I wandered between the people and attempted to exchange beads. People tend to save their beads. They felt like their bead was better, like thinking the lottery they bought or the racehorse they picked will win, the stock they purchased will rise, the premium apartment they got is the best. This was especially true for things you risk your life for. So exchanging it was not easy.
The sixth person I attempted to ask for an exchange of beads was a man with eyeglasses. He said that his name is Su-Myeong Seo and he worked in a large company.
“Do you see the black line here? Isn’t it mysterious? ”
Seo Su-Myung’s bead was blue like the sea of the East Sea, but thankfully he was interested in my bead.
“Would you like to exchange?”
I laughed brightly and mimicked the tone of a real estate agent who sells an apartment. The man distanced himself from me like
I was a beggar.
Seo Su-Myung poked my bead with his finger. He seemed to like it. Now it’s done.
But then the mafia boss interrupted our deal.
“That’s the same thing that kid ate before.”
The leader of the Pyeongtaek Dongtaek family is said to be an organization known in Seoul as well. You can tell by interfering with my work.
Su-Myung Seo took off the gold-rimmed glasses and shot me.
“Really?”
The mafia boss intervened before I answered.
“I looked closely at it. It’s the same thing. ”
Seo Soo-min criticized me.
“It doesn’t work.”
“Even if it doesn’t work for me, it can work for others.”
Gang Dong-Taek, the mafia boss, intervened again.
“You almost died from eating this and getting sick.”
“That’s because I don’t fit with me, and the uncle with glasses will be fine.”
Seo Su-Myeong told me not to call him uncle with glasses, instead call him a manager.
“I don’t think you’re 40 yet, but you ‘re a manager.”
He didn’t accept the deal. I shrugged and looked for someone else. Kang Dong-Taek followed, he couldn’t exchange it until the sun fell. Instead, my face was widened, so I knew my name and what I was doing before I came here.
Dong Taekpa’s brother, Park Tae-Sik, spit through the front teeth.
“Hand it over to my brother.”
I gave a piece of advice in an earnest tone.
“Hey, this is an entirely different world. It’s a dangerous place where you never know when to die. You may not be able to return home, but there is no reason to be loyal to Dong Taek. ”
He was not shaken.
“There is a high chance that being under your brother will not help you survive. We must work together to overcome the crisis. ”
The tiger tattoo on the forearm shook.
“You have to eat marbles to survive here. But Dong-Taek took the beads. He also took away yours?”
This time I jumped for a moment.
“He didn’t take it all.”
“Not all?”
“Half…”
He opened his eyes instead of talking.
“What’s this guy telling you? “
I’d rather throw it away. I didn’t want to give it to Dong Taek. I pretended to take the bead and swallowed them in my mouth.
“Hey!”
He came and grabbed my neck.
“Spit! Spit it up!
The gangster is definitely a gangster. I was scared, he almost broke my neck. At that time, if an angel had not appeared, my neck would have been broken.
Firecrackers did not burst like before. The angel appeared quietly hit the floor with a trident, and caught my eye.
Park Tae-Sik, surprised by his appearance, let me go.
Is this considered self-defense?
I had a strong heart and moved the dagger. I tried to thrash Park’s belly, but the side effects of the beads began.
“Ugh.”
This time, my head hurt like a cut stomach. If the previous pain is regular coffee, this pain is espresso. It seemed to poke the brain with a toothpick. I would rather break my head, bang it on the floor, hoping this pain would stop.
The skull is said to be the hardest of the bones, and it was true. My forehead did not break even though I hit it hard.
“Is he okay?”
The acne-filled lady asked me in an anxious tone. I replied, thinking I wanted to blow the pus on her cheek.
“Oh, student, oh, no.”
“I have to move now.”
I couldn’t hear it because of the terrible headache, but an angel ordered a move.
“Yes, thank you.”
I walked along with people. The young, short-haired lady approached and asked.
“It hurts a lot?”
I responded inevitably.
“Yes.”
The young girl with acne said.
“I think it ’s harrowing to make it this far.”
The young lady introduced herself.
“I am Park Min-Ji. I was summoned while preparing for the civil service exam.”
“I am Lee Ga-young. I am a job preparation student. ”
“Oh, Joon-Jun. Is it difficult? ”
We understood each other.
“Yes, it ’s hard. Isn’t it difficult for you? ”
Park Min-Ji shook her hand with a troubled face.
“I’m not that old. I’m only twenty-four. ”
“You are the same age as me. Should we go? ”
We became close friends for a moment and moved on.
“Have you ever eaten beads?”
Lee Ga-young shook her head with a dark expression.
“No. You?”
“Me also.”
Park Min-Ji chuckled me.
“I can’t eat it because I ’m scared.”
Lee Ga-young pointed to Kim Byung-woo.
“That person is fine even after eating a lot.”
The pain gradually subsided. I stretched out my shoulders and exhaled long because of the pain.
“I guess it ’s a special condition.”
“Who?”
“Me.”
I walked forward on the road where the dust was blowing.
“Brother.”
Kim Byung-woo looked back at me. It was annoying, but I smiled and ignored it.
“Have you ever eaten a black striped yellow bead?”
“None.”
“Do you know the beads you eat?”
“I do not know.”
“I ate two, but it’s not effective. It just gives me pain.”
He glanced at me, and his eyes widened.
“There must have been changes. You just didn’t feel it.”
As I crossed the plains, I saw a vacant field half the size of the school grounds, and beyond that, I saw a barrier that was about the height of an adult.
An angel flew and sat on the fence.
“Stand in the open space in ten tens.”
We did what we had to do. The thugs gathered together and stood in a bad posture. Dong-Taek Lee’s acting captain, Jeong Ho-Beon, pointed out.
“Why?”
The angel replied in a decent attitude.
“I have to know how many of you survived.”
Unlike the devil-like appearance, he is surprisingly kind and tender inside. Except when a person dies.
The angel stood on a wooden fence and counted.
“352 people. I didn’t expect
this.”
“How many people have you summoned?” I asked.
“Thousands.”
I wasn’t convinced, so I shook my head from side to side.
“Not a thousand. Aren’t there, like, eighty?
“It was right to summon a thousand people. There was only a little loss in the process. As I said before, it takes a lot of magic to summon, but if it’s not enough, put it in the middle and bang!”
The angel clasped his palms and made a loud noise with his mouth.
“A tragedy happens. You were lucky. ”