Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 288

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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 288

Can You Hear The Music(5)

Paaaaaaa─────-!

Particles made of magic power collide in a chain reaction and explode. Blue light fragments scatter like flower petals, and enemies touched by the light crumble like dust.

Fishuuuuuk──!

A crystallization of humanity’s malice. A mushroom cloud rises and the entire screen flashes white.

The power was 4D. Sound crashed in like a tsunami from the Dolby speakers Si-ah had installed.

-No way

-Holy shit I’m shocked

-Wow;

-Wow look at that sound

-Isn’t this CG?

-This is just insane

-Fuck;; Is he really a mage?

-Wow..

-Release this as a movie too

-No fuck, please show all of Mitamnan as a theatrical version once

-Seol Ha-woon is just a strategic weapon

-He’s using magic power itself like a formula

-How far will Seol Ha-woon go lol

“…Wow.”

The end of the concept called battlefield, caused by the mage named Seol Ha-woon. The person who could barely shoot bullets one by one while leaning on a walking stick in episode 1 had somehow reached such a dangerous level.

─Arkal : Calm down. Calm down.

Screams echo through the academy because of the magic bomb, but Arkal calms them down.

─Arkal : It’s merely a ‘Demonian Dark Magic Technique’.

-Lololol

-Wow they’re taking it this way lolololol

-Lolololol

-No way fuck lolololol

-The mysterious world’s strongest Professor Arkal lolol

Seol Ha-woon watches the scene from afar and nods.

─Seol Ha-woon : Done.

─Silo : …I-is it over?

Silo appears from behind. With his hair disheveled, he lets out a hollow laugh with a dazed expression.

─Silo : All at once with a bomb… It feels somewhat anticlimactic.

─Seol Ha-woon : It’s much better than dragging it out.

─Arkal : From now on!

Arkal’s powerful voice echoes.

─Seol Ha-woon : There are still events left too.

Seol Ha-woon waits for Arkal’s next words.

─Arkal : The air strike I prepared will completely destroy the Corrupt Council.

Arkal spreads both arms while looking at everyone in the academy. The camera smoothly rises to show the city’s sky.

The drones that Seol Ha-woon had made one by one in the security room. They had somehow multiplied to dozens, then hundreds, covering the sky.

Whiiiiing——-!

The drones all fly somewhere at once, then pour down to the ground like a meteor shower. The target is the remnants of the Corrupt Council.

Whiiiing──-!

The trajectories of the drones are carved into the sky. The explorers’ perspectives change in sync with their descent.

─Yoon Hwa-rim : …Huh?

At the restaurant busy with business. Yoon Hwa-rim looks up at the sky.

─Yoon Hwa-rim : Are those shooting stars?

Hyeon’S Kitchen. Lee Jong-soo looks at the same place as Yoon Hwa-rim with a regretful expression.

─Lee Jong-soo : Ah~ Hwa-rim. This labyrinth seems like it’ll end soon.

─Yoon Hwa-rim : …Eh? No way! Give me just a few more days! I’m in first place! I can still do more. I even finished developing the new menu…

Yoon Hwa-rim lets out a deep sigh, and Lee Jong-soo also murmurs wistfully.

─Lee Jong-soo : …It really felt like I lived a different life.

Lee Si-ah also pursed her lips.

“It really is life.”

A life game. A different ‘life’ that isn’t an explorer, just a ‘game’ to experience.

-Did these guys want to live normally too?

-Honestly, watching the life game, I realized it’s just more comfortable living as a muggle

-For real..

-With great power always comes great responsibility.

-I heard these guys are monitored by the Explorer Association even during daily life.

-Constant location tracking is like being on a leash lol

Explorers are not ordinary people. That much is certain.

But being extraordinary doesn’t mean everything is good.

Perhaps we, who are watching them now, might be happier.

─Yoon Hwa-rim : Hyeon. They say we’re almost done.

Yoon Hwa-rim and Lee Jong-soo enter the kitchen and speak to Kang Hyeon. Kang Hyeon looks at them and tilts his head.

─Kang Hyeon : So?

─Yoon Hwa-rim : …Huh?

─Kang Hyeon : Get to work. There are still lots of customers. We need to give our best until the very end.

