Part 2 Chapter 157: Uren Again?
TL: Hanguk
Black Tower Floor 44.
As Sejun and his companions reminisced about old times while gazing at Ice Island,
Kudadada.
Thud.
"I greet Sejun-nim and Theo-nim."
From far away, Ulrich, the King of the Black Orcs, came sprinting over and dropped to one knee in greeting.
Kugugung.
Thud!
""We greet Sejun-nim and Theo-nim!""
Following him, hundreds of thousands of Black Orcs who had charged after their king, shaking the earth as they came, also bowed in greeting. The Black Orcs regularly visited Ice Island to have their weapons repaired by the Blue-backed Penguin Tribe.
Snap.
Fortunately, Cuengi was clinging to the back of Sejun's head with his front paws covering Sejun's ears, so even with hundreds of thousands of voices roaring, his ears didn't hurt. Otherwise, blood might have come pouring out of them.
"Ulrich, good to see you. I was actually planning to drop by Tower Floor 43 later since I heard you were there."
"Puhuhut. Coming to find us on your own like this, Ulrich, you're quite something, meow!"
"Hahaha. To come for weapon repairs and receive praise from Theo-nim like this, what good fortune."
While Ulrich exchanged greetings with them,
"Ah. The Black Orcs are here, that's why it's so loud...."
When will Sejun-nim come?
Kona, who had been waiting for Sejun, felt slightly disappointed as she looked at the crowd of Black Orcs. She had been waiting because she'd heard through the Full-time Employee Communication Network that Sejun was on his way down.
Then,
"Huh?! It's Sejun-nim and Theo-nim!"
Kona didn't miss the brief moment when Sejun's group was greeting Ulrich amid the throng of Black Orcs.
"Sejun-nim has arrived!"
Splash.
After shouting loudly enough for her kin to hear, Kona dove into the ice lake and swam swiftly across it, and
"Everyone! Welcome!"
"Puhuhut. Kona, you been well, meow?!"
The moment she reached land, she greeted them.
A short while later.
"Here. Take this wedding invitation."
Sejun handed out wedding invitations to the Black Orcs and the Blue-backed Penguin Tribe.
Kuehehehe. Kueng!
[Hehehe. Cuengi'll herd the shrimp your way, so Big Brother and Sister-in-law gotta hold the net tight!]
"Puhuhut. Got it, meow!"
"Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Yes."
Theo, Iona, and Cuengi caught freshwater shrimp.
Kking! Kking!
[Butler! Play with me, quick! Make memories with great Blackie too! Hurry!]
"Hey! My pants are coming off! I'll play with you later!"
Kking! Kking!
[No! Right now, hurry!]
Blackie, evidently unhappy that the earlier conversation hadn't included him, grabbed Sejun's pants and clung on, determined to make memories with Sejun on Tower Floor 44. Unaware that memories were already being made.
And
"Hehe. This is fun. Big Brother Blackie, play with Taecho more!"
Taecho grabbed Blackie's tail and played with it.
***
Black Tower Floor 4.
"Vice Chairman Theo, the Energy Absorber's working well, right?"
"Puhuhut. That's right, meow! Chairman Park, just trust me, meow!"
Sejun asked Theo, who was clinging to his knee, and double-checked that his energy had indeed been reduced.
Since Earth's Hunters were also here, energy regulation was essential.
So, when Sejun arrived at the grape farm,
"Ah. There he is."
"Puhuhut. Ssibal the 18th! Chairman Park and the rest of us are here, meow!"
Just as he was about to call out to Ssibal the 18th, who was kneeling on the ground,
Clatter! Clatter?
[Now, now! Don't disturb him! The Farming King is currently praying to Leah, the God of Abundance.... Huh? Heuk!]
The skeleton who had started scolding Sejun and his group jumped back in shock.
It was Koto, who had once led the Crying Skeleton Gang in their cry against the Bone-Rank System; he now assisted Ssibal the 18th at the grape farm.
However,
"Who're you, meow? Do we know you, meow?!"
Since skeletons all looked mostly alike, Theo didn't recognize Koto.
"Well, of course you'd know the Great Colorless Dragon Hybrid Chairman Park, meow!"
"Hehe. Am I really that famous?"
"Meow? Chairman Park, your face just rotted, meow!"
