Chapter 163 – I will Drag Him

Huffing and puffing, Se-jun went to complain to Kellion about Ajax.

At that moment,

[The administrator of the tower asks what you are angry about.]

Aileen spoke to him.

“Huh?! Aileen?! Is your training finished?! How is your Dragon Heart? Is it a bit better?!”

Se-jun asked in rapid succession, filled with the worry he had felt all this time.

[The administrator of the tower says that thanks to you, her Dragon Heart is finally completely cured.]

“Really?! That’s great!”

Se-jun spoke in genuine delight at Aileen’s reply.

[The administrator of the tower says that from now on, you just have to trust her.]

“Alright.”

‘Hehehe. If I just hold onto Aileen’s tail from now on, is my life going to blossom?’

At the words of Aileen, the administrator who held the real power of the tower, Se-jun’s heart swelled, and he was pleased that his future would become a bit brighter. However, whether that would actually be the case remained to be seen.

[The administrator of the tower tells you to say the reason why you are angry now.]

“Ah. Actually…”

Se-jun began to eagerly snitch to Aileen about everything from Kellion getting caught stealing seeds to what had happened just moments ago.

***

“Khehehehe. Se-jun, just trust me now! I will solve everything!”

Aileen, who had finished her training, boasted loudly. It was immense confidence. However, she had good reason to be.

Aileen was treating her Dragon Heart using the Dragon Heart fragment. At that time, something unexpected happened.

-Child, how painful was it?

The residual thoughts of the black dragon, who was the original owner of the Dragon Heart fragment, awoke and began to assist in Aileen’s Dragon Heart treatment.

Surprisingly, the owner of the Dragon Heart fragment was Kai-la, the first Black Dragon and the strongest dragon of that era.

-Child, do not forget the pride of the great Black Dragon.

“Yes! Grandmother Kai-la!”

Thanks to that, Aileen was able to elevate her talent by five levels with the help of the residual thoughts left by Kai-la, and obtained the Talent: Resilient Dragon Heart.

As a result, not only was her Dragon Heart completely cured, but she was also able to possess magic power far stronger than those of her age.

“What?! You made Brother Ajax, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower, your slave, but he won’t listen?! Just summon him! I’ll beat him to a pulp!”

As Aileen confidently urged Se-jun to summon Ajax,

[The White Dragon Ajax Mamuve is attempting to intrude into the Black Tower.]

[Would you like to allow the intrusion?]

A message appeared on Aileen’s crystal ball. In the past, the Black Tower’s security system had not functioned properly because Aileen’s magic power was insufficient, but now, the situation was completely different.

As Aileen’s magic power became sufficient, the main functions of the security system began to operate, and it was detected that Ajax was attempting to intrude through the secret passage.

“Ah! No need to summon him! Don’t summon him. I will drag him along.”

Aileen left the administrator area and flew swiftly toward Ajax.

‘How dare he disobey our Se-jun?!’

To Aileen, the fact that he disobeyed Se-jun was more infuriating than him sneaking into the Black Tower. In that way, Aileen flew toward the place where Ajax was.

At that moment,

“Park Se-jun, just you wait. I will make you pay the price for insulting me!”

“What?!”

Agitated upon hearing Ajax’s words, Aileen began to beat Ajax up mercilessly.

*Bam, bam, bam!*

“Keoh! Keoh!”

‘What is going on?’

Ajax could not understand the current situation. Aileen was supposed to stay only in the administrator area due to her Dragon Heart hardening disease.

But now?! Not only was she completely fine after leaving the administrator area, but she had also become strong enough to beat him, who was 300 years older, like this.

“Ai… Aileen! Let’s talk it out! It’s me, Ajax! Brother Ajax! Don’t you know me?!”

Ajax hurriedly called out to Aileen to stop getting beaten.

However,

“Of course I know! Our Se-jun’s slave!”

“What?!”

“So, why aren’t you listening to our Se-jun?!”

It only made Aileen angrier.

*Bam, bam, bam!*

Aileen beat Ajax until her anger was appeased.

‘Khehehe. This relieves stress.’

Having beaten Ajax to a pulp like that, Aileen grabbed Ajax by the collar and dragged him to Se-jun.

