24-Hour Friendly Market, Specializing in Dimensional Items - Chapter 139

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24-Hour Friendly Market Specializing in Dimensional Items Episode 139

 

Episode 139. Glimmerstona (4)

 

‘Wow, shit.’

 

Just as I quickly pulled the hood of the Shadow Knight Order’s robe over my head and put the documents back on the table, someone entered the room.

 

It was a person wearing a black robe so long it dragged on the floor.

 

This was the first black robe I’d encountered since entering the city hall.

 

Probably an elder who actually manages this city.

 

I held my breath and moved silently, pressing myself close to the cabinet.

 

Fortunately, they seemed unable to detect mana, as the uninvited guest didn’t notice my presence and immediately closed the door while bursting into complaints.

 

“Tsk, I’m busy as hell.”

 

The cracked voice of an elderly person, seemingly quite old.

 

The man’s tone, mixed with a metallic sound, was clearly full of irritation.

 

The elder approached the table I had been searching through and pulled out a document from the drawer.

 

With an attitude full of annoyance, the elder threw down the document carelessly and grumbled again.

 

“What’s so important about this that they want me to investigate it further?”

 

Oh, then there’s a high chance it’s really important?

 

Most things that are so blatantly dismissed as unimportant are actually extremely important.

 

I wanted to snatch it directly and check it out, but I held back for now.

 

Instead, I just craned my neck to look at the document’s title.

 

[Failed Tracking of Fallen Mana Stone Mine Island]

 

‘Huh?’

 

…Wait, a fallen mine island?

 

Only then could I recall a puzzle piece I had forgotten.

 

‘Right, where did all those fallen mine islands go?’

 

According to what I heard from Brozen, mine islands fall when all their mana stones are completely extracted.

 

But Aeteria is essentially a circular structure connected top and bottom.

 

If mine islands fell, they should naturally keep falling continuously.

 

Or they’d become unexpected meteors and collide with some city!

 

‘Failed tracking’ means those mine islands disappeared without a trace.

 

If they didn’t disintegrate, they definitely fell, but where on earth did those islands go?

 

It’s beyond strange – it’s completely incomprehensible.

 

The more I learn about this dimension, the more mysterious it becomes, and nothing is certain.

 

As I shook my head, feeling dissatisfied with Aeteria itself, the elder moved away from the table and approached my direction.

 

‘Oh no?!’

 

I panicked and pressed my back even closer to the cabinet.

 

As if he had something to take from the cabinet, the elder’s hand was heading toward a handle near my arm.

 

It seems they don’t know I’m here yet.

 

If I just stay here quietly, holding my breath, they’ll probably pass by without incident.

 

In movies and dramas, people usually escape danger by a hair’s breadth in situations like this.

 

“What’s this?”

 

The catch is that I’m not a character in a movie or drama.

 

The elder, who had grabbed the hem of my robe while reaching for the handle, cried out in a shrill voice.

 

‘I’m screwed.’

 

Feeling the sensation of my robe being pulled taut in midair, the elder realized there was an intruder.

 

Without even trying to slowly figure out who I was, he shouted loudly.

 

“Guards-!”

 

The moment the elder screamed at the top of his cracking voice, loud enough to shake the room.

 

I pulled out Kienum’s watch from my inventory.

 

True to its nature as a watch that detects danger, it was vibrating slightly, but how could I feel the vibration when it was stored in my inventory!

 

I forcefully pulled the hem of my robe from the elder’s hand and raised Kienum’s watch.

 

Then I turned back time without hesitation.

 

To 5 minutes ago.

 

* * *

 

However, before going back 5 minutes, I had to experience the additional effect of Kienum’s watch.

 

‘…What’s this.’

 

An unfamiliar floating sensation enveloped my body.

 

It felt similar to when I use the Appraisal skill to read an item’s memories.

 

The discomfort from this long-unfelt sensation was brief, as I realized I was seeing the future.

 

Kienum’s watch randomly shows the user’s future for about 30 seconds when used.

 

I had accepted Lee Hwa-yeon’s request because I was tempted by this feature, but I hadn’t even thought to use it.

 

I marveled at my own selective memory and looked around.

 

The space I was in had somehow become an open plaza.

 

The difference from ‘Item Appraisal’ was that the distant scenery wasn’t detailed but appeared blurred, as if processed with a blur effect.

 

So I couldn’t even guess where this plaza was located.

 

However.

 

‘What is that right now?’

 

What I would see in the future was certainly shocking enough that I couldn’t afford to care about the scenery.

 

In a world of washed-out, blurry colors, a golden light shone overwhelmingly brilliant.

 

It was a spear made of elegant golden threads densely intertwined in a spiral.

 

I know the owner of that spear.

 

I’ve seen that spear in person before.

 

‘Seo Jae-hyuk…?’

 

Standing in midair on a thin platform woven from golden threads, Seo Jae-hyuk was reaching his arm upward.

 

Above him, Legato in the form of a massive lightning spear floated with threatening presence, as if waiting for a command.

 

Seo Jae-hyuk’s expressionless face showed not a trace of emotion.

 

His gaze was fixed on one spot.

 

When I turned my head following Seo Jae-hyuk’s line of sight, there was another familiar face.

 

Unlike Legato which was warm yet sharp, a silver silhouette that emitted a cold but gentle light.

 

Even in front of the brilliant golden spear, it didn’t lose its radiance and gave off a subtle glow – it was a familiar mace.

 

‘That’s Lee Hwa-yeon.’

 

Short bob cut hair, sturdy build, and lips pressed firmly together as if she would never back down.

