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Chapter 48
Translator: Enuma ID
Kim Hyun-sung, Kim Ji-hye's older brother, stopped in front of his room.
The door was open.
"...What are you doing?"
His father and his sister both turned at once.
W̆.ĕb̀n̄ о v̌ е̊ l Еñu ṁ а̀
Kim Hyun-sung scanned the room.
The computer, powered on.
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The Sports Betting site up on the screen.
And his father and his little sister, standing in his room, looking at it.
For a second his heart dropped.
But the panic didn't last long.
Eń u̇m̆ȧ .ĩ d
Kim Hyun-sung's face twisted up right away.
"Hold on, why are you barging into my room? And why'd you turn my computer on?"
His voice came out sharp.
His sister flinched, her shoulders trembling.
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His father spoke, his face hard.
"Let's talk for a minute."
W̊ е̌ b̂ňо̇v̀ĕl Еnú m̃à
"I'm tired. Make it quick, just the point."
Kim Hyun-sung scratched at his head and stepped casually into the room.
His first thought was to kill the computer's power.
At that moment his father blocked his path.
"Sit down. On the sofa, over there."
"Why?"
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Irritation flared up in him.
Just as he moved to shove past his father,
"Off the clock? You've never once clocked in."
An unfamiliar voice spoke up.
Brow furrowed, Kim Hyun-sung glared at the laptop in his sister's hands.
A young man on the screen was staring straight at him.
Е̇nümа́.і d̆
"And who the hell is this bastard?"
Before his sister could get a word out, the man on the screen answered first.
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"Never mind that."
"......."
"You're doing illegal Sports Betting right now, aren't you?"
To Kim Hyun-sung it was absurd.
Ën̂ u m̌_à . ïd
Some bastard he didn't even know, suddenly going on about illegal Sports Betting, and he scowled and shouted.
"What kind of bullshit is this? I've never touched illegal Sports Betting."
He spat it out like a sneer, but inside he was uneasy.
He had no idea how much the guy knew about him.
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Then the man on the screen smiled and said,
"You deposited and placed your bets again just last night."
E ň um̂ а̇ . id́
Kim Hyun-sung's expression froze.
"...What?"
"Past two in the morning you slammed money on the Premier League, and the second that wrapped you put more down on La Liga."
"......."
"Pretty funny, you saying you've never done it."
A chill ran down his back.
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Kim Hyun-sung forced his jaw shut.
"So what do you want me to do about it?"
"Then how about this?"
The man on the screen went on, cold.
"That money sitting in your account? It isn't yours."
That set off another surge of irritation.
W̌е ḃ nо̌v̂ ё ĺ Ё nů m̀ а̇
"Don't make me laugh. How is it not my money?"
"Then withdraw it."
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"What?"
"You said it's yours."
"......."
"I said take it out. Right now."
Е̌ ňum̈ a .і d̄
The chat scrolled up fast.
-LegendBarrel : called it lmaooo
-Ertel : stop talking and just withdraw it
-Kkoka : this is the fastest way
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Kim Hyun-sung scrunched up his face.
"Ha, this is seriously absurd. Same-day withdrawals don't go through right away."
Еñů_mа
"Just put in the request."
"There's a ten percent fee on it!"
Then his father spoke, in a tone that left no room.
"If you lose it, I'll cover the difference, so take it out. Right now."
Kim Hyun-sung looked at his father.
It wasn't the face of a man joking.
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His head went hot in an instant.
If he backed down here, his father would clearly keep making an issue of it.
Jaw clenched, Kim Hyun-sung yanked the chair over and dropped into it.
"Fine. You said you'd cover it, so let's give it a shot."
With practiced hands he logged into the site.
He entered the secondary password, and the balance screen came up.
È_n̂ umа. іd̆
Tens of millions of won were displayed there.
Behind him he heard his sister catch her breath.
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His father said nothing either.
"See that? This is all money I won."
He hit the withdrawal request button.
A notice popped up: an immediate withdrawal would incur a ten percent fee.
Е̊ nůḿа
"You still want me to take it out?"
The man on the screen said, shortly,
"Yeah."
With a sigh, Kim Hyun-sung typed in his account number and hit withdraw-all.
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After verifying the security code, he pressed the final confirm button.
"There. Satisfied?"
Ӗn úṁ ӑ
He waited for the withdrawal to go through.
The moment that money hit his account, he could shut that bastard up.
After a beat the screen stuttered, and a pop-up window appeared.
[Abnormal transaction detected.]
[Your account has been temporarily suspended for your protection.]
[For details, please contact the administrator.]
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Kim Hyun-sung's hand stopped.
"...The hell?"
He hit refresh in a hurry.
He tried logging in again.
But the result was the same.
[Account access restricted.]
Ĕ n̊ ǔ m̆ă
Cold sweat ran down his spine.
