Chapter 328 – #329 Exploring the Black Market
#329 Black Market Exploration
After the people left, I took the ghost ship back to the island where the pirate king’s treasure chest was hidden.
Except for me, the only people who knew that the pirate king was dead were Laonzena, Flame Witch, Ice Queen, Aquagirl, and the association staff who had been dispatched with the president of Valencia.
However, it will not be long before black market operators find out about the death of the pirate king. As long as they have a long history, their reach is quite wide.
There was a high probability that they would notice by the time the pirate king’s body was transported to the Hero Association.
“Let’s move quickly.”
When the black market bastards still didn’t know about the death of the pirate king, they had to move quickly. That way I could deal a bigger blow to them.
Arriving at the treasure room soon, I took out a small ticket the size of a business card from my inventory. It was an invitation to the Black Market that the Pirate King had.
“About here?”
Following the memory of the pirate king, I entered the innermost treasure room and saw a large circle drawn on the floor. Inside the circle was a six-pointed star.
“That’s it~ That’s that~ That’s that~ That’s that that shines with magic~”
After entering the sextant, I somehow remembered a cartoon I watched as a child and sang a song from that cartoon. If I had known it would be like this, I would have brought a board!
“Put the invitation here… Are you done now?”
I put an invitation on the triangle of the six star.
And he said it like a spell.
“Hmmmm! There is greed and desire there. Everything in the world is there, so passers-by, take a look!”
Woo woo woo woo-!
As he chanted a strange spell, the circle and hexahedron drawn on the floor began to glow. Soon, the sight darkened.
*****
“Tsubasiva.”
Tsuvasiva means ‘thank you’ in Russian. But now I was just swearing. Tsubasiba.
“What else is this?”
I was definitely in a cave, but when I closed my eyes and opened them, I was standing in a completely new space. People walking on the streets were wearing deep cloaks and covering their faces with masks.
There were all kinds of shops in the street. There was a place that sold medicinal herbs, and there was also a place that sold monster by-products. Some places even put out cages with small monsters on the roadside to solicit customers.
[Kieek! Kiehek-!]
Tsubasiba. The small monster was alive.
[You have found [Monster: Quickfoot].]
[You will receive 1 [Psychic Level Up Ticket] As a reward.]
[[Monster: Wing Snack] Found.]
[You will receive 1 [Psychic Level Up Ticket] As a reward.]
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“Tsubasiva!”
This Tsuvasiva was in Russian! Thank you! Thank you so much!
Thanks to the small monsters displayed on the street, there were 5 superpower level up tickets. With this, the number of [Psychic Level Up Tickets] I possessed has become 12.
“There is no quest.”
Small monsters were no match for me no matter what I did, so the quest didn’t occur. It was very disappointing.
There are 12 superpower level up tickets, but I couldn’t use the ticket because I didn’t have a [Superpower option].
Anyway, since they were the first monsters I had ever seen, I got curious and approached them.
“Oops!”
Of course, I didn’t forget to take out the mask and cape from my inventory before putting them on like everyone else. I can’t wait for the black market bastards to find out about my existence.
[Kieeaek-!]
[Kongsseu! Kwangseu!]
[Haaaaagh!]
Small monsters confined in cages continued to gnaw at the humans watching them. They were little guys barely getting to my hips.
After all, it’s a living monster.
No matter how small, a monster was a monster. They had a strong hostility towards humans and would bite the scruff of the neck immediately if you showed them a gap.
To catch a monster alive that attacks a human until it dies… Maybe the power of the Black Market is stronger than I thought.
‘Of course, it’s a small meal, but.’
No matter how strong you are, you won’t be as strong as me. No matter what anyone says, I’m the strongest psychic in Dark City!
“Four hundred thousand dollars.”
“500,000 dollars.”
“$600,000.”
The auction was in full swing in front of the cage.
‘…Auction here?’
It is understandable to hold an auction to receive a higher price. But what I don’t understand is that there is an auction going on on the street.
No one objected to the outdoor auction, including those who watched the monsters, those who participated in the auction, and those who conducted the auction.
‘Is this the rule here?’
Since no one raised any objection, I kept my mouth shut and watched the auction.
The value of living monsters gradually increased. Two people remained until the end, and the monster named Quickfoot was sold for a whopping $3.4 million. The cage containing Quickfoot disappeared into the store.
I couldn’t figure out what I was trying to do with a living monster. Surely you don’t want to raise it like a pet dog, do you?
The auction continued and the five small monsters were sold one after another. When the auction was over, the people watching the auction dispersed.
“…”
Mixed in with the people who were scattering, I also wandered around the black market. The black market was generally quiet and there were not many people.
There were also people who gave off unusual aura in the middle. They must have been guards guarding the black market.
It was full of all sorts of useless items, starting with all sorts of really rare items, just like a black market that says everything except missing items.
In particular, the most absurd thing was that the pantyhose that Flame Witch had worn a year ago came up as an auction item. Even the winning bid was 5 million dollars, which was much higher than that of a small monster.
‘Tsubasiva.’
This is an insult
How dare you put my girl’s pantyhose up for auction. After all, the black market guys couldn’t forgive it.
*****
One or two people were constantly flowing in and out of the black market.
A person who has errands and a person who has finished errands.
Their faces were hidden behind their cloaks and masks, but I could sense that they were content and looking forward to it.
‘This is why the Hero Association can’t find it.’
I could see why the Hero Association couldn’t crack down on the black market when they looked at me and the way they entered the black market.
In order to enter the black market, two conditions are necessary.
One was an invitation letter, and the other was Jin with a six star drawn in a circle.
If you do not meet these two conditions, you cannot enter the black market.
