I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 16
5. Evil Spirit (2)
‘This is dangerous!’
Jang Min, who was certain that the black machine in front of him was something unusual, was the first to move, as he was the leader of the Black Rose guild for a reason.
The first thing he did was whisper something exclusive to the guild members.
〈I will now revise the objective. All personnel currently on the 10th floor will have the highest priority on returning to the hideout.〉
A being whose level is displayed as XXX is one that can cause multiple status effects just by looking at it.
It was hard to get a feel for what the situation was, but one thing was clear.
I had to run away.
〈Survive as long as you can.〉
Jang Min, who had been passing orders to other guild members, moved his wobbly knees and straightened his body.
Turned it over.
[Status abnormality ‘Malicious’ is applied.]
Perhaps because he was the first of the frozen people to start moving, a window appeared in front of Jang Min’s eyes as he was running away, indicating that he had been hit by an abnormal status.
“Ugh?…”
Jang Min, whose face was grimacing in pain, threw himself through the glass window of the room and escaped the scene.
〈Wearing that armor and throwing yourself from a high place, isn’t that just bragging that you’re a warrior? How ignorant!〉
The black machine that had been laughing and snickering while watching Jang Min run away asked while looking over the other climbers who were trying to escape the scene while trembling.
〈The primordial evil spirit Eternal asks: The worst tongue-picking female warlock… What is your name?〉
The black body that introduced itself, Ether Nal, looked at Serin, but she was not affected by any status abnormalities.
“Me, me?”
“Yes, you.”
Serin, who was facing Eternal with a bewildered expression, answered cautiously.
“This is Han Seo-rin.”
〈Hansuh Lin.〉
There were only two white flames hanging like eyes on the black body, but somehow I could tell what kind of expression it was making.
“It’s a pretty good name. Your eyes are nice too. It suits you well. Much better than that damn Seon Yu-jin.” “Do you… know him?” Lee Ternal laughed out loud at Serin’s question, then shivered.
〈At least, I can say that I know more than you. Because I’ve been here longer.〉
What was clearly contained in that vibration was anger.
“That guy is really terrible. I know you are also employed by him. I will tell you as a senior employed by the same master. Cut him off.”
“yes’?”
〈Cut off your hands immediately. I don’t know what he’s owed me, but don’t be with him.
Ra. He is a scary person. What’s even scarier is that the kid is a human. A human can’t treat me like this…….〉
Ethernal’s voice, which had been desperately giving advice, suddenly stopped.
“…He’s talking nonsense without even thinking about the fact that he’s bullied me?”
A familiar voice came from outside the shattered wall.
A boy who both Han Seo-rin and Eternal knew appeared.
〈Haha! My friend! Are you here?〉
“What the heck… … Eugene came into the room with a frown on his face, took a quick look at the mess before his eyes, and asked about Serin’s well-being.
“are you okay?”
Serin, who had been shrugging her shoulders at Eugene’s question, nodded.
“For now.”
“That’s fortunate.”
<… … .>
This Ternal, who had been observing the two people, moved behind Eugene and disappeared.
“What was that just now?”
“It wasn’t a summon, it was a trial I encountered on the 98th floor. It kept insisting on being with me, so I had no choice but to come down ‘with it.’”
“trial?”
Is that possible? As Serin muttered blankly, Eugene continued, scratching the back of his head.
“I gave it to you just in case there was a pursuer following you on the 17th floor… Sorry. I should have told you about this in advance.”
Eugene, who was checking Serin’s expression, finally apologized, but she shook her head and asked back.
“When did that happen?”
The question was when did you get insurance for yourself?
“well?”
As Eugene shrugged his shoulders, Serin recalled the moment when she got insurance.
‘Why? What are you afraid I’ll do?’
When they found a place to stay, Serin looked at Yu Jin, who was recalling the moment when she stroked his hair.
” a moment ago?”
“no.”
On the 16th floor, I remembered the moment when I confirmed the characteristic called the protection of the evil spirit before I died from the poison of the gutter.
“Surely not, from the 16th floor?”
“No. Earlier.”
“……
“I told you. In the tower, you have to worry about the future and predict it whether you eat or not in order to survive.”
Earlier?
Since when?
When Serin couldn’t figure it out easily, Yu Jin answered.
“From the moment I hired you as my guide.”
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“When we shook hands.”
” ah?”
Eugene raised his right hand and approached Serin, who still had a blank expression on her face, and patted her head.
