Serena and the Mysterious Labyrinth - Chapter 28

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28. Greed Sensor (1)

Actually, the gacha coin was obtained right after dying and regressing from Lucas.

[You have died. You obtain 1 gacha coin.]

‘A death coin, really.’

The method of obtaining gacha currency wasn’t conquering the labyrinth, but Serena’s death.

‘Then wouldn’t it be beneficial to die a lot?’

Every time Serena dies, she obtains a gacha coin. If she dies 100,000 times, collects 100,000 coins, and pulls 100,000 times, couldn’t she save all the citizens of Heuji City that the labyrinth swallowed?

How to conquer the labyrinth?

With 100,000 people, wouldn’t it work out somehow? There’s also human wave tactics.

‘Really die 100,000 times?’

Serena was briefly tempted by the devil’s whisper. Fortunately, she remembered the hellish commute and hell bus from her previous life and immediately shook it off.

‘If I do that, they’ll all die from overcrowding.’

Serena saved the gacha coin she obtained from dying for now. The probability of pulling someone capable of defeating Lucas was low, and carelessly increasing people could make the situation more complicated.

‘Fortunately, it succeeded.’

When the ice arrow magic missed Lucas’s face, she was prepared to try several more times, but thankfully it succeeded in one shot.

Since Lucas was dealt with, should she press the gacha button right away? That wouldn’t do.

‘The location is bad.’

To pull a new one-in-a-hundred-thousand, to pull someone capable of combat among them, she needed luck, but look at where Serena was standing now. There were 3 corpses alone.

Even the quality of the fallen corpses was terrible. Cow monster corpse, personality-deficient corpse, drug dealer corpse. Perfect for catching bad luck.

‘Let’s return to the lobby first.’

Ralph clumsily wore Lucas’s plate armor. Their heights were similar but their builds were different, so it didn’t fit well. Still, with sword and shield equipped, he became a perfect 3-star knight.

‘If this guy had proper equipment from the start, we wouldn’t have suffered like this.’

Serena’s gaze toward Ralph became a bit dirtier.

“What about the… corpses?”

“Let’s return to the lobby first and discuss with everyone.”

“Yes, that would be good.”

The princess and knight climbed the steep stairs and returned to the lobby where the masseuse and maid were waiting.

Four people went but only two returned, and one was wearing the equipment of someone who couldn’t return.

The smiles disappeared from Lavenda and Philia’s faces as they tried to welcome the party with cheerful expressions.

“What happened, Lady Serena? Are you safe?”

“What happened to Count Lucas and Mr. Krom?”

Serena explained to them what happened on the 2nd floor. When she said Lucas used Krom as bait and tried to kill her too, both Philia and Lavenda were outraged.

“Good heavens! How dare he target Lady Serena! That bastard deserves to be torn apart!”

“I knew it, that personality-broken perverted bastard! He deserves to be thrown in sewage!”

Philia’s reaction was expected, but Lavenda’s curses were particularly harsh. The reason was soon revealed.

“He touched my butt when people were sleeping!”

Lavenda exposed the incident she had been keeping to herself. Serena sympathized with the masseuse.

“Oh my. You should have said something right away.”

“I thought it would be useless even if I said such things… Count Lucas is a knight of the Royal Family, and this is a labyrinth…”

A high-ranking noble knight of the Royal Family versus a foreign commoner masseuse. The class difference was extreme. Even if she had reported it outside the labyrinth, Lucas would have just gotten a scolding to “maintain knightly dignity” and that would be the end of it.

Moreover, this was a labyrinth. What could be done if a knight essential for survival in the labyrinth groped a masseuse who could do nothing but massage?

Rather than cause trouble, she had to endure it. Lavenda suffered mentally like that.

Serena understood Lavenda’s feelings.

‘I endured it too.’

If it were outside the labyrinth, she would have banished the knight from her sight for ‘not liking that bastard’s gaze!’ but she endured his arrogance.

If Lucas hadn’t tried to kill Serena first, she would likely have tried to persuade and use him somehow.

“I absolutely hate such things. From now on, report anything immediately.”

“Yes…”

“Please inform me too! I’ll punish them!”

