I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 038
12. I had something to ask (3)
3 months.
When I went down the practice floor and came back up, three months had passed on the tower.
It felt as if I had visited the ‘Mind and Time Room’ that I had only heard of.
‘Three months have passed?
Somewhere in the ant hole on the first floor, Eugene, who had followed Albert into his hideout, heard about how Serin had been waiting for him.
“I was worried because you just stood there blankly, not coming back for a while. Actually, I already knew what had happened to Eugene.”
Eugene ruffled his hair as he listened to Albert’s explanation.
“I feel ashamed in front of that guy.”
Eugene, who had decided not to mention where he had been, asked about her whereabouts.
“By any chance, when you said you were going up, did you say exactly where you were going?”
I thought I could catch up quickly if I just knew the location.
“Well? I don’t know where he went that day, quietly leaving the anthill without warning… …
Al Burns shook his head with a disappointed expression and continued speaking, moving his fingers.
“I know which floor he is on now.”
When Eugene frowned as if asking how he knew, Albert checked the open window and told him where Serin was. “Let’s see, the 33rd floor… You’re on the 33rd floor.”
“I think you just opened the window. How did you know?”
Albert showed a look of incomprehension at Eugene’s question.
“It seems like you two have a special relationship… Are you not added as a friend?”
“Add friend?”
“Yes. If you have added friends to the community, you will be able to know roughly where your friends are.”
Eugene moved his finger immediately at Albert’s explanation and opened the community window to check his friends list.
He currently had only one friend registered with him.
[Hanserin – Current floor: 33rd floor]
I checked through the window and it was just as Albert said.
“Oh? It’s there. On the 33rd floor.”
“You didn’t know at all? I heard it was called Lancashire… …
“Hahaha! She’s the only climber I have as a friend. Honestly, this is the first time I’ve heard of something like this.”
“ah.”
As Eugene let out a hollow laugh, Albert, who had been suspicious, looked at him with a sympathetic gaze.
“Can I use this to whisper or something?”
Eugene, who had endured the pitiful gaze, asked if there were any other functions.
“It is possible, but there is a condition. Both of you must be wearing the same type of whispering jewelry.”
“Whisper jewelry?”
“It’s a trinket made in the workshop of the tower, and it’s sold on the 20th floor. It’s especially popular in places like guilds.”
Eugene muttered quietly as he chewed over the information Albert had given him.
“It’s the 20th floor… … Judging from the workshops and such, it seemed clear that the 20th floor that Albert mentioned was a fairly large floor like the 10th floor.
‘Will it keep going up?’
If she opened the community window and noticed that I had come up to the first floor, there would be no need to chase me… but I couldn’t just hope for that.
‘You might not even see the community window at all.’
Eugene, who was rolling his head with his chin resting on his hand, thought of a few things he could do with the community window.
‘Should I use the bulletin board? Come down to the first floor right away?’
It was worth a try, since if we did what we did on the 10th floor again, someone might post something that would become a trending topic.
“??? Maybe I’m on my way to see my mother.”
While Eugene was thinking about various methods, Albert muttered cautiously.
“mother?”
“Oh, yes. I heard that you often talked about a mother and daughter being summoned to the tower together… Didn’t you know?” Eugene remembered the story he had heard before hiring her as a guide.
I knew that she had been falsely accused of being a traitor, and that her mother was no longer alive.
“I know.”
“okay.”
Albert nodded at the short answer and asked Eugene in return.
“How about you go up? Or are you going to wait here?”
“Hmm, as if he was hesitating to answer, urgent footsteps were heard from outside the hideout.
“…Mr. Albert!!”
It seemed as if he had been running nonstop all the way here, his breathing was quite rough.
“That guy! Is it true that that guy showed up?”
It was a boy who stormed into Albert’s hideout.
Judging from the fact that the level was stuck at 10 like Eugene, it seemed like he was one of the civilians living in this ant hole.
“Oh, it’s Martin.”
Albert raised his hand and greeted Martin, perhaps because they were neighbors.
“That ‘guy’ that the guide was waiting for! He really showed up… …
Martin, who had been grumbling, met eyes with Eugene, who was sitting across from him.
“Is this the guy?”
When the boy she was meeting for the first time suddenly pointed at her and asked, Eugene frowned.
“What is this kid?”
“Hey, this kid?”
Albert, who had been startled by the two people’s actions without realizing it, let out a hollow laugh as they introduced each other.
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“This is Martin, the friend who lives in the ant hole. And… this is Seon Yu-jin, the benefactor who saved our lives together with the guide last time.”
Eugene turned his head slightly and met Martin’s eyes.
“Martin, you are our benefactor, so it is not right to glare at me like that… …
Bam!
“That’s rude.”
“Huh?!”
Albert, who had snapped his fingers and given Martin a sweet slap on the thigh, apologized instead.
