episode_0412

The ransom amounted to 30 billion.

He earned more money in one day than most sports stars.

‘It’s not really money to begin with, but it feels good.’

Although it is said to be a practice auction held before the main auction, from the moment the amount exceeds 100 million won, people start asking, “Why won’t they sell it anyway?” It has reached that level.

But there is an appropriate line for everything.

If it was simply 10 million won, or at most 100 million won, there would be rich people in real life who would burn 100 million won on a night with an S-class celebrity.

I’ve never experienced it in real life, I’ve only heard about it, but from what I’ve experienced in this world, they say that in the entertainment district over there, they offer a ride in a car for the price of one night of drinking.

If you ring the golden bell with Dom Perignon, or add all kinds of alcohol and drug costs to it, your wealth will be lost overnight.

Especially if that person is a person with special abilities.

In that sense, it is not a shame, but a proud thing to receive a ransom of 30 billion just for being ‘the owner of the physicality and technique that drives S-class people with special abilities’ that have not yet been revealed as having special abilities.

[I don’t know how I can be free with Do Ji-hwan now. Because you have to pay 30 billion each time you do it.]

The frequency of villains appearing gradually decreased, and Chaos, who had some free time, told me a joke in a subdued voice.

[How, would you like to do a full course for 3 days and 2 nights with me for 100 won?]

[If it were not 100 billion won but 100 billion Zimbabwean dollars.]

[what. The value fell to the bottom in an instant.]

[It means criticizing the financial sensitivity of people in this world.]

Honestly, to be blunt, what kind of crazy person in the world would burn 30 billion won on one night with a man?

This is something that I cannot understand, neither with my common sense nor with the notions of people living in this world.

[If it is publicly known that Do Ji-hwan is a goblin, what if 30 billion? I think that’s possible with a little bit of exaggeration.]

[Should it be more than 30 billion?]

[Don’t try to raise it any higher here. It’s good to value it that much, but it seems like the more the unit goes up, the more my head hurts.]

[I shouldn’t have a headache. When the transformation is released, you will be naked in the middle of Jeju Island.]

[I’m not saying that. ha.]

Perhaps it was because no villains had suddenly appeared around him, but Chaos relaxed and stretched leisurely.

[Eok is not someone’s dog’s name.]

[But the people gathered over there can very easily raise about a hundred million. They’re all S-class and president-level. It may be surprising, but you know that the S-class people who work in sunny areas make a huge amount of money, right?]

[…iced coffee.]

It’s not a hero’s story.

Korean heroes receive government taxes and make money through association activity fees and personal advertising contracts.

There is a feeling that there is less to be received in Korea than in other countries, but in reality, in the United States and China, the amount given to S-class people according to their market value amounts to trillions, but in Korea, they also tend to take good care of their money.

[In the first place, China’s Cheonma has an annual salary of 500 trillion won. I know that? When I was active here, I was 17 years old and my annual salary was 50 billion won.]

[If I were to live and continue to be a hero, would I be able to receive 1 trillion won in annual salary?]

[If you add everything together with the advertising contract, it will be 1 trillion won in profit per year, right? Of course, in the association, you get more than that.]

[…….]

Something sends a chill down my spine.

I know this, but I still have a small-town sensibility and it still feels overwhelming to keep up with the money sense of this world.

I am satisfied with the 50 million won in compensation I receive for each mission, and it is enough for me to buy a maker apartment in Banpo, but every time I hear people with special abilities talking about huge sums of money, I feel like they are people from another world. It seems.

So maybe I get along better with Ymir.

Although I have become a man of 30 billion, I am still closer to the sensibilities of a small citizen.

[I don’t know why the world gives me so much money just because I know how to use this ability.]

[With just a wave of my hand, large-scale civil engineering construction that would take three years can be completed overnight. Isn’t it natural to invest that much value in talented people?]

[…….]

[Huh, why? Once again, does your sister look amazing?]

Come to think of it.

This woman was that person.

[Most facilities in this country have not been touched by you?]

[You must have received a lot of money since you were young.]

Chaos Seong Ji-eun.

To name just a few of her achievements while she was alive.

All roads in Busan have been reorganized into roads that are cleaner than those in Sejong City in reality.

They built a bridge hundreds of kilometers long extending from Busan to Sejong Island.

The framework of a 40-story high-rise apartment was raised in just three days, and the painting work began immediately.

