Twenty-Fifth Baam/History

The Beginning
Baam forces his way into the Inner Tower in search of his friend Rachel. When Rachel decided to climb the Tower, he went after her, chasing her and tackling her to ground. After Baam appeals to Rachel to not go to the tower, she merely states that she wants to go so she can be reborn. Afterwards, a light from the Tower appears under her, giving the impression that she was in fact selected to go to the tower. However, it is stated by Headon, the Guardian of the First Floor, that she was not worthy to climb the tower. He does state, indirectly, that Baam is worthy of climbing the tower. However it does appear strange that Rachel would be knowingly teleported into the Tower while Baam has to force his way in through willpower.

Headon's Test
Baam awakens on the First Floor of the Tower, with Rachel watching behind a invisible shield, where he encounters Headon. Headon welcomes Baam and decides to test him with a Ball test, in a chamber guarded by a White Steel Eel, telling Baam that he can go to the next Floor if he pops the Ball. At this same time, Yuri Zahard hears that an Irregular has entered the Tower, and travels down to the bottom Floor alongside Evan Edrok. Evan gives Baam a Pocket, as is customary for arrivals into The Tower, but he receives an expensive A-Grade model. Yuri warns Headon that the test is too difficult for Baam but Headon refuses to change the test. However, he does agree to bend the rules to allow Yuri to lend Baam her weapon, the Black March, to help him pass the test. Baam manages to get past the White Steel Eel by letting it swallow him and then stabbing its tongue. Consequently, he gets to the Ball and punctures it with the Black March. However, the Ball does not pop, so Baam listens to Evan's advice to call out to the Black March, asking it to ignite. To Yuri's surprise, the Black March listens to Baam and bursts the ball, and Headon sends Baam to the next Floor.

The Floor of Test
He arrives on the Second Floor in a grassy plain and is immediately engaged in a survival test to cut down half of the participants in the area by any means. He is attacked by a Regular, but manages to escape due to his considerable agility. He decides that he has to fight if he wants to ascend through The Tower and find Rachel, and is just about to attack a harmless creature, when Koon appears and tells Baam he is making a mistake. Rak then appears, wishing to "hunt" Baam and the Black March in his possession. Koon then launches a surprise attack on Rak, giving him and Baam time to hide behind a rock from the infuriated hunter.

An announcement calls, ordering the Regulars to team up in groups of three, thus leaving Baam and Koon no choice but to try and group with Rak. When persuasion fails, Baam attempts to confound Rak by dropping the Black March and asking Rak to continue hunting him. Baam and Koon seize this opportunity to grab Rak at the last second, forcing him to team up with them, admitting them to the next phase of the test.

Lero-Ro's Test
The survivors of the previous test are teleported to a room and straightaway, two Regulars are seen fighting with each other but are soon stopped by the Exam Supervisor, Lero-Ro. Lero-Ro introduces himself to the Regulars then blasts them away using a Shinsoo barrier. He then states that whoever passes through it gets the right to go onto the next test. The barrier appears to have no effect on Baam. This shocks Lero-Ro and the stronger of the Regulars. Since he was not pushed back by the barrier, Baamh asks if he should walk out and come back in so he can take the test. Lero-Ro states that it is fine and that he seems to have made a 'mistake' so Baam immediately passes. Lero-Ro sits down with Baam and wagers a bet on who will get through the barrier first, with the prize of the winner allowing to ask the loser a question. Both bet correctly but despite the draw, Lero-Ro allows Baam to ask what anIrregular is, which Lero-Ro dully explains. Afterwards, Koon and Rak emerge through the barrier, readying the team for the next test.

Yu Han Sung's Test
Baam, Koon, and Rak are presented with the examiner Yu Han Sung whose test is called The Door Test, in which they have to rely on a scant few clues to choose a correct door out of several. the team passes due to Rak kicking open a random door within the time limit. They then decide to take part in a bonus test called 'Crown Game', the winner of which instantly passes onto the 3rd Floor.

The Crown Game
The team is set off in the 2nd round as the Black March reacts to theIgnition of Anak's weapon, Green April, which is noticed by her. She demands that he give it to her, coming off the throne and so forfeiting the game. Baam makes agrees to the bet with Anak: to give Black March to her if his team fails to win the next three rounds, but if he wins then she has to give him Green April. Baam's team manages to take control of the throne and Baam sits on it with the crown, while Koon, Rak and their allies fend off the other Regulars. This stance is maintained until the final round, when a mysterious cloaked team enters the contest, one of which Baam becomes convinced that one of the team memebers is Rachel. She is subsequently attacked in front of him by a masked combatant, later revealed to be Hwa Ryun, and so he instantly surrenders the throne and game to save her, subconsciously activating his potential for Shinsoo. The shinsoo attacks Hwa Ryun, slicing her mask and right eye, and both fall to the ground unconscious. As a result, he loses the Black March to Anak.