“I’m sorry. This guy is still immature and has no manners.”
“Hey, why do you only do this to me? I don’t think we’re that much older than each other?” Albert and Martin both gritted their teeth at the same time, for different reasons.
“What a funny friend.”
Eugene looked at Martin with a smirk and told his honest first impression.
“A funny guy who wouldn’t live long if he were up there.”
……
“What’s wrong?”
An enraged Martin took a step towards Eugene and held out his fist.
“Hey! I don’t know if you’re a Rankin or not, but if you’re a cheapskate, I won’t lose to you!” Eugene looked back at Albert with a ‘What are you doing?’ expression on his face as he saw the fist coming towards him.
“Again… I’m sorry.”
“You! Why did you keep the guide waiting?”
“what?”
“Why did you make Guide Noona wait? You didn’t even contact me! Do you know how much my sister had a hard time because of you? You shameless brat!”
“Guide, sister?” Eugene muttered, as if he still hadn’t figured out the situation, and then an excited voice came into his head.
〈Love! I smell love! That guy, he’s blowing a pink wind!〉
It was the voice of the World Tree, Rasil.
‘love?’
Eugene glanced at Martin’s clenched fist and then his eyes at Racille’s voice, and he roughly grasped the situation.
‘I see… …
It was easy to understand.
It was youth.
“Well, at the age of fifteen, that’s when you’d really start to get interested.”
Eugene got up from where he was sitting and continued talking, dusting off the dust stuck to his pants.
“That makes sense. If you’re a guide, you don’t have the looks to go anywhere and be humbled.”
Eugene looked at Martin with an indifferent expression as if he wasn’t interested and asked him directly.
“So… you want to know why I made you wait for the guide?”
“Huh?” “What are you embarrassed about? Didn’t I ask you this? It’s not good that the person you like waited for someone who didn’t even contact you… Isn’t that it?”
The way Eugene asked the question with the corners of his lips twisted… was like seeing a devil who liked to play pranks.
〈Haa, here we go again… … .>
Rasil noticed Eugene’s expression and sighed inside.
It was a mischievous habit that developed when he couldn’t go down any further than the 77th floor.
“I can tell you. Not only that, I can also tell you the ‘real name’ of the guide you don’t know.”
“Guide sister’s… real name?”
Martin’s brow furrowed.
“But there is one condition.”
“What is it?”
“Give me a hit.”
As Eugene suggested with a smiling face, Al Burns chimed in with a fidgety look.
“Hey, Eugene, can you put up with it? This guy is just being unreasonable… He’s not a bad guy.”
“Sir, step aside for a moment.”
Martin, who had pushed Albert, held back his grumbling and asked.
“You, you’re a ranker like Guide Nuna, right?”
“well?”
Eugene tilted his head and fiddled with the level cover he was wearing as he asked back.
“What level do you think I am?”
When Martin couldn’t answer right away, Eugene took off the level cover he had been fiddling with.
“???What, what is it?”
The number that was covered by the question mark was displayed normally, but it was a truly absurd number.
Only level 10… … .
Martin wasn’t the only one who was taken aback by Eugene’s level.
“Oh, so you’re not a ranker?”
Eugene, who thought he would have to explain this to the embarrassed Albert later, asked Martin.
“I’ll make another offer. I’ll give you five minutes, and if you hit me once in that time… I’ll tell you everything you’re curious about about Guide Noona.”
Eugene, who was suggesting it again, added one thing that he had left out.
“Ah! If you want, up to three sizes.”
“???Wh, what are you talking about?!”
As Martin shouted with a red face, a terrified voice was heard in Eugene’s head.
〈You crazy kid, you bet on information you don’t know, thinking you’ll win anyway.
Juliya. This is indeed the worst tongue that this body has ever acknowledged… … .>
〈That statement is so ugly that it can’t even be called heroic… By the way, who is that guide? A woman?〉
Eugene, ignoring Eternal and Rasil’s voices, provoked Martin again.
“Why? Are you not confident?”
“under!”
Martin grumbled.
It was a sign that the provocation had been successful.
“Okay! I know that won’t happen, but what if I lose? What will you do then?”
It seemed like he thought it was to his advantage seeing as Eugene was level 10.
“Is there anything you want in particular?”
Asking the civilians in the anthill for favors wouldn’t be of much use.
Still, there was only one reason why Eugene proposed a bet to the boy she was in love with.
“Well, it’s a bit awkward if you don’t hang up anything… Oh, right! I should apologize for calling you a ‘shameless brat’ earlier.”
“Okay, let’s do that.”
For venting anger.
For stress relief.
It was nothing more, nothing less.
‘This kid… I was pissed, but he caught me at the perfect time.’
I was quite angry at the fact that I had wasted four hours… no, three months of my time in the middle of a practice session and still had no information.
