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There were two pouches that came out of Goburin’s arms. When I opened my wallet, I found that roughly half of the money was in the pocket.

So, I put it in my pocket to eat half of it, right?

When I glared at Goburin, he cleared his throat and looked away.

After a while, I started counting the money to get the exact amount.

Other ronin people who are in their first ronin life think that the middleman is bullying them, but since it is just a suspicion without any evidence, they can only express their discomfort and cannot argue with it. So all the brokers have to do is lay down the iron plate and hold on.

However, I, Ho Cheon-an, have also played the role of a broker a few times. So, we know roughly what the unit price is for this kind of request and what the cost is calculated when certain cases occur.

This world of martial arts reflects the era of martial arts as it is, and in this era, it is actually ‘common’ to wear a different bag. If you do an honest business, it is a virtue of a businessman to tell the story of his experience of catching a fool after being called a fool.

We live in an age where people brag about their resourcefulness with the money they sold their conscience for, so even if I tried to talk about contracts and trust based on the common sense of a modern person, it would be pointless.

“It’s a black cat. Sit next to me.”

I don’t know what the scent was, but as the black cat sat next to me, a refreshing scent spread all around. Does this exquisite beauty have a scent that makes people feel good?

In this room full of men and women and full of the scent of a widower, the scent that a black cat would occasionally give off was a refreshing scent that made me exclaim in exclamation.

Gobulin must have felt that too, as his nose twitched and his face turned red.

Even though you can’t even see the outline of her face, the charm of the dark-faced woman, a black cat, can make you think of a peerless beauty just by her atmosphere, voice, scent, and body.

No, when I think about it, even though the face covered by that mask-like cotton thread is ugly, my voice is beautiful, my smell is fragrant, my body is good, and I am attractive. Doesn’t she have a face of exquisite beauty? Right? is not it?

When I looked towards the black cat, my confused mind became clear when I saw Goburin with a blushing face.

He looked like a goblin king, with thick flesh and a menacing appearance, but the sight of him blushing shyly was very harmful to the health of his eyes.

He’s already an obnoxious guy, but he even makes a happy face, so I really want to hit him.

We can’t hit him with fists, so let’s beat him with facts.

“We did an intermediate request yesterday. Is this how much you earn for a mid-level request?”

I took off a chunk of the hermits and pushed them to a corner.

“And yesterday I lost my sword and ran away, right? If it is a normal request, the reward ends at a few percent more than the mid-range price of the sword.”

“Isn’t a sword familiar to a warrior quite valuable?”

“Then I shouldn’t have let go. The choice is yours, so why blame others? That is your area of responsibility.”

“Ah…”

“So, if we assume that my sword was treated as a normal expense yesterday, it would be like this.”

He also held out a piece of silver.

“But maybe, if the client had sense, he would have put in enough money to select my sword as a good one among the ready-made ones. If you received that much convenience yesterday, you will spit it out no matter how indifferent you are. So, is this how much I actually paid for my sword?”

Additionally, a piece of silver was pushed in and added to the price of the sword.

“And hey…thinking about yesterday makes me angry again. Anyway, that bastard Kang-Jun has ignored the basic rules of etiquette of a political faction, or rather, the etiquette of a warrior in common sense, on several occasions. How dare you disrespect your business colleague, Ronin, so you should get an apology fee?”

Just like that, he pushed away the rest of the eunja.

“But. Where on earth did the additional money that this client paid, saying he was satisfied, go? Could it be that the additional money is dust? Or is it just a sign of exhaustion that is only visible to the eyes of good people?”

“Oh, is there such a thing as Gijin Ibo? What is your name?”

“Black cat, pay attention.”

After glaring once, the black cat closed its mouth.

Goburin’s complexion is already in a very bad state.

“Now, where did the money for the audit fee go?”

“Huh, do you know how many years it’s been since you’ve been working with me? Very unpleasant!”

As I said before, the prerequisite for becoming a broker is having a well-established family that would not be surprised at all if people from any sect came to visit. In other words, this can also be called pedigree.

