Chapter 148 – #32_The Debt Witch (3)
#146
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The one-seater desk was filled with just two king crabs spread out.
The savory aroma of the crab rising from the fried rice filled with scissored shells and carapaces was enough to fill the narrow rooftop room.
“M, taste, delicious…!”
“I can only eat one, so please eat slowly.”
“Woom!”
Sharon grabbed a fork in one hand and a crab leg in the other and eagerly began to scrape out her contents.
She seems to be trying to maintain a decent appearance, but the speed and tempo fit the expression of being in a hurry.
“How long have you been eating this…”
Even though he has a lot of crumbs on his lips, he doesn’t look hateful at all.
The poomsae Sharon ate was exactly what Siu looked like when he first returned from Gehenna and ate chicken, so she didn’t bother pointing it out.
Her swollen cheeks, her sparkling eyes and her purring lips looked cute.
“What do you usually eat?”
“Me? I usually eat waste.”
“Ah…”
Siu was a little surprised.
Many witches do not sleep at all, considering sleep an unnecessary task.
However, as far as Siwoo knew, he had never seen a witch who skipped or skipped three meals a day.
Eating food is a great joy in life because there is no difference even if it is a witch who does not need separate nutrition intake.
But she’s a witch who eats junk lunches and scraps…
When she heard it and thought about it, she didn’t have a refrigerator at home.
How long had she been living a tearful life?
“I set a special meal day once a week, but I often skip that.”
Sharon confesses that she did not even ask if she felt better after eating.
It seems that she is investing in paying off all her debts, including food expenses that cost less than 200,000 won a month.
“The chicken gangjeong is sold in front of the station, but it is very delicious? I’ll buy it for you next time.”
Siwoo, who has visited all kinds of nearby restaurants, has also eaten.
It is a famous chicken gangjeong restaurant that appeared on TV where the small portion is 3,000 won, the medium portion is 6,000 won, and the large portion is 10,000 won.
A special meal once a week is less than 10,000 won…
Siu, feeling her terrible squeeze, put down the crab leg she was holding in her hand.
Let’s feed a lot.
In the meantime, I suddenly had a question.
That’s what she was talking about Sharon when we first met on her rooftop.
“By the way, are you making money by catching homunculus?”
“Ah, yes.”
“How? You said location points earlier.”
To be honest, Siwoo didn’t have a good idea.
We know that homunculus drop legacy.
However, Sharon took her decision by rummaging through the body of the homunculus, where nothing came out.
To Siwoo, the crystal was no different from a glass bead.
“Oh, you said you didn’t know anything?”
“Yes.”
Sharon put down the crab she was eating for a moment and wiped her mouth with a tissue.
And she calmly began to explain.
“There are two main ways to earn money by hunting homunculus. You already know one, right? Acquiring and selling the legacy of the witch of creation. This is a shortcut to making a lot of money, and I am also aiming for this.”
“What next?”
“Just hand over the decision of the homunculus to the location point.”
Sharon took out her crystal from her pocket and showed it to Siu.
“Usually, the decision of a homunculus is proportional to the magical power the homunculus possessed during life. This is the core that makes those monsters move.”
“Is it like a sari?”
“Not similar. Anyway, at the Wichi Point branch in Gwanghwamun, they measure the weight and set it at 10,000 won per 0.1g. At this size, it would be about 1.3 million won.”
“Does the crystal itself have magical effects?”
When Siwoo saw it, it was just an ordinary marble of unknown material.
It wasn’t particularly pretty, and it couldn’t store mana.
“There are, but they are almost useless. It’s cheaper, easier to get, and there are many good alternatives. Like glass, quartz, or crystal.”
Sharon said firmly.
Then why are they buying these useless little marbles for 1.3 million won?
“It’s a bit long to explain this… Can I just eat this? I want to eat before it gets cold…”
“Ah, yes. Enjoy your meal. Are you drinking too?”
“Alcohol? Good!”
On the outside, she looks like she’s walking down the runway with a really cold and haughty expressionless face, but she’s so happy to hear that she’ll only buy you a drink.
What to say or what to say.
It seems that the person himself is living a courageous life, so it is ambiguous to sympathize hastily.
“Yes, then, if you have a drink you like, please tell me. I’ll go to the convenience store in front of you.”
“Come with me. You live here, so how can you spend it alone?”
“Because I’m going out to smoke anyway.”
“Ah, then the brand doesn’t matter, I’ll ask for dark beer.”
“Yes.”
She made Sharon, who was about to follow her, sit back at her table, and she stepped out for a while.
When I got back from buying her beer, Sharon had already put a new crab out on the table.
She even pretended to eat Siu sitting in front of her.
She would feel the burden if she was sitting idly by.
In the end, the big king crab was gone in just two hours.
Sharon tilted her body from side to side, smiling broadly at her happy expression.
She looks so happy that even the viewer is happy.
It felt like she was feeding a hungry stray dog…
It’s disrespectful to Sharon, though, so I’ll never get it out of her mouth.
“Thank you, I ate well. It’s been 10 years since I’ve eaten something this expensive.”
“That’s fortunate.”
“Isn’t it too much that I ate it all by myself?”
“No, I like to eat with people who eat a lot. It feels good because even I am full.”
She resumed the conversation while eating the pudding she bought just in case.
Strictly speaking, it was a lecture and a Q&A session for Sharon, who has grown in her mortal life.
“Then how far have we been talking?”
“The reason why I pay money to buy a homunculus crystal in a place called Location Point.”
“Oh, were you there? First of all, I should explain the location point.”
Sharon pulled out her cell phone and picked it up.
She seemed to be a model at least 5 years old.
Even before Siu was taken to Gehenna, it was a free phone.
She turned on the map and pinpointed a building near Gwanghwamun.
