Why is a classic a classic and why a cliché is a cliché?
There is a reason everything has been going well since before.
I’m tired of coming back later. Whatever it is, it’s because I can predict the obvious flow thanks to the accumulation of data through a lot of mass media.
Reversal and shock are like that.
It makes the most powerful impression when you don’t know it.
Like the movie Space Odyssey.
For those who have gone back to modern movies, it may be the enjoyment of a scene that seems to have been seen somewhere, but for those who have seen it for the first time, wouldn’t it have been a shock piercing the soul?
‘So it’s understandable.’
Even in Korea right now, there are not many classic movies or dramas.
When there is a couple, there is always a question, ‘Doesn’t it look nice?’ Then a bad guy appeared and that’s it.
It is a sensibility that transcends not only the times but also the dimensions.
So you have to be patient.
Even if it’s a bit like, you have to be patient. Isn’t this all my karma?
My karma for being very stupid in the eyes of others.
“Oh, hello. Do you remember the last time?”
Mongsilmongsil, brown hair like cotton candy and a sweet scent like burnt sugar.
I couldn’t spit at Verbutt’s academy uniform smiling red on his cheeks, so I raised the corners of my mouth.
“Ah, at that wine tasting.”
“yes. I didn’t expect to see you again in a place like this. brother… … .”
“brother?”
“Oh, isn’t it? You are a little more mature than me.”
Wow, do we have to have a sane conversation about this? Let’s do our best baby
I laughed hahahaha while holding back my fingers growing.
“It would be right. It’s fate that we met like this, so I’ll buy you something.”
I’m an idiot, and everyone sees me as a idiot, and I don’t hide my disgust in my eyes, but this innocent girl I met in the ecliptic doesn’t yet know that I’m the famous idiot Adelian.
So I’m that girl He is a very stupid and deceitful kid who pretends not to be an idiot in front of Verbut.
After brainwashing himself like that, he smiled and let out an expression saying that he was doing something that didn’t suit him even if he thought about it himself.
And at the same time, with a subtly awkward manner, he escorted Verbüth and walked inside.
Originally, this kind of acting is more realistic when it is targeted at the surroundings rather than the person concerned.
Someone who enjoys manipulating others like Verbute must have had people scattered all over the place, and they will report all of my expressions, gestures, and subtle awkwardness to Verbute.
“Ah, it’s already sun… … .”
After giving Berbute a bunch of sweet snacks and leaving the store, it was quite dark.
I didn’t notice the time passing because I worked so hard in the store.
“Ooh, it’s already time… … .”
After estimating the travel time, I threw a smile at Verbut, who was looking at me with bright eyes.
Verbütt, who has always received attention and love from others and was praised, of course couldn’t ask me to take him to the academy.
That’s why I, who is acting as an idiot who lived his own way, can’t include sending me off among the thoughts that a idiot would do.
“Goodbye then.”
“yes. yes?”
Wealthy idiots don’t see off women.
“Oh right.”
I don’t know how to cheat with money or things.
Pretending to put my hand in my robe pocket, I took out a box the size of a fist from the subspace and threw it at Verbut.
“You do this. I will contact you.”
“What, what do you mean?”
I quickly entered the alley before Verbutt caught me, and Zero immediately picked me up like luggage and moved into the waiting carriage.
“Are you a siren?”
“that’s right. You’ll know what it is by tomorrow at the latest when you’re at least like Verbüt.”
“Wouldn’t that be more annoying?”
I shrugged my shoulders as I changed my clothes in the carriage.
“What could it be? If Verbüth also gets involved in sharing the interests.”
If that’s the case, I mean.
Looking at the mirror Zero held up, I straightened the collar of my shirt and opened my mouth.
“If you participate in the war on the side of Berbutt, you can know two things. One is, did the evil god cult team up with the imperial family? If caught, who Second, is there a group that has grown to a size that allows sharing of interests?”
Other than that, there are other little things.
I put on the black robe again over the clothes I had changed into.
“How much should I earn today?”
The two-faced god, the saintess of Vasaha.
Ariel protects me.
With the power of words and miracles, even roulette and dice cards.
It wasn’t always winning, but when you lose, you lose less, and when you win, you win big, so even if you gave money to Ariel, your pocket was heavy.
“It’s kind of boring to pick it up every time. It’s no fun.”
And I muttered what gamblers usually say.
taking money?
Of course it’s good, it’s fun.
But the true beauty of gambling is that tension.
Of course, I don’t get addicted to gambling thanks to the feeling of floating, I don’t get excited more than a certain amount even if I win a lot, and my mood doesn’t drop below a certain amount even if I lose a lot.
Ariel laughs Betsy, as if she thinks that she has become a little closer since she has seen me a few times.
“then… How about a more intimate place?”
“A secret place?”
When I showed a hint of boredom, Ariel, the saintess of Vasaha, whispered in my ear, wringing her fingers.
“More than money… It’s a place where you can enter only by betting something more valuable.”
I narrowed my gaze to him.
It’s not quite the same, but I know it’s similar.
Gambler Balbus.
A dwarf who put not only money and artifacts on the gambling table, but also the person’s memory.
“What, for example?”
“Your talent.”
By the way, is there anyone who does something like Balbus?
Balbus lived a very long time and became crazy about gambling to the extent that he gambled with the gods, but he was a talented land elf.
Is that possible in the temple?
“… So you’re saying you can steal someone’s trait?”
Ariel’s shoulders shake slightly as I whisper in a light voice.
“yes? Oh, no, that’s not it… that… Feels like a short-term job… … .”
