Chapter 27 · 10 min

Chapter 27

Trash can

We came outside.

"First let's go somewhere and eat. I'm hungry."

At Lee Yeong-su's words Seo I-hyeon nodded and followed.

Whether knowing this vicinity well Lee Yeong-su moved steps without hesitation, and entered a restaurant in the corner of an alley.

"This house's gochujang jjigae is just amazing."

Lee Yeong-su said that and ordered this and that on his own.

Seo I-hyeon quietly watched that and recalled what happened earlier.

The cartel was a thorough grade system, and there was a limit to the grade that can rise with only transactions. 3 level was the end.

Practically from 3 level it was real. Because it means some trust has accumulated.

To rise to 4 level one has to take and resolve the requests the cartel put out.

If processing three basic requests one rises to 4 level right away they say.

5 level one has to become a deeper relationship. If processing deeper requests one can become like that.

"What are you thinking so much? Is it because of the cartel grade?"

"Yes. The world is not easy."

Lee Yeong-su giggled.

"Still at your level one lives the world easily. Thinking how much you earned today isn't it so?"

"Well..."

There's nothing to say. Because it's not wrong words.

How many people are there who can earn 7.6 billion in one go.

"I also only have 3 level cartel grade. Above that I couldn't raise."

At that time, the ordered food came out. Gochujang jjigae in a large earthen pot and jeyuk bokkeum, side dishes like dubu jorim were spread widely. And a large squid pancake also came out.

"One bottle of makgeolli here too please."

Lee Yeong-su even ordered alcohol and gestured to Seo I-hyeon.

"Come come, eat quickly."

Seo I-hyeon first scooped a spoonful of the jjigae and ate. And widened his eyes.

Lee Yeong-su laughed hehe.

"Delicious, right?"

"This is really amazing."

It was a taste to the degree all worries and thoughts he was doing just now flew away cleanly.

Seo I-hyeon mindlessly ate the jjigae and drank the makgeolli Lee Yeong-su poured and tore and ate the pancake.

The only one regrettable thing is, no matter how much alcohol he drinks he doesn't get drunk.

No, not that he doesn't get drunk at all, the moment drinking slight intoxication rises then disappears soon.

On the other hand, Lee Yeong-su as if intoxication gradually rising the face reddened, and words also slightly began to slur.

Lee Yeong-su whose intoxication rose a bit asked.

"What is your dream?"

Suddenly?

Seo I-hyeon blankly looked at Lee Yeong-su. Lee Yeong-su's expression was fairly serious. Meaning it wasn't asked as a joke.

"Living ordinarily."

Lee Yeong-su chuckled.

"Ordinary. Ordinary is good. Regrettable. Because it's an unachievable dream."

Seo I-hyeon didn't deny those words. Because he also knew that it's late now.

What ordinary person in the world keeps two skeletons. What person in the world pulls out their own eyeballs and cuts arms and draws blood while sleeping.

Still he just wanted to try living ordinarily. Honestly he lived a life unable to do so for too long in the other world.

If a very short time couldn't he live ordinarily?

So he also worried about returning to school and such.

In fact when first returning to this world, the time wandering saying adapting and doing day labor wasn't particularly bad.

Anyway that also enters the category of ordinary Seo I-hyeon thinks.

"Well, mine is also an unrealistic dream."

"What is uncle's dream?"

"Ability user."

"Ability user?"

"Yeah. Becoming a proud ability user of one person."

"You have ability even now."

"Half? In fact that's just packaging as ability and a bit lacking to be ability. Just having a bit good sense what ability is that."

Why isn't that ability. Looking at hero movies, there are also abilities of good luck.

"Working in this field the difference of having ability and not is really severe. Even really nothing special guys having one ability the shoulders pierce the sky."

Lee Yeong-su said that and made a bitter smile and gulped the makgeolli and emptied the bowl refreshingly.

"Ah, do you do the community on the dark web?"

"These days I don't do well. Well, occasionally when bored briefly looking degree?"

"Do you know there are several communities?"

Seo I-hyeon flinched and looked at Lee Yeong-su. He didn't know that. Well, there being only one community doesn't make sense. How vast the dark web is.

