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< Give and Take >
“proposal?”
The superhumans, all of whom were in the same group, looked at the great man with mocking eyes.
‘Let’s see where and how they’re going to make a fuss.’
In the midst of such gazes, Daein looked around at the six teams of superhumans.
Everyone must have been pretty annoyed.
Not just one person, but the entire 6 teams were destroyed by one Wang Gu-ho. How embarrassing it must have been to go back to work with your face held high.
‘I guess I got a recruiting offer from another guild at that time. Either Black Hound or Iron Wall.’
It was obvious even without looking.
A competition between guilds to possess the strongest – or most capable – superhumans. No, a war.
It’s cute now, but as the years go by and the number of dimensions connected to Earth increases, this kind of mess will only get worse.
Daein looked at the six teams of superhumans and thought.
‘You probably thought this was the best thing to do. But you’ll regret the choice you made today for the rest of your life.’
From now on, I will make it so.
The man said.
“If you drop the charges, I’ll give you 5 billion won each as a settlement.”
“······.”
The six team superhumans remained silent at the great man’s suggestion.
Five billion was certainly a lot of money. But it was also money that could be earned after working for a few years in the guild.
‘It’s a lot of money, but···.’
‘Considering the salary offered by Blackhound···.’
The man who snickered raised the settlement amount.
“Then 10 billion.”
The superhumans’ eyes shook violently.
10 billion won is money that you would have to work yourself to death for at least 5 years to earn unless you were a team leader.
‘About 10 billion···.’
The six teams of superhumans began to look at each other.
But so far, no one has readily said they would accept.
I can also see Kim Tae-jin’s expression, with both eyes wide open on one side…
“20 billion.”
“!!”
The six team supermen swallowed their saliva, clenched and unclenched their fists while calculating in their heads.
20 billion. It’s the amount of money that an ordinary superman would have to work for at least 10 years to earn. If you just drop the charges, you can get that much money… But…
“Are you still worried? Then 30 billion.”
“”omg!!””
The man said as he made his last bet.
“This is my final offer. And I will pay all the penalty for leaving the guild, so don’t worry.”
The Great Man spared no expense in spending money that even the largest guilds could not afford – and even if they did, they would not invest in these meager superhumans.
The reaction was explosive.
“3, 30 billion···.”
“And you’re saying you’ll pay the deposit too?”
“Then it’s almost 50 billion···.”
The six teams of superhumans began to murmur.
Their average annual salary is around 2.5 to 3 billion won.
Excluding miscellaneous expenses, you would have to work yourself to death for at least 15 years to earn 30 billion.
They are offering to pay such a huge sum of money as a settlement.
In comparison, the salary offered by Blackhound was a pittance. And there was no need to risk one’s life fighting.
The answer was pretty much a given.
“···I will withdraw my complaint.”
“Me, me too.”
“I hope that Your Majesty the King will be merciful.”
“I passed out right away so it didn’t hurt much.”
As soon as one person opened the floodgates, one after another, the charges were dropped.
In the end, all six superhumans present at the scene withdrew their charges.
The power of ridiculous money talk.
The man looked at the Superhumans of the Superhuman Association sitting there with dumbfounded expressions.
“Is this okay?”
As things started to go strangely, Kim Tae-jin slammed his palm on the table and said.
Boom!
“How could that be possible!”
The man spoke with a puzzled expression.
“Why are you doing this? The parties involved are saying they will withdraw the charges?”
Pat pat pat. Kim Tae-jin ground his teeth.
Landlord. That guy is always the problem.
Kim Tae-jin spoke while organizing his thoughts in his head.
“···Is money the problem? Team Leader Yong Dae-hoon has become a vegetable. A person’s life has been ruined. Do you think that can be solved with money?”
Min Tae-woong also raised his hand from the side.
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“That’s right. This case is fundamentally not a problem that can be solved with money. The biggest victim is currently unconscious.”
The cause was still with the Superhuman Association.
A superhuman who became a vegetative state after being assaulted by a colleague.
That wasn’t a problem that could be solved with money.
Min Tae-woong emphasized that part once more.
“No matter how much money you have, as long as Team Leader Yong doesn’t wake up….”
What he didn’t know, however, was that money wasn’t all that the man had.
“Then I guess I should wake you up.”
“what?”
“Why don’t we wake up Team Leader Yong and come to an agreement? Then there’d be no reason for the Superhuman Association to interfere anymore.”
“”···what?””
Kim Tae-jin and Min Tae-woong.
Two people looking at each other like fools.
The man who was laughing turned his head away from them and looked at Yong Dae-hoon’s mother.
“Mother.”
“······.”
She had been watching since a while ago. Ever since the day the Great One said he would give 30 billion to the 6 teams of superhumans.
The man said.
“If you drop the charges, I will fix your son up and give him a good settlement.”
Yong Dae-hoon’s mother spoke while looking at the man’s face.
