Chapter 33

# 33

Guide for the Returnee Chapter 33

Enemy (1)

From Jung Jin-ho's perspective, it must feel like he has just stormed out of the house in a fit of rage.

“What, what kind of nonsense… are you talking about? Seok-woo.”

“I did it! I stabbed this dog, this bastard! Brother!”

“You son of a bitch!”

The space became noisy for a moment.

Jung Jin-ho immediately drew his sword.

Of course, I didn't think he intended to attack us.

‘He wants to kill him.’

He might be trying to kill Yu Seok-woo and clean up this situation.

It's clear that he intends to silence him first and then sort things out later. After all, that's the only option Jung Jin-ho has right now.

He definitely doesn't want to get into a brawl with our team in such a place.

If the one stabbed by the sword was Kim Hyun-seong or Park Deok-gu, there might have been a chance of winning, but unfortunately, the weakest member, Lee Gi-young, was the one stabbed.

‘I can't let him die.’

When I instinctively looked at Kim Hyun-seong, I saw him quickly moving to a new position.

Jung Jin-ho's lackey, Kim Jae-jun, who seemed to have a poor grasp of the situation, apparently took Jung Jin-ho's sudden dash as a signal to start fighting and began running towards us with a dagger.

“This damn trash! You killed him! You killed Gi-cheol!”

Of course, I killed Gi-cheol.

Even so, I never imagined he would run towards me and leave Deok-gu behind.

It seems he has become the unofficial favorite of the party during our quest.

I, who should have been safely protected in the back, suddenly became the main tank.

What I didn't expect was that Park Deok-gu's judgment was a bit slow.

I thought he would at least block the second attack, but he couldn't stop Kim Jae-jun, who raised his dagger and charged at me.

‘Damn it.’

Feeling the dagger aiming for my neck, I instinctively crouched, and the dagger plunged into my back.

‘It hurts!’

“Aaaaaah!”

It hurts.

Park Deok-gu regained his senses right after the second attack.

He not only pushed the guy away with his large shield but also stood in front of me with a pale, rigid face.

Yu Seok-woo, who was behind, looked bewildered by the sudden situation.

He was even trembling, holding the sword that had stabbed me.

The guy is clearly not used to stabbing someone. More important than the lackeys are Jung Jin-ho and Kim Hyun-seong.

“It's a misunderstanding….”

Before the voice could finish, their swords clashed.

‘It's over.’

With a loud bang, Jung Jin-ho was sent flying far away.

The battle had already begun.

The scenario was set, and the two were on stage.

All that remained was to clean up this mess.

I wanted to ask for healing quickly, but the problem was that no words came out.

The only sound I could make was a scream due to the intense pain I had never felt before.

I expected a healing spell to hit me, but what I heard was Jung Hae-yeon's scream.

“Noooooo!”

‘It hurts…’

“These bastards!! Brother!”

“Noooooo! Noooooo!!”

I wish they would heal me instead of screaming.

The situation was so urgent that I couldn't even gather my thoughts.

Monsters were charging from the front, and Jung Jin-ho and Kim Hyun-seong were clashing swords.

Park Deok-gu seemed unsure whether to block the front or protect Yu Seok-woo in the back, but he was trying his best to protect me, who was lying on the ground.

“Brother! Brother!!”

“I'm not dead yet….”

“Sister! Ring! Ring! Say the ring! Ring!”

“Aaaaaah! Brother! Brother! Brother!”

“Calm down and say the ring! Ring!”

“Aaah!”

I expected Jung Hae-yeon to panic, but the situation seemed even more serious than I thought.

After Park Deok-gu firmly held Jung Hae-yeon's hand, she seemed to remember something.

“Heal… Heal!”

The light pouring over me.

While my body didn't instantly recover, the strange, pleasant light was definitely healing my wounds.

The pain was still there.

But I didn't feel blood gushing from the wound.

‘I almost died.’

