SSS-Class Suicide Hunter Chapter 383

Episode 383 < Nine keys. (1) >

One.

Snip.

Like one day, the hair trimming scissors crossed in the air.

“okay. Are you really going to climb to the 100th floor right away?”

“yes.”

I spoke in the reflection of the large glass window.

Over his shoulder, the director holding a pair of scissors was sighing.

“I wish I could rest a little longer and then go up.”

“You say the same thing as Hamustra. “No, is Hamustra saying the same thing as the director?”

“I think either way is correct. “If you spend a lot of time together, you’re bound to bleed into each other.”

Hamustra, Yul Kim, and the director spent time together at the planetarium. Since time is open in both directions, they are bound to influence each other. Even if it is a being as big as Hamustra, it is not an exception.

Me and Bae Hu-ryeong too.

“Yes, I’ll go up right away.”

While I was getting my hair cut, Bae Hu-ryeong was waiting quietly next to me.

“okay.”

The director also remained engrossed in scissors without saying a word.

scissors.

“Now you really have become the director.”

The director frowned.

“You really became the manager of the flower garden, right? So, if you’re going to add, “It’s the director.”, then you should stop. “I don’t want to find out that the child I took care of has become an uncle.”

“I wanted to help prevent global warming.”

“This is not Earth.”

While we were chatting, the director continued to cut my hair… Then he said:

“150 years ago, a reporter asked a mountaineer a question.”

-Why do you want to climb Everest?

“It would not be difficult to guess why the reporter asked the mountaineer that question. “It must have been a similar reason to what reporters were asking about Mr. Callenberry just a few years ago when he announced that he would enter the tower.”

– Why would a person who can make a living without doing so want to give up stability?

– Were you promised anything in return for going up there?

– What makes you so challenged?

– I’m just curious. Please explain.

“The mountaineer just said this.”

– Because the mountain is there.

“ah. that word. “I’ve heard of it too.”

“okay. Even when I was your age, it was a word that few people knew. There were also a lot of parodies. Buying a game because it is there, or ordering a chicken because it is there. “I remember there were a lot of lame jokes going around.”

“I guess the Earth was very hot back then.”

“This was around the time when warming began in earnest.”

The director’s scissors cut off the protruding hair.

The cut hair was scattered in the wind.

“The fact that you’re saying that now means that the director is asking why I’m aiming for the 100th floor?”

“No, Confucius. “I really don’t want to ask that.”

The director spoke quietly, with a somewhat frowning face as always.

And added:

“Because you are a person who can afford it.”

Those words were a little surprising.

“Me?”

“Don’t you have such a nice house?”

As the director said, this place was now my home.

It is not a sanctuary, a [Garden of Rotten Flowers], but a mansion where I originally live.

20th floor.

It was located one floor below the Garden of Rotten Flowers in the sense that it was connected by stairs, and 60 floors below it in the sense that it was connected by a tower.

“You also have such a beautiful flower garden.”

There was a reason why I decided to get my hair cut at home rather than at a sanctuary.

I had no intention of putting anything that the flowers didn’t need, not even a single speck of dirt or a drop of water, in that flower garden. So my cut hair was mixed with dandelion seeds in my yard, not in the flower garden.

“Having a home means you have a castle that can protect you and your family. “Having a flower garden means that you have the space to fully think about and care for other people, not just you and your family.”

“…….”

“There must be a good reason why you take on the challenge. “There will be plenty of time.”

“Leisure, huh?”

“Only those who can afford to take on challenges can do it.”

The director’s words continued amidst the clanking sound of scissors.

“For someone wandering in the desert, reaching an oasis and drinking water cannot be considered a challenge. When a starving child picks up bread left on the side of the road and eats it, no one would call it a challenge. “It’s just struggling against whatever comes your way.”

“surely.”

“Only those who can afford to throw away things can prepare something new. Only those who can afford to accept themselves as themselves can accept others as others. Only people who have everything like that can challenge something. “I have no doubts that people who can do it will try to do more.”

Click.

“Rather, we question people who can’t take on the challenge.”

Click.

“Why did that person wander in the desert? Why did the child become hungry? why.”

why.

“So I don’t wonder why Marcus Callenberg or Sean McAllister put it all down and came in. By the same token, no one wonders why Haneul, who gathers screams, aims for the 100th floor. “It’s just me,”

With a heavy sigh, the director continued.

“I’m curious as to why the twenty-year-old Gongja Kim entered the tower.”

hmm.

I turned my head around and looked at the shape of my hair.

“The tower is here… What about ?”

“The climber ultimately failed to climb the mountain.”

Click.

The fluff on the back of my neck stood on end as I felt the cold scissor blades grazing my scalp.

“He went outside the tent for a moment during a blizzard and then disappeared. His body was not found, so his friends and family had to hold a funeral with an empty coffin. It was almost 100 years later that his body was discovered.”

“that… “This is my first time hearing it.”

“The words a person says always spread more widely and last longer than the person himself.”

Click.

“Confucius.”

The director spoke in a quiet voice.

“Why did you come into the tower?”

The director reflected in the mirror was looking straight at me.

“Is it really because the tower is here?”

2.

At the crossroads between my sanctuary and the 90th floor, the Primordial Staff greeted me.

“Welcome, Death King. “You’re neatly dressed.”

“Yes.”

“You don’t look very fresh. What’s wrong?”

This wizard, who has had a grumpy expression as his default since he was defeated, seems to be showing off quite a bit when he says this.

