episode_0213

Jeong Yushin held a torch and walked through the sewer.

It was hot, but because he was wearing a mascot costume, the sewer smell wasn’t too bad.

‘This is something.’

He borrowed it from one of the small to medium-sized clan alliances.

It was a mascot costume professionally made by the ‘Furry Love’ clan, and it had the effect of modulating the voice and blocking external odors.

The sewer was wide.

Wide enough for five adults to stretch out their arms and walk simultaneously.

In the middle of the sewer, sewage flowed, and there were paths on both sides.

Jeong Yushin looked around with the torch in his hand.

“I’ve never seen such a big sewer.”

Gwyn’s voice was filled with surprise.

“Of course, it’s wide. The eastern district also manages the sewers of other districts. Ah! Except for the western district. The dwarves manage that separately.”

“Is that so? It’s a wider area than I expected.”

“That’s right.”

Lex and Gwyn got along surprisingly well.

The two chatted about trivial things for a while as they walked.

The topic started with rumors about the labyrinth, lingered on personal matters, and moved on to the request story.

“By the way, there are many young explorers among the friends who came this time.”

Gwyn grasped the hidden meaning in Lex’s words.

“You saw it well. Even if they don’t seem trustworthy, they are talented people from the central district clan. You could say they are people who were recruited early by obtaining good imprints?”

“Headquarters is sending such fledglings, are they ignoring us?”

Lex asked a provocative question.

Gwyn shook his head.

“I see it as a good selection. It sends a message that they are paying attention without stimulating the eastern district too much.”

“What message?”

“As the times are, it means they don’t want to cause friction with the eastern district. My guess is that Lex’s duel last time was also a warning from Ingrid to the eastern district.”

“…”

Lex closed his mouth.

“Lex, it was a great fight.”

“Stop it. It was an embarrassing duel. The next one will be different, though.”

Lex muttered, staring at the wolf mascot costume.

Gwyn changed the subject.

“By the way, I saw some slimes on the way here, are they all working in this sewer?”

“That’s right. Most of them are in charge of absorbing sewage.”

“Is that so? There were more people with slime imprints than I thought. It must be hard work.”

Lex nodded.

“It’s bearable. This is surprisingly a lucrative job. Since it’s a job managing the sewers, no one really bothers you, and the pay is better than you think. It’s a good job for saving money. There are also many beginners who aim to make a quick buck before erasing their slime imprints.”

“No one bothers you?”

“That’s right. The treatment was good until recently. Why? Because of the Barbaroi. Those guys took up space in the brothel and clogged the sewers so much that they overflowed. It was a disaster.”

Lex said, glaring at the wolf mascot costume.

Gwyn tilted his head.

“Have you ever received a slime imprint?”

“…”

Lex turned his head.

Gwyn stared at Lex intently.

Lex slowly opened his mouth.

“In the past.”

“How did you feel?”

Lex scratched his head.

“Becoming a different being is hard to explain in words. You could say that your five senses are completely reversed? The world you see is different.”

“I’m curious.”

“Have you never received a monster imprint?”

Gwyn shook his head at Lex’s question.

“Unfortunately, not at all.”

“So? What do you think now that you see it up close?”

“It’s amazing. Most of the monster explorers I’ve seen were in the labyrinth. There were many who didn’t come close.”

“Because it’s dangerous. There’s no need to hang around explorers who are on edge from fighting monsters.”

“Ah! Still, I heard that monster explorers sometimes visit the branch office instead of the headquarters.”

“A minority. There’s no systemic way to stop it, but people are reluctant.”

“Is that so? Actually, I’ve been friends with an explorer with a monster imprint.”

“Is that so?”

“It was a half-incubus imprint. He was a kind person.”

Gwyn’s face flushed slightly as he spoke.

“Half-incubus? A half-demon.”

“Do you know much about half-incubuses?”

“I don’t know much. I heard that they use Yin energy to plunder women’s mana. I heard that they get stronger the more times they hold a woman.”

“They get stronger?”

“It means their demonic nature gets stronger. Half-demons, in particular, must have a hard time. It must be difficult to control the Yin energy. They’ll often go berserk. Be careful.”

Gwyn tilted his head and opened his mouth.

“I think he’s okay. I haven’t seen anyone as strong-willed as him.”

“A swordsman like you thinks so highly of that half-demon. Do I know him? What’s the half-demon’s name?”

“It’s hard to tell you.”

“Is that so.”