"No, wait. Why is this happening? It can't be."
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Kim Hyun-sung went straight to the administrator inquiry window.
[I tried to withdraw and it said abnormal transaction and suddenly suspended my account. Unlock it, fast. I need to take my money out.]
A moment later, a reply came.
[How is this your money? It's mine.]
Е̃ ń ŭm̆á .ї d
Kim Hyun-sung's mind went blank.
"...What?"
Doubting his own eyes, he looked at the screen again.
The words were exactly the same.
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He hadn't misread.
"Th-this can't be. No way."
Е ǹ ů m̂ӓ
Kim Hyun-sung stared at the monitor, dazed.
Everything he'd believed was his money had turned to nothing in a single instant.
Then the man on the other side of the laptop cut him off, flat.
"That's it for the Spirit Reading."
And the Discord call dropped.
***
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The Discord call had dropped, but the chat was still going off.
-LegendBarrel : like why even do illegal Sports Betting smh
-CabbageSnail : feel so bad for the dad
-Carefree717 : brutal, and this is just the free Spirit Reading
-Ertel : heard once you're hooked on that stuff there's no fixing it
Park Ji-hun skimmed the chat once.
W̃ е b̀n̄ о̌ v̇е̇ľ. Е̂ ñ um̊а
Then his hand stopped.
A brief scene flickered before his eyes.
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It was a high-rise apartment overlooking the sea.
Along one side of a wide living room, a row of monitors was lit up.
Four guys, still too young to have lost their baby faces, were goofing around and hammering away at their keyboards.
Instant noodle cups and cigarette butts were strewn carelessly across the table, and beside them a few thick wads of cash and a scatter of gleaming sports car keys were rolling around.
Ẃ e b ñov̊ӗ ĺ Еn̈ù_m а̇
Beyond the floor-to-ceiling glass, the Gwangan Bridge stretched out below.
It was Busan.
Park Ji-hun said calmly,
"Hold on a sec."
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He immediately opened the message window on Discord.
The chat with Park Dong-hyun, the detective he'd crossed paths with not long ago, was still there.
Е̇ num â.і d̈
[Detective. I think the guys running the illegal Sports Betting site are in Busan. Please look into it.]
He sent the DM, then spoke.
"On to the next Roulette."
-LegendBarrel : still gotta do what you gotta do
-Kkoka : Roulette lets gooo
This time too, viewer handles streaked across the screen and gradually slowed to a stop.
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The handle that landed on screen was [Hope1224].
The chat stirred at once.
-SsumyeonMaster : ugh so jealous lmao
-TomatoSoup : how do you even win the Roulette
-HopelessExplorer881 : so jealous ugh
Park Ji-hun took the Discord call.
Ŵ е̄b̈n о̊ v е̇l Ëǹ ŭ m̃а
A moment later, a boyish male voice came through the mic.
"Oh, hi."
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His nerves were obvious.
Even his breathing was keyed up.
Park Ji-hun asked,
"All right. What do you want to know?"
E n̈ ǔ m a.і̄ d̀
Hope1224 hesitated for a moment, then said carefully,
"So... there's this girl I like."
In that instant the chat blew up.
-Kkoka : oh come on, a relationship question?
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-CabbageSnail : die!!!
In a tight, stiff voice, Hope1224 went on.
W̌ēb̈ ñ_о̇v е̄ l .Е̂ n̄ů m̌а
"We go to the same cram school. And it doesn't feel like she's totally uninterested in me. But then I might be reading it wrong... and I'm scared things'll get awkward if I confess for nothing."
Park Ji-hun studied the monitor for a moment, then spoke.
"She's into you, yeah."
"R-really?"
"A while back she floated the idea of setting you up with a friend of hers, right?"
"Huh? Yeah, she did. And I turned it down."
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"She only brought that up to see whether you'd just as easily go date someone else."
The chat exploded right away.
-Hailida : hey bartender, pour me a glass of bleach
-Kkoka : this is fucking unreal
Park Ji-hun went on without missing a beat.
"And last week, she said she was cold and slipped her hand into your jacket pocket, didn't she?"
Еṅu̇m а . і̊d̀
"...Yeah, that's right. That happened."
"Girls don't do that with a guy they're not into."
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Hope1224 asked in a trembling voice,
"Um... is that really true?"
"But don't get comfortable."
"...Sorry?"
Е n ǔ m а̄
"There's another guy making moves on her besides you."
-Sosaun : yes, this is it!
-Kkoka : lmao confess first lets go
Hope1224 held his breath, unable to say a word.
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Park Ji-hun continued.
"Keep dragging your feet and someone could snatch her right out from under you."
En̆ û mа̀ .і̄ d
"W-wait... hold on. Is she into him?"
Park Ji-hun said, shortly,
"No."
"Phew."
"But if you keep waffling around, that could change."
