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Immediately after clearing the stage.
I was forcibly dragged to the 32nd floor where I found my fellow hunters together with [The Lady Who Walks Through the Mirage]. Seated among them, the Lady hugged a strange looking pillow.
“No. Is that…?”
Upon closer inspection, I realized that it wasn't a pillow but a snail plushie.
I couldn't believe it.
Since there was a snail plushie, I wondered if there were goblin plushies as well….
“I have a goblin plushie too.”
“Huh?”
“Here.”
The Lady pulled a goblin plushie seemingly out of nowhere. The plushie had long ears, a fat nose, and prominent cheekbones.
“Uh, where did you get this…?”
“I made it.”
“Can you show it to….”
Just as I was about to make a completely legitimate request as the Goblin God, someone interrupted me.
“What are you doing?”
The Black Dragon Master looked at me with an exasperated expression.
“If you have the time to mess around with the constellation, then we should move on to the next stage. It took us 24 days just to clear the 31st floor… No, is it my sense of time that has become weird? After all, it took years to clear the 10th floor. Maybe…”
“Can you really say that while holding that in your hands…”
“Th-, this is just for research.”
The Black Dragon Master quickly hid the miniature bat plushie behind her back.
The Count and the Crusader also fiddled with an elf and a mermaid plushie respectively.
“I'm just inspecting this item. Isn't it rare to find something that was made directly by a Constellation?”
“The item description is pretty interesting.”
These humans…
“Death King, here.”
“Ah. Thank you.”
I took the goblin plushie and held it tightly in my arms as I glanced around.
We were in a completely white space. It was as though it was white drawing paper that stretched endlessly. And we were standing in the center of it.
Mm
“…Is this the 32nd floor?”
I asked this even though I didn't think it was. And as I expected, the Lady shook her head while she hugged the snail plushie.
“It would be better to think of this place as a waiting room of sorts. In order to initiate the 32nd floor, all of you must first declare 'stage clear.' Ah. In the case of Venomous Snake, he has already been waiting here for 15 days.”
“I thought I would die of boredom!”
The Venomous Snake, who was sitting on the ground, grimaced.
“Why did you all take so long? I took care of my little guys and then left as quickly as I could. I couldn't even watch what you guys were doing, so I had to meditate all day.”
“With the sprite plushie.”
“It helps with meditation. I used the most practical and pragmatic strategy I could think of, but what about you guys? I didn't expect you to be so immersed in it. It's like…”
“No. You were too insensitive.”
The Crusader sighed.
“The Lady said it when we first entered the 31st floor. [From the 31st to the 40th floor, it will be a race war]. In other words, there was always the possibility that the 31st to 40th floors would be connected. We might have to continue ruling over the races we picked on the 31st floor.”
“Huh?”
“If it's just clearing the 31st floor, then you'd be right, Chen Mu-Mun Guild Leader. But if we have to rule all the way up to the 40th floor, it's an entirely different story altogether. Even if we are absent, we would still have to prepare for their development in advance.”
The Venomous Snake paled slightly.
“W-, wait. Where did you hear that?”
“It's obvious to anyone who paid attention.”
Chapter end
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