NOVEL NEXT Chapter 17 - Giga Chad
Deep Water, the largest clan that only explorers of 3rd class and above can join.
After White Rabbit’s return, Deep Water’s clan leader Mineral Water gathered the stagnant water executives to start a regular meeting.
…Although it’s called a meeting.
As it was a gathering of stagnant water executives with extremely strong egos, it was essentially no different from a marketplace.
“So, has anyone found anything?”
“This humble one has found nothing.”
“I’ve got nothing either!”
“Sadly, I don’t find anything.”
“This girl has found nothing, my lord.”
“Nothing. Not a thing.”
“Would there be anything to find! Hey Water, why don’t you show those impudent breasts of yours! That might be the greatest discovery of my 70-year life…”
Thwack!
Between the white hair parted in two.
Mineral Water’s fist landed squarely on the center of the perverted old man’s shiny bald head.
“Agh!”
The perverted old man clutched the hit area as if in pain, then immediately frowned and glared.
“Ouch, that hurts! You wench, not only can you not respect the elderly, but you even attack them!”
“One more word and it’ll be your neck next, you perverted old geezer.”
“….”
The perverted old man’s mouth closed.
“So, really nothing? No one?”
“….”
Only silence returned.
“Ah… exploring is so boring. There’s nothing to do. The content is lacking. They’ve made it practically impossible to clear the 30th floor…”
“Sis, that’s just how labyrinths are. If only stirrings occurred a bit more frequently…”
The hero from the White Tiger clan and her twin sister, the heroine from the Yellow Tiger clan, opened their mouths, but it was just trivial chatter.
“…Haah.”
Normally, there wouldn’t even be a reason to gather these troublemakers like this.
She only held it because someone anonymous had left a note asking for a regular meeting to be held.
The clan leader’s gaze turned towards the woman sitting in the back, White Rabbit.
“White Rabbit.”
“Y-Yes?!”
A voice that seemed very flustered.
Could she be the owner of this note?
“Haven’t you found anything? You went to the labyrinth yesterday or the day before, right?”
“….”
When even White Rabbit didn’t give any particular answer, Water’s brow furrowed.
White Rabbit’s appearance was captured in her gaze.
Black bunny girl outfit, pink gloves and shoes, white knee-high stockings.
And….
“Wait a minute, White Rabbit. What’s that on your head?”
Water’s gaze turned to the black glasses sitting on White Rabbit’s head.
An unusual design she had never seen before.
“Ah, that, actually….”
“Ha, what could she have found? All she can do is a bit of spatial magic and handle a sword.”
“….”
White Rabbit’s expression momentarily hardened at Hero’s sudden diss.
“I did find something. This.”
White Rabbit pointed to the black glasses on her head.
“Huh? What’s that? Let me see it.”
Hero’s fingertips reached towards White Rabbit’s head, but White Rabbit immediately avoided her touch.
“This is extremely precious. Don’t touch it carelessly.”
“You bitch, suddenly talking back? A mere cat clan girl…”
Grrrrrr.
Hero bared her teeth and started growling.
It meant she was a little angry.
If she were really angry, her body would move first.
“Enough. Hero, stop there.”
“….”
At Clan Leader Water’s rebuke, Hero hid her teeth.
The growling sound was no longer heard either.
“And White Rabbit, what exactly is that?”
Water asked again about the black glasses.
A design she had never seen before.
The way she cherished it and the unusual aura emanating from it, it certainly didn’t seem to be an ordinary item.
“…It’s a reward I found in the Hidden Street.”
White Rabbit’s sudden shocking statement.
The eyes of all the stagnant water explorers participating in the meeting widened.
“…Is that true, White Rabbit?”
“….”
She knew this would happen, but.
“Yes.”
To prove that she had set foot in the Hidden Street, there was no better way than this.
“…Tell us in detail what happened.”
“Understood.”
And also to find the man who had told her about the location of the Hidden Street.
After the meeting that started with White Rabbit’s shocking statement ended, at the Deep Water clan plaza.
White Rabbit was drinking alcohol in broad daylight to soothe her irritated feelings.
“Haah, that bastard, where the hell did he go?”
“Hey, tobbibbi.”
A familiar voice was heard from the side.
“…What?”
When she turned her head, she saw a muscular explorer with his upper body exposed.
Ernest.
A man who became a stagnant water explorer a few months ago and stepped into the executive ranks.
‘…Was he originally like this?’
Both his appearance and way of speaking seem somewhat strange.
“Drinking in broad daylight is not good, tobbibbi. I know you’re having a hard time now, but drowning your difficult emotions in alcohol is something only fucking menhera pussies do.”
