I Am the Madman of This Family

Episode 78. If you’re curious, bring 5 million gold (5)

“It is strange. It must be around here.”

Luke felt like he was spinning around the same place from before.

We have arrived at the ‘tower’ where Keter’s office is located. However, no matter where I looked, there was no entrance or space to climb.

Even holding onto the wall and groping for it was futile. In the first place, Luke was not a knight, agency expert, or adventurer.

“Oh, that’s creepy.”

The dark liqueur seemed to be a new city. The colorful lights flashed and it hurt my eyes. That doesn’t mean the darkness has receded. The lights seemed to assimilate with the darkness.

The Misery Detector didn’t work like a broken compass. It’s just complicated all over the place.

Luke glimpsed the darkness across the street. There was an eye openly watching him from earlier.

“… … .”

The fear of the unknown, which he had never experienced before, enveloped Luke. Even though he tried to deny it, his body showed signs of it. Slightly drooping eyes, quivering pupils, useless gestures.

At that time, trailers clad in darkness like a cloak began approaching Luke little by little.

Luke noticed it too, but didn’t attack or move. I had a strong intuition that I shouldn’t leave this ‘place’ right now. It was a pure intuition that had nothing to do with this ability.

For a moment, there was a shadow going straight to Luke.

Luke realized it belatedly and aimed his bow in fright. Then, the opponent was rather surprised and said.

“Knight. What are you doing here?”

It was daat. The boy whom Keter conveniently calls Magnoon.

The figure with both hands full of groceries was like a housewife who bought food without fail.

Seeing that calm appearance that didn’t go well with the liqueur, Luke momentarily wondered if this was a ploy to catch himself off guard.

“What did Keter ask you to do?”

Daat smiled at Luke’s suspicious face and said.

“You seem to have gotten used to the liqueur already. I ordered you to get portable arms.”

“Phew, you really are Mr. Daat.”

“That’s Knight Luke, no matter who sees it. Why are you alone? Where is Keter going?”

“that is… I think this place is too dangerous to explain the circumstances.”

Luke poked his finger into the darkness.

Then Daat looked back and said.

“Ah, those.”

I felt the people in the dark who received Daat’s gaze flinch.

They showed regret and disappeared into deeper darkness.

‘What, what is it? Why are you backing away like that?’

Luke looked at Daat. I already felt it when I first saw it. Daat is obviously a normal person. Even now it is.

Is it a tremendous strength that you don’t even feel?

Daat was conscious of the gaze and trembled.

“I’m not going because of me. It’s because there are escorts given by Keter.”

“An escort?”

Luke looked around and behind Daat, but no one was there.

Daat passed Luke and said.

“Don’t try to find it. Because they hate it. Rather than that, shall we go in first?”

Daat with hands on a flat wall.

Then, suddenly, a new space appeared.

It was an elevator. A product of mechanical magic. An automatic elevator powered by mana.

“what is this?”

“You could call it a very slow teleporter. Get on.”

Luke was quite shocked that the wall he had turned around was actually a hidden space. Besides, what was the slow teleport device?

As Luke boarded the elevator, the door closed by itself. Soon, the elevator rattled and made a noise as it ascended.

Luke was startled.

“Who is uploading it? Who is up there?”

“hahahaha, the magic power increases. To be precise, it is a magic stone. It’s filthy expensive, so I don’t use Keter-nim, only me.”

“her… … .”

Luke leaned against the wall and exhaled deeply. The relief that I had finally reached the safe zone relieved my tension.

ding.

The elevator door opened. A musty, damp smell wafted out. It was by no means a pleasant smell, but to Luke it was like the scent of heaven.

“After coming up from the ground, I realized that this is heaven.”

“Please rest in peace. I’ll do some tidying up. Oh. Don’t look around too much.”

While Daat was sorting out groceries in the kitchen or something, Luke didn’t even have the strength to lift a finger in the first place.

He lazily found a sofa and forgot his face as a knight and lay down.

“Ugh, I’m going to die.”

Whether it was his body and mind, he had already reached his limits, and Luke was dizzy from the aftereffects.

“I brought tea. Even if you are sleepy, take a bite and go to sleep. It is a jasmine tea that calms the mind.”

“Isn’t Keter here?”

“I don’t usually come at this time.”

“Okay.”

Luke, struggling to get up, took a sip of the tea Daat had made for him.

“Wow, this chicken is delicious.”

fluff.

As soon as he took a sip down his throat, Luke fell to the side.

“A liqueur. It’s a place where you shouldn’t trust even the same side, driver.”

Daat put on thin gloves from his pocket. He’s wearing a bird’s beak mask. He also wore a so-called plague doctor’s mask.

“It’s a shame that I found it so early. Why did my older brother give birth to such a rookie?”

