episode_0013

I just sent one simple word, ‘It’s okay.’

That’s enough.

This is neat.

When I first broke up with her, I was concerned about leaving Suyeon alone.

Is this the feeling of a parent leaving their child alone by the river?

Even before I was kicked out of the house, I had worries like, ‘Will Suyeon be able to survive on her own without me? Will she starve?’ But after watching her behavior for almost a month and seeing the achievements she has achieved, I no longer need to worry about her. It made me realize that there was no.

But the reason why I was little by little worried about her…

okay.

As I realized my feelings, it felt right to organize it this way.

For Sooyeon, even though I am not her biological brother, I tried to give her all the love from my family that she did not receive.

That’s why I didn’t have my own life, and I’ve never had a free relationship.

However, I do not regret the life I have lived.

In my memory, I have never received my mother’s love.

My mother passed away when I was very young, before I even had a chance to learn.

Maybe it was because I had never received my mother’s love, and Sooyeon was just desperately trying to avoid living that kind of life.

Also, after my father passed away, I somehow forced myself to live through Jeong Soo-yeon and continued to live each day.

That’s why I don’t regret it.

Then I quietly realize what I realized.

‘I loved you.’

That I truly loved her.

As a father, older brother, and man, I can now calmly admit it.

Paradoxically, it was funny that when I gave up on her, my heart confessed that it loved her, but it wasn’t like someone was going to steal my heart.

*

“It’s okay. Yeah… I’m glad.”

“What did you say?”

“No, so what about Seolhee?”

“Who was that? They say you can only decide when your boyfriend wakes up. He’s your partner.”

“What..what?”

” Regarding the armor and weapons I currently have, I also need to get my partner’s consent.”

“…”

‘Lee Seol-hee was my brother’s business partner and lover.’

It had only been about a month since I broke up with him, but the fact that he already had a girlfriend made me feel somewhat bitter.

After finishing the briefing, Hyerin returned to the tower to finish the training she had not finished, and I turned my head to look out the window.

Outside the window, a woman protesting alone was holding a sign.

[The Comet Guild is responsible for the death of the head of the family.]

She was the wife of a man who believed in the Comet Guild and went into the tower and died.

‘…’

Suddenly, a past that no longer exists came to mind.

In the future, there will continue to be more people who are dissatisfied with Comet Guild.

After conquering the third floor of the tower, they planned to use the money they earned to create a new profession called ‘Hunter’ and prohibit people without the relevant ID from entering the tower.

In the past, when anyone was able to enter the tower freely, it eventually reached the 7th floor and the population of the Republic of Korea was drastically reduced to about 20 million, making it a land of death with no laws or medical facilities functioning properly.

Therefore, in order to prevent people from being killed by dogs, the profession of hunter must undergo a test.

We had to create a system where people could constantly strive and compete to become stronger by giving them grades and dividing them into clear standards among hunters.

During this process, the Hyejeong Guild began to control the people to the extent that it was called the second government of the Republic of Korea, and people who were greatly dissatisfied with the above reforms always retaliated against the Hyejeong Guild and me.

It doesn’t matter as long as it’s just for me.

He didn’t really care if Comet Guild employees got hurt.

I didn’t want my brother, who was an employee of the Comet Guild at the time, to get hurt.

A terrorist group that found out that my brother and I were brother and sister kidnapped my brother…

‘Let’s not think about it…’

That will never happen in this episode.

Right now, my brother has nothing to do with me, so I just have to keep going like this.

Even if the fact that we were siblings is revealed later, if we continue to keep our distance like now, no one will think that my brother is my weakness.

I fiddled with my phone while looking at the woman protesting alone through the window.

The actions I will take from now on will also create more people who have animosity toward the Comet Guild.

*

I make eye contact with my sister who opened the hospital room door and came in.

“How are you feeling?”

“I think I’m okay. I don’t know if it hurts at all.”

“You really came back from the dead. Your ribs were broken and your lung was punctured.”

“Wow.. you didn’t even die, really.”

“But that was a bit unusual.’

“What is it?”

“Did you say that the blue energy was covering and protecting the organs?”

If it’s blue,

‘horsepower?’

Every time I use my horsepower in an underground parking lot.

I remembered that the shooting star had a blue glow.

“You must have been so unique that you were one of the few people in Korea to have received a reward for clearing floor 0, so there were so few comparison groups that I had to look around.”

While saying that, my sister showed me an article on the Internet.

[Is the reward of the 0th floor system a harbinger of new humanity?]

