Promise (2)
Promise (2)
After that, I continued drinking heavily with Ilone and sharing various stories. Having met her after a month and a half, she seemed to have no intention of letting me go.
Well, I suppose that's natural. I taught a virgin about sex and then left her alone for a whole month. Her lower abdomen must have been heating up from the moment she saw my face.
"......Hey, aren't you tired?"
"I have to go to the dungeon tomorrow morning too."
"Me too! I have work tomorrow too! Okay? I'll let you go before work starts......."
Kwoo-uk, Ilone's hand overlapped mine. Her grip grew increasingly stronger, as if she absolutely would not let go.
I let out a light sigh and spoke to her.
"You'll just let me go in the morning?"
"Un!"
Saying that, she pulled me towards the inn. How urgent was she? Her footsteps were as light as a feather.
Soon after arriving at the inn room, she immediately booked a double room, pushed me inside, and threw off her clothes.
"Haa, haa......."
There was no way the Guard Captain would be tired from just marching that short distance, so these sounds were from her excitement.
I didn't look at her Status Window. Even without looking, I could easily tell she was in a state of heat.
"O-oh, today unnie will do everything for you...... just stay still."
As she slowly approached saying that, I spread my limbs and meekly offered up my body.
"O-oh, what do we do? The time is already this late......"
"That's why I said we should stop."
"But! We don't know when we'll meet next time!"
"Aish, whatever, just don't fall asleep on duty. I'm worried you might get hurt."
"......Hey, I'm wet again."
"Shut up. I really have to go now,"
"J-just the tip! I'll just put the tip in!"
Pushing away the nonsensical woman, I dragged my body, tired from the all-nighter, towards the dungeon.
In front of the dungeon, numerous people were again waiting to form parties today. I headed straight for the promised spot.
Just like yesterday, Raize was sitting on the ground with a vacant expression, hugging her knees.
"Hey."
"......You're late."
"Late? I'm earlier than yesterday."
Raize slowly stood up, patting the dirt off her butt. Then she started looking me up and down.
"Dojin, no clothes?"
"Huh? Why?"
"Then why are you wearing the same clothes as yesterday?"
"......Adults have adult circumstances."
"Circumstances? Are you so poor you can't change clothes?"
"......You're wearing the same thing as yesterday too."
"This is a different robe. It just looks the same."
Raize claimed she had at least 30 more robes like this at her lodging and that she was a neat person who wore different clothes every day.
'They look the same to me.'
Raize, who had approached me and sniffed, frowned, pinched her nose, and stepped back.
"It smells...... don't come near."
"I washed."
"It's on your clothes."
"......Well, that can't be helped."
With those words, Raize really kept a good distance while walking. Even though we'd have to be close when getting on the elevator, and during hunting, sweat would flow and create a worse smell, I didn't know why she was acting like that.
If I even tried to get close, she'd really get angry and thrust out her staff.
Sure enough, even I had no confidence in dodging or cutting lightning, so I immediately surrendered and stayed far away from her.
'She's too sensitive.'
Is it because she's a kid?
Raize, whose body was considerably damaged by all sorts of magic experiments, had become extremely sensitive in her senses, as if receiving compensation for her damaged body.
Among them, her sense of smell had become the most sensitive. She possessed a sense of smell comparable to a dog or a bear, to the level of being able to distinguish between sweat or perfume smells on clothes.
'Woman smell.......'
A woman's smell came from Dojin's body. The strong smell of sweat from standing under the scorching sun for a long time, the faint perfume smell to cover that smell.
And finally, the smell of a female in heat.
Generally, women dislike the smell of other women. An instinct from when humans were monkeys.
Even Raize, whose body was that of a child, was the same.
'Annoying.'
Just smelling it was annoying. The fact that Dojin's smell was buried under that smell, and the fact that Dojin stayed up all night holding a woman.
Taking the dungeon elevator, the two of us were spat out, Ptoo, on the 5th floor like yesterday and walked through the dungeon interior without a word.
After a while, monsters appeared. Dojin nimbly drew his sword.
"I'll handle it."
"......Un."
Dojin drew his sword and slowly walked forward. The Shadow Wolves watching his movement fiercely charged at him.
Dojin, looking at the charging wolves, even found swinging his sword annoying due to the drowsiness washing over him.
He imagined that if he had a special ability like Seoyun, he could easily crush them to death as she had done.
And Dojin's imagination, who could dominate all areas below the 10th floor, became reality.
Kwoong!
"......Huh?"
The ceiling fell and crushed the wolves. A moment later, the ceiling melted away and was absorbed into the ground. Only a Magic Stone was left lying there.
Dojin picked up the Magic Stone and slowly turned around. Raize was looking at him, unable to hide her astonishment.
'Oh dear.'
It seems, I'm screwed.
The fact that I could dominate the dungeon was a secret known only to Deokgu among my companions. If forced to rank it, it was top-secret information that needed to be hidden as much as my ability.
I never spoke of it even when drunk, nor did I ever mention it during pillow talk after relieving sexual urges with the kids.
But now, I was caught using my Dominion Authority by Raize, someone I just met by chance and formed a temporary party with. A fleeting connection.
