I Became a Genius Mage in the Cthulhu Game Chapter 20

Episode 20

Episode 20 Park Gwang-rim

A human shadow sticks out between the trees outside the road.

He’s about the same height as me, and he’s a foreigner in a suit.

“Your skills are beyond my imagination. “It was truly a great spectacle.”

If you were to judge nationality based on accent… … Maybe Chinese? A Chinese person with the ability to come to me in the middle of the night… … Ah, I guess I know who it is.

“It was nothing.”

I finished what I was doing, taking into account what the man in the shadows said.

[Blitz]

It’s a joke!!

“Kwaaaaaak!”

Mad Dog, who was lying at my feet, was already in a state of death, but I knocked him out because I didn’t know what could happen if a third party intervened.

I said, glancing towards the shadow.

“Unless you came here to interfere with work… … I would like you to wait a little while. “Let’s sort this out first and then we’ll talk.”

I stuffed the unconscious Mad Dog into the prepared carrier. Now I see that my arm is bent in the wrong direction.

It looks like it’s badly broken… … Should I give you first aid?

[Hardening]

There is no such thing as healing magic in the first level, but it can harden a broken arm and create an effect similar to providing a temporary splint.

Anyway, this is enough, and although there are bikers around who have lost their bikes, they don’t seem to be loyal enough to risk their lives.

Anyway, I think it’s roughly sorted out, and now I have to deal with the Chinese snooping around over there… … ? What on earth did you come here for?

I walked in the direction I heard the voice and called his name.

“But, Mr. Park Gwang-rim? “What brings you here?”

“… … “I heard that a rising star has appeared these days, so I came to give him a business card.”

On his own part, he probably wanted to show off his appearance by catching everyone off guard, but since I know his name, he looks embarrassed.

When the distance became close enough, Park Gwang-rim emerged from the shadow between the trees and fully revealed himself.

He is a slit-eyed man wearing an old-fashioned suit and an out-of-date fedora.

“First of all, I have someone else to deal with… … .”

That guy’s name is Park Gwang-rim. Although he is Chinese, he, like Tudor, is one of the brokers active in Paju.

“I have no intention of increasing my client base, so for that type of business, I would like to go through Café Vasilisa’s Tudor.”

“That’s because Tudor tried to protect Kim Shin-hwa too much… … .”

Park Gwang-rim smiles for a moment and plays with his fedora.

I think there’s something else going on.

“How is it? Would you like to hear the story for a moment? “There are so many people who are curious about who Kim Shin-hwa is?”

Gwanglim Park also works as a broker, but his work specializes in information trading. In short, he is an intelligence dealer whose main job is to run a criminal investigation.

“I don’t think talking to you would be of much benefit, right? “Are you planning to exaggerate and exaggerate the few words I said and sell them to all kinds of people?”

Although reputation is required, generating trash is a requirement.

As if he had hit the nail on the head, Park Gwang-rim made a stern expression and continued speaking.

“If you are looking for financial achievement, there are many better partners than Tudor. Did you know that Tudor’s commission rate is very high even in this world?”

That’s true.

Tudor’s commission rate is quite expensive in this market.

“If you wish, I can introduce you to a cheaper and more reliable partner.”

“I’m not doing this because I’m in a hurry for money. “I’ll be satisfied with Tudor.”

Although you need money, there are many things that are easier to do in the first place if all you want is money. Other quests that may be connected in the future… … I chose Tudor because there are many items that can only be obtained through Tudor.

Of course, the most important point was that Tudor was a trustworthy broker who would never betray.

In particular, Park Gwang-rim knows what he will face later if he deals with this bastard.

‘I will never do anything with this bastard!’

“We can connect you to other lines as well, not just for money. As a wizard, wouldn’t you want to find more helpful knowledge or artifacts? “There are business partners that can be connected to something like that.”

It sticks more tenaciously than I thought.

Although he was praised as a promising new talent, honestly, it is not time for headhunting to begin.

Is it possible for them to stick together like this, having only captured about four or five bounties in a period of about a month?

“Stop, just tell me the real reason you came here.”

“hmm… … All right.”

Tsk, look. I knew it would be like this.

“You seem to be getting a little irritated, so I’ll just ask you one thing.”

I’m already annoyed.

“what?”

“Have you ever stopped by Unjeong Station about a month ago?”

Because it’s Unjeong Station… … .

Ah, I was wondering what kind of event this was, and this was the main point?

About a month ago, we robbed the belongings of cultists, or [Descendants of Fomalhaut], at Unjeong Station.

They also completely ruined their church… … .

“A month ago… … Well, I don’t really remember anything.”

This is information that should not be told to this bastard, Park Gwang-rim, not to any other guy.

It will spread to everyone faster than something on the 9 o’clock news.

“okay. “Some of the people I do business with have been looking for something for a month, so I asked if they knew anything.”

The descendants of Fomalhaut, it seems they paid Gwanglim Park money to find me, right?

“Then I don’t know anything.”

“okay. “I heard you lost some kind of ring. Do you really not know?”

From the cultists’ point of view, it must be an important sacred item, so they will be desperately looking for it. The ring is on my finger now.

“Well, I guess there’s nothing I can do to help.”

“Ugh… … In fact, isn’t such an item difficult to find unless the person who stole it gives it to a fencer somewhere? So, I have almost given up.”