***

The 40th floor of the tower.

“It is embarrassing, but recently, the Sturdy Blade Green Onions were stolen by other hunters. It seems they will continue to target the Sturdy Blade Green Onions… I think it will be difficult to protect them with just our strength. We need help.”

Han Tae-jun met the cat interns who had brought the Sturdy Blade Green Onions and requested help.

“There are bastards who dare to steal our Chairman Park’s things?!”

“I will report this to Vice Chairman Theo immediately!”

“I will call the wolves right away!”

The cat interns moved busily. Touching Chairman Park and Vice Chairman Theo’s things! It was unforgivable. It was immense loyalty to the company.

In the beginning, rather than loyalty, the cats had become interns by force. However, these days, they took pride in their workplace.

Although they could not receive anything other than a single grilled fish per day as wages due to the contract, they received a 1% incentive from the sales revenue. That incentive was larger than expected. If they just worked hard, they would earn 50 to 100 Tower Coins a month.

Thanks to that, they, who had always been the troublemakers of their families, before they knew it, became the pride of their families and became objects of envy in the cat village, Granier.

Therefore, their goal now was not to quickly finish the contract period and become free, but to escape being interns and become regular employees.

The cat interns dispersed in various directions to make reports.

“It is an emergency! There are beings stealing Vice Chairman Theo’s items. Please support us with troops!”

“How dare they! How dare they touch the items of Theo Park, the subordinate of the great Black Dragon?!”

The cat intern, Bill, visited Urchi, the king of the Black Orcs on the 41st floor of the tower, and requested support troops.

***

“Will she be alright?”

Worrying about Aileen, whose message had cut off after she suddenly said she would drag Ajax back, Se-jun set a new batch of rice cakes to steam.

And,

“Cuengi, wake up. Let’s take a bath.”

Se-jun woke up the sleeping Cuengi. He intended to wash Cuengi while the rice cakes were steaming.

However,

Cueng…

[Cuengi is sleepy…]

Cuengi whined from sleep. Shaking him to wake him up here was something only an amateur would do. If done wrong, the baby beast could become fierce. Of course, Se-jun had a killer move to make Cuengi spring right up.

“I will give you honey once Cuengi’s bath is finished.”

Cueng!

[Cuengi will take a bath!]

As expected, Cuengi sprang right up at Se-jun’s words. Se-jun took Cuengi to the fountain and gave him a bath.

“Meow, meow, meow.”

Theo hummed a song at the center of the fountain where Kaiser originally resided, keeping Se-jun in his sight while eagerly grooming his own body. Lest he be dirty and Se-jun give him a bath, he licked himself very diligently.

In that way, the bath finished,

“Chairman Park! Cuengi! Behold the cool landing of me, Theo Park, meow!”

Theo shouted to the two of them, threw himself from the 20-meter-high fountain, performed three mid-air flips, and landed coolly in a superhero landing.

“Puhuhu. How is it, meow? Am I cool, meow?!”

Theo asked arrogantly with both hands on his hips.

*Clap, clap, clap.*

“Oh! That was pretty cool?!”

Se-jun applauded and spoke. This was worthy of acknowledgement. A completely clean landing. Forget any sound, almost no dust was kicked up.

Cueng!

[Cuengi can do it too!]

When his big brother received Dad’s praise with a cool landing, Cuengi also wanted to do a cool landing and receive praise.

“Huh? Cuengi…”

Cuengi, you have to think about your weight! Before Se-jun could stop him, Cuengi jumped from the fountain.

*Spin, spin.*

Cuengi successfully completed ten flips in the air and, pouring all of his rotational force and gravity into the landing, landed in a superhero landing.

And,

*Boom!*

The situation was completely different from when Theo landed.

*Crack.*

The ground split open, and Cuengi broke through and went into the earth.

“Cuengi!”

Se-jun hurriedly came down from the fountain and called Cuengi at the hole Cuengi had made, but the hole Cuengi made was so deep that the inside could not be seen at all.

*Rumble.*

Judging from the sound coming from inside the hole, he seemed to still be going down.

“What should I do?”

As Se-jun worried about how to rescue Cuengi from the hole,

Cu-e-eng!

