The Broken Possessors of the Infinite Regression Academy

Chapter 236 – Side Story: Midterm Exam Replacement Test – 3

“There’s still some air inside. There’s no need to wander around a flooded dungeon.”

“Yeah. That’s good… … .”

The Leviathan’s gate was said to have been filled with water all the way inside, creating a terrifying atmosphere that caused several A-class hunters who entered first to panic, but this gate had air.

The floor is soaking wet and slippery, seawater drips from the ceiling, and the walls are so damp that water droplets are running down them. Every time I breathe, it tastes salty, but I can still breathe.

It was much better than exploring underwater. With a thud, he put down what he was carrying on his shoulders. The octopus’s legs made an unpleasant sound as they spread out on the floor.

“… … Are you really going to take that?”

Karna, who had been observing this side while keeping an eye on the situation, asked with a trembling voice. He looked so frightened that it was hard to believe he was a knight of the Royal Guard. It seemed that he was extremely weak to seafood.

“It has to be like this since I even packaged it.”

I tapped a bundle of octopus legs, which were as tall as I was and much thicker than my upper body. All eight were neatly packaged and waiting to be shipped to the mainland.

In the end, it was not possible to determine whether this guy was a monster that had jumped out of the gate, or a normal octopus that had just grown in size. It did try to escape after losing a few of its legs, but it was difficult to determine based on that.

Even after catching it, I couldn’t figure it out, as I don’t have much knowledge about seafood.

‘I’m not going to research it anyway.’

The Magic Tower Masters will take care of that. If you throw it at the Magic Association, they will sort it out. If they refuse, just grab anyone and make them do it.

“I see……?”

Karna, who had been nodding his head with all his might, stopped. Then he wrapped both arms around his chest and turned around carefully.

“Hey, don’t look this way… … .”

Suddenly, I wondered why he was like that, and then I realized the reason. Karna was wearing a white dress shirt, and since he had gone into the water and come out, it was naturally soaked and stuck to his body.

In other words, the plain beige underwear was clearly visible. Beneath it, her sunken belly button and her toned, 11-pack abs were visible.

Karna’s body twitched as he noticed my gaze. I thought it would be better to dry him off quickly. With a snap of my fingers, Karna, who had been soaking wet and mouse-like, instantly became fluffy.

“Mira, you? Aren’t you going to stop?”

“You’re going to get wet again when you go out anyway. It’s easier to dry it all at once.”

The biggest reason you shouldn’t leave your clothes wet is because of hypothermia, but you don’t have to worry about that, so as long as you can bear the discomfort, you’ll be fine.

“I feel like I’m going to get wet again anyway.”

He took out Eternity. Karna, who had been tilting his head, sensed something and instinctively put his hand on his waist, but stopped abruptly. It seemed like he remembered the role he had been given.

“Just watch. I’ll be the one killing them.”

“Uh, yeah. Okay.”

Karna couldn’t take his hand off the hilt of his sword while answering. It must have been because he felt awkward just watching from behind.

While we were doing this, a swarm of guys appeared from the other side of the dungeon. They were fishmen who looked like human bodies attached to fish heads.

The head resembled a fish, and the skin was scaled like a fish, but from the shoulders to the toes, it was built like a muscular man in the shape of an inverted triangle. On top of that, it walked on two legs, so it was not an exaggeration to call it a mermaid.

“Ugh… … .”

A small exclamation came from the side. It seemed like a similar impression.

He ran forward with a slight frown. He stabbed his sword into the neck of the one in front of him, then used his polar twist to blast his entire upper body apart. He then kicked the second one away before the blood and flesh covered him.

The guy who got kicked by me had his spine broken and his body folded in half as he crashed into his comrades who were running behind him. When I clenched my left fist, the fishermen who were tangled together and fell over froze in place.

We found our next target.

“I think it’s okay to go in now.”

It took only about 7 seconds for all 29 fishmen to be slaughtered. Karna was disgusted at the sight of the bloody smell flowing from the corpses.

“What do you want to do, Karna? Do you want to follow me this time?”

“I’m here-”

Karna seemed about to say, “I’ll stay here,” but then closed his mouth for a moment. His eyes alternately looked at the neatly wrapped octopus legs next to him and the corpses of the fishmen, which were dead and reeking of blood.

“Come on, I’ll follow you!”

“Ugh. This is terrible, really.”

I came up to the land and dried my clothes, then frowned at the bloody smell coming from my body. I never thought there would be someone who would burst their own mucus.

The mucus itself was blocked, but the barrier couldn’t block the smell, so I grabbed it as quickly as I could and got out, but this is what I ended up with. My shoes were a mess, too.

“Eek… … .”

Karna was half-sobbing and his clothes were smoking. The clothes he had put on and taken down were in such a state, so he was dressed a little more casually than he had originally been.

