Gold and Silver Alchemist

The first time I fixed the clock, I remembered the startled expression of the building owner’s grandfather.

I wondered if he had fixed a watch that no one could fix.

‘It was really like that…’

As it turned out, it was a watch that could not be repaired even at the headquarters in Switzerland.

It was repaired in 30 minutes.

At least it was 30 minutes on purpose.

If it had been fixed in 5 minutes, it would have been more upsetting.

Anyway, because of that, the Swiss watchmaker is coming to see me.

An inadvertent action led to trouble.

‘It’s bothering me.’

Can not help it.

You just have to moderate it properly.

I just hoped that the worst case of having the watchmaker from Switzerland ＜deleted＞ would not happen.

Thinking about this and that, I walked from the airport bus stop and arrived in front of my house before I knew it.

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I opened the gate with fingerprint recognition and entered the yard.

The green grasses welcomed me.

Lawn mowers tell me that in the summer you have to mow the lawn at least once every two weeks.

Otherwise, the yard will turn into a jungle.

After 2 or 3 days, I will call the company to cut it.

By the way, when I returned home, there was no one to welcome me, so I felt a little empty.

‘Should I have a dog?’

But that wasn’t a good idea either.

How can a dog watch a house alone for days?

A dog can only be raised if there is a person to take care of it.

As you venture out in search of gold, you will be away from home more and more often in the future.

You can’t even bring someone into the house to look after the dog.

In the end, making a golem was the best solution.

Because the golem can feed and play with the dog.

As a bonus, if I let them mow the lawn and take care of the house, the quality of my life will jump up again.

The kiln and soil will arrive in two weeks, so let’s wait a little longer.

I came to the side of the house through a stone path over the yard.

And went down to the basement through the outside stairs.

He entered the cellar and reached out into the air.

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I took President Park out of the inventory.

He looked around and smiled brightly.

“hahahaha! Teleported home!”

Time does not pass in the inventory, so President Park feels that he has been teleported from Ibiza to his home.

That part was really embarrassing.

I arrived home after struggling for over 20 hours, including the flight time alone and the transit time.

“Thanks to the chairman, I came back comfortably!”

“So, from now on, don’t lose sight of it, Cheon Young-jin is good at monitoring. If you find out anything trivial, report it right away.”

“yes! All right!”

President Park immediately turned on the wiretapping equipment and started working.

he asked as I headed out of the basement.

“It’s lunchtime, aren’t you eating?”

“I ate on the plane so I don’t think about it. If you’re hungry, order it yourself and eat it. Or go out and buy something to eat.”

“yes! All right!”

From now on, President Park will not care about going out.

Because it bound him with a bond stronger than the fear of death.

That was the ‘salary’.

He promised to give a basic salary every month and a performance bonus when he completed a big job.

It was not much money for me, but it was enough to buy Park’s loyalty.

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President Park opened the delivery app while humming a song.

“I went on an overseas trip, and the kimchi jjigae makes me want it. Are you really not going to eat it?”

“Eat deliciously alone.”

I came out to the yard again, leaving President Park behind.

And entered the house through the front door.

I looked at the clock and it was 1:00 PM.

‘Can I breathe?’

When I returned home, my whole body felt languid and I was overwhelmed by travel poisoning.

I couldn’t sleep a wink on the way from Ibiza to Korea.

Strangely, I couldn’t sleep well on the plane even though I came in a cozy first class.

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I took a cool shower.

and lay down on the bed

I felt my whole body being sucked into the mattress as my body relaxed.

‘As expected, I like the house the most!’

I immediately fell into a deep sleep.

***

I was standing in the backyard of a factory.

The trees were emitting bright light.

“The tree is ready to impart knowledge to you.”

I nodded at the manager’s words and put my finger on the leaf.

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A knowledge entered my mind as a bright light emanated from the leaves.

The newly learned magic was ＜listening＞.

It was the ability to understand the speech of another person with a different language.

However, it was not possible to master all the languages of the world in an instant.

No matter what language the other person is using, you can grasp the meaning of what he or she is trying to say.

In a word, I could only listen, but I couldn’t speak all languages.

‘Still, there must be many times to use it.’

I put my hand on the other leaf.

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A bright light emanated from the leaves.

And I learned to sleep well.

It was the ability to fall asleep deeply whenever and wherever you wanted.

‘Oh, good!’

It was painful to toss and turn on the plane and not be able to fall asleep.

Now you can fall asleep anywhere you want.

I learned a really useful magic.

“Is the golem production going well?”

“huh?”

I looked at her at the manager’s absurd question.

It was the first time she had shown interest in anything other than absorbing gold.

“Why is there a golem all of a sudden?”

“If you make a golem, ask me to give you one too.”

“Ask for a golem? What do you mean?”

“I want a body that can be active outside.”

“Out? where out? outside the dream?”

