One Hundred Storey Tower Chapter 2

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1: Babel Dungeon
2: Who are you?
3: Chapter 2 - The Largest Tower in History (Part 2)
4: Mission 1 - Cylindrical Waterway
5: A- // And...
6: What kind of relationship do we-

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1: That lion’s on the ceiling?!
2: Also the ceiling’s so high up!

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1: ...!

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1: Get down!
2: Uwaah
3: Kyaaah!

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1: Urgh!
2: There’s no way we could handle this water with the way our legs are right now!!
3: We need to support ourselves against the wall...
4: Owwww!
5: What the hell is this?!

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1: They’re thorns!
2: They’re all over the wall!!
3: I’m going to drown at this rate...
4: Gahah...!
5: Tatsuki! // Grab on to me!!
6: cough // cough...

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1: wheeze // wheeze
2: T- // Thanks...
3: B-But... // your leg...
4: Wait...
5: Do you // really not remember me?!
6: Kyah!

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1: Noooo!
2: ...!
3: Guh...

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1: Guuh...
2: Tatsuki! // You’re...!
3: It’s fine...
4: Huh?
5: You got penalized because of me, after all...
6: You should at least know my name...
7: Huh...?
8: I’m // Kinuyo Koishi!
9: I can’t believe you forgot about me!

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1: S-Sorry...
2: Kinuyo Koishi...
3: I’ve had enough of this! // Where’s the exit?!
4: Someone find the exit already!!
5: We don’t got the time for that! // I can’t believe we’d be thrown into something like this all of a sudden...!
6: Owwww!
7: Group up!! // We’ll only get swept away if we’re spread apart!
8: We’re going to end up getting sucked in! // Hurry!!

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1: Kyaaah
2: Uwoooh!
3: Damn it! // Are they planning on killing everyone off right from the start?!
4: The door’s already so far down...
5: This whole area is going to get completely submerged at this rate!
6: In just about 30 minutes...
7: we’re going to be floating around in a giant water-filled cylinder...

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1: Get off of me, fatty!
2: You’re heavy!
3: S-Stop...! // I-I can’t swim...!
4: Uwaaah!
5: Hahaha!
6: That’s so cruel!
7: Tatsuki?!
8: Grab on to me!!
9: Uwah?!

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1: H-Help me...
2: ...!
3: Tatsuki!!
4: ...aaaawauuu
5: Geez, how much of a goody two-shoes can you be?
6: At least think about the weight difference, idiot.
7: Ah... Ahhh...
8: S-Someone help him, please!!
9: T-Tatsuki’s going to...
10: Huh?! I ain’t fucking with that!
11: T-They’re done for! // This water is just way too strong!
12: Are you serious?
13: Hey, girl.

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1: What’ll I get in return?
2: Huh?!
3: I-In return...?
4: W-Well...
5: ...
6: I-I’ll do anything!
7: I’ll do anything if you help!!
8: Just save Tatsuki...

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1: Hmph...
2: You better not // forget those words.
3: It’s no good!!!
4: My arms on their own aren’t enough to do anything!!
5: Forget even managing to save him...
6: we’re both going to get sucked into the central whirpool at this rate!!

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1: Huh?!

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1: Tatsuki! // Are you all right?!
2: Ah... Why...
3: Why did... // this person do that...?!
4: Huh...?
5: H-He... kicked someone... who was drowning...
6: Calm down, Tatsuki! // What happened?
7: ...Hey. // What’re your ODDS?
8: O... // ODDS...?
9: You can see it at the side of your eyes, can’t you? // It’s your betting rate.

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1: ......
2: (top right of display) STAGE1/CYLINDRICAL WATERWAY
3: (middle of display) TATSUKI KUROUMI
4: (top left of display) PENALTY/USE OF LEGS FORBIDDEN
REMAINING DURATION: (cut-off)
5: It’s... // 130...
6: That’s high!
7: Hmph. // Makes sense.
8: Of course a weakling goody two-shoes would have a high death rate.
9: You’re pretty much the dark horse. // A huge one, at that.

