Chapter 154 – Episode 154 – An Unknown Map Left by Someone Leading to the 99th Floor
* Episode 154 – An unknown map left by someone leading to the 99th floor
Seongyeon and I kept our mouths shut.
Discussing with someone over the phone.
Most likely Ceres.
While the other person was talking, I put down my phone and looked at the map.
I couldn’t just leave the situation like this.
‘Why did Suni ask me to take this? To confess that you are up to something? That can’t be possible.’
As I said before, the 19th floor is a place where you can come by yourself because the transition point is open.
I must have known for sure that if you asked me, you would check the inside.
Nevertheless, he did not take care of it himself and left it to me.
Since he asked me to, I accepted because I thought he had something to hide.
‘Soona… What on earth are you thinking… ?’
Leah, who came from the future, said that Suni was not the enemy.
But they gave me this map.
…
… Why?
You want to help me climb the tower to the 100th floor?
With what intention?
“… Seongyeon.”
『Wait a moment.』
『I also feel pain because of the current situation.』
『But Sun-i, I vaguely understand how she got upstairs.』
“Do you understand?”
“You know that. With his skills, he can fly anywhere in the world.』
『You’ve been like that since you were young, right?』
『The kid was trapped in the tower and almost died because he couldn’t control his skills.』
『Then I met the leader of the draftsman’s guild, joined it, and reached where I am today.』
What kind of crazy thing is that?
“Are you really trying to say that you continued to harm yourself in order to transfer above the 51st floor?”
The skill that Suni has is a dangerous skill that ‘transfers to somewhere in the world when she feels in danger.’
As Seong-yeon said, if she is unlucky, she is a strange structure that can fly into the tower, but for that to happen, she needs to be threatened at least a little.
Even when he first met me, he activated his skill by hitting a wall and hurting himself.
『You prostitute. You’re not forgetting, are you?』
『If he intends to fly, he can decide where he flies.』
Seongyeon’s words reminded her of the first time we met on the 19th floor.
Then Ceres spoke.
[-This is probably Suni’s skill.]
[It is the strongest and worst transfer skill that moves regardless of the user’s will when attacked, surprised, or in danger.]
[If you intend, you can specify where you want, but I heard that if you encounter an unintended situation, you will be sent to a random location and suffer for the rest of your life.]
[Let’s say someone surprised Suni as a joke. Then Suni will fly away somewhere in the world. To a place you don’t even know about, regardless of distance or conditions. What is just a joke to the other person turns into an incident that could lead directly to death for him.]
In this way, contradictions arise.
“If you had intentionally bypassed the gate and been able to climb the tower, wouldn’t you have told us from the beginning?”
Seongyeon immediately refuted this as if she had already considered it.
『I’ve asked that too.』
『So do you know what he is saying?』
『When you intentionally transfer, you can only go to places you know well. They say that when you don’t intend to, you fly somewhere in the real world.』
“If that is true, it means that random transfers continued to complete this map.”
『What if what you said to me was a lie?』
『What if you could break through the gate at will?』
『Even Suni has always been hostile to me.』
『If it’s her, it’s no wonder she hides her abilities from me.』
“Let’s say that’s a lie, just like you said. Let’s say Suni can ignore the gate and climb the tower at any time. Then why did she hand me the map at this timing? Why did my stepdaughter from the future say that? Did you do it?”
『I want to ask that.』
『I heard Leah said that Suni is not an enemy?』
『But why did you hide your abilities from us?』
『Why are you handing over such an important map like this?』
『Can’t I tell you everything from the beginning?』
“I don’t know that, so I’m discussing it with you.”
I don’t want to doubt Leah.
At the same time, I don’t want to doubt Seongyeon either.
However, Suni is now confusing us with actions we cannot understand.
『Is it just a map?』
『Are there any other hints?』
“Wait a moment.”
She searched through her bag, but found nothing else except a total of 99 maps.
It is a truly ordinary bag that does not use this space as an item pocket.
I looked at the map roughly up to the 70th floor, but like other maps, there was nothing there.
So I thought there might be something wrong with the map itself.
“…?”
Palak.
Palak.
Palak.
Is it around the 75th floor?
A large, blurry mark on the back of the map began to appear.
At first, it was hard to see because it was blurred like the numbers on the floor, but it became clearer as time went by.
“… What the fuck.”
『A prostitute?』
『Why?』
“Why? What’s going on?』
“Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute. What is this?”
Flap.
Flap.
On the back of the map, it says the 83rd floor.
The same thing is said one after another.
[I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you]
[I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you]
[I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you]
[I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you]
[I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you]
The next map as well.
