Chapter 88 – Episode 88 – The Day of Reconciliation With Brigitta’s Past and Stepdaughter

* Episode 88 – Brigitta’s past and the day of reconciliation with her stepdaughter

After a while.

The guild members were defeated and only three people remained in the office.

“What are you looking at?”

“You’re done being a babysitter. How can you leave me, a person of the same sex, in your arms?”

“That’s because you yell at a kid. Why are you yelling at a kid you’ve barely met just because of his nickname?”

“Hmph.”

I sat down on the office sofa and faced Ian.

Leah is attached to his side, hiding her body using the long coat she is wearing as a windbreaker.

“Sister Ian.”

“Yes. Not an ajumma, but an older sister~! Hey, it’s been a while. How have you been?”

“Yes. I’ve been fine.”

“Did you hear Mom’s story outside?”

“I heard. You disappeared?”

“Yeah. He said that to us and then disappeared. That’s why you came while we were trying to figure out what to do with this.”

“I see…”

The speech was short, and the conversation did not continue.

Changgi had a nonchalant expression, but on the contrary, only Ian was nervous.

That’s because he just said in front of her child that [Brigita killed her sister].

“Hey… Leia. It might be burdensome for you to say this. But trust me and listen.”

“What?”

“Earlier, Auntie Zita… She said that your aunt killed your mother. Your aunt would never do that. So please trust me and listen to me just this once.”

“Oh, that’s it.”

“Yes.”

“I already know. I told you everything.”

“I know that…”

Leah’s reaction is shocking.

It’s not that I’m angry or thoughtless.

The child must have been so amazing that when her prostitute touched her head, she closed her eyes and behaved quietly.

“Changgi. What’s your mood? Why am I the only one who’s nervous?”

“It’s because you keep worrying about me when I say I’m fine.”

“Have you already finished the story?”

“I finished early and that’s why I came down.”

When he laughed, I said, ‘I don’t know what’s going on anymore,’ and lay down on the sofa.

The child who should have been angry with her aunt, her enemy, was extremely calm. Her worries about the child falling into resentment fell to dust.

‘What on earth happened to them?’

When I looked to the side with my hand on my forehead, I could see the behavior of the two people.

“What should we do after it’s over? Do you want to play online games here this time?”

“I don’t like the games here because they use abusive language.”

“Then, should we take your aunt and play a game together? How about running like we did last time?”

“What about that drunkard? Hey, if you drink and drive, you’ll get into an accident.”

“It’ll get better with a few slaps on the butt.”

“I want to see my aunt get scolded by my uncle.”

“Really? Other people probably think the same way, right?”

“Look at the trouble you’ve caused to the people around you. There’s also a bottle of alcohol on the floor…”

“Oh, don’t touch that. When he gets back, he’ll tell you to clean it up.”

“But I don’t like dirty things…”

“You’re not supposed to clean up things like this. When you come back, scold him and tell him to clean up after you.”

“Yes…”

Leah tried to put her hand on her bottom, but then calmly returned and hugged her side.

I laughed out loud when I saw those two people.

“I really just had to trust you and wait, so I don’t know why you were so nervous…”

“You too, don’t say too much to Aunt Zita. She says she’s going to spoil her child, but what sane parent is there? It’s not even her, and she’s leaving everything to others, but she’s so nervous.”

“I know that-“

“If you know, you can rest too. Me and Rare will go and talk in person and scold you. OK?”

Nod.

“When you come back, you and Leah will both be by your side, right?”

“Of course.”

“That’s enough.”

When Ian closed his eyes for a moment, the sound of loud footsteps approached from afar.

With someone’s voice screaming, ‘I found my sister!’

“They said they were looking for my aunt. Let’s go quickly and talk to them and resolve any misunderstandings.”

“… Is it okay?”

“It’s okay. I just trust you.”

When the harlot stretched out her neck, Leah followed on her horse.

She laughed again when she saw that.

“The kid who pretended to be so smart…”

She was speechless.

*

[Tower of Lust 6th floor]

Came.

This is the second layer you enter after conquering the 10th floor.

It is a scary floor where doctors with octopus heads that resemble Cthulhu are walking around the ward.

Leia was calm at first, but she freaked out when I covered her body with aurors.

“Is there something like this downstairs…?”

“It looks scary, right? Even if it looks like that, it doesn’t hurt people.”

“Really?”

“Yes. Instead, they say they catch you and eat your dreams. If you surround them with Auras, they won’t attack you, so don’t worry.”

“You mean I shouldn’t get away from you?”

“That’s it.”

She would be thirsty anyway, so she wouldn’t fall, but she cautioned just in case.

‘I never thought I’d come here twice.’

Unlike in the past, many of the ward doors, which were once wide open, are closed.

This is evidence that hunters outside have begun to gather in the aftermath of the 20th floor being conquered and the 29th floor being opened.

I don’t know if it was done on purpose, or if I was trapped here because I didn’t know the rules, but I felt a creepy feeling just because the door was closed.

“Are people only in closed rooms?”

“We are smart. We know everything at a glance.”

I could see people beyond the window of the opposite ward, as if there were other hunters wandering around besides me.

If you see someone entering a wide open ward, they are not hunters but would-be patients.

‘Is the dream shown here really that pleasant?’

The floor where you see the dreams you want to see.

The floor where people come to escape reality.

A layer for drawing happy times.

