Part 2 Chapter 159: Blackie, I think we need to find Uren's original intention.
TL: Hanguk
Kiiik.
With an unpleasant sound, space began to split open.
And then
Thud. Thud.
From within the torn space, a massive giant emerged.
[Giant Who Sees Through Truth, Charam]
Sniff. Sniff.
"Tsuhahaha. The smell of delicious food is overwhelming. Oho! There's even a pig that's only one year old! The meat must be incredibly tender. Mmm. I want to taste it quickly."
Charam closed his eyes and flared his nostrils, sniffing the air, and then opened his eyes. Countless eyes. Charam's entire body was covered in eyes.
Roll roll.
Thousands of pupils all moving in different directions was a deeply bizarre sight, and
"Ugh. What is that?"
Disgusting.
Sejun trembled with revulsion as he looked at Charam.
Watching Sejun, Cuengi, Blackie, and Taecho thought he was scared.
Kueng?!
[He scared Dad! Cuengi is mad!]
Kihihit. Kking?! Kking! Kking!
[Hehe. Butler, are you scared?! Don't worry! Great Blackie will protect you!]
"Taecho is mad too!"
Just as the three were about to attack Charam
"Th... this is not a place where I should be...."
Thud. Thud.
Charam started to flee in a terrified voice, one step ahead.
True to his epithet as the Giant Who Sees Through Truth, Charam could see the terrifying power held by those seemingly insignificant beings rushing toward him.
A black dog with tremendous soul power.
A child plump and meaty-looking, yet with light too brilliant to even dare look at.
And even a young bear with such savage power that one couldn't help but think, "Isn't this what the end of the world feels like?"
He had thought they were his prey and been delighted, but it turned out he was the prey. No. To them, he was just a pesky little fly buzzing around.
I have to run!
Charam hastily backed away and fled, and with only his head remaining outside the hole he had come from, his escape was on the verge of success.
That's when
"Haahh! How dare you make our Great Colorless Dragon Hybrid Chairman Park tremble and try to slip away, meow?! Take your punishment and go, meow!"
Whack!
Theo, who had sensed Sejun's danger through his Sejun-knee-detector, appeared out of nowhere and struck the eye on top of Charam's head, and
"No! My eye!"
Thud.
Charam screamed and collapsed. With his eyes open. At some point, a cat paw print had been stamped onto the black pupil of the eye on top of Charam's head.
Because Theo had struck it like a stamp. It was a one-hit K.O.
And cat paw prints began to appear on the pupils of all the eyes across Charam's body. It was a magnificent eye stamp.
"Puhuhut. Now that you've become a subordinate of me, Vice Chairman Theo, hand over everything you have, meow!"
I can feel the Pull, meow!
Theo stuck his front paw into thin air and began taking everything stored in Charam's subspace.
Gold, silver, treasures, divine artifacts, and elixirs piled up beside Sejun, and
"Oh. This one looks tasty."
Sejun picked up a tomato among the elixirs that looked fresh and ate it with relish.
[You have consumed the Sun Tomato.]
[All stats have increased by 1000.]
[You have awakened [Talent: Facing the Sun].]
"Heheh. A talent."
Sejun hurriedly checked the talent he had awakened.
'Aw. What's this?'
[Talent: Facing the Sun] was, quite literally, a talent that allowed one to face the sun.
Kuehehehe. Kueng!
[Hehehe. Dad, try this one too!]
Cuengi handed Sejun a glass bottle filled with a transparent liquid.
"Heheh. Cuengi, did you pick this out thinking of Dad? Then I have to drink it!"
Gulp.
[You have consumed the Body Enhancement Water.]
[HP stat has increased by 30,000.]
[You have obtained [Talent: Tanking].]
Tanking?
Sejun looked at the message and checked the talent.
'Oh. A talent that reduces damage equal to or less than my HP by half? Nice.'
Just as Sejun was wearing a satisfied smile at the talent's options
Kking!