─Lee Jong-soo : …Pfft. Right. Okay.

─Yoon Hwa-rim : Hyeon’s definitely a T~ People always said he was an F… Got it. Let’s work!

Everyone heads out to work again.

─Kang Hyeon : ….

Then suddenly Kang Hyeon stops cutting. He glances at the sky outside the window.

─Kang Hyeon : …It was nice though.

-Something feels wistful

-Kang Hyeon must be under a lot of stress too

-Now he can’t even go outside freely. Kang Hyeon seemed like an extreme extrovert.

-..ㅠㅠㅠ

-ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-If this was really a labyrinth, there probably would’ve been explorers addicted to this life.

-For real, no need to be envious that explorers make a lot of money.

“Exactly.”

Life is ultimately life. There’s no life that’s always good, and no life that’s always bad.

We just need to preserve ourselves. Since life is too short to live envying others when everything is sad, happy, difficult, and enjoyable anyway.

Whiiiiish-!

In broad daylight, dozens and hundreds of drones fall like shooting stars.

All the explorers in the city look up at them.

Lee Sin-hye who became a fishing boat captain, reporter Ryu Yeon-hwa who was writing articles, Jo Woon who became a mercenary leader, everyone looks up at the sky and senses the end.

─Seo Ji-woo : Must be the signal.

Seo Ji-woo is the same. While looking at the shooting stars, she suddenly spots some familiar blonde hair!

─Seo Ji-woo : Huh? Hey! Kate!

─Kate : …?

─Seo Ji-woo : Wow, we meet at the very end. What have you been doing with your life?

─Kate : ….

─Seo Ji-woo : Hey. The labyrinth seems like it’ll end soon. Look at the sky!

─Kate : Move aside. I’m in the middle of tracking clues.

Kate, dressed as Sherlock Holmes, is following clues with a magnifying glass.

─Seo Ji-woo : Are you like a detective or something?

─Kate : ….

Still focused on her work, she asks Seo Ji-woo back.

─Kate : Did you make a lot of money?

─Seo Ji-woo : Yeah.

─Kate : How much? I made a whopping five hundred-

─Seo Ji-woo : 30 million Caring.

-Hahahaha

-No way, you think that’ll work on Seo Jiw? lololol

-Hahahaha

-Hahahahaha that’s hilarious

─Seo Ji-woo : How much did you make?

─Kate : …I embraced a sense of mission rather than money. I’m a detective, you know.

─Seo Ji-woo : Sense of mission? What are you talking about. You asked me first how much I made.

─Kate : Well.

─Seo Ji-woo : What do you mean well.

─Kate : Shh. Focus.

-Hahahaha these guys are really funny too

-The fact that they’re so close is hilarious

-They seem like they’d be the most incompatible but they’re the closest

-What kind of 1% friendship is this?

Kate and Seo Ji-woo are official best friends. You can tell just by how Seo Ji-woo’s face lit up the moment she saw Kate.

Whiiiiiii-!

Scene change.

Lee Jun-ho also looks up at the shooting stars streaming down from the sky and gives a bitter smile.

─Lee Jun-ho : ….

Then he looks around at the children inside the house.

A flashback from a few days ago comes to mind.

─Lee Jun-ho : Just go for it! I’m buying this whole house!

Jun-ho threw all the money he earned through Ha-o Gate into this house.

[-5,000,000 Caring]

He had momentarily lost his essence as an explorer.

-This one’s not an explorer lol

-Jun-ho has a weakness for kids;

-This is why we really need someone like Seol Ha-woon.

-So Jun-ho and Je Mal-ol are going to debut together lol

-Yeah, they’re so damn soft they’ll never get 1st place lol

-Who’s taking 1st place? These barely-making-debut losers are acting all cocky lol

─Beggar: Hyung. What are you thinking about?

The beggar kid asks Jun-ho. That face is familiar too. He’s Jun-ho’s right-hand man.

─Lee Jun-ho: You’re next after me, so I’m wondering~ if you’ll be able to take over well.

─Beggar: Hyung, where are you going…?

─Lee Jun-ho: I’m not going anywhere, man. I told you from the beginning. I can’t stay for long.

