The Artist Who Paints Dungeon-Chapter 114
What would happen if someone who had a habit of evil deeds was fried in hellfire and came out alive?
“...Fuck....”
The answer was that it wouldn’t change much.
“What the hell... Seriously, why on earth would I....”
Park Eun-gyeom’s daily life changed overnight.
A first-class citizen and a B-class hunter. His appearance was okay, and since his body was his asset, his physique was good. It felt like only yesterday that he felt sorry for the idiots who would stick to him without him knowing, but he enjoyed the sweetness of it.
‘But after he got into that dungeon...’
The atmosphere changed.
“That guy....”
“They say he’s really habitual.”
“It’s the end of the world, it’s the end of the world.”
People were muttering as they looked at him.
“Park Hunter, you said you were dragged to the Black Cloak’s dungeon.”
“...Yes, well, that’s true.”
“The aftereffects must be severe, so why did you come out instead of resting?”
The hunters I knew were the same.
“I heard rumors that you’re tired these days because of the association’s request for cooperation.”
The B-class hunter who said that glanced around with a strange sense of anxiety and irritation. Although he didn’t know the exact reason, his expression seemed to indicate that he knew that he had been taken to the association and investigated several times.
‘I guess they’re suspecting that he’s still under surveillance.’
But it wasn’t a completely wrong suspicion.
‘Damn it, why am I being treated like this...!’
In reality, he was under surveillance by the association.
I couldn’t understand it at all. If a precious first-class citizen, a capable B-class hunter, had survived an unidentified dungeon, shouldn’t he have been praised and encouraged and then compensated for the damages? I don’t understand why the people around him were so critical.
“That, the hunter... should do his job. If I don’t do my job, who will protect the citizens?”
“...Really? Then do whatever you want.”
The other person clicked his tongue and walked away.
“.......”
It was a reaction filled with clear contempt and pity.
‘...What kind of reaction is that? Even for a B-class hunter, isn’t this too much? I knew that guy was territorial all along, but he’s acting so blatantly... .’
He gritted his teeth.
‘Until recently, he was a 3rd-class guy. He’s so shallow that I can’t even get along with him.’
It was horrible to see a country bumpkin who lived off of monster meat bragging about having just awakened once.
He tried hard to ignore the whispers and went out to find work. There were many people looking for B-class hunters. He wasn’t the type of person to fall apart like this.
But.
“I’m sorry.”
“...Listen, I don’t know what kind of rumors are spreading these days....”
“I’m sorry, Hunter Park Eun-gyeom. Our agency can’t help you with any work.”
“You believe those damn rumors and are lying around like this? Hey! How much money did I make here!!”
“I’m sorry, please visit another agency.”
He was ignored by a regular employee who wasn’t even a hunter.
“Ha, I can’t believe it. Seeing the hunters working hard at this dirty, small agency makes you think you’re some kind of person...? How can a guy who’d kill you think of hunters as food, damn it!!”
“...Calm down....”
“Do you think I’ll just leave you alone? Do you think I’ll leave you alone? Don’t be a jerk, you’re just a nobody... I said I came to do the work myself. Huh? What rank are you? What rank are you that you’re acting like this!!”
I felt satisfaction and joy for a moment at the scared employee’s expression.
“Hunter Park Eun-gyeom, please get out.”
“Huh? No, you’re telling me to get out? Are you crazy?”
“Get out, right now.”
The guards at the brokerage came out and kicked him out of the building.
Since the brokerage was a place where even hunters who were first-class citizens came and went, most of the guards were C-class hunters. Even if I was of a higher rank, it was natural that I would back down if I was persecuted by the majority.
“Hey, you, you, you crazy bastards...!! Are you crazy?! Don’t you know me?! Don’t you know me!!”
“Oh, I know. I said I’m Hunter Park Eun-gyeom earlier.”
One of the guards clicked his tongue and said.
“Aren’t you a hunter who doesn’t know how to be a good porter and throws monsters to eat, huh?”
“T-that...!!”
What the hell is wrong with that?
“...I’m not the only one. Huh? Was I the only one? No. Not just me. No. No? Hey, tell me. Do you think that F-class, that porter, looks like a person? Do you think that looks like a person!!”
Yeah, that fucking rumor was going around.
