Chapter 183 – Episode 21. Plan B.
“Konoe, I’m going to open the door, so please don’t use that magical eye ability.”
“Yes.”
I opened the door to the room where Akina Konoe was being held. Akina Konoe opened her eyes to see if she could control her magical eyes. Akina Konoe was a very beautiful woman, with her long black hair and red eyes that were probably due to her demonic eyes. Her appearance and attitude made her look like a dignified young lady from a prestigious family.
Akina Konoe also looked at me, looking a little surprised and staring at my face. As expected, respect is a way to recognize each other. We looked at each other for a moment.
“Everyone come out.”
At my words, the door opened and the talented boys and girls in the room cautiously left the room. I seemed surprised that it was suddenly purchased from just me.
“I bought you in no way to exploit you. Do you have a place to go back to? “Raise your hand if you have a home to return to.”
Only Akina Konoe raised her hand. Hey, how does he listen to Korean? When I looked at him with a curious expression, Akina Konoe smiled and opened her mouth.
“If we stay trapped here, there’s nothing left to talk about. We learned by talking among ourselves. “These friends also learned some Japanese.”
Oh, that’s great? If I take them to Japan, I was curious about how we would communicate, and if we could communicate even a little, my hair would grow.
“Okay? So you’re saying there’s nowhere else to go except here, Konoe?”
“We came here because our parents abandoned us. “If I go back anyway, I will come back to a place similar to this.”
The clairvoyant boy spoke with a defiant expression, echoing the slave trader’s explanation just moments ago. Everyone nodded at the words of the clairvoyant boy.
“Then will you all follow me? “I’ll buy you some delicious food and dress you in nice clothes.”
“Why should I trust you?”
This time, the boy with the rock painting ability asked. I looked into everyone’s eyes one by one, lifted the broom lying in the corner with telekinesis, and brought it into my hand.
“I’m just like you.”
Of course, these guys who have been abused since childhood because of bad parents and different abilities from others are different from me, who gained abilities through my own choice. However, the younger the boys and girls, the more important it was to make them feel a sense of identity. To make you follow me.
“Of course, my parents didn’t abandon me and raised me well, but people without abilities can never understand people with abilities.”
“W-Is it telekinesis?”
“Wow, wow… !”
The guys who were looking at me sharply showed a somewhat favorable reaction as soon as I revealed that I was talented.
“Let’s get out of here first. Do you want to eat something? “I’ll buy it for you right away.”
I couldn’t stay underground forever, so I opened the door I got from the slave dealer and said, Except for Alexandra Smirnova and Konoe Akina, the rest were Korean, so most of them chose chicken.
“But we’ve only been able to eat things like porridge for a long time, so if we suddenly eat chicken, won’t we get an upset stomach?”
Akina Konoe had a point. Since the children were all skinny, it seemed clear that the slave merchant had not provided them with proper nutrition, so we decided to compromise on chicken porridge and have them eat whatever they wanted for the next meal. We climbed up the shabby stairs that I was afraid would collapse and came out onto a deserted street.
Fortunately, there was a porridge restaurant in Kraskino, so I took the kids and let them choose what they wanted, excluding the spicy things like jjamppong porridge and fire octopus porridge.
Everyone was making a fuss about choosing what they wanted, but only Alexandra Smirnova and Akina Konoe were a little hesitant. Maybe it’s because it’s a Korean franchise porridge restaurant, but I didn’t know much about it, so I felt like I had a hard time deciding what to choose. I approached them both and talked to them.
“Set it like this. You can choose your favorite main ingredients such as beef, chicken, tuna, and abalone and eat them. Oh, there’s also red crab and seafood porridge.”
“Then I’ll have the abalone and Samgye porridge over there.”
“I’m Sogo… What are you doing? “I eat porridge.”
Unlike Konoe Akina, who ordered fluently because the menu was written in English and Japanese under Korean, Alexandra Smirnova ordered while stuttering in Korean. It’s beef porridge, it’s cute.
I ordered the menu the kids told me about, and I ordered seafood porridge, truffle abalone porridge, and crab meat porridge. Is this enough to fill you up? Otherwise, I could just buy something else at the convenience store, so I decided to order just this much. Since the amount we ordered was quite large, it would take a long time, so we told the owner that we would leave for a while while the food was prepared.
“For now, let’s go out while the food is ready. “People look at you strangely because of your clothes, so you should buy clothes first.”
“Wow~!”
There was a clothing store that I had looked at on the way to the bamboo restaurant, so I brought the kids to the clothing store. It was a small clothing store with no trends or famous brands, but it looked better than the large pieces of cloth the kids were wearing now.
“First, choose something worth wearing. “I’ll buy you nice clothes later when I go to a big city.”
Everyone was busy choosing clothes that suited them. The owner of the clothing store looked a little displeased when children in dirty clothes were randomly picking up clothes from the store, but his expression quickly eased when I showed him a large amount of cash that I had exchanged but had not been able to use because I had only used it with a credit card or black money points.
“I picked them all.”
“Did you choose?”