[I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you]
[I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you]
[I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you]
Also, the next map…
[I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you]
[I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you]
[I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you]
Next time… ?
[I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you]
[I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you]
….
… Oh, fuck.
Is this what Suni wrote?
Is that possible?
I wondered if this was all the faintly erased letters, so I flipped through the map to the 95th floor.
Fortunately, not all maps are like that.
[You are the one who deserves to be loved]
[You are a person who can do anything]
[You can have anything]
[You are a person who can be forgiven no matter what crime you commit]
He is reciting something in scrawled letters.
When I looked at the back of the map, I tried to convey something.
[So, I will forgive you]
[Let me have everything in the world]
[It’s okay to look down on women and covet them]
[It’s okay to fall into narcissism]
[It’s okay even if my personality is broken]
[It’s okay to kill]
[It’s okay to be a tyrant]
[I can forgive anything as long as you come back to me in the end]
[Because that’s what love is]
I got goosebumps because I didn’t know who I was conveying my love to.
Thinking it might not be me, I denied reality and opened the next page.
Fortunately, it is a blank page.
There was no other text after this, but the short message left on the back of the map on the 99th floor was stuck in my mind.
[You who saved me from hell and loved me all my life]
[In return for that great love, I leave you this map]
With this, it became clear that this was a map made for ‘someone’.
It was also made by a woman with proper taste.
『A prostitute?』
『Don’t just watch it alone, can you talk to me?』
“I can’t even say this with my own mouth… I think you should see it for yourself…”
Anyway, ‘the year that made the map = the crazy year.’
Luckily(?) Seongyeon, who I’m talking to right now, is also quite a crazy bitch.
I thought there might be something in common between these crazy people, so I showed them what I saw again.
『Uh, huh? Uhhhhh?』
『What is this?』
『Is everything written on the back of the map like this?』
“Huh. What do you think? What do you think you were thinking when you wrote this?”
『This is typical.』
『This is usually done by the type of woman who puts a burden on the person she loves.』
“Something like Yandere or Menhera?”
『Yes, yes.』
『From my perspective, this is it.』
『This is a narcissistic tribute to you, not even secretly but openly showing that I am the woman who prepares this much for you.』
『Isn’t that meaningless ‘I love you’ written on the back in the same vein?』
“I don’t understand, so please explain in more detail if it’s the same thing or not.”
『To put it simply…』
『He’s condescending, saying, ‘Even if no one else knows, you should recognize and acknowledge my efforts from the moment you see this.’』
『As I write so many ‘I love you’s,’ I can clearly see the expectation that ‘If I write this much, they’ll know how sincere I am, right?’』
『In reality, the recipient does not want this kind of tribute, so the trap is that it only causes discomfort or burden.』
‘Our Seongyeon is also a crazy bitch.’
The expression was accurate.
I hit my forehead at the perfect explanation, as if I was introducing myself.
As expected, she is like a crazy bitch who has turned her life around several times and only focused on one man.
『Why are you smiling?』
『Did I say something strange?』
“I’m impressed because you explained it so accurately, so don’t take it too badly.”
『Yeah, really?』
『Strange.』
『I thought you were just laughing at me.』
I changed my words so that no one noticed.
“Anyway, did Suni write something like this?”
“Well… I don’t know anything about him either…』
『If I had hidden this madness, I would have noticed…』
No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look like it was written by Suni.
I know that she walks around with a forced bright face, but I don’t want to think that this kind of madness is hiding underneath that smile.
Even Seongyeon, the crazy bitch expert (herself), was convinced of this.
『Ah, my head hurts.』
『I don’t think this is something to talk about on the phone.』
『Take that and return to the guild.』
『Since Auntie Zita and I are here, let’s share our memories and do what we can.』
“I guess so.”
It was just a phone call to say hello, but I had no idea I would find something like this.
As Seongyeon said, there was nothing to see here, so she hung up the phone and stood up.
“Are you going?”
The snow girls smiled brightly.
“I’m sorry for disturbing you while you’re working.”
“No, it’s okay.”
“I just gave you a sofa.”
Then he threw Natalia, who was already wrapped, towards me.
“Ugh! I’m so excited~! Heeing~!”
‘Right. I was neglecting it because I was looking at the map.’
While she was out of sight for a moment, she was wrapped in tape and turned into a bug.
She was treated like this even though she had not even entered the bathhouse, and as they said, it was obvious how much they disliked women from other classes.
“Next time, you know?”
“Yes, yes. I will come alone.”
The snow women quietly warn, ‘Do not bring outside food.’
She was smiling on the outside, but what was she feeling on the inside? She left quickly to prepare for an unexpected situation.