Summary
“Yes, I am one, but….”
“Ahh, please forgive me. This way, please. Let me guide you there.”
“Ah…. Sure.”
Sensing that his troubles might get more complicated if he said “There’s been a misunderstanding here”, Seong Jin-Woo decided to quietly follow the soldier’s guidance for now.
Jin-Woo then swept his gaze around his vicinity.
‘Now that I see, it’s….’
The surrounding atmosphere felt rather suspicious.
The streets were totally deserted. The only people he could see were the soldiers and the members of the police.
Also, corpses belonging to monsters, destroyed cars, and buildings with cracks running up their walls….
Jin-Woo realised what had happened here.
‘A Gate must’ve opened up nearby.’
Something like that almost never happened nowadays with the well-established Hunter system in place, but sometimes, a Gate would appear in a remote area, and it’d go unnoticed for a while. As a result, no one would come around to close it in time.
When such an event unfolded, soldiers from the nearby bases were dispatched in order to buy some time until Hunters could arrive on the scene.
Of course, the weapons of soldiers didn’t work against the monsters. However, in order to facilitate the evacuation of civilians, someone had to be offered up as sacrifices. In other words, they were to become cannon fodder.
A role someone had no choice but to perform had been saddled on the shoulders of this nation’s youths.
“Thank you.”
The soldier walking up ahead thanked Jin-Woo out of the blue.
“Pardon me?”
“Well, because Hunters such as yourself fight hard, we are able to go home at the end of the day, you see.”
“Oh, uh…..”
He said ‘thanks’.
That was something Jin-Woo wanted to say to the soldier, instead.
Soldiers to the Hunters, and Hunters to soldiers.
As befitting those fighting to protect someone, or even something, they were expressing their gratitude against each other.
Beep.
The soldier’s expression brightened after he received the radio transmission.
“I’ve received a word that the monsters in the vicinity have been dealt with, and only the biggest one remains.”
Jin-Woo nodded his head.
He didn’t need to hear the soldier’s explanation to know.
He could actually sense the presence of a powerful ‘lifeform’ nearby. And he could even sense several auras of Hunters surrounding it, too. The enhanced Perception Stat was transmitting crucial information in the form of sensations and feelings.
And that’s how Jin-Woo got to figure it out almost immediately.
‘That thing is the boss.’
Soon enough, the creature could be seen in the distance. In the empty, open space not too far from him, a dozen or so Hunters were surrounding a giant made out of rock. It was as tall as a telephone pole.
It was a Golem-type monster.
“Heok….”
The soldier spat out a gasp of fear as he took a step backwards.
Perhaps it was his first time seeing one, since the moment he saw it, his entire body had stiffened noticeably. But then again, most people would react in a similar fashion. The difference between seeing a monster for real and seeing it on a TV or a computer monitor was like heaven and earth, after all.
Unlike him, Jin-Woo remained calm and observed the unfolding situation.
“Healers! Concentrate your healing on the Tanker!”
“We’re also doing our best!!”
“Why isn’t it dying already?!”
“What are the damage dealers doing!! It’s not even remotely close enough to dying, is it?!”
“The monster’s defences are too strong! And we just don’t have enough magic-type Hunters in our group!”
Because they had been summoned out here in haste, none of them seemed to be high ranked Hunters. Both their defences and attacks didn’t look that effective at all.
Because of that, Hunters couldn’t avoid being embroiled in the protracted battle of attrition.
BOOM!!
When the Golem slammed its massive stone fist downward, the Hunter acting as the Tanker had no choice but to kneel down just for a brief second.
“Keo-heok!!”
The Tanker vomited out a mouthful of blood.
“N-no!!”
“The Tanker might die at this rate!!”
“What do you want me to do?! My magic energy reserve is completely empty, you know!!”
“Hasn’t the support from high-ranked Hunters arrive yet?!”
These Hunters looked like they had reached their limit.
Jin-Woo’s gaze, as he took all of these in, gleamed quite sharply.
‘If it’s only that much…. I can do this.’
Jin-Woo slowly took several steps back. This Golem-type boss might possess the high defence, but its rank was probably lower than its scary outer appearance might suggest.
Just from the aura it emitted, it was definitely weaker than the boss of the instant dungeon, the Poison-Fanged Blue whatever.
‘So, if I could just render its high defences to nothing….’
