Chapter 9 – 01. A Strange World
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We came out of the instructor’s house.
Lunagun decided to put it on hold for now.
“I don’t know how much the inn will cost, but 30 gold would be enough, right?”
About 100,000 won in old won per 1 gold.
It may not be at the level of abundance, but it will not be to the point of being squeezed.
“Then why don’t you make copies?”
“No, I have to.”
“Okay.”
We looked around the city, did some shopping, and passed the time while looking around, and then came in at a suitable inn.
It’s not very fancy, but it’s a decent place to stay.
“Well, there were humans?”
“Lie… A human trying to become a tower warrior? Aren’t you a servant?”
“Because it’s not, well… “
A bustling hall.
Tables are set here and there, and several people are gathering to have drinks or food.
Occasionally, I heard a topic that was considered my story.
“Excuse me. What is the cost of lodging?”
In the midst of the noise, Barry went to the desk and asked.
Silence fell in the noisy inn.
“Uh…?”
Another reaction like this.
It’s not surprising anymore.
“Sign… Liver?”
Even the inn clerk at the desk is looking at me and Bari with a bewildered face.
Judging from the elongated ears and the extremely pretty appearance, she looks like an elf.
I see a lot of elves.
“How much does accommodation cost?”
“Ah! Sorry. Accommodation cost is… A day is 20 silver coins, a week is 1.2 gold, and a month is 3 gold.”
Um… Expensive… Is it
20 silver coins per day,
If the cost of lodging for a week is 1.2 gold, roughly 100 silver is 1 gold. 20 silver will be a discount.
If it’s not a discount, it’s really worth it…
It’s complicated to calculate, so let’s assume that 100 silver = 1 gold.
“Meals are charged separately.”
Barry looked at me.
What should I do? How long have you been here? Or copy and buy a house?
“One week.”
“Yes. It’s a week’s stay. In one room.”
Bari offers two gold coins.
The employee gave me the key along with 80 silver coins.
100 silver = 1 gold.
“Sihwan-nim, it’s on the second floor.”
“Yes.”
While going up, the gaze was focused.
“You really look at me. To worry….”
“Should I handle it?”
“No, what to do… Are you excessive? Load.”
“It’s to protect Shihwan.”
“Yes, yes. It’s unique.”
The room was also as good as an inn.
Just good enough to use. It’s a visual you often see in games.
Clap
Lock the door first,
“Let’s copy it.”
Gave the order
“How much?”
“Didn’t you say that nanomaterials haven’t been produced yet, so the battle could be hindered?”
“Yes.”
“Then how long will it take to be safe?”
“Right now, it’s up to 1,000.”
“If you have 1,000… Great. That should be enough for the time being.”
1,000 gold is equivalent to a trainee’s salary for three years.
At the same time, it was also the amount Yuina offered me for Luna’s stallion price.
“Then I will copy it.”
Nodding, Bari placed a gold coin in the palm of her hand.
And—
Rumble.
Countless gold coins formed on Bari’s palm, which had nothing else on it, and soon overflowed and fell to the floor.
The sound of metal hitting the floor.
“It is 1,000 gold coins. All engraved numbers and symbols were treated differently according to the law.”
“Five. Well done.”
Now, how can we obtain nanomaterials?
“It takes a little process.”
“Is it even possible?”
“Of course. Even when pioneering the Ryu Si-hwan planet, we started with a small body.”
I guess so. Because it’s AI.
She tells her nothing is impossible for her.
“How long does it take?”
“First of all, we need a space to build a facility. Also, for the time being, we need to take into account the decrease in combat power. You don’t have to worry though.”
“Okay. Barry will do well on his own.”
“Please leave it to me, Sihwan-nim.”
“Yes.”
“…”
“…”
A sudden silence.
There isn’t any other reason.
Just…
Silence caused by not knowing what to do.
“Barry.”
“Yes.”
“What do I do now?”
“I know, right.”
“…”
Barry sat on the shabby bed.
“It can be a bit difficult in the beginning. Even in a house with all the facilities, they were bored, but there really is nothing here.”
“Ah…”
I didn’t think of this.
