Lady Who Walks Through the Mirage — SSS-Class Suicide Hunter

Lady Who Walks Through the Mirage is the fifth pillar of the Tower and the first daughter of the Tower Master. She administers stages, participates in pillar decisions, and repeatedly tests whether climbers will accept responsibility for the people affected by their choices. Her childlike manner conceals authority that can open floors, alter quests, extend voting rights across the Tower, and expose or protect information under the Tower's security rules.

Biography

A vote beyond the ordinary stages

The Lady first appears in the private conference that decides whether Kim Gong-ja may include the Tower's non-player inhabitants in Hundred Ghosts Reincarnation. As the fifth participant, she votes in favor of his request. The motion passes only after six high authorities divide three in favor, two opposed, and one abstaining, so her choice directly helps transform the skill from a record of outside-world deaths into a means of preserving people encountered during the climb. (Chapters 46–47)

The meeting also establishes that even decisions made above ordinary stages are constrained by institutional protections. Gong-ja's clear memory of the conference fades after he leaves, and later conversations explain that pillar speech and identities can be restricted by security rules. The corpus does not attribute that first memory loss specifically to the Lady, so it is evidence of the protected environment in which she works rather than proof of a personal memory-erasure technique. (Chapters 47 and 193)

Guiding the civilization stages

The Lady returns as the temporary guide who has taken over the Great Library and its Apocalypses after Hamustra. Appearing as a pajama-clad child, she waits for Marcus Calenberry, because only the first-ranked hunter can authorize the next stage, and opens the thirty-first floor after he gives permission. She then explains the race-war sequence and provides seven selected guild leaders with a combined starting subsidy, allowing Marcus to decide whether to concentrate or distribute the points. (Chapters 153–154)

Her instructions are deliberately responsive rather than exhaustive. She reveals the Civilization Store and its functions only after Gong-ja asks the relevant question, then treats that promptness as the correct behavior for someone responsible for a race. The method turns rule explanation into part of the examination: leaders must notice what their people need, ask before ignorance becomes damage, and choose how to distribute limited advantages. Her own authority supplies the stage, but she refuses to replace the climbers' judgment. (Chapters 154–155)

When the Fairy Race loses supremacy, the Lady formally announces Nisha's elimination and offers access to the race's secret history. She also admits that her lowered manifestation has constellation-level limitations and that she has grown rusty enough to forget a waiting-room rule. Later she identifies herself as a pillar, a status above constellations, while acknowledging that security prohibitions still limit what she can disclose. Authority therefore does not make her omniscient, exempt from procedure, or free to reveal every protected fact. (Chapters 179 and 193)

A daughter testing responsibility

Gong-ja's contact with Ja Soo-jung exposes the personal motive beneath the Lady's administration. She confirms that she is the Tower Master's first daughter and explains that her mother bears the blame and suffering generated by many worlds. When Gong-ja proposes transferring approximately one thousand restored relatives into a live stage, the Lady initially warns that another pillar council may reject such an intrusion. His insistence that a skill can preserve lives rather than merely secure advantage changes the issue for her, and she permits the family to enter the thirty-sixth floor. (Chapter 241)

In the secure world her mother made, the Lady warns that Gong-ja's family will fracture if he treats his own death or suffering as expendable. She asks him to be happy and tearfully begs him to save Ja Soo-jung, whose burden continues to grow. Her later anger at Gong-ja's forfeit on the race stages follows the same logic: apparent self-sacrifice is not automatically noble when dependents must absorb its consequences. She accepts the forfeit only after hearing that the Goblins want independence and after Gong-ja renews his promise concerning her mother. (Chapters 242 and 252)

The Lady then makes the consequences visible. She summons eliminated guild leaders into an observation room, displays active quests and race histories, and explains that other Towers and worlds may eventually compete with them. When Gong-ja later requests a vote by everyone living in the Tower, she invokes a pillar privilege to integrate stages, revise quests, impose sequential progression, grant equal voting rights across floors, and edit conquest footage to conceal protected secrets. The resulting decision ends novice protections and joins their Tower to the common route, opening it to travel and invasion in both directions. (Chapters 253–261 and 286–288)

Pillar councils and the road to the summit

During the council that considers Gong-ja's claim to constellation status, the Lady is identified as the fifth pillar and the member most favorable to him. She corrects her mother's outdated greeting, revealing a familiar daughterly role even within formal proceedings. When the pillars later vote between Gong-ja and the Wand of Ages, she quietly provides an inked clay tablet and observes the decision; the unanimous result recognizes Gong-ja as The Sky That Gathers Screams. (Chapters 359 and 362)

The Lady becomes his guide again in the nineties. She gives him a stone tablet with nine keyholes, explains that the Tower's upper structure requires him to revisit what his ascent has left behind, and splits an hourglass to reveal a descending staircase. The keys to the hundredth floor are not waiting above him but within earlier stages. Her latest demonstrated work is therefore not forcing an answer, but arranging a route through which Gong-ja must inspect the consequences and relationships that made his climb possible. (Chapters 383–384)

