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Chapter 27: The Money Duplication Glitch
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In the end, I found myself imposing on the Kowloon Hotel once again.
"One thing, just so we're clear. Inside this hotel, your identity is still that of my cover lover."
As Yang Mi-ryeong's cover lover, just like before.
"Why now?"
E̊_n̈ů ḿa . i̇d
"Why do you think? Every employee in this hotel already remembers you that way. Word has already spread through the entire staff that I personally dragged my runaway lover back from Dalian after he skipped out in the middle of the night."
"...."
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"Make yourself comfortable in my suite for the time being."
Did she actually want me to be comfortable?
Somehow, I couldn't shake the feeling that a ring had just been slipped through my nose.
Anyway.
Ẅ ӗbn ŏ vеl Е̇ n̄ûḿ a
And so, once again, I found myself in the guest room on Yang Mi-ryeong's penthouse floor.
"She said to rest, so rest I shall."
Since I was imposing anyway, I spent the first day exploring every corner of the hotel.
In the morning I enjoyed a swim in the indoor pool, and in the afternoon I got a workout in at the indoor gym.
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In the evening I even tried a concierge massage, and at night I ordered expensive liquor up on the rooftop terrace.
"Good day, boss!"
Е̇ ǹ um̄ а̂
"Good morning, teacher!"
"Peace and health to you, hyeong-nim!"
"Ah.... yes. Keep up the good work."
Every single time, the Kowloon Society men standing guard here and there snapped out crisp, drill-sergeant greetings the moment they spotted me.
Boss. Teacher. Hyeong-nim.
Unfamiliar titles I'd never once heard in my life.
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I was certain of it.
'This is one of Zhuge Liang's traps.'
That this entire situation was Yang Mi-ryeong's scheme to get me firmly into her clutches.
So from that day on, I holed up quietly in my room.
I ate room service and spent all day watching movies on the 100-inch television in the living room.
-I'll be back.
W̊eb̄ n о̌ vе́l .Е̂ń u mа̇
-Dun-dun-dun↗ dun→ dun↘
With a tub of buttered popcorn tucked against my side, sucking my fingers clean as I went.
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At the sight of me, Yang Mi-ryeong let out a dumbfounded little laugh.
"Don't just sit here like this. Go out and do something, anything."
"Why would I go out? This is the coolest, comfiest spot there is."
I pointedly played deaf and looked the other way.
Е.n̊ uma
If I kept meekly letting her have her way, I really was going to end up with a ring through my nose.
"This is how I spend every single day at home."
So I was deliberately committing to the jobless-slacker-layabout persona, to make Yang Mi-ryeong thoroughly sick of me.
Operation Bad Boy.
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"It's stifling, that's all. An able-bodied man, buried in a sofa all day long like this."
"You clearly don't know men. Most men in this world live exactly like this. Urrrp."
Е n ùm̂a.і̆d
I let the belch rip, sprawled across the sofa, idly scratching my belly.
She seemed to like things neat and tidy, so my gambit was obviously going to work like a charm.
"My goodness.... I had no idea you were this kind of man."
And yet somehow, even watching me in that state, Yang Mi-ryeong wore a relaxed expression, as if she found it all rather entertaining.
...Is this not working?
"Anyway, go out for a bit. I'm calling the room maids up to do some cleaning today."
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"You're the one who told me to rest up...."
"Off you go."
In the end I couldn't hold out against her honeyed insistence, and that was why I was now trudging toward the elevator.
I felt like a middle-aged family man being shoved out the front door by a nagging wife.
"Smack."
It had only been two days.
Ё n ùm а̊..і d̃
Barely two days had passed, and all this opulence had left me with a strange sense of listlessness.
Resting didn't feel like resting, and even I didn't really know why I was like this.
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'Maybe it's because I watched the Terminator movies in order, one, two, three?'
I was walking into the elevator with a vaguely sour feeling when it happened.
"Welcome, boss. I'll take you to the casino floor."
"Hm?"
Ѐ n̂ü m̌ а
For some reason, the elevator attendant, rigid with nerves, went straight for the basement casino floor button.
