BRH 22
by Emerlyn“I should just go out and die… This will only end if I die.”
Ha Do-heon secretly wiped away tears, banging his head against the wall. He should have been suspicious when Ren readily offered the potion; there was no way that bastard would do Ha Do-heon a favor so willingly.
…Ren, you little shit. Should I just kill him?
Ha Do-heon glared at Ren, who was floating in the air with a murderous look. An inner voice urged him to be patient since he was just a child, but that guy was just pretending to be a child to reduce magic consumption. The core was a crazy, eccentric Vampire even bigger than Ha Do-heon.
“…Ren, shall we have a little chat? Come here.”
“Umm, no thanks. Master’s eyes are all flipped right now.”
“That little… Since they’re flipped, wanna get hit?”
As Ha Do-heon stood up from his crouched position, Ren quickly fled to the ceiling, which was as high as the 50th floor of an apartment. If he wanted, he could quickly grab him and make him stand in the corner, but even if he caught him and pulled his cheeks mercilessly, the messed-up situation wouldn’t be fixed.
In that case-
Crack!
Ha Do-heon decided to eliminate the source of all this. He smashed the tablet that had instilled useless common sense, information, and garbage delusions in him.
“M-Master! You can’t do that!”
Ren’s scream echoed throughout the Boss Castle. Ren, who had been dangling from the ceiling, rushed down like an arrow and clung to the tablet, wailing. Mut waved his hand annoyedly, complaining that his ears were ringing.
“Waaah…! This is all part of Ren’s profound plan. This way, Master won’t be suspected, waaaah….”
“Shut up, and if you pull another prank like this, you’re banned from entering altogether.”
Ren hugged the broken tablet tightly and looked at Ha Do-heon with a wronged expression. When he glared at him, demanding an answer, Ren reluctantly nodded, wiping away his tears.
“Then… will you buy me a new tablet?”
“Depends on how you behave.”
“Sniff… I won’t do it again. Ren really won’t cause any more trouble, Master. But… the article said an intruder cleared the Yakum Dungeon. Now that me and Mut don’t have to go back to the dungeon, won’t the Hunter Management Bureau look for the per… intruder?”
Hey, I think he was about to say pervert.
Like a child hugging a torn teddy bear, Ren clutched the tablet tightly and defended himself earnestly. Ha Do-heon sat down heavily, stroking his lips with a complicated expression.
“…Hey. Does it usually say ‘Cleared’ when the Boss clears their own dungeon?”
“How would we know? The previous Boss only stayed holed up in the Boss Castle. He didn’t even communicate with Gatekeepers like us.”
Hmm… so he means there’s no precedent, so he doesn’t know.
Ha Do-heon nodded vaguely before burying his face in his hands again. Ugh…. Then why did the system that never appeared in his past life have to appear now, when Ha Do-heon cleared the Yakum Dungeon?
It didn’t even appear to Ha Do-heon. Is it because he’s the Boss?
The incident of the pervert having a chase with Moon Tae-yi could be ended by kicking the blanket for a few days, but the appearance of the dungeon clearing system was a different matter.
‘The Hunter Management Bureau will definitely make more noise about finding the intruder.’
Now that things had turned out this way, B-grade hunter Ha Do-heon would be removed from their list of suspects, but… according to the information he had extracted through kidnapping, he had to be careful about clearing dungeons in the future.
Fast clearing. High survival rate.
Perhaps because Ha Do-heon was the final Boss, the monsters in the dungeon cowered like animals meeting their natural enemy. At first, he thought it was a misunderstanding, but when he slightly released his power, even the Boss foamed at the mouth and collapsed on its own.
As a result, Ha Do-heon only had to sneeze once if the raid team seemed to be in danger. Then, the monsters, startled by something, would panic, and the raid team would quickly eliminate the enemies, shortening the clearing time. Naturally, the survival rate was high.
But he didn’t expect it to come back like this.
“If another Double Dungeon like this appears, there won’t be any way out… Ha, what should I do?”
“Hey, they say Double Dungeons don’t appear often.”
“They did. But… apparently not.”
According to the hunter who confessed under the influence of Yeop Baek-hwa, more than five had appeared recently. The hunter Management Bureau was keeping it quiet, but they might be appearing somewhere even now.
Wait, but?
“It wasn’t like this in my day?”
In Ha Do-heon’s memory, Double Dungeons hadn’t appeared around this time.
And Moon Tae-yi.
Ha Do-heon crossed his arms and pursed his lips. Why did Moon Tae-yi have to appear there?
That day, as soon as Ha Do-heon escaped from the abandoned building, Lime transformed into a regular hunter, moved the kidnapped hunter behind the memorial hall, and rushed back to Ha Do-heon’s apartment.
He had changed his appearance along the way to avoid being followed, and later transformed into a fly to enter Ha Do-heon’s house through the mosquito net, so there was no need to worry about being tailed.
