Bet -2-
“Okay. Let’s do that.”
I nodded without thinking.
Seo Woo-jin’s face brightens up.
“Are you sure?”
“Yes. But how many people? Even if you lose the bet, I can’t help dozens or hundreds of people.”
“Write it down. There are only four people in total.”
Four people?
if?
There were some names that immediately came to mind.
I asked the question as if I didn’t know.
“There are fewer than I thought. Alright. Whether we win or lose, I’ll treat those four.”
“Really?”
“If you’re my friend, we’re not complete strangers. I can do that much for you.”
“You promised!”
“That’s right. But who are you? I need to know who you are.”
“Just a moment.”
Seo Woo-jin searched through his smartphone in a hurry.
Then he takes out a group photo and shows it to me.
They are all around Seo Woojin’s age, in their early 20s.
A handsome man and woman who seem to have made a promise.
And it looked familiar.
Beings whose names and characteristics are vague, but who have something in common.
These are the people who appear in Arcane Seoul Episode 3 as Boss Seo Woo-jin’s adjutants.
“Are you okay?”
“They’re all wearing the same seals as me. Here’s Hyun-joo’s necklace, here’s Seung-yoon’s vest, and here’s Myeong-jin’s belt, like this.”
“I guess you all come from wealthy families.”
“That’s what the old father’s sect was like. If it seems to benefit them, they should try to lower the ceiling first.”
Seo Woo-jin shows clear hostility.
“You’re still safe after taking so many. It wouldn’t be strange if something like an anti-religious alliance were formed.”
“It’s frustrating, but the old father’s sect is that strong. There’s no one in the political world who hasn’t taken bribes from the old father’s sect. They’re also intertwined with other forces through blood ties, regional ties, and school ties.”
So, it is possible to openly target a few of these mid-sized companies.
Because we never touch large corporations that could be a threat.
Oh, wait a minute.
Didn’t the holy warrior who was the son of the Ascension Guard receive forced baptism earlier?
“By any chance, Lee Jae-yeol? Did the son of the president of Seungcheon Security also receive forced baptism?”
“Yes. A little earlier than me. Your family situation is complicated. The current president of Seungcheon Security’s wife is the daughter of the president of a subsidiary of Myeongseong Group, and she is his stepmother. A few years after giving birth to a son by another person, the president of Seungcheon Security’s son was forcibly baptized, causing a lot of gossip.”
This isn’t the Middle Ages or anything.
It’s like sending your eldest son to a monastery in order to pass the company on to his own son.
There was a reason why his character was ruined.
Seo Woo-jin pointed to each photo and explained.
“This is BY Construction’s eldest daughter, Lee Hyun-joo. This is Galaxy Mall’s eldest son, Kim Seung-yoon. This is······”
I couldn’t believe my ears as I listened.
Galaxy Mall?
Baek So-rin awakens there, while fighting off zombies.
‘······ah.’
A flash of realization came to me.
The hand of the old father’s sect reached here too.
As mentioned earlier, the zombie outbreak begins with zombies overflowing throughout Seoul.
Among them, two Galaxy Mall branches were swept away.
I thought it was just a coincidence, but it wasn’t a coincidence.
‘That’s good.’
It’s like killing two birds with one stone, digging a ditch and catching a crayfish.
You raised Baek So-rin, put other rich families in debt, and even sabotaged your old father’s religious order?
I can’t stand this.
“Okay. I’ll treat all four of you.”
“As expected! I thought it would be possible if you were a teacher!”
“It’s possible, but it’s difficult. I’m not going to make it easy for you, am I? You saw it last time, too?”
“Of course. You really had a hard time back then, teacher······”
Seo Woo-jin slowly looks at me.
I covered it up and shouted, but I realized that it wasn’t an easy task.
“I’m sure I’ll win the bet, but I’m doing it because I want to see your face. Just know that.”
“Hey, do you think I’ll win?”
“You’ll know when you see it. And Inma, how can someone who can treat fever not raise a person to level 2 in three months? What level are you?”
“Oh, I see.”
“Arrange for a magic armorer in advance. Then, tell the four of you to meet tomorrow, whichever one is free.”
“Tomorrow? That soon?”
“It’s better to handle everything quickly. And tell your friends. If I lose the bet, I’ll treat you instead, but if I win, you’ll get paid.”
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“Weren’t you just going to do it for me?”
“Where in the world is there such a thing as a free lunch?”
Seo Woo-jin looked a little aggrieved.
So you thought I was going to do volunteer work for free?
No matter how touched I am by their kindness, I have no obligation to sacrifice myself for people I have never met.
