Return of the 10th Circle Archmage

Chapter 39 24. Golden Haunting

“Shut up…”

Ari had just woken up from lying down on a soft chair at the auction house.

“Are you here…?”

As soon as Ari woke up, she looked around her. She still looked like she was not awake, but worry was dripping from her face.

“Where is Junhyuk?”

She immediately got up from her seat and looked for Lee Joon-hyuk. The other person was in the hall, but only Lee Jun-hyeok disappeared from his seat.

bum bum, bum bum.

As she fidgeted with her war-and-frustrated expression, she got up and made her way to the entrance of the One Free Hall. The bodyguard then raised her hand and stopped her.

“Lady. Dangerous. Please wait inside.”

“One person has disappeared.”

“Yes?”

The bodyguard looked at her Ari in her bunny mask with a puzzled expression.

“It’s a person named ‘Mr. Lee’ wearing a devil mask. No matter how much I search, I can’t find it in this hall.”

In her wet voice, Ari muttered like that. Her pretty face line exposed under the mask that covered her clown, and her small, adorable mouth made the bodyguard’s heart pound. The bodyguard, whose heart was weakened, raised his hand, adjusted the in-ear, and contacted her superior.

“Is there a Mr. Lee among the auction participants? It is said that he wore a demon mask . . .”

“Mr. Lee? Why are you looking for that person all of a sudden?”

“A woman is looking for her in the hall, and it seems she is her companion.”

“Wait a minute.”

Her nervous voice rang out from the other side of the in-ear, and she soon disappeared. Ari looked anxious as she listened to the two of them, and then she opened her mouth again.

“Can’t I go out and look for it myself?”

As Ari grabbed her hands and pleaded with her, her pure white breastbones gathered between the buttons of her unbuttoned shirt.

gulp.

The bodyguard, who was talking to her superior with an in-ear, swallowed her saliva. His lower back bulged in an instant.

A voluptuous and beautiful S-line curve. He had a body that any man would be proud of. The face hidden behind the rabbit mask looked very pretty, and her voice was flawlessly beautiful.

At that time, when the bodyguard and Ari were arguing for a while at the entrance.

“Mr. Ari. What are you doing here?”

The person she was looking for walked towards the entrance.

*

“Mr. Junhyeok!”

Ari, who was talking to a man standing at the entrance, ran towards me.

“Do you know how many I found?”

Ari shouted in a worried voice and hugged my chest. The corners of her lips lifted up by her own accord, as I was pleasantly surprised by her warm warmth and her cozy scent from her.

Whoops.

As she hugged her, she stroked her voluminous brown hair several times. until she calms down.

The bodyguard looked at him and frowned as if he was going to die of envy. I led her to her seat, avoiding her bodyguard’s stinging gaze.

“It’s all over. All the terrorists who attacked this place were subdued.”

“Yes?”

Ari, who was in my arms wide, flashed her head and looked up at me. Her twinkling eyes were like a fawn.

I swept her bangs from her forehead to the side and gave her a warm smile.

“The security capabilities of the black market here are better than I expected. I saw with my own eyes that the armed groups were subdued without any problems.”

“really?”Ari continued to look at me with envy. Even if I said that the bodyguards took care of it, I felt as if I misunderstood that it was me.

I pat her on the back, she explained, and now she only has to return home safely.

“Now that we have 760 billion, we have put an hour away from worrying about real money in the future.”

“Is money important now? She went through such a dangerous thing.”

“Are you okay? It is said that in order to make a lot of money, there is a big risk involved. Let’s say you soldered it.”

“Chi~”

Ari crossed her arms with her freckled face, and she rolled her eyes. I smiled as I watched her transform from a startled look into her grumpy little child.

Indeed, every time I see her, I get to know her new side, like an onion, one by one. It was also a new pleasure for me after returning to Earth.

‘What are we going to do with 760 billion?’

When a large amount of money was deposited into the account, I felt confused. He had accumulated more wealth than anyone else in the other world, but at that time there was no particular inspiration. He waited eagerly for his return to Earth, thinking that wealth there was meaningless.

To be precise, I wasn’t very happy, I just wanted to spend as much as I needed for food, clothing, and shelter, and pack up the rest.

In the end, it happened, and this was the second result after the bullion.

‘When I first sold gold bars, I thought I was going to fly away…’

Starting with imf as a child, I lived a really poor life with the family sitting on a pile of debt.