The problem was….
“He wouldn’t have recognized me, right? Tae-yi-ssi is quiet because he didn’t recognize that it was Ha Do-heon, right?”
“What are you worried about? That’s why the kid disguised you like that. I wouldn’t recognize you even if I tried. Unless he counted the number of moles on Master’s body… shit, did he count them?”
“…….”
That couldn’t be. Because Ha Do-heon had never shown Moon Tae-yi his naked body. And in conclusion, they had exchanged morning greetings this morning, but there was no sign that he knew Ha Do-heon’s identity.
Rather.
‘He told me to be careful because an intruder had appeared.’
Ha Do-heon, whose heart was pounding with anxiety, had gone to the Yakum Dungeon shopping district in Hoehyeon-dong this morning as soon as he woke up to have a meal and check the situation. Despite it being morning, he had entered the Morning Star Cafe, passed through the bustling street, ordered a pork cutlet, and sat down to wait.
The hunters were all spitting and talking about the magic intruder.
-Isn’t the system broken? Is it true that the pervert who had a chase with Moon Tae-yi cleared it? That spandex?
-There are a lot of guys who took pictures from below of it dangling down there. If they saw him entering the dungeon, that says it all.
-The system popped up while I was catching that Boss yesterday, and I almost died. It was so bright, I couldn’t see!
-Crazy… Ah, the world is so unfair! How does that kind of thing get a Boss Castle breakthrough? Do you know anything? You were there too, right?
-I don’t know. I couldn’t see anything to take a picture of. All the pictures were taken by A-grades flying around. But isn’t it a bug? How can you clear a 10-story dungeon in 5 minutes?
Ha Do-heon ate the well-fried pork cutlet without knowing whether it was going into his nose or his mouth, and then went into the alley. And like a mermaid, he collapsed and pitifully wiped away his tears.
The world was now buzzing with the ‘pervert intruder.’ The media reported on the intruder every day, and the Hunter Management Bureau held a press conference to ask the citizens for cooperation in identifying the intruder.
Japan was lying down in pain, China was criticizing Korea for using illegal methods, and the United States and Russia, which were relatively high in the rankings, were already rushing the naturalization process.
It was truly a total mess.
Ha Do-heon stealthily took out his phone and clicked on the picture that was prominently displayed on the news page. The reporter who had posted the relatively decent picture had written a very sincere explanation of the intruder below it.
Scrolling down, there were as many as 1,000 comments. Most of them were mocking.
[Comments]
dko0**: lololol this is the funniest picture i’ve seen all year
sdw**: so embarrassing lololol should be preserved forever lololol
vo89**: this is gonna last forever, right? lololol even if they find him, he’ll die of shame lololol
raa1**: i’m gonna live in the dungeon until they take the picture down lololol
↳ the national intelligence service can’t even take down the picture lololol don’t be ridiculous
987**: maybe the Goblin can do it?
↳ oh yeah, that guy exists
↳ ha…
↳ ah….
↳ delete it quickly s* before i see it
“Oh, I know that Goblin.”
Ren, who was stuck next to Ha Do-heon, spoke up. He couldn’t pretend not to hear because he was pointing at the word Goblin with his finger.
“Who is this guy?”
“Master, don’t you know? He’s super famous. It’s a big deal among humans. They call him ‘Imae,’ and do you know what his ability is? He can find, restore, and delete any information! People with red eyes are rushing to ask him to erase their embarrassing pasts. But he doesn’t always do it.”
“Hmm… there wasn’t a guy like that in my day.”
“Aren’t you curious? Huh? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could check if he can really erase it?
Strangely, Ren’s eyes were sparkling as he said this. Ha Do-heon felt a strange chill in his chest.
So, everything that had happened so far was just bait, and the real purpose was the ‘Goblin’? It might seem like a sudden idea, but Ha Do-heon had suffered from Ren so many times that he couldn’t count them.
The guy’s bizarre ideas often came back with solutions at unexpected moments like this. In summary, ‘There’s a Goblin who can manipulate information. Master, since you have embarrassing pictures taken of you, should we ask him to erase them?’
“Oh, okay. Our good Ren is banned from entering the Boss Castle starting tomorrow.”
“Huh?! N-No, Master. What are you talking about! Ren was just curious if it was real. It’s just curiosity.”
“Don’t lie, kid. Everyone knows you’re trying to climb on top of Master’s head. Are we stupid? You’re just a kid, but you’re full of greed.”
“Mut is a stupid son of a bitch!”
“What did you say, you little brat?!”
The spark suddenly flew to Mut. Soon, the two Gatekeepers stood up and started biting and fighting each other. Ha Do-heon watched the flying Sword Energy and magic with hollow eyes, leaning dejectedly against the chair.