99th Floor of the Black Tower.
“Shh. Everyone be quiet.”
After silencing his companions with a finger to his lips, Sejun gave a signal to Paespaes with his eyes.
Receiving Sejun’s cue, Paespaes began.
(Pip-pip. Mic test, one-two.)
After testing the magic microphone,
The friend passed on what he had heard from Paku.
That friend then passed the story to another friend from another floor.
This way, the story about Christmas began to spread wider and wider.
“Hey, keep this to yourself. If you do good deeds…”
“Ah, Santa-nim leaves gifts while you sleep, right?”
“Huh?! How did you know?!”
Before long, the idea of Christmas had spread so widely that there was no one in the Black Tower who didn’t know about it.
“And they say you get better presents if you spend Christmas on the 99th floor!”
“Yeah. That’s why I’m heading to the 99th floor right now. Let’s go together.”
On top of that, the rumors were growing even more exaggerated.
“If you do good deeds and go to sleep, Sejun-nim said you’ll receive gifts on Christmas morning!”
Toryong was spreading the news of Christmas to the Earth Dragons.
The Earth Dragons cheered at Toryong’s words.
“That’s right. So, if anyone doesn’t receive a gift on Christmas morning, be prepared. It means you’re a bad one, and I’ll personally execute you!”
After hearing Toryong’s follow-up, the Earth Dragons turned pale.
If they didn’t receive a gift on Christmas morning, they’d die?
In a panic, the Earth Dragons scurried around to do good deeds.
They discovered a massive group of Destruction Devourers moving toward a place rich with the energy of destruction.
“Guys, I’ll give you a ride!”
The Earth Dragons gave the Destruction Devourers a lift to their destination, counting it as a good deed.
Santa-nim, please give me a gift. Otherwise, I’m dead!
Praying that Santa would leave gifts by their bedside.
The Territory of the Great White Dragon.
“Khahaha. Listen, keep this to yourselves. I’ve become Santa.”
“Huh? What’s a Santa?”
At Kaiser’s words, Brachio, the leader of the Green Dragons, asked curiously.
“Ufufut. You don’t know what Santa is? You must not be very close to Sejun.”
“Dhaha. That’s right. We agreed to be Santas at Sejun’s request. He promised us alcohol as payment.”
“No, but what exactly is Santa?”
Annoyed, Kin, the leader of the Blue Dragons, asked again after hearing Kellion and Tier’s explanation.
“Puhaha. Only the mightiest dragon can become one!”
“What?! The mightiest dragon?!”
“And you left me out of something like that?! I can’t accept this!”
“That’s right! I want to be Santa and get some alcohol too!”
At Ramter’s words, the other five leaders of the towers grew angry, ready to fly to the Black Tower immediately if it weren’t for the ongoing dragon meeting.
Thus, news of Christmas spread throughout the Black Tower, the Seed Shop Headquarters, , and even among the dragon leaders.
The scale of the Christmas party was rapidly growing larger and larger.
4 Days Until Christmas.
Ten days had passed while Sejun prepared Christmas dishes during the day and Christmas presents at night.
“…Why are there so many?”
Sejun realized something had gone wrong.
The Christmas party invitations were only supposed to be sent to acquaintances…
“Hahaha. They say this is called a Christmas tree!”
“It looks nice. Next year, we should make a tree on our floor!”
“So you just hang fish bones on the tree ?”
Hundreds of thousands, no, millions of uninvited residents were flooding onto the 99th floor of the Black Tower.
And it wasn’t stopping there. Apparently, the general merchant routes leading to the 99th floor were already blocked from the 75th floor onward.
There were various reasons why the residents wanted to reach the 99th floor, and one of them was,
“Chairman Sejun-nim, I want to date my neighbor, Marlene! Please make it happen!”
“Alright. Good luck.”
No, but why are you telling me that…
It was because people wanted to share their wishes with Sejun.
As rumors about Christmas grew more exaggerated, a story spread that if you told Sejun your wish in advance, you could receive it as a Christmas gift.
Thanks to this, Sejun, who had planned to take a short break while preparing for the Christmas party, couldn’t rest and had to listen to the residents’ wishes.
Puhuhut. If you want to speak your wish to the great hybrid Chairman Park, pay 10 billion Tower Coins to Lucky Merchant, Vice Chairman Theo!
Fortunately, Theo began collecting money from the residents in line, and the queue disappeared in an instant.
“Vice Chairman Theo, well done.”
“Puhuhut. I, Vice Chairman Theo, always do well, meow!”
“Haha. That’s right.”
Sejun patted Theo’s belly in praise and then asked,
To those who afford the 10 billion Tower Coin fee, Sejun began listening to their wishes.
“Sejun-nim, I want to get along with my younger sibling.”
“Alright. I’ll talk to Ninir for you.”
“Yay! Thank you so much!”
“Sejun-nim, I want to take a vacation!”
“Alright. Iona, let’s give Blackster a week off.”
Kyoot? That’s too much!
“Then how about 5 days?”
Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Alright. Blackster, you’ll get a 5-day vacation starting now.
“Sejun-nim! Iona-nim! Thank you!”
Thankfully, these were things Sejun could resolve without Santa.
Once the wish-listening session was over,
“Now, it’s time to prepare the presents. Vice Chairman Theo, make sure no one comes in.”
Puhuhut. Got it, meow! Just trust me, meow!
Sejun assigned Theo to stand guard and went into the Void Storage to secretly prepare Christmas presents.
With little time left until Christmas and the number of residents coming to the 99th floor continuing to grow, he had no choice but to prepare gifts even during the day.
[Big Brother, what is Dad doing?]
Puhuhut. Chairman Park is preparing Christmas presents, meow! So don’t disturb him and go play somewhere else, meow!
Everyone knew exactly what Sejun was doing.
1 Day Until Christmas.
Late on Christmas Eve.
[A massive storm of causality occurs centered on Black Tower’s Tower Farmer Park Sejun, who had the greatest influence on the birth of the Grand Magic Stream.]