[My Home Tower] Conference Room, 99th Floor.
Tricia called a meeting with the managers of each floor to determine how they would live in this place that had been designated as a tower by the System.
"Then I'll now begin the meeting. There is no topic."
"???"
"Why is there no topic?"
"I don't know either, so figure it out yourselves."
For reference, Tricia was in a very bad mood because she had been excited to go to an internet café but was blocked due to lack of authorization.
Her mood was so bad that even the heart pattern drawn on her outfit was split in half.(?)
Still, she couldn't abandon the tower's operation, so Tricia proceeded with the meeting quickly.
"So, any questions?"
First, the manager of floors 41-50, "Asahina Yurining," shouted energetically.
"Tricia, my area is too large now, so it might be difficult to manage!"
"There are about 1,500 [Angel Guardians] left on the 80th floor, so everyone take as many as you need for management. Next question?"
Second, the manager of floors 21-30, "Flora Fireseed," stood up and said.
"The stairs and elevators have disappeared, so we have to use the [Transfer] skill or [Instant Teleportation Stone], which is very inconvenient..."
"Is that so? Hmm, oh, I see. I just purchased 100 warp points at 5 Tower Coins each and created warp points on all floors, so install them wherever you find convenient. Next question?"
"It seems like 500 Tower Coins just evaporated in an instant."
"Tsk, not evaporated—appropriately spent. Next question."
Third was the manager of floors 51-60, "Ju Ji-ye" (real name: [Sun Stone] Jua Jiwe), who shouted with an extremely troubled expression.
"Aaaah!!! I just remembered something super urgent!!!"
"What is it?"
"What should we eat for dinner tonight???"
"Starve. Next."
"Hmph."
Next, the manager of floors 71-80, "Rudiel Shephid," got up from her seat, approached Tricia, and said.
"Hug me!"
*Squeeze*
"I've hugged you. Next."
In the suddenly warm atmosphere, Zergos, the manager of floors 61-70, spoke.
"Tricia, it seems that since our home was designated as a tower, some System authority has been granted to each manager. Could you tell us how much System authority we can use?"
"Oh, you guys can use that too?"
"...?"
"No, I really didn't know. Let me check right away."
Tricia fiddled with the System and found the "Share Tower Administrator Authority" option.
"Ah, right now you only have permission to see System alarm messages and tower status, but I can additionally transfer authority to set trials and rewards for each floor you manage, as well as editing permissions for each floor. I'll transfer them right now."
Tricia naturally dumped all the work of setting trials and rewards for each floor onto her colleagues!
Then Azmo Lilithis, the manager of floors 31-40, asked with a surprised expression.
"Eh, so from now on, we have to set and manage all the trials for our assigned floors?"
"I'll give you guidelines for the settings, and just manage things as appropriate and report to me if problems arise."
Tricia said this while setting additional rules for the "Floor Trial Settings" section and registering them in the System.
"'Recommended Rules' for trial settings that each floor manager can set have been created."
"1. Never use tower residents and colleagues as consumables for trials. If they must be used, it can only be done with mutual consent and agreement. This does not apply to food livestock already being used as consumables, golems and undead without self-awareness, criminals without human rights, etc."
"2. Set trials that can be solved without fighting [Climbers] as much as possible, or include peaceful solution routes even if combat is involved."
"3. Provide rewards other than Tower Coins. It is permitted to provide resources or items generated on each floor, or to give skill acquisition or buff effects."
While she didn't want climbers entering her home as they pleased, if no climbers came at all, their home would disappear due to tower collapse.
Therefore, Tricia designed the operation to require non-lethal trials but give rewards using resources from the tower to ensure climbers would continue to enter.
Instead, the design was to collect Tower Coins as much as possible without using them.
Of course, if problems or issues arose later, she planned to modify things immediately.
"Good, please set the trials and rewards on your floors with this general approach in mind. Any more questions?"
Then Inabark Levitain Rukki, the manager of floors 1-10, raised her hand and asked.
"It's annoying, so can I just release a [Flying Giant Centipede Rabbit] on the 2nd floor and kill all the climbers? They'll revive anyway!"
"Then they'll all get scared and run away, and no one will come in! Rejected!"
