How a Black-Haired Barbarian Survived the Labyrinth in Another World
Chapter 151: Not an easy task

The shelter suddenly fell into silence.

“Scar...?”

Karin’s bewildered voice was heard.

I ignored him and pulled out my longsword.

Ssireung.

A cool blade emerged from the scabbard engraved with a blue wolf symbol.

I slung my sword over my shoulder and stood at the side of the shelter entrance.

Seonjabulae naejabulseon.

A good man doesn’t come to me.

It was a proverb that was also used in this world.

“Why are you so absent-minded? Get in your place.”

Jeong Yu-shin said to the party members.

The party members who had blank expressions each took out their weapons and formed a formation.

Kkigigigi.

The wooden door slowly opened and an uninvited guest appeared.

A human man with a bushy beard.

Judging by his disheveled appearance and messy hair, he was an explorer who had been wandering the labyrinth for a long time.

The weapon was a longsword hanging from his waist.

A turtle shell-like pot hung on the man’s back. It looked like something you would use in a Chinese restaurant.

The man entered the shelter and looked around at Jeong Yu-shin’s party.

“You’re here?”

The man’s casual speech made me lose my mind for a moment.

You punk.

You don’t seem to be in my right mind?

Usually, if a party stayed in the shelter, the next party would leave.

If things were difficult, they would ask for permission and stay together separately.

Watching the man act neither here nor there, I couldn’t help but be wary.

Jeong Yu-shin moved and stood in front of the party members.

“Who are you?”

“Me?”

The man pointed to himself and asked, then searched through his arms.

“Ah. Wait a minute. I left it here. I found it.”

After a long time, the man who had been searching for something took out a gold badge from his pocket and threw it at Jeong Yu-shin.

Jeong Yu-shin swatted away the flying gold badge.

Bang!

The man made a bewildered expression as the gold badge fell to the ground.

“No, if I swatted that away...”

Jeong Yu-shin slowly approached and looked down at the gold badge.

Gold badge.

High-ranking explorer.

Name.

Pin.

No last name.

Jeong Yu-shin kicked the gold badge with his foot and pushed it towards the man.

“What’s a high-ranking explorer doing?”

The man named Pin smiled and shrugged.

“It’s nothing. I have some magic stones, and if you have something to eat, we can trade them. If you don’t have anything to eat, something useful will do.”

Contrary to his shabby appearance, he seemed relaxed. I could feel it from his words and actions.

A lone explorer who wanders the labyrinth without a party member.

He looks suspicious no matter where you look.

When he opened his mouth to refuse.

Karin stepped forward.

“Are you perhaps the labyrinth wanderer, Finn?”

Finn scratched his head.

“That’s right. Is this the Guide Association? You’re quick-witted.”

A word he had never heard before popped out.

Jung Yu-shin tilted his head.

Labyrinth wanderer.

“What’s that?”

Finn approached Jung Yu-shin’s question. Completely defenseless. The longsword was still asleep in its scabbard.

“People who wander the labyrinth.”

“Aren’t we all like that?”

Jung Yu-shin asked back.

Finn looked at Jung Yu-shin. His eyes seemed to be observing something.

“People who stay in the labyrinth for a long time without going out. You could say they wander the labyrinth.”

“Why?”

Finn scratched his greasy head.

“Well... it’s annoying. It’s harder than you think to go into the labyrinth, prepare, and then go back in.”

‘This brat.’

Isn’t that really normal?

Finn unsheathed his sword and threw it on the floor.

“Don’t worry. If you need to, you can point the sword at my neck. I just want to exchange some items.”

Finn unsheathed his sword and raised his hand high.

Jung Yu-shin glanced at the party members.

The party members noticed Jung Yu-shin’s gaze and nodded slightly. Barion also gave an okay sign.

Karin stepped forward.

“I heard from the Guide Guild. You’re a ‘harmless’ labyrinth wanderer. Your impression is exactly as it seems.”

Finn smiled broadly.

“I’m kind of famous.”

Jung Yu-shin nodded and stepped back.

“Of course.”

Since the party members who were more experienced than him agreed, he had nothing else to say. Plus, there was Karin’s confirmation.

He let his guard down a little.

Finn approached the campfire and sat down with a thud.

“Let’s get back to what we were talking about. Where people live is all the same. Once you get attached, there’s no place better to live than the labyrinth. This is another reason why I stay in the labyrinth.”

“...”

Jung Yu-shin was speechless.

Was he overflowing with leisure because he was a top explorer?

Or was he completely crazy?

It was even more absurd because it didn’t seem like a lie.

Finn took out a pouch from his backpack and opened it.

The pouch was filled with large and small magic stones.

“Shouldn’t we exchange them for magic stones instead?”

