episode_0413

60 billion.

70 billion.

80 billion.

The asking price is rising ridiculously fast.

Even those who showed no interest in Do Ji-hwan’s one-night stand actively participated in the war, waving pickets one by one.

-Huh. How far do you want to climb?

Yoon Hye-ra, who was at the scene, muttered to herself.

Those words are not just the question-and-answer of someone watching, but a conversation disguised as talking to myself.

[I think it will go up to at least 5 trillion…5 billion.]

There are many different numbers in the world.

And among these numbers, there are numbers that should not be talked about carelessly.

In the US, you say 911.

Go to Italy and say 2002 16.

Go to Germany and shout 2:0.

Or, give 5700 to the writer.

There are many other taboo-like numbers, but there are times when you have no choice but to mention numbers that you feel should not be used.

That’s it now.

The official price of Phoenix’s feather when it was last sold was 5.5 trillion won.

This is not an auction price, but was purchased by the U.S. government as a ‘presidential security expense’, and since it is purchased by the government, it must be taken into account that there is some degree of bubbles involved.

However, even if it is called a bubble, the feathers sold before were traded for 5 trillion won (excluding the latter units), and the miracle of this ability to save the US president from assassination only once is 5 trillion won.

A lot of time has passed since that transaction took place in this world.

No one knows whether there will be anyone willing to spend as much of the budget as the United States to protect the President of the United States, and of course, those at the auction cannot make any predictions.

-No matter what, wouldn’t it be cheaper than what you bought from the US government?

Those who believe that the 5 trillion won is the cost of purchasing money for the national security of the entire United States.

-And the Phoenix Feather! Cheaper than developing a new generation Patriot missile!

-The budget needed to create a weapon for intercepting people with special abilities is 20 trillion…? Hey, then wouldn’t it be better to just spend 5 trillion won and save the president after he dies?

-Isn’t it more economically beneficial to save someone’s life within 10 seconds and respond immediately?

For the President, if it were said that 5 trillion won was spent from the defense budget to build an underground bunker exclusively for the President, it is an amount that everyone can understand to some extent.

So everyone thinks.

[Everyone has the hope that even if it is a phoenix feather, it will not cost as much money as purchasing it from one country.]

If you desperately want the right to resurrection, but have less funds than in the United States.

-I think most people call me with the feeling that they are stabbing a persimmon that they cannot eat…

[It is possible for a person with personal assets of KRW 3 trillion to invest all KRW 3 trillion to purchase it.]

No matter how much money you make, it has no meaning if you lose your health and lose your life.

Some people are willing to invest all their money in saving their lives from an unexpected accident.

-90 billion!!

In fact, there are people who are ready to do just that.

Some people do it to prevent their own accidental deaths, but there are also people who are desperate to find a way to prevent ‘accidental deaths of their family members.’

-Or will the price go up and the amount will rise more than 5 trillion…?

There are some people who think so.

No matter how inflation continues to occur and the salaries of talented people rise explosively, when people buy something, there is a psychological resistance line that asks, ‘Isn’t this too expensive?’

-When will it stop at 30 billion like Do Ji-hwan’s one night? Hehehe.

[It has to be more expensive than 30 billion. Is the right to resurrection only used when it is cheaper than the price of rice cake?]

Even if you pay more to buy this, if there is a line that says, ‘I can’t pay more than this amount!’, of course you shouldn’t cross that line.

It’s not for nothing that they say ‘too much is too little.’

But to put it the other way, even if you raise the price all the way up until the ‘Maginot Line’, people will still buy.

Phoenix Feathers are consumables and are no longer produced.

Of course, the logic of capitalism is that as supply decreases, demand and prices increase accordingly.

-One thousand three hundred!

-Fifteen hundred!!

Now the asking price is soaring so fast that you don’t even have to add ‘billion’ to the end.

Among those in the auction house, those whose assets are already less than 30 billion, let alone 100 billion, are muttering, saying, ‘Aren’t you crazy?’, but that is just the small voice of small and medium-sized bidders who are being pushed out in market competition due to lack of capital.

-200 billion!

[Have you finally taken the bait?]

Chairman Choi Ho-jeong sang the first song.

-You pay 200 billion for a feather? Are you sane? Are you trying to bury your head in some magma?

-If you have a feather, even if you go into magma and come out, you can survive as long as you use it within 10 seconds, so there might be no problem.

-Keuung…. Is the starting point of the sunshade 200 billion? I’m going crazy.

Common sense does not apply in this auction house.

The only thing that works is the desire for feathers, and the ‘capital power’ that can make that desire a reality.

– Baek Seol-hee, are you not bidding?

-…I spent 30 billion won, how can I spend more here? I don’t really need feathers.

-Oh my, are you really going to pay that? Seolhee, can’t you do without that?

-They say that when women get married, they take 30 million won as a dowry. I plan to take 30 billion won.

