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Episode 8
Returnee from a 19+ Genre,
“Please! Please! Stop the high-level developments!”
“…….”
Seon Je-jun looked at her as if she were insane, but Min Hyemi didn’t care.
She was the type of person who didn’t experience shame. Since this isn’t a 19+ rating, I won’t bother explaining why.
“All of this must be some devious scheme! It’s a trick to change my life genre again!”
“…….”
“If there’s a god, I’ll just kill them!”
“……You’re going to kill them?”
“Huh?”
Seon Je-jun pointed at Plutus.
Only then did Min Hyemi, regaining her composure, clear her throat awkwardly.
“Yes, of course, I’d be grateful if you did… But it’s better not to let your guard down in the process…”
The wolf beast was mercilessly killed with a gesture from Seon Je-jun.
Min Hyemi watched the scene with a slightly empty gaze.
‘If they’re that strong, does that mean they can stop 19+ developments…?’
She trudged after Seon Je-jun up to the fifth floor.
The monsters on the fifth floor were also taken care of with just a wave of his hand.
When they stepped onto the sixth floor, a system window appeared before them.
[Entered 6th Floor <Heresy Hell>]
[Escape Condition: Prove your devotion to the god.]
“This is insane…”
She wasn’t being asked to kill monsters, but to prove her feelings toward a god.
Min Hyemi didn’t believe in gods. The reason for that doesn’t even need explaining.
In her previous world, she had prayed to thousands of gods, yet not a single one saved her.
‘Ah—no, wait.’
『Congratulations!
<The God> takes pity on you!
Returning to the original world!』
One god might have pitied her, but it was too late—she had already suffered for three years in that world.
So there was no way she could complete a mission that required faith in a god.
“Hmm…”
While Min Hyemi pondered the mission, Seon Je-jun standing beside her spoke.
“……Do you believe in gods?”
“No.”
Her answer came out immediately.
“Rather, I distrust them. So I have no idea what to do here.”
“……Has a god ever saved you?”
“They did, but that’s not a reason to follow or worship them.”
A bitter smile formed on her lips.
“Actually, it annoys me that my life could be toyed with by a ‘great god’ like I’m nothing.”
“Ahh…”
Seon Je-jun nodded slowly as if he understood. Yet there was no sign of concern on his face about this situation.
“Is there a way to get out of here?”
When Min Hyemi asked, he blinked a few times before answering.
“Yes… there is.”
“There is?”
“Being asked to prove your feelings to a god… is ridiculous.”
“Huh?”
At that moment, light radiated from Seon Je-jun’s body.
At the same time, Min Hyemi saw it—the overwhelming, immense energy that a mere human could never handle.
The divine aura that could crush a human mercilessly.
“Excuse me, but what is your origin genre?”
“Huh? …Mythology.”
Min Hyemi recalled her conversation with Seon Je-jun.
Now she understood why he was an incredibly powerful hunter.
Seon Je-jun was a god from mythology—the god itself.
A being far beyond the level of humans.
‘Damn…’
If she had known, she wouldn’t have said she distrusted gods.
As Min Hyemi regretted her words slightly, she realized they had reached the seventh floor.
“……We succeeded.”
“You can’t make someone prove their devotion to a god. With that, Heresy Hell loses its effect…”
Seon Je-jun spoke unusually at length.
He looked harmless and languid for a god.
Completely the opposite of the violent, rough-tempered man Min Hyemi hated.
So she didn’t dislike Seon Je-jun as much as an ordinary man.
Looking at him, she unconsciously spoke.
“……Aren’t you curious about my origin?”
“Huh?”
“Whenever people meet returnees, they ask. What genre are you from?”
“Ah, um… I think I can guess.”
“Guess?”
Min Hyemi’s face twisted slightly.
Was he implying she looked like a 19+ high-level romance female lead? That would not be a compliment in her book.
Yet the answer Seon Je-jun gave was completely unexpected.
“Battle Royale…?”
“Huh?”
“Or maybe a crime story…?”
“How… how did you come up with that?”
“You seemed like you wished everyone would die…”
“Ha.”
She let out a hollow laugh. So that’s how she appeared to him—cursing the world.
“You’re naive.”
“…….”
“It’s in good faith. Just think of it that way.”
She hated being perceived sexually, so it was actually fortunate that Seon Je-jun thought of her merely as a Battle Royale or crime story heroine.
The seventh floor was <Violence Hell>, and escaping it required killing monsters without using violence.
Seon Je-jun easily killed them using poison skills, and they moved on to the eighth floor.
“Now, Il-ru should be here…”
Could she have already died? Min Hyemi bit her lip nervously.
Then, the system window appeared again.
[Entered 8th Floor <Fraud Hell>]
[Escape Condition: Pass the system’s quiz. The quiz concerns the person beside you; choose the one truth out of two lies. Giving hints or cheating is forbidden.]
‘…A quiz?’
Do dungeons even give quizzes now? Min Hyemi was slightly shocked.
Soon, the system displayed the question.
『Target: Min Hyemi
Guesser: Seon Je-jun』
“……I’ll trust you.”
“…….”
1. Min Hyemi is a side character in a crime story.
2. Min Hyemi doesn’t want to talk to Seon Je-jun.
3. Min Hyemi feels deep camaraderie with Il-ru.
‘This is insane…’
Min Hyemi’s face turned pale. The question was far too difficult.
The truth was number 2. She hated romance plots.
But Seon Je-jun might mistakenly choose 1 as the truth. After all, they had just discussed Battle Royale and crime story origins.
Or he could pick 3, thinking she felt deep attachment to Il-ru.
He didn’t know she couldn’t feel deep affection for anyone due to her disdain for humans.
As Min Hyemi hesitated, a voice beside her answered.
“Number 2.”
『Correct!』
“Huh?”
Min Hyemi turned her head to look at Seon Je-jun.
“H-How…?”
“You’ve had that expression for a while.”
“…….”
Damn, she failed at controlling her expression. She felt a little embarrassed.
The next question appeared for her.
1. Seon Je-jun is a god.
2. Seon Je-jun has heightened senses.
3. Seon Je-jun knows Min Hyemi’s origin genre.
Ah, this was too easy.
“Number 1.”
He seemed slow, so he was probably dull in senses. And he had misunderstood her origin genre, so the others were lies.
Because the answer was obvious, they earned the opportunity to go to the ninth floor.
Just then, Min Hyemi heard a sound stopping her as she moved to the ninth floor.
“Sniffle, sob… sniff…”
“This is…!”
Realizing the sound, she ran to its source.
She found a familiar face and shouted.
“Il-ru!”
There was Il-ru, sobbing while clutching a teddy bear.
Apparently hiding from monsters, she peeked from behind a huge bush.
“Hy- Hyemi-chan! Waaah~!”
“Don’t just cry loudly in the dungeon like that!”
“But it was so scary! I thought I was going to die!”
Il-ru hugged Min Hyemi tightly.
Thanks to her, Min Hyemi hadn’t been swept away by the dungeon, so she let her embrace quietly.
Then Min Hyemi noticed the teddy bear in her hands.
“Where did you get that?”
“Oh, it was in my inventory!”
“……But you’re a D-rank hunter, so your inventory only has two slots, right?”
Since her inventory had two slots too, that was certain. So one of the two slots…
“Yes! The teddy bear is essential to me! It’s soft, cute, with foreign baby hair color and a moist rabbit tongue texture!”
“……So you were keeping the teddy bear in one of those two slots?”
“Yes!”
Min Hyemi could only groan and hold her head in her hands.
