Chapter 786 – Not Much?
After hearing Jin-seok Lee’s confirmation, Elizabeth couldn’t even maintain the dignity she had been trained for a long time and shouted in a vulgar manner.
An unknown illness afflicting her older sister, who has been sleeping for three years and unable to do anything.
She’s finally met someone who has the potential to cure it, and who wouldn’t like that?
She hasn’t said that she can definitely fix it, but she can’t help but be excited.
“Really, there is no lie in those words, right?!”
“Why lie about something like this? They would have investigated everything there anyway.”
“I did some research, but I wasn’t sure.”
“You weren’t going to give up if I said no.”
“What she said was obvious: she could save my sister, but she had no intention of giving up with that kind of answer.”
“What if I run away to Korea?”
“In that case, I would have gone to Korea myself and continued to investigate you.”
“Did you think I would leave that alone?”
“Because we’re desperate here too.”
She only said that she cured old Ron’s dementia, but Elizabeth showed a completely different side from what she had been up to.
Any attempt to maintain even the slightest sense of dignity disappeared, and she began chattering like a really happy child.
She found it interesting and asked me various questions, and she responded with excitement.
‘He also has some shortcomings.’
She is a high-ranking lady who comes from a family with tradition and honor, so I thought she would be different, but she is not like that at all.
I was more interested in seeing her react in a way that was roughly suited to her age group.
She is a 23-year-old woman, one year younger than me. When I first saw her, she looked like she was in her 30s, but now she doesn’t look like her at all.
“Keu, keuhm!”
And Elizabeth, who must have noticed my gaze and realized her own mistake, cleared her throat sheepishly and looked at her.
What can I say, I just stared at her, feeling like I was looking at her sister similarly to her Swan.
“Can you tell me how you treated it?”
“Why?”
“As you know, my sister is suffering from an incurable disease and needs treatment immediately.”
“I might not be able to treat you.”
“Right now, staying still in the hospital is starting to feel like my limit, so I have to do something.”
Perhaps she thought she had already found out everything, or perhaps she was just desperate, but Elizabeth told me without hiding anything.
No, that’s probably not true, she’s just confident.
Even if you say something like that to me, you can still clean up after it.
‘Maybe this feels a little bad?’
To be honest, I don’t know how strong her family’s power and strength are.
Still, Yoo Ha-young, who rules not only Korea but Seoul from behind the scenes, must have had incomparable power.
However, the important fact is that I, the person she is thinking of, is completely devoid of human common sense.
‘It could be because I don’t know something.’
My abilities are completely kept secret, so unless I tell you directly, you will never know.
So, thinking that I could do that, I just confidently stepped forward.
“So why should I treat your sister?”
“I will give you enough money to last you a lifetime, and if you want power, I will also help you rise to a decent position in Korea within a year.”
I was a little surprised to hear what Elizabeth said.
If it was the first offer, it was natural because her family would have a lot of money, but if she said she wanted power, they would directly support her and put her in a high position.
‘Is it really possible?’
No matter how much money they have and how much they operate in the shadows, is that really possible?
Although the government in Korea has a lot of corruption, it reacts very sensitively if someone tries to touch its plate.
However, I didn’t quite understand why they said that they would elevate me from nothing to a good position in just one year.
‘From what he’s saying, there must be a decent seat…’
Since she was young, she grew up watching Prime Ministers and other people, so the decent position she talks about is probably a decent position for an ordinary person.
Seeing that they would do something like that here without any hesitation, it seemed like they had made a connection in Korea more than I thought.
“Hmm…”
“Are you worried? “This is a suggestion you won’t easily hear anywhere, so think about it slowly.”
Elizabeth, who told Lee Jin-seok the conditions, thought he would eventually accept.
After investigating, I heard that he is quite young at the age of 24 and that he has several women.
Most of those people were very greedy, so they gave me money that I would never run out of for the rest of my life and even a decent job.
‘You won’t be able to refuse.’
Since this is the place where he speaks, it is a place that other people cannot easily ignore.
If he had that much power at a young age, he would be able to do whatever he wanted with the women he wanted.
Now all you have to do is hear the answer that you will try it. No matter how much I thought about it, the answer was already decided.
However, contrary to her expectations, Lee Jin-seok’s answer was completely the opposite.
“Rejection.”
“Then of course I’ll accept it… W-what?!”
“I said I would refuse.”
Even though it was nothing to her, it was such a big reward to the public that she thought she would receive it, but she received a rejection.
It’s just a firm refusal, without attaching any other favors or conditions.
He was so firm that Elizabeth even repeated his answer several times, wondering if she had heard wrong.
‘Rejecting this…?’
She was embarrassed by the completely incomprehensible answer, but soon came to her senses and asked why he refused.
She listens to the reason and if there is something she wants, she does her best to accommodate it.
She didn’t mind losing some money as long as she could cure her sister.
Even though she suffered a lot from her father, the head of the family, she was told to get treatment first, so she is fine.
“Was there anything lacking in the conditions I mentioned?”
“No.”
“But… Why are you refusing?”
“Because it’s annoying.”
