By Zephyria 
I was worried that Jae-ha and his colleagues might be caught by the Bureau employees.
‘Jae-ha is a public enemy designated by the government.’
I had seen it when copying the Database.
Above Jae-ha’s record, secretive and confidential keywords such as Top Secret and Red Code were plastered all over.
‘…There was also a terrifying phrase saying that if capture was difficult, he should be killed to end it.’
The Bureau had been consistently tracking Jae-ha and the White Tiger Unit members for 20 years, so if they encountered him this time, they would never let him go.
No office worker would want to miss the chance of a living reward.
“Are you worried about me?”
“Isn’t that obvious?”
Jae-ha chuckled as if it wasn’t a big deal.
“I’ve never been caught before. I need to have something to fear.”
The guy who shrugged his shoulders was a bit annoying to me.
“…Is that a boast?”
“It is a boast.”
I couldn’t feel any hesitation or fear from Jae-ha, who smiled brightly.
Behind me, the Secrety members booed at Jae-ha.
“Boo, you’re annoying.”
Seo Yun-chae’s reaction was particularly enthusiastic….
Ra Ho-yeon, Shin Tae-beom, and Cha Si-yoon were also glaring at Jae-ha with fierce eyes.
Jae-ha remained calm, as if he didn’t even feel those hot gazes.
He skillfully used the White Tiger Unit’s communication device to call his colleagues.
Dozens of White Tiger Unit members gathered in the darkness, following the orders of their leader, Jae-ha.
Jae-ha, who was checking if anyone was missing, asked me.
“It’s a dangerous situation, so I’d like the White Tiger Unit members to join us. Is that okay?”
“Of course. The more power, the better.”
Especially since the White Tiger Unit has mental resistance skills, I felt safe even if we encountered Ban No-ah.
“Confirmation complete. Let’s go.”
Hyeon Jae-ha, who had made up his mind, was like a sparkling gemstone.
‘He was so anxious a moment ago.’
As expected, the leader is the leader.
He was just like his confident self from the past, and I almost teared up.
‘It’s an important moment, and since I was the one who suggested going into the Dungeon first, I can’t show weakness.’
Tears can wait until after we solve this bizarre Dungeon Break, including Ban No-ah.
After roughly wiping my eyes with my sleeve, I reached out to Jae-ha.
Just like we always did when entering the Dungeon where the signs of the previous life’s rampage were visible.
“Let’s go. I don’t know what’s beyond there, but I don’t think we’ll lose.”
“…Okay.”
I wasn’t the only one who felt nostalgia and longing from this trivial action; Jae-ha’s eyes also flickered with a faint galaxy of memories for a moment.
We held hands tightly and opened the Dungeon door, which had been transformed and had bumpy egg sacs growing on it.
As soon as we opened the door, a bright red mist engulfed us.
[ Starting entry into the def?aced Dungeon@$. ]
And pitch-black darkness descended.
When I opened my eyes, I saw an unfamiliar sky.
A strange sky with crimson heat haze rising above the red sky.
“Huff!”
I regained my senses and jumped up from my seat.
“Where is this….”
I tried to recall the last memory before losing consciousness.
‘Is this inside the Dungeon?’
What about Jae-ha?
What about the Secrety members?
What about the White Tiger Unit members?
“Is anyone there?”
I looked around, but there was nothing to see except for the desert area full of red sand.
All I could see in my field of vision was a ruin-like landscape stretching endlessly.
I shook the unpleasant red sand off my body and looked around.
‘The internal space of the Dungeon is wider than I thought.’
I couldn’t figure out where the boundary of this Dungeon was.
It was a similar environment to what I had experienced in the Simulator dungeon.
Even if a Dungeon reflects various environments, it was uncommon for the interior to be so excessively wide, as if we had fallen into another dimension.
Ordinary Dungeons are in the form of towers, and only a few special Dungeons randomly contain natural environments with defined boundaries.
As if revealing that it was a dangerous Dungeon, the natural environment of the Dungeon had strange aspects. Like the red sand now.
Is this how the Little Prince felt when he was alone on an unfamiliar planet?
I raised my voice as loud as I could and kept calling Jae-ha, the Secrety members, and the White Tiger Unit members.
“Jae-ha! You brats! White Tiger Unit members! Can you hear me?”
But all that came back was an echo of my voice.
“This is awkward.”
This Dungeon seemed to have completely torn apart and scattered our group.