Lee Yeong-su seeing Seo I-hyeon's expression asked as if he expected.

"What is the community you're doing now?"

Seo I-hyeon took out the smartphone and accessed the dark web community and showed.

"As expected this. We call here the trash can."

"Trash can?"

"Because a place where all sorts of trash information and scams and nonsense gather. It also does the role of emotion trash can."

Seo I-hyeon slightly frowned. Then did Jeong Sang-cheol introduce such a trash-like place? No, this is not Jeong Sang-cheol's problem. The problem is Myeongjin Pharmaceutical that introduced here to Jeong Sang-cheol.

"Usually when first entering this field they make one experience this community first. Because here one has to accumulate some experience and also raise eyes that discern the real."

It's not that other communities have no scammers. Not that there's no trash either. Rather in such places if caught wrong one gets hit bigger.

So training in a place with relatively less risk.

Hearing that explanation, Seo I-hyeon's brow unfolded again.

"Other communities usually need a verification process."

"Verification here also did?"

"Wallet authentication? That's basic. One person can make dozens of wallets what meaning is there. Right?"

"Then what do you authenticate? It doesn't seem like disclosing personal information."

Lee Yeong-su looked at Seo I-hyeon with slightly widened eyes.

"Oh, now you guess the appearance of this field going around fairly? Right. They don't carelessly disclose personal information. Do you know why?"

"Because dangerous?"

"Right. Then what makes us dangerous?"

"Well. Wouldn't everything be dangerous?"

Lee Yeong-su chuckled.

"The Management Bureau."

Management Bureau? Isn't that a national institution? Besides tax problems or such what is dangerous about a national institution? Well, national institutions usually don't have very good images.

"I talked about how many are in this field, and among them how many ability users there are, right?"

"Yes. 100 thousand and ability users about 3 thousand you said."

"3 thousand looks many, but in fact calculating it's a number nothing special. As far as I know in our country judges are about that. No, judges would be more."

"Are there that many judges?"

"Yeah. But living is meeting judges easy? If not going to court probably almost no occasion to see?"

"That would be so."

"Ability users are the same. Almost no occasion to encounter. Ordinary people."

Seo I-hyeon nodded. So before going to the other world he didn't even know there was a world like this, right.

"Among those 3 thousand how many people belong to the Management Bureau?"

Seo I-hyeon thought for a moment at that question.

There were ability users in companies like Etherix or Myeongjin Pharmaceutical too. Probably not all companies are like that, but wouldn't there be quite many?

There would also be ability users working at the cartel or Obsidian, black market.

Mercenary organizations like Geomuhwe would also include ability users. The ratio would be low though.

In that way if gathering ability users of organizations or companies nationwide wouldn't the number be quite a bit?

Since saying all adding about 3 thousand if subtracting this and that in that way it seemed few would remain.

Thinking how many would be in Etherix, he roughly expected about ten. There could be a few more.

If not that they wouldn't have placed only two ability users in such important security.

Even the preparation they prepared was only four.

Then in the national institution called Management Bureau how many would there be?

Since nominally a national institution more than Etherix, right.

"About 30?"

Lee Yeong-su grinned and shook his head.

"Close to 100."

"That many?"

Well even saying 100 it's about 3 percent of all ability users. Not a number that doesn't make sense at all.

"About 100 ability users alone, and including other public servants attached there the number is considerable."

"As expected a national institution is a national institution."

"Right. The scale is ridiculous. You, where do you think our country's best organization is?"

Seo I-hyeon suddenly recalling something said.

"Cheonmyeong Group?"

"Right. There is the best. Then in Cheonmyeong Group how many ability users would there be?"

"Well. Over twenty, right?"

"About 50."

"There is also many."

"Our country's best organization is 50 yet the Management Bureau is 100. Now do you know how great the Management Bureau is?"

That one knows even without particularly saying. Since a national institution of course great.

"So what does it mean to be careful of the Management Bureau?"

"What do you think the Management Bureau's goal is?"

"Establishing order?"

Lee Yeong-su snorted.

"Integration."

"Integration?"

"Integrating all ability users into the national institution. Making ability users state-owned."

"Does that make sense?"

