Playing hard mode

[We almost arrive so do you remember what I told you.]

"Yes. I read it. The world this time have a name called Solo Leveling." Jean answered.

[What type of that world?]

"Hunter and Dungeon. Hunter will hunt the monster to protect mankind and monster will escape dungeon and kill all human."

[Correct. Do you remember all famous person in there?]

"I do remember them. Especially, a person named Jin-woo, a Monarch of shadow. Of course, other Monarch's and Rulers' vessel as well."

[Hmm. You are correct but remember this one, Jean] System took a deep breath before it explained [All what you know is original world.]

"What do you mean?" She assumed some possible answer but she was too lazy to think about it.

[When one universe reach a certain grow, it automatically splits into many branches. Those branches will have same characters like the original one.]

"Hmm. Like parallel universe." Jean said.

[Your parallel universe theory has many points that needed to be correct. Actually, universe is chaotic. There was no parallel here. What I want to say is. What you had read is outdated. It's no longer true anymore.]

"You mean"

[Look like you understand what I want to say. Let's me elaborate it for you.]

A star map appeared before her eyes.

[Here is the root. And here is the world that we will go] A red dot on the screen moved from root to branch and it moved to a leaf. The screen zoomed in until the earth appeared.

[Welcome to the corrupted world.]

"Corrupted world"

[Here is the statics when compared with original.]

Jean opened the list. Many numbers and information showed in meticulous details.

[+100% human's greed

+200% rate of dungeon appeared

+100% monster strength

+Monster attack as group

+Monster can adapt and evolve

+Monarchs appear more earlier

+100% Weapon drop rate

…]

The list is too long to read all.

[This world is created by corrupted cup of reincarnation. It can be understood as negative world.]

"So what is the fate of this world."

[Self-Destruction.] System showed her a possible scenario in future.

The time where human is extinct. Monarchs are fighting each other for their own sake. The river flows backwards. Many landscape disappear. The land stains with red blood. Corpses piled up into a mountain.

[And boom]

The earth exploded right in front of Jean's eyes.

[Gone. That is the world we will descend.]

"Hold on. I don't know but this is so crazy. I come to this dying world for what." Jean asked her system with a doubtfulness tone.

[Yes and Here is your mission.]

[Reset the world (Compulsory)]

[Purifying cup of reincarnation (Optional)]

"You want me to use that cup. Can you tell me why?"

[When the world resets, our trace will be eradicated. Giving us a lot of time to run away. This makes them hard to find our trace.]

"So you want to use this as a way to cut their chase."

[Correct.]

"What will happen when we are on that resetting world."

[I die. You will become the native of that world. What you remember will return to number 0. Don't worry about that. We will escape before the world resets.]

"That's harsh"

[Enough chip chat. Descending at]

[3 …2 …1 and go]

Random garbage on the street

A tiny hand raised under the heavy rain.

'So I am a baby now. Are you kidding me?' Jean tried to block countless drop of rain with her baby hand.

She looked around and saw garbage everywhere.

'And I'm dumped as a garbage by this body's mother.'

'This body is hard to control' she waved her hand but her legs moved.

*Grumble*

'And my stomach also protests because of hunger.'

'Good job, system. You give me a death ticket.' Jean want to scold her system for sending her a weak body.

'Story Guilder Requiem' she talked in a baby language.

A stand manifested in front of her.

'Find me a way to escape from this situation' her Stand nodded and flew immediately.

While waiting for her Stand, she struggled with this baby body. She wanted to stand but no use.

She wanted to cry but there was no energy left for her to do that.

Her body is cold but no thing is warm in this garbage.

Never before she felt cold like this one. Even when people looked at her with disdain look, she can't feel the cold from their gaze.

'Look like this baby is destined to die in this place.' she can see the flow of fate floating on her head.

Her eye's sight faded with every second pass.

"I forgot to throw garbage." A voice rang out.

"I hope mother don't know about this." Jin-ah ran hastily with bag of trash in her hand. When she came near to the garbage, she saw the tiny hand raising from the trash can.

Feeling curious, she peeked her head to look the content inside.

"A dead baby" She screamed in terrifying. "What should I do. I am scared" Jin-ah this time was a 9 years old girl. She didn't know how to deal with this situation.

Jean in the baby body could see her Stand floating behind Jin-ah. Jin-ah assumed this baby had died so she was going to leave in terror.

Jean knew what to do now. Even she didn't have any energy left, she will cry for a first time in her life in this world.

A baby cried reverberating through the area. Jin-ah who was very scared had to turn back.

"Jin-ah. Be brave." she summoned all her courage.

Story Guilder took action by controlling her memory. A flow of memory when she was born resurfaced in her head. She remembered how her mother hold her when she first came to this world. A memory that lost forever when she turned 3 suddenly refreshed in her mind.

Following the guild of memory, she did exactly like her mother did.

"Don't worry. I'm here" Jin-ah said with a gentle voice.

While she tried to appease the baby, a lightning struck the electrical pole near garbage dump. The electrical pole was broken and collapsed right the position where Jean was laid on Jin-ah's arm.

When Jin-ah saw it, she used her body as a shield. Story Guilder kicked the electrical pole to aside.

When Story Guilder saw electrical pole fall on the neighbor house, he stuck out a middle finger to the sky.

Seeing the danger before her, Jin-ah decided to go home quickly.

When she was on the way to home, many dangerous thing kept coming for her.

Kipnapper, Car, Random thug,… were all repelled by Jean's Stand.

For some reason, the heaven tried to kill this baby another after another. Jean witnessed all.

As if this existence weren't allowed.