I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 003
1. Rumors of the Tower (2)
“???stomach’?”
The girl looked up at the sky where Eugene was pointing and frowned as she asked.
“Up above? Up in the sky?”
“Above the sky?” Eugene’s eyebrows furrowed as if asking what the hell he was talking about.
“No, this isn’t the tower. Why are you asking that? Of course I came from ‘upstairs.’”
The girl just opened her mouth blankly and couldn’t respond to Eugene’s words.
“Let’s see, the name is… …
Eugene, roughly brushing back his bangs that were matted by the rain, checked the name displayed above the girl’s head.
[Hanseo Lin]
[Level: 52]
The girl was also Korean, as she had a three-letter Korean name displayed above her head.
“Hanserin?”
When Eugene called her name, Han Seo-rin also looked at the name displayed above Eugene’s head and asked.
“You’re… Seon Yu-jin? You’re Korean, right? That’s what I’d like to ask, are you a top climber?”
Eugene tilted his head with an expression that said, “Are you asking me something strange again?” and immediately answered.
“Yes, that’s right. No, I’m not a climber. I was ‘coming down’ from the 100th floor… …
The sight of him frowning while answering was enough to make Serin’s face wrinkle.
“Excuse me. You just said you came from above, but you’re not saying you came all the way down from the 100th floor, are you?”
“Half right, half wrong. I was coming down.” Eugene answered without a shred of hesitation.
“her……
“Well, it could be misleading. When I got down to the 96th floor, I really fell from the sky.”
Serin, who was looking at Eugene scratching the back of his head, quickly turned her head and checked the summoning scroll she had just used.
[This item is a one-time use item and cannot be used again since it has already been used.] The summoning scroll seemed to have fulfilled its role and had become an ordinary book, leaving a window indicating that it could not be used again.
“This can’t be happening… …
Instead of the Tower Demon, the Tower Climber is summoned?
And that crazy guy says he came down from upstairs!
‘Did it fail?’
I couldn’t think of anything else.
“haha……
I thought the cause of the failure was the lightning that struck just before the summoning.
‘My last hope… …
Serin, who was kneeling in front of the summons, lowered her head and muttered in a voice filled with despair.
“It’s over now… …
“hey?”
“It’s all over… …
“Uh, huh?”
Eugene, who was looking at Serin, belatedly discovered the summons lying on the floor.
“What is this? The worst summoning scroll?”
Eugene, who was checking the summons with narrowed eyes, soon burst into laughter.
“This summoning scroll can summon the most fearsome demon within the Tower of Trials… No, what is this?”
Eugene muttered in disbelief after checking the description written on the summons.
“Was it because of this? Wow, if someone who doesn’t know saw this, they’d think I was a really bad kid. A devil… There’s a limit to how unfair it is. Wait, is this because of the title I got on the 99th floor?”
Eugene, who had been muttering with an awkward expression, noticed the gazes staring at him and looked back at Serin.
“Why are you like that?”
“Uh, um, I don’t think it’s something to be so angry about.”
Eugene, who had been avoiding eye contact because he was overwhelmed by the murderous gaze, asked after guessing the general situation.
“Did you summon me with this?”
“That’s right? Wow! You saved my life. Seriously… I would have gone crazy if you had stayed there any longer!”
Eugene, who was at a loss again because he didn’t know her situation, asked one more question. “Is there a basic store around here? There wasn’t one upstairs.”
Eugene asked her about the store, but Serin ignored his question and got up from her seat.
“Excuse me? Where are you going?”
Eugene, who had a puzzled expression on his face as he watched her walk away silently, followed her a beat later and urged her to answer.
“Excuse me, wait a minute! Since you called me here, let me at least show my gratitude.” “Miss Han Seo-rin? Just tell me where the store is!”
Seorin, who was following behind, glanced at Eugene out of the corner of her eye and clenched her teeth when she saw his still smiling face, or more precisely, the number displayed under his name.
[Seon Yu-jin]
[Level: 10] This was because there was a level difference of more than 5 times between him and the other person.
“It’s just level 10… …
“yes?”
The reason she thought, ‘I failed the summoning’ when she saw Eugene was none other than because of his level.
The one summoned by the worst summoning scroll was obviously the most powerful and fearsome demon in the tower, but the most powerful and fearsome demon was just a ‘level 10 climber’… This was clearly wrong.
“Ha, okay.”
