Chapter 229. Seven Rooms (11) (2/2)
“You’ve been through it already And you’re going to start over again? In this state? The red door may have opened, and the predators on the second floor may have come down to the first floor by now”
“It doesn’t matter”
“What if they are already dead? What if they were eaten, and not even their corpses are left?”
“Then I would at least recover their corpses If even their corpses are gone, I would find those who ate Bogle and Airi and tear the them in the air to comfort my friends’ spirits”
With these words, Airi finally closed her aze
“Are you done?” Dalgil s to God Maht
“Hey, wait—” Airi tried to say soil crushed her with his feet, and she turned into liquid
“Well then” Dalgil shook his foot and looked back at the rest of the expedition members He made his intentions clear in his conversation with the fake Airi just now He was going to offer the token again and summon Narsha Haram to find his coil said in a soft voice “The request is over What you do from now on is beyond its scope Since this is my choice, I can’t force any of you to follow me Even if you decide to return, I won’t blaed and continued, “Of course, if any of you insist on following il hoped that the rest of the expedition il looked at Chi-Woo, everyone’s attention shi+fted to him, and of course, Chi-Woo had already made his decision “I heard this before in the last expedition I was in” He continued with a low voice, “The expedition is not over until we return” As Chi-Woo said, the expedition didn’t end when the expedition ot the treasure They could only say that the expedition was fully over once they safely returned to the city with the treasure, and currently, they weren’t at the holy city, Shalyh yet
“Captain Dalgil, as you said, the request has been completed, but we are still in the middle of the expedition” Fro a new expedition—an expedition to save their two re comrades “Hurry up and summon it, sir Every second is precious”
At Chi-Woo’s urging, Dalgil quietly closed his eyes because he felt that Chi-Woo’s willingness to save Bogle and Airi was as strong as his “To be honest…I was a little doubtful when I first saw all of you at the gate” Dalgil spoke quietly like a confession “I wondered if it was necessary to give you so il many times inside il smiled and looked at Chi-Woo, Ru Aive Grandpa Mangil my respect and a deep bow as soon as I see hi him such wonderful comrades, and thanks to his efforts, he was able to safely complete the request and return to the city Of course, in order to do this, he needed to first find Bogle and Airi Only then would this whole ordeal be er hesitated He put the token back on the altar and looked up at the sky, shouting, “God Mamiya! Your son beseech you! Please reopen Narsha Haraive me a chance to save h the sky
Chi-Woo took a slow, deep breath Narsha Harah it fronificantly worse off than before, they probably would have an extrerets Rather than returning to the city with guilt and suffering every day, it was a hundred times better to do as much as he could to save his comrades He had also already prepared to die at the Evelaya Volcano Chi-Woo hardened his resolve and closed his eyes once before opening them Then—
“…Huh?” A shrill sound escaped his mouth The meadow had vanished into thin air, and he could only see ivory walls surrounding them Before they knew it, the expedition members were back inside the Narsha Harail looked at her in confusion, Hawa quickly repeated, “It’s all over”
“?” When Dalgil continued to look confused, Hawa let out a deep breath and began explaining
The Narsha Haraht comparto to the next co room
“There wasn’t a door in the fourth rooht of each of those holes as a door that allowed them to move to the next co the fourth rooeway of darkness—that had been the fifth compartment What folloas the fifth room, and when they passed it, they reached the sixth compartment, which was the compartment where they had to wander around to find each other And the sixth roo on the door The seventh coh battle, and the seventh room here there were three doors to choose from Thus, the place where the expeditionthat place was…
“The place where ere just in was the eighth compartment,” Hawa said
In other words, the expedition’s prediction had been right Since they opened the white door inside the seventh roohth compartment should have appeared, and that hat had actually happened However, they had ht they were back outside because of their surroundings
“Battles, traps, finding comrades, and so on In order to h some kind of test each time” Thus, what just happened was also a kind of test, and Dalgil was able to pass the test of choice and thus the eighth coreater despair…’ Chi-Woo thought he could now understand thebehind the words written on the aes where they only had one life each After passing the stages and reaching the end, they were presented with the choice of leaving their coain—with harsher conditions than before There was no greater despair than that
Dalgil still seemed a bit perplexed, “But God Mamiya told me to find the token…”
“And what is the token?”
“Huarantee that the token God Ma of?” Hawa boldly called Mamiya a God who likes wordplay and puns She had felt this way after seeing the writing in the sixth room “Think of the tords separately”
Token And find
“Ah!” Ru Amuh clapped “It’s not ‘token’ in a physical sense, but symbolic sense”
The word token was not just lie, note, or bill It also had the sy a fact or quality
“You said that God Mae and haril to show actions that would prove his courage and har the physical token and his coil looked astounded He stared at Hawa as if he couldn’t believe her words “Ho in the world were you able to come up with this?”
“It ritten on the monument”
“The monument?”
“Too e, they were a coward, but if one was too brave, they were reckless and foolish In other words, the courage that Mamiya valued was a harmonious balance that was neither too il nod in understanding In the end, everything had been a trap What if they had opened the blue door in the seventh roohth compartil didn’t give up on getting the token nor leaving behind his co anyone
“Congratulations” After finishi+ng her explanation, Hawa sighed and tipped her chin to point to somewhere behind hiil turned around instinctively, and his eyes widened He didn’t see any maze that should have filled the floor Instead, the only thing he saas an open space and an altar in the center, like the room with treasure from before And on the altar were two of his closest coil and all the other expedition members rushed toward the altar They le and Airi were both alive Even though their injuries re
“Ah…ahh…” Dalgil reached out with a treht suddenly flashed in front of hi and handsoht
—You have reached here bravely against numerous hardshi+ps and trials that should have been overwhel sohere
Then the voice calmly continued
—Of course, you still have so choices that make me look forward to your future Thus, in the na this test I hereby proive you the position as warrior co this position and rank I sincerely hope you don’t lose that hare you have shownwhat he had to say The light also decreased and scattered over Bogle and Airi Then a short led at the sail called out to thele shook his head and slowly raised it
“…Huh?” Airi also opened her eyes
A big shed loudly and lifted thele! Airiii!” He even screale and Airi were shocked to be awakened like this while half-asleep They struggled to escape
“Captain? No, wait!”
“My head, il couldn’t hear thehter and danced round and round with both of them in his arms How could he not be happy when he found his comrades and even co with you!”
“Don’t just look at us Help le screae snap open It opened by itself as if telling them the exit was that way Chi-Woo sh the wide open door At last, the test was finally over