Chapter 15: Chapter 14: Dungeon Seeking, Part Six (2/2)
”...” Song Hyein didn't reply to Marie.
”Now then, deva Lee Jiwon. Let us go.”
”Yes. After you.” I bowed slightly to Song Hyein, who just stood there, and followed Marie.
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Store 72's manager, Anton, and his maid, Marie, were not beings of this Earth.
In my previous life, there was little known about these beings. We just called them NPCs. They were definitely alien to us, even though they looked like us.
”Miss.”
The always supportive Chief Kim Sungryul called out to Song Hyein in a worried tone.
”Leave it. She's not wrong. I've done the same to others before. Conglomerate life is even worse. If you don't have power or underlings, you will find yourself in a position lower than mudfish. That's our life. I just didn't expect to hear that from a stranger.”
Chief Kim Sungryul had supported Song Hyein for ten years and knew what she was thinking just from the tone of her voice.
Song Hyein and her two executive secretaries had become Sunbin Group's devas the day before.
Her parents and grandparents always told her off, but could never beat her stubbornness.
As Sunbin Group's heir, she became its first deva and spent that whole day experimenting with her newfound abilities. When she received the report that a strange tent had appeared in the middle of Seoul but no one could enter it, she arrived to enter herself three hours ago.
Normal people were not allowed to enter, but as a deva, Song Hyein was allowed entrance.
She dismissed the rest of her people and searched around the store with her executive secretaries for three hours.
They found the skill shop, item shop, public marketplace, and the exchange shop. They found everything except civility. Not a single trace of hospitality. Everyone just looked at them idly, with arms crossed.
”His name was Lee Jiwon…30 years old. Do you think that's enough?”
”I'll look into it right away.”
As long as they knew a name and age, the Sunbin group could find out where one's parents lived, their job, and where they lived as long as they were in Korea. They could even find out what someone else looked like.
”OK. Let's go. There's nothing else to find out here.”
They needed golden rings.
It wasn't just Seoul's Store, but all the Stores in the big cities. Any functioning Store was the same. They all wanted one thing if you wanted to do business with them... golden rings.
”It's all good. Just finding out about Lee Jiwon seems like a huge catch. But the power Marie talked about… it's only been three days. In three days, he has enough power that even she acknowledged him. I wonder what that is.”
While everyone else would be overwhelmed with the limited information and would not know how to respond to the uncertain future, the Sunbin group would be prepared.
While everyone else refused to accept such an unbelievable event, the Sunbin group knew that it was stupid to ignore all the events that were happening right before their eyes, and so they prepared.
Even though some within the group argued that it was useless, the Sunbin group secured a Don Gate not an hour later and devoted all their power to it…
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I followed Marie to the fifth floor.
There were two guard-like beings blocking the stairs from the fourth to the fifth floor, but they did not stop Marie or me from entering. We walked towards a door that reading ”Manager's Office.”
”Mr. Manager. Deva Lee Jiwon, who came by yesterday, is here.”
”Uh huh. Come in!”
From inside the door, Anton called us in as if he already knew what had happened outside.
”Go on in.”
”Yes. Thank you, Miss Marie.”
”You are most welcome.”