Chapter 128 – Episode 128 – Preparing to Conquer the 40th Floor of the Tower of Lust

* Episode 128 – Preparing to conquer the 40th floor of the Tower of Lust

After throwing her business card, Natalia threatened her several times, saying, ‘Be sure to call me!’ And then left, saying she was going to get some air.

Afterward, the representatives of the six major guilds changed the topic of ‘how to announce to the outside world’ after the 40th floor.

At first, I was watching and expressing my opinion, but as the conversation got deeper, I kept quiet.

‘This is not my place.’

Ian, Nayami, Brigitta, and everyone else, like representatives of the guild, coordinated schedules by saying things I didn’t know. Madame, who arrived late, naturally lifted her hips as she joined in the conversation.

“Shop?”

“I feel like I’m interfering with everyone’s work. If I don’t have anything else to say, I’ll leave first.”

“Let’s have another drink after work. I’ll call you late at night again, is that okay?”

“Can we go to Madame’s?”

“Yes. I’ll text you later.”

Knowing that, she naturally returned to the guild with a plan for dinner.

*

I came back and tried to rest right away, but Seongyeon had already come back to life, unexpectedly.

There was nothing to do even if I went back to my room. I immediately told the story I heard in the skyscraper.

They were astonished at my actions, probably not knowing that I would leave the hotel and go straight to the skyscraper.

“Hey, you prostitute! Well, thank you for helping me attack the gateway. I appreciate it. Why are you climbing the tower without stopping right after returning? What kind of workaholic are you?”

“I heard that there too.”

“That’s right! You’re crossing the next hurdle faster than mapping at the draftsman’s guild! We have to proceed at your pace, but you’re too fast!”

“I know. That’s why I went to the skyscraper and thought about the 40th floor. But Suni and Ian didn’t actually tell me not to go?”

When I calmly retorted, he got irritated and showed that he wanted to be with me more.

The very act of getting annoyed at me trying to get to the top quickly is like revealing my true feelings, saying, ‘I wanted to be with you a little longer.’

“There is no combat zone from the 31st to the 39th floor! There are no instant death traps like there are with the snow girls! That’s why no one said anything! It’s not a place that really needs a map, and it’s not important to the current situation!”

“…Oh, really? I didn’t know that.”

“You only knew about the real gateway!?”

“I thought it would be a good idea to ask you about the lower-tier gimmick. No matter what anyone says, you know best.”

“Hmph! I only treat it like an encyclopedia when I need it!”

“Don’t do that, just explain. What class are you doing that says there is no battle until the 39th floor?”

“Ugh…”

I couldn’t hide my joy.

The more I depended on my ancestor Majo, who had a leash, the happier he became.

“Big! This floor is all unique from the 31st to the 39th floor!”

Unusual place… ?

“Hey, wait. It’s pointless to say this when you’ve just reached the 30th floor, but there hasn’t been a single level that wasn’t unusual as you’ve climbed up so far, right? But if you say something like that now, do you think I’ll get anything?”

Seongyeon agreed to what I said, but refuted it awkwardly.

“But that’s because it’s a unique floor. Compared to the floor below, it doesn’t ruin your life. But it doesn’t have any dangerous traps. It’s a weird floor that doesn’t even have drop items and the items you can get there can only be obtained through quests.”〈 Br〉

Quest!

A special reward system often seen in the tower!

I heard that it is managed by the Constellation, and this system is also introduced in the Golden Tower!

“You don’t have to clear quests all the way from the 31st to the 39th floor to go up, right?”

“The method of clearing all the way up? Oh, if you were asking if you were going up from the 31st to the 39th floor through a quest, that’s not true. Unlike the layers below, this layer is very friendly.”

“Which is safer compared to the 15th or 25th floor?”

“Either way is similar. Maybe the 31st to 39th floors are safer.”

Is it really that safe?

As Seongyeon said, it is unique.

I never thought there would even be a quest system there.

“It’s even incredibly popular. The day you cleared the 30th floor, the news that the 31st floor was opened spread throughout the tower, right? There were people who stayed on that floor from that day until now.”

