40 – Back Room (9)

before going to the portal.

I opened the encyclopedia and created a monster.

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◎Summon

[ Centifeed]

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centipede.

A monster in the form of a centipede.

On the way to the oni’s residence, he subdued the iron rice bowl with a flamethrower.

I immediately looked at the list of centipede evolutions.

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◎Evolution

[ Centifeed]

★★Elder Centipede

Condition: Magic Stone 1,790/60

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There is only one root.

Elder Centipede.

Even if it is an unfamiliar monster,

I was able to infer roughly what kind of monster it was.

If the name Elder is attached.

Because the appearance is the same, only the size is characterized by a rapid increase.

‘Let’s evolve it and check it out.’

The reason for evolving this monster now was simple.

Means of transportation for return.

It was because a summoner who could digest that role was needed.

Even though there was a dire wolf, it was not a suitable means of transportation in the current situation.

Our group is four in total.

Then, four dire wolves are needed.

This alone consumes 8 Leadership.

It’s not over.

A summons to support Kim Min-guk.

Summons that will take charge of battle while moving.

Even an additional dire wolf to carry summons to take charge of battle.

In this case, there was no leadership left.

That’s why we needed a monster big enough to burn us all.

And fortunately, the elder centipede that had just been evolved was big enough to burn us all.

─ Shiiik!

Body parts and dozens of pairs of legs covered with smooth black uppers.

Sharp horns sprouting from the head.

The length of the body seemed to be about 10 m.

“cute···.”

─Seik?

Cha Yu-ra said as she stroked the elder centipede’s head.

Seeing this, Kim Young-ji frowned.

“No, it’s cute no matter where you look at it…”

Kim Young-ji’s reaction was extremely normal.

To be honest,

Because Elder Centipede looks so disgusting that it makes you squint your eyes.

Still, since he is my summoner, I decided not to discriminate based on appearance alone.

“Then get on first so that we can start slowly.”

Above the head of an elder centipede.

The iron rice bowl settled down and went into machine gun mode.

Then, after confirming that the other members were also getting on.

He lightly shook his hand from the previous direction and moved his gaze toward the returning oni.

—All the monsters in the vicinity have been subdued.

“thank you. Thanks to you, I can go comfortably.”

I also finished saying goodbye.

Now all I had to do was climb on the elder centipede’s back.

but.

“…and can I talk to you for a minute?”

There was something I still wanted to share with Oni.

Of course, I asked for the members’ understanding in advance.

─It doesn’t matter to me because it’s my time.

With Oni’s acceptance,

We decided to sit down and talk for a while.

***

“What did you talk about?”

Cha Yoo-ra asked Lee Hyeon-seong, who returned after about 20 minutes.

“I just had a few questions.”

“Are you curious?”

“There is something like that. Anyway, we’re leaving now, so be careful not to fall.”

Hyunseong Lee, who was sitting right behind the iron rice cooker, patted the elder centipede on the back.

“let’s go. centipede.”

– Shii!

And so, along with Elder Centipede, Lee Hyeon-seong and his party leave.

The oni, who had been watching it from afar, gave a small whisper to himself.

-Goodbye. friend of friend

***

The entrance to the back room.

After the surveillance artifact that was illuminating Lee Hyun-seong and his party suddenly became inoperable.

The assistant instructor and lifeguards were searching with contemplative faces.

“Fuck really! I’ve been suggesting that this dungeon shouldn’t be used for practice!”

The teaching assistant lost his temper right in front of the unmarked aisle.

“…Still, isn’t it a dungeon that hasn’t had an accident since the academy was founded?”

“Yes? Then what do you do? An accident just happened!”

The teaching assistant, fed up with the academy’s complacent policy, became emotionally charged.

The safety officer looked at the assistant and asked cautiously.

“I think I went to a place where there are no signs… Shall we go in and find out more?”

“…don’t you know what happened to all the explorers who left to search for unmarked places?”

The absolute rule of the backroom.

Never enter an unmarked road.

violating this

In the past, not a single explorer who left to explore a deeper place could not return without exception.

“Even if it’s near a portal, the terrain beyond the barricade changes from time to time. It means that if you go in wrong, you will never get out.”

The time when the lifeguard was swallowing dry saliva after hearing the teaching assistant’s explanation.