Now that he was Sir Ralph Hanson, he wouldn’t be intimidated by other knights! At Ralph’s words, the gloomy Lavenda smiled brightly.

“So about their corpses.”

“Lucas should be left for monsters to eat!”

“If he becomes undead that would be troublesome, so should we chop him up and scatter the pieces?”

Perhaps having built up resentment, Lavenda’s eyes gleamed as she talked about chopping up. She looked excited, so Serena let her be.

“Let’s say we give Lucas Viren as monster food, but what should we do about Krom?”

“Ah…”

Lavenda’s cheerful expression became solemn. Ralph also made a sad face, but Philia spoke cheerfully.

“Can’t we dispose of that old woman the same… no. Um. We can’t.”

The second condition Philia kept in mind to become Serena’s maid. If the master glares, say the opposite.

Ralph didn’t seem likely to start a red revolution, but he might wield a sword of justice instead. Serena patted Philia approvingly.

“We can’t leave it indefinitely, so I plan to bring Krom’s body to the 1st floor for now.”

“But where should we put it? There’s no proper place for burial and no firewood for cremation.”

“Leaving it here… would be hard to look at.”

Everyone agreed that Krom’s corpse couldn’t be left alone, but the funeral method was the problem.

“Hmm.”

Serena stared at the statue then shook her head. If she died and returned, she might be able to save Krom. But she couldn’t go back to the past just because one person died.

It absolutely wasn’t because he was a drug dealer that she was letting him die. She had grown fond of him, but he was ultimately just a stranger she’d met a few days ago.

Krom was a heinous drug dealer, but he was able to sacrifice himself for the young people and die honorably. Was there a need to even commit suicide to change that?

‘No, definitely not.’

“If we cut it into small pieces and burn them bit by bit, couldn’t we cremate him? Using that as firewood.”

Philia again suggested chopping up Krom’s corpse. This time the intention was different, so she didn’t stop her.

“I wonder. Even if it’s for cremation, doing that would feel like desecrating the deceased…”

“He was a drug dealer! Even this is too good for him!”

Philia, who hated drug addicts and dealers because of Serena, raised her voice.

Serena searched through Krom’s cart wondering if there was anything useful. Children’s toys and sculptures came out. Nothing special.

‘The floor height seems strange.’

Serena noticed that the floor height seen from inside the cart differed from what she saw outside. When she tapped it, it was certain. There was a secret space in the floor.

Since the cart was useful, she carefully looked for a way to open the secret space without breaking the floor. Fortunately, it was easier to find than the traps placed in Heuji’s Mausoleum.

Click. When Serena twisted and pressed the cart handle, the floor opened. Inside were a wallet and, like the cart, several toys and sculptures.

It seemed like nothing special, but Serena wasn’t fooled.

‘If asked why there’s a secret space, he probably planned to say it was for storing valuables.’

Serena picked up a toy and examined it. It looked like an ordinary wooden doll, but when she turned the doll’s neck.

‘Bingo.’

Inside the toy with separated head and body was drugs wrapped in oiled paper.

‘Damn it.’

Serena recalled the face of the child running with the toy in his head and the father of the children following behind. The particularly shabby appearance of the children’s father was highlighted.

‘Selling drugs hidden in children’s toys to avoid detection? And buying that too? Are you people even human?’

Rage surged from deep in her heart. Serena controlled her breathing to suppress her anger.

‘Did Lucas perhaps know Krom was a drug dealer and use him as bait? No, probably not. If he knew, he would have told me.’

A knight of the Royal Palace couldn’t not know that Serena hated drug dealers. With Lucas’s personality, when revealing his criminal record, he would have also revealed that the old woman Serena was protecting was a drug dealer and mocked her.

The maid who knew well that her master absolutely hated drugs shouted.

“Burn it together with the drug dealer!”

“No… it can be used as poison like this time, so I’ll keep it for now.”

Serena put the drugs back in the wooden doll and returned it to the cart’s secret space.

“If anyone touches these for their original purpose, I’ll cut off their wrists.”

“Of course!”

“I absolutely won’t touch them!”

There was nothing else special.

