Chapter 36
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 36
Chapter Title: Two-Person Night Guard Team (6)
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Numerous night guards had begun staring at us intently.
Ignoring those guys as best I could, we returned to the guard post.
The moment we got back to the guard post...
"Wh-what's going on...? Why me... Why am I in a world like this...?"
I could hear the woman's voice, choked with sobs, as she began questioning her situation.
"Right? That's what makes you a proper newbie."
"...Huh?"
"A newbie's supposed to be confused about their situation."
"...Isn't that just normal?"
"You were the one saying stuff like, 'I'm getting eaten by a monster right now.' And that was on your first or second day working at Bellierd Library, right? Remember?"
"Ah..."
"...What are you two talking about right now...?"
"Ah, sorry. I just remembered Big Whale's newbie days for a sec. The answer to your question is simple. We're in the exact same boat as you."
"...Huh?"
"We were just kidnapped into this world a little earlier than you. Getting isekai'd like this has been a real pain for us too."
Cruelly enough...
Anonymous 1's words were the plain truth.
We didn't know why we'd ended up in this godforsaken world either. It was the same for us.
"..."
The woman sat silently on the floor, looking up at us.
"...Why hasn't it cleared?"
Even though we'd rescued her and brought her here, the Two-Person Night Guard Team legend hadn't cleared. Pushing aside my questions about that...
"Sigh... Well, whatever. To kill some time, let me show you where we hang out."
If it wasn't clearing anyway, we still had to keep tackling this place.
I was about to explain our living quarters to the woman we'd just rescued—
"This is like a fantasy world with a status window—"
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The status window... popped up.
"...Huh?"
"What's wrong?"
"...Is the status window only open for me right now?"
"Huh? Status window... Huh??"
It wasn't just me.
Anonymous 1's status window had opened normally too.
In other words...
"Rescuing the person in Room 1001 must've been the key to unlocking the status window again."
The structure was that freeing the person trapped in Room 1001 would reopen the status window.
I was about to tell the woman about the status window too—
"...What? Where'd she go?"
"What do you mean?"
"The woman who was here."
"Oh? She must've hit Return."
Ah.
I panicked at her sudden disappearance—
"...What? Where'd you go?"
The woman who'd suddenly vanished was suddenly sitting on the floor again.
Confused by the situation, I asked her where she'd been...
"Th-there was this 'Return' thing, so I thought it might take me home and pressed it..."
"...No way?"
"...I woke up in some weird place, got scared, and pressed the Return button again... and came back here..."
"Whoa... They say everyone's the same when it comes to living. How are you exactly like you, Big Whale?"
She'd followed the exact same steps as me when I first opened the status window at Bellierd Library.
"No helping it. We'll have to teach her the Rulebook stuff we remember and how to access the community, one by one."
"Yeah."
What could we do?
She probably had no Return uses left now...
All we could do was teach her the survival rules as we remembered them...
"We're gonna teach you a few codes from now on, and you absolutely cannot leak them to the Gallery. Got it?"
...
Behind the firmly locked door of the guards' break room, leaving the sleeping woman behind.
I could feel Anonymous 1 glancing at me.
"What're you gonna do?"
"Huh?"
"You're asking even though you know."
Yeah.
Actually... I knew.
Both Anonymous 1 and I did.
If we wanted, we could leave this place now.
Our original goal when entering here—to save Anonymous 1—had been achieved.
However.
"...We have to stay."
"Heh... That's my Big Whale."
"Tomorrow, at the survivor meeting, I'll announce that the status window is usable again."
"Whoa... You thought that far ahead?"
"What about you, Anonymous 1?"
"Me? I just wanna survive. That's it."
If we left, the woman would be left here alone.
Knowing that, the man in front of me was hesitating a bit about leaving.
Knowing that, he hadn't posted a single survival report to the community he loved so much...
Because if he posted one and the moderator told him to come back...
He might just hit Return right away.
"Well, if we wanna console ourselves, she's not Korean, right?"
"...Yeah?"
Definitely, when the call came from Room 1001.
All three movie titles the woman mentioned were Japanese films.
Which meant the woman sleeping in the room right now was very likely Japanese.
So...
"We won't see her again anyway."
Hearing the man's voice, telling me not to feel burdened about hitting Return now...
"Phew... Thanks."
"For what?"
"My resolve. It's hardened now."
"Hardened like concrete?"
"Yeah. Rock solid."
"Looking forward to it."
I was finally able to steel my heart.
"I'll stay."
I'd stay here.
"Of course, I'm not gonna overdo it or sacrifice my life or anything. But... someone has to clear this place."
"Kyahaha... That's Big Whale! The ultimate tough guy who cusses out monsters and threatens them!"
After declaring my resolve, I turned to look at Anonymous 1.
I couldn't see his expression or eyes...
