foreign area.

A place where the laws of the Republic of Korea cannot be properly enforced.

However, it was also a place with fewer violent crime statistics than anywhere else in South Korea.

The reason is… … .

“The liver is too big. A robber in the territory of Callione, not anywhere else.”

“Oops… … turn it off… … !”

It was because the laws of Callione were not captured in the statistics.

“Sin, sorry! Ha, just one chance… … !”

A dark alley located in the entertainment district of District C.

There, there was a man who was begging for his life while being suppressed under the current maid.

We do not know the name, but we were caught trying to extort money from a passing drunken man as a bald man who could be presumed to be a member of a neighborhood gang with a tattoo on his face.

“young master. What should I do.”

Alesia asks how he will dispose of him.

In the current situation, it was the rules of Callione and the law of the foreign area that I, as a superior, decided to dispose of.

“Hand holding a sword. break it.”

“All right.”

Alesia twisted her arms in an instant without hesitation in response to my answer.

“aah!!”

puffy. Along with that sound, new joints form in his arm, and a scream echoes through the alley.

At this, passersby take a look at what is going on, but after checking me in a black suit and Alesia in a maid uniform, I go my way again as if nothing happened.

“Shut up! Whoops… … !”

“It’s a face I’ve never seen before. Have you been here recently?”

He gestures to Alesia, who is subduing him, to move him aside, then squats down in front of him.

“I’m sure you understand why you’re being like this.”

“I know… … ! I know… … !”

The guy who replies with trembling.

I said, tapping the boy’s bare hair with the palm of my hand.

“There is no next time. Whether it’s your friend, co-worker, or boss, go and tell them. If I do this one more time in Callione’s area, I’ll make a beehive at that time, so come prepared. Do you understand?”

“… … yes! I’ll tell you! I will definitely tell you!”

I wish I had said something like this.

“Go.”

“thank you! thank you!”

When I told him to go, he jumped up with one hand that remained, bowed his head, and ran as if running away.

As I was looking at the guy’s back, I heard Alessia’s voice from behind.

“Aren’t you going to kill me?”

“I don’t really want to see blood.”

And the intention was to use him as a kind of warning.

If you kill them and then deal with them, today’s events will not be known, but by letting them live like this, the intention was to manage them more.

And following my hand gestures, some of the gang members who had been waiting began to follow him.

“There must have been rumors that we were here, so let’s go back after looking at the other side or a little bit.”

“I will follow.”

Still, today was better than usual.

The last time I went out with Parnello, when a street vendor got involved in a gang fight, Parnello directly wiped out all the guys on the spot and gave them money for repairs and consolation money to merchants.

After dealing with them, the night walk was fine.

Just passing by drunks and part-timers from entertainment establishments to say hello instead of passing by?

‘By the way, the atmosphere is quieter than usual.’

There are fewer people walking around than usual.

The place where the robber just appeared was also a place where there was usually quite a lot of people, so no crime could happen.

If you think about the influx of new people or something, you can feel that the atmosphere has changed somehow.

“young master.”

At that time, I was slowly wandering around the area, immersed in thought for a while.

Alessia, who was ahead, suddenly stopped standing tall.

Did anything else happen? But the surroundings were very quiet.

When I was puzzled by that appearance, Alessia pointed somewhere and opened her mouth with a serious expression.

“… … that.”

that?

As I looked at the place Alesia was pointing, I saw a small shop.

The name of the shop written there [egg bread].

“Please buy it.”

She is… … He was very proud and asked for egg bread from me.

“… … You want to buy it?”

“Yes. In fact, I left my wallet.”

“Nowadays, payment can be made with a mobile phone.”

“I left it.”

“There was.”

“It’s gone.”

… … Don’t you just want to eat it from me?

Well, it’s not expensive and I’ve been driving all the way here, so I took a deep breath and bought her a bag.

Then, with a bright smile, she embraces the envelope and immediately bites one.

“It’s good. hot and hot Oh, would you like to have one too?”

Saying so, he handed me a piece of egg bread.

I bought it, but I guess I was just trying to eat it by myself?!

“… … okay. Thank you.”

Anyway, once you give it to me, it doesn’t matter.

Take one and put it in your mouth.

The taste of plain egg bread.

However, Alesia, who was walking side by side, was munching hard while eating it as if it was very delicious.

“Did you originally like egg bread?”

Alesia tilted her head after hearing my question.

gulp. and she swallows the egg buns.

“You mean egg bread? Well… … If you like it, you can say you like it. I have good memories.”

“good memories?”

“It is a secret. It is a precious memory.”

At my question, Alessia smiles and speaks.

“Okay, this is enough to enjoy the escape. The patrol is almost over… … Do you want to go back?”

“Yeah, I have to go back.”

I said so and turned around.

“young master? The motorcycle is over here… … .”

Alesia is bewildered at the sight of me suddenly walking in the opposite direction and reaching out to the side of the road.

I turned my head to look at Alesia and smiled mischievously.

“taxi.”

To be honest, your motorcycle is a little scary.

* * *

next day.

“If you look at the research so far, it can be said that dungeons are created under the influence of this ‘mana’. Auror and Mana were observed in earnest after the creation of the dungeon, so the concept slowly began to be grasped afterwards.”

From the first class, the children of Class A are greeted with a dungeon science class called sleeping pills.

The soft voice of the instructor and boring class content were already slowly taking away the energy of the children.

But what to do? Dungeon Studies is a compulsory subject for heroes entering dungeons.

“There is nothing completely known about the occurrence of the dungeon. However, scientists speculate that the dungeon is a harbinger of unity from the outside world. In other words, our world is slowly merging with other worlds. The increasing mana and aura is proof of that.”