Oh, the manpower office?
Well, since the power inflation went crazy in the second half, there won’t be anyone who can rip off someone else’s trait itself.
I grinned as if I was interested in him.
“Guide me.”
* * *
“The money spent here cannot be bought with the money spent outside.”
Ariel is underground in the basement. I came out to a place decorated in a deeper place and opened my mouth while guiding Zero, who pretended to be an ordinary escort.
“Talent, rare artifacts, or fulfilling someone’s request.”
I smiled at what Ariel said as she slowly opened a door that seemed to lead to another world.
“It has to be exchanged for the rights of something.”
From noble mtl dot com.
“… That’s great.”
“Selling the Fel Swampman’s Legs for 30 souls!”
“The blood of the count-level cyclops rumored to have been subdued this time, 500 souls in a bottle!”
“Please lend me 1,000 souls, please… … . Because I can get it this time. Really… uh?”
Looking up at the ceiling, it glows with blue veins. Was it originally a magic stone mine?
Probably because they were all dug up, only powdery, non-commercially valuable items remain, clinging to the ceiling and emitting light.
Thanks to that, this underworld was covered with a bluish light as if it was just about to dawn.
‘There’s everything under the imperial ecliptic. Along with the old sewer, this.’
i know where this is A black market commonly known as “Dawn”.
I’ve seen it as a hidden stage in games that you can enter if you meet certain conditions, and it’s also appeared in the original work.
But I didn’t know that it was connected to the priests of Vasaha, the coin and the two-faced god.
I pressed my hand to the corner of my mouth that was about to twitch and opened my mouth.
“By the way, at first glance, it looks like an unusual shop street, but this is a gambling place?”
“yes. To be precise, one of the routes to get souls, the currency of this place, is gambling.”
In response, with the help of a sense of floating, I tried to speak in a nonchalant way.
“Why bother spending souls instead of regular money?”
“that… I’m not sure. Isn’t it because they sell things that can only be bought here with souls?”
Dawn from Innocence Saga was overpriced, probably because of the convenience of the game, but it was valued as in-game goods.
The dawn that came out of the original work was quite late, so the current infrastructure collapsed or gold or barter was the focus.
So I am at this moment. At this point, I was quite curious about what it was like to be able to live only with that soul.
“What is that?”
Ariel hesitated at my question before opening her mouth.
“It’s a miracle.”
miracle?
I remembered one of Ariel’s traits.
“Isn’t that too absurd?”
When I asked with a smile, Ariel opened her mouth in a slightly determined voice.
“Absolutely not. Because miracles do exist. I heard that the effect is different depending on how much souls you collect and buy miracles.”
However, as I watched Ariel add that it was literally a miracle, no matter how trivial a miracle, I had to give out a lot of souls, I turned my head and grabbed the man passing by.
“What are you doing?”
Leaving behind Ariel, who seemed surprised by my sudden action, I looked at the wide-eyed man.
“What, what?”
“hey. I want to ask you something.”
I don’t have a soul right now, but they won’t be alone here either. Hearing what he said while tossing a piece of gold into the air, the man quickly snatched it up and smiled.
“What do you want to know?”
“Have you ever bought a miracle?”
At my words, the man made a subtle expression, then glanced at my face covered by the hood of his robe and opened his mouth.
“You’re new. You still don’t believe in miracles. yes?”
“It sounds like a lot of floating clouds.”
At my words, the man grinned, showing dirty yellow teeth.
“The most certain thing here is a miracle. Someone got a severed arm, someone had a dying wife, and someone learned a new trait?”
That’s because if you pour out the soul, you pay for it as much as you pour it, giggling.
“If you don’t have an eye for things or people, you can buy something with a defect somewhere. But miracles are different. Except for not knowing how many souls are needed for the miracle you want.”
only god knows that
After I was silent for a moment at the man’s added words, the man, who thought his business was over, went on his way again.
He regenerated or resuscitated a severed arm, saved a dying person, and most of all.
Trait granted?
The gods here are absolutely not omnipotent, but is it such a system that the restrictions are lifted for a very short time in exchange for the soul?
coin god. The two-faced god Vasaha.
front and back of the coin. Two sides, two sides are directions that are closest but never look at each other.
And usually both sides are expressed as the other side.
Moreover, a miracle, a sure reward from God as much as it is poured out?
“excuse me… Are you going to stay here?”
I thought for a moment, then smiled slowly.
“Let’s go back.”
“yes?”
“I’m not interested in today.”
In some way, he must have wanted to put me on the gambling table and eventually stake the Siren’s interest.
To erase this incompetence.
Burn yourself up over that miracle, in order to get even a single piece of trait.
As a human being, as a living being. Because without a single talent that everyone is born with, the one who shouts out all over the place, worthless and useless, with all my body, is what they see as me.
You would have thought that you would go crazy the moment you realized that you could buy something called a miracle.
“Hey, that… uh so.”
“Let’s go back.”
“yes.”
I nodded at Zero and started to go back the way I came, leaving the bewildered Ariel behind.
Ariel caught up with me, not knowing what to do, as I turned around with the ‘dawn’ behind me.
“Aren’t you curious? That miracle, or something called the soul.”
“Do you really need to know now? We will come again, here.”
“It is! still!”
“Or is there any reason why I must bet something right now to get my soul and then enter the gambling house?”
Ariel smiled awkwardly at the words I said as I came out of “Dawn” with a smile and walked through the dungeon connected to the gambling hall on the upper floor.
“It’s not…” … .”
“Then see you next time.”
After I’ve sorted out my thoughts some more.