“Are you saying there are a lot of idiots like downstairs who are willing to sacrifice their lives?”

“Should I say I’m sacrificing my life, or should I say I’m saving you? Since the story seems to keep going round and round, I’ll start by telling you what class you are.”

Then he quietly told me what the gimmick was from the 31st floor to the 39th floor.

At first, I was curious as to what kind of gimmick it was to produce such a mysterious expression, but when I found out the truth, I was already holding my stomach.

…

… That’s right, anyone in that class can go!

Regardless of gender or age! Of course, you go!

“Do you understand? Everyone is going there to receive quests. Quests are distributed to everyone who enters the 31st floor, so there is no reason for hunters to frown at each other. Everyone just needs to receive and clear quests in harmony.”

“Haha. It’s amazing, really. Are you going to invade the earth step by step like that?”

“That’s right. I believe that the gimmick itself is a device to increase the number of supporters for the Tower of Eumma and Lust. One of the reasons why the ground went to shit when we detoured to the 50th floor was because of that layer.”

I nodded, pretending to understand.

But there are some parts that I don’t understand.

“Ah~! Why do I have to go to a place like that with Natalia!”

“Do you hate Natalia?”

“Rather than saying I don’t like it, I should say that I instinctively avoid it. Even today, when I was involved with Natalia, I inadvertently started ticking. Are you saying I don’t know why I’m like this?”

If you think about it, it’s been that way since we met.

I thought I would be sexually attracted to her because she was dressed like a prostitute, but disgust came first.

It’s not that I hate her outright, but both Madame and I used honorifics and treated elders with respect, but Natalia couldn’t do that.

Even considering Nayami’s situation, my attitude was rude in my opinion.

“I guess it’s an influence from the previous episode…”

“Previous episode?”

“Ah.”

As I looked, Seongyeon hid her mouth.

“You didn’t tell me to tell you. So I’m not going to tell you.”

Then her face blushed.

She was so excited that she forgot she was in crossdressing mode and went back to her cow.

I patted our cow’s head to see that she had been trained well, not only on the outside but also on the inside.

“Ugh! Why are you touching me all of a sudden~!?”

“I told you not to pay tribute. Thank you for protecting me.”

“… Ah, hehe♪”

The smug expression is also cute.

When I spoke about the previous episode, it was clear that there was a bad relationship between me and Natalia.

I think it’s probably related to Nayami.

Because I handed that water to Nayami in this episode.

I did it without thinking, even though I knew it would cause a rift between me and Natalia.

‘… Is this a coincidence?’

I have no intention of allowing tribute, but there is no reason to cover up information that needs to be known.

“Seongyeon.”

“Why~?”

“From now on, please answer briefly what I ask without being too harsh. Do you understand?”

“… Ahh!”

“Natalia killed me. She is O, she is not X.”

First, I inquired about the past.

Then Seongyeon seemed really happy and gave a short answer as ordered.

“O.”

“Well done.”

I patted his head again.

“Huh heh~!”

According to my orders, he only told me what I wanted to know without adding anything.

Natalia killed me. I wasn’t surprised because she expected it.

“What do you think this episode will be like? Do you think me and Natalia will clash again?”

So I asked him one more question, and this time he spoke softly.

“In this episode, there is a favor for rescuing Mr. Eo Woo-dong. Just looking at the story I heard, I don’t think there is any reason for the two of them to fight.”

“I know that, but I got tangled up in the Nayami issue this time.”

“Huh? In what way?”

I didn’t go into detail.

However, a word was said about water.

Then, Seongyeon scratched the back of her head as if she realized everything from my one word.

“Ah, prostitute, you finally committed it!”

One word was heavy.

It shed its female face and became its original expression.

“Nayami is Natalia’s enemy, right?”

Nod.

Seong-yeon said that I was in trouble and gave a long explanation.

“Even though she looks like that, she thinks she is affectionate towards Nayami. She doesn’t even know that Nayami only hates Natalia. She thinks that swearing and bickering is part of her affection.”

“Oh, really? It doesn’t seem to me like you two just had a falling out?”

