Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 270

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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 270

Reminiscence(10)

The rocket cuts through space. An infinite weightless void.

The visuals are incredible. Real scenery created by the actual Labyrinth, not CG.

Without any sound, in complete silence, the vessels carrying the explorers arrive at the moon one by one.

[Moon base docking complete.]

[External environment stable confirmed. Hatch opening possible.]

Kate unbuckles her safety belt and stands up from her seat. She opens the docked hatch.

Hissssss.

She walks through the titanium frame passage leading to the base.

← Main Hall │ Maintenance Room→

← Bathroom │ Machinery Room→

─Where were you?

─Wow, that was really tough….

Conversation sounds drift from the Main Hall over there. But Kate stops walking when she reaches the entrance.

The camera follows her gaze.

There is… long hair and a walking stick still gripped in his left hand.

Seol Ha-woon is there.

-Wow

-Wow lol

-So intense ㅠㅠ

-It’s a different person right?

-Ah the trauma from Bok Mal-ol is severe..

-Will Bok Mal-ol never come back to life

─Kate: ….

Kate stares at Seol Ha-woon then turns around. Alone, she slumps down on any chair. She takes out the revolver from her chest and looks at it.

The 44 Magnum revolver that fake Seol Ha-woon left for her.

-ㅠㅠㅠ

-ㅠㅠ

-ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-Kate herself seems shocked too

-That’s bullshit lol it’s 100% image management.

-For real Kate probably doesn’t care at all, she’s a famous thug

-They’ll get Forced Return even if they fail anyway, so why are they filming a drama among themselves

-Stop talking bullshit lol Kate came back alive but those bastards said she died there

-Most of you bastards would say why film a drama even if your friend died

The chat becomes disgusting for a moment.

Kate doesn’t actually care about Bok Mal-ol’s sacrifice, it’s just acting for her image~ It’s all Hailford’s image making~

These are the malicious claims circulating in communities these days.

“If that’s acting, she really deserves an Oscar.”

After that, subtitles fill the screen.

Ending the Labyrinth.

The apocalypse Labyrinth that exploded across the world has ended.

What was the reason for deliberately seeking out and dealing with the clones?

Interviews with the explorers appear.

Kang Hyeon: …Because it’s not me.

First, Kang Hyeon answers with a sad smile.

Kang Hyeon: I couldn’t leave another me that wasn’t me alone. There should only be one real one, right?

-But for real that Labyrinth was too much

-It must have been hard to kill clones with the same face as yourself

-Kang Hyeon is really handsome after all

-Kang Hyeon was also brutal when killing clones.. He’s also secretly strong

Is your arm okay?

Next is Lee Jun-ho with a cast on his arm. He narrows his eyes as if the Writer asking the question is ridiculous.

Lee Jun-ho: It’s radiation. My bones almost melted. I’m fine for now though.

-Hahahaha

-Lee Jun-ho’s butcher mode was turned on a lot in this Labyrinth

-Human blender that ground up all the clones lololol

Next, Yoon Hwa-rim and Seo Ji-woo.

Yoon Hwa-rim: Yes. My cart has developed quite a bit. It doesn’t have attack functions yet, but I’ll have to add them gradually!

Hwa-rim takes out her cart and shows it off to the camera, bragging about this and that.

Seo Ji-woo: I’ve known Hwa-rim since way back. In middle school I only knew her face, we became close in high school but then Hwa-rim went to study abroad… Now we’re basically best friends.

Seo Ji-woo brushes her hair back as if embarrassed.

That kind of explorer interview continues,

Tap─ Tap─

Someone sits down on a chair while tapping their walking stick.

It’s Seol Ha-woon.

Mr. Seol Ha-woon. If you were a clone in the Labyrinth, what do you think you would do?

At the Writer’s question, Seol Ha-woon looks directly at the camera and answers.

Seol Ha-woon: Well… I think he probably won’t leave that labyrinth.

