SSS-Class Suicide Hunter Chapter 252

Episode 252 < Independence. (1) >

One.

The halo of light surrounding me is slowly unraveling.

Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

A somewhat dull sound rang in my ears, but the scenery I could see was nothing short of divine.

Starting with the halo of light surrounding the head, the neck, shoulders, arms, and eventually the legs and feet followed, spreading in all directions like silk being unraveled.

‘Maybe those haloes of light have some kind of skill.’

So whose life is contained there?

I felt a little overwhelmed and silently watched the flowing silk… … .

“Abstention! Nonsense!”

I couldn’t watch it.

The face of a familiar princess pops up from the floor! and it popped out.

Not only was the sound effect lacking, but the background was also lacking, and a hole appeared in the floor and there was a ‘grunt!’ It came up screaming. Is it a ghost? Did you finally get a job working in a comedy film because of the recession in the horror film industry? Regretful… … .

“At that time, what are you really thinking? Why are you abstaining here!?”

A princess walking through a mirage.

She is herself a pillar supporting the tower and the daughter of the tower owner.

The girl, who probably had the most power other than the top owner, let out her stress by shaking the pillow she usually carried around.

“Is it some kind of illusion? huh? Our Death King, you just pretended to abstain and then made some kind of evil plan, right? This sister is counting on you. ruler! “Go on and say it!”

“no.”

I said calmly.

“I’m really going to abstain.”

“What! What!?”

The princess went crazy.

“It’s not like sticking your nose into the finished rice! what! After raising the children of the designated tribe with so much care and care! Now, the real designated tribes are ready to unify the continent. But why, why abstain… … .”

“Kids say they don’t like it.”

“uh?”

I sat on a white chair. This space. The space where only white extends to the horizon is surprisingly convenient, and it appears as soon as you think, “It would be nice to have a chair there.”

As I sat down on the chair, tea and tea cups appeared as if they had been waiting.

“hmm.”

I picked up the black tea and smelled its scent. It was a truly sophisticated peach black tea. So, to compare… .

“…….”

After three generations of knighted Lipton Ice Tea, it was as if the third-generation descendant of Lipton Ice Tea had led a major battle to victory and was finally officially enthroned as a nobleman.

hmm.

I lowered my head and tasted the black tea.

“I don’t know when my metaphor for food will become luxurious… .”

“Ugh… … .”

“Don’t sigh, princess. “I really want to sigh.”

Did he regain his dignity as a nobleman after seeing my petit bourgeois attitude?

The princess sat down across from me, resting her forehead. Looking at the way she shrugged her shoulders, it seemed like she was putting off hitting on me for a while.

“Well, wouldn’t it be classy in the meantime? “When I first ate pizza when I was young, I was as shocked as 3 pork cutlets, but when I got older and started eating seasoned chicken, I was as shocked as 5 pizzas.”

“Princess, there are pork cutlets, pizza, and seasoned chicken in your world too.”

“huh. So the basic unit of taste I have now is seasoned chicken. “Compared to when I was young, I now have a truly luxurious tongue.”

It is truly a luxurious tongue.

‘Indeed, the nobles of the kingdom… No, should it really be called a pillar of a tower?’

As someone who has lived a princess-like life above the clouds, I can’t imagine a life like mine where I had to count how many tteokbokki people gave me on the street… It was when I was thinking the same thing.

The princess said while hugging a pillow.

“But, of course, the most delicious thing was the soybean paste stew that my mom made herself.”

“There’s soybean paste stew too.”

“huh. It was a special taste that couldn’t be expressed even with a few seasoned chickens. It was literally a taste of memories. So, I still often ask for it to be boiled.”

“I understand. I also often think of the fried egg the director cooked and the rice I mixed with sesame oil and soy sauce. In fact, I asked for it several times before attempting the 31st floor and got it.”

