CHAPTER 31: The only way down is unpleasant

The sun fully sets and was replaced by the moon illuminating the dark forest. Earlier, I saw a section near the horizon of what probably the remnant lights of a village during the night.

I wonder if there’s electricity here. I say in my mind. I sat near a rock beside the hole I made. Suyeon’s looking out with such passion and a smile on her face while she stares at the night sky plastered with stars alongside our home planet. While she’s too busy stargazing, I tried to find a way down for both of us. I already risked my life twice to just save her skinny ass and it wouldn’t be practical to just leave her here after exerting so much effort to just get her out.

“What level are you?” I asked her and it seems like she’s in her own world since what I asked didn’t register in her ears. “Hey!”

My voice startled her and she quickly scrambles away from the hole stumbling to get to the wall towards my left. Her happy expression was replaced with worry as she nervously looks at the ground and me but it quickly changed as she tried to hold her vomit back.

“Pwahaha stupid ass. You forgot you got the fame sickness bullshit?” I taunt her as I get a bit agitated with her extreme reaction to everything.

What the hell is wrong with her? So many different thoughts enter my mind along with different scenarios to why she’s like this.But bottom line, I’m guessing she’s been abused to the point that she thinks she’s going to get hit any given minute.

Sigh*

“Ok let me ask one more time. What level are you?” I say looking at her.

"I am l-level 1." She nervously replies as she kept her gaze towards the ground.

“Seriously? The hell…what’s your class again?” I asked remembering she has a non-combatant class like mine when she couldn’t lift up the armor I put on top of her before, but I wasn’t quite sure what it was. I see her fidgeting her fingers and then she finally looks towards my way.

“I-it’s c-called f-footwork.” She tells me as if she was embarrassed about it.

"Footwork? That sound's like a combat class." I tell her and she just kept glancing up and down going back and forth from my eye to the ground. "Are you sure that's a non-combat class?"

“Y-yes. I only h-have one skill.” She replied to me and her stuttering is starting to annoy me since it’s not because of a speech defect, she’s just afraid.

“What’s the skill?” I asked her.

“I have one s-skill c-called jump.” She tells me as I wait for her to continue talking but she didn’t say anything after that and just continued to stare at me.

“And? The hell does it do? Let’s you jump?” I asked her and she nods. “What level is it?

“Level 1.” She whispers and the more I find out about her, the more useless she becomes.

Sigh*

“You’re more useless than what I was when I started. What the hell, that is one of the most idiotic skills I have heard so far.” I whisper and she didn't say anything. She just looked down on the ground as if she was being scolded.

And I thought my skills were weirdly named. I continued in my mind. All of a sudden, I hear her stomach growl and she suddenly looks up to me with an embarrassed expression and the minute our eyes met, she quickly looked down as she tried to hold herself back from vomiting.

That damn look, again. I whisper in my mind thinking about what type of life she had to always be scared of people's reaction.

Sigh*

Hearing her stomach cry for food, it made my stomach do the same and the cave got an acapella performance. There isn’t a point to starve her or me so I decided to cook for both of us since my class is a damn cook after all.

“Item bag,” I called out and my dimensional bag to materialize and quickly took out a knife, two plates, frying pan, a couple of torches, raw meat of the ogre queen, a couple of spices, and cooking oil. I arranged the torches on the ground bringing all the heads together. Grabbing a rock and one of the stalactites within my bag, I ignited the torches and watch the fire spread into one another forming a bigger flame bright enough to illuminate the area and provide us heat.

Getting all of these items was quite useful when I entered the sky king’s dungeon. I even found some in the hidden dungeon like most of my water container. I put a bit of oil on the pan so that the meat won’t attach itself. Leaving black leftovers that are very hard to remove will be a pain to clean if I have no scrub and source of water. I took out a water container and wash the meat first, removing the grime covering it. After cleaning, I placed the meat onto the pan and using the dull end of my knife, I start tenderizing it.

Even though I have skills that are supposed to do it for me, it’s too strong and I’ll end up obliterating the whole thing. After tenderizing, I place a few spices on the meat to add a bit of flavor and rolled it around the pan to coat it with the cooking oil. I place the pan on top of the fire and held it up there and as heat accumulates under the pan, the meat started sizzling and a nice aroma started feeling up the cave that made my stomach grumble a lot more. The smell of the meat was similar to a barbecue chicken.

