Chapter 73
Chapter 73
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 73
Chapter Title: Tail, Hero of the Human Village
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“Quantum proposed a collaboration?”
“That’s right.”
Sizzle!
The mouthwatering sound! Juices bursting out!
A heavenly aroma began filling the rooftop room, so intoxicating it made you wonder if the world itself had glitched.
“Quantum… That’s the place I worked at for a few months back in the day. I made them a visitor management program.”
“Really? First I’m hearing about it…”
Crunch!
Hayoung furrowed her brow at Jina’s habitual munching on Dart’s horn.
Ugh, the smell’s wafting all the way over here.
“Hey. Don’t eat that near the table. It stinks.”
“No… it’s medicine. Medicine. Bear with me~ I’m not eating it because I want to. Anyway, Saebyeok, what did Quantum propose?”
“Changing the subject…”
Poke, poke. I stuck a few temperature-check pins into the thick dragon tail meat and answered Jina’s question.
“They want to build a few attractions inside the gate.”
“Attractions? Like… roller coasters?”
“Exactly. Tailored to the Molrangmol concept, and we’d split the profits.”
“But still, seems unnecessary. Wonder if it’ll make much money.”
Assuming visitors come as expected, the revenue itself wouldn’t be bad.
But it’d likely fall short compared to the gates they operate.
“It’s not just the revenue—they want to talk about ongoing partnerships too.”
“Oh… They want monster support for their own gates… something like that?”
“Yeah.”
On the big picture, it’s similar to Baekya.
Baekya partnered with me under the pretext of Molrangtori packaging too.
That catapulted Baekya into the dark horse of the merch market.
Started with the holy trinity of keychains, bags, and cushions, and now it’s up to seven items.
Especially clever how they add slight variations in color and design to stoke collector urges. Pretty kickass if you ask me.
Truly terrifying drive.
Plus, the unintended marketing from the slime show, mini golem rescue ops, and now dragon rider stuff proved super effective.
‘The real green light is how insanely popular it is with the 0-20 crowd.’
Thanks to recent trends.
Call it a preference for big families in polite terms.
Or in cruder ones, the awakener kid lottery craze in this era.
Average awakener age was in the 20s, sure, but even one could feed a whole family.
D-rank hunters scraping by on rice duty were the issue; pour real effort into hunter skills or pivot elsewhere, and you’d rake it in nicely.
‘Pulling 3-4 million a month just rice-hauling was basically winning the lotto to begin with.’
Awakeners and guilds paid insane taxes too, so more kids meant more welfare perks.
Bottom line: in today’s world, the 0-20 demographic dominated the population pyramid.
Molrangmol merch had laid the foundation to devour the market!
Locked in that fixed concrete layer for sure.
Overseas reactions were trickling in too, so the future looked even brighter.
‘Royalties are already juicy now—what’ll it be later?’
Ding!
[Baekya: Molrangmol merch sales settlement for this week.]
*Molrang Keychains (13 types total): 9,000 (online) + 1,000 (offline)
-7,000 won each. Total 10,000 sold out.
*Molrangmol Bag: 400 (online) + 100 (offline)
-55,000 won each. Total 500 sold.
*Molrang Cushions (5 types total): 2,000 (online) + 500 (offline)
-30,000 won each. Total 2,500 sold out.
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*Mini Golem Figures (3 types total / small): 2,000 (online) + 500 (offline)
-5,000 won each. Total 2,500 sold out
*Total Sales
-Molrang Keychains: 70,000,000 won
-Molrangmol Bag: 27,500,000 won
-Molrang Cushions: 75,000,000 won
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-Mini Golem Figures: 12,500,000 won
[Baekya: Transferred 96,220,000 won at the contracted 34% rate. Please confirm.]
Whoa! Just chilling nets me 100 million a week!
Pure take-home after all deductions too.
“Heh heh…”
Couldn’t help but grin ear to ear.
“Saebyeok, isn’t the meat burning? And why’d you stick those pins in?”
“It’s fine. Takes forever to cook through. And the pins…”
Pluck! I pulled one out and touched it to my lips. Still cold. Fitting for a dragon known to lay eggs in lava zones.
“Pfft… You’ve seen that somewhere, huh.”
“Do it one more time, Saebyeok. I wanna record it.”
“…No need.”
“Saebyeok’s sulking.”
“…I’m not!”
I whipped my head away and focused on the dragon tail sizzling in the pan.
A man like me wouldn’t get upset over a few words. Just no real need to film it.
‘Everyone in the world will be filming me soon enough anyway.’
Whoosh!
Heat was a tad low, so I fired up the torch to sear the top.
No real need to go this far, honestly.
‘All part of the performance prep.’
The pins earlier, this torch now—all practice. Live show, I’d use a different monster instead of the torch.
