bang-
bang-
A dull sound continued to be heard.
I sped up my pace.
Everyone in the fairgrounds was facing their heads in the direction of the sound.
However, it was hidden from view by advertising panels and exhibition booths.
‘What the hell is going on?’
I finally got to the epicenter of the sound.
‘oh my god!’
There was a scene that was unbelievable even after seeing it.
A man was hammering a jewel case with a long-handled hammer.
bang-
bang-
Wow-
The women watching the scene nearby screamed continuously.
bang-
The man hit the display case with a full swing of the hammer handle.
However, the glass of the display case was hardly broken.
It is probably tempered glass with heat treatment and special film treatment.
“f*ck the kid! Why doesn’t it break like this!”
When the display case did not break even after hitting it several times with a hammer, the man cursed in frustration.
I looked at him with a puzzled expression.
‘What is that human?’
It was clear that a robber was trying to break the display case and steal the jewels inside.
But it was too stupid.
What the hell is that thing doing in broad daylight where people are watching?
bang-
The robber’s hammering continued.
“Somebody stop me!”
A woman shouted, unable to see.
But no one came forward.
It was natural.
The hammer the robber was holding was more menacing than the knife.
I, too, did not stop him and just watched.
I wasn’t running through people, and it’s my iron rule not to step out unnecessarily.
Lee Seo-yoon was also nearby.
She also came here after feeling a commotion while looking at jewelry elsewhere.
Lee Seo-yoon looked at me and sent a telepathic message.
[Boss, what should I do? Should I suppress it?]
[No, don’t step out and stay still. Because the security guards are coming this way now.]
Through ＜Detection＞, I could feel the presence of people running to this place.
rumble-
Five security guards arrived.
Beep-
The security guard in the front blew a whistle and shouted at the robber.
“What are you doing! Stop!”
bang-
The robber continued to hit the showcase with a hammer, ignoring the cries of the security guard.
Chow-
Security guards unfurled a triple baton.
Then, out of nowhere, two other men appeared and stopped the security guards.
In their hands, they were holding hing knives with a blade length of more than 30 cm.
“Don’t come any closer! If you don’t want a hole in your stomach!”
There was not one robber, but three.
The people nearby all backed away when they saw the knife.
The security guards also hesitated with nervous expressions.
Then someone shouted at the security guards.
“You don’t have a gun? Shoot them!”
But they can’t have guns.
If they had at least a taser gun, they could have easily subdued the robbers.
It was unreasonable to deal with a hoe knife with a three-stage stick.
bang-
bang-
In the meantime, the robber’s hammering continued.
Eventually, the security guards plucked up courage and slowly approached the robbers with knives.
If it was that way, there was a high chance that someone would get stabbed and bleed.
‘I can’t help it.’
I guess I’ll have to intervene in this.
I came to look at jewelry, but seeing blood makes me happy.
“uh?!”
The robber, who was about to hit the display case, missed the hammer in his hand.
He didn’t accidentally miss it.
I blew the hammer into the air with ＜Psychokinesis＞.
humming-
The hammer soared high.
Everyone around looked up and looked at the floating hammer.
The hammer, which rose to its peak, began to descend again.
hiss-
The hammer fell at the robbers with knives.
puck-
puck-
Like a white billiard ball hitting two red balls in succession, the hammer hit the heads of the two criminals one after another.
dump-
The robbers with knives fainted and fell.
Then, security guards attacked the robber who was trying to break the display case.
That’s how the trio of robbers who appeared at the jewelry fair were subdued.
Someone pointed to a hammer on the floor and shouted.
“saw? It’s completely Mjolnir!”
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The robbers were handed over to the police.
And the fairgrounds returned to their normal appearance.
“How does the hammer fall like that?”
“You’ve been punished.”
Some people were still excited about the situation.
Anyway, people didn’t notice and it was solved well.
I was finishing my jewelry viewing.
Then I met a familiar face.
“[Mr. Choi!]”
A middle-aged white man with gray hair called me in a welcoming voice.
“[Daniel?]”
He was a Swiss watchmaker with whom I had dinner once introduced by the building owner’s grandfather.
“[Meeting Mr. Choi again in a place like this!]”
“[What are you doing here?]”
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“[My company collaborated with a jewelry company to produce a ‘jewelry watch’. So I came to Korea again.]”
When the watchmaker asked what was going on at the jewelry fair, the watch brand he belonged to and a famous French jewelry brand collaborated to create a ‘jewelry pocket watch’ and introduced it at the fair.
“[Voila! That’s our watch!]”
The place he pointed to was the showcase the robbers were about to break.
I followed him to the display case.
Inside the display case was a jeweled watch.
“[Was this what the robbers were trying to steal?]”
“[This watch is the most expensive item at the fair.]”
“[How much is it?]”
“[That’s $30 million in U.S. dollars.]”
In terms of Hanwha, the price was well over 30 billion won.
The value of the ＜Red Diamond＞ embedded in the center of the watch cover alone is over 10 billion won.
Red diamonds cost hundreds of times more per carat than colorless diamonds.
Hearing the price made some sense why the robbers did such crazy things.
“[It’s good that nothing special happened.]”
