Seoul Station’s Necromancer Chapter 42:

<Chapter 42 – Hot Issue(2) >

“Ooh ooh .  Why can’t we see each other tomorrow at school?  Why does she always call me out when the weather is cold . ”

The weather was getting cold .  Jaemin quickly walked in haste as he adjusted his clothing .  Jaemin looked into the distance when he saw a woman sitting on a swing inside a small playground .
Her figure was lit by the streetlight, and he was sure it was Lee-soolgi .

“Hey . We’ll be able to see each other tomorrow at school . Why did you come here? It’s dangerous . ”

“Yo . Jaemin is now worried about me?”

“Uh uh? Of course . It’s really dark here, so it’s dangerous for you . ”

“Heh heh . The study bug Jaemin is now worry about this noonah . I guess it was worthwhile to come here?”

Soolgi’s bright smile and her words made Jaemin’s heart pound . She was already pretty in her school uniform, but she was pretty in a different way in her casual clothes .

“Ha . Do you have something to say to me?”

“What’s the rush? Sit here . ”

At Soolgi’s words, Jaemin sat next to her as he grumbled . Soolgi kicked the ground without saying anything . Her movement caused the swing to sway .

Jaemin didn’t press her for an answer . He just waited for her . Today Soolgi was in some undecipherable mood . What did she want to say to him in such a serious manner… .

“Hey, Jaemin . ”

“Yeah . ”

“I was chosen by the SW agency as a trainee . ”

“What?”

Jaemin was surprised . If it’s the SW agency, it was a really big entertainment management company . And if she was chosen as a trainee… With Soolgi’s face, she wouldn’t have any problem debuting as an entertainer .

“Ee…ee-yah . Congratulation! Didn’t I tell you in the past you will become a entertainer? C…congratulations . . ”

“…… . ”

Soolgi didn’t show any signs of being happy at Jaemin’s congratuations .

“Don’t you have anything else to say except congratulations??”

“S…say what?”

Jaemin’s heart trembled . Ah . Why was it shaking so much? Is it because she looks sad today? Soolgi would usually smile brightly towards him .

His heart pounded . His imagination ran wild, and it made it feel like he had stopped breathing .

“Don’t you have anything to say to me? This might be your last chance . ”

“Haha . You have to become a great entertainer . ”

Soolgi’s face was filled with disappointment . Her moist eyes turned damp . When Jaemin saw this it felt like he had committed  a sin .

You stupid idiot . You made Soolgi sad . All kinds of guilt started to wash over him . However, he couldn’t take back the words .

“Idiot… Even until the end…”

Soolgi mumbled in a small voice .
He couldn’t hear what she said at the end .

He was handsome and smart . He didn’t play around like the other kids, and he didn’t chase after the skirts of girls .

She really liked him… In her heart, she had always wished Jaemin would reciprocate her feelings . It seemed she was the only one wishing for such results .

Soolgi stood up from the swing . She rubbed her eyes as she wiped away her tears, then she stood in front of Jaemin .

“Hey . S…Soogi . ”

It felt like Jaemin’s heart was about to stop . It felt like the inside of his head was empty .
Soolgi tried her best to smile .

“When this noonah becomes famous, you are going to regret it . ”

“Uh uh?”

“There will be a day when you will hit the ground in regret . ”

“…… . ”

She was so pretty . Just by looking at her eyes, his heart shook . He would most definitely regret it . No, he was already regretting it right now .
What should he say? Would it be possible to turn back the time?

His head was filled with complicated thoughts . However, the complicated thoughts flew away in a moment .

Choop .

Suddenly, Soolgi bent over then her lips met Jaemin’s lips .

Hoo-oop . He stopped breathing .
A bat was continuously hitting Jaemin’s heart .
It felt like time had stopped .

Soolgi’s closed her eyes, and her face was right in front of his nose . Her long eyelashes trembled .  Does that mean she is sad?

“Hoo-oop . ”

As if she was surprised by what she did, Soolgi pulled back with a red face .  Jaemin’s face also turned red, and he didn’t know what to do .
What should he say? No thoughts came to his mind . Soolgi saw his flustered figure, and she laughed . ‘Poot . ’

“When I become famous, you better not bully me on the internet . ”

“Uh? Haha . No way . ”

Retard! Is that the only kind of answer he could give? He was about to lose his mind . Soolgi waved her hand .

“Noonah is going . I’ll see you tomorrow at school . ”

“Ooh-oong . See you . ”

Ah, he berated himself for being a **** . See you . He said see you… .
His excited heart cooled down . His heart was talking to him . It said this is the end… This is the end .

Catch her . Catch her .

In the end, his body didn’t react to the voice inside heart .

*

[Yuhbo . I have something to say . ]

[What is it?]

[Ddi-ri, Dda-rara, Ddararara… . ]

“Ah-oh! How can it end there?”

The drama he was watching with much interest ended, and a commercial for a cafe started running . This meant he had to wait until tomorrow to see it again .

He cleared his palate of regret when the front door opened .

