Labyrinth City Mesugaki Pawn Shop

2. Pawn Shop (1)

If the future city expected in gacha games was destroyed, there were only two paths for users to choose.

I don’t like it, but the next best thing is to waste all my money on the pick-up, or prepare for the long winter by piling up goods with the promise of the next one.

Even the genre is a different roguelike game, but there are still similarities, but I was the type that neither of them belonged to.

“I’ve been f*cked since tonight, what can I choose?”

I didn’t even have a chance to collect goods and prepare for the bad luck.

‘What? Got nothing to prove? What do I trust and entrust you with?’

‘He looks like he’s fine… But it’s a little too much to leave the job…’

A man with no relatives who fell into another world out of nowhere. He had no skills or abilities.

A hopeless situation in which even simple labor and day labor jobs are rejected.

“Should I start begging again…?”

But I didn’t think it would change anything. It could just live one more day, but it never came to a fundamental solution.

I had to get a job right away.

Eat, sleep, buy equipment with the surplus salary, and I needed to lay the foundation so that I could somehow go down the labyrinth, but I didn’t know that living in a foreign country would be so sad.

A hopeless situation in which no one uses me, who only has a body.

Where can you get a job when even Mr. Smith, the Nogada foreman, who always throws you job quests in any situation in the game, sighs and gestures for you to go away?

The sun was slowly setting.

A night in the Labyrinth City might have been noisy because of the return of adventurers who had been to the Labyrinth, but it was a very harsh environment for a nerd like me.

I had to avoid homelessness somehow. Sleeping on the cold bare floor in the city is literally an act of suicide. If you think it’s okay to sleep outside for a day… It’s the sewage of the sewage.

99.9% Of the newbies who chose to be homeless to save the money given in the beginning were not able to last for three days and often went out.

Even if you spill bread crumbs, the plague-like rats, like two or three of those plagues, lie down on the floor and go to sleep?

It’s no different from sprinkling your body with plenty of spices, then stepping over the fire and catching me.

The infection of the disease is certain, and the moment an unexpected event like being attacked by a swarm of hungry rats occurs, not a single bone fragment is left behind and it is obvious that it will become the blood and flesh of the rats.

However, if you recklessly set up a bonfire in the city center and are caught by the guards, you will be banished from the city and only an outlaw ending awaits.

Rather than choosing expulsion, living with rats for a day or so was a hundred times better choice. Outside the city center was hell itself.

Unlike the city center, where security is maintained by the guards, outside the castle is full of outlaws. Even in the game, when you walk outside the castle, random robbery encounts appear every 10 seconds outside the castle.

The moment you lose in an event battle, everything is robbed as a standard option. Kill the woman and rape the man! That there is an insane ending turning point.

Well, how do I know that…

“…Please”

Shouldn’t we at least avoid such a gloomy ending?

…For the comfort of my ass.

Still, the only consolation was that the sun hadn’t set yet. I had to somehow find a way to make a living in the remaining hours. Somehow…

While I was biting my nails in an alley next to the plaza, one side of the street started to buzz. As he peeked his head out to examine it, an indescribable stench stung his nose.

There were two people at the end of the stench. One was a typical adventurer wearing leather armor, a sword and shield, and the other was holding something while wearing a full-body cloak like a corona protective suit.

Looking at the pattern engraved on the left arm, it seemed that he belonged to the porter’s guild, the porter’s union, that transported various daily necessities in the labyrinth.

“Ah, I can’t carry it any more, that’s right, leaving something like this.”

“It’s different from a contract! I have to move to the designated store and go!”

“The original contract was up to the entrance to the city, right? No, more than that, I should be thankful that you risked your life to bring this from the 5th floor. Anyway, I’ve done my job, so if you have any complaints, contact the porter’s union. Tup”

What appeared to be a porter frowned and set it down on the floor was nothing but a green mass that was unnerving just by looking at it. An opaque, viscous fluid flowed incessantly from the mass, which looked like three ten-pound bowling balls put together, and the stench from it wafted all the way to this faraway place.

“Ugh…! What the f*ck is that!”

He hesitated at the overwhelming visuals and took a step back.

Others seemed to feel the same way, and all of them covered their noses and hurriedly left, or the shops on the nearby streets were also locking their doors.

Seeing the situation where even the porter, who was wrapped in a protective gear to protect his body from mucus, had left, and the puzzled adventurer and his lump, what I thought of was an opportunity.

As I looked down, an information window popped up.

[Unidentified Sphere]

-An unidentified sphere covered with green slime with a terrible stench that can be smelled from 300m away. It has such a strong scent that the smell does not go away for a week if you put it on your body. Contrary to its appearance, however, it is harmless mucilage to the human body. The smell is so strong that even the floor cleaners and body dogs don’t like it. Again, it is harmless to the human body.

In order to make money, I approached the adventurer with a troubled expression on how to find and do dirty things that other people can’t do or do.