If it had been a little later, I might have died.

“Brother. Brother. Brother.”

“Brother, Brother!”

“I'm… fine.”

With a slightly lighter body, I looked around again.

Kim Hyun-seong and Jung Jin-ho, who were clashing swords without a word.

Anyone could see that Kim Hyun-seong was a few levels above.

Naturally, the guy's excuses wouldn't be heard.

In the end, our main villain abandoned Yu Seok-woo and Kim Jae-jun, turned his back, and started to leave.

Kim Hyun-seong, who had been looking at this side for a moment, nodded and spoke urgently.

“Deok-gu! Please take care of Hae-yeon and Gi-young. I'll go after Jung Jin-ho….”

“I understand!”

He judged that we had the ability to handle the situation.

With their high agility stats, they disappeared from our sight in an instant.

Kim Jae-jun, who seemed to understand that the situation was getting out of hand, also tried to escape, but he didn't take Yu Seok-woo with him.

With the situation like this, Park Deok-gu had to block the monsters.

“These bastards!”

I saw Yu Seok-woo swinging his sword at me again.

Of course, I didn't get hit this time.

Park Deok-gu hit the guy with his shield.

Thud!

Yu Seok-woo's body flew into the air and crashed into the wall, but at the same time, the monster kids charged at us.

“Magic Shield!”

The second insurance prepared by Kim Hyun-seong blocked the monsters' path.

The spell was cast in an instant.

While Kim Jae-jun and Jung Jin-ho were already out of sight, Kim Hyun-seong could catch both of them.

No.

“Brother, Brother, Sister is gone….”

Kim Jae-jun will be caught by Jung Hae-yeon.

“Don't worry, Deok-gu. Take care of the monsters in front of you first, and I'll follow right away. I know where they went.”

“That's a relief, but….”

I didn't see when or how she disappeared.

He had already cast a spell and followed Kim Jae-jun.

I don't know if he can catch the agile guy, but the way he hurried suggests that he will return after dealing with his own problem.

The shock of the unexpected situation made Park Deok-gu's face tear-streaked.

Seeing me fall and bleed must have been quite a shock. Looking at him, I opened my mouth.

“Don't cry, pig.”

“Who, who said I was crying?”

Thanks to the guy's daze, a dagger was stuck in my body again, but I wasn't in a bad mood.

* * *

‘Damn it.’

A situation I couldn't understand.

‘Yu Seok-woo, you idiot. You trash.’

I couldn't accept him.

No, in fact, it wasn't just Yu Seok-woo who was an idiot.

I was the same, taking out a dagger and stabbing him when I saw Jung Jin-ho draw his sword, thinking it was a signal to attack.

I should have been more calm.

Lee Gi-cheol, a close friend I had moved with for a long time.

Thinking that the bastard Gi-young had killed my friend, I couldn't keep my cool.

‘I knew the plan was canceled….’

Even though he said he was sorry, his smile and showing his teeth were the problem.

I knew I should have restrained myself, but I couldn't.

That expression, that expression was the problem.

The expression that seemed to mock me.

The expression that openly provoked me.

The look and smile that seemed to belittle me.

Already angry to the point of boiling, I saw the guy watching the situation with a strangely pleased expression when I found the guy who had been stabbed in the stomach.

At that moment, I lost my mind.

Jung Jin-ho, that bastard, was also a problem.

I never thought he would abandon me like a piece of trash, even though I didn't really consider him a comrade.

‘It doesn't matter.’

But that's a story of the past.

We met out of necessity, and since he used me, I can use him. It's a simple story.

‘First.’

First, I need to get out of here.

Jung Jin-ho judged that there was no chance of winning in that situation.

With his keen sense of direction, he could easily follow the path Jung Jin-ho took.

I can clearly see the trail of the guy who ran away. I'll deal with Kim Hyun-seong, who followed Jung Jin-ho, and this time, I'll hit him from behind more decisively.

