39 – Backroom (8)

Kim Young-ji, who is wriggling his hands and swallowing his saliva.

Cha Yu-ra spoke to her firmly.

“Don’t even think about stealing.”

“Oh, I didn’t…!”

“Not doing it. Just by looking at her eyes, she was full of greed.”

“…”

As Cha Yoo-ra said, Kim Young-ji’s eyes were engulfed in greed.

Kim Young-ji did not refute, but looked at the box again and opened his mouth.

“however···. There are so many of them, so why not ask for a few…?”

…You have to live up to your expectations.

I wonder if Cha Yu was as dumb as I was.

He clicked his tongue and criticized Kim Young-ji.

“Take care of your conscience. Don’t you know we’re in a position where we’re being helped by that oni right now? One 4-star magic stone is enough for practice points, so don’t be greedy.”

It’s word for word.

I also agreed with Cha Yu-ra and nodded my head slightly.

‘It’s an academy-owned dungeon, so I’ll have to be greedy.’

Even if you only submit 4-star Magic Stones, your practice score will be perfect.

Even if you submit an additional Legendary Awakening Stone, it’s just the same perfect score.

There was no reason to submit additional submissions when not a penny fell to the students, let alone forgive the debt accumulated at the academy.

‘But looking at it this way, the academy is a bully.’

I did feel that it was a bit too much.

All the loot obtained from the students’ exploration is classified as the academy’s property.

Even the rules existed.

『All by-products from the dungeon belong to the academy property.』

Like this.

What···. No complaints whatsoever.

On the contrary, a person who complains is strange.

Obviously, this dungeon is owned by the academy.

It is a rule set by the owner of the property, so who will complain?

If you twist it, the land will be the owner.

When I was thinking like that.

-Take some if you need them.

Suddenly, an oni’s voice came from behind.

──It’s a jewel I’ve been collecting for 30,000 years as a hobby, but it’s not particularly useful to me.

…Since when has it been there?

I didn’t feel any sign of anything.

It was the moment when I realized once again that that oni was a real non-specified monster.

─What are you doing? because you can take it

“Gee, really? Then, without hesitation…”

Kim Young-ji smiled broadly and started taking the Awakening Stone.

What?

Is it the academy volunteers?

I have to return everything anyway, but I don’t know why I’m doing that.

Cha Yoo-ra and I looked at Kim Yeong-ji pathetically.

“All of the pink-haired healers are missing screws. Is there a penalty for not being able to think deeply?”

Saying that, Cha Yu-ra took her eyes off the box containing the Awakening Stone.

As for Awakening Stones, summoned beasts can’t bring them into the encyclopedia, so I tried to draw attention, but…

‘…Come to think of it, Bob’s job cost was 3, right?’

Suddenly, the cost of the rice bowl came to mind.

‘Kim Young-ji takes care of it like that, should I feed the summoned beasts too?’

There was no need to get caught at the academy if the summoned beast took it.

I reviewed the cost of the rest of the summons.

I have already taken kkaebi,

Lime Lee 1.

Saemhyeonseong 2.

‘······There are no more?’

Then, I suddenly realized one thing.

That the only things that have costs are the summons you gave them names.

No, the direction of thinking was wrong.

A common feature of summons that can be named.

It was whether or not to have a cost

‘Why didn’t I notice this?’

I wonder if my insight was this poor.

Even if you knew this, of course.

The essential question remains unanswered.

A summoned beast with a job cost.

summons that do not.

Because I still don’t know the difference between the two.

Even if Kaebi is a summoned beast from the beginning,

The rest consumed the same amount of fragments when they were created.

‘Could it be that it’s just luck?’

I was thinking of doing an experiment later.

The iron rice bowl walked out in front of the box containing the Awakening Stone.

And I picked up an Awakening Stone.

─suitable.

“yes? You want that?”

-Keep it. percentage. Increase.

“Would you like to give it to me for now?”

I checked the information on the Legendary Awakening Stone given to me by Iron Rice Bowl.

◎Legendary Awakening Stone

─Fancy Inventor

“Fancy Inventor? What kind of job is this…”

As I was holding the Awakening Stone and looking at it curiously, Cha Yu-ra spoke to me.

“How did you check it when you don’t even have an appraisal tool?”

“ah. They have similar skills.”

“···yes? Anyway, if you’re an inventor, it’s probably a crafting job. It’s the first time I’ve heard of Fancy Inventor.”

Cha Yoo-ra added that it could be an awakening stone that has not yet been discovered.

Undiscovered, whatever.

It’s a production-related job…

“Bob bucket. You mean you want to take this?”

─Necessary. fitness.

Well.

To be honest, I wanted to take the combat class awakening stone.

Still, it can’t be helped because it’s the Awakening Stone that the Iron Rice Bowl chose.

First of all, I moved my gaze to the oni and asked.

“Can I take one?”

-Didn’t I tell you to take as much as you want?

“···thank you.”

After accepting permission again.

I returned the Awakening Stone I was holding to Bobbong.

“Bob bucket. receive.”

─I will take it.

The iron rice bowl put the Awakening Stone into his mouth without hesitation.

Was that strange?

Kim Young-ji asked with her eyes wide open.

“What, Hyunseong, does your pet have a cost?”

“Sometimes there are kids who have it.”

“Wow···. It’s really amazing.”

Kim Young-ji blankly stares at the iron rice cooker.

Her appearance was a bit odd.

Surely just a moment ago, he had been sweeping away Awakening Stones like a petty thief?

no bag,

Even the pockets were flat.

“But Yeongji, where did you put all the Awakening Stones?”

“yes? oh···. If you just take it out, you have to return it. So I hid it where it would never get caught. Whoops.”