[Butler! Great Blackie also found something good for the butler!]
Blackie came running with something in his mouth.
[Black Strawberry]
"This strawberry is black?"
He brought something that looks just like him.
When Sejun tried to examine the strawberry Blackie had brought
Kking! Kking!
[Butler! Eat it quick! It's a good one!]
Blackie urged him on.
But
'Blackie can't be trusted.'
Despite Blackie's urging, Sejun paid him no mind and examined the strawberry with every kind of suspicious expression.
[Black Strawberry]
→ A strawberry that grew by devouring dozens of worlds, bearing the epithet of the World-Devouring Fruit.
→ While digesting the worlds it had absorbed and waiting to fall into another world, it received mental training from Sweet Potato Field Manager Park Blackie and his subordinates, causing its ego to dissolve, and it has now become an elixir fruit possessing immense power.
→ Upon consumption, all energy increases by 100,000.
→ Upon consumption, you will be granted <Power: World Devouring>.
→ Cultivator: ???
→ Shelf life: 100,000 years
→ Grade: Unmeasurable
<Power: World Devouring>
→ For every world devoured, all stats increase. (The higher the level of the devoured world, the more stats increase. (Maximum 100,000))
"Huh?"
For something Blackie brought, the options are way too good?
Aside from the Power being useless, there was nothing bad about it at all.
While Sejun was examining the strawberry's options
Kking?! Kking?!
[Butler! Why aren't you eating?! Are you doubting Great Blackie right now?!]
When Sejun didn't eat the strawberry, Blackie barked at him noisily and urged him once more.
"Heheh. No. Why would I doubt our Blackie? Here. Eat this."
After putting a roasted and dried sweet potato into Blackie's mouth,
Nom.
Sejun popped the black strawberry into his own mouth.
Heheh. Tastes like a chocolate-covered strawberry.
[You have consumed the Black Strawberry.]
[All stats have increased by 100,000.]
[You have been granted <Power: World Devouring>.]
Just as the consumption message appeared
"Ungh...."
Charam came to his senses. But it would have been better if he hadn't.
"Puhuhut. The crime of making Chairman Park tremble is great, meow! From now on, you'll have to work your hands to the bone, meow!"
Kueng!
[Big bro! Cuengi is still mad! Cuengi wants to give him five strokes with the paddle!]
"You can't, meow! Even one stroke from Cuengi would kill this frail thing, meow! Then he won't be able to work for Chairman Park, meow!"
Kueng! Kueng? Kueng!
[Okay! Then how about a forehead flick? Just one flick!]
"You can't, meow!"
Kihihit. Kking! Kking?!
[Hehe. Big bro, then how about Great Blackie does mental training! That's okay, right?!]
"You can't, meow! This guy's mental state looks weak, meow! If his mind breaks, he can't work, meow!"
Kking!
[Great Blackie will do mental training gently!]
"You can't, meow! This guy needs to work in his best condition, so don't touch him, meow!"
To maximize the labor output of his full-time employee, Theo was protecting Charam from the clutches of Cuengi and Blackie.
'Huh? Is he on my side?'
That's not right, he clearly stamped me and made me his slave?
But then why is he being so nice?
So Charam was confused.
However
"Instead, I'll allow scolding him with words, meow!"
As expected...
He wasn't on his side.
Kueng!
[You scared Dad, so you're a bad guy!]
Kking?! Kking! Kking!
[Hey! How dare you mess with Great Blackie's butler?! Great Blackie was going to teach you a lesson with mental training, but I'll hold back since big bro stopped me! Consider yourself very lucky!]
While Cuengi and Blackie were verbally tearing into Charam
'What's going on?'
Sejun looked at the result before him and felt both familiarity and bewilderment at the same time.
The familiarity was...
Misfortune had come, but the result was a jackpot in the end.
This kind of synergy only happens when Theo and Uren are around...
because it was a pattern he had seen many times.
