Helkep was not given enough time to come up with something, as the hidden boss pointed his finger towards him and said something.
Whatever he said, it was out of Helkep's comprehension but he still guessed that he was warning him to not get the lizard into trouble.
That was quite a difficult request, which was not easy to fulfill.
Saying what he wanted, the hidden boss went away, into the shadow. Helkep sighed and laid down on his bed.
The lizard also tried getting on the bed, it looked stupid and cute.
Helkep could only stare blankly at it while it tried to somehow climb on top of the bed.
Finally realising that it can't climb the thin legs of the bed it laid on the ground and slept, allowing Helkep to go to sleep as well.
Tomorrow when Helkep woke up something unusual happened, the two brothers didn't bother to disturb his sleep and when he woke up he saw the two boys already gone out to have their breakfast.
'A minus where a plus should be!? the world collapses... This saying isn't wrong at all, is it?.' Helkep sighed and decided to take a bath.
After freshening up he called out the hidden boss and told him to wait inside his room, so the lizard doesn't follow him.
The hidden boss simply laid on his bed and closed his eyes to go to sleep.
When Helkep was about to leave for his first class, he opened his room and to warn the hidden boss to not cause any trouble.
But seeing that the hidden boss had already fallen asleep he sighed and just prayed for the best, though he was amazed at the fact that he hadn't moved one inch from the position he had first laid on. Which was technically impossible as a human will move to adjust himself in the most comfortable position.
'Though it's not very impressive since he isn't a human.' Helkep left the room and went to his class.
Nothing much happened, just a few friends more hyped to meet him since they didn't see Helkep yesterday.
The true trouble arrived some time later, when Helkep was walking towards his sixth class, two people appeared.
A man with black hair and black eyes, in black clothing which looked like a uniform with the symbol of magnifying glass on his shirt pocket said to him, "You Helkep!?"
Helkep glanced at the logo on his shirt and smelled trouble, "Yes! Anything I can entertain the investigation bureau of the guild with?"
"Yes! You can entertain us with a few answers, we won't take much of your time. And if you are worried about your class than don't, we have taken permission and already applied for your absence." The woman besides the man said in a sweet voice.
She also had black hair and black eyes, the facial features of the two matched, they were siblings, Helkep guessed. She was in the same black outfit, with the same logo on her shirt.
'Sigh! They truly had me waiting for quite a long time, I was beginning to think if they were going to let me go and investigate on their own, guess that was impossible, anyways let's get this over with.' Helkep sighed and said, "That's very kind of you. Well than, lead the wa- -" Before Helkep could finish his words, someone shouted his name.
"HELEKP!" Looking back where the sound came from, his eyes fell on a girl around his age, running in his direction.
The girl was a beauty among beauties. Her smooth and silky snow-white hair, fell down to her waist. With her silver eyes that radiated a unique charm, they looked like a full moon hanging in the night sky. Her skin was just as smooth and white like marble. Her height was about the same as Helkep's. Her trimmed nails were covered in silver nail polish.
Helkep clenched his teeth's tightly, 'What is she doing here!?'
The girl ran towards him excitedly, and hugged him. Helkep stared blankly at the girl hugging him.
The loud voices of the students had drowned the girl's shout so not much attention was gained by it.
What did catch attention was the girl's appearance. The female students here were all from rich families, even if they weren't born pretty, there were quite a few things that could change appearances in this day and age.
But the white-haired girl's appearance was beyond enchanting. She was like a fairy having descended on the world.
Forget boys even girls were staring with mouth open.
"What are you doing here, Ella?" Helkep asked, not at all happy to see her here.
"Huh!? We meet after a month and you reply with that, seriously!?" Ella glared at him with an angry and displeased look.
'This girl is nothing but trouble, Sigh! …What is happening? One thing after another is popping out of nowhere, my life is turned upside down after entering that dungeon.' Helkep's life truly had taken an interesting turn.
"..." The girl blankly stared at Helkep massaging his temples.
"Who may you be?" The woman from the investigation bureau asked Ella.
"I am Ella, who are you?" Ella's demeanour was neutral. Though one could discern the difference in her attitude when talking with Helkep and the woman.
'I guess she's the rumored odd beauty. The fiancée of Helkep. She indeed is a beauty beyond compare but she isn't very bright. Her family has been trying to cancel her engagement for 6 years yet she hasn't agreed to it. People are even starting to wonder if she is alright in her brain. If it was about Helkep being handsome, that's...he isn't charming to say the least... What is her motive? I refuse to believe she is so simple.' The woman thought, she didn't reply to Ella though, it was the man besides her who did.
"We are from the investigation bureau, there's some questions we would like to ask Helkep." The man replied in a soft demeanour, at least there was a difference of sky and earth from when he demanded questions from Helkep.
"Why?" Ella didn't like the sound of that, she had finally been able to meet Helkep after so much time and now she would have to wait some more time.
Helkep looked at the people staring towards them, not being a fan of crowds he said, "Let's get going, I don't want to keep you waiting anymore."
The woman nodded and motioned towards him to follow her.
"Wait! Can't you have this investigation some other time?" Ella asked with a frown.
"No! We need to finish this today." Before the man could open his mouth, the woman rejected.
Her frown deepened, when the woman turned around and continued walking, she suddenly exclaimed, "Hey! Why don't I come with you guys?" She asked with a big smile.
"No!" "Sure!" Helkep and the man stared at each other.
Helkep was wondering why the man had said sure. While the man was wondering why Helkep would reject a beauty.
"...So I can come, right? Great!" Ella strongly chose to ignore Helkep's words.
