SSS-Class Suicide Hunter

4.

Let's talk about the old days for a minute.

When the Prelate was a child, it was not a smartphone, but a child's choice to stare at the television blindly.

You can't choose what you want on TV. I watch as they play it on the station.

The station is also where people work, so nothing plays on TV at the time people leave for dreamland.

It's like a restaurant that doesn't open 24 hours a day. Break. Closed. There is clearly a pause, but its role does not work.

Support positions -

And the television shows you a strange screen when you take a break. Black spots and white spots intermingle in a commotion. Blink, blink. Black and white dots blend together like a machine AI puts their own GO at hyperspeed. Dizzy. Dizzy, dizzy.

Support positions, support positions -

That's where I'm standing right now.

[The 76th stage has been forcibly closed.]

The blue sky was torn apart. As mold spread through the cracks, black and white debris overflowed. First, the sky was torn apart, and humans roaming under the sky were devoured, and last, the horizon was torn apart.

Support!

[The sixth pillar, the Ancient Staff, intervenes.]

[The Ancient Staff wants to maintain control of the stage.]

There was a wizard leaning on a lonely cane in the middle of a world where black and white people were communicating.

One of the pillars running this tower. It was an ancient staff.

“…… you're talking funny. Four Kings.”

The Wizard looked at me.

“Did you just say that my choice was wrong? Who is worthy to be the judge of this heavenly class? Who is willing to judge your acceptance and rejection. I chose to be an expert judge considering all of it, and this judgment of mine, it's wrong? ”

“Yes."

"......."

The wizard's eyes were like silver with a sword in them. I did not avoid the gaze of the silver blade aimed at me.

“Even if you face death, you will never wish to be reborn here. ”

The wizard could not immediately answer. Cough. After a long time, the wizard firmly grasps his staff.

“... Yes. Maybe you have a point. But what about here? ”

The wizard raises the long staff high. Then, with all my strength, I slammed down the floor.

[Ancient Staff unleashes power.]]

Uahhhhhh!

A wave rises around the place where the staff was shot. A white wave. The white waves rush headlong into turbulence, pushing away the black that was gnawing away at the world.

At the same time.

[Ancient Staff sends you.]]

The world of supporting noise changed.

[You have entered stage 77.]

[You set foot where you can't enter originally.]

“This is a place of donation. ”

Was the wand of antiquity magic? We were getting rich in the air.

A bright future city unfolded beneath its long legs. The skyscrapers fluctuated seamlessly without any pillars or seams, and the buildings and buildings connected like neurons in the brain. The passageway between the skyscrapers, like a spider web, is constantly illuminating.

“There are countless machine dolls living in this world. Your grammar is NPCs. ”

In the city of the future, there were many humans on the move.

If the Wizard is right, most of them are NPCs. In other words, they were not hunters born with souls.

“The constellations of the world... [Machine God] controls hundreds of millions of machines. Of course, the humans born here don't know that. NPCs all believe in the same people they do. Of course. All of these puppets are human beings. And……."

“And?”

“Dolls are always defeated by humans in the defining moment of life. ”

Boxing matches were reflected in the city's lighting board.

“The humans born here [always] defeat the dolls. It's so subtle that you'll never know that the puppets deliberately lost. No, to never notice that the people you've lost to are really just puppets. ”

Phew!

A boxer with a red glove knocks the opponent down. Wow! You hear the crowd cheering behind the sign. The blue glove man staggers into a corner, and the red player throws his opponent into a dazzling corner.

“Those reborn here live a life of triumph. Despite the threat of defeat, they are the ones who are going to win. The sweetness of victory. The confidence of overcoming a lifetime of obstacles. All joy is a gift prepared solely by the God of Mechanisms for Humankind. ”

Eventually, the red player's upper body enters the front.

Kuang! The blue player collapses on the ring, unable to hold on. The referee hurriedly ran in between the two players, but the red player's face had already been stained with the joy that he had won with light of certainty.

“It's a game. It's a kind of play. A game where you are always treated as a winner. But I never doubt [I'm being treated]. I have no choice but to believe that he has won every victory because he has won. ”

"......."

“What do you say, Four Kings? Doesn't this place deserve a paradise of excellence? ”

Whoo-hoo!

Red player roars. The judge grabs his wrist and pulls him up. The red player howls like a gorilla in a drunken battle he has won, and the audience responds. A louder and louder shout rewarded him.

“I'll admit, you know your handiwork. ”

Above the cheerful rise, the wizard said,

“Yeah, maybe I made a mistake once. Sorry, it's the manager's responsibility. In the name of your apology, 76 floors have been automatically cleared. So from now on, the attack on the 77th floor...."

“How long can this last? ”

“…… what? ”

I narrowed my eyes.

“Those who want to leave the world outside have entered the tower. Those who want to abandon the world of the tower go to one of the heavenly floors, floors 71 through 79. Is that it? What if the souls who arrive here once again want to abandon the world? ”

"......."

“Then will you create the kingdom of heaven again? Are you going to build towers inside towers, and then again towers inside towers, building towers that go up a hundred stories, a thousand floors, 100,000 floors, a million floors, forever? ”

The wizard bit his lip.

[Ancient Staff sends you.]]

The wizard's staff wiggles tightly.

[You have entered stage 78.]