Something was definitely wrong, but she had no one to vent to, and she couldn’t take it out on a level 10 beginner climber, so she had no choice but to grit her teeth and say,
“It’s not something that can be solved by someone as young as level 10… My problem is.”
“Excuse me, I… …
“Haa, I never had such a sloppy plan… … Eugene blinked at her barely audible grumbling voice.
≪……2”
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Seorin, who had been holding back tears with her lips pursed as if she felt wronged, left Eugene as if she had said everything she wanted to say.
≪…Wow.”
Eugene, who had just met a girl of the same age and was verbally abused by her for the first time today, soon began to twitch the corners of her mouth.
“That reaction… …
If a passerby saw that, they would whisper that he was a pervert with a taste for being sold, but it had no impure meaning.
It wasn’t a laugh.
“That reaction… is real!”
As if moved, Yu Jin began to sob again, covering her mouth with her palm.
“Ugh, uh… uh! I really did come down!”
It was because she was more shocked by meeting climbers like herself than by hearing the verbal abuse. The class the girl chose to survive on the tower was ‘Black Mage’.
It was a class that could summon monsters from the tower, so-called demons or devils, and could pour out black magic on enemies.
As a warlock, she had summoned many different types of demons before, but never a human… and never a climber from the top.
‘The summons was a trap. A trap to trick me… Damn, I should have realized it sooner!’ After realizing that the hidden card she had barely managed to steal was a dud, her options were extremely limited.
‘I’m sorry, Mom. Just a little more…
The girl, who had been walking with her lips tightly shut, soon had no choice but to stop both her legs.
“Oh, Ms. Han Seo-rin? Our Black Princess is here? I’ve been looking for her for a long time.”
It was because a cheerful voice was heard from behind.
I was hiding on the 17th floor, where relatively few people visited, but it seemed like my life-threatening hide-and-seek game was over here.
Iron Man… .
Iron Man… .
I turned around, distracted by the sound of steel moving, and saw a heavy suit of armor walking towards me.
“If you committed a crime and were kicked out of the guild, shouldn’t you have just quietly walked away? Why did you touch guild property without permission?”
Han Seo-rin slowly turned her head and revealed a murderous look in her eyes.
“??? Committed a crime? Who?” Han Seo-rin asked back in a tone of incomprehension, and then she thought of the faces of her enemies that she would not feel satisfied with even if she tore them apart.
“If it’s a crime, it was those kids who committed it, right? They tried to molest a high school student, but it didn’t work out, so they did all sorts of dirty things behind her back… …
A purple flame suddenly bloomed in Han Seo-rin’s trembling right hand!
“Betrayal, murdered and overturned to me!”
The number of pursuers chasing her was only one, and it seemed like more people would be needed to catch her, who was once the best warlock in the tower… but considering the fame of the pursuers, it was by no means a small number.
“Oh my!”
The pursuer, wielding a large shield, easily blocked the purple flames that Han Seorin sent flying.
“Hey! Is it because you don’t have any equipment? Even though you’re attacking our Black Princess, it doesn’t hurt that much? It actually tickles!”
“What did you do with the stolen summoning scroll? Oh, did you already use it?” The pursuer, who was holding a shield, began to speak as he took a step closer to her.
“Haha! I can tell by your expression! It was a dud, huh? It was a dud, right?”
“Poohahahahaha! Ah, I didn’t mean to, but this is hilarious, for real!”
Han Seo-rin could only watch as the pursuer burst into laughter, seemingly delighted at something.
“We also had no way of confirming whether the summoning scroll was real or fake. There was no warlock as good as the Lord of Darkness in the guild, and there was also the possibility that it was a landmine. We couldn’t just summon it recklessly and then be punished, right?”
The pursuer shrugged his shoulders and smiled faintly.
“It’s a shame that the summoning scroll was a dud, but I did find an interesting story, so it wasn’t all a dud, right?”
“It seems like the barely-made Homechin Summoning Scroll was the last hidden card… What a pity! Isn’t it?”
I was angry, but there was nothing I could do to refute what he said.
Revenge Failure I felt so resentful and wronged that my current situation could be summarized in four words.
“Even though it was a dud, the person who stole our stuff after being expelled because he was useless… the commander’s orders were to deal with it quietly.”
Han Seo-rin let out a hollow laugh at the pursuer’s words, took out the item she had put in her inventory, and held it in her hand.
“that?”
The pursuer’s expression hardened as he checked the object in Han Seo-rin’s hand.
Magic scroll.
It was a disposable item that allowed classes that could not use magic to use magic.
