Chapter 368 – Armals (1)
“Wives? Husband, I’ll get some wages for a while.”
I got along well with Tirsi, shoving the dog-flavored oatmeal into my stomach like hospital porridge, and then I moved to collect the money I owed.
“Oh yeah? Okay. Go.”
As I wiped my mouth and said, Dana, who was leaning on the bed as if drowsy, touched her hand.
“But do you look down on yourself if you go alone? It’s nothing special, but it could be dangerous.”
“Oh yeah? Then what is your sister doing? It doesn’t happen.”
“No fuck.”
So, I took our pouty purple Nunna and went straight to the place called by the nobles.
However, when I went there, the nobles were nowhere to be found, and the butler, Stalin’s mustache, gave me parchment.
〈… This?〉
Naturally, I thought they would give me something like a gold coin pouch or gold bar, so I was stunned for about 3 seconds.
What the fuck Is it a euphemism to say that there is no money for Ching Chong Chong, so get out of your country?
Or is this enough money for the working class? Are your parents the head of a Gulag camp?
As I was stunned, the butler touched his mustache and said,
〈Since the amount is the amount, we plan to deposit it directly into the bank. Let’s take a look.〉
〈… What?〉
I twisted my head and read the piece of paper.
It was, so to speak, an appraisal and a receipt. The appraised value, signed by the people who evaluated the value of the item yesterday, was written on it.
Among them, what fell to my share was 40 gold.
〈… 40 gold?〉
Let’s say it again. It was 40 gold.
40 gold.
4000 silver. 2000 slaves worth 2 silver.
‘… Ceeeee haircut!!! 40 gold!!’
I screamed inside. However, I was so surprised that I was neither happy nor dumbfounded that I had made a lot of money. Dana, who secretly checked the amount behind me, also had her eyeballs pop out.
God damn it, Dad. Are you watching? Your son earned 4 billion.
‘… 40 gold, 40 gold? Does this make sense?’
No fuck, did that bastard Diavolo have dozens of insurance policies in front of him? How can you get 4 billion won when you just disposed of your private property? Could being an honorary aristocrat really mean buying and selling?
God damn it, 4 billion!
Forty gold coins is 2,000 times my selling price.
It’s enough to build a small fief in the fucking Nord. We can give each of our wives 500 Nords.
Even I, who was accustomed to the budget execution amount of modern districts by trillions, was a bit unrealistic. I was so stiff that I couldn’t even move for fear of crumpling the piece of paper.
People often say The world is called the poor, the poor, the poor.
Is the concept of wealth different between the rich and the poor? Of course, I have often heard stories of wealthy people who own several yachts worth billions of dollars each, but it would be meaningless to compare the 21st century with the industrial revolution in this world.
If you really want to compare it, it’s right to compare it with the economy of another world. I rolled my eyes, shaking my hand holding the receipt.
‘How much is 4 billion, no, 40 gold?’
As far as I remember, 40 gold was a budget that could easily roll Yerna’s lab room for more than 5 years.
It might sound like a small amount, but the lab room of the archeology department, which was treated as a money-eating hippopotamus at a world-class university—a place that has produced several Nobel Prize winners on Earth—is about that much.
So, to put it bluntly, this was a large amount of money at the level of operating expenses of local governments.
It’s never, really never an amount that can be returned to an individual.
‘I am very perplexed. This is not an amount to be deposited as a lump sum.〉
〈… Yes?〉
I woke up as if I had been doused with cold water at the butler’s laughing face.
〈… Did you say payment in installments?〉
〈Yes, was it?〉
The butler who said that was conceited with an expression as if an idiot like you, an adventurer, would know what to do.
Hey, you bitch has a talent for making people angry with his facial skills. Is this fucker playing with me now?
Perhaps he hadn’t seen me fighting, he straightened his shoulders and smirked like a drunk who was arguing with a former MC.
〈I am a person who has risen to the position of serving the aristocrat with just one pen. I even ate college stuff. If you do as I tell you, you won’t suffer any harm.〉
〈… Her. Haha.〉
When despondency and absurdity coexisted, nothing but laughter came out. Butler Stalin’s Beard laughed heartily at how he interpreted my expression. How could a madman stop noticing that he had no conscience?