“I wonder if it tastes like chicken,” I whisper as I wait for the meat to turn golden brown on one side before I flip it. I figured out its one of my natural ability to know the perfect time when the meat cooks. I’ll get the sudden urge to flip the meat as excitement fills my core, this what tells me that it’s ready. After getting the urge, I flipped the meat and it started sizzling once the raw side touches the pan. The smell is enough to make my stomach grumble and my mouth salivates. The meat has turned to a golden brown that makes anyone water from the mouth upon looking at it. I notice Suyeon’s intense gaze at the meat as it sizzles on the frying pan. I let the meat cook until I know it’s done. The meat sizzled as small droplets of the oil bounced around and some of them hitting my hand. I’ve gotten used to the sensation of being slightly burned by the oil so it didn’t bother me at all.

"Ok, this should be done," I say as I grab the knife and using it as a fork, I stab the steak and place it on one of the plates I got from the hidden dungeon. These plates look like their antiques but they work and are very durable. I have a little fascination with antique items anyways so I use it as normal plates without any regards to the design and its value. After placing the meat, using the same knife in my hand, I slowly cut it in two splitting it in half. The center has a hint of marble pink mixed with golden brown indicating it’s on the borderline of being well done.

"Ah, that smells heavenly. Here try it." I pass the plate to Suyeon who looks at me with surprise.

I need to see if that ogre queen is edible. I rather use her as a test subject for it. I say in my mind as I give her a fake smile. I noticed on some meat, even when I purify it, it only works for poison. It doesn't really purify the taste. It makes sense because if it does, I practically can cook my own shit and it still would taste good.

"Hurry up and take it, my arms are getting tired holding the fucking plate," I tell her and she slowly grabs the plate and looks at it like it's some type of artwork.

Just fucking eats it already. I hope it tastes bad so you can throw up. Ah, I forgot to give a knife and a fork.I say in my mind. I called out my dimensional back and rummage through to take out another knife and a fork and different thought enter my mind. I wonder if she can hold a knife? This thing isn’t categorized as a weapon but more like an item for cooking.

When I look back at her, I see her picking up half of the meat using her bare hands not even caring if it's hot or not. I just looked at her amazed how much of a caveman or I should say cavewoman she is. The way she reacts and even talks show her lack of common sense.

Did she go to school? She looks like she was sheltered or locked in the basement her whole life. I say in my mind as she bites into the meat. I’m waiting for a reaction but she just happily ate it while blowing between chew.I started cutting my portion so it’s easier for me to eat. She paid no attention and continued to devour her portion like a cannibal. I poked one of the cut pieces with my fork and placed the juicy steak in my mouth.

“What the fuck is this?!” I shouted spitting the food out. It tasted rotten. The juice tasted or what I think taste like the liquid you’ll find in the bottom of the garbage can. Due to my sudden movement, the whole area started spinning as if I was put inside a wheel. I felt the sudden urge to gag and along with the taste of the food, I couldn’t hold it back. I was on all fours as the acidic liquid comes out of my mouth onto the floor below me. I smelled my own vomit as a small portion of it didn’t exit my mouth but went out my nose instead. “ugh, fuck.”

I quickly took out a water container and tried to gargle the taste out of my mouth but it won’t leave at all. The worst part is that the meat smells good but the taste was horrendous. I look at Suyeon and she just looked at me slowly devouring the ogre queen steak I gave her.

“H-how can you eat that fucking thing? It tastes like old rotting garbage!!” I tell her and she looked at me confused. Here I am using her as a guinea pig without her knowing and I end up getting fucked in the mouth by something I would say, the most disgusting shit I have ever tasted my entire life. I took whatever’s left of the water container I used to gargle and gave it to her.

“Fucking here. Go finish the rest.” I tell her as she grabs the container from me with her dirty hands stained by the ogre queen’s steak juice. “Ughh, keep the container also.”

She looks at me with a happy expression. Then she looked at my leftover ogre queen cut up steak and back at me.

What? Does she want to eat the rest of that nasty shit? I say in my mind wanting to gag thinking about how she could eat it like nothing.

"Uh, go ahead. You can eat that too." I tell her and she quietly went over to my plate and picked it up. She looked back at me wanting to ask another thing.

"What?" I asked getting confused about what the hell is going on.

“U-um. Can I eat it over there?” She asked me pointing at the hole I made at the wall exposing the outside forest.

Why is she asking me?Tilting my head trying to see if she’s joking but she’s dead serious.

