94 Ju Seong-tak

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94. Ju Seong-tak

Ryumin looked at the item listed for sale.

[Immortal Skin Fragment]

[Category: Possession]

[Description: A fragment of skin cut from a creature called immortal.]

[Seller: dontgo95]

[Sale price: 1,000,000 won]

[Negotiable: Yes]

[Chat: Available]

[Transaction method: In-person only]

[Transaction location: Suwon]

'It's certain. This is an item needed for legendary combinations.'

There's a legendary grade after unique.

Legendaries can also be made through combinations, but Ryumin had ruled it out from the start.

The reason is simple.

'It's nearly impossible to obtain legendary materials at this point.'

It's not impossible.

Just very difficult.

'At this point, there's only one place this Immortal Skin Fragment could come from.'

The Round 5 boss, High Orc.

This Immortal Skin Fragment drops with an extremely low probability when killing it.

As you know, High Orc is not an easy boss to kill.

It's even stronger than the Round 6 boss Minotaur.

'But not only did they kill such a strong creature, they luckily got this material?'

It's impossible without both luck and skill.

'Luck aside, who could it be? Someone skilled enough to kill High Orc?'

A few named players came to mind.

A guess that it might be one of them flashed through his mind.

'Could it be that guy?'

Someone skilled enough to kill orcs and has the [Rune of Drops].

If it really is that guy he's guessing, this is likely bait.

And quite dangerous bait at that.

'Seeing that it's in-person trade only, it seems to be him... I should try talking to him.'

He sent a chat message before buying.

[Buyer: Hello. Are you the one selling the Immortal Skin Fragment?]

[Seller: Yes.]

[Buyer: You listed it for 1 million won but it says negotiable?]

[Seller: Hmm, I don't usually do this but I'll make an exception. How much are you thinking?]

[Buyer: 900,000 won. Is that possible?]

[Seller: Hmm, it's a bit burdensome but okay. That much is fine...]

[Buyer: Ah! No, I misspoke. Take off 100,000 won more. 800,000 won.]

[Seller: ㅡㅡ Are you joking?]

[Buyer: Why? The market price isn't set anyway. Honestly I don't even know what it's used for.]

[Seller: Then why are you trying to buy something you don't know the use for?]

[Buyer: I want to try some combinations. Isn't that why everyone buys material items?]

[Buyer: But my finances are tight. Can't you lower the price a bit more?]

[Buyer: Hello?]

[Buyer: Hello?]

[Buyer: Why aren't you answering?]

[Seller: Haah, fine. I'll sell it to you for 800,000 won out of pity. But cash only. You can come to Suwon, right?]

[Buyer: Of course.]

[Seller: The address is...]

Ryumin grinned as the address was written in chat.

"This guy, it seems he is who I thought."

The fact that he's willing to sell even after lowering the price by 200,000 won makes it almost certain.

The item is likely just bait to lure people.

'That psychopath bastard would do something like this.'

Thinking it would be good to check anyway, he put on his coat.

If he doesn't step in, there will be more victims.

And he needs to secure the legendary material too.

'Shall I go see his face?'

Though it's a bit early to meet him, they'll have to meet eventually.

'I should prepare for any situation.'

He felt fortunate to have the Rainbow Effect buff just in case.

'Well, I wasn't planning to go down easily even without it.'

Ryumin left the house leisurely with one corner of his mouth twisted up.

* * *

"Ha, this fucking idiot is unbelievable. Haha."

Ju Seong-tak who was chatting with the buyer let out an incredulous laugh.

"Negotiating a 20% discount on something listed for 1 million won?"

Putting aside the personality, do they know what kind of item this is?

It's an item that dropped from killing the Round 5 boss High Orc.

That High Orc he killed with great difficulty using twenty orc corpses.

'I really thought I was going to die then. Who knew High Orc would be that strong.'

And they want to swallow an item obtained with such difficulty for just 800,000 won?

'This bastard really wants to die.'

When was he not going to kill them?

He was planning to kill them anyway, but this bastard deserves worse.

"I'm really not going to kill you cleanly when we meet. You fucking bastard."

Ju Seong-tak who was grinding his teeth put down his phone and suddenly flinched.

He heard dying breaths from below his feet.

"Sa-save, meee..."

"Ha, you startled me. What, this ahjussi? You're not dead yet?"

A man in his 40s lying face down barely lifted his head.

It was the best he could do with his arms and legs cut off.

"Ple-please... save..."

"'Save' is informal speech."

"Me... I-I'm begging..."

Stab-!

Ju Seong-tak's dagger pierced the middle-aged man's neck.

"Saying such useless things. Tsk. Just startling people for no reason."

He didn't expect him to still be alive with his limbs cut off.

"Anyway, that bastard is dead when he comes."

He really intended to kill the buyer when they came, not just in words.

The item was bait for that purpose.

That's why he generously agreed even to a 20% discount.

It wasn't something he was actually going to sell anyway.

'Why would I sell it? Do you know how I obtained this? If I was really going to sell it, I would have told you to fuck off without hesitation.'

Though he didn't know what the item was used for, he could use it to lure people.

Why lure them?

Because it's fun.

No, strictly speaking, because he was bored.

That's how life is.

There comes a time when boredom strikes.

When you get so bored you want to give up everything.

Ju Seong-tak had been like that since 2nd grade of elementary school.

'I thought I was going crazy from boredom.'

Nothing was fun, everything was dull, everything was tedious.

Despite being in the prime of youth, he felt like he'd lost the will to live.

Looking back now, he was like a broken part with a screw loose.