But I knew he was staring right at me, so I met his gaze where his eyes should be.
"Are you heading back, Anonymous 1?"
"If I do?"
"Huh?"
"Who's gonna be your partner then, Big Whale?"
I could hear it.
"Partner?"
"This is a two-person team gig. If I go, you gonna partner up with a monster, Big Whale?"
He'd decided to stay here with me too.
"...Didn't you say you wanna live?"
"Gotta live. Survive like hell and get out. And... spill some stories."
"What stories?"
"Starting from how Big Whale cussed out the apartment monster and threatened it, figured out how to tell monsters from people using the camera, even knows where the Japanese community is! Gotta tell it all."
"Whoa... No one would believe those without calling them fake."
"But they're all true!"
"Thanks. For hearing out my stubbornness."
"What stubbornness? I'm riding the bus again this time too. The Big Whale express. Grab one more Return use and bail~."
"I'll make sure to stuff you full of stones and Return uses again this time."
"Kyahaha~ Awesome. Can't wait. Guess I gotta do my best to rack up as many stones as possible too."
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[IT'S BACK!!!!! Status Window On Again!!!!!!]
(Photo)
Hey guys!!
Right now I'm on night guard duty with Big Whale!!!!
This is a survival report, you hear me!!!!!!!!
I've got a ton of stories to tell~~~
Stories so good you'd have to pay to hear them ㅇㅇ
Mod. Check that guy's IP quick. See if it's the same as Big Whale or the usual Anonymous 1 thief.
Confirmed same IP.
Same IP or not, you still need human verification. Do it in 5 mins or get banned.
Not that same old piss-shit crap. Something we can actually believe.
For real.
Monster wrote a normal post? Way too likely it learned from our old posts.
That's why we're asking for proper human verification.
Phew... You all want real human verification, huh? Fine. I'll do it.
While working with Big Whale here, I learned his tastes.
Big Whale said his favorite is futanari MILFs in a group orgy.
What the fuck? When did I ever???? (Edited) (Deleted)
Human confirmed..
100% pure human..
Whoa... Big Whale's tastes are... uh... intense..
No no no that's not it; fuck no; (Edited) (Deleted)
...What kinda convo leads to that coming out?
No, it was just for testing human or not using Hitomi tags; (Edited) (Deleted)
..Why use Hitomi tags to check if human, Big Whale..?
No; it's; sigh; I'll explain everything when I survive and get back.. (Edited) (Deleted)
Fuck!!!! Hit Return quick and come home and explain what happened!!!!
This is correct. You need to tell us what's going on inside the legend dungeon.
Mod talk ignore, explain what the futanari MILF group orgy Big Whale likes is first!!!!!
?
That's the most important part for real lol
You all wanna hear my stories, huh... Phew, no helping it. On duty now, so I'll explain after shift ends.
I'm seriously dying of curiosity fuuuuck what happened?? Can I go in there too to hear the stories?
First time someone wants to enter a legend for stories lmao
Right now... I'm praying harder than ever for this guy to stay safe..
Lmao same lmao
Lmao
100% recommend
"..."
I looked at the man giggling away.
I got that his post was getting tons of attention and he was happy about it, but...
"...Come on, they said prove you're human, but did you have to do it that way?"
Why that method of all things—
"I just repeated the words exactly as they came out of Big Whale's mouth."
"Whoa..."
"But I did prove I'm human. Cheers~."
...
Time passed, and in one minute, it was time for the survivor meeting.
"Hm? Having fun?"
Right before we headed out to the survivor meeting, the woman who'd looked depressed all day suddenly seemed a bit happy, so I casually asked what was up...
"There seem to be... a lot of fun people there."
Apparently, the Japanese community was full of the same kinds of memes as the Korean one.
I decided to check out the Japanese community next time.
"We'll be off then. Remember what I said earlier?"
"Yes. I'll stay quiet. Even if someone else comes, I won't open the door."
"Good. We'll head out."
After telling the woman to wait quietly here.
Anonymous 1 and I headed straight to the survivor meeting.
"Everyone's already gathered."
We were a bit late to the survivor meeting.
Everyone was already there.
"Sorry we're late."
"No problem. It's just one minute. Anyway, do you have any updates to share today?"
We hurried over and started sharing the info we'd learned yesterday amid the group.
"Everyone, open your status windows."
"Status window? ...Huh?"
"But those are blocked, right?"
"W-wait... ...The status window... it's opening again...?"
"...What? ...Status window. ...Huh? For real?"
"...!! Wh-what...? How...? How did this happen...! No way...!"
"Last night during our shift, we made the status window usable again."
"?????"
"???????"
"???????????"
"...Told you, Haruto. ...Koreans are different."
"No, no... No...? ...No way..."
"Even after two months, we two couldn't do it, but a Korean solved it in two days...?"