Ddi, ddi, ddi . Ddi-ro-ri .

“Hey . You came back? Your noonah’s hand phone num…”

“Ooh-uhhhhhhng . ”

What…what the hell?

Jaemin came in crying, and he didn’t even have the presence of mind to wipe away his tears . Woojin was taken aback .

“J…Jaemin?”

“Ooh-uhhhhhng . ”

Jaemin imedately went into the restroom . He came out after he washed his face . He started wiping the water off, and he looked more pitifuil like this . Soon tears started to fall once again like waterfalls from his red eyes .

“Ooh-uhhhhng . Soolgi . ”

“Hey . What’s going on?”

Woojin wasn’t sure if his words had been heard by Jaemin .  Jaemin fell on to his bed, then he buried his face in to the pillow .

“Ooh-uhk, ooh-uhhhng . ”

“W…what happened??”

“Ooo-ung, hy-ooh-ung, you shoooung, leave, ooh-uuhhng, alone . Hoo-uh” (TLN:hyung should leave me alone)

“Uh, uh-whew . All right . ”

He didn’t know what Jaemin experienced outside, but it wasn’t a situation where he could ask for Jiwon’s phone number .

“Oooh-uhhhhng . ”

Jaemin sobbed his heart out .
Regret and remorse . Sadness and fear .

Now he wouldn’t even be able to dare to look up at Soolgi . She will probably be up too high for him .
Yes . How could he grab on to her ankles?

Good bye, Soolgi .

“Ooh-uhhhhhhng . ”

He didn’t’ know it when she was next to him . However, he knew it now that she was going to leave .
Jaemin found love late into his 3rd year of high school, and he cried endlessly .

*

“Uh-ooh . My dream was quite fierce . ”

He had a nightmare every night, but today’s nightmare was a bit worse than the usual ones . He dreamed of being chased by Jaemin, who wouldn’t stop crying .

Jaemin had already left for school, so Woojin half-heartedly washed himself before he left the house .

“I didn’t get Jiwon’s number . ”

He wasn’t in a hurry to get it . Woojin headed towards the address given by Haemin yesterday . It was a somewhat large building near the intersection .

“It’s the 5th floor . ”

Woojin entered the building, and the construction of the interior was in process .
Haemin found Woojin looking around with a blank expression on his face . He approached Woojin .

“Uh . You are here, president?”

“That’s right . Where is team leader Jung?”

“He went to the Management Bureau to hand in the paperwork for establishing the guild . ”

“When is he coming back?”

“He should be back by lunch . ”

“Is that so?”

“Do you want to look at the office?”

“Let’s see it . ”

Haemin guided Woojin around the office . It was originally an office space, so the purpose of the construction was to re-organize the space .

“Do you have an interior design in mind? If you tell it to me, then I can immediately change it . ”

“Eh-ee . Just put a big tv in here . ”

“Heh heh . Yes, sir . Also, please don’t be so formal with me . I am older, but aren’t you the president??”

Woojin nodded his head at Haemin’s words .

“Ok . ”

Uh?  Still, he didn’t expect Woojin to go straight to talking in an informal manner .

“Since we’ve moved, let’s have jajangmyun for lunch . ”

“…Yes . ”

It felt weird . The funny thing was Woojin was only 24 years old, but he was quite natural at using informal speech .

“I have nothing to do, so I’ll go around the Dungeon once more . . ”

“Ah . You have to mine for the Artifacts . ”

“Huh?”

“Aren’t you going to the Dungeon to mine the Artifacts?”

“Why would I do that?”

“…… . ”

Kim-haemin started to explain to Woojin about the change the Dungeon goes through after the first clear .

“The highest number of Artifacts comes out on the first raid . After it changes into a basic Dungeon, the number of Artifacts that can be found inside decreases . As one repeats the Dungeon, the probability of finding an Artifact decreases . ”

This was why a number of Artifacts had come out of this Dungeon even if the basic monsters had been summoned . He had thought something was weird .

“After the Dungeon doesn’t drop any Artifacts any more, the Dungeon is open to the public . ”

“To the Miners who excavate the bloodstones?”

“Yes . Still, the probability of an Artifact dropping isn’t zero, so it does drop occasionally . If one shows up, it is considered a jackpot . Moreover, normal items also drops continuously . ”

Woojin grinned .

“So we **** out the nectar first, then we rent out the rest to the outside party . ”

“T…that’s correct . ”

“Then I’ll be back after I go **** out the nectar . I’ll come back at lunch . . ”

“Are you going to take Mr . Sunggoo?”

“I’ll just call him on the way . ”

“Yes, sir . I’ll drive you there . ”

Kim-haemin had been an elite inside the Support division . Dungeon management, Roused management and other duties related to the support division was mastered by him . Therefore, he smoothly took care of his business .

Woojin met Sunggoo in front of the Dungeon . Before the two of them could enter, Haemin asked a question .

“Excuse me, president . Do you not excavate stuff like bloodstones?”