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Sitting inside the room of a popular café, the woman spoke, "Like anything before we begin?"
"Black coffee." Ella's quick answer surprised the woman.
"Ignore her, I would like it if you would answer some of my questions as well." Helkep knowing Ella didn't mind her, though he still got a bit annoyed.
Ella smiled trying to ignore the first part.
"Alright. I am certain you would also like to know what happened, after you came out of the Wild Cage." The woman nodded her head and also did as Helkep said, ignored Ella's words. Though the man did order some coffee for everyone.
When Ella heard the words Wild Cage, her ears pricked up, her cheerful mood dismissed, her eyes contracted, fixed on the woman.
"So, what happened inside the dungeon? Also tell us why the Filler party decided to take you with them." The woman took a sip of the coffee and begun her investigation.
Helkep stared at the small-circular 3-inch button like thing in front of him, from which a holographic blue screen appeared, he sighed and spoke, "They were over-confident, they thought they could manage the dungeon without their full party... I don't think I need to go in much detail about this." Helkep waited for them to approve and the man fulfilled his wish by nodding.
'The woman can predict whether my words are true or not through her eyes, I don't think her innate skill works with sensing emotions, but something else.' Helkep didn't let the slight increase in the woman's eye color escape him.
"Truth be told, we encountered a very special scenario, the first monster we made contact with was...a mutant and the monsters we encountered on the first floor after the mutant were nil." Helkep glanced at the woman.
The three were shocked, a mutant was very rare, encountering it on the first floor was something that everyone would be confused about, whether to call it luck or bad-luck.
Helkep noticed her staring at his chest, his heart to be exact. Seeing she reacted in no manner he realised he could fool her, it was a hunch. But his guesses being wrong, hardly happened.
"Though this didn't last long, soon things became normal and monsters began to appear like they should. What...delayed us was...an abnormal activity in the dungeon on the third floor." Helkep once again went into his deceiver mood.
"Abnormal activity!?" The man asked with a frown. The woman just blankly stared at Helkep.
"Yes! On the third floor...we encountered an almost endless waves of monsters. The floor looked like a stadium of war, no it was a battlefield... we witnessed a war of monsters." Helkep...needed an award. He exaggerated things so much ...
Sigh!
"A war of monsters!?" The man was shocked beyond compare.
If you are wondering why he isn't doubting Helkep's words, it's because such occurrences are not so unusual in dungeons. Sometimes, something can happen in them that is not related to the dungeon whatsoever. A war was nothing special, he wouldn't have been shocked, if he had encountered such situations more often, sadly this was his first time hearing about a dungeon anomaly.
"Yes! We were swept up in the war, we resisting for as much as we can, but we were helpless in front of the thousands of monsters. Eventually things became dire, when our mana potions depleted, and the inevitable happened...killed. As for how I was able to get out of their alive, as I wasn't included in the first lines not the back to be exact, I made a ran for it the moment I guessed things were not going to turn up good. In the lower floors, I confronted no monsters and was able to escape the dungeon. But I wasn't in good condition, I barely managed to hang on till the last teleportation circle and when I reached it, I fell unconscious." Helkep's words had shocked everyone. Except one person.
"I see." The man had a deep frown., he was really curious about the dungeon anomaly.
"Now if you don't mind, can you tell me, what you know about what happened, when no monster approached me during the outburst?" Helkep's turn finally came, to ask them a few things.
"We have not found anything solid yet, but with the fact that you also teleported out when the outburst occurred, we believe that the monsters considered you as an ally." The man answered. The woman was silently staring out of the window.
'I am certain now.' Helkep had finally solved one mystery out of the many in his head.
"That's...Okay, when do you believe that the area will be cleared?" Helkep asked, looking at the man in the eyes.
The man felt weird looking in his eyes, "That we aren't very certain about."
"I see. Well than, I have nothing more to ask. If you have something to ask me than feel free." Helkep nodded his head in understanding.
The man looked towards the woman, who nodded her head.
"Well, thank you for your cooperation. We will be on our way then." The man grabbed the recorder from the table and left, followed by the woman.
Walking towards a DC shop, the man said, "That Helkep is so weird and creepy. He made eye contact with me for merely a second and I felt chills running through me."
The woman looked towards him and after a moment of silence said, "That creepy and strange boy…is frightening. You now how my ability works by the beating of the human heart. At first, when he started talking, the aura I saw from his heart was stable but after sometime, it changed. It got higher and lower. It beat in an unusual rhythm." The woman's eyes were shaking recalling the weird aura.
"...But that means!" The man stopped in his tracks, his eyes and mouth were wide open in shock.
"He increased and decreased the beating of his own heart, consciously. And the way he was unfazed the whole time, he suffered no drawbacks whatsoever." The woman completed the man's words. Her hands shook, she wondered the probability of her being wrong.
The man could only stand in shock, increasing and decreasing the beating of a heart wasn't impossible. But the fact that there were no drawbacks and the fact that a level 7 could do it, was the true unbelievable part.
"…Do you think he was challenging us? Was he lying?" The man asked nervously.
"No, he doesn't know about my innate skill, we didn't tell him and the innate skills of the members of the investigation bureau are kept secret. And I don't think he would gain anything from lying. Unless he found a treasure, but I doubt if what he said was a lie, than the other members of the Filler party would have let him leave." The woman firmly rejected the idea of a lie.
But it was her mistake to compare Helkep with ordinary peoples. He was by no means normal.
"…Yea. That's also true." The man nodded and continued walking.
Helkep who had just drunk the last of his coffee thought, 'Alright then! I have a few things to ask from this person sitting besides me.'