It's Not Night - Chapter 127
Translator and Editor: Effe and Yonnee
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Chapter 127
“Uh… That… Oh, right. This is not the time. We need to get out of here. Dean will come after you soon.”
Andra hurriedly said so when she remembered. In fact, she was also in a hurry to escape while Dean went looking for the egg, which was said to be the treasure of the dungeon. Dean had looked at Andra, telling her to give it a shot since she had been caught running away. Therefore, he would come back to catch Andra as soon as he had found the egg.
“…Who’s Dean?”
Dustin asked with a look of displeasure hearing the name of the stranger came up. Andra blinked her eyes in absurdity. What did she just hear?
“Are you seriously asking that? Anat and Dean! That Dean.”
“How is the human who stole the fire from the myth still alive?”
“That’s the problem now. He’s coming after me. We have to move fast. We have to get out of here.”
Andra urged Dustin. But instead of moving away, Dustin drew his sword and fixed it instead. What was he doing? As Andra looked at him, puzzled, Dustin replied with a serious face.
“Dean or whoever, I’ll take care of the guy chasing you.”
What was he even talking about? Andra spoke back to Dustin, managing to take back her crumpled face.
“Don’t say weird things. Do you think that’s possible? My magic doesn’t work on Dean. Of course, if I can’t deal with him as an Awakened, even you wouldn’t be able to do it either.”
“Brute force will be enough. What does that bastard have as a weapon?”
Dustin changed Dean’s title to ‘that bastard’ in the blink of an eye. This reminded her of Dean. Didn’t Dean also call Jonathan and Dustin ‘those bastards’ when she was looking for them in the beginning?
Andra instinctively felt that she shouldn’t let the two of them meet. She grabbed Dustin’s arm and pulled him forward.
“No, listen to me! We have another reason to go out! We don’t have time to be here like this.”
As Andra firmly told him off, Dustin obediently put down the sword and began to move with Andra’s lead.
He didn’t want to offend her when he already had a hard time meeting her again. Moreover, there must have been a good reason for Andra to act this way. Dustin trusted her.
“We have to go out and tell the people. They’re fighting a pointless fight right now.”
“It’s late, the counts are already overindulged in this war.”
Dustin replied, blocking the falling stones from Andra’s head with his arm.
“How about the Princess and the Prince? They came here to mediate this war in the first place. If the two of them take charge of each count and coordinate well…”
“If they coordinated it well, the second prince punk wouldn’t have lost you.”
Andra turned to Dustin. ‘Punk’? It was really fortunate that Jonathan was not in this dungeon. If anyone would have heard it, Dustin would have to pay for this.
“What you said… fine. We can’t argue in this situation. Rather, we should do the best we can. At this rate, Morgennis will be completely ruined. Then there is a danger to us as well as to the Princess and Prince.”
“Andra, unfortunately, things have already turned out to be more complicated than you think. At dawn tomorrow, the two counts will start an all-out war.”
“What? How? Already a war…”
The situation escalated too quickly than expected, it made her dizzy in an instant.
There was a reason why Dean started awakening the queen ant in the dungeon. At this rate, they might all be killed.
At that time, the claws, which were tearing down the ceiling, shook off the ants clinging to it and stepped on them. It wasn’t long before the flames poured through the cracks in the collapsed ceiling.
“Oh God!”
“Andra, this way!”
Dustin hastily grabbed Andra and hid her behind the rocks. Despite the considerable distance from the ants, heat rushed to them in an instant. They could see the ants at the forefront burning and falling to the floor. Andra thought she had to get out of here even more quickly.
Kyaaack! The queen ant howled at the dying worker ants. Her hard snout broke through the ceiling and started biting something attacking her. From then on, the dungeon itself began to shake, making it difficult to stand properly.
Among the collapsing burrow, worker ants were trying to protect the queen ant, and the queen ant was fighting something attacking through the ceiling. It was just chaos.
“Let’s go, Andra!”
This time Dustin dragged Andra and started moving away. The two held each other’s hands and started running forward looking for an exit. However, the tunnel was very large, there were too many forks in the road, and ants often came out and blocked their path. Dustin slashed the ants with his sword, and Andra magically pushed the bodies of the ants away from the way.
“Is it okay not to attack the dungeon?”
Dustin, who had been running against the ants for a while, suddenly asked curiously.