‘This is bad.’
Even if I’m SSS-class, I’m a Guide.
Without an Esper to support me, I was likely to be defenseless against enemy attacks.
I gritted my teeth and took each step in the red sand where my feet sank deeply.
“If Ban No-ah isn’t here, I’ll eat my hat.”
An artificial environment, and a Dungeon that ruthlessly tore apart and scattered my companions.
There’s definitely something here.
‘Now that things have come to this, I have to find someone quickly and cooperate to defeat Ban No-ah.’
As I walked with a firm resolve.
Potato, who was hiding in my pocket, peeked out.
[ You’re working hard. ]
“Because there’s no other way.”
[ This decision was too dangerous. It’s like sticking your head into a tiger’s mouth. ]
“But there’s a saying that if you want to catch a tiger, you have to go into the tiger’s den, right?”
Ban No-ah may deny it, but he was just a timid coward.
The fact that he had been living for 20 years, washing his identity and not thinking of confronting Jae-ha and his colleagues head-on, was proof of that.
“It may have been the confirmation of my identity that served as the fuse, but we might never be able to catch Ban No-ah if it’s not now.”
[ ……Because he craves me, the ‘Resurrection’? ]
“That’s right.”
What makes a coward break out of his hard shell and take dangerous measures is the desire for Potato, that is, my ability, ‘Resurrection.’
“I don’t know what the others are doing, but seeing as how I’m the only one who’s been separated, either the boss monster of the Dungeon or that damned Ban No-ah will show up soon… Oh.”
I saw a human figure through the red sandstorm.
And Potato curled up again in fear inside my pocket.
[ H, he’s here! It’s him! ]
“……!”
I stopped dead in my tracks.
As the sandstorm cleared, Ban No-ah, whom we had been looking for so desperately, was standing there in a neat suit.
Wearing a silk hat full of flowers and jewels that a mad hatter might wear.
He smiled and greeted me.
“Long time no see, Yeon Yu-jin.”
“…….”
“Ah, that’s right. I made a mistake. You revealed that you were An Ga-hyeon during our last meeting, didn’t you?”
“Don’t talk to me.”
Then Ban No-ah gave me a very hurt look.
Disgustingly.
“Oh, come on. If you seal my lips, we can’t have a conversation, can we?”
“I have nothing to say to a low-class murderer like you.”
Ban No-ah’s eyes narrowed at the word ‘murderer.’
“Murder? I was truly a prophet who knew where those abilities should go.”
“What the hell are you babbling about, you crazy bastard.”
He harmed others and took their core abilities to make them his own possessions in the end to fulfill his desires, and I really didn’t like him wagging his measly tongue.
Potato trembled and stopped me.
[ W, what if you die? ]
‘I won’t die.’
As soon as Ban No-ah charged at me, I was planning to activate Reverse Guiding, the only means of defense I could use right now.
‘What worries me a little is whether this will work on Ban No-ah, who steals and uses other people’s abilities….’
Ban No-ah didn’t have a partner Guide around him, no matter how I looked at it.
Either he had a special ability to purify accumulated Corruption Level that didn’t require a Guide, or….
‘Maybe he doesn’t have the Corruption Level penalty because he wasn’t originally an Ability User.’
In that case, Reverse Guiding, the last resort, would become useless.
While I bit my lip and wondered if Ban No-ah had any other weaknesses.
The guy looked at me with interest and suddenly clapped his hands.
“…What?”
“Ah. There’s someone I’d like to introduce to An Ga-hyeon.”
Someone to introduce?
At this timing?
Potato and I were both puzzled and stepped back, wondering what Ban No-ah was trying to do.
‘Could it be that he had a partner Guide and had been hiding it all along?’
[ No…. That’s not it. ]
Then?
[ I feel an ominous… familiar energy. I have a bad feeling…. ]
Potato trembled as if he were trapped in a freezer.
I quietly held my breath and watched the person Ban No-ah was trying to introduce.
Whoo-oong-.
The red sandstorm split into several strands and scattered behind Ban No-ah.
I covered my eyes and mouth to avoid the sand that stung my eyes and throat, and I was shocked by their identity that was soon revealed.
“…You brats. And even the White Tiger Unit members.”
What Ban No-ah was trying to introduce to me were the colleagues who had entered the transformed Dungeon together.
Ban No-ah twisted his lips into a devilish smile.
“How is it? How do you feel about this reunion?”