The Underground Village of the Fallen Fairy Clan

The 7th District, not too far from the 5th District where the uniform shop was located.

However, unlike the 5th District or other districts that were just bright and ordinary, when people enter the 7th District, they involuntarily swallow.

From the entrance, tall gray buildings densely packed, creating shadowy streets where sunlight barely penetrates, and the entrances to back alleys visible with every step.

While back alleys existed in dozens in other districts as well, in this special place called the 7th District, there were over hundreds of back alleys, so people called this place the back alley street.

And among the back alleys connected haphazardly like rat holes to other districts, there was one single back alley.

Among the hundreds of back alleys in the 7th District, this one back alley led people who entered it to an underground village.

An underground village officially created with the permission of the Five Pillars, unlike other tiny underground spaces where outlaws run rampant and all sorts of filthy sewage overflow.

However, despite being officially created, very few people entered and exited this underground village.

The reason was that finding the back alley leading to this underground village was like finding a grain of rice in a sand desert without connections or information channels, and even if one found it by chance, there was nothing one could do in the underground village without money or name value.

Therefore, this underground village, or more precisely, the village of Fallen Fairies, was an exclusive possession of those qualified.

And that village was bustling and rolling along vigorously today as well.

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The types of people who visit the village of Fallen Fairies are mostly divided into three categories.

The first is beggars who came in with information they picked up somewhere.

In this case, they didn’t even have money to request memory procedures, so they were the type the Fallen Fairies hated the most, and most were chased away by the gatekeepers without even being able to set foot in the village.

The second is upper-class heteromorphic races who visit occasionally or rich troublemakers.

If it was the former heteromorphic races, they were rich customers welcomed by the Fallen Fairies, but if it was the latter troublemakers, they weren’t very welcome guests.

First of all, since they were troublemakers, the reasons for requesting memory procedures were mostly impure, and unless they paid a lot of money, most only requested the cheapest procedure course.

It was fortunate that recently, with the eradication of slums, the number of troublemakers had decreased considerably.

Lastly, the third is people related to the Five Pillars who allowed the Fallen Fairy Clan to build the village.

To begin with, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the Fallen Fairy Clan’s village itself was in the hands of the Five Pillars, and although the Five Pillars were in a contractual relationship needing memory procedures for various reasons, it was clearly a relationship of superior and subordinate.

As such, the Fallen Fairies always treated the people of the Five Pillars courteously, accepted their requests, and processed their requests as a priority in most cases.

Of course, by now, after a long time together and always receiving expensive procedure courses with money paid punctually, the relationship had become quite relaxed compared to before, but it still hadn’t changed from a superior-subordinate relationship.

And therefore.

On this day no different from any other, Pixie, the leader of the Fallen Fairy Clan and the head of the underground village, had no choice but to rush out to three sudden guests who came to the village.

Flap flap flap—!

“Oh my, it’s a face I haven’t seen in a long time! Welcome, Miss Lee Seol!”

“It’s been a while… Pixie.”

Three humans standing in front of Pixie, who was fluttering and flying.

When she first heard her subordinate’s communication, Pixie thought she had misheard.

After all, it was said that Lee Seol, a founding family member of the General Management Team who had only shown her face twice until now, had come here.

However, no matter how unbelievable it seemed, it wasn’t a subordinate who would tell such a lie, so Pixie had flown here with her wings about to fall off, even throwing aside the paperwork she had been doing, and now, in reality.

Seeing Lee Seol standing in front of her eyes, Pixie swallowed.

‘Why did such a crazy thing happen today of all days…!’

The reason for swallowing wasn’t just because of Lee Seol standing in front of her.

To be more precise, Lee Seol was one thing, but the problem was the procedure subjects she had brought.

‘The Geumryu Team leader and his daughter?!’

One was an ordinary civilian she didn’t even remember, but the other two were none other than a team leader of the Five Pillars whom the Fallen Fairies had to grovel before, and his daughter.

