33 Chapter 33 (1/2)

Cade, Shihoon and Jonathan was still waiting for their turn to enter the 3rd floor boss toad room. The line was quite long and it looked like it will take a while before their turn arrived.

Cade felt a bit bored waiting. Looking around, from a far, Cade saw a big blue tongue toad jumping around leisurely.

”Since this stalker force me to join his party, I guess it is fine to let him wait in the line here,” thought Cade and he felt like it was a good idea.

”Stalker, I am going to hunt some toads nearby,” said Cade to Shihoon.

”I am not a… Don't go too far,” said Shihoon. He wanted to retort that he was not a stalker but he was. He himself realized it.

”Then, can I come with you?” asked Jonathan with a smile. He took off his helmet, so, his face was visible. Although he looked older than he was supposed to, he still emitted the teens aura.

”I am bored waiting like this and the line is still quite long,” said Jonathan. Jonathan did not only feel bored, he also wanted to move around a bit.

Cade looked at Jonathan and he thought of something. ”Okay, you can come with me,” said Cade. He preferred to go alone but he thought it was not bad to let Shihoon by himself. Let him got bored waiting alone.

Other than that, Cade wanted to see the blue bear full set equipment in action. The equipment looked cool and he cannot help it but wanted to see it in action.

”Wait, you guys want to let me wait here by myself?” asked Shihoon. He himself felt bored waiting.

Cade left without answering Shihoon. Jonathan just smile at Shihoon and said that one of them needed to wait there in line. Since, Shihoon was the one that proposed (forced) the idea of teaming up, he can at least stand in line and wait for their turn.

Jonathan followed Cade from behind.

”You must be displeased that brother Shihoon forcing you to form a party,” said Jonathan. He can feel it that Cade did not like the idea of forming a party.

”You are right but he was not wrong about the monsters getting stronger and stronger… I cannot fight alone anymore,” said Cade. Even if he was forced to join Shihoon, he knew it himself that Shihoon was right.

”I hope that I did not fail with this test made by my family,” said Jonathan still worrying about the test by his family that wanted him to explore the dungeon by himself.

”I think I agree with what stalker said earlier. Your family must have wanted you to realize this yourself. When I see you, Jonathan, you look a bit naïve and followed whatever your family said,” said Cade.

”They must have done this to make sure you learn this yourself and not following their order blindly like this. As I said earlier, even I myself that stubbornly wanted to do this by myself knew that I need to work with someone else so, I am sure your family thought the same,” said Cade.

”Hmm…” Jonathan thought about what Shihoon and Cade said properly and deeply. ”Thank you, brother Cade for telling this to me,” he still did not buy the idea of the test by his family was for him to realize about forming a party but he still thanked Cade for his words.

”You know, we are not that far in age… it felt weird for you to call me brother. Just Cade is fine,” said Cade. Since Cade usually stayed away from people, he never once got so closed to someone younger than him.

Having someone calling him brother felt a bit awkward and weird. He was not used to that title and besides, Jonathan was not in a huge age gap with him.

”Okay… Cade,” said Jonathan. Jonathan was taught to address everyone older than him properly and he had quite a hard time to call Cade by his name but since Cade was older than him, he followed what Cade had wanted.

”Oh, there is two of them. I take the one on the left, you can take the one on the right,” said Cade while pointing at the two big blue tongue toad that wandered around there.

Jonathan nodded and he wore his helmet back. He ran towards the big blue tongue toad on the right to fight it. Once he got neared the toad, Jonathan drew the great sword and shield he was carrying on his back and took a battle stance.

Cade looked at Jonathan and he can feel the fighting aura coming from Jonathan. ”He looks really cool with that armor,” said Cade while he was staring at Jonathan.

The toad saw Jonathan and just like how other toads were in the dungeon, it started launching its big blue tongue towards Jonathan.