Bullied but Popular

28 – Dungeon 2

Aren briefly explained the current situation while heading to the dungeon, and Tia couldn’t hide her surprise.

“Then are you really a High Human?”

“Oh, stop asking.”

“Wow~ Then it seems like finding a dungeon would be very easy with your skills, right?”

“Oh, stop asking.”

As Tia continued to ask more questions, Aren gave a rough answer as if it was annoying.

After listening to Aren for a while, Tia looked at Cecilia and asked.

“But didn’t you know that my sister went to the dungeon too?”

“huh.”

“But why are you following Aren so much?”

“just.”

“……?”

‘Even my younger brother doesn’t seem to understand.’

In Kuzen, Aren told Cecilia several times to go alone, but she said that it was strange that Aren asked to go alone, and followed him to the end.

Well, from their point of view, that was the correct answer, but…

“Tale.”

“… What.”

After some time passed, Tale answered Aren’s call as if he had calmed down a bit.

“Now I have to introduce myself, I’ve come this far.”

“Lucy from Class 1 C, a commoner and the winner of Stadium 3.”

‘It’s too hard.’

It was a party with only silent people.

At least Tia does talk a little, but it’s just a question to Aren, and it’s only a matter of time before the material runs out.

‘Someone please talk.’

The moment Aren was about to open his mouth in an atmosphere of growing awkwardness, Lucy opened his mouth first as if reading his thoughts.

“My name is Lucy, and I got into Bolridge with the support of the Boyled family. I’ll do my best to be helpful.”

“Ah, yes, my name is Aren Deepus. Please take good care of me.”

It felt a bit stiff, but thanks to her introducing herself first, the atmosphere became much more comfortable.

After that, Tia and Cecilia also briefly introduced themselves.

After listening to the introduction for a while, Tail opened his mouth.

“But how long will it take?”

“Um~ At this rate, it will take more than three days.”

“Then move faster.”

Tail said in a slightly annoyed tone.

At that, Aren made a slightly embarrassed expression and turned his head toward the party.

“Actually, there’s something I haven’t told you yet…”

“Why? What’s wrong?”

When Aren hesitated, Tia asked.

Aren slightly noticed Tail and opened his mouth.

“We’re being followed.”

“what?”

“…!?”

Aren’s remarks instantly raised the alarm of the party.

Looking at the group looking around, Aren opened his mouth again.

“To be precise, he’s tailing me.”

“……”

“……”

As the party’s eyes gathered, Aren laughed to lighten the mood.

“hehehehe.”

oh oh oh

Tails revealed that he wanted to kill Aren, but this time Cecilia also stayed quiet.

At that, Aren laughed even more desperately to lighten the mood.

“hehehe.”

“… Die.”

“sorry.”

Aren immediately apologized in a sullen voice at Teil’s murderous words.

Tia sighed and asked Aren.

“Who can guess?”

“Nothing..”

“Maybe it has something to do with you being a High Human?”

“It is, but…”

Aren glanced around for a moment and then spoke to his companions.

“There’s too much tailing.”

“How long do you want it to be?”

“About 30 or more? I don’t think they sent them from only one place?”

At Aren’s words, the faces of the party were seriously distorted.

There were way too many people than expected.

No matter how vigilant they were, the fact that that number of people hadn’t been caught so far meant that they had their own skills.

Aren looked around for a while and said.

“This way… about a dozen over there… over there… five?”

The tailing personnel were following too unspecifiedly.

In some places it’s too far away, in others it’s too close.

Judging by their movements, it was clear that there was not only one target for Aren.

“I think about 10 people will come soon in a nearby place.”

“… where are you?”

When Teil asked in a low voice, Aren answered.

“Behind you.”

“……”

Pussssss

As soon as the words were finished, about a dozen people came out of the forest grass and surrounded Aren’s party.

“Aren Difus.”

One of the people surrounded by what appeared to be the leader came out and called for Aren, and Aren glared at him.

“Who are you?”

“Follow me, there is someone who wants to see you.”

Without answering Aren’s question, the man drew his weapon and came out threateningly.

Seeing this, Aren’s party also tried to raise weapons, but Aren raised his hand and stopped them.

“why?”

When Cecilia asked, Aren did not answer, but pointed to the grass on one side.

Pussssss

“We will take Aren Deepus.”

“……”

“……”

When another dozen warriors came out of the forest grass Aren pointed out, the man who threatened Aren first glared at them and said,

“Get out if you don’t want to die.”

“Are you unable to grasp the situation? It is you who will die.”

“Are you talking about who we are?”

“It’s a boring will.”

At the words of the two men, the two formations entered a battle posture.

Tail, who was listening to their conversation, looked at Aren as if he was dumbfounded and said,

“Why is your surroundings always noisy?”

“… Is it my fault? No, it’s my fault…”

The moment when Aren’s words ended.

tatatatata

The tailers who had been tracking the furthest began to run at breakneck speed.

As the sound of their movement resonated loudly in the forest, the two formations, which were about to rush in at any moment, stopped and began to be wary of their surroundings.

and after a while

Bang bang bang bang!!!

“Keah!!”

“Who are you!”

“Gagging!?”

Five men in black robes, who were moving quickly over the trees, appeared above the heads of the two formations and began pouring out blades to aura.

‘Aura Knight 5 people!’

While Aren was admiring the group of auronites that suddenly appeared, there were people moving at Aren’s party.

cloud expression

squeak squeak squeak squeak

Cecilia cut down all the trees around her with a single slash, and then unleashed her next swordsmanship.

