Seo A-yeon - Eve (3)
Seo A-yeon - Eve (3)
There is one gift my father left me, the only one.
"From now on, this is your phone number. 010-1234-xxxx. It was originally your grandfather's number, but I'm not using it, so I'm giving it to you. Do you know how precious this is? There are only 10,000 of them in the entire country. I was originally going to use it myself, but since you're my son, I'm giving it to you, you brat."
"I don't need a number like that, just give me money for the retreat."
"You can live your life just fine without going to retreats, you brat."
"Augh."
010-1234-xxxx.
It's a phone number my father had set up while acting all high and mighty.
Honestly, it was useless, but I was actually quite satisfied with it.
Since I couldn't use a phone while I was imprisoned, someone stole it during the brief moment I had it disconnected.
Damn it, my 1234.
I should've just given it to A-yeon instead.
Because it was the most valuable thing I possessed, I felt incredibly hollow when I lost it.
So now, I'm using some bottom-of-the-barrel number.
"Well, a phone number is just a phone number, I guess."
It's just pointless lingering attachment.
Anyway, another pleasant day has begun.
For reference, my schedule for today is completely empty.
At most, just a check-in call to Yoon-seo.
Eat, shit, sleep.
Without Ssal-muk, my days have never been this relaxed.
"Maybe I should get a driver's license."
I have a supercar, but I can't drive it? I can't stand it.
And isn't it too pathetic for a successful guy to take the subway to go meet his sister?
"Hmm."
Suddenly, a supercar appears at the university A-yeon attends.
People are surprised, and when A-yeon is looking puzzled, there I am, Seo Dohyun, leaning against the car in a semi-formal suit with a Rolex watch, waiting for her.
We make eye contact, and I open my mouth.
"Your brother is here."
Kya.
Just thinking about it is fucking cool.
This is success, this is what it means to be a man.
Money, a suit, a Rolex watch?
I've got them.
A supercar?
I can see it right outside the window.
Now, if I just get my driver's license, I can turn my imagination into reality.
I moved with excited steps toward the living room.
Ha-rin-nim was lying on the living room sofa, fiddling with her phone, perhaps because she woke up early.
She was still half-asleep, drooling a little.
The photo on her phone is of me, but she must be seeing it that way because she's still sleepy, right?
She had changed into normal pajamas.
I'm secretly a bit disappointed.
"Noona!"
"Uh, uh?"
Ha-rin-nim, who hurriedly turned off her phone, jumped up in a panic.
"How long does it take to get a driver's license?"
*
"You're learning faster than I thought?"
Studying is my specialty.
I'm already adept at handling magic far more difficult than this, so a driver's license written test is a piece of cake for a single day.
"With this kind of talent, you'll probably get it by next week, right?"
After leaving the driving academy, I sat in the passenger seat of the McLaren that Ha-rin-nim was driving.
Noona asked.
"By the way, Dohyun, do you play Phantastia too?"
"Huh? Oh...."
Suddenly, the incident from yesterday where I used my Gear to run away came to mind.
"I do play it."
I opened my mouth to apologize, but Ha-rin-nim didn't properly mention last night's events, perhaps because she didn't want to bring up an uncomfortable topic.
I read the room a bit and glossed over it.
"So everyone plays it after all."
"Don't you play, Noona?"
"I do, sometimes."
Should I ask her to play together sometime?
"What's your job?"
"Supporter."
A devoted supporter.
It's a job that doesn't suit someone who likes to boss people around from the back.
I thought she'd be a mage or a ranged damage dealer like me.
Or maybe not? Since if you just provide buffs from the back, the people in front handle the auto-hunting themselves.
A supporter might actually be the job class that suits Ha-rin-nim's personality.
"Then shall we go hunting today? I want to test out the new gear I set up."
"What level are you?"
"191."
"That's high? Isn't that the level of someone who does nothing but eat and play games?"
"I've been earning my living with this. I couldn't find any work even if I went outside."
"...So that's why I couldn't find you."
"Huh? What did you say?"
"Nothing."
We finished a simple dinner and put the Gear on our heads.
As soon as I logged into the game, I checked my inventory.
[ 1,000,000,000,000 Credits ]
Game currency worth 1 trillion in real-world money was alive and breathing.
Of course, if you were to acquire this much money in a normal game, hyperinflation would occur like crazy.
But Phantastia is a game where an economy the size of an entire world is circulating.
An individual possessing this amount of money didn't cause any sudden drops in prices.
