In The Academy As Sukuna

Ch 10 - Dungeon (Part 1) - Separated

POV: Ryomen Sukuna

"Well this is problematic," I said, turning back to the group after seeing the System message

"What happened?" asked Ryogaku, not wanting his feeling of unease come true.

This will be extremely annoying, but I'll still try to increase my proficiency.

You know, it's like farming level 50 mobs when you're level 25.

"What rank monsters can you kill with ease?" I asked, knowing that there will be an outburst of emotions.

"I'm sure I can easily kill a few D-Ranks, C-Ranks might be a problem though," said Ryogaku.

"Same with me," both Anny and Johan said.

"I can kill E-Ranks, but I have problems with stronger D-Ranks" said Alexia

"Well," I sighed audibly, "This dungeon has evolved into a B-Rank.

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"Huh?" One of them gathered enough courage to let that sound out.

"S-Sukuna, you shouldn't joke about that, r-right?" Alexia stammered, her voice trembling.

She was the weakest, so she'll obviously be the most terrified.

I just stared at her, no reaction.

Her face morphed from a nervous smile to one similar to when I find a spider on my table.

"W-well, we should leave then, right?" She tried again, her voice rising in panic.

"Escaping is never an option, you have to face your fears. If you always run away then you can never grow... also the gate seems to have evaporated, which means that this is a locked gate, so no chance of fleeing, after all."

Well that was the last straw, her mind was in a crisis as tears streamed down her face.

Ryogaku and Anny were comforting her, as I went to Johan.

"I think being stuck in a dungeon with you is my real fear." He said, a low chuckle only I could hear.

He was the most composed out of the four, I was impressed, honestly.

"Any changes in the 'mark'?" I whispered into his ear.

"Nothing out of the ordinary." He whispered back, I nodded and ended our conversation.

After a little while, when everyone in the group was calmed down, we decided to start.

We were currently in a small room. A room made of cracked rocks that seemed to barely support the weight.

There was only one exit to the room, a rectangular doorway which led to darkness on the other side.

"We're going in," I said, as I went through the door first.

I saw them follow in a line behind me.

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"Well great, just great"

I was alone in a room, its walls were made of rough rocks and some mana stones were fixed on the walls in non-uniform intervals.

There was no vegetation and I could see a bunch of E-Rank and D-Rank monsters in there, wolves, rabbits, bears, and such monsters filled the room.