Now that I look back on my memories, Amethyst had clearly warned me about this.0

“Don’t try to stop me. I’m warning you.”0

She told me this right before I opened her lock, already aware that I had the key in my hand. 0

If she had been a ruthless person, she would have made it impossible to use the key at all and would have ignored my inquiries. However, she didn’t destroy the key and instead answered my questions honestly.0

Amethyst was more than capable of doing that, but she didn’t. She just calmly warned me that the locked door would lead to a secret room and that I was going to get hurt in there.0

“I have a habit of inadvertently destroying adorable children when I see them.”0

I opened the lock and paid the price the goddess had warned me about.0

***0

“Mr. Yoo Soo-Ha.”1

The dark bar was familiar. There were many expensive bars like this one on the Tower’s first floor. The proper ones, decorated to resemble those in the outside world, imported a lot of high-end liquor and sold them for prices that would make many customers’ eyes become as wide as saucers. 0

Yes, these bars were ripping their customers off. However, there were always people who perceived rip-offs as shoulder massages. No matter how expensive the liquors were, customers lined up to buy them.0

The outside world was the home they could no longer return to. Stopping by an average...1