“…These are quite unexpected procedure subjects? Could it be that you’ve come to request memory procedures for the Geumryu Team leader and his daughter?”

“Yeah, and in addition to that, this uniform shop owner here……”

Of course, since the founding family member of the General Management Team standing above the Geumryu Team said so, they would have to perform the procedures, but given who the subjects were, it was inevitable to tremble.

If anything went wrong, it could cause harm to Pixie herself or even the entire Fallen Fairy Clan.

So when Pixie trembled slightly, perhaps sensing this anxiety, Seol smiled and patted Pixie’s cheek with her large finger.

“You don’t have to worry about retaliation… Your technique hardly causes any sense of discomfort after the procedure, right? And even if there’s retaliation, I, my sister, and our Ancestor here will cover for you, so don’t worry……”

“……Pardon?”

Unfortunately, those words meant to reassure Pixie only made her more flustered.

No, more precisely, Pixie’s worry about retaliation from the Geumryu Team flew away completely due to Seol’s words.

However, having heard what she said, Pixie doubted if she had misheard something at one word.

What did Seol just say?

Herself and her sister the team leader, Lee Yeon-ah. And the last one was who?

“Did you say… Ancestor?”

No matter how many times she repeated it in her mouth, it seemed certain that she had misheard that word, and Pixie’s gaze turned to the figure behind Seol that she had pointed to.

A figure wearing a perception reduction mask covering the face and a perception reduction cloak wrapped tightly around the head.

However, as if the perception reduction function was turned off, Pixie could clearly perceive that figure with her eyes.

Therefore, when Pixie looked at him with eyes trembling uncontrollably, Seol nodded with a still smiling face as if something was amusing and said:

“That’s right, it’s our General Management Team’s Ancestor… And next to him is a child named Neon who has been adopted into our family… I’ll tell you in advance, if you try to investigate behind our backs… You know, right?”

“Y-yes! Of course! No matter how playful we are, we don’t toy with our lives to that extent!”

“Hmm… That’s fine then.”

Investigating the General Management Team’s Ancestor and the new founding family member girl? What kind of crazy talk is that!

When Pixie answered in shock at Seol’s words that were enough to be frightened by, Seol nodded with a deflated smile.

Then she slowly lowered the three people she had brought on the wind in front of Pixie and said:

“Then I’ll ask for the procedures… I’ll tell you the detailed deletion items and additional items during the procedure, so please guide us to the procedure room……”

“Ah, yes! Then please follow me! Um… Ancestor and young lady? Please come along as well!”

The Ancestor and the girl silently took steps without answering Pixie’s words.

And Pixie, leading the way in front of the three including Seol, felt her vision unable to focus due to her heart pounding crazily inside.

‘Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy…!!!’

Is this really a bolt from the blue?

As far as Pixie knew, the General Management Team’s Ancestor had never been exposed externally even once, yet suddenly someone appearing claims to be the General Management Team’s Ancestor.

The shock from last month when the overall manager of the General Management Team’s security department came personally to entrust large-scale memory procedures for citizens hadn’t even faded yet, and Seol was presenting an even greater shock than that time, so Pixie substituted her gratitude with internal curses.

‘Why on such an ordinary day like today…!’

She wanted to entrust this to regular employees, but if she entrusted this procedure to regular employees, it would be fortunate if they didn’t faint during the procedure.

In the end, the only one who could take charge of the procedure was Pixie herself, so Pixie swallowed a cry full of resentment inside and shouted:

‘Why do I have to take charge of such a thing!!’

A cry of resentment towards the world pushing her into a pit of despair.

“……”

“Eek…!”

However, seeing the reality where she couldn’t even show a hint of emotion under the gaze of the being called the Ancestor staring at her steadily from behind, Pixie just wanted to cry with all her might.

Additionally, the girl said to be the new founding family member also staring at her back with an equally burdensome gaze.

It was the moment Pixie’s ordinary day plummeted to become the worst day.