“This is the location point. An outpost of homunculus and public subjugation created by Duke Tiphareth 100 years ago, especially the Seoul branch. It’s a kind of community of outcasts.
If you look at me, you’ll know that she’s an outcast, not a witch who ate everything badly. Of course, there is one such year. Anyway, a place where outcasts gather and exchange information or goods.”
“Duke Tiphareth?”
A little further explanation.
It is said that it is an instrument created around the world by Duke Tiphareth, who was immersed in anger and sorrow after an apprentice witch was killed by an exploit.
The founder himself is still wandering the present world, capturing homunculus and exploits.
This is speculation, but the origin of the name seemed to have changed only one letter from Watch Point, which means a surveillance base.
“Aha….”
Anyway, I was able to understand through Sharon’s explanation.
The fact that the homunculus is a great disaster is limited to ‘humans’ who have no countermeasures, not to ‘witches’.
In fact, it’s about the size of a homunculus with one eye that doesn’t drop even a meager thing.
However, as Duke Tiphareth personally experienced the pain of loss, he took the initiative in creating an institution to prevent a second victim from appearing.
“Did Duke Tiphareth himself offer a bounty for encouragement?”
“Half right. It was like that at first, but not anymore.”
“Yes?”
“Because Duke Tiferret paid her bounty, and in ten years her entire fortune was gone. She comes from all over the world with crystals, and no matter how rich she is, her back staggers.”
So, what the heck is the bounty being paid now?
“In modern times, hotlines have existed between aristocratic witches and political and business figures in each country. And high-ranking human beings would be very reluctant about a cataclysmic beast that humans could not respond to at any cost, right?
That’s why I made some kind of contract with the witches. To provide support funds at the national level to location points around the world.”
“My tax money was spent that way…”
It’s good that the outcasts make pocket money with the decisions of the homunculus, which are of no help.
It is good because the state can deal with problems that cannot be solved with money.
In this way, the two groups, which seemed to have no contact in the present world, were forming a strange mutually beneficial relationship.
“Then why are you working part-time at a convenience store?”
“You idiot, how did you earn 1.4 billion just by working part-time at a convenience store for 10 years?”
“I was just saying, wouldn’t it be better to keep hunting only the homunculus?”
If it costs 1.3 million won per dog, it is roughly 144 hours based on the minimum hourly wage.
“I also need to keep replenishing my mana, and homunculus aren’t just there when you go out hunting like RPG mobs. I also need to have a steady income.”
“Yes.”
Even that was a very sad reason.
“Anyway, I ate really well today. Anyway, it’s close to where you live and where you work, so if you have any questions, come and ask. You said you were bored too.”
“Yes I will.”
It must be too late
Siwoo prepares to wake up.
Sharon also roughly finished cleaning up and got up from her seat.
“It’s okay if you don’t have to see me off.”
“No, I want to go out and do something.”
Then Sharon opened her closet and took out a thick bundle of flyers.
Siwoo kept his mouth shut for a moment due to his indescribable complicated state of mind.
“Are you even doing that?”
“Witches don’t have to sleep anyway, right? Since then, rumor has it that even if you see her, she sticks it carefully in every corner, and give 100 won per sheet. I mean, this is salty again.”
Wearing sneakers and snapbacks, Sharon and I went out again at night.
What a great person.
Usually, if you have that much debt, you may end up giving up or compromise altogether after being discouraged.
Even if she uses her magic to make an unfair profit, Siu would not dare to criticize.
However, Sharon does not use such expedient methods and earns money in a way that is not ashamed of herself.
For some reason, I felt a sense of tenderness in my heart as if I was watching a girl pretending to be a girl.
“While posting flyers like this, we search for homunculus and hunt them when we find them. It’s the same thing you have to keep looking for anyway.”
“You are positive.”
“I hear that a lot.”
Sharon grinned as she ripped off her tape and stuck the former Dodge to the wall.
She knows it’s rude, but Siu said what she had been thinking about before without even knowing it.
In fact, it had been on my mind ever since I went out to smoke earlier.
“Can I help you?”
“No, that’s what I have to do.”
“No, not flyers, but paying off that… Debt.”
“Is there any good money to be made?”
Sharon pricked up her ears to see if she was tempted, and she prepared to listen.
Well, there should be a way to make money if you look for it, but how many things will there be to arrange such a neck money?
However, Si-woo has so much money that he can’t even use it for the rest of his life, which he received as a thank-you from Count Jemani.
Wouldn’t it be a bad thing to help her to live a hard life when it’s not even her hard-earned money anyway?
“No, I tend to have plenty of extra money. By paying interest instead…”
And it didn’t take long before she realized that it was her mistake.
Sharon’s face, which was happy with her satiety and moderate intoxication, hardened, so it was her words.
She gave her a terribly displeased look as she hugged her bundle of flyers roughly.
Her twitching lips moved, but at the end she said nothing.
Seeing that reaction, Siwoo felt sorry for him.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you.”
“Yeah, it was really, really bad. Don’t say that again.”
“I’m really sorry.”
Even if it was pure kindness and kindness from Siwoo’s point of view, I don’t know how it would be received by the recipient.
Maybe it felt like petty sympathy, so I was angry and my pride was hurt.
It was clearly Siwoo’s fault for making a hasty proposal in an inappropriate form because he wanted to help.
However, it seems that Sharon has no intention of pouring her harsh words out to Siwoo, who bows her head and apologizes.
Instead, she patted him on the shoulder.
“Okay, everyone makes mistakes. I’m going to go See you again.”
Coolly forgiving Siu for her rudeness in the name of her kindness, Sharon shook her hand, put her leaflet in the alley opposite her, and disappeared.
“Ha…”
Seeing her back as she walked away, she felt a bit regretful.