That’s probably why Brigitta came here.

“Where is my aunt?”

“I heard it was around here-“

I unfolded the map and headed to the ward they told me about.

The deeper you went into this place, the more it became like a maze. Everything around is white, so having a headache is an added bonus.

‘Is it this way?’

Fortunately, she was not in a very deep place, but in an obscure place for anyone to see.

A red-haired, freckled beauty lying on a hospital bed.

However, she gives her head to a doctor who resembles Cthulhu without any sign of getting up.

“Ugh, on aunt’s head…!”

“Don’t be surprised because you’re just eating a dream.”

“But it feels bad!”

That is empathy.

The top of his head is being sucked by a maw with tentacles, but he is sleeping in a daze.

He smiled as if he was having a happy dream, but when we approached, he frowned, but then the content of the dream got messed up, and he showed signs of wandering.

“Sister…”

I knew what kind of dream I was seeing just from the short words my sister said.

She is the dream of her sister whom she said she killed.

“Aunt. I’m here.”

“Re… Ah…”

She responded to her stepdaughter’s call, but her face was pale.

Brigitta, who must have been having a good dream, said while scratching the blanket.

“I’m sorry… Sister… I couldn’t love Leah…”

“Aunt.”

“I know I shouldn’t… Do that… To a kid…”

“Aunt.”

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”

I apologized to someone.

It could be Leah, who appeared in her dreams, or it could be her own sister, Sinead Bailey.

Anyway, my sister was in so much pain that she couldn’t wake up on her own.

“… How do I do this? If I kill the octopus doctor, will it wake up?”

“If I hit them, kids from all over the hospital will come, so I want to avoid that.”

“Is it because of me that you can’t fight?”

“Yes.”

“Then you didn’t have to bring me.”

“That’s true, but since it’s been a while, I thought I’d get some help with this gimmick.”

I sent a text message before starting.

The text message said, “If you do not return to the Mechanic Guild within the next 2 hours, I will come to the ward where Sister Bridgeta is to rescue you.”

Next, he gestured toward the two octopus doctors who were wandering around the hallway.

“Why are they calling me?”

“There is only one dog in this hospital room. We need two more for you and me.”

“You’re using it!?”

“It’s okay. I already came here to resolve misunderstandings and reconcile, so I need to end this once and for all. If we make up roughly and there’s resentment left, we fight and fight again, just like our kids.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“You will understand when you grow up.”

It’s lame. It’s not something you will know when you grow up.

When I called the octopus doctor with a lie mixed in to cover things up, they approached me blankly.

“Do you have a favorite dream…?”

“We also accept requests…”

A gentle question for a low bass voice.

I answered after closing the hospital room door.

“I want to see the same dream as the patient lying over there. Rather than watching it like a video, I want to go into that person’s dream.”

“Dream Diver… It’s a course…”

Are you calling that a course?

Even having a name seems to be a systematized technology.

“When dreams are mixed… Nightmares also appear…”

“Are you okay…?”

Rather, it is good.

Because there are some things that cannot be known through good dreams alone.

It was perfect because it seemed like my sister was also having nightmares about Leah’s voice.

“Please do that.”

“Okay… I will guide you to the Dream Diver course… To the dream of patient Brigitta Bailey…”

“Also… There is a caveat… If a minor is involved in this procedure… Certain scenes will be edited out… So please take note…”

They even take care of children.

In the 15th floor’s apprentice umma course as well as here, there was a tendency to completely exclude anything related to sex for young children.

While I was feeling really relieved in that regard, Leah got off her horse, held my hand, and asked again.

“Is it really okay?”

“It’s okay. I have Ian. I didn’t just send the text message to him, I also sent it to other kids just in case, so it’s 100% safe.”

“It’s not that, it’s me and my aunt.”

He turned his gaze away from me.

“Why?”

“Really, aunt… Really… Me…”

“You just heard me talking in my sleep. My sister may be a bit of a nuisance, but she’s still an adult. You don’t have to worry because you’re still in elementary school. That’s the role we adults play.”

“But… If I say I don’t like it… That it’s difficult…”

“You might say it’s hard. How easy is it to raise a child?”

“…”

“But it’s definitely not my true feelings. It’s probably just a passing feeling, so trust me and follow me.”

“… Yes.”

After comforting the child, I laid Leah down next to Brigitta.

The moment the hand left me, the wrapped auror was released, and an octopus approached with quick steps.

“It’s a baby, so don’t inhale too strongly, you know? Just do it gently, like you’re at a pediatrician.”

“Please rest assured… I am using this for minors…”

Then he took out a yellow hat that looked like it was for a child.

I put it on Leah’s head and immediately her eyes closed with a gurgling sound.

“Ugh~.”

She fell asleep making a foolish noise.

“What is this?”

“For children… Inhaler…”

There is a tube attached to the leg of the child’s hat, which is attached to the octopus doctor’s mouth.

In other words, they used straws to drink and spit out their dreams, just like we use straws.

“Wow, there really is everything.”

These guys are funny despite what they appear to be.

Thanks to that little friend, I can lie down on the bed next to him with peace of mind.

“Instead… Because you are an adult…”

“Oh fuck.”

The huge octopus head wrapped around my head.

It’s a sticky feeling that I really don’t want to experience again… !

Even before I could swear, “Be considerate to adults, you bastards,” My consciousness sank.