[You set foot where you can't enter originally.]

"...... How about here? ”

The world has changed again. A seaside town opened up, quiet but not lacking. People were in pairs, talking in peace or enjoying a meal.

“This is Sancheon. Everyone can find a partner in their life. Even if a human has never met his destiny in his previous life, he must meet here forever...."

“It's endless. ”

I said, to slash the blade in the wizard's eye with the blade in my voice.

“The Ancient Staff. Now I know who you are. You're probably the Judge of the Underworld, like King Hwang Ra, who decides which heaven floor the souls of the dead will go to. ”

"......."

“What difference does it make if you never condemn hell?"

The tower's voice echoes in my head.

[You discover the identity of the Ancient Staff!]]

[The Ancient Staff exerts its privilege as a pillar.]

[Your memory of the pillars is distorted.]

[Burns.]

[Any action that distorts your memory will fail!]

The fox wrapped around my neck like a scarf. I nod my head and continue to wizard in front of me. You stare at the judge who condemns and distributes all the souls that died in the tower.

“You've done two things. ”

“…… what a bummer. ”

“The tower never forces the humans of the outside world to come here. It's a matter for people to decide. Does the world of the tower suit you...? Do you really want to abandon the outside world once? The hunters who live here, they're the ones who decided to come. ”

I said empowered.

“But you didn't ask their doctor. I didn't ask the paladin if he would choose this heaven if he died. It's just that the heavenly hierarchy that suits the paladin best would be the underworld, so you decided it yourself. The Earl, the Serpent, the Inquisitor, the Alchemist, the Acolyte, you summoned them. ”

"......."

“But there are worse mistakes. ”

That.

“Those who go to the heavenly floors you manage, they completely forget their past lives."

“…… What's wrong with that? Souls who have left the world and gone to heaven to make themselves happy. You don't have to remember things you hated, things you abandoned about the world. ”

“We were not born because we wanted to be born in the outside world. ”

But...

“But the tower is a world of our choosing. ”

"......."

“A world born wanting to be born. It's a world I've decided to come to. Unlike the outside world, where we didn't know anything, we chose this place. That's why towers are meaningful! ”

I took a step forward.

Is the Wizard's magic undone?

For a moment, my feet almost lost weight in the air. But I immediately made a transparent footing with error. deficiency air travel. The sky could no longer mean falling for me.

“And you made [your own] memories go away! ”

"Ugh…"

“The heavenly people you manage, they've almost obliterated the meaning of the tower. It's just like rebuilding the same world, the same world as the outside world, in a tower. ”

I stood up in the sky and said,

“You don't deserve to be judged by heaven. ”

The ancient staff echoes.

“A pierced mouth, talking nonsense...!"

“Yes, and I'm not done yet. ”

I looked up the perforation.

“Excellent!”

Supporting-.

“You're listening! Your choice! Your choice! As [Ancient Staff] has determined, is there a level of heaven on the 76th, 77th and 78th floors that you would be willing to go to? That's why [Ancient Staff] should be qualified as a judge! Or……."

The sky was lifted up, and I opened a gap in the distance.

“Or tell them to get lost! The only place you're alive, the only place I'm alive, is in your world! If you die, tell me if you want to be reborn even in death! So, [Ancient Staff] or me, you decide which one is right! ”

What will you give me?

In the gaps in the sky, you can see the same noise as before. White spots and black spots were flashing loudly. From there, an upbeat voice flows out.

Choosing barefoot is not the way to do it. I don't know, but you're battling a column or something, right? You want me to put your hands up. Then this is the deal, too. Tell me what you got for me.

“Such a realistic bastard……."

After I was killed by a woman's asshole, I had a reality.

I bite my teeth. However, flowing out between the teeth was not a grin, but a smile.

“Crazy bastard. ”

I laughed.

“You did it before you died on me, you son of a bitch. ”

That's what you are.

He's better off rolling in the dog litter, and if he can still remember what he did, he'll fuck the whole world up. He cannot go to heaven or go to heaven. I am a human being who will say, "Go to the afterlife, or whatever you want, unless it is pleasure to be in your own life."

“I'll dance Cossack!! ”

I screamed with a fucking smile.

“It doesn't matter if it's a day or two or a week! I'll show you how to dance until you tell me to stop! I'll dance ten times as hard as you dance, you son of a bitch! Go to hell and live in my world! ”

Hmm...

The sky was silent for a moment.

"That doesn't sound like a bad world.

Even before the ancient staff distorted his expression, the judge raised his hand to me.

Call.

The beep embraces the ritual.

[The 76th stage will be forced to close.]

[The 77th stage will be forced to end.]

[The 78th stage will be forced to close.]

“Really,”

The moment the ancient wand laid its forehead in scorn,

“These damn kids--"

The declaration of the tower has fallen.

[It was argued that the "Ancient Staff" was inappropriate as a pillar.]

[Request confirmation from Zrakua.]

[Not verifiable.]

[This question goes beyond the tower's authority.]

It was a declaration I had heard for a long time.

[Tower to recheck question.]

[Pass. Current issues are appropriate.]

[The Tower recognizes the issue of the Four Kings as a formal agenda.]]

And...

[The Tower requests a plenary meeting from the six pillars of the Everlasting Life.]

White and black sand once again enveloped my vision.