Baam wakes up five days later, two days after the Position test has began. Koon tells him that the girl he saved was not Rachel, although Baam is still convinced and wonders why Rachel did not simply tell him the truth. He is assigned the Wave Controller position and discovers that he has an incredible talent for handling Shinsoo in his studies. He befriends some of his peers during this stage, including Androssi, Hatsu, and Ship Leesoo.

The Hide-and-Seek Test
In the last stage of the Position test, theHide-and-Seek Test, Baam is assigned to Team B. He watches Team A's attempt through a monitor and is saddened by Koon's loss.

As Team B enters the game, Baam travels with the Team's Fishermen:Androssi, Des Lion and Hong Chunhwa. He talks with Androssi about her history, and wonders how she managed to get all the food she wanted. Androssi then assaults her fellow Fishermen, making Baam realize how she had done it: by defeating or killing everyone who got in her way. Des Lion then attacks Baam, believing him to be in on Androssi's plan but Androssi steps between them and suppresses the strike. She tells Baam to watch closely as she was going to show him what is necessary to climb the Tower and protect Rachel, and starts towards Des Lion. Baam comes between them to stop the fighting, only to be betrayed by Lion who takes him hostage. However, he is easily despatched and slammed against the far wall by Androssi, causing Hong to ignite his blade, Namaruda, firing a surge of Shinsoo at Androssi. Baam again gets in the way and takes the impact head on, managing to stay standing. He decides to leave them, as he would not fight others, and would never attack those precious to him, even if it got him to the stars. Androssi asks him why he keeps chasing Rachel, and he simply replies, "The heart moves where the heart wills," and runs off.

He then finds a Lighthouse, and its controller tells him that they have lost communication with Rachel, who was within the Safety Zone. Baam heads over there in fear of her safety. When he arrives, he finds Ho holding Rachel with a knife to her neck. He threatens to kill her unless Baam defeats Quant. Quant subsequently engages in combat with Baam and immobilizes him with shinsoo. He whispers to Baam that if he can copy the Paralyzing Flow he used on him, he could stop Ho: long enough to rescue Rachel. Baam does this with relative ease, much to Quant's shock, and saves Rachel.

As Androssi emerges onto the scene, Baam utilizes his newly acquired paralysis ability to help her successfully defeat Quant.

Afterwards, it is discovered that Rachel has lost the use of her legs, and so Baam asks Koon and Rak for help in enabling her to carry on up the Tower. Later that day Baam finds out that he has passed the Position test. It is found out that in order for Rachel to continue ascending the Tower, anIrregular would have to consult with the Floor's' Guardian, and so Baam admits to the congregation that he is an Irregular. After the results, all the participants who pass decide to side with Baam in his route up the Tower via Guardian-directed testing, despite the implications of helping an Irregular.

In the standby before the final exam on the 2nd floor, Baam attends Ho's funeral and trains in hand-to-hand combat with Androssi.

The Submerged Fish Hunt
The final exam, the Submerged Fish Hunt, involves Baam being encased within a large bubble alongside Rachel. In the aquatic environment, Baam feels strangely invigorated and empowered. As the timer on his Pocket indicates 13 minutes left, Baam talks to Rachel about her legs and their ascension up the Tower. Presented with the question of why she wants to see the stars, Baam realizes he does not know the answer. He reveals his happiness at being beside her again and how he has changed since he last saw her.

As the two talk, they are interrupted by a dark projectile from the depths beyond that glances the bubble containing them, and are astonished to see that the Bull has found them. As it approaches to devour them with its jaw stretched out wide, Baam summons all his Shinsoo into one blast. This freezes the Bull in place, allowing the bubble to drift on past it. The Bull starts moving again, but Baam quickly kills it. As the Mangdol Madame appears, Baam goes to share his happy victory with Rachel, until she unexpectedly stands up, with no trouble, and pushes Baam out of the bubble, saying; "I'm sorry Baam. Here, you need to die."

After the group that is guiding Rachel up the tower has left, he was found alive at the bottom of the depths by Hwa Ryun, and is convinced to climb The Tower with her.

