Ch 2
Episode 1 – Experienced Newbie.
Jaejoo Kim
It is the name given to him by the director who raised him and raised him, who was abandoned in front of the orphanage without being registered.
It means to live life wisely.
I don’t know if he lived up to such expectations, but Jaejoo Kim boasted that he had lived a hard life.
After graduating from high school safely, I worked hard to earn money in a single room that I got with government subsidies.
He got a job after being caught by the boss of a medium-sized mart he frequented while working part-time, and he was quite satisfied with his life.
Woong-
“uh?”
Until the portal, which I had only heard of as a rumor, appeared in front of my eyes.
Mysterious towers that have risen all over the world.
The portal, the entrance to it, appeared in front of Jaejoo Kim.
[come in.]
He seemed to be shouting so loudly. It felt like I had to go in, and if I didn’t, it was going to be a disaster.
His body was in a state of leaving one step to the portal, and at that time, a hologram window appeared in front of him.
[Please select a difficulty level.]
[Upper/Middle/Lower]
[The reward increases according to the difficulty.]
Without realizing it, there was no reason for me to stretch out my hand and then stop.
That was the first time I went to work after getting a job.
I was excited because I thought I was going to get a decent job with the 4 major insurances now.
However, when he thought that his smooth life was over due to a portal that appeared out of the blue, his stomach churned and his heart ached as if it were beating a bone.
“Oh, no!”
Jaejoo Kim shrugged his fingers with all his might, and laid back on his back.
My whole body trembled when I remembered the missing article I saw on the internet.
“How I’ve lived my life, I don’t want to die like this. I hate it!”
Whether the portal granted his wishes or he didn’t want to hear the sound of evil, the portal disappeared from his sight like a lie.
“God. Allah. Buddha. Thank you for saving me. I’ll try to believe in some religion in the future.”
Just before being dragged into the portal, Jaejoo Kim, thinking that he had survived, knelt down and shed tears.
Kim Jae-joo spent his first day at work half-passed, and the first thing he did when he returned home was to search the portal.
“The Awakened… Tower….”
I went to the portal site with my smartphone and started looking for information about the tower.
“It’s all Kadra.”
There was no reliable information. As if the Awoken had received a secret vow, they did not disclose any information about the tower, and the rest were only speculative information.
Just in case, I looked up related videos on the world-famous X-Tube.
But the result is crap.
Most of them were full of thumbnails that turned off aggro, but there was no helpful information.
Envy only grew by talking about the wealth and honor of the useless Awoken.
“···Whew.”
The moment I was about to close the app with a sigh.
「Library: 527」
I stopped at the number of different libraries than usual.
The library was a kind of video storage where you can download your favorite videos and watch them anytime, anywhere.
‘what?’
He didn’t have a video saved separately.
Too many to say that I accidentally clicked it while watching it before going to sleep.
Curious fingers headed towards the library on their own.
「Kim Jaejoo Tower 1st floor break through.」
「Kim Jaejoo hidden reward.」
「Jaejoo Kim . . . . . . . .
Hundreds of videos had the name Kim Jae-joo in the same title.
‘People with the same name?’
I thought that way for a while.
“Obviously it’s me.”
Because the thumbnail in the video was Kim Jae-joo with an ordinary face.
Without realizing it, I played the first video with trembling hands.
In the video, Jaejoo Kim was lying in a dark cave.
After a while, a hologram window appeared in front of him after he woke up.
[Starts broadcasting.]
[Streamer: Jaejoo Kim]
[Current number of viewers: 0]
[Number of following: 0]
[Owned Coins: 0]
Bewildered by the word “broadcast,” it wasn’t long before one or two viewers came in.
“Yes? Am I broadcasting? I have to go to work…”
– Yeah no~
-Now this is the place to go to work.
In the video, he frowned as if he couldn’t believe he had entered the tower.
While arguing with the viewers like that, a new hologram window emerged.
[Completed entry of 1,000 people in flight 4891.]
[The ordeal begins after 1 hour.]
