I Got a Monster Spaceship from the Tutorial Tower - Chapter 36

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Chapter 36
Episode 36
└ Wow; I seriously felt like I’d just watched a whole movie.
└ Why even go to a cinema, when you can watch real SF films right at home like that?
└ Come on;; the film industry’s already struggling these days.
After the Space Battleship and the nineteenth floor of Hades were cleared.
Even though the broadcast had ended, viewers lingered in the now-empty chat for a while, trading their impressions.
Maengho Clan leader Jin Yong was no exception.
Though he hadn’t participated in the chat itself, the aftertaste that the clear itself left behind was tremendous.
‘Two shots of the Main Cannon fired…… Hard to say there’s no limit. Is this a structure where it can grow?’
Jin Yong thought he’d have to ask Yeon-woo carefully the next time they met.
Buzz-buzz-buzz!
His phone was flooded with calls from all manner of contacts, but he didn’t answer a single one.
In any case, they probably hadn’t called because they actually had anything meaningful to say.
They’d likely just repeat pointless questions—do you know anything about the Space Battleship, how are you in contact with Hades, and so on.
‘This is…… not on that level.’
He couldn’t even begin to grasp how that Named Ship had been summoned on the nineteenth floor.
But what mattered was the result.
Not a retry attempt, but two Pilots who’d only just stepped onto the nineteenth floor for the first time had ultimately taken down a Named Ship.
As if they were veteran Pilots who’d honed their synchronization and built up glory and honor over dozens of floors.
Against a vessel they’d never seen before, they’d devised the best route they could take without so much as a hint of panic.
Even if it had been Giselle Han back then—could she have taken down a Named Ship that appeared so unexpectedly?
Jin Yong was absolutely certain she could not have.
In other words, while the wave of it hadn’t fully reached the world just yet, the coordinated clear that Yeon-woo and Ha Yoon had just pulled off was—
equivalent to etching a brilliant new page into the history of Tutorial Tower clears on Earth.
‘Above all, that green wave at the end was definitely a Defense Mechanism…… but how on earth did they figure that out?’
Jin Yong’s lips itched with questions.
When he met Ha Yoon, there would be so much to ask.
It was as if she’d known beforehand that the Named Ship had that Defense Mechanism.
Ha Yoon pouring out enormous damage and the Space Battleship unleashing its reserved Main Cannon for the finishing blow.
It would have been impossible without information known in advance.
“……Ah!”
Clang!
As clan leader and Pilot both, Jin Yong had been savoring the aftertaste of the clear when he suddenly remembered something he’d forgotten, and shot to his feet.
“Today’s the day the repairs are finished, isn’t it?”
Yeon-woo’s sudden bold claim.
It was a proposal to repair Jin Yong’s Hexagon, which had received a Complete Destruction judgment.
He was honestly still skeptical about it, but it hardly mattered.
Just having witnessed this nineteenth floor clear was compensation enough for the failed repair.
“I’ve no idea what method he’s planning to use, but…… I should at least go and pay my respects. And maybe get some of my questions answered while I’m at it.”
Yeon-woo had said he’d contact him once the repairs were done, but sometimes life needed a surprise.
If Yeon-woo hadn’t arrived yet because he was still finishing the clear, Jin Yong was planning to prepare a secret celebration.
Jin Yong left the clan leader’s office and spoke to his secretary.
“I’ll be stepping out for a bit.”
“Yes, clan leader.”
Driving through the congested Seoul streets, Jin Yong arrived at the Warehouse compound.
‘This place is always so gloomy every time I come here.’
Yeon-woo had requested a location with no people around, so Jin Yong had found him the most optimal spot.
The Warehouse, where sunlight barely entered and people rarely ventured, felt utterly desolate.
It was an atmosphere where it wouldn’t seem strange at all if a monster suddenly came bursting out.
Creak.
The moment he opened the Warehouse door, eager voices came from inside.
“Hurry, hurry!”
“Understood, sir! Chief of maintenance!”
Even the sound of hurried footsteps.
Jin Yong tilted his head in confusion.
‘Are there actually people here? If it’s repair through the system, I thought at best there’d be robots or something.’
Or perhaps they were maintenance personnel that Yeon-woo had contacted personally.
Just how advanced would someone’s technical skills have to be to claim they could repair a completely destroyed fighter?
If he possessed that level of skill, word of it would have spread through society inevitably.
And when Jin Yong finally stepped into the Warehouse in earnest.
Thud!
“?”
“Oh, I’m so sorry!”
“……?????”
