Days of Dungeon: From Simple Quest to Strange Adventure-Chapter 138: From Beastkin Nation To Aiden Town - Part 2

It was already nearing dusk when Lynn and Arezu finished looting the kobolds’ nest.

Although they only gathered all the monster cores and a great axe for Arezu to use, leaving the rest inside the sealed cave, those would be enough for Lynn’s planned mischief.

"Would you really be fine wielding a different weapon?" Lynn said, seeing through his laid-back expression that masked a faint, wistful smile and the sadness in his eyes.

Arezu awkwardly avoided her gaze, keeping his silence as they walked through the forest. But it only made Lynn more persistent in her mischief.

"Now that I remember, you were far more skilled at using a sword," Lynn said, recalling when Arezu fought Rust in the dungeon of abandoned cursed weapons.

"You’re probably just as skilled at using a spear as well," she added, this time mentioning how Arezu caught a spear thrown by the Visage of the gold-rank Crystal Blade adventurer.

"And I’m sure you’re an archer—"

"Lynn," Arezu said, interrupting her playful storytelling.

Seeing Arezu’s serious expression as he stopped walking, Lynn realized that he had probably figured out her mischief—that she didn’t only plan to pick up another weapon for him to use, but also to bring up his habit of refusing to wield other weapons.

Lynn, of course, remembered her promise that she wouldn’t ask about Arezu’s secrets and would wait until he was ready to tell her.

Regardless, it wasn’t like she was asking now.

"I’m just recalling our adventures, so you don’t have to say anything," Lynn said, flashing her cheerful smile as she stood beside Arezu before walking ahead of him.

"They weren’t mine..." Arezu murmured, stopping Lynn in her tracks.

Lynn slowly turned around, but not before hiding the grin curving on her lips—her mischief working as planned.

"Weren’t yours? You mean the weapons?" she asked, confused by what he meant and by the familiar regretful and guilty expression he always wore when recalling his past.

"Not the weapons, but the skills to wield them... They weren’t originally mine, but my comrades’."

Lynn understood that the comrades Arezu spoke of were already gone, but she couldn’t understand his reasoning.

"You mean they taught you? But how can they not be yours if you already learned them?"

Despite her continuous nagging, Arezu didn’t say anything else and only responded with a tired, exhausted look that made Lynn even more annoyed.

"Explain things more properly, Mr. Arezu!"

--- 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

After walking a few minutes away from the cave, Lynn and Arezu made camp for the night near a forest river.

While Arezu was setting up a makeshift platform of branches up in the trees where they would sleep, Lynn started fishing at the river the moment she finished making a campfire.

"Ekk~!"

For a second, Arezu wondered where the girl’s scream came from, thinking that their pursuers had finally caught up to them—until he saw Lynn stumbling from her seat.

"What happened, Lynn?"

Lynn quickly stood up, feeling embarrassed that Arezu had seen her, and annoyed at the reason for her surprise—the creature she had caught.

"You freaking abomination—GYAHH~!" She tried to step on it, only to trip again when it suddenly moved.

"Pfft—"

"Don’t you dare laugh at me, Mr. Arezu!"

Restraining his urge to laugh, Arezu jumped down from the makeshift platform. He approached Lynn’s fishing rod and picked up the creature she caught.

"You’re not afraid to fight a dragon, but you’re scared of an eel?"

"Why would I even be scared of that?!"

Or so she said—but when Arezu took a step closer to her, Lynn quickly drew her twin arrow crossbow, threatening to shoot both the eel and him.

Seeing Lynn act scared was even rarer than her giving a genuine, honest smile free of mischief, and somehow, Arezu couldn’t help but tease her.

"Don’t even think about it—GYAHH~!"

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By the time the sun had set and the forest was engulfed in darkness, the two of them sat around the campfire preparing to eat their dinner.

"GRRR~!"

"I know, I know... I’m sorry for tossing the eel at you, so please stop growling at me."

Although Arezu honestly felt sorry for scaring Lynn, he was also expecting an apology from her for shooting two arrows aimed straight at his face.

Still pouting and glaring at him, Lynn took out a box of four-topping pizza from her enchanted bag.

After what he did, Arezu expected she wouldn’t share anything with him.

Regardless, he already had a meal she had caught for him.

"Are you really eating that?" Lynn asked, looking disgusted at the eel Arezu had prepared—deboned, butterflied, and skewered—and was now grilling over the campfire’s charcoal.

"You’ve never had eel before?"

"Why would I even eat that?"

Or so she said—but when Arezu dripped soy sauce onto the eel, the unfamiliar yet delicious aroma made Lynn hesitate.

"Grrr~! Give me some..."

"But you said you wouldn’t eat it—"

"I said let me have a taste!"

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"What is this about now?" Arezu sighed, unsure why Lynn was shoving the werewolf’s monster core into his face.

"Aren’t you hungry?"

They had just finished their dinner, and even though Lynn ate most of the grilled eel, the pizza she shared was enough to satisfy Arezu.

Lynn’s next remark, however, made it clear what she wanted.

"Isn’t it about time you eat another monster core, Mr. Arezu?"

"Lynn—"

"It’s about time, right?" Lynn bluntly said, cutting him off before he could complain about her promise.

It was part of her mischief to make Arezu reveal his ability to absorb mana—including the monster core itself—which was why she gathered the monster cores from the kobolds and werewolves.

Still, she wouldn’t get aggressive if he refused her request.

But after what Arezu did, Lynn wouldn’t take no for an answer.

"Eat it."

"Fine..." Arezu sighed, surrendering to Lynn’s tantrum.

"You already saw it anyway," he said, assuming Lynn had made him absorb a monster core to save his life while he was unconscious and dying after the battle at the Mirare Town dungeon incident.

He took the monster core from her hand, hide his right hand behind him, and absorbed it.

"Ta-da!"

Arezu was only trying to lighten the mood, making it look like a party trick with the monster core mysteriously disappearing—but it only made Lynn more impatient.

"Strip off and just show it to me already, Mr. Arezu!"

"At least mind your words, Lynn!"

"Pfft—Hahaha!"

"I guess we caught them at the wrong time."

"We’re not interrupting, are we?"