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Chapter 291:
Chapter 291:
Chapter 291:
Chapter 291
Yu-hyun took Kang Hye-rim and Sung Yu-chan with him to find Baek Seo-ryeon.
“Do I know what Kyungseo unnie likes? Of course I do. How long have I known her?”
When they asked Baek Seo-ryeon, all their previous efforts seemed futile.
Sung Yu-chan felt dejected and his shoulders slumped, while Kang Hye-rim kept asking Baek Seo-ryeon questions as if she had a clue.
“Then what kind of person is her ideal type? She must have high standards, since she works in a magazine and meets a lot of people.”
At that, Sung Yu-chan’s head drooped even lower. Yu-hyun wanted to smack Kang Hye-rim on the back of her head.
She was killing Sung Yu-chan’s Spirit with her useless remarks.
She was not just clueless, but also maliciously messing with other people.
Baek Seo-ryeon looked puzzled by the question, but answered faithfully.“Unnie? Oh, Kyungseo unnie is not picky at all.”
“Really?”
“Usually people think that she likes flashy people, but she has met and dated so many of them. She actually hates those who are only superficial and flashy. She prefers someone plain and simple. But why do you ask?”
“Well…”
Kang Hye-rim and Yu-hyun looked at Sung Yu-chan.
Baek Seo-ryeon also noticed something and asked Sung Yu-chan.
“Yuchan-ssi. Do you have a crush on Kyungseo unnie?”
“Huh? Well, no, I mean, let me explain… Yes. I do.”
“Hmm.”
Baek Seo-ryeon stroked her chin and scanned Sung Yu-chan from head to toe.
Sung Yu-chan shivered every time her sharp gaze touched him.
He looked like a newborn baby bird that could be called cute.
After examining Sung Yu-chan for a while, Baek Seo-ryeon gave him the OK sign.
“Yuchan-ssi wouldn’t be bad. No, actually, you would be perfect for unnie’s taste.”
“Really? Is that true?”
“Why are you surprised? I may look like this, but I have a good eye for people.”
Yu-hyun had to nod at that.
She didn’t build a faction and gather people in the apocalypse for nothing.
Her ability to judge people was more than her natural charisma.
“And besides, unnie just asked me to introduce her to a good man. Yuchan-ssi would be a good catch for her, don’t you think?”
“Me?”
Sung Yu-chan was flustered.
He was gloomy and had long hair that he tied up casually.
He didn’t exercise, so he was skinny.
He was like night and day compared to Ju Kyungseo, who was active and healthy.
“She would hate it if you just dressed up nicely. Well, you’ll have to meet her in person and go on a blind date or something to know for sure, but she won’t say no to you. I can help you with that.”
“Oh, my goodness.”
Sung Yu-chan clasped his mouth in awe and bowed his head repeatedly to Baek Seo-ryeon.
“There’s no one like you, CEO.”
“Hey, what about me?”
“Shh. Hye-rim-ssi, stay out of this.”
Yu-hyun stopped Kang Hye-rim from interfering. Then he heard a rustling sound from Kang Hye-rim’s pocket.
“What is this?”
“Oh, that…”
What came out of Kang Hye-rim’s pocket was a high-calorie chocolate bar from the mart.
And not just one or two.
He remembered that Kang Hye-rim had been going out every day lately.
He didn’t force her to do anything, so he let it go. But it seemed like she was buying and eating a lot of snacks.
Yu-hyun’s eyes narrowed.
‘Now that I think about it, she looks different than usual.’
He had a suspicion, but he had to ask anyway.
“Hye-rim-ssi.”
“Yes, yes. What is it?”
“Don’t tell me… Did you gain weight?”
He didn’t need a subject.
As soon as he said that, Kang Hye-rim reacted violently like a thief caught in the act.
She avoided Yu-hyun’s gaze and tried to get out of the situation with stuttering words.
“Yes, yes? Gain weight? What are you talking about? I have no idea what you mean.”
She did gain weight.
And a lot.