Come to think of it, venue secured? Christmas might complicate things.
“Seolbaek, hold the torch for a sec?”
Whirr!
Handed it to Seolbaek in mini form and messaged Juhaneul.
Tap tap!
[WantToRaiseDragon: Venue booked, right?]
[Baekya: Yes. Snagged a nice plaza.]
[WantToRaiseDragon: Good good]
[Baekya: You’ll come in person then?]
[WantToRaiseDragon: Tough ㅎㅎ]
[Baekya: Huh…? Then how’ll you control the monsters…]
[WantToRaiseDragon: Remotely. No worries.]
[Baekya: Just Saebyeok again?
[Baekya: ㅠㅠ Can’t you come once?]
[WantToRaiseDragon: ㅎㅎ]
Perfect. Venue’s set. All that’s left is polishing the performance.
“Hup!”
Swoosh! Thud!
“Hot hot…!”
Flipping’s seriously hard. Meat’s way too heavy. Thought my wrist’d snap.
“But is dragon meat tasty? Smells good, at least.”
“Gotta be, or it wouldn’t sell for top dollar.”
“What’s it taste like?”
“Uh… Saebyeok, what’d you say it was?”
“Texture melts like beef first off. Then pork’s clean savoriness plus chicken thigh richness… Basically the best of all meats combined.”
“…Pricey for a reason.”
Dragon tail prices were set by Sinwol Guild’s restaurant.
Only place in Korea handling dragon meat.
Graded by dragon rank; A to A+ like Mir ran a cool million per kg easy.
Not daily fare either—only when stock came in. Rare stuff.
Even factoring that, not outrageously priced. Premium hanwoo hit hundreds of thousands per kg too.
Reason being…
‘Tail’s secretly the low-value cut.’
Second least valuable after claws for dragons. Good only for eating.
Supply wasn’t super limited either.
Juhaneul said Sinwol had a gate underground with a dragon nest.
They hunted just enough to maintain stock.
Now I felt bad for Sinwol.
‘Gonna flood the market.’
Rarity’d tank hard.
I’d price slightly under them too. More bait for Molrang Park visits.
From now on, I’d rule the dragon tail market!
Sizzle!
“Saebyeok? Not burning…? Looks a bit charred.”
“It’s good. Gotta char the outside to cook the inside… Oh no!”
Oops, mistake.
**
[Molrangtori: Trapped Inside for 30 Days Review.Factos][Author: WantToRaiseDragon]
Title’s clickbait, FYI.
Here to promo a bit. Y’all have fun without me?
Why do I get 7-day bans just for commenting…
For real, wanna confiscate Molrangtori from the admins?
Keep it up, and I’ll ban Molrangmol?
Anyway. Gonna promo before the inevitable ban.
No plans for Christmas, right?
Instead of chilling through it…
Molrangmol’s throwing a fun Christmas show!!!
Come enjoy, yeah?
Date: 12.25
Venue: Gwanghwamun Square, Seoul
Show Details: Revealed on the day
<Guests>
Han Saebyeok (Molrangmol Exclusive Model)
???: Revealed on the day
That was Molrangmol, top S-rank hunter-holding company ever.
-So you’re the S-rank? Drakiwant?
ㄴDrakiwant did D-rank cert ages ago
ㄴ??????? Lies nooo
ㄴWhat is this crap lol
-“Chilling through Christmas” bitch plz
ㄴㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴReal hit on “chilling” bros ㄷㄷ
ㄴCall “chilling” guys hunters plz
-Kittteeee Saebyeok’s hereeee
ㄴFr so adorbs lol
ㄴSaw her at cafe few days back unreal
-Xmas plans? Lol
ㄴNah def have some lol
-Ban this dude plz
-Threatening admins is peak Drakiwant
ㄴDrakiwant grown so much
ㄴHwayeon scrambling, admins watching nervously blah blah
-Molrangtori as oil drum fact?
ㄴ(Author): ????????????? Can’t hold live stuff;
ㄴLol yeah
**
Five days till Gwanghwamun show.
Dragon claw candies already getting food certs via Baekya.
Mastered dragon tail grilling with Mir’s.
So now, just…
“Hraaah!”
Summon a new dragon for tail supply.
Like making Titan molt, this dragon—no, Yongyong—would get summoned tail-ready.
Of course, that’d make it a true disgrace to dragonkind. Might even downgrade its title to lizard.
But in exchange, it’d rise as hero of our human village.
The world’s warmest dragon, providing tail meat to all.
Way better than gate-born dragons hunting monsters to survive.
Just toss a tail, chow down on goodies, frolic with monster pals—happier life, right?
I’d spoil it rotten anyway.
“Come forth…!”
Hope it summons just as I intend.