## Chapter 51 – 변화
What happens to those who were born with everything when they end up empty-handed?
Will they be able to bow their heads even to those they once treated like slaves?
After graduating high school and becoming adults, we went on a graduation trip overseas, only to crash-land on a remote island. We had been living on the island for almost three weeks already.
Having been treated like a slave throughout my school years, I had to work for the others even after we were stranded here.
Fetching clams, gathering coconuts….
But now, the situation has changed.
The connections of my classmates were useless, and we were all starting anew from the same starting line, relying solely on our individual abilities.
And I possessed an absolute ability that they didn’t have. The knowledge to bring them down.
I stared intently at the hologram in front of me.
‘Hmm. They really have all sorts of things.’
Since the basic necessities were unlocked, the number of items available for purchase had increased dramatically.
I looked around at what I could buy, and it seemed like they had everything you could find in a convenience store, supermarket, or Daiso.
Except for food, of course.
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[Commercial Korean BBQ Scissors]
3% Discount!
₩5,000 -〉 ₩4,850
[Frying Pan]
11% Discount!
₩25,000 -〉 ₩22,250
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‘The prices aren’t too bad either.’
Considering that pork belly costs around ₩12,000 per kilogram, the prices for semi-permanent tools were quite reasonable.
If I could just secure a steady supply of Cash, living the life of a 21st-century civilized person wouldn’t be a dream.
‘However, if I want to buy and use consumables, I’ll need a stable income stream.’
The best way to do that is to unlock everything I can with Points first, and then convert them into Cash.
Right now, I’m getting about 55 Points per day from daily quests.
Converting that to Cash would give me ₩55,000.
That means I could have ₩55,000 deposited into my account every day without having to go out and earn Cash separately.
‘So, first, I should unlock everything I can.’
I immediately opened the Status Window.
The items that could be unlocked included the Status Window, Quests, Abilities, Inventory, and the Shop Window.
‘Let’s start by looking at the Status Window.’
[Status Window] -〉 Encyclopedia Unlock -〉 Locked
Encyclopedia (20 Points): All targets successfully hunted will be recorded. You can check various information.
I had always been curious about this since I first saw it.
This Encyclopedia thing.
‘I wonder if it’ll be like a Pokémon game, with information about creatures popping up.’
That would be a bit disappointing.
I’m not a biologist, so what would I use their characteristics for?
It would be better if it showed precautions for handling them or how to prepare them for eating.
‘Either way, it’s only 20 Points, so let’s just upgrade it. I also need to see what gets unlocked next.’
[20 Points have been used.]
[‘Encyclopedia’ has been unlocked.]
『Encyclopedia (1,000 Points): Contains various information. You can open it and check it at any time, and you can instantly move to the page for that creature using the photo function.』
The next upgrade, Encyclopedia, seemed to be a higher-level ability of the Encyclopedia.
The Encyclopedia only tells you about creatures you’ve successfully hunted, but the Encyclopedia allows you to view information immediately just by taking a picture with the photo function.
‘Well, it’s not a particularly necessary ability for me right now.’
I closed the upgrade screen and used the Encyclopedia ability. A new tab opened, and various creatures were listed along with their pictures.
Various clams, coconuts, and fish.
The creatures I had caught appeared and showed me their information.
From information I already knew to facts I didn’t.
‘This is surprisingly useful?’
I thought as I scrolled down.
Suddenly.
My hand stopped.
I froze.
Because….
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Seohee Jung
Personality: Charismatic
Skills: Fighting, physical labor, mind reading
Age: 22
Background: Adopted daughter of an international financial conglomerate family. Her father is the chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Weaknesses:
……
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Likes: Meat, perseverance, effort, Yuri Shin, Yejin Shin, Woojin Jung.
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I blinked several times, looking at the hologram screen again and again.
Clearly, the words in front of me were describing a specific ‘person.’
Scrolling down, various pictures appeared.
Full shots of Seohee Jung, her angry expressions, her smiling face, and even her panting with her legs spread, spitting out jizz from her crotch.
Scrolling further, information about Jimin Park, the homeroom teacher, and Yeonju Kim also appeared.
I was dumbfounded.
‘Hunting included that kind of meaning too?’
“Woojin!”
Just then, someone called my name loudly.
I turned my head and saw Tomboy running towards me like an angry wild boar.
“You little shit!”
Did she find out that I was looking at her nudes?
Seohee, who had rushed to me in an instant, grabbed my collar and lifted me up.
Her strength was truly astonishing, even after seeing it again.
I quickly grabbed Seohee’s arm, worried that my clothes would tear.
Seohee growled at me with fierce eyes.
“Is it true that you’re sex buddies with Yuri and Yejin!”
Wow. You told Seohee that? Our twins listen so well.
I glanced over Seohee’s shoulder and saw the twins in the distance, munching on strawberries.
The two little ones weren’t even interested in our business.
“Well, you see.”
“Why!”
Seohee demanded, bringing her face close to mine.
For a moment, I wondered what to say.
Should I make up an excuse, or should I just tell the truth?
I was organizing my thoughts when, uh oh? Suddenly, Seohee’s hand, which was holding my collar, trembled and she started to tear up.
“Seo, Seohee?”
What’s this? Is she suddenly crying?
To be exact, she wasn’t crying yet. Tears were just about to fall from her eyes.
But Seohee was tearing up?
I didn’t understand the situation, but I reached out and stroked her back, patting her gently. Seohee let go of my collar, lowered her head, and sniffled.
“Why are you suddenly like this? Huh? Are you shocked that I’m in that kind of relationship with other women?”
When I asked that, Seohee raised her head sharply and glared at me.
Whoa. I guess I was right?
But Seohee’s answer was subtly different.
“I think a man as great as you can have a few women.”
