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At the end of summer239 ? At the end of summer #1
At first, I thought this dark, damp cave with all the rats crawling around in it, and all the poisonous snakes and scorpions, was terrifying.
“Sval, we finally made it out of the darkness.”
But for me, who had just wandered around the eerily quiet and dark realms of Erebor, this dark cave was nothing I couldn’t bear.
Of course, if you ask whether this place is safe, then it is not.
Ugh… .
Unlike the abyss where no sound could be heard, this cave was an ecosystem. The cries of animals and the thumping footsteps heard beyond the stalactites were enough to create tension.
In the end, the crack in the abyss could not be closed.
Still, I guess I should be satisfied with the fact that Delphina’s party was all recovered and safely returned to the surface without anyone dying or seriously injured.
I said, lifting Hippolyte and Elfriede onto my shoulders, one on each side.
“Let’s find a way out quickly, Antiope. Carry the fallen people.”
“Uh, yeah, yeah, okay… I have to. I will. Okay. I will do it!”
After emerging from the abyss and the strange furnace room, Antiope felt strangely restless.
I think I’m in a panic because of the people I met in the room earlier and I can’t control my mind. In fact, I’ve experienced so many things that I’ve almost lost my mind.
However, since I couldn’t afford to panic in this place where I didn’t know what kind of danger was lurking, I had no choice but to urge Antiope, who seemed to be a little taken aback.
“Wake up.”
So Antiope and I carried the fallen men on our backs and one on our arms, and we walked on.
Of course, we were just moving blindly because we didn’t know the way out, but seeing the continuous upward slopes, it seemed certain that we were heading towards the ground.
“Hey, that Hassan… sir.”
“why.”
Antiope suddenly starts speaking to me awkwardly.
Even after she found out my true identity again, she often teased me by using my dark past of calling myself a god, so I’m sure she was still trying to tease me.
Do you really want to tease people even in this situation?
“Hey, what, what is that…?”
“Why are you trying to say something again?”
“You know that everything I’ve said before was a joke, right…?”
Jirririt-.
Antiope’s words brought back to me memories from a very long time ago.
When I was still in elementary school, I was often the target of bullying by girls my age. Whenever they saw me, they would pinch me or hit me with their fists, committing school violence.
Then, when I started to feel like I was getting angry, he would say, “Hey, it was just a joke, why are you reacting so seriously!” and instead, he would drive me into thinking I was some weird guy who didn’t know how to joke.
Are you kidding me?
It must have always been a joke to the bullies.
Of course, it wasn’t just me who was being taken advantage of.
One day, in order to get revenge on a girl who was bullying me, I committed the shameless act of wearing my indoor shoes and climbing up onto the teacher’s desk where she was cleaning.
At that time, I was Todd Anderson himself, standing on the desk to protest against the absurd school system.
Oh Captain, my Captain.
You, what are you doing!
The image of that girl blushing and looking at the cleanly cleaned desk, not knowing what to do, is still vivid in my memory.
What was even more impressive was the conversation that followed.
Hey, Hassan! Why are you stepping on me while I’m cleaning!
I clean the stairs, and you walk down the stairs that I clean every day.
what…?
It was a counter punch and a turning point that I had been hiding.
In the end, the girl who couldn’t refute my words started trembling and crying. I was beaten by my teacher, and when I got home, I was beaten by my mother too.
At the time, I was young and didn’t understand why I was being treated as the bully and the bad guy even though I was the one being bullied.
Is this the victim who became the perpetrator?
I am-.
Did I become a monster in order to deal with monsters?
It was like a kind of epiphany.
My thoughts, which spread out uncontrollably like a rapid current, reach a conclusion, and thoughts flash through my head as if a lightning bolt had struck me.
So my conclusion is.
I was wondering if maybe that girl liked me.
I didn’t realize it because I was so focused on being bullied in elementary school. Could it be that the girl liked me and was bullying me and making my life miserable?
This is a completely possible story, since everyone is shy and doesn’t express themselves well during elementary school.
And is it perhaps because Antiope likes me that she teases and harasses me?
No, but is this going too far? Antiope isn’t even an elementary school student.
He’s just a guy who naturally likes to bully people.
People in this world who haven’t learned much are mostly like this guy. They like to bite when they see weakness, and they don’t let go after biting, but instead shake things around.
For example, Elfriede was like that too. Elfriede also teased me a lot and sometimes pinched me.
Sval, almost lost in his strange thoughts, almost asked Antiope, “Hey, do you like me?”
Then, another space in my dark history notebook would be filled again, and I might wake up kicking the blanket sometimes.
I secured my future.
“Hey, that Hassan… sir.”
Then Antiope spoke to me again. It was clear that Antiope was teasing me and manipulating my emotions.
They harbor a wicked mind that enjoys making me angry, manipulating my emotions, and feeling superior to me.
My feelings are my own.
“Don’t make me angry, Antiope.”
“Heehee, huh, huh, yes, yep-!”
“I told you not to make me angry. Are you doing this on purpose?”
“What on earth, what on earth are you talking about…?”
“You’ve been speaking to me formally all this time.”
“Ah… . Um, uh, ahh… . Ah, ah-! Ahh!”
I don’t know how you understood what I was saying, but Antiope made a strange sound like a beginner vocalist practicing her voice.
“Oh, that was the setting. That was the feeling. I got it. Yeah, it was all a test. I almost got fooled by Hamata. No way. I’m, I’m Antiope. Your left arm! It’s easy to figure out something like that!”