And in such a dungeon study, one of the authorities who can be said to be the instructor who speaks fervently in front of us right now. It was ‘Park Hak-soo’.

“Now, let’s take a look at the representative papers… … yes?”

Haksu Park, who was concentrating on his class and talking, suddenly realizes that the children are quiet and stops speaking.

“Ew… … Everyone’s eyes are dead, but they’re dead. Yeah, dungeon science is definitely not fun, is it?”

Children shake their heads when Park Hak-soo murmurs with a gloomy expression.

“no? Fun?”

However, when the expected ‘yes’ answer did not come, Park Hak-soo shook his head with an expression that said yes.

“Yeah, I didn’t come to any conference seminar, but I was just talking about class. then… … Shall I tell you a story that will wake you up at this point? Everyone, have you all seen the news about the prisoners escaping from Niflheim this time?”

The children, who had been hanging around because of the uninteresting content until now, began to raise their heads or brighten their eyes little by little when stories about recent issues came out.

“Hey, look at these. If I talk about something else, will my eyes clear right away? Yeah, it’s TV and the internet these days, so everyone is talking about this.”

As Instructor Park Hak-soo said, the current hot topic in Korea was the story of a villain who escaped from Niflheim.

As the fact that villains were smuggled into Korea was discovered through a recent investigation by the prosecution and police, society and the academy were paying attention as well.

Of course, the only investigation conducted by the prosecution and the police was to present the information submitted by Dike Law Firm as if they were investigating it.

“Anyway, among the guys who escaped this time, there is a guy called ‘miner’. His ability is ‘Excavation’. The ability to crush any hard ore as lightly as a sponge cake.”

At that time, Korea was overflowing with dungeons.

It’s not a good ability to attack, but if you used that ability well, it would definitely be of great help. But the guy didn’t do that.

“He rather took advantage of the chaos and robbed the hardest places. For example… … Like bank vaults.”

At that time, Korea was so miserable that it could be called a dark age.

Although the country was small compared to other countries, the damage was small, but a few heroes were put into the dungeons that occurred nationwide, and it was difficult to stop them with a law that was not properly maintained yet.

“By the way, among the places he robbed, there was a storage of Korean magic stones. The highest grade in Korea. In fact, it was a place where magic stones called treasures were stored. But I don’t know what happened here… … ?”

The children began to concentrate on the story that gradually became more exciting, and Park Hak-soo, who was heightening the tension, suddenly clapped his hands and shouted.

“bang!!”

students astonished.

He smiled as if he was very satisfied with the children’s reactions.

“Ha ha ha ha ha! Yes, everyone reacted like that. Because those expensive magic stones were caught up in the explosion. But the surprise didn’t last long, why? Unlike other minerals, magic stones are not affected by ordinary explosions.”

Because it is only affected by attacks using auras and mana, it does not crack even with ordinary shocks. So the miner thought.

He said, ‘Nothing will happen anyway.’

“But the problem was this. At that point of explosion, the signs of a dungeon suddenly appearing.

So we managed to catch the miners. Because he was trapped in that dungeon.”

He laughed happily. The students were also fed up with the story of a villain who had no luck.

“Well, that’s why the miner is a pretty famous guy in dungeon science. It was because the timing was exquisite, and after that, everyone focused on the phenomenon. If a chunk of pure mana receives a strong stimulus from the outside and cracks in reality, wouldn’t it become a dungeon? I mean.”

In other words, wouldn’t it be possible to create a dungeon artificially? That’s what I thought

A student sitting in the front seat raised his hand and asked a question.

“Then what happened to that hypothesis? Did you succeed?”

“Haha, did you succeed? Have you ever heard of making artificial dungeons like that?”

At that, Park Hak-soo smiled and gave the answer.

“Of course it was a failure. Quite a number of people have challenged the study, but the hypothesis is only a hypothesis. That never happened. Even a high-level magic stone with high purity. However, through that work, we were able to obtain a lot of research results on magic stones, which led to the development of various artifacts these days. How do you feel about dungeon studies in this way?”

Unlike last time, this time, a voice saying ‘Yes’ comes from the children’s side.

Park Hak-soo, who smiles at the sight of such children.

“Okay then, everyone seems to be awake, so shall we go straight to class? If you want to know how the broken magic stone affects the atmosphere, you can look at the thesis I was talking about… … .”

As if everything he had talked about so far was a build-up, the other children sighed as he naturally continued his explanations in connection with the class.

* * *

– Gee, hey. tuk. hey hey hey. tuk.

A warehouse where only the repeated sounds of conveyor belts can be heard.

Countless vacuum pistons work hard and make repetitive sounds, and the pure white steam that is emitted non-stop is gently spreading in the air.

“Ha ha… … I’m in trouble. It’s difficult.”

And in the midst of those vapors, a blackish figure begins to move.

The man who was dragging a piece of bandage dragged to the ground stopped and looked up at the sky.

“One is dead, three is missing. Do you think it makes sense?”

swish. He turned and the shape of his face was revealed.

An unknown man who wrapped his whole body in old bandages.

At his word, the earth shakes and the steam begins to run wild.

“Hurry up the time. No more interference. Let everyone know our message.”

At his words, everyone around him looked at him with fear, clenched fists and nodded in order not to tremble.

Because the only freedom allowed to them in front of his anger was nodding their heads.

In the midst of such a cold atmosphere–

“Ring around the rosie──”

The man in bandages hummed and began to sing.

Ring around the rosie.

A pocket full of posies.

Ashes! ashes! (ash! ashes!)

We all fall down!

Although the song has a bright atmosphere, it has a colder atmosphere.

He then solemnly declared.

“——Let them know that the plague has begun.”

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