The Sub-Protagonist Is Retiring

71 – 068. Dungeon of Jealousy-1

An hour has passed since I entered the dungeon.

The result of wandering around the dungeon avoiding Yukiko’s pursuit.

There were a few things I found out.

First, monsters do not live in this ancient dungeon.

I’ve been around quite a bit, but I haven’t run into anyone except Yukiko.

I haven’t been downstairs yet, so it’s still too early to make a conclusion.

At least the first basement floor of the dungeon was safe, except for Yukiko, who was chasing after her with a kitchen knife.

Second, even though there were no monsters, there were many traps.

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Not to mention the killing traps made up of various elemental magics, such as fireballs, lightning bolts, rock axes, wind spears, and more.

There were many pitfalls like paralysis, sleep, hallucinations, and freezing.

Among them, the noise-generating traps were troublesome as Yukiko ran to them as soon as she stepped on them.

Third, there are many locked doors inside the dungeon, and the locking method was to enter a password through verbal input.

Hints for passwords were lying around or hidden in certain rooms.

The problem is that even if you unlock the password, there are only hints to unlock other locks.

Until all the doors were opened, it was an infinite repetition of finding hints, opening doors, and running away.

Fourth, in each locked room, there was a piece of paper that looked like Yukiko had been written on it.

It seems to be a journal of how she became what she is now, but she couldn’t confirm the details.

Every time I try to read properly, Yukiko comes to visit me.

So, I carefully collected each chapter to read them all at once.

[I don’t know if I’ll have time to read it properly.]

‘There are a lot of places to hide, so I’ll just sit in one place and watch it leisurely.’

Each room was equipped with a place to hide, such as a chest of drawers, oak barrels, and a bed.

For me, who has a limited field of view due to doll clothes, it was a good thing.

‘It’s just like a horror game that someone intentionally created.’

It might be the work of an ancient demon living in the deepest part of the dungeon.

To confirm that, I picked up a key hidden in one corner of the room.

‘This is the last key.’

[Is this the end of this damn chase?]

‘Well, I wonder if the crazy snow woman will follow her to the end?’

[It’s tricky. If it wasn’t for this doll’s clothes, I could have done it somehow…….]

Assuming he had to fight an ancient demon, he would die in vain in this state.

In the Dungeon of Lust, even a sword was allowed to be used, but now I couldn’t use anything.

Because the doll’s clothes are tough enough to not tear with ordinary blades.

I needed another means to counter Yukiko.

[Oh, it’s coming!]

‘I heard that even a tiger will come when I say it… !’

Tumble.

The sound of Yukiko’s footsteps coming from the adjacent area.

I entered a closet carefully so as not to make a sound.

“…… I could feel Papa’s presence, but he’s not here either~?”

I covered my mouth and nose to keep from breathing.

If she is a powerful person, she should be able to catch people’s breath.

“Papa, where are you? Don’t leave Yukiko alone…….”

A voice that makes you feel lonely like a lost child left alone on the street.

My heart started to break at the sight of him looking for his deceased father.

What’s wrong with that child, did the world take away her precious parents and make her contract with the devil?

I stuck out my tongue at the cruel reality.

“Yukiko has a lot of things she wants to do with Papa. She ate, bathed, and slept together…….”

I thought it would be okay if I warmly embraced her.

She’s not my real daughter, but I have hope that if I take good care of her, she might get better.

“Kee-Hit! And more than anything else, I want to dye Papa’s pure white body red! Papa’s blood… !”

That hope is dead.

I quietly prayed for Yukiko to leave, holding my breath.

***

I had a nightmare again today.

The content of the dream was the time when the village was burning red.

A creature big enough to cover the rising moon in the sky and people screaming and screaming under it.

My dad gathered the people and left to fight, and her mom ran away, holding my hand tightly.

But she did not last long and her mother was crushed by her pillar, which caught her fire.

I still remember the image of my mother beckoning me to run away.

The memory of the day when I had to run away, being led by another neighbor, leaving my father and mother.

Even though I wanted to forget it, he clung to me and tormented me until the end.

—

My new family was nice to me.

A family who treats me warmly and takes care of me when I lost my parents.

But no matter how kindly they treated me, in the end, they and I were strangers.

I could see that the attitude towards me was different from that of my bloodline family.

Maybe I’m thinking perversely. But that must be my dirty nature.

—

Eventually, I moved away from my new home and family.

The kindness of the new family aroused in me a desire to steal.

I wanted to give my pain to someone else and make someone else’s happiness mine, even though I knew it wasn’t possible.

Recurrent nightmares and distorted delusions are eating away at my mind.

At this rate, I don’t know what kind of abusive language and evil things I will do to them.

In such fear, I came out as if running away.

It was bitterly cold outside where the warmth had been lost. It’s okay though, because I’m a cursed snow woman.

—

I settled in an abandoned mansion on a hill away from town.

There was no owner, so there was no place that was shabby and normal.

But for some reason, I felt relieved. The mansion itself seemed to be in a similar situation to mine.

It was far from the village, so there was little chance of interacting with anyone else.

Yes, this is my home.

I decided to place my grave in the front yard of the mansion.

—

The nightmare was still there, but no more anxiety.

You don’t have to be jealous of someone.

With that in mind, the house was cleaned and renovated.

It was quite difficult to do the dirty work with a weak body, but I was proud.

However, the pride soon disappeared.

The moment I came down to the village to get necessary supplies.

A fierce pain struck my brain.

A picture of a family walking down the street in harmony, holding their child’s hands.

