24-Hour Friendly Market, Specializing in Dimensional Items - Chapter 47

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Dimensional Item Specialty 24-Hour Friendly Market Episode 47

Episode 47. The Arrow That Left the Bowstring (6)

This is bad.

My plan to avoid the raid team is on the verge of complete collapse.

If I run into Han Romi with my bare face without a mask, that would truly be a major disaster.

I felt resentful once again toward that unknown beastkin who had suspiciously and forcefully removed my mask when I entered Kona.

The only things that could hide my identity were my fancy mask collection and the Anonymity skill, but the currently effective Anonymity skill only made my features slightly blurry.

‘Sam-i, find me an item that changes faces from the market right now.’

I urgently called Sam-i, feeling like my lifespan was being shortened with each step closer to the cage.

[⁕ Search results show a total of 2,813 items.]

‘Of course you need to filter and find the most useful one among them, you!’

Are you doing this on purpose to annoy me even in this situation?

I got one step closer to Han Romi.

[> Available for Purchase

‘Ha, damn, these prices are brutal!’

What kind of price range is 300 million, 4 billion, 10 billion?

I wondered if I could solve this with the cheapest option and checked the first item.

[Selkie’s Hide (A)

It was telling me to suddenly become a seal beastkin, so I passed.

Even though the money was precious, I had to choose a different option.

[Myriad Faces Mask (S)

Since it cost several billion or more, it was an item that truly delivered value for money.

‘Damn, I didn’t plan to spend money like this on the 51st floor.’

This wasn’t why I struggled like a merchant everywhere to earn money.

Though the money was precious, it was possible if I emptied all the gold I had left.

I purchased the ‘Myriad Faces Mask’ with tears in my eyes.

Lee Hae-won’s life, spending 4.9 billion after just stepping out for a moment.

Utterly unfortunate.

The face to change to was…

“Hmm, human, didn’t you have long hair originally?”

“…No, I didn’t?”

“Am I mistaken? Strange. Anyway, come here.”

The wolf beastkin only knew how to get angry and seemed to lack keen observation.

My height had increased by 15 centimeters and my voice had gotten lower too.

My face had gotten more angular and my hair that reached my back had become a short cut.

‘This actually works.’

I stood before Han Romi with Lee Hae-on’s face.

Who is Lee Hae-on, you ask?

He’s my brother.

My one and only real brother who went missing and I don’t know if he’s alive or dead, but I hold hope that he’s probably still alive.

Since he’s already registered as deceased in Babel, using my brother’s face should be… okay.

‘Brother would understand even if he came back alive.’

Probably.

“Who are you…?”

At Han Romi’s dazed question, I turned my head to look at her.

Han Romi seemed interested in me, a human she was seeing here for the first time, as she opened her eyes wide for a moment then drooped them sleepily again.

“I’m… a human under house arrest.”

“Hmm, so you live up in the trees…”

I was stunned by her leisurely tone that showed no tension at all.

‘Isn’t she a bit too free of prejudice?’

Right, as famous as the Verdant Resort Forest company building was Han Romi, who always went around like a smartphone on the verge of battery depletion.

Unlike Park Ji-woon, the weary civil servant crushed by work, Han Romi was the type who seemed to lack energy as a person.

Moreover, with her snow-white hair and exotic light ochre eyes, she appeared somewhat detached from the world.

But should she be like that even inside a cage?

Then the eagle beastkin standing beside tapped my shoulder and said.

“You, interrogate this human.”

This was bewildering in a different way.

“…Strictly speaking, aren’t I also under surveillance?”

I was going to obediently do whatever they asked, but.

The sight of them bringing a captured human, even summoning Echo because they found her suspicious, then telling me to interrogate her was so absurd I had to ask back.

“I don’t- don’t even want to talk to this human! I’m sick of it!”

Wow.

When an eagle spreads both wings, it’s really freaking huge.

Having learned new knowledge, I reflexively nodded.

Then I took a step back, turning my back on the wolf and eagle beastkin who were looking at me with eyes still full of irritation, and slowly approached the cage.

Han Romi was leaning against the cage bars, looking up at me.

Even if she was a support-specialized awakener, if Han Romi wanted to leave this place, she could do so right now.

Her gentle eyes with slightly drooping corners.

Below them, empty eyes devoid of any will were staring at me.

Ah, in other words, she just seemed listless.

I crouched down and met Han Romi’s eyes.

“Why did you come here?”

“Just… because there were medicinal herbs.”

Han Romi answered more readily than I expected.

“What kind of medicinal herbs?”

“Blending grass…?”

“What is blending grass?”

“Umm, don’t you know that…?”

I suddenly realized why the eagle beastkin had gotten so pissed off.

Even now, it was radiating angry energy from behind me, so I barely managed to hold back my irritation.

“I don’t know. Please explain.”

“Hmm, it’s bothersome… So, blending grass enhances the blending ratio between medicinal herbs. But the most effective blending grass ever discovered was here…”

“But how did you know blending grass was here? From the human territory, you can’t come here, right?”

