chapter 5
“Did you bring it?”
“yes.”
Then the porters who followed Kim Yong-gi said with surprised expressions.
“Was it Kim Jong-hyuk’s team?”
A team led by Kim Jong-hyeok, an E-class Awakener, and an Awoken team that eats at the lowest-level gate around here.
That team was Kim Yong-gi’s backwater.
“If it’s Kim Jong-hyuk’s team, it won’t be a chore to fix a summoned Awakener.”
“that’s right.”
While the porters were humming, Kim Jong-hyeok came forward and said.
“You’ve heard about it, but I’m going to fix it today. To be honest, I’ve tried it too… It’s incredibly cheap and comfortable, to the point where I wonder why a porter is needed.”
The porters remain silent despite Kim Jong-hyuk’s words.
“But my situation is a bit different, right? here.”
Kim Jong-hyuk grabbed Kim Yong-gi’s shoulder and said.
“This friend earns me quite a bit, but I have to step in and protect the rights of porters. is not it?”
Then the porters nodded vigorously and said,
“you’re right!”
“We have to eat too!”
Kim Jong-hyuk said with a satisfied expression.
“very good. Then I’ll tell you my plans for today. He’ll be going home in a while. The time off from work is very sharp. Anyway, you guys go to the right time and protest. Frankly, to the point that he couldn’t stand it. Just like that, the moment he comes over for provocation and tries to use his hand, we take a picture of the evidence and then we step in and take care of it.”
The porters smiled brightly.
“Oh oh!”
“If that’s the case, since the skeleton was the first to act, there won’t be any problems, right?”
Kim Jong-hyuk smiled and said.
“Should we also pay the price instead? The bonus is raised from 15 percent to 25 percent.”
Then, Kim Yong-gi, who had been quiet, said a surprised expression.
“Now, wait a minute. There was no such story…”
However, Kim Yong-gi’s protest had no choice but to stop when Kim Jong-hyuk tapped his cheek with a cold expression.
“Then, did you think it was free to take care of the Awoken?”
“That… that’s…”
“He told me to take all the work, or would you just quietly pay 25% and get more work than the other porters? Choose.”
Words are a choice, but the moment I refused here, the result was obvious.
In the end, Kim Yong-gi quietly lowered his head and said.
“I beg you.”
“good. Is our courage good through words? They say see you later.”
As Jonghyuk’s team disappeared, the porters who had been quietly watching came forward and said,
“Really? Are you really taking 25 percent?”
“If you pay the tax and take 25 percent off it, tell us what to eat!”
Then, Kim Yong-gi screamed and said.
“shut up!”
Kim Yong-gi sighed and looked at Han Ji-hyeok, who was lying on a recliner sofa playing games in the distance.
“It’s all because of him. If it wasn’t for him, our income wouldn’t decrease and we wouldn’t ask for anything like this!”
“but······.”
“If you don’t like this or that, go to another area! You don’t think you’ll be as territorial as you are!?”
In the end, the porters didn’t say anything and quietly closed their mouths.
After calming down the porters, Kim Yong-gi glared at Han Ji-hyeok with bloodshot eyes and said,
“Since it happened like this, let’s make it clear. We must protect our rice bowls!”
*
As the sky darkened and the sun went down, Han Ji-hyeok summoned several skeletons and began to organize his luggage.
Seeing this, Kim Yong-gi said with his eyes shining.
“Get ready!”
At that time, the porters swallowed dry saliva and waited for Kim Yong-gi’s words.
“for a moment! for a moment!”
Kang Chan-soo suddenly appeared in front of them.
Kim Yong-gi said with a frown.
“what?”
“Everyone calm down. This can never be the answer!”
“Then what is the answer?”
Kang Chan-soo said with a bright expression.
“I met him separately!”
Then Kim Yong-gi jumped up and said.
“what? In the meantime, you’ve already run away and exposed everything!? You traitor bastard!”
“no! I didn’t say anything else! I just asked! Please open the way for us to live and eat! Then he said he would find a way!”
Then, the porters who had been with Chansu began to visibly shake.
Seeing that, Chan-soo, who gained strength, spoke.
“There must be a way to work together! No matter how many summons you have, in the end you are alone! After all, even a machine needs someone to manage it!”
Then a porter said.
“What is that method?”
Kang Chan-soo was taken aback and said.
“I-I can’t tell you that yet.”
Then, Kim Yong-gi said with a mocking expression.
“It’s ridiculous. So you’re just saying that you’re going to do it roughly, so you’re telling me to stop now? How can you believe that?”
“…Of course, it’s true that I can’t tell you something right now. But he was never a bad person. He was someone I could easily talk to!”
Chansu looked at the agitated porters and said.
“If you don’t believe me, trust me and bear with me one more time. I am Chansu Kang. you know!”
Then the porters waved and said,
“Chansu can be trusted.”
“It’s also Chan-soo who lent me money when I was having a hard time…”
When some of the porters were agitated, Kim Yong-gi screamed.
“You know what! Do you really want to die?!”
However, despite Kim Yong-gi’s threats, some of the porters who had been with Chan-su eventually went to Chan-su and said,
“okay. If you say Chan-soo, you have to believe it.”