It was Antiope, babbling nonsense. I don’t know what she’s saying, but she seems to have lost her mind after being in the abyss for so long.
Still, I felt like I understood what he said, telling me not to tease or harass me anymore. It seems that expressing one’s opinion firmly is important.
Ugh… .
It was that very moment.
A strange, crying-like sound was heard from the front of the cave that could be seen in the distance.
“Hatsan-! I think there’s something in front!”
Then Antiope put down the silver roses she was carrying on her shoulder and pulled out her javelin.
“Leave it to me! I’ll handle it!”
Antiope suddenly looked very motivated. Of course, that was a good thing for me.
No matter how strong the monsters living in the middle layer of this valley are, they will be easy to deal with if Antiope is present.
Ugh… .
The true identity of the monster revealed in the darkness was that of a giant monster whose entire body was made of white bones.
“Hey, look at that Wyvern!? Why is this guy, who would only come from the Land of the Dead, in a place like this!?”
Antiope was greatly embarrassed by the sight, but I was able to smile broadly at the monster before my eyes.
“T, this fucking Agumon!”
“Hotsan!”
“Hassan, that Paranoy has arrived…!”
Luna and Paranoy are riding on top of it for some reason. It feels like all the fatigue I had until just now is melting away. I feel relieved, but at the same time, a question pops out like an awl in my pocket.
“What are you guys doing here? What the hell is going on?”
“I came to find Hassan!”
“Looking for me? Why?”
“Well, Hassan has been missing for ten days since he entered the abyss! Anyway, I’m glad he seems to be okay!”
Ten days.
According to Luna, it seemed that ten days had passed since we entered the abyss. Both Antiope and I were taken aback by those words.
I thought it would only take half a day, or at most one or two days, including the time I had spent struggling after entering the cave entrance. But outside the abyss, ten days had already passed.
Is this possible?
“I’ve heard that time flows differently in the abyss of Erebor. Is that true? Oh, it’s been ten days. I haven’t even contacted the Order. What if they think I’ve deserted?”
Antiope stamped her feet as if she were very anxious.
Since the guy probably had his own social life, it’s only natural that he would react that way if he went missing for 10 days without notice.
“The city is in chaos right now because of your disappearance! You’d better go back quickly!”
Both Antiope and I agreed with Luna’s words.
Even so, Antiophe and Hippolyte are adventurers that many people in the city are interested in.
If we hear news that such people are missing, it is likely that various incidents will occur.
“Hey, Paranoy, come down. Let me lift these guys up.”
“Should I, should I get off…?”
“I think Luna should get off too. You all get off. Let’s go and load some people.”
We placed the fallen people on Agumon’s back, the wyvern.
However, Antiope said something in passing, as if she was on high alert at the sight of the undead growling.
“By the way, you managed to tame that wyvern. It must be incredibly ferocious. Wyverns are a rare breed among the undead.”
“I don’t know! He just followed us! I was riding on his back and that’s how I met you guys.”
“What, you’re talking about the wyvern you just found as if you picked up a stray cat.”
“Hehehe, it’s all thanks to my diligent religious life…!”
Ugh… .
Agumon’s blue eyes looked at me. However, it felt a little different than when I met him before.
It felt like the link between me and this guy was broken.
In terms of the game, it feels like the friend window that was added to each other has been reset.
Perhaps it was because the man in the white robe had forbidden him from practicing necromancy.
I would have to go out and try it out to find out for sure, but right now I don’t think I can use necromancy.
However, it seems that the necromancy that saved Agumon has not been removed. Since it was created a long time ago and released into the wild, has it acquired a certain degree of independence?
Anyway, it was fortunate that this guy was not hostile to me, and did not show his brutality to my acquaintance Luna or Paranoy.
We were all able to follow the wyvern to the ground together.
“Ha, at least I survived.”
“Ahhh-!”
Paranoia screamed as it continued to climb up the hill to escape. I wondered what it was, but it turned out that it had sprained its ankle on the bumpy road.
“My ankle, my ankle hurts…!”
“No, why are you even anxious when you walk?”
In the end, I had no choice but to carry Paranoy on my back. He flailed his arms and legs around behind me as if he were a god.
“The ride is comfortable…!”
“Hey, it’s hard, so stay still.”
I was seriously considering just putting Paranoy on top of the Wyvern as a piece of luggage. So, I was having an internal battle over whether I should put it on or not.
“Everyone says that Hassan-nim has gone missing, but I believed that Hassan-nim would calm the abyss and return…! I am Hassan-nim’s right-hand man…!”
However, it was not I who received those words, but Antiope.
“Indeed, it’s your right arm. I almost failed the exam because I was fooled. You knew it all from the beginning, didn’t you? I thought you were some stupid nymph, but you’re not acting?”
“Foolish Knights of the Temple! You’ve only just begun to see the true value of this body, and you still have a long way to go! It’ll take another ten years before you can be called Hassan’s left arm, or rather, his chief disciple…!”
“Damn it! I didn’t know something like this could be a test! Are you actually some kind of amazing nymph?”
“You noticed that? You’re a pretty smart guy, aren’t you? From now on, you’ll treat me with respect and treat me like your senior…!”
Antiope and Paranoi seemed to be getting along quite well, so I gave Paranoi, who I was carrying on my back, to Antiope.
Luna asked me a question, perhaps feeling puzzled by the sight of the two of them chattering away for a while.
“What are they talking about? Are they deeply eroded by the abyss?”
“I don’t know either.”
“By the way, Hassan, are you keeping the doll I gave you safe?”
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