Episode 366. < 1st floor. (3) >
4.
So, reassured by the fact that my trustworthy colleagues were protecting my rear, I started climbing the tower again —- I would like to say.
There is still work left to do on the first floor.
“Where are you going? There are hundreds and thousands of interviews that have been postponed. I was already feeling burdened by the media, but it worked out well. “Let’s solve it right now.”
Looking at Anastasia’s eyes, it seemed like there was a lot left to do.
“And there’s this too. Gongja Kim. “This will be the first marriage between our hunter and a designated tribe member.”
“what!?”
“Yes, I had exactly the same expression when I first heard the news. It may seem too fast, but it’s something to celebrate anyway, right? We haven’t had a wedding yet. You are the oldest friend and god of the designated people, so go and congratulate them. … … No, wait! wait! First of all, the interview comes first! hey! Gongja Kim! “You bastard!”
I immediately ran over and congratulated him.
The Zhizi tribe has a unique marriage culture. A couple searches the furnace in their respective homes and carries embers burning in the furnace to the lamp. And at a wedding, the sparks brought by each other are combined into one.
Guests also bring empty lamps to the wedding. When the couple’s lights become one, the guests offer congratulations and light the lanterns.
The guests take the embers planted this way and place them in their respective fireplaces. [All the guests guarantee that the couple was born]. In houses without a furnace, it is at least lit in a bonfire.
As a designated tribe that worships fire and worships the group, it is quite a wonderful wedding, but… … Of course there is a problem.
“Well, we don’t have a furnace in our house, what should we do!? Death King!”
Among the couple, Hunter was in tears.
Yes.
Naturally, our citizens who are enjoying the edge of modern civilization, or even future civilization, do not have furnaces.
“Ugh. I’m not obsessed with that. “Wouldn’t love be enough?”
“Ahh, my love! But I’m also interested in My Love’s customs! “I’m sure if we put our foreheads together, good ideas will come to us!”
“My love… … ! “Your heart is more delicate than a dew flower that has just bloomed at dawn!”
hmm.
but.
They have to love each other this much to become the first couple among their species to get married. Okay… .
“Uh huh. “It’s a good time.”
I felt sweet water gushing up from my stomach and flowing back down my throat, but I tried to smile.
“Huh! I ended up showing something I couldn’t show in front of the great Kekerukker, Ugor! Solve it!”
“Okay. “Isn’t this something I should have to endure for coming to a couple’s house without notice?”
“right. That’s why I told you to do it.”
“… … “Let’s do it like this.”
Like Uburka, our children are bad at dealing with the true God.
“Because it is our first marriage, the public’s attention is bound to be focused. The large guild was determined to promote this as harmony between races. But wouldn’t that be a burden for you?”
“Ugh? is it?”
The designated tribe tilted its head. But Hunter, who was listening next to him, was nodding his head cautiously.
This may also be due to different cultures. I knew it would be like this. As expected, it was a good thing I ran.
“I will do whatever it takes to prevent reporters from coming to the wedding venue and setting up shop. “Why should random merchants get involved in the sacred union of flames?”
I first reassured the hunter by pretending to speak to the designated tribe.
“And at this time, I will prepare a sacred fire in the middle of the square.”
“Ugor, if it’s Seonghwa… … ?”
“I use my auror myself to prepare the spark. “I will build a device like an Olympic torch relay in the square to keep my flame burning.”
I turned my gaze to look at Hunter.
“You can take the embers from there and take them to the wedding. From the designated tribe’s point of view, it is more than enough as it is like bringing the fire of God. Of course, whether you respect the marriage culture of the designated tribe or not is entirely up to your agreement.”
“Oh, there… … . Bae, thank you for your consideration!”
Hunter bowed his head a little too much.
I smiled bitterly. I actively jumped into this because it was an issue that would have to be addressed at least once anyway, but from that person’s point of view, it was the person who was number one in the hierarchy.
A very high-ranking person blocks the press and installs something in the middle of the square where the land is the most expensive in Babylon. It can’t help but be incredibly burdensome.
‘It reminds me of when I married Raviel… .’
Even back then, nobles from all over the empire flocked to the ceremony.
Compared to Raviel, I was inferior in status and rank, so I even needed to be adopted as a foster son by the imperial chamberlain.
Even now, if you want to do official work in the empire, it is more convenient to work under the title of [Wife of Duke Ivansia] rather than [No. 1 hunter in the world of the dead]. Could it be just me? The Black Dragon Master and the Heretic Questioner each have a title of nobility in name only.
It’s a world difference.
“This is all I can do for you.”
In the end, it was my choice whether to view Raviel’s use of power to call the imperial chamberlain and have him go through the adoption process as Raviel’s consideration or my burden.
I support the couple in front of me. If these two people go beyond the differences in status and even deny the differences in race, they will undoubtedly navigate the future wisely.
“We will silence the media as much as possible and establish etiquette that is comparable even from the perspective of a designated tribe. “There will definitely be difficulties that you will have to deal with yourself.”
“Oh, hey… … . that… What do you plan to do with the media?”
“what. “It’s simple.”
I grinned.
“It would be enough to pass on something much bigger than an inter-ethnic marriage.”
5.
“Shock! Encounter a new species!”
The media was on fire just a day before the wedding.
“It is proven that intelligent beings are living in a city underground on the 5th floor!”
“Under the 5th floor, which until now was considered an ordinary hunting ground, there was a gorgeous city hidden!?”
“An encounter that no one expected. “What kind of beings are the intelligent beings of the underground city?”