No matter how talented an S-class person is, since he cannot make money by selling his magic power, he has no choice but to be pushed aside by the chairman of large corporations or national figures as capital power.

Just as the most Baek Sul-hee could pay was 30 billion won.

-One night wasn’t just one night, it was a honeymoon. But you know you have to share that with me, right?

-yes?

-…what. You decided to divide by 1/n. Are you kidding me?

-Have you ever had such a contract? I’ve never written a contract.

-Wow, look at this girl?

…For a moment, a different kind of competition began between people with special abilities that did not require feathers, but the other side was more important to me than that.

[chaos. Are there any villains around?]

[There is no one yet. It seems like everyone is curious. I don’t see any reason to break in and steal the feather, but everyone seems to be curious about how much the auction price will go up for just one feather.]

Chaos scattered magical energy across the roof of the building.

The sand and gravel gathered by magic instantly created a miniature version of the hotel, as well as all buildings and roads within a 4km radius of the hotel.

[They noticed us doing headshots, but everyone was waiting in their respective positions.]

Slur.

A large screen hung in a plaza, between another hotel’s suite, and a convenience store alley.

Dots that indicate risk factors can be seen in numerous places.

The orange sparkling dots were all kinds of A~S level superpowers who were not caught by Jicheonhyang’s GuRaider, but rather were revealing their positions by repelling the GuRaider’s magic power.

That number is a whopping 30.

Even without going into the auction house directly and hitting a headshot like that, there are so many talented people around.

Because their way of thinking is different from that of ordinary people.

[It seems like everyone is moving slowly… As expected, there are people who move right away because they think the money will rise to an excessive level.]

Parts that the regulator cannot recognize begin to tremble one by one.

There are some clumsy guys who use their magic to suppress the waves of tangerines that are widespread in the streets, and although they hide their magic, they do not realize that their location is being discovered because they are instinctively protecting themselves.

Wow!!

Hallabong flies in and hits them in the back, and agents of the Hero Association rush in to stop the villain.

-stop! They’re trying to raid the hotel!

-Ugh…! My uniform? You guys, are you really students at the academy?!

-Before he was a student at the academy, he was a class A hero!

-If you are a student, you should study like a student…! Get out of the way! You guys have no business!

-You’re trying to steal a feather! You thief!

-He’s a villain!

I have no money?

Then just steal it.

Now that villains with such thoughts are active, it is time to activate the device prepared in advance.

[Hye-ra. Operation begins. ‘The sun is bright, … is sparkling’.]

-…Foot.

Hye-ra Yoon let out a small laugh.

* * *

“Everyone…. Sigh. You have so much money that it’s scary.”

Emperor Kim Yun-ji stuck out her tongue at the price going up like crazy.

What is your total assets?

If you were a self-made person in your early 20s and your assets reached 5 billion won, anyone would applaud you for being successful.

However, if it were said to be an S-class superpower, everyone would wonder, ‘Why is that the only one available?’

-The president’s annual salary is 200 million, but it is difficult for us to set a high budget. Instead, set high advertising, activity compensation, or allowances…

Official annual salary, 500 million won.

You may wonder what kind of salary an S-level talented person receives, but for the sake of the country, she willingly accepted the salary offered by the country.

It wasn’t an amount that was a big problem in the life of Emperor Kim Yun-ji until now, and it didn’t cause much of a hindrance to her hero activities.

but.

“……write.”

Aside from Baek Seol-hee, who has been working as a hero since her early teens, it is quite bitter to see other S-class people spending billions and tens of billions of dollars.

Is that why everyone is linking up with companies?

So, is the annual salary offered by other countries in the hundreds of billions of won – or is it the same amount as the ‘1,000 horse’ that was once paid like crazy in China?

As a hero, I never thought of myself as particularly poor, but I wonder why I feel a sense of relative deprivation without knowing it.

“……Ah.”

At that moment, Taegeuk Watch sparkled.

The text message that came like a spam email contained song lyrics, and as soon as I checked the text message-

Coo coo coo.

“Earthquake?!”

The building shook.

Everyone in the auction house tensed due to the sudden, tremendous shaking, and at the same time kept an eye on the phoenix’s feathers.

“Enemy raid…?!”

Moment.

The Emperor saw.

A middle-aged man, who stumbled and almost fell, reached down and saw something strangely falling off the top of his head.

message.

The sun is bright.

Bald head is shiny.

“…I think it was a grain of sand.”

Yunji Kim took a deep breath and unleashed the ability she had been preparing before the auction.

‘I don’t know if this has any meaning.’

Yunji Kim squeezed her eyes shut as she watched the light gradually overheating on the ceiling.

And then someone’s voice came to mind.

-Success allowance, 10 billion. Okay. Because it is paid out of the proceeds from the sale of feathers.

Paaa!

The lights on the ceiling overheated, filling the auction house with white light.

The light was like sunlight.