“The shovel is too small to bury him in the herb garden, and the place we used as a restroom is a bit awkward.”

“What should we do?”

Just as everyone’s gazes had turned to Ralph when they first had to explore the mausoleum, this time everyone’s gazes turned to Serena.

What they were thinking was obvious.

‘The Princess is chosen by the Labyrinth God, so she’ll somehow make it work.’

‘She even made the Bread Tree, so she should be able to make a grave too.’

‘It’s Lady Serena, so she’ll definitely figure something out somehow.’

Ignoring their expectations would also be a terrible thing to do. Serena pretended to contemplate how to somehow make it work while opening her left eye.

‘Is there anything?’

Among the decoration items, there was a grave. Looking at the product description, it was a real grave that could bury up to ten people.

The price was cheap at 1 coin, but Serena’s shop coins were still at 0 coins.

‘That’s strange. I defeated the Minotaur. Don’t tell me it’s still alive?’

Just as Serena was about to rush up to the 2nd floor in shock, she noticed an unchecked notification.

[You have defeated the formidable Minotaur. The Limited Shop is now open.]

Limited Shop. Just from the name, it was a shop where you could use limited coins. Serena immediately opened the Limited Shop Window.

‘They call it a shop.’

In the Limited Shop Window, a round spinning wheel was waiting for Serena.

‘This is gambling.’

Duds occupied half the area of the spinning wheel. Serena was so dumbfounded she was about to close the wheel when she saw a notification and stopped.

[First-time only! No duds!]

The duds that had occupied half the wheel disappeared and the winning area expanded. Serena carefully examined the products in the winning categories.

Elixir of immortality, panacea, legendary magic sword, rainbow shield, love potion, and so on. There were products that anyone would have dreamed of at least once. The probability was at a level where it was better to consider it nonexistent.

Serena looked at the more realistic probability product groups.

‘The highest winning probability is coins.’

Gacha coins – written as gacha coins but thought of as death coins. One gacha coin had the highest probability of winning. There were also 10 and 100 coin products, but the more the number increased, the lower the winning probability became.

Shop coins that could be used in the store also had a high winning probability. Since dying was easier(?) than conquering the labyrinth, the probability was slightly lower than death coins.

‘Should I try spinning it?’

Since there are no duds, should I spin it for now?

‘Hah, this is really something.’

Dad was a drug addict, Mom had mania, Grandfather was a living corpse, and her affection-deprived younger brother was a gambling addict.

Because her younger brother, who was still wet behind the ears, was crazy about gambling, Serena had tried to live a life avoiding gambling.

‘And now they’re testing me with this.’

This was ultimately a Limited Shop Window provided by the Labyrinth God and not gambling, but spinning something resembling a roulette felt strange.

‘Don’t think negatively. Spin!’

Serena used her tier coin to spin the wheel. The wheel spun plainly without sparkling lights or exciting music, then gradually slowed down.

‘Come out something good! Something good!’

The wheel’s spinning speed gradually slowed down and then stopped.

-2 guaranteed 5-star summon tickets will be provided.

‘5-star?’

Though the magic shield had helped, Lucas who had endured a head-on collision with the Minotaur was 3-star. But a guaranteed 5-star – surely better days for Serena’s labyrinth conquest had arrived.

‘No, it’s too early to feel relieved. What if their personality is completely messed up?’

Lucas was barely manageable because he was 3-star. If it’s a 5-star with a bad personality, they’d be too strong to even control.

A notification passed before the troubled Serena.

[Tip. Be honest with your desires. Your desires will be reflected in the summon!]

In her previous life, there was a saying called ‘desire sensor’. When playing gacha-type games, if you wanted something, the stronger your desire, the lower the probability of getting it became, as if detected by a sensor – this was a superstition.

The tip stated that contrary to her previous life, the desire sensor would increase the probability.

‘But if that’s true, why did I summon Lucas?’

Serena had never wanted such a personality-broken perverted trash.

‘I did summon without thinking about anything.’

So maybe Lucas, who was closest by, got summoned.

‘The person I need right now is…’

Putting aside the drug dealer’s funeral method for a moment, Serena seriously examined the current situation.

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