There was only one reason why I was so surprised.
I was almost astonished at the fact that an item I had never heard of in the game, an item with significant effects, appeared right in front of my eyes.
“Dae, godfather. This… … ?”
“Ah, Eugene, you will see this for the first time. This… … This is the ring my father gave me the day I immigrated to Korea. I used to use it often, but now I don’t need it.”
He looks at the ring in the box with a smile.
There was a lot in those eyes.
“Are you sure you can give it to me… … ?”
In fact, giving me a ring that has become like a memento of my father.
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No, it’s me, but if you say that… … .
‘It’s such a burden!’
heavy.
But to the extent that my concerns seemed to be colorless, he said it with an expression of course.
“Then who will I give you? To me, you are already my son.”
And once again he thrusts the ring at me.
“Take it. You can use it better than I can.”
At that, I slowly took the ring and put it on my hand.
A ring that naturally fits the finger, as if arguing that it is not an ordinary object.
“Oh, Eugene, you had an appraisal skill. Then you don’t have to explain, right?”
“yes. Really, thank you so much for this stuff.”
“Yeah, I’m glad you seem to like it. It’s my day off and I’ve been holding on too long, right? Go back and get some rest.”
Godfather waving his hand while talking like that.
He immediately looked away and began processing the few remaining papers.
Realizing that it was an act of my own to hide my shyness, I said hello and went out of the study.
‘… … A lot of things happened.’
An attack on an overseas business trip, and even such an unexpected artifact.
As soon as I realized that everything was over, the exhaustion I had been feeling was suddenly coming back.
That’s how I was about to move my steps with a resolution to stay in my room for today and get a good rest.
“ah. young master.”
Even after coming back, I ran into Han Seo-joon holding a bundle of papers, probably because he was doing the cleanup of the mission without resting.
If you follow the route, there is only the godfather’s study and office behind here… … .
“What is that?”
“Ah, these are documents containing the materials and various issues needed for the mining camp we occupied today.”
“… … ah.”
Apparently, the documents came from the secretary’s office.
For some reason, I remembered the expression of my godfather, who was excited about being able to rest soon while hiding his shyness.
* * *
Class A’s morning was much quieter than usual.
The sound of crunching and pounding hard on the tablet.
And even children with wireless earphones plugged into both sides and their eyes closed.
“It’s a good Archie!!”
However, everyone stares at the jjirit guy at the appearance of Jin-woo, who opened the door vigorously with a splendid production, putting that silence to shame.
“… … Ugh! What? What is it that everyone sees like that?”
The guy cringed and asked if he was puzzled by how quiet the normally noisy class was.
Young-je sighed as if he was frustrated by such a reaction.
“It’s a test soon.”
“test? Are midterms over?”
Rather, it seems that he felt frustrated at the strange way he looked at Youngje, and said, ‘Oh! Aww!’ Sae-ah, who makes a sound and hits her chest.
“Has the final exam collapsed? After the midterm exams, of course the final exams come!”
“ah.”
The boy nodded as if he finally understood, then quietly closed the classroom door and quietly returned to his seat.
“Then you should be quiet.”
After that, the guy straight up on his desk. I grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and pulled him up.
“Aagh! Far away! Far away!”
“Are you going to fail this time?”
“You can hit it with an actual skill! You can hit it with an actual skill!”
boy How did you get into the real academy?
“Unlike the midterm exam, the final exam is written-oriented. There is also a mixture of practical skills, but the amount of writing is greater.”
“huh? Well, then what will happen?”
“If you fail, it’s obvious. Supplementary classes during vacation. And restrictions on club activities.”
“for a moment! then… … .”
“Yeah, that means your salary will also be blown away.”
“!!!”
Jinwoo makes an expression as if the world is collapsing at the moment.
Yes, that’s because he would be in trouble if he didn’t have money for club activities.
“I, I already paid for the reservation because of Gacha this time? If I don’t get paid, I can’t even eat breakfast!”
Sae Ah shook her head at the sight.
“Who threatened you with a knife?”
“Nuaaak!!!”
It’s been a long time since I sold all of my present to him in the future.
“… … therefore. Should I study from now on?”
“huh.”
“really?”
“really.”
After hearing my words, Jin-wu sighed, stood up from his seat, and trudged toward the locker at the back of the classroom.
Huge lockers given out one per person as a result of the semi-ranking match.
When you open the door, all the textbooks issued by the academy pour out.
“Aye. really. When did you clean it up again?”
… … I wondered if the owner himself would know that, but for now I decided to stay still.
In the end, the guy who brought a few textbooks, put them down on the desk, and sat down.
He immediately picks up a book and frowns at the contents inside.
“hmm… … boss.”
“why.”
“I’m really, really, really sorry… … I don’t know a thing. What do we do?”
Maybe it would be nice to have this prickly head.
At that time, did you say that there is a place to fly even if the sky collapses? Youngjae, who was sitting there, shook his head a few times, then turned around and opened his mouth.
“Then shall we all gather together to study? If there’s anything you don’t know, I’ll let you know.”
“All together? oh. That would be fun.”
A guy who doesn’t want to study, but is it good to gather together? A guy with a smile.
“where? Shall we skip the afternoon to study because of club activities?”
