I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 17
6. With Eternal ⑴
[Title: I came down one more level!]
[Author: Seon Yu-jin]
[The stairs leading down were hidden under the chair the Demon King was sitting on. Are you crazy?
I really got my hands dirty trying to find this. Luckily, there’s something drinkable on the 98th floor. Something like dew??… J
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【*Ah, oops… It’s rotten!]
[*How do you guys do this?]
[*I feel like I’m going to die. Really.]
[*Ah, shit… I don’t know. I’ll just eat and die.]
[*What is there to eat? Is there nothing but tree bark?]
It was a white piece of paper.
“What is it?”
Serin, who had been tilting her head while holding a palm-sized piece of paper in her hand, frowned when she belatedly discovered the red picture written in the middle.
“Wait a minute, this isn’t… …
“Do you know what this is?”
The paper had an intricate red pattern drawn on it, a design I had seen recently.
“Isn’t that a slave tattoo?”
It was the tattoo on the back of the hand of the employee I saw at the restaurant yesterday.
“that’s right.”
Serin, who had been blankly staring at the tattoo drawn on the paper, asked in a curious manner at Eugene’s answer.
“It’s quite a complicated tattoo… but you drew it so well?”
Eugene answered right away, as if he had expected that question to come up.
“It’s not the same. It’s a little different.”
“yes?”
“And that tattoo wasn’t mine. It was just someone else who had a similar tattoo and I just happened to be holding it.”
Eugene, who had been crossing his arms, returned to the main topic and explained the changed schedule.
“I found out some information about the tattoo and the slave… I think I should start by looking into that.”
Eugene briefly summarized the information she had heard from the employee she had met at the restaurant earlier this morning.
“??? So, does that mean everything the restaurant owner told us yesterday was a lie?”
“I can’t be sure, but I think it’s more likely that the boss rolled his tongue at me than that the employee rolled his tongue at me.”
It didn’t really matter whether the employee was lying or the boss was lying.
Eugene answered relatively calmly and continued speaking while scratching his hair.
“When I saw and heard it yesterday, I thought it was just my imagination so I didn’t think much of it. But when I thought about what I heard in the morning, I realized it was bigger than I thought so I couldn’t just pass it by.”
If you ask me if I am stepping forward because I feel sorry for the slaves of the tower, it wasn’t just because of that.
When he came down from the 100th floor, he saw that those who were trying to make profit by enslaving the civilians of the tower were truly absurd.
“Of course there were things I didn’t like, but I didn’t change my schedule just because I was in a bad mood.”
Above all, the biggest reason why Eugene changed his schedule was.
“Because the information I heard from the employees partially matched the information I found out from the top floor.”
That was because the place where I obtained the white paper that I had just shown to Serin was the top floor of the tower.
“So, I’ll have to put off the job I was aiming for first. I’ll start by taking care of the information I found out. I’ll also need to help the guide.” Eugene’s expression became quite serious. Serin, who had been listening to him silently, was about to ask, “What exactly is that information?” but held it back and opened her mouth.
“yes.”
He thought it would be better to just follow his employer since he was already a guide who had no life left.
‘Well, was that too forceful?’
Eugene clicked his tongue at Serin’s expression, which seemed somewhat dry, and asked her about her summons to change the mood.
“How are you, Nena?”
“It’ll be okay.”
Nena, who had been summoned back with a similar feeling to the evil spirit that Eugene carried around, was currently resting inside Serin’s body.
“I can sense that he’s angry because he was unfairly summoned yesterday, but I don’t think he has any intention of causing a fuss.”
“That’s fortunate.”
Eugene, who was smiling, checked the sky that was starting to get brighter and asked.
“Getting straight to the point, do you know anything about the secret shop where slaves are allegedly sold?”
Eugene asked, but Serin still had a dazed expression on her face, as if she was still half asleep.
The monster of the Irregulars who came down from upstairs… was thinking that it might be able to solve the heartbreaking stories that he had been unable to solve before.
“Excuse me? Mr. Guide? You weren’t up all night, were you?”
Serin, who woke up from her thoughts at Eugene’s voice, shook her head vigorously and opened her mouth.
“No! I don’t know!”
“okay?”
Serin, who had answered that she knew nothing about the secret shop, began to ask questions actively.
“What are you going to do now?”
“Hmm?…”
“Would you like to go to a restaurant?”
It seemed like the quickest way for now would be to go back to the store where most of the employees were slaves and ask about what I had heard yesterday. “No. The restaurant side is on hold.”
“why?”
Serin asked, not understanding why people hesitate to take this route, which is the easiest way to get information.
“Why??????
The employee I met today works at that restaurant and makes a living. What if I meet the owner of that restaurant and ask him about what the employee said? Of course, I could grab the owner by the throat and force him to give me the information, but that would make the employee who answered Eugene’s questions yesterday’s life difficult.
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‘He was so innocent that he forgot to even ask me to keep the information a secret, so I can’t be the one who’s being treated badly. Even if the boss is evil, he can still provide his slaves with food and a place to live.’
When I think of the employee who only takes the medical expenses and doesn’t take all the money I give him… I couldn’t do such a heartless thing.
“I think there’s a more efficient way than grabbing the boss by the collar.”
“Is there a more efficient way?”
Eugene, who was looking at Serin who still couldn’t get the hang of it, gave a hint about a more efficient method.
“A person who seems to know slaves well… You saw another one besides the boss, right?”
“no way?”
“Yeah. That fat guy I kicked yesterday. I kicked him on the chubby side, so he probably didn’t die.”
