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564 – Domino

564 – Domino

Perhaps he thought of the game as a kind of combat training.

The Beastmen showed awe towards me.

“As expected, he’s amazing, unlike what he looks like.”

“Unlike what he looks like? He looks brave just by looking at him, doesn’t he?”

“No, that’s not it.”

“Yes…?”

A conflict of opinion arose between Wilder and Nora.

Nora bared her teeth, and I thought a fight would break out, but fortunately, they settled the score with a fighting game.

Thwack-! Thwack-!

Not knowing much about the game, the two fought with the divine skill of mashing buttons without combos.

Perhaps because of the Beastmen’s unique reflexes, the timing of attacks and evasions was plausible.

“What? Too weak?!”

“…Are you talking to me?”

I watched the two playing the fighting game and turned to look at Flora and Hailey.

The two were playing a whack-a-mole game.

“Haha! This relieves stress.”

“…Were you stressed?”

“Ah… well, I’ve only been managing the barrier in the village…”

“Yes, I know how much you’ve suffered. Now that the situation has improved, try living doing what you want.”

“…Yes!”

Thump, thump, thump-!

Flora slammed the mole’s head with a rubber mallet.

She looked somehow happy.

‘I was a little annoyed when I first met her.’

She must have been stressed from managing the barrier without rest.

I hoped Flora would release all the stress she had accumulated today.

“Master, let’s try that too. It’s for two people.”

“What is this?”

“I don’t know either!”

Hehe, Flora showed a joyful smile.

Thanks to her smile, our experience became even more enjoyable.

“Enough with the arcade! We’re going to do something else now!”

“Aww, I want to keep playing.”

“If you keep playing, you’ll be cursed to never stop!”

“…Are you talking about addiction?”

“Yes! Addiction is dangerous!”

Levinas’s dissuasion stopped the Beastmen experience team from playing games.

Nora, Wilder, and even Flora.

They reluctantly stopped playing the game.

“Gyeoul, what’s next after the arcade?”

“Next is…”

We showed everything we had prepared to the Beastmen experience team.

What received the biggest reaction from the experience team was none other than the large mart.

“Does this building sell all the necessities to live?”

“Yes. Probably almost everything.”

“Hmm…”

Even Hailey, who always showed composure, let out a groan at the massive scale of the large mart.

She seemed lost in deep thought.

“I’ve heard that the human world here is amazing, but this is really incredible.”

“Yes, I understand why we need to accept the human world.”

Hearing and seeing it directly were different.

The Beastmen experience team, who had only seen the human world through their ears or storage media, were surprised and speechless for a while.

“…Gyeoul.”

“Yes?”

“Could we bring this large mart to the Beastmen village?”

“Hmm… It’s probably impossible. There are so few Beastmen.”

“I see.”

Hailey showed disappointment.

Perhaps because she had directly experienced the human world, she seemed to have clearly realized what the Beastmen village needed.

“But we could bring in a convenience store, right?”

“Convenience store?”

“Yes. The place where we sold empty bottles is a convenience store. You remember they sold quite a lot of things, right?”

“Yes, they were selling all sorts of things. Just bringing in one convenience store would make our lives much easier… Oh, so that’s why it’s called a convenience store.”

The ears of the Yang Beastman Hailey fluttered like wings.

Perhaps she was thinking of the Beastmen village accepting new culture, a small smile appeared on her lips.

“Gyeoul, could you find out about that convenience store?”

“Yes, anytime.”

After the experience, I should go to the convenience store in front of the guild building.

There were many things to do, but if I thought it was for the development of the Beastmen village, it wasn’t particularly difficult.

**

Ju Sang-wook, he worked as a convenience store employee for quite a long time.

Working as a manager of a convenience store, he had a certain pride.

It was a pride that he had been with the Dawn Guild’s history.

He watched Hanyeoreum, Jeong Yuna, and Choi Jin-hyuk join the guild, and witnessed Gyeoul’s first visit.

Starting with Gyeoul, the number of Beastmen children gradually increased, and they came to the convenience store to sell empty bottles.

Buying the empty bottles brought by the children was one of Ju Sang-wook’s pleasures.

The Dawn Guild’s convenience store manager was everything to Ju Sang-wook.

It was an unwavering pride, but even he had one concern.

It was the social perception of convenience store employees.

As it was the well-off Dawn neighborhood, the residents’ enthusiasm for education was considerable.

Ju Sang-wook’s friends also studied hard during their school days, and most of them had obtained fairly good jobs.

Most of his friends acknowledged Ju Sang-wook’s passion, but there was only one person who looked down on Ju Sang-wook.

He was a moron who thought that a convenience store employee was not good enough.

-After all, you’re just a convenience store employee, aren’t you? Shouldn’t you get a job in a proper place?

A guy who spewed out words full of ridicule every time they met.

Did he know?

The salary of the Dawn Guild’s exclusive convenience store manager?

Even if I told him, he would ignore it.

After all, he’s just a convenience store employee.

It was when Ju Sang-wook sighed.

“Hello.”

Early evening.

The convenience store door opened and Gyeoul came in.

Ju Sang-wook smiled as if nothing had happened.

It wasn’t a forced smile made because a customer came, but a natural smile.

