The Player Who Stands Above All

Chapter 53

Evening, as the sun began to set, in a shabby house in a moon village.

Lee Hyun-young sat on the porch, looking around here and there, waiting for someone.

"Ah!"

As she was looking around, Lee Hyun-young saw a familiar camping truck coming down the alley and ran towards it with a bright smile.

"Oppa~"

As if answering Lee Hyun-young's call, the camping truck stopped, and a person got out from inside.

Black hair and black eyes.

He was short, but his overall body proportions were good, so it wasn't very noticeable from a distance.

Well, although he himself had a complex about his height, he was a man whose short stature was actually a plus, thanks to his cute, puppy-like face.

The one and only family member she, Lee Hyun-young, had been waiting for all this time.

It was Lee Hyun-seok.

"Why are you out here? I told you to stay inside."

Lee Hyun-seok looked worriedly at Lee Hyun-young, who was outside.

"Ehehe, I was just studying and came out for a little walk."

Lee Hyun-young said, lightly hugging Lee Hyun-seok.

Unable to resist his sister's cute display of affection, Lee Hyun-seok smiled and hugged Lee Hyun-young back, gently patting her on the back.

It is said that siblings who are close in age have a bad relationship, but these two were an exception.

After the close-knit siblings finished their touching reunion, Eun Yeon-woo, who had finished parking, and Lee Shin got out of the car and approached the two.

"Hey~ Did you study well?"

"...Hello."

Lee Shin greeted Lee Hyun-young playfully with a broad smile, and Lee Hyun-young, after briefly frowning with displeasure, bowed her head and greeted Lee Shin.

A week had already passed since Lee Shin first came to their house.

During that time, Lee Hyun-young had also talked with Lee Shin a little and had come to accept that he was not a bad person.

After Lee Shin appeared, the shadow that had been cast over Lee Hyun-seok's face had disappeared, and the smile he gave her had become much brighter.

However.

"You came back from tormenting my oppa again, calling it training!"

"Yeah, I tormented him a lot. I even took pictures, want to see?"

"Eeeek!!!"

Apart from that, what she didn't like, she didn't like.

Ever since Lee Shin came, Lee Hyun-seok always came back injured somewhere.

'Oppa looks so tired, but that person's skin is so supple, as if he just had a good night's sleep somewhere!'

Lee Hyun-young rushed towards Lee Shin, who was rummaging through his phone as if he were really going to show her, and tried to pinch his side.

"Hmph, too slow."

But Lee Shin, scoffing at Lee Hyun-young, lightly dodged all of her attacks.

While doing so, he tapped Lee Hyun-young's forehead with his index finger and provoked her, which was super effective in making her see red.

"Eugeeeeek!!!"

Lee Hyun-young gritted her teeth with the intention of pinching him mercilessly if she caught him, and Lee Shin let out a scoff with the meaning of 'catch me if you can'.

"Is it okay to leave your sister like that?"

Eun Yeon-woo, who had been watching the two's comedy for a moment, asked Lee Hyun-seok.

At that, Lee Hyun-seok smiled lightly and said.

"It's okay. Because I was lacking, she was a child who only endured with a smiling face since she was young. The method is a bit much, but I prefer seeing her being honest like that."

"Really?"

At Lee Hyun-seok's words, Eun Yeon-woo said so and looked at the two.

'Well, hyung-nim isn't doing that with that intention, but just because he's having fun.'

But thinking that what's good is good, Eun Yeon-woo quietly shut his mouth.

Thanks to that, Lee Shin was able to play to his heart's content until Lee Hyun-young was exhausted and collapsed.

Lee Shin, with a much more refreshed face, looked at the two and said.

"Now, then, you've worked hard for a week, and from today, it's a week-long holiday, so rest while doing whatever you want with the money you've earned so far."

"Yes."

"Yes."

At the two's answers, Lee Shin smiled with a satisfied face.

"Alright, then I'm going. Contact me if you have anything to say."

With those words, Lee Shin got on his nearby motorcycle and disappeared in the direction of the city.

At the event that happened so suddenly, the two stared blankly at his back, then quickly came to their senses and looked at each other.

"......"

"......"

For a moment, an awkward silence fell between the two.

"Uh... it's about time for dinner, would you like to have a meal before you go?"

"S-sure. I'll help you make dinner too."

***

A week ago.

At the same time as [Wonderland] declared war on the Black Guilds, the Player Association also began to move in earnest to wipe out the Black Guilds.

Thanks to Kim Jae-hyun, who had worked hard until he was covered in blood on the bus, the association head, who had obtained a lot of evidence, immediately gave orders to the association members.

"Get ready."

"Ah! Is it an order to assist the new recruits?"

"No, it's something even shittier."

The man wearing clothes with the association's crest on them said, packing the items he had received from the association.

"It's a real battle. They say we're raiding the Black Guilds to arrest the Chaotic Players."

"...Haa. Is that so?"

At that, the man who seemed to be his junior sighed and began to prepare for dispatch.

Seeing him, the senior said.

"They said excessive suppression is also allowed."