I shook off my despondency and widened my eyes fiercely.
‘Patience. I almost lost my mind if I forgot.’
I don’t know, but I knew from seeing and hearing that the original contract with such a large amount of money wasn’t over until it was over.
But, knowing that, perhaps because he had lived as a commoner for too long, his soul was completely drained when he was beaten round and round with 4 billion won. I almost forgot to read the contract.
In that sense, it could be said that it was fortunate that this fucker ran into it. Because this mustachioed bastard brought me to my senses.
〈… Where is the contract?〉
“Here it is.”
It was the butler who handed over the contract that I had prepared in advance, probably because I had done the damn thing yesterday.
However, the thickness of the contract was not easy, no matter what tricks were used.
Even Dana, who was distracted like me after seeing the butler’s bullshit, silently frowned. If you put the cover on the cover, it will be a fucking short story.
Grinding my teeth, I accepted and read the contract.
─It flinched.
The butler shuddered as I carefully studied the contents of the contract.
What the fuck It seems that I knew how to read it while skimming like an adventurer with black eyes or who couldn’t even read a contract, right?
As I turned over the contract, I handed the finished page to Dana as well.
“Dana. Please look at it together.”
“Yes I will.”
Our eyes I even wrote honorific words to her husband, as if I was trying to save him. Of course, I was so freaked out that I almost spilled the contract. Dr. Lee comes in without a blinker.
‘… Swallow, anyway, I wrote a complicated contract once.’
I clicked my tongue while reading the contract.
Every time this happens, I am reminded that this world is savage and ruthless after all, even if it seems plausible. There were contracts that opened your eyes and cut your nose, but at least there, wasn’t it possible to protest later against unequal contracts?
But here, as long as I get a jijang or a stamp, it’s okay.
Even though it is a contract that has been agreed upon, it cannot be legally modified later. It was the reason why fucking snatch contracts were prevalent.
I don’t know if there is a mutual agreement, but aren’t these bastards cheating on contracts? You know what a deal is like.
-Palak.
After reading the contract, I glared at the butler. If I had only trusted Minerva or Primor, I would have been screwed.
〈… I have a lot of questions to ask, but first of all, the amount has no due date?〉
‘Ah, is that so? Then, I put it in my possession until it turns into money, and I even put in a clause saying that you only occupy it. Or even a clause that compensates in kind or in kind if the sale is not made within the deadline.〉
I said calmly. Thinking that I had been hooked on the size of the amount and almost drowned, I automatically came to my senses.
Needless to say, not having a due date is crazy.
Who knows if those bastards would go on a rampage without disposing of Diavolo’s fortune?
No, even if I signed this contract, it was more of an idiot not to keep it. If I catch a Hogu, but lose it, will I use it? Even me, I will wait for that Hogu bastard to follow me during adventures or ruins exploration. Because you don’t have to share the pie if you’re behind on what to pay.
“Besides, that’s not all. Isn’t the deposit bank a bit too minor? I don’t know what this bank’s fees or withdrawal process are like. There is no related wording in the contract.〉
‘That, that! There seems to be a misunderstanding… !〉
‘I haven’t finished talking yet. Do you hear?〉
I was afraid of the butler who calmly came out as a cannon fodder. You are not noble Where are you going to stop talking to the same dirt spoon and fuck?
Let’s not be scared, Kang Buk-ho. Is 4 billion a big deal? That is only a small share of a stake in a medium-sized company.
I am a Daehan soldier who grew up watching the bastards who ate billions of dollars in livelihood corruption get suspended sentences!
You can’t be intimidated by these pennies!
‘Yeah fuck. My head seems to cool down a bit after hypnotizing myself that I am roughly the size of a major shareholder of Kyochon Chicken.’
In this day and age, having 4 billion won is not even a golden spoon.
It’s a fucking fact, but it’s a fact. With 4 billion won, I don’t think I can even buy an apartment built on the yolk land.
I became the king of soy sauce chicken, but is 4 billion a big deal?
On Earth, there were many rich people who invested 1 billion in online games. But what? 4 billion? There’s nothing great about it.