Appearance and personality

The Lady usually manifests as a small blonde girl in loose pajamas, carrying a peach-patterned pillow and moving with energetic hops. Her platinum-blonde hair resembles the Tower Master's, as do her face and habit of whispering; later descriptions give her purplish eyes. She can arrive amid white flower petals, while her childish clothes and gestures sharply contrast with the formal authority attached to the title of pillar. (Chapters 153, 241, and 384)

She is playful, curious, forgetful about minor procedures, and fond of turning explanations into tests. Her smile can seem serpentine when a climber discovers the question she wanted asked, but her judgments are not arbitrary cruelty: she repeatedly rewards attentiveness, consent, and responsibility for dependents. Her composure breaks most clearly around her mother, whom she loves, fears for, and wants Gong-ja to rescue from an ever-growing burden. (Chapters 154–155, 179, and 241–242)

Abilities and skills

The Lady's abilities arise from her status as a pillar and from assigned control over stages. They include participation in pillar votes, floor authorization, observation, movement between administrative spaces, quest revision, large-scale voting procedures, and regulated access to protected information. The corpus does not provide a skill-card list, numerical rank, or complete limits for pillar privilege.

Pillar authority and collective decisions

As the fifth pillar, the Lady can vote on changes that exceed ordinary floor administration, including Gong-ja's expanded use of Hundred Ghosts Reincarnation and his later admission as a constellation. Her vote has equal procedural importance but is not unilateral: the first request passes by a divided conference, the constellation decision requires the other pillars, and her warning about Gong-ja's restored family anticipates another potentially hostile council. Pillar authority is therefore broad but distributed among peers. (Chapters 46–47, 241, 359, and 362)

Her rank places her above ordinary constellations, yet rules still bind her. Security classifications can suppress names, censor language, and restrict what she may explain, while descending into a lower manifestation leaves her intelligence reduced enough for mistakes. The corpus never establishes that she can ignore another pillar, overturn a council alone, or disclose the Tower Master's protected information merely because she is her daughter. (Chapters 179, 193, and 241–242)

Stage administration and spatial control

The Lady can take custody of the Great Library's Apocalypses, act as a temporary guide, open a floor once its proper authorizer consents, place climbers into race roles, distribute starting resources, recognize elimination, accept a forfeit, and move eliminated participants to an observation room. She also uses protected waiting areas and a temporary base connected to her mother's work. These functions let her run a stage's boundaries without making the contestants' strategic or ethical decisions for them. (Chapters 153–155, 179, 241–242, and 252–253)

Her latest guidance extends to the Tower's upper architecture. A nine-key tablet records the route to the hundredth floor, while a divided hourglass reveals stairs descending toward earlier stages. She explains the mechanism and opens the way, but Gong-ja must find the keys himself. No activation cost, maximum transport distance, or general power to create arbitrary floors is stated, so these feats remain tied to her assigned administrative role. (Chapters 383–384)

Pillar privilege, quests, and voting

At Gong-ja's request, the Lady activates Pillar privilege to reorganize the forty-eighth and forty-ninth stages. She integrates their quests, makes progress sequential, extends the right to vote to every Tower character regardless of floor, gives those votes equal weight, and edits conquest recordings so protected secrets are not exposed. This is her clearest large-scale application: she changes a competitive stage into a consent procedure spanning the entire Tower. (Chapter 286)

The privilege still requires a concrete decision and produces consequences she cannot erase. The vote opens the Tower to the common route, removes novice protections and benefits, and permits two-way travel and invasion. She asks Gong-ja whether he is certain before acting, then administers the result after the votes are cast. The power can change the decision-making framework, but it does not predetermine the electorate's answer or shield participants from the choice they authorize. (Chapters 286–288)

Observation, information, and security

The Lady can observe stage developments, present hidden race histories, display quest information to eliminated climbers, and edit recordings. She understands multi-Tower competition and can explain how floor systems connect. However, access is graduated: protected words and identities may be censored, her explanations depend on clearance, and she sometimes withholds information until a climber asks the responsible question. Observation is thus both an administrative tool and a way to test attention. (Chapters 154–155, 179, 193, 253–261, and 286)

The Tower's system messages should not be treated as the Lady's personal speech ability. Later evidence identifies another person as the manually operating Tower voice, while the Lady participates separately in the pillar council. Her demonstrated information powers are the messages, displays, edits, and explanations she personally administers; the corpus does not make her the source of every status window or announcement in the Tower. (Chapters 261 and 359)

Relationships

Ja Soo-jung: The Tower Master and her mother, whose pain and responsibility motivate the Lady's most personal requests and whom she asks Gong-ja to save before accumulated suffering consumes her.
Kim Gong-ja: A climber whose choices she tests, challenges, and increasingly supports through stage changes, family transfer, constellation admission, and upper-floor guidance.
Marcus Calenberry: The top-ranked hunter whose authorization she respects before opening the civilization stages and whose decision distributes their starting resources.
Nisha: One of the great guild leaders she guides, eliminates under the race rules, and later returns to an observation role.

Items

The Lady carries temporary administrative objects such as a peach-patterned pillow, an inked clay tablet, a nine-key stone tablet, and an hourglass, but the supplied generated-item manifest assigns her no separately generated item page.