“….”
White Rabbit lightly ignored Ernest’s words and took another sip of alcohol.
Soon, as if he had changed his mind too, he brought up the main point he wanted to say to White Rabbit.
“More importantly, tobbibbi. You fucking idiot. Why didn’t you send that guy to the blue warp gate first?”
Somehow, hearing the story that had already been thoroughly broken down by the clan leader again from him made her angry.
“…Cut down on that fucking way of speaking, Ernest. It’s annoying.”
“Ernest? That’s my real name, my explorer name is Giga Chad, tobbibbi. It’s courtesy for stagnant waters to call each other by explorer names, tobbibbi. You got it?”
“…Then you call me White Rabbit first, you crazy bastard. Tob… what? Where did you learn that fucking title? Your way of speaking too, what the hell happened?”
When White Rabbit snapped angrily, Giga Chad immediately answered the reason.
“Oh, I guess you didn’t know. A few weeks ago when I went to the labyrinth, I received this blessing. Tobbibbi.”
“It seems more like a curse than a blessing.”
“Oh, have you already started imitating my, giga chad’s, way of speaking?”
‘Oh shit, wait a minute….’
White Rabbit had somehow already adopted Giga Chad’s way of speaking.
She didn’t know what would happen if she continued this conversation any further.
“Forget it, if you’re not going to fix that fucking way of speaking, just get lost.”
“Oh, tobbibbi. Calm down. Actually, the title or way of speaking isn’t important right now. What’s important is finding that guy. Right?”
“Haah….”
White Rabbit sighed.
“Do you have any good ideas? I went to the Explorers Guild yesterday and asked, but they said there’s no name like Sion. Maybe he lied about his name….”
As White Rabbit said this, Giga Chad clutched his own face as if in pity.
“Oh… tobbibbi. I knew you were a bit silly, but to think you were this much of an idiot….”
“….”
White Rabbit silently drew a sword from thin air.
“…Okay, I’ll just get to the point. The place you went was the Explorers Guild, in West Coast. Right?”
“That’s right? Because I came out through the western warp gate.”
“Think twice! Think carefully. If that guy who abandoned you went down to the 2nd floor, or even lower.”
“….”
“He could have taken a different warp gate other than the West warp gate, right?”
“!”
White Rabbit’s pupils dilated greatly.
“Thanks, Ern… Giga Chad!”
“You’re welcome. It’s nothing much.”
White Rabbit immediately packed her things and left her seat.
“Let’s see that guy together next time, tobbibbi.”
“Okay!”
White Rabbit immediately left the clan headquarters.
‘First, to South Ferry…!’
She had to hurry if she wanted to visit all the Explorers Guild branches in the labyrinth city today.
East Coast branch Explorers Guild office.
“No, he’s not here? Really?”
“Yes, White Rabbit-nim. I checked but there’s no name like Sion…”
“Please check one more time.”
“Um, White Rabbit-nim. I’m sorry, but… this is already the third time. No matter how many times I look, he’s not here.”
The receptionist’s answer, as if there was nothing she could do.
White Rabbit’s voice rose.
“No, I’ve thoroughly searched North Mountain, South Ferry, and West Coast branches many times, but he didn’t show up! Then he must be here, right?”
“Even if you say that… what can I do if he’s not here.”
“….”
“Maybe you got the name wrong…”
When the receptionist uttered the delusion that had remained in White Rabbit’s heart, White Rabbit also let out a deep sigh.
“…Then, are there no foreigners who recently became explorers?”
“White Rabbit-nim. More than half of 1st class explorers are foreigners…”
“Haah, that’s true, but… hah….”
So there’s no way after all?
“I’m sorry. A stirring has occurred for the first time in 3 years, so you must be very busy.”
“Pardon? Ah, it’s fine! It’s rather convenient. Since explorers aren’t coming.”
“….”
Quite a problematic answer.
When White Rabbit’s expression hardened, the receptionist also seemed to realize her mistake and waved her hands.
“Ah, no! That’s not what I meant!”
“…Take care.”
In the end, White Rabbit left the Explorers Guild with a dejected heart to return to the clan.
“I’m telling you, that guy Sion told me! That a stirring would occur soon!”
A man’s voice.
When White Rabbit turned her head, an old man with a long white beard was talking about Sion.
“If I hadn’t listened to that guy’s words, I really would have die…”
Suddenly feeling someone’s gaze.
Hegel trailed off and turned around.
“…Hu, huek?!”
“Can you tell me a bit more about that story?”
5th class adventurer, White Rabbit, was looking at Hegel as if she would kill him.