Even if they were not aristocrats from another world, modern people who lived a little bit more would laugh at my mischievous behavior, saying, ‘Fuck you, you can’t come to your senses for disposing of a company and giving away some of the money you lost?’
Thinking so made me want to pretend to be cooler and treat 40 gold coins as pennies.
It was the extreme of macho, with Gao controlling her entire body.
The butler coughed. Cover your mouth and cough.
‘This isn’t some kind of Dragon Ball, do I have to go to Romania for the National Singing Contest because of you bastards?’
If I meet you late because you guys are busy, will it take me a year to see all of your faces?
And how much is the travel expenses and time spent during that time converted into money?
How much of a fuck can you fuck a person with a joke like this on a contract? Are these motherfuckers really wanting to hang out with me?
‘Tirshi, you were right. I really want to be an honorary aristocrat right now.’
If I was a noble, wouldn’t I have done this shit? Probably didn’t
Is it because my skills have improved and the board has grown? The plagued daily life of the time as a translation slave shimmered.
Why did I have to be wary of nobles even before I became an adventurer! It was all because the professors took their anger out on Hassan, a translation slave from Kitai, who was easy going when he got fucked by the nobles.
Why is the writing so new?
The space between the rows is Jung-gu heating.
What did you eat of the Neg race to make your skin yellow?
For some kind of stupid reason.
‘I can’t do that. Let’s rewrite the entire contract. I need to get some advice from the Hermaion guild leader.〉
I was a little bluffing and threatening.
Hermaion guild leader? I don’t know how it came about. Even if this butler here was actually the guild leader, he wouldn’t know.
However, the bravado seemed to have worked for the butler, and he rubbed his palms earnestly as his complexion turned pale.
It was a change of attitude as if I had become an aristocrat.
But looking at the bottom of this bastard earlier, it’s clear that he won’t be shuddering like this just because the contract is about to be broken. I didn’t get caught up in that hypersensitive attitude and my eyes lit up.
It’s as if a new employee is in a situation where he has to sign instead of the team leader!
This butler was probably sent by his owner because he didn’t want to be beaten by the dog. And until the complete reset of this contract, it seemed that permission was not granted. Wouldn’t it be enough to change a few lines at least?
‘I don’t know how far the allowed category is, but at least they told me to avoid involving the Hermaion Guild in the contract.’
The Hermaion guild leader is a commoner merchant.
The fact that he was able to do business with nobles meant that his ability to make contracts was so damn good. You can’t cheat against the guild leader or his real daughter, Selena.
‘Oh, would you tune in? Thank you.>
I smiled innocently. For a big contract like this, you need to get a confirmation from an expert.
‘The butler will go with you. If it were my best friend, Miss Selena, I would make a cup of tea that would be good for the butler.”
I am the butler! Then, like a dog, he rubbed his hands with such force that he would flip his stomach.
‘No, I’m sure it was wrong! It must be that I brought the herbal copy by mistake!〉
When I looked like I was biting into a piece of rice cake, the butler’s pupils shook.
Since I don’t think I’ll go ahead with the contract, it seems like I’m trying to somehow be less troubled by my master.
〈… Yes! That is the wrong document!〉
And he concluded that if it was a contract that would fail anyway, he might have wanted to please me.
Asshole.
I grinned proudly and held the contract with both hands.
─Aww!!
─Jjiik!!
I tore the papers upright in front of the butler’s eyes.
The butler opened his mouth and panicked, but he couldn’t even stop me. Why do you open your eyes like that? Are you going to discard this?
It’s a world without shredders, so I tore it up instead. Thank you always, Human.
─Tusha shot!!
Paper torn to the size of a finger scattered around. Blow away, Cheonbon-Ang!
The scattered paper caught the sparks of my magic. In the powerful flame of mana, the contract burned in an instant, leaving only a burnt smell.
It took an instant for the aristocrat’s handwriting to become as hazy as the newspaper from roasting sweet potatoes.
I said while blowing the pouring ashes.
‘Go and tell your master. Let’s rewrite the contract.〉
That day, the Nord family received a deposit of 40 gold coins.
It was a same-day deposit by account transfer. It was a feat achieved after Selena’s confirmation and the borrowing of Primor-Minerva’s name.
Look at it, motherfuckers. You can do it
