“Everyone, please take a seat around the meeting table,” Suji said as she looked at Saint, Peace, and Elaine in turn.
Both Saint and Peace were adults.
Even though Suji was leading the group without providing any reasons and solely relying on her authority as the team leader, they didn’t express any dissatisfaction. They even knew how to lighten the mood with jokes.
It wasn’t that they weren’t curious, but that they knew how to wait.
Until Suji spoke up herself.
She swallowed her saliva.
To explain, she would have to tell stories that even she herself found hard to believe.
Just thinking about the tasks at hand made her shoulders feel heavy.
Facing the Messiah alone was enough to drive one mad, and now that the time limit had been moved up significantly, it made sense to feel that way.
“I know my words may sound dictatorial, but I’ll say them anyway. Feel free to ask questions in the middle if you have any.”
“Yes, ma’am!”
“Take this seriously, Peace. Go ahead, team leader.”
Suji tried not to focus her gaze on Elaine, who was staring at her silently without even responding, and spoke.
“The plan has changed.”
“What?”
“No matter what method we use, the plan is to break through the 15th floor and reach the 100th floor within a week. Whether an S-grade wave hits or an SS-grade wave hits, we don’t have time to worry about external affairs. It’s also become difficult to bring hunters and climb the tower for now.”
As soon as Suji finished speaking, Peace scoffed.
“Did you change the dates because the ‘Great Beings’ seem to have a bit of a chance of winning?”
But Saint looked around seriously and said,
“…Is this related to Elaine getting hurt?”
Saint’s eyes, asking cautiously, were already mixed with conviction.
It was a bit different from the truth, but it was a question that got extremely close to the core.
After all, it was inevitable for them to notice.
As an SS-grade hunter who had coordinated with Suji the most out of anyone, Elaine suddenly showed an inability to exert herself in the 70th floors.
And after that, Suji suddenly revised the plan.
But they still hadn’t come close to the essence of the matter at all.
“…It’s similar. More precisely, it’s not that Elaine got hurt. It’s just that the time limit is approaching.”
“What are you talking about right now?”
“It seems Elaine is a youth who runs through time.”
Suji spoke jokingly, but even she herself couldn’t laugh.
No matter how she tried to package it in a realistic and believable way, the story was so absurd that she couldn’t attach any plausible words to it.
When Peace and Saint just stared at each other blankly, as if they didn’t understand Suji’s words, Elaine, who had been quietly standing by, stepped forward.
“It’s true. I’ve lived up to a week into the future and climbed the tower up to the 100th floor. Believe it or not, it doesn’t matter. Everyone will know that the goal of breaking through the tower within a week is actually impossible. Pushing ourselves that hard will only result in a loss of power.”
“…What are you talking about? Are you crazy?” Peace retorted, unable to stand listening to what Elaine was revealing, and Elaine said coldly,
“Peace, in the future I saw, your children missed you. You said you left the vault key not with the inventory but with the dedicated manager. And that there was a will there.”
“How did you… Ha.”
Peace opened his mouth as if to refute something, then clicked his tongue as if dumbfounded.
“Are you saying I died in that future or whatever?”
This time, Elaine turned her head towards Saint.
“If you have someone you like, take care of them in advance. Don’t regret it later.”
“…Elaine!”
Saint stood up from his seat, gripping his headband as if he had heard something he had never even thought of. Then he stared at Elaine intently.
Suji looked at Peace and Saint in turn.
Certainly.
Rather than Suji relaying in the middle that Elaine said this or that, it was much more convincing for Elaine to talk about the facts she saw in the future that only she knew.
Saint and Peace were lost in thought for a moment, then opened their mouths in turn.
“I always thought Elaine seemed to be hiding something whenever I looked at her. But I never imagined I would hear something like this.”
“…Okay. Let’s believe it. Let’s say we believe it. Let’s say the great Elaine went and saw the future. But why are you only telling us this now? If you had told us from the beginning, it would have helped with the conquest, wouldn’t it?”
Elaine lowered her gaze to the ground.
“I couldn’t bring myself to say it.”
“…What?”
