I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 32

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 032

Escape

It seems she’s finally calmed down.

Cheon Se-yeon’s flushed face had settled considerably.

Thud!

Jinhyeok stood up from his seat as if he had been waiting.

“Huh, where are you going again!”

“I haven’t been to the Tower today.”

“Wait a minute.”

Se-yeon also stood up and blocked his path.

“I’ll buy you dinner nearby. Please just eat this one meal and then go. Are you really going to be so heartless?”

Even if she called him clingy, there was nothing he could do about it.

Even if it was exchanged for Phoenix’s Breath, gratitude was still gratitude.

Since there were still stories he hadn’t heard, Se-yeon had no intention of backing down today either.

“Should we do that then? I’ll just go to the bathroom real quick.”

Se-yeon checked the location of the 2nd floor bathroom.

It was on the opposite side from the stairs going down.

The window was also too small to jump out of.

“Go ahead.”

Only then did Se-yeon nod and sit back down in her seat.

Still feeling uneasy, Se-yeon reached out her hand.

“Leave your phone behind.”

“Ugh.”

“I’m kidding. Hurry up and come back.”

Jinhyeok headed to the bathroom.

Then he peered at Se-yeon through the crack of the open door.

She really seemed determined not to back down today.

‘This is going to be tough.’

Tower climbing aside, thinking about the barrage of questions made him feel dizzy.

Se-yeon would definitely say she was in danger because of him and bombard him with questions until she fully understood the situation.

He could already picture Se-yeon getting fired up and not letting him go.

‘There’s nothing particular to tell her anyway.’

It wasn’t like he had found out anything from Lee Mi-jin.

Most importantly, Jinhyeok had no intention of getting deeply involved in this matter.

This was business between rankers and other countries or organizations.

It wasn’t a scale he should carelessly interfere with.

Scribble scribble scribble.

Jinhyeok took out a pen and left a simple memo on toilet paper.

He looked toward where Se-yeon was sitting beyond the door.

‘Please make sure to eat something delicious later, Se-yeon. I’m grateful for the Phoenix’s Breath.’

After offering his unreachable words of gratitude.

[Stealth]

He erased his presence.

Jinhyeok took a deep breath and came out of the bathroom.

He killed his footsteps and stealthily made his way to the stairs.

[Stealth Movement trait activated, minimizing presence while in stealth!]

He desperately held his breath as he passed by where Se-yeon was sitting.

His heart was pounding harder than when he fought Lee Mi-jin.

Step by step, he concentrated as he went down the stairs.

‘Nice.’

The door was open because they were cleaning.

Jinhyeok slipped out through there and ran to the corner of Nodeul Island where Seira would be waiting.

Emergency escape successful.

And 10 minutes later, inside the cafe.

Se-yeon turned her head toward the bathroom.

Something felt off.

If it were someone else, she might have thought they were constipated, but this was Jinhyeok who had a history of disappearing.

Se-yeon got up from her seat and walked to the bathroom.

The door was open for some reason.

Se-yeon quickly ran over and threw the door open.

“Damn it!”

Of course, Jinhyeok wasn’t there.

She held her forehead.

She had been fooled again.

‘What the hell. How did he even get out?’

It was a great escape show she couldn’t even fathom.

She felt like her nose had been cut off while her eyes were open.

‘Is his class magician or what? Really.’

Se-yeon, who had been sighing deeply, turned her eyes.

Toilet paper with something written on it.

Se-yeon’s eyes widened as she read the memo.

# Find someone who knew today’s meeting location, or someone who could have accessed your phone. They are interfering with your Tower clearing, Se-yeon.

Se-yeon frowned as she pondered the memo.

Jinhyeok had said nothing happened, but that wasn’t true.

‘I owe him again.’

She spun around and left the bathroom.

The Player Hunter Bureau she had stopped by before heading to Nodeul Island.

It seemed she needed to go there.

Jin Yun-ho got out of his car and blew out cigarette smoke.