“Uh go?” I tell her. She gave me a quick smile and happily sat down near the hole looking up the stars while she slowly eats the ogre queen steak.

"What the hell," I mutter as I took out another water container to wash my hand. "Fuck. I only have a couple of water container left. I should have filled up some of the empty ones before I left that dungeon."

I don’t see any water here so by tomorrow we need to get down.I voiced my thoughts in my head.But how, this height is at the highest I’ve been at. I don’t think using my skills to stop me from falling is a good idea.

After washing, I decided to lean near the wall on the right. I’m not sleeping tonight. I just can’t, knowing that someone’s here with me. It’s halfway through the night and I decided to sit near the campfire since the air has gotten really cold.

"Health status," I whispered trying not to wake up Suyeon. By now, I just gave up trying to understand how she could sleep so soundly after everything.

Health:

Recovered

Poisoned:

No

Sickness:

Flame Sickness

"Fuck, it's still there," I whisper as I notice the flame sickness never disappeared. This limits my movement as I can't make any sudden moves or I'll end up wanting to gag. "Maybe they have a potion in this world for this."

I slowly stood up and approached the hole. I look out towards the horizon and the bright yellow lights I see from the distance have become weaker.

“We need to reach that village tomorrow. So I can leave this dumbass also in there. I’m not here to babysit a cavewoman who has little to no knowledge of common sense.” I whisper to myself. I walk back towards the campfire and I walk near her.

“She looks a bit different. It hasn’t been that long but she amassed this much body weight already.”

From the first time I’ve seen her up to now, she gained some weight and she’s slowly becoming less like a stick to a fit high school student. By the look of it, its either she’s the same age as me or younger.

“Well, I remember I gained all the body weight I lost in just one night. She should be the same.” I whisper as I study her up and down. The clothes I gave her were just a regular cloth shirt big enough that it reaches up to her knee. “Wait, does this mean she was starved within the safe room?”

I think of the new adventurers that I saw before I entered the portal. Now it makes me regret a little I didn’t bash all their heads in.

“Tch, Luro brought some troublesome people," I whisper to myself. "Oh well~ Not my problem.”

I slowly stood up and walked to where I was sitting and sat in front of the campfire all night wondering about what I should do next.

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Morning came as the moon quickly disappeared into the horizon. I started gathering the torch and all my belongings. I gave Suyeon all of the stuff I used to cook the meat except the frying pan and the knife. She happily accepted it and stored it in her bag. I asked her what else is in her bag and she told me only the stuff I gave her. I wondered if I should give her a knife but, I also thought about getting stabbed out of nowhere by her so I didn’t. I see her sitting looking out of the hole.

“Can you use your skill?” I asked her as I approached her. She quickly turned towards me with a nervous expression. “Well? Can you?” She shook her head indicating a no.

"Well aren't you a useless witch stick," I mutter.

“Su-Yeon. My fucking name is Suyeon.” She says getting mad at me.

"Well excuse me princess bitch," I say mocking her but she didn't retaliate and just brought her head down as if she did something wrong, again.

Sigh*

“What else do you know? Like commands or any other thing.” I asked her.

“Um, I-I can use item bag, status window, health status, weapon description, show DPH.” She says using her fingers to count how many she knows. I saw her bag dropped and probably every notification came up in front of her, as she started frantically looking everywhere.

What the fuck, is she a kid? I say in my mind watching her frantically look everywhere.

“And a-and I can use skill description and location information.” She continued on.

“Location information?” the minute I asked a notification appeared in front of me.

Location information

current location:

Cave inside the horizontal mountain

Conquered:

Cannot be conquered

Conquerer's name:

N/A

Description:

A normal cave.

“What the...” I whisper looking at the notification and waited for it to disappear. “Ok, now what passive class do you have?”

“Uh, I have Dancer’s soul, o-s-si-sium, s-s-sixth sense.” She tells me counting with her fingers again.

"Tell me the description of each class," I asked her trying to figure out if there's something she can use to help her descend down. I can easily lodge my sword or use my skills to help me descend. Even if I vomit on my way down, I'll do it to just survive but I can't do it if I'm carrying someone.

“Status window.” She says and I see her reading something from space. “U-um, dancers soul gives me a dancer n-n-natural a-abuileties. A-and o-os-s-siu-“

“Wait a minute. What the fuck. you can't read?” I say as I see her struggling reading the description on her status window.

“I can. But not the big words.” She tells me.