Last Chance
In Tower of God: Part 2 - The Return of the Prince, Baam, now known as Viole, appeared on Floor 20, having defeated three Regulars when Ja Wangnancame in. Ja Wangnan seemingly "convinces" Viole to work together to take down the next opponent. Viole stays idle until Hon Akraptor comes and makes a vote-off. Viole says he will make them all fail here. He reveals the results of his training with his speed, strength and new shinsoo techniques. Goseng notes that his clothes seem to have a mark similar to the 'mark of the slayer'. He soon makes quick work of the 10th competitor, Horyang and Akraptor. He seemingly corners Ja Wangnan until one of Ja Wangnan's cheap bombs is thrown at his face. He gets hurt by this and uses a lobster-like skeletal technique that heals his wounds. At this point, the test is over and he rides up to the next testing area by himself. Viole has a flashback to when Rachel told him the story of the man who built a tower to reach a star.

The Strongest Regular
The next test is a shinsoo strengthening test (called World's Strongest Regular) designed to give a strength scored based on a shinsoo reinforced punch similar to an arcade punching game. Viole is the last person to take the test.Akraptor says to the other Regulars taking the test: "He (Viole) is the strongest Regular here". Viole uses HwaJeopGongPaSul on the machine (breaking it in the process) and scores 134,769 points to the amazement of everyone without his hand moving forward at all during the technique, signifying that his mastery of the HwaJeopGongPaSul attack's power alone was enough to reach that score without using any physical force.

HwaJeopGongPaSul is one of FUG's preferred techniques, which makes Love (the test administrator) ponder whether Viole really is part of FUG or not.

As the winner of the Shinsoo Strengthening Test, he is ordered by Love to pick 7 other people of his choosing to take the next test with him. Viole however, despite the pleas of Ja Wangnan and other contestants to pick them, declares that he won't choose any teammates and asks Love to have all of them fail the test, stating that none of the current contestants are qualified to be his teammates.

The enraged Yeon Yihwa asks him how self-conceited he must be and berates him for acting like he was actually part of the criminal organization FUG, proclaiming his symbols to be nothing but fakes.

Bath
Viole calmly retorts that the symbol is not fake and that he is indeed one of the slayer candidates of FUG, going so far as to state that he lives for the death of Zahard and his kin. Thus he cannot choose any of them as he is their proclaimed enemy. Love says that while he understood his concerns, that the rules cannot be changed. He remarks how some of the contestants here are desperate enough to 'make a deal with the devil' in order to pass this test and then goes on to invite Viole to a game between the two of them in order to resolve this issue. Viole then proceeds to his shared room with Yeon Yihwa, who then mistakes him for a girl. After listening to Yihwa's rambling while walking to the spas, Viole walks into the male spas instead of the female spas, leaving Yihwa confused. Viole sits in the spas by himself until Prince and Rapdevil walk over and join him. He ignores everything the Prince says and asks Rapdevil if he really beat Hatsu, which Rapdevil confirms, Viole then says "Perhaps you can show me the 'devil' sometime" (this hints that Baam still cares about his old friends and has a possible aggression towards Rapdevil). Viole then leaves and goes to Ja Wangnan's room and finds Ja Wangnan's ring, he then says "This symbol... it's Zahard's symbol isn't it?".

Suddenly, while Wangnan tries to explain about the ring, Prince yells at Viole for ignoring him earlier. Viole tosses the ring back at Wangnan saying, "Be careful not to lose it, it seems 'important' to you" and walks away. In his room, Yihwa asks Viole to change rooms feeling awkward about the man-woman arrangement. During the exchange, Viole says that he isn't interested in her body, prompting her to want to kill him in the next test.

The Untrustworthy Room
During the night, Love announces the next test: "A Trustworthy Room" and calls Viole down to fight him.

After listening to the rules of the test as Viole was proceeding to go out Yeon confronted him pleading him to select 7 team mates as the otherwise means Viole should kill the Regulars in the test or fight with Love. As Viole leaves the room, Yeon confronts him, once again demanding to know why he doesn't simply pick his teammates and make everyone happy. Viole replies, saying only some will benefit. As Yeon prepares to fight him by releasing her flames, he uses an improved version of Paralyzing Flow (might be called 'fast skip') to freeze her, and discontinuing her flames much to her shock. As he walks out, he takes the room's remote from her hands and apologizes with a simple, "Sorry." However, just in the nick of time, Prince appears. His confidence unwavering, he challenges the FUGSlayer Candidate. However, before he could move after a second word, Viole had already exited into the hallway.



