The office was very tidy. And it was just the size we needed. Seeing that this is also a building owned by the boss, it certainly seems like a good house to live in.
“Do you like it?”
“It’s all right. You mean we can use the upper floor and this two floors?”
“yes. Even the people from my father’s old company, if possible, please bring them.”
“Okay, let’s do that.”
“I will leave the company to my father.”
“I get it. The factory is also gone, so I’ll find out.”
“Then, I’ll give you the factory manager’s contact number. There aren’t that many factories in Korea that can make animal feed.”
“Okay, I’ll look into it carefully and make a decision.”
“Okay, then I’ll go see some business. Because of the vest my mother made.”
“Yes, go and come.”
As I left, I called the number given to me by the boss.
-hello?
“hello? My name is Siwoo Choi.”
-Ah, I have been contacted. But… to be honest, I don’t like it.
It’s natural. I’m not a person who doesn’t have money, because I’ve done everything I can. That’s why you might not like it, and you might think it’s a scam.
“Try it on, and if it doesn’t work right away, I’ll take it. And I don’t really want money. Because I need a tester myself.”
-Um… But why me?
“I asked the boss to recommend someone like that around me, but he only recommended Park Seong-hwan.”
-okay. Then I see. I’ll give you the address.
“Can I find you right away?”
– Yes, that’s fine.
“Then see you in a little while.”
A text came after a while, and I headed to the address written in the text.
***
“hello?”
“I want to say hello, but honestly, I can’t.”
“Oh, sorry.”
Originally, he was a handsome man with cool features and a sad impression, but now Park Seong-hwan is quite nervous and haggard. Perhaps a lot has changed since being diagnosed with CRPS.
“it’s okay. It’s just that I’m a bit sensitive.”
“Then would you like to check it out right away?”
“Do you skip product descriptions or things like that?”
“Yes, I was asked too, but this is something made at the gate.”
“ah.”
Park Seong-hwan’s expression softens slightly when he hears that it is a product made at the gate.
“You can wear this vest here.”
“All right.”
Mr. Park Seong-hwan put the vest on his jacket very carefully. Seeing that he was even wearing gloves, it seemed that he felt pain just by touching them.
“Are you feeling any different?”
In response to my question, Park Seong-hwan took off his gloves. It seemed that she had already gotten used to taking off her clothes very carefully. Then suddenly he looks at me.
“uh?”
“why?”
“I feel no pain. No, to be precise, I hardly feel it.”
An option for the vest is pain reduction. That doesn’t mean it completely eliminates the pain.
“Are you okay?”
“It’s so good that you don’t know how many years you’ve been in this condition.”
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Park Seong-hwan suddenly claps once. I think I probably wouldn’t have done something like that normally.
“Ha ha ha ha ha.”
“Don’t overdo it.”
“no. That’s really fine. I mean, it’s a person. If you continue to feel great pain, small pain will cease to be felt as pain. I still have pain in my palm. But compared to usual, it’s really…”
Seonghwan Park is unable to speak and begins to shed tears.
“I really don’t know why I got this disease. Even the doctor said he didn’t know. Some people get caught just by bumping into a cart in a mart, some get caught because of mental problems, and some get caught just by bumping into something while passing by…”
“I didn’t know.”
I really didn’t know. The fact that the starting point of such a terrible disease could be something like that.
“So it was unfair. I donated hard, and I’ve never been abused anywhere. But why is this to me… big.”
I reached out to pat Seonghwan Park, but stopped. I’ve read that you can feel pain just by touching it. After waiting for him to calm down for a while, I told him.
“Would you like to try on one more suit?”
“yes?”
“An option for this vest is Pain Reduction. So it doesn’t get rid of the pain, but it does reduce it. Then I wondered if it would be better if I wore it more than once.”
“I will try it on.”
Park Seong-hwan immediately receives another vest and puts it on top. And clap your hands again.
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“Wow, it’s definitely less. I can barely feel it now.”
“Then one more.”
“yes.”
Wearing all three suits, he replied that he felt no pain at all. Then, he begged me to sell this clothes to him.
“please. Please sell it to me.”
“I’ll give it to you as a present.”
“no. If it was made at the gate, it would be an exorbitant price.”
“It was said that an experiment was necessary, so that was it.”
“However······.”
“Instead, please help me with experiments in the future. And this job.”
“I will keep it a secret. But I also want to be promised one thing.”
“Yes, please.”
“When the experiment is over, please sell the clothes to people like me.”
“of course.”
Park Seong-hwan smiled and said so. His expression has improved a lot since the first time I saw him. I am satisfied with that, but it is also a great harvest to learn that the option of reducing pain is redundant. Now, I think we need to see how much pain reduction will be by making it in a different form from the vest.
***
While being sent off by Mr. Park Sung-hwan, I came out of his house. Then I headed to Sunwoo’s store.
