Chapter 56 – Chapter 56-Masquerade (7)

“Cha..Participant, so..”

I was sweating in front of me and the staff didn’t know what to do.

“No?! Can this be done to the participant who helped?”

I couldn’t help the employee’s confusion, but I shouted even more, accelerating the employee’s confusion.

“That… That’s it, contestant…”

The staff member closed her eyes and told me.

“I’m really sorry, but the situation is the situation… I’m really sorry for making you suspicious.”

Now let’s explain the situation like this.

After diligently helping the guards subdue the strange fish people in the black market, I joined the other participants who survived without doing anything in the distance, waiting for the items won at the auction to settle the situation.

The casino side apologized to the participants for this confusing situation and made it as convenient as possible by compensating for the damaged items in various ways.

Of course, I promised to give a lot of rewards along with hospitality to me who subdued the fish man with the guards.

But the problem was in the middle.

The casino began to suspect me after realizing that the stone, which had risen to about 93 billion, had disappeared thanks to the sudden intrusion of fish people.

Yes, the white worm protruding from the gills of the fish man bit the host’s wrist and took the stone, and I was the one who tore off the last white worm.

A situation that no one can see clearly has no choice but to doubt me.

In fact, I actually took it too… Well, since this stone is related to the fish people, I took it to protect the world as a player.

It means that I never took the stone out of my pure greed. Cancer!

However, the casino side, who did not know my sincerity, called me separately and began to scan my body thoroughly, asking for my understanding, and eventually came to the current situation.

“No, you didn’t come out. Yes? But you’re saying this again?”

I scanned my body a little while ago, but there were no traces, and the staff member closed his eyes tightly as if he had made up his mind while sweating at my words of protest filled with an unfair tone.

“Maybe… Can I try a subspace test?”

Within this world, they say subspace.

Inventory is a term familiar to me.

And if you awaken as a person with abilities in this world, whether you are a shooter or a person with abilities, you will have your own subspace without exception.

“Are you kidding me?”

“If you really check this once, we won’t ask any more questions.”

“No, it’s not that I’m asking questions… It’s not over because there’s nothing more to ask if you look into this in the first place.”

“I’m really sorry… But we’re in a hurry too, so don’t be afraid, but just once… Just once.”

“Huh.. Indeed.”

I clicked my tongue and looked at the staff who blocked me tightly.

I can’t see any sign of backing down.

Well, since they couldn’t find it even after considering and looking for all the factors around them, they must have judged that there was no other possibility ‘other than me’.

“You know you’re asking me for a very rude favor right now, right?”

“I’m really sorry. We will prepare a case for that on our side later.”

“Tsk.”

The fact that subspace is shown is a very sensitive matter that can invade the privacy of the talented person.

For example, how embarrassing it would be to be caught putting various adult magazines and adult products that are one’s taste in the subspace.

“Now look.”

I opened my inventory and showed it in front of the staff.

An act so bold that one would not think of it as someone who stole a very proud stone.

“Uh… Uhm…”

The staff stared at the subspace I had opened.

In my subspace, there were only iron swords and Levitains neatly arranged.

“All right?”

I pretended to be very displeased and closed the subspace.

“Sorry, contestants!”

Nod

The staff bowed to me and sincerely apologized.

“It’s okay. Please take care of the reward later.”

I walked away from the employee with a face still full of displeasure.

And when I got a certain distance from the staff, an evil smile appeared on my lips.

‘There’s no way they’ll get caught.’

No matter what they do, these casino workers can’t find my lovely or bizarre pebble.

Because the stone isn’t already ‘here’.

Perhaps by now the pebbles are floating in the air outside the casino.

Right in the hands of my lovely fellow angel.

I didn’t know if this would happen, so I sneaked open the window and called an angel to move the stone in advance.

“Clap.”

I thought with a satisfied smile.

There is a lot to be gained from this masquerade.

* *

After the masquerade, I arrived home with a tired body.

The women who continued the heated discussion until late at night welcomed me.

Aris and the vice president looked excited for some reason, and Cheonghwa had both cheeks blushing.

When our gazes accidentally met with Cheonghwa, Cheonghwa avoided her gaze by saying, “Father.”

Entering the house, I smiled and looked around at the women’s team, then listed the items I had obtained at the masquerade ball with the same mindset as a father who bought chicken on the way home from work.

“Kyaaaaagh!”

The items selected with the eyes of the deceased were distributed to the female crew, and Aris and Cheonghwa, who received the items, let out screams of joy.

The vice president also thanked me and shook her head with a blunt expression, expressing her gratitude to me.

Looking at the delighted women, I added the prices of the items with high spirits, saying ‘This is 1 billion won’ and ‘This is 3 billion won’.

Aris and Cheonghwa were so embarrassed that they lost the items they were holding, and the vice president was not too surprised by such an enormous amount as he lives with the president.

