A few hours later. Joker and others were sitting and talking about random things. “Do you think the Nightmare Sisters would have won against the floor manager and went to the fourth floor already?” Doug asked. “They left long ago,” Ace blurted. “Why are you worried about them?” “I’m not worried! I just want to know… that’s all,” Doug said. “If Jim was around, I might have asked him to get revenge for my daughter. But these sisters are so damn lucky.” “They are not just lucky,” Scarlet said. “They are strong as well, especially Nightmare_lily. She was able to survive on her own without needing Jim’s help like all of us did. Clearly, she’s pretty strong. That’s why she believes that she can defeat the floor manager.” “I hope they will fail,” Doug voiced his mind. “I want them to get stuck on this floor at the least. If they go to the fourth floor and get scouted by some people from the outside, they’ll leave the dungeon quickly, won’t they? I don’t want them to find freedom so quic
A few minutes earlier.When Jim fell out from the crack in the air, someone was waiting not far from where Doug and others were. This was a man who was ordered to watch Jim’s friends.After seeing Jim, he couldn’t believe it.“Unbelievable… How did it make it back alive? Does this mean he defeated White Maiden? This is big news!”He ran his way back to Binnie’s hideout, and it was not a short distance.At the hideout, the Nightmare Sisters and others were just sitting outside, while Binnie and Demon Dwarf were playing chess by the doorstep.“I know you want White Maiden to die more than anyone else,” Demon Dwarf said. “But I was not expecting you to bet on a youngster who doesn’t even have a year’s worth of experience fighting real battles. Have you gotten that desperate?” He kicked two of her chess pieces out in a row. “You can’t win the marathon by hurrying.”“I didn’t blindly bet on him,” Binnie retorted. “He’s someone you taught, after all.”“Haha,” Demon Dwarf forced out a snicke
While Jim was recovering inside the storage building, the others were standing guard outside.“Why didn’t he even eat anything?” Ronny wondered. “He only drank water. How can that be enough? If he wants to recover faster, shouldn’t he be eating a lot of food?”“I think now that he has vivre, he doesn’t need to rely on food all the time,” Scarlet opined. “In fact, when it comes to recovery, being on an empty stomach is better than being on a full stomach. Body can heal fast during fasting, after all. So, I think Jim knows exactly what he’s doing.”“Yeah,” Ace agreed. “He looks fit, so I’m sure he knows more about diet than we all do.”“Let’s say we all escaped from this place successfully,” Doug voiced his mind. “And then what? Should we go our separate ways, or should we tell the media about this place?”“Pfft,” Joker laughed a little.“What was so funny?” Doug frowned.“You think that the media is ethical?” Joker replied with a question.Doug couldn’t answer his question.“Most if no
Binnie went to White Maiden’s abode and did not find her.There were some human puppets that White Maiden had created, and Binnie fought them and destroyed them. These puppets weren’t weak, so she had to exert herself to deal with them. And then she looked everywhere and eventually found a pot with the name ‘Cane’ written on it.Cane was the man she loved.This pot had his ashes inside.She grabbed the pot and broke into tears. She had been trying for years to get her hands on his ashes, but she couldn’t. Now, she was finally able to do that, thanks to a youngster who stopped White Maiden.For many minutes, she was on her knees, hugging the pot and crying.Meanwhile, Nightmare Sisters were on the verge of confronting Joker and others that were guarding the fruit and vegetable storage building.“What a wonderful time to live in.” Just then, Bald Brute entered the scene while chewing on a lamb’s chop.“Baldie!” Nightmare_lily was surprised to see him. “I thought you were dead.”“Well,
Doug’s body released smoke all of a sudden.“Y-You’ve finally awakened your ability,” Ace excitedly said.“H-Huh?” Doug looked confused. “Smoke? How is this possible? I didn’t make any contract with a demon. So, how?”“I think it’s the nanobots that gave you the power,” Nightmare_lily said.“They can do that?” Little Nightmare was startled. “I thought they only enhanced our physique, strength, and healing factor. But to give out an ability…”“It happens one in a thousand cases, so not many people know about it,” Nightmare_lily said.“This is the power of nanobots?” Doug raised his hand, and thick smoke came out of it and swirled around his arm and went down to his feet, and then lifted him up into the air by a couple of feet.“H-He’s floating in the air,” Ace was astonished by what he saw. “It’s a cool ability.”“How is it cool?” Ronny said. “It’s just smoke.”“Don’t underestimate it. Every ability has its uses,” Ace said.“But, let’s not forget what we have to do soon,” Joker reminde
For the past four hours, Jim meditated on his wounds, especially the shoulder wound. And he was able to mostly heal that wound, though it took a lot of juice out of him.In this process, he ended up unintentionally absorbing the vitality of all the vegetables and fruits in that building.Jim didn’t know that the meditation technique could do that. But this was one of the ways to remove the bad particles from one’s body while absorbing the best particles from the surroundings through the air.It was all in the breath of man.By the time Jim opened his eyes, he felt so refreshed, even though he was stinking a lot because of ejecting the poisonous and toxic particles out of his body through all the pores.[How do you feel?] Joe asked.“Good. Though this makes me want to have a bath as soon as possible,” Jim said. “I hope they have some lemons here. I will apply some diluted lemon juice to my hair because it feels weird on my head right now.”[Jim… you should focus on your stamina a bit m
Jim and his group members were all heading toward Binnie’s hideout.In the background, one could see Little Nightmare beaten so badly that her face had completely disfigured, her nose and many of her teeth broken.It was Doug who had beaten her with his own fists. He kept hitting her even after the bones in his fists broke.Nightmare_lily was sitting next to her younger sister, looking at Jim’s back with extremely cold and full of hatred because all she could do was watch while her sister was getting brutally beaten.Little Nightmare was not even in a position to talk right now because her face hurt so badly. Her elder sister held her hand and comforted her.“He’s made enemies with the wrong people,” Nightmare_lily uttered. “Let us make him regret it badly.”Meanwhile, Joker was talking with Jim.“It’s not good to leave them like that after what we’ve done to them,” Joker told him. “They are going to definitely harm us sooner or later.”“Before they leave this floor, we’ll be out of t
A few hours later. Jim played hundreds of rounds with Dorvor and lost every single time. Joker and others were getting utterly bored. In fact, they were so bored that they began to dig the ground and then look for worms for no real reason. Soon, Binnie arrived there with a pot of ashes in her hand. Seeing Jim and his group members, she said, “Give me a few minutes, and I’ll take you to the stairs that lead to the fourth floor. But I think that man over there can do the same.” “Don’t put unnecessary burden on me,” Dorvor finished another game and got up to his feet. “My purpose of coming here has finished.” He looked happy for some reason Binnie couldn’t pinpoint. “I’m going back to my house.” “I will go to the fourth floor soon, but first, I need your help with something,” Jim looked at Binnie. “I’m listening,” she said. “I want you to help my friends get nanobots out of their bodies,” Jim said, pleasantly surprising both Binnie and Dorvor. “Do you realize what you’re wishing f