If the family members were present, Esther would ask questions such as ‘Is someone as tall as the owner of the tower making soybean paste stew?’ and Sylvia would say ‘The princess’s family is truly noble…’ ?’ While arguing with him, Kim Yul said, ‘You should make and eat egg rice by yourself, matriarch. Do you have no hands or feet? ‘Stop messing around with my friend.’ She would have been scolded, but that didn’t happen.

It could be said to be a metaphorical device that reveals the fact that only the princess and I are sitting here, not the family members.

-Crazy bastard… .

[Twinkle is deeply silent and sympathizes with the Geomje.]

As always, these two are there, but don’t worry about them.

Anyway, that was when the princess and I, who lived in different economic classes, reached a dramatic agreement.

‘what.’

For a moment, my head felt slightly dizzy.

The half-god eye activated when dealing with a poisonous snake.

Suddenly, even now, it blinked before my eyes without any warning.

I was sucked into a daydream without any time to resist.

2.

-baby.

A feeling as if someone’s past was being stolen through trauma.

-Soin’s daughter… … .

It was a dark basement.

Viscount Amethyst, who had not yet become the owner of the tower, was looking after someone with a face she had never shown before.

It was a small child.

Although it was much smaller than now, I recognized it as [The Princess Walking in a Mirage].

-Soin’s beloved daughter.

The person who would become the master of all life and the goddess of the tower kissed the child on the cheek.

-huh. Let’s go home. Let’s go to sleep, Mom.

The girl who was a princess walking through a mirage and who had not yet become the general manager of this stage rubbed her cheek.

“…….”

I stared at my daydream blankly.

The place where mother and daughter touched each other’s cheeks was a sacred place. So it seemed like no one should dare get close. In the eyes of the tower owner looking down at his daughter, there was only kindness, a kindness that made you cry just by looking at it.

That’s probably one of God’s true faces.

God and God’s daughter held each other’s hands and left somewhere. That was it.

In Banshinan’s daydream, I had no idea where those two people were going or why they said, “Let’s go home.”

The moment when the two people left the dark basement and went up the stairs somewhere.

“…….”

Tuk,

The daydream was also cut off.

3.

I blinked.

Where the dream ended, reality continued.

“—So, I’m a pretty good cook too?”

The princess walking through the mirage chatted excitedly.

“If I were to give an item rating to the dish I made, it would be EX level. There’s no way it’s any other level than EX level. Anyway, I inherited my mom’s cooking style. If I were to make seasoned chicken instead of soybean paste stew with that taste… If it becomes a taste of memory. Death King, it’s already a great revolution in taste. Princess is cooking! It will be an epic journey worthy of producing about 200 novels titled… .”

The princess didn’t seem to notice that I was daydreaming at all, and freely boasted about what she wanted to say.

Reflected in the princess’s eyes, I was in perplexity. It wasn’t just because I was thrilled by the fearsome revolutionary plan just hearing about it.

I was thinking about the [phenomenon] that had just appeared to me.

‘Is this also a fragment of Topju’s trauma?’

For Amethyst, her entire life is no different from trauma.

He collected not only his own trauma but also the trauma of others, and even created countless parallel worlds under the assumption that [if something had happened differently]. In each parallel world, Amethyst saved someone, died, was tortured, or was murdered.

‘All those memories are potentially hidden from me now.’

Apparently, the guess I came up with while dealing with the poisonous snake was correct.

‘Even now.’

The amount of data is so huge that it is impossible to be conscious of it, but

Like this, it sometimes appears unconsciously, as if in a dream.

‘It’s troublesome.’

You may see scenes of the future that will take place decades later, or you may also see events from hundreds of years ago that took place in a world that has nothing to do with you.

no. Or, we may see a what-if world like [that world] where Yoo Soo-ha was with Amethyst.

What should we call this other than a daydream?

‘I understand why you tried to stop me to death back then.’

A bitter smile formed in my heart.

