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◈ The Dungeon Gallery's Terrifying Newbie ◈
Chapter 81: kongkong
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worldiscold: Fucking hell LOLLLLLLLLL
worldiscold: Everyone, look at this LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL
worldiscold: Dungeon Protocol Address - (321,532,444,2)
worldiscold: Lowjinrat Great Mountain Range, later LOL
worldiscold: LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
worldiscold: Ah, this is it, this is it, this is it, this is it!!
└ tvhead: Did this bastard suck Oblivion's dick too??
└ squintychar: LOL, you've had it rough for a while, though.
└ squintychar: You deserve it. I'll give you that.
└ psychward_mvp: There's no guarantee the elves won't come to the Lowjinrat Great Mountain Range, though??
└ psychward_mvp: Those obsessive yandere elves will come rape you right away, so good luck.
└ worldiscold: Yeah, let them come.
└ worldiscold: I'll just kill myself LOL
└ whaleyeah: Oh, I'm near the South Kingdom.
└ whaleyeah: It'll be quiet this time.
└ kongkong: Ah...
└ kongkong: Of all places, I'm near the North Kingdom...
└ humanluvr: newbieee!
└ humanluvr: We have to share our dungeon addresses T_T
└ humanluvr: Let's reveal them together on three!
└ newbie: Should we?
└ humanluvr: Yeah!
└ humanluvr: One!
└ humanluvr: Two!
└ humanluvr: Three!
└ newbie: Frostthorn Mountain!
└ humanluvr: Blue Coast!
└ humanluvr: I'll just die.
└ humanluvr: I'll just die.
└ humanluvr: I'll just die.
└ humanluvr: I'll just die.
└ newbie: You said you weren't a menhera.
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There was an unwritten rule on the Dungeon Gallery.
Once the Position Shift ended, everyone shared their location.
Naturally, the biggest topic this time was my dungeon's coordinates.
Of course it was.
I was the only SSS-rank courier on the Dungeon Gallery who could travel between multiple dungeons.
As head mod had told me before, if I took items from the dungeons of Veterans who could afford them and delivered them to struggling dungeons, it could be a huge help to those Dungeon Masters.
└ orange★: Mine's way too far, fuck.
└ antqueen: Too bad, I'm far away too ;;
└ anonbutcher: It's impossible from here too.
└ golemking: Heh heh, we'll definitely meet next time.
└ dip: I wanted to show you my Sanses ;;
There was something called the Dungeon Gallery BIG 6.
You know, like how comics and sports had names for the absolute strongest top-tier figures.
The Dungeon Gallery BIG 6 was the same.
head mod, humanluvr, antqueen, anonbutcher, golemking, and dip.
They had the highest levels and the largest dungeons.
I'd thought at least one of them might end up nearby this time, but every one of them was far away.
Damn.
Anomaly was stupidly overpowered, sure, but I was still a newbie.
I'd been really looking forward to getting some useful items, so that was disappointing.
The dungeon I wanted to visit most was golemking's Replicant Automata.
How was I supposed to resist gigantic golems when I was born a man?
Anyway.
More importantly.
"It's the North Kingdom again."
Frostthorn Mountain.
It was where secha's Dino World had been before.
Dreamland had shifted there this time.
It was farther from Fire Forge, but closer to the North Kingdom.
Hmm.
Honestly, I'd wanted to keep my distance.
Between the incident with arboralis and everything else, I'd drawn way too much aggro.
"But won't it be okay?"
The rumors had gotten completely fucked up, but I'd taught Count Wolfhauffen a lesson last time.
Ordinary people couldn't even set foot in Dreamland.
Everyone must have known that by now.
If there was one thing equal for everyone, it was their life.
Everyone only had one.
Let's say Dreamland really was an evil villain threatening the world.
Let's say the world might be destroyed if they didn't kill me.
Even so, I couldn't imagine people from the North Kingdom risking their lives to destroy Dreamland.
'Why should I sacrifice myself to stop that?' I thought that was human nature.
