@Fire Fist:
That was a fun filler chapter. Not much plot progression, though.
By the way, has it ever been explained how people can be hundreds of years old, but can look as young or old as they want to? Do people in the Tower stop aging after they pass a certain floor? It has to be sometime before they become a Ranker, at least, because as I understand it, the shortest the Tower was cleared in was 80 years, which is the average lifespan for a normal human. Even if they started at age 20 and cleared it by age 100, at a certain point, they would be physically unable to complete some of the higher floor tests… So they had to stop aging at some point.
I think it's a combination of the years being slightly shorter in the Tower, and people having extremely long lifespans in the Tower. Once they get to floor 100, I think the Guardian must give them a contract for immortality, Quant mentioned he had an age less body during his fight with Androssi, so they must get it at some point. Also, people from Great Families automatically get immortality because of the contract their parents have.
Also, I guess handling shinsoo slows the aging if a person greatly.
This was a chapter afterward made by siu.
http://www.batoto.net/forums/topic/832-master-author-blogtranslations-thread/page__p__49790#entry49790
"About Anak and Andorssi's relationship, although Anak is Andorssi's neice, Anak is actually older than Andorssi.
Age is only a number in the Tower so you don't have to think about it. People consider body age or species characteristics age important. And the superior-supbordinate relationship according to age to not exist. They put rank or status above age. (Yuri, Koon, and Andorssi do not use honorifics to almost everyone because they are from 10 Families. But Anak uses honorifics.)
Sometimes when people starts to handle Shinsoo their growth stops before they become adults, then it's standard to treat them like kids regalrdless of the age. The general theory in the Tower is that the growth of the body is proportional to the growth of mind. There are exceptions by the region of origin or families."