“···I don’t care about the settlement amount as long as my child can get healthy again. Well, that doesn’t mean I won’t accept it, but···”
The man spoke briefly.
“A hundred billion.”
“-Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, how much is it?”
The man smiled brightly and spoke to her, who was glaring as if she was going to pop out.
“A hundred billion won as a settlement. So, when my son wakes up, please try to persuade him. Okay?”
The amount was too enormous to care about the opinions of those around her. Yong Dae-hoon’s mother nodded immediately.
“Don’t worry. I will persuade my son well! We don’t want Wang Guho to be punished!”
In this way, the disciplinary committee, which had lost its justification, ended without a trace.
The six superhumans who agreed to receive the settlement money returned home with joyful expressions on their faces.
The representatives of the Superhuman Association, who had gathered with the intention of weakening the power of the White House on this occasion,
‘Does this make any sense!’
‘You’re saying you’re spending hundreds of billions of won on a settlement?’
‘What a crazy guy. He must have money left over because it’s rotten.’
We each returned to our guilds like dogs chasing chickens.
And the great man,
“It hasn’t even started yet, so how can I be surprised already?”
I smiled brightly as I pictured their backs as they walked away, one by one, in my head.
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“Team Leader. Are you really going to give me all that money?”
Baek Young-hee asked Dae-in when the two of them were left alone. Her face was filled with deep thought.
Clearly, the person is incredibly rich.
But he didn’t have 370 billion won in assets. Maybe later, but now he had far less than that.
Baek Young-hee knew that better than anyone else. She was the one who directly managed his assets while he was away.
Daein said as he took the elevator up to Team 7’s office.
“Of course I’ll give it to you. It’s a settlement fee, so would the association just sit still if you didn’t give it to me?”
The settlement money was to be transferred a few days later, so Daein was going to be busy for a few days.
Baek Young-hee asked with a face that still showed that she couldn’t understand.
“Where does the team leader have that much money?”
The two got off the elevator and headed to the office.
In front of the office door, the manager looked back at Baek Young-hee with a meaningful smile.
“But I want to give it. The other person might not want to take it. Right?”
“What the heck is that···.”
Instead of answering, the man opened the door.
Inside the office where the lights were all off, the boy and the dragon were sitting on the sofa with their knees together, watching TV.
They each held a chicken leg in each hand.
“This is my favorite cartoon! Kuroro Kuroro!”
“The more I watch TV, the more amazing it becomes. It’s on a whole other level than a magic crystal ball. … Oh, this was originally a different dimension, wasn’t it?”
“Ah. If you’re not going to eat that chicken leg, can you give it to me?”
“Nonsense. I’m licking it little by little and saving it. A chicken only has two legs.”
Oh my.
Why does a sigh come out first?
The man stood between the two and the TV.
Then, just a few days after arriving on Earth, the dragon, addicted to the conveniences of scientific civilization, suddenly lost its temper.
“Don’t get out of the way right now! This is a very interesting part!”
The little boy protested by waving his chicken leg fiercely next to him.
“Show me Kuroro! I’ve never seen this before!”
Beep-!
The man turned off the TV and crossed his arms. Then he spoke to the two whose faces were swollen with discontent.
“I’ll watch Kuroro later on the rebroadcast, and the three of us should go somewhere together.”
A few days ago, the Great One had agreed to speak to Abraxas while he was on Earth.
And because the name was too long, we decided to shorten it to ‘As’.
The dragon, who had nodded readily at that time, now asked with a slightly regretful expression.
“···Where are you going?”
The man looked at her and smiled.
The day to use this wireless dragon has come sooner than I thought.
“If you eat and sleep at my house, you have to pay for the meal, right?”
“Ugh···.”
The dragon followed the man with a displeased expression.
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‘Oh my god! It’s really a trillion?’
Yong Dae-hoon opened his mouth wide when he saw the amount written on the agreement handed over by the person.
At first I thought it was a joke.
When he opened his eyes again, he was in a hospital, with doctors and nurses with incredulous faces, and his mother,
And the landlord was right in front of us.
“Huh!”
How surprised he was when he saw the landlord again. Yong Dae-hoon almost became a vegetable again.
‘I thought I’d be in trouble if we met···.’
Instead, the landlord apologized to him and asked him to be lenient with Wang Gu-ho.
It was only then that Yong Dae-hoon realized that he had become a vegetative state.
After hearing the full story, the three people (landlord, Yong Dae-hoon, Yong Dae-hoon’s mother) were currently writing up an agreement in the office.
The man spoke with a pleading look on his face.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t give you all 100 billion right away. Instead, can you give me 1 billion in installments every month?”
“It doesn’t matter···.”
The moment Yong Dae-hoon was about to say, “It doesn’t matter,” his mother poked him in the ribs and spoke instead.
“It’s different from what you said at first. If you do this, it’ll be difficult… If that’s the case, you should give more in settlement money or something.”
