「 Information 」

After that, the middle-aged man explained to Kira and Rea that to get tickets to enter the auction, they both had to compete with other regulars in a game. However, the middle-aged man did not mention anything about the game that will be given by the organizer of the auction.

After feeling that it was futile to come to the man's shop, Kira and Rea immediately went to return to their lodging.

What makes Kira confused is why the auction event like this is held on a low floor, let alone only followed by the Regular. What are the objectives to be achieved by the auction organizers in holding activities like this, especially to cancel a special exam. But for now Kira put the mind away, because he had to find the Children of Macseth whose were on this floor.

" That old man, the information he gave was completely useless." Rea said with a frown, well, the one who actually forced Kira to take a special exam on the 12th floor was Rea herself.

Because according to rumors, Anyone who can complete a special test on the 12th floor will be rewarded with a very large number of points and Rea was very excited when she heard that.

But at this time, the test was canceled and replaced with mysterious events like Auctions that were participated in by Regular.

"Yeah, but because of that guy's words, we can find out about the auction faster than other regulars ..."

Kira stared ahead with a deadpan expression, he still thought that the development of his Chaos Energy usage was stagnant at the moment. He spent one year to keep getting stronger, but in the end Kira can only use 2 Chaos Baang at once, more than that his body will be injured.

Realizing that, Kira also varied his training and increased his use of light magic. In fact, he already rarely used his Chaos Energy at this time, more precisely because there were no decent opponents who could force him to use it ... so he preferred to use his Shinsu-based Light Magic.

* Clang *

* Clang *

In a square room currently seen Kira and Rea are doing a Spar using a sword. Rea is seen holding Chosinseong in her hand while Kira uses a compressed one-handed light sword that is strong enough to deal directly with a Rank B sword like Chosinseong.

Rea's Chosinseong is known to be one of the treasures in the Arie family. Although it's not rare, Rank B weapons are high-class weapons that are used by regulars on the upper floors.

* Clang *

The swordsmanship that they showed was quite contrasting, Rea's swordsmanship relied on speed in its use, while Kira was more inclined to precision and accuracy.

"Are you really going to take part in this auction, Kira-bro?"

Although the sound of metal clanging continued, both of them didn't stop their conversation.

"Of course, if I'm not mistaken then the branch headquarters referred to by Hansung Yu is the Submarine, we have no other choice but to take part in this auction if we want to go there," said Kira.

Submarine as the name implies, is a submarine that is under the sea, or a group of Shinsu which has concentrated concentrations to form Liquid.

The reason why Shinsu's concentration on the 12th floor is more friendly and lighter is because some of the Shinsu on this floor gathered to form a giant lake that looked like an ocean.

The structure of Submarine is still mysterious, but it seems that the Submarine uses A Pure Floating Stone with a very high quality, so it can make it floating in the Shinsu pond like that.

* Clang *

"Well, you're right, but do you really think it's not strange? Holding an auction like this all of a sudden?" Said Rea while turning her body and slashing Kira's waist with a diagonal cut.

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* Clang *

"Of course, after all this hasn't happened before on the 12th floor ..." Kira then immediately shook his light sword vertically towards Rea, but in one blink Rea had appeared behind Kira while pointing her sword at him.

Rea grinned in victory, while finally the sword of light in Kira's hand split into small particles and disappeared in the air.

"You're getting faster and faster, Rea."

"Of course ..." said Rea with a smile, although Kira was not serious about dealing with it, but the speed possessed by Rea deserves a thumbs up.

"By the way, what are we going to do tomorrow?" Rea asked, putting Chosinseong in her Arms Inventory.

"We're going to meet someone tomorrow," Kira said wiping his sweat using a towel.

"Someone?" Rea tilted her head, with a look ... 'Do you have an acquaintance on the 12th floor? '

"That's right, someone who could say,

Few know more about the events on this floor than any other regular on this floor. "

***

"People call you Afro the Database, and you say that you don't know anything about this auction, is your nickname just bullshit?"

Kira currently chatting with someone in a quiet place, Rea is seen watching from a distance while leaning on a tree.

"Well, I'm sorry, customer, but my people can't reach any information except the list of auction items in your hand." That person had an eccentric appearance in colorful clothes. His afro hair makes his appearance look ridiculous but cool in other way.

Kira seeing the paper in his hand, it is a list of auctioned items that will be auctioned later, it looks very normal like auctions in general, the ranking of items to be auctioned is quite varied starting from the lowest, D rank and the highest, B rank.

Kira then looked at the afro man and said.

"Besides, this list isn't complete, are you trying to fool me?"

"Well, dear customer ~ you know the situation at the center is currently in chaos because there is a slight dispute between the " Chosen Members " of research association who holding responsibility as a ruler on this floor, Po Bidau Lacazette and the Great Teacher who are in control of the Workshop on this floor, Miss Mei. "Said the Afro man.

Kira knew that the person he was looking for was a woman named Mei, one of the 4 Macseth children who was nicknamed the Great Teacher, Kira learned about it from Hansung Yu earlier.

During this year, if there is any need or when he needs information, Kira will call Hansung Yu, of course it's not free, Kira must continue to send instant coffee to Hansung Yu regularly, with his own money.

"Wait a minute, dispute?"

Not answering Kira's question, the afro man smiled and wiggled his index finger. Kira who saw that just said with a flat face.

"What a moneygrubber, just answer my question earlier, money problems can be dealt with later."

"Hehe, I like customers like you, alright, well my people who infiltrated the research association only heard some sort of rumor circulating in the higher-ups, you know how important the position of " Chosen Members " in research association is right."