Hope1224 couldn't get a word out for a while.
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Then, biting down hard, he said,
"I'm gonna go confess to her."
Park Ji-hun added,
"Don't dance around it. Just tell her you like her."
And just like that, the Discord call dropped.
At the same moment, the chat erupted.
Е ǹum á
-Ertel : boooooooo
-Sosaun : hope she shoots him down :(
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-Kkoka : please let it crash and burn!
-Hailida : hope he wipes out on some ice on the way there
-ThreePM : ah, youth though. jealous
-Yujati : must be nice, i had days like that once
Ẁẽb̆ nо̂ v̀ el̊ Е n̊u m̆a
Amid the jealousy and the curses, Park Ji-hun spoke.
"Next."
***
Before he knew it, even the last Roulette was done.
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Just as Park Ji-hun was about to end the broadcast,
Ba-baam–
Wѐ b̆ ṅ о̊vé l̂ Е_n ŭ m а
[Nathan has gifted 5,000 Water Drops.]
-Nathan : I'm far too late
With Nathan's arrival, the chat got rowdy.
-SsumyeonMaster : whoa, look who it is
-Ertel : why so polite all of a sudden, doesn't suit you
-Kkoka : work going okay over there?
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Park Ji-hun skimmed the chat and said evenly,
"We're done for today."
-Kkoka : rules are rules
-Ertel : big spender still gotta wait in line lmao
-SsumyeonMaster : come earlier tomorrow
A moment later, Nathan's chat came up.
Е̌ n ũ mа. і̀ d̈
-Nathan : I know
-Nathan : just dropped by to say hello
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-Nathan : things have been a bit hectic lately
-Nathan : they never used to route Approvals to me, now they keep landing on my desk
The chat reacted right away.
-LegendBarrel : oh, someone's moving up in the world
W̌е́ b̂ ǹо̇ v ё l Е̇ ṅ ũ m a
-Kkoka : rubbing elbows with all the big shots now or what
-Ertel : it's all the Manchwisaeng effect lol [TL Note: "Manchwisaeng" is Ji-hun's streamer handle, a play on 만취 ("blackout drunk") and 만년 취준생 ("perpetual job-seeker").]
Park Ji-hun said nothing.
It was in that moment.
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His vision blurred for a second.
The sight of Nathan from behind, looking worn down, flickered past.
Ēnum а
And cast long behind him was a black shadow.
Park Ji-hun's gaze sank for a moment.
But in the end, he didn't open his mouth.
"That's all for today's broadcast."
***
The next morning.
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Kim Tae-jun had just gotten in and was hanging up his coat.
A knock came, and a Section Chief walked in carrying a folder of documents.
"Division Head, do you have a moment?"
Kim Tae-jun looked up.
"What is it?"
The Section Chief came straight up to the desk and held out the folder.
Е̄ ñu̇ m̄á
"It's the partnership contract that's already cleared the Planning Office Chief's Approval. We just need your final Approval."
Kim Tae-jun took the folder and turned to the first page.
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It was a partnership contract.
When his eyes moved to the top right, the first thing he saw was his uncle's signature.
Without a word, Kim Tae-jun flipped through a few more pages.
On the surface, nothing seemed out of order.
Е̃ňũm̃ a .і d
And yet, strangely, his hand wouldn't move to sign.
Then the Section Chief spoke up carefully.
"Your Approval, please."
Kim Tae-jun's gaze rose slowly.
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The Section Chief had his head bowed politely, but something about him looked impatient.
"Is there some rush?"
W̆е̄b n о v̊ е̃l̃ Е̂ n ũ ḿа̊
"No, sir. It's just that the Planning Office Chief told me to bring the Approval back quickly."
The pen in Kim Tae-jun's hand paused for a moment.
A short silence passed.
Then he set the pen down and closed the folder.
The Section Chief's expression froze for an instant.
"I'll look this over a bit more before I decide."
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"Division Head, this has already gone through the Planning Office Chief's Approval, so......."
"Which is exactly why I need to look harder."
It was short and firm.
The Section Chief could say nothing more and shut his mouth.
Kim Tae-jun jerked his chin toward the door.
"You can go."
Ŵ е̇b̈n ö v̂ еl̀ Е̌ núṁа
As the Section Chief moved to gather up the folder, Kim Tae-jun added,
"Leave the contract here."
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The Section Chief hesitated for a moment, but in the end he set the contract down and withdrew.
Even after the door closed, Kim Tae-jun went over the contract for a good while.
Something nagged at him.
But even he couldn't immediately put his finger on what exactly the problem was.
Е n̈ û m а
After a moment, Kim Tae-jun picked up his phone.
"...Looks like I'll have to do an Open Run." [TL Note: "Open Run" is slang for racing to grab a slot the instant it opens, here a spot on Ji-hun's stream.]
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