I Live Alone in the Inventory

Episode 2

After waking up yesterday, Jung-min and Jun-ki’s nerves were focused only on skills, so they were relatively less interested in inventory.

Thanks to this, this is the second time I’ve opened my inventory.

Jeong-min, who had only opened the inventory and put in and out of his wallet, decided to take a good look at the inventory.

“Inventory”

A translucent black wall was created in front of Jeongmin’s eyes.

It was an inventory gate that seemed to be about 1m wide and 2m long.

Jung-min recalled the inventory description that he had thought of when he first opened the inventory, but had skipped over it.

“Inventory Description”

As Jung-min looked into the air and spoke, many writings began to appear in front of Jung-min’s eyes.

-From now on, the description of the inventory begins.

A summoner called “Inventory” creates an inventory gate that is only visible to the summoner.

The inventory gate is 1m wide and 2m long, and items larger than the gate area cannot pass through the gate.

The inside of the inventory is a cube space with a width, length, and height of 5m.

Inside, preservation magic and beginner repair magic are applied, so it is easy to store food, and slight damage is automatically restored inside.

“Wow… It even had this kind of function… It’s amazing?”

Jeongmin muttered in admiration and continued reading the explanation.

-When you want to store items in your inventory, simply push the items you want into the inventory gate and they will be stored automatically.

Conversely, when you want to find something, you can find it right away by opening the inventory gate and remembering the item you want.

After 30 minutes without taking any action after summoning the Inventory Gate, the Inventory Gate will automatically be summoned. –

“I experimented with inserting and removing things with my wallet yesterday… Shall we try other things?”

Jung-min went to the kitchen and brought a kitchen knife.

When I gently pushed it into the inventory gate, the kitchen knife was pushed into the inventory.

Jung-min looked at the gate again and thought of the kitchen knife.

The handle of the kitchen knife protruded from the inventory gate.

Jeongmin said as he grabbed the handle of the knife and pulled it out.

“It comes out of the handle so that it’s easy to hold… Is it a device for the safety of the summoned patients?

Jung-min experimented with the inventory by inserting and removing various items besides the kitchen knife.

“I roughly knew how to use it…I need to put all the things in the house. They say it has a preservation magic.. I don’t mind putting everything in the refrigerator.”

Jung-min put all the food in the refrigerator into the inventory.

After that, I started putting everything in the house.

‘Comic books…game consoles…I don’t know if I’ll ever use them again…but they’re memories…’

Jung-min picked up the picture frame on the computer desk.

In the picture frame with cracked glass in the corner, there was a picture of a friendly-looking hat smiling broadly.

It was a picture of Jung-min’s mother who passed away three years ago and Jung-min together.

Jung-min looked at the photo for a while and put it into the inventory.

‘…If I put that picture frame in my inventory, will the cracked glass be fixed? Didn’t I say there’s a magic called beginner repair?”

Jung-min suddenly remembered Cloud.

‘…If I put Gureumyi in my inventory, wouldn’t it fix a broken leg?’

Jung-min approached the hamster cage and carefully took out Cloud.

Gurum was still breathing heavily, still in Jeongmin’s hand.

Jung-min pushed Cloud slowly through the inventory gate.

[Living creatures cannot pass through the inventory gate.]

Along with the message that appeared in front of my eyes, I felt a sense of resistance at the inventory gate.

It felt like pushing a cloud against a wall.

A sense of desolation came over Jung-min.

“..isn’t it okay…”

After a moment of sighing in sorrow, Cloudy, who had been touching the gate, was sucked into the inventory without any resistance.

“….uh…?”

Jung-min was staring blankly at the inventory gate.

“Why…why? It’s clear that living organisms can’t pass through…”

Jung-min, who was staring at the inventory gate in bewilderment, was startled by a sudden thought.

‘no way…..’

Jung-min thought of Cloud while staring at the inventory gate.

The black high gate shook and spit out clouds.

Jung-Min, who received Gooreum with the palm of his hand, said while biting his lip.

“As expected… you’re dead…”

The moment Jung-Min pushes Cloud into the inventory. It must be the last breath.