The party members looked into their pockets as if they were possessed.

Seeing them smoothly squeezing in, it was enough to make the door-to-door salesman go away.

Since they had a lot of money, they had prepared plenty of supplies. However, they had no intention of selling off essential items like potions, bandages, and medicine. They were directly related to their lives.

Fortunately, Finn didn’t seem interested in such items.

“Do you have any dried meat left? I want to exchange it for magic stones.”

“Here it is.”

He took the dried meat out of his backpack and handed it to Finn.

Finn accepted the dried meat and smiled brightly.

Before he knew it, the party members gathered around Finn and began chatting about various things.

“Fin, how is the corridor area these days? Anything we need to be careful of?”

Delia took a quick peek at Finn.

Finn stretched out his legs leisurely and scratched his chin.

“Um... What should I be careful of in this corridor area...? Probably including the recent events?”

“Right.”

“Of the newly added traps, the most lethal one is the transfer trap. If you fall into a place where monsters are swarming, it’s hard to come back alive. Oh! And there’s something else. There’s a strange phenomenon where the floor is filled with magic power, and monsters I’ve never seen before suddenly pop out. I almost died.”

Finn wiped his forehead and snickered.

Eldritch Wave, I guess.

“If we go back to the recent events, it’s the red bead. It’s something unusual. I don’t know if I should call it a ‘thing’.”

Jeong Yu-shin’s eyebrows twitched.

“Tell me more.”

Finn grinned.

“Barbaroi, are you finally interested? Did you open your heart after having such a sullen expression?”

“Stop talking nonsense.”

“Do you have a tsundere imprint?”

“There was such a stamp? I didn’t know.”

“There was such a stamp. No. There was.”

Finn looked up at the ceiling with a hazy look in his eyes.

“How far did we go? Oh! It was a red bead.”

Finn stroked his chin and opened his mouth again.

“I guess. Filter it. The red bead is a passage to another world.”

“...”

“I’ve seen it from afar a few times. It was a flash of red light and the space was consumed all at once. I’ve never seen an explorer who survived. It’s like a trap that activates when you bring a torch close to it. Sometimes, mystics or people under the influence of a similar person would be possessed.”

Cold sweat ran down his back.

If he had gone near that red bead with a torch, he would have been completely finished.

“Tell me more. What does that kind of influence mean?”

“They must be those who have been ‘watched’ by the gods outside the world. I don’t know the details either. The mystics are so secretive that it’s hard to ask them about them.”

“...”

Finn looked around at the silent party members and smiled faintly.

“Stop talking about such dull things and eat something. It feels good to have something to eat after a long time, so let me show you how to cook.”

Finn took out the pot on his back.

He also took out a few branches and placed them around the campfire, and picked up a few bricks to make a makeshift brazier and placed the pot on it.

The party members watched blankly.

Then he took out another pouch from his backpack and opened it.

Jeong Yu-shin was shocked when he saw the contents of the pouch.

‘A fish head?’

Why on earth is a fish head sticking out of the pouch?

And a pungent smell pierced my nose. It seemed like it was about to spoil.

Pour water into the pot.

He put in fish heads and jerky, then added herbs he had never heard of and boiled them thoroughly.

A fishy smell filled the shelter.

Jung Yu-shin looked down at the fish heads bubbling in the pot, his soul gone.

‘Fuck.’

He was a natural person from another world.

Finn smiled broadly and took out a bowl from his backpack and handed it to Karin and Delia. He paused for a moment after looking at Barion and then sneaked a wooden bowl.

“Can the priest eat that?”

Barion shook his head.

“Really? You must have had a hard time.”

Finn handed the wooden bowl to Jung Yu-shin.

“I’m fine. I’m full.”

“Scar, are you in your right mind to refuse such a delicious-looking soup?”

Delia said to Jung Yu-shin.

‘Crazy.’

Why are the people of the Labyrinth City so obsessed with fish?

Fish sandwiches, fish jelly, and now fish head soup popped out.

“Scar, eating warm food in the Labyrinth is a luxury. Take it as a nutritional supplement.”

Karin swallowed hard and advised.

‘Karin, you too.’

Is this how Caesar felt after being stabbed by Brutus’ dagger?

My heart ached.

With trembling hands, I took the wooden bowl.

Thud!

Fish head and sticky soup dripped from the ladle and poured into the bowl.

A coppery smell rose to my nose.

Jung Yu-shin glared at the fish head.

When he turned his head, Finn was eating it well, making a slurp.

Jung Yu-shin glared at Finn like that.

“...”

What sin did I commit to fall into another world, roll into the labyrinth, and eat fish head soup?

‘Should I quit being an explorer?’