“… Yes?”
“It’s because it’s annoying. Even if you have power, you’ll get caught by strange people, so what’s the point?”
“So, you turned down the previous offer just because it was annoying?”
“It may not be important to you, but it is quite important to me.”
“Ha…!”
Elizabeth could not understand his answer at all.
How can a person refuse a position of power that no one can easily see just because it is annoying?
Humans are creatures of greed. If humans had not had greed, they would not have developed like this. Greed was at a level where there is nothing to say even if it is called the driving force of life.
To reject such an important desire simply because it was annoying… It was incomprehensible to her common sense.
‘There is such a person?’
Of all the people Elizabeth had ever met in her life, there was hardly anyone who was not greedy.
When she was just a child, she had many people around her.
And all of them are people who aim for the power they have had since they were born.
The country was a group of people who wanted to come under the umbrella of great power and enjoy that power.
So Elizabeth thought that man’s greed was the ugliest thing, and she made the most of it.
‘Everything can be solved if you just satisfy your needs.’
For her, it was the truth of her life. Because she could get everything as long as she did what she wanted.
The only time Elizabeth saw someone who had no greed at all was her older sister.
Unlike herself, who thinks in return for whatever she gives, her older sister does not expect anything in return from others.
Just give. If someone needs a handkerchief, give it to them. If someone needs help, just help them with good intentions.
Yet she never suffered a single loss. Because everyone fell in love with her personality and voluntarily flocked to her.
‘That person is the same as her older sister?’
It drives me crazy to think that the older sister I respected so much and that man are the same person.
During the investigation, nothing similar existed between him and her sister.
She liked women, had relationships with numerous women, and could not accept that he was just like her older sister, living faithfully to her desires.
‘Ah… That’s not it.’
Maybe I heard such an unexpected answer that I ended up thinking something crazy for a moment.
This was nothing short of a huge example of treating my sister the same way as a man who could have great power but said she was just a nuisance.
If it were my older sister Riel, she would definitely have said that controlling people with power is useless.
“Then are there any conditions you want?”
“It’s a condition…”
Elizabeth, having other thoughts, immediately came back to her senses and asked him for other conditions.
He is not without greed. He just has a desire to be different from others.
She thought so and asked for other conditions, but even after waiting for a long time, she didn’t get an answer.
“… “Didn’t I ask if there were any other conditions?”
Waiting is a noble virtue. It is not befitting of dignity to fuss at someone.
Elizabeth had been hearing those words since she was a child, but she couldn’t stand this situation anymore. When she asked, the answer she got was even more shocking.
“Not really…?”
“Yes…?”
Elizabeth asked me to treat her sister with various conditions, but to be honest, she didn’t really want any conditions.
Authority? That’s something I can handle right away if I put my mind to it. There are still some priority things to do, so I’m just putting it off.
Money? This isn’t that difficult either. Mejia, run by Hayoung Yoo, is also mine, and if you ask Ron for money, he will gladly give it to you.
‘I don’t have any?’
When I think about it that way, there really isn’t any. It’s okay because I can get a girl if I want to.
To be honest, controlling the dark corners of the world is not that difficult.
I can just do whatever I want, use the system to neutralize it, and then subdue it myself.
The reason I don’t do that is because it’s just annoying.
If you want, you can visit any time you want, kidnap the president or the queen, brainwash them, or subdue them with items.
‘Wow… I really don’t have one?’
The more you think about it, the less you want it. However, if you say you want to take advantage of Elizabeth in return, it’s no fun.
Perhaps thanks to the recent capture of Kang So-ra, the desire to conquer someone was fully satisfied.
I just want to try her western sister’s rice bowl, but I don’t really want to conquer her by force.
“Yeah, there really isn’t one.”
“Do you think that makes sense?!”
“You really don’t have any? “The more I think about it, the more there is.”
“Huh…”
Elizabeth was dumbfounded. When she first heard the words ‘Not really?’ She was able to understand for a moment.
Because it was such a sudden suggestion, I might not have thought about it.
But after thinking about it for a while, the answer I came to was that the more I thought about it, the more there was no answer.
The moment she heard those words, something in her head snapped, and she spoke informally without even realizing it.
“Don’t lie and answer properly quickly! Because I can listen to almost anything!!”
“No, I don’t have one, so why do they keep telling me to answer? “You really don’t have one?”
“Do not lie! How can humans not be greedy!!”
This is a completely incomprehensible answer. Except for my sister, I am greedy for all people in this world.
So she says she can do anything, but how upset is it when she says she can’t?
“You said you like girls?! “I will risk my body in exchange for healing her sister!”
In the end, she thought it was her last resort and even put out the conditions she never wanted to make out of her own mouth.
Originally, I wouldn’t have done that, but now listening to what the other person said, I was excited, and I shouldn’t have said that I wouldn’t treat him because he really didn’t want anything.
This is a condition that he set after knowing that he likes women. This will definitely work.
Elizabeth, who was waiting for her answer with that thought in mind, could not help but freeze at Lee Jin-seok’s next answer.
“Not much?”
“Huh…?”