Seonwoo was selling goods going back and forth between the gate and the store, but the goods were already sold out.
“Are you here?”
“uh. Are they all sold?”
“Of course. I can only work for an hour a day. honey.”
“Do you sell honey too?”
“Calm down, lord! Aren’t you like this!”
“Okay, butler Kim.”
“Kuk. But it wasn’t the Fukushima uprising.”
“Even if it’s not the case, that’s why I came. Didn’t the hunters you knew hear anything from you?”
“Even if it’s not the case, I was curious and asked here and there. I also contacted other gate-going nobles.”
That’s why I came to Sunwoo.
“So what?”
“Among them, there is a nobleman with flat feet, but he says the level of Japanese hunters is not good. What can I say? Is it supposed to be that they are a little strange?”
“Strange?”
“Uh, they say that leveling up isn’t that important and most of them are mobilized for gathering when they reach level 10. There is also talk that Japan reverts the gate to the state.”
“Is that it?”
“Isn’t it a country where brainwashing is so good?”
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Japan is good at brainwashing. That’s the real scary thing. People who do not find it strange even if Jamandang stays in power for a long time. People who believe that the prime minister should give a chance even if he has problems. People believed to be both perpetrators and victims of World War II. this is japan
So, I even think that it might be possible if money is given, saying that the gate is a national asset. Of course it doesn’t seem that simple. Because their way of thinking is usually difficult for us to understand.
“therefore?”
“The hunters who were mobilized this time say the same. In the meantime, the hunters from the Self-Defense Forces set the mood.”
“Ah, that banzai charge?”
“Did you see it?”
“I saw it. in real time.”
“I heard that the hunters were almost wiped out. So you said you are asking for help from Korea?”
“Hey, are you helping with that?”
I asked without hiding my absurdity.
“What if the price is high?”
There will be people who say they will go if the price is high.
“But he said something interesting.”
“Anything interesting?”
“Uh, a chance to absorb the gate. I stopped talking while I was talking.”
“Absorb the Gate…”
Absorbing the gate is a strange word no matter how you look at it.
“You really said that?”
“Uh, I heard somewhere that they told me not to talk about something similar?”
If that’s the case, you should really consider that there’s a chance that you said it by mistake. What does it mean to absorb the gate? Maybe he’s talking about Yeongjijeon. I heard that there was such a thing as a way to sell estates in the Middle Ages.
A form of fake territorial warfare and the lord surrendering. I think I heard that it was used as a way to trade territories while avoiding the eyes of the monarch. This kind of thing happens anyway, wherever people live. Aren’t there places like that among companies even now? Things like selling a company with an intentional bankruptcy.
Perhaps absorbing the Japanese gate was like that, I thought.
“Absorb the Gate… Can we?”
“What? Are you going on an expedition to Japan?”
“No, are you crazy? Why are you going there? What I’m talking about is gate absorption.”
“I don’t know, but wouldn’t it be possible? As my father said, after all, this gate is a territory. Do you think you would accept the Yeongji Mission system? Appointing you as a lord is also a system.”
It was then.
-Do you want to activate the Yeongjijeon menu?
The system responded to me.
‘Could we be attacked if we activate the Yeongjijeon menu?’
I thought so. However, the fact that the system sent this message anyway means that it is good to activate it.
‘Activate.’
Then, the information of Yeongji was changed.
[Siho Yeongji]
Size: Small to medium.
Young Ji-min: 107 people.
Territory Buff: Increased production and production speed.
It is a small and medium-sized manor located on an island. The lord is very diligent, and the loyalty of the lord is high. The production of reishi is gradually increasing. Currently, territory warfare is possible, but it will not be attacked first for one month in Earth time.
Our estate has changed from small to medium-sized. The fact that Yeong Ji-min became 107 must mean that Orcs have multiplied more. Most of all, it is noticeable that the battle of Yeongji is possible.
“We can now battle the territory.”
“What? crazy.”
“But they say they haven’t been attacked yet. One month in Earth time.”
“I must prepare.”
“right.”
“Oh, when I asked the teammates who hunted with me, they said they were willing to enter your gate. People are good.”
“Otherwise, we needed combat personnel, but it worked out well. Let’s meet again.”
“Okay, let’s arrange a seat.”
I decided to meet Seonwoo inside the gate, so I went home and crossed the gate.
***
“brother! Wherever you went, come now.”
“I’ve been to and from work. why?”
“The goblins are gone. I went to hunt goblins earlier to get materials, but none are available.”
“What? Are the goblins gone?”
I was taken aback by Siyeon’s words. The goblins on the island have disappeared. However, goblins appeared in large numbers in Fukushima. Then, among those goblins, are there any goblins who went here? I feel like I need to check something. So I went to the place where the goblins were, and I saw the first thing I saw.
“gate?”
it was the gate And it was not difficult to infer that that gate was the reason the goblins disappeared. So, does that lead to Fukushima?