Cuengi popped out of the hole. He was a Cuengi who had jumped straight back up from the bottom.

“Cuengi! You are safe! Huh?! What… is this?”

The sight created by Cuengi’s landing began to enter the eyes of Se-jun, who breathed a sigh of relief. Cracks were running through every building, including Se-jun’s brick house, the fountain tower, and the waterway.

On top of that, a thick layer of dirt and dust had settled over the rice cakes Se-jun had spent all day making.

“Sigh…”

Looking at the dust-covered rice cakes, a sigh escaped him naturally.

Cueng…?

[Did Cuengi do something wrong…?]

Cuengi, who had followed Se-jun to show off to him, asked in a tearful voice as if he knew he had done wrong.

“It’s alright. We can wash them first and just cut off the parts with dirt. But please be careful in the future.”

Se-jun spoke as he stroked Cuengi’s head.

Cueng! Cueng!

[Understood! Next time, Cuengi will be careful when jumping from high places!]

While they were dusting off the dirt from Cuengi and the rice cakes like that,

“Se-jun! I’m here!”

Aileen arrived at the 99th floor of the tower, dragging Ajax. Along with a shout loaded with intense magic power. Aileen was someone who was not yet accustomed to controlling her strength.

*Boom.*

A massive wave of magic power struck the 99th floor of the tower.

And,

“Huh?!”

Naturally, Se-jun, the official sunfish of the 99th floor of the tower, faced a crisis of sudden death. Aileen had become so strong that Se-jun could not handle it.

[A body exposed to powerful magic power has suffered a fatal injury.]

[ is activated.]

[Consuming magic power to protect the body from breaking.]

*Thud!*

Se-jun suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, and his legs gave out.

“Chairman Park!”

Cueng!

[Dad!]

Theo and Cuengi hurriedly supported Se-jun.

“Se-jun! Where are you?!”

In the meantime, Aileen shouted loudly once again to find Se-jun. This time, loading even stronger magic power than before.

[Dragon Clan Skill – Dragon Skin is activated.]

[The scale of the great Black Dragon Kaiser is destroyed.]

The dragon tattoo disappeared after protecting Se-jun from Aileen’s magic power.

“Ugh…”

Ultimately, unable to withstand Aileen’s strong magic power, Se-jun fainted.

“Chairman Park!”

Theo used the spare scale of Kaiser he had to engrave the dragon’s scale onto Se-jun’s body once again.

At that moment,

*Flutter, flutter.*

Kaiser and Kellion, who had been drinking alcohol, felt the massive wave of magic power and moved.

And,

-Aileen?!

-Ajax!!!

The two dragons were flustered upon seeing Aileen, who was radiating powerful magic power, and Ajax, who was fainted while being held by the collar by Aileen.

“Grandfather! I am completely cured!”

Aileen spoke in a lively voice toward Kaiser.

*Sss.*

Every time Aileen spoke, magic power spread, and the crops in the fields rapidly turned yellow. They were dying, overwhelmed by Aileen’s magic power.

-Aileen! Let’s go to the administrator area first and talk!

Kaiser hurriedly tried to move their location.

“No! I am going to meet Se-jun before going!”

-Look around you. Because of your magic power, the crops Se-jun grew are dying. Se-jun will hate that. Let’s go to the administrator area first.

Kaiser spoke of the crops, but because he knew Se-jun could die if he did not send Aileen away quickly, he hurried. Even now, Kaiser was blocking some of the magic power heading toward Se-jun.

“Hmph. Alright.”

Since she might be hated by Se-jun later if the crops died, Aileen followed Kaiser’s words and moved to the administrator area, taking the two dragon statues and Ajax with her.

“Fhew, meow! What a relief, meow!”

Cu…eng?

[Big brother… Is Dad okay now?]

As Theo let out a sigh of relief, Cuengi, who had placed Se-jun’s head between his legs and was wrapping him with his forepaws, asked.

“Yes, meow! He is okay now, meow!”

Theo answered and examined Se-jun’s face.

And,

“Chairman Park, why are you so weak, meow?!”

Theo massaged Se-jun’s haggard face with an upset expression.