13. The Empire of the Glans.

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“Are you going back now?”

 

 

After the hot time passed, Nuna asked while getting dressed again.

Of course, she’s asking if I’m going back to Gangnam.

 

 

It’s been a while.

It hasn’t been that long if you count the days, but it felt like a long time.

A lot happened too.

 

 

“I have to go back. I need to start my activities in earnest.”

 

 

After all, the city is where I belong.

Not a place that’s been completely destroyed like this.

I’ll come back again when it’s rebuilt later. For now, I’ll leave it to the occupation force and return home.

 

 

“That’s great. It looks like we got quite a few spoils of war, so I should go shopping when we get back. Heehee.”

“…You had a lot of money even before we came here.”

 

To be honest, I don’t think we made much money here. We didn’t run dungeons much, we just fought defensive battles. Even if you add up the hazard pay + life insurance + travel expenses from the association, it probably wouldn’t be more than tens of millions of won, right?

 

 

On the other hand, when we took over Gangnam, we killed hundreds of adventurers who were trying to kill us and acquired spoils worth billions of won. Countless weapons and equipment pouring out… it was amazing back then. I haven’t sold everything yet, but I still have hundreds of millions of won easily. Nuna too.

 

 

“Still, there’s a feeling, you know? We’re part of the D10 Korean branch, so we’ll get travel expenses and stuff, right? Shopping with money you get from somewhere is a woman’s joy. Wanna come with me?”

“No.”

 

 

I answered immediately.

I know the legend of shopping well.

 

 

For men, it’s the worst dungeon and the best boss monster.

Also, if you have a female companion, the dungeon’s danger and difficulty increase by 500% as a penalty. It’s an enormous thing.

 

 

“I’ll buy it online like a modern person.”

“You’re no fun. We’re a couple and we have sex, so we should go shopping together. Go to a cafe and eat shaved ice with red beans too.”

“Euhm. Euhm euhm. I don’t really….”

“Would you go if Sonya-ssi said she was going?”

“Huh? Then I’ll think about it a littleㅡ.”

“Wow, this bastard is so discriminatory.”

“Hehe….”

 

Sorry Nuna. Sonya-ssi is just too strong right now.

 

 

“But would Sonya-ssi even do things like shopping?”

“What are you talking about? Of course, she would.”

“She seems like the type to order people around to buy things for her.”

“She has that much money…but is there a need to? Like I said, shopping is like gasoline for a car for women.”

“It could be diesel, you know. Diesel is cheapㅡ.”

“Wanna get hit?”

“No.”

 

I guess old man jokes are subject to criticism.

 

 

 

 

 

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“You’re going back?”

“Yes.”

 

Yuna-ssi looked at me with round eyes and then nodded.

Her ponytail swayed slightly.

 

 

“Okay. There’s nothing more to do here anyway.”

“There’s nothing at all, for now.”

“Tokyo is just a little further out, you know?”

“Even so, the city center has been cut off…and all I know in Japanese is ‘kimochi’. Ah, ‘kimochi’ isㅡ.”

“I know too.”

“How do you know?”

“…It’s okay if you don’t know.”

 

She looks at me with a sulky face.

Did I say something weird?

I think I did a little bit…hmm….

 

 

“What are your plans when you go back? If you’re just going to run the Gangnam dungeon like before, how about trying something different?”

“Something different?”

“You already have a force. And your guild members are too good to just run the Gangnam dungeon. Especially the women with anachronistic jobs.”

 

 

If it’s an anachronistic job…are you talking about the maids?

 

 

“I guess so.”

 

 

They’re a little too wasted.

 

 

“As far as I know, the average attack/defense of your maids is around 30,000, so if you form a team with them and dispatch them to a B-grade dungeon, you’ll see much more profit. Above all, there aren’t many teams or guilds in the world right now that can run the Tokyo dungeon, so if the appraisal of the spoils is finished, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to sign contracts with major companies overseas.”

“Contracts?”

 

 

What are you talking about? Aren’t you moving the story along too fast?

 

 

“…So,”

 

Yuna-ssi even took out paper, as if she was frustrated.

Sorry, I’m not smart.

 

 

“When you catch monsters in a dungeon, you get spoils, right?”

“Yes.”

“When a dungeon first appears, researchers under D10 appraise the spoils from that dungeon.”

“I know that too.”

“And when the results come out, companies that think they can be used in their products reach out. Who would they reach out to?”

“Well, they’d reach out to adventurers.”

 

 

“To be exact, they’ll reach out to those who can supply them ‘stably’ and ‘quickly’. High-ranking guilds, for example. At least they’ll prefer a team that can easily run the dungeon and that thugs are wary of.

They make contracts with those entities to specialize in certain spoils and deliver them periodically. The larger the company, and the higher the attack/defense of the team, guild, or adventurer, and the more difficult the dungeon, the contract fee skyrockets.”

 

“Hee.”

 

 

Well, that’s a plausible story.

 

 

“Besides, didn’t I tell you this on the first day?”

“Huh? No?”

“I should have??”