"Ehhh, but it's such a waste to keep such a useful monster sealed away!"
"Please keep it sealed... If you must use it, use it as the 10th floor boss."
"Should I?"
"...You're not really going to use it, right?"
In response to Tricia's question, Rukki shrugged with a mischievous expression.
For reference, what is a [Flying Giant Centipede Rabbit]? It's a monster that's a mix of rabbit and centipede, over 100m in size, with dozens of pairs of dragonfly wings and a centipede body with a rabbit's face...
Further detailed explanation is omitted.
"Well then, does anyone else have questions?"
Tricia asked Wang Jjin-ppang and Cyan Nightmare, who hadn't spoken yet, and Wang Jjin-ppang, the manager of floors 11-20, answered.
"Can I cook for the climbers?"
"Yes, you can give it away for free... or sell it for Tower Coins."
This friend probably wanted to feed his cooking to the climbers because he loves eating and cooking so much.
Finally, Cyan Nightmare, the manager of floors 81-90...
"Zzz..."
Was sleeping.
"Stop sleeping and wake up. We're in an important meeting."
"Ugh... just 5 more hours..."
"If you don't wake up in 5 seconds, I'll drop you in the ice cold bath on the 38th floor?"
"Oh please, anything but that."
Cyan Nightmare opened her eyes wide and got up at the mention of the ice cold bath.
She yawned once, rubbed her eyes, and said:
"Can I go back to sleep now?"
"Do you think that's possible?"
"I guess not..."
Cyan Nightmare recalled the content she had heard (?) while sleeping, grasped the meeting content, and asked again.
"Well... I don't mind the expanded area, so I just need to set trials and rewards for my floors, right? I can handle that much."
"Yes, since your floors are 81 and above, you can set them up at a more relaxed pace."
As the meeting was wrapping up...
"What should I do for the 3rd floor trial?"
"You raise minotaurs there, right? Just have the climbers milk the female minotaurs?"
"That might work if the climbers from Earth were as fearless as the humans from our world, but I think that's unlikely..."
"I see, what else is there on the 3rd floor besides minotaurs?"
"Well, we also raise [Bomb Rabbits] in separate areas to feed the minotaurs."
"Oh right, they're carnivores, aren't they?"
"But the process of dismantling [Bomb Rabbits] is quite troublesome... Ah! What if we just teach the climbers how to do it?"
"That sounds like a good idea! We could make the trial about teaching climbers the process needed to dismantle [Bomb Rabbits]!"
"...What happens if a climber makes a mistake?"
"They go boom and die, of course!"
"That's too dangerous! Let's include options in the trial—one for that, and another for milking minotaurs."
"Oh, that's actually a pretty good idea."
Since they were all gathered anyway, they actively shared opinions and set trials and rewards for each floor.
All the floor managers here were connections Tricia had made in the other world.
They were "friends" she could completely trust and "colleagues" she could rely on anytime.
"Come to think of it, I once wanted to take these friends to Earth for a visit."
Tricia recalled a memory from long ago.
Surprisingly, except for Tricia, all her friends here were from the other world.
Although some appeared to be dressed in ways that didn't seem to match their otherworld origins, that was simply the result of Tricia's secret preferences.
"How ironic that I've returned to Earth but can't leave..."
She looked up at the empty ceiling.
Even in this moment when her friends were happily laughing while setting trials and rewards, the fact that everyone here couldn't leave the tower weighed heavily on Tricia.
Tricia clenched her fist.
This could no longer be called her "home."
It didn't even feel like a "tower."
This was a "prison."
A terrible prison that confined her to the tower and forced her to manage it like a puppet.
For what purpose had the System appointed her as tower administrator and sent her back to Earth?
Why?
No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn't find an answer.
But one thing was clear.
"If anything threatens my friends... even if it's a god, I'll stand in its way."
Eriel Tricia, manager of floors 91-100.
She loves her friends very, very much.
Therefore, for the sake of the friends who trust and live with her here...
Tricia has absolutely no intention of giving up on managing the tower.
And so, as the meeting continued into the night.
The first day of [My Home Tower]'s transfer to Earth passed safely.
