Chapter 114 – Role (2/2)

“Kik!”

Snake Eyes had her head dropped, her shoulders shaking from her snickering.

“Get a hold of this r.e.t.a.r.d. Mom~ Mom~”

She sneered at him as if she found his dying words to be hilarious. Hearing this, Bob Cut furrowed her brows.

But Snake Eyes continued unfazed.

“I guess he got lucky and managed to get in with his terrible skills~ Well, it's a good thing he died here.”

She snickered before raising her head and licking her lips.

“Though, f.u.c.k the idiot who did this. If you're gonna kill him, make it clean! If you plaster poison all over his body, I can't loot his s.h.i.+t!”

Judging by her words, she would have already looted his corpse clean if it wasn't for the poison.

“What a shame~ What a shame~” Seeing Snake Eyes mutter to herself, Bob Cut finally opened her mouth.

Kiik!

But before she could say a word, the creak of a gear turning rang out. Then, a fierce rumbling swept through the room.

Seol Jihu, who had his b.u.t.t halfway off the ground, had his attention stolen by the wall on the other side of the room. A part of the wall, about 2 meters tall and 1 meter wide, was protruding out of the white wall.

A door had appeared. In other words, Stage 1 must have begun.

“Looks like we needed eight people to leave the room.” Bob Cut spoke up. She cleared her throat before continuing, “Since a door appeared, I doubt we'll be getting any more people…. How about it? Since we met here by a stroke of fate, why don't we introduce ourselves and—”

Bob Cut couldn't finish her sentence. It was because Straight Face, who was sitting on the floor the entire time, got up.

“O-Oh, you don't have to stand up to do it.”

Bob said with a smile, but Straight Face ignored her completely. Seeing Straight Face reach her arm toward the door, Bob Cut blinked her eyes in a daze.

“Um….”

“h.e.l.lo? The one with the silver armor?”

Kiik. The door opened. Straight Face immediately left the room.

Bob Cut was left standing there with her mouth agape. Snake Eyes must have found this funny as she snickered once again. And when Bob Cut frowned, she finally burst out laughing.

“Puhahaha! Can you get more obvious?”

“What?”

“Listen, you r.e.t.a.r.ded b.i.t.c.h. Do you think this is the Neutral Zone? Or do you think you're at a college retreat?”

“N-No! I just—”

“What, you want us to tell you about our hobbies? Maybe we can even tell each other fun facts!”

Snake Eyes' sharp criticism made Bob Cut tremble in place.

“Whatever. The five of you can make a campfire and do the chchcha for all I care.”

Bob Cut looked completely knocked out by Snake Eyes' venomous expression and open ridicule.

“H-How can you say that?” In the end, she raised her voice with a dumbstruck look, but Straight Face and Snake Eyes were nowhere to be seen.

“The heck?”

She rolled her eyes, looking for someone to agree with her sentiments, and the good-natured girl made a troubled smile. After a brief moment of silence, the good-natured girl quietly spoke up.

“Should we leave too…?”

Bob Cut's lips twitched as if she still had things to say. But once other people began to stand up, she had no choice but to do the same. She had no reason to stay in this room, and she knew she had to chase after the two who had already left.

After all, they seemed to have the most expensive equipment out of the eight… no, seven. Straight Face's armor looked even better than Seol Jihu's.

“Mm… I don't like where this is going.” Maria waited for the others to leave before muttering quietly, “Let's follow them for now and go our own way if things aren't looking good.”

“You want us to move separately?”

“Do as I say. My intuition has never been wrong. For some reason….” Maria blurred the end of her speech.

Seol Jihu neither agreed nor disagreed. Things weren't going as he expected, but it didn't seem like such a bad idea to see how things developed.

When he walked through the door, he found himself in another empty room. The size of the room was similar to the one he had just been in, but there was a door on each side of the wall.

'So the rooms are connected.'

Seol Jihu wondered how this place was structured, but he shook off the thought forcefully. He had to first think about how to survive. After all, he had no clue what would happen from this moment on.

Straight Face was standing in the middle of the room. She seemed to be deep in thought, so even Bob Cut couldn't say anything after catching up.

Soon, Straight Face raised her head and walked forward. The moment she threw open the door without hesitation…

Swis.h.!.+ A longspear hurled toward her.

Seol Jihu tried to throw his spear reflexively, but Straight Face acted even faster. Her hand instantly went to her waist, and a blue flash of light erupted.

Seol Jihu blinked once. When he opened his eyes, he saw a skull flying into the air and a headless skeleton collapsing onto the floor. Straight Face was standing in front of the door, just as expressionless as before.

Plunk! The skull rolled around on the ground. Seol Jihu stood astonished by her quickdraw.

That wasn't all. Straight Face disappeared inside like the wind and cleaned up the rest of the skeletons roaming around the room.

“Whew~”

Snake Eyes, who was watching leisurely, couldn't hide her surprise and whistled.

“d.a.m.n~ You've got skills. What's your name? I must have heard it at least one or twice.”

Of course, Straight Face still ignored everyone. Snake Eyes observed her closely before smirking and locking her fingers behind her head.

“In front of you~”

Straight Face stopped. Snake Eyes sn.i.g.g.e.red and continued, “There's one stuck to the door.”

Straight Face looked forward before raising her sword. When Seol Jihu saw blue flames shooting out of her sword, he couldn't hide his shock.

As someone who had learned Aura, he knew how hard it was to infuse one's weapon with refined energy.

At last, Straight Face shot toward the door and stabbed her sword through.

Craaaack! Her sword cleanly pierced the door. When she turned her sword halfway and pulled out, the blade was dripping with thick blood.

When she opened the door, a black monster fell to its knees.

“See?” Snake Eyes giggled. Straight Face quietly walked forward.

Seol Jihu was standing in the back, admiring Straight Face's swordsmans.h.i.+p, when he realized that she was fighting alone and went “Ah!”

Even though it looked like she didn't really care…

'I should help.'

Seol Jihu didn't want a free ride. He raised his spear, thinking to support her at the very least. He walked up stealthily in case Straight Face looked back. It was then—

“Ooh~ Lookie here. Must be nice~ The only man in the group wants to help. How kind! How kind!”

Snake Eyes put a damper on things.

Straight Face was about to open the frontal door when she heard this comment and glanced back.

'The h.e.l.l….'

When Seol Jihu met her indifferent eyes, saliva pooled in his mouth. Just what kind of experiences had she gone through to be able to suppress her emotions so viciously?

Soon, Straight Face's mouth opened, “I'd like you to not bother me.”

Her monotonous voice was a bit deep and hoa.r.s.e for a woman.