[Clear all enemies.]
And then the enemy appears.
It was the first monster I had ever seen.
In the video, he fought fiercely. Soon after defeating all the enemies, they let out a happy shout.
Congratulatory messages and viewers who support coins.
So the video ended.
“ha ha ha.”
Jaejoo Kim smirked.
He didn’t go to the tower. The portal has disappeared and he still remains in a peaceful daily life.
‘no. Nonsense.’
I thought he was hallucinating from fatigue on the first day of work and the Portal almost kidnapped him.
I deleted the x tube app and rebooted the smartphone. Then I installed the app again and checked.
「Library: 527」
The number of libraries and video content remained the same.
“What is it… the hell….”
There was no one to answer.
He thought blankly, looking through the list of videos.
‘Is it a manipulation video? But what about me? why?’
There was no possibility.
Even if you say that it is a prank made with CG by pouring money into it, there is no reason to do so.
‘Or maybe they’re really similar people, or they might have the same name.’
otherwise it doesn’t make sense
Jaejoo Kim checked a few more videos just in case.
And he was sure.
“·······I am right.”
Jaejoo Kim, who talks with viewers, is right.
I got goosebumps when I talked about how I lived my life and what I was doing before coming to the tower.
Because there was only one of them in this world, Kim Jae-joo, who worked at a Big Sale Mart in Songpa-gu, Seoul.
“And I’m not who I am now.”
The Kim Jae-joo in the video is precisely the future Kim Jae-joo.
The time he entered the tower was the first day he went to work after being promoted to assistant manager. When I heard that it was about two years from now, I was convinced.
It’s a really absurd situation, but Jaejoo Kim cleared it up.
The video is a video showing what happened to him in the future, and the video was sent to Kim Jae-joo in the past.
‘How do I do this?’
At first, I thought about selling the video.
‘It would be some money.’
It didn’t seem bad considering that the government was frantically looking for information about the tower.
‘Hold.’
The situation is not even sure if this video is really related to the tower.
The government also saw this video and said that it was the case, and it was not likely that they would give compensation.
‘Let’s check the video some more.’
How did Kim Jaejoo feel while watching the video?
‘·······It is fun.’
There are movies or TV shows that are of a unique genre. But what if the main character is me?
Who wouldn’t get involved?
‘This is definitely a video about the tower’
I didn’t know that a video I found on X-Tube a while ago would be helpful.
‘The atrocities of Chris from Britain during the World Awakening Summit’
The content of the video was all about Awakened Chris from England speaking nonsense into the microphone while intoxicated.
Only one word from Chris.
‘Popoi!’
‘, and the reporters burst into laughter as they thought he was drunk and talking nonsense.
The peculiar thing is that the expressions of the awakened people next to them suddenly hardened and they covered Chris’ mouth.
I didn’t know before, but now I know.
‘Popoi’ is the name of the monster that appears in the tower.
‘That’s why the Awakened people’s expressions got worse.’
For those who are reluctant to talk about the tower, it was clearly a bad situation.
‘This is definitely a video related to the tower.’
He fell in love with the video without even realizing that the sun was rising.
The dazzling sunlight obscured the screen of the smartphone, and I was annoyed when the immersion was broken.
‘What? sunlight?’
Kim Jae-joo was surprised and looked out the window.
‘Why does time go by so quickly.’
The time I checked the video was around 11 pm, and now it is 6 in the morning, so I have only watched the video for almost 7 hours.
When the immersion was broken, a sudden feeling of fatigue set in.
‘Should I go to work…?’
When he became convinced that the main character in the video was his future self, he was reluctant to go to work.
‘…because it’s still a long way off.’
Summoned to the tower two years later. In the meantime, work was necessary to make a living.
“okay.”
Kim Jae-joo jumped up from his seat with the boiling sweat inside and shallow pride.
‘If you’re destined to be dragged to the tower anyway, you have to do it right.’
His evil spirits rose slowly.
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From the second day on the job, he registered a gym with the money he had saved up.
‘I don’t have enough stamina.’