“I’m sorry, Cloud…I interrupted your end, when you were supposed to go comfortably, by doing something stupid…I’m sorry…I’m really sorry…”

Jeong-Min was sad as he stroked Cloud without hesitation.

******

Cloud’s corpse was put in a small box and stored in the inventory.

I wanted to bury it somewhere, but there was no place that came to mind.

I was thinking of giving him a proper burial when the opportunity came later.

After Jung-min put the box containing Cloud, he put all the other items in the house in his inventory.

“If you hit everything like this… you won’t even remember what you put in later…”

Jung-min, who put everything in his inventory except for the large pieces of furniture, murmured as he wiped off his sweat.

“I put in everything, but food is a problem.”

It would be nice to buy it at a mart and put it in your inventory, but the current reality is that you can only see empty shelves when you go to the mart due to the hoarding craze.

Jeong-min also jumped on the hoarding craze and bought some food, but it felt very lacking because it was only a small amount.

“Let’s look for the Awoken Guild and get some more food…”

Jimin lay down on the bed.

I turned off the light and looked up at the ceiling, thinking.

‘Can I… survive…’

On Jung-min’s palm, Cloudy, who had met his death, came to mind.

Jimin closed his eyes and thought.

‘No..I will definitely survive..for sure..’

Jung-min tried to calm himself down and made a promise before falling asleep.

next day.

Jung-min left home early.

I searched and found out about the awakened guilds around me, contacted the one I thought would be the best, and made an appointment to have a signup interview.

“Meteor billiard room… Ah, over there”

Jung-min went forward to an old commercial building.

Several workers were in the middle of construction at the entrance of the commercial building.

An iron gate was attached to the entrance and reinforcement work was underway with an iron plate on the outer wall.

Jeong-min asked the workers for their understanding and went inside and went up to the second floor where the billiard room was.

When Jung-min opened the billiard room door and entered, a man who looked to be in his 40s greeted Jimin.

“Oh, you’re the one who contacted me. You’re here early.”

The man shook Jung-min’s hand and said.

“This is Yooseong Guild Leader, Kim Yuseong.”

Jung-min said while holding Yoo-seong’s hand.

“This is Choi Jeong-min. Thank you for your support.”

Following Yooseong’s guidance, Jung-min sat down on the sofa at the corner of the billiard room.

Yuseong sat down on the sofa and spoke to Jung-min.

“You want to join our Meteor Guild…Um…If you’ve come all the way here…You must have been judged ineligible to move in at a large shelter. Right?”

In response to Yoosung’s straight-forward question, Jungmin stammered with a slight blush on his face.

“Oh that..”

“There’s no need to be embarrassed. It’s a guild created with the intention of trying to survive by uniting even those of us who were rejected at the shelter. But that doesn’t mean that just anyone can just accept it. Do you understand?”

“Yes…I understand.”

“Yes, that’s good…Then, can I hear what Jung-Min’s skills are?”

Jung-min told Yoo-seong about his skills.

Yoosung was surprised by the fact that Jung-min was a triple-level Awakener, and was also surprised by Jung-min’s skills.

“Of the three skills, none of them are combat-related… You must be very disappointed. If you had at least one proper combat skill, you could have entered the large shelter…”

“…”

“Hmm…I’ll ask you a few questions. You said that you can move up to one companion with the [Space Movement] skill? How many times can it be done?”

Jeongmin hesitated and answered.

“That…the skill eats up a lot of mana. Now…it runs out of mana after…”

“Um…once…once…”

After thinking for a while, Yoosung asked Jeongmin again.

“That skill called [Node Designation]. Is the gate that opens after designating the base used alone, or can others use it?”

Jung-min, who stared blankly at Yoosung asking the same question as the Shelter [Daeseong] officer, gave the same answer in a timid voice.

“That… since you can only designate a base once… I haven’t been able to designate a base yet… so I don’t know. Regarding the use of the gate…”

“Hmm…to be honest…you have to look at it to know…that’s what you mean…”

Yuseong pondered for a while before talking to Jeongmin.