Viole decides to fight the Ranker Love instead of killing off the other Regulars. When Viole reaches the men's bath Love informs him that he will have three tries to catch a remote, with Love doing everything he can to stop him including killing him. The first time Viole simply stops the remote in midair, despite its high speed, but the Ranker intervenes and prevents him from catching it, causing a foul. However, the second time Viole simply used the remote as a diversion and directly attacked Love. However, Love was able to dodge the attack easily with his speed. This was just a diversion for Viole to use his Delayed Shinsoo Bomb after catching the Ranker off-guard, in which love remarks that he is 'truly a Slayer candidate'. Viole makes a charge toward the remote but Love knocks the remote away. After Viole misses his HwaJeopGongPaSul, Love lands a blow on him. Viole is mercilessly crushed into the nearby wall by Shinsoo, leaving Viole lying in the rubble. Love catches the remote, and throws it back to the gloves saying to Viole, "it's a strike this time FUG." Love than explains his past regarding FUG and asks for Viole to explain his motives, Viole then regathers himself and prepares to fight. From here on out - He fights properly. At an almost inhuman speed, Viole paralyses the movement of the remote. Afterwards, he dashes towards Love and uppercuts him. Losing his balance, Love tries to attack Viole using Wonsulsa, however, in futility. Viole is quick to centre on Love, and digs his fist into Love's arm, and then activates "Pitch Changeup" much to Love's surprise. Love, however, turns the tables on Viole, freezing him in place and taking the connector himself. Impressed by his talent, Love offers Viole one more chance to pick teammates and leave FUG so his talent will not be wasted. Suddenly, Wangnan barges into the room throwing a bomb with chili powder, which distracts Love enough for Wangnan to take the connector. He asks Viole, as 'the worst person in The Tower' to help him defeat Kim Lurker in exchange for the connector.

The Preys
Viole accepts the offer made by Wangnan. As they rush to the scene Viole suppresses Lurker and Yihwa, sparing Horyang from the attack. He manages to free Yihwa in no time from her marionette state by pulling out the creature inside and swiftly crushing it. Leaving Prince in Horyang's hands, he then accompanies Wangnan to Lurker's room to get him for all the misfortune he has caused. He stands back and lets Wangnan handle Lurker. Apparently he was "tricked" by Wangnan into letting his team pass, but it could have been part of FUG's plan. Later on he confronts Wangnan, asking him why he forgave Lurker. Wangnan replies that it's because he himself wants to be forgiven. Viole is later seen looking into the sky in summer clothes.

FUG
Viole buys the best house on 21F for his team's use. Along with his willingness to do his share of the house chores, this endears his team to him (except for Yihwa). When Viole goes out to meet with someone, Yihwa follows him because of the violent rumors she has been hearing. Viole enters a karaoke bar and finds a man impersonating him in order to extort money from the counter girls, one of which is Hwa Ryun. Viole scares them off by revealing himself as the real Jyu Viole Grace. Terrified, they run off screaming and, alarmed by the screams, Yihwa runs in and accuses Viole of acting maliciously. Ha Jinsung walks in and Viole knocks her out in order protect her. They bring her back to their house and Hwa Ryun and Jinsung are introduced to Wangnan, Goseng, and Miseng. Viole leaves once Jinsung begins to brag about what a genius Viole is to his teammates. Jinsung follows him to the roof, where he calls him "Baam. The Irregular." Jinsung tells Viole that since he first met him six years ago, he wanted Viole to be happy. Viole remembers his past, which overlaps with Hwa Ryun's revelation to Wangnan that ''"They know what is most important to Viole. As long as they have that in their hands, Viole cannot escape FUG". ''FUG has been controlling Viole by threatening him with the lives of his friends from Season 1. Viole later has a chat with Wangnan on the roof, who says that he thought Viole was a bad guy but he was wrong.

Flower of Zygaena
Team Tangsooyook has entered the 21F Test. Much to their surprise, the test administrator, Noma, tells them the other team ran away in fear after hearing that Viole the Slayer candidate was in the other team. Noma declares that a special test has been set up for situations like this and take them to the middle of the sea. Viole appears as amazed as the others at seeing the vastness of the sea and the animals living in the water. He seems much more comfortable with the group now as he is seen carrying Miseng on his shoulders. A Zygaena appears and Noma tells them they must retrieve a flower from inside its body, then suggests they split up into two groups. Viole, Yihwa, Prince, and Horyang form one group and Wangnan, Miseng, Goseng, and Akraptor form another.

