The Academy’s Deceased Ate It All - Chapter 150

“~~~~!!!”

Laune, holding a small spirit stone in one hand and what appeared to be a nutritional supplement in the other, began to do something that looked like a dance.

The reason I said something that looked like a dance was because it was too ridiculous and embarrassing to call it a dance.

But he seemed so happy that he didn’t even care about it.

“Do you like it that much?”

“…!!!”

As I asked while preparing his newly delivered tank, he nodded.

Then, hugging one of the things in his parcel, he started walking all over the place with cute steps.

When I looked at him to see what he was doing, I saw that, while I was preparing the tank, he was gathering his things to finish preparing for it.

Seeing the guy who looked so excited, I burst into laughter without realizing it.

“Here you go. I put your things in the bucket so they don’t get wet.”

“…!”

When I showed him the tank I’d finished preparing, he started moving things back and forth into the tank with the things he’d gathered in one corner, as if he’d been waiting.

“Can I help you?”

At my suggestion, he shook his head, sticking his roots forward, as if saying, it’s okay.

I made and attached something like stairs to the tank so that he could easily move around, so I thought there would be nothing dangerous.

“Come on, you should eat, too.”

After watching him go back and forth for a while, I sprinkled food on the fish as well, then looked at the delivery box that arrived with my share.

There were loads of all kinds of medicines inside, and I’m not kidding, it was enough to open a pharmacy right now.

“Let’s see… Omega 3, general vitamin, multivitamin, krill oil, eye drops, and lactobacillus…….”

As I rattled around and sorted through the number of medicine bottles I couldn’t even finish alone, I was able to find a note tucked inside.

The note, along with a simple greeting in Lee Ye-Eun’s round handwriting I had seen before, said, I was worried that you look too weak, and I sent a little medicine, so I hope you take care of your health while taking this.

The second note had the foods and fruits that should not be eaten together while taking the medicine.

The last note had detailed information on what day of the week and what time to take the medicine, along with a timetable for the week.

… I think no seriously ill person would receive this much special care.

I could feel my expression turning pale without realizing it at the sight beyond my imagination.

“Maybe I’m going to die from eating these… .”

I sat down on the bed, putting the heavy delivery box with the large number of medicine aside.

“Huu.”

I let out a small breath and relaxed.

Then, I took out the body fragment of Svengali that I had kept in Henir’s shadow.

“…….”

After putting it on the table, I took out Henir’s shadow and the branches of the World Tree.

Seeing that, Laune, perhaps feeling something strange, stopped moving things, came up on the bed, and crept up next to me.

“Hey.”

I looked at it and spoke as if tossing it.

There is no reaction.

Laune, too, wondering what was going on, stood beside me and looked alternately at me and the fragment of Svengali.

“Wake up. I already know everything.”

I couldn’t shake off the uncomfortable feeling, as if something was strange.

And at times like this, the things that always troubled me would suddenly pull at my ankles.

“…….”

A fragment of a Seven Evil that lost their lives, that was not supposed to remain.

The rotten root of the World Tree.

The corpse of Seven Evil that could not be appraised for any information.

And thanks to Laune, who was next to me, I was able to be conclusively sure about it.

“Laune, you said you were Svengali, that guy’s alter ego, didn’t you?”

“……?”

Hearing my words, he suddenly looked up at me as if asking, why are you bringing that up?

Without saying anything, I picked him up and put him on my shoulder.

Because it was something that might endanger Laune.

“If it’s possible to create a creature called Mandragora as an alter ego, then there’s nothing strange about having your own spare ready, just in case.”

“……!!!”

At those words, Laune stuck to my face in surprise.

I just moved Henir’s shadow and the branches of the World Tree a little.

[… it is ridiculous.]

A voice that sounded like scratching iron flowed out.

Svengali’s body rustled, and a human mouth appeared on the surface.

Naturally, I felt my expression harden.

[It is really over.]

How the hell did you notice?

The guy, who burst out laughing, muttered that.

I snorted as if sneering at such a guy and moved the shadow and World Tree as it was.

Even if he had lost all his power and authority as a Seven Evil and only the dregs remained, there was no reason to keep him alive.

* * *

“Oop, I think I’m going to vomit… .”

Lee Yu-Na, who became haggard as she walked out of the warp gate, covered her mouth with her hand.

The guy who already had pale white skin and small stature looked really pitiful like that.

Jin Ye-Seul, who patted her back while pretending not to be next to her, who was like that, took a piece of gum from her pocket and handed it to her.

“At least chew some of this. It will make you feel better.”

