Chapter 882 – 882. Dreams of the Past (4)
The only thing Lily did at the ward office was really ‘brainwashing’.
However, if it is not brainwashing targeting individuals or a small number of people, but all the people in the building of an administrative agency called the district office, can we dismiss that as just that?
In this situation where she was so full of energy that she couldn’t even speak, Lily calmly gave the order to the ward office staff.
“Resident registration card. Please issue it.”
“… Yes.”
There was no focus in the eyes of the ward office worker, who had a blank expression as if possessed by something.
I just understood Lily’s order in my head and handled the complaint in silence.
Exotic and beautiful appearances and names that do not belong to Asia, let alone Korea.
There was a good reason why the district office staff, young and old, all looked blank in their beautiful looks that could attract people.
Neither Illyana nor her other wives and their scarlet origins nor anyone questioned their appearance.
There is no sense of incongruity, as if dealing with the same Koreans, as if it was only natural for them to handle the complaints they received.
“Please take care of all these people besides me.”
“Yes. Your name…”
“Under…”
Contrary to his expectations, Ju-hong couldn’t help but feel discouraged as the situation went very smoothly.
If it flows like water, wouldn’t he be so stupid that he had been thinking about it with his head wrapped up until now?
“Is it true? Really…”
What is the feeling when you see with your own two eyes and hear with your own ears that an unrealistic phenomenon is happening in reality?
It’s so complex that it’s indescribable.
“We will issue an ID. Did you bring your ID photo?”
“Proof… Picture?”
Lily tilted her head.
The group didn’t even know the concept of ‘photography’, so there was no way they prepared in advance.
“Oh right…”
Juhong, who recalled it belatedly, sighed slightly and showed an awkward expression.
It had been a long time since I had made an ID card, so I forgot the procedure.
Making a resident registration card, which had begun with enthusiasm, was so futile.
The five women who left the ward office without any income sat on a bench at the entrance of the ward office building and looked serious.
“I never thought it would be this difficult to get something called an ID… I did not know.”
Lily gave her a look of disrespect at her inability to help.
“Oh no! Sister! It wasn’t because of her sister that she failed!”
Surprised Erin comforted Lily who was sullen.
“That’s right. Don’t be too sullen. It’s not like it’s a complete failure.”
Illyana, who was responding to Erin’s comfort, asked Ju-hong again.
“You mean if you take that ID photo, you can make an ID anyway?”
“… Yes. That’s right.”
“Then you should first get that picture and come back. First of all, it’s not that Lily’s power itself doesn’t work, so just knowing that is a great harvest.”
“Yes.”
Eleanor nodded her head in agreement with Illyana.
“You just have to do it step by step.”
“… Yes.”
“Then, going back to the story, how can I get that ID photo?”
“Uh, so…”
First of all, Ju-hong had to explain what a “Photograph” Was.
“You can draw a person’s figure or background as it is? Is that in an instant? Hmm…”
“Yes. Hmm… Like that?”
Ju-Hong pointed with his finger at the large electric billboard displayed on top of the tall building.
On the electronic display board, popular dramas and advertisements were playing.
“… No one was in that big box. I thought someone that big was actually in there.”
Looking up at the huge billboard, Erin shared her strange impressions.
This earth, where Eunhyeon lived, had a lot of strange things.
“Yeah, but… There is only one problem if you want to take a picture.”
“Problem?”
“I need money to take pictures… Don’t we have a penny right now?”
“…”
Again, this was something I hadn’t thought of at all.
Lily and Erin looked at each other in bewilderment once again, but the financial problems Ju-hong mentioned were resolved sooner than expected.
“Whoops, you don’t have to worry about that.”
Smiling, Eleanor said confidently.
“Is it Eleanor? Do you have anything good?”
“Erin. Isn’t that No matter where you go in the world, the value of a jewel never fades.”
Eleanor held out a small pouch she was wearing around her waist, and when she opened the cover, it was filled with jewels of many colors.
“Miss Eleanor. This… ?”
“Huh. I brought it just in case.”
When entering the dream with Lily’s power, there was a high possibility that these precious metals would also be treated as Eleanor’s belongings, if they were brought into the dream together.
“Omg…”
Ju-hong was once again speechless and at a loss for words.
I couldn’t decide whether to say that it was meticulous in a strange place or that it was well-prepared.
Eleanor smiled and asked Juhong.
“There must be a jewelry store here too, right? If I sell this, I will be able to take a picture of the ID and also get a house to live in for a while, right?”
“Uh, chu, that’s enough!”
No. Will I be able to buy a house?
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It wasn’t too difficult to find a gold and silver store that could sell jewelry, as I walked aimlessly through the middle of downtown Seoul.
After walking for about 10 minutes, I was able to find a large gold and silver room that looked quite large.
“Where did you get these jewels from?”
The owner of the gold and silver room, who checked all the quality belonging to the best products, looked very urgent.
Eleanor, knowing the quality of the jewels she presented, responded in a relaxed manner.
“Her husband has a side job dealing with jewelry.”
It wasn’t a lie.
Her husband, Eun-hyeon, actually used something called ‘jewel magic’ he had learned from a certain witch.
As the effect increased the more high-quality jewels were used, Eun-hyeon always carried high-quality jewels.