Someone had come rushing past and, failing to notice Jin Yong, crashed straight into him.
The collision wasn’t particularly painful, given the creature’s small frame.
“…….”
“…….”
Jin Yong and the unidentified figure locked eyes across the empty space.
Jin Yong’s reaction was dramatic.
“AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!”
The other responded in kind.
“AAAAAGGHHHHH!”
“A—a goblin! It’s a goblin!”
“A person! A human!”
He’d been warned that monsters could burst out at any moment, that the atmosphere was always tense with danger.
But he’d never actually expected one to come flying out.
The goblin, clutching a heap of tools in both hands, was so startled at the sight of Jin Yong that it shrieked and dropped every single one of them onto the floor with a deafening clatter.
He couldn’t fathom why a goblin would be carrying tools in the first place.
Not that he wanted to know.
With tools like screwdrivers and wrenches, there was no reason you couldn’t kill someone if you set your mind to it.
Jin Yong’s instinct was to rush deeper inside and find Yeon-woo or the maintenance crew to help him.
What he found there was—
Thunk! Thunk!
“Lowering it down here.”
“Yes, Gudru… oh my?”
“Hwa Ryeon, we need to hurry. If the Clan Leader arrives first…….”
“This! This is a Stabilizer, isn’t it, Chief Maintenance Officer?”
“You stupid harpy! If you don’t even know what a Stabilizer is, how dare you claim to pilot a fighter jet!”
“Squawk……!”
A troll. Unmistakably.
Even if he’d rubbed his eyes raw and stood on his head, the massive, hulking creature now lowering scrap metal onto the floor was undeniably a troll.
Yeon-woo, struggling clumsily beneath a steel rebar so long that Jin Yong couldn’t imagine a human lifting it, had slung the bar across one shoulder.
And between them was a woman who emitted scarlet flames as she repaired a fighter jet.
There was also a harpy with wings that beat constantly yet feet planted firmly on the ground—a bonus.
“Ugh…….”
Jin Yong felt his mind receding into a distant haze, his legs giving out from under him as he simply collapsed where he stood.
Seeing this from the entrance, Yeon-woo’s face drained of color and he muttered quietly.
“We’re in for it now, aren’t we…….”
In any case, it was all the Tutorial Tower’s fault.
If a Greenskin’s spear hadn’t suddenly appeared out of nowhere, they could have finished repairs on time and sent everyone back.
“Um, Clan Leader?”
“What on earth… what is all this?”
Yeon-woo approached Jin Yong cautiously, trying to pull him up to his feet.
Jin Yong looked up at him with a dazed expression, but—
Flinch!
—recoiled sharply, as if unwilling to touch the hand Yeon-woo offered.
And understandably so.
‘I did the same thing when I first saw Urelka.’
The monsters people knew about were exactly what they saw in videos sometimes.
Creatures that destroyed cities and murdered people in horrific ways.
True, none of them were attacking right now, and they could speak human language.
But how many people could really accept that fact with a cool head?
A pilot out of the cockpit was just a civilian, after all.
Jin Yong even looked suspicious of Yeon-woo himself.
“Could it be… that you were also a monster?”
The fact that he managed to stammer out even these words showed considerable composure, all things considered.
“I… yes…….”
Yeon-woo remembered that Jin Yong had seen him carrying that enormous steel rebar.
As Yeon-woo steadily kept pace with the Physical Training Chamber on each floor he climbed, his stat growth had reached 18 across the board.
Thanks to that, while not quite at monster level, he certainly possessed strength that stood apart even among humans.
A stranger seeing him might have wondered if he were a monster wearing human skin.
Besides, a space battleship was an existence that made no sense within the existing system.
If it were an intervention from monsters or the Tutorial Tower itself, it would have been far more believable.
“Sigh……”
Yeon-woo exhaled deeply.
Ideally, he’d wanted to reveal the secret only to Ha Yoon, keeping it from Jin Yong until he’d grown stronger—but.
‘Perhaps it became impossible the moment I agreed to repair the carrier aircraft.’
At this point, there was no choice but to come clean.
They’d already seen everything; hiding it would only seem stranger.
“The truth is, my carrier aircraft’s pilot and maintenance crew are monsters. I’m human. And the process of awakening the space battleship was identical to any other pilot’s. It’s only that I fight alongside monsters, which makes things different.”
“What do you mean by—!”
Jin Yong raised his voice, as if to insist this was nonsense.
But then—
‘……Why exactly is it nonsense?’
Upon reflection, there wasn’t much to counter with.
All this time, he’d assumed the space battleship’s carrier aircraft were unmanned drones.
