Chapter 59

Chapter 59

I Became the Academy Mafia Chapter 59After engraving [Dimensional Storage]

onto [Midas's Gloves], I immediately raised my thumb and drew a circle.

At the same time, a golden door appeared before me.

I opened the door with excitement, and a brilliant light shone into my eyes.

“...

Haha. Looks like I won't have to worry about money anymore.”Inside the small storage, roughly thirteen square meters in size, gold coins, silver coins, and all sorts of miscellaneous items were piled so high that the floor couldn't even be seen.

Now that I had obtained the engraving, only I would be able to open this storage.

First, I entered the storage and searched for an item that would let me leave the dungeon.

“Is this it?”[A new item has been discovered!][Name: Transfer Platform][Rank: Normal][Type: Consumable][Description: A transfer platform used inside dungeons. When used, it moves the user to the floor above.]

Green platforms about the size of a newspaper.

After finishing the appraisal, I carried them outside and closed the storage door.

“...

I should rip out their hearts first, right?”

Saying that, I looked over the corpses of the Golden Goblins sprawled around me.

“This should guarantee Class A's victory.”

I didn't want to open their bodies with my bare hands, so just as I was about to take the dagger the Golden Hobgoblin had been carrying────I quickly retreated at the chilling sensation I felt from behind.─────!!

A sound like something being torn echoed out as fragments of something burst up behind me.

Slowly turning my head, I confirmed that an arrow was embedded in the cave wall.

Meaning someone had attacked me.

When I slowly turned my head toward where the arrow had come from, I found an unexpected person standing there.

“...

Why are you here?”

“What? You weren't a goblin? Sorry, sorry. I didn't think anyone else besides me would be here. I thought you were a goblin.”

Jung Eui-hoon.

He was walking toward me with a bow in his right hand and an unpleasant smile on his face.

“That arrow nearly went through my head just now.”

“Come on, what are you talking about? The instructors would've forcibly summoned you back before you died anyway. Right?”

Even though the situation could have easily turned into a disaster, he waved his arm dismissively and smiled.

“Seeing you here means the underground areas of the different dungeons must all be connected. Right?”

At his extremely playful demeanor, I raised Tommy from the Cube and aimed it at him.

“Whoa, whoa~ Are you seriously going to shoot? You know the instructors are watching all of this, right?”

“Of course. If it looks like you're really about to die, won't the instructors forcibly summon you back?”

I pulled the trigger and fired [Al Capone's Tommy]

toward him.

“Kyaaaak───!!”

At the same time, a strange scream came from behind him.

A goblin that had been hanging from the ceiling to ambush Jung Eui-hoon collapsed with blood pouring from its forehead.

“Scared?”

When I paid him back exactly the way he had treated me, his expression crumpled.

“...

You bastard. Did your family teach you to shoot first without caring whether people are around?”

He knew the instructors could only watch and couldn't hear us, so he immediately tried provoking me by bringing up my family.

“I don't know. Wasn't stabbing people in the back without a second thought your family's specialty?”

Just who did he think he was starting a verbal fight with?

I was someone who knew exactly how dysfunctional Jung Eui-hoon's family was and what weaknesses they had.

And he dared pick a fight with me?

“I don't know how you got here, but turn around and get lost right now. Everything lying around here was killed by me.”

I raised the muzzle of Tommy, which had been pointed at him, as I said that, and the sound of teeth grinding came from the distance.

“What kind of logic is ‘you found it, so leave’?”

“Dungeon law, idiot. You're from a police family and you don't even know dungeon law?”

Dungeon law was created to prevent incidents and accidents inside dungeons, and what I was claiming was a law that most heroes and Awakened knew.

“Inside a dungeon, ownership of a monster corpse belongs to the person who hunted it. Isn't that basic knowledge?”

“...

Ha. You want to do this by the law?”

That was Jung Eui-hoon's problem.

He hated evil people like a disease and practically worshiped justice, but once he decided someone was evil, he wouldn't hesitate to obstruct them to the bitter end using absurd arguments and methods.

In other words, if he became an ally, he was a thickheaded idiot with powerful backing, but if you faced him as an enemy, he was an incredibly troublesome existence.

Naturally, since I was the heir to the Calione Family, I was an evil person in his eyes and practically someone he could never befriend.

Though it wasn't entirely without conditions.

“...

You're bringing up dungeon law inside the Academy?”

“If you don't like it, call a lawyer. Ah, your family doesn't really like lawyers, does it?”

Even if I said this, he couldn't actually shoot me.

The law he genuinely believed was righteous was on my side, so what could he possibly do?

“...

You bastard.”

He said that, spat on the ground, and eventually turned to go back the way he came...

Wait. Should I throw out some bait while I have the chance?

“Hold on.”

“...

What now?”

“I was impressed by how cleanly you gave up. So I'm going to give you a chance. How about it? Want to take that chance?”