‘As expected from our mom!’
Yong Dae-hoon nodded, impressed by his mother’s negotiating skills.
A hundred billion is a huge amount of money, but if you can get more, it is obviously more beneficial.
“That’s a bit···.”
The man had a troubled expression on his face. He was holding a small, empty glass bottle in his hand.
“This is a miracle potion from the continent of Gaia. It’s something you can’t buy with money, but it can cure any disease or poison. I only managed to get two… and I used one of them to cure my son.”
At the man’s weak voice, Yong Dae-hoon snorted.
“That’s not our job. In the first place, shouldn’t Wang Gu-ho have never made me a vegetable?”
“but···.”
Yong Dae-hoon’s mother cut off the man’s words like a knife.
“If you do it under those conditions, I’ll have to charge 10 billion more.”
After a period of tug-of-war negotiations, the man finally surrendered.
“Ha. Okay, I understand.”
…the two people thought.
Eventually, a 110 billion won agreement was completed, and a lawyer was called in to have it notarized.
The mother and son stood up without any hesitation.
“Then we’ll go. Make sure to deposit your money every month.”
“I hope I never see your face again.”
The two of them came out confidently.
A trillion. Their lives changed overnight and they had nothing to envy in the world.
“Poohaha! Mom. Did you see that kid’s face when he came out?”
“Of course I saw it. That man is now our slave for life. He will have to earn money and give it to us for the rest of his life!”
It was when the two of them walked down the road, designing a rosy future for themselves.
Wooooow!
A small gate appeared in front of the two people, and two orcs, one large and one small, walked out awkwardly through it.
“What are you orc bastards?”
Yong Dae-Hoon walked forward with a grin.
The body was completely healed. I could kill two orcs with just my fingers.
“Chew, chwiik!”
“Profit···.”
The two orcs walked towards Yongdaehoon.
He was walking awkwardly and his leather looked a bit wrinkled.
furthermore,
“Why are you so skinny on the topic of orcs?”
“Profit!”
…Well, what do you think? Yong Dae-Hoon ran towards the big orc and swung his fist.
I plan to handle it quickly and return···.
-Phew!
When I felt pain, I was in a state where I didn’t even know what was happening.
“Kwaaaaak!”
Yong Dae-hoon rolled around on the floor, blood spurting from his mouth and nose.
‘Didn’t the old man say that I shouldn’t kill him?’
‘It’s okay, I won’t die. But let’s run away before the other humans come. We have to go back before the chicken gets cold.’
‘Okay! Let’s go quickly!’
If Yong Dae-hoon knew how to speak Gaia, he might have died of shock after hearing the two orcs muttering.
“―Kkaaaak!”
However, Yong Dae-Hoon was not in his right mind as he was writhing in pain, and in the meantime, the two orcs disappeared into the alley.
“Keuk, ugh! Kkuaaaak···!!”
To make matters worse, Yong Dae-hoon’s body began to swell like a steamed bun.
Beside him, his mother screamed.
“Gyaaaah! Someone help me!”
Eventually, Yong Dae-hoon was taken back to the hospital.
But no doctor, no potion, no superhuman with healing abilities could cure him.
“There is nothing we can do anymore…”
“I think I’ve been poisoned by some kind of poison···.”
“sorry.”
After going around to dozens of places, the person the hat returned to was Daein.
Yong Dae-hoon, who had bandages wrapped all over his body, cried and pleaded.
“Team Leader Lim. Please help me. That miracle potion. Please heal me again with it!”
Now, the only thing he could trust was the ‘miracle potion’ that the Great Man had.
But the man shook his head with a troubled expression.
“I’m sorry, but there’s only one potion left.”
“Please! Team Leader Lim!”
Yong Dae-hoon held onto the man’s trouser leg and hung on. Because of the pain that would not go away no matter what he did, he had turned into a corpse-like appearance within a few days.
“Please! I’ll give you money! I’ll give you any amount, please! Kkeuuuuck!”
“······.”
The man looked down at him with indifferent eyes for a moment and then said.
“As much as you want? Really?”
“Yes! Of course! As long as I can get treatment…. Kkaaaak!”
Heh heh.
A smile spread across the man’s lips.
“Then should I just receive about 150 billion won for medical expenses?”
“Yes! … Yes? Yes, yes, yes?”
“No. I think we should get around 200 billion.”
“Ugh···.”
Even in the midst of pain that felt like his whole body was being ripped apart, Yong Dae-Hoon felt a cold air running down his spine.
“Okay, here.”
Daein handed Yong Daehoon the medical bill he had prepared in advance.
And he said with a big smile.
“Of course, I’m not asking you to pay it all at once. You have a bright future ahead of you. Why don’t you pay it back in installments over the course of your life?”
“Ugh···. Ugh···.”
After finally signing the document, Yong Dae-hoon found out that there were nine more copies of the same document in Dae-in’s desk.
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