When things weren’t going well, it was common for anyone to abandon their porters in dungeons. It was annoying that all they did was carry stuff, and now they had to feed them. It was only natural to want to abandon such a carnivorous person.
Of course, I was in a difficult situation. It was inevitable that I couldn’t afford to take care of a porter in an already dangerous situation.
“Of course I know that’s bad. But, huh? Think about it, do people cross the street while obeying the traffic lights? No. No, I know that’s bad too, so ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) I... I...!”
“In my own way? What, I hid it well?”
“.......”
“Dude, this guy is really crazy.”
The guard snickered at his other colleagues.
“He’s not a murderer who doesn’t know he’s a murderer.”
“That’s right. These guys are the real deal. Oh, I’m sick of it.”
“Even a 5th-grade citizen would be better at objectifying himself than this.”
He was heartbroken.
“Who are you comparing to a 5th-grade citizen right now...!!”
But no one listened.
“Isn’t the association monitoring this much?”
“There are no habitual criminals like this. It’s funny that they come out looking for work when the rumor has spread.”
“This is a real joke. Even a 1st-grade citizen is struggling financially, and all that?”
“Hey, you’re really pissed off, 1st-grade citizen. Let’s go back too.”
“Oh my, it’s scary. If you get angry, you’ll kick us too, right? Like this, slap!!”
“Ah, you crazy kid. Don’t make me laugh so hard. It’s work time, so stop.”
He couldn’t say anything because he was treated like a peanut to kill time.
“...What, what...”
He really wanted to cry.
In the end, he was left alone in front of the chattering crowd.
“.......”
I don’t know how many times this has happened.
The hunter said he wanted to do some hunter work, but the agency staff said he ate something wrong and said no. It was all because the association blatantly brought me in.
“...I, I... I’m not under surveillance, I’m under protection...”
The association staff clearly said that, it wasn’t surveillance, it was protection. He didn’t know when the black cloak would show up again and try to harm him, so he was just watching the situation. How many times did he beg them not to be offended?
Even though he was upset because he was being played by a monster punk, he thought the association staff were kind and accepted their protection. It was funny that a civil servant would dare to protect a B-class hunter, but I let it go.
“...The Black Cloak is such a dangerous monster, that, that....”
I wanted to personally show the dangers of the Black Cloak, which were known to the world as some kind of trivial event.
“I worked so hard to escape....”
That’s why I did it.
“.......”
“.......”
“...Is that guy that guy?”
The rookie hunters who were going from agency to agency were muttering.
“Why, he was dragged away by the Black Cloak after beating up the porter....”
“He didn’t just beat up the porter, he tried to leave him in the dungeon.”
“He really is a crazy kid.”
Someone muttered.
“He looks like he could be dragged away by the Black Cloak.”
I was heartbroken again at that, and shouted.
“What’s so great about being dragged away, you little shits!!”
“Ah, no, we just....”
“Do you know how dangerous that Black Cloak bastard is? Huh? You don’t know!”
“That....”
“He catches normal people and turns them into idiots...!!”
The hunter who looked like a kid made a face.
“What, you’re talking like a normal person... Hey, the rumors have already spread?”
He was so scared that he made his words sound like a dog.
“Black Cloak only catches bad people, right?”
“That’s right, and he said he wouldn’t catch them unless they were as bad as murder or abuse.”
“He’s not a monster that catches you for jaywalking, so what are you talking about?”
The stupid bastards were all gathered together, so they couldn’t talk.
“Well, he’s a scary monster because he’s a bad bastard, so how could he be scared of people like us?”
“Well... he’s dangerous because he’s a monster, but I heard he doesn’t cause any harm....”
“Did you hear that you get a gift if you meet him? Hey, after hearing that, I want to meet him too.”
“Arthur, even so, he’s not a dangerous monster recognized by the association. Anyway, we just have to be careful.”
“Hey, you’re being too careful. They say the gift he gives tastes so good.”
“That’s right, they say it’s effective. It’s almost like medicine.”
They were already positive about this strange rumor that was spreading throughout the city, not some famous bastard.
“They say that if you’re unlucky, you won’t get a gift from Black Cloak.”
“But I’m a little scared. What if I get taken away for a crime I don’t know about...?”
“I should be careful because he’s a monster, but don’t worry.”
“Yeah, unless you’re that bad of a character, you probably won’t get taken away.”
“I heard that Black Cloak’s work is so amazing, I want to go see it.”