"No... mmph!"
Talking me up like that and then immediately stomping me down? Is that even cat-conscionable?!
"Kyoot kyoot kyoot."
Kuehehehe.
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. Butler! Hold still! Great Blackie will make you humble!]
"Daddy, people are always supposed to be humble."
While Sejun's face was being trampled by his companions,
- O Leah, God of Abundance, who bestows abundance upon us, we thank Thee always for Thy generosity. Thy butler gives thanks today as well for granting a day to enjoy Thy abundance, and shall spread word of Thy abundance far and wide. Remen.
Clatter.
Ssibal the 18th, having finished his prayer, rose to his feet.
And then
Clatter?!
[Sejun-nim?!]
He spotted Sejun getting his face stomped on by his companions.
A short while later.
"Take this."
Clatter?
[What is this?]
"Puhuhut. It's a wedding invitation for our Chairman Park and Big Sis Aileen's wedding ceremony, meow!"
Clatter! Clatter!
[Oh! Congratulations! Honestly, I thought it'd take at least another thousand years! Sejun-nim, this is wonderful!]
Are you the type with zero filter?
Strangely, Sejun felt put off by the sincerity and brutal honesty packed into Ssibal the 18th's congratulations. [TL: "Are you T?" is Korean internet slang referring to the MBTI "Thinking" type, used to call out someone for being blunt/unfeeling.]
After Sejun distributed wedding invitations to the other skeletons as well,
[You have arrived at Black Tower Floor 1.]
He moved to Tower Floor 1 and delivered wedding invitations to the Cuengi Faction Black Bears and the Sejun Company employees.
And then,
"Alright, see you on the wedding day. Kids, let's head to the Green Tower now."
"Puhuhut. Got it, meow!"
They hurried off to the Green Tower.
So far they'd only finished distributing invitations in the Black Tower, with eight more towers still to go. The other towers had fewer residents with personal ties to him than the Black Tower, but it was still going to take quite a bit of time.
***
[You have arrived at Green Tower Floor 1.]
"It's Chairman Park and Vice Chairman Theo! Hello!"
"Cuengi-nim, the Security Director, and Blackie-nim, the Security Director, and Taecho-nim, the Audit Director, hello to you too!"
When Sejun and his companions arrived, the Ururuk Tribe children who had been playing near the waypoint greeted them.
Word that Sejun was distributing wedding invitations had spread to the other towers via the Full-time Employee Communication Network.
The Ururuk Tribe adults had let their children play at the waypoint so they could welcome Sejun the moment he arrived at Green Tower Floor 1, just in case.
"Yeah. Hey kids, nice to see you."
"Uhuhu. You'll be going to the Shopping Street, right? We'll guide you there."
"Sure. Thanks for the help."
"Puhuhut. To get to guide the Great Colorless Dragon Hybrid Chairman Park, you should know what an honor it is, meow! Here, this is for your trouble, meow!"
"Thank you!"
The children, each having received 10 Tower Coins from Theo as a tip, were thrilled,
"That building over there was just built recently...."
"If you go that way, there's the inn where the Wandering Merchants stay...."
Chattering away about everything they knew as they guided Sejun and his group to the adults.
"Sejun-nim, welcome!"
"Congratulations on your wedding!"
"Oh. Thanks. You already knew?"
"Puhuhut. So you already knew about Chairman Park's wedding news, that's very impressive, meow! Hurry and accept Chairman Park's wedding invitation, meow!"
"Thank you."
While the Ururuk Tribe came rushing out in droves to surround Sejun and offer their congratulations, Theo hung from Sejun's knee and handed out wedding invitations.
After the Ururuk Tribe, Tower Floor 99 boss Agni, the Fire Demon, Tower Floor 98 boss Cerberus, the Demon Hound, and Tower Floor 97 boss Egel, the Saintess of Destruction also offered congratulations and received their wedding invitations.
And the trolls, who had once been part of the Immortal Clan but were now Wandering Merchants at the Sejun Company's Green Tower branch, also received their invitations.
"Is that it for the Green Tower?"
"Puhuhut. That's right, meow! As for the Tower Farmers and Great Merchants of the nine towers, Chairman Park and I, Vice Chairman Theo, will summon them separately to deliver the invitations, so we're all done, meow!"