I won't feel satisfied until I tear that bastard Gi-young to pieces.

While trying to move as quickly as possible, grabbing a bow and arrows, I noticed something.

‘What is this?’

This path is different from the one I memorized.

It's definitely not the path I know.

This is the first time since I became an archer.

I wondered if there was a problem with the dungeon itself, but it was definitely not the case.

The trail of Jung Jin-ho and Kim Hyun-seong also ends at one wall.

“What is this….”

When I slightly looked around, I felt an unknown wind blowing.

“Eh….”

I felt one of my legs fall off after a short moment.

“Aaaaaah!”

‘What is this… What is this… What is this!’

I couldn't make a proper judgment.

After a sudden wind blew from somewhere, one of my legs fell off.

In a situation where I couldn't tell what was attacking me, no one could avoid being terrified.

“Aaaaaah!”

After the wind blew again, my wrist was cut off.

“What! What! Aaaaaah!”

The existence of magic came to mind.

When I desperately looked around again, a woman appeared in the darkness.

I thought it was a woman I had never seen before, but it was definitely not a face I had never seen.

‘Jung Hae-yeon?’

Her face was very red.

‘Her eyes…’

Her eyes were strange. Her hair was disheveled, and her clothes were in a mess.

I could see her wiping away her tears with her hand.

“I won't apologize to you.”

“What….”

“I can never forgive you. I… I have to kill everyone who hurts my brother. I have to kill everyone.”

“What the hell… Aaaaaah!”

“Shut up! Shut up, you… you… idiot! How much did it hurt? Our brother… hic… how much did it hurt? When he was hit the first time… he must have been in pain.”

She quickly grasped the situation.

The woman in front of me was not normal.

‘Damn… Damn….’

I realized I had made a mistake in an instant.

While I thought she was strangely obsessed with Gi-young, I never imagined she was this crazy.

I heard the sound of a spell being whispered.

My body naturally sensed the danger.

I wanted to crawl away from this situation somehow, but there was no way I could.

This place was too wide to escape by crawling.

I felt a weak woman's arm grab my hair and lift my face.

“I wish I had more time, but I have to finish this quickly. I want to return what our brother suffered tenfold… but I can't. Hic….”

“Please… I… I just did what I was told.”

“Liar, I don't believe you…. Air bomb.”

The magic in her right hand was something I had seen before.

The magic that turned several monsters into blood cakes.

This time, it was a very small size, unlike the one that was as big as a human head.

I couldn't understand what she was trying to do when I heard her crazy voice again.

“Open your mouth.”

“What… what….”

“Do it. You… you have to feel the same. You have to feel how much our brother hurt.”

I instinctively clamped my mouth shut.

I couldn't imagine what would happen if that thing entered my mouth.

But the crazy woman forced my jaw open and eventually put the small bomb in my mouth.

The feeling of an unwanted object entering my mouth made me lose my mind.

Cold sweat kept pouring out, and my body trembled uncontrollably.

Before I could imagine what would happen next, I heard a sound that shook my brain.

Bang!

“Uuuuuuuuuh!”

The fragments of my teeth exploded in my mouth, tearing my tongue, throat, palate, and cheeks.

I couldn't understand what was happening.

The only thing I knew for sure was that the pain felt like my brain was melting.

“It hurts, doesn't it? You're in pain too. But why… did you do it?”

‘Crazy… Crazy… Crazy….’

“The blood splattered, idiot.”

“Please… spare… me….”

Even as she composed herself, it was eerie.

She calmly fixed her disheveled hair and wiped the blood on her face with her sleeve.

“I have to finish this quickly… this is the last one. You can't do this again.”

Please, don't do this.

Please, spare me, I thought in my head.

My consciousness was gradually fading due to fear, even though I couldn't speak properly.

Desperately trying to stay alive, I clung to my senses when I heard what sounded like the final voice.

“A… you're dead.”