“Joe Joon-ah, is it okay to take this?”

“Is this the price of a house?!”

Looking at Aris and Cheonghwa, who caused a panic, I realized that it was right to go to the masquerade with the president.

If Aris and I and Cheonghwa had gone to the masquerade, we would both have been overwhelmed by the sumptuous spectacle and would have been delayed for quite some time.

“The chairman buys it. Everyone says thank you.”

“Kyaaak! Unnie, I love you!”

“Chairman…! Can I really take this?”

The president always had the same benevolent smile and said, “Yes, it’s nothing special,” Showing a model of a capable woman.

After distributing items like that, we had a friendly conversation, and we decided to part ways, regretting that it was late.

President Aris and Vice President greeted me sequentially and went out the door, and Chung-hwa, who left the door last, glanced at me with blushing cheeks, wondering what she was thinking.

When I smiled and waved goodbye, Chung-hwa hurried out the door with a stabbed expression on her face, and I was alone.

“Ouch!”

I relaxed and looked at the clock.

Half past five.

“Oh, it’s really late.”

It’s a masquerade that ends very late, but because of the incident that happened as a fish man, he returned even later.

Pop!

As always, at the right timing, an angel appeared next to me.

“Player!”

“Come on! Angel, well done!”

Today, I reached out my hand to the main angel who stole a stone worth 93 billion won.

Match!

Pleasant applause came out and filled the space between the angels.

“Oh right. Angel, but what the hell is the fish-man that appeared today?”

As soon as I came up with the stone, a fish-man came to mind and asked the angel.

“Ah… That’s it? That’s why I came here.”

The angel sighed and tousled her blond hair.

“How am I supposed to explain this…”

“Slow down and tell me.”

As the angel narrowed his scarlet eyes and pondered, I took off my clothes, changed into pajamas, and lay down on the bed.

“Oh, this is a real comfort.”

I liked the expensive cozy chairs unique to casinos, but above all, the bed at home is the best.

As I stretched out on the bed, an angel approached me.

“Player.”

“Come on, I’m done with my thoughts.”

“Yes. Player, so do you remember talking to Moobaek the other day?”

“Oh, of course not.”

It’s weird if you can’t remember.

Mubaek has a pale impression with scattered white hair and thick dark circles.

I still vividly remember what the crazy bastard said.

“Among things Mubaek said at that time, Player said that there is a price to pay for coming to this world.”

“Right.”

The white scales compared to white scales naturally came to mind.

“In fact, it was a bunch of penalties that were attached to a very difficult condition that I didn’t have to pay for, but that mubaek bastard forcibly brought it.”

“You fucking bastard.”

I remembered the face of the guy who pretended to be there and said, ‘Then what’s the price?’

“Even if I talk in detail, at this point, there is nothing helpful for the player, and it only has a bad effect for no reason, so to put it in a nutshell, the cost is an external virus.”

“Yes?”

In response to my question, the angel calmly continued to explain.

“And the virus attaches to and influences this world, and the goal is to color this world with their virus.”

“So, are those fish people like that today?”

“Yeah.”

For some reason, there was a reason I didn’t know about, even though it was a devil with such a terrible look.

Fish people were probably ‘viruses’, not ‘devils’ who existed in this world from the beginning, as the angel said, so I had no choice but to know.

“So, Player, you have to be careful in the future.”

The angel’s amber eyes stared at me.

The two eyes of the angel who worried about me and advised me were fixed firmly without trembling.

“The viruses that have crossed over are really scary viruses that have existed for a long time.”

Whoa.

I sighed inwardly and recalled the appearance of Cheonghwa before.

The blue flower at that time, which burned everything with seven black horns, gave me despair.

And what put an end to that despair was ‘TRP’, an alien existence that seemed impossible to catch up with.

Seeing the two of them, I was surrounded by the question, ‘Can I really save this world?

But…

“It’s an angel.”

“Yes, Player.”

“Can I really save the world?”

“Yes, Player. No matter how strong the virus is, the player I’ve seen is the best player. I’m sure…”

The unshakable eyes of the angel captured me completely.

“If you go to the end, I believe that you will surely be able to get through somehow.”

“I see.”

Yes, there are angels who completely believe in me even if I don’t believe in them.

“If you do, that’s what it is.”

An angel who once saved my life.

If he is, that’s what it would be like.

“Yes, Player. Even if it’s difficult, I’ll help you out somehow!”

I smiled and crept into the bed at the sight of him wrapping my two little hands tightly.

“Yes, I sleep.”

“Yes! Player! Good night!”

The angel whimpered and pulled the blanket up to my neck.

“I’m sleeping late today, so wake me up at around 2pm tomorrow. Lights out!”

“Yes! I will turn off the lights!”

Widely.

With the voice of a cute angel, the lights went off and darkness fell, and I immediately fell into soma.