episode_0074

Hidden piece.

It is a word meaning hidden treasure or item, and since there has never been a report on its discovery, I thought that only the skills and items provided by the system were the main means of conquering the tower.

The truth is that there were special items hidden on each floor.

The reason no one discovered this was because all the hidden pieces were monopolized by just one person.

Numerous spell books, 6 golden coins, and various weapons of at least S grade are placed in her house where Su-yeon, disguised as Yeon-woo, still lives. She lived with Cheon-hwi in the past.

“…Are you preparing for war?”

“Yes.”

“In the past, there was a rumor that there was a party secretly inside the comet collecting hidden items inside the tower under the direct instructions of the guild leader… Was it true?”

“..It wasn’t a party, but there was one helper.”

“What are you doing now?”

“I died after learning a secret I shouldn’t know. Well… I was cursed.”

‘Ah.. I asked about the regression right in front of you and then found it..?’

I try to avert my eyes from the horrifying truth.

“What..just swinging it makes lightning strike? Why aren’t weapons like this released on the market?”

“Because the lightning doesn’t stop. The moment someone uses it even once on Earth, whether by mistake or on purpose, it cannot be stopped.”

“Ah.. What about this? They say it’s a simple medicine that will permanently increase your stamina and strength if you take it?”

“It increases, but the race changes with the Goblin King from floor 0.”

“..This guy..?”

“If you insert it into the heart of a dead person, he or she will come back to life.”

“…What is the problem?”

“The person who uses it dies.”

There really isn’t a single normal item.

It was good in terms of effectiveness, but each item seemed to have a flaw somewhere.

Also, if you listen to what Sooyeon says, there must have already been an Earth that was ruined after using this item in the past.

“..um..”

When I was looking at the items that were not revealed to the world in her house one by one.

Soo-yeon brings the item that Seol-hee asked for.

“Here it is.”

“Is this a leaf of the World Tree?”

She came out with a leaf that looked like an ordinary leaf, but was twice as wide as her hand.

This was the hidden piece of the 5th floor, the leaf of the World Tree.

“…”

An SS-grade hidden piece that anyone other than the regressor would have passed by, thinking it was just an ordinary leaf.

Originally, the leaves of this world tree were an item that was not scheduled to be revealed to anyone on Earth except Suyeon.

“If consumed, the only successor to the world tree, all things in nature, will be born.”

“…and?”

“If a person eats it, it turns into a tree. It is not a world tree, but an ordinary tree. I can’t tell if the person who ate it is dead or alive.”

“… This is needed to clear the 6th floor?”

“You can eat spirits.”

“You looked it up in the 3rd floor document, right?”

“Yes.”

Soo-yeon tries to pretend that she doesn’t know that she is a regressor and uses the third-floor literature as an excuse, but fortunately, Su-yeon agrees.

According to her, this world tree leaf was a necessary item to more easily clear the devastated spirit world that she had glimpsed beyond Lauriel’s memories.

No matter how much Seolhee saw Lauriel’s memories, she did not know everything about the next floor.

The only memory she saw was of Cheonhwi after the tower appeared.

“Did you ask me to follow you today to give you this?”

“Yes.”

“You can come and see the Cheonhwi you like and hand it over in person.”

“…Then you might feel bad.”

After thinking about it for a moment, the answer that came out was an unexpectedly wonderful one.

I pretended not to, but was it still evident?

She noticed that Cheonhwi was secretly stressed about the fact that there was another woman around him.

“Whew…it’s like this…I can’t hate you.”

The person Seol-hee is patting on the head now is Park Hye-rin, the world’s official number one hunter, but she was an opponent she couldn’t guarantee she could beat even with Su-a’s 3-stack buff.

It was like a puppy stroking a tiger’s head.

The eldest child, Suyeon, who was not receiving proper attention from her parents, was absentmindedly being stroked by what felt like her mother’s touch, which she somehow missed.

Lee Seol-hee, who became a mother while raising Nyamu, was also influencing Su-yeon.

“Oh, sorry, I’ve developed a habit while raising you..?”

Seolhee, who didn’t know this, quickly took her hand away from her head and realized that her eyes were filled with regret for some reason.

Seol-hee, who remembered hearing about Jeong Soo-yeon from Cheon-hwi in the past, pretended not to notice the look in her eyes and decided to pet her a little more.

A woman younger than me.

I turned back time to save my loved one.

To prevent the destruction of the world, problematic items were hidden away from people’s reach.

Although they chose to disguise themselves to save many people, they were together to attack the tower before anyone else.

Knowing everything, it was a very difficult task.

She endured a lonely and difficult time alone, with no one recognizing her and no one taking her side.

Now, I could see a young girl standing up strong and not collapsing, alone in a world where she had no one to rely on mentally, like family.

Pat pat pat.

“?”

“Good job, collecting the items. If it weren’t for you, the Earth would have been destroyed more than 5 times already.”

I flinch.

“I don’t know if I can be of help to you, but sometimes, why don’t you rely on your sister instead of Cheonhwi?”

“…?”