Another security guard pointed forward and shouted urgently.

“Teacher! A huge monster is approaching ahead!”

“What the f*ck is that again!?”

“Gee, does it look like a centipede?”

“I didn’t ask because I didn’t know! Fuck!”

Security guards, including assistants, took out their weapons.

It’s been a while since I’ve been reorganizing my battle lines to subdue monsters.

“Now, wait a minute! There are people riding on it!?”

“You’re riding a monster?”

“Come to think of it, there was a student with a job called a monster summoner!”

On top of the monster that is getting closer and closer.

After checking the face of Lee Hyun-seong, who was sitting peacefully, the assistant and security personnel put down their weapons one by one.

“How did you come back…?”

this day.

Stepping into unexplored territory in the backroom,

The news of the seekers who were the first to succeed in life was reported as a headline in the academy newspaper.

***

After Lee Hyun-seong and his party left.

Backroom at the end of the week.

A man appeared in front of the oni who were exhausted after slaughtering countless monsters.

“Wow. Did you defeat three 5-star monsters by yourself?”

───Who are you?

Ignoring the Oni’s question.

The man talked while slowly looking around the corpses of the monsters that were disappearing.

“Hmm. If it’s a 4 star, like a 4 star, you should stay there. Why do people who destroy the setting keep popping up like this?”

Dizzy.

A man with a hand on his forehead and a sigh.

“Isn’t there someone who steals the story he’s conceived and unleashes it in the human world, and isn’t there someone who secretly stole extras from a story in progress…”

-I asked who he was.

Oni unleashes a sword.

pointed at the man.

But the man just kept saying what he had to say.

“Yes. Am I a master writer who has written over 3,000 stories? Aju! whopping! You mean a great writer?”

─·······.

“But these days, irregulars like you really hurt me. Recently, a heroic work that had a perfect ending had to be brought to an abrupt conclusion. What is it?”

The man has his back on his back.

He walked around the oni and let out a sneer.

“Well, even if you talk like this, there is no way that a mere creature will understand. Just think of it as a lament.”

─Three thousand is an intermediate level god.

The man paused and fixed his gaze on the oni.

“······oh. Do you know about us?”

The man, who stared at the non-answering oni, asked the question again.

“there? Just in case, do you know a person named Ryosuke Kuroda? He is the main character who ruined my story and ran away.”

─·······I don’t know.

The oni’s eyebrows twitched.

The man, who was puzzled by the appearance, seemed to think for a while.

“yes···? Hmm. You seemed to know a lot, so I asked… I can’t help it if I don’t know.”

put on a sad face,

He stretched out his hand toward the oni and spoke.

“Then just disappear.”

The moment when a black sphere was forming in the hand of a man with arsenic.

“Are you a god?”

A young voice came from the side.

The man turned his head to check the direction of the voice.

A dark-haired girl was looking up at the man.

“···Who are you?”

“Are you a god?”

The expressionless girl asked the same question again.

“…”

A mysterious girl who approaches without any sign.

The man felt uncomfortable.

Then, instinctively realizing that he was a higher-ranking being than himself, he answered cautiously.

“···yes. What is God? So who are you-“

Took.

The girl’s gloved hand touched the man’s body.

“Disassemble.”

“Mu, mu…?”

Puss-

Moumura left behind a will.

The man disappeared without a trace.

“Removal complete.”

The Oni, who was watching the scene, drew the sword.

He slowly approached the girl and said.

─···It’s been a while.

“Nice to meet you.”

─······What happened to the human you were looking for?

“I haven’t found it yet.”

The oni, who had been staring blankly at the girl with vague eyes, spoke again.

—Come to think of it, what is your name?

“Why are you asking that?”

—Isn’t it fate that we met twice in this infinite space?

“Not twice, but three times.”

At the girl’s answer, the oni asked with a twinkle in her eyes.

-Three times? I’m sure I remember the first time I met you the other day.

“I don’t know either. It is registered as such in the data.”

After the girl takes off her gloves.

As if he had nothing to do here, he greeted the oni.

“Then I will go. Good job.”

That time when I turned around and walked slowly.

“ah.”

The girl suddenly stopped in place.

Then, he turned his head slightly and met the oni’s eyes and talked.

“Iron rice bowl, that’s my name.”

back room (complete)