When I declared that I wanted to see Topju’s trauma, Topju easily stopped me. He offered other gifts or rewards and asked people not to focus on his trauma.

-Please, please.

-You will be torn apart.

Tapju said that and begged.

Now, I think I understand the meaning of that warning.

I took a sip of the ultra-evolved version of Lipton iced tea and looked at the princess.

“Princess.”

“huh? Why, when do you want me to show you a taste? I’m sorry, Death King. To do that, you need to cook something that will convince me first. So to speak, I am the king of cooking comics. “When you have made the best dish, I will lightly create a dish that surpasses it and greatly expand your worldview—”

“No, the princess… … “You really like your mother.”

The princess paused.

After a while, a smile appeared on his lips.

“huh. “I love you mom.”

It was a smile without any respite.

“You were born as God’s daughter. Have you ever felt burdened or something like that? why. It’s usually a cliché, like [I wanted to be born in an ordinary family].”

“Ahaha. What is that.”

The princess smiled as she touched her teacup.

“Well, okay. Originally, I was going to question you for abstaining. For now, I’ll go along with the Death King’s speech.”

“What is it really like? “To live as God’s daughter.”

“Ummmm. “Being your mother’s child makes you very happy!”

The princess was distracted.

“But there is one error in the question Death King asked. There are questions like [Would I have been a little happier if I had been born into an ordinary family?] That to me… … No, none of this applies to my mother’s children.”

“yes?”

“We are all children who can only be born from our mothers.”

I tilted my head, not knowing what that meant.

The princess sipped black tea and looked at me narrowly over the teacup.

“Isn’t it difficult to understand at once? “Then imagine it like this.”

Next to the teacup was a glass jar filled with sugar cubes.

The princess opened the lid of the jar and lifted the top sugar cube with her slender fingers.

“There is a certain [special] human being who, when born, slaughters people unconditionally.”

The lifted sugar cube slowly came out of the jar.

“No matter what world you are born in, this person is the same.”

The sugar cube that was moved onto the teacup fell with a thud.

“Destroy people, burn people, destroy countries, and destroy continents.”

The sugar cube that fell into the black tea melted and melted.

“What world. Which household. No matter what parents you are born to, this does not change. “This person is really, really [special] in that sense.”

That is the hope I once had for Yoo Soo-ha.

They were some kind of demonic being that had hoped and imagined that Yoo Soo-ha would never be forgiven, that he was wrong from the moment he was born, or if possible even before he was born.

“No one can convert this man. No one can make this person understand love. No one can or will convince this person why it is better for the world to remain as it is rather than disappear.”

The princess brought the teacup to her mouth.

By the time the teacup was placed on the table, I had already guessed the conclusion and was chilled by my own guess.

My back felt cold.

“that is… … .”

“I think there are a total of 24 such [special] people in all of heaven.”

The princess smiled.

“My mom just happens to have 24 children.”

“Well, I am the eldest daughter among them. In our kingdom, where the Four Kings have also visited, it is called White Water Crystal. really. “It’s hard because my younger siblings are so mischievous!”

I was silent.

Unknowingly, I muttered the motto that the owner of this tower always recited.

“[No human being is born wrong in this world]… .”

“that’s right!”

match. The princess clapped her hands softly.

“Doesn’t my mom seem a bit stupid? Anyhow, her mother only brought up her children who would be born so wrong, she made them her own.”

“And Mom taught us all about love.”

The princess winked playfully.

“That was the limit.”

“Limit… … ?”

“We now know the feeling of love. But I only love my mom. Our scales are very different from other people’s, so when you put the whole world and your mom on either side of the scale, it’s all too easy for mom to carry the weight. hmm. “The world is barely worse than a feather.”

I see

in other words.

It is the complete opposite of the relationship I had with the designated tribes as a father.

“huh.”

The princess in front of me, God’s daughter.

“For example, the reason I’m not tearing down the tower or the towers right now is simply because my mom asked me not to.”

They are completely dependent on their parents.

