Chapter 338 – 338. Life Is a Line (1)
“So, you mean he and Lily started traveling again?”
“Yes.”
“Huh…”
After hearing the progress of the trip from Erin, Illyana and Eleanor’s expressions were different.
Illyana had a sullen expression on her face, as if she didn’t like something.
Eleanor’s face is dark with worry.
Their expressions were different, but the two women’s faces had a common concern for Lily.
Eleanor asked, looking at her Illyana, who was making a sullen expression beside her.
“Lily… Would it be okay?”
“It won’t be okay.”
Illyana spoke her mind calmly.
If you imagine the series of situations Lily has been through and has to go through, there is no way she won’t be okay.
A story and ending that could never be better.
But that doesn’t mean Lily has to go through her pain alone.
“Since Hyun-i will stick with it, even if it gets worse, it won’t go to the worst.”
It is fortunate that Eun-hyun is with him on the journey.
At least Eun-hyun, it is clear that she will take care of Lily with all her heart so that her mentality does not collapse and she does not go to the worst end.
“Anyway, to destroy the dukedom of the Kingdom of Rendir. She took a lot of drastic action for Hyun-i.”
“Excessive?”
“He’s not the kind of person to do things this big. Hiding quietly in the back, tying people up, strangling them, and biting them is the original way of Hyuni.”
The radical act of destroying the largest building in the center of the estate is different from the way of thinking that has been shown so far.
“… It’s kind of like a snake. Really.”
“Puff. Surely. I don’t really like that nickname, but it annoys me more because it’s a fitting nickname.”
Rumors about Eun-hyeon are being circulated within the kingdom of Pernias.
A poisonous silver snake.
The first time he heard that name, Erin naturally became angry.
However, if she accepts that nickname as if it’s funny, and really sees how the kingdom is holding the nobles in a snake-like action.
I can only think that Eun-hyeon is enjoying that rude nickname.
“Huh, that person definitely has that side.”
Eleanor covered her own mouth with her hand, and smiled at her as if she could sympathize with her.
“… At first, I also wondered if there were people like this pervert.”
The twisted way of thinking that the more you look down on yourself and ignore it, the easier it is to move from behind, is not a way of thinking that you can seldom meet.
“Yes? He’s all good, but that’s the problem. Really.”
“…”
In the middle of her conversation, Erin lost her words when she suddenly began to form strange sympathies among her wives.
“Well, anyway, even though I did it so splendidly, the part where I didn’t give her a chance to catch her tail is also true… It’s him.”
Although the method has changed, the vigilance in handling the work remains the same.
Eleanor nodded her head as if agreeing with Illyana before moving on to the next topic.
“Erin, was the only thing he conveyed about the use of purchased slaves?”
“Ah yes. He told me to consult with Eleanor about this.”
“Huh. Okay.”
As soon as she finished her story, she immediately saw Eleanor get up from her seat and Erin got up too.
“I’ll head straight to my brother. Can you lead all the purchased slaves and bring them to the ducal residence?”
“Yes. Okay.”
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“Um…”
“No, this is my friend! Why the hell would you not do it!?”
Jess hesitated and did not immediately answer the reason for rejecting the swindler adventurer’s offer.
“Ah-oh! It’s frustrating! If you’re not going to do it, let’s find out why!”
No matter how much the frowning adventurer urged him to answer, Jis did not open his mouth easily.
The offer made by the swindler adventurer was certainly enchanting.
However, Jess declined the offer.
It was because reason in his head was warning him strongly that he should not accept this offer.
‘Ha, sickness. X suit. It’s really cool. I was trying to live a nicer life. Why are you putting me through this ordeal again…’
In the meantime, selling fake potions to many rookie adventurers and cheating them out, Jis’s senses and brains, which he has grown, are working faster than ever.
“This way, you can manage to make some good money?! Why would a guy who liked money so much not want to do it? Why!?”
The trickster adventurer’s suggestion to Jiss is this.
First, prepare a very expensive and powerful weapon.
However, it was not a weapon that was recklessly expensive, but a weapon that was suitable enough for new adventurers to seduce.
And it draws the attention of consumers by spreading rumors that the weapon is sold at a very cheap price.
Adventurers who have already accumulated experience and skills above the level are no longer interested, and the target of scammer adventurers is new adventurers who have not yet developed an eye for seeing things.
A rookie adventurer is led by the rumor and visits a swindler adventurer who offers an item to get a good weapon at a cheap price.
He told the rookie adventurers who came to visit him that the powerful weapon that had been rumored to be sold at a low price had already been sold.
Instead, they sell weapons to new adventurers, who are consumers, while talking about selling weapons that are equal to or slightly inferior to them at a cheaper price.
All of the weapons actually sold here have defects, or cheap products are packaged with narration as if there is no problem at all, and sold at high prices to discourage adventurers.
It is a typical false sale scam, and it is a scheme to trick consumers into selling cheap products at high prices.
The swindler adventurer was convincing Jis that he could make a huge profit in this structure.
“I’m going to buy all the stuff!?”
He offers expensive weapons with flashy looks that can attract many new adventurers, as well as cheap weapons with defects that he actually sells.
