Chapter 82: We Are One!

TL: Hanguk

“Is there no one to be swindled today?”

Skaram, as usual, hid in a corner of the building, looking for new prey to scam.

Then

Squeak squeak~

A white rabbit, humming merrily, passed by Skaram while singing a lively tune.

‘What the... it’s just a rabbit...’

Skaram turned his gaze again to find prey, but then

‘What’s that?’

The red ribbon worn on the rabbit’s ears caught Skaram’s attention. It was the symbol of the now-vanished Red Ribbon Royal Family, featuring a crescent moon and a rabbit.

And then,

‘Could it be?!’

An item flashed across Skaram’s mind.

‘Red Ribbon?!’

It was definitely the Red Ribbon, the item that landlord Grid, was desperately searching for, offering a reward through the Dark Society.

‘Hehehe, I am lucky today.’

With a smirk, Skaram put on his hood to hide his face and started following the white rabbit.

And then,

Thud.

When the white rabbit passed a secluded area, he knocked it unconscious with his poison sting.

Squeak...

Thump.

The white rabbit fainted and fell to the ground.

“Hehehe.”Thê source of this content n/o/v/(el)bi((n))

Skaram approached, laughing, and put the unconscious white rabbit into his bag. Considering the various problems that could arise from just taking the Red Ribbon and leaving the rabbit here, Skaram decided to hand over the rabbit to Grid as well for a clean finish.

Just as Skaram was leaving the market area with his bag,

Tap.

Someone touched his bag.

“What the?!”

Skaram glared at the person who dared to touch his bag.

And then,

“You?!”

He locked eyes with Theo, a customer he once swindled.

***

“Huh?!”

Theo was taken aback by his own paw reaching towards someone else’s bag, but once he recognized that the owner was Skaram, he pulled himself together.

And then,

“Scammer! Hand over ChuChu, meow!”

He shouted at Skaram.

“ChuChu?”

“That’s right, meow! ChuChu is definitely in your bag, meow!”

Iona, who knew about Theo’s golden front paw, described the appearance of ChuChu and also about the Red Ribbon that ChuChu was carrying.

“The Red Ribbon is a relic item, one of only ten in the Black Tower. Your front paw will definitely be attracted to it.”

Indeed, Theo felt the same attraction from Skaram’s bag as he did when he found the relic item, the Straw Hat.

“What...what are you talking about?!”

“Iona!”

As Skaram was startled and tried to leave the shopping area, Theo quickly called Iona.

“Representative Theo, have you found our ChuChu?”

At Theo’s call, Iona, who was nearby, quickly flew over.

“I think so, meow! That goblin wandering merchant’s bag is very suspicious, meow!”

“Is that so? Goblin wandering merchant, can you show us your bag? I’m Iona, the Chairman of the Wizard’s Association. I’ll give you 10,000 Tower Coins just for showing your bag.”

Iona politely asked Skaram to show his bag. An opportunity to earn a large amount just for showing the bag. If he had nothing to hide, there would be no reason to refuse.

But,

“I refuse.”

Skaram, who had something to hide, refused, and

“Open the bag, now!”

Iona became enraged, triggering her level 1 anger state, and used her magic.

Swoosh.

With Iona’s shout, the bag began to open by itself. It was Iona using her magic to forcibly open the bag.

Rumble.

The contents of the bag began to pour out. Most of them were earth items, like tumblers.

“Huh?”

Skaram was startled when his bag opened on its own.

Then, a pure white rabbit came out of the bag.

“ChuChu!”

As expected of Theo, he found ChuChu in Skaram’s bag.

“ChuChu!”

......

ChuChu did not respond even when Iona called.

“Absolute recovery.”

When Iona was using the highest-level healing magic to restore ChuChu,

Quietly.

Skaram began to run away.

But

Grrrr

Then

“Iona, calm down, meow. We need to take this scammer to President Park, meow!”

“Kyoo-Kyoo-To Sejun?”

“That’s right, meow!”

“Kyoo-Why?”

The level of Iona’s Kyoo anger gradually decreased as she talked with Theo.

“That’s because President Park asked us to bring this scammer, meow!”

Sejun had doubts while looking at the Earth goods that Skaram scammed from the cats. Compared to the number of awakened ones entering through Vanishing, Skaram was selling too many Earth goods.

And,

‘Why are they all Korean products?’

The majority of goods Skaram sold were from Korea. It was impossible that only Koreans were entering the tower via Vanishing.

So, Sejun thought that Skaram was trading with someone in Korea.

“Okay. Let’s go to Sejun together then.”

“Meow?! No way, meow! Iona, don’t come to the 99th floor of the tower, meow!”

Theo immediately adopted a defensive posture at Iona’s willingness to join. He had gone so far as to find her disciple, but she wanted to follow him all the way to the 99th floor of the tower!

“I don’t want to! But it’s my mind and I have no choice but to go to the 99th floor!”

“Then I’ll get to the 99th floor first, meow!”

Theo shouted as he put Skaram on another wolf and climbed on Elka’s back.

“Elka, let’s go, meow!

“Yes!”

The wolves set off for the 99th floor of the tower.

And then...

“Representative Theo!”

“Let’s go together!”

Da-da-da.

Interns eagerly followed him.

“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot! We can’t lose, either. ChuChu, let’s go!”

Iona got on ChuChu’s back casually and spoke.

Squeak!

ChuChu quickly ran with Iona on its back.

Thus began the race between Theo and Iona.

However...

“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. Two light-speed merchant route passage, please!”

The winner was already decided.

***

On the way to the East,

Vvveeeeng!

Before Sejun even arrived at the eastern border, he could see the poison honey bees fighting. The eastern poison honey bees had started patrolling up to this point.

“Let’s help them too!”

However, he soon discovered a problem.

“We can’t differentiate between our guys and the enemies.”

The appearance of the poison honey bees was so similar that it was hard to distinguish.

Kreong!

[We can tell by the smell!]

Cuengi pointed to his nose and said. According to Cuengi, Sejun’s poison honey bees smelled sweet like honey and the other poison bees smelled like meat.

“But that’s something only you can do.”

Kreong?

Cuengi tilted his head, wondering why he couldn’t do something so simple.

While they were talking,

Vvveeeeng.

One of the battling poison bees flew toward Sejun.

“Cuengi, what smell is it?”

Kreong!

[It smells like meat!]

“Really?”

Sejun threw his hand axe at the poison bee.

However,

Vvveeeeng.

The poison bee easily dodged Sejun’s hand axe.

And then...

Bang!

Pop! Pop! Pop!

In the end, the Black Rabbit took care of it.

“Guys, I’ve prepared a slogan for us.”

Sejun said suddenly with a serious face.

Squeak?

Kreong?

Black Rabbit and Cuengi were confused by Sejun’s sudden remark.

“Repeat after me. We are one!”

Squeak!(We are one!)

Kreong!(We are one!)

At Sejun’s shout, the black rabbit and Cuengi shouted in unison.

Day 255 of being stranded. Sejun’s journey for self-reliance was still far from complete.

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