Kira nodded, "Chosen Member" was a member of the Po Bidau family with male gender, who had been given such a test to be responsible for the Research Association in the tower.

"Looks like Mr. Lacazette is not too fond of Miss Mei's proposal to hold the auction, no, some say that he completely rejected the proposal," said the Afro man.

"But why this auction can still be held, if the ruler of this floor does not approve of it." Said Kira, a regular like him of course know that Lacazette was the ruler of this 12th floor.

"I don't know, my information network can't reach things like that, you know, just a little mistake, then we will immediately be removed from the tower?" Said the Afro man.

After feeling that the information he wanted was enough, Kira immediately made the payment and left.

"Let's go Rea, it looks like we will have a lot of free time while waiting for the auction to begin," said Kira while approaching Rea who had been waiting for him.

After that they both went back to walking in the regular district streets which were very crowded compared to the other floors in the tower.

"I did not know that there were people like that Afro man in the tower, it turns out they were great at gathering information like this," Rea said, looking at the paper listing the items to be auctioned.

Kira who heard that saw the crowd on the roadside, then he said.

"You know for yourself how the conditions of the Regulars on the 12th floor, they do everything they can to survive, the increasing difficulty of exams, makes them prefer to live in this place ... losers like that are like a horde of ants gathered because of a candy thrown by humans. If I were them, I would rather die and try than give up and and rot in a place like this "said Kira.

"You say that very harshly, Kira-bro."

Rea also realizes that Kira's attitude has changed over the past year, the empathy he has towards others has decreased, since the two of them separated from Aguero and the others on the 3rd floor, Kira slowly returned to being as cold as when they first met.

And that made Rea a little worried.

"Kira-bro, What do you think Aguero and the others are doing now? ..."

"Maybe they are eating sweet sour pork or drinking soju." Kira answered casually.

" Aren't you worried about them, Kira-bro?" Rea said.

"Why should I worry about them? There are Khun and Shibisu there, besides that there are two Jahad's Princesses, Endorsi and Anaak, with a team like that there is nothing to worry about," said Kira, he was seen drinking a can of black coffee.

"You are ... since when did you change your drink reference, Kira-bro. Didn't you like apple juice before, hihihi," Rea said with a laugh.

"I am a grown man, you know." Kira said as he put one of his hands into his pocket, maybe his drink preference had changed since he hung out with Hansung Yu, maybe.

"Drinking black coffee doesn't make you a grown man, you know ~, if you want to be an grown man you should try drinking Soju, Kira-bro." Rea said, then he pounded Kira's back.

" I don't like alcohol. " Kira said.

They then continued to chat before they saw two people who seemed to be at odds in front of a shop.

"How many times have I told you, don't ever enter my store again, you little jerk! Bring the trash you called book and throw it in the trash can, you make my shop look dirty."

A big man looks angry at a blond boy, who fell on the ground, Rea and Kira know the boy.

"Kira-bro, that boy..." Rea pulled the sleeve of Kira's blazer, and made him stop.

"Don't take care of other people's business, it's normal in this place, let's go home," said Kira.

After the boy continued to be chided by a big man, he finally left while covering his teeth bluffing. The pedestrians who had previously stopped to see the quarrel, resumed walking and ignored the boy's book lying on the ground.

Without listening to Kira's words, Rea then approached the book and took it, she then turned and said.

"Um, let's go home ..."

After that, Kira and Rea returned to their inn, and Rea is currently seen sitting lounging on the couch while looking at the contents of the blond boy's book that she previously picked up.

While Kira was seen sitting in a chair crossing his legs, he was seen wearing glasses and checking the contents of the list of auction items he had gotten from Afro before.

"Pfft ... the naming of the weapon is ridiculous ... Roaring Thunder Sword of Thousand Sky, hahaha."

Rea was seen laughing out loud when she saw the contents of the book left by the boy named Franz.

"... Then what is this, a hook called The Fallen Angel of Death Realms ... Pffft, gahaha, this boy is ridiculous."

Hearing Rea's laughter that hasn't stopped since earlier, made a blue vein appear on Kira's forehead.

"Be quiet, Rea!"

Rea then jumps off the couch and shows Kira the contents of the book.

"Kira-bro, look at these weapons, the design is very ridiculous, and also the name, hahaha" said Rea could not help laughing.

Kira then looked at the book Rea showed with no interest, at first there was nothing strange but Kira finally realized something was odd.

"Wait a minute, Rea ... give me the book," said Kira.

" Hoho~, do you also want to give a name like that to your weapon, Kira-bro ~ ..." said Rea trying to tease Kira, but the annoyed Kira immediately took the book from Rea's hand.

He then returns to check the auction list he got from Afro before Kira widens his eyes.

Seeing Kira's expression, Rea tilted her head.

"What's wrong, Kira-bro? Your face looks serious like that?"

"I knew something was wrong, come here Rea, look at this." Kira then showed the two similiar weapon picture from the two different sources.

Rea then looked at it and she also widened her eyes.

"Kira-bro, this is ..."

Kira then answers with a serious face.

"Yeah, although at first glance they look different, these two weapons ... seem to be the same weapon."

***

"Are you sure about your decision, you might not enjoy the luxury you feel all this time again."

Said a black-haired man who stood while smoking, in front of him was a beautiful woman wearing a lab coat.

"My decision is unanimous, that's why I called you here to help me succeed in the initial steps of my plan, Ha Jinsung."

Hearing that, the black haired man called Ha Jinsung smiled and said to the woman in front of him.

"Well then, welcome to FUG ... Lady Mai."