and he, with his great patience, endured it.

“Really? Copulation? The Barbarois would really like it.”

The color drained from Kubo and Mas’s faces at the words he muttered as he passed by.

“That’s real ‘frenzy’.”

“Scathach, it’s scary. Don’t say things like that even as a joke. The Blue Moon Festival last year was truly a disaster.”

What on earth happened?

No.

He could tell just by looking at these guys’ expressions.

They kidnapped a couple who caught each other’s eyes and raped them both.

A man and a woman who fell in love at first sight at the festival held hands and went into a secluded alley, where they lowered their pants, and a Barbaroi appeared next to them, smiling contentedly.

There was no need to imagine the rest.

Was there really a need to hear the tragic story of them both eventually crawling out covered in semen?

The dick outlaws of the labyrinth city. Not a strange prediction at all.

By the way.

“Aren’t I also black-haired? Can I participate in the festival?”

“Aren’t you a kind Barbaroi who doesn’t rape? The guards all know about it, right? The residents of the south street know, but there are many people who are skeptical. There will be people who don’t want you at the festival, but there won’t be anyone who will exclude you to the point where you can’t even set foot there.”

Jeong Yu-shin’s shoulders drooped at Mas’s words.

A public virgin.

They all knew. It wasn’t something he could hide in the first place.

Kubo chuckled.

“To be honest, it’s a little scary. A virgin. I’ll express my condolences to your first woman’s waist in advance.”

Jeong Yu-shin’s expression crumpled.

‘These bastards.’

They’re talking so carelessly because they’ve gotten a little closer.

“Why do you think I’m the one who will rush in first? Isn’t it possible that the woman will pounce on me?”

“…”

The party members closed their mouths and stared at Jeong Yu-shin’s face.

What?

Clang.

The sound of glass breaking was heard from behind.

Oops.

When he turned around, Karin was holding an empty tray with a red face. Broken glass and juice were scattered on the inn floor.

“···Scathach, is that your taste? Do you like women forcing you, stepping on you, and spitting in your face?”

Stepped on and eat spit.

It was a very heavy sexual taste.

“Karin, you misunderstand.”

“Th…that’s right.”

Karin nodded, but the atmosphere wasn’t convincing.

Kubo and the party members got up from their seats.

“Ahem…ahem. We’ll be going now. We saw your face and know that you’re feeling better, so we’ll see you again later.”

“When can we see each other again?”

“A few days after the Blue Moon Festival?”

Jeong Yu-shin sighed at Kubo’s words and nodded.

Aren’t they practically planning to play, eat, and die?

“I understand.”

“Then.”

“Take care!”

The party members rushed out of the inn. Jeong Yu-shin stood at the door and saw the party members off, then returned to the hall.

“Scathach.”

Karin crossed her arms and looked at Jeong Yu-shin.

“What’s wrong? Where’s Mion?”

“Mion went back. Ah! I forgot to tell you, my mom called you.”

Karin’s mom, then.

Ingrid Redtail. The guardian of the labyrinth city. One of the committee members.

“···Yes?”

“She said to come tonight.”

What’s wrong this time?

“Does she have something unpleasant going on?”

“No…she said it’s something related to Lynn, but I don’t know the details either. Go check it out.”

“I understand.”

Jeong Yu-shin felt dubious but wasn’t too worried.

‘I gave her such a good massage. Nothing will happen, right?’