Chapter 36
With countless night guards beginning to stare intently at us,
we did our best to ignore them and returned to the guard post.
The moment we got back to the guard post.
“W-what’s going on..? Why am I.. Why am I.. In a world like this..”
We could hear a woman’s voice begin questioning the situation she found herself in, trembling with tears.
“Exactly. That’s how a newbie should be.”
“..Huh?”
“You have to be confused about the situation you’re in to count as a newbie.”
“..Isn’t that only natural?”
“You were the one who said, ‘I’m getting fucked by an anomaly right now.’ You said it on your first or second day working at Veliard, too. Did you know that?”
“Ah-ha..”
“..What are you two talking about right now..?”
“Ah, sorry. I just remembered what our Daebung was like as a newbie for a moment. The answer to your question is simple. We’re in exactly the same situation as you.”
“..Huh?”
“We were just kidnapped into this world earlier than you. Being transported to another world in this ridiculous way has given us plenty of trouble too.”
How cruel.
Anonymous 1’s words were the exact truth.
We were no different.. We also had no idea why we had come to this damned world.
“...”
The woman sat silently on the floor, looking up at us.
“..Why can’t I clear it?”
Even after rescuing the woman and bringing her here, we set aside the question of why the Two-Person Night Watchman horror story still hadn’t been cleared.
“Whew.. Well. To pass the time, I’ll show you where we’re staying.”
Since we hadn’t cleared it anyway, we still had no choice but to keep working our way through this place.
I was just about to explain to the woman we had rescued moments ago where we lived-
“This place has something called a Status Window, like in a fantasy world-”
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The Status Window.. had appeared.
“..Huh?”
“What’s wrong?”
“..Is the Status Window only open for me right now?”
“Huh? The Status Window.. What??”
Apparently, it wasn’t just me.
I could also see that Anonymous 1’s Status Window had opened normally.
In other words.
“Saving the person in Unit 1001 must have been the key to opening the Status Window.”
It meant that the Status Window had reopened the moment we freed the person trapped in Unit 1001.
I was about to tell the woman about the Status Window-
“..What? Where did she go?”
“What did?”
“The woman who was here..”
“Huh? Ah, I guess she pressed Return.”
Ah.
I was startled when the woman suddenly disappeared-
“..What? Where did you go?”
The woman who had suddenly disappeared was sitting on the floor again.
Confused by the situation, I asked the woman where she had gone, and..
“I-I saw a button that said Return, so I thought it might take me home, and I pressed it..”
“..No way?”
“I woke up in a strange place, and I was scared, so I just pressed the Return button again.. and came back here..”
“Wow.. People really are the same everywhere. How can you be so exactly like Daebung?”
She had followed the exact same path I had when I first opened the Status Window in the Veliard Library.
“Can’t be helped. I guess we’ll just have to explain everything we remember from the rulebook here, along with how to access the community, one thing at a time.”
“I suppose so.”
Well, what else could we do?
She probably wouldn’t have any Returns left..
All we could do was teach her the survival rules as best as we could remember them..
“We’re going to teach you a few codes now, and these are things you must never leak to the gallery. Understand?”
…
Beyond the firmly locked security guard break room door,
I could sense Anonymous 1 glancing at me while the woman slept.
“What are you going to do?”
“Pardon?”
“You already know. I’m asking anyway.”
Right.
The truth was.. I knew.
Anonymous 1 did too. So did I.
If we wanted to, we could leave this place now.
We had achieved our original goal of entering this place.. saving Anonymous 1.
However.
“..We have to stay.”
“Heh-heh.. That’s our Daebung.”
“Tomorrow, I’ll go to the survivors’ gathering and tell them that the Status Window can be used again.”
“Wow.. You’d thought that far ahead?”
“What about you, Anonymous 1?”
“I just want to survive.. That’s all I can think about.”
If we left, the woman would be left here alone.