Of course, there were definitely people who weren't like that.
But they'd only be a minority.
If everyone else just stood back and watched, even those prepared to make a sacrifice would eventually get pissed off and decide not to bother.
Unless it directly affected them, people were creatures who hated stepping forward.
It would be different if they came after the Magic Stone, but someone acting out of a sense of justice would surely think that way.
I had no ambitions of world conquest or anything, so wouldn't the rumors die down eventually?
Either way, all I had to do was make Dreamland seem terrifying.
I just needed to show them that invading Dreamland was the worst decision they could make, a meaningless death.
It wasn't that I felt no sympathy for them, but my own life mattered too.
antqueen: Boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
antqueen: ~The sound of antqueen's frustration exploding~
I didn't want to hear the Veterans nagging me either.
Most intruders were after the Magic Stone anyway.
If I showed weakness, there would only be more intruders.
Anyway.
I'd have to borrow Malrang's power again this time.
Scouting was easy as pie for Malrang.
"Blegh."
Yeah, yeah.
I'm counting on you.
newbie: Guys, should we check out Wolfhauffen territory first?
└ skullbones: Yeah.
└ squintychar: Right. The Count is the person in the North Kingdom who knows Dreamland best.
└ tvhead: He might come in again, so I think keeping an eye on the Count's movements would be best.
└ cowhead: Are you thinking of summoning an Anomaly in the Count's mansion??
└ cowhead: If so, please livestream it too...
└ kongkong: LOLLLLL
Oh, look who it was.
└ newbie: Bro.
└ kongkong: Me?
└ newbie: Yeah.
└ kongkong: Why are you calling me?
└ newbie: I heard you ended up in the North Kingdom this time!
└ newbie: Would it be alright if I asked for your exact location? Hehe.
kongkong.
To me, kongkong was almost a mysterious Veteran.
I'd gotten close to plenty of people as a Dungeon Master by now, but not kongkong.
If I ranked how close I felt to everyone, Love, who shouted "newbie!" every day, secha, the awesome dragon femboy I'd met face-to-face, and cowhead, who persistently asked for livestreams, all felt pretty close.
Then there were Veterans who showed interest in me, and Veterans who occasionally tossed out a reaction.
kongkong fell into that last category.
And among them, kongkong was probably the person most distant from me.
Well, that was only natural.
When you lived in society, there were people you could spend a long time around without becoming close to.
You know how it was.
We only communicated through an online community.
That was enough to explain it.
We weren't close, but it wasn't like we disliked each other.
We'd even replied to each other's comments before.
I thought I might take this chance to get a little closer.
Installing an Anomaly would benefit both of us, too.
└ kongkong: Why?
└ newbie: Would it be okay if I came over to install an Anomaly? Hehe.
└ kongkong: Ah......
└ kongkong: Could you give me a little time to think about it?
└ newbie: Ah, of course.
That response was a little unexpected.
I waited for kongkong's reply, but kongkong didn't show up on the gallery for quite a while.
"Um..."
I scratched my head.
It seemed like I'd been rejected.
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The Dungeon Gallery had a system called secret comments.
You could think of them as comments only the post's author could see.
newbie(◑): Sa rang!
└ humanluvr(◑): Gasp, what's wrong, newbie...
└ humanluvr(◑): Newbie even left me a secret comment...
└ humanluvr(◑): Could this be what I'm thinking...?
└ humanluvr(◑): (/////)
└ humanluvr(◑): Hoo...
└ humanluvr(◑): Give me a second to prepare myself T_T
└ newbie(◑): No... I just came here because I wanted to ask something privately.
└ newbie(◑): Please stop.
└ humanluvr(◑): ...........
└ humanluvr(◑): Now I'm depressed T_T
└ newbie(◑): What the hell were you expecting LOL
└ newbie(◑): Anyway, I wanted to ask about kongkong.
└ humanluvr(◑): Yeah, yeah.