“Was the urban legend true?”
“It is originally dark under the lamp, but under this lamp it is very strong!”
“The Black Dragon Master, upon hearing the news, expressed his position by saying, ‘It is shocking, but we welcome it.’ … .」
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It burned a little too much.
“die! “Please die, you evil idiot!”
As proof, Anastasia was currently breaking into the dorm in real time and strangling me.
“Gafuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu?!”
“I’m going crazy! I really want to see you collapse and die from overwork!? The work I have to do right now is Everest, so I have to add a huge incident like this to ease my mind!?”
Shake shake shake shake shake-
Anastasia grabbed my neck and shook it up and down and left and right.
I didn’t do this as a joke. Anastasia’s hands held a dark aura. Although not as good as me, Anastasia was also a hunter who would never bow down to an Auror no matter where she went.
“Hey, I’m dying… … . Breathing, gasp, really… die… … .”
“okay. die. Die. You’re going to die anyway. “Take action immediately so that we don’t die and go back to yesterday and cause this mess!”
“Help….Help me….”
In the end, it wasn’t until we were really close to leaving the nether world that Anastasia released me. He sighed deeply and said, “Go away from this world.”
“Haaa… . okay. I’ll listen to your excuses. “No, how did you know that the underground civilization was on the fifth floor in the first place?”
I took a breath and answered.
“Huh. Well, I met a constellation named Mutia on the 62nd floor.”
“Mutia?”
“yes. The official nickname is [Cow Harvesting Ruins]. This person has the power to bring people back. “You can think of this constellation as roughly understanding what kind of life a person can live and how many different possibilities they have.”
The Black Dragon Master frowned slightly.
“what. … … “It’s a scam, right?”
“yes. Thank you for your hard work. Anyway, that fraudster was fighting with me and trying various tricks.”
A world line established by the assumption that if the Flame Emperor had not obtained the [Returner’s Clockwork],
There, I was able to pioneer my own future without having my life taken away by the Emperor. As I wandered around between the 2nd and 9th floors, I eventually discovered a city hidden underground on the 5th floor through a combination of coincidence and luck.
“Thanks to Mutia showing me my potential, I learned about the underground civilization of the 5th floor as a by-product. “I already know it, so I have to use it.”
“… … I understand the situation, but. Even if it exploded, it should have exploded a little later. “If this continues, our children will not be able to handle their work and will fail.”
“hmm. In fact, we are aiming for that as well.”
“ha?”
Anastasia asked back with a look like, “What kind of nonsense is that?”
But I was serious.
“As the heads of the guild, we now completely trust each other. But the situation is different for the guild members below us. “We’ve been fighting to the death for over several years now, but are we suddenly going to cooperate?”
“… … that.”
“yes. Right now, we, the guild leaders, will probably refrain from fighting because of what we think. But this is a matter of emotions.”
The highest-ranking hunters chose the path of cooperation after struggling through countless stages.
But ordinary guild members are different. They have not been able to actively participate in the stage strategy since the 12th floor. They do not have [the experience of sharing hardships together].
“Anastasia is right. I’m busy. I was already busy, but I ended up meeting the underground civilization on the 5th floor. “Now it has become impossible for any guild to handle work alone.”
So, we intentionally create an experience.
“Guilds must cooperate even if they don’t want to die from work. Only when all guilds cooperate with all their might will this hellish task be solved.
“oh my god… … .”
“Past feud? Old feelings? It’s all good. But right now, there is a task ahead of me that requires 9 months of overtime work before I can see the end of it. Don’t you think guild members don’t want to sleep and don’t want to go home? “We will cooperate unconditionally.”
“You really are the devil… … .”
Anastasia looked fed up.
I shrugged my shoulders.
“In short, for the next few months, all the large guilds will operate as [one company], at least temporarily.”
“It’s all good, but how do we relieve our children’s stress?”
“There is an easy-to-understand target for taking out stress. Reveal that I am the one who discovered the underground civilization. “All the guild members will criticize me at the same time, and I will end up being criticized alone.”
“It’s my role to be insulted… … .”
“yes. After all, that is the leader’s responsibility. Above all else, isn’t dropping beans to guild members my role as I am conquering the stages alone?”
In other words, I am an object of love and hate for guild members of large guilds.
He is an object of hatred because his work to do has increased tremendously because of me, and he is also an object of affection because he has benefited from countless stages thanks to me.
‘If someone has to take the blame, it’s better for me to take charge.’
What if you don’t want to work? Then, all you have to do is withdraw from the large guild. Giving up numerous interests.
Even now, there are countless hunters who beg to be hired by large guilds because they don’t mind working like cattle outside.
This is because the only hunters who can travel in and out of worlds beyond the 11th floor relatively freely are members of large guilds.
We strictly control the entry and exit of hunters to minimize the shock felt by other worlds, and in this situation, it is quite difficult for hunters from small guilds to seize the opportunity. There are hunters, like [Apothecary], who succeeded purely through their own skills.
“If the joke about living as long as you get criticized is true, Gongja Kim, you will live a very long time… … .”
“It’s not just that I live a long time, but it looks like I will live forever.”
“huh?”
“I’ll explain later.”
I turned my head and looked at the laptop screen.
There were articles floating around excited about the discovery of the 5th floor underground civilization.
Among the summer flood of articles, there was just one small article with two or three lines.
“The first marriage takes place between a Babylonian and an ethnic group! A small but beautiful wedding. Citizens are blessed with this news….”
I smiled and closed the laptop.
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