The Buffs I Raised Are Too Strong - Chapter 6

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Episode 6.
A week had passed.
“Student.”
“…Yes.”
“I’m so grateful! Take good care of yourself from now on, okay?”
“…Of course.”
The landlady.
Or rather, just the landlady—she stroked my hand over and over, then turned and left without looking back.
“Wow…”
I laughed dumbly and turned around.
A four-story villa.
A place where no one lived anymore.
“Is this really happening?”
Muttering pointless words, I made my way to the familiar rooftop room.
* * *
Compared to the Cherry Tomato, which had borne fruit in a single day.
I realized the tower’s plant grew far more slowly.
It took a full nine days for the fruit to appear.
“Finally.”
With trembling hands, I caressed the stem.
The stem that had once stood firm at my waist.
Now it curved like the frame of a bird’s cage.
And within that cage, suspended in the center, a jewel.
“Wow…”
Sure enough, a tower plant.
Its very appearance proved it was no ordinary vegetation.
The fruit itself was extraordinary.
If I had to describe it.
A small glass sphere filled with pale blue liquid, sloshing gently.
The size of a melon.
“But… is this actually supposed to be eaten?”
The surface was so hard that even pressing it with my finger wouldn’t crack it.
I could break it with my teeth and consume it, but.
“…It’s not poisonous or anything, right?”
An unknown tower plant.
Homemade at that.
There were certainly many reasons to feel uneasy about putting it directly in my mouth.
‘…Let me check the information first.’
Now that the fruit had ripened.
Information should appear now.
I focused my mind on the fruit and reached out.
Ding.
[Azure Breeze]
―Grade: SR (Super Rare)
―Freshness: Excellent
―Blessing Category: Mana
“There it is!”
The unknown thing had a name now.
“Azure…?”
I didn’t know what it meant.
But since it was a tower plant, I figured it would have an unusual name.
“Wait, but… the Blessing Category is…”
What caught my eye even more than the strange name.
Mana.
“Could it be… eating this increases your MP?”
My jaw hung open, frozen.
A golden goose?
No, even calling it a diamond would be underselling it.
Up until now, almost every buff that had appeared in the world enhanced physical abilities.
Not a single one among them had ever involved a buff related to Mana.
Mana can only be cultivated by climbing the Tower.
A truth so embedded it had become common sense—and this shattered it.
“If I put this on the market…….”
Even high-ranking mages who begrudged every single point of Mana would pay a fortune to acquire it.
And it wouldn’t just be mages lighting up with interest.
Every Awakener uses MP—Mana.
The government itself might come knocking.
“……Can something like this really exist in an ordinary rooftop room in a villa neighborhood?”
Once my imagination spiraled that far, reality snapped into focus.
A treasure-class elixir born in a rooftop room.
The warnings she’d given me before came flooding back.
“Abduction……confinement…….”
A chill ran through me.
Goosebumps bloomed across my skin.
“M-maybe I should call her first.”
Family was the only thing I could truly trust.
I had neither the knowledge nor the cunning to handle a world like this alone.
Buzz, buzz.
I called her immediately.
“Hey, sis? Is this a good time…….”
Click.
“Huh?”
The line went dead.
Bewildered, I tapped at my phone.
Then.
“A message?”
One message from her came through.
The content was simple.
—Come to Baekryeon.
Terse and direct.
Don’t call. Come in person.
But…….
“……All the way to Seoul?”
That was far.
From the villa neighborhood in Anseong to Mangwon-dong, right in the heart of Seoul.
Even with perfect public transit timing, it’d take at least two hours…….
Ding.
“Hmm?”
I exhaled and opened the transit app.
Another notification popped up.
This time it wasn’t a message.
—Jeong So-hyeon has transferred: ₩3,000,000
—Take a taxi here.
“……Wow.”
I worship you.
* * *
Awkward doesn’t even cover it.
Was there a word in existence that could capture my current state more perfectly?
“No, but I’m your sister and family! What’s wrong with worrying about you!?”
