‘What should I do?’ 

Seo Jun-Ho trembled as he stared at the cockroaches. They were frozen like stone statues.

‘Are we still safe? Or… Is he coming?’ 

He didn’t have an immediate answer.

The party members looked up from the entrance and started speaking.

“...What’s with those guys?”

“They suddenly stopped moving. Shall we kill them?”

“How strange. This has never happened before.”

Still on guard, they slowly stepped back toward Seo Jun-Ho. Rahmadat strode forward with a solemn look.

“Hey, does this have something to do with how you’ve been bluffing about being sick?” Rahmadat asked Seo Jun-Ho.

“...”

Seo Jun-Ho couldn’t hold back the sigh he let out. He had put in so much effort to prevent something like this from happening, but in the end, nothing had changed.

He pondered for a long time before gathering their attention.

“Since it has come to this, let me tell you all what happened.”

He explained his situation as fast as possible. “So, in a few hours, Erebo may appear, leading his army.”

“...If you’re telling the truth, isn’t it more likely that he won’t appear?”

“Yeah. We haven’t killed off all the cockroaches yet, and we haven’t even gone to the sewage treatment plant, either.”

“We can’t be so sure,”...