Vol.2 Ch.268: ??F - Hell Train: The Hidden Floor (5)

??F - Hell Train: The Hidden Floor (5): This is the two hundred and sixty-eigth chapter of Volume 2 of Tower of God.

Synopsis
The village head Dee asks Khun to defeat the demons from the Fruit of Good and Evil to bring peace to the village. Khun accepts because he thinks it's a requeriment to clear the stage and go up. Khun's group starts doing quest to gain Good deed points, this way they can do the main quest and defeat the Fruit of Good and Evil.

Batis and Hansung Yu bring Androssi and Baam into the seed after saving them from the Big Soldier. Batis mentions that Baam must be a threat to 'them', since Big Soldiers are not normal.

Batis explains Baam what happens when the Heroes from the Outside of the Quarantine Area clean the stage, remarking that they don't have much time to get out before getting eaten by the giant or buried underground. He tells Baam about the Big Breeders, and that he was put into the Quarantine Area after telling the truth about the Big Breeder's behaviour.

Chapter ends with a Big Breeder talking with Zahard about the new heroes. Rachel can be see lying on a bed at the Big Breeder's place.

Blog Post
The request is of sleeping Ran, and it was submitted anonymously ^ Ahh... because of some overlap with other events, I don't think I will be able to accept requests for next week. I apologise.ㅜ However, I will try to upload a simple drawing or status update. This chapter is.. what should I say. If everything up to last week's chapter was meant as a guide for this [new] episode, I thought I'll try starting [that episode] from this chapter on? But it still felt the same ㅎㅎ I'll start it next chapter instead (mm?)

To be honest, I made a few cuts at the end that deviates from the previews. I changed things up a bit, so there was more of a feeling that this was the start of the events leading up to the main event. I had been contemplating whether I should have made these cuts in the preview as well.. but I had been worried about whether I was focusing on the current story enough.

Batis' story was one that I had been thinking about from a long time ago, so I thought that it might been a good time to get into it. Same as when Hockney was introduced... I have recently been trying to continue the story with characters/elements that have no relation to 'combat'. There was a point where I felt that whatever I drew was connected to "new skills/techniques" or "has become stronger"... and I don't think that is what I was aiming for.

Regardless, I think that to make the story one that is enjoyable... I need to concentrate. I think it's an important skill to have, to be able to make any story enjoyable.

This week's backgrounds were made to feel completely different when inside and when outside, and I wonder if you felt that way.

To be honest, I try to keep at least a week's backlog of chapters.. but since (Korean version, check T/N) Thanksgiving day is coming up, I have various worries. Haha. For a few years I haven't gone home for thanksgiving.. I have been doing this work for a few years, and I have been trying to make free time but it never seems to appear. That's not going well. I think, it will be good if I slowly became a more experienced writer. On that note, I think it would be good if there was a chance to take a long break and create a longer backlog ;

Anyways, thank you all for reading this week as well ^ Well... there are lots of difficulties, and unexpected events keep appearing everywhere, but it's hard to care about those insignificant things when I'm this busy. Perhaps, this moment when I write the chapter afterword, is when I can talk about insignificant stuff.

With that, I hope you guys have a good week, and I'll see you guys next week~!

Translator Note: Hi, I am Suu, and I'm filling in for Adio this week. [Thanks to zumisumi for helping with the translation.] (Further note: some editing been done to fix the formatting >_<) T/N: In referring to thanksgiving, I am talking about 추석 {chuseok}, which is a Korean holiday from oct 4-6 {for this year anyways}. I recommend that you check out the wikipedia article if you are interested about Korean culture {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuseok} ^ {I love the food eheheheheh}. I also apologize for the somewhat scrappier translation for this week QQ -Suu.

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