Chapter 21 - Limit, Price, Efficiency.
Limit, Price, Efficiency.
Translator : Elizabeth
For desire, change yourself before the world.
I agree with those words a hundred times.
Since changing the world is hard, me changing is thousands of times more efficient.
If I changed completely. If I melted into the world completely.
Only then will I be able to know. The way to change the world.
That is exactly the method of practicing desire.
Thus.
“Ugh, pride hurt.”
Thud!
Brought a chair to the kitchen.
Climbed on top of it and reached for the shelf.
High shelf storing ramen. Originally intended to jump diligently and take it out, but there were one or two times I fell trying to take it out like that every time.
No choice.
I have to change.
Let's use a chair from now on.
“Heave-ho~”
Bubble bubble.
Climbed on the chair and cooked ramen.
Whether appetite increased since becoming younger, mouth watered slurp just by smelling it.
The only problem is that the stomach became so small it's hard to eat even one whole ramen.
That was regrettable.
Can't eat much of delicious things.
It's torture.
Slurp~
Still, truly a peaceful day.
No worry about money, no need to enter the Tower, a life where I can eat and rest alone at home.
Leisure.
Is it okay for me to enjoy such luxury.
Inefficient life not suiting me. Is it really okay to enjoy this.
Awkward.
Will I continue to live days like this in the future.
Probably will be bored.
A day without a sense of crisis would be really boring. It was always like that in the past.
Should I find some work somehow.
Think there might be a way if I try.
“Hmm… current me has become too complacent.”
Direction of thought is wrong.
To dream of a happy future, must face immediate problems without looking away.
My current problems.
Hunters who took Depravity Route. There must be some. Might meet someday and make me troubled.
Broker persistently asking for name. Don't know if bluff or sincere, but seemed like he would be annoying in the future.
Don't know when and how problems will burst.
Especially the broker. This guy warned he would come find me if there was no reply yesterday.
Would be good if he doesn't come find me please.
Ding-dong!~
Huh?….
Suddenly what doorbell sound.
Why did someone press the doorbell at the point of thinking this of all things.
There shouldn't be anyone to visit my house??
If there is, only the broker though?….
S-surely he didn't really come find me right?
And in one morning?
Just to know the name?
N-no right?….
Creep~
Approached the entrance quietly.
Naturally, asking who is it is amateur move.
Immediately looked into the small hole in the door to see outside, the peephole.
Just who is visiting me early in the morning-
“Hieek!!?”
It's the broker.
That guy's face filled the peephole looking at me.
Flump.
Enough to fall backwards in surprise.
Just why are you looking in there….
[Saw you were there just now. Open the door. I have no hobby of breaking in.]
At this time a text message came to the phone.
At a glance, text from the broker outside.
Not speaking but sending a text came as a bigger pressure.
To think he really came to find me.
S-scary.
This… can't run away right?
“Ugh…….”
Seems like.
Me, life ruined.
Today one person will disappear without a trace, or I will helplessly become the guy's slave.
[Open the door quickly.]
Ah, from where did it go wrong.
Clearly it was my perfect world until trading magic stones for the first time.
Underestimated the guy too much.
Well, since he was a guy met through trading dozens of low-grade magic stones, thought he was a trivial guy.
But he was a much bigger shot than thought.
Must be a big shot among big shots.
Probably….
Hate to admit but.
Opponent is a person superior to me.
There was never a case where I couldn't understand intentions until now.
Really absolutely don't know.
Not only letting me go but gave money.
Then persistently asked only for the name, and suddenly barges into my house?
Really scary.
Just why do that?
Even with my excellent brain I don't know. Clearly there is a move superior to me.
Then must be at least two moves ahead of me.
As expected I was an existence less than a dot in the vast universe.
No way there isn't an existence superior to me in the wide world. Of all things the opponent was such a guy.
[Are you going to keep making me wait?]
“Ugh….”
This guy.
Dares to rush me with texts.
Not talking outside the door must be a thorough plan conscious of surroundings too.
[It was a house where a missing person lived. How did you come to hide and live here.]
Shiver.
How far did this guy investigate about me?
Is he some intelligence agency agent or what?
Information power is crazy.
At this level, isn't it not a tracker but finding out by searching CCTV nationwide.
Uhm… might really be so.
If it's a big shot of this guy's level, seems possible.
[Not going to answer?]
What to do.
Ignoring is now a wrong option.
Have to greet him somehow, but what can I do to the guy now?
What, been a long time since I was truly helpless.
Opponent is too strong an enemy.
[If you don't open, I'm entering forcibly in 3 seconds.]
[3….]
[2….]
[1….]
Click!!
Ah… opened it.
Psychological pressure is too high-level.
Slide.
Opened the door and slowly raised head.
In front of the entrance. A sturdy male looking about 190cm tall is looking down at me. To the extent that the shadow created by sunlight covers me entirely.
