**Day 37 The Farthest Labyrinth**
The way back. Just climbing up. That's all the return trip was.
Everyone's still in disbelief, totally lost, unable to process it.
Everyone's shocked they survived.
Everyone's grateful they survived.
Everyone's overflowing with joy and happiness toward Haruka-kun.
Everyone's stunned, horrified, and lecturing him.
It's so far beyond possible, outside the bounds of imagination.
Beyond common sense—way up in the sky, diagonally above "unreasonable."
And yet… exactly the kind of thing Haruka would do.
A truth no one even considered.
""""He didn't struggle at all?! He basically didn't even fight?!""""
Everyone thought Haruka was desperately battling for survival in the absolute worst depths, fighting tooth and nail alone.
But apparently he was just… being normal Haruka. Same as always.
The person we imagined suffering wounds, agony, rags-to-riches solo battles, pushing upward through hell… came back without a single scratch, barely bothering to fight, not even letting the monsters fight back, just one-sidedly massacring everything on the way up like it was nothing.
His only complaint?
"The stairs were really long and tough."
Yeah, 43 floors of stairs. Must've been rough! Poor thing!
No real danger at all. Just normal routine: trigger traps, hunt, massacre, climb.
Climbing from the absolute worst labyrinth's 100th floor was apparently the hard part!
"Look, fighting them head-on? No way I win. Literally impossible. Lv99 Minotaur herds and Lv100 Living Armors? Can't beat those. Instant death if I tried. Yup, no chance."
So he killed them instead.
They all died from falling.
And the repeat offender who definitely dropped them? The usual suspect. Zero remorse, daily reoffender, total villain!
"We struggled so much against Cyclops… Achilles tendon, shin, vital spots… that's just too cruel!!"
"I thought Werewolves were supposed to be the strongest monsters… vinegar…? Holding their noses and whimpering…?"
"No way! I'm not eating snail salt-grilled!! Those aren't escargot!! It doesn't say edible anywhere!! Absolutely not!!"
"Cows were scary… we tried so hard… but falling to their death? That's not an accident!! That's premeditated cow murder!! What's with the 'Moooooo!'?!"
And the biggest mystery: killing an absolutely immortal lion-faced human.
"It's immortal because it can't die, right?"
"Ehhh?! You nullified the nullification?! What kind of nullification is that?! Force-killing the immortal?! What even is skill logic?!"
The more we heard, the more screams of despair filled the air.
Confusion. Chaos. Total breakdown.
Even the Labyrinth Emperor gave up and just nodded along.
Everyone stunned, shocked, frustrated, resigned.
The Emperor looks dumbfounded too. She seems like the sensible one here. Probably a good person.
The real monster is the guy so unreasonable he even makes the Labyrinth Emperor speechless. Honestly, we're the inhuman ones now!
Monsters we'd get instantly wiped by—tough floor guardians—he hunted down without letting them show even a fraction of their power. Thorough, merciless extermination.
Their unbreakable toughness? Useless.
Their rock-solid durability? Meaningless.
Their overwhelming strength? Never got to display it.
Just one-sided, helpless massacre.
There was no battle.
Death was decided before they met.
Death was enforced before they could even engage.
Too strong to fight—so he just killed them.
Never fought, so never lost.
Therefore, technically invincible.
But "invincible" doesn't even cover it. It's pure, overwhelming one-sidedness.
Untouchable in a completely different way from the Labyrinth Emperor.
Invincible in a completely different sense.
Because he didn't fight.
No way to lose.
He just kept killing.
Just a slaughterer slaughtering.
Invincible in the worst possible way.
Couldn't even become enemies.
Therefore—no enemies.
Invincible.
Almost every monster died without ever knowing who killed them, who the enemy was, or that there even was an enemy. No battle. No hostility. Nothing.
This isn't about favorability anymore!!
Even from us—the people he saved—he's way more vicious, demonic, villainous than any labyrinth monster!! Pure evil incarnate, every action dripping with atrocities, making even the Labyrinth Emperor recoil in horror—!!!
And that's exactly why we survived.
That's why we didn't die.
That's why we're okay.
…Right?
Good, right?