"Hmm? Won't the human rights groups rise up? Is that okay?"

"They said not to worry about that from above."

"Hmm, is that so. It seems they're going to cover up about a week's worth of injuries."

At the slightly sarcastic mumble, the senior chuckled and shook his head.

"No, they said any wound that can be erased with a potion is fine."

At the senior's words, the junior's eyes widened in disbelief.

At that, the senior said seriously.

"That's how important the higher-ups are thinking of this. Behave yourself."

The senior's guess was correct.

The higher-ups were planning to root out the Black Guilds as much as possible through this operation.

"Get them!!!"

"Uwaaaa!!!"

As the association member swung his hand, the sprinklers on the ceiling burst, and a stream of water gushed out.

The stream of water moved like a snake and wrapped around the Chaotic Player who was trying to escape.

"Keuk!"

The Chaotic Player, whose feet were tied by the stream of water, fell to the side.

He tried to get up quickly as he fell, but the stream of water wrapped around his entire leg and interfered, and in the end, he couldn't escape and was suppressed by the association's player.

"Kraaak!!!"

The man struggled as if having a seizure, and the Player Association employee frowned at the man and swung his fist at his head.

"Shut up!"

At that shock, the man became a little quieter, and in that gap, the player said to his colleague next to him.

"Magic!"

"Yep! [Sleep]!!!"

As the magic was activated, the Chaotic Player, unable to control his body due to the sudden urge to sleep, lost consciousness.

"Hoo, this Joseonjok trash bastard. We finally got him."

The association's operation was very successful.

They succeeded in wiping out a total of 17 Black Guilds, and the news of their victory was reported to the people through the news.

People were shocked.

The black market for magic stones or monster byproducts, gang violence through player awakening, murder using dungeons, kidnapping, organ trafficking, and drug smuggling using inventory.

Because various serious crimes had been committed without their knowledge.

The Player Association head declared to the shocked people.

"I declare a war on crime in this land."

And for the past week, the association head had put those words into practice and thoroughly cleaned out the Black Guilds.

Then, a mood of lying low was naturally formed among the Black Guilds.

Since most of them had expanded their businesses in a tentacular fashion, finding the best trading place called a dungeon, they would suffer huge losses if they stayed still, but it was too dangerous to be active now.

"Hoo~ This is a problem."

And it was the same for the Black Guild [Black Money], which had grown through the loan shark business.

"Haa~ Damn it! I'll have to lie low like this for a while until the association's dogs quiet down. Tsk! Still, is it a relief that I didn't expand the business too much?"

The man, who was fat like a pig, sighed, and his chin wobbled.

The man checked his future plans while eating the high-class wine and cheese on his table.

"Seeing how those guys are running around, I'll have to be like this for the next two months. Haa, I'll have to tell Manager Kim to just raid dungeons during that time. If I don't want to be absorbed by other organizations later, I need to have strength..."

Crash--!

As the man was muttering and making plans, the sound of a window breaking was suddenly heard from below him.

The man, the guild master of [Black Money], threw the fork he was holding on the floor and at the same time took out a pistol from the table and guarded all directions.

But even as time passed, the expected event did not happen.

'Damn it!'

That fact made the man even more anxious.

Because if an intruder had come, someone should have come up and reported to him.

The man pressed a hidden button on the table, took off the picture frame, threw it on the floor, and began to open the locks of the hidden safe one by one.

'Damn it! Which son of a bitch dares to attack! I have to get out of here first! Fuck! Why are there so many annoying locks on this damn safe! No! Let's be calm! I pressed the button, so this room is protected by shutters now. Now, calmly, calmly.'

The man forced himself to be calm and focused on opening the safe.

But because of that, he didn't know.

The fact that small footsteps were approaching his room at a fast speed.

Click-!

"It's open!"

Kwa-gwa-gwang-!!!

At the same time as the guild master shouted, a loud explosion was heard continuously from the direction of the door.

At that, the man was startled, but he opened his bag and swept the things in the safe into it.

Due to his rough handling, nearly half of the things in the safe fell to the floor, but the man, while feeling regretful, couldn't bring himself to pick them up.

Although he was blinded by the charm of money, he was not so crazy about money as to risk his life for a few pennies.

The man hurriedly closed the bag and moved to throw himself into the emergency exit, but he was a step too late.

Slice-

The door, which was protected by an iron plate, was neatly cut, and someone wearing a mask entered the room.

"Eeeeek!!!"

Bang-! Bang-! Bang-!

The guild master of [Black Money], seeing someone enter, indiscriminately fired his pistol in that direction.

But the accuracy of the pistol fired with a hand trembling as if in an earthquake was desperate.

Most of them hit the wall or the ceiling, and none of them were directed at the intruder who had entered the room, the man wearing a black mask.

Pajijik-

Before the magazine of the pistol held in the [Black Money] guild master's hand was empty, the masked man, who had closed the distance at a lightning-fast speed, said with a distorted voice, grinning.

"Hello? mother fucker?"

Thwack-!

That was the last thing the guild master of [Black Money] heard before he lost consciousness.

(End of Chapter)