“Huh?”
“I regretted it. Losing Peace, with Saint in a state of panic, the conclusion Daphne reached at the summit she barely reached by sacrificing her body was to give up in the end.”
There was deep regret permeating that voice.
Peace frowned and asked again,
“Speak so we can understand. What are you saying?”
“If I had said it, you would have just climbed the tower recklessly without thinking ahead or behind. Since it turned out this way anyway, I wanted to let you rest in this life. It didn’t work out well though.”
As she spoke, Elaine repeatedly interlocked and released her fingers.
Peace glared at Elaine, gnashing his teeth, then clenched his fists tightly as if he couldn’t contain his anger. If they weren’t on the aircraft, he would have punched the wall with that momentum.
“Why do you get to decide that? Why do you get to decide whether we try or not? This guy, he’s just plain crazy, isn’t he?”
Saint also had a look on his face that showed he didn’t like what Elaine said at all.
“We need information to make the best decisions. Monopolizing information is not desirable.”
Suji originally didn’t intend to intervene, but she didn’t want the atmosphere to get any more hostile.
“That’s enough, everyone. None of us know what Elaine has been through. Elaine must have had her reasons.”
“What reasons?”
“Thinking of joining 〈Messiah〉 perhaps?”
Suji gestured for Peace and Saint to sit down and continued,
“According to Elaine, there are items that rewind time in every tower around the world. She says I’ve already used 100 of them, Elaine used one after that, and there’s one left. It would be great if we could clear the tower within a week, but if that’s not possible, we can use that last remaining item.”
Peace made a dumbfounded face.
“That’s all just that guy’s words… No, then you’re saying we can turn back time?”
Suji nodded.
“She says we can, with the condition that we somehow make it to the 100th floor.”
“I don’t like it,” Saint objected all of a sudden.
“Why?”
“What’s the point of me living in another timeline and preventing the end of the world? That’s not me. And only one of our teammates will retain their memories… Then it would be truly hell for the person who turned back time too…”
Saint stopped his impassioned speech and slumped his shoulders dejectedly.
“Elaine, I’m sorry for getting angry. I can’t fully understand everything, but you must have had your reasons.”
Elaine nodded as if it was nothing, and Peace also pondered for a moment before speaking,
“If we break through within a week, it works out either way, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Let’s break through.”
Suji nodded her head vigorously.
That was her intention as well when she gathered the team members.
“We can deal with Elaine’s rights and wrongs later. For now, I’m thinking of climbing the tower.”
But even if Elaine knew the conquest thoroughly, it was still dangerous.
They needed to consider other options as well.
“Then isn’t the only way to go up through the cracks?”
Saint said.
It wasn’t a bad idea.
But there was a weak point to that suggestion.
“I think so too. There’s too little time left to use the frontal approach. The question is whether those cracks will appear as we wish.”
They hadn’t shown up so far despite waiting so desperately.
Of course, killing the monsters on the other side of the cracks was a separate issue.
Whew-
The moment Suji let out a deep sigh, Saint took out his flashing terminal to check it and held it out in front of him.
It was a call from Noah.
Suji hesitated for a moment before taking the terminal.
“Hello, Noah.”
– Hello!
Noah’s bright voice was tinged with deep regret.
– I didn’t know you would leave in such a hurry. I had prepared for us to have a meal together.
“An urgent matter came up that we’re racing against time for.”
– We need to talk, don’t we?
Suji looked out the window at the that had abruptly approached.
Talking is good.
Exchanging information is good too.
But now there was no time for that.
She had just answered the call out of courtesy to the person who had come to greet her.
“If it’s not urgent, let’s talk later. I’ll contact you again.”
It had been quite a while since Noah heard the news that Suji had conquered the laurel, but he was only showing his face now. So Suji didn’t think Noah would have any pressing matters.
But instead of hanging up, Noah suddenly brought up the main point.
– I watched 2 videos.
Suji furrowed her brow.
‘2?’
Ageh had said he only watched the ‘Messiah’ appearance scene set in Japan.
So Suji thought it was a special case for her to watch 2 videos in a row.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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