Lex and Gwyn stopped talking and looked at the wolf mascot costume.

Gwyn was especially interested.

‘That’s strange.’

This man never joined the conversation.

“Hey, say something? Are you mute?”

At Lex’s question, the wolf mascot shrugged.

He looked like he had nothing to say and no interest.

The wolf mascot took out a map from his pocket and looked at it.

Lex stepped forward.

“There’s no need to look at the map now. I remember the way. Let’s go a little further and look at the map.”

The wolf mascot nodded and put the map in his pocket.

The wolf mascot, Lex, and Gwyn trudged through the sewer.

Under the dim torchlight.

Various objects flowed down the sewage flowing along the sewer.

The wolf mascot stopped abruptly and picked up one of the objects with a net.

Gwyn slowly approached and looked down at the object in the net.

“A tail…?”

It was wet with sewage, but it was definitely recognizable.

It was an animal’s tail.

The difference was that there was a stopper at the beginning of the tail.

It seemed to be used for fixing it by sticking it somewhere.

“What is this?”

Lex frowned.

“The darkness of the labyrinth city.”

“Darkness?”

Lex looked at Gwyn’s innocent expression and turned his gaze.

“There are things like that. Just the fact that they have tails and ears makes them the object of sexual desire. It’s terrible.”

“…”

Both of them didn’t say anything, but looked at the wolf mascot.

The wolf mascot held the wet tail stopper and then stuck out his butt.

Tap tap.

The stopper tapped his butt.

“Huh?”

Gwyn blankly opened his mouth.

“Y, you’re going to put th, that in your butt?!”

Nod.

The wolf mascot agreed and returned to his original position and threw the animal tail into the sewer.

“You! Do you have to harass women in this place!”

Lex burst into anger.

The wolf mascot scratched his head and bowed to Gwyn.

Gwyn waved his hand with a flushed face.

“Ah, no! It’s okay. My ‘insight’ has broadened. Thank you.”

After the commotion.

The three walked for a long time.

It felt like about 3 hours.

Lex stopped and took out several iron bars from his pocket and assembled them.

Finally, he fixed the halberd head that had been hanging on his waist.

A huge halberd was created in an instant.

It wasn’t as long as the one he saw last time.

No matter how wide it was, it was a sewer.

Since people were together, it seemed that he had deliberately shortened the reach and assembled it.

Lex opened his mouth.

“From now on, you have to be careful. We’ve left the safe zone.”

“Is there anything dangerous?”

“Sometimes, strange creatures are created by mixing secretly discarded magic reagents. Vagrants and strange groups also stay in the corners. They’re crazy guys. I mean, don’t let your guard down.”

“I see.”

Gwyn pulled out a thin longsword. A cool chill emanated from it.

As they moved further forward, they saw a crossroads.

A huge slime in the shape of a human was standing right in front of them.

The three stopped walking.

Gwyn narrowed his eyes.

“It’s not a slime.”

“The color of the core is different. It looks like a monster that came in from the outside, and it ate a lot of magic reagents. Tsk.”

As soon as Lex finished speaking, laughter was heard from the other side of the crossroads.

“Hehehe.”

Humans, lizardmen, and frogmen appeared from the darkness.

There were also various other guys.

The common thing was that they were wearing rags and holding knives.

Their eyes were not in their right mind, as if they had taken drugs.

Lex clicked his tongue.

“Tsk. What kind of lousy guys. I’ll take care of that slime guy. You guys take care of those losers.”

“Okay.”

“…”

The huge slime rushed in, splitting the sewage.

Dirty sewage splashed everywhere, but Lex didn’t care.

Lex ran along the side path and got off into the sewer.

Splash!

The sewage came up to his knees, but Lex stabbed the halberd in with an indifferent expression.

The sharp stab hit the slime’s core.

Boom!!!

The slime burst out, scattering soft pieces.

At the same time, a huge shockwave echoed through the sewer.

In the meantime, the wolf mascot and Gwyn ran forward.

The vagrants smiled grimly at Gwyn’s shining beauty, and then frowned when they saw the wolf mascot.

“I, he’s crazy! Use ‘that’!”

The frogman quickly took out a scroll from his pocket and tore it.

[Fireball]

A hot fireball flew towards the wolf mask.

“Wolf!”

Gwyn raised her voice.

But the wolf mask did not avoid it and ran straight towards the fireball.

“What are you doing!!!”

Gwyn widened her eyes.

In the moment of desperation.

The wolf mask lay down in the same running posture.