When Zygaena flips its enormous body, it causes Viole's group to go underwater. Horyang, Prince, and Viole emerge from the water first thanks to Horyang's swimming. Viole stays behind to wait for Yihwa while the other two go ahead. When Viole and Yihwa go in to look for the other two, Viole senses an immense power and rushes forth. He finds a man with red eyes  confronting Horyang and Prince. Horyang tells Viole that they should give up this time because he suspects the examiner set a trap to kill him for being a slayer candidate. Viole refuses and tells them to run while he completes the mission. Horyang pleads with Viole and reasons that they can simply retake

the test. The red-eyed man, Urek Mazino, prods at Viole's reasoning, to which Viole replies, "I have something I fear... more than death." Viole then manipulates shinsoo around his arm. Urek flicks his hand and blows Viole's bangs away to get a better look at Viole's face and remarks that his hair is girly but his eyes were good. He stands up and announces that he would play with Viole. Urek gives them enough time to gather and attempt to stop him from reaching Viole. Despite this they failed to even make him flinch and he easily bypasses all of them. Right before Viole and Urek clash, the baby zygaena gets between them along with the hot in pursuit Miseng. Viole shields her with his body and gets badly wounded, ending up unconscious for days. Urek is impressed with his courage and lets Team Tangsooyook have a flower that just popped up. After they pass the test, Team Tangsooyook make the resolution to help Viole meet with his friends.

Connection
Team Tangsooyook are taking the 28F test against another team. They split up in order to separate the opposing team. After finishing off the majority of the opposing team they attempt to regroup. Viole finds Wangnan again just as he was being attacked by Quatro Blitz . They duel and Quaetro's three bangs are no match for Viole's five bangs. The rest of Team Tangsooyook arrive, which prompts Chang into forfeiting unless Viole agreed to duel him with the game on the line. Viole refused,stating that the match was meaningless. Chang gives a parting shot that Viole only fought weaklings. The winning team inserts the key and win the game, enjoying their prize (snacks). Goseng remarks on an interesting person she found in box and the team in shocked to hear Horyang call the person "the devil of the right hand."

Devil of the Right Arm
Horyang explains his past to the team and decides to leave to look for Casano by himself. Horyang fights with Viole before he leaves in order to confirm his suspicions of the red lobster like thing inside Viole. Viole tells him he does not know much of the thing inside him and that FUG did not share any of the information with him. Horyangsays they are both victims and leaves to find Casano by himself because he doesn't want to involve his new family in his past. Viole fails to convince Horyang not to go.

Afterwards, he is brooding while the rest of the team get ready to meet Cassano, and later on, he sees how worried Miseng and Goseng are about Horyang. With this in mind, he resolves to bring Horyang back to the group. However, he is confronted by Akraptor, who tells him that Horyang left of his own free will, and Viole had no right to bring Horyang back. Viole calmly responds that he used to feel like Horyang, and if it were him, he would not want to leave. He then says that Horyang could be waiting for someone to save him. With that, he gets on the team's second vehicle and leaves.

He arrives in Xia Xia's tent and asks for directions to Horyang. Xia Xia knows the way, but offers to travel with him, since her lighthouse would make it easier for Viole to detect and destroy the traps, which Viole warily accepts. Xia Xia, however, attempts to instead delay him in reaching the hand. Viole quickly destroys the traps and reaches his destination. Noticing the injured Horyang, whom Xia Xia confirms as being dead, Viole angrily attacks Ran and Novik, who claim to have killed Horyang out of impatience to explain the situation to him in detail. After they are promptly defeated by Viole, Novik rephrases his previous statement and tells him that Cassano is the one who killed Horyang. However, Xia Xia interrupts him and tells Viole that she saw them killing Horyang through her lighthouse and that he is lying, trying to buy time to recover. At this point, as Xia Xia suggests the killing of the two assumed perpetrators, Koon appears at the scene, calling out his teammates' names, surprising Viole.

Suddenly, Xia Xia orders them all to stop or she would blow up the whole hand. Viole is about to stop her when he sees a message on her lighthouse, revealing her to be part of FUG. As she reveals him as a slayer candidate who is about to kill Koon, Viole has no choice but to play the part. Suddenly, Ran and Novick act and take the detonator away from Xia Xia, but Viole uses the lighthouses to stop them. He goes with Xia Xia, and says that if she ever played with his friends lives like that, he would kill her. In response, Xia XIa blew up the Hand anyway, protecting  and helping everyone except for Koon escape, who was still in the Hand when it exploded. Viole throws out his pocket to Koon as a last attempt to help him and is sealed inside the stone golem. Inside, Viole is shaken and bitter about the events that just passed.

Bet
As Ran and Cassano attack each other, he stops them with Novick's techniques and tells them on the lighthouse to stop. He asks Xia Xia whether they can take on Ran and Novick, while sending a message to Ran's pocket, telling him that he wasn't their enemy and that Koon was still alive. Both parties agree warily.