Dad's Coal Pit Hid a Dungeon, Now Guilds Pay Me to Enter novel · Chapter 22 of 32

Chapter 22: The Board, Day Two

Fourteen carbide lamps stood in the glass cases along the wall of the Coal Museum.

At ten o'clock on Thursday every one of them was dark.

Seok-hyun had restated the Spawn rule at midnight, in the glass room, with his mother's eyes on him and her hand over his.

No crawlers and no eels on the tenth, he had said.

He had said every word of the old rule again around it, so that the Pit would not drop one.

The ten teams with Floor 2 tags had lost a day of fishing, and the master of Haeryong had phoned to say he understood.

His mother had three hours of waking.

She had spent the first on telling him how to answer the board, and the second on asking him whether Da-hae ate properly.

She had kept the third for the room.

"I can hear you as far as the ridge," she had said. "The museum is eleven kilometers. I will be there."

The hall was fuller than the day before.

People stood along the walls and on the stair to the mezzanine, and the doors were propped open for the ones outside.

The Director opened the day by rising.

He took off his hat, set it on the table, and stood in front of the model of Pit Nine with his hands behind him.

"I have a case to put," he said. "I will put it plainly, and the board may judge me a villain after."

"In 2019, when the Tower rose, the Association opened a closed register of every dungeon clearing in Korea. I was asked to keep it."

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