A smooth slide.

The blazing fireball narrowly grazed the wolf mask and passed by.

Ka-ga-ga-ga-gak!!!

The old rubber shoes tore and sparks flew as the steel plate on the bottom of the walker dragged on the floor.

The sliding speed decreased significantly.

The wolf mask jumped up from the floor and drew a single-edged sword and swung it.

Siiiiiiiiiing!!!

A speed that could even cut the wind.

The sword swung by the wolf mask cut off the lizardman’s neck.

The lizardman’s head floated in the air with wide eyes and spun before falling to the floor.

Thud. Doo-roo-roo.

The lizardman’s body, which had lost its neck, knelt helplessly.

Chiiiiiiiiiiit!!!

Blood gushed out like a fountain from the cut surface of the neck.

Gwyn’s eyes widened.

Different.

She had been suspecting Skara, but the texture of the swordsmanship was different.

He was clearly swinging it randomly.

But.

Swordsmanship filled with the arrogance that his path was the right way.

Lex’s expression, who was watching from afar, also changed blankly.

‘The swordsmanship is different?’

The wolf mask swung the single-edged sword to shake off the blood from the blade.

Hoodudeuk.

The human man, who had been standing blankly, shouted convulsively.

“Kill him!!!”

The frogman and the human men rushed in.

The wolf mask stepped back with frivolous steps.

Gwyn joined the wolf mask and swung her sword.

‘It’s hard to keep up!’

The speed at which the wolf mascot swung his single-edged sword was faster than the speed at which Gwyn swung her sword.

The wolf mask freely swung his single-edged sword and cut everything in sight.

Various attacks came out as if every part of his body was a weapon.

He punched the vagrant’s face with the fist holding the single-edged sword.

He moved his legs like a whip and kicked the vital points.

He also grabbed the stabbing dagger and threw it at another person to hit them.

“Kkeuaaaaaaaak!!!!!!”

Blood splattered and screams swirled.

In an instant, 8 vagrants were cut into pieces.

The vagrants scattered when even Lex, who had been watching, rushed in.

“Shit!!! Run away!!!”

The vagrant guys running towards the darkness.

The three did not chase any further.

The wolf mask squatted in front of the corpse and wiped the blood off the single-edged sword.

“…”

Lex and Gwyn watched the back of the wolf mask in silence.

‘It’s not Skara?’

Similar thoughts swirled in the heads of the two.

Both of them had a history of dueling with Skara.

But.

The swordsmanship he had shown so far gave them the conviction that it was not Skara.

Then who is this man wearing the wolf mascot?

‘Who is it?’

Lex sighed and looked around.

“That’s it for today. Let’s go back to the accommodation and rest and meet next time.”

“Where should we use the accommodation?”

“Follow me. There’s an accommodation prepared by the Eastern District Explorer Association.”

Lex led the wolf mascot and Gwyn back to the starting point.

People were sprawled out in the basement with tired expressions.

“Lex, you came out last. Was there any harvest?”

The elf who had been sitting stood up and asked.

Lex shook his head.

“No, there wasn’t anything particularly suspicious.”

The elf smiled bitterly and looked around at the explorers.

“Is that so? It might take longer than I thought.”

Most of them were making a death face because of the terrible stench.

Lex led the explorers up to the Eastern District.

The accommodation that Lex guided them to was a four-story brick building.

It was not far from the association in the Eastern District, and it was rented out entirely and prepared with one room per person.

The room assigned to Jeong Yushin was the corner room on the top floor.

Coincidentally, it was on the same floor as the elf and Gwyn who were in charge of this request.

Knock knock.

Jeong Yushin was sitting on the bed and stopped trying to take off the mascot.

“Mr. Wolf Mascot, are you there?”

Gwyn’s voice.

Jeong Yushin got up and opened the door.

Gwyn’s snow-white hair was moist as if she had just finished taking a bath.

Gwyn hesitated and barely opened her mouth.

“Um… by any chance.”

“…”

“In the sewer earlier. You seemed to know a lot about th, those various strange ‘things’.”

“…?”

“It’s not that, it’s my first time in the Eastern District, so I think it’s an experience to improve my ‘insight’.”

Gwyn glanced up at the wolf mascot.

“If, if you know a lot about the Eastern District, would you like to hang out with me during the break after the sewer exploration is over?”

“…”

The wolf mascot stood still and raised his hand to make a circle.

Gwyn smiled brightly.

“Is that so? Thank you!”