The eyes of a young girl looking at herself with eyes full of questions.

“You’re the same woman, aren’t there things you can’t tell even your brother?”

“…”

“Even if it was your family.”

“…! Did you know..?”

“Cheonhwi told me. Otherwise, would I have gone crazy and let my ex-lover, an Iranian girl, flirt with my boyfriend?”

Seol-hee smiled because she thought the sight of her shaking her head was somehow cute.

“I heard the two stories. Cheonhwi was so drunk that day that he probably didn’t even know what he said.”

“…”

“From now on, you can ask your sister. Looking at the kitchen, I saw that they only ordered a lot of delivery food because they said they had a lot of money. You can come to my house and eat together.”

That was the first time I realized it.

Even the steel woman who no one could break was just a delicate girl who could shed tears.

Seolhee’s mother, who came to visit her and pretended not to see her, started nagging her.

“Look at this, I didn’t even wash the dishes.. Wow, I didn’t even think about this. I just throw away the used cup and use a new one because I don’t feel like washing the dishes..?”

No matter how much money I had, this was not the case.

*

It was late, around 9pm, when Seolhee, who had gone out for an appointment with Suyeon, returned.

“Did you go?”

“My!”

“My daughter’s mom is here!”

“Myaa!!My!”

“..Sister, me too..”

“Oh my, Mr. Playboy? Hello?”

“Sorry..”

Today, Seol-hee became a little picky because she couldn’t push away Su-ah’s obsession with her and couldn’t take care of her properly.

However, when I told Su-ah that it would be better to stop because Seol-hee-noona is jealous, it was nothing more than an act of trying to fuck Seol-hee-noona, so I tried to give her a back hug or kiss her every time I got the chance, but she still did it. It seemed like he had that in mind.

“Starting tomorrow, I will tell Su-ah to focus on work when working.”

Just because it was a guild, it didn’t necessarily mean training.

Now that the Earth’s administrative system is running normally despite the rise of the Tower, we are now responsible for managing the items made from monster by-products sold by Comet in addition to doing office work.

This was because the guild leader said that there was no one he could trust yet with this part.

It was especially bad now.

Chinese hunters who purchased Comet’s items began selling counterfeit items, causing confusion in the market, so it was a time when quality control and production site management had to be more thorough.

As a side note, the item that Hyeseong created as a by-product of the monster was a weapon with similar strength to the maximum C-class weapon inside the tower.

There were no additional effects such as increasing attack power or speed, but in an Earth where the overall amount of items was lacking, this was a weapon of the same level as a useful item in the tower.

“That’s it. I won’t listen to my husband who only holds hands with Su-a while working.”

“What should I do if we are in different departments? Noona.. But I visited you whenever I could during break time.”

“Ha.. I have a bit of a problem with that.”

“Yes? Should I visit more often?”

“My subordinates look at me strangely.”

“Yes?”

“Some people are looking at me with pitiful eyes, as if I were a cheating wife. Of course it’s true, but.”

“…”

In direct contrast to Su-ah, who did not care at all about what others thought of her within the company, Seol-hee, who had to lead the people in her department with leadership, was conscious of what people thought of her.

“Don’t be too explicit when there are people at work.”

“I understand. Then I’ll come home and cuddle with you all day.”

“Just words.”

“It’s true. Come quickly.”

When I spread my hands out while sitting on the sofa, Seolhee noona said no, but obediently came over and sat on my lap.

Thanks to that, I was able to hug Seolhee and Nyamu at the same time, and I was concerned about the slightly large-looking leaf that my sister was holding in her hand.

“What tree leaf is that so big?”

“According to the literature on the 3rd floor, this is the most necessary item to clear the 6th floor.”

“Huh? Did that person give that to Sooyeon?”

“Yes, in his opinion, it looks like there is a high chance of you getting in again, so he just told you to keep it. To be honest, even if you don’t have it, there is no problem in clearing it.”

‘and…’

Even though I don’t really remember it, I think I was quite close with a woman named Suyeon.

In fact, Cheon-hwi, who had been bored without Seol-hee before, was so curious about the 6th floor that he planned to sneak up on the 6th floor for about 10 seconds while Nyamu was asleep.

“Mya!”

Sister Seolhee handed a leaf from the world tree to Nyamu, who was curiously reaching for a leaf larger than his head.

“Sister.”

“Huh?”

“I want to kiss you.”

“You’re awake.”

“What do you think?”

Leaving Nyamu preoccupied with the leaves, I turned my head and kissed Seolhee.

Back the salivary glands formed between the lips.

Mew mul mul.

“Nya, is it delicious?”

“Pyeong!”

Let’s talk while happily looking at Nyamu, who is eagerly biting into the leaves.

Seolhee, who turned her head to kiss me, got scared and separated the leaves from Nyamu.

However, he must have already chewed half of it, as he chews the leaf in his mouth.

“Huh..?”

“Surely.. I shouldn’t eat it?”

Recently, my daughter, who has developed the habit of putting everything she can get her hands on in her mouth, seems to have had a big accident.