As the thick sage time blew in, all the strength left my body.

My party members were eating deliciously.

“Scar, this fish soup is really delicious! Eat it quickly.”

Delia urged with shining eyes.

Jung Yu-shin had no choice but to scoop up some soup with a spoon and swallow it.

Slurp.

The salty and bloody soup went down my esophagus.

“Fuck.”

The coppery bloody smell lingered in my mouth and wouldn’t go away.

A taste that made me want to curse.

A murderous feeling welled up in me.

Finn, who was eating, looked at Jung Yu-shin with surprised eyes.

“Barbaroi...?”

“Whew. It’s a mysterious taste. Two people will eat it and three people will die.”

“You know a thing or two about taste. Eat more.”

“I don’t want to die. I’m done.”

Jung Yu-shin shook his head and put down his bowl.

“Really? Then I’ll eat your share too.”

Delia smiled and took Jung Yu-shin’s bowl.

After the difficult meal, they exchanged some items for magic stones.

They were able to obtain quite a lot of magic stones.

Karin shook her pocket full of magic stones.

“With this amount, we can complete the request and still have some left over?”

Delia nodded.

“Let’s use the small magic stones for the request and sell the larger ones separately. Even if we submit the large magic stones, the amount we receive is the same.”

Jung Yu-shin scratched his head.

“Where do we sell the magic stones separately? Doesn’t the Explorer’s Guild buy them?”

“The problem is that you don’t give me the right price. If I just do a little legwork, I can make more profit. For example, if I sell it to a magic tool shop, they’ll give me a higher price.”

Is that so?

When I went to the magic tool shop before, the owner said he would buy magic stones.

Delia was a glutton, but she was a frugal colleague.

Finn cleaned up and put the pot on his back.

“I got a few things I needed. I disposed of the magic stones, so I’m done with my business. I’ll see you later.”

“Wait a minute.”

Jeong Yu-shin stopped Finn.

Because Ingrid’s request flashed through his mind. There was no harm in asking the Labyrinth’s natural person.

“Is something unusual happening in the Labyrinth? Even a small incident is fine.”

Finn crossed his arms and thought deeply.

“No. I don’t think there’s anything special? Ah! There seemed to be some gloomy guys walking around. They were wearing black robes, and there were two priests. One of them was a short blonde woman, I think her name was Mari? I don’t know the other one.”

My heart sank.

Mari.

The name of a party member I met when I was a beginner.

She must have been horribly hurt by hobgoblins and was mentally damaged. All I heard was that she was gradually getting better.

“Uh... Where is she?”

“She’s somewhere on the sixth floor? Probably. That’s all. I’ll see you often. Barbaroi.”

Finn shrugged and answered as he left the shelter.

The shelter fell silent.

* * *

A dark corridor.

Finn smiled and walked slowly.

Following the madness and the afterglow of the other world, there was Barbaroi.

It was surprising how he suppressed his madness by a few coincidences.

In addition, he even gave off a faint scent of the other world.

Just by looking at him, you could tell what kind of path he had walked.

It must have been a precarious path where one wrong move would send him straight into the abyss.

Should I say that he was a flame that burned brighter than anyone else while living a mortal life?

It was only natural that beings who lived forever were fascinated by him. It must have been difficult to take their eyes off him even for a moment because he looked so dangerous.

‘You’re an interesting friend.’

Pin smiled while fiddling with the jerky in his pocket. He was relieved that he would be able to avoid the tedious cannibalism for the time being.

He was starting to get tired of wandering around the lower levels of the labyrinth like a kind person while keeping an eye on the guide group.

‘Should we go a little lower?’

The wanderer gradually sank into the darkness of the hallway.

* * *

The party sat quietly.

Jung Yu-shin looked at the burning bonfire with a heavy heart.

Mari.

What on earth could the Night of the ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) Dead clan have to do with it?

No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't come up with an answer.

One thing for sure.

If you get involved in the labyrinth, it won't go well.

Anne and Tarman flashed through his mind.

'Shouldn't we let her go now?'

As he thought to himself, Barion gestured.

'Scar, I shouldn't say this, but I want to find Marie.'

Barion.

Is there some kind of connection with Marie?

Is it because she's a priest of the same sect that he wants to save her?

Jung Yu-shin raised his head and looked at Barion.

"That's difficult. I can't let the party get caught up in danger."

'...'

"Let's hunt the monsters, get the loot, and return. It's a request from the leader."

Jeong Yu-shin finished speaking and leaned against the wall.

He couldn't sleep at all, but he closed his eyes.

As with everything related to people in the world, it was not easy.

After tossing and turning several times, darkness finally came.

A shelter in the corridor area.

Only a campfire was burning quietly.

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