The S-Classes That I Raised

adn’t thought that far.
Maybe because he always was in his juvenile form at home, he didn’t feel like someone you could conceivably take into a dungeon.

“This is really firm.
Is this the end of this dungeon?”

It did seem similar to normal dungeon being blocked.
But when I saw it up close, it felt different.

Even past the transparent membrane, there was frozen water spread out.
Endlessly.
Yerim’s skill range was large, but it wasn’t to that point.
And it went past a membrane that you couldn’t pierce through.

“It looks like it’s not a dungeon’s membrane.”

And Sung Hyunjae seemed like he had the same thought as me.
This was.

“It’s a mirror.”

A mirror that didn’t reflect us.
No, if you said that the dungeon itself was a mirror, it was reflecting us.
Our pasts’ memories.
The zombie guy had also reflected what each of us wanted to see.

I felt like I could tell a little more certainly what kind of guy the new filial duty addict was.

“A mirror? But it’s just transparent?”

“Look closely.
If you take us out, it’s the same.
And it’s reflecting that slightly broken ice surface as it is, too.”

“Huh? That’s true? But now what should we do?”

I wonder.
There was still no response.
When I looked around the surroundings, I saw a few water drops remaining here and there, far away.

“Yerim, burst those, too.”

“Yes!”

Along with bright reply, an arrow-like ice fragment flew over and cleanly cleared the remaining water drops.
Right after, the membrane’, the mirror’s, surface started to ripple roundly.
Yoohyun grabbed me and drew back, and Yerim blocked the front.
Sung Hyunjae also drew back a few steps.

“It really looks like the solution was to freeze and sweep all of it away!”

When we got rid of all the memory-reflecting water drops and made them unable to appear again, the mirror reacted.
This was, as expected.

“It seems like something from our memories will appear, so be careful.”

For Sung Hyunjae, I wasn’t particularly worried, and I requested it of Yoohyun and Yerim.
Though it seemed like it would be the most dangerous for me.
Should I close my eyes ahead of time at least?

The ripples on the mirror slowly became bigger and rougher.
To prepare just in case, we increased the distance.
Our appearances were briefly reflected on the shaking membrane and,

Blue light started to spread.

“Huh, those earrings?”

Yerim’s eyes became round.
Familiar earrings jangled.
What was slowly being shown through the mirror, was a giant mermaid with blue scales.

It was the Mermaid Queen of Sea Waves, who was holding a long spear and spreading her scale wings.

‘……Damn.’

Could that mirror be showing us the strongest opponent in our memories? Since it seemed like Yerim saw the same thing, I was certain.
We were really doomed.
It wasn’t just a little difficult.
This conwoman-like Water Droplet!

The mermaid queen’s closed eyes slowly opened.
The emotionless marble-like deep blue eyes stared at us.
Maybe it couldn’t completely copy the real thing, because the oppressive feeling was less.
But she was a fiend that we definitely couldn’t match up against with our current combat power.
At the most, we would barely be able to escape after blocking the attack with the bracelet’s power.

“Yerim, use the skill!”

Yerim, who had frozen stiff, startled and fixed her grip on her spear.
The gem fixed onto the spear let out light and,

Toodook, toodoodook

Rain started to fall.

Between the thickening streaks of rain, I saw Yerim’s back.
She was definitely small and young, but a scarily strong presence was overflowing out.
It was an oppressive feeling that would make my knees tremble and make it hard to stand, if she turned around and looked at me.
Yoohyun, and Sung Hyunjae as well, couldn’t take their eyes off her.

At some point, all of the ice had melted, and water wet my ankles.

“This, is no joke.”

Yerim said heavily yet easily.
The fake mermaid queen stared at her.
The end of the long spear moved, and with that one slow movement, the entire dungeon shook.
But it was just that.

The power that seemed like it would cut the ground disappeared in an instant.
I couldn’t tell what had happened.
Yerim also tilted her head slightly.
The water drops that were lightly floating in the air around her, swayed.

“…Ahjussi, I really don’t know.
The skill moves on its own.”

At the helpless voice, the inside of my head that was suppressed, became a little clearer.
I searched back and forth between the fake mermaid queen and Yerim.
Rain was falling around the mermaid queen, too, but the thickness and speed was a little different.

The two of them were fundamentally using the same strength.
If so.

‘Though I don’t know if I’ll be able to endure.’

Rather than throwing away a precious chance, let’s try it out.
I used the Teacher skill on Yerim.
At the same time, what I felt was water.

It was just water.
An inexplicable sensation of, not simply being inside water, but your entire body, down to a single hair, to a single drop of blood, being all engulfed in water, rushed over me.

“Hyung!”

Yoohyun’s voice reached my ear one step late.
I felt my brother’s arm supporting my body.
Wow, this really was no joke.
Was Yerim okay?

“I’m, okay.”

“What do you mean you’re okay? Exactly what are you doing!”

What do you mean what – I just kinda used a skill.

“Ahjussi! Don’t use that skill!”

Yerim also shouted.
I mean, it was endurable.
It was too precious of a chance to just throw away.

“…I said I’m okay.
Look here, Mr.
Good Adult.”

I barely turned my head and looked up at Sung Hyunjae.
Why did that person have a displeased expression?

“The, skill.”

That, the combat foresight.
If Yerim was able to feel the sensations of someone using the same, but much weaker, skill as hers at the same time, she would gain more things.
It would be better to use the Teacher skill on the fake mermaid queen as well, but I thought that I really wouldn’t be able to endure that.

When I applied the Teacher skill to Sung Hyunjae, he raised his eyebrows slightly.

“You’re in a state where you’ll faint right away if I reject it.”

“…Please do not be like that, with our relationship.
Aren’t we friends for a week?”

“I’ve never made things like friends in my whole life.”

It was a desolate life, huh.
Even while being disinclined to it, Sung Hyunjae used the combat foresight skill.
And then the water moved.

The mermaid queen and Bak Yerim.
The two Rulers of Water wielded their powers at the same time.
I now felt the phenomenon that I couldn’t understand a while ago.

Everywhere it was raining, no, all of the moisture in the air was following Yerim’s will.
There were so many things that this thing called ‘water’ was holding.
Right now, this entire space was only looking at the movements of the tip of a small hand.

The fake mermaid queen also spread her control and tried her hardest, but she was ridiculously lacking.
Like a small regional lord in front of a king commanding a million troops, the gap between the two was incredible.

The moment I faintly realized how Yerim had to move, it was the end.

Kwajangchang!

The mirror broke.
All of the mirror broke in all directions and fell.
Water rippled in the not-that-big space, putting aside that it was a dungeon, and the rain kept pouring down.

Receiving all of the water’s worship, Yerim turned back around.
Um, it was an angry face.

 

[1] lit.
‘as if flipping over [your] palm’ which means ‘very easily changing one’s attitude suddenly or obviously’.