“I must have written something because the money was so urgent. I’m sorry, Chansu.”
Chansu smiled brightly at their words.
“okay! well thought out! Everyone come with me! huh?”
In the end, Kim Yong-gi couldn’t stand it.
“Okay, are you missing? Admit it. But just remember this. After you deal with that guy, there won’t be any jobs for you here. I’ll bet you for sure.”
Then, some hesitant porters eventually ignore Chan-su and remain silent.
Kim Yong-gi, who calmed down his dissatisfaction, pointed to Chan-soo and said,
“You bastard… will you disturb me until the end?”
“The obstruction is what you did to the other porters.”
“sh*t.”
Chan-soo said he didn’t say the plan, but Kim Yong-gi, who couldn’t fully believe it, began to think about what to do.
at that time.
“Move!”
Han Ji-hyeok packs up all his belongings and starts to descend the mountain.
Seeing this, Kim Yong-gi became impatient.
“If I couldn’t finish today, I would have demanded more of them, claiming that I had hit the ball all day long…”
In the end, Kim Yong-gi pointed to several porters and said,
“You and you! I’m watching these kids. Even if I touch my phone, it immediately informs me.”
Then he raised his fist towards Chansu and said.
“If, if I told him of our plans… you’re next to him.”
Then Chansu said with a confident expression.
“I’m not a liar like you.”
I don’t usually like him, but that’s why I rather trust him.
As he said, at least Chansu wasn’t a liar.
“let’s go!”
As Kim Yong-gi rushed to Han Ji-hyeok, leaving only a few people behind, the porter who changed routes said with a worried expression.
“Isn’t it something I should tell you? He said he would find a way. If something goes wrong…”
“It’s not him that you need to worry about right now.”
“what?”
“ha. You should have just listened to me and fell for it.”
Kang Chan-soo said with a sad expression.
“I hope it wasn’t too harsh…”
*
“Hmm~. Hmm~. Hmm~.”
Going down the mountain humming.
“Should I order pork feet?”
Games, movies and eating are my only pleasures.
“Yes, today is pork feet and soju. nice. After all, this is the truth.”
That time when I went down Mt. Lululala like that.
“for a moment.”
A group of porters blocking my way.
“hmm?”
I said with a surprised expression.
“They are porters who have come to protest against me!”
At my words, Kim Yong-gi frowned and said,
“You bastard Kang Chan-soo… you said everything as expected!”
“uh? why is that friend That friend only asked me? So I said I would write it as part-time job.”
Kim Yong-gi, taken aback by my words, said,
“Oh, Alba?”
Kim Yong-gi, who hesitates to see if he can’t grasp the situation.
“hmm······.”
Originally, I was planning to raise the medicine while matching the rhythm, but I just do it quickly, well.
I said, raising my hand.
“Binding.”
Then all the porters freeze as if they were caught by something invisible.
In the first place, I made the skeleton look weak and did not reveal my strength to avoid being bothered by attention.
But that doesn’t mean it’s more annoying to live worrying about the eyes of those who are fighting against me.
It would be much easier and simpler to just warmly take care of him and make his hamstrings numb just looking at me so he can’t say anything.
“Come to Ilu.”
Then, not the porters, but the entire Awoken team hiding in the woods with cameras flying through the air with their firm posture and landing softly in front of me.
I patted the head of the frozen Awoken and said.
“Can you feel it? That I touched something wrong.”
Awakeners and porters who seemed to be desperately trying to say something, but couldn’t say anything and just rolled their eyes as if they were covered with glue.
“That’s why you should have left on your own when Chansu noticed. did i give it a chance? It was you who refused.”
I said with a smirk.
“ruler. Then shall we have fun?”
*
next day.
“Go, thank you!”
The porters, persuaded by Kang Chan-soo, say thank you over and over again to say that they will write part-time jobs.
“no. Even if it wasn’t, I needed someone.”
At my words, people suddenly start to notice me.
“hmm?”
what?
Why are you writing it?
At that time, Kang Chan-soo cautiously stepped forward and said,
“That… that, what did you do to the people?”
“I persuaded you not to have such bad feelings again.”
Of course, persuasion accompanied by physics and magic.
Thanks to their well-placed position, I made a skeleton with plenty of my magical power from the bones I prepared in advance and beat it without paying attention.
In addition to that, a little bit of illusion magic is mixed in, and they probably only have memories of being beaten up for hours while surrounded by a large army of undead.
Still, out of consideration for the people of his own country, he also used recovery magic, and in the end, he calmed him down well and sent him back?
“When I asked about yesterday’s work, he was so frightened that he couldn’t answer…”
Well, it looks like it’s working.
“It seems that the persuasion worked well. Anyway, what’s the point now? Did you come here to do a part-time job, or did you come to ask questions out of curiosity?”
Let’s just skip over it.
I’m too lazy to look around.
“Ah, I see.”
good.
“Then let’s get straight to the point. The hourly wage is 25,000 won, which is slightly cheaper than before.”
The porters did not show it, but their disappointment was evident.
but.
I said with a smile.
