NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 42 - Transcendent Store (3)
“Hmm?”
It was only then that Seo-joon came to his senses at the sudden shout.
Then he slowly turned his head at the unfamiliar voice.
Then, what came into Seo-joon's field of vision was long red-brown hair...
‘A high school student?'
was a high school student
The image of a young high school girl who wondered if she had just become an adult.
“Uh how...”
The problem was that the high school girl was looking at Seo-joon with her eyes wide open for some reason.
Seo-joon asked with his head tilting involuntarily.
“Who are you...?”
“you! Where the hell did you get that!”
However, Seo-joon was speechless at her act of making a face without hesitation.
Seo-joon was a little taken aback and pulled his body back.
“Oh no. Suddenly, what does that mean...”
“Where did you get that!”
But she didn't care and tried to bring her body closer.
Seo-joon kept stepping back, but it was just repeating the same thing.
At this point, Seo-joon went beyond embarrassment and started to get angry.
“So what the hell… But why are you always talking nonsense?”
“If it’s unfair, you can do it too.”
“what?”
At her bold words, Seo-joon lost his senses for a moment.
It was also because the woman in front of him looked nothing but a high school girl.
No matter how much you hit it, you should be in your early 20s.
Of course, one cannot judge one's age based on appearance alone.
However, apart from that, it was not polite to speak plainly when you first met, no matter how old you were.
That's when Seojun was about to say something.
“sister! If you do that all the time, Seojun-ssi will be surprised!”
Suddenly, Seoyoon came and separated Jimin from clinging to Seojun.
“Leave this! I need to know where that came from!”
“sister!”
Then the two bicker.
Seo-joon watched the scene with absurd eyes.
Wait a minute, you're my sister?
Seo-joon looked at the two bickering once more over an unknown question.
After a while, Seoyoon, who had calmed down Jimin, approached Seojun.
“sorry. You were very surprised. My older sister isn’t like that, but when she has questions, she has a personality that doesn’t show anything.”
“Who are you?”
“That's...”
Seoyoon continued with a shy smile.
“I’m Jimin unnie.”
“Jimin sister?”
“The demonic disciple I mentioned earlier.”
“...yes?”
Seojun slowly turned his head to look at Jimin, who was far away.
The image of Jimin muttering something with a pouty face as to what he is so dissatisfied with.
No matter how she looked at it, she looked nothing but a sulky high school girl.
“Are you kidding?”
“It is real.”
“But why do you look like that? As far as I know, he is in his 40s. Most of all, when I saw it on the Internet...”
Seo-joon couldn't say anything, but Seo-yoon nodded as if he understood everything and replied.
“You change your appearance on a regular basis. To be precise, it is to maintain the image of oneself as a child.”
“Is that possible?”
“Because it’s not a polymorph that completely changes shape. I just casted image memorization based on the memories imprinted on my body.”
Then, the answer came from a place other than Seoyoon.
It was none other than Jimin's answer.
“Of course, that doesn't mean it's easy.”
Contrary to what he said, however, Jimin's expression was insignificant.
Then Jimin pointed at Seojun with his finger and shouted.
“More than you! Where the hell did you get that subspace pouch!”
subspace pockets?
“Are you talking about this kibisis?”
Seojun tilted his head and lifted the kibisis.
Then Jimin turned on the light in his eyes and ran towards Seojun.
Then, like an archaeologist who has discovered historical sources, he began to carefully examine Kibisis.
“How is this possible? If this happens, the circuit will be twisted and space distortion will occur?”
Then, Jimin starts to spit out an incomprehensible sound.
Seo-jun turned his head and asked Seo-yoon.
“Did Seoyoon see something?”
“no. If I hadn't seen Seojun-ssi use it, I wouldn't have known it was a subspace pouch. But is that really that great?”
“It's great, but... Actually, I don't know the details.”
“It's not great, it's great! no! That's crazy!”
Jimin shouted loudly at Seojun and Seoyoon, as if how could they not know this.
“In this tiny pouch, there are as many as four magic circuits operating at the same time! If it's a shameless magic, I won't tell you! Space expansion, weight reduction, image memorization, and the last thing... My God! Magic I can't even interpret? How is this possible? First of all, what the hell is this bag made of so it can withstand 4 magic power circuits? Besides, this place...”
