Chapter 185 – Side Story 5

“Ah, I have to find the rule to undo this?”

“That’s how normal Maze Dungeons are.”

“……Sigh.”

Suui Kim let out a sigh of despair. That meant he would have to remain tied up in this embarrassing state. Cho-i Hyeon patted his head and then looked around to find the rule. She then headed towards the props that were still on display.

“Hmm.”

Cho-i Hyeon picked up a prop that was on display. It felt unpleasantly slippery and filled her hand. It was even standing there so boldly.

“Hey… this looks really real.”

Cho-i Hyeon gripped what she held in her hand. After fiddling with it a few times, an unpleasant sound was heard. Taeyang Kang and Taehyeok Sa, unable to watch any longer, urgently spoke.

“Leave that…!”

“Cho-i, you shouldn’t touch things like that…!”

“Huh, what?”

Snap! Cho-i Hyeon turned around. In the meantime, she failed to control her strength, and what she was holding in her hand snapped. A cold silence fell between the three men.

“Oh dear…”

Ganansu covered her mouth. Cho-i Hyeon threw down the broken object and shook her hands. When the persistent slipperiness wouldn’t go away, she rubbed her hands on Taehyeok Sa’s coat to wipe them. Taehyeok Sa, for his part, sighed and pulled Cho-i Hyeon’s hand, meticulously wiping it with a handkerchief he had in his pocket.

“So how do you undo that?”

“I don’t know. Should we try taking off the blindfold first?”

Even if the handcuffs couldn’t be removed, the blindfold seemed fine. It was just simply covering his eyes. As soon as Taehyeok Sa finished wiping his hands, Cho-i Hyeon approached and removed Suui Kim’s blindfold. The blindfold fortunately came off immediately, as if it had nothing to do with the dungeon, and Suui Kim, opening his eyes, said.

“……What are you wearing?”

“Master.”

“Stop it.”

“Meow.”

“I said stop.”

“Ahaha!”

“Please, just…!”

Suui Kim yelled through gritted teeth, but Cho-i Hyeon pretended not to hear.

“More importantly, for the building itself to be dungeonified, this is an unprecedented case.”

Taeyang Kang said, looking around. Taehyeok Sa continued the conversation.

“The Research Lab will be in an uproar again.”

Taehyeok Sa floated the surrounding props with Telekinesis. Honestly, these were not items one would want to touch with bare hands. And amidst all this, Suui Kim was still in pain.

“When are you going to release me…!”

“Wait. We’re figuring out a way.”

Cho-i Hyeon blinked quietly, staring at something broken, then clapped his hands as if something had just occurred to him.

“Ah! I think it’s that.”

“What is it?”

“Whatever it is, just do it quickly.”

“Uh, well…”

Cho-i Hyeon raised a finger.

***

Suui Kim was safely freed from the handcuffs. The three people’s faces were pale. Cho-i Hyeon dusted off his hands and grinned.

“I really didn’t expect it to be this.”

“……”

“……”

“……”

As the three men fell silent, Ganansu couldn’t stand the awkwardness and shouted.

“Anyway, that’s a relief! Right?”

No one answered. Only a cold wind blew. Only Cho-i Hyeon smiled, opening the door to the next area. This was because successfully undoing the handcuffs also opened the door to the next room. Yes, they probably wouldn’t have seen that done twice. The three men momentarily held their heads, feeling guilty as if they had done something wrong.

“Uh, why is it hot in here?”

As Cho-i Hyeon opened the door,

“Damn it, this is really messed up!”

Gihyeon Park was rampaging. Right. An S+ Rank dungeon could not defeat an SS-Rank. Gihyeon Park, who had become SS-Rank with a Constellation backing him, seemed to have broken free on his own and turned the room upside down.

“How was he tied up?”

“I’m not really curious.”

“Did he manage to hold back with that temper?”

“I guess so.”

First, Cho-i Hyeon quickly ran behind Gihyeon Park, who was going wild, and lightly chopped the back of his head. Gihyeon Park frowned and looked back, then paused for a moment when he saw Cho-i Hyeon.

“…What are you wearing?”

“Why, do you want me to call you Master too?”

“…Who did you call Master?”

“Suui Kim.”

“Suui Kim, come here.”

“No…!”

“Oh, come on.”

Cho-i Hyeon pulled one of Gihyeon Park’s arms. Gihyeon Park dry-washed his face several times with his other hand, then looked up at the sky for a moment. No, he just wore it over his clothes, why are they so sensitive?

“Since three SS-Ranks are gathered, let’s just push through with damage.”

“That would be the Scythe’s way…”

The usual way to clear a Maze Dungeon is to follow the rules and pass through the maze. They didn’t know what penalty would occur if they ignored the rules. However, the three men, having no confidence or will to see the same scene again, decided to do so, and Gihyeon Park was already overturning things, unable to control his temper.