 

Lee Hwa-yeon’s expression was colored with deep disappointment and anger.

 

There was even resentment mixed in her gaze toward Seo Jae-hyuk.

 

The clear hostility on Lee Hwa-yeon’s face, who always smiled cheerfully, was enough to make me tense up automatically.

 

‘What on earth happened?’

 

Lee Hwa-yeon crossed her shield and mace as she blocked Seo Jae-hyuk’s path.

 

As I watched her hair swaying along her jawline set with deep determination.

 

I suddenly realized.

 

‘Wait, but this is my future…?’

 

I’m seeing this directly?

 

The moment I thought that, Seo Jae-hyuk threw Legato toward Lee Hwa-yeon.

 

The spear tip flashed as it flew toward Lee Hwa-yeon, and at that moment I saw a figure behind the flying Legato.

 

Me, who couldn’t bear watching this scene and rushed out.

 

Me, with Brother’s face.

 

‘Why am I there?’

 

In the slow flow of time that seemed like slow motion, I threw something toward those two.

 

It looked like a potion bottle, but what was that…

 

“Huh?”

 

The vision cut off there.

 

When I blinked again, I had returned to the landing on the second floor.

 

Back to when I had climbed about five steps past the two guards.

 

Not the scene of Gold and Silver clashing, but the bleak gray scenery.

 

Having returned to reality, I stood still and just blinked.

 

Standing motionless without any movement, I probably looked like a calm person with nothing wrong.

 

‘Am I going crazy?’

 

But inside, everything was turning upside down.

 

‘Am I really going crazy, my memory?’

 

What was that ominous scene?

 

Seo Jae-hyuk throwing Legato at Lee Hwa-yeon?

 

I had seen Seo Jae-hyuk use his ultimate skill with Legato exactly once.

 

When he threw it in serious mode to attack Agemor on the Ganashia continent.

 

But he’s throwing that at Lee Hwa-yeon?

 

What could have happened between those two to show me such a terrible thing in a vision?

 

No matter how many times I think about it, I can’t get a grasp on it.

 

No, that aside.

 

‘Why is the raid team composition like that?’

 

It’s unbelievable that South Korea’s 1st and 2nd ranked players entered the Tower together.

 

No!

 

Forget that, why did I openly appear there in the first place?!

 

What the hell is Lee Hae-won doing, brazenly standing in a plaza that clearly doesn’t look like South Korea?

 

Don’t tell me I made the stupid decision to jump into that chaos on my own while the scenario was starting?

 

I’ve already made so many mistakes that I’m being careful, yet I’d do something so dangerous that could expose my identity?

 

Didn’t Park Ji-woon try to stop me?

 

No, that person has the personality to call me during scenario progression anyway, so he might have called me.

 

So I was persuaded and entered the scenario?

 

My head was spinning with all sorts of thoughts because I’d witnessed such an unbelievable scene.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“Elder, are you alright?”

 

I barely came to my senses at the polite voice from behind.

 

One of the guards watching the stairs was asking me while respectfully bowing his head.

 

“…I’m fine.”

 

I answered in a deliberately calm tone and started walking.

 

My purpose of going back to the classified information room was clear, but my steps slowed as my mind became complicated.

 

‘Let me think calmly again.’

 

Don’t get excited, step by step from the beginning.

 

I decided to start with assumptions again.

 

‘Is the future shown by Kienum’s Watch 100% confirmed?’

 

I appraised the watch again while slowly climbing the stairs.

 

[Kienum’s Watch (S)

 

A watch that can turn back time covered in regret by 5 minutes.

 

When it detects danger to its owner, it vibrates slightly.

 

Can only be used once per day, and cannot be used in dimensions the user doesn’t belong to.

 

/Hidden Ability/ When turning back time, can randomly foresee the user’s future for 30 seconds.]

 

Kienum’s Watch didn’t say it shows a confirmed future.

 

So to interpret it positively, this might not become the actual future.

 

If it ‘shows possibilities in advance,’ then the future can be changed.

 

For me right now, hoping that scene was a dream, this is the most hopeful possibility.

 

But even if this doesn’t actually happen, there must be a reason why those two ended up attacking each other.

 

Finding out why their relationship reached such a catastrophic point would be most important.

 

If I could just figure that out, changing the future I saw wouldn’t be impossible.

 

‘But that’s something I can only know once the scenario progresses…’

 

Don’t tell me the scenario itself is designed to turn the entire raid team against each other.

 

At that moment, a black robe passed by me.

 

It was the elder I had seen before rewinding time.

 

His back as he leisurely climbed the stairs without paying me any mind was infuriating.

 

‘I want to smack him on the back of the head.’

 

If only that person hadn’t entered the classified information room, I wouldn’t be caught up in such an absurd dilemma…

 

I sighed as I watched the door to the classified information room click shut.

 

Right, no answer will come from worrying like this.

 

Let me gather all the information I can get from Glimmerstona and head back for now.

 

Understanding why Seo Jae-hyuk and Lee Hwa-yeon end up confronting each other is more important than scouting Floraban and Berylsha.

 

If I give them this kind of information in advance, the raid team should be able to respond more flexibly.

 

And then they’ll clear the scenario without fighting, laughing and getting along happily.

 

‘Trust the hunters who just eat and raid, Lee Hae-won.’

 

This is a moment when even the tiniest bit of trust is needed.

 

I tried to calm my restless heart as I quietly climbed the stairs.

 

I pulled the robe hood that concealed my presence deep over my head and quietly took a deep breath.

 

An ominous feeling weighed down on my chest.

 

But all I could do right now was scout.

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