I couldn’t eat whatever I wanted, and I lived by picking up old clothes that other people had worn from the clothes collection box in my apartment.

So when I went to school, my friends made fun of me every day, and I didn’t want to be teased, so I fought with the kids every day.

However, as the grades went up, the gap got even worse, and I had to work part-time from dawn to close the gap.

As I had pocket money, I was able to wear proper clothes, bought what I wanted to eat, and even got a girlfriend, but that was all.

The family situation did not improve, and as they grew older, most of the income they earned from part-time jobs was added to the family’s livelihood.

‘Is this the end of suffering and the beginning of happiness?’

When I first sold gold ingots and made 490 million won, my family was released from labor for a while and then freed from money for a while.

It was also a moment when the family was freed from worries about work and money forever, not just for a moment.

“Mr. Lee, Miss Choi. You are here.”

ari and me When the two of us are close together like lovers, like glutinous rice cakes.

A man approached him, looking at it with an axe’s eye.

“Leiva!”

Ari shouted in surprise.

Ray Ba unraveled her sassy expression, and she greeted Ahri with a bright smile again.

“Are there any injuries?”

“Yes, thank you. You said the black market guards defeated the militants?”

“Ah yes. Well… that’s how it happened. This should have been prevented in advance, but there is no excuse.”

Ray Bar looked at me once, then gave her a wink and nodded her head. By returning all the credits I made in this terror attack to the black market, Ley Bar also avoided a major reproach from her superiors.

After he thoroughly figure out where the information was leaking from inside, he will be put to death soon.

Anyway, that part was up to the black market to take care of.

“Does the branch manager want to see us?”

When Ari asked with a puzzled expression, Ray Bar shook her head.

“Miss Choi. Unfortunately, the branch manager wants to see Mr. Lee alone.”

“Aha, that’s right.”

Ari looked at me as if sadly. He was probably worried about letting me go alone.

“Mr. Ari. Wait a minute here. I’ll have a conversation with the branch manager here.”

“You have to be careful.”

Ari held my hand tightly and couldn’t erase her worried expression. Other than my parents, who cares so much about me? A lovely woman who doesn’t hurt even if she puts it in her eyes.

I smiled and nodded her head.

“Well then, let’s go.”

I followed Leyba from One Free Hall to the base camp located north of Windsor Castle. The place that was temporarily opened for this auction was now like a beehive.

“Hey, you bastards!”

Inside the base camp, there were ISIS fighters who had been caught tied up with ropes like Gulbidureum, and Mark Chase, who wielded indiscriminate violence against them.

“Branch manager! I brought Mr. Lee.”

“Oh, Mr. Lee!”

Mark Chase was beating Abdul Bakur, the Sunni leader who had led the Islamic State. He quickly turned his head towards me and shook hands with me.

He had a very contorted face until recently, but as soon as he saw me, he changed like a different person.

“Come inside. I know Mr. Lee’s activities from Leyba, so I know it.”

“i See.”

When I replied shyly, Mark Chase said as he took off the thorn-studded metal knuckle he had on his fist.

“Then come this way.”

I followed Mark Chase back to the temporary base camp at Windsor Castle. It was a ‘temporary’ place, and all the goods were stocked like one huge office.

Not to mention office equipment such as computers and printers, the old-fashioned royal house was drawing a different landscape with the modern civilization of the 21st century.

A middle eastern beauty in a black office suit came up with her coffee and left it in front of me and Mark Chase.

A little weaker than Ari, but still has a voluptuous bust and pelvic line. And she was a beautiful woman with an exotic appearance.

“Mr. Lee said he fought them and subdued them nicely, didn’t he?”

“Yes.”

“You alone subdued soldiers armed with gunpowder weapons?”

“That’s right.”

“Well······.”

Mark Chase, as a very rational person, did not seem to understand the situation. However, no matter how hard I tried, there was no other way than to believe what I said.

Since he thoroughly guaranteed the identities of his members, of course there were no CCTVs or hidden cameras around the auction house.

It would be correct to say that I never expected this to happen in the first place.

“Did you swipe your fists, or did you knock them down with a kick?”

“Let’s say both.”

“Well, um… Anyway, I see. Leyba arrived late, so I couldn’t see Mr. Lee’s fighting skills, but they said they definitely saw with their own two eyes that Mr. Lee was subdued.”

“Trust the eyes of Leiva. Isn’t he from the black market?”