In places like virtual reality games, you can just skip to the next day, but this is a real world, so there is nothing like that.
In other words, you have to live feeling all the empty time.
“Now, wait a minute…”
There are no movies.
There are no games.
No drama.
I have no friends.
Don’t even have a girlfriend
There’s nothing.
…
That is, there is nothing to do.
This is the meaning of the saying that you only know the value after losing it.
I suddenly wanted to play the game I was so fed up with.
“Oh my God, I really have nothing to do!!”
However, it is not possible to use precious nanomaterials because of this.
If you knew it would be like this, would you have brought Luna too?
If you’re with a girl, there’s at least something to do.
“Under…”
Come to think of it, relieving sexual desire is also a problem.
Normally, there were many ways to solve it, so it wasn’t a problem at all, but…
“…”
I looked up and Bari was staring at me.
…
…
No no no
Anyway, that’s not it.
Bari is a machine anyway.
“Oh, Sihwan-nim, everything that should be on me depends on it too, doesn’t it?”
“It’s kind of weird when you say that…It depends.”
“You can also sweeten what you just thought of.”
“Nope. That’s absolutely not possible. Never.”
It’s terrible to be a clumsy barira.
“First of all, let’s go to bed early today and think about tomorrow.”
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Old-fashioned room.
Despite the calm atmosphere, the illusion that calm music is resonating from somewhere arises.
Luxurious yet unpretentious. It can’t be expressed as frugal, but it possesses something that cannot be called luxury.
Two women facing each other.
The woman with her black bobbed hair spoke first.
“What do you think?”
“It is quite unique. The Warriors of the Tower, of course, did not even know what the Tower was.”
Yuina was summoned right before work.
However, he did not dare to show any dissatisfaction.
“Hmm~. It’s not that unusual. You mean you’re here without knowing anything, then?”
“That’s right.”
“I said that when I came to my senses, I was here….”
“Yes.”
The woman took a deep breath.
“It’s hard to believe. How can you believe this?”
“I have a hard time believing it too.”
A woman with short black hair gracefully raised a teacup.
If the point is to stretch out the little finger, it is the point.
“Anyway, it’s fun. Sometimes it’s nice to have a human like that. More than anything, that doll has something.”
Slurp.
“Ah. Don’t you have a human species? It’s just when you’re an adult. The name….”
“This is Luna.”
“Okay. Luna. Why don’t you take some seeds?”
“I tried to propose, but he declined. It didn’t even work.”
“… Why?”
Uncharacteristically innocent, Yuina smiled.
“He looked at me and said that. ‘I’ll give you a thousand gold, so if I ask you to have a child, will you give birth to me?'”
“So what did you say?”
“I said I would kill you.”
“Cook cook. Okay. I hear that, so it is.”
He nods her head a couple of times and smiles.
“There is a pulpit for a human being. Subjectivity is certain. I am not from the inside.”
“Isn’t that more arrogant?”
The woman, Ha Yeon-seo agreed, but shook her head.
“You say you don’t know anything. This can be happen. If you don’t know or even recognize the difference between us [Noblesse] And [Humans]….”
The woman on the other side of her, Yuina, waved her hand.
“It’s not a problem at that level. There is something I firmly believe in. No matter what happens, we can overcome… This feeling?”
“Hmm… Do you believe in that doll?”
“And implicitly looking down at the other person. It’s like-“
“Is this the same as us?”
“Yes. Aren’t their names similar to ours?”
“The feeling it gives off is completely different.”
“Isn’t there a possibility that 『Noblesse』 Might exist among your ancestors? If that’s the case, it’s understandable that ordinary humans have artifacts like that.”
Ha Yeon-seo was lost in her thoughts.
Certainly, as she said, if “Noblesse” Were mixed in among her ancestors, and if the legacy she left behind was that doll, then somehow it would be understandable.
‘The main factor in raising the grade to A is that doll, but… That itself wasn’t bad for a human….’
It’s a hidden ability that can’t be known with only stats.
“So what are you going to do? Are you trying to adopt under us?”
“Please. It’s just a possibility, so we’ll see.”