“Scroll?”
What she held in her hand was a magic scroll containing the high-level explosive magic, ‘Explosion’.
“Do you know what this is?”
“Explosion Scroll… You couldn’t have made it yourself, right? Where did you get it?”
Magic scrolls were items that could only be made by wizards or alchemists who had learned the rare skill of scroll creation.
“Before you misunderstand, I’m telling you this… I didn’t steal it. I received it.”
The pursuer’s eyes widened as he confirmed that the scroll she was holding in her hand was an item made by his own guild.
‘At least I didn’t want it to end like this.’
The five explosive scrolls that she had received as a gift as an apology were the last resort, the last resort that Seo Rin could take.
It was an ugly method.
Originally, it was an object that was meant to summon the target of revenge and blow itself up together… but there was nothing I could do about it.
“Okay, wait a minute!”
Serin, who paid no attention to the pursuer’s urgent voice, stumbled around with a haggard face, and tore the scroll with a “snap!” sound.
After that, there was silence for 10 seconds.
“uh?”
Nothing happened even though I tore the scroll
When he didn’t wake up, Serin looked at the scroll fragment she was holding in her hand in confusion.
‘Why doesn’t it explode?’
If it was an explosive scroll with explosion stored in it, it should have exploded with flames in the surrounding area in less than 3 seconds after tearing it… but strangely, not only was there no explosion, but there was not even a sound of wind.
“… Phew
It was the pursuer who broke the silence that seemed like it would last forever.
“Poohahahaha!!”
≪……
“I thought it was a no-no, but did you really decide to commit suicide?” Serin’s face turned pale in an instant as she looked at her pursuer, who was giggling while holding his stomach, wondering what was so funny.
‘no way??????
I have never heard of a case where a magic scroll ended up being a dud, like a grenade used by soldiers.
Yes, that’s right.
Unless someone had ‘deliberately’ crafted the scroll to be non-functional, the magic stored in it would not be unleashed.
But with people’s trust at stake, what wizard or alchemist would risk having their magical scrolls rumored to be a failure?
Anyone who enjoys bullying others, or would do it unless someone paid them a lot of money… … .
“You fooled me again? You fooled me again?”
Serin, who had turned pale with thoughts swirling around in her head, trembled as she faced the pursuer who was laughing and talking to her.
“Yes, you guys… …
My throat felt like it was full of sand and I couldn’t finish saying, ‘That’s what you did!’
“How, how could it be like this… …
The girl, now seventeen years old, burst into tears, unable to hold back the emotions she had been holding back for so long.
“But you tore it up relatively late? Even though you were falsely accused of murder and treason, you held it in until now! Oh, today is the Black Princess’s birthday, right? That’s good! Let’s call it a birthday present. Is that okay?” Seeing Serin’s inability to continue speaking, the pursuer shrugged his shoulders and continued speaking in a tone of exasperation.
“Hmm, it’s your birthday, but you’ve kind of cooled down? I thought you’d still quack like a duck and pounce on me… But since all your equipment was stolen, maybe that won’t work?”
“Well, the captain told me to handle it quietly, but… if one of the officers makes a suggestion, maybe I can survive? What about me? Chastity isn’t more important than life, is it?”
This absurd fate invited him into the tower, saying he was one of the chosen ones among the 7 billion, and then did not grant him even the smallest, worst wish of blowing himself up on his birthday.
“Black Princess, I’m giving you advice as your senior in life. Just follow along. I don’t want to hurt your pretty face either.”
The pursuer in front of her eyes was also one of the humans who had openly tried to sexually harass her when the Tower of Trials was first created.
When the parents asked their daughter not to do such a thing, he was one of the murderers who brandished his weapon with a disgusted expression. After doing such a thing, he smiled and waved his hand away as if nothing had happened… Serin could only watch.
“Huh? Follow me?”
He tilted his head slightly and asked a question… … .
“Where are you going?”
The boy asked back.
“……2”
≪……2”
The two people’s gazes moved to the side at the unfamiliar voice heard from the side.
“You told me to follow you?”
At the sight of the boy walking towards him… the pursuer’s eyebrows furrowed.
“What is this?”
The boy also frowned.
“This? I’m not an object.”
The boy who answered that he was not an object looked at Serin and asked.
“Right?”
Serin’s eyes, which were filled with tears, blinked two or three times.
The boy standing before his eyes was the ‘real failure’ he had summoned with the worst summoning scroll he had ever used today.