Before I'd even named a floor. His hand moved with absolute conviction.
"...."
"...?"
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If I said I was actually headed somewhere else, this attendant would obviously go white as a sheet and start panicking.
The debate lasted only a moment.
W̊еb nо ṽе ĺ .Eṅ um̄а̃
I decided to just surrender to the flow.
'I had nothing to do anyway, so this works out.'
Ding-dong.
The elevator doors opened, revealing a glimpse of the casino's dazzling spread.
At the same moment, hard-faced Kowloon Society men whipped around, eyes bulging at me.
The instant our eyes met, their menacing faces softened in a heartbeat.
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"Welcome, boss!"
"Enjoy yourself, sir!"
"Ah.... yes. Thank you all for your hard work."
I gave a bob of the head to the men snapping out crisp salutes, then wandered off to gawk at the casino interior like a country bumpkin.
'Incredible.'
Everywhere I looked, the view was enough to make me lose my senses.
W̊ ë b n̈о̆ v̇ еl̄ Е́n ŭ ma
A chandelier studded with countless glass beads, rippling with blinding light.
Slot machines paying out without a moment's pause.
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Clamoring machinery, chips clacking against each other, desperate screams and boiling cheers.
'And the security is downright vicious.'
Perhaps because of the several major gunfights these past few days, heavily armed Kowloon Society troops stood watch in dense formation behind thick polycarbonate panels.
Even with armed guards blanketing the place this absurdly, the casino's guests looked far more numerous still.
Еǹum̆а̀
I was loitering around the roulette tables, taking in the sights, when it happened.
"Excuse me, sir."
"Yes?"
A man with pomaded hair, dressed in a crisp suit, had closed the distance right in front of me at some point.
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He looked like the casino manager, and he wore a smooth, professional smile.
"Thank you for visiting the Kowloon Hotel casino. We've prepared a chip tray for you, so that you may enjoy the games at your leisure."
Е̃_ňu ma.і d̆
And then, with both hands, he respectfully offered me a chip tray lined with soft velvet.
Inside, chips marked in denominations of hundreds, thousands, and ten-thousands sat stacked in piles by the dozens.
"What? Uh.... I don't have any money. Sorry."
So this is how casinos drum up business these days, I thought.
When I hastily waved him off, the manager, far from flustered, shook his head with an even warmer smile.
"Not at all, sir. These are prepaid chips that our proprietor, Boss Yang Mi-ryeong, has put up for you. So that you may come down to the casino anytime and enjoy the games at your leisure."
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"Ah."
"Once you've finished enjoying yourself, simply return the tray to the exchange counter. And if you find yourself short on chips, please don't hesitate to say so."
Prepaid chips, of all things.
Clink.
The chips rang out cheerfully as I touched a few.
Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands....
Е̊ n ù ṁ а
Even eyeballing it, the amount came to around 500,000 yuan.
In Korean money, that was 100 million won, a sum that would swallow the average office worker's annual salary whole.
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"So I could just walk off with this?"
"Of course. I doubt our boss would mind in the slightest. Would you perhaps like more chips?"
"...No."
The title of boss, the men's rigid courtesy, and now a fat bankroll to top it off.
Ē n̊ú m а̇ . і̄ d̆
I genuinely felt like a kept man basking in the doting favor of a crime syndicate's lady boss.
'At this rate I really am getting a ring through my nose, honestly....'
A hollow laugh escaped me before I knew it.
"Actually, this is my first time at a casino, so I don't really know how any of this works."
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"I see. May I show you to a game that's simple to enjoy?"
"Yes. Please do."
Ẁ ë b ǹ o vе̊ l̀ _Е́ n u ḿ а
Guided by the manager's courteous escort, we drifted around the casino as if on a sightseeing tour.
We passed right by the complicated card games, the flashy slot machines, and anything like mahjong that required memorizing rules.
"How about this game?"
It was a dice game called Sic Bo, a gamble on guessing the numbers rolled.