“Did you drink kimchi stew again? Sorry, but I’m not a romantic, so I’m not good at patting someone’s head and flirting.”
Serin’s face turned slightly red.
“I just guessed?”
“Yes, I guess so.” Eugene took his hand off Serin’s head and began to speak after sensing several people approaching him.
“It looks like people are coming?”
It seemed like they were civilians running the hotel, not the Black Rose climbers who had rushed in to catch her.
“Even if I have a lot of money, I can’t use it alone, so I have no choice. I have to run away. It seems like our guide hasn’t been able to sleep.”
Eugene jumped towards the shattered glass window, his arm around Serin’s waist as they headed from the 16th floor to the 15.5th floor.
As the scroll tore, a man in armor was summoned to the guild hideout, emitting light.
“Ugh, ugh! Keuk!”
Jang Min, who returned to the hideout without achieving his goal, screamed while destroying the furniture in the hideout.
“Healer… Ugh, healer!!”
At the leader’s call, the people who were resting in the hideout came running out in a hurry.
“what?”
“What’s going on?”
Among the guild members who hurriedly approached Jangmin, those who chose to be priests hurriedly began to cast healing or purification spells. “What are you doing? Purify me!”
Jang Min, who was clutching his chest because the pain wouldn’t go away, shouted for the hideout to leave, but the situation didn’t get any better.
“I purified it!”
“Then heal me!”
“Healing… is still being cast!”
“Okay, ugh… ugh!”
Jang Min, lying face down on the floor, started vomiting black blood.
Status abnormality: Malicious.
The 98th floor of the tower is in a state where evil spirits are scattered, and climbers who have not yet reached the 50th floor can solve it.
It wasn’t that poisonous.
The leader of the Black Roses, who had been spitting out buckets of black blood, soon collapsed in vain.
After escaping from the scene, Eugene, who had decided to stay at another inn, went outside after confirming that Serin was fast asleep.
“There’s nothing to do… I guess I’ll just sit around nearby and kill some people until morning comes.”
Eugene, who was sitting on a bench near the inn to kill time, opened the community window with his fingers.
[Hot Topic Bulletin Board]
Eugene, who was moving his fingers habitually, immediately started looking at the trending topics bulletin board.
[Today’s Hot Topic]
[Title: About the opening of the 15.5th floor?]
[Author: Anonymous]
［I heard a story from the Black Rose Guild today, so I checked the 15.5th floor, but for some reason, the Bokbulbok fairy was gone.
The obstacles in the shortcut between the 10th and 16th floors have been removed. It’s much easier to get around. Hmm… If only the 16th floor’s gutter could be fixed.
[Today’s Hot Topic]
[Title: What happened at the 10th floor Paradise Hotel?]
[Author: Keisuke Shinohara]
［I think everyone knows about the Paradise Hotel on the 10th floor… Today, a terrorist attack occurred in one of the most luxurious rooms you can stay in there.
Although no major traces have been found at the scene, it seems like it is related to that side, as I heard that a large number of Black Rose rankers headed to the 10th floor.
[Today’s Hot Topic]
[Title: A Big Hand That Has Never Appeared Before? The Mysterious 6th Appears at the Auction House! What Is It?]
[Author: Roshve Polbrick]
［Today, someone offered 2 million gold at the auction house. It’s not like they offered 2 million gold for something that’s worth that much.
［I bid 1 million gold each for the name cover and the love cover, but what on earth do I think he does?］
There were currently only three posts on the ‘Today’s Topic’ bulletin board used by climbers. The funny thing was that all of the things written there were directly related to Eugene.
“All of the writing is completely lacking in nutrients.”
Eugene let out a short sigh as he closed the store with an indifferent expression, perhaps because all the trending posts were related to him.
“ha.”
Eugene, who had been blankly staring at the loneliness, noticed someone approaching from behind and glanced back.
“Hey??????” The person who approached cautiously and spoke to Eugene was the employee she had met at the restaurant during dinner.
“No, today… Are you the person who left the restaurant last night?”
The waiter, who added “yesterday” because it was past midnight, was wearing a simple cotton shirt instead of the restaurant’s uniform.
“Um, who were you?”
Eugene, who pretended not to know the face even though it was a familiar one, asked back as if he didn’t know.
“Haha, you’re really kind. You don’t have to pretend not to know.”
The employee, who smiled awkwardly, continued speaking while handing Eugene the leather bundle he was holding in his right hand.
“I know you can’t call it a thank you gift, but I hope you’ll accept this. It’s a token of my gratitude.”