The closer you get, the stronger the scent that stings your nose, and nausea rises up to your throat, but you endure it and speak out.

“30 Silver coins.”

“What…?”

“I will transfer it to 30 silver coins. Anywhere in the city, wherever you want.”

Suddenly, questioning glances poured out from the corner towards me. The scars on his face and the scary adventurer’s face were becoming even more grotesque.

“Little boy, the money the porter paid for carrying the porter from the 5th floor to the city is 100 silver coins. But what? Chapter 30? Is that also moving within the city?”

A single silver coin was worth about 100,000 won, and it was unusual to pay 10 million won to the porter, even though it came from the 5th floor.

And for me, it was an even better situation. There was no way I would give up here if it was something that I would bring even after paying that amount.

Considering that the previous porter was wearing a protective suit, he would have judged the object harmful, but the characteristics of the object that popped up in my information window rather emphasized that it was harmless to the human body.

From the outside, it looked like a combination of the venomous hydra that lives on the 20th floor that melts everything, but only I knew that it was actually worse than konjac jelly.

Only me, only me.

Information that you know alone becomes money.

And I decided to use that information at a high price.

“That’s why you need someone to move it all the more. If time passes like this, won’t the guards come running? If the guards saw something like this, he would burn it right on the spot. And besides me, there seems to be no one else who can move it.”

As he made a gesture of looking around, the adventurer followed suit and sighed. I blocked his nose and ran away, avoiding the sphere, and I was the only one left.

“…That’s 35 silver coins.”

“Hey, I’m sure it was 30 chapters earlier-.”

“Looking at it up close, it seems more dangerous, so the amount includes the life allowance. Ohhh, I think I can hear the whistle of the guards in the distance? Chapter 40 now.”

“Ah.. 40 Siftal, yes 40. I’ll give it to you, so listen quickly!”

“And please swear to the goddess. If you bring the item to its destination, he will give you 40 silver coins.”

At those words, the adventurer’s impression changed in an instant as if he had chewed up sh*t. Maybe I didn’t know what to say. Judging by the look in his eyes, it was clear that he had an intention to beat him up when he reached his destination. Or they kicked them out for a few pennies of silver.

However, what if the name value of a goddess intervenes? The influence of the existence of a goddess in the game on the world view was enormous.

In a world where the existence of God is proven by various miracles and holy power, and there is a church that wields the power of God, in a world where the promise made to God is broken? Suicide was a better option.

In fact, it was the power of the oath that even a group of outlaws who stabbed the back of the head outside the city center, if they made a promise with the name of the goddess, must keep it.

On the other hand, it means that no situation is guaranteed without an oath.

Because of that, I’ve been beaten countless times in quests that weren’t promised.

For example, a farm owner who asks where the wolf is after killing a wolf that ran through the sheep.

A suspicious veteran adventurer who asks if you don’t believe in yourself and asks for a token to subdue dangerous monsters in the labyrinth just jumps out.

As much as that, the oath was an important tool.

“…I swear to the goddess that I will give you 40 silver coins when you reach your destination…”

“Don’t take it after giving it.”

“……”

An uncomfortable silence passed between him and me.

Aren’t you a f*cking bastard?

“…I swear to the goddess. So, listen to that.”

Then, fine silver powder fell from the air and was scattered between the adventurer and me.

[Bababang!]

– Special Quests Ordered! (*ૂ❛ᴗ❛*ૂ)

゜・。゜ ・・゜ ・ 。。 ゜・。 。 ゜。・゜ ❅。 ❅・。・。 ゜・ 。゜ ・ 。。゜・。 ❅゜ ゜ ・ 。゜・❆゜ ・

。❅゜❅ ゜・ 。 ❅゜ ゜ ・。゜ ・・❆ ゜・ 。 ゜❅゜ ゜゜・。 ゜・。 。゜ ・ 。 ❆・❅ ゜゜・。 ゜・ ❆゜

It was a special quest ordering effect seen only in games, but the adventurer was just looking at the sphere with a disgusted expression as if he couldn’t see the powder at all.

In other words, it must be visible only to me, and the fact that this effect appears at this timing…

“Were you watching, you f*cking goddess!”

“What?”

“No…Just talking to myself…”

At the sudden shout, the adventurer turned around, but passed it off with a shy smile.

f*ck, I work so hard to make money! Even if you hadn’t dropped one of the possessors in the first round of Labyrinth Maze, I wouldn’t have done this at all!

After farming the box of silver coins, he must have run to kill the goblins with a club.

“Let’s go quickly, I don’t like to keep smelling this smell.”

“…Follow me”

The adventurer, who held the sphere with his bare hands and arms without any protection, looked at me with a disgusted expression and quickly moved on.

From his point of view, he may seem like an idiot who throws his life at silver coins, but I don’t know… What kind of expression would he make if he found out that he was the one who was throwing money on the floor?