When the dealer rolled three dice, matching one number returned the stake at 1-to-1, two numbers at 2-to-1, and all three at 3-to-1.
Beyond that, one could bet on the total of the dice, wager on specific combinations, and so on.
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"Sure. I'll give this one a try."
"I hope you have a wonderful time, sir."
After seeing off the manager, who bowed deeply as he withdrew, I claimed an empty seat at one corner of the table.
As it happened, a game was already in full swing.
To a blaring fanfare, the dice inside the dome tumbled out automatically.
The dice that rolled out onto the table read 6, 5, 4.
Еn ùm̀а̄_. і ď
"Aargh, fuck! This is rigged!"
Before the dealer could even announce the result, a scream burst from one end of the table.
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A man was pounding the edge of the table, bellowing at the top of his lungs.
"Dammit! What kind of trick did you rig into that dome? Get Boss Yang Mi-ryeong out here!"
His face looked oddly familiar, so I quietly watched him.
"And what the hell are you! What are you glaring at?"
W̄ е̃ ḃ n̄ òv̄ еl Еn̆ ŭṁ â
"...."
"Drop your eyes, or.... huh?"
"Hi there."
The man recognized me, and his jaw fell wide open.
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Feeling a bit awkward, I gave him a nod, and his face twisted a livid red.
"You, you! You asshole! Just the man I wanted to see!"
W̆ еb̃n оv.еl Е̇ n̆ ù m̄ а̂
Jin Hao, the Chongqing Society's Dandong branch chief.
I was the very man who, a few days earlier, had cracked him across the jaw, knocked him out cold, and dragged him to this hotel, so it was no wonder his eyes were rolling back with rage.
"How's the jaw? I went easy on you back there."
"You asshole! Because of you I still can't chew properly!"
"Oh dear."
"I'm Jin Hao, Jin Hao! Just wait until I get out of here! I'll blow a hole clean through your skull...."
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Sensing a scene about to break out, the other players occupying the table read the room and slipped away one by one.
It was just as he lost all reason and made to lunge across the table.
"Sit down."
"Grgh! Let go! Let go of me!"
"I said sit. Keep making a scene and we'll lock you back in your room."
"Fuck!"
Ӗñu mӓ
The Kowloon Society men who had already been standing by behind him seized Jin Hao by both shoulders and bore down hard.
Pinned and unable to so much as twitch, Jin Hao ground his teeth and glared at me.
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"I'm fine, so just leave him be."
"...Are you certain, boss?"
"Yes. I'd like to have a good heart-to-heart with my friend here."
The Kowloon Society men hesitated a moment, exchanging glances.
W̆ е̂ bn̂o ve l̂ _E ňuḿ а̌
Then they nodded and released their hold on Jin Hao.
"Fuck.... you think I'm going to thank you for that?"
Even though he'd been freed thanks to me, Jin Hao's face crumpled even further for some reason.
At his gall, playing the wronged party, I gave a little shrug.
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"Why exactly are you so angry?"
"What? Hey! You're the one who sucker-punched me first!"
Е̂nu̇ m̆ ӑ
"That's true, I did. If it hurt, I'm sorry. I apologize."
"Wh, what?"
Maybe he hadn't expected an actual apology.
Jin Hao's expression scrambled into a mess.
"But if I hadn't brought you along, you'd have died back there. Am I wrong?"
"That's...."
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"You'd have been shot full of holes by the North Korean assassination squads' bullets, a regular honeycomb. Strictly speaking, doesn't that make me the man who saved your life?"
"...."
It seemed the logic landed in spite of himself.
I could see his temperature, which had been boiling clean past his hairline, plunge in an instant.
"I get that you're furious about pissing away all your money just now, but you picked the wrong target to vent on. You can't do a thing to me in here anyway."
"Fuck...."
Еnumа̌ .ї d̈
"Even if we threw fists right now, you'd lose, you know?"
"...."
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His flushed face was contorted with humiliation.
Not a single word of it was wrong, so he had no comeback; huffing and seething, he looked like nothing so much as a bratty child.
Maybe that was why.
The urge to mess with him suddenly came over me.
