NOVEL NEXT Episode 127
Episode 127
Therefore, this is a good deed. Yes. The only condition is to not get caught.
‘They say the left hand should commit murder without the right hand knowing.’
It seems wrong in some way, but let’s move on for now.
Instead, let’s smile at the person we love.
‘What good is knowing a proverb like that.’
When I frowned slightly with my straight eyebrows, Ryuseong finally looked relieved and raised one corner of his mouth crookedly.
Even if I consciously tried to criticize his personality for looking bad, it didn’t work well.
That’s because Ryuseong looked very handsome when he smiled. He’s masculine and sexy. Unlike Logan or Diedrich, he’s not the type to style his hair sharply every morning, so his black hair that was slicked back like pomade is now tickling his forehead as it flows down in the evening, but even that disheveled look was exciting. He was on a different level from the surrounding monkey males who reeked of sweat.
He’s a cold-looking handsome man. His features with a sharp jaw and deep-set eyes give a sharp impression. However, the reversal charm that Yang energy boils up inside him in a manly way is also tremendous.
‘It’s a bit of a shame that I can only see the boiling Yang energy on the bed though.’
Considering that Cassice Demillang is full of Yin energy, I thought the two went really well together.
He’s the person I love. We’re lovers who go crazy just by looking at each other and smiling. For this relationship to go smoothly, it was right for me to kill the clan head.
Before I get killed.
“……”
I don’t think I’ll do this kind of thing in front of you, who are against killing.
I’ll have to get some blood on my hands. Baby.
‘Don’t be scared.’
Of course, Ryuseong is not the type to be scared of bloody murder. The reason he decided to be against killing, that is, to not kill people, is not out of weakness.
Ryuseong decided not to kill people simply because he wants to save people.
So the words I spit out pretending to be concerned about you.
‘Maybe it’s for myself.’
To wrap up the speech, fortunately, according to the professors’ explanation, the cadets were not directly entering the
If you go down along the mountain range near the
The professors in charge of the courage experience said they would combine their powers to drop us there. I was really curious where that attitude of going out of their way to throw us into the abandoned house area came from.
Anyway, they said that by searching each house there and completing missions, we would find a way to call a helicopter. In other words, it seemed that in order to carry out the same mission as Ryuseong, we had to search the same house.
Ryuseong and I looked at each other as if we had planned it and grinned. The collaboration of the top two students in the school, it felt like we could handle any mission that came our way.
But wait a minute. An utterance that created an error in our plan burst out there.
“It’s a random landing system, so there’s no point in planning ahead. Now then! Let’s go!”
“There’s no such thing…!”
Poof!
***
When Ryuseong opened his eyes, he was trapped in a narrow space where he couldn’t see anything, and Cassice Demillang was not by his side. But it seemed that the courage experience worked on a similar principle that someone who has experienced something once does it better.
Ryuseong naturally spread his senses around.
He felt someone nearby, so he extremely concealed his mana and hid, but strangely, the other person’s movements were infrequent. They just moved their head a few times and panted as if they were tied up, which didn’t seem threatening. Ryuseong probed the rectangular ceiling that confined him a few more times and lifted it up. Click!
“…!”
Perhaps hearing the sound of the hinge moving, or perhaps being gagged, someone’s scream was damply swallowed inside the cloth. However, unless the other person was Cassice Demillang, they were a lower priority to Ryuseong, so Ryuseong first took care of his own safety.
What if the other person is Cassice Demillang, you ask?
Well.
‘There’s no way Cassice Demillang would fall for such a trap.’
Ryuseong had that conviction. Anyway, after jumping out of the square confinement, the place that had confined him turned out to be none other than a rice chest.
“……”
Ryuseong sighed, suddenly feeling strangely depressed.
I don’t know where the idea of putting cadets in the rice chest where Yeongjo killed Crown Prince Sado came from.
Anyway, since he succeeded in escaping from the rice chest, even though Crown Prince Sado unfortunately met that fate, Ryuseong survived well.
Ryuseong snatched the mission paper attached to the lid of the rice chest.
「If you found the rice chest? – This is big trouble! Big trouble! Please save someone trapped inside the rice chest before they become Crown Prince Sado!