Well, the number of users in the in-game Auction House alone, including players and NPCs, reaches billions.
It's not a game where inflation would happen just because I sold a few items worth tens of billions.
'1 trillion....'
Every time I see this number, my dopamine spikes to the limit.
I barely suppressed the smile leaking out and waited for Noona.
"Dohyun-ah, over here."
I heard a voice from behind and turned my head.
< Baek Ha-rin >
[ Lv. 182 ]
Level 182.
"You said you only play a little."
"Yeah."
I, who poured my life into it, am 191, so that's quite high.
"But why is your level like that?"
"I've been playing since this game first came out. And Dad gave me a bit of a carry."
Then she must have a Secondary unique trait too.
"Does Father play too?"
"All the chaebols play this game."
"Really? That's unexpected."
Certainly, the Baekseong Group and other groups as well.
The talk about ultra-large guilds with big conglomerate names running rampant was famous even on Pan-ssal-gal.
Is it just my imagination that I smell an ultra-large event, incomparable to the Blacksmith Competition?
What caught my eye after the level was definitely the nickname.
"Wow... a 3-character nickname."
The most expensive ones are 1-character nicknames.
2-character nicknames are also no joke, but 3-character nicknames are also very rare.
Since a < Ggwengdungsseot > nickname can sell for 5 million won.
In the midst of that, if it's a normal 3-character nickname like < Baek Ha-rin >, the price would be close to 50 million.
"By the way, what is that nickname of yours?"
I looked up at the top of my head without a word.
< Schrodinger's Virgin >
[ Lv. 191 ]
"...I need to buy a nickname change ticket quickly."
Goodbye to the nickname I've grown fond of after spending 1,000 days together.
I need to live a normal life too.
"It's dropped to 50 million."
When I was a newbie, the market price was 100 million, but the price of a nickname change ticket has been cut in half.
I quickly purchased and used it from the Auction House.
< Magic-Using Thief >
[ Lv. 191 ]
"How is it now?"
"...It's still weird."
It's a nickname I put my heart and soul into.
A nickname that kept me up at night, thinking I should have gone with this one.
That she says it's trash, Ha-rin-nim doesn't know anything.
"You said you have a lot of money. Why don't you just buy a 1-character nickname?"
"I can only buy it if there's a listing."
"There might be one. Take a look."
"Hmm... let's see."
I was browsing the nickname section of the Auction House, and I was deeply shocked when I discovered one nickname.
"Huh?"
< Ryu >
[ Auction Price : 1.35 billion Credits ]
Ryu?
Ryu....
Ryu!?
It's the pinnacle of coolness.
The < Ryu > nickname, which is so powerful that it's counted among the top 1-character nicknames.
It's an ultimate super rare nickname that can treat the phone number with consecutive 1234s that I lost before as 'nothing.'
"I can't hold back."
I immediately poured 5 billion credits into the Auction House.
< Ryu >
[ Auction Price : 5 billion Credits ]
And I secretly snooped on Pan-gal.
It was possible because there is a function to use the internet even in the game.
General : Real-time Auction House status.jpg
Writer : OO
( Photo of Ryu nickname auction price.png )
1-character nickname 'Ryu' surpasses 5 billion
Recommendation : 23
Dislike : 0
-Comments-
- Huh? When I saw it earlier, it was around 1 billion
- Pro Ssal-sung-i : There are so many rich bastards in the world
- The price is insane
- What kind of life must someone be living to be able to burn 5 billion on a game nickname?
ㄴ I got a 500,000 won accessory today and was super happy, but now I'm suddenly depressed
- TMI ) The highest nickname auction price, 'Z', was sold for 36 billion credits
- It's not even English, it's a 1-character Korean nickname going for 5 billion
- First of all, I'm fucking jealous
In Korea, not the populous United States, it was unprecedented for a Korean nickname to exceed 5 billion.
Naturally, I thought the auction opponent would feel the wall and back off too.
"Are they going to challenge me more?"
It seems the opponent was also quite a greedy person.
The auction price went up one level.
< Ryu >
[ Auction Price : 5.3 billion Credits ]
"Only 300 million?"
I have to step on them so they can't climb up.
< Ryu >
[ Auction Price : 10 billion Credits ]
I immediately put in another 5 billion.
General : Fuck, Ryu <- What is this guy? lol
Writer : OO
( Photo of Ryu nickname auction price.png )
1-character nickname 'Ryu' 10 billion ddddd
Recommendation : 51
Dislike : 1
-Comments-
- 10 billion?