I said while wiping my forehead.

“No, whatever. “It just reminds me of the old days.”

“You sound like an old man. “You can’t do that when you only have so many days left to live.”

The Ancient Rod spoke with the rod in his mouth.

“No, should I say that I only have one day left to die? “Which do you think is right?”

“If possible, I would like to hear that there are only happy days left.”

“That’s good. “But I’m not the one who should tell you that.”

That’s right.

“let’s go.”

The ancient staff snorted and began to lead me as I walked.

I walked after him. I calmly walked up the stairs that were hanging like an umbilical cord.

As always, a fox scarf was wrapped around my neck, and a snake bracelet was hanging on my wrist. And Geomje was following along, floating by his side.

Only the waist belt where the holy sword was normally hung was missing.

‘Geomje nobleman.’

– why?

Geomje answered immediately.

I asked out loud and in my heart at the same time.

“What comes next?”

The Primordial Staff did not look back at me. The Geomje didn’t even glance at me.

Only two answers were heard at the same time.

“Tapjoo was an artist.”

– I’m a fighter.

Jeez.

“You’ve seen Tapju’s life, so you have a rough idea. “She was a warlord, a statesman, and a noblewoman, but she was just as much a gladiator, actress, and architect.”

– You’ve seen me all this time, so you know that, right? It’s not my thing to weigh things back and forth. Usually, there are times when the world’s tastes and my tastes are different, but in the end, my tastes become the world’s tastes.

“At the same time, he was also the most outstanding musician in the kingdom.”

– All the guys who tried to force their tastes on me got their heads broken.

Every time I climbed a step of stairs, the sky got closer.

“In some ways, you could say I’m similar to you.”

– Honestly, didn’t you climb the tower in a similar way to me?

“The top owner was so free-spirited that no one could tie him on a leash. But that freedom had clear boundaries.”

– The memorial service was a bit unexpected, but I was confident when I defeated the Demon King of Autumn Rain. and. Have you ever seen a reckless fool in this world? But, yeah. It’s a quest, and if you don’t like what’s given, you should kick the guy who gives it. If there’s a rule you don’t like, beat the guy who sets the rule until you like it.

The scenery that changed with each step seemed somewhat unrealistic. As if I was walking on a treadmill, I was walking in place, but it seemed like my surroundings were going down step by step.

“Topju especially liked fugues.”

– This tower is the same, Confucius.

“When I cut a song by connecting notes and rhythms, I liked keeping the beginning and end connected, and I liked making lines with different starting points have the same ending point.”

– There are nasty things that play with memories, but if they had done that while I was climbing the tower, they would all have had their heads broken by me. Just like you did. I have no choice but to admit it, right?

yet.

The two spoke at the same time as if they were in sync.

“therefore.”

-therefore.

“What lies beyond is an extension of what has been.”

-Nothing beyond this is new.

The world began to disintegrate.

As if rubber clay of dozens of colors were mixed together and crushed, the ground far below melted away first. Sky followed. It melted. The sky, which gradually melted and crumbled, eventually turned into countless grains of sand and flowed down like a waterfall.

“Maybe you can climb to the 100th floor.”

– I heard that the last level Gray ascended to was the 94th floor?

no.

It wasn’t a waterfall.

“If you are someone who has climbed from the 1st floor to the 90th floor, there is nothing you cannot climb.”

– Well, for that guy who started from the 50th floor, it would have been difficult to climb any higher.

It was a huge hourglass.

It was similar to the sanctuary of Mutia that I had seen once. A vast and vast wilderness. The empty space, distorted as if in a haze of scorching sunlight, was caused by immeasurably thick glass. From the central part, a waterfall of sand was slowly flowing down, like blood leaking from the heart of a snake.

I was standing in the center of the hourglass.

A voice I knew well welcomed me.

“Welcome, Death King! No, now I’m the one who should be called Myeongcheon!”

I looked at that person with a puzzled face.

“Princess?”

“huh! it’s me! long time no see!”

The princess wandering in the mirage greeted me by jumping up and down. She is an energetic young lady as always.

“It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long… uh. “Have you come to guide me?”

“huh! that’s right.”

The princess, laughing brightly, spun around on the spot, her hair flying, and then waved her hand towards the ancient wand.

“You’ve had a hard time so far, aunt. “I’ll take charge from now on.”

“Okay, okay. “I’ll just leave the old man who fell off his rope.”

“Yep. “If you have free time, go help Miya.”

“That guy doesn’t like people helping him with his work.”

“aunt… “That’s what it means: help.”

“You really are… … .”

The ancient staff withdrew with a disgusted yet strange smile. It was a face that seemed to have somehow found the perfect way to relieve stress.

hmm.

“Advisor Koo Won-ha is having a hard time… .”

“In the first place, consulting is a difficult profession. “Isn’t Myeongcheon’s advisor also having a hard time?”

“Maybe so. But wouldn’t I have suffered more because of him?”

“That’s right. Liu Bei must have acted with the mindset of getting rid of Zhuge Liang.”

She calmly made a remark that would split the Shu Dynasty fans into two groups, but then the princess walking through the mirage pulled out something.

It was a small stone slab.

“that… … .”

“huh.”

The princess walking through the mirage held both sides of the stone slab with both hands and lifted it with all her might.

“Myeongcheon. “I’ll tell you what you’re going to do from now on.”

There were a total of nine holes in the center of the stone slab.

“Collect nine keys!”

The princess walking through the mirage declared.

etc,