If you escaped from the rice chest? – There might be someone confined somewhere else! Start searching the surroundings!
Common condition: To earn mission allowance, you must rescue the confined cadet before someone else does!」
“……”
Ryuseong was silent. While students could chatter excitedly, Ryuseong wasn’t having fun. What if a student with claustrophobia got caught? Of course, Areah Academy was like a survival manual. It was an educational institution that had to somehow expose students’ traumas and “correct” them so they wouldn’t be swayed by monsters, and there were definitely limitations to that. Nevertheless, Areah Academy was a place to save challengers.
So Ryuseong thought that him being trapped in the rice chest despite feeling suffocated in confined spaces was also some kind of signal. It was a guess that the missions were designed in a way that stimulated the participants’ traumas.
Thinking that way, it seemed he had to hurry. Because he didn’t know where Cassice Demillang was. If by any chance Cassice Demillang ended up suffering something truly painful, the abandoned houses might all collapse and the cadets inside might burst out too.
It might be just in case, but it’s better to prevent it in advance. With that resolution, Ryuseong gripped the sword strapped to his back and drew it out with the scabbard, starting to walk silently like a feline animal.
At the entrance leading to the next room, a veil was fluttering and swaying. The translucent veil obstructed the situation inside. Ryuseong silently unsheathed his sword and cut the veil in half. And he looked inside.
“…..”
Absurdly, there was another layer of veil. A mission paper was hanging there, and its content was this:
「The most wicked criminal is imprisoned here. Will you still go in?」
After they told us to go in, what are they talking about? Ryuseong, who had become an outwardly aged person who no longer found the mission games enjoyable like when he was a fresh adult 1st year student due to his regression experience, glared at the mission paper with a sullen face and cut it along with the veil.
Continuing on the path, after walking only a few steps, another layer of veil fluttered and obstructed his vision again.
「The criminal’s charges are as follows:
First, the crime of wandering around places one shouldn’t go.
Second, the crime of having no intention to cooperate.
Third, the crime of seeing the truth.
The criminal was imprisoned on a total of three charges.」
… No way?
Ryuseong realized something. Then he no longer wanted to go inside. But the mission allowance… Ryuseong, who knew he had to earn the damn mission allowance to call the helicopter, had no choice.
Ryuseong lifted the veil, and then…
“…What are you doing here…?”
He discovered Logan Esteban, who was pitifully confined.
“…..”
“…..”
Logan Esteban was gagged, and his arms were tied together and his legs were tied together, looking quite pitiful, but somehow the tying technique was remarkable. It seemed they tried their hardest to make sure he couldn’t get loose.
‘There was no such development before the regression.’
Ryuseong lifted the mission paper to understand the situation.
「Logan Esteban wandered around and threatened the existence of the courage experience. If the gag is removed, the mission allowance of the person who removed it will be deducted by -999999999999999999999 won. Never remove it. Hint of action is forbidden. Absolutely forbidden! But please untie his arms and legs. It’s pitiful, isn’t it?」
“…..”
“…..”
Logan Esteban and Ryuseong exchanged glances for a long time.
But there was no intention of removing the gag just because of that.
Ryuseong didn’t even bother untying Logan Esteban’s arms and legs and just casually put him on his shoulder.
“Umph! Uuumph!”
‘Maybe if it was Cassice Demillang. Why should I help a guy who sells information?’
Although Ryuseong had recently become soft only for Cassice, he was originally not only against killing but also merciless to others.
Ryuseong’s opposition to killing was as follows.
‘As long as you don’t kill, it’s fine, right?’
Ryuseong was no different in not being a properly decent human being. As he always thought.
***
Meanwhile, Cassice Demillang receives a mission paper like this.
「Everyone who enters this room becomes a fragment of Scheherazade. Ten people must each tell the story they think is the scariest for the exit door to open!
The entrance is free as much as you want! Lure people through the window and gather ten Scheherazade fragments to earn mission allowance!
Point of interest: The person who enters first earns the most mission allowance! Whisper whisper!
Maybe you’ll be 1st…?!」
Cassice Demillang thought.
‘Seriously, what the…’
Let’s omit the rest. For now, the words of despair about the damn life where the professors make students suffer for their own amusement are not something a 1st year = baby chick should say.