140 – [3] Have you had dinner?
#140
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When I entered the house, there was a woman lying face down at the entrance.
“I have committed a mortal sin. “Please let go of my anger.”
A thousand birds bowing in light clothing.
I looked at her as if she was at a loss for words.
“…… “Have you had dinner?”
“How can Sozer eat alone?”
“It’s damned, it’s damned.”
Cheonma-ri forced him to stand up and slapped his back.
She flinched as if she was in pain, but if you tease her, she should have eaten on her own.
She immediately took out two ramen noodles from the corner of the kitchen.
If I left her like this, it was obvious that she would whine all night long.
“Oh, I’ll have two ramen noodles.”
“You’re going to get really fat.”
“It’s common sense to eat two bowls of ramen when you’re my size.”
Then he placed his hand on her chin on her chest.
It seemed as if she was showing off her great body, or as if she was asking me why I only ate one.
“Yes, you did well.”
After taking out another one, she boiled the water.
After pouring hot water into each bowl, I headed outside carrying wooden chopsticks and a small container of kimchi side dishes.
The reality of pouring rain.
Cheonmaly was bored so she headed under the screen she had installed on her roof.
The roof was slanted, but there were also flat parts.
I put down the kimchi there and looked at the world endlessly.
“What a feeling and good feeling.”
Because the house was on a hill, the cityscape was immediately visible.
Even though it was a gloomy, rainy day, buildings filled with neon and LED lights were visible.
For a city built for an academy, it was daunting.
On the other hand, there was also an overly commercial aspect.
Sure enough, as I was watching it, the display on the wall of the skyscraper changed.
One advertisement ended and another started.
“This is an advertisement for our company.”
“I guess I spent some money?”
“I didn’t write anything, I wrote a lot.”
Cheonmaly slurped and swallowed the cooked ramen.
Then he pointed into the air with his wooden chopsticks.
From Noble mtl dot com
“250 Billion. “This is the money Nartica invested in Puerto Rico this time.”
“Huh, 250 billion? “Isn’t that too much?”
“Not many. But in Nartica’s current state, it’s not much money.”
If I had been Nartica when I first met her, she would have invested money with trembling.
But now, it is different from the days when we had to listen to what politicians said.
A few hundred billion was obviously a small amount of money, and it was money that could easily have been lost.
Nartica was growing rapidly and rapidly every month, even during a recession.
It is impossible to even predict how big it will become in the future.
If the hand of a returner was added, it could have stood at the top of the company.
“Is this possible because the Chinese business is successful?”
“Success…… “Isn’t that right?”
“Huh, honestly, when you said you were doing business in China, I thought it was going to fail.”
“Failed? I told you from the beginning. “There is no company that can act as competitively as Nartica in China.”
For reference, the competitive behavior here was dynamic labor, which was practiced in England in the 19th century.
No, you might ask, how can someone do something like that to a person?
But that was no problem for our regressor.
In the first place, if people were the problem, human rights could be ignored.
“…… “It seems like you are acting too competitively.”
“When you’re doing business, you’re bound to encounter minor bumps in the road. Moreover, the plan you came up with was so successful, so what can I do?”
It was common sense for a foreign company to shoot hundreds of hunters just to feed the local government.
Of course, recruiting Chinese people who knew nothing as participants in a ‘mysterious project’ was also within the scope of common sense.
Considering the size of China, this was only a minor loss and could be overlooked.
This is not a village where 100,000 people died due to gang fights between villages for no reason.
“Ugh, it’s someone else’s fault…” … By the way, are other fields other than China doing well recently?”
“Finance, bio, and cybernetics are doing very well.”
Potion shops are the foundation, but in reality, they are showing little growth and only the wrong things are growing rapidly.
The question of what happens to companies that have lost their roots came to mind, but when I thought about it, I realized that many Korean companies were struggling in their fundamental areas.
“What about potions?”
“It’s always the same. That’s why I put an ad there.”
There was an advertisement on the billboard saying that Nartica’s potion was cheap and good.
At the same time, it was a really good idea to have a famous foreign hunter do a crazy dance under fancy lights.
It was just a guess, but I could guarantee that the advertisement would be taken down within a month.
“But even if you advertise that much, is it still possible to buy Nartica potion? “No, do you even have a place to live?”
“Of course, we are gradually expanding our Puerto Rico branch, so there are no sales-related problems.”
Lies.
The last time I visited the branch, it was a situation where flies were flying and there was almost no sales.
What little sales there were were just because I felt pity and bought some elixirs.
In addition to simply posting advertisements, more direct publicity was needed.
In that way, something could happen to me.
You may say that you are too greedy after starting a business with a thousand horses, but greed is what makes people.
“And even if it doesn’t work out, it will be maintained for as long as we attend the academy, so don’t worry.”
“Then I’m glad.”
It was about the time when the two of us sat on the roof and almost finished eating ramen.
Cheonma-ri put the ramen container and kimchi side dish container to one side.
Then he stood up and headed beyond the screen.
