A Side Character's Mission ↠ Solo Leveling

Chapter 29: Torturous

Warning: Gruesome scene ahead! You can skip the part when Seungeun said he wanted to torture the man.

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The two siblings and Seungeun separated their ways to go back to their own apartment. He decided to check up on Lanze, who was living next to him and hadn't make any sound since he moved in.

The whole floor of the apartment was bought on the first day Seungeun and Seyoon arrived in the neighbourhood, and afterwards, the other rooms were left unoccupied. I want to live somewhere quiet, Seungeun said at the time and Seyoon agreed, although his face look pained from the waste of money.

Seungeun knocked on the door twice and heard hurried footsteps coming to his direction immediately. The other side seemed to fumble the knob, seemingly unused to it before the door finally opened.

"Sire?" Lanze's red eyes lit up. "Do we have work to do?"

"No, there's none. I just want to see how you are doing."

Walking into the living room, Seungeun could see how empty it was, with no furnitures or a single carpet, except a bundle of clothes in one of the corner. There were still dusts collecting on the marble floors. It was too empty and he felt like he was missing out something.

Hearing no response from his sire, Lanze felt his cheeks burning hot as he moved to stand in front of him, trying to block the spot his sire was staring at. Because he lived in the slum, he didn't know how to live properly like a normal human- although he wasn't one to begin with.

Seungeun pressed his forehead as realisation settled in. "I should've known better."

He remembered that he got the key from the landlord and then briefly introduced each room to Lanze. This is the bedroom, sleep here. That's a bathroom for you to clean yourself and the kitchen is for you to cook anything you want to eat.

Lanze was a monster that never stepped foot into human's world so there could be some difference in terms of the way they lived.

"I'm sorry." Lanze bowed down his head pitifully.

"It's not your fault... I was the one who brought you here. Let's clean everything first."

And so, wearing an apron and cleaning gloves, the two boys scrubbed the floor, took out the trashes, wiped the counters...

Seungeun taught Lanze the function of the things inside the apartment. After that, he used his own phone to order furnitures and other things. He pointed at one picture and said to Lanze, the black box that showed screen was called a television and he either could entertain himself or watch the news in human world.

"What did you buy with the money?"

"I haven't used them, sire."

"Then what did you eat for the past few days?"

Lanze looked away with a red face, feeling too embarrassed to answer.

"How old are you, Lanze?"

"I'm around 200 years old..."

Seungeun raised his eyebrows in confusion. The gate was automatically summoned by the system and usually lasted for seven days before dungeon break occured, where the monsters could escape into the human world.