“Honestly, I can’t believe it, but I will admit to you that ISIS members have been subdued. However, the ‘how?’ question still does not go away.”

“I am the Kim Doo-han of this era.”

“Kim… what?”

“He is the best fighter in Korea. In fact, fighting with boxing gloves in the UFC is just a joke for kids. How would they know such a real fight?”

“·················ogue.”

I tried my best to persuade Mark Chase, but it seemed to backfire. Mark Chase handed me the pile of papers I had just pulled out with a look of disappointment.

“This is a reward for the suppression of this terrorist group. You wanted this from Leiva, didn’t you?”

Mark Chase rolled his thumb and forefinger like that, returning the same money mark I joked to Ley Barr.

“Yes······.”

I scratched the back of the head with a shy expression and affirmed in a small voice.

“Hahaha. All right. As a Black Market UK branch manager, I will do my best to give an example to the best of my ability. This is a matter that the head office is also watching closely, so if you know that it has been handled so neatly, you will not be able to raise any objection at the upper level.”

“So how much is it?”

I cut off the day and night talk of Mark Chase and asked.

Then Mark Chase flashed his right hand and raised his index finger to make a one-mark.“Ten thousand dollars?”

“No, No.”

“Then 100 million dollars?”

“Nope.”

“Then how are you?”

“I’ll give you a billion dollars.”

“A billion dollars!”

To pay 1 trillion won in our money as compensation!

I also thought that the global scale would be different no matter what. It was equivalent to one trillion dollars, an amount that far exceeded the annual sales of any medium-sized company.

Not just net income, but sales.

Besides, few of the chaebols had more than a trillion dollars in cash. Everyone has real estate, stocks, corporations, etc. in the form of various assets under their own names, and there are many people who are valued at 1 trillion won, but it is safe to say that there are none in Korea, even though they only collect pure cash.

Tiddick, n.

Mark Chase deposited $1 billion into my secret account on the spot, as if it had already been reported to headquarters.

“Thank you very much, Mr. Lee.”

“no. I’m more grateful. A trillion … no, a billion dollars for just doing something like this.”

“Not at all, Mr. Lee. You can make money at any time, but once you die, you can’t get it back. Besides······.”

After completing the account transfer, Mark Chase clasped his chin with both hands and said in a serious tone.

“Will the lives of the wealthy gathered here cost only 1 trillion won? From our point of view, we would like to do more examples, but we apologize that we have only done this to this extent because the damage to the company was not great even though this terrorist attack was over.”

“Well, I am satisfied with this.”

It would be too greedy to ask for more than 1 trillion. In addition, the black market may have persuaded participants that the event they hosted was not as safe as the auction. There were also reports that the terrorist group was successfully subdued, but the fact that they did not catch it in advance and responded only after being struck by one was like a big blow.

It was as if micro cracks had formed in the solid tower that had been built up for decades.

“I think we will see each other more often in the future, so let’s do our best.”

When I first waved goodbye and shook hands, Mark Chase happily grabbed my hand.

“Mr. Lee will be the VIP of our black market from now on. Permission has been given from headquarters to participate at any time without an invitation when the black market auction is held. Please indicate your intention to participate at any time you wish on this number here.”

I took the same business card Ari had received from Mark Chase and put it in his suit pocket. At the time, if it was a business card that Mark Chase gave to try flirting with Ari, it was a business for real customers.

“all right.”

I returned to the auction house and prepared to depart for Korea with Ari.

It was a return to Korea after 10 days after finishing the eventful jewelry sales schedule.

“What did you talk about with Mark Chase?”

Ahri, who wore a rabbit eye patch over her forehead on the plane, pulled my arm and asked.

“Uh, um… They said they liked the rainbow diamond we bid for, so they want to trade more often in the future.”

“Oh, so can we join the black market auction next time?”

“Perhaps.”

“Wow, that’s good. However······.”

Ari was happy, but on the other hand, she had a worried expression on her face. If there is another terrorist attack like this, wouldn’t it be worse than not going out?

“You don’t have to worry. Then there will be another number.”

“Is that so?”

After pacifying her worried Ari, I leaned back in her first class seat as she fell asleep. Now all that remains is to go home.

However.

“Go back, you fucking dog, you dog! Fucking Ryeon-ah!”

There was a strange commotion on the plane.

“Hey, you fucking bastard bitch!”

It was an angry, malicious shout.