The leader of Ha-o Gate prepares to leave, and Lee Si-ah bites her lips for no reason.

-Ah, this is sad

-Shit ㅠㅠㅠ

-ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

A little more of them living their lives is shown.

Working hard during the remaining time, until the very end.

Hyeon’s Kitchen finishes its last normal operation, Kate and Seo Ji-woo find the culprit together, Lee Sin-hye returns with the sailors to catch up, Ryu Yeon-hwa submits her last article to the desk, and Im Hae-jun…

─Im Hae-jun: Ah shit. Why won’t anything get stolen.

He ends without successfully stealing from anyone except Seo Ji-woo.

-The unfulfilled dream of a great thief lol

-lololol ah so funny

-That bastard’s outfit looks like that too lol

His outfit is dressed like some kind of Lupin.

“You can’t hate him.”

Im Hae-jun is that kind of character.

Debut, might it be possible?

Thud. Thud.

Night has fallen before they knew it. The top floor of Magic School. Professor Arkal’s shoe heels step on the corridor.

Thud. Thud.

He stops somewhere. In front of a safe that stores some golden key.

The key has a mysterious appearance. Very three-dimensional, and inside the glass-like safe it goes whirrrr- emitting magic power.

Arkal: Where is the magic of Magic School stored?

It’s Arkal’s monologue.

Arkal: No, what is magic? It’s this entire school. The reason this school was built on this site in the first place was to manifest magic using students as mediums.

Professor Arkal looks at the key, lost in thought.

Arkal: Magic requires sacrifice. Not all magic is like this, but this school’s magic is. If we use the lives and magic power of thousands of mages growing here as the price, the door can definitely be opened.

-?? What’s this

-Isn’t he thinking strange thoughts?

-Professor, surely not?

-Why are you being scary

-I knew that bastard would do this lol

─Seol Ha-woon: Professor Arkal.

A voice suddenly heard from behind.

It’s Seol Ha-woon. Light flowing in through the window gap softly embraces his silhouette.

-Wow he was waiting in the atmosphere

-In case Arkal would betray lol

-Really doesn’t give any room until the end

-For real he’s just crazy

-Earth’s representative explorer agreed

─Seol Ha-woon: I think I need to leave now.

─Arkal: …I see.

─Seol Ha-woon: Are you also concerned, Professor?

Seol Ha-woon brings up the topic. His endless suspicion.

─Arkal: Concerned?

─Seol Ha-woon: Yes. What the enemies said. They kept babbling that this world can only survive by connecting to other dimensions.

Seol Ha-woon probes Arkal’s inner thoughts. Whether the professor might change his mind and try to manifest the magic.

─Arkal: …Haha.

Arkal smiles. With a somewhat more gentle expression.

─Arkal: Seol Ha-woon. What do you think nobility is?

─Seol Ha-woon: I don’t know. I’ve never been a noble.

─Arkal: It’s consciousness that prioritizes instinct.

Arkal looks at Seol Ha-woon. Seol Ha-woon doesn’t avoid Arkal’s gaze either.

─Arkal: In my life, what do I prioritize most?

-Arkal’s nobility education lol

-What’s with this guy

-He’s suspicious, can’t we just kill him?

Many viewers make hasty judgments.

─Arcal : In the end, it’s about consciousness. The consciousness of being chosen. Having the privilege of nobility, one must not act cowardly.

Lee Si-ah gazes intently at Arcal. His face filling the screen is very different from his impression at the beginning of the labyrinth.

─Arcal : I must not commit vile and dirty acts to survive. We nobles must show behavior befitting our consciousness.

He clenches his fist powerfully and speaks to Seol Ha-woon.

─Arcal : In that regard, you too are a noble in the broader sense. Seol Ha-woon.

─Seol Ha-woon : ….

And then, Seol Ha-woon approaches Arcal.

─Seol Ha-woon : Yes.

His suspicion fades, and he looks at Arcal again with eyes as transparent as ice while extending his hand.

─Seol Ha-woon : I understand. Professor.

Seol Ha-woon shows him a smile. It means he acknowledges him.

The acknowledgment from the most fastidious and most explorer-like person might be the acknowledgment of all the viewers watching.