“That’s also the story when Nayami was a man. If she turns back to a woman, that’s when the rift between them will begin to develop in earnest. Even in this episode, they rescued Eo Woo-dong, a former Gilma, so if he starts taking Nayami’s side, the two of them will fall apart. There will be a big rift between us, right?”

“For example?”

“Nayami, who has been the boss of the pants until now, will become the real devil. She will also have enough speaking power to suppress Natalia, so the relationship between the two will become nothing.”

Seongyeon continued to keep her words short.

It was a ruin that I was well aware of and kept my word not to pay tribute carelessly.

“Don’t fret people, but tell me in more detail. What on earth is going on?”

“Well, most of the guild members subordinate to Natalia will return to Mr. Oudong. Then, Natalia’s right to speak will be weakened, and Nayami, with Eoudong on her back, will be in conflict with Natalia. Of course, it is not a physical confrontation, but rather the idea of ​​keeping her in check so that she cannot become a man. In a sense, this is a simple thing that Natalia can just give up, but the problem is that the beast girl has a tendency to use force to solve things when things don’t work out the way she wants.”

The supporter, the toy, that was so conveniently used so far, is trying to escape from his embrace.

She even tried to antagonize herself.

Natalia is a child who must have whatever she wants.

Still, what would she do if she was taken away?

Of course we will fight.

“But Natalia is strong. Teacher Eoudong is still recuperating, so will everyone get over it?”

“Chance, you don’t know why [Bronze Shield] Has that name?”

I wondered if there was her origin, so I lifted her chin to ask her to tell me.

“Bronze that does not deform or corrode no matter how much time passes. Like that bronze, it is a guild with aspirations to protect this land without change even after a long time passes. The guild members who followed Mr. Eo Woo-dong must have had antipathy towards Natalia from the beginning, so this incident I guess it will make a big move as an opportunity?”

“Protecting the land, I’ve never had a conversation with Teacher Eo Woo-dong, but is he really that kind of person?”

“He has a personality that the beast girl respects as a teacher. He is the one who took her in and raised her when she was immature. Because of that crazy personality, the guild’s image has been tarnished, but other than her, everyone else is normal.”

Ha, the tiger gave birth to a dog.

The guild over there is also full of problems.

“Can we beat the 40th floor without Natalia?”

“You can’t break it because you’re Natalia, you need Nayami’s help.”

-Yes.

The key is Nayami. And it is Natalia who lends it.

So, rather than throwing himself into that gimmick, Ian also recommended taking two people with him.

“But you said you bypassed this. How did you do it?”

“To ask?”

Seongyeon smiled sinisterly.

….

…
She decided to quit.

Just by looking at that smile, it looks like he didn’t take a detour through the normal method.

I think I know everything I want to know from Natalia’s story. Let’s refrain from spouting out unnecessary information.

I think I’ll end the story at this point-

“-But the fact that you gave her water to turn her back into a woman means that you knew that Nayami was a woman?”

“Okay.”

“Did you think of anything else after seeing that?”

“Any other thoughts?”

“Yeah. Think about the people around you.”

Look at this bitch?

At this moment, you are looking at me.

It is clear that Nayami reminded her of herself.

“… Have you ever thought of anyone else?”

It was funny to see her fidgeting after making a fuss.

She wanted to say something to Seongyeon, so she kept her mouth shut.

In the end, she couldn’t spit it out.

-Knock.

“… Uh.”

Someone knocked on the door and swung it open without getting an answer.

I was wondering who on earth could be so rude, but a familiar blonde stuck out her head.

“Were you busy by any chance?”

“…”

Seongyeon openly showed disappointment, but she wasn’t angry.

“No. What happened that caused you to suddenly open the door?”

“Because a guest has arrived.”

“… Suddenly?”

“Yes. He said he would like to meet you two. Would it be okay for you too?”

Not just Seongyeon, but me too?

As I was wondering who it was, the customer in question appeared.

“Ugh. I’m sorry. I came here without contacting you!”

A small, cute-looking girl lowered her head.

The main character of this story was in the skyscraper with me just a moment ago.

Surprisingly, it was Nayami.