If the invitation is sent from the black market, then how can I get the gin of the sex drive?
If you hold the invitation from the black market in your hand and think you want to use this place, a person from the black market will come the next day. And it makes a gin of sex drive that can enter the black market at the place the user wants.
Depending on the user’s choice, the entrance to the black market can be either a master bedroom or a bathroom. Like the pirate king, a cave can be an entrance.
What principle can read people’s minds… I had no idea what kind of psychic powers I had.
‘That’s interesting.’
Next, I looked up at the sky. It is a beautiful night sky with countless stars twinkling in the black sky.
But the problem is that the time now is day, not night. It was 5:00 PM, and the night sky wasn’t quite there yet.
The time in Dark City and the time in Black Market were out of sync.
‘This is a really crazy imagination, but…’
Looking up at the night sky, a delusion popped into my head.
Could it be that the black market is… A space of another dimension? Otherwise, how could the time be so different?
Besides, it didn’t make any sense at all. Because this is a world where superpowers exist. It was a world where even if something absurd happened, you could go over it saying that it was possible.
Could this be the reason why the Hero Association has not been able to subdue the black market despite knowing the existence of it?
I had a reasonable doubt.
‘How do I get access to the operators anyway?’
Everyone wore a cape and a mask, so I couldn’t tell who was who.
‘I made a mistake.’
When manipulating Auggie’s memories, he should have read his memories. If so, it would have moved more easily.
Unlike the Pirate King, who was a simple customer, Aughi is one of the operators. He will of course have more and more useful information.
‘Eh… What is it?’
Concerns continued to bite their tail after tail. I was trying to decide between intelligence and strength.
Like a reclusive master who has left the world, he was contemplating whether to hide his strength and use only his head to approach the core operators, or to smash everything in sight.
‘… Okay! I’m determined!’
After thinking about it for a while, I made a decision.
‘I have to go home.’
It would feel good if you smashed every foot and foot you could see. I don’t know how many and how strong the combat troops guarding the Black Market will be, but I was confident that I could deal with them all.
But then the operators could really go into hiding like frightened rats.
I plan to show myself so that they can think of me as just an S-class villain, so that they fall into the conceit that they are the masters of the Dark City.
Only then can I knock them out and monopolize the black market.
The more careless you are, the more mistakes you make.
‘Let’s see you tomorrow.’
When I thought I would go back with the invitation in my hand, my vision went black. When I opened my eyes again, I was in the pirate king’s treasury.
*****
“Dad!”
“Oh gu oh gu oh gu our cute poopy! How are you!”
“Yes!”
As soon as Rachel found me sitting on the sofa and playing with Cheetah Girl, she came running and ran into my arms! She jumped up
“Oh, my daughter! Why are you so pretty?! Huh? Why are you so pretty?! Ungnyungnyungnyung!”
Hee hee! It tickles me!”
As he showered her with kisses on her chubby cheeks, Rachel laughed, saying it tickled her.
‘It’s quite heavy now.’
Rachel’s weight has increased again since last time. But she’s not saying Rachel got fat.
Like her girl’s mother, Emily, Rachel was also a poor eater and weighed five kilograms less than her peers.
“Daughter. Is mom out?”
“Yes! I went to see my mom!”
Again, Ms. Emily was not at her house. She wouldn’t call me daddy if Ms. Emily was at her house, she would be Rachel. The father and daughter names were a secret between the two of us.
“Kyarleung-!”
“Oh! Cheetah Girl how are you?”
“Kyarleung~”
As if telling me not to forget myself, Cheetah Girl came over and rubbed my cheek against my leg. Cheetah Girl, who used to be wary and run away when she saw me, now came to the point where she would come to me first and act cute.
Chur? You don’t need any of that! Cocks are just the best!
“What were you doing with Cheetah Girl?”
“I was drawing!”
“Painting?”
“Yes! Look at this!”
Rachel showed me a picture she had drawn as if she was proud of it.
In the picture drawn with crayons, there was a man all black, next to a woman, a small girl, and a woman all orange.
“This is my father and this is my mother. And this is me and this is my sister!”
“… Suck!”
“Huh? Dad, what’s wrong?”
“Oh no…”
Looking at Rachel’s drawing made the tip of her nose furrow. I hope our cutie Rachel can feel the overwhelming emotion I feel now.
“You draw so well…”
“Yes?”
“What is our Rachel that she can’t do? Beauty in terms of looks! Personality in terms of personality! Singing in terms of singing! Acting in terms of acting! And now she’s even good at drawing?! What the hell can’t our Rachel do!”
“Uh… Not quite like that…”
Unlike me, who gives extremely subjective evaluations of her Rachel and her paintings, Rachel rather objectively evaluates her own work.
“But daughter.”
“Why?”
“Is it okay… For a few days, Cheetah Girl… No, it’s okay to stay away from her sister?”
“Yeah?! Why?”
“Kyareung?!”
I asked cautiously, and Rachel was startled. And she was surprised by Rachel, so Cheetah Girl, who was yawning leisurely next to her, was also surprised.
“Well… Daddy’s got some work to do for her sister.”
“…Is this something that can only be done without a sister?”
Rachel hugged her cheetah girl with a sad expression on her face as if she couldn’t let go. Ugh…! That’s why it was hard for her to take Cheetah Girl with her.
“Yeah. Daddy will be here every day instead of Cheetah Girl.”
“Then fine!”
“…”
“Kyareung?!”
Rachel answers right away!
It was a reply without even 0.1 second of hesitation, so I was surprised and Cheetah Girl was also surprised. Oh, is Cheetah Girl feeling betrayed?
‘Nice.’
Anyway, I was lucky. After all, it means that I have priority over Cheetah Girl for Rachel!
