I’m the Bad Guy, Can I Leave?

“Cough, cough!”

A giddy sensation struck me. It felt like someone was grabbing myintestines and shaking them around in their hands.

Like a fish forcibly thrown to the surface, I gasped.

“Keuk….”

A small trembling hand gripped the floor. Gray eyes moved shrewdly under the pale eyelids.

‘No enemies.’

I was puzzled, but not confused. I’d been through something similar before.

‘It’s like an irregular gate.’

The moment when the space was rearranged, and the body was twisted. Recalling the sensation at that time, I turned my head.

I sighed and ran a hand through my hair.

“This is ridiculous….”

The scenery in front of me was unfamiliar.

The blue sky peeked through the cracked ceiling. Wind whipped in and out of the gaping hole in the wall, and the red tapestry hanging above it fluttered in tatters.

Tung-

The sound of a lost helmet rolling across the floor rang in my ears.

This was not the Korea of the novel I’d been reincarnated by, nor was it a place I recognized from my own world.

‘It’s like I’m in a fairy tale.’

I turned my head, pressing my throbbing head. Ki Tae-yeon lay dead under the half-collapsed wall.

“Chief.”

No matter how many times I called, he couldn’t come to his senses. I checked Ki Tae-yeon’s pulse. It was still going strong.

“Chief. Hey. Open your eyes.”

“…….”

“It’s the synchronization.”

I suspected it was the result of the double synesthesia the DevsOps had given him to mess around with.

“Hmm.”

I took out a potion while looking at the face of the man who turned pale.

‘I can’t rush you because I don’t know what’s going to happen… I’m gonna have to feed him potion.’

I carefully opened Ki Tae-yeon’s lips and spilled the blue liquid. I could feel a small breath leaking through the slightly open lip gap.

Gulp.

Even though he was unconscious, Ki Tae-yeon took the potion well. The instinct to live seemed very powerful.

‘Well, I’m done with the first aid.’

I swallowed the rest of the potion and checked my wrist. When I pressed the metallic band button with a round screen, the red light flashed.

tit, tit, tit.

Tit————————

“…….”

Silence enveloped me. Looking at the screen from afar, I moved to Ki Tae-yeon.

The same beeping sound pierced my ears.

tit, tit, tit.

Tit————————

This made it clear.

The wristband, which acts as a communicator with the control room, has lost its function.

“I’m going to die… I’m going crazy.”

Staring at the device’s screen, I wiped my face.

The wristband was not just a means of communication. The small machine, which the development office requested and filled, also served as an escape stone.

In other words, I had to find a way to navigate this strange place.

“Huh….”

‘Yeah, no wonder things are going too well these days.’

Still, it wasn’t as embarrassing as I thought it would be. I could have fallen to my death, but I was fully prepared for this.

It was a habit I’d developed after being caught in an irregular gate.

“Let’s see, plenty of potions.”

Instantaneous potions made by Haetae craftsmen and various status anomaly release potions. And there were even items of equipment ripped from the Heavenly Spirit Guild and the development room.

What’s left is where the life I felt before I lost my mind came from….

It was time for me to take another look around, rubbing my stiff neck.

“Ugh.”

“…….”

“Ugh…. What the hell is this?”

The potion had worked. Ki Tae-yeon came to his senses.

I stood by Ki Tae-yeon until he calmed down. Explaining the situation was a bonus.

Ki Tae-yeon, who heard the whole story, responded with one reaction.

“The dogs didn’t do their job properly. As soon as I get out, I’ll have to make sure that they write ten apology letters each.”

“…Is there a way out?”

“Ah, you don’t know, Hunter Han Cha-soo. You must have been scared all by yourself. You could have been in trouble if I hadn’t been there.”

Ki Tae-yeon smiled and patted my head. I frowned at the attitude of appeasing the frightened child.

I don’t care. Ki Tae-yeon ruffled my hair to his heart’s content and stood up.

“Let’s see.”

His eyes, which looked around, shone blue. I stood up silently and watched him.

“Hmm….”

We were in a spacious room about 10 meters by 10 meters. The floor and pillars are marble. The crumbling walls were carved with unrecognisable patterns in parchment and littered with skeletons and broken armour.

“Do you know where it is?”