"Good. Then let's move on to the Silver Tower."
"Puhuhut. Got it, meow!"
Sejun and his companions moved to the Silver Tower, and then to Silver Tower Floor 82.
There was a child here who couldn't come to the wedding, but to whom he still wanted to deliver the news in person.
[Sejun-nim, welcome!]
"Hey. Pose, it's been a while. You've been well?"
[Yes!]
It was Pose, the Grape Tree World Tree herself. No, the Pose who had now grown into a Dimension Tree.
"Pose, you seem to have grown a lot, haven't you? How did you get so big? I'm jealous. Our Flamie needs to grow up quickly too...."
Naturally, Sejun didn't know.
[Ahaha... well... I don't really know myself.]
At Sejun's question, Pose trailed off.
She'd been planning to gloss it over by saying the soil was good,
But then what if Sejun-nim decided to plant Flamie here?
That could create a very uncomfortable situation for Flamie, so she decided to just hold her tongue.
"Pose, take this. It's a wedding invitation for my wedding ceremony. I know you can't come to my wedding, but I still wanted to deliver the news in person."
[Hehe. Sejun-nim, thank you. And congratulations. As you said, I can't attend the wedding, but from here I'll wish for your and Aileen-nim's happiness.]
"Yeah. Thank you."
[And please give me some wedding invitations. I'll hand them out to the residents who come to eat my fruit.]
"Puhuhut. Pose, that's the right attitude, meow! Here you go, meow!"
Theo, delighted by Pose's words, handed 500,000 wedding invitations to one of Pose's branches.
[A quest from Dimension Tree Pose has been issued.]
[Quest: Take this wedding invitation and attend the wedding ceremony of the Great Colorless Dragon Hybrid Park Sejun and the Great Black Dragon Aileen Pritani, to be held at Black Tower Floor 99. (Congratulatory Money is mandatory!)]
Reward: 100 bunches of Seedless Plump Green Grapes
"100 whole bunches?!"
"We've gotta go, no question!"
The residents who had come to obtain Pose's fruit would, in order to claim the reward from Pose's quest, set off for Black Tower Floor 99 in time for the wedding, wedding invitations in hand.
***
The next morning.
"Just the Golden Tower left now, huh?"
"Puhuhut. That's right, meow!"
Having stopped by all the other towers and finished delivering invitations, Sejun and his companions headed for the final remaining Golden Tower.
"Piyot and the others are on Floor 86 right now?"
"Puhuhut. That's right, meow! Apparently there's a first birthday party for Uren's nephew at lunchtime, meow! They say a good ten thousand people will be there, meow!"
"Heheh. Is that so?"
The reason he'd left the Golden Tower for last was that a big party was being held at the Daemon Family.
When distributing wedding invitations, he had to call in and meet even people he didn't normally keep in touch with, and a gathering with this many people was not one he could afford to miss.
So when Sejun and his companions arrived at the Daemon Family Main Estate on Tower Floor 86,
"Run!"
"It's a disaster!"
He saw terrified people fleeing from the Daemon Family.
"What's going on?"
"Dunno, meow! But I can feel an enormous energy coming from over there, meow!"
Just as Theo pointed a paw in one direction,
Kugugung.
The Daemon Family mansions began to be sucked into the ground.
"Uren again?"
It didn't even need confirming. The only one capable of causing misfortune like this was Uren. A truth too self-evident to question, one might say.
"Capable Vice Chairman Theo and Iona, you two go ahead and handle it."
"Puhuhut. Got it, meow! Capable Vice Chairman Theo will hurry over and take care of it, meow! Iona, let's go, meow!"
"Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Yes!"
As Theo and Iona were heading to the Daemon Family to resolve Uren's misfortune,
"Uhehehe. Sejun-nim, you came early. What brings you here?"
Uren spoke up from behind.
"Huh?!"
Uren was here?!
Then what was happening over there?
Sejun's expression turned bewildered.
And then
"Huh?! Ugh. Ptui! Ptui!"
Uren-nim tastes absolutely terrible now!
Poyo, who had been diligently licking Uren, spat with an expression of having eaten something inedible.
Uren tastes absolutely terrible now?
That couldn't be!
'Something is definitely going on.'
Sejun tensed greatly at this impossible phenomenon.
Some great, unknown change was approaching.
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