By Zephyria 
Growing displeased, I was about to say something when Shin Tae-beom seemed to wake from a dream and snapped to attention.
“Right. It’s unlike Yeon Yu-jin to be so diligent, but Yeon Yu-jin’s temper hasn’t gone anywhere.”
‘Your temper is no joke either, you little shit?’
What more could I say to a dumb chick Esper?
As I was getting tired and trying to focus on work, Ra Ho-yeon approached me.
“You’re working hard for once.”
“I’ve never heard ‘working hard’ for just stirring some tteokbokki sauce.”
“Because you never even tried to do that before.”
“…….”
Damn Yeon Yu-jin.
I felt sorry for him, but what on earth was he doing?
I grumbled inwardly and gave Seo Yun-chae some advice.
“Hey. Why aren’t you doing anything? You need to set things up in advance so you can quickly hand them out when the Ability Users come rushing in.”
“I’ve never done anything like this before.”
“…So what?”
I knew that Seo Yun-chae was a pampered young master raised in a greenhouse, but as someone who grew up like a weed, it was none of my business.
“Just pretend to do something. It’s simple. Let’s increase work efficiency to get off work early.”
“…You really have changed a lot.”
Ra Ho-yeon looked at me strangely and listened to me obediently.
Checking if the fish cake soup was too salty, adding more broth if it was, and putting salt packets in styrofoam containers in preparation for the crowd.
It felt itchy to cooperate like this with someone I had slapped across the face.
‘This is so awkward.’
Ra Ho-yeon must have felt the same way, as he hesitated for a long time before speaking.
“…I’m sorry for slapping you out of the blue last time.”
“I know. You came to apologize at the hospital last time.”
“That wasn’t… really an apology. I thought you caused another accident and yelled at you.”
‘Hmm.’
He’s more lenient than I thought.
Ra Ho-yeon seemed to be the best of the Secrety’s four jerks.
‘I have to pretend to be the diligent idol Yeon Yu-jin for the time being.’
Well, it would be better for my future life to have a decent relationship with them rather than a bad one.
After finishing those calculations, I accepted Ra Ho-yeon’s apology.
“It’s okay. I slapped you back. Well, I must have hated the me before I lost my memory.”
“…You really have become a different person.”
“I told you, I came back from the dead.”
I decided to push through shamelessly, and now my conscience didn’t even waver.
“The most bizarre thing is how strangely relaxed you’ve become, honestly.”
“Is that so?”
That’s probably because, no matter how rude the four Secrety members are, they only look like chirping chicks to me.
‘No matter how much they act up… when I tried Reverse Guiding Seo Yun-chae last time, he lost strength in his legs like he hadn’t eaten in days.’
Thinking of them as weak and insignificant Espers made it bearable.
As if he had woken up, Potato drooled and mumbled.
[ Woo… don’t be too mean to the Espers…. ]
“Ah! My head!”
“…What’s wrong with your head? Did something splash in your eye?”
Ra Ho-yeon couldn’t see Potato, so he thought tteokbokki sauce had splashed in my eye and tried to check my eye.
“…What are you guys doing?”
Shin Tae-beom frowned as if he had seen something disgusting.
“Are you trying to do a BL performance belatedly? It makes me want to throw up just watching.”
As soon as Seo Yun-chae made eye contact with me, he started spewing insults.
“What’s a BL performance?”
“…Never mind. What am I even talking about with an idiot.”
‘If I’m an idiot, you’re a weakling, you little shit.’
“What is a BL performance?”
I was genuinely curious, but Seo Yun-chae teased me with his characteristic obnoxious aristocratic smile.
“I’m not going to tell you.”
“This guy.”
Seo Yun-chae didn’t seem to have any intention of working. He was just enjoying the glances that young girls were throwing at his handsome face.
Cha Si-yoon yawned sleepily and sat down. He didn’t seem to have any intention of moving.
‘What a mess.’
Surprisingly, the only ones here who were ready to work diligently were me, Shin Tae-beom, and Ra Ho-yeon, who I had fought with.
‘Even if it wasn’t Yeon Yu-jin, this group seems like it was destined to fail.’
I sighed and was peeling a boiled egg to put in the tteokbokki sauce when.
Chzzzt- Chzzzzzt-.
A strange current flowed from the Dungeon Gate.
“Oh! The Beomran Guild must have finished the Dungeon raid!”
The reporters and fans who were waiting rushed to the Gate.
‘Does Jin Eu-tteum, the Esper, know how to control electricity?’
I watched the scene with interest, but something was strange.
The sign that the raid was completed didn’t appear, and only an eerie current continued to crackle inside.