Who would believe that the star collector of White Flower Management gained weight from eating chocolate and snacks non-stop?
“Hye-rim-ssi. If you’re honest, you can get away with less damage.”
“I-I really don’t know.”
“Ms. Hye-rim, I have all your personal details on the contract we signed. Do I have to reveal everything to make you tell the truth? Let’s open Pandora’s box today, shall we?”
“No, please don’t!”
She knew it was useless to lie when he already knew her height and weight.
Hye-rim had no choice but to close her eyes and agree to Yu-hyun’s demand.
“Tell me honestly.”
“Ye-yes. I gained weight. Sob. I admit it. Please don’t expose my privacy.”
“You make it sound like I’m forcing you to sign a loan shark contract.”
Yu-hyun crossed his arms and looked at her with disdain.
“So how much did you eat? I’m really curious.”
Hye-rim was a collector who surpassed the upper rank. Her body was beyond human level.
Olympic swimmers consumed 15,000 calories a day, but they burned more than that with their intense exercise.
But what about collectors?
Their metabolism was so high that they had special diets for them.
They didn’t need to exercise much to have perfect bodies without any fat. But the fact that she gained weight meant that Hye-rim’s daily calorie intake was way higher than that of a collector.
“Well, that’s because… I bought everything I saw at the mart…”
“Show me the receipt. Don’t say you don’t have it.”
“He-here.”
Hye-rim handed him a crumpled receipt. When he unfolded it, the receipt stretched out and touched the floor, then rolled some more.
Baek Seo-ryeon and Sung Yu-chan, who were watching from the side, gasped at the amount.
Yu-hyun felt the same.
“…I was about to get goosebumps just by looking at the receipt.”
The surprising thing was that this was not what she bought so far, but what she bought today.
Money was not a problem for her, considering her income.
She could even buy a chocolate factory if she wanted to. But eating all these things was another matter.
This meant that her daily intake was over 100,000 calories easily.
And this was not just today.
She bought this much every day without fail.
“Did you plan to write a novel with receipts or something?”
Hye-rim had nothing to say and hung her head in shame.
“…I wondered why you wore clothes that covered your arms and legs lately. So this was why. You didn’t even gain any chin fat.”
“Hehe. I have a good metabolism.”
“Don’t laugh. I want to hit you. Sigh. What am I going to do with you?”
“I-I’ll go on a diet.”
Hye-rim muttered timidly.
Yu-hyun glared at her with bulging eyes and made her shoulders slump.
“That’s obvious. That won’t do. From today on, Ms. Hye-rim, you will take special measures.”
“Ye-yes?”
“I’ll call a special trainer who will make you lose weight in a short time.”
“A s-special trainer?”
“I just called him. You’ll see.”
Soon, the door of the CEO’s office opened and a white-haired woman appeared.
“What did you call me for this time?”
“Ms. Sumin.”
Seo Sumin was curious why Yu-hyun called her to the CEO’s office.
Yu-hyun whispered the situation to her and pointed at Hye-rim with his finger.
“One week cut. Can you do it?”
Seo Sumin looked at Hye-rim who was trembling like a baby deer and smiled broadly.
“Three days are enough.”
It was time to show the effect of Heavenly Demon Training.
***
Two months had passed since then.
Thanks to their constant training in the Wandering Realm, the collectors of White Flower Management had become much stronger than before.
They also cleared the Mental Realm regularly and collected points, and did some simple volunteer work for their public image.
As a result, White Flower Management’s status became comparable to other large clans.
They had risen to almost equal position with Nemesis Clan, which was famous for having the smallest number of members.
Of course, this proved that the level of White Flower Management’s collectors was that high.
Yu-hyun also had various things happen during that time, but the biggest event for him was still related to the golden light.
‘I heard rumors lately that there are people who awakened without being collectors or collectors who suddenly became stronger.’
They all had one thing in common: they used strange powers.
As Satan said, fragments naturally flowed into Earth as time passed.