It didn’t take long for everyone to pick out clothes. It wasn’t a very large clothing store, and in fact, the kids were more in need of food than clothes right now, so they were very picky in the beginning and seemed to just pick the right size.
“750,000 won.”
“Here you go.”
It seemed like a rip-off, but I paid without hesitation. The kids left their clothes all messed up, and their hands weren’t very clean because they were always stuck in the basement, so some of their clothes might need washing.
After leaving the clothing store, we took the porridge and went to the hotel where I was staying. I checked in, one girl’s room and one boy’s room on either side of my room, placed porridge in my room, and told the kids to take a shower and wash up. If you take porridge to your room for no reason, you might eat it right away without washing your hands and end up with an upset stomach.
Three of the boys came out of the shower at once, and within 5 minutes they came into my room, chose their own porridge, and started eating it.
“Let’s talk while we eat. Just tell us each person’s name and age.”
As I spoke, the children each told their names and ages while eating porridge. The boy with the ability to regenerate was Lee Doo-young and was 18 years old, the boy with the rock formation ability was Choi Jin-ha, 19 years old, and the boy with the clairvoyance ability was Kim Young-chan and was the same age as Choi Jin-ha.
“First of all, you will work in my company. I bought you, but I have no intention of treating you like slaves. Of course, you will be paid a salary, and once the probationary period is over, you will be able to work for almost as much as a large Korean company.”
Of course, since I work at PMC, I have no choice but to get paid a lot. Because you have to risk your life. I hid the fact that I worked at PMC from the boys and girls and just told them that it was a company.
“I…”
Kim Young-chan looked at me and quietly opened his mouth. What? Are you dissatisfied with something?
“You’re not going to use me to gamble, right? “I don’t know anything else, but I can’t help you with gambling.”
Seeing him say this, I guess there is some reason why he didn’t cooperate at all at the gambling house that the slave dealer mentioned.
“Of course. You won’t use your skills for such trivial matters. “But may I ask why you hate gambling so much?”
“My parents were addicted to gambling, got into debt, and sold me. So I swore to myself that I would never have anything to do with gambling in any way.”
Ah, there was such a story. I had no intention of making money through gambling anyway. I was confident that I could become one of the richest people in the world just by making money with the knowledge stored in my head, so I had no intention of making money through something as small(?) As gambling.
“Don’t worry about that. “I have no intention of making money through gambling.”
“But can I help? “I don’t have much ability and I’m not good at anything.”
This time, Lee Doo-young, who has the ability to regenerate, asked. He seemed to have lost a lot of self-esteem because he kept hearing that slave traders had vague abilities to evaluate.
“The ability to regenerate cannot be done well with a skinny body like now. In the end, your body needs to have a lot of energy, so don’t think that your current abilities are limited. And no matter how weak your regenerative ability is, you’re the best at building a body, so you can probably be as good as me.”
Because the mechanism by which muscles grow bigger is by synthesizing proteins in muscle fibers torn by exercise, people with regenerative abilities were able to build their bodies much faster than ordinary people.
“Oh, I see… “But why do you know so much about regenerative abilities?”
“Because I also have the ability to regenerate.”
I lightly slashed my arm with a little abyss at the tip of my fingernail. The skin tore and opened its mouth, then slithered and stuck again. Perhaps because I’ve been shot so many times in the meantime, the playback rating has increased significantly, so I was able to show this level of performance(?). When the boys saw my regenerative ability, they were very surprised and screamed.
“Wow~! Great! “So you have two abilities?”
“Well, that’s right.”
Since they all only have one ability, they seemed very surprised when I showed them my two abilities: telekinesis and regeneration. As I was giving some advice to the other two, the girls came in. It looked fresher probably because it was all washed.
The porridge was still warm, so everyone opened the lid and started eating the porridge. I asked for the names and ages of Alexandra Smirnova and Jeong Darim, except for Akina Konoe, whose names I thought I knew just now.
“Alexandra Smirnova, 19 years old.”
“My name is Darim Jeong and I’m 19 years old.”
“For your information, I’m 20 years old.”
Konoe Akina is surprisingly the oldest. And Alexandra looked pretty young. She’s 19, so she’s pretty old, right? Is it because I can’t eat it? She is, from what I remember, a pretty plump Russian beauty. Did that happen because Jeil Group took some action? For a moment, I was wondering how to make Alexandra Smirnova into a beautiful woman.
It was then. My phone vibrated.
“Wait for a sec…”
I said, taking out my phone. When I turned on the screen and checked, I saw that Mimata Chieri had sent a line. What’s going on? I turned on the line and checked the contents.
Cherry-chan★: Kurotsuki Dou is in full attack! Senboku City has been breached!
Senboku City is an important place that protects Daisen City, the main base, along with Akita City, and the fact that this place was breached seemed like a very critical situation. Then, the country should also do its part to resolve this issue. I couldn’t have my mithril mine taken away by Kurotsuki Dou like this.
Tyra Ryuta: I’ll leave now.
I first sent the line like this and stood up. Now it was time to return to Japan.
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Darim Jung
Akina Konoe’s appearance will be featured in tomorrow’s episode!