And Seo-joon listened only to this point and closed his ears.
I couldn't understand what he was saying, and it wasn't something that was of particular interest to Seo-joon.
However, it seems that it is not so from the point of view of the sorcerer.
Jimin was raving about kibisis like a scientist who discovered a substance that exceeded the speed of light.
Watching that scene, I became a little curious about how the swordsman would react if he showed the spear of Longinus to the blacksmith of the workshop he used to use.
Jimin's passionate speech continued for a long time and finally came to an end.
And the lengthy passionate speech could be summarized as follows.
“this! sell it to me! I will live!”
“Uh... that's a bit difficult.”
Seo-joon shook his head with a puzzled expression, and Jimin immediately added his words.
“Don't worry about the price. 50 billion? 60 billion? No, I’ll give you 100 billion!”
yes?
Not only Seo-jun but also Seo-yoon looked surprised at Jimin's unconventional proposal.
No matter how demonic the disciple was, it wasn't 10 billion, but 100 billion was overba.
“What sister?”
“Aren’t you shouting too much?”
“Ah... Of course, I'm not buying it with my own money, and I'm not saying I'm giving it to you right now. I have to get support from here and there... but I can still get enough of 100 billion. Above all, that subspace pocket is worth more than 100 billion!”
Seojun had nothing to say.
The price of a subspace pocket with a space of about 30 pyeong is a whopping 30 billion.
With Kibisys, 100 billion was no problem.
Above all, if someone else had said it, he would have been angry and said not to talk bullshit, but it was possible enough for Jimin.
And with 100 billion won, not only the repurchase of Kibisis, but also various individual lectures.
It was an amount that could solve Seo-joon's worries at once.
so that.
“This... is not about selling green onions...”
Seojun shook his head with great difficulty.
“yes? Oh no, why... Seo-joon said he needed money.”
“why! If it is 100 billion, I think I paid enough!”
Then Seoyoon and Jimin opened their eyes wide and shouted.
And that feeling was more desperate for Seo-joon than anyone else.
In the first place, Seo-joon had the idea of selling Kibisis even if he gave 10 billion instead of 100 billion.
“Try it.”
That is, of course, as long as you can sell it.
When Seojun handed the kibisis to Jimin, Jimin gently accepted it with trembling hands.
and.
Chijik!
“Ah!”
As soon as the kibisis touched Jimin's finger, a strong spark suddenly flew out and Jimin missed the kibisis.
Seo-jun said as he picked up the fallen kibisis again.
“As you can see, no one but me can use it.”
So Seo-joon naturally thought that Jimin would give up soon.
however.
“Is it even engraved?”
Somehow, Jimin's expression is unusual.
“Then there were 5 magic circuits instead of 4? It was an even crazier artifact!!”
Sure enough, Jimin looked at the kibisis and started to rampage even more.
Suddenly, Jimin shook his head and shouted.
“Where did you buy that? No, who did you buy it from? Just tell me that and I'll give you 1 billion!”
“......”
Seo-joon was able to accurately realize the words that he was going crazy and jumping up and down.
In my mind, I wanted to sell it right away and get 100 billion won, go to the transcendent shop and flex this and that.
However, Seo-jun swallowed back his tears and told Seo-yoon exactly what he had said.
And of course, Jimin didn't believe it right away.
However, when Seo-jun avoided talking to the end, Jimin stopped asking about it.
Compared to the reaction he showed, he unexpectedly stepped back neatly.
And seeing Jimin like that, Seojun corrected his perception of Jimin.
If he was the swordsman, he would have shown a completely different appearance.
The first impression of both was not very good, but it was also something people would know only after experiencing it.
And then Jimin's cry came.
“Then let me research that!”
“A study?”
“Okay study! Even if it's engraved, it's fine as long as I don't use it. Let me experiment with this and that! Of course I'll give you money too! Although not 100 billion.”
And Seo-joon had no choice but to hesitate this time.
‘How will this be?'
Does it matter because I own the ownership?
Seojun was lost in thought for a moment.
Items purchased from the Transcendent Shop can only be used by the purchaser.