“Hey. You must be misremembering. At that time, you only explained that F-grade dungeons were solving the food crisis. You didn’t explain the relationship between companies and adventurers or anything like that.”

 

Probably.

 

 

“….”

 

 

Hmm.

It looks like you’re glaring at me.

 

 

No, really? Really?

 

“Well, that’s okay. Anyway, because that kind of contract exists, it’s better to form a team within the guild and dispatch them to a B-grade dungeon. Sign a contract with a company, or create a company altogether.”

“It would be impossible to create a company with my brain, right?”

“You’re asking the obvious.”

“….”

“At least you’d have to be like ‘that person’, right?”

“Who’s that person?”

“My mom.”

“She’s busy. In many ways.”

“I think she’d quit being a lawyer if you told her to.”

“Hey. That’s not romantic.”

“?”

“You don’t know anything.”

“…What are you talking about? Why are you suddenly talking about romanceㅡ.”

 

 

Tsk tsk tsk.

You don’t know men at all.

Of course, you’ve never been in a relationship, so it’s understandable.

 

 

I need to explain this.

 

 

“Listen carefully, Miss.”

“Who are you calling Miss?”

“Men like pretty women, but they like ‘pretty female lawyers’ or ‘pretty female police officers’ or ‘pretty female prosecutors’ even more. Got it? Sonya-ssi should be a lawyer.”

“What are you saying, it’s annoying.”

 

Wow. She really scrunched up her face.

I was just telling the truth honestly.

 

“Say that in front of my mom. You’ll get slapped.”

“I don’t think so.”

 

 

I don’t think I’d get slapped. Not with Sonya-ssi as she is now.

 

 

“Anyway, I don’t think it’s possible to create a company…so there’s the option of signing a contract with another company…but honestly, wouldn’t that be difficult too? I don’t know anything.”

“They’ll contact you on their own. Your existence has already spread a lot through the Japanese media. Maybe even governments from various countries will contact you.”

“Governments? Why? Are they going to use me as a nuclear weapon or something?”

“That too, but…hmm….”

 

 

Yuna-ssi put her chin in her hand like Conan and fell into thought.

 

 

“If the spoils from the Tokyo dungeon have significant strategic value, they might offer a huge amount of money with a clause like ‘Monopolize the Tokyo Dungeon!'”

“Hee.”

“It’s Mithril, right? The name itself is unusual. If it’s the same Mithril that appears in novels…it could really happen. Then, if you form several teams composed of super-strong people and monopolize the Tokyo dungeon, you can really get paid whatever you ask for.”

“Ooh.”

“And furthermore…it would be good to increase the number of guild members and teams in advance.”

“Hmm…why?”

“Because B-grade dungeons will be created in various countries around the world in the future.”

“Ah!”

 

 

That’s right…once a dungeon of a certain grade is created, it can be created in other places too…!

 

 

“If that happens, it’s meaningless even if you monopolize the Tokyo dungeon. So, you create teams in advance, and when another dungeon is created, you immediately dispatch them to do both defense and farming. There’s even a boss monster during the defense, right?”

 

 

That’s right. Increase the number of guild members, increase the number of maids, equip them with Eunju-made items, and form a team of maids.

 

 

And then create branches in each high-level dungeon and occupy them.

 

How do you occupy them?

It’s simple…if you kill everyone who comes in, it’ll be monopolized automatically….

 

 

“Then I should declare territory and increase the number of guild members. Should I even advertise?”

“What’s territory declaration again?”

“Didn’t I tell you before?”

“Hmm…I think you did vaguely….”

“…You don’t remember well either…”

“What did you say?”

“Nothing. Nothing at all.

Territory declaration is my skill. I’m an emperor, so I need territory, right? Let’s see…if I declare territory now….”

 

 

 

 

 

《《territory declaration=””》》

 

 

 

 

Declares the emperor’s unique territory. The area of the territory increases by the emperor’s ‘stamina’ stat.

 

 

Grade: Legendary

Category: Active

 

 

Effect: The area with a radius of ‘stamina cm’ centered on the place designated by the emperor changes to the emperor’s unique territory. In that space, the effect of 《《imperial order=””》》 is maximized, and those hostile to the emperor receive a -70% stat penalty within that territory. In addition, you can utilize various skills related to the territory.

 

 

Current territory range (radius): 2.1817 Km

Cooldown: 1 year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“About 2 kilometers in radius is my territory. About a neighborhood.”

“That’s about a small city. A radius of 2 km would be a circle with a diameter of 4 km, so the area of the circle is pi * radius * radius, so 3.14 * 2 * 2 is about 12.56 square kilometers. It’s not huge, but it’s quite big.”

“Hmm. I’m a liberal arts person…more than that, did you do that in your head?”

“Can’t you even do that? Are you stupid?”

“….”

 

No…I’m not stupid.

 

 

“Well, that’s okay. So what’s so good about that territory declaration?”

“I wonder?”

“….”

 

 

It looks like you’re determined to ‘not say anything….’

I’m disappointed, Yuna-ssi.