#34. Black Impure (1)
A little earlier that morning, the rabbit beastman told me.
— I don’t think I’ll be able to make it.
Carrot might have gone up already, or she might still be waiting for the summoning. When I tried to judge her level, the only decent option left was to stay behind on the 1st floor. The rabbit beastman decided to stay in First City.
— Instead… I need you to do one small favor.
The rabbit beastman handed me a single photo.
It was a picture of her looking awkward.
— If you meet Carrot while going up, could you pass on a message? Her dad is useless and still on the lower floor, so just ask her to wait a little.
I didn’t refuse the rabbit beastman’s request. What was hard about showing one photo?
Back then, a week had already passed. Carrot was definitely not on the 2nd floor. She had defeated the Giant Lava Worm and was heading for the 3rd floor. From her perspective, the timing was impossible to run into each other.
We had arrived in First City and needed to head up right away to meet, so there was no solution.
I caught a golem.
In front of us, who had grown far too strong, the golem was nothing more than a doll.
A ridiculously huge doll.
“There’s still some meaning left to regression.”
Later, Yoo Dahui would clear floors in an instant by herself.
Before a single day passed, she would reach the 4th floor, participate in a boss monster raid, and update the starting point on the 5th floor.
Hence the nickname Super Rookie.
We moved on to the 2nd floor.
Sand beaches and beaches greeted us.
"[A range within the floor has confirmed Pluto’s slave.]"
The system immediately informed me of Isilia’s presence. It remembered the command I had given, so I could head straight to the shop.
We set the empty shop as our base camp and hunted the Black Impure. We leveled it to 3 stars, grew appropriately, and headed straight for the 3rd floor.
That was the plan.
I had no idea how long it would take.
Flick—!
A dragon soared in from far away.
The pure-white dragon had been waiting for us and flew over smoothly, landing gently.
Isilia did not release her transformation.
Still in dragon form, she folded her wings and lowered her head as if inviting us to ride.
“D-Dragons allow you to ride them…? On Jinwu? Why…?”
Elysha could not hide her surprise.
Eloin and Elbaren were no different.
I naturally climbed onto Isilia’s back.
Yoo Dahui and the other elves hesitated before following.
— I cleaned up the entire Wang Gohan group and even swept the place spotless.
“…As expected, the message reached you.”
— How many shop points do I have?
“2 points.”
— 998 left.
Because of the Mana Oath, the shop system itself was maintained, but I had no idea how many points I received in the previous cycle.
Endless motivation was guaranteed.
Thanks to that, I even had a personal vehicle.
How good was that?
I was flying in the sky.
In the previous cycle, I had barely avoided freezing to death every single time.
Who would have thought?
Even while riding Isilia, I felt no cold.
“The cold adjustment works even while flying?”
— Yeah.
Is it good? Not cold, right?
“Shop 2 points.”
— Oh yeah!
Isilia had changed a lot.
The rebellious attitude from when we first met had completely vanished.
She had become a stupid little fool.
"[Concept is crazy.]"
I had done some blurry scenes and crystal-clear memories.
With those, I had seriously calculated how to act to my advantage.
The result was this concept.
Isilia had been consumed by the gimmick.
"[I’ll have to eat her big one someday.]"
I wanted to feel the cool touch of the horns again.
We arrived at the familiar home, Safe Zone #215, in no time.
Because people were lined up, the house no longer looked spacious.
Yoo Dahui spoke up.
“With another house next door, it makes sense to divide the members.”
To do anything seriously, we needed to set up on the 2nd floor.
We also had to awaken and grow to fit the 3rd floor.
The total members were seven: three men and four women.
Elysha naturally opened her mouth.
“It’s better for the big house to be used by women and the small house by men, right?”
“But the owner of the house is me.”
“No, it should be Isilia-nim.”
The elves addressed the dragon with honorifics.
Ironically, they used casual speech with me, the dragon’s owner.
"[What is this? Is the hierarchy eating each other?]
I don’t understand it, but I didn’t point it out."
“I have no objections. We will let the women use the house as Princess Elysha wishes and have us use the side house.”
“Who decides?”
Eloin and Elbaren.
Both had no opinions.
Having lived under a hereditary dictatorship with no voting rights as idiots, they would accept anything if the princess wanted it.
"[Fucking idiots… I don’t know why I felt like bending here.]"
This was my pride, like an erect dick—something I could never yield."
“Isilia, hand over the Safe Zone rights to me.”
"[Safe Zone #215 acquired!]
Following my command, Isilia handed over the rights to the house.
She obeyed such trivial commands well.
After all, Isilia would not care who owned the house.
“Shop 1 point.”
Surprise shop granted to the fat-faced Isilia.
"[Whoa, whoa!]
Stupid Isilia was one step late to celebrate.
The concept was just hopeless.
"[Tsk tsk… Anyway, this house’s owner is me. No matter what you say, it’s mine. So you all have to leave. I’ll use it alone."
I sat on the sofa, arrogantly looking at the women.
Everyone looked bewildered.
Yoo Dahui pointed at herself and the elves and asked.
“So we really have to leave?”
“Yeah.”
A firm answer.
Recently, Yoo Dahui had shown no tendency to follow me around.
"[I have to go on my own terms. That’s what the guy said. I have to lead something myself. That’s what a man is. That’s what a leader is. That’s what a regressor is."
Yoo Dahui confirmed once more.
“So you’re telling me to leave?”
