Chapter 141 – Charter Scam
Tia left her shop with a satisfied pat on her stomach.
A whopping 700,000 won for a meal for lunch!
Even this was the result of receiving a lot of services.
Still, because it was udon, it ended like this, but if I went to a sushi restaurant, I might have really cried.
“Huh, I don’t think I’ll even think about udon for a few days.”
“Isn’t the time of oblivion too short… Will we have to eat like this for every meal from now on?”
As I shuddered, Tia shook her head.
“It’s not like that. When I was a dragon, I ate a lot, but instead, I ate only once every few days. There was one body with six heads…”
“Aha.”
I’m glad I don’t have to eat this every day.
But… As soon as Tia got back to her office, she picked up a sweet potato stick.
He eats a lot of things too.
“…Do you only eat once every few days?”
“Ah, when did I do this… I regret that I only did such a good thing once every few days. Hehe.”
“Okay, eat a lot.”
Actually, it’s a bit too much to eat, so I thought I’d just do it.
“I know you’re really lucky to have been taken to the special unit.”
“It was the best choice in my life.”
Goong.
I pressed the mute button on the top of Tia’s head and decided to focus on my work.
As I sat down, Kim-tae distributed the cases that I hadn’t received this morning.
“Is there anything unusual happening?”
“The police sent a housing rental fraud case, but it was judged to be non-eventful, so it was dismissed.”
“A real estate scam?”
“Yes. Should I say it’s a Hunter fraud case where the Hunters aren’t involved… Well, it wasn’t a big deal. You must be tired, so why don’t you just rest today?”
“No. I rested a lot in America.”
I started to approve the documents that the team members had accumulated in the meantime.
But my mind was already focused on the incident from earlier.
“It’s a housing rental fraud case that Hunter isn’t involved in… Unusual.”
“Where are you looking?”
“Seeing that it’s called housing rental fraud, I think it’s monthly rent or charter… Usually, this can’t be fraudulent, right?”
Food, clothing and shelter.
The three basic elements of human life.
Among these, housing is particularly burdensome.
After the Gate Crisis broke out. Not only downtown Seoul, but also all cities that seemed to have a small scale, house prices skyrocketed.
It was the result of the fear that if he lived in the countryside like before, he might be killed by monsters at any time.
And in the first few years or so, it actually happened quite often.
So, low-level hunters receive some kind of support in terms of housing.
In particular, hunters living in out-of-town areas receive subsidies when buying monthly rent or charter.
Those places tend to be shunned, so hunters won’t go there unless subsidies are given.
However, Kim Jung-tae said that it was a hunter fraud case in which the hunter was not involved…
In this case, it is very likely that the tenant impersonated Hunter.
“Because you’re a hunter, you scammed the landlord by saying subsidy came out.”
“Now you sat down to reason about the case that was returned… Why don’t you just ask?”
Alice reacts as if she is a little tired of it.
But I was negative about her opinion of her.
“No. It’s an incident without incident… Jeong-tae judged it that way, but if I openly asked for it, it would hurt my dignity as the head of the security team.”
“Did you guys care about that?”
“Of course I don’t care.”
The company is said to be an organization only for Oracles and Masters, but…
The authority of Esquire, who plays the role of middle manager, is also considerable.
There’s no way the masters with their three daughters could control this huge organization individually.
“Esquire and the Servants are very good accomplices.”
“Eh… Did that happen all of a sudden?”
“He doesn’t complain much, he’s highly skilled and he has very little privacy.”
Considering that most organized crime and group crimes are ruined by feuds between accomplices, this is truly staggering.
“So you have to treat them right.”
“…Do you know that sometimes you have a very troublesome personality?”
“Thank you.”
“By the way, why can’t fraud be established with monthly rent or jeonse?”
As if Alice was secretly curious, she asked a question about the incident.
I couldn’t help but feel puzzled at such an obvious question.
“That’s right, since the monthly rent is paid as a deposit, and the jeonse is tied to the landlord… Housing rental contracts in Korea are extremely advantageous to the landlord.”
Of course, there are cases where landlords suffer from malicious tenants, but…
They have a powerful weapon called deposit and deposit money.
To put it bluntly, if a landlord wants to lose money, he has to give his tenants a little more courtesy.
Or the tenant is really, really, pretty crazy.
Alice, however, did not seem to understand with such an explanation.
“Wait. What’s the deposit? What’s the difference between monthly rent and jeonse?”
“… What? Alice, have you ever lived on a charter or monthly rent?”