Or perhaps some chosen humans had undergone awakening under the space battleship’s command.
Speculation had run rampant.
‘Regardless of what mechanism brings them forth…… if they’re monsters, every contradiction suddenly resolves.’
In fact, thinking of it all as the assistance of monsters made everything clear in an instant.
Their skill was far too extraordinary for unmanned operation.
And secrecy would have been utterly impossible among humans from the same Earth.
Jin Yong naturally arrived at the ultimate, most crucial question.
“Could it be…… that Pilot Yeon-woo has become humanity’s enemy?”
Until now, he’d been clearing Raid Portals and steadily ascending the Tutorial Tower.
But if monsters were the source of that power, he could turn at any moment without surprise.
It was also the reason Yeon-woo had wanted to hide his identity.
It was far too reasonable a misunderstanding.
“That’s not the case. I don’t yet know everything, but our monsters aren’t hostile to humans. Rather, they’re the ones who want to help us.”
“Hmm.”
Despite Yeon-woo’s measured words, Jin Yong let out a sigh as if he had no idea what he was hearing.
There was no such thing as good monsters and bad monsters in the world.
As if in agreement with Jin Yong, Makross approached hesitantly and spoke up.
“Captain, this probably isn’t something we should say, but things like ‘our monsters don’t bite’ aren’t really easy for humans to just accept……”
“……?”
Jin Yong looked up at Makross with a blank stare.
‘Is that not just a human wearing a harpy disguise?’
Makross’s meta-awareness was truly remarkable.
Though Yeon-woo did glare at him as if ready to kill.
“I, I just mean it that way, Captain.”
Makross, intimidated by Yeon-woo’s intensity, retreated backward again hesitantly.
Then Hwa Ryeon approached Jin Yong with a radiant smile.
“In any case, we have no intention of attacking humans, yes? You’re the clan leader who so kindly took in our master, aren’t you?”
With a delicate gesture, she naturally tried to take his arm and help him to his feet.
“Ah……!”
Jin Yong looked at Hwa Ryeon’s face, stood up with vacant eyes, then suddenly jolted and wrenched his hand away.
“W, we’re not attacking, that’s for sure!”
“My?”
Hwa Ryeon tilted her head in confusion, clearly bewildered.
‘I nearly fell under her spell!’
Jin Yong glared at Hwa Ryeon intently, his face flushed.
Through strands of crimson hair, her delicate features.
Smooth skin and luminous eyes that no amount of grime could conceal.
A sharp nose and scarlet lips.
Her baggy mechanic’s coveralls hid it, but even at a glance, she had a distinctly voluptuous frame.
Truly the approach of a nine-tailed fox from legend—one who seduces humans and steals their livers!
……Though of course, Hwa Ryeon wasn’t using such enchantment in the slightest, nor did she intend to.
Jin Yong turned away with an oddly loud cough.
‘Why is he acting like that?’
‘I have no idea?’
Yeon-woo glanced at Makross, his eyes asking the question as Jin Yong’s reaction shifted so suddenly.
Makross answered with a shrug.
Meanwhile, Hwa Ryeon, who had been studying Jin Yong with brief confusion, soon realized—
“Heh heh.”
—how the situation was unfolding, and approached him with an amused smile playing at her lips.
Her tails swayed gently back and forth.
The foxfire hovering around her cast a warm, luminous glow across her face.
“Now do you believe us? We wouldn’t dream of laying a finger on the clan leader.”
‘Now he really does seem to be falling under her spell.’
Even Yeon-woo found himself thinking as much, watching Hwa Ryeon.
“No, no! You’re still trying to right now!”
Jin Yong raised his voice in absolute refusal and stepped back.
Hwa Ryeon advanced two steps.
Jin Yong retreated one step.
Hwa Ryeon stepped forward two more steps…
‘He’s not really trying to get away at all, is he?’
Yeon-woo watched the smiling Hwa Ryeon and the flustered Jin Yong—now beet-red in the face—with bewildered amusement.
Just moments ago, he’d been going on about monsters and humanity’s enemies and all manner of grave concerns.
Yet it seemed there would be no real problem with him growing close to Hwa Ryeon.
“Clan leader is transparent. I like it.”
Gudru ambled over to Yeon-woo’s side with a hearty laugh, offering this observation.
And Sureka and Surika, who had been helping with the work, turned to ask Yeon-woo,
“Captain, does this mean we don’t have any real problems?”
“Well…”
This reaction from Jin Yong was entirely unexpected, and Yeon-woo found it hard to say with certainty.

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