I almost said raid team.

“That’s because of my skill…”

“What kind of skill?”

“I shouldn’t tell you about that…”

As a citizen of South Korea, I could easily guess it was probably Han Romi’s well-known skill, but I was currently a marionette of the beastkin radiating fierce energy behind me.

I whispered with the most earnest expression I could muster.

“I know this is rude of me too, but I really need to make a good impression on the people behind me right now.”

“Ah…….”

Han Romi nodded weakly.

No matter how indifferent someone might be to worldly affairs, she wasn’t the type to ignore such a sincere request.

“I have a skill that lets me hear the voices of leaves. They told me about it…….”

“That’s what she says?”

Thinking we had the right answer, I turned around and gave a thumbs up.

However, the wolf Beastkin muttered gruffly with a face full of distrust.

“A skill? What nonsense. You expect us to believe that?”

“She’s asking if you expect them to believe that?”

“I heard it too…….”

Han Romi blinked quietly, then extended her hand outside the cage.

Then she began slowly releasing a green aura with her bare hand.

The aura that bloomed small like a sprout above Han Romi’s palm soon began stretching toward the sky like vines.

‘This is the Tale of Leaves…….’

The most well-known skill among Han Romi’s abilities, ‘Tale of Leaves.’

Literally a skill that reads memories left in leaves – it can’t read old memories, but memories from two days ago are no problem.

A warm and comforting power of life that felt completely devoid of hostility.

Not just me, but even the Beastkin forgot everything for that moment and just stared blankly at the green aura.

Finally, the moment the green aura stretching upward gently touched a leaf.

Han Romi looked straight at the two Beastkin with eyes rippling with green light and opened her mouth.

“You there, wolf and eagle, last night you two were here alone kis-“

“Got it! I believe you!”

The eagle Beastkin jumped up and cut off Han Romi’s slow words in one stroke.

The wolf Beastkin even covered his mouth and turned his head away sharply.

……What was it?

“What was it?”

“Watch your mouth, human!”

“What was it! I’m really curious!”

I mean, setting aside that I’m human and suspicious!

What happened between you two last night!

I quickly looked at Han Romi, but having dropped such a huge hint, she seemed to have no intention of telling more about last night’s story.

“Shut up!”

“Ah, I’m curious, what was it!”

“Don’t forget that you’re currently under detention, human!”

“I didn’t forget that! So what exactly happened yesterday!”

“So, what do we do with this human?”

They seemed to have decided to ignore me completely.

I finally came to my senses too.

Ah, my brain that’s been soaked in romance since meeting Clara chased after another hit of dopamine.

I’m in an extremely serious situation right now, but I got distracted again.

The wolf Beastkin answered with a serious face to the eagle Beastkin’s words.

“For now, it doesn’t seem like she’s lying. Even so, I can’t just let you go-“

Just as the wolf Beastkin was informing Han Romi of this.

“Wanda! Tom!”

Someone’s shout came from far away near the ladder.

I couldn’t see what kind of Beastkin it was, but they had tremendous lung power.

“Big trouble! The warriors who went to the front lines have returned, and they’re all badly injured!”

“What?!”

“A fallen shell happened to hit the explosives! The warrior captain is in critical condition!”

The atmosphere between the eagle and wolf couple froze instantly.

I also stiffened, thinking of someone at the mention of ‘front lines.’

Onak, the rabbit warrior who had been kind to me.

Without realizing it, I grabbed the wolf Beastkin’s arm and asked.

“Is that warrior captain by any chance Onak?”

The wolf Beastkin, who was about to swat my hand away in displeasure, hesitated when he saw my face.

“……You know the warrior captain?”

That was confirmation.

‘Of all people, it had to be Onak!’

If coincidence goes this far, it’s destiny.

The news that Onak of all people was injured made my mind go blank for a moment.

In the past, I wouldn’t have grown attached to the Tower’s NPCs called ‘Performers,’ but Floor 51 is a space where the dimension remains intact even after clearing.

That means I could continue meeting Echo and Onak even after clearing.

‘Surely he won’t die.’

I don’t know how critical his condition is.

Whether a Beastkin’s body, with recovery ability only slightly better than humans, could endure serious injuries.

I found myself imagining Onak’s funeral and Echo left alone.

The ominous imagination didn’t stop there, and I continued imagining placing a bouquet on his tombstone before squeezing my eyes shut.

Normally I would have at least tried looking for something in the market.

But having just spent all my gold buying the Mask of All Things, I had no options left.

“I could heal him…….”

If not for Han Romi.

Hearing that slow voice felt like a ray of hope shining through.

‘Right, there’s Han Romi!’

In this place filled only with critically injured, front lines, and Beastkin hostile to humans, a healer had come like a miracle.

Though she was helplessly imprisoned.

Still, South Korea’s pride…… ‘Saint of Healing’ Han Romi, the guild leader of Verdant Guild.

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