-Chills lol

-He knows himself too well

-Lololol this is why he’s 1st place

-He’s just a pure explorer. Only has labyrinth strategy in his head.

-The Writer probably told him

-They said there’s no script for interviews

Kate: …

Next after Seol Ha-woon is Kate.

What do you think about the clone Seol Ha-woon?

Kate’s answer is calm.

Kate: He is Seol Ha-woon but also not Seol Ha-woon. That Seol Ha-woon, namely Irochi Seol Ha-woon and the real Seol Ha-woon are separate people.

-Irochi lololol

-Lolololololol

-No way lololol

-What’s Irochi lolololol

-Kate is really unexpected

-Wow Hailford’s image is screwed for real lol Did they write all that script.

Kate: I remember the two people differently. I have to. Since human existence is defined by human memory, remembering them separately is courtesy to both of them and to me.

-Wow so thoughtful

-She speaks well

-She’s just good at acting damn

-Ah Bok Mal-ol…

-Seol Ha-woon’s legs are fine so it’s screwed

-Human existence is defined only by human memory ㅠㅠㅠ.. We’ll all remember you forever ㅠㅠㅠ

-Ah Irochi Seol Ha-woon is so funny lol

And so the interview ended.

The explorers received a 2-week vacation.

Their daily lives continue during the 2-week vacation.

Seo Ji-woo and Yoon Hwa-rim film vlogs at a resort, Lee Jun-ho does volunteer work at a dojo, and behind-the-scenes footage of various explorers’ commercial shoots flows by.

─Yoo Ji-in: The vacation was long, wasn’t it? There are only two labyrinths left now… I feel sad.

“…Ah.”

Lee Si-ah returned to reality. Mitamnan was also nearing its end.

-Mitamnan is ending too

-Wasn’t this extended programming?

-Wow has 6 months already passed

-Ah I wish it would never end..

-Damn I’m getting a year older soon crazy

─Yoo Ji-in: But just as we suddenly met, farewells are bound to come. That’s life… Right. Life. The theme of the labyrinth you’ll face today is life. More precisely, the game of life.

Yoo Ji-in explains this labyrinth’s theme.

─Yoo Ji-in: Inside, there’s only one goal – earn as much money as possible in the given time. Well then. Are you all ready?

The well-rested explorers enter the labyrinth again!

Life Game LIFE GAME

The subtitle “Life Game” fills the screen, and this labyrinth’s opening is?

─Lee Jun-ho: …What the.

It’s Lee Jun-ho. He’s sprawled on the ground. His clothes are rags, and there’s a can placed in front of him.

[Player: Lee Jun-ho]

[Money Held: 0 Caring]

[Current Job: Beggar (Lower Class)]

[Special Notes: Minor arm injury]

─Lee Jun-ho: Beggar… Are they kidding me.

Clink. A single coin thrown by someone lands in the can.

[+3 Caring]

-Lolololololol

-Lololol

-Lolol it actually suits him well lololol

-Lolololololololol

-Lololol ah damn lololol

-Lololololol

─Lee Jun-ho: …This is ridiculous.

While Lee Jun-ho was blinking in bewilderment.

Bang!

Some guy appears, kicking Lee Jun-ho’s can with his foot.

─???: Hey you!

─Lee Jun-ho: Huh?

Lee Jun-ho looks at his opponent.

─???: This is our territory!

─Lee Jun-ho: …Who are you?

─Wang Cho: I’m Wang Cho!

He says he’s Wang Cho, but he’s a short kid. Lee Jun-ho stares at him quietly, then flicks his forehead with his fingers.

─Wang Cho: Aaaahhh!

Wang Cho rolls around on the ground. Then other beggars slowly emerge from the alley.

They’re all children.

-They’re just kids?

-They picked the wrong guy, of all people it had to be Lee Jun-ho lol

-Jun-ho doesn’t touch kids

-Yeah, even in butcher mode he amazingly avoided killing children

─Beggars: How dare you hurt our big brother!! Who are you!