What’s needed right now was a powerful strike that could penetrate past that dumb rock giant’s defences.
Jin-Woo got to enough distance away and took a position of throwing something.
The muscles in the arm holding the broken sword began swelling up quite violently out of the blue. Thick, pulsing veins even popped up on the back of his hand, too.
All of his physical strength was concentrated in his right arm.
A short while after that, the arm pulled back taut like the string of a bow was shot forward at the speed of sound.
“Go!”
***
The view of the rank D Hunter, Lee Hahn-Soo, was turning dark.
He couldn’t continue on anymore. His prized shield had begun developing cracks as well. As if their magic energy had been depleted, the amount of healing magic hitting him from the Healers had decreased quite noticeably.
At this rate, every single one of them would die for sure.
Lee Hahn-Soo had to make a decision, now.
The only feasible plan here was for him to buy enough time so the other Hunters could safely escape from here. And at a later time, Hunters with higher ranks show up to kill this Golem.
‘Or, we all die together here.’
Cold sweat drops formed on Lee Hahn-Soo’s forehead.
He finally firmed up his resolve. Lee Hahn-Soo shouted out while looking back.
“Leave this to me and you all gotta…!”
It was at this moment that Lee Hahn-Soo saw it.
Something flew towards here as it gleamed coldly in the night air.
Actually, he could only ‘sense’ that he had seen something, but his eyes couldn’t really pick up on anything tangible.
It was that fast.
KWAHANG!!
That ‘something’ slammed into the Golem’s head and it grandly exploded.
“W-what the hell?!”
Lee-Hahn-Soo’s eyes opened up super-wide.
The headless Golem began tottering dangerously. The Hunters began roaring out in elation only then. They focused their attacks once more.
“It’s working!! Our attacks are working!!”
“It’s falling!!”
“A little bit more!! Just a bit more and we’ll win!!”
It seemed that none of them had noticed the object flying in from somewhere, because they were too focused on attacking the monster. With the sole exception of Lee Hahn-Soo standing right in front of the Golem, that was!
Roooaaaarrr…..
In the end, the Golem toppled over.
Thud!
The heavy body fell down to the ground and kicked up a mighty dust storm.
Waaahhh!!
Hunters all cried out in elation and celebrated their victory.
“We did it!!”
“We killed it!”
Only Lee Hahn-Soo had seen everything unfold, and he slowly shook his head.
‘No, our attacks didn’t even work on this guy.’
Lee Hahn-Soo hurriedly searched around the vicinity of the fallen Golem.
“Just what did destroy the head of this rock giant?”
Lee Hahn-Soo thought out aloud and searched around. Eventually, he discovered the remnants of a broken sword. Although there were some traces of magic energy within it, it was basically a cheap, plain steel sword.
‘What? Someone threw something this worthless and destroyed a boss level Golem capable of brushing off the combined attacks of ten plus Hunters?’
Suddenly, he forgot what he wanted to say. Lee Hahn-Soo silently alternated his gaze between the corpse of the Golem and the broken sword, before he ran past the cheering Hunters and in the direction the sword flew in from.
“Excuse me!!”
He found a dazed soldier standing there.
“Pardon? You talking to me?”
“That’s right, you!”
When a Hunter with a hulking physique hurriedly rushed towards him, the soldier couldn’t help but swallow nervously with a stiff face. That was how great the pressure a Hunter gave off to regular people.
Lee Hahn-Soo displayed the broken sword and asked.
“Did you throw this?”
“Oh, that. It’s actually….”
The soldier looked behind him, only for his eyes to go round in surprise.
“Huh? Uh? But, there was a Hunter standing right behind me, though?”
Of course, there was no one there now.
While the flustered soldier was looking around the vicinity, Lee Hahn-Soo scratched the back of his neck and stared at the broken sword.
‘That power, that destructive power…. Could it have been a high rank Hunter?’
He’d never know, since the protagonist had disappeared already.
***
Around the same time, Jin-Woo was on his way home. He turned around to leave as soon as the Golem began teetering about.
Indeed, he was the one who brought down the Golem. He was well aware of this fact.
Now originally, the loot and the profit arising from a dead monster belonged solely to the Hunter who managed to kill it. If he wanted to, he could contest for the rights to the Golem.
‘However, it’d become problematic when trying to prove that I am capable of bringing down a Golem like that.’
