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Chapter 164: Hot Night (8)
“Man, this guy is really insane.”
Jeonggu, who had his life publicly auctioned off, was so shocked that he couldn’t even speak.
Level 6 human.
That’s right.
That was the truth.
Jeonggu himself had confird his internal Level and even his miserable fate through the destiny record he received on the first day of the reset.
But.
‘Level 1 supporting role…? What nonsense is this? I’ve never had such a thing….’
Jeonggu, with an expression that said it was absurd, montarily felt sothing catching and jerked his body.
At that mont, Yeongwoo noticed it and questioned his father,
“See, there’s sothing, right? Who is my mother?”
“W… Wait. You’re out of your mind.”
Jeonggu looked at Yeongwoo as if he were annoying, but at the sa ti, he began to scrutinize the face of this Level 4 orphan.
“…..”
Considering the age difference between the two, when Jeong Yeongwoo was created, Kim Jeonggu’s age was between twenty-three and twenty-four.
Therefore, the woman Jeonggu t and had a relationship with at that ti beca Yeongwoo’s likely birth mother.
And Jeonggu thought,
‘…It couldn’t be. It doesn’t make sense.’
In his naive mid-twenties, he had experienced an unusual event.
That was precisely….
“Have you seen anything else in the destiny record? Like your grandfather’s na?”
“Grandfather?”
Yeongwoo’s eyebrows twitched at the unexpected keyword, and Jeonggu’s gaze shifted to the empty space.
“Back in the old days, I used to go to clubs.”
“Clubs?”
Yeongwoo’s mouth hung open.
He probably knew what would co next.
“I don’t think you’re going to tell that you just t my mother and had a one-night stand through a night reservation. Right?”
“…..”
“Oh, damn it.”
Unable to say anything, Jeonggu was grabbed by the collar by Yeongwoo in anger.
Crack!
The collar grabber of the Joseon’s Strongest Sword.
With a strength that a re Strongest Sword couldn’t match, Jeonggu barely managed to catch his breath.
“This guy is really…!”
“Is that really the best you can think of, Dad? Is that really the biggest event of your life?”
Yeongwoo, who stood over two ters tall, shouted at his father’s face, and Jeonggu shook his head vigorously in response.
“I-I an, it wasn’t just a one-night stand.”
“Really?”
“She was a conglorate.”
“….?”
“The other party was Jinhyeon Group’s youngest daughter.”
Jinhyeon Group.
A conglorate that owned various subsidiaries in tourism, hotels, shipping, including Jinju Airlines, one of the top three airlines in the country.
Ranked second in the dostic business world before the reset, it was one level above Taewon, which currently dominates Gangnam.
In other words, Jeonggu was referring to a conglorate family recognizable by na.
“What? Jinhyeon? That’s insane. No matter how much of a knight you were, does it make sense for soone from there to be involved with soone like you?”
Then, for the first ti, Jeonggu showed signs of anger and opened his eyes wide.
“You think I knew? Thanks to her, I was dragged out while sleeping and almost beaten to death.”
He explained that he had been attacked by Jinhyeon’s employees after sleeping together in an inn without knowing that she was the youngest daughter of Jinhyeon.
It was the early 1990s, so the situation wasn’t entirely implausible.
“…Damn it, but it still doesn’t make sense.”
Yeongwoo found it hard to believe.
To this, Jeonggu retorted with a look of disbelief.
“See, don’t you believe ? That’s how I’ve been feeling all this ti.”
And then, still not calming down, he continued,
“And I still can’t think of you as my son. No, I can’t. You know why?”
Snap.
Jeonggu clenched his fist.
“There is no way the woman who calmly got into the car after seeing being beaten up outside gave birth to my child.”
“…..”
It was a valid point.
From the perspective of a father, or rather Jeonggu, it couldn’t be thought otherwise.
And even in Yeongwoo’s eyes, it seed to be the case.
“But… you are my father.”
“This crazy bastard till the end!”
Crack!
This ti Jeonggu grabbed Yeongwoo by the collar, causing Seok, who had been watching them, to shout in surprise.