“Oh, really?”
“Yes. You’re a man I acknowledge. A very excellent, wonderful, and flawless disciple.”
I suddenly felt embarrassed by her praise.
No, but she even predicted that I would have women, so what’s with this reaction?
“Still!”
Seohee shouted.
“Why Yuri and Yejin of all people! Why them out of all the kids!”
“Haha, sorry. It’s awkward that the people I’m sex buddies with are people you know? It’s just that….”
“I can’t compete with that! I’m so ugly… how can I compete with those pretty girls? Sniffle, sniffle. I’ll be an outcast. I won’t even have a place to fit in.”
It seems like she has a bit of an inferiority complex about her looks.
I can’t say I don’t understand.
The twins are undeniably unique in terms of appearance, rivaling Yuhana.
If she’s always been with them and comparing herself to them, I can see why her confidence would plummet.
Even I, if I went back to Earth and walked down the street with the twins on either side of me, people would say, ‘Is that their butler?’ or ‘Cousin? Porter?’
Let me say it again, the appearances of Yuhana, Yuri Shin, and Yejin Shin are transcendent. They didn’t seem like ordinary people.
There’s a reason why people are so captivated by the twins’ charms.
‘Anyway, the important thing now is to soothe Seohee.’
I immediately said something flattering. With sincerity.
“Calm down. I don’t choose people based on their looks.”
“Don’t lie. I’ve never seen a man who doesn’t look at faces in my life.”
“We, well, of course I look at faces. But I don’t discriminate based on that, okay? Of course, you too….”
“Sniffle, sniffle. I’m an outcast. I’ll have to watch you do it with Yuri and Yejin from the sidelines.”
Oh dear. Our Tomboy is quite pessimistic.
Where did the stoic tiger of the international high school go? All that’s left in front of me is a crybaby girl.
I lightly kissed Seohee on the lips.
“Then how about this? I’ll only kiss you today. As a sign that I like you.”
“O, oh?”
I felt like there was a popping sound. Seohee’s face turned bright red and she blinked her eyes repeatedly.
“Deal?”
Nod… nod.
She’s so easy to handle. In some ways, even more than Yeonju Kim.
I slapped Seohee’s butt and pushed her forward.
“Okay, so that’s settled, right? Stop crying and go play with the twins. This big brother is busy right now.”
Seohee rubbed her butt, which I had slapped, and returned to the twins. Smiling foolishly.
‘Great. Now I can legally do lewd things in front of Seohee too.’
The homeroom teacher and Yeonju Kim were about to explode because they had been holding back for so long, but now all the problems within the group have been resolved.
‘So, what I have to do now is… um?’
I reopened the Status Window to continue unlocking things, but I stopped. Instead, I quickly grabbed the binoculars and looked towards the half-destroyed plane.
There was quite a commotion among the classmates.
“…So they’ve finally decided to move?”
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As food ran out and their lives were on the line, the kids who seemed like they would never move started to move.
What was interesting was their actions.
Some were catching fish, others were gathering clams… some were preparing what they caught, while others were making a fire and cooking.
“Master, aren’t you going to eat?”
Yeonju Kim, wondering why I was suddenly not eating and just staring at the classmates, came up to me.
Then, she slyly snatched my binoculars and looked at the classmates.
Soon, she exclaimed in admiration.
“Wow. They’re smart. They’re dividing labor, and there’s no unnecessary movement…. It’s so orderly and clean, like machines?”
I thought the diamond-spoon kids wouldn’t be able to do anything without money and connections, but I was dead wrong.
Excellent intelligence, outstanding physique.
Having mastered everything from sports to studies since childhood, they simply lacked experience in this unfamiliar environment, but their survival skills were overwhelmingly higher than those of ordinary people.
Some of them had even experienced surviving in such natural wilderness.
Yoon Jihu and Sejun Oh were prime examples.
Of course, it was more like entertainment in a safe and proven place.
‘Anyway, they’re amazing.’
Driven into a corner and threatened with survival, the classmates began to adapt to the island like crazy.
They didn’t hesitate to sweat or get dirty, and they quickly performed their assigned tasks and achieved results.
The bloodline of outstanding talent inherited from their ancestors didn’t go anywhere, and their speed was truly astonishing.
Like the successful parents in the dog-eat-dog world of Earth, the kids were quickly adapting to this world.
‘If I leave them alone, they’ll survive just fine.’
I had only watched them for a short time, but that was the conclusion I came to.
They were capable of surviving without anyone’s help.
In particular, one group was bending sewing needles to make fishing hooks, and another was building a stove by stacking stones.
The sight of them putting a beach ball that the twins had been playing with in the middle and stacking stones around it like an igloo to create a stove was truly admirable.
Yeonju Kim narrowed her brows and said to me.
“Won’t this disrupt Master’s plans?”
For the record, Yeonju Kim knew my plans to some extent.
That I was going to take and trample on the classmates.
“Should I go and sabotage them?”
“I don’t know.”
“Are you going to do nothing?”
“Well, it doesn’t matter.”
“Huh?”
Yeonju Kim looked like she couldn’t understand.
But it really didn’t matter.
No, I was actually happy.
‘If they had just stayed put and starved to death because they ran out of food, I would have been more worried.’
But the kids decided to struggle to survive.
They got up and started moving busily.
‘Haha. That makes it even easier, doesn’t it? To devour them.’
People who work hard are more desperate for money than those who don’t work and just play around.
They cling more and are more desperate.
To get it.
Greed naturally grows the more you chase it.
“Master, you seem happy.”
I gave a deep smile as I watched the classmates running around diligently.
‘Welcome to the bottom of the barrel, kids, after abandoning your lives as noble gentlemen.’
I’ll teach you how slaves live soon.
Just wait a little longer.