The princess, who was in a completely different parent-child relationship than me, smiled brightly.

“don’t worry. Even though we sometimes disobey our mother’s requests as a joke… . I really don’t want to do anything that would make my mom sad. “She has a few thugs, but they can’t enter the tower, so don’t worry.”

“…….”

“So what was it… . ah. that’s right. abstention! Why did you abstain, Death King! There are only two steps left for the designated tribe to conquer the continent! “It wouldn’t make sense to abstain there, right!”

I calmed down.

Perhaps the princess did not realize what kind of expression she was making just now.

The moment she said [I will tear down the tower], the look in the princess’s eyes… … no. Let’s not talk. Who would benefit from her portrayal of evil spirits? There is no need to speak out about the curse that is quietly sealed in solitude.

The princess is the one who manages the stage. I am the one who climbs the stage.

As for the relationship between the two of us, this will be enough for now.

“Like I said, the kids didn’t like it.”

“children? The designated tribes hated it? Is that why you abstained?”

“yes.”

I nodded.

“We invited the designated tribes to help you. It’s none other than war. It’s a war zone where people die and die, so who wouldn’t want to get help? However, the designated tribes flatly refused, saying [this is our job].”

“Hmm.”

“Children are already forging their own path. The things that happen there, the mistakes… … Even death, these children think is something they can and must deal with. “He also has that level of skill.”

I smiled a little, remembering the council president of this era who responded to Uburka by saying, “My ancestor, please go away quietly.”

“You’re all grown up.”

“…….”

“Now I can’t interfere with those kids by telling them to do this or that. Of course, if I do not interfere, greater damage may occur. It’s sad and infuriating, but… … “Unless the designated tribe children ask for help first, I will continue to watch over them.”

With luck and skill, I succeeded in raising the designated tribe into the best race on the continent.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to say or hear things like “It’s all thanks to me for raising you” or “You should know and worship me as God.”

‘So far.’

The mission to guide the children out of that world ends here.

The designated tribes stood on the ground with their own feet.

They didn’t need more than their own arm strength to take down the enemy in front of them, and they made sure they didn’t need to borrow the shoulders of a god to get to their destination.

In that case, all God can do is stand back and watch them.

“But, but!? Still, aren’t you worried or curious!?”

The princess fluttered her pillow.

“For example, what disasters will happen among the remaining classes in the future!? What will happen to the one evolution left for the designated tribe!? What is the identity of the delayed rewards!?”

“To answer you, I know the identities of the remaining classes.”

This is natural.

Before returning, I had seen Yu Su-ha clear up to the 40th floor.

‘Especially from the 37th floor, it’s the so-called [World Quest].’

Since it is no longer a local mission, the content will not deviate much from what I know.

“I also know about compensation.”

I once told my colleagues in the tower that the fact that the reward for clearing a tier is not revealed is itself a mystery.

This will be revealed the moment the 40th floor is cleared.

Also, because of that.

“I have no concerns about not meeting the designated tribes that have undergone their final evolution.”

I said with confidence.

“That Death King will abstain from the 36th floor. “Princess walking through a mirage.”

“…….”

“And soon we will begin the climb again and rescue your mother as we promised earlier.”

I lowered my head.

“So, please.”

“…….”

“Please allow me to make those children independent.”

long.

A long silence followed.

The princess looked at me with a sigh. Stare. Endlessly. Before I knew it, the scent of the black tea had all subsided, and the temperature of the black tea had all evaporated. After dozens of minutes of looking at each other, hiding the sound of their hearts, the princess slowly opened her lips.

“okay.”

The princess smiled bitterly.

“The goblins become independent before me.”

With that quiet lament, the tower’s voice announced.

[Withdraw from the stage.]

[Death King abstains from the 36th floor stage.]

[‘The Princess Who Walks in a Mirage’ acknowledges the Death King’s abstention!]

Ego.

Children.

Now is your time.

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