No fucking way.I say in my mind.

“Did you go to school at all?” I asked her and she shook her head sideways. “What the hell…”

“I-am sorry.” She apologized at me regressing back to her puppy type attitude.

“Why are you a fucking weakling?” I said automatically what on my head out loud.

“I-it’s because I’m a non-combat class and-“

"I'm not talking about your fucking strength but your attitude. It seems like you tucked your tail so deep between your legs it went up your fucking ass." I tell her as I start to get irritated as for how she keeps apologizing.

“W-what?” She asked while looking at her to see if she had a tail.

Sigh*

“Nothing, never mind. It’s a damn metaphor. Shit, go look around the cave to see if you find any hidden entrance.” I order her and she nods and quietly walked around testing the walls. I decided to go back to see if there’s anything around where we woke up in.

Before I left, I decided to boil ogre queen flesh. Even though I only have a few water containers left, I decided to boil it anyway since I can let it sit there and simmer without me attending to it. Rather than throwing it, I’ll cook it and give it to her. This way, she can take food out of her bag rather than wait for me to keep giving her food. It’s starting to get annoying how everything I do now is required for two people.

"Hey, watch this," I tell her pointing at the pot. I used a couple of daggers and stabbed it into the ground. Using its hilt. I formed a square where I can place the pot on top. Underneath, I left one torch lit and let the pot simmer.

“Don’t eat it. Just check it every now and then. Got it? Whatever's cooking in there is your portion of food.” I tell her and she nods happily.

I started walking back towards where we came from. I check the walks, rock formations, but nothing.

"Pound," I whispered and braced myself from the after effect of the sickness as I swung towards a wall. It erupted as soon as my fist reached the wall but my efforts were for nothing.

“mppf!” I tried to stop myself from vomiting but I ended up emptying my stomach. “Ugh, I need to find a way to cure this sickness.”

Since there’s nothing here, I decided to walk back towards where we camped. I took a couple of loose stalactites that dropped on the ground and stored it in my bag.

Might as well collect as much as I can. I wonder how much these go fo-

“Ahhhhhh!!!” I hear Suyeon scream and I automatically ran forgetting about my sickness. The cave spun wildly in my vision make me lose balance as I fall to my side. I felt like vomiting but I luckily this time, I was able to hold it.

Cough*

Cough*

“F-fuck! Cough* dammit!” I screamed as I slowly tried to stand. This time I walked back but at the fastest rate I can without being hit by the sickness. As soon as I got a better view, I see Suyeon on the ground and giant mosquito is on top of her. It’s needle nose an inch away from her chest and her palms are wrapped around it preventing the mosquito from puncturing her as she pushes forward with all her might. But I see she’s slowly losing the fight as the mosquito’s needle slowly comes closer to her skin.

“Seismic Step! Sharpen!” I shouted my skill as I took out a sword from my dimensional bag. My sword was encased with a bright light and I felt the vibrations from the bottom of my foot. I slowly got into a crouching position and using force, I pushed off the ground and I felt the ground shatter under me as I flew towards the giant mosquito. Using the momentum of my direction, I swung my sword forward horizontally and I feel the blade goes through as it slices its head in half exposing its brains and a critical hit appeared above its head. My body flew past as the mosquito falls to its side. I tense my left arm’s muscle as I brace for impact. I felt my arm smack onto the ground and I slid towards the hole I made in the wall. It felt like the world is spinning non-stop making me gag and I vomit what I ate for breakfast.

“Ughh, and I tried so hard not to-“ My voice suddenly stop as I looked up towards the hole that’s gotten bigger. Outside is a whole group of mosquitos flying around as if it was hovering a large body of water to lay their eggs on. I felt like I’m in a movie that I shrank in size. “What the fu-“

A mosquito flew by really quick making me duck behind the wall causing my world to spin again with my sudden movement. I was thinking they would enter but they just flew around outside creating a loud buzzing noise like a bee. I look back to where the dead mosquito lay and I see Suyeon pinned down underneath having a hard time escaping.

"Oh for fuck sakes," I whisper as I slowly got up and moved to help her. I place my sword down on the ground stabbing it downwards and I grabbed her by her arms.

“W-w-wa-“

“What do you think? I’m trying to fucking pull you out.” I tell her getting irritated. Using my right foot, I placed it on the dead mosquito and pulled her while I was pressing down with my foot. “NGggggnnhhh!!”