The escorts also didn’t cause much harm, other than kicking his shins and forcing him to his knees, so there was a high chance that they were looking for him by now.
“I see you know about that old man from what you said at the restaurant yesterday. He’s a very popular guy at the top, you say?”
Serin nodded.
“Yes. I said that after seeing the badge on that rich man’s shirt.”
There were two classes in the upper class of the tower.
There are two types of people: the ‘rankers’ who are praised for their high level and the ‘nobles’ who are praised for their large gold haul. The middle-aged rich man I met yesterday was one of the latter two types.
The ‘nobles’ who made a huge fortune by selling goods to climbers and civilians and used them to help the rankers wore coin-shaped badges on their chests as a symbol of their wealth.
“Aha? That’s it? I thought it was a really weird sense.”
Eugene recalled yesterday’s events and talked about his plans for the future.
“Anyway, that rich guy who kicked me yesterday is definitely going to get back at me. If he’s wandering around anywhere on the 10th floor, he’ll come looking for me. Then we’ll figure it out then.”
Serin nodded and asked.
“How specifically are you going to respond?”
Eugene’s ability had already been proven, so Serin, who didn’t think there was a chance that the plan would fail, asked about the process in a little more detail.
The question was whether to grab the old man by the collar in a flashy way or quietly.
“Hmm, I bought it because I thought something like this might happen, but I didn’t know I would end up using it right away.”
“What?”
“When you were being attacked at the hotel yesterday, I was at the auction house.”
“yes’?”
“I bought it then.”
Eugene took out two dark colored trinkets from his open inventory and handed them to Serin.
“You write it.”
“Why me?”
“I originally bought it to use myself, but I think it would be more efficient for you to use it now.”
The bracelet and necklace in black are the name and level covers respectively, and were purchased by Eugene at the auction house yesterday.
“I guess I’ll take advantage of the prank I had yesterday to get in the mood.”
Eugene smiled faintly as he recalled how he had answered those who looked at him at the auction house by saying, “I’m someone who has been playing far above.”
“A level 10 climber knocked out three level 50 ranker escorts and kicked you? Make sense.”
“If you don’t believe me, go ask Heaven Cloud! Damn it, that damn store! I should have left when I realized the employees were slaves!”
William, a middle-aged man wearing a coin-shaped badge on his chest, was grumbling.
“Okay, okay. Okay.”
The clerk waved his hands with an annoyed expression and roughly scribbled on the pen in his hand.
[Mission Announcement (Rank: D?A)]
[Please report to the guild or capture the level 10 climber who caused a ruckus on the 10th floor Heaven Cloud last evening.]
[The criminal’s impression]
[Estimated to be in late teens or early 20s.]
man]
[Leather Armor]
[He was wearing a thin finger glove on his right hand.]
[The name displayed was ‘Seon Yu-jin’.]
[The level shown was level 10.]
[Presumed to be a Korean climber.]
[caution]
[It seems like they have some kind of special item, the three top rankers are helplessly knocked out.]
[Mission Reward] [At least 100 gold for reporting, at least 10,000 gold for capturing, and the reward is guaranteed by William, the noble of the tower.]
The clerk who handed me the piece of paper with the writing on it made a face as if to say, ‘Is this good enough?’
“Thank you, Khome.”
William, holding the paper and walking sideways, stopped in front of a board where various tasks were posted.
“Let’s see, where should I stick it?” William, who was looking for a good place to stick the paper, turned around when he felt a finger tapping his shoulder.
“Oh? You’re Uncle William? What brings you here? A new mission?”
“Oh, Lee Soo-jin? Is that you?”
The tower’s ranker who tapped William on the shoulder was the tower’s most famous archer, a Korean climber known as Shingung.
“I met a nasty climber yesterday. I was going to beat him up.”
As William began to speak, patting his full stomach, Lee Soo-jin snickered and asked.
“Can I take a look at that?”
“Of course! Of course!”
Lee Soo-jin narrowed her eyes as she peeked her head out to look at the paper William was holding.
“Hmm, is this the same guy from yesterday?”
“Oh? You know?”
“I’m not sure if this is true, but I think I saw someone similar at the auction house that opened this morning. Was it number 6()1?”
Perhaps it was because the sight of him indifferently throwing away 2 million gold was so shocking that I still remember it clearly.
“In my late teens, wearing leather, a glove on my right hand only, level 10… Number 6()1 was exactly like that. I don’t remember the name though.”
Lee Soo-jin muttered while resting her chin on her fist and looked at William as if she was floating.
“Shall I help you find it?”
“You?”
“You said I was a bad climber?”
“What a rascal! What happened?
If there was… …
William clenched his fists and shook as he described what had happened yesterday in an angry tone.
“Hmm, so that’s what happened.”
Lee Soo-jin nodded after hearing William’s story and muttered with an expression of interest.
“Even though he’s just a beginner, he knocked out three ranker-level climbers in an instant… He really is no ordinary fighter.”
The line he said at the auction house yesterday was still lingering in Lee Soo-jin’s mind.
‘At least, someone who has played much higher than you?’
When meeting the eyes of the Black Rose guild leader, instead of feeling intimidated, her expression was full of composure… It was clearly something that an ordinary level 10 person would not be able to show.
“Okay! I’ll help you! I’m also interested in number 6()1!”
“Thank you! Thank you so much! Haha!”
When Lee Soo-jin readily offered to help, William’s expression brightened in an instant.
Shingung. Among the climbers who chose the ‘Archer’ class at the top, she was one of the top three in terms of both level and skill, so she decided to help… He should be able to find the level 10 climber who kicked him yesterday in no time.
