The Novel's Extra (101-200)

Chapter 162 - The First City (4)

By the time Chae Nayun completed a mission, the sky was already dark.

She trudged back to the inn she stayed in the night before. Although she completed a 500TP mission, she only received 200TP, and after paying for her lodging, she was only left with 125TP.

"Hey, you need to pay another 75TP."

"Ask my companion for the other half."

"...Hm, fine."

"Alright, then I'm going back to my room."

After walking past the greedy innkeeper, she returned to her room.

Lying on the empty bed, Chae Nayun stared at the ceiling.

She was tired, but she couldn't fall asleep. In an empty room, she was all alone.

Suddenly, her heart rate slowed down, and her mood turned sour. Lonely thoughts began to distract her.

Tk, tk, tk.

Rain began to fall.

"...It's raining."

She opened the door, thinking that she was perhaps hearing things, but it really was raining.

She let out a small sigh.

Thinking about it now, the first two tutorials were much easier. Back then, she was so physically exhausted that her brain didn't have the time to function.

But now that she had idle time... in complete solitude, everything began to come alive once more. Fragments of her memory swept through her head.

Her mental illness had gotten worse ever since she entered the Tower. Was it because she wasn't eating her pills? Her breathing became rough and her head hurt.

"...Uk!"

An unbearable headache struck her. She clutched her head. Beeeeep— A ringing noise buzzed in her ears. She felt like the strange sound was making her surroundings quake.

"Ah... fuck...."

Blood dripped down from the lip she was biting. Things she couldn't understand flashed before her eyes. The conversation from that day rose up in her foggy consciousness. She still had many questions left unanswered.

"Argh...."

If it really was him that did it or if he was making up an absurd lie.

And if it really was him who murdered her brother...

Why, why, why?

Just why did he do it?

Her questions repeatedly rattled her mind. Resentment and sadness came together and formed a restrictive chain that bound her.

Click—

At that moment, a clear clicking sound rang out.

The door to her room slowly opened. Chae Nayun raised her upper body slightly. She could see a man with disheveled hair trudging in. His face was that man's face.

Kim Hajin, Kim Hajin, Kim Hajin.

The face she could never forget... was now in front of her.

She stealthily reached towards the spear standing next to her bed.

"You're already back?"

However, her hallucination scattered away with a single sentence from the man.

With a sigh, Chae Nayun closed her eyes before opening them back up.

She now saw who the man really was.