Ch.26: 2F - Rest (1)

Chapter 26: The Crown Game is over and everyone looks surprised at what happened. Hwa Ryun is injured and Rachel is concerned about Baam. In the end, Androssi's team didn't take the crown, so there was no winner. Before the next test, though, there is a rest period of three days.

Lero-Ro and director Yu Han Sung have a conversation. Yu Han Sung says Lero-Ro seems tall. Lero-Ro says he only seems less tall because he usually stands next to Evankhell who is very tall. Yu Han Sung asks Lero-Ro if he want some coffee. Lero-Ro asks if he can make a Cafe Latte. Yu Han Sung says that a latte would be elementary and gives him a Latte instant coffee pack. Yu Han Sung asks Lero-Ro why he came. Lero-Ro says that there was a problem with the last test. Yu Han Sung asks what the problem is. Lero-Ro says that the crown game this time was held without a winner. Yu Han Sung asks why that is a problem. Lero-Ro says that he heard from Quant that Yu Han Sung had proposed the Crown Game to send the problematic three to the next level in a hurry, but that didn't happen. Lero-Ro also says that one of the three seemed familiar with a Regular from their district, and according to the rules people who knew each other before shouldn’t take tests together. Lero-Ro asks Yu Han Sung what his true reason for including the three was.

Yu Han Sung asks Lero-Ro if he knows the reason why they gather all the Regulars on the Second Floor to test them. Lero-Ro asks if it's to test which Regulars are worthy of climbing the Tower. Yu Han Sung says that is incorrect. The real reason is that powerful regulars are far too dangerous because they might want things that would be harmful. The real purpose of the tests is to weed out the ones "who will bring harm to the Tower". Lero-Ro says that he doesn’t understand. Yu Han Sung asks him who he thought was the most dangerous, and then asks him if that person wasn't stopped because of a person he sent. Lero-Ro thanks him for the coffee and is about to leave, but before he goes asks Yu Han Sung if he ever heard about someone manipulating Shinsoo without any restriction. Yu Han Sung says that he's only heard of the Irregular Urek Mazino doing so. After Lero-Ro leaves, Yu Han Sung says that he isn't as easy to manipulate as Quant.

Lero-Ro thinks about what Baam did during the crown game when he attacked Hwa Ryun with Shinsoo without a contract. Lero-Ro thinks to himself that it wasn't so much like Baam manipulated Shinsoo as it was like the Shinsoo attacked Hwa Ryun with a will of its own. Even though it wasn't a powerful attack, Lero-Ro wonders how it was done because it was against the laws of the tower.

Elsewhere, Koon sits near an unconscious Baam. Koon is worried that Baam won’t recover in time for the next text. While he is thinking about this Rachel walks into the room and introduces herself.

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