Ẇ еbñ о̆.v е l Е̊ n̊ û m̈ а
"If it stings that badly, then fight me at something else."
"...What? What kind of fight?"
"Today's my first time at a casino. How about we fight over who wins more off the house?"
Jin Hao let out an incredulous laugh.
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"Ha! You're challenging me at gambling? A rank beginner, no less?"
"Well, if you don't have the guts, forget it. In exchange, if you win, I'll let you take a free shot at my jaw."
Е̃n ù m̌ а̀. іd
At that, his eyes gleamed and rolled.
Complete with an open sneer.
"This bastard has genuinely lost his mind.... Fine! Today I'm going to make you weep tears of blood!"
Huffing and puffing, he scraped together every last chip in his tray.
Jin Hao placed his bets on three numbers, 1, 2, and 4, and flashed a grin.
The color was flooding back into his face.
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"Come on, place yours."
"Hold on. I'm thinking."
As the seconds ticked by, a curious thought suddenly flitted through my mind.
I grabbed a rough handful of chips and bet on the exact opposite of Jin Hao's numbers.
3, 5, and 6.
Jin Hao checked where my chips had landed and twisted up one corner of his mouth.
Ẁeb̃ n̂õ vѐ.l Е n um̃.а̀
"Heh. So you're gunning for me now, is that it?"
"Something like that...."
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"Don't make me laugh. I can feel it, right now. The god of Sic Bo has descended upon me. Just don't come sobbing to me with regrets later!"
He taunted me, his competitive fire blazing.
Before long, the dealer signaled and the betting window closed.
Inside the translucent dome, the dice bounced wildly.
Е̊ n̂ u̇mӓ
Clatter, clatter.
"Let's gooo!"
Jin Hao's desperate scream rang out just as the dice settled onto the table.
The numbers were 3, 5, 6.
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"Fuck me!"
"Ooh, jackpot."
Е̊n̊ u m а̌
While Jin Hao pounded the table and wailed, I busied myself scooping up the chips pushed my way, tripled over.
As I hummed a little tune to myself, one of my cheeks began to prickle and itch.
"You, you, you sneaky, fucking weasel of a bastard.... Again!"
Jin Hao was glaring at me, breathing hard.
"You keep betting opposite me, all the way to the end. If even one of your numbers overlaps with mine, I will fucking kill you!"
That was an offer I had no reason whatsoever to refuse.
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It wasn't my money to begin with, and above all, Jin Hao was in a remarkably unlucky state right now.
Simply by betting the exact opposite of this unlucky bastard, the energy of the entire universe was, in effect, flowing straight to me.
"Fine. Let's do this."
"Heh heh. You stupid bastard. Doesn't even realize that was beginner's luck.... I'm Jin Hao, Jin Hao. In Taiwan they called me the King of Sic Bo!"
"Quite the tongue on you. Spend less time running your mouth and more time betting."
"Why you son of a bitch.... Fine, good! Yes! That's exactly the kind of nerve it takes to stand across from me!"
Wёb̀ ńŏvеl̂ Е̇nu̇ m а
And so, for reasons I couldn't quite explain, the curtain rose on our own private, heated showdown.
Jin Hao would pick his numbers, and I would bet strictly on the opposite of whatever he chose.
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Clatter, clatter.
The dice rolled out.
"Fuck!"
Clatter, clatter.
En u m̌ а̂
By now a decent crowd of onlookers had gathered.
"No, why?!"
Clatter, clatter.
By now the betting amounts had swelled considerably too.
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"Get Yang Mi-ryeong out here!"
Clatter, clatter.
Е̌ n̊ü m̂ а̌
Clatter, clatter.
....
How much time passed like that?
"Hng. Fuck...."
The results were gruesome.
For Jin Hao alone, that is.
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"You really do have rotten luck, you know that?"
"Shut your mouth!"
"Let's be good friends from now on. So I can keep leeching off your luck."
"You fuck...."
Meanwhile, the bankroll in my tray had swollen to more than triple its size.
The money had duplicated.
Е̃ n_ú mа̊
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