episode_0097

Ancient sages said that in rivers and lakes one must be careful of women, the elderly, and children.

And among those three categories, the most dangerous group is the elderly. In fact, if you think about it, this is natural.

Considering the average life expectancy at the time, the fact that an old man of an age where he would have long since entered the coffin is walking around on his own two feet is no different from the fact that he was an expert so great that he could even overcome the weight of time.

If the powerhouses of the past were like that, what kind of people should we be careful of here in Guryong City, which can be said to be the powerhouses of the current era?

If someone asked that question, Nakamura had the confidence to answer right on the spot.

Here in Guryong City, the people who must be avoided at all costs are those who look very healthy and walk around with canes, those who wear strange-looking belts, and those who are crazy about machines.

Those guys who cover their bodies with colorful tattoos as if they were paint boards and pull out knives or guns whenever they do anything?

Guryong City is a place where such people can be a nuisance, but cannot be an object of fear.

In that respect, it could be said that those druggy brothers, nicknamed ‘Zucchini and Pumpkin’ in the back alleys around here, were incredibly good at choosing who they wanted to rob.

First of all, seeing as he didn’t have a staff in his hand and his clothes were sloppy, he definitely couldn’t be a wizard, and since he wasn’t wearing anything like a sword, the possibility of him being a martial arts person seemed very low.

If you take those two out, all that’s left are the mechanical guys who are crazy about machines and stick machines into their own bodies… Even if you just look at them, they look natural.

‘In this day and age, where even newborn babies always have a small chip stuck in their head, being a natural…’

This was a rare thing in its own right.

It is said that among some of the shamanists who have spread throughout Korea and Asia, there are people who hold up nonsense like body purism and such as gospel and refuse to undergo any medical procedures. Are they one of those people?

Anyway, what should I do with this newbie who looks like it’s his first time in Kowloon City?

Personally, Nakamura was confident that there was no other police officer in this area who worked as conscientiously as he did, but unfortunately, the place where those three were now was clearly outside of his jurisdiction. Saying that it was not his jurisdiction meant that he would not be held responsible for whatever happened between those three.

But… you never know.

If that newbie has even a glimmer of ability to make his wallet thicker, wouldn’t it be possible for a courageous police officer who couldn’t stand the injustice happening in front of his eyes to step in between the three and sort out the situation?

That’s why I stood with my arms crossed and started watching the goings-on.

A very comfortable posture, leaning back against a telephone pole that is slightly tilted to the side.

However, that relaxed attitude did not last long.

“What?! Um, what is that…?”

Not only was it not enough to pull out a sword out of the air, but it was the sight of a newbie slaughtering weaklings with a sword technique that even he had never seen before.

What literally happened in the blink of an eye, Nakamura felt it intuitively.

“Ah… That’s roughly it.”

The level of your newbie.

I think it’s time to return to ‘Chunbae Park’, a cold-hearted broker in the back alleys, rather than Kowloon City’s exemplary police officer Nakamura.

*****

“Sseueueueuup···.”

Still, I guess I should have saved at least one of the two.

As I was swinging the sword and shaking off the blood that was on it, a thought occurred to me, but honestly, I couldn’t help it. That’s because they were carrying guns. I don’t know if he was drunk or on cheap synthetic drugs, but his eyes were wide open and it didn’t seem like he could even have a conversation.

So what can we do?

I have no choice but to ignore it for now.

‘By the way… Is it natural to just start from scratch?’

In the main game, like Romance of the Three Kingdoms, you get to choose your options at the beginning, so I thought I would definitely go through that stage this time too.

Instead of doing that, you just throw a person in the middle of the road like this.

Thanks to this, I was a little confused.

It was even more so because I had my own plan.

In fact, according to my original plan, I would start as a member of ‘Sacheon Pharmaceutical’ or ‘Ohsung Tech’, one of the megacorps that dominate this Kowloon City, and then work my way up to an appropriate position, and then use the power that comes from there to acquire new link abilities and useful items. The goal was to secure it. Since I started off in the wanderer position, it seemed like I needed to revise my plan a bit.