Kim Young-ji put on a confident expression and whispered in my ear.

“I’ll give you a half later. must!”

…I don’t know where I hid it.

I decided to cheer for it to not get caught and get out well.

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—I was going to accompany you all the way until you find a way out, but things have become easier.

Oni placed the brewed green tea on the table and moved her gaze to the left.

There, an iron rice bowl was sitting in an upright position to explore the terrain.

Observing the iron rice cooker carefully, Oni sipped tea and spoke to herself.

——They said they could grasp the topography of this supreme dimension… Hmm… Is it the same future species as him?

Earlier, parasitic monsters were also said to be in the supreme dimension, but I don’t know what they mean.

But rather than that, I was more interested in the word future species.

I know about the ancient species, but I have never heard of the future species.

I couldn’t help but ask a question cautiously.

“Is there a species called future species?”

——This is the name I gave temporarily. A guy I met once before introduced himself as a monster from the future, so I’m just calling him a future species.

Did you say that you came in some kind of time machine?

I heard nothing but nonsense.

Still, I was intrigued and continued the topic.

Because all that remains is time.

“What did that future species come to the past for?”

—They said they were looking for a precious human. However, when going back in time, most of the data or something is lost, and now it is said that he does not even know the name of the person he is looking for.

“I don’t even know the name, so how can I find it…”

─That’s right. I heard that there are still a few memories of being together in this space.

In the end, I have no memory of anything.

It meant wandering around in search of a precious human with only the memories of being together in this dungeon.

“Something is salty.”

─It is the same.

“But what species is that monster?”

─Well. I think you said high android.

hi android?

Bob’s final evolution was just an android.

Could it be that objects higher than Android exist?

‘Or it could just be a different race…’

At that time, I was making various assumptions about the futuristic monster that seemed to be related to Bobbin.

—Rather than that, where did you train the dwarf over there?

Oni sat on my lap and asked, looking at Kkaebi, who was sleeping soundly.

“ah. It wasn’t training, it was summoning.”

─Hmm? Aren’t you a monster trainer?

Apparently, they misunderstood me as a trainer.

But the job of a trainer is also rare, and I know that.

Seeing you so edgy

It seemed that it was not a lie to say that he had lived for over 100,000 years.

─No matter what…

The oni, who tilted her head, looked back and forth between Kaebi and me.

—It’s been a long time since I saw the Ancient Bell, so it’s a new feeling. 70,000 years?

“···Yeah? Are you saying that kkaebi is an ancient species?”

-Didn’t you know?

An ancient species, somehow…

It has always been a question that there is no information on unicorn dwarfs or double dwarfs, and it is understandable that there are no records left if they are an ancient species that went extinct 70,000 years ago.

——The one-legged dwarf and the two-legged dwarf were the ones who served as servants of the goblin race.

The story gets more and more interesting.

I already had a lot of questions about goblins, but I decided to ask several questions.

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The oni explained everything about the demons he knew.

Important facts learned along the way.

The goblins were so powerful that even the oni here struggled.

Of course, he assured me that if I met him now, I would be able to slaughter him within 10 seconds.

‘Then, goblins can be regarded as high-level 4-stars.’

Still, it was said that the auger was light enough to play with, so it seemed appropriate to categorize it as an advanced class.

And to sum up the reasons why such goblins went extinct…

Two monsters named Duoxini and Eoduksini lead the goblins and invade the world of the gods.

In the process, he said that goblins, unicorn dwarfs, and bicornuate dwarves were all extinct.

“It is the world of the gods… It seems that God really exists.”

─Of course not. I’ve killed myself a few times too.

······At first, it felt like studying the history of demons, but the more the story goes, the more exaggerated it feels.

It’s not that I don’t believe in the existence of God.

Of course, I didn’t believe it in my previous life,

It would be absurd to say that we doubt the existence of God when the soul has been transferred like this.

─Is there anything else you want to ask? It’s been a while since I’ve talked to a human, so I don’t know how time flies.

“I have no more questions.”

─Is that so… I’m sorry…

When the oni’s history lecture was over,

Cha Yu-ra, who had been listening silently by the side, stopped talking.

“Doooksini is a monster that appeared in North Korea 50 years ago…”

—It seems that the two oxen have invaded your world as well. He must be a different entity from the guy I was talking about.

“I don’t think it’s just one?”

—It’s a racial unit in the first place, so of course. As if the Oni is not just me.

When Cha Yu-ra and Oni are having such a conversation.

─Complete.

The iron rice bowl, which was sitting on the floor and exploring the terrain, jumped up.

I shifted my gaze to the rice bowl and asked.

“Bob bucket. Are you done exploring?”

─Complete. There are currently 34,211,234 registered portals.

What do you mean by a registered portal?

Does this mean that Bobtong wasn’t the portal he directly explored?

I had such a question, but

Now, that didn’t matter.

“Bob-tong, can’t you specify the world I lived in?”

I heard it from Oni, but I knew it.

I never imagined that there would be so many portals leading to other worlds.

I expected dozens at most.

If it’s still rice,

I harbored the expectation that we might be able to identify the world we lived in.

And as if to live up to that expectation.

The iron rice bowl started scanning me up and down.

─I scan the master.

About 1 minute passed.

With his gaze fixed on me, the rice cooker paused for a while and then slowly posted a report.

─······There are currently two registered portals.

At those words, the eyes of everyone around me were focused on me.

“Well···.”

After I tried to ignore that gaze.

I gave the order to Bobbong again.

“…It seems that I alone do not have enough information. Rice bowl, can you scan the other kids and do it again?”

─Confirm command entry. sky cover. pink lid. scan.

And.

─There is currently only one registered portal.

The portal to our world was explored.