## Chapter 2 – 01. Adaptation Complete
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“Life is truly something to behold.”
I took out a cigarette, lit it.
Even though I was in the car with my secretary and attendants, I didn’t care.
“To think I’d experience something like this.”
Possession.
The more I thought about it, the better it felt.
The more I savored it, the more excited I became.
The reason I lived like a game addict in the first place was to experience the pleasure and dopamine I couldn’t get in reality. Now, I was possessed by a game, and even became part of the owner’s family, living without worrying about money.
‘Plus, I played through to the ending, so I have some knowledge.’
Gomuyeol’s utter incompetence, which dragged his reputation down to hell… Let’s just consider that a penalty.
‘Let’s see… Goryeo Entertainment? If it’s an entertainment agency, I guess I have to discover actors or produce idols or something.’
Honestly, I wasn’t very interested in this field, so I didn’t know what to do.
If I had to think of something… I could bring in pretty and sexy idol or actor trainees and sleep with them, or buy out successful active celebrities and sleep with them, or even…
Anyway, only vulgar thoughts came to mind.
‘…No, it doesn’t have to be that way. It’s mine now, who’s going to say anything if I suddenly change it into an investment company?’
I didn’t know all the settings like a hardcore, fossilized player, but since I saw the ending, I knew most of the major events and important things.
If I converted it into an investment company and aggressively invested using the capital, I was confident I could increase it to over a trillion won within a year. Even if not, commercializing RK-99, which turned the world upside down in the game, would attract all the money in the world.
The problem was what I wanted to do in this world…
I needed to think about that a bit.
‘For now, should I just play around for a while?’
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Around the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun is the largest skyscraper district in North Korea.
Countless giant buildings easily exceeding hundreds of meters lined up, and numerous AVs (Aero Vehicles) came and went around them.
Goryeo Hotel was also located here.
Screech.
As the car stopped, men in black suits quickly ran over and opened the door.
“Welcome, young master.”
As I stretched my legs and stepped out, employees were already swarming around me.
They bowed deeply until I had completely passed, and only straightened up after I went through the glass doors.
It was treatment I wasn’t used to, so my ears perked up and I got excited, but I tried my best to hold it in.
It would be weird if a spoiled brat got all emotional over something like this.
“Chief Han.”
“Yes, young master.”
“Do you know anything about Goryeo Entertainment?”
I listened to a brief briefing on the way to the room.
Chief Han didn’t seem to know much either.
“It was established last July. It has only one affiliated actor. A male actor named Han Seong-gi-“
“What? A male actor? Get rid of him.”
“Excuse me?”
“I said get rid of him.”
“Ah. Yes. I understand.”
I have no intention of raising male actors.
Only actresses.
Only female idols.
This is ‘common sense’ and ‘justice.’
Ding.
The elevator doors opened as we reached the top floor.
A secretary went ahead of me and swiped a card.
Beep.
As the door to the Royal Suite opened, Chief Han suddenly stepped in front of me and bowed deeply.
“I apologize, young master. There has been a personnel change effective immediately, and it seems it will be difficult for me to serve you in the future.”
“What? What are you talking about?”
“This is an order that just came down from headquarters.”
“…”
It seemed the chairman was trying to get rid of me after being greatly disappointed in Gomuyeol.
To the point of even taking back the secretarial staff…
“Well, what am I supposed to do?”
“I will compile a new secretarial staff list by tomorrow morning.”
Fortunately, it didn’t seem like I was being completely abandoned.
“Okay. Get to work.”
“Yes.”
It seems they’re taking the competent ones to headquarters and sending me the rookies or those who caused problems as if they’re dumping the leftovers.
How disappointing.
As Chief Han and the secretarial staff left, I was finally alone.
I threw myself onto the large bed, and only then did it feel like time was really passing.
Before that, it was like… I couldn’t feel it.
I knew it in my head, but I couldn’t really feel it?
‘How I got possessed… There’s no point in thinking about that, right?’
There’s no point in thinking about abilities that are gone.
Because nothing changes.
Thinking that, I picked up my phone and called Chief Han, who had just left.
He answered as soon as the bell rang.
– Yes, young master. Is there something you need?
“About Goryeo Entertainment’s funds, can I use them as I please?”
– …If the law is strictly applied, you could be charged with embezzlement or breach of trust. But in the Republic of Korea, there’s nothing you can do that would violate the law.
“Right? Then prepare it so I can use it.”
– Yes. I will link it immediately.
“Oh, and about the secretarial staff, don’t compile the list yourself, Chief Han, just send me the representative candidates. I’ll choose.”
– Personally, you mean?
“Yeah. How else am I supposed to know if they’re good or not if I don’t see them myself?”
– Yes. I understand.
I ended the call and went to the window.
As it was on the top floor of the Goryeo Hotel, which was over 100 stories high, the night view of Pyongyang was very beautiful.
Magnificent, brilliant, a scene that seemed like it would prosper forever.
“Damn it, it’s all mine.”
I only had an agency with no affiliated celebrities and about a hundred billion won in hand, but
I already felt like I owned all of Pyongyang, and the Republic of Korea, and the world.