I finally managed to break her free from under the dead mosquito. Her sudden release made me fall on my ass and her on top of me. I felt like throwing up due o the sudden movement and I see she feels the same as her expression shows she’s trying really hard not to gag. In a quick motion, I threw her to the side and she landed on her elbow yelping in pain while vomiting.

“I-I’m sorry I d-didn’t mean-“

“Shh!” I shushed her as I crouch down trying not to make any more noise and attract more mosquitos. I noticed earlier as she fell on top of me, something flew into the hole in the wall. I kept my gaze towards the hole as I slowly unhinge my sword from the ground. “Fucking giant mosquito.”

I see it jumping around like a grasshopper until it reached the dead body of the other mosquito. By this time, we’re both quite a distance from the corpse as we were slowly back away from it. The mosquito lifted up its head and it a quick motion; it brought it down stabbing the dead carcass with its proboscis. We both slowly watch its abdomen swell and turn red as the dead mosquito slowly deflated. After finishing its meal, it slowly releases its needle and hopped towards the hole in the wall.

“What the fuck. Did it just eat its own kind?” I whisper looking at the mosquito slowly hopping away. Then it jumped out and is see it plummet to the ground. “Stupid ass, it ate too much.”

Thinking it probably hit the ground at high-speed splattering, I started slowly walking towards the dried-up mosquito. But right when I got close, I saw the fat mosquito slowly ascend facing the hole. My whole body went rigid, in any other time, I could easily kill all of them but, with this sickness that makes me vomit at any sudden move, it’s going to be a lot harder to even stay focus. I grip my sword ready if it comes to attack me but in back of my mind, I need to kill it in one go. But rather than coming at me, I see it slowly fly up flapping its wings with intense speed and the giant mosquito along with its group disappeared above the clouds.

“Well, what do you know? That fat thing still flies.” I whisper as I kept a distance from the whole while keeping myself vigilant of any surprise attack. We waited if any more of them will come back but they didn’t. We sat around where we backed up into probably for an hour.

“So you’re telling me that thing flew out of nowhere and started smelling the food?” I asked and Suyeon slowly nodded as she looks at the tipped over a pot with its contents spread onto the floor. I see a hint of sadness in her eyes as looked onto the boiled ogre queen meat.

Sigh*

Nothing goes right with this girl.I slowly stand startling her. I walked towards the dried up mosquito while taking glances at the big hole in the wall. As I reach it, I see it really looks like an inflated parade balloon. I went to touch it and the skin feels like rubber.

“Jeez, did that thing sucked up its bones also?” I whisper as I lift up a part of the mosquito skin and I hear something cluttering inside of it. “I guess not. But for it to suck up everything up to the bone, impossible.” I called out my dimensional bag to materialize and I took out a dagger from inside. I made a cut on the skin from one end to the other. I lift up one flap and I felt the heat coming out of it.

“What the, did it melt it? Why is it hot inside?” I whisper as I reach in and take out one bone. As I inspect the bone, it’s been cleaned as if something scrubbed it. One theory is that thing inject liquid that turns everything liquid except the bones.

“Would have been nice to ride one of them down,” Suyeon whispers as she walks around the mosquito skin and that’s when an idea hit me.

“Why don’t we?” I say as I give her a smile. She looked at me confused but what’s in front of us is what’s going to help us get down from here. “We’re going to create a hot air balloon.”

“Hot air balloon?” She says looking at me confused.

“It’s a balloon with a flame inside. The fire will make the air inside the balloon less dense as it gets heated up. This mosquito won’t be big enough to make us float above the clouds but it should slow down our desce-“

I see her looking at me more confused than ever.

Sigh*

“It. will .bring us. Down. Balloon. Big. Hot air. Slow fall." I started talking in a broken sentence as if she doesn’t know the language. “Me. You. Us go down. To forest. We go. Village. Capisce?”

I see her face contorts with anger. “I-I’m not stupid. I just don’t know what a hot air balloon is.”

Yasu, is this girl bipolar?I asked myself. I don’t know. Probably. She’s scared of me one minute the next she’s mad. What the fuck.

I decided to shout really loud trying to see what her reaction was. and She almost fell back and her face was replaced with fear and she quickly averted my gaze.

“Bwahahaha you are bipolar. Well then bi-polar, come help me out.” I tell her and she just nods. “Collect all the bones inside and put it in your bag.”