“[There was something similar in the Netherlands, so we made the display case very sturdy.]”
Not long ago, at a fair held in the Netherlands, there was an accident in which robbers broke a display case with a hammer in broad daylight and stole jewels and fled.
So, fearing that a similar accident would happen again, he paid special attention to the production of the display case.
There was a reason why the display case was intact even after hitting it with a hammer.
“[But Mr. Choi, what’s going on here?]”
“[I came to look at jewelry with an employee. I plan to run a jewelry workshop.]”
“[It’s a jewelry studio run by Mr. Choi, so I’m really curious! Please visit me later!]”
**
A week later,
The gemstones of the Caribbean have finally arrived.
ugh-
Transport company employees used a lift device to lower the metal crates from the truck in front of the gold and silver room.
Each steel box contained one ton of ore.
The more expensive the content is, the more expensive the tax is.
On paper, the Caribbean gemstones were the lowest grade of gemstone mined in Brazilian mines.
It was not a very expensive item compared to its weight, so the transport company did not call a separate security service.
ugh-
A small forklift moved the metal boxes one by one into the underground parking lot of the building.
We rented a warehouse in an underground parking lot to store the raw stones.
In reality, all of the gemstones would be stored in Lee Seo-yoon’s inventory.
The reason I rented the warehouse was to show off to others.
10 tons of rough stones were officially brought in through customs procedures, but without a storage room, it made no sense.
malevolent malevolent-
A large car was blocking the road, so there were quite a few people stopping to watch.
“What is inside?”
Someone asked the shipping agent, but he didn’t answer.
Then someone else took a peek at the packing list attached to the iron box and said to the party in a low voice.
“It’s a mineral from Brazil. It looks like a gemstone, doesn’t it?”
“Are all that many gemstones? So, are you polishing your own jewelry here?”
“So you brought in the gemstone, right?”
“and! There’s a proper gold and silver room in my neighborhood! When it opens, I will definitely come and see it.”
The grandfather of the building owner, who was watching the unloading work with me, opened his mouth.
“Choi uses the entire building alone, including the store on the first floor, offices on the second floor, and even the basement warehouse.”
“Things are getting bigger.”
“If you’re going to do this, just take over the building.”
My grandfather’s words pricked my ears.
Because I also wanted to buy this building.
However, my grandfather always said, ‘I never sell buildings to others’, so I couldn’t even speak.
“I heard you never sell.”
“I was saying that it would be better for me to keep it than to sell it to people who buy and sell buildings for profit. We should sell it to people who really need space to do business.”
“How much will you sell it for?”
I asked the price before the landlord’s grandfather changed his mind.
This building had 3 floors underground and 6 floors above ground, and the total floor area was 3,000㎡.
A building of this size in this neighborhood could sell for well over 100 billion won.
“If I had sold it to someone else, I would have received 120 billion won, but I will only get one clean piece from Choi.”
He said he would hand over the building for 100 billion won.
At that price, I could buy it right away in the name of a corporation in Nevis.
But as much as this building, I didn’t want to buy it that much.
I wanted to buy it in my full name.
“I need some time to prepare the money.”
Then the building owner’s grandfather made a slightly surprised expression.
“Are you really going to live? Isn’t Choi’s ability average? You’re going to raise 100 billion won at that age!”
“It can be ready in half a year.”
“okay! I’m not a nonsense person either. Talk to me whenever the money is ready.”
Suddenly, there was a ‘motivation’ to earn money.
It wouldn’t be that difficult to make 100 billion won in half a year if you polished and sold jewelry.
‘Let’s earn 100 billion in half a year!’
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A week has passed since the original stone arrived.
Seoyoon Lee almost lived in a jewelry workshop day and night.
whiz-
Today, she was diligently polishing the gemstones of the Caribbean Sea.
Like a golem, her jewelry polishing was not only sophisticated, but also incredibly fast.
When processing a design she had already created once, her fingers moved like a machine and produced jewels.
On the workbench was a necklace she had made from an all-nighter’s work.
Hundreds of jewels, large and small, were embedded in it.
I strengthened my eyesight with the elixir and inspected each jewel.
It was flawless polishing.
However, I couldn’t appraise the jewels by increasing my eyesight with an elixir.
He needed someone to properly evaluate the value of Lee Seo-yoon’s jewelry.
Suddenly, I remembered the Daniel I met at the fairgrounds.
He is one of the world’s best watchmakers, so he may have a ‘top-notch jeweler’ among his acquaintances.
thiririri-
I called Daniel.
Since the expo is not over yet, you will still be staying in Korea.
-oh! Mr Choi!
He welcomed the call.
“[Are you still in Korea?]”
-[I will be in Seoul until the day after tomorrow.]
“[Tonight, if it’s time, let’s eat together. Also visit the jewelry workshop.]”
-[oh! It is an honour!]
I revealed my true feelings to Daniel.
“[By the way, could you introduce me to a jeweler? I want to appraise the jewels made in the studio.]”
-[If that’s the case, there’s nothing difficult at all. A jewelry appraiser I know well is also in Seoul. That person does not belong to a jewelry company, so he will evaluate it unselfishly.]
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That evening, Daniel arrived at the Gold and Silver Room with a jeweler.