“Instead, it’s not a lack of work, but an overflow of work.
There is one reason why I have attracted people.
Every time I rent it out to a new person, I have to register their voice, and I am the only one who can do that.
However, instead of registering a new voice, what if the person whose voice is registered and the skeleton are bundled together and rented as a whole?
A person whose voice has already been registered will be able to act as an intermediary between the Awoken team and the skeleton.
But if that was all there was to it, there would be no reason to hire a porter with high hourly wages.
I took out the subspace and showed the fourth piece of my conversion.
“Voila! It’s called the 6-legged transporter Skeleton MK.4! It’s a modern skeleton with human boarding capabilities.”
I said with a bright smile.
“Part-timers can take this and go to another gate to work from now on.”
*
“I heard that the skeleton next door is so good?”
“They said it was good. But thanks to that, a lot of people flock to it, and the money they make seems to be there.”
“okay? I’m curious. I want to try it.”
“That person seems to be able to make quite a lot, do you know? Are you going to advance this way?”
That time when the awakened people were talking about this and that.
“uh?”
An Awoken said in surprise when he saw a six-legged walking basket made of bones approaching from afar.
“Isn’t that the skeleton?”
“Right? Did you really advance here too?”
“By the way… is something subtly different from what I’ve heard?”
I heard that it was a basket with three pairs of legs, but there was a small seat at the back of the basket, and a man was riding on that seat.
At that time, the man riding pointed at the Awoken team, and a skeleton walking towards the Awoken team.
When we arrived in front of the Awoken team, the person riding the skeleton said.
“Did you find a porter?”
“Uh… I haven’t found it yet…”
Then the man smiled brightly and said.
“Then don’t you want to use our group? Our group consists of me, the leader, and two transport skeletons. All together, the price is 120,000 won per hour. For the money to hire 4 porters, you can rent one porter and 2 skeletons that can serve more than 3 porters per car.”
Then one Awoken said with an interesting expression.
“The price isn’t bad, but…it’s the first time I’ve heard that there are people involved. Can’t we just rent a skeleton?”
Then the man shook his head and said.
“sorry. Our group is rented only in groups.”
“is it so?”
The Awoken team started discussing that for a while.
“The price is not bad, but why should I pay more for one person? I feel like I’m being ripped off somehow.”
“Let’s try it as an experience. Aren’t you curious?”
“That’s right.”
said the Awoken team who made the decision.
“Then let’s do it.”
Then the man smiled brightly and said.
“I promise you you will never regret it!”
*
A team of awakened people who decided to rent a skeleton as if no one was there to try out the skeleton they were just curious about.
However, when I entered the gate and started hunting in earnest, that thought was immediately overturned.
“I’m sorry.”
When the hunt is over, the skeleton team leader comes down from the basket and loads the monster’s carcass into Unit 1.
After loading all the corpses, he put one of his legs in the two holes in the back of Unit 1’s basket, sat down, and took out a dagger.
“You can leave immediately. You can do it while moving.”
Generally, Awakeners wait for the porters to finish capturing monster corpses after hunting.
I need to lighten the load a little so I can go back with a larger amount, so I’m going to pick out the expensive parts.
That’s why transport skeletons were welcomed.
Because the loading capacity is far superior to the price, you can load the entire body without having to do such troublesome work.
However, as one more person was added, the previously efficient transport skeletons became even more efficient.
Shuk. Swoop.
A porter who captures monsters on top of a transportable skeleton that moves smoothly as if it were equipped with a suspension even while moving.
The internal parts that do not require a leader after dismantling all of them are roughly discarded along the way, and the profitable parts and inexpensive parts are divided and loaded into Unit 2.
And then the foreman started working on the next corpse.
One of the Awoken said with a satisfied expression.
“Good?”
The reason for having multiple porters is to reduce the time required to capture, as well as the load.
A group of people have to work together to finish the task as quickly as possible and then go looking for the next monster.
However, since I moved around the process of capturing, there was no need to wait, and most of all, I had a lot of free time, so the leader did the work for several people at a leisurely pace.
It was a skeleton group that showed the highest efficiency without wasting time.
At that time, the Awoken who found the monster shouted.
“monster!”
Then, the captain who was taking care of it said in a relaxed voice.
“A monster appears. cover it.”
At the words of the leader, Unit 1 sits down and at the same time covers the basket as well as the leader with a cover.
When the leader’s safety was secured in an instant, the Awakened team leisurely hunted, and when the hunt was over, the leader removed the cover and came out and said.
“I’ll load it right away.”
“What were you doing earlier?”
“You finished everything while you were fighting.”
The captain of the Skeleton Group who successfully completed the capture of the last remaining monster while being protected within the cover.
It was a perfect movement that did not waste even a minute or a second.
At that, the Awoken raised his thumb and said.
“It’s great.”
“Yes?”
“I have to hunt tomorrow too, can I make a reservation in advance?”
“Sure! You are always welcome!”
The new Skeleton Joe, which was created by combining the power of humans and skeletons, began to slowly encroach on the bottom of the monster by-products industry with its overwhelming efficiency and cost-effectiveness as a weapon.