She quickly did what I say and happily collected the bones storing them in her bag. While she did that, I used my dagger to cut the mosquito’s big abdomen. It’s where the other mosquito stored all the blood so I know this one is stretchable. It looks like it’s large enough to make one person float.

“This feels like a rubber band. Damn, rubber shrinks with heat. I hope this one doesn’t.” I whisper as I cut a small piece to test out.

I called my bag to materialize and I took out a torch, frying pan, and a stalactite. Using rock and the stalactite, I ignited the torch and set it down the ground. I placed the pan on top of the flame and placed the piece of mosquito abdomen on top of the frying pan. If it's made of rubber, it should shrink in size. I made sure the torch's flame isn't touching the frying pan but is close enough to keep it heated at very low temperature.

A couple of minutes have passed and the mosquito abdomen is still the same size. I brought the pan closer and it remained the same. I brought it closer where the fire is hitting the bottom of the pan and the skin started shrinking as it gets cooked on top the pan.

“Oh ok so if it touches then it will shrink-“ I suddenly stop as the aroma of burning the skin makes me salivate. It smells like chicken.

Why does everything smell like chicken?I say in my mind.

Remembering what Suyeon said, these mosquitos were attracted probably due to the smell of food. Which doesn’t make sense but I quickly dumped the skin on the ground and stomped on it. Knowing that the skin of the mosquito abdomen doesn’t shrink, I can use it as the balloon. As for fire, I can use the sky king’s flames using my swords.

"Damn, it would have been better with the dragon slayer," I say to myself feeling a bit down. "Wait, I did get a new sword.”

I quickly called my dimensional bag and took out the sword I got earlier. “Weapon description!”

Even when calling the command, nothing happened as I held the sword in front of me. “What the hell, inspect?”

Diamond Key

Type

Uses

Family

Key

Key

Key

A gift to you. You'll know what's it's used for soon enough.

“The hell, it’s not a sword but a key?” I say confused at the sword or I should say key. The description seems like it was directed towards me. "Fucking Luro.”

I decided to store it back in my bag. For now, it’s useless but I think I have a general idea what’s it’s for. I walk back towards the carcass and I see Suyeon collecting the last bits of the bones. I needed something to attach me to the mosquito balloon and remembering that I collected a few vines I found in the hidden dungeon, I quickly take it out.

“You, go over the hole. I need to build this. Be on the lookout for those things just in case they come back.” I tell her as I point towards the opening leading outside.

She nods and speeds walk towards the hole.

“Ok, the entrance it’s going to need a ring to keep it open. But what the hell can I use?” I mutter looking around. I spot its legs and the ones near the back is thin enough to be a stick. The only problem is it’s riddled with spikes.

I cut one from its joints and started cutting away the spikes with one motion. I activated my skill making it a lot easier to just peel off a layer of the mosquito legs. Once I took out the spikes, I was exposed to its bone or more like cartilage. And it bends any way I bend it while giving enough pressure to force it back to its original position.

“Ok, seems durable enough, I just need something to tie this together.” I decided to use the skin near the mosquitos head since that’s the one that stretches less making it a nice material to tie thing with as it won’t come loose. After tying the mosquito leg to a circle, I place it near the entrance of the abdomen sack. Using the spikes from the leg, I attached a thin cut skin and sew the frame onto the sack using it. It took me a while but I finally built the section where I’ll put my sword in and use my skill to produce heat and inflate the balloon. My idea was to place my hand in the balloon to use my sword as the burner when I activate the sky king's flames with the wind skill.

“This should be enough to help us descend slowly. Now how do I attach myself?” I wondered. “Ah, my bag. No matter how rough I am with it, it never breaks.”

I cut more thin strips of the mosquito’s skin. Once I had enough, I braided them together to help strengthen in preventing it from breaking. I decided to use my dimensional bag since I can wear it on my back. All I have to really do is use the braided skin of the mosquito to build myself a harness and attach it to the dimensional bag then attached the bag to the balloon. I took out a sword and left it out before I attached myself since I won't be able to grab anything from the bag once I wear it. It took a while to complete and the harness was uncomfortable as it felt like a rubber band around me. I placed the sword inside the balloon holding it straight out

“Ok, time to test it out. Sky king wind!” I inflated the balloon and once I got enough air inside, I activated Sky King’s breath and blew hot air into the sword turning it red. With the sky king’s flames activated, it ignited my sword encasing it with fire. The cave ceiling was tall enough for the whole balloon to stand and some more space for me to test out if it can elevate one person. My sword is constantly feeding hot air inside the balloon and I slowly lifted off the ground.