Then he walked over and stood in front of the burnt-out abandoned factory.

“Where are you from?”

“I’m from the Player Hunter Bureau.”

Jin Yun-ho presented his identification.

Currently, yellow police tape was hanging in front of the abandoned factory.

Inside, firefighters and police who had just finished extinguishing the fire were mixed together.

“Why is the Hunter Bureau here…?”

The police officer who received the ID drew a question mark.

A team leader from the Hunter Bureau when there wasn’t even a gate that had appeared?

“There’s something we’re investigating. May I look around?”

“Please wait a moment.”

If it were another agency, they would have immediately refused, but since the Player Hunter Bureau had a large number of awakened individuals, it was currently the most powerful organization in South Korea.

Even if it went against protocol, it was customary to cooperate as much as possible under the principle that good relations were good relations.

“Yes. Yes. Understood. Team Leader Jin Yun-ho? Please come this way.”

“Thank you.”

Jin Yun-ho bowed and passed through the police line.

The first place Jin Yun-ho headed to was the burned vehicle.

“There were no passengers.”

Jin Yun-ho put on gloves and brushed off the ash from the license plate.

This was the car that ranker Cheon Se-yeon had asked him to find.

Se-yeon hadn’t told him the reason for finding the car or who was in it.

He had simply sent a message through KakaoTalk a little while ago saying they no longer needed to look for the car, and that he was sorry and grateful.

‘Even if I asked, he probably wouldn’t tell me.’

If he was going to say anything, he would have told them when they were looking for the car.

Jin Yun-ho got up and entered the factory.

Since the fire had just been extinguished, there was an acrid smell in the air.

“Detective Kim, who’s the person next to you?”

“He’s from the Player Hunter Bureau.”

“Oh?”

Oh Min-gyu, the lead investigator, showed a pleased expression.

“I was just about to contact you, so this works out well.”

“You were going to contact us?”

“Yes. It seems like the Hunter’s Guild should take a look at this too.”

“Is this a case involving an awakened person?”

“It’s not certain, but there’s a high probability. I’ll guide you around, so Detective Kim, control the entrance.”

“Understood.”

Oh Min-gyu pointed to the explosion marks scattered throughout the scene.

“It was a fire caused by an explosion. But the strange thing is, there are no fragments left related to explosives. No matter how severe a fire is, there should be at least one or two parts used in making explosives left behind. And.”

Jin Yun-ho’s eyebrows twitched as he followed.

Now he understood why so many police had come to the fire scene.

In the middle of the abandoned factory, there were about a dozen corpses that the fire department had gathered.

“There isn’t a single intact body due to the explosion, but we’ve roughly finished the scene investigation. Fifteen bodies were completely shredded by something sharp. The remaining one is relatively intact, but…”

Oh Min-gyu trailed off and lifted the plastic covering.

“This is why I urgently contacted the Hunter’s Guild.”

Jin Yun-ho’s eyes widened.

Though it was burned, he could immediately recognize it as a Hunter’s Guild uniform.

‘Lee Mi-jin?’

Jin Yun-ho tilted his head and sent a confirmation request to the Hunter’s Guild.

And the response that came back.

# This person is not affiliated with us.

“This person isn’t one of ours.”

“So they’re not from the Hunter’s Guild but wore the uniform. Hah… this is giving me a headache.”

Oh Min-gyu sighed deeply, saying this wouldn’t be easy.

Jin Yun-ho felt the same way.

Looking at the traces, it was certain that an awakened person was involved.

But judging by what he could see, there weren’t just one or two abilities involved, which was troubling.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Jin Yun-ho, who had been tapping his fingers, called the Hunter’s Guild.

“Oh, it’s the team leader. I’ll send you an address, so send some hunters. Pass it on to the support team too.”

He was certain.

This wasn’t a simple murder case.

It needed to be investigated thoroughly.

The small balcony of the Old Town Officetel.

“How is it, Kancheo? Doesn’t it taste better eating here?”