“Both of you, shut up!”
Seok, the representative of the Moi Cultural Foundation, which loves artists, scolded them with a dignified tone.
At her command, the two Strongest Sword involuntarily stopped their quarrel and widened their eyes.
“….!”
Then, Seok, who had regained her composure, continued speaking with a calm breath.
“No, is this really happening? We ca here to see my husband, not to watch you two fight. Of course, Yeongwoo, I appreciate your concern, but you should control yourself.”
Then she looked at Kim Taejoon, the representative on the screen, with a pitiful gaze.
“And strictly speaking, isn’t Yeongwoo using us as a cover to work my husband for free?”
“Madam, that, that’s….”
When Yeongwoo, at a loss for words, began to sweat, Seok shot him a sharp glare.
“I’m not asking for anything grand, just show so basic manners. Don’t argue in front of the kids.”
“…I apologize, Madam.”
Yeongwoo raised his head, addressing Seok with a more respectful title, realizing that this wasn’t a good scene for children’s education.
“And…”
Seok hesitated for a mont, unlike before, seeming to be trying to say sothing different.
Then she cautiously spoke up.
“She might have just given birth. It couldn’t be helped.”
“…What?”
“W-What do you an?”
When both n asked in confusion, Seok repeated herself.
“That woman might have given birth involuntarily. She might not have had the courage to kill the child.”
“Ah.”
Since it was the opinion of a current mother, neither Yeongwoo nor Jeonggu could say anything.
So in the end,
“Father, let’s talk about this separately later.”
“….”
At this point, Jeonggu couldn’t argue further.
“…Alright. Let’s settle this in a quieter place later.”
Eventually, the conversation ended with Jeonggu feeling his privacy violated, and soon a notice appeared indicating that the night was progressing.
―Tax will be collected from 10:00 PM onwards.
―The basic tax amount is 1,000 karma, and tax defaulters will be instantly extinguished at the ti of collection.
“Ah.”
“Is it already this late….”
It was ti for tax paynt.
“Are the children’s taxes all prepared?”
Yeongwoo asked Seok just in case, and she nodded.
“Yes. A while ago, soone nad Lim Suna handed so coins.”
“I see.”
Indeed, she was acting like a true secretary of a conglorate.
Then what remained was,
“Is there anyone here who doesn’t have enough cash to pay the taxes on the spot?”
Yeongwoo looked around the room and everyone nodded.
Jeonggu, as the Dobong Strongest Sword, had enough cash, and Jongsu and Taeyoung had financial flexibility as they were part of Taewon Group’s job placent, which played a significant role in the monster business.
“Good.”
Yeongwoo checked his wristwatch.
It was almost 10:00 PM.
And shortly after.
Beep.
An alarm rang from Yeongwoo’s wristwatch, indicating that it was 10:00 PM, and a system ssage appeared.
―Tax will now be collected.
Then the hands of those holding coins began to move simultaneously.
Clank, clank!
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And for Yeongwoo,
Swish…!
A feeling as if a wind passed through his whole body accompanied the appearance of a tax notice.
|Basic tax amount: 1,000
|Deduction item: Single household
|Final tax amount: 500
‘It’s the sa as last ti.’
Yeongwoo blinked as he looked at the notice.
But this was his misconception.
Thud!
Imdiately, another ssage appeared in his view.
「Your business classification has been changed to ‘individual business-advertising agency.’」
‘Huh…?’
「As a result, your tax status has been changed from ‘simple taxation’ to ‘general taxation,’ and there will be changes to the basic tax amount starting from tomorrow, June 14, 2025.」
‘What does this an? Taxes are going up starting tomorrow?’
In fact, it ant that they would charge more taxes by considering Yeongwoo as a businessman who started earning a lot of money through the contract with Dogo.
‘How much… how much will the taxes increase?’
It was a fact that he had earned a considerable amount in a decidedly unconventional manner on Earth, so there was no dispute about having to pay the corresponding taxes.
It felt a bit unfair, but that was the reality.
‘But still, shouldn’t they at least tell us the estimated tax amount? So that we can prepare for it.’