Does that mean that if you steal a ring, you can get caught right away if you try to sell it, so if you stole it, don’t dispose of it for the time being?

It could be read in a threatening context, but I think it means that he will take my side for now.

After nodding appropriately, I spoke to Park Gwang-rim.

“Is that the end of the matter?”

“That’s it.”

“good. “Then, before you go on your way, give me a business card and I’ll take it with you.”

“Oh, of course. “If we split from Tudor, you can always tell us.”

“what… … Rather, if I need someone urgently later, I can contact them.”

Park Gwang-rim’s slitted eyes narrow further at my words. He must be concerned that I know too much when he knows nothing about me.

He is a person with a very special ability called [Dowzing].

A unique ability that allows you to find where an object is with just a few clues.

Instead, the conditions for demonstrating abilities are limited to people, so objects cannot be found.

If that were the case, they would have caught me with the ring.

Park Gwang-rim tried to control his expression and took out a business card.

“Ah, hmm, hmm. Here is my business card. Could you please tell me how to contact you? … ?”

“Well, we haven’t made a cell phone yet.”

This is true.

The time has come for Tudor to create an ID card, and once the ID card comes out, they will start using one of their smartphones.

However, Park Gwang-rim seemed to have misunderstood what he said and looked a little disappointed.

“All right. Please feel free to contact us at any time. As you know, when it comes to finding people, there is no one who can follow me here in Paju.”

Would you be brave enough to show up here in person to show off your abilities?

In any case, if you become friendly with Park Gwang-rim, you can get help later when you need to find guys who hide randomly like Lee Chang-hyuk.

“Oh right. And then.”

“Yes, what is it?”

“Will you give me a ride to Vasilisa?”

“… … .”

You said earlier that you would give me a ride, right?

* * *

“Something like this happened.”

“Hmm… … Are you showing off your popularity now?”

When I came to Cafe Vasilisa and told Tudor the story of Park Gwang-rim, Tudor made a sullen expression for a moment.

It may be a sign of dissatisfaction, but since he looks so attractive, it looks like he’s preparing a prank rather than a complaint.

“You snooped around even though I told you to be quiet… … “I guess I’ll have to send a gift to the opposition party sometime soon.”

The opposition party has Park Gwang-rim’s workplace.

The company name on the business card… … It was an eerie name called [Opposition Detective People Search Specialized Affair Investigation Evidence Investigation Fraud Investigation Errand Center].

Tudor began muttering to himself for a while as he thought about a ‘gift’ to send to Park Gwang-rim.

“Vomiting? No, in keeping with the current mood, should we at least send him pneumonia? Authordox, but traffic accidents aren’t that bad… … .”

… … Tudor is a witch.

If you receive an unexpected gift from Tudor, stop what you are doing and go to the nearest cathedral right away.

If you can avoid getting into an accident on the way to the cathedral, you might be able to figure out how to somehow lift the curse or at least reduce the damage.

Although it was not to save Park Gwang-rim, he turned his attention by talking to Tudor.

“Now that my body has warmed up, I think it would be okay to gradually increase the difficulty of the work.”

“… … “Is that why you brought up that story?”

“Not really. “It’s just that it happened.”

“Hmm… … “It was already like internship work prepared to make it easier for me to adapt to the atmosphere here.”

“I thought so.”

The task that followed the hunt for Lee Chang-hyuk, which was to capture a bounty, was a series of typical tutorial quests.

Transportation of security items, defense of key bases, sabotage of secret equipment held by the opposing organization, and even today’s chase quest.

There were various types of tasks, but they were generally low-difficulty and simple tasks that could be completed in about half a day.

“I am very satisfied with this matter. I had no idea it could be resolved so quickly without any additional support. “That’s amazing.”

Tudor’s expression brightened. It seems that Park Gwang-rim will be able to avoid the crisis.

“There was no need to set up something like an apprenticeship period from the beginning.”

“Hehe, since it has been proven through performance, I can’t really refute it. However, in order to become a sincere and trustworthy broker, you need to do everything with certainty.”

That’s true. Aside from that, no matter what performance I showed, Tudor would have moved according to the schedule set in the game.

Anyway, now that you have completed a total of 5 quests including the introductory quest, troublesome events will begin to occur in earnest.

“But still, not today. “I think he’ll be busy and take a break from work for a while.”

“You’re busy?”

“Yes, now that you have a new identity, you’re going to take care of the things you couldn’t do before, right?”

“After talking about something, it looks like you finally got your ID card?”

“that’s right. “He said he had finally become a Korean who could make credit transactions normally.”

“It feels strange when you say that.”

I smiled self-deprecatingly and tapped the mask with my fingers.

A sudden incident wiped my life and everything I had with it. Whether it’s status or nationality… … . These were things I never once had to be grateful that I had them.

But now you have to pay exorbitant prices to get such basic things.

“Okay, here, first get your ID card.”

Tudor hands over a small envelope. Inside the envelope is an ID card and a bankbook.

“Didn’t it take a little longer to get ready than you thought?”

“These days, crackdowns on illegal immigrants have been strengthened not only in Paju but nationwide, so there has been a bit of a delay.”

Is the Foreigners Management Office going around? What a pain in the ass.

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