In the last dungeon, they got clues to move on to the next one only after clearing the dungeon. There was a high probability of getting a clue to move on to the next one after clearing the dungeon again. There was no way Andra didn’t know that.
“Dean did it. Everything is planned, not accidental.”
“What do you mean?”
“Nera was the one who brought us this far, and she must have expected Dean’s appearance to some extent. She might have expected all this to happen.”
“Then what are we supposed to do?”
“That… I don’t know either. I know we have to reach the ‘end of the world’, but I don’t know how to get there…”
For the time being, the method Dean said was impossible. The way he was going to do it required too many sacrifices. Still, it wasn’t completely without result.
There was a high probability that Dean’s method was not a normal method. Since the place where Anat sleeps is the ‘end of the world’, there’s no way they have to make unnecessary sacrifices to get there.
Maybe it was the method that Nera only told Dean about. The method, which was destructive and purely driven by Dean’s greed, was a perfect fit for Nera.
‘There must be a normal way to get to the end of the world. I bet she know that too. Even so, did she tell Dean another way to create a situation like this from the beginning?’
She was putting things together. Andra thought about how to get to the end of the world by inferring the information and clues she had so far. However, with the cave collapsing and the ants pouring in, there was no way her head would work properly.
Andra shouted as she struggled to push back the ants sticking their snouts at her.
“Right now, escape is our priority! Dustin, here!”
Andra shouted, pointing to the other direction without the ants. Dustin, who had been dealing with the ants, quickly turned and followed Andra.
They ran and climbed the burrow like that. The two saw the light pouring in the distance and realized that the ground was not far away. Over there! While dealing with the ants coming up from below, they ran to the exit.
Eventually Andra came out first, followed by Dustin. Upon exiting, Dustin collapsed the exit, preventing the ants from following them.
When they looked around, it looked like a foggy forest, but it had a slightly different atmosphere from the forest they had seen before.
“Where are we?”
“I don’t know, it seems to be in the nearby forest…”
Then once more, a tremendous shriek came from a large beast, startling Andra as she turned her head towards the sound.
Seeing that the ground kept shaking and the sound of something being destroyed came one after another, it seemed that there was a monster nearby that was digging a hole in the ground and attacking the queen ant.
Possessed, Andra moved a little closer to the sound. It was blurry to the naked eye, but she could see a figure burying its head in the ground and constantly spewing fire.
“Dustin, can you see it?”
Andra asked Dustin, who had followed her, pointing to the figure. Through the gap in the half-collapsed burrow, the queen ant was coming up close to the ground, and it was vaguely visible that it was dealing with the form on the ground.
“I can see it. More than that, Andra, I’ve been thinking about it…”
“I’m used to it… huh? What did you say?”
“That is what I should be saying. Used to it. That.”
“Did you feel that way too?”
Andra turned her head away from Dustin to stare back at the mysterious creature hidden in the fog. It has a large body, a pair of wings presumably attached to its back, a mouth that breathes fire, and a long tail.
She couldn’t take her eyes off the figure. Suddenly, the monster smashed the queen ant’s face down with its claws. But the queen ant, clad in hard outer shell, snapped her pincers, flicking those claws.
“…Dustin.”
“No.”
“I didn’t even say anything?”
“I know even if you don’t say anything. It’s dangerous. You’re going to get closer to check it out, but what if things go wrong?”
Andra frowned at Dustin’s cold, sharp remark. She didn’t want to take the risk to check it out. She was going to check because she had to check. But if he says no…
Andra was about to argue with something. Dustin sighed first and continued.
“…Even if I say that, you will definitely not listen to me, like the last time. Alright, promise me one thing instead.”
“What?”
“No matter what happens, don’t act alone.”
Dustin looked down at Andra and said firmly. Andra gulped unconsciously in the light green eyes that only focused on her.
“Promise me that you will do everything with me, please. Don’t leave me alone like last time. If I get separated from you again, I…”
“I won’t. I promise. I will listen to you.”
“…Alright, you promised.”
“Yes, I promise.”
Andra unknowingly held out her little finger to Dustin. The habit she used to do with her brothers when she was in the East had come out. Andra, who realized it belatedly, tried to fix it by pulling back her little finger, but Dustin was faster.
He looped his little finger on her little finger. Then he pulled Andra and left a small kiss on her forehead.
“I will trust you. No, I trust you, Andra. because it’s you.”
Andra felt a tickle in her heart after hearing those words.
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