─Arcal : You’ve worked hard all this time. I wish blessings upon your future path.

-What the hell, he was a good person

-For real a professor

-Really a professor..

-Sorry for being so harsh on you early onㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-Wow..

-Just a good person

-Shit..

-ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-Ah Arcal is also really charming

-First Bok Mal-ol is confirmed as a Labyrinth Person, then next in line seems like Seer will enter together.

-He’s above Seer;; Seer is trash from our perspective. This guy sacrifices himself.

─Seol Ha-woon : …Yes. I also learned many things from you, Professor.

Arcal answers with a benevolent smile.

─Arcal : Of course you did.

Seol Ha-woon also smiles brightly at his answer.

At the same time, a notification window appears.

[The Life Game will end soon.]

Emotional sound flows. The Dolby speakers fill the room completely.

-Whoa..

-Now

-For a moment, I felt like I lived in that city too.

-Daily life was so delicious..

-At the end, they filled us with dopamine like a nuclear bomb, it was just a perfect labyrinth.

-Nope, can’t beat Bok Mal-ol~

Hyeon’S Kitchen

─Kang Hyeon : Thank you for everything.

─Yoon Hwa-rim : Thank you.

─Lee Jong-soo : Stay healthy!

Kang Hyeon. Yoon Hwa-rim. Lee Jong-soo. The trio of Hyeon’S Kitchen gives their final greetings to customers and announces their closure.

─Lee Jun-ho : Hyung is leaving. Don’t cry on a good day. Let’s go with smiles.

Lee Jun-ho waves to the beggars while carrying a large bag on his shoulder.

─Beggar : Big brother!

One of the beggars shouts to him as he leaves. Tears well up in his eyes.

─Beggar : Will we be able to meet again!

“…Damn it. I told you not to.”

Lee Si-ah put her hand to her face. Tears leaked through her fingers.

─Lee Jun-ho : If you guys live well.

Lee Jun-ho waves to the children and says.

─Lee Jun-ho : Don’t die, don’t get hurt, work hard. If you do good things and live kindly and well.

The children don’t shed tears. It’s because of Lee Jun-ho’s words not to cry on a good day.

─Lee Jun-ho : Then, someday we’ll be able to meet at least once.

-ㅠㅠ

-Fuck

-This sucks

-No really this is a labyrinth but

-Hahahahaha *sigh*

-Ah I’m gonna get aftereffects too

-No wonder explorers get depression;

-For real mental care after finishing a labyrinth is a mandatory course

-Fucking stop

-The background music is driving me crazy

-Ah ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-It’s ending now

-Ah, the aftereffects from this labyrinth will probably be the worst

-It’s so much like daily life that leaving is too painful

-This is what a real, real labyrinth is

The explorers’ farewells continue with the background music.

Everyone parts with another life they had built up.

─Lee Sin-hye : I’ll give you guys this boat. Use it well.

They part.

─Ryu Yeon-hwa : Thank you for everything, Editor-in-Chief.

They part.

─Kate : Inspector, you’ll be able to do well enough. As my successor.

They part.

─Jo Woon : Always keep your original intentions. That is the banner of our mercenary guild.

They part again.

Perhaps life is a series of partings. Because someday we must part with this world too.

Trudge. Trudge.

Seol Ha-woon comes out of the magic school. Suddenly, he looks at a bench in the park.

Silo is sitting there. Seol Ha-woon’s tutoring students including Erica are there too.

They smile brightly and wave their hands at Seol Ha-woon.

It probably doesn’t mean goodbye. It probably doesn’t mean see you tomorrow either. It’s just an everyday greeting.

A greeting so natural, assuming they’ll naturally meet today and naturally meet tomorrow too.

Seol Ha-woon nods to them and turns around.

“Ah, this is driving me crazy.”

Tears stream down Lee Si-ah’s eyes. The sound is unnecessarily sad. Who’s the composer.

[Security Room]

Soon, Seol Ha-woon returns to the security room.

The place where he first started this life.

In the quiet and serene room, he quietly closes his eyes and….

─L a b y r i n t h E x p l o r a t i o n N a N─

He concludes the labyrinth called life.

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