“The breeze is cool and it’s really nice! This is also really delicious!”

Jinhyeok patted Kancheo who was sitting beside him.

Jinhyeok and Kancheo were getting some fresh air while waiting for the delivered pork backbone kimchi stew.

Even at this moment, Kancheo was devouring gelato ice cream they had bought on the way.

“Kancheo, aren’t you going to burst your stomach?”

Jinhyeok swallowed dryly.

Kancheo had already finished off four chickens with Dark.

No matter how he looked at it, there was no physical space left in his stomach – did he have some kind of subspace stomach installed?

“I ate much more when I was in Yodel Village.”

He gave a thumbs up.

Eating well was always a good thing.

“But what is pork backbone kimchi stew?”

“It’s something really delicious. You’ll like it.”

“Everything the Commander gives me is always delicious.”

“Just trust me. This is the choice of someone who survived on delivery food.”

During his basement days, he could only order it once a week due to lack of money, but anyway.

“Hah.”

Jinhyeok rested his arms on the railing and let out a quiet breath.

It had been less than a month since he awakened.

But even so, his life had improved quite a bit.

Not only had he escaped the basement, but he could now eat delivery food every day.

“Commander, it’s 9 o’clock. We need to go to the Tower.”

“The delivery will be here soon, so let’s eat first and then go.”

He rubbed his growling stomach.

He hadn’t eaten anything proper all day, so he was on the verge of starving to death.

“Kancheo.”

“What is it?”

“I might be a psychopath.”

“Psycho?”

“Roughly like a madman?”

He had killed many monsters, but this was the first time he had killed a person.

Yet he was surprisingly unaffected by it.

He was numb to a degree that was almost shocking.

“It’s okay. From what I’ve seen, Dark is more crazy. I clearly heard him saying earlier that killing only fifteen people wasn’t fun at all.”

“That’s a pretty extreme comparison group.”

Kancheo, who had eaten a few more spoonfuls of gelato, stood up.

“Yodel Forest was generally peaceful, but there were occasionally intruders. Each time, I would take the Yodel Ranger unit members out to defeat them. I would scatter bombs everywhere and completely erase them! Puhehehehe!”

Gulp!

He had momentarily forgotten because of his cute appearance.

When it came to madness, you couldn’t leave out Kancheo, the chain explosion maniac.

“When you go into battle, you inevitably face countless deaths. Because of that, many Yodel Ranger unit members broke down. They became too scared to go into combat again and found it difficult even to live their daily lives.”

“Were you okay, Kancheo?”

“I was disappointed I couldn’t kill more! How dare they invade Yodel Forest! I should have turned them all completely into powder!”

“Uh, yeah.”

Kancheo huffed angrily as if remembering that day.

Kancheo placed his tiny hand on Jinhyeok’s shoulder.

“The story went off on a tangent. Anyway, at least the Commander doesn’t need to worry about that. In the opinion of the Yodel Ranger deputy commander, the Commander won’t go crazy like Dark. Your mind is too healthy. A healthy mind in a healthy body!”

‘Isn’t that backwards?’

“The Commander’s mind is very strong, so you’ll become stronger even faster in the future! Without any wavering! And they tried to kill the Commander first, so it would have been frustrating if you had spared them.”

“Frustrating?”

“I saw it on the Commander’s phone. It said it’s a word used when you feel frustrated and choked up.”

“Ah, sweet potato.”

“It said sweet potatoes are absolutely not allowed. So the Commander must never eat sweet potatoes.”

Jinhyeok burst into laughter and patted Kancheo.

Sweet potatoes – even without Kancheo saying it, they were what Jinhyeok hated most.

“That won’t happen.”

“As expected of the Commander!”

Ding dong!

The doorbell rang at perfect timing.

Jinhyeok stretched and sat up.

Many things had happened in a single day, but nothing really changed.

After enjoying the delicious braised pork backbone kimchi stew, it was time to start climbing the Tower again.

He would soon reach level 30.

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