‘Even if I commit myself to a company now…’

It probably has no meaning.

If he had been part of a company from the beginning, there would be no way for those closed-minded people to value a wanderer who doesn’t even know where he lived.

If I go under them first, that will definitely happen… but what if I create a situation where they have no choice but to hang themselves on me?

Would he be needlessly territorial in such a situation?

However, the problem is how to get there…

What should I do?

What can I do to make China tremble, Japan in shock, and the United States hang in shock like the thumbnail of the soup tube?

It must have been at a moment when I was struggling with kicking the bodies of the guys who were rolling on the floor with the trash.

“I wonder if something is causing you trouble?”

Unlike the extremely awkward English and Japanese (English + Japanese) of the bullies who appeared earlier, a very familiar language, Korean, flowed into my ears. When I reflexively turned my gaze towards him, what caught my eye was-

“···Park Chun-bae?”

He was a middle-aged man with a pot-bellied appearance who seemed somewhat harmless. It was right after his name came out of my mouth that I started to feel incontinence behind the mask of harmlessness.

Of course, that didn’t last long.

As a human living in the magic world of Guryong City, where the moment you look down on him even a little, a knife is stabbed in your lower abdomen, you say ‘Uh-huh!’ with a human-like laugh and quickly hide the cracks that appear on your face.

“I came here to see what was going on, but I never thought you were Korean… By the way, how did you know my name…?”

If the person I met for the first time today knew his name, he would show caution and look at me, but instead of doing that, he would start talking to me in a condescending manner.

Contrary to his calm and good-looking appearance, Park Chun-bae’s eyes were noticeably thinner than before, and his pupils were moving busily.

From the looks of it, he seems to be deducing my identity in his own way…

She wasn’t a beautiful woman that anyone would recognize, and with a pot-bellied man talking to her, I felt like I was sinking like a nuclear submarine, but other than that, the situation itself wasn’t that bad.

Not surprisingly, I was worried about how to move forward, but with Park Chun-bae stepping up to the mound in front of me, there was no longer any reason to worry.

“Of course you should know. Anyone who wants to settle down in Kowloon City.”

So that’s what I said, but as soon as I got the words out, Chunbae, who was still smiling brightly, came out of his mouth, saying ‘tsk’ and lightly clicking his tongue.

“I thought I was going to take care of my share of the brokerage fees, but I heard that newbies these days don’t have a cute taste.”

At the same time, Mr. Park Chun-bae, who seemed like a nice person standing in front of me, suddenly disappeared, and instead, Chun-bae Park, a bloodless and tearless professional broker in charge of clearing up the back alleys of Guryong City, also known as Magyeong, appeared with a grumbling voice. Neda.

“It’s the same because you deliberately chose this route instead of other access roads, and it’s also because you know my name… By then, you’ll know what I do for a living, so I won’t go around talking about it.”

Park Chun-bae, who said exactly that, no more, no less, asked me with his snake-like eyes fixed on me.

“So what do you want?”

“Is it possible to do anything if you just say what you want?”

“Well, if it’s possible with my abilities.”

“Then… things like nuclear weapons?”

Park Chun-bae paused for a moment, as if he had never expected to hear such words. But then he smiled so wide that the golden teeth embedded in his molars were clearly visible.

“It won’t work. The price must be really expensive, but is there a way to pay for it?”

“···You can get it?”

“If there is a product the customer wants, isn’t it the role of a broker to get it to you?”

Although Park Chun-bae had never lost his smile until then…

“Then what about the Colosseum?”

“What? Colosseum? Isn’t that the name of a ruin over there in the Magic Empire?”

“You probably know better than anyone else that I’m not saying that, right?”

“···.”

The moment one of Kowloon City’s secrets came out of my mouth, the smile on his face disappeared. And what took its place was a creepy, expressionless face.

“What are you doing?”