“That’s up to you to figure out… Is it tomorrow? Interview.”
“Yes.”
“It will be fun. As a trainee of human origin… It’s a first in history.”
“There was one.”
“That should be an exception.”
Ha Yeon-seo stood up from her seat.
“Okay, go in and get some rest. It will be hard from tomorrow.”
“Yes. Good night.”
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Dark night.
Even in the inn where dozens of people are soundly asleep, pitch-black darkness falls.
“Let’s move slowly.”
Among them, the suspicious ones.
They are gathered in the room wearing black robes.
“A human subject wandering around without an owner. Cheeky.”
I definitely saw it around evening.
Two humans undressing themselves.
It didn’t seem like there was an owner, and it seemed like a free person, so it bothered me even more.
All humans are a lowly race that has historically caused countless troubles, and as a result has been subject to population restrictions.
Without making a single exception, you must use them as slaves and suppress their spirit.
He thought so
“For now, let’s kill the man and take the woman. Because I have a lot to write about.”
“OK.”
It’s a radical and abnormal way of thinking, but there are quite a few people who agree with it.
It must be because Sihwan’s party wasn’t so shabby.
They carefully opened the door to the room and came out.
It’s on the same second floor, so just go through the hallway….
Jing..
“… Yes?”
In front of them stood the figure of the woman whom they had seen before, hidden in the darkness.
With a strange sound.
A sound that I have never heard before, so it feels more creepy and frightening.
They shuddered involuntarily.
They considered themselves to be a proud “Advanced race” And had all sorts of pride, but the existence in front of them was terrifying enough to make them shrivel up.
No, can I just live with this? She’s just staring. With something that glows blue.
There is no aura that can be detected by feeling. The perfect radish itself. That’s why I didn’t feel it even though it was right next to the door.
“You are late. Judging by that insidious desire, I thought you would come out a little earlier.”
Load.
Sihwan’s household AI.
It cannot be underestimated because it is for home use. It’s because it’s an existence that can carry out pioneering on a planet-by-planet basis.
Humanity develops the planet with this household AI or creates various weapons to wage war.
Bari has never fought a war, but possesses an innumerable list of weapons under the influence of Sihwan, who is interested in subcultures such as games. With enough nanomaterials, we could print an anti-planetary weapon right now.
Even more so, it was so easy to deal with a few people in front of my eyes. It is not for nothing that she despises living things other than humans, considering them to be ‘small things’.
“For big things, we have to wait for Shihwan-nim’s orders and judgment, but… You don’t even need to ask for permission for the task of removing trash like you.”
She raised her hand
It is the source of strange sounds and blue lights that give them goosebumps.
Woo woo woo.
Not a human arm.
Something that appears to be a skeleton inside, a metal structure that cannot even be called a bone, protrudes in all directions and spreads out like wings, and countless wires and complex organs within it emit enormous energy.
In the area where the hand should start, the flat cylinder spun around emitting blue light, something so frightening that an ignorant infant would run away to the other side even if it saw it.
“What, what is this bitch?”
It’s been a while since I opened my mouth.
I couldn’t open it in the meantime.
The strange atmosphere and intimidation made it so.
“Gwa, you’re making me wonder! A human bitch!”
I tried to run into my heart.
They wanted to attack and engrave the greatness of the advanced race.
But,
“Delete.”
Along with the cold Bari’s words, a crude sound of ‘Tooung’ was heard, and the upper body of the man in front disappeared entirely.
“… ?”
Even the blood welled up belatedly due to the late recognition of the situation.
An attack carried out without any warning.
“What….”
“Delete.”
Tuung.
“Delete.”
Tuung.
Every time he utters a word, an intense blue light rises and one by one he dies.
Except for the first one, not even the lower half of the body was left.
Existence itself was literally ‘erased’.
All of a sudden, there’s only one left.
“OMG….”
The first to mention this plan and put it into practice was one being.
Again and again.
Barry approached.
“Because you are the one who conceived the cheeky plan, I let you live arbitrarily. But don’t be relieved. Death is just more comfortable.”
Bari’s eyes glowed red.
It was even creepier because it was a dark hallway.