That was when she was just a ‘child’.

In reality, a civil engineering project would have taken tens of trillions of dollars and several years of time, but as an ‘S-level talented child,’ she was able to do it in an instant.

-Rather than spending trillions of won on the national budget to work for several years, wouldn’t it be better to pay half that money and ask someone to do the job?

This logic is the logic of this world now.

[It may be surprising, but you must have made a lot of money when you were young.]

[huh? It’s not? Before I turned 17, my annual salary was 30 million won.]

[……You created Sejongism?]

[There is a saying like that in this country.]

Chaos made the bottom of the mask disappear for a moment and twisted the corner of his mouth.

[Passion Pay.]

oh.

[It was okay to give the child a ‘fun experience’ and ‘reward’ by saying that he could play with this ability, and to the child’s parents, they said that they would provide a reasonable amount of money, saying that this would be enough. Because it is for the public interest.]

[Wasn’t someone holding it up?]

[No one said anything because the remainder of the Sejong Bridge construction budget was paid 1/n to all citizens. Fortunately, when I was about 17 years old, foreign countries guaranteed the rights of people with special abilities, so I received a decent amount of money. If you look closely, when you talk about the past, you speak as if you are hearing it for the first time?]

[…is it.]

That’s natural.

For me, the past of this world is not something I experienced directly, but a world I just saw through records.

Even if drunk adults ask young people born in 2002 if they remember that time, saying, ‘Hey, the whole of Korea was covered in a red wave in 2002!’, who would be able to answer that properly?

That’s how I feel.

[The value of labor is replaced.]

[The amount you receive varies depending on your ability. Isn’t this a given in the age of capitalism? The minimum annual salary for an E-level qualified person is KRW 100 million, but the reality of this world is that it is difficult for non-skilled people to receive even the minimum wage.]

Chaos shrugged and spread his arms.

[This country is that kind of country. No, this world is like that. A world where astronomical amounts of money are exchanged just for having this ability, from the perspective of a non-skilled person. Before the cataclysm, it would have been similar to how the poor in the shantytowns looked at the lives of the rich in oil-producing countries.]

[This is an era where you can live the life of Arab royalty with just this ability.]

It’s fair, yet so unfair.

If you are born with this ability, you can enjoy wealth and power, but if you do not have this ability, you fall into the abyss right from the beginning.

Some people say that the man over there will spend hundreds of millions in one night, and eventually 30 billion, while in other places, it is a world where even buying a bowl of soup even after working an hour at minimum wage makes your hands tremble.

Here is a fragment of the hotbed that combines this ability and common capitalism.

[Think positively, Manager Do. You have now become hope for the incapable.]

[hope?]

[okay. Sex even without this ability]

[Uh huh.]

[…You showed people around the world that if you are good at patriotism, you can make a lot of money.]

Is it hope?

It doesn’t touch me directly.

Because I’m busy dealing with the influx of villains and focusing on the situation at the auction house, I haven’t yet been able to find out how the community views this auction.

[I didn’t intend to be a source of hope for the non-skilled, but if it brings some comfort, it’s a good thing.]

30 billion per day for one body.

Roughly speaking, there are 365 days in a year, so if you leave all complicated calculations aside and just do the simple calculation, an annual salary of 1 trillion won is a ridiculous amount of money.

Do Ji-hwan speaks.

Hey, you too can earn this much through patriotism.

[If it is later revealed that he is a goblin, that hope may turn into deeper despair.]

Rollo coasters tend to fall faster and harder when you go up to a higher place than when you just fall.

[It will feel even more awkward from now on, but what will everyone think when a man’s cost is more than 30 billion won in one night?]

[well. At least… wouldn’t you think that the ‘resurrection right’ is more valuable than the ‘ultra-opposition right’?]

As Chaos said.

-Ah, then…. The Phoenix Feather Auction will now begin. Starting price….

Any human being would think that the price of life is more expensive than the price of sperm.

-Let’s start with 30 billion.

[…Well, the value obtained from selling Do Ji-hwan overnight is enough for the asking price.]

Everything.

[I spend 30 billion to sleep with a man, so of course the phoenix feather should be worth more than that.]

To raise people’s threshold.

-Please call the asking price in units of 10 billion.

What I sold myself for.

The purpose was to gain momentum for the asking price.