If someone else wants to use it, it sparks and rejects, just like before.
But what if it is simply helping research without handing over ownership?
And get paid for that action?
‘How is causality applied in this?'
Will the seal I got from lending be acknowledged?
Or would it not be recognized because it was caused by the equipment of the transcendent shop in the first place?
‘Hmm...'
An ambiguous question that seems likely but not likely.
And it was clear that raising money would be considerably easier if the cause was recognized.
so that.
“great. If you give me money, I will help you with research.”
Worth a try is overflowing with garage.
“Oh yeah!”
With Seo-joon's permission, Jimin jumped up and jumped in place.
The look of an innocent high school girl. Where do you see that I'm in my 40's?
Seojun shook his head.
“So, are you going to start right now?”
“Oh, not now. I don't have any research equipment here. Um... I'll invite you to the lab sooner or later through Seoyoon. I have other things to do right now, so I don’t have time.”
Jimin murmured with a very sad face.
Then, suddenly, he made an expression that realized something, and then opened his mouth again.
“ah! Come to think of it, is that why I came here?”
Seo-joon burst into laughter without knowing it.
“You mean Distortion?”
Jimin nodded.
Then, Jimin asked Seo-jun in detail about what had happened that day, and Seo-jun answered honestly.
There was no reason to hide it in the first place, and it was because Seo-joon was also very curious about the distortion phenomenon.
“Hmm... Nercula was already in the dungeon? However, the horsepower meter didn't detect that, and suddenly it fluctuated...”
After Seo-jun's story ended, Jimin was lost in thought.
However, Jimin shook his head as if he couldn't find a clear answer.
“But you. How did you manage to catch Nercula?”
And then Jimin's question.
Seojun shrugged and replied.
“How lucky.”
“luck? Was it possible to catch a 6-star monster just because you were lucky? In the first place, if you can't deal with an aura, you can't even inflict scratches, right?”
“That part meant I was lucky.”
That would also be true, and Nercura was clearly impossible to compete against only with reverse divergence.
If it wasn't for Merlin's mana, Seo-joon wouldn't be here right now.
And that feeling I felt when I clashed with Nercula.
That moment.
“Um… Jimin.”
A thought popped into Seo-joon's mind.
“It’s not enough, but can I give you one opinion?”
“opinion? What?”
Jimin let out the words with an unexpected look.
Seojun took a moment to organize his thoughts and then continued.
“Aren't magic and aura derived from mana after all? In other words, how do you use mana? In other words, it is a matter of how the individual's will is involved in the laws of the world.”
“however?”
“Then wouldn’t the twist in the dungeon be like this?”
At that moment, Jimin's eyes changed completely.
Then, Jimin straightened up and said.
“Details. Tell me a little bit more.”
Seo-joon continued to speak.
“Uh... So, assuming that magic and aura are ‘distortion' using mana, I wonder if the dungeon's distortion is the same way.”
Of course, Aura was a representative method expressed when individuals twisted the laws of the world with their will.
Literally ‘representative' way.
In other words, there could be other ways to express this word besides Aura, and it was a question whether it was the distortion of the dungeon.
add.
“Then, the distortion of the dungeon could be a phenomenon caused by someone's will.
In the end, it means that the distortion of a dungeon can also be a result of an individual's will, not a natural occurrence.
Haha, just flow lightly.”
Seo-joon smiled shyly.
Literally, Seo Joon was just a thought.
In the first place, Seo-jun did not know much about this field.
however.
“......What are you?”
Jimin didn't seem to think so.
“yes?”
“What are you? Are you sure you are a sorcerer?”
“no. As you can see, I am an aspiring pro hunter.”
“By the way, what was that explanation? No wait... The laws of the world? You can tell the difference between magic and aura like that?”
“Oh, that's...”
It's Merlin's idea, not mine.
Naturally, Seojun couldn't utter those words.
If you think about it, Merlin was a great wizard and a great sage as a transcendent.
No matter how much Jimin is a wizard and a sorcerer who has surpassed the devil, it is true that he lacks a lot compared to Merlin's knowledge.
But Jimin doesn't know that.
“That subspace pouch...couldn’t it be you who made it?”
A strange misunderstanding about Seo-joon was sprouting.