“W-whoa. It works!” I say as I see myself slowly coming up. I waited for the skill to deactivate and the minute the hot air stopped feeding into the balloon, I slowly descend back down the ground.

“Ok, Suyeon! Come here. I want to test something!" I shout at her and she speeds walk towards me. "Ok, put your arms around my neck and hold on."

She did what I say and placed her arms around my neck and hugged me tightly. I activated my skill again and it started feeding the balloon hot air slowly inflating it. We both started lifting up the ground but would hover a little bit and then go back down once the skill deactivated.

“Perfect!” I say knowing that this will slow our descent down towards the forest and us. She lets go of me and I see her eyes everywhere averting my gaze.

Now what? She looks like she needs to piss or shit.I say in my mind.

“Do you need to take a piss or shit? Go ahead.” I tell her and she quickly looks at me.

“N-no I don’t. I-I just-“

"Well if you don't let's hurry up and get out of here," I tell her. I waited for the balloon to be completely deflated and carried it over near the hole on the wall. I slowly peek out and the height would make anyone afraid of heights weak from their knees. I turn my body looking up the side of the mountain and it goes horizontally as the mountain disappears into the clouds.

"Up there is where those fucking mosquitos live," I whisper trying to see what's through the clouds but it's so thick I can’t see what’s on the other side. “Now that I notice, it looks like it's going to rain. Fuck we need to do this quick.”

I quickly hanged the balloon at the side of the mountain while holding the ring in front of me. I strapped myself into the bag and tied myself tightly onto it.

“Suyeon!” I shouted out and she was quickly by my side. “Come here, I need to tie your waist to mine so you don’t fall off. Hug me like last time.”

I told her and I see she’s breathing quite hard and is turning red. But my focus is on getting down and I didn’t pay attention to any other reaction she has. Using the remaining handmade rope, I wrapped it around both her legs and her waist forming a harness for her. I didn’t have enough so it’s only good up to her waist.

“Ok, I only have enough to tie your waist. Make sure you hug me tightly so you won't fall back.” I tell her and she just nodded as she hugged me tightly. I can feel her body shaking as I walk closer to the edge. I see her glance down and I hear her breathing gets harder and harder as the grip she had around my neck is getting tighter.

“H-h-hey don’t choke me! The fuck!” I shouted at her and she gripped loosen a bit.

“I-I-I'm sorry.” She whispered but her shaking never stopped.

“Tch. Sky king’s wind.” I activated my skill to inflate the balloon before I started feeding it fire. The last thing I want is for the flames to touch the walls of the balloon and create a hole. Once it got enough space for the sword to not touch anything, I activated my other skill and fed fire into the balloon. As soon as it heated up, it started ascending towards the sky. The wind from the outside wasn’t as strong as yesterday which is perfect but I’m worried about the clouds as it’s getting darker and darker indicating it might rain any minute. Rain might just make us descend at a faster pace. Once the balloon was inflated and was standing upright brushing against the wall of the mountain above us, I slowly look down the ground and even I'm getting a bit of butterfly in my stomach as I place one foot over the ledge.

“O-ok let’s do this.” I slowly pushed myself and slightly jump up. If we do descent I don’t want it to be too close to the wall. As I jump forwards, I felt the shift of gravity as I was pulled down towards the ground. I was thinking about the feeling of a roller coaster and even briefly closed my eyes but it never happened. The harness I had along with my bag tightens as it supports my body weight. But not only that, but I also felt Suyeon tightens her grip as she shakes and whimpers. I slowly open my eyes and I can still see we’re at the same height but I notice we’re slowly but surely descending onto the forest below.

"Ha-ha hahaha! We're floating! Fuck yes! Wait.. is it rain-" I say as I feel a liquid trickle down my leg.

Don’t tell me…no…

“Did you just fucking pee?!” I shouted at her while feeling a warm liquid soak my pants and I can briefly smell it. “Fuck!”

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” She kept apologizing as she hugs me tight.

Yasu, cut her off. Make this bitch free fall into oblivion. I whisper in my mind as I get the urge to let her free fall to her death.She peed on me. She fucking peed on me!

“Fuck!” I shouted in frustrated as I smell the acidic ammonia warm liquid on me.

“I-I’m sorry.” She whispers again.

Fucking hell.I curse in my mind as I started to hear her whimper. I want to get to the ground more than ever.