I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 94

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 094

Start of the Exchange Meeting

The restroom located in the shrine.

Kancheo stood in a dignified posture and saluted.

“Yodel Ranger Unit Commander Kancheo! Returning after completing reconnaissance mission!”

“Good work.”

“I found the location where Yodo Muramasa is! And there was a trivial incident like dust during the mission!”

“Oh! How was it seeing it in person? Is it exactly like the photo?”

“It’s a complete spitting image!”

“Spitting image. Good, good. What was the trivial incident like dust?”

“I got caught and captured. Her name is Matsuna Hiyori. She said she was some kind of ranker or something.”

Jinhyeok froze in place.

Of all people, it had to be Hiyori.

In a way, this was a more serious matter than discovering Muramasa.

“I was caught twice but completed the mission and escaped!”

“Well done.”

He patted Kancheo’s ears and head.

The shrine might be turned upside down, but there’s no need to worry much.

No one would be able to connect Kancheo and Jinhyeok.

“Commander. Can I go out and play?”

“It’s fine, but play outside the shrine. You can’t run into her again.”

“Understood!”

Just as Kancheo saluted again and was about to run out.

“Raccoon, stop.”

Ellia suddenly appeared and grabbed Kancheo’s head.

“What is it, hag?! Do you want to go to heaven right now?!”

“Stay still.”

Ellia clicked her tongue while examining Kancheo’s head from all angles.

Ellia took out a potion from the workshop and dropped a few drops on Kancheo’s head.

Then she picked up small particles with her hand.

“Our raccoon brought back something he shouldn’t have.”

“What is this?”

Jinhyeok and Kancheo also came closer and peered at the particles.

“It’s a curse.”

“A curse?”

“A very, very, very vicious curse. The now-extinct weakening serpent Gradanos. It’s a curse that comes through contact with it. Those afflicted slowly have their health eaten away until they eventually die. The characteristic is that when you come into contact with the cursed person, these particles that are normally invisible stick to you.”

“Am I going to die too?!”

“No. You just got traces of it on you.”

“That’s a relief. Not yet. I haven’t conquered the world yet.”

Jinhyeok and Ellia stared at Kancheo.

He was the smallest in stature yet had the biggest ambitions of anyone.

Anyway.

“The one who caught Kancheo was Matsuna Hiyori?”

“That’s right. She had bright yellow hair.”

Kancheo additionally described her appearance.

Based on how it matched exactly what was circulating on the internet, it was definitely Hiyori.

“But Ellia. Didn’t you say Gradanos was extinct? Hiyori is around my age, so she was born not long ago. How did she get bitten?”

“Do you know why Gradanos’s curse is called vicious?”

Ellia created a small light in the air to show them.

“Gradanos doesn’t curse the person it bites. Instead, it penetrates deep into the bitten person’s body. And then it transfers to that person’s descendants. It transfers to the descendants’ descendants, and to the descendants’ descendants’ descendants.”

“So everyone dies except the person who was originally bitten?”

“Not necessarily. The curse doesn’t always activate. That friend Matsuna Hiyori was just unlucky.”

“Poor thing. She seemed a bit mentally strange, but she wasn’t a bad person.”

“Isn’t there a way to break the curse?”

“Hehe.”

Ellia spun around once and pointed at herself with her finger.

“I’m an alchemist who’s lived for over 3,000 years, you know? There’s nothing I don’t know.”

“Oh. So there is a way.”

“I can make an elixir. Though it requires ingredients that make you want to give up just hearing about them.”

“It sounds scary even before hearing what they are.”

“Master doesn’t need to be scared, you know? Because.”

Ellia took out a large box from her inventory.

When she opened the lid, an Imugi’s eyeball appeared.

“We already have the ingredients.”

“The hag is occasionally useful, isn’t she?”

“Hehe, don’t underestimate experience, you tiny raccoon. So what will you do? Should I make it? Imugi eyeballs are extremely precious ingredients, you know?”

“Yes, please make one.”

Ellia smiled at his answer without hesitation.

“Roger.”

After saluting like Kancheo, Ellia entered the Starry Forge.

“Kancheo, go play.”

“Understood!”

After sending Kancheo off too, he left the restroom.

He was worried because it took longer than expected.

Fortunately, the exchange meeting was just about to start.

Jin Seo-hee, Jin Seo-jeong, and Jin Seo-jun were putting on protective gear.

The first day’s schedule of the exchange meeting was simple.

Each family would show off their polished martial arts in a sparring format.

Of course, despite the simple schedule, the Jin family’s faces were full of tension.

Jin Seo-jeong, who finished putting on protective gear first, came over to the side.

“Ah, I don’t want to do this.”

Seo-jeong spoke as if for him to hear and looked at Jinhyeok.

“What do you think? Sparring like in the old shogunate era?”

“It’s fascinating since it’s my first time encountering this.”

“Right? I find it fascinating too. That they still do this kind of thing in the 21st century.”

Seo-jeong clicked her tongue.

She disliked the exchange meeting itself, but what she hated most was the first day.

It sounded nice to say it was a place to introduce and show martial arts, but it was really just a place where the side lacking in force got one-sidedly beaten and ridiculed.

“Jinhyeok, prepare some pain relief patches. Soon I’ll be getting thoroughly beaten up, along with Seo-hee.”

When Jinhyeok looked puzzled, Seo-jeong pointed with her chin toward the Japanese families beyond.

Unlike Genex, they looked triumphant rather than tense.