Who would believe the notion of a giant Golem crashing down because of an attack from a measly little rank E? He didn’t even have a proper evidence to back him up, too.
Jin-Woo figured that neither the broken sword or the soldier standing beside him would be of a great help in that endeavour.
And that would not be all. More importantly, he’d have to reveal the reason how his abilities had increased by so much that he could fell a Golem like that.
The harder he thought about it, he had more to lose than to gain.
The one and only ability in the entire world to level up.
He couldn’t afford to slip up and reveal the existence of this unprecedented ability just for the sake of claiming the remains of a single Golem.
‘It’s a bit of a waste, but can’t be helped.’
Still, it wasn’t as if he walked away completely empty-handed, anyway.
No, rather than that, he earned pretty big, actually.
The message he heard the moment that giant Golem fell down….
[Level up!]
His level rose up by one because he had killed the Golem.
‘Indeed, my levels will rise if I hunt the monsters from the normal dungeons.’
He had learned some valuable information. That alone was worth it.
***
An old and decrepit apartment located on the outskirts of the city – Jin-Woo’s home was on the eighth floor of this building. (TL: I use the Commonwealth way of counting floors, so for all those who don’t, it’d be the ninth floor for you.)
He found the key and entered the premises. It was dark inside.
‘Jin-Ah’s still studying hard, huh.’
It was quite likely that his little sister was still in the library, studying.
He found a bowl of rice and some soup on the dining table. Mom was in the hospital for a number of years now, and these dishes were from his little sister.
The piece of paper, a memo from her, contained a bunch of cutely written words.
– Don’t starve yourself. I’mma check later if you ate them all.
She must’ve prepared them even though she was busy as a bee, after he told her of his plans to leave the hospital earlier today.
Jin-Woo grinned softly and settled down to eat. However, there was something he wanted to confirm first before doing that.
“Status Window.”
Name: Seong Jin-Woo
Level: 18
Class: None
Title: Slaughterer of Wolves
HP: 2220
MP: 350
Tiredness: 2
[Stat]
Strength: 48
Stamina: 27
Agility: 27
Intelligence: 27
Perception: 27
(Available points to distribute: 0)
[Skills]
Passive skills:
– (Unknown) Lv. Max
– Tenacity Lv. 1
Active skills:
– Dash Lv. 1
He thought that today had been a long one.
And thanks to this long day, he was now level 18.
His Strength was approaching 50, and other Stats also had increased significantly as well. He even figured out what the Agility and Perception Stats did, too.
‘On top of this, add to the fact that I found a very useful dagger with good options and all that Gold that I don’t know how to use just yet, then…’
Even if he disregarded the ‘special’ medicine he got, his conquest of the instant dungeon was a resounding success.
Part 9. Geckos
A person stepping outside the house in the early hours of dawn would inevitably be cautious in their movements. Well, they might end up accidentally waking up their family members, after all.
That was why Seong Jin-Ah was silently closing the front door to her home, so that her brother wouldn’t wake up from his sleep, as she was about to leave for school.
But, then….
“You going to school now?”
“Eh?”
She was taken by surprise when a voice came from near her, and she quickly turned around to look. And she saw Jin-Woo jogging towards her.
He was kitted out in tracksuit and sneakers. He had pulled the hood up high and looked as if he’d been on an early morning jog.
Jin-Ah’s eyes opened up real wide in shock.
“What the heck? Oppa, you were up already?”
“Yup, been a while since I was up, you know. Hey, have fun today and be careful on the road.”
“Uh…. Sure.”
Jin-Ah watched her brother’s back as he entered the apartment and tilted her head.
‘Now that is so strange. Oppa actually woke up before I did….’
One would never call Jin-Woo a lazy type, but Jin-Ah was always the first one to start the day until now simply because she was unusually industrious, which was quite unfitting for her age group.
‘Now that I think about it…’
Her older brother’s back seemed broader than before, for some reason.
‘Eii, no way that’s true.’
A human’s body wasn’t made out of some rubber band, so how could it make any sense for him to expand and contract in a space of a few days?
‘I’ve probably made a mistake.’
Just as Jin-Ah shook her head, Jin-Woo suddenly pushed forward an umbrella to her.
“Why an umbrella?”
Jin-Ah received it and took a look at the sky. As it was still early dawn, the sky remained dark, but it seemed to be more or less clear and cloudless.