It was the same in middle school.

Thinking he might feel better if he focused on something, he tried studying like others.

'I never missed 1st place in class.'

But nothing changed even with such good grades.

It only increased his parents' fake praise and expectations.

He was so bored he hoped the school bullies would torment him, but no one did.

'Even those bully bastards wouldn't dare touch the 1st place student.'

He thought that, but there was a truth Ju Seong-tak didn't know.

The reason bullies didn't touch him wasn't because he studied well.

Madness.

They saw an inexplicable madness in Ju Seong-tak's eyes.

That was why even bullies avoided him.

Drip drip-

Ju Seong-tak who wiped his blood-soaked dagger on the corpse's clothes reminisced about the past again.

'Hehehe, thinking about it now, that time was really good. When I committed my first murder.'

The first people Ju Seong-tak killed were his parents.

When he stopped studying out of boredom, his grades naturally fell and the nagging increased.

That's when conflicts with his parents arose.

When his grades went from 1st to nearly last place, his parents yelled at him in anger.

In the heat of the moment, he ended up killing them with a kitchen knife.

'It wasn't intentional. It was just in the heat of the moment.'

But who knew that moment would become the turning point of his life.

'Ah... I still can't forget that experience.'

The pounding heart from tension.

The living room floor stained with blood.

The feeling of stabbing a knife into a human body.

His first murder taught him many things.

It gave meaning to life for him who was bored to death.

'More... I want to enjoy this stimulation more.'

With that feeling, he voluntarily reported to the police.

He knew there was no use running in Korea filled with CCTVs.

'If I'm going to get caught anyway, it's better to turn myself in early.'

He instinctively knew that would be advantageous for reducing his sentence.

He wanted to go to prison quickly and come back to properly plan and kill people again.

He wanted to feel the stimulation of murder once more.

So he showed a repentant attitude and claimed it was an impulsive murder.

Fortunately, Ju Seong-tak had a talent for acting.

The police firmly believed it wasn't Ju Seong-tak's fault.

'Stupid idiots. They say it's not my fault when it's clear I killed them.'

He wanted to sneer but held back.

He planned to get a reduced sentence and go to prison as planned.

But there was something even Ju Seong-tak didn't expect.

'What? I'm a juvenile offender?'

As he was under 14 years old at the time, he was excluded from criminal punishment as a juvenile offender.

He was sent to a juvenile reformatory, ordered to complete community service, and released under supervision.

It was unexpected luck for Ju Seong-tak who thought he would definitely go to prison for killing his parents.

'This is sweet, isn't it?'

The luck continued.

Until he graduated school, became an adult, and reached the age of 27.

Though he committed numerous murders, Ju Seong-tak was never caught.

Was it because he meticulously planned each murder in 1-year intervals?

Or because he only chose to kill homeless people who wouldn't be a problem if killed?

Anyway, he was lucky to be able to act like a normal person even after killing people, and is still killing now.

'Stupid police. They still can't catch even one of me.'

However, the luck seemed to end this year.

When he had to participate in a survival game where his life was at stake until Round 20.

Ju Seong-tak felt wronged.

'If I knew this would happen, I should have killed people to my heart's content and just gone to prison.'

He felt wronged and furious that he had been so careful to avoid the police's eyes all this time.

But.

It didn't take long to realize that life in the other world suited him.

'Is it that hard to kill these goblins?'

Watching countless people die in Round 1, Ju Seong-tak couldn't understand.

Stabbing goblins no bigger than middle schoolers at most was easier than killing people.

It also fit his hobby.

'Though not as fun as killing people.'

Then in Round 2, he luckily obtained the shaman job while hunting.

'Maybe it was thanks to the [Rune of Drops] I received at first.'

The Rune of Drops drastically increases the drop rate of special items.

There was a high possibility the shaman class change item dropped due to the rune's influence.

'After that, well, nothing was difficult.'

Whether he had talent or not, he didn't miss 2nd or 3rd place across all areas and easily cleared Round 3.

Round 4 where he had to kill people was even easier.

For him who was originally a serial killer, it wasn't a difficult task at all.

'Rather, I was so excited it felt too good. Hehe.'

Ju Seong-tak enjoyed the games that stimulated his ordinary life.

Apart from survival, he wanted to enjoy it for as long as possible.

'If I clear up to Round 20, I'll wish for more rounds. It's just too much fun.'

Now to the point where daily life is boring.

He doesn't think he could go back to how he was before becoming a player.

'It's also quite fun watching the world collapse like this. Keke.'

Perhaps because he's killed so many people, now the focus isn't on who to kill, but how to kill in an interesting way.

What he's planning now is also part of that.

'After hiding the corpse I just killed in the clothing donation box in the alley, when the buyer appears?'

He'll blow them up with the [Corpse Explosion] skill.

Then subdue them in a near-death state with the [Curse of Fear] skill, and cut their limbs into tiny pieces like killing bugs - that was Ju Seong-tak's plan.

'I have no ill feelings. I'm just killing for fun, so I hope you understand.'

Ju Seong-tak turned his eyes from the corpse and looked at his phone.

3 hours remained until the appointed time with the buyer.

'Hurry up and come, you son of a bitch. I've prepared a gift for you. Kekeke.'

For a new stimulation, he put the corpse in the clothing donation box and used Erase Traces on the floor.

The scattered limbs and bloodstains disappeared cleanly.

He waited 3 hours hoping the guy would fall into the trap.

Finally.

Thud thud thud-

A person entered the alley where the trap was prepared.

Ju Seong-tak's lips curved into a smile.

'Bingo.'

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