I even felt affection for the game developers I had cursed with hatred.
“Ah, since it’s a game, I wonder if there’s a stat window or something like that?”
Then I remembered something I had forgotten because it was so realistic.
The UI that makes the game like a game, the stat window.
Since Underworld Incheon 2077 is a game, there are stats and items.
[Gomuyeol]
Age: 20
Affiliation: Goryeo Entertainment
Race: Human
Level: 17
Strength: 39
Willpower: 11
Tech: 23
Leadership: 69
Charm: 3
〈Cyberware〉
None
〈Special Ability〉
None
〈Skill〉
None
〈Traits〉
Goryeo Group Owner Family,
Smoking Addiction, Drug Addiction, Sex Addiction, Weak Will, ADHD
“Oh…. Oh oh…!”
As expected, there was a stat window.
But….
“How the hell did this guy live until now?”
The stats were truly pathetic.
Even ordinary people should have at least 70-80 in their specialized stats to be barely useful, but he only had 69 in leadership, and the rest were at the bottom.
Even that leadership was a chaebol buff.
“Wow…. Most of the characters have major stats over 90 when the story starts next year, but this is worse than a middle schooler.”
That’s not all.
The various debuffs attached to his traits like sausages also made my head hurt.
Weak will was one thing, but smoking addiction, drug addiction, and sex addiction?
Why? Why not alcohol addiction too? Why did you leave that out?
“…Let’s think about it from tomorrow.”
The overwhelming feeling that washed over me as soon as I saw the stat window.
I threw myself onto the bed as I was.
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The next day.
As I rubbed my bleary eyes and got up, my head was splitting.
I couldn’t even come to my senses, it seemed like withdrawal symptoms.
Smoking addiction, drug addiction, sex addiction.
It was truly maddening.
Especially the drugs…
‘Damn it, I’m getting rid of this no matter what.’
Even as I vowed that, I looked for the drugs.
The withdrawal symptoms were not something that could be endured with human will.
I cursed Gomuyeol about ten times in my head and went back through my memories.
There was no way this drug addict would have left the drugs far away. Wouldn’t he have put them in his clothes or wallet?
“Ugh…. Ugh….”
Even the walk to the closet was far.
I couldn’t even take those few steps without staggering, and I almost fell to the floor several times.
When I reached the closet, I stuck to it like an octopus and took out clothes with trembling hands.
Fortunately, there were drugs in my coat pocket.
“Haa…. Haa…. You idiot…. Seriously,”
As I remembered, I put the drug into a syringe and injected it, roughly finding a vein.
A fairly large needle pierced my skin and was embedded, but I didn’t care about such pain.
Only the immense pleasure that was about to come-,
“Keuhooooop??!!”
The tremendous ecstasy that came in an instant.
I looked down on the whole world with the feeling that I had become a god.
I realized the truth with the wisdom of understanding all things in the universe, and my thoughts reached the essence.
‘So that’s why…. drugs….’
I melted away.
.
.
After the effects of the drug wore off, my body finally calmed down.
The head that had been aching like crazy was also better.
“Haa…. Haa….”
An ecstasy I had never felt before.
I knew instinctively.
That if I did this again, I would go straight to hell.
I must never do it again.
I have to cure the drug addiction even if I have to tear my brain out.
‘I have to live happily for a long time, how much of a loss would it be if I died early as a drug addict like an idiot.’
Fortunately, if I take it once, I can still be fine for a day.
I have to find a way to do something about it today.
It was then.
The bell rang.
I went to the intercom and saw Chief Han and people who seemed to be brought in as secretarial candidates.
– This is Chief Han. Young master. I’ve brought the candidates.
“Come in.”
I roughly put on a coat and swept my hair back.
Now that I looked, my whole body was soaked in sweat.
Was it because of the withdrawal symptoms? Or was it because I took the drugs?
Anyway, it’s not a pretty sight.
But well, I don’t need to look good to my secretary, so it doesn’t matter.
I drank water and went to the sofa, entrusting myself to the comfort, and Chief Han and the secretarial candidates came in.
Four of them were men, and the other one was the woman whose butt I had touched yesterday.
I didn’t know, but when I saw her from the front, she was quite pretty.
‘Judging by their looks, they’re all inexperienced… Are they just going to assign them to me and be done with it?’
It was possible that Chief Han was ignoring me, but it was also possible that it was headquarters’ influence.
In the first place, it was headquarters’ order to disband my secretarial staff and transfer Chief Han.
“Introduce yourselves. Start with you.”
“Ah, yes. Young master. I am-,”
The man I pointed to started introducing himself.
He didn’t show much enthusiasm.
I vaguely listened while looking up the information of the only woman.
After all, a young woman is better than a man-,
[Ha Eun-yeong]
Age: 23
Affiliation: Goryeo Prestige, National Intelligence Service of the Republic of Korea
Race: Human
Level: 107
Strength: 81
Willpower: 112
Tech: 108
Leadership: 98
Charm: 92
〈Traits〉
Patriot
“Ptooey!!”
I spat out the water I was drinking.
