บท 82: While Waiting

"I hope you'll be watching," I said, just as I'd left Building #242 to sign up to challenge the Tower.

"Of course I'll be watching," said Chen Huan's voice from behind. I whirled around, not hiding my irritation in the slightest. "Do you HAVE to do that?"

Chen Huan chuckled. "Of course I don't have to—it's just that it's really really fun to. Anyway, though, I should probably point out the slight flaw in your plan. I'm not going to be able to see what goes on in that Tower, you know."

"Oh. Well I still have plenty of other reasons to not wait any longer to challenge it."

"True. And anyway, your sheer wanderlust actually managing to improve your Purity has gone a long way toward convincing me by itself. I'll hardly need to kill you if I can just appeal to curiosity about what you might find in the upper heavens to keep the quest going instead."

"Oh yeah? Then what's stopping us now?"