Kim Jae-joo in the video was very poor. There have been many times when such a crisis has come.
As soon as he got home from work, he made time to go to the gym and exercised for 30 minutes or an hour, and after returning home, he watched the video.
I studied T.O.P like crazy, wondering if I had ever studied so hard.
Then, when I was tired and tired, I repeated it endlessly.
‘If you clear the tower, this poor life is goodbye!’
Clearing the tower means that a brilliant life awaits him, and that an opportunity has come to him.
Two years have passed and today is 2024.
“God. Allah. Buddha. Please. Please open the portal.”
Jaejoo Kim, forgetting the prayers of the past, put his hands together and said earnestly.
He has quit his job since last month. A word from the president was decisive.
– It’s a talent. It’s good to see you working hard. You’re smart and you’re smart, so everyone was looking for you. From next month onwards, will you take over the communist side?
Of course, Jaejoo Kim’s answer is.
-yes! I’ll stop.
It was a notice of resignation.
He left the mart without hesitation, leaving behind the disapproval of the surrounding staff and the absurd gaze of the boss.
Obviously, in the video, Jaejoo Kim enters the tower on the first day of work with a proxy.
That means the portal will open after a month.
‘Now there is nothing to see in the mart.’
Kim Jae-joo worked hard even though the job was not in his hands. As a result, I was recognized and even received an offer of business cards for the agency.
‘Thank you for that.’
The changes that have come to him over the past two years have been surprising.
During a promotional event in front of a mart in the summer, when sweat dripped and the clothes stuck to them, women passing by shuddered and blushed.
My male colleagues were admiring and poked out their tongues saying that he was a poisonous guy.
‘If this is enough, there will be no difficulties in the tower due to lack of stamina.’
I was satisfied with myself.
Of course, where there are advantages, there are also disadvantages.
It was lunchtime, so Kim Jae-joo was at the counter saying that he would change the cashier at the cashier.
“how much is it?”
“It came out to 103,600 won. Customer Lee Mal-soon. Are you right?”
was a regular guest. I remembered the name, so I entered the point number wisely.
“Ho-ho. The rest of the money is bought by the bachelor’s ice cream.”
Glancing at his wriggling forearms revealed in his sleeveless sleeves, the aunt handed him 110,000 won.
“Uh-huh, our Lee Mal-soon hyung. Thank you for your generous support.”
In an instant, the atmosphere darkened.
It was a dizzying moment, although Jaejoo Kim hurriedly said that he had imitated the way he spoke while watching a famous internet broadcast these days.
‘Why are you here?’
Not only that.
When I wake up in the morning and go through my pockets asking, ‘Where did the items from the tower go?’, in the video, Jaejoo Kim suffered a near-death crisis, his heart pounded and he couldn’t sleep.
Then, in a video where a hidden reward was obtained or a large amount of support was received, he laughed like a fool.
Gradually, there was no distinction between himself in reality and Jaejoo Kim in the video.
It was a symptom of extreme over-immersion.
So, I was happy when I was offered the job as an agent. It was because the mart business was not coming into my eyes.
“Now, if I open the portal, it’s perfect….”
A planned month has passed.
I watched all 527 videos over and over again until I got tired of them.
I worked out hard, so there is no problem physically.
‘I’m worried because I don’t know the exact time.’
In the video, Jaejoo Kim did not mention the exact time.
‘Isn’t it all my misunderstanding?’
With an anxious mind, I circled the narrow one-room.
[3:00 pm]
The moment when the time on my habitually fiddling with my smartphone points to 3 PM.
“uh?”
A portal appeared.
come in.
The portal was calling him again.
Jaejoo Kim slowly walked towards the portal.
[Please select a difficulty level.]
[Upper/Middle/Lower]
[The reward increases according to the difficulty.]
Without hesitation, he pressed the difficulty level ‘award’.
“Yeah. Let’s do it.”
The portal swallowed him up in an instant.
So experienced newbie. Kim Jae-joo’s tower climbing season has begun.