Eleanor, who used to procure the jewels used by Eun-hyeon, was naturally as good as a girl from an aristocratic family.
The owner of the gold and silver shop, facing Eleanor, who exuded a girl from an aristocratic family, cautiously asked her with a stiff face.
“This… Are you thinking of selling them all?”
“If I hadn’t intended to sell it, I wouldn’t have brought it or entrusted it with appraisal.”
“…”
The owner of the gold and silver room had no choice but to swallow his saliva without realizing it.
He was even more greedy because he knew the value of the jewels he saw in front of him.
“How about this?”
“… Hmm.”
When I knocked on the calculator and wrote down the result on a piece of paper and presented it to Eleanor, Eleanor narrowed her eyes and did not answer easily.
To be honest, Eleanor did not know how much the price written on the paper was worth in Korea, but she was certain of one thing.
‘There’s no way he paid me too much.’
Thinking of that, I glanced at Erin and gave her gaze, and Erin, who understood the meaning of that gaze, shook her head.
Judging by the slight frown, it was clear that the owner of the gold and silver shop had read their dark intentions as if he had a lot of intentions against them.
Eleanor smiled and said.
“Are you kidding me?”
She was smiling broadly, but unlike Eleanor’s smile, her sharp voice was strong enough to bury the owner of the gold and silver shop, who was about to eat his back.
Adding to that, Erin thrust her head forward, driving a wedge.
“If you joke with me one more time, I won’t stand it then. You know?”
“Suck!?”
She only threatened a little by shedding her weak spirit, but the startled owner of the gold and silver shop shook her shoulders.
When Erin picked up the momentum she had scattered and smiled at her, the owner of the gold and silver shop let out her breath and offered her the right amount.
“This… This is the amount we can offer…”
“Thank you.”
Eleanor smiled and sold the jewelry she had brought into her dream.
They were jewels that would exist in reality anyway, so she didn’t even hesitate.
Perhaps because she felt like she had free money, she didn’t feel too bad.
The five women left the gold and silver room with a smile and a good mood and walked down the street again.
“Miss Eleanor.”
“Huh?”
Erin came up to her side of Eleanor and asked her.
“Why didn’t you sell all the jewels?”
Eleanor sold only half of her jewels to her goldsmith.
“I thought it wouldn’t be bad to have it for now. Because Hongyi said that even if she only had this much money, she would have enough for the time being. Not bad for her to keep as an emergency fund.”
“With that money alone, I can spend a year just playing and eating. There is no need to have more.”
“Ah, that’s right.”
After hearing Juhong’s additional explanation, Erin was immediately convinced.
“Now, let’s go straight to the photo studio. We have a long way to go.”
Ju-hong took Eun-hyeon’s wives and went straight to the photo studio.
The photojournalist looked blank for a moment at the beauty of all the women, and after taking pictures of Ju-hong and Eun-hyeon’s four wives, he made a strange expression.
“I lived and lived and saw all the perfect subjects that I never felt the need to retouch once… Is there anything I would like to ask of you, could you please?”
An elderly, middle-aged photographer asked Eun-hyeon’s wives and Ju-hong with a polite expression.
“What is it?”
“Can you model for more pictures? If you need money, I’ll give you more! I definitely want to display it at the entrance!”
“No… Until you need to… Then please take a pretty picture of our family! I don’t need money!”
“I’ll do my best to take a picture!”
The photojournalist’s eyes burned with enthusiasm and enthusiasm.
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“Hi-Hi.”
In less than a few hours, Erin smiled as she looked at the printed photos over and over again.
In the photo, Illyana, Eleanor, Lily, and herself were taken.
There was also a picture taken with Ju-hong, but she refused to be included in the picture with Eun-hyeon’s four wives.
“Is it that good?”
“Huh! I love it! Photos are really nice! To think that our appearance is directly drawn into a picture like this.”
One regrettable thing was that their husband, Eun-hyeon, was not there.
“Let’s ask the owner to take a picture with us later.”
“Huh!”
Erin responded lively to Lily’s smile.
When everything was ready, including the ID photo, which was the original purpose, the issuance of the resident registration card and ID card went smoothly thanks to the power of Lily’s nightmare.
After that, the place where Ju-hong and Eun-hyeon’s wives visited was a bank.
Eleanor had sold half of her jewelry and the large amount of cash she had obtained was too much to carry around.
“A bank… It’s a really strange place.”
Keeping money safe, and being able to withdraw deposits that were deposited anywhere else at any time was a concept that did not exist on the Arcena continent.
After finishing the bank business, which was so interesting, the last place he stopped by was real estate.
“Oh my god…”
For the time being, she and Eun-hyeon’s wives, including herself, stopped by Ju-hong to find out where she lived, and Eleanor couldn’t help but get a second shock.
It wasn’t even a huge mansion that could be used by nobles, shared by dozens or hundreds of servants.
An apartment house where only one family can live.
I was dumbfounded when I heard the price of a place called an apartment.
“… What is so expensive?”
“… Seoul is like that.”
Ju-hong had no choice but to speak in a resigned tone.
An ironic situation in which, despite Eleanor confidently selling half of her jewels and raising enough capital, she had to pour all of them into a small space called an apartment.
If there’s one thing Eleanor didn’t expect, it’s that house prices in Seoul are incredibly expensive.
