Chapter 56 – Awakening Madness (1)
Trick or Treat.
It has been a long-standing culture of Koreans who foresee future disasters with light misfortunes.
It is also a great culture that allows you to overcome the misfortune of being run over by a car today by saying that stepping on dog poop is a bad thing when a dog owner who is no better than a dog steps on the poop that he didn’t clean up while walking on the road.
However, Kang Buk-ho, a kindergartener who first learned this awesome-zero-some way of thinking (he ripped off the wings of a dragonfly 10 minutes ago), had a big question.
-Sam. Doesn’t trick soldering happen to good things?
Ah… What purity! What cruelty!
Kindergarten student Kang Buk-ho’s words were pure, so he was allowed to speak outrageous opinions!
Logic that brutally destroys the mental victory theory of adults!
If trick-or-treating really existed—on the contrary, wouldn’t it be possible to waste a lottery-worthy fortune on small things?
Nunna, a nursery school teacher who soothed Eagle (7 years old), a vector man who had fallen off the slide at the time, said that with an indescribable expression at my words.
Now that I think about it, it might have been this bastard’s fucking expression.
It’s hard to appease the kids all the time, but the dragonfly wings next to him chased after him, and the little kid did that shit. She was a good kindergarten teacher just because she didn’t have a nut.
Then.
I was a not-so-great kindergartner—— am I paying the price for that time now?
My good fortune these past few days may have led to today’s unhappiness due to the reverse soldering phenomenon.
By wasting my destiny energy on trivial luck, I ended up causing enormous misfortune.
We, mankind, were slaves living only under the influence of the great wheel of fate!
“Gyaaaaa!!!!!!!!”
─ Whirik Whirik!
─ Whirik Whirik!
After explaining the situation to Fran, I, disguised as Arthur Wayne, ran over the buildings of Sargadis in a frenzied rage! He sprinted at full speed to his destination, the transport guild, with parkour, which he polished while watching Spider-Man in his youth!!
All of that is to punish the motherfuckers who ninja my thesis!!
The transport guild also has Gao, it was clear that this division would form a punitive force and try to plant lead arrows of justice into the heads of thieves!!
Whirliriririk—!!
– Chuck!
“Huh!!”
When it landed after rotating 720 degrees from the sky, the peddler from the transport guild was startled. I caught him by the sleeve and stopped him from falling.
“Excuse me for this. I’m passing by, could you please get out of the way?”
“Heeeee!!!”
─Hodadak!!
“Tsubeol.”
I said it gently, but I don’t know why he ran away like that.
The world is full of incomprehensible things. This is why fucking scholars suffer. Because the job of digging into the unknown always leads to a life full of pain.
Are humans unable to understand each other for the rest of their lives?
At least I had a feeling I’d never understand the bastards of thieves who would steal my friend’s underwear.
“Huh, huh, huh—”
─Tumble.
She calmly entered the guild calming her anger that threatened to explode her head.
The transport guild was already in chaos due to the passengers.
“Having trouble finding things again?! What the hell does that mean!!”
“You damn bastard!! Do you know how much that mana potion costs?!”
“The bowl was something my mother left behind!!”
Dozens of passengers of all ages and genders!
They shouted like parents looking for their children who chased after a part-time job in doll clothes at an amusement park. The current transportation guild was literally a marketplace for lost children.
“Gee, calm down and listen to us!!”
The bald-headed merchant, who seemed to be the representative, said. It was a very luxurious material. Are you responsible for this situation?
The half-bald merchant desperately gathered attention and shouted.
“Reward! We will reward you!”
“… What?”
I pondered over what the merchant had said. Just like feeding raw meat to a beast named Fury that exists in my cobwebs.
Compensate?
How about a reward? The only reward for me was getting the thesis back. It’s an accessory option to gut the thieves, put helium gas in their stomachs, and fly them like kites to raise the national flag.
“It’s really embarrassing, but even the Sargadis Guards are having a hard time finding their base!!”
Sensing the calm atmosphere, the merchant hurriedly continued his words.
“So, to those whose items were stolen, our store will give top priority to compensation! And in the future, when I wipe out the thieves and recover the goods, I promise to return them to you!”
It’s bullshit
That was really, really, nonsense bullshit. I belatedly joined the crowd and shouted loudly.
“What are you planning to do as a reward!! There is no other way to appease our wrath than lost items!!”
“Right!! That’s right!!”
Those who sympathize with My anger cried out as one voice.
“Everyone!! Don’t be fooled by their tricks!! It’s clear that he intends to placate us with pennies and make things fizzle out!!”
“Right!! That’s right!!”
“We need to form a subjugation party!! They have to hire people from the adventurer’s guild to track down the thieves and get their stuff back!! That is the reward that those who took our goods for a fee deserved!!”
“Compensate!! Make up for it!!”
With a few words, I swayed public opinion. Excited crowds simply go out of their way even if the direction is set.
They say madness is like gravity. After all, there was nothing wrong with what the ancestors said.
Like that, the bald president seemed to be pushed out in front of the runaway citizens, and he straightened his shoulders and shouted in a loud voice.
“1 silver!!!!!”
-Stand up.
It was a very loud voice. I thought my fucking ears were falling off. People around me who thought the same also frowned. His voice, which seemed to have been trained on the market floor during his days as a peddler, drove the guild into silence at once.
