24-Hour Friendly Market, Specializing in Dimensional Items - Chapter 180

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24-Hour Friendly Market Specializing in Dimensional Items Episode 180

 

Episode 180. What’s This Now? (3)

 

My curiosity is greater than my fear of the unknown.

 

Usually this kind of curiosity makes people very dangerous, but I’m a modern person addicted to dopamine who can’t stand not knowing something I’m curious about.

 

I decided without hesitation in an instant.

 

What exactly is this trade prohibition list that my Dimensional Door skill, which I leveled up for the first time in a whole year, had been hiding and only now revealed.

 

‘Let’s take a look.’

 

As soon as I nodded boldly, a new window appeared before my eyes.

 

[Dimension-Earth Ι Zone-South Korea affiliated Dimensional Market administrator ‘Lee Hae’, authority confirmed.]

 

[※ Warning: Caution is required when viewing the trade prohibition list.]

 

…No, I’m just trying to take a look, so why are you scaring me with formal font from the start?

 

Making someone who mustered courage lose their confidence.

 

But.

 

“…Whoa, amazing.”

 

The numerous item lists that appeared soon after caught my attention.

 

I opened my mouth wide and scanned through the list one by one.

 

[■■’s Will (??)

 

The Last Gift of One Who Received the Blessing of Oblivion (??)

 

Failed ■■’s ■■ Report (??)

 

Thread of Fate (??)

 

Fragment of Kind ■’s Memory (??)

 

Forbidden Rules (??)

 

Sealed ■■’s Truth (??)

 

Letter to ■■■ (??)

 

Failed Product No. 10223274 (??)

 

…(Show More)]

 

“Wow, there’s even a ‘Show More’.”

 

I muttered in a voice that had somehow become excited.

 

A list filled with squares, which I hate most in the world.

 

But each naming is quite extraordinary.

 

‘Isn’t this a bundle of plot hooks?’

 

There are tons of names that look like something amazing at first glance.

 

Words like ‘sealed’, ‘forbidden’, ‘oblivion’, ‘fate’ are words I don’t usually use and don’t often hear anywhere.

 

I don’t know why they became trade-prohibited, but these are names where I can roughly guess the circumstances.

 

They must have become prohibited because they definitely have amazing histories, naturally!

 

I stopped as if nailed in place while going down the stairs to the 2nd floor and kept clicking ‘Show More’.

 

For several minutes, I stared with my mouth wide open at the new item lists that kept pouring out no matter how much I clicked.

 

“…Oh, this one.”

 

I hesitated while keeping my gaze fixed.

 

There was one item that caught my eye even though it wasn’t covered by squares.

 

[Success Case Studies (??)]

 

I’m so nervous I can’t even blink.

 

An item named Success Case Studies, it does feel a bit fake though.

 

‘Isn’t it a clearing success case study?’

 

If it’s on the trade prohibition list, it wouldn’t be business or job success case studies!

 

Once I formed a hypothesis, my heart beat faster.

 

Right now when I have no idea what’s at the top of the Tower of Babel, and even Asmodeus just laughs it off saying he can’t talk about it.

 

If that’s a collection of stories from other dimensions that reached the top as I expect, it would be a huge help for the journey ahead.

 

I slowly clicked on ‘Success Case Studies’ with trembling hands.

 

[Detailed information for items on the trade prohibition list cannot be viewed.]

 

“Damn it, nothing ever goes my way!”

 

I grumbled while kicking the innocent wall.

 

Showing only the name but not letting me see the description is really annoying.

 

‘Babel really handles things so petty.’

 

I shouted irritably with a deeply furrowed brow.

 

“Do these actually exist?”

 

[⁕ Yes, these are items that actually exist :)]

 

“But if I can’t buy them or see them, why show them to me?”

 

I was just venting, thinking as usual that no useful answer would come back.

 

But.

 

[⁕ These items have been restricted from trade as they are judged to be risk factors that could threaten dimensional balance and the stability of the Babel System. Higher authority is required to view detailed information :)]

 

Sam-i is being unusually kind!

 

So if I interpret this broadly, they raised the hurdle for purchase itself to prevent dimensional imbalance and distrust in the Babel System?

 

The moment of feeling touched by receiving a clean answer after so long was brief.

 

“Higher authority means… I need to level up?”

 

Naturally it must mean the Dimensional Door skill level needs to be higher.

 

Come to think of it, even making the trade prohibition list viewable is a suspicious element.

 

Right, if it’s that dangerous, they could just hide it completely.

 

It’s strange to openly show it while talking about ‘authority’ like this.

 

‘It’s like saying you’ll eventually look for things like this too.’

 

Like a plot hook casually thrown out.

 

Though they’re talking about dimensional balance and system stability, it seems like they might want that to be shaken up.

 

It feels like they showed me a loophole that could create different fun instead of clearing things ordinarily and safely.

 

‘What content could possibly be in the Success Case Studies.’

 

With such an attractive name, just looking and passing by would be cruel.

 

Even just seeing the information might give me more useful hints.