“yes. The ‘soul’ that dwells in the golem and me are fundamentally the same. I can dwell in the golem too.”

“ah! Is that so?”

She, too, was Alan’s ‘formless consciousness’, an artificial intelligence.

So, I was able to mount it on the golem’s body, which is hardware.

“Okay, I’ll make one for you.”

“thank you.”

It’s the first time I’ve heard thank you from her.

I guess I want to have a great body.

***

“[Great!]”

The Swiss watchmaker exclaimed in admiration.

Then the building owner’s grandfather also nodded with a proud expression.

“[Never imagined it would be this great!]”

Switzerland mainly speaks German, but he spoke English out of consideration for me and the landlord’s grandfather.

Well, I was able to use ＜Listen＞ to understand whatever language he was speaking.

“[I’ve eaten at a Korean restaurant in Geneva a few times, but it tastes even better when I come to Korea!]”

He put the grilled pork belly into his mouth and praised him.

With my skillful hands, I rolled up the pork belly with the famous seasoning.

Then, it was placed on a plate in front of the watchmaker.

“Gamso-ham-nita!”

He thanked me in his poor Korean.

I was a little nervous before meeting him, but nothing to worry about happened.

All he wanted was to see my studio.

However, he promised the next opportunity when he said, ‘I plan to close the existing store and open a new store.’

And I accepted without question the fact that I had never been formally trained in watchmaking, and that I had learned my skills from hidden masters at watchstores in Korea.

“[It seems that many Koreans are good with their hands!]”

He said that there are many cases where technicians from ‘Korean watch shops’, not from famous Swiss or British watch schools, participate in world competitions or take international certification practical tests to show off their surprising skills.

The Swiss watchmaker looked at the building owner’s grandfather with a serious expression and opened his mouth.

“[Mr. Chung, in fact, I really wanted to restore your watch. But it was not something I could decide on my own.]”

He heard the story of the building owner’s grandfather’s clock and wanted to restore it no matter how much time and money it would cost. However, due to the opposition of the upper management, they had no choice but to make a judgment that repair was not possible.

“[If I had stuck to that one watch, I could have restored it. But it must have taken at least half a year. Fixing such a clock in 30 minutes…]”

At that, the building owner’s grandfather looked at me with a proud expression, and I smiled awkwardly.

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The building owner’s grandfather’s cell phone rang.

“I’ll pick up the phone and come.”

When the grandfather left, the watchmaker suddenly opened his mouth with a heavy expression.

“[Now that we are alone, let me ask you the main point. How is that possible?]”

“[What?]”

I pretended not to understand what he was saying and pretended not to.

Then he spoke.

“[I heard that the watch was restored in 30 minutes, so at first I thought someone had tricked Mr. Chung. It was judged that the entire movement, the power unit, was replaced, leaving only the housing. But that was not the case.]”

Today, he asked the building owner’s grandfather to open the clock and check the inside.

And I was surprised to learn that the movement had not been replaced at all, but a ‘restoration’ that made the most of the existing parts.

“[When the watch came to Switzerland, I distinctly remember the condition of the movement. About 20% of the parts, or more than 200 micro-parts, had to be re-molded. These parts are not currently produced in factories, so each one had to be specially made. Restoring such a watch in 30 minutes… How is that possible?]”

Hearing all of his stories was enough to surprise me.

But I just smiled and didn’t respond.

Like he said, I didn’t cheat, so I didn’t need an excuse.

“[If you cheated, you must be the best magician in the world. David Copperfield can’t do that kind of magic.]”

He smiled and spoke.

“[Mr. Choi, I think you must be a wizard!]”

At that, I just smiled.

“What are you talking about so much fun? From the outside, he didn’t even have a drink.”

Just in time, the building owner’s grandfather returned.

As soon as he sat down, the grandfather raised a brass bowl containing white rice wine.

“Come on, let’s have a drink! Makgeolli is delicious when you drink it cool.”

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Everyone raised their glasses.

Beep beep-

The Swiss watchmaker gulped down the makgeolli and brushed the empty glass over his head.

“[Bottom Shot!]”

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The building owner’s grandfather clapped his hands and laughed.

“Swiss gentleman is really interesting!”

Fortunately, the Swiss watchmaker no longer asked me about watch repairs.

Anyway, I learned something from this incident.

It means not to use magic unnecessarily.

I can get past it just once, but if more people think of me as strange, there will come a day when I will be caught by that.

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After eating, I separated from the people and returned home.

And came down to the basement.

President Park, who had been chasing Cheon Young-jin outside to gather information, had returned.

i asked him

“Did you find out anything?”

Then he replied with a big smile.

“It turned out to be so much fun! If I do well, I think I can steal a lot of dollars as well as gold!”

“dollar? US dollars?”

“yes!”

My ears perked up at the word ‘dollar’.