Ki Tae-yeon tilted his head toward my question. He opened his mouth slowly after a moment of thought.

“I think I saw it among the test dungeon samples…. I’m not sure.”

“A test dungeon, wasn’t it only monsters that could appear?”

“It’s human nature to want to use the virtual reality we’ve created, so even if it’s not just the guys in the development room, the higher-ups want to make the most of what they have.”

Ki Tae-yeon muttered in a fed-up tone. Looking somewhere and loosening his wrists was about to start a fight.

“Well, let me see.”

The place where Ki Tae-yeon stopped walking was a wall that collapsed to his waist. Beyond the wall lay a dense forest.

I didn’t bother to stop him. Instead, he pulled his arm back and threw his fist into the empty air.

Tung—!

The metallic noise struck my ears. And a plaid wall that suddenly appeared out of the air.

The wall, swaying like a mesh of faint light, soon disappeared without a trace, like melting in the sun.

“It’s not an open dungeon, which is fortunate or unfortunate, it’s most likely inside the system.”

Ki Tae-yeon looked back at me and said.

The virtual reality system is not yet able to implement open dungeons.

This was because the system’s core and backbone, the Heart of Aderjan Madosa, was not fully controlled.

The heart, as powerful as its name suggests, was a living trap. Dozens of times, it had tricked those close to it, despite the fact that it was only a mindless item.

“I can’t use this. What’s the point of a rare item with rank 1? I can’t use it!”

It’s too dangerous to throw it away, and it’s a waste to keep it. It was the head of the development department at the Fourth Headquarters who found a use for the heart.

“Isn’t it possible to draw power from it without getting too close?”

The head of the development department of the fourth headquarters immediately began controlling the hallucination heart with the head of the development department of the first headquarters. It is basic to collect various populations, and even a direct control device was made from dungeon by-products.

The results were better than expected.

Nevertheless, it was not enough to fully utilize the power of the hallucination heart.

Every time they try to implement a complex dungeon like a dark maze or underwater dungeon, space gets tangled dozens of times.

“Dude, this isn’t working? Every time we try to make it a little bit more feasible, the ghostly power goes out of scope.”

In the end, the dev team had to settle for just summoning a few monsters or creating a very simple dungeon.

“Lim Cheong-mun had a seizure, but what can I do. Unless you let him fall into a fantasy by saying, ‘It’s a hallucination heart, I’ll grant you what you want’, everything in the world can’t go my way.”

After giving up on greed, the system development continued smoothly. They went through several safety tests and even checked himself….

‘Why did a dungeon just appear out of nowhere.’

It was when Ki Tae-yeon tried to tap the air once again.

“Ugh.”

Feeling pain, Ki Tae-yeon clicked his tongue without realizing it. His wrists were swollen red.

‘That’s right, I had my stats matched with Han Cha-soo.’

It wasn’t particularly painful, but it was cumbersome. He didn’t bring a potion.

It was a time when Ki Tae-yeon looked at my wrist with indifferent eyes. A hand burst in from the side.

“Here, use it.”

“Hmm?”

“It’s a potion. You can put it on, or you can drink it.”

Ki Tae-yeon smiled quietly when he saw Haetae’s brand on the potion lid.

“You didn’t send them all to the Heavenly Spirit Guild, did you?”

I’m glad that I know how to take care of myself. Ki Tae-yeon smiled on the frugal side of his power.

“Aren’t you picking up?”

“I can’t open the lid because my wrist hurts, so can you apply it for me?”

I frowned for a moment, but obediently opened the lid. A refreshing scent wafted into the air.

I asked, rubbing his wrist carefully.

“Now that I’ve heard the explanation, please tell me how to get out.”

“It’s simple. If you get caught in a dungeon, what do you do?”

“…You mean we have to fight our way out.”

‘I can’t fight with you, I’ve become a nuisance.’

A sigh came out of my mouth.

There was no way I could fight properly with a body that had taken penalties for dueling.

Even worse, Ki Tae-yeon had the same stats as me now, with double the synesthesia. The dungeon might be harder than I thought.

It was then that a ray of doubt sprang up in my mind.

“But do I have to succeed in the dungeon?”

“Huh?”

“It’s a test dungeon, after all. You can certainly fail and still get out.”

And the quickest way to fail a dungeon is to die.