Shrink back more at that overwhelming eye level.
Male barging into my house where I was living well alone.
Resistance… as if I can do it.
“I'm entering.”
“Eh?… Y-ye…….”
The guy looked down at me for a moment, then entered the house silently.
Now nowhere to run.
The broker looked around my house slowly.
My house is an efficient studio apartment.
Nothing to examine, but the guy examined persistently even a single household utensil.
Must be insight to grasp everything including my habits, lifestyle, such things.
Thorough as expected.
Right that he is a guy superior to me.
“Do you stay here every day?”
“Ye….”
My own cozy nest. Place where no one was let in.
To let in such a terrifying guy in such a place.
H-he won't do strange things here right? Then I really can't move.
I mean, can't blow up my house right.
Problem even after blowing up.
If police or Hunters dispatch, my existence will be helplessly known to the world.
That is really life abyss.
For now bending (submitting) is best.
“Why didn't you reply to the text?”
“Just… thought you couldn't find me. Then not getting involved is best.”
“Don't ignore next time.”
“Ye.”
Answered the guy's questions clearly.
Better to be honest than be caught. As much as possible not to offend him.
Fortunately didn't seem like a question with big meaning, the guy nodded indifferently and passed on.
“You tend to organize the house well.”
“Care if I see clutter.”
The broker evaluated my room.
Current room started to have a subtle warmth after body changed. Before, every object had its own sharp angle standing.
Hmm… looking back, did the past appearance pursuing perfection blur a little.
Feeling of room becoming softer.
Whether because body became like this. Whether because life became thrilling.
Don't know what influenced more, but at this point cannot deny.
Me, changing little by little.
Originally was more thorough.
Became weak.
Actually became weak too.
But knowing weakness is also strength.
If the guy doesn't do anything to me right away, better to bend as a weakling.
“Now… what do you intend to do with me?”
Carefully sounded out the guy.
Just in case, stuck close to the room entrance to prepare for an unknown future. Know it's useless, but this side felt quite relieved.
Because you never know how things will change suddenly right?
Clearly there must be a purpose for visiting me.
“Didn't come to do anything to you. No need to be so wary.”
“……….”
Stare-
Can't believe at all though.
Then shouldn't have come.
Did he read such eyes of mine, the guy moved with a faint sigh.
“……Sit.”
Flump.
The guy sat on my bed unauthorized.
As I stood awkwardly, the guy patted the bed as if telling me to sit next to him.
Barging into a girl's room unauthorized, sitting on the bed and gesturing to come….
This is okay right?
Of course, must be okay.
He's impotent.
If he had black intentions, would have captured me that day and filled his desire.
Flump~
Sat on the bed.
Keeping a distance from the guy slightly.
But the guy didn't seem to care much, only glanced at me.
Like that, Silence Time again.
Just examined each other without words.
Know he is a type with few words, but what is he thinking so much.
Can't do like this because it's uncomfortable.
Asked the business first.
“Really why did you come here?”
The broker spoke without much agony.
As if asking what obvious thing I'm asking.
“Came to hear the name. Didn't I say several times?”
Right, heard several times.
Just never believed once.
Naturally there would be another business right. Where in the world is a guy who comes visiting like this just to hear a name?
But… why such a serious expression. Sounded him out once again.
“Surely didn't come only to hear the name.”
“Hearing your name is the goal.”
“……….”
That damn name.
Really asking persistently.
No choice.
Doesn't seem like he'll move on to the real business if I don't tell the name.
Name must have been a sub-goal too.
“What is the name?”
Look at that, keeps rushing.
But feeling different from when receiving by text.
Just one word, but the thick voice and appearance like a seasoned mercenary create a sense of intimidation, feeling like I must speak.
Enough to shrink back for no reason.
This guy. Real Alpha Male huh.
But impotent….
Might be a little pitiful.
Anyway can't avoid now.
No choice but to answer obediently.
“Han Ga-yul.”
Thought of it from long ago.
If I live as this body continuously in the future, will need a suitable name.
Just didn't have occasion to use it.
So the name made.
Limit (Han - 限界). Price (Ga - 代價). Efficiency (Yul - 效率).
Taking one character each, Han Ga-yul (限價率).
Since the moment needing a name came, from now on this body's name is Han Ga-yul.
Rather than having a big meaning, a list of favorite words.
Therefore a name fleetingly suitable for me.
“I am Han Ga-yul. Call me that.”
Honestly thought I wouldn't need a name, but eventually, human relationships were unavoidable.
How much will this name be called in the future.
That.
Will be good. Will be bad.
Cannot conclude for now.
Because don't know if the person calling this name will be a good person or a bad person.
But for me it will be mostly the latter.
Isn't it obvious because of the curse.
Just looking at now it's so.
Tsk.
Life is painful.