Eugene, who had accepted the bundle in a hurry, tried to bow his head but then stopped.
“???ah.”
The employee, who noticed the burn marks on the back of his hands, quickly hid his hands behind his back as Eugene’s gaze turned to him.
“This is it, that is… …
“Have you treated that yet?”
Just yesterday, a regular customer at the restaurant threw soup at me, leaving a burn mark that was still there.
“I understand that the boss took special measures for the injury you suffered yesterday?”
Eugene, who was pretending to eat at the time and eavesdropping on the entire conversation, asked a question… but the employee couldn’t answer easily.
“that is??????
Seeing him hesitate and avoid eye contact, it seemed like what Eugene was thinking was right.
“I guess there was nothing.”
“Well, the president himself didn’t say anything about paying for the treatment costs.”
Eugene muttered softly and spoke while looking at the employee’s disfigured hands from burns and tattoos.
“I can pay for the treatment for the burns.”
“yes?”
“I have quite a bit of money, and I was wondering how I could spend it all.”
“Really? It’s okay! I already gave you my thanks, so I’ll take my leave now… …
The employee who had waved his hand at the inexplicable kindness quickly turned around.
“Just a moment.”
Eugene, who was holding back an employee who was trying to leave the scene in a hurry, made a suggestion.
“I never said I would give it to you for free.”
“yes?”
“I need information. Just answer my questions and I’ll pay for your burn treatment.”
The employee hesitated for a moment at Eugene’s suggestion, but eventually nodded.
“If that’s the case… …
Eugene, who succeeded in persuading the employees, asked a question right away.
“Are all the employees working at that restaurant slaves?”
The employee nodded to Eugene’s first question.
“Except for the owner, how many employees are there in total working in the restaurant?”
“Five people.”
“Considering the scale of the company, five people seems a bit too few, but I guess they pay a good salary?”
For the second and third questions, the employee simply shook his head in response.
“The welfare is poor, the salary is poor… It doesn’t seem like a very good place to work. What, are there no advantages to working there?”
“If there is an advantage… …
“Not something that benefits the boss, but something that benefits the employees.”
This time the employee shook his head again.
“What a wicked boss.”
The employee was silent, but that silence was soon the answer.
Of course, I didn’t ask the obvious question of why I would work for such a hypocritical, evil boss.
Because of the tattoo on the back of his hand, he was considered to be part of the Tower’s ‘slave class’, and even if he found another job, he would not be treated better.
‘The problem is the slave class… who the hell created such a piece of crap?’
The climbers summoned to the top were divided into classes, some called slaves and some called nobles… It was an absurd thing for Eugene, who had come down from the 100th floor.
“I have a few more questions to ask. Could you tell me the name of the store and the names of the employees…
The name of the most expensive restaurant on the 10th floor that Eugene visited yesterday is Heaven Cloud… It was a store that purchased slaves and used them as employees.
The place where your boss gets his slaves is not a regular auction house, but a slave shop on a hidden floor known only to a select few… There is currently no way to find out the location.
“It’s such a large sum of money, and it doesn’t seem like I helped you much… I can’t accept it.” “If you feel uncomfortable just taking it, just take half.”
“Then… I’ll just take this much. This is enough to treat the burns.”
The employee who had only taken a portion of the gold that Hansako Eugene had offered bowed his head and left the place.
‘The conversation we had just now… You left without even asking us to keep it a secret.’
Eugene clicked his tongue as he looked at the employee’s back and looked up at the sky that was slowly starting to brighten.
‘Let’s see, I have something to do…
Eugene, who had been listening to the chirping of birds near his ears, lowered his gaze to the opposite side.
‘I guess you’re already awake.’
Under the sky that was still deep blue, a familiar sound approached.
“It’s still dawn… You woke up early?”
“I actually have trouble sleeping.”
The popular protagonist walking out of the inn across the street was Han Seo-rin, who was currently hired by Eugene as a guide.
“Really? Did you have a bad dream? Your expression is gloomy?” Eugene asked playfully, but it must have been a question that hit the nail on the head, because her half-asleep face turned a little gloomy.
“Ahem, the schedule has changed a bit.”
“yes?”
“When I was up there, the thing I wanted to do the most was my previous job, so when I came down, I was going to finish that first and then move on… but I changed my mind. For some reason, this side seemed more urgent.”
Eugene, who wanted to change the subject and get straight to the main point, moved his finger to open the inventory window.
“ruler.”
What Eugene took out from the inventory window and handed to Serin.
“What is this?”