- I'd rather spread that money as burgers
- Wow
- The opponent is probably running away now
- 10 billion is ffs
- Is he the chairman of the Baekseong Group or something?
ㄴ What's the Baekseong Group chairman's nickname?
ㄴ Surprisingly, it's < Baek Jeong >
ㄴ Oh, is he a jungler?
ㄴ They say the < Baek Seong > nickname listing isn't coming out at all lol
Hawawa Misonyeo-jjang : Hawawa, only 10 billion? It smells like pocket change.
As expected, it didn't go any higher than this.
Perhaps the seller knew this was the peak, so they didn't wait any longer and sold it to me.
A huge sum of 10 billion disappeared from my inventory, but it didn't even leave a scratch.
I looked up at the top of my head once again.
< Ryu >
[ Lv. 191 ]
"This is crazy."
My nickname is 'Ryu'.
It's so fucking charismatic.
Ha-rin-nim chuckled as she watched me smiling from ear to ear with a satisfied face.
"Are you happy?"
"Yeah, totally."
*
A week passed.
I easily got my driver's license, and I also reached level 199.
One more level and it's 200.
It's the level where I can get a '3rd job advancement,' which allows me to escape being an amateur Ssal-muk-er.
While the 1st job advancement allows you to choose the job you want.
Subsequent advancements offer various options based on your gameplay, like the 2nd unique trait.
My 1st job advancement was Thief, and my 2nd was Archmage.
'It would be nice if Gambler came out for the 3rd.'
Gambler, a job where you can adjust the power of skills based on probability according to your Luck stat.
My Luck stat is 0, but since I can manipulate probability, there's no job more perfect for me than that.
However, I heard that it only appears as an option if your Luck stat is high, so I didn't think it would come out.
"By the way, the leveling speed is no joke. The item-buff is definitely the item-buff."
I haven't even properly set up my gear yet, but just with 5 endgame-tier accessories, the hunting speed is on a different level.
Considering it used to take over a week to level up once, it's increased by 10 times.
I didn't think this speed would be possible since Yoon-seo, who was acting as a makeshift tank in the vanguard, disappeared.
"Noona, go and get hit."
"Huh? Oh... yeah."
After putting a few tanking items on Ha-rin-nim and having her self-heal a bit, a perfect tank was born.
"...Is this really how you're supposed to use a supporter?"
Ha-rin-nim even possessed an incredibly fraudulent trait as her 1st unique trait.
< Premium Slot >
[ Grade : Legendary ]
You can set one equipment slot as a Premium Slot.
Equipment equipped in the Premium Slot can be worn while ignoring all wearing conditions.
Ignores all harmful effects of items equipped in the Premium Slot.
An over-balanced trait that allows you to wear any item while ignoring the wearing conditions.
I equipped Noona with endgame-tier armor and turned her into a tank, not a 'Hyeji' (useless supporter).
"Step on the traps in front instead of me."
"...."
It's a truly desirable sight.
As a rule, a supporter should hold their ground firmly in the front.
"...Dohyun, your personality changes 180 degrees when you play games?"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"I think Teto Seo Dohyun is also good."
"I was originally Teto, though?"
"Hmm...."
Well, it's a habit to share minimal conversation for concentration during battle, so she might think that way.
I'm the type who becomes quiet when I concentrate.
"Atropos."
[ < Ryu >-nim uses < High-level Magic : Atropos >. ]
Kwaaaaaang!
With one incantation of mine, the boss monster that I had struggled with Yoon-seo to catch literally melts away.
Because of my trait where two magic-related stats increase just by raising the Luck stat, the efficiency when I set up my items is outstanding.
"It actually died."
"The damage is... Mythic-grade traits are definitely different."
For reference, I had already told Noona my secret.
She's not the type to go around talking about it, and since she's someone close to me, I didn't feel the need to hide it.
"I should log off now."
"Aren't you going to hit level 200?"
"I have to sleep early to meet A-yeon tomorrow."
I even got my license.
Finally, tomorrow, the long-awaited reunion with my sister will take place.
I'm already looking forward to A-yeon's reaction.
I wonder if she's doing well?
When I saw her from afar last time, she was holding her adoptive parents' hands and smiling.
I hope she's living happily.
*
"...You fucking bitch."
The next day, my reunion with A-yeon, which I had been looking forward to.
It ended in the worst way possible.