“Eu… Thank you, Ye-Seul… .”

Staring at her chewing gum, I looked around.

Jin Ye-Seul also stood a little further from me and began to look around the area.

We were in Gyeongju.

Even if I didn’t try to find it, there are many people around who looked like tourists.

In the meantime, I could notice that the eyes of the people around me were focused on Lee Yu-Na and Jin Ye-Seul.

Because no matter what, at least in outward appearance, they were really great.

At least in outward appearance.

Lee Yu-Na wasn’t paying attention to her surroundings, perhaps because she didn’t have time to do so, but no matter who looked at it, Jin Ye-Seul looked like she couldn’t hide her annoyance at the glancing gazes of those around.

“Let’s move right away. There is no need to waste time.”

I immediately called a taxi, telling her to calm down.

Jin Ye-Seul stared at me as if she were displeased, but shook her head.

The taxi headed to where the dungeon was hidden, and soon we were able to reach the tourist-crowded historic site.

“Don’t tell me you’re going to start with sightseeing?”

I let out a laugh at Lee Yu-Na’s question.

“No way.”

We got out of the taxi and started walking around the historic site.

Lee Yu-Na looked around as if it were amazing, and Jin Ye-Seul just followed me without a word.

Before long, we arrived in front of a half-collapsed stone statue.

When I looked around, fortunately, it was a sparsely populated place

I stared at Jin Ye-Seul and said.

“Try to replicate that statue by touching it while wearing the Mirage Gloves.”

“… yes.”

Jin Ye-Seul moved as I said without saying anything.

After taking the gloves out of her inner pocket and wearing them, she grabbed the stone statue, and the stone statue soon trembled and stretched into two as if it was splitting, and a door toward the underground dungeon appeared underneath it.

“Okay, then let’s get ready and go in. As soon as we enter, the entrance will disappear, so there is no need to worry about someone breaking in.”

While I was taking out the things I had prepared from my bag, Lee Yu-Na muttered with a pale complexion, as if she was still not feeling good.

“But Ye-Seul. Are you sure you’re okay? I’m okay with just helping you for free this time, though… .”

“This is what you are good at.”

Jin Ye-Seul said in a dry voice, as if shooting back.

“You’re doing what you are good at, so why are you so fidgety about doing it for free? When you do something you are good at, of course you have to get the right price for it.”

“Oh, yes… .”

Lee Yu-Na answered her in a gloomy voice, but when I looked at her expression, she seemed a little embarrassed.

First, I handed out the things I brought to the two.

“Here, let’s use this first.”

“What is this?”

“…….”

The first thing I handed out was a camouflage cream to put on the face.

“The dungeon we are going to this time is divided into three main patterns.”

I mixed it with my fingers and spread it on my right cheek.

“In the first one, clones with the same appearance as us appear, but… it is literally nothing more than our reflection in a mirror. It’s definitely weaker than us, the original, but other than that, it’s all the same. Voice, speech, expression, body… anyway, all of those things that are like external characteristics.”

“But why… Oh, you said it was a mirror?”

“Yes. They’re inverted, like a mirror. If you put camouflage cream on the right side, all the clones will appear as if they were painted on the left side, so it would be easy to tell them apart. There will be no attack on the same side by any chance.”

I said to Lee Yu-Na, who was nodding.

Without hesitation, she mixed the camouflage cream and began to apply it to her right cheek.

Jin Ye-Seul also applied the cream without saying a word.

After confirming that everyone had applied camouflage cream on their faces, I continued the explanation.

“I don’t know if you’ll understand if I say parkour is next, but… simply put, you have to go through cliffs and obstacles. But I have the branch of the World Tree, so we will be able to pass through it without any problems.”

“… what about the last one, then?”

Jin Ye-Seul asked that without looking at my face.

I put the camouflage cream I had brought into my bag and answered.

“Twin-headed Ogre. But because the two of them are combined, it has four heads, four arms, and four legs.”

And it also has four times the regenerative power.

After hearing my words, Jin Ye-Seul frowned, but Lee Yu-Na murmured as if it were fortunate.

“Oh, then it’ll be easy to kill. If we go then, can you give me a little extra time? I can fix those kinds of monsters.”

“Yeah, okay.”

With those words, I immediately reached out to the handle on the ground.

“Let’s go in.”

I opened the huge door that didn’t even make a sound of opening, and we flew straight into the dungeon.

* * *

Instead of having a damp, humid, and moldy smell, the dungeon had a cozy atmosphere and a somewhat good smell.