She spread her arms wide as she was hit by the pouring rain.
My clothes got wet due to my attitude of having nothing to hide.
Soon, the red underwear was clearly visible.
“What are you doing? “You too, welcome.”
A thousand birds beckoned to me.
Even though I knew it was meaningless, I naturally headed to her side.
A moment when you wonder what on earth you are going to do.
He wrapped his arms around my neck, hugged me backwards, and fell to the floor.
It might have hurt because it was the hard floor of her roof, but it was okay because she fell first and became a cushion herself.
The composition was such that the woman lay on the floor and the man lay on top of her.
“hehehe.”
Cheonmae hugged me even more and rubbed her chest.
It was a very familiar feeling, but perhaps because it coincided with the rain, it felt somewhat different.
It was around the time when we were met with endless rain.
Gradually, the strength in her hands loosened.
“Gangshi, I have one question.”
“What is it?”
“What do you plan to do next?”
“What do you plan to do?”
“Just things like what to do at the academy and how to live after graduation.”
I think it was explained once before.
Isn’t it?
“I should just live a normal life like other hunters. Capture the knights, capture the warrior candidates, and hit the World Tree…….”
“What do you think, is he a hunter who lives an ordinary life? “There is no monster hunting, which is the basis of a hunter.”
“If I think about the future you told me about, I think I’ll be doing more catching people than hunting monsters in the future.”
To be precise, monster hunting was a big part of the game even at the time.
This was just something that was said without much thought, like an exaggeration.
My current goal has always been to deal with the main bosses of the Hero Academy.
Whether it was before or after graduation, all you had to do was kill the warrior candidates ‘early’ according to the strategy.
If we succeed in just that, the defeat of the World Tree is almost certain.
From then on, it didn’t really matter if I left everything to other people.
Helps and guides only what is needed, and often does some hunter work when bored.
It was the completion of a lifelong plan to become a knitter and make a living from generation to generation.
“…… Did I explain that we would lose?”
“Yes, you also explained that I failed while trying to escape the Earth by losing to the World Tree.”
“Actually, it wasn’t always like that? “Unexpectedly, there were times when I won.”
“I see.”
I wasn’t particularly impressed, perhaps because it had been hinted at so many times in the past.
Actually, even if that wasn’t the case, there were a lot of regressions, so it would have happened at least once.
“The problem was that we won a little late.”
In reality, winning is not a win, so it may have been a regression like spinning a treadmill.
I had a rough guess as to why she won late.
“Something happened to the Earth and things fell apart, or you died because you did something in vain even though you won at best. “It’s probably one of the two, right?”
Results from analysis of a thousand humans.
There was no particular rebuttal.
It seemed like it was right.
“The front one is correct, the rear one is not.”
“Really?”
“It’s true.”
Hmm, I don’t trust you.
No matter how I look at it, it seems like he is denying it.
“You know this because you play games, but doesn’t that happen often when you play games?”
“What if?”
“There is an ending, but if you take the wrong route from the middle, you get a bad ending.”
Ah, I think I know what it feels like.
It was said that the problem was caused by a shortfall of about 20%, not 2%.
“Winning was just such a case. But if you just improve on that, there’s really no need to go back, right?”
“That’s…… Yes. But in life, there are many times when things don’t go as planned.”
Then, hehehe, a voice quietly came out from the street.
It may seem like a joke, but it was a reaction that Cheonma-ri often gave when he was trying to hide his mistakes.
It’s just a guess, but it could be expected that he got into trouble due to his personality getting out of control and got into trouble.
It was only natural that he would continue to do stupid things if I didn’t stop him.
“Well, so what do you want to say? You need to win, so you want me to help you? “It doesn’t really matter.”
It didn’t matter because it didn’t exactly mean anything.
Anyway, even if she runs away, her path to a happy ending is set.
Because of this, there was only one thing I wanted from Cheonma-ri.
Just as this guy’s grandfather often worries, live like a human being without causing much trouble.
Please share some of the burden with me when I invest my own money to recruit warrior candidates.
Don’t be rude when pushing Ines or yourself to process the World Tree.
Grandpa Cheon-mae secretly told me that I had found the person to be engaged to this guy, that he was really a good match, but after that, I did not refuse to get engaged to that person or make a mess of it during the wedding.
And more important than catching the World Tree, quit that damn baseball.
Wait a minute, now that I think about it, it’s not just one.
Is this a mess?
Suddenly, I started to worry more about what would happen after I won than capturing the World Tree.
I hope there will be a happy ending, but the bad ending drift won’t start because of this, right?
“No, that’s not it. “What I want to say now is a promise.”
“You make promises but you don’t keep them.”
“This time, I really want to keep my promise. “This is something I’m risking my fortune for.”
“If you just walked away like that and then broke it, you would have created a few Exodia.”
“Anyway!”
Whether he knew my worries or not, Cheonma-ri calmly moved his hand from my neck to my stomach.
He continued speaking very seriously and firmly.