The beggars surround Lee Jun-ho. They’re all so short they can’t even reach Jun-ho’s waist, making them look cute.

─Lee Jun-ho: …Hey, you brats. Do you know who I am?

Lee Jun-ho roughly runs his hand through his hair,

Scene transition.

─Kang Hyeon: Excuse me. Would it be possible to work part-time here?

It’s Kang Hyeon. He’s already found his way to a restaurant.

─Restaurant Owner: Part-time work?

─Kang Hyeon: Yes. I’m a chef.

[Player: Kang Hyeon]

[Money: 0 Caring]

[Current Job: Chef (Low-grade)]

[Special Status: Hungry]

─Restaurant Owner: …

The restaurant owner looks Kang Hyeon up and down.

Honestly speaking, as a business owner, it would be hard to refuse a part-timer with a face like Kang Hyeon’s.

─Restaurant Owner: Okay. You’ll do serving, not kitchen work.

─Kang Hyeon: Oh, no. I’m a cook-

─Restaurant Owner: Do as you’re told. There’s no position in the kitchen.

-lololololol

-lolol but if someone like Kang Hyeon came as a part-timer, you’d have to pay 3-4 times the hourly wage

-That face can’t be buried in the kitchen..

Kang Hyeon is almost forcibly dressed in waiter clothes, and the fans’ reactions go wild.

Indeed, every passerby keeps glancing into the restaurant.

[Player: Kate]

[Money: 0 Caring]

[Current Job: Detective (Low-grade)]

[Special Status: Full of motivation]

Kate’s job is detective. She walks down the street.

The scenery looks medieval yet modern, quite a mysterious otherworldly landscape. Then she discovers police tape stretched across an alley.

─Kate: …

She moves quickly and crosses inside.

A corpse lies there, surrounded by police officers.

Kate quickly surveys the clues and evidence at the scene, then speaks loud enough for the police to hear.

─Kate: This was done by someone the victim knew.

─Police Officer: …Huh?

The police officers turn to look at her.

─Police Officer: …Who are you?

To Kate who trespassed on the scene, the officer’s reaction is rather cautious.

It seems real upper-class people do emanate a distinctive aura of refinement.

─Kate: My name is Catherine Violet Hailford. I’m a detective.

The line sounds somehow familiar.

-lololololol

-Are you Conan? lololololol

-No way lololololol

-She’s making her own anime

-lolololol so cute

-Even that is acting. Don’t be fooled, Kate’s a fighter.

─Police Officer: Detective?

─Kate: Yes. The culprit is someone the victim knew. You can tell from how the victim spread both arms to greet the perpetrator.

She points to the form of the rigor mortis-stiffened arms.

─Kate: At the moment he was happily trying to embrace them, the other person stabbed him.

─Police Officer: …Well, we figured that much out too.

─Kate: The next evidence is the footprints. Bloody footprints. The shoes are average male size, but the stride is very short compared to that. They deliberately wore large shoes to hide their tracks. To avoid revealing their gender.

─Police Officer: Hmm… It could also be a short man with big feet.

─Kate: The stride is too unstable for that. It’s unnatural and an uncomfortable gait.

If the shoes fit properly, one would walk calmly, but the footprints left at the scene were very unnatural.

─Kate: Officer, would you mind walking with this stride length?

The short officer walks following the stride pattern from the crime scene as Kate suggested, but it looks very unnatural.

─Kate: As you can see, the perpetrator is someone well acquainted with the victim, and once their gender is determined, they’ll be the first person suspected.

Kate smiles with a smirk.

─Kate: If you just dig into the victim’s private life, you’ll be able to uncover it quickly.

─Officer: ….

The officer then signals to his subordinate with his eyes. Kate nods with satisfaction as she watches the police hurriedly leave.

[Player: Seol Ha-woon]

[Money: 0 Caring]

[Current Job: School Security Guard (Low-rank)]

[Special Notes: None]

Next, Seol Ha-woon finally appears. He’s a school security guard!