Jin Ye-Seul could easily recognize that the smell was the smell of flowers.

The smell of flowers in an underground dungeon.

She took the lead with a small click of her tongue.

Behind her were Yoo Ji-Hyuk and Lee Yu-Na in order.

Yoo Ji-Hyuk had a huge bow in his hand, and Lee Yu-Na’s hands were wrapped around something that kept waving like smoke.

Jin Ye-Seul, as always, was bare-handed, but her hands were covered with Mirage Gloves, which was also a legacy of Shadow Walker.

They quickly broke through the dungeon without any special threats or problems.

A few traps were destroyed by Jin Ye-Seul before they could even be activated, and the monsters that occasionally appeared were pierced and fell by the arrows shot by Yoo Ji-Hyuk before they could do anything.

It was when they were going to keep moving forward like this without hesitation.

Jin Ye-Seul, who found a large gate, slowly stopped walking, and the other two also stopped.

“That’s… a very annoying type.”

Lee Yu-Na, squinting her eyes, murmured as if complaining.

Jin Ye-Seul also agreed with her opinion without saying a word.

A stone statue with a human face on the body of a lion.

If that thing, also called the Sphinx, was the gatekeeper, it was only possible to pass through if you guessed the riddle.

[I shall present a question.]

The stone statue opened its mouth, raising its eyes as if glaring at the three of them.

Jin Ye-Seul, who was not very familiar with riddles, didn’t look like that at all when looking at her usual attitude, but for now, she only hoped that Lee Yu-Na, who was first in the school, would somehow live up to her name.

[It is a fervent heart and energy that burns like a flame. When thy heart stops, it gets cold, but if thou want something earnestly, it will burn again. What is it?]

“… what the hell kind of bullsh*t is that?”

Jin Ye-Seul involuntarily spat out those words.

When she turned her head and stared at Lee Yu-Na, she saw she was just contemplating something.

Then, when her eyes met with Jin Ye-Seul’s, she murmured with trembling eyes.

“I, I’m very weak at riddles too… Wait, maybe the correct answer is blood?”

But the Sphinx remained silent.

Lee Yu-Na mumbled her lips, and Jin Ye-Seul was thinking that it was a kind of monster in the end, and that if she beat it up, the door might open someday.

“Hot blood.”

Yoo Ji-Hyuk said it like he was throwing it out with no sincerity.

Soon after, the Sphinx answered with a twinkle in its eyes.

[Correct answer. Move forward….]

Soon after, the firmly closed door began to open, and Lee Yu-Na immediately stared at Yoo Ji-Hyuk with a surprised look.

“Wow, what the hell. How did you know? No, rather than that, isn’t blood the right answer too?”

“Originally, the Sphinx is very strict. They don’t accept it unless you say it the same way, even if it means the same thing.”

Yoo Ji-Hyuk answered as if it was no big deal, but it seemed to have approached Lee Yu-Na differently.

“Something’s a little unfair….”

She muttered like that, but soon smiled as if it didn’t matter.

“Well, as long as we got it right. Still, I contributed a little to get the answer right, right? The correct answer was blood, but I said blood first.” [Note: 2nd one is a bit formal.]

“No, I did it on my own.”

“What? You’re really stingy….”

Lee Yu-Na said so and slapped him on the shoulder.

When he exaggerated that he was hurt, she giggled and burst into laughter.

“Yes.”

Lee Yu-Na, who was staring at him for a while, suddenly clenched her fist and extended her arm to Yoo Ji-Hyuk.

Yoo Ji-Hyuk, noticing what she wanted to do at that sight, also slowly extended his hand.

“High-five… !”

“Oh.”

Lee Yu-Na, who was holding out her fist and suddenly spread out her palm, and Yoo Ji-Hyuk, who was just reaching out for it for a fist bump without thinking.

Stood in an awkward position for a moment, then lowered their arms as if nothing had happened.

“…….”

“…….”

“……pfft.”

“What’s so funny that you’re laughing like that?”

“No, just….”

Meanwhile, Lee Yu-Na suddenly burst into laughter as she was not sure what was so funny, and Yoo Ji-Hyuk, who saw her laugh, shook her head as if he was dumbfounded and also burst into laughter.

As they continued to take classes, spar, and exchange advice with each other, the two had become quite friendly enough to exchange pranks in this way.

“…….”

And Jin Ye-Seul looked at the scene without saying a word.

Only she could have known what her eyes were thinking and what emotions they were harboring.

But at least she was certain that those purple eyes contained Yoo Ji-Hyuk and Lee Yu-Na.