└ newbie(◑): Is kongkong normally kind of cold to other people too?
└ newbie(◑): We're not particularly close, but
└ newbie(◑): since we're nearby this time,
└ newbie(◑): I asked if I could come install an Anomaly.
└ newbie(◑): But it kind of felt like I got rejected T_T
└ newbie(◑): I wondered if I'd done something wrong.
└ humanluvr(◑): It's not like you did anything to make kongkong dislike you.
└ humanluvr(◑): That's just how kongkong is.
└ newbie(◑): Like a genuine, one-hundred-percent introvert??
└ newbie(◑): Is that the kind of thing?
└ newbie(◑): I can't force a visit on someone who doesn't want one.
└ newbie(◑): It's a little disappointing, though...
└ humanluvr(◑): LOLLLLLLL...
└ humanluvr(◑): Ah, should I tell you or not...
└ humanluvr(◑): Could you give me some time to think too??
Huh?
This was the first time Love had reacted like this.
"What the hell is going on?"
Why was everyone making me so curious?
Was this some staged hidden-camera prank?
└ humanluvr(◑): newbieee!
└ newbie(◑): Yeah, yeah.
└ humanluvr(◑): Everyone knows this.
└ humanluvr(◑): But it's also something everyone pretends not to know.
└ humanluvr(◑): So you can never mention it on the Dungeon Gallery.
└ humanluvr(◑): Especially not in front of kongkong.
└ humanluvr(◑): Got it???
When someone built it up like that, I couldn't help expecting an absolutely enormous secret.
I was only human.
I gulped.
└ newbie(◑): I'll take it to my grave...
└ humanluvr(◑): Hoo... There's one last thing I want to ask newbie.
└ humanluvr(◑): What dungeon do you think is the happiest dungeon in this world?
└ newbie(◑): Calling a dungeon happy is kind of strange...
└ newbie(◑): If I had to pick one, wouldn't secha's dungeon, which is at least easy to clear, be the happiest??
└ humanluvr(◑): Wrong answer!
└ humanluvr(◑): The correct answer is kongkong's dungeon!
└ humanluvr(◑): The reason is simple.
└ humanluvr(◑): It's because...
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I could only stare at Love's comments with my mouth hanging open.
I'd gone through a lot as a Dungeon Master, but I didn't think there had ever been, or ever would be, anything more shocking than this.
Because kongkong's dungeon was in a completely different genre in more ways than one.
└ newbie(◑): Holy shit...
└ newbie(◑): So...
└ newbie(◑): To summarize what you're saying...
└ newbie(◑): kongkong is a Succubus or an incubus, right?
└ humanluvr(◑): LOL...
└ humanluvr(◑): kongkong vehemently denies it, and everyone pretends not to know.
└ humanluvr(◑): But kongkong's dungeon is really famous,
└ humanluvr(◑): so it feels like you can't help getting information from intruders...
└ humanluvr(◑): Anyway, this is seriously one of the Dungeon Gallery's taboos...
└ humanluvr(◑): You can never say it, okay????
└ newbie(◑): Got it.
└ newbie(◑): Thanks for telling me...
So they really existed in this world too.
An Erotic-Trap Dungeon.
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Hmm.
What should I say?
I understood why kongkong had kept up that mysterious persona until now.
Dungeon Masters probably didn't know what theme they'd get when they chose it, after all.
Other people got cool races like demons, angels, vampires, golems, or Undead.
If you were the only one with a dungeon like that, it would be hard to talk about.
And how much harder would it be to reveal it to newbie, of all people?
I should respect that.
Still, I'd thought Anomaly was pretty unusual, but there was an even stranger dungeon out there.
What the hell was Oblivion doing?
For that reason, I gave up on meeting kongkong.
I figured we'd probably never meet in the future either, but then...
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└ kongkong: Earlier, newbie, you asked whether you could come to my dungeon.
└ kongkong: You can come, but...
└ kongkong: Could you help me with something? LOL...
Huh.
Out of nowhere?
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