“Next up is Dongju Kim.”

And they headed forward for the unfortunate Dongju Kim, who was still tied up. Bang! The doors flew off with a sound. While searching for Dongju Kim, they found quite a few civilians. Come to think of it, this was an escape room cafe.

“Oh, damn, looks like we’ll have to do rescue work too. Let’s try to take everyone out!”

Cho-i Hyeon scratched his head and said, and the group diligently rescued civilians and then broke through the dungeon. And all of it was being captured by Ganansu’s camera ability.

***

After breaking through the dungeon, the five men were exhausted. They were just mentally exhausted. Only Cho-i Hyeon was energetic. Cho-i Hyeon checked the messages Yeonwoo Han had sent to his smartphone, which hadn’t gone off inside the dungeon.

[Hey!] [What, what happened!] [Dungeonification? Crazy! What do I do!] [Ugh, I poured all my money into it!]

This guy kept talking to himself, even though he knew she couldn’t reply. Cho-i Hyeon replied indifferently.

[Hey, did you only buy this building?] [No, I bought the land too.] [Then what’s the problem?] [Why? What is it? Am I being stupid right now? Is there something? If you know, tell me, I’m spinning like a pinwheel right now.] [When a dungeon is generated, the owner of that land owns the dungeon, that’s basic law, isn’t it?] [Right?] [Then that dungeon is yours.] [Huh?] [Civilians hand it over to the state or sell it to a guild because they can’t manage it themselves.] [Oh, right????] [Besides, research on maze-type dungeons is active these days. You could sell it for a high price, you know?] [Ahhhhhhhhhhh]

Yeonwoo Han kept typing ‘Ah’ as if he finally understood. Cho-i Hyeon watched the screen indifferently, then abruptly turned it off and shoved it into his pocket. Then something nudged him, and he looked down to see the maid outfit he had been wearing in the dungeon. Oh, right, I was still wearing these clothes.

“Hey, everyone gather ’round.”

The five men, who had been lost in thought, slowly gathered at his words. Cho-i Hyeon took out the items he had put into his inventory one by one and handed them to them. Yes, that’s right. It was chocolate. The five men made indescribable expressions.

“It feels strange to think we went through all that trouble for this…”

At Dongju Kim’s words, the four men couldn’t answer but gripped their chocolate boxes with faces that showed they agreed. Anyway, the chocolates, thoughtfully decorated with pretty wrapping paper and ribbons, looked like proper chocolates.

“Hey, today was fun.”

Cho-i Hyeon smiled brightly, whether he knew the men’s feelings or not. With tired and weary hearts, they sighed, thinking, ‘Alright, if you’re happy, that’s fine.’

“I’m going home now.”

The surrounding area was being controlled by government-agency hunters due to the building’s dungeonification. As Hyeon Cho-i turned to leave, five men stopped her.

“That…”

Take that off and go…

***

[OMG OMG OMG Cho-i Hyeon’s MyuTube is out!!!!!]
└OMG really?
└[Link]
└Hey, what’s the first video? Why does the thumbnail look like that?
└Ah, this guyㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ You haven’t seen the X-jji boys
└X-jji boy? What’s that?
└[Photo]
└[Photo]
└Ah, sh*tㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└It’s a collaboration between X-jji and Paehyeok, right? After that, that sh*tty X-jji shirt sold out, didn’t it?
└Hey, as soon as the video starts, sh*tㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└Why? What is it? Let’s watch together.
└My heart swells as soon as it starts, seeing the five of them walking in a line.
└Are you crazy? Sh*t, don’t walk in a line.
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋWhose idea was this?
└Is there anyone else besides Cho-i Hyeon?
└That crazy b*stard ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└The Hunters are using knives to slice steak sushi and falling all over the place.
└More importantly, do they all like Cho-i Hyeon?
└I don’t know, isn’t it just like taking care of a younger sister?
└Do you take care of a younger sister?
└Ah, sorry.
└Ah, hello, is that an idiot? I went there because it said ‘cafe’, but it was an escape room cafe. What the heck?
└If it were me, I would’ve cursed as soon as I saw it was an escape room.
└They actually went in.
└No, seriously, what concept did they choose?
└Sh*tㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└My heart is racing, this is rated 19+
└What’s with the three of them going in first?
└Sh*t, I’ve been there, and there’s something like that.
└No no, no spoilers.
└I don’t want to talk about what kind of hell I went through in there.

Click, click.
Cho-i Hyeon looked at Huntred, checking the reactions to the recently uploaded MyuTube video. Hmm, it doesn’t seem bad. For reference, Ganansu was in charge of management. And of course, the editing was also by Ganansu.

“Then I’ll see how it was edited too.”

Cho-i Hyeon lay on the bed and logged into MyuTube.