Labyrinth City Mesugaki Pawn Shop

7. Day 2 (1)

There are times when I think that the place I am at right now is a dream in a scene so unrealistic, but for me, now was that time.

Unfamiliar ceiling

Unfamiliar air

And the strange rat tail… aaaghs

I was startled by Dev Groo’s tail that brushed the tip of my nose and rustled in front of my eyes, so I kicked off my seat and stood up.

Dev Gru, who was on the pillow, bounced off the wall due to the recoil, but as if nothing had happened, he spurred off the wall one more time and landed very stably on the table.

It was a neat triangular jump with nothing more to add, a move that could only be found in a parkour textbook.

“Take-chiit&”

Soon after, Dev Gru climbed down on a chair and, as if having done his job, lifted his head and bobbed, then slipped through the gap between the door and the floor.

Well, it must be a dream, it must be a dream, it must be a dream. How can a rat do a triangle jump?

After lying down on the bed again for a while, I felt a tingling pain when I pulled my cheek. He additionally pinched the back of his hand, but nothing changed.

“Ah, that’s f*cked up.”

The events of yesterday flashed through my mind in an instant.

Begging, Sky Whale’s Bezolite, Holy Sword, Contract and…

“Wow!”

I was careless because it was not written in the contract. Is this the harm of high-income, high-profit part-time jobs? One mistake came very painfully.

What do you do when you earn 10 million won in Korean currency? He could not be relieved that he had eight hundred left. It was this world that I opened my eyes and went to the nose. He vowed to approach carefully how to spend the remaining 80 silver coins.

When I got up, brushed myself lightly, and went outside, the sweet smell of food was filling the hallway. After briefly washing my face in the bathroom, the smell intensified as I went downstairs.

” It seems to smell a bit like meat…?”

Following the sound of the bubbling pot boiling, we arrived at the room on the opposite side of the stairs on the second floor. When I opened the door and entered, an unexpected sight unfolded.

“Heung, heuh~, heungheung”

What’s so fun about it is Yan, who is moving around with a newspaper in one hand while singing her hum, and behind her is a pot rattling and a ladle floating in the air and stirring itself.

Plates and bowls were placed neatly according to Yan’s gestures, and the bread baked in the oven was cut beautifully, and the butter knife that had been waiting next to them smeared plenty of butter.

“Hmm, a sudden fire in the western forest area… I wonder if the price of herbs will go up, so it might not be bad to buy them in advance.”

It was an unexpected appearance. Her long white hair was gathered back and made into a ponytail with a rubber band, but the hairs on the nape of her neck that had not yet been tied were glistening in the sunlight.

Just as I was about to take my eyes off the thin white neckline, I met Yan’s eyes.

“Ah, are you here?”

At the same time, the chair that was pushed out of its own accord gave way. She sat down on the chair as if possessed and was pulled to the table as if waiting.

“This morning is bacon-cabbage soup, oatmeal, buttered bread and cheese. Cabbage was cheap after a long time, so I made it once. If the seasoning doesn’t suit you, add a pinch of salt.”

Buttered bread, oatmeal, and sweet-smelling soup were piled high on plates and bowls.

Even after accepting the food that flew by myself, I became completely bewildered.

What the hell is this?

I looked at Yan with a puzzled expression.

“What, why? Are you doing this because you’re afraid you’ll get paid? Don’t worry about that, just eat it, because it’s clearly written in the contract that food or meals are provided. You’re fulfilling the contract as it was decided, so feel free to eat it, it’s stupid&”

Leaving Yan, who was just looking at the newspaper as if nothing was wrong, he carefully looked at the soup the witch made.

The soup was clearer than I thought, perhaps because the chicken stock was used as the base, and the fragrant, well-cooked cabbage and large bacon were impressive.

Come to think of it, have you eaten anything properly since yesterday?

At best, the only thing I ate was bread that was hard enough to break down a mountain wall with a fairy tale I begged for, and all the water from the fountain. This was the first time since I was possessed in this world that I had such warm food.