“But, it doesn’t look like it’s going to rain, though?”
“Take it anyway.”
“But, it’s heavy, you know?”
“Take it with you regardless. Besides, it’s a folding type umbrella so it doesn’t even weigh anything. Stop exaggerating, will ya?”
Slam.
Jin-Woo then closed the door.
“Che…. Acting as he feels like.”
Jin-Ah lightly kicked the door a couple of times to express her disgruntlement, folded the umbrella and shoved it inside the empty space in her school bag, and turned around to leave.
‘Hang on….’
Her steps came to an abrupt halt after she remembered the difference in the eye levels between her and her brother. Something was rather odd.
His eye level had definitely risen up higher compared to before.
“Do guys continue to grow taller even in their twenties?”
Eii, there was no way that could be true….
Jin-Ah shook her head again and hurriedly walked towards her school.
*
Click.
Jin-Woo locked the door and summoned his Inventory.
“Storage.”
Storage, ‘inven’, Inventory.
He discovered it through various experimentation and learned that the word used didn’t matter as long they meant the same thing.
It was the same story when accessing the mailbox.
As long as the word spoken meant ‘open’, the desired effect took place without fail. (TL: The author wrote ‘open’ three times in Korean and in English in this sentence. Thus I had to change it somewhat.)
Jin-Woo then shoved the umbrella he just got from the random box inside the ‘digital’ storage in front of his eyes. (TL: This is the direct translation from the raw. I didn’t make a mistake. This is what it really said….)
“It’s no good today again, huh.”
Four days had passed by since he cleared that instant dungeon.
He always remained hopeful whenever he got to open up a random box, praying for another dungeon key to pop out, but unfortunately, he hadn’t been lucky so far. It must’ve been a pretty rare item if it was this hard to get.
‘Well, that’s that, but now….’
Jin-Woo entered his room and sat on the edge of his bed. There was a matter he had resolve right away.
“Stats.”
[Stat]
Strength: 48
Stamina: 27
Agility: 27
Intelligence: 27
Perception: 27
(Available points to distribute: 12)
He had been saving up the Stat points earned from the quests of the past four days. He made sure to complete the daily quest every day. Of course, he also didn’t forget to always check his rewards, too.
However, he hadn’t distributed the points until now.
The issue was….
“….This is tough.”
Indeed, he found it rather difficult to come to a decision.
The ‘Strength’ Stat.
It was a wonderful Stat, that’s for sure. He hadn’t regretted it once, investing all of his points into this one back when he started this thing.
Agility.
This was also a pretty darn good Stat, too. Against weak enemies, it only helped a little, but as the levels of his opponents rose up in the future, no doubt he’d be relying on this Stat more and more.
Well, the ‘speed’ was a relative thing, after all.
And then, Stamina and Perception.
It’d be great if his Stamina was high, obviously. And this Perception turned out to be very useful as well.
Finally, ‘Intelligence’.
…..This was the problem child.
He hadn’t been able to figure out this Stat’s uses yet.
His level had increased by quite a lot, but he didn’t feel any smarter than before. His memories didn’t seem to have improved, nor did his ability to calculate quickly, either.
‘I think, it has to be related to magic….’
This Stat might be something he didn’t really need for the time being. Which left Strength, Stamina, Agility and Perception.
“….Even then, this is really tough.”
Although he now had one less Stat to choose from, he was still in a dilemma here.
He didn’t feel too confident at all.
At least he understood that the synergy between ‘Strength’ and ‘Agility’ was very good. Even if he could deal big damage, it would be meaningless if he couldn’t hit his target. On the flip side, even if he could hit accurately all the time, as long he could not deal enough damage, it’d be a waste of time, too.
In that regard, one could say that Strength and Agility formed a ‘set’.
‘Since my Strength Stat is so high, I should raise Agility up to match it.’
If he decided to raise his Agility Stat, then he had to delay raising Stamina, instead. Well, the synergy between Agility and Stamina wasn’t so good, after all.
The thing was, when Agility was raised, the odds of getting struck by the enemy would decrease. But on the other hand, Stamina was a Stat that only displayed its true worth when the opponent actually damaged him.
‘Of course, I do need at least the bare minimum of Stamina….’
But, raising both Agility and Stamina at the same time was a rather inefficient method, at least from his perspective.
After a lengthy deliberation, he decided on the order of priority.