“1 silver! We will compensate 1 silver per person to all customers who have suffered damage!!! For items over 30 coppers, we will pay the price according to the market price!!!”
The bald merchant, reddened up to his neck, exclaimed and gasped violently. I laughed lowly at the sight.
“Hehe. 1 silver.”
1 silver.
About 1 million won according to the Norse-style Korean currency exchange rate method.
That’s not a lot of money at all. Well, if you come in as a coong, of course it’s fucking honey and you’ll get a lot of money, but there’s no way you can calm the burning atmosphere with that much money!
“One silver is acceptable.”
“Is it not enough to buy mana potions, even 1 silver? Thank you, customer!”
“Actually, my mother left her house on her 8th birthday!”
… Fuck?
The atmosphere was strange. For just 1 silver, that’s when you turn your palms upside down? Aren’t these people hungry?
“Hey, everyone! Do not let them fall for the ploy to cover up their mistakes!”
I cried out before public opinion was completely overturned.
“More than this, this will continue to happen! They will treat our prized possessions like a piece of junk, not a customer’s product!!”
Even if I receive compensation, my thesis is not returned. It’s not that the merchants here will remember the contents of the thesis and rewrite it as it is, but I’m the only one who loses if it ends like this!
“The merchants of the Transport Guild have no resentment towards the thieves who raided the peddlers and stole their goods! It is a despicable trick to solve troublesome things with money!”
“Absolutely not!!”
The bald merchant immediately refuted and entered. I glared at him with an angry gaze, and the peddler suddenly burst into tears. Uh fuck? You say you use Seonjeup Pilseung here?
“I will pay the indemnity right here and now! Please accept our apology!”
─Nodding off.
The merchant finished his speech and bowed down to his waist. The atmosphere around them became solemn at the high-ranking man’s apology. The limits of the people of the other world, who are weak in agitation, were functioning in the opposite direction.
“Hmm. Compensating properly, but criticizing more than this…”
“They didn’t want things stolen either, did they?”
“We have to understand with a broad mind. Even though we do different things, we are all citizens living in the same land.”
Rurr-.
Even though the words were slick, people left the road to get 1 silver. I was left alone, unable to follow the rapid development of public opinion like a rollercoaster.
‘Is this a true story?’
Wouldn’t that be true? That’s right. It can’t be true either.
I was staring up at the ceiling in awe, but my eyes were wide open and I ran amok!
“No, how could this be!!!!!”
End like this? It can’t be helped that things were taken away by bandits, so let’s pay for it! That was the behavior of an evil conglomerate dotted with fucking capitalism!!
“Wait! I still have something to say!”
Wiping away tears, I caught the merchant who was about to leave. Apart from me, a few other people remained in their seats as if they were still dissatisfied.
So don’t know yet! I don’t know yet!!
“What are you going to do with things that cannot be compensated with money? My things are important documents, so there is no point in returning them in exchange for money.”
“That’s… Sorry.”
No, it’s not a fucking apology, but to come up with a countermeasure. I was warmed up by the bald man’s attitude as if he were a civil servant, and said, “That’s not our jurisdiction.”
But I couldn’t say anything about what followed.
“The peddler who was attacked and kidnapped this time is my son.”
“Yes?”
“It means that my son was kidnapped on the day he went out to live independently.”
The merchant with his shaved head said, wiping his tears with a handkerchief.
“But even if you go back and forth between adventurers’ guilds, you might find that it’s difficult to get a request to find a gang of bandits whose location is hard to find, but they said it would be better to entrust even the Gilfi Guild, which accepted the request, to the guards.”
“Write…”
Even if you call it a transport guild, this is a branch after all.
He’s the son of the branch manager here, so he’s probably not in the position to go around and laugh. So that human son also made up his mind to become independent.
I have a little thought that it might be Gura, but the iron plate on my face was not enough to argue and raise it here.
Because I thought maybe my parents might be doing that in their hometown too.
And if all those bloody tears were acting, I would want to make an Oscar in another world and give it to that bald man. Of course, at that time, I would swing it as hard as I could and get a trophy for hair transplant on that bare head.
“Tsk…”
“Ha…”
Others seemed depressed as if they had given up on the same thoughts as me. Whether or not that statement was true, the transport guild was also a victim.
How pathetic and ridiculous it must be for the perpetrators to live in silence, but the victims to quarrel among themselves.
“Fuck.”
Losing my momentum, I turned around with the intention of going after the damn bandits alone.
Although others say they can’t find the den of robbers——I had a method to make it possible.
But then, among the dispersing crowd, I found the familiar white hair and widened my eyes.
“Mr. Tyrsi?”
“—Mr. Wayne?”
Surprised, I forgot to call her by her first name, not her last name. Fortunately, Tirshi looked at the mask I was wearing without showing any sign of concern.
Those eyes.
The look in his eyes as if he met the man from the local hole-in-the-wall shop in an abandoned prison after being denied by everything in the world. Through it, I mastered every context.
─Hey, you two?
—Yes, that one.
With eye contact lasting less than a second, we understood everything that brought each other to this place.
It was said that first-class ninjas could know each other’s feelings just by fist bumping, but even third-class scholars could do that.
Because we are also living beings suffering from the chains of hatred.
The chain of hate between “Professor” And “Graduate student.”