“It’s all in my sub-dimension . ”

Kim-haemin was surprised by Woojin’s words . He had been curious as to why Woojin didn’t bring anything out even after cleared the Dungeon twice .
He thought Woojin hadn’t gathered any loot on the first run, since Woojin had to expend a lot of effort on the first raid . The second run was done so fast, so he thought Woojin had only picked up the few important artifacts before he came out .

“What? Should I take it out?”

“N…no . ”

There were too many eyes in the surrounding . Anyways, Artifacts were private property . It didn’t matter where one sold the Artifacts . However, the bloostones had to be sold to the bloodstone exchange store run by the Management Bureau .

“Excuse me, president . Please take care of the bloodstones this time at the exchange store . There are different routes to sell it, but those options are too troublesome . ”

“All right . Let’s go, Sunggoo . ”

“Yes, hyung-nim . ”

“I’ll head back to the office after I finish this run . Don’t wait for me here . Go back to the office . I’ll be back before lunch . ”

There were only 3 hours and 30min left until 12 o’clock… .

“U…understood . ”

Woojin and Sunggoo headed towards the Dungeon, and Haemin returned to the office .

They had hired a lot of workers for the construction . The walls of the office were already clean, so only several fake walls had to be put up . The construction ended before lunch time .
When the walls were put up, the delivery men arrived in waves to deliver the furniture, and office appliances .

Jung-minchan arrived at the office around that time, and Woo-soonghoon also came to help tidy up the place . After they tidied everything up, it was already 1 o’clock .

“Whew . It looks a bit presentable now . ”

The workers were still here cleaning up the place, but everything seemed to be in place .

“Everyone worked hard . ”

“Haha . Team leader was the one who worked hard . ”

“Mr . Soonghoon endured a lot too . ”

“Ah, yes . ”

Woo-soonghoon smiled bashfully . Yesterday, he thought this was a scam, but when he searched all over the internet, he couldn’t find any evidence of this being a scam .

‘I was already having a hard time living on commissions, so it might be better to join a guild instead . ’

It didn’t seem like they had work suited for him, but he wouldn’t refuse any work assigned to him .  Soonghoon had already packed up his store, then he put his store out on the real estate market in the morning .  Then he came to this place .

‘He seemed to be a scary person last time, but it seems he has a good conscience . ’

He had beaten Soonghoon, and he also stole the expensive Crazy Red .  However, Woojin had recruited him to the guild .  When Sooghoon heard how Jung-minchan, and Kim-haemin spoke about Woojin, it seemed they were treated pretty well by him .

He might even receive a higher annual salary then when he worked at the store…

Woo-soonghoon was filled with anticipation, and he waited for Woojin to return .
Woojin and Sunggoo returned to the office at around 2 o’clock .

Sunggoo let out an exclamation when he got off the elevator .

“Ee-yah .  This is a really good office . ”

Sunggoo was surprised, and even Woojin showed some signs of being surprised .   In the morning, the office felt disorganized, but they had organized the office in a short amount of time .

The space really looked like an office .
It was a little bit too large for only 5 people to use this space .  There seemed to be a little bit of an excessive number of desks here, and it bothered Woojin a little bit .

Woojin saw the unexpected person inside the office, and he tilted his head in puzzlement .

“Why is this guy still here?”

“What?”

Woo-soonghoon had a confused expression on his face .

“I just wanted to borrow your name . ”

At Woojin’s word, Woo-soonghoon’s face drained of blood . Jung-minchan queried in surprise .

“Y . . you weren’t trying to recruit him as founding member??”

“Huh? I was just trying to fill up the required spots . ”

“Jeez . I was mistaken…”

He thought Soonghoon was close to Woojin, but it seemed that wasn’t the case . Woo-soonghoon was taken aback, so he didn’t know what to do . Woojin grinned .

“Well, we could just assign him work when needed . Anyways, let’s order some jajangmyung . I’m hungry . ”

“Yes . I know of a delicious restaurant nearby . ”

Kim-haemin quickly picked up on Woojin’s wishes, and he ordered the food . While Haemin was ordering the food, the topic of Woojin’s sub-dimension came up .

“D . . does that mean you stored all of your loot in the sub-dimension??”

“Yeah . I’ll take it out after I eat . ”

Everyone except Sunggoo was filled with excitement at what Woojin said . It was the job of the Support division to sell the Artifacts, and items at a good price .

“It’s a little bit small over here . What’s that over there?”

Woojin pointed towards a door .

“That is the president’s room . The room next to it is the storage room . ”

The office was so large that there were empty spaces left even after dividing the space . Woojin nodded his head after looking around . He needed a lot of room and this space was of an adequate size .

“Well, I’ll take it out now . ”

Wooin opened his inventory, and he started pouring out all the loot he had stored up . He had over 300 Naga armor, and he also stacked up the spears the Naga used .

Everyone’s mouth fell open at the surprising amount of items . However, the finger-length Artifact was what made everyone really surprised .

“T…this is!”

Minchan held the artifact in surprise . This was considered to be one of the highest ranked Artifacts . It was something he had only seen in the Hammer Guild only several times . It was a super high priced item .