 

I asked carefully with a trembling heart.

 

“Could I possibly buy it later?”

 

[⁕ That’s a part I cannot confirm either :)]

 

Right, why did I think you’d give a good answer?

 

I didn’t even expect it.

 

Leaving behind the countless groundless trade-prohibited items, I started going down the stairs.

 

If I can’t check the case studies content right now, I just need to grow steadily until I can.

 

‘I need to raise my skill quickly.’

 

I’m living diligently even now, but I have a reason to live even more diligently.

 

“Ugh, life’s difficulty level is too high.”

 

Originally you can’t live exactly as you want, but this is the kind of busyness I really didn’t want…

 

While grumbling outwardly, I faithfully moved my steps toward my destination.

 

The 67th Floor that I could reach as my Dimensional Door skill level increased.

 

Now, the title of this adventure is ‘In Search of Brother’s Traces.’

 

I stepped onto the warp gate shining brightly in the middle of Babel Square.

 

* * *

 

“Wow, this is crazy…”

 

As soon as I dignifiedly entered the 67th Floor, what I spat out was an undignified profanity.

 

Since I already had experience reading memories left in the Griffin Feather, I knew a little bit about the scenery of the 67th Floor, though not in detail.

 

A bright blue sky filled with floating islands large and small, and hundreds of suns.

 

But glimpsing memories and reality are very different.

 

I thought it might be somewhat similar to Aetheria since they’re both floating islands.

 

‘But this has such a different atmosphere.’

 

It was distinctly different.

 

In Aetheria, the distance was so far that you couldn’t see other cities, and the islands were enormously large.

 

But here, the islands are close enough that you can clearly see other islands from one island.

 

The fact that each island has a different sun floating above it is also spectacular.

 

Seeing it in person was so surreal that my mouth naturally gaped open.

 

…No wait, everything I’ve encountered recently has all been surreal anyway.

 

I’m amazed every time I enter a new dimension, but continuing to be amazed without any development is really…

 

Let’s just say I’m pure-hearted so I’m easily amazed every time.

 

“Well then, shall I try to find someone I can communicate with somewhere?”

 

I deliberately made noise as I took a step, then my eyes widened.

 

I thought I’d see new sights since I’d fallen into a new dimension.

 

Lava was flowing down from an island floating fairly close in the right sky.

 

An incredible visual where there seemed to be absolutely no land for people to step on amidst the flowing lava.

 

Even the island located below it was covered in snow.

 

The snow island that reminded me of Kusarichi seemed to have fairly strong winds blowing, as snowflakes were wildly swirling outside the island.

 

“I was lucky.”

 

I let out a sigh of relief and looked around the island I was currently on.

 

I’m someone so unlucky that I’ve never pulled the gacha I wanted in my life.

 

I didn’t expect that luck to burst out here of all places.

 

The place I had dropped onto was an ordinary island composed of a small lake, rocks, and lush grasslands.

 

A place where floating islands with completely different climates and terrains are gathered together…

 

‘What kind of place is this neighborhood, really?’

 

Since I haven’t met anyone I can communicate with yet, there’s nothing I can do except run around on foot.

 

I walked slowly through the grasslands.

 

At a glance, the size of the island didn’t seem that large.

 

“What did Brother say back then.”

 

Brother moved between each island on the 67th Floor and kept meeting people.

 

One of them must have been the Griffin.

 

I don’t know what he was asking about, but he definitely seemed to be going around to obtain some kind of information.

 

I also go around sightseeing here and there on floors during surveys, so let’s say that’s possible.

 

But.

 

‘Why?’

 

I have fairly valid reasons like surveys and meddling.

 

But why exactly did Brother come to the 67th Floor?

 

Brother had definitely said this to the small yellow bird he took with him every day.

 

‘If it’s not on the 67th Floor, it’ll be on the next floor too, Silphi.’

 

What was he searching for that made him want to try other floors too?

 

This makes me certain in my speculation that Brother’s title is also not ordinary.

 

…Maybe Brother also has something like a hidden title.

 

We siblings had absolutely nothing, but how did we end up becoming such amazing people?

 

“Whatever, let me just look for the Griffin.”

 

Since it met Brother, the Griffin should know something.

 

Since it had conversations with Brother, it should definitely be able to talk with me too.

 

It was just as I was thinking that and about to step into the grasslands.

 

Hissss-

 

‘Wait a minute.’

 

At the sound that was too foreign for me to have made, goosebumps instantly rose on the back of my neck.

 

The sound was too ominous, and it was even heard from nearby.

 

I froze in place and slowly turned my body around.

 

And the moment I looked behind me.

 

“Ahhhhh!”

 

I let out an unseemly scream and fell backward, landing hard on my bottom.

 

Even though my bottom was throbbing, I couldn’t get up and whine about the pain.

 

I could only open my eyes wide and hold my breath.

 

I couldn’t move a muscle and just stared at the unfamiliar being before my eyes.

 

Hisss-

 

A giant snake that seemed to be 10 meters long was looking down at me, flicking its tongue.

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