174 – During the meeting-4
‘Haa… the dog is mad…’
The meeting proceeded seismically.
A meeting that, in my judgment, would have been over in an hour, hadn’t even reached half the mark, even though it had already been several hours.
“So, climbing gates require a special team dedicated to climbing gates?”
“Didn’t you hear the explanation? It’s a gate made for the purpose of growing the Awoken. If you keep entering the special team, only that special team will grow, and it will not help you escape the true threat!”
“How does the climbing gate itself know if there is a real danger?”
There were so many conversations and rebuttals to each other that the entire conference hall was noisy, but there was no substance.
They constantly contradicted each other’s words, demanded evidence for content that was not very important, insisted that they were right without providing evidence for the content that was really important, and showed a very shitty appearance.
It would have been better if he had said that his argument was right unconditionally.
The reason they refute the opponent’s content is not because they think their opinion is better than the opponent’s opinion.
Simply because the opponent belongs to the opposite faction to you, you are unconditionally opposed to what the opponent said, and there was no talk about how to handle the climbing gate.
‘The guild members who are divided into factions are also a problem, but the real problem is rather the guild leader’s side…’
If you’re determined and try to prevent the faction from splitting, you can stop it all too easily.
When her sister was appointed as the head of a guard in another city, she became the sole S-class Awakened guild leader.
‘Perhaps he was deliberately leaving the faction alone.’
The specific reason for the guild leader leaving the faction alone was unknown.
I’ve never been a guild leader, and I can’t read the thoughts of a guild leader.
All I knew was that the guild leader was a ferocious person with a single personality, and that he was a human who would not do anything to harm himself, even if he died.
The situation is so messed up that the meeting itself can’t go ahead, but leaving it as it is is probably because it’s to the benefit of the guild leader that there is a fierce faction fight within the guild.
‘Still, this is a bit too much.’
It seems like you’ve been repeating the same thing for 3 hours. Isn’t it normal to mediate at this level?
My sister had a meeting until dawn and was sleeping on the floor because of the long meeting, and some of the awakened people without factions even fled the meeting room.
Recently, this kind of phenomenon appeared whenever I had a meeting, so it only burned my heart.
‘After dragging it out like this, it will eventually come to a conclusion with the guild leader telling the team’s opinion.’
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No matter how strong a faction is, it cannot refuse the guild leader’s order. In the first place, they do not make their own arguments based on rational judgment, but rather speak in order to argue against the opponent. It was obvious that it would end.
‘It’s good to be the captain of the guard in a place like this…’
When my sister was in charge of the guard, the faction fight wasn’t that serious.
A fox becomes king on a mountain without tigers, and when the older sister, who was at the highest place right under the guild leader, disappeared, a fierce fight unfolded to occupy the second person position inside the guild.
I was able to avoid direct contact with other factions as much as possible because I only operated within the guards left by my sister, but it was disgusting to see them fighting each other and creating their own factions.
‘That doesn’t mean there weren’t factions in our guard…’
It’s more like a gathering than a clique, but since there was clear discrimination against the kids who couldn’t join the group, it wouldn’t be too much to say that it was a clique.
It was also a culture that my sister planted wrongly, so I decided to fix it, and when I was slowly tearing it off and fixing it, I followed my brother to the next city.
I don’t know if I’ve solved it well now.
“So that method has too many downsides?”
I didn’t know where this hopeless meeting would flow if I let go of the meeting while my sister was also sleeping, so I concentrated on the meeting, holding on tight to my mind.
***
As the ramen came out in a state where I had somewhat cut off the atmosphere, it didn’t seem like there would be any more talk of fighting.
Seeing both Ayeong and Mina staring at the ramen while gulping down their saliva, it seemed that there was no need to worry about fighting any longer.
‘As expected, is delicious food the best to stop a fight?’
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No matter how I look at it, I wasn’t in the mood to fight any more, so I decided to eat ramen with ease.
They said the menu always changes according to the boss’s mind, but today it was seafood ramen full of seafood.
‘Where on earth do they get seafood?’
Seeing that even a small city like ours has a lake, it’s impossible to conclude that a large city like Sol doesn’t have a fish farm.
“Hurururrr!”
After a loud noise, I looked up and saw Mina holding the ramen to her mouth as if she was going to drink it.
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No matter how fast the bowl tilted toward 90 degrees in an instant, he put the ramen to his mouth and emptied all the ramen in one breath and put it down.
‘What’s crazy?’
As I was staring at Mina blankly in surprise at that speed, Mina scratched my cheek gently as if she was embarrassed.
“hahahaha… I should eat clams.”
Then he started eating the shellfish he couldn’t drink all at once.
“It’s common when he eats a lot and eats quickly, so don’t worry about it and you eat it or eat it.”
“OK…”
As I lifted my chopsticks and ate the ramen, the unique aroma and taste of seafood, which I was unfamiliar with, filled my mouth.
‘It’s f*cking delicious.’
I felt it the other day when I ate it, but I think the ramen here is so delicious.
Do you feel the value of receiving 150,000 per meal?
For today, I think I can express my gratitude for becoming smaller.
The smaller the food, the more it feels like the same amount of food.
While eating clams, shrimp, and various seafood, Mina and Ayeong started talking again after eating all of them.
There was a proper arena related to each other’s thoughts, but as I focused on ramen, I couldn’t hear exactly what they were saying.
‘I already have only soup left…’
Even the soup was eaten while drinking in between, so there wasn’t that much left over.
I put my regret behind me and took the bowl and drank it. The spicy yet cool broth cooled my throat.
Even if I collected only the broth and sold it as tea, the taste seemed to sell well enough, so I kept licking my appetite, but I didn’t return the ramen I had already eaten just because I ate it.
“The problem here is that they only sell one bowl at a time.”
“That’s right. I’d like to sell a little more at once…”
“They say they only sell one bowl per person due to material problems, but there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Ayeong stood up as she poked her teeth with a toothpick.
“Of course you live, right?”
“What? I bought it last time too? You’re buying it this time?”
“No, this time you have to buy it. Because if I pay, even if I’m a kid, they won’t pay. As soon as I came out of the gate, I would have come to Sol right away, but would you have 150,000 won in cash? If you don’t buy it, I’ll be washing dishes here all day I’m going, so you have to pay.”
‘Come to think of it, there was no money in hand.’
Yesterday, Ha-yeon and I bought Jajangmyeon for the younger year, and the last thing I did, money became a body that didn’t exist at all.
The card Ha-yeon lent me the other day had already been returned, so there was no way I could pay 150,000 won.
“Then you buy me and you. I paid for Suhyeon’s ramen.”
“Why do you make it so complicated? Why do you think it’s a waste of money that is less than 500,000 won?”
“It’s not about money, it’s about your attitude?”
After arguing for a long time, Yayoung paid 300,000 won and Mina paid 150,000 won.
“Thank you for buying Mina ramen.”
“Hey! Little boy, why are you thanking him when I paid more?”
“Mr.
“You bastard!”
Ayoung stroked my hair with a rough hand.
As they raised their arms to block Ah-young’s hand, Mina and Ya-young’s movements suddenly stopped.
It wasn’t just Mina and Ayeong’s movements that stopped, but a heavy breath tightening sensation pressed against my neck.
When my body trembled from the strong pressure and it was difficult to breathe properly, someone put a hand on my shoulder.
“Ahahahaha? What are you doing here?”