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1: D-Dark horse...? ODDS? // What is all of this?
2: Are you actually being serious right now?
3: Tatsuki, really, what’s gotten into you?! // This is common knowledge!
4: K-Koishi-san...?!
5: “Challengers” are // gamblers that risk their lives for the 10 billion yen prize, // but at the same time, we’re just like horses in a race.
6: Huge amounts of money are being bet upon whether we live or die!

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1: People’s lives are being bet on?!
2: T-There’s no way Japan would support such a horrible practice!
3: What country am I even in...?
4: A window...! // There’s a window!
5: T-Tatsuki...?!
6: Huh?
7: Huh?!
8: Huh...?!

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1: That’s impossible!
2: This is...
3: Tokyo...?!
4: No shit.
5: T-Tatsuki... Don’t tell me...
6: you have amnesia...?
7: I-I can’t believe this...

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1: Koishi-san!
2: ... // You can call me Kinuyo.
3: Kinuyo... san...
4: How long has the Babel Dungeon been here?
5: Since 20 years ago.
6: You’ve been seeing it everyday, haven’t you?
7: Right from the window in your grandfather’s house you grew up in.
8: I-It seems like
9: you’re really familiar with me...
10: Of course.

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1: We’re childhood friends, after all.
2: Huh?!
3: Kinuyo and I are...?
4: Is this guy an idiot?
5: I thought all Challengers enter out of their own will...?
6: Not even that, // how the hell does he not know about the Babel Dungeon?!
7: Kids all over // the world even know that.
8: Y-You might not believe me, // but everything about the Babel Dungeon and Kinuyo-san // is completely missing from my memory!
9: ...Now that I think about it, I feel like I did have a female childhood friend.
10: Was that Kinuyo-san?
11: I-I need you to tell me...

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1: Who are... // the people betting on us?
2: What kind of people are they?
3: They’re rich people.
4: They consist of a small percentage of the wealthy that have been given permission by the Japanese government.
5: They’re permitted to frequent the BDCs that are spread all across the world. // They drop huge amounts of money on these bets.
6: And it’s that money that supports the current Japan.
7: The Babel Dungeon
8: is a system that a genius politician created 20 years ago // to concentrate wealth made all over the world into Japan.
9: (tagline on left) The Babel Dungeon Center. An exclusive club that only a small percentage of the wealthy are given permission to frequent after undergoing a strict trial.
10: (top left of newspaper) June 15th (Thursday)
11: (ignore top center of newspaper)
12: (right column of newspaper) Japanese Economy Making a Huge Recovery
13: (top row of newspaper)
Thanks to the Babel Dungeon,
(black bar) Japan has taken control over the world’s wealth

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1: This all feels like a nightmare...
2: But if all of this really is common knowledge, how could I have forgotten about it?
3: That’s not all!
4: This place is pretty much used as a test field for new advanced technology. // They test it here before releasing it to the outside world.
5: For example these lenses that we’re equipped with.
6: Management information is being sent to us, // but there’s probably a feature that works the other way around, too.
7: I’d bet that everything we’re seeing // is being sent to management and the folks at BDC.
8: Everything I’m seeing right now?!
9: (everything on the terminal is the same as last time, but the time limit now says “63 SECONDS”)

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1: The main hall of a BDC in a certain country.
2: What do you think? // Do you think the challenger you bet on is going to win?
3: I’m sure this Kinuyo Koishi girl loves Tatsuki Kuroumi. // Those kinds of emotions are often the ones that bring about the most unexpected developments within the Babel Dungeon.

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1: Oh?
2: The vision from that Sukuma man that drowned earlier came back.
3: (terminal)
STAGE1/CYLINDRICAL WATERWAY
SHUUYA SAKUMA (maybe you don’t need to edit the name here)
DANGER!!!
OXYGEN REMAINING IN LUNGS: 2.6%
4: Wha?!
5: What the?! My body suddenly got heavy...
6: Tatsuki? What’s wro-

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1: .....!
2: He was grabbing onto my leg...!!
3: Even if I were to try to resurface, my legs are so penalized!!
4: (on terminal) PENALTY/USE OF LEGS FORBIDDEN
REMAINING DURATION: 55 SECONDS
5: Damn it!!


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1: Why am I
2: even a Challenger?!

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Babel Dungeon Article 13 Section 1

Challengers cannot retire no matter what the circumstances may be.