“Yes. Right after I passed the Hunter exam, I was treated as a top-notch prospect, so I lived in the guild dormitory.”
If it was a guild dormitory in Winter Kingdom, it would be a fairly high-end facility.
I couldn’t help but ask her again.
“Isn’t the house you live in a house?”
“That’s right. I bought it with stock options included.”
“Then you lived in a dorm all the time?”
“Yes. It wasn’t too uncomfortable since it was a single room for one person anyway.”
Oh my gosh.
No matter how much stock options are included, buying a guild building in the middle of Seoul on a gold pile at once.
I knew that the top-notch hunters made good money, but this was beyond my imagination.
But. I should have recognized it from the time I had two luxury items all over my body…
I once again asked Alice to shake her hand.
“Let’s continue to be friends.”
“It’s new, but please take good care of me sister!”
“Do you want to keep messing around?”
Alice shook her fist, saying she would get pissed off at hearing such a compliment from me.
I immediately started explaining the backlog.
“The deposit is an advance payment of several months’ rent when renting a house on a monthly basis. If the rental contract ends without any problems, it can be returned as it is.”
“Nothing wrong?”
“Yes. If the house is damaged or the rent is overdue, it will be taken out of the deposit.”
Of course, jeonse, which is much larger than the deposit, is much more expensive than monthly rent.
So, usually, the landlord is the absolute best.
“Then the landlord couldn’t have pretended to be a hunter?”
“The landlord doesn’t benefit from being a hunter. The housing deposit from the hunters is also excluded from the hunters who own real estate assets.”
What kind of incident was that?
As I continue to grow…
Kerr, who couldn’t see it, approached Kim Jeong-tae’s desk.
The guy barked silently as he scratched the legs of Kim Jeong-tae, who was concentrating on his work.
“Kyong kong.”
“Hmm? What’s wrong?”
“Keeing…”
“Hmm? That incident?”
Even if he talks like a dog, Kim Jung-tae manages to figure it out and brings the file with a bitter smile.
I accepted it with a slight tilt of my head.
Alice, who was next to her, gave Tia a pin.
“Ker is better than you.”
“If I crawl on all fours and sneak around, it’s kind of ugly.”
“Let’s see.”
The outline of the incident was as expected.
The place where the fraud occurred was Hanam, a satellite city of Seoul.
Usually, completely rural areas are not popular with hunters, but these satellite cities have their own demand.
After all, satellite cities are also in the metropolitan area.
The subway to Seoul runs just fine.
The fact that this was a hunter impersonation case did not escape my expectations.
However, if there was one mistake…
It is said that the landlord, not the tenant, pretended to be a hunter.
“Hmm? Why is the landlord impersonating…”
“A while ago, the landlord said that he didn’t benefit from being a hunter?”
“That, that… What happened?”
Now I see that there is not just one victim, but many.
As I read the details of the incident, my head went blank for a moment.
“What is this…”
“What happened, Master?”
“I think I looked at the landlords too funny.”
Before going into detail, I wanted to point out one thing.
Hanam City is the area that was damaged during the last monster wave.
The Incheon side, where Yeriel and the hunters were dispatched in large numbers, suffered little damage, but the east side of the metropolitan area was actually damaged due to the offensive of the dragon corps and black hair.
It is a little deeper than Hanam City where I conducted a defensive operation with my teammates.
Fortunately, the evacuation order was not delayed, so there were few casualties, but…
The residents of Hanam City suffered from fear and anxiety from then on.
The main culprit in this case dug into that point properly.
“The suspect owned an officetel in the city… He said he was an active hunter and received additional money to protect him in case of emergency.”
“Eek…”
Looking at the picture, he’s just an ordinary man, but I think the victims really believed him.
This guy even faked his hunter ID and worked…
There was no way he was registered as a hunter in the association, so his tail his was stepped on in the end.
As a self-proclaimed hunter, he had never shown himself going out hunting, so the tenants soon noticed.
“Umm… This is a companion. Jungtae handled it well. You’ll be punished for pretending to be a hunter and fraud anyway.”
“I didn’t know it would happen like this, but…”
“By the way, aren’t you Winter Kingdom employees getting too much money? Your guild members are so weak…”
Alice blushed as I complained about their insolence during the fake Green Dust arrest operation.
“It’s because they’re non-combatants.”
“Oh, yes.”
Having resolved my curiosity, I started working again with a small snort.
Tia behind her took out a chocolate cookie without getting tired of it.