“It’s not that worry is bad! It’s that you’re jumping to these wild conclusions!”
Bang, crack, crunch-crunch-crunch.
Sounds of something collapsing and breaking echoed through.
From the other side of the door, no less.
“……How did you expect me to walk in there.”
Baekryeon, where she’d asked me to come.
Guided by a helpful staff member, I’d made it to where the guild master and my sister supposedly were.
And this was what I found.
“Anyway! I’m absolutely against it. Don’t even dream of it!”
“Whether you’re against it or not isn’t your call to make! Frankly, family is just other people in the end, right?”
“W-what are you even saying!?”
It’s not like they’re having a marital spat.
Yet somehow this argument has been dragging on for a full hour.
By now, crouching in this awkward position was becoming unbearable.
‘This can’t go on anymore…….’
“Ugh…….”
I shifted my posture slightly.
The lower back pain vanished as if it had never existed.
Sitting there in newfound comfort, I noticed something.
‘Wait.’
Only then did I realize the arguing had stopped completely.
“……So-hyeok?”
“Ah, haha.”
This is awkward…….
* * *
Baek Yul-heon, Guild Master of Baekryeon.
He was currently caught in a dilemma.
All because of one bombshell statement from the guild’s figurehead.
“Something my brother gave me made me stronger—what kind of vague answer is that? Give me the details…….”
Jeong So-hyeon’s sudden stall during an otherwise smooth tower climb.
Twelve attempts. Twelve months of nothing.
When despair seemed absolute.
Jeong So-hyeon had suddenly reappeared, stronger than ever.
And the secret to her growth, according to her own lips, was what exactly?
―Cherry Tomatoes.
“Come on!”
It defied all reasonable logic.
Not that she’d pulled any tricks—Jeong So-hyeon had genuinely cleared the 50th floor.
But still.
“Her explanation is absolutely infuriating…….”
Whenever he pressed for clarification.
―I cannot share any more than this.
―It is for my brother’s sake.’
The same circular response.
A broken record, no matter the question.
“I have told you the complete truth? I’m not joking—if you’re going to explain, explain everything…….”
A heavy sigh.
Baek Yul-heon let it escape him.
Under ordinary circumstances, he’d have let the matter slide with a laugh.
So his guild’s flagship broke through a ceiling—what’s a secret or two compared to that?
But this situation was different.
The 40th floor would have been fine. The 60th would have been fine too.
But the 50th.
The very 50th floor—the one tied to Large Guild certification.
“What am I even supposed to tell them…….”
If Jeong So-hyeon kept her mouth shut like this, the Large Guild certification was as good as lost.
Even if she cleared the 51st and 52nd floors, approval wouldn’t come through.
And when that happened, Baekryeon would be finished.
“……That’s not acceptable.”
Baekryeon was poised to thrive for years to come.
It couldn’t kneel before a Large Guild review.
Not because of a lack of proof.
‘If she won’t talk, I have no choice.’
If she refused to speak.
Then he’d dig up this brother of hers himself.
“Secretary Yu.”
“Yes?”
Baek Yul-heon called out the name casually.
Within seconds, a neat woman with her hair tied back entered his office.
“Look into Jeong So-hyeon—no, the Awakener Jeong So-hyeon’s brother. Get me information.”
“……Her brother, sir?”
“Um, that’s… what was his name again…”
“Jeong So-hyeok, sir.”
“Right! Anyway, bring me something—anything. Even something trivial will do.”
“Understood, but… if Jeong So-hyeon were to find out about this…”
A sharp pang of guilt.
Baek Yul-heon’s shoulders tensed at Secretary Yu’s pointed remark.
“Is it… that dangerous?”
“From his usual remarks, he seems reluctant to discuss anything related to his younger sister. If he were to learn that information was being gathered without his permission…”
“If he were to learn…?”
“I suspect we’d be facing contract termination.”
Snap.
Baek Yul-heon struck his own broad forehead.
“Bring So-hyeon here.”
“Yes, sir.”
Contract termination was something he couldn’t afford.