“I hate to admit it, but objectively their power is superior. So the picture drawn on the first day of the exchange meeting is the same every year. The Japanese families show off, and Genex gets beaten up. You’ll see shortly, but those Japanese families will only get serious when facing Genex. Childish, right? What kind of exchange meeting is this? It’s not even funny, really.”

He had been vaguely feeling it from earlier.

Though not openly, there was a feeling that only Genex, the sole Korean family, was being somewhat ostracized.

He looked at Jin Seo-jeong, who kept grumbling.

“I’ll cheer for you anyway.”

Jin Seo-jeong chuckled and shook her head.

“Don’t. It makes it more miserable. Ah, if only Grandfather wasn’t so stubborn, we wouldn’t need to do this kind of thing.”

Seo-jeong shrugged and walked to her position.

Unlike Jin Seo-jeong, who was openly showing her reluctance, Jin Seo-hee had an extremely determined expression.

Not the resolve to get beaten up, but the resolve to win.

Jinhyeok clenched both fists.

‘Fighting, Seo-hee.’

Jin Seo-hee who was sincere about swords.

That’s why he sincerely cheered for her to achieve good results.

And shortly after.

Clan head Gyuto who stood in the center opened his mouth.

“Genex’s Jin Seo-jeong, Ronia’s Hosaka Rena. Please come forward.”

The exchange meeting began.

Inside the shrine.

Hiyori, lying sprawled on the wooden porch, gazed at the clear sky.

Sachika, her mother, approached Hiyori.

“Hiyori. If you keep lying around like that, you’ll get scolded by your father again.”

“It’s fine. Dad went to the exchange meeting.”

“You’re not going to the exchange meeting today either?”

“Yeah. What’s the point of going. It’s just boring and no fun. It’s a waste of time too.”

Hiyori sprang up from her spot and looked at Sachika.

“Mom. Have you ever seen a talking raccoon?”

“Did you have a dream or something?”

“Was it really a dream?”

Hiyori tilted her head and leaned against a pillar.

“But Mom. When are you going to announce it?”

“What?”

“You know. Official ranking 7th place Matsuna Hiyori can no longer climb the Tower. She’s scheduled to die soon.”

“Hiyori!”

“The government keeps pressuring about why I’m not climbing the Tower. Just tell them.”

Hiyori spoke nonchalantly and swept her hair back.

“Delaying the official announcement won’t stop someone who’s going to die from dying.”

“You really…!”

Tears welled up in Sachika’s eyes as she bit her lip.

Seeing this, Hiyori let out a deep sigh and took Sachika’s hand.

“Sorry Mom. For being spiteful again.”

“No Hiyori. Mom is the one who’s sorry.”

“What does Mom have to be sorry for.”

“Your body becoming like this is all…”

“How is that Mom’s fault. If we think that way, then great-great-great-great-grandmother would be the problem.”

Hiyori chuckled and turned her eyes back to the sky.

The Matsuna Clan has had a curse passed down from long ago.

Where this curse came from, how such a curse came to dwell in the family – no one knows.

They simply accept it because it exists, because there’s no way to do anything about it.

“Don’t worry. Hiyori. I’ll cure it somehow. Somehow. I can’t lose you.”

Sachika squeezed her eyes shut.

Since there were family records, they had been aware of the curse’s existence from long ago.

But she hadn’t feared or worried about it.

It had been nearly 200 years since the curse had appeared.

Everyone was convinced.

That the Matsuna Clan had been freed from the curse.

-Cough!

Sachika still can’t forget that day.

The day Hiyori came down from the Tower and coughed up blood.

Even though she hadn’t been injured during climbing, Hiyori had vomited blood all day.

Sachika had realized through old records that those symptoms matched the curse.

For a while, she hadn’t accepted reality.

This is the 21st century where medicine has advanced incomparably to the past.

Moreover, with the emergence of Awakening, it’s a world where even wounds that couldn’t be healed with conventional medicine can be cured.

She thought it could definitely be cured.

However, as if mocking such hope, the countless people who visited couldn’t treat Hiyori’s curse.

Even hidden classes specialized in curse removal shook their heads and said.

That it was too ancient a curse to identify, and curses whose identity is unknown cannot be lifted.

“I’m going to talk after the exchange meeting ends and climb the Tower again.”

“No. You’ve gotten worse than last month.”

“This time I’ll do it no matter what anyone says. I don’t want to just rot away quietly.”

Hiyori liked fighting. No, she loved it.

The tension before battle begins, the exhilaration during battle, and even the wind that cools the sweat after battle ends.

Because she loved all of this, even when her time came, she wanted to die fighting to her heart’s content.

That’s why.

She had left provocative comments to Runner through official media.

The opponent Matsuna Hiyori chose for a fight without regrets – Runner.

His floor level was overwhelmingly lower than hers, but watching his fight with Jo Gang-tae, she had been convinced.

That she could have a really enjoyable fight with Runner.

Hiyori picked up her phone and accessed Tower Site.

‘This guy won’t answer.’

She had put in requests everywhere asking them to find Runner, but there was no news at all.

At this point, she wondered if the Korean authorities were intentionally hiding him.

“Haa.”

Hiyori let out a deep sigh and closed her eyes.

Runner, who had compressed 10 floors and smashed through them all at once, making his presence widely known again.

Where on earth would she have to go to meet this person.

Kuuuuuuung!!!

A loud roar came from the direction of the exchange meeting hall.

Hiyori turned her gaze there and drew a question mark.

What’s that?

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