I Login Alone

Episode 138

“I mean, why did you think that the residential area was so ridiculously vast? Do you remember what the conditions of the opening of the residential area were in the first place?”

“Was this like a refugee shelter for the alien worlds?”

“Oh!”

Luta clapped at Jung Si-woo’s truly precise expression. Of course, Jung Si-woo wasn’t in the mood to join her.

“Then this place will still be quiet in the future.”

“There is an extent to determination…”

“Beto was brought in for a very special reason. I don’t have a hobby of taking care of things that can’t take care of themselves. So that’s what you should know. Or do you want to go back as well?”

Luta, who assumed that she would be kicked out if she declared that she would return from here, obediently shut up. But even that didn’t last.

“There must be numerous individuals who have something that will help you, Lord, just like Beto’s special skills…”

“At least in the world I’ve been to this time, I didn’t see any promising ones such as him.”

All the more, their world, Potupou, hadn’t ended yet. It was just withering away slowly. However, Luta shrugged back at Jung Si-woo’s words.

“It’ll be over soon, right? Since it’s been a while since we, Merchant Fairies, stopped going there! We’re no philanthropists either, so…”

“Where the hell did the Merchant Fairies come from?”

“That’s classified!”

Jung Si-woo wanted to make Luta’s existence classified, but he endured it. Then Luta talked to him persuasively.

“The more you let in the individuals from diverse worlds, the more the residential area’s possibility increases. As you, Lord, are feeling so.”

“Feelings, my ass.”

It seemed that that was Luta’s only intention. She added one last word as Jung Si-woo stood up, saying that he had enough.

“Given the opportunity, everyone can shine.”

“…Hmph.”

Frankly, nothing but repulsion was felt by Luta’s look as she talked like she knew him quite well when it hasn’t been long since they had met. However, he couldn’t deny her words.

“I know that, too.”

“So, it’s better to be intervening actively in other worlds’ business in the future! …Oh, my cookies!”

Jung Si-woo stormed out of his seat at that point. He took a cookie from her in return for bothering him and walked through the forest, nibbling it. The residential area, which had been expanded as the resting place had grown, was now a spectacular sight, with dense forests and lakes.

“And somehow that secret store has been placed deeper and deeper into the mysterious landscape.”

“It’s the same for Sky Castle, but the Ant Cave is truly incomprehensible.”

They passed by the smithy too. Whether he had just started working again, a metal hammering noise rang in the blacksmith’s shop. Caina, who was outside, saw Jung Si-woo and greeted him lightly.

[I had plenty of rest. When the battle calls the master, take me with you.]

“Alright. Until then, go polish a sword or something alone.”

As they left the residential area and returned to the resting area, he felt like he had taken a walk outside. With it, the fatigue he had forgotten so far came all at once. Jung Si-woo shrieked and took off his outer garment.

“Now I should wash up and sleep.”

“Oppa, and let’s go shopping tomorrow. Shopping.”

“Yes, yes.”

A woman’s obsession with decorating something, whether it was a person or a bedroom, usually didn’t fade until it was completed. Jung Si-woo, who realized the fact through Lee Seo-hee in the past, nodded obediently to Soo Ah-rin’s words and headed to the bathroom. Jung Si-woo, who had forgotten that the bathroom had been upgraded, almost fell asleep in it due to the function of the bathtub that caressed his whole body with special Mana.

The next day, Jung Si-woo opened his eyes that every cell’s fatigue had been completely resolved. The upgrade’s effect was truly amazing! And as the cherry on top, as he ate bacon and eggs for breakfast that morning, a message that his stamina and Mana would increase by 5 percent for 3 hours had appeared! As Jung Si-woo finished his meal, surprised by each of the resting place’s options that changed so greatly, Yong Se-ha spoke with a calm expression.

“Hyung-nim, I’ll be training today. Caina said she would help me.”

“Alright, you go do so.”

Yong Se-ha seemed determined ever since he returned from the alien world, so he expected that he would say so sooner or later. A person with a will to improve deserved praise. When Jung Si-woo tapped Yong Se-ha on the shoulder, he smiled bitterly.

“I hope no too strong enemies appear for the time being.”

“I’ll be fatigued to death if I only fight annoyingly strong ones every time, you punk.”

So only Jung Si-woo and Soo Ah-rin came out of the rest area in the end. Soo Ah-rin, who was excited at the thought of decorating her bedroom, only then realized that she was alone with Jung Si-woo.

“Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what should we do? S-shall we watch an m-movie first!”

“Calm down, relax. Did you forget why we came out?”

Although he didn’t intend to not match Soo Ah-rin’s transition of stance, looking at her now, it was no different from going out with a little sister, not dating. Jung Si-woo led Soo Ah-rin, who was very nervous, to the department store first. Although he and Soo Ah-rin received attention as they were already widely known, there had been no cases where everyone’s attention had been drawn as much as before, as the “Raid” has been invigorated recently, and more people had been receiving attention.

“But there are still quite a few people on the street. The system by WPC seems to fit quite well.”

“It was said that the speed of players’ attacks on the Sky Castle seems to have not changed much.”

