Chapter 6 – Episode 2. Trip to Korea
When I got off the bus at the East Seoul terminal and checked the status window, my willpower and concentration had increased by 1. Perhaps because my stats went up or because I woke up, the shock of committing murder had subsided to some extent.
Yes, the other person had a gun. I had no choice but to survive. I kept repeating to myself that I had no choice and walked around the terminal to find a motel.
There were many motels around the terminal, but I heard a woman screaming from the alley. What? I peeked into the alley and saw two men threatening a woman with a knife. In this worldview, it was not such a rare thing to see in Seoul. Should I just pass by… ?
“!”
As I was moving to pass by, the angle changed and I saw the woman’s face. Han Yu-kyung was the main character of Megacorp’s youngest son.
Why are you out there? You still have to be in Incheon, the starting point… ? I don’t know what brought me here, but I couldn’t let Han Yu-kyung suffer in a place like this, as I was the main character in this game. I approached slowly and struck one of the bullies on the back of the neck with the blade of my hand. When I watch movies or animations, I usually faint when I hit this point.
However, the cause of the problem was that I hit him gently so that he didn’t die. What the fuck is wrong with the bully? I looked back.
“There are more than one or two people who imitate the apostles of justice and end up falling behind.”
“Do you think that good health prevents swords from getting stuck?”
The two thugs threatened me with a knife about a span long. In times like this, it’s a sure win! Surprisingly, the bullies seemed to have the same thoughts as me and rushed at me at the same time. While pushing away the knife that was stabbing dangerously at my vital area, I grabbed his wrist and twisted it. Rather than twisting it technically, like a martial arts master would lose his sword, he turned the wrist itself with tremendous physical strength. The bully grabbed his shaking wrist and screamed.
“Aaaaah!”
The other one came swinging a knife, but I deliberately cut him slightly. Han Yu-kyung saw the blood splattering and let out a small scream. The moment the bully raised his hand to cut again, he lowered his head, turned to his side, and struck him in the side. Wow! He felt his ribs being crushed by his fist along with a sound. Turn again and turn to the side again!
“Gagging!”
“If you repeat this, you will become Dempsey Roll.”
The bully who was holding his broken wrist fled, leaving his colleague holding his side. He’s a guy with no loyalty. I asked as I approached Han Yu-kyung, who was shaking as if in shock.
“Are you okay?”
“Ah… Yes. “Isn’t that arm more dangerous than mine?”
I glanced at my arm. His left arm was torn and the white shirt he had taken from the guard was stained red.
“This is okay.”
“What’s okay? “There’s so much blood!”
In fact, it was only bleeding when I got cut, soaking my shirt, and I had already recovered a long time ago due to the effect of regeneration. But from the looks of it, his shirt was stained with blood, so it would look like he was seriously injured. In fact, if it were not for the damage reduction effect and regeneration of Yeouiju, it could have been a serious injury. But I believed in both abilities and got hurt on purpose.
“First, I’ll buy some medicine from the convenience store! “Please wait a moment.”
In fact, he deliberately cut himself off in order to owe a debt to Han Yu-kyung, the main character of this worldview. Also, I felt a little sorry for Han Yu-kyung.
Megacorp’s youngest son is a huge hit game worldwide. It is a sequel to the previous work [The Mega Corporation (called TMC)] And depicts the past of TMC, that is, the era just before the advent of cyberpunk, when Megacorp was about to emerge. It was a work of art. The main character is the youngest member of Xingang Group, one of Korea’s top 10 conglomerates. It was a game in which the player had to make various achievements to increase the value of the company while solidifying his position in the company and becoming its chairman.
Contrary to the name Megacorp’s youngest son, the gender of the main character can be freely changed, but gamers say that starting as a woman is the beginning of Nightmare Mode.
Han Moon-kang, the founder of Shinkang Group, was a man with an old-fashioned mindset that did not fit with the current era, and he thought of his family’s daughter as nothing more than an object of political marriage. Therefore, it was very difficult to raise the grade of the Chinese classics, which is an important point when starting as a woman, and the support provided by the family in the beginning was only a small amount.
In addition, when she started as a woman, her physical abilities were lower than that of a man, so she had a hard time dealing with monsters in the beginning, and if she is caught by a bully like she is now, she suffers a status ailment called trauma and Han Moon-gang’s popularity goes down.
Lastly, even if you complete the same quest, the reward is less than that of men. Even if you complete a very difficult quest, the only reward you get is for completing an intermediate level quest for men, so gamers all unanimously called the female button in gender selection the nightmare difficulty button.