“Then, the progress will be delayed as much as the class missed. Wow~”
Sae-ah shakes her body back and forth with exaggerated gestures as if to stop talking nonsense.
Seeing that, Jinwoo’s mouth pops out.
“But you can’t go home after class. Going home before sunset every day is the pleasure of my life… … but.”
“Then you can go to your house and do it.”
“My house——my house? Is that good?”
Sae-ah seems to have said it without thinking, but Jin-wu catches the words with an interesting eye and licks his lips.
“No no no, wait a minute. Really, let’s go to Jinwoo’s house and study? To the mafia lair?”
Sae-ah stands up in amazement as if she remembered that Jin-woo’s family is Bibalt under Carlione.
“What if I go and get kidnapped? What if you steal money? That’s kind of scary!”
“I will not! Carlione is a neighborhood bully?! If you just call them my friends, nothing will happen. What are you thinking?”
… … If you don’t say that it’s a friend, it’s like that.
Anyway, it was natural that nothing would happen as Jinwoo said, but in the eyes of the general public, it looks like that, but it is more like a pronoun of fear.
I’m just too ordinary. If you visit him when you are bored, he will give you pocket money.
“Do you think I will be okay? I think it might be fun Director. What do you think, manager?”
Youngjae looked at me and asked for my opinion, wondering if he thought it was not bad.
“It’s Jinwoo’s house… … .”
I was definitely curious.
Because the hideout of the Vibalt family was a kind of fantasy land-like space that could not be easily entered because of the existence of ‘Antonio Bibalt’.
Of course, I’ve been penetrated a few times, but… … .
‘I couldn’t even look around in detail, I just packed my things and ran away.’
Although it was inevitable because of the characteristics of the Vibalt family.
Well, that’s why ‘Antonio Vibalt’ is a monster.
“I guess it doesn’t matter.”
As a friend’s son, and as Carlione’s successor, I wonder what the Vibalt family’s mansion will be like.
As it is, I activated the smart lens and sent a message to Han Seo-jun.
[Today, after school, I plan to stop by the Vibalt family with the successor of the Vibalt family. All the other children don’t know about me, so I want them to treat me as Jinwoo’s friend.]
If this is enough, they won’t be surprised to see me or do anything strange.
Yes, I thought that nothing would happen until then.
* * *
Incheon, a maritime city on the Korean Peninsula, was once called the Devil World. And Songdo, a city that was the most developed among them, but was destroyed once due to the invasion of marine monsters.
Jinwoo’s house, the Vibalt family’s mansion, was located right here.
“Wow, the wind here is no joke. I think some kind of giant fan turned on.”
There are seas around, so the sea breeze that constantly blows and the salty smell that permeates your nose reminds you that this is a beach.
“Because it’s the beach. It can’t be helped that the wind blows a lot. Come on, let’s go. That’s our house.”
As Jinwoo always uses public transportation to move around the house, we also took public transportation, so we had no choice but to walk a little to the Vibalt family’s mansion.
Buildings with lights on sparsely and craters dotted all over the road as if to prove the invasion of monsters in the past. However, as if he was very familiar with the scene, there was no hesitation in Jin-woo’s steps.
“Song~do is good~ Entertainment~ There is no place~. It’s open~ I have it~ I don’t want to commit a crime~”
Then, the guy suddenly starts singing a weird song.
“What kind of strange song is that again?”
When Sae-ah frowned at the strange lyrics she heard for the first time, Jin-woo looked at her as if she was serious.
“You don’t know the beautiful Songdo? Really legionnone. It’s like Songdo’s national anthem… … Ah, we have arrived. That’s our house.”
Then, Jin-woo, who stood tall, points forward.
A huge building was built where Jinwoo’s finger pointed.
A building so tall that I was afraid to count how many floors it had.
However, as if no one lived there, the windows were broken in places and there was no light anywhere.
And under that building.
““ “You are here! young master!”””
There was a mansion of the Vibalt family.
“huh? Four, why are all the uncles with me? What’s wrong with everyone? I don’t usually do this. Are you saving my energy just because your friends are here?”
It was a rare scene where most of the Vibalt family bowed their heads with me.
At this, Sae-Ah is startled and cautiously steps behind me, and Young-je looks at them curiously.
In fact, it wasn’t that I couldn’t figure out why they were doing that.
‘Maybe it’s because of me…’ … .’
I should have told her to pretend she didn’t know, but I never thought she would greet me like that.
“Hello everyone. They are our Vibalt uncles.”
However, Jinwoo smiles as if he doesn’t understand that and introduces the members of the organization to us.
“hello. This is Jinwoo’s friend, Youngjae.”
“Hey, this is Kim Se-ah.”
“… … This is Han Yujin.”
It was only after I said goodbye for the last time that they raised their heads at the same time and moved in perfect order as if they had trained in advance, creating a path toward the mansion.
“““All members of the Vibalt family! We sincerely welcome the visit of our friends, Bocchan!!”
“… … and. You can see that the uncles are in full force. What are you really doing today?”
Jin-woo blankly looks at the path made by the gang members, probably seeing it for the first time.
I didn’t know if I had done something I shouldn’t have done.
… … What to do with this?