Knowing that, perhaps the man before me was also hesitating, if only a little, about going back.
Perhaps that was also why the man before me still couldn’t bring himself to leave a single survival report on the community he loved so much..
Because if he posted a survival report for no reason and the administrator told him to come back..
he felt like he would press Return right away.
“Well, if we want to tell ourselves something to feel better, that woman isn’t Korean, right? Isn’t that so?”
“..Right?”
When the call had come from Unit 1001, after all.
All three movie titles the woman had mentioned were movies made in Japan..
That meant.. the woman sleeping in the room right now was highly likely to be Japanese.
Which was why.
“Either way, she’s someone we have no reason to see again.”
Hearing the man tell me not to feel burdened by returning like this..
“Whew.. Thank you.”
“For what?”
“My resolve. It’s standing firm now.”
“Did it get hard?”
“Yes. Very hard.”
“I’m looking forward to it.”
Soon, I was able to steel my resolve.
“I’ll stay.”
I would stay here.
“Of course, I’m not saying I’ll be reckless. I won’t sacrifice myself or anything by offering up my life. But.. someone has to clear this place.”
“Kyaa-ha.. That’s our Daebung! Huh? An ultra-masculine Teto guy who even hurls abuse at anomalies!”
After stating my resolve, I turned my head to look back at Anonymous 1.
I couldn’t see any expression on his face or anything in his eyes..
but I knew clearly that he was staring at me, so when I looked back toward where Anonymous 1’s eyes were,
“Are you going to go back, Anonymous 1?”
“What if I do?”
“Pardon?”
“Who’s going to be your partner, Daebung?”
That was the answer I heard.
“Partner?”
“This place requires two-person teams. Two people have to work together as one team. What if I leave? Are you going to partner up with an anomaly, Daebung?”
In other words, he had decided to stay here with me as well.
“..Didn’t you say you wanted to live?”
“I have to live. I’ll survive tooth and nail and go back. And.. I have to tell them all the stories.”
“What stories?”
“Starting with how our Daebung cursed out and threatened an apartment anomaly, then used a camera to distinguish anomalies from people, and even knew where the Japanese community was! I’ll tell them everything he did. I have to spill it all.”
“Wow.. They’ll never believe any of that is real.”
“But it is real, right?!”
“Thank you. For humoring me.”
“What stubbornness? I’m riding the bus again this time. I’ll get on the bus Daebung is driving, get one more Return, and leave~.”
“I’ll be sure to get you plenty of stones and another Return this time too.”
“Kyaa-ha~ I love it. I’m looking forward to it. I’ll do my best to get as many stones as possible too.”
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[Kita!!!!! The Status Window is back!!!!!!]
(Photo)
Hello, everyone!!
I’m working as a night watchman with Daebung right now!!!!
This is what you call!
A survival report, I tell you!!!!!!!!
I’ve got more than a bundle of stories to tell~~~
If you want to hear them all, you should be paying for this level of content, lol
[Comments - 31]
Anonymous 1: Mod, check their IP addresses. See if they match Daebung’s or the person who always used Anonymous 1’s name.
ㄴ Moderator: We’ve confirmed they have the same IP.
Anonymous 2: Even if the IP is the same, they still need to prove they’re human. If they don’t, I’ll ban them, so do it within five minutes.
ㄴ Anonymous 3: Not that “Jjit-jji” thing you always do—do something we can actually accept.
ㄴ Anonymous 4: For real.
Anonymous 5: An anomaly wrote a normal post? There’s a very high chance it learned from our previous posts.
ㄴ Anonymous 3: That’s why we’re asking for proper human verification.
Author: Whew.. Everyone wants proper human verification, huh? Fine. I’ll do it for you.
ㄴ Author: I’ve heard a bit about Daebung’s tastes while working with him here.
ㄴ Author: Daebung said his favorite thing is futanari MILFs having group orgies.