Cloudy Mist

sssss punk punk punk punk

Cecilia’s aura spread like smoke and when it touched the cut down tree, it exploded like a bomb, flying fragments of the tree at the pursuers.

bang! Kwajik! bang! bang!

“Oops!”

“All scattered!”

“No! Get Aren Deepus!”

‘Oh, that’s great?’

While Aren was admiring Cecilia’s swordsmanship, Tail suddenly grabbed Aren by the back and ran out.

“Where do you keep your mind?”

“Kuk! Now, hold on…”

Tail ignored Aren’s words and ran into the grass and disappeared, and the rest of the crew followed them into the grass.

“Eh, run away!”

“catch!”

“Oh sh*t… oops!?”

Bang bang bang bang!!!

The pursuers who tried to pursue Aren immediately were attacked by black robed auror knights and were dying one by one.

“aaagh!”

“Someone! Gagging!”

In the forest where Aren’s party disappeared, an echo made up of screams resonated for a long time.

***

“This should be fine.”

“Heh-eog, hee-eok, hee-eok.”

how far did you run away

Tail threw away the Aren he was holding with one hand and began to look around.

Following him, the rest of the party also began to be wary of the surroundings, but Aren was distracted as he let out the breath that had been blocked thanks to Tail’s grab.

Looking at Aren like that, Tail says.

“How long are you going to pant? Wake up.”

“Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa!”

Aren glared at Tail with an annoyed expression.

“It’s because of you!”

“Say it right, it’s because of you.”

“No! … You’re right! … You’re right…?”

Aren, who hesitated at Tail’s facts, gave up talking and looked around.

“Let’s get out of here, follow me.”

Aren increased his movement speed to go to the dungeon as quickly as possible, and the rest of the party started to follow him.

Tia, who had been running for a while, asked Aren.

“By the way, how many people are you targeting?”

“… ha ha ha?”

Aren doesn’t even know.

I didn’t expect to be attacked to this extent as soon as I left Borage.

However, Aren’s curiosity was not about what was behind them, but about the identity of the group of auronites he had just met.

“Who can guess the 5 Aurunites?”

Aren looked at the party members and asked, but there was no clear indication that they were them.

It was because all of the Auronites were hiding their faces.

But, surprisingly, there was someone I knew.

“It’s Frey’s knight.”

“Sister Frey?”

When Cecilia spoke as if she knew who they were, Aren asked.

“How do you know? Your face is covered?”

“I know when I see swordsmanship.”

‘Are you smart?’

Does that mean you can only know that?

Aren was admiring it, but Tia looked at Aren like that and said.

“Hmm, that’s great.”

“Isn’t it? How can you just look at swordsmanship…”

“Not that.”

“huh?”

Tia partly made eye contact with Aren and said.

“Prey’s knights are elite knights chosen by her herself. Of course, they are more skilled and loyal than other knights. How close they are to each other, so I wanted to send 5 of them as escorts.”

“… just moderately friendly.”

“okay?”

‘Why is it uncomfortable?’

I don’t have any relationship with Tia, but I feel uncomfortable with her gaze.

Aren tried to avoid Tia’s gaze and began to focus on running.

Then I heard Lucy’s voice.

“Tale.”

“why?”

“As far as I know, all knights learn tracking. Is that okay?”

Cecilia answered Lucy’s worried words instead.

“are you okay.”

“Why?”

When Lucy looked at Cecilia with a questioning gaze, she said calmly.

“Because Frey’s knights protect Aren.”

“…Is that all?”

“Yeah, whoever comes will be fine as long as they are there.”

“… All right.”

If Lucy was relieved by Cecilia’s confident voice, she didn’t question anymore and focused on running.

Although there were others who reacted differently.

“How close are they to send such talented people?”

“……”

Tia’s eyes were fixed on the back of Aren’s head, but Aren focused on running silently.

***

“Here.”

“…here?”

Tails looked at Aren suspiciously.

A day has passed since I was separated from the pursuers.

In other words, this place was a day’s drive from Kuzen, but the fact that there was a dungeon in a place like this was nonsense from Tail’s point of view.

There were dozens of wagons entering Kuzen during the day, and of course hundreds of merchants and mercenaries passing through the area.

But a dungeon that is so close is still undiscovered?

Tail glared at the rocky mountain Aren was pointing at.

“…really here?”

“huh.”

“……”

The place Aren points to is an ordinary rocky mountain.

It was a naturally occurring mass of rock without any oddities.

Aren calmly pointed to one side of the rocky mountain and said,

“Here, you can break this side.”

“… is anyone around?”

At Tail’s words, Aren used the shore to look around.

“Um~ There’s no one yet… Why?”

As Aren looked around, Tia approached and was staring at Aren’s shore curiously.

“Is that your gift?”

“huh.”

“… and.”

Tia’s gaze was captured by the coast, which had a soft light like a high-quality jewel.

Not only Tia, but also Cecilia and Lucy, who were seeing a second time, were also staring at Aren’s shore.

Mohammed, who felt burdened by their gaze for a moment, changed the topic.

“I don’t think anyone has come yet.”

“What about artifacts?”

Tayle asked after seeing that Aren was not wearing earrings.

“It broke while fighting an assassin.”

“Well, you won’t need it anymore.”

Tail turned and walked toward the rock that Aren had pointed out.

“Here?”

“Yeah, hit me hard.”

ugh

As Tail held his posture and raised his mana, golden mana gathered in his fist and he blew the power.

Huong Kwaaang!

‘… I don’t want to fight with him either.’

Tail, who smashed the rock in one volume, began to look closely at the space when there was a space inside the rock.

“… Really.”

“Don’t you believe me?”

“……”