“Not exactly, but similar.”
“Fine, I’ll leave.”
“…Surprisingly compliant.”
I thought she would resist with her whole body if I said she couldn’t go.
Yoo Dahui gave up the house without any other protest.
“Recently, the two of us have been too attached. Being apart for a while doesn’t sound bad.”
“…Eh?”
That was a suspiciously anxious line.
I immediately handed over the Safe Zone rights to Yoo Dahui.
“Hey, I was joking. Let’s just live together here…”
“I hate it.”
"[Safe Zone #215 acquired!]
Instant return to the Safe Zone.
Yoo Dahui turned sharply and left the house.
Elysha and Elena followed her.
Why did she give up so easily?
My head started throbbing.
Looking at the stiff Eloin and Elbaren standing blankly was unbearable.
“Leave. If you don’t want to die.”
My power surpassed both of them.
Elysha was a woman with breasts, so I was giving her a pass. There was no reason to spare men with dicks.
“……”
Eloin and Elbaren fled in a hurry.
Their pride had disappeared long ago, a week earlier.
Isilia asked.
“Am I leaving too?”
“…Yeah.”
"[Yoo Dahui’s decision to divide the members was purely because of her own desires.]"
There was no grand reason like making a system.
“That’s right. Elysha, great!”
When Elysha suggested separate living quarters for men and women, Yoo Dahui cheered internally.
She had seen Jinwu’s sudden start because of him.
In the end, she had obtained what she wanted.
Naturally, she had decided to live apart from Jinwu.
"[Cute, huh?]"
She threw some ambiguous words at Jinwu to pump him up and left.
The expression on his face when we last saw him still haunted her, like a pitiful abandoned kitten.
— Dahui-nim, if my memory is correct… talking about Jinwu…
Yoo Dahui shot a glance at Elena who had followed.
A strange exchange of eyes continued.
Elena remembered the deal with Yoo Dahui.
She had approached him first on the 1st floor about it.
Why?
No matter how hard Yoo Dahui tried to figure it out or test it, she could not uncover the truth.
She had no choice but to use it appropriately and move on.
Still, discovering even that much was close to a miracle.
By sheer luck and overlapping events, she had uncovered bizarre conditions.
— Is that deal still valid…?
She made the deal again.
She even prepared a place where Jinwu would definitely be caught.
Since that huge building was all his, the great Jinwu could not sleep well at night.
“Dahye! Where are you going?”
“To the shop. Elysha, can you find a house nearby? For Eloin and Elbaren too.”
“Uh, uh? Sure. I’ll look for one.”
Yoo Dahui dropped Elysha off.
There was nothing to discuss with Elysha.
Elysha moved far away, but Elena did not follow the princess.
She followed Yoo Dahui instead.
“Are you going to buy a Recording Crystal?”
“Yes. I want to install it in that house.”
She planned to install a large-capacity Recording Crystal and record Jinwu’s relationship with other women.
CCTV would be too obvious and get noticed immediately, so she could not do that.
Yoo Dahui selected several blue rectangular crystals from the countless items in the shop and paid.
Elena, watching the crystal, said.
“Instead, I could leave the video and deliver it to you.”
“Elena?”
Not installing and waiting, but filming when they were together and showing it.
Elena continued, using her mana.
“Yes. With a mana veil, the crystal could easily be hidden. If I place it in a visible spot and cover it with the veil, it would be completely invisible.”
The crystal in Yoo Dahui’s hand turned transparent as the mana veil wrapped around it.
If she had not been holding it, she would have thought it had never existed from the start.
“Oh…”
“Please leave it with me. I want to help Dahui-nim’s pleasure.”
Elena took Yoo Dahui’s hand seriously.
“I once lived without even masturbating. Then I met Jinwu and realized how precious pleasure is.”
“……”
“So I always thank Dahui-nim for allowing the harem. I want to help as much as possible. Please ask me for anything.”
There were many dimensions and diverse values.
Elena naturally thought the harem was fine, but that was not the case everywhere.
Yoo Dahui stared at Elena.
"[Does she not realize what she is saying right now?]
Right now, Yoo Dahui wanted to see Jinwu having sex with other women.
In short, Elena’s words meant she would help Jinwu eat her.
Yoo Dahui placed the Recording Crystal on Elena’s palm.
She even stroked Elena’s hand gently, conveying her gratitude.
“The final battle…?”
“Tonight. This time I will not be there, so it will definitely happen. There is no chance it won’t.”
Elena received the crystal.
Her expression was serious, as if connected to a great will or a queen’s command.
“I’ll start as soon as possible.”
“Understood. I will record a perfect video and complete the mission.”
“Mission…?”
It was not about some grand mission.
Yoo Dahui said.
“By the way, Elena is an 8-star player, right?”
“Yes. That is correct. If I had not been an academy administrator, I would have been preparing boss raids at the top floors.”
“Then you must know how to become 3-star?”
Yoo Dahui’s question made Elena dig through old memories.
It was a long time ago, but she felt like she almost remembered.
“I caught a snake.”
“The Black Impure?”
“Ah, Black Impure. I think that’s it. I caught it and awakened.”
“So I just have to catch that one? No other conditions?”
There must have been other conditions.
Yoo Dahui had asked about it.
Elena pulled out memories buried deep.
“You have to catch it alone.”
“Alone?”
“Yes. Only then can you awaken. At that time, there were no special conditions, but for some reason, only the ones caught alone awakened.”