Before, my family was smiling as if they were happy.

Although I came out on my own, I thought they might be a little worried.

But they were living as if I never existed.

It’s strange. I wished for you to forget me, so why does my heart hurt so much?

I just wanted to be happy…….

I’m not sure what this feeling is.

I returned home crying on the spot.

—

Everything in the world felt unreasonable.

Even though I knew I was wrong, I couldn’t control this emotion.

Why am I the only one who has to be so unhappy?

Children my age are living happily with their families, but why am I the only one…….

I realized it only after sobbing sobbing on the musty bed.

The fact that the cause of all this is the red dragon that took my family.

The culprit who took away my happiness, made me have nightmares, and gnaws at my spirit… !

I had revenge in my heart.

—

Knowledge is power.

It was one of the few pieces of advice I heard from my dad a long time ago.

I needed strength to defeat the red dragon, so I read the books in the library at random.

The former owner of the mansion must have been a famous wizard, so there were many books related to magic.

I read it, believing that it would surely be helpful to me, but there was a serious problem.

I had no mana.

The Snow Woman’s body cannot contain mana.

I heard about this from Grandmother Hana, the oldest person in the village.

The knowledge I had gained so far was of no value, and I was frustrated again.

Then, how can I defeat the dragon?

If you can’t win no matter what you do…… Do I have a reason to live?

—

As usual, I was in the middle of reading a book in the library.

The moment I was about to take out a book that had accidentally touched my hand.

The bookshelf began to move and a new space appeared.

I’ve walked around the mansion countless times, but I’ve never seen a basement.

I was afraid, but at the same time, I was curious, so I set foot on it.

The basement of the mansion was wider and cleaner than expected.

As if someone were living there.

Thinking that there might be other people living besides me, I went further inside.

And then I met a benefactor there who would change my destiny.

His name is Levi…….

He made an attractive offer to me, saying that he and I had many similarities.

In exchange for giving me vast knowledge and a source of mana…….

I finally found it. He was looking for the only way to defeat the red dragon!

I accepted his offer. In return…….

It doesn’t matter. I was willing to do anything to get my revenge.

—

[The important parts from the middle were completely painted black. It feels like someone intentionally hid information.]

‘Still, I know for sure who this dungeon is and who its owner is.’

Vern was reading Yukiko’s journal in the closet.

He was making a quick guess about what had happened from what he had read.

[Did you infer it from only two letters in your name?]

‘Yes, the devil’s name is Leviathan. And this is the dungeon in charge of jealousy among the Seven Deadly Sins!’

Kiki-!

As soon as Vern was convinced, the closet door opened.

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Naturally, Vern’s gaze turned outward from the journal.

There stood a smiling Yukiko with her kitchen knife hidden behind her back.

“Papa, I found it!”

“…… This time, Papa just counts 10 seconds and finds it, right?”

“Before that, you should be punished!”

Yukiko pulling Bern’s arm.

I put him on the floor and got on his stomach.

Then, Yukiko blushed and let out a rough breath.

She could already tell from her appearance that she was in a state of excitement.

“Daughter, Papa is not interested in incest, right?”

“You don’t have to worry about that. I’m just scolding the mean papa for not listening to me!”

Yukiko stabbed the cleaver deep into her vern’s chest and pulled it out.

Crimson blood dripped from the kitchen knife.

Seeing this, Yukiko began to shudder and licked her tongue with her cleaver.

After tasting her blood, she shuddered and started laughing madly.

“Kyahahahaha!”

Push-! Take a peek-! Take a peek-!

Laughing as if she had lost her mind, Yukiko randomly stabbed her bern body.

[Contractor!!]

I made holes in his body by stabbing him at any vital point.

She was happy after being stabbed more than 100 times, but finally reached her climax as she stabbed her heart.

“Haa… ! Ha… ! Papa♡”

Yukiko leans over an unresponsive corpse, immersed in the afterglow.

After a while, she tilted her head away from Vern.

“Papa? Where have you been?”

Just before her death, she started looking for her father again out of nowhere.

It was a scene where you can see how crazy Yukiko is.

She left her room with her lying bern behind.

“I have to find Papa… ….”

She showed her insanity until the very end.

‘…… Surprisingly tolerable?’

On the other hand, Vern, who was brutally stabbed by Snow Woman’s ice knife, was fine.

A normal person could have died at the point where he was stabbed more than twenty times, but he lived normally.

‘I didn’t know that the troll’s illusion that Hades gave me would be so effective.’

[Perhaps it has a good compatibility with the fruit of the World Tree that I ate the other day, so it created an absurd regenerative power.]

‘Kyaa! Crazy, crazy!’

The troll’s fantasy and the fruit of the world tree.

Berne, who had consumed two types of national treasure level items early on, became a body that did not die easily without knowing it.

Regenerative power that heals in an instant even if you get a cut.

I never died unless it was an attack that cut my throat or blew my whole body off.

The pain was also reduced to a fleeting moment, and Vern only felt the stabbing pain of the needle as he stabbed with his sword.

‘If I had known this would happen, I would have been caught from the start.’

[Looks like you lost money worrying for nothing.]

‘Right, you called me anxiously in the middle, didn’t you? Contractor! While doing this.’

[Forget this! Right Now!]

‘I don’t like it?’

Bern giggled enough to not be thought of as someone who had been hacked up.

He laughed and pulled the doorknob to get out.

Beyond the door, Yukiko smiled brightly.

“Papa, I found it!”

Berne thought that duplicate events were too much.