Again, players didn’t go into the Sky Castle very often. The WPC took that into account, patterning and coordinating players’ access to the Sky Castle and setting up their area of responsibility according to their residential areas, allowing minimal players to stay in each city for monster defense. And instead of imposing sanctions on those who didn’t comply, those who cooperated with the WPC were given benefits when it came to party or guild’s participation or reward distribution and access to the artificial island.

That way, the number of players who ignored the WPC and moved their own way had exponentially decreased, eventually strengthening the Earth’s protection by the players.

“But I’m worried that players are showing too much interest in Raids…”

“It’s not a bad thing to actively deal with them since they’re the god’s advance guard after all. But…”

How come the entities called gods used colossal monsters? Jung Si-woo was speculating that nothing would be more suitable than humongous monsters to destroy civilizations and plant fear and awe in humans. They’re that strong. In other words, there was a high possibility that one would face loss after challenging and greedily chasing the by-products.

“Hearing the resisters that I met in Potupou, it seems that there are limits to the creation of the players to some extent…there’s nothing good about the death rate rising too high.”

As the story took a turn in a grim direction, Soo Ah-rin turned her head as if she were trying to change the subject and soon found something and applauded.

“Isn’t that curtain pretty?”

“There’s no window in the bedroom.”

“Oh, right.”

But Soo Ah-rin bought the curtains in the end. The reason was to attach a canopy to the bed. Whether it was on the bed or by the window, didn’t it mean nothing if the sun couldn’t shine in, Jung Si-woo thought quietly, but he couldn’t criticize Soo Ah-rin. There was no gap to squeeze into her strange drive.

“Huhu, I actually yearned for it.”

“Yes, yes, why wouldn’t you, princess.”

After that, they spent three hours walking up and down the department store looking for small ornaments or furniture to decorate the bedroom. Soo Ah-rin finished shopping with a very proud look.

“You’ve been going around with me, so I’ll buy you coffee!”

“Alright, for me…”

“Café mocha, right?”

“Yes.”

Born a man, there was no hesitation in loving sweets. Jung Si-woo, who sat down with a tray of coffee, stirred the whipped cream on top of his share of coffee and took out his phone with a straw in his mouth. He was able to find the information he wanted quickly.

“That’s a relief. Now the movie theatre is operating normally.”

“What…?”

“You said we were going to watch a movie?”

At Jung Si-woo’s surprising remarks, Soo Ah-rin paused but soon nodded frantically. The phrase “dare not to ask but to wish it in the heart” must be used in these situations.

“Let’s watch! For sure!”

“Alright, but we have to work after watching.”

“You mean Marina, right? Sure, it’s work. We can’t help it; it’s work.”

It seemed that she was in a very good mood to keep her name in her mouth and not be disturbed. How could there be such a simple human? Jung Si-woo ended up laughing. Later in the day, after completing his date with Soo Ah-rin, Jung Si-woo was threatened by Marina. She had brought the Gatling gun in her inventory to the appointment site.

“I want to see it, too! I want to see it! Let me see it!”

“Calm down, for now. I won’t get hurt even if you shoot me with it.”

“If I thought you’d get hurt, I wouldn’t have aimed at you in the first place!”

At this point, it was possession of guns, an illegal act.

“I won’t ask you to teach the technology to B&Y, so just share it with me!”

“It’s nice of you, to be honest.”

“Calm down, Marina.”

Marina’s in-charge criticism agent, Seria, hit the back of her head and took the Gatling gun away to hand it to Jung Si-woo. It was the most famous among this line, an M61 Vulcan.

“Can you really turn this into a magic item? For real? Si-woo, I have a gun I’d like to have, and if I could strengthen the properties of the Mana bullet with to a sniper round…”

While roughly listening from one ear and out the other of Marina’s speech about guns, Jung Si-woo carefully checked the Gatling gun and put it in his inventory. Then, he pondered for a while, looking around Marina, Seria, and Lee Seo-hee…he soon nodded his head.

“Yes, then come.”

“I thought you’d say so.”

“Really?!”

Marina, who had never really expected approval, was delighted with her eyes twinkling. Seria and Lee Seo-hee looked rather baffled, but they couldn’t ditch them since Marina was going. Eventually, they all came into the resting place.

“Oh, my days…”

“What did Si-woo just do? With the key?

“It was natural that we weren’t aware…”

In the past, if the entrance to the resting place had accepted only Jung Si-woo’s party, but outsiders could now enter as much as they wanted, depending on Jung Si-woo’s will. They may think that Jung Si-woo finally approved them, but in fact, the order was the opposite.

“It almost feels like using a gate.”

“I can’t even guess what kind of magic is applied to the key…”

“It’s ridiculously wide inside. Isn’t this a separate space from the Earth?”

Upon entering the resting place, each of them expressed a different reaction. Jung Si-woo and Soo Ah-rin didn’t pay much attention as they had experienced it like a daily routine, but it seemed different for the guests.

“Oh, I’m going to decorate that bedroom for a while!”

The group saw off Soo Ah-rin, who ran to her bedroom as soon as they entered the resting place and looked around. And it wasn’t long before they realized why Jung Si-woo had been silent about the resting place.

“It’s a space where I cannot understand anything.”

“My phone, I don’t even have a charger, but when I came in here, it started charging itself.”

“The refrigerator is full of strange potions!”

By this time, they hadn’t realized. The reason for bringing the Gatling gun hadn’t been revealed yet.

The fact that there are still more amazing places left.