No matter how urgent things had become.
The truth was, Baekryeon couldn’t function without Jeong So-hyeon.
Which left him with only one option.
“You called for me?”
“Bring your brother here.”
A three-way confrontation.
* * *
“Ah, Jeong So-hyeok! Forgive me for showing you such an unsightly display. Please, sit down.”
“Y-yes.”
The demeanor he’d shown just moments before had vanished like a lie.
The Guild Master now wore an artificial smile, entertaining me as though I were a guest of honor.
My sister, meanwhile, just glared at him with sharp, icy eyes, clearly displeased.
The Guild Master, seemingly unbothered by it all, hummed quietly to himself as he poured tea.
“Have a cup. There’s quite a bit we need to discuss.”
“Discuss? Let’s just get this over with quickly.”
“Tsk.”
I felt like I was standing in no man’s land between two hostile nations.
“Your sister seems rather upset, so why don’t we get straight to the point?”
“The point…?”
The Guild Master’s affable expression hardened.
“What exactly have you done to Awakener Jeong So-hyeon? I’d like you to come clean.”
“…!”
The moment those words left his mouth,
my head turned toward my sister of its own accord.
‘Have I been found out?’
I’d said it myself, straight from my own mouth.
That if it came to light, it wouldn’t end well.
But my sister showed no reaction whatsoever.
She just sighed quietly and spoke in a low voice.
“It’s not what you’re thinking. Say whatever you want—it doesn’t matter.”
“Say… whatever I want?”
So it seems I haven’t been discovered after all.
Which means
my sister must have told him herself.
‘But she told me not to tell anyone…!’
Well, she probably shared it because he’s someone trustworthy enough.
Still, it’s disconcerting.
While I sat silent, wrestling with my thoughts,
the Guild Master began his persuasion.
“You know your sister has already cleared the 50th floor, don’t you?”
“Y-yes, of course.”
“Then do you know what new choices are presented to a major Awakener of a mid-tier Guild when they clear the 50th floor?”
“New choices?”
I thought it over carefully.
“…A large Guild?”
“That’s right. Spot on.”
A Large Guild.
Is that why you called me in?
But…….
“……I’m not even an Awakener with Baekryeon, and this evaluation has nothing to do with me…… does it?”
No, there’s no way it does.
An Awakener who hasn’t set foot on even the first floor of the tower, unranked and forgotten—there’s no reason anyone would care.
“That’s…… not quite how it works.”
“……Pardon?”
The guild master withdrew a single sheet of paper.
“Here. Do you see what’s written?”
“……Pending?”
“Right. Normally it’s a word you’d never see—just rejection or approval. So why is it written here?”
“Why?”
The guild master extended his index finger.
Pointing directly at me.
“Because we determined that someone outside the guild’s Awakeners had intervened.”
“……Ugh.”
Someone’s intervention.
A secret I could never afford to have exposed.
“Is the promotion evaluation really that strict? I saw on the news that guilds with shady backgrounds and all sorts of strange rumors got approved anyway…….”
“Exactly!”
At my words of frustration.
My sister reacted fiercely.
“Other guilds do all their doping in the shadows, hire mercenaries, whatever—and nobody cares! Why the hell are they coming after us?!”
“Wow…….”
I’d never seen my sister this worked up before.
She was laying into them, her forehead flushed with blood vessels bulging from the force of her words.
Even the guild master seemed to agree, scratching at his own forehead roughly.
“Ugh!”
My sister drained the steaming tea that had been sitting in front of me in one gulp.
Then, seeming somewhat calmer, she crossed her legs and slumped back into her seat.
My sister chewed at her long thumbnail and opened her mouth.
“Well, I can’t say the reason is completely beyond me.”
“Huh?”
“A powerful newcomer—especially an unaffiliated Awakener—everyone keeps their eyes on those.”
As my sister spoke, the guild master added an explanation.
“Jeong So-hyeok. They’re mistaking you for an unconfirmed S-Rank Awakener.”
I Raised the Buff Too Strong
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