“Hmm… I think it’s going to be difficult. I’ve been thinking about how to use Jung-min’s skill… but I can’t think of it because I’m out of my head. It’s because it’s a combat agent that can be used right away. It seems useful, but… I don’t think there will be enough merit to beat other members who have been confirmed to join.”

“ah….”

Hearing Jeong-Min’s sigh, Yoo-Seong’s eyes were filled with sadness, but he spoke resolutely.

“Awakeners who couldn’t join a guild with a large shelter are knocking on the door of a small guild like ours. But as you can see, space is limited… so not everyone can accept it. Please understand that I have no choice but to pay more attention to the presence or absence of skills.”

Jung-min, who silently listened to Yooseong’s words, nodded and stood up.

Jung-Min, who exchanged greetings with Yoo-Sung, walked out of the Yoo-Sung Guild building.

Jeongmin tried to shake off his depression and took out his smartphone again to investigate other guilds.

and that evening.

Jung-min, who was rejected from all three guilds he visited, went home with his shoulders drooping.

*****

Jung-min was climbing a hill in the neighborhood where the mineral water spring was located.

Normally, I would have seen quite a few people exercising on the walking course up the mineral water spring, but I didn’t see anyone exercising, perhaps because [Trial of the Gods] was disturbing these days.

Arriving at the spring, Jung-min opened the status window first.

[Jungmin Choi

Strength: 9

Stamina: 10

Agility: 9

Intelligence: 6 [mp:10/10]

Possessed Skills: Base Designation (lv.1) Space Movement (lv.1) Perspective (lv.1)

Looking at his stats, Jung-min thought.

‘If you compare it to the authentication stats posted on social media… it’s just an average stat. Neither low nor high…

Let’s raise these stats as much as possible… and use the skill repeatedly to raise the proficiency.’

Jiing

Jung-min closed the status window and took out his vibrating smartphone.

“Oh, it’s Junki.”

[yes. Where are you?]

“I came up from the mineral spring here. Do you know where it is? I’m going to train here.”

[…Are you really going to give up joining the guild?]

Jung-min answered Joon-gi’s worried question.

“What did I give up on? They don’t accept me, so what can I do?”

[Still, if you keep beating somewhere else…]

“It’s okay. It’s obvious that I won’t accept it, but what? I’ll just survive alone. Anyway, my skills are optimized for running alone.”

[……]

Jung-min trembled at Jun-gi’s silence.

“Hey, don’t worry. Am I just an Awakener? I’m just a triple-level Awakener. You know my base designation skill? I’ll try to use that as much as possible.”

[…Where are you going to designate your base?]

At Junki’s question, Jungmin let out a short sigh.

“Actually…that’s the problem. I thought it was safe, so I used the base designation skill, but when the [Trial of the Gods] starts and it turns into a monster-infested place, it’s completely useless…so…for now, I’m not going to do it. I think it’s better to use it after finding a safe place after the [Trial of the Gods] begins.”

Junki’s sighs could be heard over the receiver.

“Don’t worry about the child. First of all, I’m going to train to increase my proficiency by repeating the space movement skill as much as possible and use it more often. If I can use it multiple times, running away in case of danger won’t be a chore, right?”

Joon-gi, who was quiet for a while, spoke to Jung-min.

[…I got it for now. Do as much training as possible. If you run a lot, your stamina and agility stats go up, and if you exercise with something heavy, your strength stats go up. If you continue to use the skill and repeatedly consume mana, the intelligence stat will rise… Repeat these and raise the stats a lot, okay?

“Okay. Don’t worry. I’ll put it higher than your stats.”

[Anyway… Oh, and call me when training is over in the evening. Let’s see.]

“Okay. I’ll call you when it’s over.”

After finishing the phone call with Junki, Jeongmin warmed up and said.

“Yes… It’s a world where you live alone anyway. Don’t rely on others and survive alone. We can do it! Let’s go!!”

Jeong-min, who timidly shouted at the empty spring, looked around and was timidly ashamed.

Episode 2