The first one was Agility. The second, Perception. Finally, Stamina.
His Strength was plenty high enough so he’d defer it for now. And as he was planning to raise his Agility, Perception took priority over Stamina.
After deciding so, Jin-Woo spent 2 points on Strength.
Tti-ring.
[Stat]
Strength: 50
Stamina: 27
Agility: 27
Intelligence: 27
Perception: 27
(Available points to distribute: 10)
Well, he wanted to raise Strength to the round and even 50 for the time being. That was how normal human beings behaved, no?
Then, he spent 8 points on Agility.
[Stat]
Strength: 50
Stamina: 27
Agility: 35
Intelligence: 27
Perception: 27
(Available points to distribute: 2)
The reason for that was also not that special.
He just wanted the last number to be a ‘5’.
‘It’s far more preferable to see the numbers ending in increments of 5….’
Strength 50, and Agility 35.
Seeing them end in the multiples of 5, he suddenly felt rather pleased with himself for no reason whatsoever.
‘And as for the last 2 points….’
Jin-Woo invested them on Perception next.
With this, the points distribution had come to an end.
[Stat]
Strength: 50
Stamina: 27
Agility: 35
Intelligence: 27
Perception: 29
(Available points to distribute: 0)
The only sticking point would be the fact that he couldn’t quite bring Perception up to 30.
‘Well, I don’t have any more points left, so it can’t be helped, I guess.’
Other than that, everything was okay. He figured that it’d be fine to raise Stamina and Agility through levelling up.
“So then, I guess that’s it.”
No matter who you were, you would be hard-pressed to feel 100% satisfied with everything. Since he had thought about his choices for a long while, he was more or less happy with them like this.
It was then, he could hear the telephone ringing from the living room.
Riiing, riiiing….
‘Is the Association calling me?’
In the past, he didn’t want to participate in the raids so he did his best to ignore the calls until the last possible moment, but right now, he was raring to go and test out his raised abilities against various monsters.
Jin-Woo quickly snatched up the receiver.
“This is the Hunter Seong Jin-Woo.”
– “Aigoo, you finally picked up the phone.”
Too bad, it wasn’t a call from the Association.
A rueful sigh leaked out of his mouth.
– “Learner Jin-Woo, why is it so difficult to get in touch with you lately?”
The voice coming from the speaker was a familiar one.
It’d been four years already since he graduated from high school and therefore stopped being a ‘learner’, but the owner of the building always attached that prefix in front of Jin-Woo’s name ever since taking in both the Seong siblings when they were still young kids.
“I’m really sorry about that. I was admitted to the hospital because of an incident a few days ago.”
– “Tsk, tsk, so that’s what happened. I should’ve known. Well, there’s that and, learner Jin-Woo…. The rent for this month hadn’t come in yet, so…. what should I do? If it’s a bit too tough for you, should I delay it for a month or two?”
“Oh, no. It’s fine. I’ll send the money in a bit later.”
– “Okay. But, don’t force yourself, you hear? Trying to look after your mom and your younger sister, you’re going through so much hardship there. I know money is important, but don’t forget to take care of your body, too.”
“Thank you. I won’t forget that.”
The call ended there.
Jin-Woo pulled out the bank balance book from one of the drawers. The remaining amount in the account was only around ?800,000. (TL: Just over $700.)
“Fuu….”
A groan leaked out from his mouth.
After paying the rent of ?500,000, he’d have ?300,000 left for the month’s living expenses.
And the rent could be that low only because the apartment building was located on the remote outskirts of the city, as well as it being old and decrepit, plus the owner of the building taking into consideration Jin-Woo’s troubles and not raising the amount for the last couple of years.
There was no way anyone would be able to find an apartment to rent for 500 grand per month nowadays.
And trying to survive on 300 grand for the whole month was even tougher.
“I gotta make some money first.”
Jin-Woo decided to take care of the urgent matters first.
He was no longer the same guy from a few days ago who couldn’t even kill a single E-ranked monster and shiver in fear.
***
How did Hunters make money?
The best way was to kill monsters.
Hunters ranked S or A could get sponsorships, shoot commercials, make appearances in TV shows and the like to hoover up a lot of money, as much as some chaebols made, but their number was exceedingly few. (TL: Chaebols = owners of big corporations basically)
Indeed, there were too few of them.
Excluding those too few ones at the top, the majority of the Hunters had to go to a dungeon in order to make money.