“Uh…? Why aren’t they coming out?”
That was the moment when people were wondering.
-Krrrrrrrr….
‘Huh?’
What appeared next wasn’t an Esper, but a monster.
The monster that emerged from the Dungeon Gate resembled a cow in the upper body and a horse in the lower body, with hooves.
The monster, which looked like a demon, flashed its red eyes and spread its dark black wings like a crow, roaring.
-Krrrrrrrrrwak!
The eardrums rang just from the sound of its cry.
Citizens who realized that this wasn’t some kind of surprise show screamed and ran away.
“What is that!”
“Oh my god!”
“A, a Dungeon Break!”
“Everyone, run!”
“Aaaaaah!”
The peaceful open space instantly turned into a scene of chaos.
The reporters who had gathered to cover Jin Eu-tteum threw away their cameras and were busy running away. People who claimed to be fan club members pushed each other to get out of the monster’s attack range and tried to escape.
All of this took only a few minutes.
-Kuaaaaaaa…!
The monster, stimulated by the chaotic movements of the terrified people, flapped its wings.
“No!”
I knew that monster. It was a Class A monster that I had fought countless times in my past life while desperately raiding Dungeons, a Balrog.
‘Balrogs have a habit of getting stronger as the surroundings get louder and the fear of humans towards them intensifies!’
So it was safe to say that this place was a stage set for the Balrog.
I shouted at the top of my lungs to the surroundings.
“Citizens! Stop! Balrogs get stronger by feeding on people’s fear! Even if you’re scared, you have to stay still!”
[ No. It’s no use. ]
Potato, who had fully woken up in the chaos, whispered anxiously.
As he said, people were too busy running away to survive, so they didn’t seem to hear me at all. It was too noisy anyway.
‘Damn it. From the start, they should have controlled the area within 500 meters of the Dungeon Gate so that no one could even get close!’
It was crazy that ordinary people were gathered so close to the Dungeon Gate.
Perhaps because they were too steeped in peace, people were confused and panicked when the Dungeon Break occurred.
Ting. Ting. Ting.
Meaningless notifications to evacuate because monsters had appeared everywhere only rang emptily.
“What is this monster! What happened to Hunter Jin Eu-tteum!”
“Could it be… that they failed to raid the Dungeon?”
“Someone call the police, no, the Hunters!”
“Save me!”
Unfortunately, the people who were running away were blocked from going any further as a transparent wall appeared.
“W, what is this!”
“Damn it.”
I cursed and threw away the strings of my apron and shouted to the members.
“Run away with as many people as possible!”
“What? But you just said we shouldn’t move….”
“The Balrog is creating a territory! Because of people’s panic! At least you guys run away! It’s dangerous here now…!”
Kugugugung.
Before I could finish speaking, the territory expansion was quickly completed.
“Ah, damn it.”
I’m completely screwed.
A transparent dome quickly formed the ceiling, isolating the people.
No matter how much they punched and kicked, people couldn’t escape based on a certain distance from the monster.
“What is this?!”
“Ah, I can’t go forward!”
“M, Mom…!”
The citizens’ fear reached its peak. Even the sound of wailing could be heard.
The Balrog, having consumed enough fear, smacked its lips.
-Krrrrrr.
-It’s been a long time since I’ve tasted such a delicacy.
-How much I’ve missed the taste of human flesh!
“M, the monster is speaking human language?”
Several Balrogs broke through the Gate and emerged one after another in front of the bewildered citizens.
The watching citizens turned pale and their teeth chattered.
‘Damn it. It’s started.’
The worst phenomenon that occurs when a Dungeon Break happens.
The Dungeon Dome, which is the territorialization of the Dungeon monster, has been created.
‘Even the Balrog’s cries are being translated into human language. This is the worst situation.’
What was strange was that ordinary people didn’t seem to know the very basic things that I knew.
‘It’s been 20 years and they’ve stabilized all the Dungeons, but.’
Have they all become complacent and not even educated on the minimum Dungeon safety rules?
Even in the urgent situation, I was dumbfounded and cursed the current government in my mind.
‘What are the citizens supposed to do in this situation!’
Even if the Dungeon Break alert went off, it would take time for Hunters with spatial movement abilities to get here.
‘Damn it, by then, everyone here will be dead!’
I don’t know what happened to Jin Eu-tteum, who was said to have gone to raid the Dungeon. Judging from the circumstances, it seems like he was killed by the Dungeon monsters.
‘I don’t know what’s going on.’
If he had been successfully raiding Dungeons in a row, Jin Eu-tteum couldn’t have been weak.
‘Has something changed in the Dungeon?’