"Umm, you think he is fine?" Loki asked, trying to wake up the guy.
Except for the fangs on his face and his skin being a shade paler than humans, he looked pretty much like an average human who would be in his twenties.
๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฏ! ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐จ๐ถ๐บ'๐ด ๐ค๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ, ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ช๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฃ๐บ ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ค๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ. Then Aphro quickly suppressed her thoughts, it wasn't the right place.
"Hmm, he's just passed out. He's not an NPC. I think one of us should watch guard over this guy till he wakes up. He'll die if a monster finds him in this state."
She looked around, she knew what cave this was, she knew that there were supposed to be spiders here, but instead there was a large mound in front of the cave. She was confused.
{How did this guy find this dungeon? Could he have come here by chance? Since this forest had almost no monsters, noone used to come here, the Kingdom Cave wasn't found by anyone within the first week, let alone the first day, until it was announced that the guy, Shadowlurker, who was actually a girl posing as a guy, had conquered the dungeon, that too, alone. She was a nobody until the announcement, after which she remained on the leaderboard for quite some time, until she was killed off after the Crystal Turning. If only I could find her... no, now is not the time, what about this guy? I'll have to ask him how he's here when he wakes up.}
"Taking the guy back to the city is not an option, since we can't just fail the quest, that would probably mean that Tolm's mother would die." Loki reminded them.
"Then what do you think we should do, lil bro?" Rudra asked.
Before Himu could say anything, Swara came in between, I don't think this is the cave we are looking for." She hesitated, "It's just a hunch."
Loki held his chin for a moment while looking at the guy, he knew that Swara's hunch was usually right, and then proposed an idea," How about this? Swara, you go into the cave to see if it's the one we're looking for. You're a Rogue, so going in without being noticed by any monster should be easy for you. Even if things go south, I think you had already put most of your points in AGI, which means you can come back out unharmed in case you encounter something dangerous."
Then he looked at Gagan, "Bro, you should look through the forest to see if you find any other cave, we can't ignore the possibility that this cave isn't the one, because we'll lose precious time. Since you are taller it would be easier for you too. If any of us are in trouble, just call out to each other. Okay?"
He looked around to see that both Gagan and Swara gasping and their eyes were full of shock.
"What is it?" He asked with a puzzled expression.
They rubbed their eyes until Gagan finally spoke, "Himu, when.. when did you become smart?"
Himanshu sighed and rolled his eyes, it was just their usual teasing. They were chuckling. Then Gagan closed his eyelids half, "Wait, what are you gonna do?"
"I'm gonna make sure nothing happens to our guest here."
"So, you're gonna be lazy."
"That's another way to say it."
"Yeah, that's the normal Himanshu." and Gagan and Swara started doing what Himu had told them to.
"What do you mean by that? You are the lazy ones! I am the one taking care of the company." He shouted, but they couldn't hear him.
Reminding himself of the company made him a bit sad. It reminded him of his mom and dad.
Theirs was a normal tragic love story. The hero saves heroine, heroine and hero fall in love, hero finds out that the heroine is smuggling gold near the border, he doesn't give a damn and marries her after a few months, they start living there. After some six months, he finds out she is the heir of a multinational company (Kingdom!). Hero is shocked. Then he finds out that she is pregnant. He is even more shocked now. They finally go back to where the heroine's castle is (because her family sent men to find her). Hero meets heroine's older sister, whose husband died and she doesn't have a child, so she can't be the heir of the company... Yes, I know, she's definitely going to kill them.. It's a 'tragic' love story.. won't be tragic if noone dies. So yeah, the hero dies in a car accident (the heroine survives), the villainess is exiled (she ran off) from the Kingdom and the king (heroine's father) takes care of the heroine until she dies after giving birth to a daughter and two sons.
{Still can't believe that's how dryly grandpa told us about mom and dad.}
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SPOILER ALERT!! The grandfather is a rich guy, but he is good.
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Except that he killed his daughter.
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It is advised that the author is not taken seriously after the line of truth appears.