The higher the rank…
The greater the experience….
The earnings would be decided by each individual’s own capabilities.
For someone like Jin-Woo, who was ranked E, worked only for the Association, and had no experience in dungeons rated higher than C, such a condition was an incredibly tough one to overcome.
Jin-Woo’s expression scrunched up into something unsightly.
‘Disregarding the conditions, for now, if I could just enter an assault team, now that would be great….’
He took a look at the job postings on the Hunter websites’ bulletin boards and called a few numbers, but all of them turned out to be a waste of time. No one wanted to work with a Hunter ranked E.
Those Hunters seeking outside help via job postings were freelancers almost all of the time, which meant that they were responsible for preserving their own necks, so understandably, they paid close attention when forming a raid team or letting someone into theirs.
These people didn’t possess enough abilities to enter big Guilds, but their ranks were too high to work for the Association.
They were all kind of stuck in-between a rock and a hard place, but unable to go either way.
‘Even then, these Hunters still earn more than ?10,000,000 a month, as far as I know.’ (TL: Around $8830)
It was the case of ‘High Risk, High Reward’.
Since they put their lives on the line, the profit they earned was just as big at the end of the day. It wasn’t for nothing that Hunters were the targets of envy from the general populace.
From Jin-Woo’s perspective, he could only get impatient, though.
‘Should I just take the rank reassignment test and increase my rank right away?’
Eventually, Jin-Woo shook his head.
He knew that was a stupid thing to do, no matter how hard he thought about it.
A Hunter ranked E suddenly became a high-ranked one!
Whether that was A or B, or maybe even C, it didn’t matter.
The Re-Awakening would always become a hot topic of conversation.
The masses loved nothing more than a good gossip, and Hunters just so happened to be a good subject to chew on.
The old saying went that, if there were five mouths, then there would be ten eyes. Meaning, the more people talked about you, the more eyes would be focused on you. His Stats would continue to rise up in the future, so it’d be only a matter of time before his ‘special’ constitution was discovered by the others.
“A Hunter who can raise his abilities up higher?”
“He becomes stronger as time goes by?”
“Who is this Hunter?”
“How can he do something like that?”
“What should we do to become like him?”
Without a doubt, many people would express their interest. After all, there hadn’t been a Hunter like him before. And among those expressing interest, there would be those who try to use him, or reveal their hostile intentions towards him as well.
‘If just one of those possesses incredible power, then….’
Just imagining it gave him the chills.
He was far too weak as he was now. Until he possessed enough power to protect himself, he didn’t want the world to know of his existence. Meaning, taking the test to reassign his ranks was out of the question.
‘But, I still need to make money here….’
However, that didn’t mean he could go out and get a part-time job, either. He didn’t know when the Association would call him for a raid.
By raiding a dungeon, he’d get to earn both money and experience, so how could he blow that important chance just to scrounge up a few bucks by working in a local store?
While he was seriously deliberating on what he needed to do, he spotted something in the bulletin board that caught his attention.
– Emergency! Searching for a single Hunter, regardless of the rank! Needs to come right away!
Jin-Woo’s eyes shot right open. This posting had popped up literally a second ago.
When he hurriedly checked the contents of the posting, it wasn’t too far from his home, too.
Jin-Woo quickly picked the phone up. The other side must’ve been in a hurry as well because he answered the call even before the first ringtone.
– “Hello?”
Jin-Woo stated his reasons for calling as precisely as possible and calmly waited for the answer.
– “Oh, you are an E rank?”
The response from the other side was better than expected.
– “It’s fine. We just need someone to show up and fill up the headcount, that is all. However, it’s a Gate ranked C so it’d be hard for you to hunt there. So, we’ll just spilt the profits among ourselves and we just give you ?2,000,000 in cash. How about it? Can you come right away?”
2,000,000 for a day’s work! (TL: Around $1765)
It was a lot of money for simply being there to make up the numbers.
A rather tempting offer this was.
It was regrettable that he couldn’t get to share the dungeon’s loot, but he might end up losing out on making 2 million just by trying to be too greedy.
‘For now, let’s put out the urgent fires first.’
Such an opportunity wouldn’t come around every day, after all.
2 million was enough for him and his sister’s monthly living expenses.
Jin-Woo said yes to the offer.
“I’ll be there in less than 15 minutes.”
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