Black Cloak, who gives gifts to good people and punishments to bad people, was popular among the citizens. The polite humanoid monster that rarely hurt people filled the romanticism of the city dwellers to the max.
There were people who were afraid of him, but no one hated him.
“But why is that kid acting like this to us?”
“I don’t know, he’s easy... That’s why the rank-based people...”
“He’s the only one who’s insulting all the first-class citizens, tsk tsk.”
On the other hand, there were many who hated the criminals recognized by the association for no reason.
“Didn’t that hunter’s ID get revoked?”
“What confidence do you have when you’ve done all the things that made the hunters lose their minds...”
So in the end.
“.......”
Park Eun-gyeom was isolated.
“...This, this, this....”
The resentment that no one knew his pain. The anger at being treated for the first time in his life and the fear hidden behind it. The bewilderment caused by being embarrassed in front of so many people.
He had held back, not wanting to be dragged back to the ‘Empty City’ again, but now he had picked up the hammer.
“You piece of trash!!!”
“Whoa!!”
“Stop that guy!”
“Stop being a jerk, you bastards, you, you bastard...!!”
And that sight.
“.......”
The gray city was watching.
* * *
Identification Number
0S-328-D-01
Response Level
B(Avoid)
Entity Type
Humanoid(-)
Entity Name
Black Suit(-)
Authority
Robbery(-) freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
A humanoid entity first discovered by Park Eun-gyeom, a B-class hunter affiliated with the Korean Hunter Association. Created by the identification number 『0S-328-D (Black Cloak)』, it inhabits the ‘Empty City’, which is identified as the entity’s main dungeon.
It is a black suit with a sense of volume, as if it were worn by a person. The shape of the suit varies slightly from entity to entity. There was noise in the entity naming process. There was a proposal to name the entity 'Invisible Man', but it was discarded as it was discovered that the body was not transparent but non-existent.
It was named humanoid entity for convenience, but it may be revised in the future. It seems that the entity name needs to be adjusted after additional information is acquired.
According to the testimony of an A-class hunter (Yoo Seong-un) affiliated with the collection, it has intelligence enough to communicate, but it may be a characteristic unique to a specific entity. Its height is estimated to be around 185~9cm.
As can be seen from the identification number, it shows characteristics similar to 『0S-328-D (Black Cloak)』. Its height and behavior are similar to Black Cloak.
It recognizes evil humans as harmful entities that have a negative impact on the race. Upon encountering them, it forcibly transfers them to the dungeon 'City of Void' to isolate and dispose of them. If you have permission from the dungeon's owner, 『0S-328-D (Black Cloak)』, you can escape, but if you stay for a long time, it seems that you will become part of the 'work'.
If you become a work of 『0S-328-D (Black Cloak)』, a 'price' is required to escape.
In the case of the first witness, B-class hunter Park Eun-gyeom, he paid 'evilness' as a price. However, immediately after showing the 'evilness' that was taken in return, it was judged to be a violation of the deal, so 『0S-328-D-01 (Black Suit)』 stole the external characteristics of his body and turned his body into paint.
『0S-328-D-01 (Black Suit)』's method is careful and clever. If the target violates the deal, he will steal the voice, eyes, muscles, and skin in that order. After completing the deal, 『0S-328-D-01 (Black Suit)』 committed suicide in the form of Park Eun-gyeom.
The people around him testified that they did not notice the discomfort. Judging from the fact that Park Eun-gyeom complained of hysterical pain and fear during the 7-day robbery period, it seems that the target of the transaction was able to confirm the robbery process.
『0S-328-D-01 (Black Suit)』 disappeared after it was proven that it was not Park Eun-gyeom. Park Eun-gyeom's body was turned into black paint and is stored in the association's research facility. Some researchers analyzed that it was a living paint that was alive.
Considerations on how to deal with it
Evil deeds are prohibited within the visible range of the dungeon 'City of the Void' in 『0S-328-D (Black Cloak)』. It is possible to escape by paying a price or not after talking directly with 『0S-328-D (Black Cloak)』.
Regardless of the type of attack, 『0S-328-D (Black Cloak)』 and 『0S-328-D-01 (Black Suit)』 cannot be hit. The above two entities and the dungeon 'City of Void' set evasion as the default response method.
Requests and additional information are accepted.
Today's Status_'City of Void'
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