Chapter 46: Into the Dungeon (Part 2)

“A dungeon?”

The person who roughly opened the door and entered was a knight who had reached a fairly high level, guarding the

front of the door.

However, Leticia, who was about to frown and point out the knight’s rude behavior of entering without even

knocking while important guests were present, frowned and asked back at the knight’s words.

“Is that true? Dungeons are appearing not only in the empire but all over the world?”

“It is true. The Prime Minister of our country just delivered the information. Because of the nature of the situation, it

is top secret, but he told me to inform Leticia-nim, Leo-nim, Irinia-nim, and Chloe-nim.”

It’s top secret.

Then shouldn’t I and Lumani be hearing this?

The knight was also like that, and when his eyes met mine, his eyes shook slightly.

But perhaps it was because he was a knight who had reached a high level, it was only for a moment.

He immediately hid his agitation and looked at Leticia with a straight face, waiting for an answer.

“These two are fine. One is the Demon King’s representative, and the other is a follower I trust more than anyone else.”

Leticia’s words, emphasizing the words “more than anyone else,” felt firm.

I suddenly felt like Leticia was glancing at Lumani, not the knight in front of her, but it seemed like it was just my

imagination.

“Hmm.”

…Was it not?

Lumani smiles as if it’s interesting, looking at Leticia.

Looking at Lumani and Leticia alternately, I sighed inwardly and just hoped that the two’s meaningless test of nerves would end.

Even if I tried to stop them, neither of them would listen.

In the end, only the poor knight looked at the two of them and answered.

“…I was rude to the Demon King’s representative. Ahem. Since the situation is a dungeon, I thought it was necessary

to be careful of demons, but since Leticia-nim trusts you, it’s okay to listen together. I apologize for making a rash

judgment.”

“No, it’s fine. If dungeons are really happening all over the world, it’s a natural principle to suspect demons.”

Only demons can create dungeons, and among demons, only high-ranking demons who have inherited the blood of

pure blood and the Demon King could spread dungeons to the human world.

The passage connecting the human world and the demon world.

That is the dungeon.

The reason why the Demon King’s army was able to invade the human world in the Human-Demon War was all

because the previous Demon King was able to create a special passage called a dungeon.

But the previous Demon King, who had the ability to create dungeons, was driven out of the human world by our

hero party and was executed by the current Demon King.

The death of a war criminal who shed countless blood was so futile that he left nothing behind.

Why is the ability of the Demon King, who met such a poor death, appearing all over the world now?

There should be no more demons who can create dungeons.

In the situation where deep silence flowed, I looked at Lumani.

She was an apostle of the previous Demon King, so maybe she knew something about this situation.

But contrary to expectations, she frowned and muttered as if it were absurd.

“There should be no demons who can create dungeons at present, so how….”

There are many reasons why the current Demon King signed a peace treaty with humans, but one of them was that

there were no demons who could create dungeons.

But a dungeon in this situation.

I asked Lumani carefully, just in case.

“Was there a demon among the demons who could create a dungeon? I heard that it is born with a very low

probability in the bloodline of high-ranking demons or the Demon King.”

“There are no demons I know of who can create dungeons. And if all high-ranking demons could create dungeons,

the human world would have been a mess in the Human-Demon War.”

The Demon King alone created a considerable amount of dungeons.

So, I remembered that a considerable amount of adventurers, knights, and wizards were ground up, and I frowned.

“Then, the one who could do this now is….”

“It would be Ryuryeon. If it’s not Ryuryeon, the organization she belongs to might have done it. It’s gotten

complicated. Maybe they were hiding a demon who could create dungeons, avoiding the eyes of the Demon King.”

Irinia frowned as if it were a headache.

Certainly, as she said.

Since a demon who can create dungeons has appeared, we couldn’t just sit still.

I asked the knight who was looking at us and waiting for an answer.

“What is the current scale of damage?”

“…Yes? Ah, sorry. At present, dungeons have appeared, but there have been no cases of demons or monsters popping

out of them, so there is no damage.”

“Then, those things are either empty shells or time bombs that will explode at any moment. Well, since dungeons

have appeared, they’re probably closer to time bombs than empty shells.”

Lumani, who followed the knight’s words, seemed to be thinking of conveying this fact to the Demon King as well.

She looked at Leticia once, then turned her gaze away and took out a crystal ball from her arms.