-Why is he the only one with no special notes lol

-lololol

-Wow is that a Magic School

Tap. Tap.

Walking with his walking stick, he patrols the Magic School corridor and stops in front of a classroom door. A professor’s voice can be heard from inside.

─Professor: …You must first acknowledge your ignorance. What is needed to become a good mage? Unwavering effort? Unshakeable mental visualization? No. You’re all wrong. In the end, it’s talent.

The camera shows an NPC. A greasy-looking man with blonde hair slicked back.

─Professor: Humans can roughly gauge talent by the purity of magic power circulating through their bodies. It’s a natural order determined from birth. There’s no curse more tormenting than ambiguous talent….

-Fucking annoying

-Obviously looks like a villain

-He’s gonna get beaten up by the protagonist soon

Tap tap.

Someone touches Seol Ha-woon’s shoulder.

─???: Excuse me. The first semester tuition for Emerek Magic School is 250,000 Caring.

He seems to be a school official.

─Seol Ha-woon: …I’m security.

─???: You still have to pay tuition, don’t you?

When Seol Ha-woon glares at him, he quietly laughs and backs away.

─???: Just kidding, just kidding.

─Seol Ha-woon: What’s your name?

─Silo: Ah, I’m Silo….

After talking with him, Seol Ha-woon comes out to the school park. He gets coffee from a vending machine and sits on a bench, where there’s a paper someone left on the wooden table right in front of him.

A magic circle with complex magic circuits and formulas drawn on it.

Close-up.

Introduction to Magic Theory Problem 8.

The following is a formula presented to calculate the magic flow of a specific phenomenon. However, this formula contains a critical error. Correctly fix the error and derive the answer.

E_total = Σ (Mana_source_i * Flow_constant ^ (-Δt)) + ∫ Ambient_Mana(x) dx / Resonance_Factor….

Seol Ha-woon also looks closely at the problem.

The answer written is 133. It seems to be a student’s solution.

-?

-??

-What is that?

-lololol

-Huh?

-lolol what the hell is that shit lololol

-Wow that’s interesting

-This

-What is it

-It’s magic theory lol this looks like doctoral level stuff

-Seol Ha-woon can’t solve this, right?

-He definitely can’t lolol he’s never even learned magic theory

Just then, someone approaches the bench. It’s a student who resembles Kate.

She tries to pick up the paper and leave, but.

─Seol Ha-woon: Problem 8. You got it wrong. The answer isn’t 133, it’s 237.

Seol Ha-woon points out the student’s answer.

─???: ….

The student leaves without even acknowledging him.

─Seol Ha-woon: …I was hoping to get some tutoring fees.

-What 237?

-??

-?

-Wow did he solve that right away?

-Bullshit lol he’s just saying random stuff.

Seol Ha-woon returns to the main building, tapping his walking stick. Then he discovers a poster on the corridor wall.

School Learning Encouragement Poster

??This Month’s Magic Formula Problem??

“Who dares to challenge the abyss of magic power!”

As befitting a Magic School, there are many problems, and this formula is incredibly complex too.

“Ah, my head hurts.”

-What the hell

-This is fucking complicated

-Wow shit

-Isn’t this alien language?

Seol Ha-woon stares at it intently.

-This isn’t at Seol Ha-woon’s level yet

-This is scholar or researcher-level theory rather than mage level

-Hahahaha you’re right, there he goes being prideful again

-How’s that gonna work when even the beads are made by ghostwriters lol

Recently in mage circles, Seol Ha-woon’s weakness is considered to be theory. While his practical abilities are acknowledged, quite a few criticisms related to theory have emerged due to his lack of accumulated knowledge, theory, and learning.

Something about how you can’t beat scholars who’ve studied for decades just by having perfect attendance at the library…

As duct tape became popular, malicious rumors that his magic orb was ‘ghostwritten’ are also sticking to him.

From Lee Si-ah’s perspective, it’s truly ugly jealousy.