Seo Woo-jin scratched his head and said.
“Ugh······ I feel like I’ve become a broker. Is there anything you want?”
“Tell me you’ll charge me a reasonable amount. And tell me what your parents gave me. That’s okay, right? As long as it’s treated.”
“Yes, as long as it is treated.”
“If you have any thoughts, let’s meet tomorrow. I think you’ve already told your story, right?”
“That’s true. I didn’t tell them because the teacher asked me to keep it a secret, but you have no idea how much they begged me.”
Seo Woo-jin smiles bitterly.
On the one hand, his face becomes relaxed, as if a burden has been lifted from his mind.
Looks like you’ve been through quite a bit.
I downed the iced Americano I was drinking in one shot and stood up.
“See you tomorrow. Where should we meet?”
“How about staying at my house? I think it’ll be more convenient in many ways. If you meet up with people from the church outside, you’ll just get a headache.”
“okay.”
Escape with Baek So-rin.
This time, we used the employee-only passageway.
It was possible because I submitted my resignation but it was not officially processed as resignation.
Baek So-rin whispered as she exited the staff corridor.
“Was it you who treated Seo Woo-jin?”
“Yes, it was.”
“No, how? Isn’t fever incurable? As far as I know, I heard that it can only be overcome by awakening.”
“Sorin, you are right. You guided Woojin to awaken.”
“Wow, daebak······ Ah, teacher. Please speak to me comfortably. You speak comfortably to Seo Woojin too, but it’s a little hard to hear because you use formal language to me.”
“Ahaha. Got it.”
Did you build a little bit of trust after meeting Seo Woo-jin?
The expression on his face as he treated me became much more relaxed.
Considering the initial signs of wariness in the 3rd floor lounge, this is a great development.
We parted ways after agreeing to meet at Seo Woo Jin’s house.
The next day.
The place I went with Director Choi.
I arrived earlier than the appointed time and Baek So-rin was stamping her feet in front of Seo Woo-jin’s house.
“Nice to meet you.”
Director Choi handed over his business card as if by instinct.
“I heard from the superhuman. He is your disciple. His name is Chief Choi Seon-su. Although I am not good enough, I am helping you with your chores here and there.”
“Oh, yes. Hello. Please take care of me too.”
Baek So-rin smiled brightly and received the business card.
“Hehehe, I should be the one who should be taking good care of you. If you are our Superman’s disciple, aren’t you truly a Superman-to-be? If you have anything you want me to do, just call me anytime! I will put everything aside and run to you as my disciple.”
“No. What about a potential superhuman? To be honest, I don’t have any talent.”
“If that were the case, our superhuman would not have accepted you as his disciple. Isn’t that right?”
“As expected, the director knows me well.”
Wheeing.
The front door of the mansion opened slowly, as if it sensed our arrival.
The employee who had been waiting took the car keys and parked it in the garage, and the three of us walked inside along the garden path.
“Wow!”
A short exclamation.
Baek So-rin looked around and let out a sigh.
The garden welcomes full-blown summer.
The weather was getting warmer, but strangely enough, the garden was a paradise of autumn leaves.
Did you turn the outdoor air conditioner on full blast?
The climate itself is autumnal.
A cool, refreshing breeze blows through the trees and caresses my forehead.
The trees are all red.
A waterfall falling from the sky becomes a stream.
The stream flows through the garden, babbling and disappearing.
A beautiful and bizarre sight, on a whole different level than when I came last time.
At the end, the representative couple and Seo Woo-jin were standing side by side.
“It’s been a while, teacher.”
The representative bowed deeply to me.
When I first saw him, I wondered if he was really the person who had been grumbling.
The vice president also smiled brightly.
“Thanks to you, teacher, life is fun these days. Well, I heard that when you came, you even spent money on landscaping, which you never bothered to do in your life.”
“The garden is really beautiful. It’s like entering a fairy tale world.”
“Haha, right? This is a trend these days. Setting up climate change magic circles.”
“Isn’t it really expensive?”
“We are welcoming the person who saved our life, Woojin. Please make yourself at home while you are here.”
“Thank you.”
After all, money is good.
The cool natural breeze was incomparable to the air-conditioned breeze.
I should create a garden like this someday.
I followed Seo Woo-jin to the reception room, thinking to myself.
Seo Woojin’s four friends and their guardians were waiting for me.
A terrifying gaze pours down.
The attitude of wondering if you can really cure our master and young lady.
He walks on without paying any attention.
Is it because they are not part of a security company?
The level of the humans who followed me as guardians was just so-so.
All level 4.
In my eyes, they are not very impressive people who took down Park Dae-yeop.