Even just Cheonmyeong Group has as many as 50 ability users. If several groups join hands even the Management Bureau wouldn't it be difficult to do something?

Even if backing national power.

"Now it doesn't make sense. But if the Management Bureau steadily efforts, well, even now efforting, anyway so if the number becomes 200 300, 500 how would it be?"

Seo I-hyeon closed his mouth and looked at Lee Yeong-su. Somehow it seems would it, but also not completely not making sense.

"The Management Bureau, other organizations, and freelance ability users all know that. So being careful. The Management Bureau if only showing a gap reveals fangs and tries to bite."

Seo I-hyeon nodded with a serious expression. This is certainly an important problem. He really has to be careful.

"But are there many freelance ability users?"

"Would there be many? To become about freelance one really has to have excellent ability. Honestly if ordinary level entering an organization is comfortable for body and mind."

Seo I-hyeon looked at Lee Yeong-su with a puzzled expression.

"If freelancers are many wouldn't broker work also increase?"

"Hey, why would freelance ability users work with brokers? Just staying still requests come in on their own."

So to work as freelance one has to be an ability user of that degree.

"Alright, so the first conclusion. Be careful of the Management Bureau."

When Seo I-hyeon nodded Lee Yeong-su unfolded two fingers and continued.

"And the second conclusion. Also look around other communities."

"How do you find other communities?"

"First I'll inform two I know, so look around there too, and while looking around the trash community also look for information. In fact I also only know the existence but couldn't go. Because authentication is impossible."

What on earth does it authenticate.

"What it authenticates is, martial arts or magic, superpower, etc."

Seo I-hyeon's eyes slightly widened.

"Is such a thing also possible to authenticate?"

"I don't know. Since possible they operate in that way, right?"

"Um."

Seo I-hyeon somehow became a bit uneasy.

'Don't tell me this is authenticating using senses regarding mana or ether?'

If so it's a bust. The person dullest to mana in the world is exactly Seo I-hyeon.

Clap.

Lee Yeong-su clapped his hands.

"Alright, that talk ends here, now shall we talk about work in earnest?"

Lee Yeong-su's pronunciation returned to original before he knew it. Intoxication also seems to have subsided a lot.

It seems he organized while talking other things.

"I found one decent request."

Finally the request talk.

"Ha, if you had even given a hint that the skill is this degree earlier, huh? I would have just, huh?"

Seo I-hyeon didn't particularly respond. Because when finding a request before and hearing the ether battery talk and postponing, he already expected he would find another request.

He doesn't know what the original request was, but probably quite trivial. Only bothersome.

Lee Yeong-su looked straight at Seo I-hyeon.

"So can I roughly know the skill a bit? What degree? And what is the specialty? Infiltration, stealth kind? Or combat side?"

Seo I-hyeon didn't answer right away. Because there's no reason to lay out his capital right away.

Lee Yeong-su as if expecting calmly continued.

"I found a few requests, one has to know the ability to entrust matching."

"Infiltration is also okay and combat is also okay. For reference a while ago I also caught a leprechaun."

Lee Yeong-su's eyes widened.

"Leprechaun? You, don't tell me the timid black mage?"

Seo I-hyeon frowned. How did he know? When showing the community earlier did he confirm? No, that's not it. Because the method the user is revealed outwardly is not. If not doing things like writing posts directly one can't know.

"Wow, those guys were vicious, you smashed that? What happened to them? Did you kill?"

"What killing. I am a good person. I don't kill people carelessly."

So he said he doesn't kill carelessly not that he doesn't kill.

"You let that live? Then those guys will mess around again and muddy the water. Those guys are famous newbie cutters."

Then should he have killed? Briefly such a thought arose but he soon shook it off.

"You know it's a secret, right?"

"Of course."

Lee Yeong-su made a gesture of filling his own mouth with a zipper.

Seo I-hyeon looking at that asked.

"So, what is the request?"

Lee Yeong-su briefly slightly lowered his head and worried then soon raised his head and looked at Seo I-hyeon.

"Let's go with exploration plus combat. Is it okay?"

Seo I-hyeon grinned. Of course it's okay.

'Anyway I'm not the one fighting.'