Shorts that were close to hot pants, and a white T-shirt that was a little short so that it revealed her stomach even with the slightest movement. I asked why it didn’t seem to be her style, and she said that it had been switched at some point.

“Okay. That’s it.”

He sent the head of a fish-like creature that he had brought as evidence of the subjugation through the dimensional gate. Karna didn’t even bother to look in this direction.

I took out a Post-it note from my bag, scribbled a few words on it, and stuck it somewhere I could see it. Then I opened the gate and threw it inside.

Karna, who was diligently steaming his clothes, raised his head.

“Where did you send it?”

“The Wizards’ Association.”

“Really?!”

What was so great about it? Karna, who had been crying just a moment ago, burst into laughter. It seemed that the Magic Association had a bad reputation even among the Royal Guard.

“Phew! Those humans’ faces really look worth seeing. Did you throw them there to tease them?”

“No. I threw it to see if it was a real octopus or a monster.”

Maybe it’s because they’ve been through so many things that are so tiring, but the sight of those people being frightened somehow had a primal fun to it. If you don’t like seafood, you’ll probably cry while working.

This time, I didn’t say anything about teaching magic even after it was over, so it’ll be even more so.

“… … It’s all done.”

After a while, Karna, who had burned his clothes, sat down next to me.

“I guess you gave up on clothes?”

“Yeah. I think it’ll still feel awkward even if I stop it with magic. What about you?”

“Once we clear out all the gates, we’ll have to do that. We can just buy new uniforms anyway.”

“Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”

“I told you not to come with me. If you were here and looking at the ocean, you would have enjoyed the feeling of being on vacation.”

“… … .”

Karna’s cheeks puffed out. He glanced at me like that, and burst into laughter again, as if he found it ridiculous even to himself.

If you think about it, Karna’s age is probably similar to Kang Yuna’s, but somehow it didn’t feel awkward even though he was a student. Just imagining Kang Yuna wearing a school uniform and cosplaying as a student would make her stomach turn.

“Let’s go slowly. We should also look around other places.”

We went through the portals on the map one by one. In order of visit, they were near the swamp, in the middle of the forest, next to the valley, in the middle of the meadow, and halfway up the mountain.

The places that the academy professors had chosen as candidates were in the middle of a forest, next to a valley, and in the middle of a meadow, but all three were far from the southeastern seaside where they had first visited.

The valley was pretty good, but even Karna, who said the valley was fine, seemed to be unable to let go of his obsession with the beach, so it was obvious which one would have the upper hand.

“This is the last one.”

I sent the severed werewolf-troll head and entered the coordinates for the last dimensional gate. It was supposed to be in the middle of a snowy mountain, but I could already feel the cold even before I entered.

“What about the cold spell?”

“I checked.”

Karna showed me the magical tool he was wearing on his wrist. Similar to the underwater breathing magic, it had a duration indicator that maintained body temperature and prevented frostbite and hypothermia.

I nodded and went through the gate. Immediately, a huge snowstorm greeted me. It was so heavy that I thought a normal person would be swept away by it.

Karna, who came next, looked around and let out a small exclamation.

“What a great place. There’s a reason why the demons don’t live here.”

“Because there’s no reason to stay?”

“That’s right. If you need a place to live, you can stay in the Demon World. If you don’t want to harass humans here, you can just go out and fight. Why are you doing that?”

Of course, this only applies to the Demon Tribe, and monsters are an exception.

“Then they must have jumped out of the gate.”

At the edge of the snowstorm, with visibility drastically reduced, a yeti-like creature was watching us. It was even riding a horse as hairy as itself.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen them… … I guess so. All the monsters reported so far have been closer to wolves.”

Karna nodded, looking at her with his eyes squinted. Even so, his body was instinctively fiddling with his sword.

“Wait a minute. There’s more behind.”

“There’s more?”

A new silhouette appeared beyond the blizzard. It was a Yeti, riding a horse covered in hair, torch and weapon in hand.

But the weapon he was holding was unusual.

‘… … Did I see something wrong?’

No matter how you looked at it, what they were holding in their hands were not crude blunt weapons or spears, but rather elaborately forged swords that looked like they were made by humans.

“Huh? So it’s not a monster, but a demon?”

Karna seemed equally confused, as if he was confused as to whether it was a demon or a monster. If it was a demon, it was a serious matter that had to be recorded.

-Wooo!

The men thumped their chests and screamed. The horses backed off to the left and right, clearing the way. A large silhouette approached through the gap left by the horses.

A yeti fully armed with a helmet and armor, and even the horse he was riding was armored. In its hand, like other yetis, it held an intricately crafted axe.

“… … This gate has a unique concept.”

He muttered softly and aimed his axe at me. The creature got excited and pointed at me with his axe. The yetis under his command rode their horses in unison and formed a line.

“What should I do? Can you help me?”

“No. It’s okay.”

A monster that knows how to use weapons.

I’d be happy if you caught it alive and brought it to the Wizards’ Guild.