When she realized that, as if she had waited, hunger and saliva came out.

I was about to pick up a spoon and bring it to my mouth without realizing it, but I couldn’t help but stop when I felt as if the blade was being stabbed into my skin.

A gaze that makes your skin tingle.

As I rolled my eyes and looked at her, I realized the cause.

‘He pretends not to be so, but he cares a lot…!’

She clenched her hands so tightly that the newspaper she was reading was crumpled. Far from looking at the newspaper, she noticed Yan, who was directing her gaze toward this direction, and her hunger went into it.

If an iron plate was in the way, the eyes were so intense that they would melt and pierce through them. Previously, even when the corps commander and other stars came down to the base for a surprise inspection of the stockpile and decorations, it was not so burdensome.

“…I will eat well.”

I wonder if this is how the deposed woman Yoon felt while drinking the poison, so she closed her eyes tightly and drank a large spoonful.

“Ugh! Whoops! Keugh!”

I dropped the spoon I was eating, and clutched at my burning throat, into my fading consciousness.

‘Brutus, you too?’

…The same thing didn’t happen.

It was just plain delicious. The taste of the clear broth was pretty good. The seasoning of the bacon was just right, not too salty, and the inside of the bread was chewy as if it had been freshly baked.

If the market is a side dish, there is nothing more satisfying than a meal.

“…It’s okay.”

“Huh, it’s okay to express your sincerity a bit more, Heo-cheop& There’s no way the food I made doesn’t taste good& If there’s any fault, it’s not me, it’s Heo-cheop’s poor tongue&”

Look at the people in the neighborhood! Look at that mouth that can only speak that way! Mouth!

One day I will have to scold you very hard.

As I was seriously contemplating whether I should lift it up and hit it on the butt, a crumpled newspaper caught my eye.

[The great fire in the western forest area… A desperate struggle with the unquenchable flame for 3 days… Those left behind and those who left.]

[Price of tulips soaring day by day, but bulbs are unavailable… Excessive demand!]

[New discovery of alchemists! Released Pervitin! Lethargy and depression alleviate… Will I be able to work for up to 40 hours without a break?!]

Except for the crumpled part, as if it was a newspaper that just came out today, it was as crisp as if it had been cut.

“Huh, are you interested in newspapers? Any information you are looking for?”

“A little bit.”

There’s no way you wouldn’t be interested.

This world was a world I knew very well, but it was also something unknown.

The protagonist succeeds in obtaining the Philosopher’s Stone, returns and announces his reputation as an adventurer… The world behind it.

Even within the game, the options after the first ending were divided into two.

Go back to the starting point with some of the characteristics intact and choose the second labyrinth start filled with slightly stronger mobs, added boss patterns, and more dangerous traps.

Or, wandering around in the labyrinth in the same state as you obtained the Philosopher’s Stone and continuing farming with the final equipment.

Of course, there was no particular problem with the gameplay in the latter case. Taking the Philosopher’s Stone didn’t make the labyrinth disappear, so I was still able to explore, but the difficulty level was quite lukewarm compared to the former, so I generally chose the second round.

Even if you didn’t choose and remain in the world as it is, when you talk to the NPC, nothing much has changed except for one more line of dialogue saying, “Oh, it’s an honor to be an adventurer who has obtained a philosopher’s stone!”

After that, there was no more story, and after that, after the DLC-only Nth ending was added, it became a national rule to move on to the next episode.

In that respect, how is this world?

The adventurer’s discovery of the Philosopher’s Stone continued as if it were the beginning, not the end.

From fire to tulips to pervitin.

Pervitine It was introduced with an unfamiliar name, but that was none other than the ‘drug’ methamphetamine. The effect is to alleviate lethargy and depression. Are the doctors of this era just as crazy as they were on the original Earth?

Of course, you have to eat to get better. For a moment, feathers would sprout and soar to a world full of hopes and dreams, but, as always, there were wings to fall.

And you have to bear the burden yourself.

“I wonder if you have Pervitin?”