“Nice to meet you. Let’s sit down and talk. My name is Kim Jeonsa.”
“Hello. This is Hyunju Lee.”
“My name is Seungyoon Kim. I’ve heard a lot about you from Woojin. It’s an honor to meet you.”
“I am Chae Myeong-jin······”
I made a brief statement.
When Baek So-rin looked as awkward as a barley sack that had been borrowed, I gave her a hand signal to sit down.
Level 4 guardians look at me with disapproval, but what can you do?
I don’t intend to be bossy, but I am clearly the boss here.
“First of all, let me make one thing clear. Are all of you here forcibly baptized by the old Father’s Church?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“yes······”
“Yes, it was.”
“As you know, there is only one way to overcome the fever. Unless you join the sect, you have to awaken and become a superhuman. Woojin here also went through the same process. As you can see, the result was that he became a level 5 superhuman.”
A gaze mixed with admiration and longing flies to Seo Woo-jin.
Seo Woo-jin’s friends and the guardians who followed him were no exception.
The value of being called a level 5 superhuman was enormous.
“However, even if you succeed in awakening, it is not guaranteed that you will immediately reach level 5. This is something special about Woojin. Didn’t he receive a bee-bae and drink the elixir like water as soon as he was born? He is the successor of Jegeommun and Ilggeommun. Even after awakening, the elders of both swordsmen would have stuck with him.”
“sure.”
“I’d be satisfied if I could just take off this damn vest.”
“To be honest, I don’t need to be a superhuman. I just want to live like a human. Right now, even if I live, it’s not really living.”
They vent their anger in a howling voice.
I clapped my hands once to attract everyone’s attention.
“My treatment proceeds like this.”
Explain in detail.
The treatment method used on Seo Woo-jin.
It was a battle that pushed away the fever with a defensive barrier and awakened the swordsmanship hidden in the subconscious.
The resonance effect can be replaced with black salt.
Because Shin Yeol, Seonghwa, and Heukyeon all have the same attributes that originated from the old father.
The little guys looked furious.
“Is that how you become awakened?”
“If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be possible to awaken just by sparring?”
“It would be impossible before baptism. In fact, it is possible because of the fever. The fever transcendentally strengthens concentration.”
I said, staring at the net.
Vague faces.
Honestly, I don’t remember.
But yesterday, I stayed up all night concentrating and barely managed to retrieve a deeply buried memory.
The four lieutenants of the Black Slayer.
One warrior, one reinforcement, one magician, and one priest.
On the smartphone screen, those eyes that had been burning with fanaticism were shining colorfully, mixed with anxiety, anticipation, doubt and hope.
These people are also geniuses, although not as much as Seo Woo-jin.
Everyone says they’ve reached level 7.
Of course, the treatment method used on Seo Woo-jin works.
But the content needs to be changed a little bit.
“The choice is yours.”
I spread out my hands and pointed to the four.
“Just know that it will be so hard that you will die. Just as you suffered from the fever, the awakening process will also be difficult and hard. Only those who are ready will remain, and the others can leave.”
For a moment no one spoke.
Then a girl who looks confident steps forward and asks.
“Let me ask you one thing.”
“Go ahead.”
“It’s good to struggle. I always do that. Realistically, what are the chances of overcoming it? I don’t want to hear people say that I struggled for nothing and failed because I lacked the will.”
“Probability?”
Let’s think about it for a moment.
I was curious to see how much it would be.
The results came out quickly.
I put on a confident expression.
“Let me tell you clearly. If you follow my instructions unconditionally, there is a more than 99% chance that you will overcome your fever within a month.”
“Really? How can you be sure?”
“No matter what, 99% is a bit······”
“That’s ridiculous.”
“You’re not lying, are you?”
A reaction that makes no sense.
Baek So-rin also had an expression on her face that said she couldn’t believe it.
Only four people laughed after hearing what I said.
There were only Seo Woo-jin, Director Choi, and the representative couple.
“What do you think?”
I spread my arms out to my sides.
Black flame activated.
Black flames race in all directions.
A sight like a black dragon being released.
Someone groaned.
“Black flame······”
A sign of a superman who has overcome a fever.
A trait that is only obtained when you overcome the zeal of the old father’s sect, a trait that is not even recorded in history books.
This is something that even Seo Woo-jin couldn’t get.
The longing gaze that had been directed at Seo Woo-jin finally shifted to me.
“Let me say it again.”
I met their gazes one by one.
“The choice is yours.”
Who would say no here?
does not exist.
All four nodded.
And a week later.
It didn’t even take a month.
Four times faster than originally planned.
All powers have reached level 3.