'Should I kill her?'
Dead men tell no tales. That's a saying common worldwide. The Otherworld wouldn't be any different.
'No.'
But I immediately shook my head. After I created a direct passage connecting floors 1 to 10 in the dungeon, an entry and exit log for the dungeon was created.
What if Raize dies? The first to be suspected would be me. Moreover, I'm a level 2 high-rank adventurer, aren't I?
Not being able to protect a companion on the 5th floor would be a preposterous story.
'Then how.......'
While I was pondering, holding my sword, Raize asked me in confusion.
"Wh-what was that just now?"
"......That just now was."
"Is the dungeon always like this? How could such a thing happen......"
"......Huh?"
Stopped by his words, I fell into thought for a moment. He was a beginner who had just entered the dungeon, and on top of that, he was young and weak in judgment.
Naturally, even if there was an incident of the dungeon ceiling falling arbitrarily, he couldn't even imagine it was something I did.
'......I was being too sensitive.'
What was I doing to a kid? I let out a heavy sigh and picked up the Magic Stone. While doing so, I answered nonchalantly.
"Yeah, things like that happen sometimes."
"That's absurd, that just now...... it defies the laws of nature......"
"A mage talking about......."
It was laughable that a mage, who directly opposes the laws of nature, was saying such things. Hearing my words, Raize shouted back, asking what I was talking about.
"Magic is strictly a discipline that follows rules! At least it doesn't mess things up in such a haphazard way......"
"Yeah, I'm sure that's right."
I ignored Raize and continued progressing through the dungeon. However, while I might fool him alone, it seemed impossible to deceive other adventurers.
'Then, I'll just hide it.'
Immediately after, I imagined it. The creation of a new floor level completely isolated from this floor.
Imagination soon became reality.
Without us even noticing, we had crossed over to another 5th floor. Other adventurers did not exist.
My own dungeon, where I could hunt without any interference, was completed.
Three hours into hunting, Raize gradually began to sense something strange.
'What is it......?'
First of all, the smell changed. The dungeon, which was full of other people's smells, suddenly had those smells disappear.
It was an impossible thing. Even if the smells gradually decreased and then vanished, it doesn't go from 100 to 0 suddenly.
That wasn't the only strange thing. The dungeon had been weird for a while now.
'No matter how I think about it, it's strange.......'
She has a brain too. Every time Dojin moved, wolves would coincidentally get crushed by rocks or suddenly trip over a protruding rock. She couldn't simply think of this as luck or a dungeon peculiarity.
If he says the dungeon is originally like this, then why didn't a single such event happen yesterday?
Does the dungeon have a biological clock inside that increases the probability of ceiling collapses on Tuesdays or something?
'Does he think I'm an idiot? Or does he really see me as a little kid?'
Raize really didn't like that fact. She resolved to inform him someday that she was a woman and quite old.
"Ah, Raize."
"......Why?"
"Come to think of it, you. If you're a mage, can you make magic tools or stuff like that?"
At the rather foolish question, Raize returned the question.
"Dojin uses a sword, so can you make a sword?"
"Ah...... that's true too. Sorry."
"Of course, since I'm a genius, making magic tools is simple too."
"......What, are you teasing me?"
Dojin laughed and asked her what kind of tools she could make. Raize confidently said there was no tool she couldn't make.
"Yeah? That's impressive."
"Are you making fun of me?"
"No, I'm serious."
Of course, no matter how mysterious this world's magic tools were, it wouldn't be surprising to Dojin.
As Arthur Clarke said, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. And Dojin was a resident who had flown from the 21st century, where he had already stepped into the realm of magic.
Looking at Raize, Dojin recalled that she was a mage who used electricity.
'If she could make something like a charger...... I could have used my smartphone.'
But unfortunately, Dojin didn't know how to make a charger. He knew the principles of generators or motors, but he didn't know how to step down lightning exceeding hundreds of millions of volts to 220V and let only enough current flow so the smartphone battery wouldn't explode.
The other kids were the same. Unless they came from a technical high school or, at the very least, majored in such a field in university. Dojin and his group were students from a humanities high school.
And above all.......
'If they couldn't make it in this Otherworld where magic exists, there must be a reason.'
This was a world where magic existed. An Otherworld where electricity and flames shoot from people's hands.
If the people of such a world haven't made it, there must be a fitting reason for it.
Just because these Otherworld people seemed uncivilized, it didn't necessarily mean they were dumber than us.
"Let's stop here for today."
"......Why?"
"Because I'm tired. Sorry, I think I can go longer tomorrow."
Raize also nodded upon seeing Dojin, who looked tired. Yeah, well. Having stayed up all night doing that, it's understandable he's sleepy.
The two left the dungeon. And after promising to meet again tomorrow, they parted ways.
When Dojin returned to the mansion, he was greeted by Seoyun and the other girls' cold stares.
"......You're here?"
"Y-yeah."
"You stayed out."
"Huh? Stayed out?"
"Well done. Very."
Looking at Seoyun, who disappeared after saying that, Dojin could feel the terror of married life that he hadn't even experienced yet.