‘Unleashed has been quiet since then. Jin Cheongun must be plotting something else with his personality. He might have recruited returnees like before, or he might be collecting fragments too.’
What bothered Yu-hyun was Jin Cheongun’s whereabouts.
He was only annoyed by him, not threatened.
Yu-hyun realized it when he last faced Jin Cheongun and talked to him.
The reason why Jin Cheongun led Unleashed, a transnational terrorist organization, was not what it seemed.
He did not simply wish for a world for collectors.
He had bigger and farther goals.
Just like himself.
He had changed so much from his previous life, when he couldn’t do that.
His fate must have also changed greatly after encountering the fragments from the Book of Genesis.
‘Jin Cheongun is after something else. Something related to the Book of Genesis.’
The image Yu-hyun had of Jin Cheongun before meeting him was that of a radical and violent collector supremacist.
He must have gathered those lunatics and done those things.
But after meeting him once and seeing his actions later, Yu-hyun had many questions.
Jin Cheongun’s behavior did not look like someone who looked down on and despised ordinary people.
He was rather more profound than most people.
And most of the terrorist activities he tried to carry out only wasted Unleashed’s useless power.
Yu-hyun doubted if that was really a coincidence.
It seemed as if he deliberately picked out those evil people and cleaned them up with this side’s help.
‘No. Even so, what they did was clearly an act of terror.’
There were victims.
Just looking at the five-dimensional world incident that happened in Tokyo before, their actions were unforgivable.
Jin Cheongun’s actions did not erase the crimes he committed.
Of course, Yu-hyun did not intend to judge him.
‘I’m not some apostle of justice.’
He wanted to find Jin Cheongun for purely personal reasons.
For the sake of the world, for justice, for what humans should do.
He did not want to attach such grandiose reasons.
But he was not an easy person to find, and Yu-hyun had other things to deal with first.
‘First of all, I’ll focus on collecting the fragments.’
And he planned to show this whole process through the library as a painting.
‘It would be better to show them fighting with those golden ones as a painting.’
Most Divine Spirits could not even recognize the Book of Genesis.
Even if he tried to tell them, the world itself would not accept it because of some kind of restriction.
The only ones who could notice this were those who knew the Book of Genesis in some way, whether directly or indirectly related.
If there were any Divine Spirits who reacted to the Book of Genesis in some way, he just had to pay attention to them.
‘I want to tell my companions too, but I don’t think they’ll understand even if I do.’
It was obvious from Baekryeon. He had been by his side all this time, but he still did not know about the Book of Genesis. It meant that the information control was that great.
The most promising one, Kwon Jia, had her own memory sealed, so she had to be careful instead.
If she reacted to the word Book of Genesis and her memory woke up, it would be a very dangerous situation.
‘The golden ones are unlikely to be only in Korea. Maybe I’ll have to travel abroad a lot.’
Fragments attract fragments, but even if those fragments floating in space gather in one place as much as possible, it would be at the planetary level.
There was no way that a fragment would fall on a neighbor’s house. Rather, the fragments would stick to those who had stories that suited them on Earth.
They would not come to those who already had them. There was no answer except to forcibly retrieve them from this side.
‘Hmm. The most important thing is, it would be nice if I could know where and what fragments are.’
He had six fragments now.
One of them was the fragment that allowed him to read other people’s books, which he had been holding since he returned.
The other four were Laplace, Maxwell, Descartes, and Darwin respectively.
The only fragment that did not activate properly was the one he stole from a pseudo-religious leader whose name he could not remember now.
‘Was this fragment’s ability something like granting miracles?’
He wished it would grant him some miracles too.
It was then that he thought so.
As if reading his will, the last fragment began to glow and react.
‘What?’
Yu-hyun quickly took out the fragment and lifted it on his hand.
He knew how to handle the fragments to some extent after awakening Aporia’s power.
Soon, a faint golden line spread over Yu-hyun’s right hand and then took a shape.
‘This is, a map?’
It was a map that shaped the Earth.
And on that map, there were golden dots everywhere.