[Earth] 13. Dark Money Laundering and a Fleeting Encounter

The day spent at the demolition site of a dusty commercial building in the redevelopment zone turned out to be simpler and more honest than he'd expected.

Even as his fingertips gathered concrete dust and shards of red brick hauling heavy scrap material, Yushin's sharpened senses quietly observed the surrounding laborers and the ebb and flow of the street.

With his strength and stamina already at D-rank superhuman levels, cement bags and heavy hammering weighed on him like feathers — but he kept his abilities carefully hidden, sweating along at the ordinary pace of a common laborer.

When the workday finally ended and he returned to the labor office, the envelope pressed into his hand held seven crisp ten-thousand-won bills.

"Seventy thousand won, huh……"

Yushin let out a small, hollow laugh as he returned his dust-caked hard hat. For honest manual labor earned in a peaceful Earth without mana, it wasn't a bad day's wage — but it was laughably insufficient for the massive financial firepower he would need to collect treasures in this world.

"Not even close. I'll have to play in some serious waters."

As Yushin muttered to himself, Yurang-i's calm voice rang through his mind, as if it had been waiting for exactly this moment.

"Criminals' money? That's not a bad idea, but how am I supposed to know where those guys are hiding in this sprawling city of Seoul — let alone rip them off?"

"Oh, really? Then hack into them right now and mark me some coordinates."

Yushin's eyes narrowed, and he smirked.

"Figures. Nothing in this world comes free."

He promptly opened the Shop window into the empty air and typed 'hacking' into the search bar.

"Hacking authority for 10 points…… cheaper than I expected?"

But the moment he checked his remaining points, a bitter laugh escaped Yushin's lips. He'd spent 10 points buying the mana regulator during that blood-soaked standoff last time, and the points earned from emptying his seed twice into Vampire Tia's tight little womb came to a mere 2 points. His current balance was a grand total of 5 points.

"Five points short…… Guess there's no way around it. I'll have to top up my points first."

Yushin climbed to the deserted rooftop of a secluded building and activated the Return function. In an instant, his vision warped, and he was transported to the cozy bedroom of the small cottage in the Abyss.

There, greeting his sudden arrival, were his silver-haired legal wife Lilith, her violet eyes glittering, and the red-haired vampire Tia, revealing herself from her obsidian necklace — both languidly licking their lips as they waited for him.

"Nanggun-nim……! You've returned so soon?!"

"My consort, where have you wandered off to, leaving this venerable lady behind……!"

Yushin wasted no words. He roughly tore the clothes off both women and pushed them down onto the bed.

"Explanations can wait. Let's loosen up our bodies first."

What followed was a violent, obscene orgy of debauchery.

Yushin drove his massive cock deep into Lilith's narrow, scorching virgin pussy, pounding against the walls of her womb until he planted two thick, deep creampies inside her; then, spreading the panting legs of the jealousy-blind Tia, he unloaded two massive bursts of seed into her desperately squirting, humble little pussy hole.

Splish! Pang, pang!

"Hiiyaaang……! Nanggun-nim's semen is overflowing and spilling out of my womb, aaah……!"

"Ogosuk……! Ah, ahh……! Fill this venerable lady full tooooo……!"

Finally, he pressed the flushed, drooling cheeks of the two world-class beauties, both lost in ecstasy, side by side, gripped his swollen glans, and poured the hot, milky fluid he erupted over both of their faces and lips at once — finishing with a perfect double facial.

After leaving his two Abyss wives utterly wrecked and laid out on the bed, Yushin wiped the sweat from his brow and returned to the rooftop on Earth.

With the points he'd accumulated in one stroke, he immediately purchased the Hacking authority from the Shop.

Click!

An overwhelming power of information control settled into his mind, letting him look down upon the entirety of Earth's internet networks and financial servers as though they were a translucent net.

"Coordinates confirmed. Time to go collect."

Yushin moved to his destination without a moment's hesitation.

The instant he smashed through the iron door of the officetel basement and stormed in, tattooed gangsters lunged at him with steel pipes and sashimi knives — but against Yushin's C-rank mana and D-rank physical abilities, they were nothing more than a child's play-fighting.

CRACK! BOOM!

"Kyaaagh……!"

The moment Yushin lightly swung a fist and swept a leg to knock them over, a dozen-odd criminals collapsed, bones broken, writhing on the floor before blacking out entirely.

Following Yurang-i's guidance, Yushin seized control of the computer servers and completely siphoned off a billion won in dirty money through virtual assets and bearer-shell electronic wallets.

"Good. For starters, let's launder a clean 500,000 won into my account to cover the essentials."

In an instant, a deposit notification for 500,000 won flashed across his smartphone.

And at that very moment, the demon sword Black Moon, engraved upon his very soul at his hip, began to hum with satisfaction, sending out a massive resonance of demonic power.

The black blade now radiated an even deeper, more mesmerizing light of darkness, fusing in perfect unison with Yushin's dantian.

He had secured his funding, and his weapon had evolved.

As Yushin walked out into the busy streets with all his business concluded, his gaze happened to brush past a small, cozy café nestled at the corner of an alley across the road.

Ring-a-ling.

The glass door swung open, and a woman stepped out, trailed by the soft scent of coffee.

Her outfit was nothing flashy or ostentatious. A calm, neat beige trench coat, with tidy slacks peeking out beneath its hem. Sweeping her dark brown hair — falling softly to her shoulders — back from her face with slender fingers, she gazed up at the night sky and let out a small sigh, as though a long day of exhausting work had finally come to an end.

She drew her phone from her bag, checked a message, and a smile bloomed across her lips — clearer and more harmless than anything else in the world.

In that instant, Yushin's steps stopped dead, as if by magic.

She was a perfectly ordinary human woman — no mana, no dimensional bloodlust, no aura of demonic beasts whatsoever.

And yet a pristine innocence poured from her entire being unlike anything he had ever felt from those demonic females — a singular purity that loosened the heart and disarmed it, warm and boundless.

……She's beautiful.

Yushin found himself gazing at her, spellbound.

She stopped at the crosswalk to wait for the light, and for the briefest of instants, her eyes met those of Yushin standing on the opposite side.

Clear, limpid eyes. She gave a shy little bow of her head and looked away, and Yushin, feeling his heart pound in a way he couldn't quite name, swallowed a dry cough.

Yurang-i, that woman…… pull up just her basic information for me.

Yushin shook his head firmly.

"No. There's no need to go that far."

Rather than forcibly stripping bare ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠another person's heart and daily life, a fresh, earnest desire was blossoming within him — the desire of a man who wanted to approach her slowly, the way this peaceful world did things, and get to know her.

From that day on, Yushin made a point of passing by that little café every evening on his way home from work.

Then, one rainy evening, a hundred-won coin slipped from Yushin's hand as he paid at the café counter and clattered to the floor.

The café manager, Han Sojeong, picked up the coin as it rolled along the ground, bent down, and carefully placed it into Yushin's open palm.

"The rain's made the floors slippery, so please watch your step on your way home, sir."

The soft touch of her fingertips, and the faint scent of her shampoo tickling the tip of his nose. Yushin nodded, his face flushing red.

"……Thank you."

To a dimensional wanderer whose existence had been ruled by mana and blood-soaked battles, an innocent, pure-hearted romance with a perfectly ordinary and beautiful woman named Han Sojeong had begun to seep quietly into his life, soft as a spring rain.