So usually, when you play a female protagonist, you go the route of developing external forces as the main force and taking over the company, rather than getting promoted internally by increasing her grandfather’s favor. Of course, the latter is twice as difficult in terms of difficulty.
She was lost in her thoughts about the game for a few minutes, and soon Yu-kyung Han came carrying an envelope containing a lot of things. Probably something like medicine.
“I brought you bandages and medicine here.”
“Oh, thank you.”
“Thank you. You got hurt trying to save me…”
She couldn’t bandage it in the middle of the street. Moreover, she couldn’t do it because she had to take off her shirt to apply the bandages.
“It doesn’t mean anything else…”
Han Yu-kyung looks at her land and speaks, even her ears turning red.
“Yes?”
“I need to bandage it… Would you like to go there?”
The place Han Yu-kyung pointed to, her face red, was a motel. I saw a neon sign that said Motel Rose. It was very funny to see her Han Yu-kyung being shy, so I smiled slightly and nodded at her.
“Accommodation.”
She had to find accommodation anyway, so she said she would stay, paid the bill, and entered the elevator.
“I… “What about lodging?”
“Oh, I came to Seoul for a tour. “It was late today, so I was going to sleep while I was here anyway.”
“Ah… “
An awkward air hovered inside the elevator.
Ding! The elevator stopped with a sound and the doors opened. Han Yu-kyung and I walked down the hallway at a distance and entered the room.
“Take off your shirt first.”
At Han Yu-kyung’s words, I took off my shirt. When I glanced at her arm, there was a small wound that looked like a solid line, as if it had not fully recovered, perhaps due to the low level of regeneration.
Han Yu-kyung brought a motel towel, wet it with water, and wiped my arm. Her eyes widened, as if she was a little surprised by the surprisingly small wound.
“The wound isn’t that big?”
“I told you. “It’s okay.”
The awkward silence continued again, but Han Yu-kyung opened her mouth as if to break the awkward silence.
“Now that I think about it, I guess I didn’t greet you properly. My name is Han Yu-kyung. Thank you for saving me.”
“I’m Jin Yong-tae. Um… I’m a passing tourist.”
In response to my answer, Han Yu-gyeong made a face asking why Koreans go sightseeing in Seoul.
“If you’re a tourist…?”
“Oh, I’m a Korean living in Japan. I’m planning to start work in 10 days, so I went on a trip to Korea before going to work.”
I smiled and showed my employee ID. Han Yu-kyung looked at my employee ID card and her expression became a little strange. She looked suspicious.
“You said Jin Yong-tae, but it says Taira Ryuta? Are you looking for me from the Taira family?”
To Han Yu-kyung’s question, which seemed to be a bit interrogative, I answered with a perplexed expression.
“Ah… I am… Because I am an illegitimate child. I originally grew up as Jin Yong-tae without even knowing my father, but recently I was recognized by my family, so I started working at the company under that name.”
“Oh! I’m so sorry.”
In fact, the main character and her parents were not recognized in the family in the beginning, so Han Yu-kyung was shocked when she heard that I was an illegitimate child. She felt a sense of kinship with stories similar to her own.
“Are you okay. Actually, I didn’t suffer anything because I was an illegitimate child. “I only recently found out that my father existed.”
“Still, I had some doubts…”
“May I ask why you were so suspicious?”
This time, Han Yu-kyung was embarrassed. She’s me, she’s what, actually she wasn’t embarrassed, she was just pretending to be embarrassed, but she seemed reluctant to reveal that she was from the Xinjiang Group.
“I’m similar. “I am not an illegitimate child, but I am also the child of a family that was kicked out of a company.”
“Ah… “So you suspected that I approached you on purpose.”
It is true that I saw it by chance and approached it. It wasn’t a deliberate, planned approach.
“No matter how great the Tyra Group is, there is no way they would have known that Han Yu-kyung was attacked by thugs today.”
“Yes… That’s right. I guess I was overly delusional. And what use am I?”
I patted Han Yu-kyung’s suddenly drooping shoulder. If she had been a little closer she would have hugged me.
“Yugyeong, shouldn’t you go home? Does she live nearby?”
The time was 12:40 on Saturday, so the subway was shut down.
“Ah!”
Han Yu-kyung is surprised to see the time. Since she doesn’t have much money in the beginning, she won’t have money to call a taxi to Incheon.
“Excuse me… I’m sorry… “Can I sleep here today?”
I’m a good dog.
