By JiuJiuBa inThe Tutorial Is Too Hard 0
Translator: JiuJiuBa
Proofreader: GodlyCash
âAnything else you want to ask?â
After listening to the information about the 50th floor, Kirikiri asks.
âAnything else?â
âYes.â
I think it over.
What should I ask Kirikiri?
Iâve been forced to inquiry lots recently so itâs become hard for me to come up with the right questions.
âRelax. Iâm not forcing you.â
Kirikiri seems a little disappointed, so I ask.
âIs it time to replace my equipment?â
The holy sword and soul sword do not need to be upgraded.
Their performance is good enough, but most importantly, the difficulty of the stages canât keep up with my strength.
So there is no need to find more powerful weapons.
However, I will change my armor pieces periodically.
Thereâs a fine line between actively promoting risk for growth and completely ignoring safety.
I ask Kirikiri if itâs time to replace my armor, but she shakes her head.
âNo.â
âHas my potion stock dried up? Let me see.â
I open my inventory and check the remaining consumable items.
The stock of potions are still sufficient.
There havenât been many opportunities to drink a potion lately, so naturally, there are more left.
âTissues... enough. Ketchup. Mayonnaise. Ah, thereâs no mayonnaise.â
I met some people and received their hospitality at a stage after the 40th floor.
Naturally, I ate the food they provided.
Some of the foods were tasty and some were not.
I would secretly add some seasoning or sauce if the food wasnât tasty. I always carry these things with me.
âNo, not that.......â
Kirikiri shakes her head while looking despondent, so I ask.
âThen, what is it?â
Kirikiri sighs before answering me.
âNothing, if you donât know it. I think, it isnât necessary for you to pay for it.â
Kirikiri says that, but Iâm unconvinced and curious.
We try to pinpoint the right answer exchanging questions as if we were playing Twenty Questions, but couldnât reach a conclusion.
Note: Twenty Questions is a game in South Korea in which one side asks a question and the other side guesses the answer by asking 20 questions in reverse. â JiuJiuBa
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[Welcome to floor 50âs waiting room.]
Seeing the welcome words after entering the waiting room deeply touched me.
Itâs just halfway.
50 out of 100 floors.
Itâs ridiculous that Iâve only come halfway in 2 years, approaching the 3rd year.
I finally managed to get here.
I donât know how long it will take until I get out.
It may take less than a year at my current pace, but Hell difficulty cannot be easily judged.
I donât know when and where a time-consuming obstacle may appear.
In order to deal with such a situation, I must be diligent to improve myself.
I pull Ahbooboo out of the inventory to study magic.
[Huh? It seems youâve cleared the previous floor. Are you in the waiting room again?]
âYes.â
Ahbooboo is now speaking like a full-fledged challenger.
Iâll ask him about how much he knows about the world one day.
Iâm about to study with Ahbooboo, butt a magic circle appears on the ground.
To be precise, it appears by my feet.
[Round 32, Day 0, 00:00]
[The Tournament will commence.]
[Please enter.]
[Time left until mandatory summoning: 29 minutes and 59 seconds]
[You can leave at any time after entering.]
âWhatâs this?â
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[Lee HoJae, 50th floor: Whatâs this?]
[Kim MinHyuk, 30th floor: ...Whatâs this? Apparently, itâs the tournament.]
[Lee HoJae, 50th floor: Why has it started now? I havenât been informed.]
[Kim MinHyuk, 30th floor: ...You were. The managers have notified us and I personally told you. Round 33! Today! The 3rd tournament! You answered absentmindedly no matter how many times I told you, which is odd. You didnât remember it at all!]
Did you say that?
I donât remember.
[Kim MinHyuk, 30th floor: As per your request, the Order of Vigilance doesnât need you to do anything. The Order of Virginia has created a system that can work well on its own. You can enter like everyone else. ]
[Lee HoJae, 50th floor: I see.]
Lying on the bed in the waiting room, I recalled something.
It seems Iâve gotten information about the tournament from Kim MinHyuk and Park JungAh in the past.
Did KiriKiri want to pass the information about the tournament to me?
That makes sense.
The information fee is expensive.
After pondering about it, I jump out of bed.
Kirikiri watches other challengers as well as me.
If the challengers connected me had the information already, she wouldnât have mentioned it deliberately.
That means there is the information that no one in the Order of Vigilance knows, including Kim MinHyuk and Park JungAh.
The information might have something to do with the tournament.
[Kim MinHyuk, 30th floor: What? I feel uneasy. I didnât expect that we would miss a piece of information. You said you donât exactly know what it is?]
[Lee HoJae, 50th floor: Yes.]
[Kim MinHyuk, 30th floor: Iâm sorry. Although I promised I wouldnât ask you to do anything, I have to break that pledge. Can you get in as soon as possible? Just in case something happens. Weâll try to find out what piece of information is missing as soon as possible.]
[Lee HoJae, 50th floor: OK.]
After the conversation with Kim MinHyuk, I start checking my equipment.
After making sure I didnât miss anything, I stand on the portal.
[Time left until mandatory summoning: 13 minutes and 22 seconds]
A while has passed since the portal opened.
[Hu, hu, hu. Iâm looking forward to it! I heard that people like Warrior are gathered there?]
Ahbooboo mutters sullenly.
Well, it wonât.
Itâs not so much a group of people like me, but rather a gathering of townsmen.
Instead of correcting Ahboobooâs misunderstanding, I stand on the portal and spoke the iconic word.
âTransfer.â
The space around me starts shaking.
Although I have been able to detect the change a while ago, I havenât applied the experience to magic.
I donât know how long it will take to learn the rudiments of space magic.
Itâs still far away.
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