“Huh? Do you have one as an over-the-counter medicine? An alchemist recommended it a while ago that it would be nice to have it. It went viral among the nobles and became a bestseller, so I almost couldn’t find it.”

Oh my God, the boss is a drug addict. No, are you still an attempted criminal?

A brown bottle taken out of the cupboard was printed with the face of a woman smiling happily. Meanwhile, my face started to turn black and die.

“Later on, I tried to feed one or two when I was feeling down. The alchemist said it had special effects on lethargy&”

“Oh, my god”

Unknowingly, I was almost defeated as the main character of a drug self-destruct build, so I immediately took the bottle and threw it in the trash.

“Hick!”

Perhaps it was because she was startled by the sudden action, Yan’s eyes were wide open.

“This… Is more dangerous than I thought. A lot.”

“Heh, heuh, hehehe… Do you think you know something?”

I couldn’t bear to look into Yan’s eyes, who were staring at me as if he was trying to look inside me.

If I told you in the first place, would they believe me?

Effects of drugs in the game? It was nothing but the blood of new feet.

How can we say that in the past, the German army, awakened by pervitine-methamphetamine, had the honor of pushing France all the way to Paris in just six weeks, but behind the scenes it was dangerous enough to spawn millions of serious drug addicts? .

Unexpectedly, Yan nodded.

“Because heojeop is talking about it, I will especially believe him♡, If the boss doesn’t trust the words of his employees, who will believe them?”

“Thank you”

“Instead of that, I should properly compensate, even the medicine I just threw into the dumpster would cost me almost 40 silver coins-“

Before he could finish talking, he immediately took it out of the trash and put it back into Yan’s hand.

“Oops, I must have misunderstood. Here it is. Cancer, cancer, panacea. Depression helplessness? A single bottle of this will blow everything away, and a bottle of this will make it possible to march all the way to the north and unify the continent!”

They said it was okay to pick up food that fell on the ground within 3 seconds and eat it. Since this is bottled, 30 seconds would be fine.

I ended up kneeling in front of ruthless capitalism… But I can’t help it with the 40 silver screen. If Mr. Trotsky also hears this amount, she will inevitably forgive her.

The holy sword flew over my head without a word.

f*ck.

Beans!

******

I was able to go down to the first floor only after I had a fist-sized bump on my head. When I pulled back the blackout curtains and opened the closed door, I met the eyes of the owner of the store across from me, who had been sprinkling salt the day before.

A middle-aged, chubby man wearing glasses made a surprising expression.

“What is it, are you alive?”

Is it too much to treat a person as a dead body?

“No, I thought I was cleaning up another body. Carrying something like that, of course I can’t help but think that way.”

“A hundred years will survive more tenaciously.”

No matter how f*cked up the world is, shouldn’t we still struggle?

“My name is Einheri. I started working at this store as of yesterday.”

Since it’s the store across the street, it must have been a long time since we’ve seen each other. When I asked for a handshake, he also accepted the handshake with a cheeky face.

“Gee, I felt sorry for the salt yesterday. Denzel Hayes. After washing, the divine water is clear”

Unexpectedly, Denzel Hayes’ store was handling groceries.

Should I say it feels like a convenience store like SEE U or TS 25 built in the middle of an industrial complex? It’s not 24 hours, but it’s open until quite late in the evening for adventurers.

“…That’s how it happened. And this time, there is a new snack. What kind of bastard alchemists are trying to eat sweets? The price is filthy expensive, so I don’t know if anyone will buy it, but I got angry when I told them to put it in the store, so I had no choice but to bring in a few.”

“How much is it?”

“One silver coin per coin.”

“Hemmy, did you sprinkle gold powder on some kind of cookie?”

“You said you sprinkled it instead of gold powder on the cookies? The new thing that came out this time is the pride of alchemists or something.”

I was anxious.

The same newspaper as Jan was reading was in Hayes’ hand.

“Pervitine? Yes, they say it was sprinkled with powder.”

“Ah.”

Please.