The bewilderment was...
Charam wasn't aiming for Uren.
The one who had brought the misfortune wasn't Uren. What Charam had clearly been targeting was Lucia.
On top of that
Lick. Lick. Lick.
"Uhyahya."
"Mohehehe. Yummy."
Poyo was diligently licking Lucia's face.
Everything was leading Sejun to one conclusion. The source of this misfortune was Lucia.
No way?!
'Did Uren's misfortune transfer to Lucia?'
The curse cast by Ditto, the God of Ruin, applied to everyone connected to the hero party, so it made sense.
'Lucia is a descendant of the Daemon family, just like Uren.'
Perhaps, by bloodline, Lucia might even be closer to Yuko Daemon, who had supposedly supported the hero party in the past.
Having deduced that Uren's curse had been inherited by Lucia, Sejun
"Eok-Samchiri, it seems Uren's curse has passed on to Lucia, is that right?"
asked [System Eok-Samchiri] for an answer to his theory, and
[I was just about to tell you, but as expected, Sejun-nim is so clever! That is correct. Lucia Daemon has inherited Uren Daemon's curse.]
[System Eok-Samchiri] answered while flattering Sejun.
"Heheh. Something like this is a piece of cake."
Sejun briefly wore a smug expression at [System Eok-Samchiri]'s flattery, then hastily returned to his original expression. Theo was watching his face intently, looking for an opportunity to step on it.
Meanwhile
"Uhyahyahya."
"Our princess, what's making you so happy?"
Lucia, unaware that she had been cursed, was smiling innocently in her mother's arms, beaming brightly.
"Uhehehe. Lucia, want to try this? This is yummy."
Uncle Uren, the immature one, was trying to win her favor with food while watching Lucia.
"Hmph!"
Lucia turned her head away from Uren, making her displeasure unmistakably clear.
"Uren."
Sejun quietly called Uren over. He needed to tell Uren. That Uren's curse had been inherited by his niece.
A moment later.
"Really?! Lucia took my curse from me?!"
"Uh...? She didn't take it from you."
Uren wore an expression like he'd lost the world. The point was a bit off, but it was the proper reaction of an uncle.
"Anyway, what you're saying is that my curse is on Lucia."
He's become completely one with his curse.
"That's right."
"What do we do?"
"Hmm. I think we should go find the one who cast the curse and ask them to lift it."
"Lift the curse?!"
At Sejun's words, Uren was utterly shocked. To Uren, who was steeped in thrills, a life without misfortune was simply a miserable life.
"Is there no way to bring the curse back to me?"
Uren asked with a serious expression Sejun had never seen on him before.
Are you in your right mind?
Sejun thought Uren wasn't normal. It was probably because he had been together with misfortune for too long.
"Blackie, I think we need to find Uren's original intention."
Blackie's mental training seemed to be necessary. To bring back the Uren from before, the one who had no misfortune.
Kihihit. Kking! Kking! Kking!
[Hehe. Butler! Just trust Great Blackie! I'll find Uren's original intention! Master of Finding One's Original Intention, Great Blackie, deploying!]
Bonk.
After Blackie headbutted Uren and while he was conducting mental training
"Eok-Samchiri, tell Ditto, the God of Ruin. Tell him to lift the curse on Lucia. Or else I'll come find him."
[Yes!]
Sejun gave the order to [System Eok-Samchiri].
And then
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. Butler! Great Blackie found Uren's original intention!]
"Uhehehe. A peaceful world, a day with nothing happening, so beautif... ah... how fleeting...."
Kking?
Even after receiving Blackie's mental training, Uren had failed to find his original intention.
No. Maybe this was Uren's original intention. Uren was a thrill-seeking pig who enjoyed danger.
"Guess there's no helping it? Eok-Samchiri, find a way to put a new curse on Uren too."
Sejun looked at Uren and began searching for a way to return the curse to him.
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