“Hello, Gyeoul.”

“Yes, but you know…”

“Yeah. Is there something you want to say?”

“Yes. I was wondering if I could get some help with the convenience store…”

“Help? What kind of help?”

“Well, I want to build a convenience store in our Beastmen village, and I was wondering if you could help manage it…? You’re the most knowledgeable person about convenience stores among the people I know…”

Beastmen village.

Wasn’t that a place where only those chosen by the Beastmen’s god could enter?

Ju Sang-wook was thrilled that he had been invited to a place where even the Dawn Guild members could not easily enter.

“You’re asking me to manage the convenience store in the Beastmen village?”

“Yes. There are two villages, so we’re going to build two convenience stores, and I wanted to get help. Of course, you can refuse if it’s too difficult…”

“I definitely want to do it?”

“Yes?”

The manager of the first convenience store to be built in the Beastmen village.

It was the best achievement he could make as a convenience store employee.

A large corporation? A judge or prosecutor?

Screw them.

I have the authority to enter the Beastmen village.

Gyeoul guaranteed it.

Ju Sang-wook decided to dedicate the rest of his life to the convenience store.

He was going to make the first convenience store in the Beastmen village a part of the Beastmen village’s history.

**

“We should happily think about what would be good to have in the village.”

“I… the whack-a-mole…”

“Yes, let’s bring the whack-a-mole too.”

The experience team, who had finished the experience at the Dawn Guild building, returned to their respective villages.

They seemed to have realized a lot from seeing the human world, and they seemed to be deep in thought.

The day after the experience ended.

I simply harvested vegetables and came home, and the children were lining up books in a row at home.

“Hey, what are you doing?”

“We’re doing dominoes!”

“Dominoes?”

Levinas diligently lined up twenty fairy tale books in a row.

As Saebyeok touched the fairy tale book at the end, they began to fall like dominoes in a row.

“Wow!”

“Hehe…”

Gaeul clapped and laughed as she watched the books fall.

Bomi and Haneul also watched with eyes full of interest.

“Amazing. When you knock one over, they all fall.”

“Yes! But it’s a shame!”

“A shame?”

“Yes! It would have been more fun if there were more fairy tale books! Levinas only has this many fairy tale books!”

Does she want to make a longer domino?

If so, there was a way.

“If it’s books, can’t you borrow them from somewhere else?”

“Huh! Such a method…?!”

We ran to the Master’s room with the fairy tale books.

As always, the guard opened the door to the Master’s room.

“What’s wrong?”

“We want to do dominoes.”

“Dominoes?”

“Yes. But we don’t have many books, so can we borrow some books?”

“Sure.”

In the Master’s room, there were fairy tale books for us and the Master’s difficult books lined up on the bookshelf.

We began to line up the fairy tale books we brought and the books in the Master’s room in a straight line.

“Master! Here!”

Gaeul opened the door to the Master’s room and pointed outside.

It seemed like she wanted to take the dominoes out the door.

“Yes. Let’s go there.”

We continued to line up the books to the outside of the door.

Bomi even wrapped the guard who was guarding the door with books.

“Bomi, if you do this, the guard won’t be able to move and it will be difficult for him?”

“I’m fine. I don’t have to move.”

“Huh…?”

Is he okay?

I tilted my head and started lining up the books with the children again.

This time, Haneul opened the door to the emergency exit.

“Master…! Let’s go out here…!”

“Yes.”

We lined up the books towards the emergency exit.

Among the books we were lining up, there was a book marked [Important], is this a really important book?

‘Eh.’

If it was a really important book, the Master would have stopped us.

I didn’t pay much attention and continued to connect the dominoes.

We turned the emergency exit stairs around and went down a whopping three floors.

Then, Saebyeok expressed concern while looking at the books lined up next to the emergency exit door.

“Gyeoul, but if someone opens this door, won’t it all fall down?”

“Everyone only uses the elevator, so it should be okay, right? There are hardly any people using the stairs here because it’s a high-rise building.”

“Is that so?”

It was the moment to relieve Saebyeok’s worries.

I heard someone walking outside the closed emergency exit door.

This is Hanyeoreum’s footsteps.

Is he going to take the elevator?

At the same time as I perked up my ears, the doorknob began to turn.

“Oh!”

“Gasp!”

“Hi!”

Clang-

The door opened and the books that had been placed next to the door fell over.

Hanyeoreum peeked his face out through the slightly opened door.

He seemed to have felt our presence in the emergency exit and came out to see what we were doing.

Huk.

Levinas, who had her mouth wide open, and Haneul, who had become sullen.

Gaeul wailed and sounded the siren, and Bomi giggled as she found it funny that the dominoes had fallen.

Of course, Saebyeok was expressionless as always.

“Hey, hey guys…?”

Hanyeoreum, who looked down at us, stuttered.

He seemed flustered by the children’s expression of despair.

Tap- Tap- Tap- Tap-

Only the sound of falling dominoes was heard in the quiet emergency exit.

A word from the author (Author’s note)

PIA1747014585384 Thank you so much for reading today!

Thank you also for the comment recommendation! It’s always a strength!

When I was young, I used to bring all the books in my house and play dominoes…!