Chapter 180 (1/2)
Chapter 180 – The Chosen Ones (5)
During dinner time at Ninety Nine Nights, all of the Chosen Ones gathered around and brought their glasses of champagne together in a toast.
“A toast! To our victory!”
“Cheers!”
The Chosen Ones raised their glasses and emptied them to the last drop. Then suddenly, Serin approached Sungjin and whispered into his ear.
“Oppa there is something I want to discuss with you alone… could you please come to the second floor with me?”
Having finished speaking, Serin went up to the room on the second floor first. Sungjin watched her leave with a blank stare, then headed after her towards the second floor without letting the other hunters know. However, as he was walking up the stairs, he heard an echo, as if someone was whispering into his ear.
“… up.”
Sungjin looked behind him. The hunters were boisterously dining as usual.
‘Was it just my imagination?’
Sungjin looked at them and tilted his head for a moment, before once more climbing up to the second floor. Though Ninety Nine Nights had several rooms on each floor, Sungjin was quickly able to find out which room Serin was waiting in, as only one of the rooms had its door slightly ajar. Sungjin opened the door and went inside.
“What was it that you wanted to say?”
Serin was standing at the opened window, gazing at the moonlight. However, she was not wearing her usual outfit. She had forgone the leather vest that she typically wore for a blouse so thin that it was slightly see through.
“You… What’s this?”
While Sungjin was flustered, Serin took off her blouse. All that she was left wearing were a pair of elaborately patterned black brassiere and underwear. In contrast to her dark underwear, the white tone of her skin shone alluringly in the moonlight. The fit physique of an athlete was completely exposed. While Sungjin was frozen and unable to move, Serin approached him and whispered into his ear.
“Oppa…”
Her hot breath stimulated Sungjin’s ear. Sungjin laid her down on the bed. Serin rolled across the bed once like a feline and her firm breasts trembled atop her long black hair, tempting Sungjin. Sungjin stepped forward and grabbed her breasts.
“Ahh…”
Serin let out a groan. It was unclear if it was in pain or in pleasure. And then, Sungjin took out Moon Specter and stabbed it into her stomach in the blink of an eye.
“Urk!”
Serin spat out blood from her mouth as her eyes opened wide. Sungjin then took out Blood Vengeance and beheaded her.
‘Splurt~’
Blood sprayed all over the bedroom. Sungjin stared at the decapitated head. Even after it had been completely separated from her body and rolled around on the floor several times, it stared back at Sungjin and asked,
“How did you know?”
Sungjin flung the blood off of his sword as he normally did, then said,
“Mahadas is an incredibly dedicated monk. In the dozen or so times I’ve dined with him, he has never touched meat or alcohol. But to suddenly drink champagne? You shouldn’t have included him when we were doing the toast.”
Serin, no, the face of whatever that took form of Serin warped in anger.
“Kuh…”
At the same time, the view of Ninety Nine nights disappeared from his sight like a mirage and Moon Specter’s voice could be heard.
‘Master! Please wake up!’
It was then that Sungjin realized that the echo-like voice he had heard back while he was climbing the stairs belonged to Moon Specter. Sungjin said briefly,
“I’m awake.”
“… gather! Protection of Light!”
Mahadas, who had been casting Light Magic on Sungjin, looked up at him and said,
“Ah, you’re awake Mister Kei.”
Sungjin quickly recalled what had happened until just now.
*
They followed up on the hint given by the line, ‘In the unfathomably long eons ticking by’. In their search, they came across a bed inside the clock tower. The bed inside the room looked out of place.
“What’s… This?”
When Sungjin approached the bed with the other hunters, the Operator cried out,
[Warning! Hidden Boss]
[‘Master of the Dreams’ Beatrice has appeared!]
Sungjin took out and held up his two swords. However, at that moment, he suddenly thought,
And promptly lost all recollection of what was happening.
The next scene that he saw, was everyone holding a glass of champagne in their hands as they shouted,
‘Cheers~’
*
Sungjin asked Mahadas,
“Mahadas, how long have I been unconscious?”
“About five seconds.”
What a relief. It seems that time inside the dream had flown more quickly. Sungjin quickly looked towards the other hunters. The other three hunters were engaged in combat with a Succubus that had horns growing from its head. Thankfully, that illusion had only affected one person and the other hunters had yet to fall to it.
‘At worst… I could have ended up killing a teammate.’
Sungjin had been too relaxed to a fault as of late due to the fact that the raids were much easier than his skill level.
‘Woosh’
Sungjin pulled out his two swords as he ran towards the succubus that had bewitched him.
‘In any case, this place feels really disgusting…’
*
[Hidden Boss, ‘Master of the Dreams, Beatrice’ Cleared.]