The injury healing power of people who received compensation for clearing the 0th floor of the system increased from 2 times that of the general public to up to 7 times… According to scientists’ research, if a person who received compensation marries a normal spouse and has children, there is a possibility of a new humanity. 12%..

“I’m glad to see this and understand why you got better so quickly.”

“New humanity..”

I felt it when I breathed it out with my own mouth,

“This is a bit…”

“Puhup.. aren’t you embarrassed too?”

“It feels like the world is collectively suffering from middle school disease.”

“Well, it’s that kind of world. ”

Well, that’s right.

It’s that kind of world now.

Whether it was a new humanity or something else, humanity needed to change quickly to suit the current situation.

“My sister received a great business proposal while you were sleeping. Do you want to hear it?”

“A business proposal?”

“I got it from Comet Guild.”

“Comet Guild?”

Saying that, my sister took out a contract on A4 paper and showed it to me.

“This is it, but I will read it slowly later. There is something more important than that now.”

“Is it more important than this?”

How on earth is it more important than Comet Gill, whose stock price is soaring right now?

“Your story of going down to the 21st floor underground.”

“Ah.”

“Can you explain what happened?”

“It’s not difficult. It all started… while watching my sister go up to the 19th floor.”

“How was it?”

“I was nervous in my own way because I was exploring an unknown space.”

“No, other than that, what about my back?”

“..It was pretty.”

“I like it! Keep talking.”

Seolhee has always loved hearing people say she is this pretty.

‘It looks pretty both objectively and subjectively…’

Is there anyone in the world who doesn’t like compliments? When I saw my sister like that, I decided to continue talking.

“The moment I first went down to the 21st floor, I saw a shadow approaching and thought there was someone who went down first…”

.

.

“There, I went to my sister using chivalry and this is a story that she also knows.”

“Wow.. Cheonhwi.”

“It was really hard…”

When I proudly told the story of my experience underground, the answer I received was…

“Are you stupid?”

“Yes?”

“Wouldn’t it be okay to just write an article on the 25th floor?”

“Huh?”

“Even if that’s not the case, there’s no need to fight tenaciously in dangerous moments, and you can just use chivalrous skills, right?”

“Ah..”

When I thought about it, it was like that.

‘I just used it when I felt like I was going to fall behind, right?’

“I’m glad I survived in the end.. If you think it’s dangerous in the future, write an article to me right away and tell me what happened.. Huh? Just a moment…”

“Why are you doing that?”

“Wait a minute, wait a minute.. Wait a minute? Cheonhwi?”

“Yes?”

“Cheonhwi… You go into the tower right now.”

“Yes? If you go in, you can’t come out until you conquer it, right…? First, get the clear reward…”

“Go to any floor on the 0th or 1st floor, not the 2nd floor, and use the chivalry skill on me.”

“Suddenly..? I understand first.”

So, I pressed the [Enter 0th floor] button through the system app and returned to the 0th floor after a long time.

“What..?”

“You cannot go inside.”

There, people with the comet guild’s mark controlled the entrance, and several huge tents were erected around the large area where the goblin’s body was placed to block people from seeing it.

Since it wasn’t particularly important, I ignored them and used the skill as I had asked my sister to do.

“Chivalrous Lee Seol-hee.”

Before I know it, I see Seolhee sitting in the same position as before.

“How about it? how is it?? Is it done? Did it not work out so you just returned to the system?”

“Can you use the skill properly?”

As soon as I finished answering, my sister took the contract she first handed me and started tearing it into pieces.

I don’t know why she was doing that, but the look on her sister’s face made me think she was planning something to ruin the Comet Guild’s contract or something.

“There was no need to contract with Comet Guild.”

“What does that mean?”

“Listen carefully, Cheonhwi, what should I do to enter and exit a floor that I haven’t conquered yet?”

” That’s right… you have to hold on until the strategy is over and then return when the system shows a message that it has been cleared. Other than that… I don’t think there is anything else. If there was a way, wouldn’t people have already shared it? Going in and out of a tower you haven’t conquered at will is a complete scam.”

“Of course, you are the only person in the world who can commit fraud!”

“What are you saying..?”

“Think about it, Cheonhwi! Think!! Let’s assume you entered the second floor! Let’s assume you are on the second floor of a tower and I am on Earth.”

“Yes.. huh?”

“You entered the tower earlier and used the knight on me, so it worked, right? In other words, chivalry works from the tower to the people on Earth, right?”

“No way..?”

“All the equipment we collected. It’s evil, let’s use it. Why are you giving us a comet? We’ve already made enough money. Should we make a guild?”

“The floors that have not been cleared..”

I was the only one who was able to escape at will.