“Excuse me for a moment.”

Leaving those words, Lumani opened the door with a firm expression and went outside.

I quietly looked at Lumani’s back as she left.

I followed Lumani’s back with my eyes until her back was no longer visible as the door closed, and sighed inwardly.

‘She’s not the culprit.’

I feel like a fool for suspecting Lumani for a moment.

I still haven’t gotten out of that war.

I lowered my eyes and laughed.

“Charlotte?”

“Ah? It’s nothing.”

It’s just that I remembered the old days.

I didn’t say the last part out loud, I just shook my head at Leticia’s question of why I made such a Uneasy expression.

But I can’t completely rule out the possibility that all of this is an act.

We have the same enemy, so I trust her for now, but a certain level of caution was indispensable.

Still, I have to believe rather than doubt now.

Solving the dungeons that appeared all over the world comes first.

It’s more likely that Ryuryeon and the organization she belongs to created dungeons as a stepping stone to start the

second Human-Demon War, rather than Lumani, who is on the same side.

“A dungeon… a headache has come out. I only have bad memories of dungeons, but I have to go in there again.”

Only Leo, who was cursed to change genders when he accidentally touched an artifact with an ancient curse, or

something, in a dungeon while destroying the dungeons that remained in the human world as the remnants of the

Demon King, spoke awkwardly.

I threw a word at Leo, who sighed, making a sound as if he remembered the moment he touched the artifact and his

gender changed to a woman.

“You never know. Maybe you’ll accidentally touch an artifact left by a demon that changes gender while solving this

incident, and you might accidentally return to being a man, right?”

“Is there such a possibility!?”

“Why, they say you never know what’s going to happen. If you’re very lucky, you might be able to break the curse.”

Leo, who shouts with a red face, and me, who laughs at Leo.

Leticia, who looks at the two of us with an expression that says she can’t stop us, and Chloe and Irinia, who smile warmly.

The knight, who was at a loss for what to do, watching the entire hero party gathered in a place that briefly evokes old

nostalgia, swallowed his saliva and asked.

“Excuse me, it might be a rude question, but is that person the new hero you only heard about in rumors?”

“Ah.”

“I heard that this generation’s hero is attending this academy and is a woman, but I didn’t know she was

homonymous with the previous hero…!”

Come to think of it, only a very few people, including the king, know that Leo has turned into a woman.

Since Leo rarely appeared in public after defeating the Demon King, he was able to hide it until now, but I talked too

much in front of the knight who didn’t know this fact.

I looked at Leo naturally, looking at the knight who was shining his eyes saying that he was honored to meet him, but

Leo kept his mouth shut and signaled for help with his eyes.

It wasn’t strange for him to mistake Chloe, this generation’s hero, for Leo, since it was rumored that she was a woman.

I talked too much.

I scratched my head and looked around to ask for help, but Leticia just smiled mysteriously, and Leo’s wives just kept silent.

Well, it’s top secret that the hero Leo has turned into a woman, so I can’t help it.

It’s annoying.

If he had the same strength and wisdom, it would have been convenient if he had announced that he had turned into

a woman, but it wouldn’t have been good to spread the fact that the hero had turned into a woman by touching a

demon’s artifact.

Can I get over it somehow?

This light is also Leo’s fault, so I’ll definitely get it back.

I rolled my eyes for a moment, and I made up some plausible nonsense.

“Yes. She is one of this generation’s heroes who will succeed Leo. She’s a hero who is quite anticipated, but the

situation is the situation, so this fact is top secret.”

“Gulp…!”

“Do you know what I mean?”

“Ah, I understand…!!”

Then, he politely saluted and looked at the knight who opened the door with an expression of determination, with no

trace of the absurd expression he had before, and I muttered.

“Did I get away with it?”

“Probably?”

“One of this generation’s hero candidates… Leo, it’s good. You have a chance to start over from the beginning. How

about helping your junior as a new hero candidate?”

“Don’t talk nonsense!”

And as such small talk went back and forth, and the atmosphere relaxed compared to the beginning, Lumani came in

with a firm face and said.

“I heard that dungeons have appeared in the demon world as well. And they are completely different types of

dungeons from the previous Demon King’s dungeons. His Majesty plans to quickly organize an investigation team to

investigate the dungeons.”

It seems that the situation is not going well.