“You just have to trick new adventurers and sell these items at a high price, as you always do!”
And, just as Jis had done with the potion scam before, he proposed to use narration to attack the rookie adventurers in the back and divide the profits generated in the process in half.
“Huh…”
Certainly, as the swindler adventurer said, it is a tempting proposal that allows you to touch a lot of money, and is full of the sweet scent of money that you almost would have accepted without thinking.
“Right now, the adventurer’s guild in the Duchy of Armitas is a total bonanza! There are a lot of hukou who can easily cheat and cheat, so why the hell would they not do it!”
In the past, since the massive flooding of demon beasts that occurred around the kingdom and throughout the country, including the border of Mograf, the number of adventurers who settled in the Duchy of Armitas from Pernin increased dramatically.
Especially since the duke’s family devoted a lot of money to fostering new adventurers.
In the Duchy of Armitas, many new adventurers who dreamed of making a fortune and dreaming of adventure were flocking to it.
This is because the Armitas Territory, where you can receive various benefits such as basic education, basic equipment, and commission fee waivers, treats new adventurers very well.
It wasn’t for nothing that the swindler adventurer described the Duchy of Armitas as a ‘bondage’.
There are so many rookie adventurers out there that it’s good to be spoiled for nothing, so there’s no reason not to keep an eye on them.
‘X feet… Come as early as 3 months ago. No, I don’t know if it was last year.’
Even a few months ago, there was no way Jess would refuse such an offer.
But now it’s different.
“Ah-oh! I will not! Don’t do it! I have to go to the guild tomorrow, so get out!”
“Damn it! In the time I haven’t seen you in a year, you’ve completely become a bird’s heart! Done! It’s okay! Save someone else! No! I can do it alone!”
The moment I was about to leave Jess’s house with a sigh as I approached the front door and threw open the door.
“… Hey.”
Ssik
Just before the swindler adventurer completely left his house, he smiled in repentance at the voice of Jiss calling him.
‘That’s right.’
There was no way Jis, a money demon who had been cheating on such a good business like himself, would not refuse.
After weighing the risks and the benefits, he finally decided to cheat with him and called himself out, thought the trickster adventurer.
“Okay! Good idea!”
Voices of joy naturally rose at the fact that the irreplaceable swindler partner and friend had not changed.
As he turned around and started to move back to the table where Jess was sitting, Jess said.
“As a business partner with whom I cheated, I would like to give you one piece of advice, considering our past relationship.”
However, the words that came out of Jess’ mouth did not mean that he agreed to a partnership with him.
“… What?”
When he said something completely unexpected and out of the blue, the impression of a swindler adventurer, who was happy, frowned at once.
Showing his shy expression as it is, Jis continued.
“Anyway, don’t run around cheating in the duchy.”
“What bullshit are you talking about?”
“If you’re going to do it, you’re saying go somewhere else and cheat. Don’t run around here. If so, nothing good will happen to you.”
The moment the swindler adventurer heard Jess’s warning, he put on a blank expression, wondering what he had heard, and soon his expression changed to annoyance.
“Have you turned? Do you know how common places full of yolks are? Don’t talk nonsense if you’re not going to work together!”
Naturally, Jess did not think his warning advice would work.
Bang!
As I closed the door roughly as if the door would fall off, the hinges of the wooden door shook violently.
“Whoa…”
Jess, who had become alone in his own room, sighed deeply while covering his face with his hands.
“A bastard… Gear nose…”
The swindler adventurer who left the room did not know exactly the current situation in the duchy.
He is blinded by the idea of profiting from fraud by rookie adventurers flocking to the dukedom, so he is unable to make an accurate judgment.
I recalled the eyes of my former partner who were full of madness, seized by the stupidity of not considering the situation in case of failure.
“Money ghost, it’s been a long time since I heard that nickname.”
To himself, fraud was just a means of eating and living, and the reason he persistently collected money to the point of being called a money ghost was to retire from an adventurer life and spend a stable old age after about 10 years.
The lifespan of an adventurer whose body and equipment are like property is very short.
It’s because the older you get, the harder your body gets in the way of adventure.
He spat out all the money he had earned by cheating as reparations, even though he was in huge amounts of debt.
Jis did not think his current life was bad.
Currently, while working as an adventurer and running a small business as a merchant, he is making a living while paying off his debts to Eun-hyeon step by step.
When he got older and retired, he was diligently preparing for his future by running a well-established store so that he could make a living in his old age.
“I definitely warned you.”
I was just making a donation and living a good life and clearing up the past, but it is absolutely not acceptable to get involved in an uncomfortable incident due to a relationship in the past.
As a result of cheating many people, all Jis got was a huge debt, but the sense and sense he had developed through that experience were now strongly warning his reason.
“I’m sorry. Friend. But it can’t be helped. I am a good person now.”
Since it happened like this, Jis took this opportunity to fart at Eun-hyeon, who was his boss and employer, and sought a plan to earn more points.
As he imagined the future of his former partner, he let out a sigh.
“Yeah, listen to me… Life is about riding the line well… I can’t help it. Stop loss is timing.”