─Seol Ha-woon : Made some money.

Seol Ha-woon himself smiled as if he had solved the answer to the poster problem.

“I believe in you.”

And Lee Si-ah, along with other gazes, absolutely believes in Seol Ha-woon.

Meanwhile, at Seoul National University Magic Department’s lab.

Graduate students gathered together to watch Mitamnan.

The progression itself is ordinary.

─Seol Ha-woon : Hey. You there. Are you guys really students?

School security guard Seol Ha-woon discovers intruders and defeats them,

Rummage rummage. Rummage rummage.

He steals money from the unconscious enemies.

─Lee Jun-ho : Hey. Kneel properly. Especially you.

Lee Jun-ho had somehow made 30 beggars kneel.

─Lee Jun-ho : From now on, I’m the boss. Any complaints?

No sir!

Even the former boss had completely submitted to Lee Jun-ho.

─Lee Jun-ho : Good. From now on, we’re going to develop a business.

─Beggars : What kind of business?!

─Lee Jun-ho : Listen, I’ll explain. There are tons of pickpockets in this area. You guys are one of those gangs, right? But from now on, we won’t be pickpocketing!

In fact, the explorers had shown quite inhumane behavior while wandering through labyrinths so far.

Especially Lee Jun-ho had earned nicknames like human butcher and body dismemberer, and Seol Ha-woon also frequently showed ruthless aspects like blowing up Eldia.

But this labyrinth…

─Lee Jun-ho : Instead. We collect protection fees.

─Beggars : Protection fees?!!!!!

Very humane.

“Hey, did you guys solve this problem?”

Then a lab senior asked.

“Which problem?”

“You know, Seol Ha-woon’s problem.”

“Ah yes. I solved it.”

│Just captured Seol Ha-woon’s problem│

A screenshot of the problem Seol Ha-woon solved was posted on the mage community, and the graduate students also solved the problem out of boredom.

“What did you guys get?”

“I got 133.”

“I think 133 is right too.”

Public opinion is 133. Both graduate students and quite a few posts on the mage community are saying 133 is correct.

│Solution process attached. Isn’t 133 correct?│

│It’s not incredibly difficult but definitely university level or above? Currently solving it│

│Seol Ha-woon got it wrong. 133 is definitely correct.│

│Why is this Seol Ha-woon fanboy pretending to know stuff?│

│237 is right though? Are you idiots?│

│I wish Seol Ha-woon would stop pretending to know theory.. He’s already a great mage without theory..│

Honestly, it’s kinda ridiculous to act like you know theory well when you haven’t even properly studied for a year lol. And I’m 100% sure you used a ghostwriter for that technique orb too…

“It seems like 133 but there are many ambiguous parts… Should we ask the professor?”

Seoul National University Magic Department Professor Lee Yun-se. A genius who graduated from Seoul National University at 15, then studied at world-renowned prestigious magic towers before returning.

“Hey. Why ask him. The professor doesn’t even watch Mitamnan.”

He’s also a rare intellectual life form who doesn’t watch Mitamnan in this day and age.

Creak.

Just then, the door opened and Professor Lee Yun-se appeared.

Pushing up his rimless glasses, one of the graduate students held out a smartphone screenshot to him.

“Professor! Could you please solve this for us?”

“…What is it.”

“It just appeared on Mitamnan…”

The professor frowned.

He has no interest in Mitamnan. He doesn’t even like watching Mitamnan. He’s the type who says to spend that time honing academics instead, an old-fashioned guy despite being in his early thirties.

“Right now it’s split between 133 and 237 as the answer.”

The professor looked at the smartphone problem for a moment, then answered.

“…133.”

“Right?!”

“Is what it’s designed to look like as a trap.”

“…Pardon?”

Lee Yun-se adjusted his rimless glasses with his finger, and the graduate students who had solved it as 133 flinched in confusion.

“237 is the correct answer.”

This meant that Je Mal-ol was right again.

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