However, there were no follow-up ssages.
It ended with just telling them that they would have to pay more taxes in the future.
‘I can’t believe these guys.’
There was no point in grumbling to thin air, but Yeongwoo quickly changed his mind.
‘Anyway, since I have to call the chairman after finishing the dungeon tonight, I’ll just ask him directly. Usually, for a personal business of this scale, they should give an estimate of how much the taxes would be.’
And maybe Dogo would introduce him to a tax consultant for advertising models.
Anyway, what mattered now was…
‘Tonight, I’ll take Father to the dungeon and survive.’
* * *
10:52 PM.
About 8 minutes left until he would bring Father into the heart of the storm.
Yeongwoo was now in the living room, talking with Jeonggu.
“Anyway, there’s no doubt that I was right. The fact that it finds the target we want has already been verified once.”
「Wanted Poster」 – Epic
【Find what you want.】
|Father
Previously, Yeongwoo had used this fountain pen to find Kim Taejoon’s family.
So logically, Jeonggu, whom he found in the sa way, had to be Yeongwoo’s father.
“Right. Let’s assu for the sake of argunt that I’m your father. What happens next? Are you going to kill ? What cri have I committed?”
“While the world is falling apart, and your son has co to you in difficult tis, you’re worried about your own life? What kind of father are you? I’ve seen fathers in movies, they weren’t like that.”
“That’s because it’s a movie…!”
Whispering and shouting, Jeonggu glanced toward the bedroom.
“Of course, you may really be my son. But aren’t you trying to kill your father?”
“You’ve never had a son who looked at at first sight, so it’s understandable, isn’t it?”
When Yeongwoo said this, Jeonggu pointed to the “Wanted Poster.”
“That.”
“…?”
“How can you be sure it didn’t make a mistake? It could have malfunctioned temporarily.”
“Hah.”
Yeongwoo chuckled, displaying extre tolerance.
He hadn’t double-checked the tracking mark, as Jeonggu suggested.
“Fine. Then let’s change the target and try to find Father again.”
“O-Okay.”
Jeonggu hesitated at Yeongwoo’s words.
“Uncle passed away, right? To the Strongest Sword of Uijeongbu.”
“What else are you trying to do?”
“I’m going to input ‘Uncle’ here. So, at least the search target will change or reset.”
And if the “Wanted Poster” displayed an arrow when “Uncle” was entered, it would an that the wanted poster was also making a mistake.
After all, there was no way to find soone who was already dead.
Quickly.
As Yeongwoo lifted the Epic fountain pen to re-enter the search target, Jeonggu tensed up.
Tap!
|Uncle
Soon, a new search target appeared on the wanted poster, and shortly after…
Tswat!
A new tracking mark appeared in Yeongwoo’s field of vision.
“Huh?”
“What’s… what’s going on? Why is that?”
It was none other than…
「X」
“I see an X. It’s a new mark I’ve never seen before. It seems to appear when searching for soone who’s dead.”
Of course, there could be other possibilities.
“Maybe it just shows up uniformly when searching for non-existent targets.”
So Yeongwoo changed the search target once more.
Tap!
|Elder Brother
A target that might not have even been born in this world to begin with.
Then, the mark in his field of vision disappeared completely, and an alert ssage appeared.
「Non-existent target.」
‘Ah.’
Now it was clear.
The wanted poster distinguished between targets that never existed and those that did exist but were no longer alive.
‘Then if I search for Mother, I’ll get the sa X mark.’
Because of the achievent of being a “Complete Orphan,” which implied his mother’s death, Yeongwoo had never inputted her into the wanted poster before.
‘So, should I give it a try?’
He imdiately entered Mother as a new search target.
Pop!
|Mother
Then, once again, a tracking mark appeared in his field of vision, but its shape was…
“…Huh?”
「△」
“A triangle?”
As Yeongwoo voiced his confusion, his wristwatch sounded an alarm.
Beep!
11:00 PM.
Then, a system ssage appeared in everyone’s field of vision.
「An [Abnormal Weather] Ember Typhoon is forming as of now.」
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