Brokers are supposed to be merchants, but the truth is that their skills are inferior to merchants.

Under these favorable conditions, without any competitors, intermediaries collude to conduct business. What kind of merchant is this? You’re such a brat.

“In the first place, what do you know to categorize money like that? The price of that sword! No matter how satisfied Taegyeongmun was…”

“So you did your fair share?”

“That’s right!”

“Golden House’s Gobulin, I’ll say it for the last time. Did you do a good job as a broker?”

Gobulin’s expression hardened.

I had a limited attitude toward middlemen. The first reason is that I am the one who suffers the consequences when brokers omit request information out of spite, and the first reason is that it gives an estimate of how much money is being made anyway and how much effort it will take to dig up that hammock.

Brokers pretend to charge a low commission and then pocket the money. In fact, it is the same as bargaining with merchants who insist that they are selling at a loss in the market and will not reduce the price even a penny.

And more than anything, I wasn’t very sensitive about compensation because the only way to have money was to get sucked into the stakes at the gambling house. In any case, it was the case that the entire amount had to be invested in the gambling house, leaving only a small amount.

But now it’s different.

In order to get out of second-class status and into first-class status, you had no idea what was going to happen, and in order to respond to that situation, you had to prioritize accumulating money.

People often compare money to a bullet.

Literally. The more money you have, the better, because a single bullet called money can take your life.

Since I am now in a situation where I don’t know how much money I will need for my future steps, I need to at least block myself from taking my share of the money.

Gobulin will not hear my words in vain.

Because brokers are the ones who know best how far my skills can go.

Because I solved the requests that gave them headaches with amazing resourcefulness.

“Go Burin, do you know what Taegyeongmun’s Kang Jun did to me at Gyeongsu Market?”

“Field work is your responsibility! Don’t blame me! I got all the money I deserved from Tae Kyung-moon!”

As the shouts came and went, the gazes of the ronin people gathered again.

A frustrating guy who doesn’t understand the situation and only knows how to abuse power. That’s what I figured out.

It’s good to get rid of brokerage fees. Gobulin also has to eat to survive. If you’re kicking someone else’s pocket, I can just take it back.

But this case is something I can’t just back down from.

This is because this request was truly absurd.

It is true that Gobulin’s requests were always a mess. The reason there have been no accidents so far is because I was fully aware of the situation when receiving requests through brokers like these advisors.

But now things have changed. I have to keep receiving requests, but I don’t have time to look into Sacheon’s trends instead of stupid clients like before.

In the end, the reason I was attacked by a guy named Kang Jun from Taegyeongmun yesterday was because I had no idea what was going on in Sacheon these days. After the Yeo-il-ye incident, I was so busy trying to survive that I couldn’t pay any attention to the outside world, and due to the black cat incident, I was confined to the royal guesthouse for a whopping 5 days.

[It is said that the momentum of the expansion of the sect called Taegyeongmun is unusual, and the sect is completely unstoppable.]

If I had continued my normal life as a ronin, such rumors would have reached my ears. I was out of my mind, but these days, the ronin people in the ronin house were also half out of their minds with my enlightenment and the beauty of the black cat, so the quality of the rumors heard in the ronin house was drastically reduced.

But is this normal?

Isn’t the role of a broker to help writers decide on work by looking at the risk of the request and the quality of the client, or to provide them with the right information and warn them so they can be clearly aware of risk factors?

That side was the right thing to do, the right that the ronin should receive, and the service that the broker should provide.

As I moved on to other matters in the future, I had no choice but to gradually neglect understanding trends for my own business, so I had no choice but to make up for that part by uprighting the middlemen who had a lax attitude.

In the end, it is Gobulin’s fault for allowing this ridiculous troll to be delivered to me. Then, it looks like he took responsibility and took care of the situation, or just looked at the bag of money he gave him and ran away excitedly.

We need to make these guys do their job properly so that we can move to the next level with Black Cat.

First, let’s properly prepare the golden goblins that have been caught.