ㄴ Anonymous 6: What the fuck; when did I ever say that???? (Edited) (Deleted)
ㄴ Anonymous 3: He’s human..
ㄴ Anonymous 4: A 100% pure human..
ㄴ Anonymous 5: Wow.. Daebung’s tastes are kind of.. uh.. intense.. wow..
ㄴ Anonymous 6: N-n-no, that’s not it; f2ck, I said it wasn’t; (Edited) (Deleted)
ㄴ Anonymous 1: ..What on earth did you two talk about for that to come up?
ㄴ Anonymous 6: No, it was just a Hitomi tag we used to test whether someone was human; (Edited) (Deleted)
ㄴ Anonymous 7: ..Why would you use a Hitomi tag to figure out whether someone’s human, Daebung..?
ㄴ Anonymous 6: No; it’s; damn; I’ll explain everything later if I make it back alive.. (Edited) (Deleted)
Anonymous 1: FUCK!!!! Press Return right now, come home, and explain what happened!!!!
ㄴ Moderator: That’s right. You need to tell us what happened inside the horror-story dungeon.
ㄴ Anonymous 1: Who cares what the mod says? Explain what this “futanari MILF group orgy” that Daebung supposedly likes is first!!!!!
ㄴ Moderator: ?
ㄴ Anonymous 4: This is definitely the most important thing, for real.
- Author: Looks like everyone wants to hear my stories. Whew.. Can’t be helped. I’m working right now, so I’ll explain after my shift.
ㄴ Anonymous 3: I’m seriously fucking dying of curiosity.. Whoa.. fuck.. What on earth happened? If I go in there now, can I hear the stories too?
ㄴ Anonymous 4: This is the first time I’ve ever wanted to enter a horror story to hear someone’s stories lolololol
- Anonymous 5: Right now.. I’m praying desperately for them to stay safe more than ever before..
ㄴ Anonymous 1: LMAOOOO me too
ㄴ Anonymous 3: Me too LMAOOOO
ㄴ Anonymous 4: Hard upvote.
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“...”
I looked at the man chuckling to himself.
I knew he was happy that his post had attracted so much attention..
“..But still, they asked you to prove you were human.. Did you really have to do it like that?”
Why that method of all things-
“I only told them every word I’d heard from Daebung.”
“Wow..”
“But you did prove you’re human. Have a drink~.”
…
Time passed, and it was now one minute before we had to attend the survivors’ gathering.
“Hmm? Are you having fun?”
Before we left for the survivors’ gathering, the woman, who had seemed depressed all day, looked a little happier.
So I casually asked her what had happened..
“I think.. there are a lot of interesting people.”
Apparently, the Japanese community was just as full of all kinds of memes as the Korean one.
I decided to log into the Japanese community myself next time.
“We’ll be back. You remember what I told you earlier, right?”
“Yes. I’ll stay as quiet as possible. Even if someone else comes.. I absolutely won’t open the door.”
“Good. We’ll be back.”
After telling the woman to wait here quietly,
Anonymous 1 and I headed straight for the survivors’ gathering.
“Everyone’s already here.”
Perhaps we were a little late to the survivors’ gathering.
Everyone was already gathered.
“Sorry we’re late.”
“Not at all. It’s only been a minute. Do you have news to share today as well?”
We hurried over and began sharing the news we had learned yesterday with everyone.
“Everyone, try opening your Status Windows now.”
“The Status Window? ..Huh?”
“That should still be disabled, shouldn’t it?”
“W-wait a moment.. ..The Status Window is opening again..?”
“..What? ..The Status Window. ..Huh? It’s true?”
“..!! W-what..? How..? How did this happen..? No..!”
“While working the night shift last night, we got the Status Window to open again.”
“?????”
“????????”
“???????????”
“..I told you, Haruto. ..Koreans are different.”
“No, no.. No..? ..No..”
“The thing the two of us couldn’t do even in two months, a Korean solved in two days..?”