“...

What?”

He made a strange expression, as though he couldn't understand my intentions.

“Since you won't get first place here anyway, shouldn't you at least take something else with you? For example... the [Subspace Storage]

I have right now.”

“...

A bet? You're saying you want to wager an item right now?”

In terms of utility alone, the Subspace Storage was good enough to qualify as a Unique item.

There was no reason he wouldn't want an item like that.

“Then what am I supposed to wager?”

“Well, you can do one small favor for me later.”

“A small favor, meaning something I can handle on my own?”

“Now you understand. The bet is simple. Guess which class will win. How about it?”

At that, he looked at me suspiciously.

“Compared to me, you have much more to lose. Why should I accept such a suspicious bet?”

“Hmm... because I'd rather see you lose miserably and whine than watch you walk away with your pride intact.”

Hearing me, the corner of his mouth curled upward.

“You're that confident?”

“You can think of it that way. So, will you accept?”

As I said that, I dangled the Dimensional Storage engraving on my glove toward him.

Yeah, even you must want this. It's basically a secret storage that only you know about, right?

He stood there thinking for a while.

But eventually he nodded and looked at me.

“The boss will be taken down by Class C.”

“...

You sound certain.”Class C was the class that Choi Yeon, the Sword Saint's granddaughter who had sent me the challenge letter, belonged to.

“I know your club members are stronger than the others. But if it's the person I know, she'd slaughter the boss of a goblin dungeon in one blow. So I'm betting on Class C.”

His logic was fairly convincing.

After all, Choi Yeon was an Awakened who had been trained by the Sword Saint since childhood. By now, even compared to the Academy's upperclassmen, she wouldn't fall behind at all, and if she became an active hero, she'd easily perform above average.

There was no need to even see it to know that the boss of a goblin dungeon would fall in one strike to Choi Yeon's blade.

But strength like that was all Choi Yeon had.

Clearing a dungeon was ultimately done not alone, but as a team.

“I'll bet that our Class A defeats the boss first.”

“...

After thinking that hard, all you're saying is that your class will win? You admitted it yourself. No matter how strong your club members are, they can't beat Choi Yeon, that monstrous woman.”

“If this were a sparring arena, you'd be right. But as you know, this is a dungeon.”

When I gave him an irritating smile as I said that, he frowned.

As if he couldn't understand anything outside what he'd already thought of.

“...

Weird bastard. So you're saying we should go up together?”

“Of course. The other kids should be reaching the boss room by now too.”

I said that and tossed him one of the platforms.

“Then shall we go up and check?”

“Ha. It's obvious what we'll see.”

I placed a Transfer Platform on the floor in front of me as well and stepped onto it.

At the same time, mana began rising from the platform.

Seeing me, he also placed a platform in front of himself and stepped on it.

“By now, Choi Yeon is definitely cutting off the boss's head.”

“Who knows.”

Would she really?

Mana surged from the platform and enveloped my body, and soon the scenery around me changed.

The Transfer Platform had activated normally.

After confirming that the scenery had changed, I immediately stepped off the platform and examined the surroundings.

If this was the [Transfer Platform]

from the game, then the Hobgoblin, the boss of the goblin dungeon, should be nearby.

Thinking that, I looked around and tried to figure out where the kids from our class were...

“...

Oh.”...

There was no need.

“This one's kind of big.”

“So what if it's big? You think a knife won't go through its belly? Just stab it and everything dies!”

The area was filled with goblin corpses lying dead with their stomachs cut open, and a Hobgoblin shrieking with tears streaming down its face.

And surrounding that goblin was a group of students whose entire bodies were stained with goblin blood.

It did look like we'd arrived at the boss room correctly... but at the entrance, backs that seemed to belong to our classmates were physically blocking anyone outside from entering...

What the hell is this situation?

“What, are you trying to steal?! Where do you think you're sneaking in? Didn't anyone teach you dungeon etiquette?!”

“We claimed this place first! If you want to come in, wait until we kill the boss!”

The guys were taking advantage of the fact that students couldn't attack other students, using their bodies to block the entrance.

And.

“Hehehe, I wonder how many points a Hobgoblin magic stone is worth?”

“Hey, they said it won't respawn if it dies, right? Just beat it up moderately.”

“Don't worry, I'm controlling my strength. Hey! Why aren't you calling them? Summon more subordinates!”

-Kieeeek! Kiek! Kieeeeeek!!!

“That's it! It's about time more came out! Everyone get ready!”

“Good, lure them in! The moment they come out of the hole, take them down and extract the magic stones first. Don't let them notice.”

The kids had already subdued the ‘boss’ and were using it as a goblin respawn machine.

“Huh? What's that? Someone popped out.”

“Hm? Isn't that Eugene?”

“Huh? President?”

That atrocity was taking place right here in the boss room...

Crazy.

I told them to kill the boss, and instead they set up some kind of farming operation?