Daat took a close look at Luke’s whole body. After sorting the equipment he had, he washed it in clean water.

“The level of pollution is low. It will be purified on its own.”

Daat took off his mask and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

At that time, a green liquid flowed out from the gap in the ceiling.

“papaw. This person is a guest. Did you see it during the day? You can’t eat it.”

Popo, the slime that was on the verge of attacking Luke’s face, climbed back up to the ceiling in disappointment.

* * *

“Uh, uh, I’m suffocating… … ?”

Luke woke up with his chest tight and choking. When I opened my eyes, a green lump was stuck to the bottom of my neck.

“Aagh!? It works! They are being eaten!”

Luke struggling. It was a struggle that brought it up to the aura.

But the slime didn’t budge. Rather, it was tightened tighter.

“papaw! Come on.”

Only then did Popo fall away from Luke at the words of Daat who ran from the next room.

“Heh, heh… . I thought I was dying.”

“Our Popo is a little too affectionate. How is your body?”

“great. But I remember drinking tea yesterday… Why do you think you pass out so often?”

“It’s common in liqueurs. There’s a bathroom over there, so wash up and come out. You should have breakfast.”

“Breakfast is good… morning? Is it morning? Didn’t I just close my eyes and open them?”

All the windows in the office were closed, and it was difficult to tell the difference between day and night because of the luminous stones hanging from the ceiling.

Daat personally opened the window. Although weak, the sunlight came inside.

“… Keter, where is Keter? It’s urgent. Time is running out.”

Cork has now departed. We will arrive at our destination by noon tomorrow, and return by the evening of the same day.

In other words, there are now less than two days left.

Daat said while brewing tea leisurely.

“What is it?”

“that is… … .”

Luke started explaining from the beginning.

That Keter had decided to participate in the Southern Sword Tournament, and had come all this way to satisfy the three conditions for it.

“… That is why we have to catch the red comet as soon as possible.”

Daat, who was sipping black tea with a slurping, delicious sound, did not seem to be interested in the matter at all.

“My brother came back yesterday, and he left an hour ago. They say you’re collecting the money you’ve been putting off.”

“Collection?”

It wasn’t that he didn’t know the meaning of the word, but the harp that Luke knew was a very bad word.

“Is it right to collect debt rather than collect money? I don’t know why you suddenly do that. You usually said that if you accept it, stop it, or if you don’t accept it, stop it.”

“What does that have to do with catching the red comet?”

“I gave up on analyzing what my older brother was thinking. Give up, too. It’s easier to give up.”

“… Didn’t you tell me where you were going?”

“I want to know something too. You can’t find it and always appear when you don’t need it. I wonder if I should wear a bell around my neck.”

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“I’ll take one of these.”

Crumpling a large piece of bread into his mouth, Luke hurriedly put on his equipment and stood in front of the elevator.

However, the elevator did not open.

“Only I can use that.”

“… Could you please open it?”

“Just jump down. My older brother doesn’t like writing things to others.”

“yes… … .”

Luke, who wanted to go down to the ground comfortably, eventually jumped down from a height that made his heart feel cold just like yesterday.

The first and second times were equally frightening, but Luke, who landed on the ground anyway, caught his breath.

“I think I can breathe more easily than yesterday. Is it because of your mood?”

After contemplating his body, Luke was surprised.

It wasn’t because of my mood that my physical condition improved. In fact, the total amount of Auras had increased significantly. In just one day, half a year’s worth of Aura increased.

“How is this possible?”

There are two main ways to increase Aura.

Among them, the universal one is aura enhancement through ‘physical training’. The easy way or efficiency is extremely poor. The maximum amount that can be accumulated per day is only one day’s worth, and beyond that, it is meaningless as it accumulates as much as ant eyes.

The second way is enlightenment. Even if you tell me how to do this, I can’t use it. It was called luck among the knights, who had no choice but to wait until that vague realization came.

‘I didn’t realize anything in particular yesterday?’

Luke says no, but no. I realized so many things, and that was the essence of realization. It’s simple when you know it, but the process of realizing it is difficult.

“Let’s find Keter first.”

His energy must have been restored, and Luke begins to move using this ability.

However, after going some distance, Luke stopped.

“Keter seems to be moving too. The distance is getting farther away.”

After a moment of pause, Luke started running again.

“Then I can move faster too.”

Although he said it enthusiastically, it was only after a full hour had passed that he actually caught up with Keter.

“Hee, Hee. Keter!”

Luke urgently calls Keter in case he gets farther away.

Keter also waved at Luke.

“Oh- Sarah is there, Luke?”

“I don’t know what you mean, but listen to me first. Now is not the time to be here.”

“I hear that word so often that my ears are bleeding.”

“I got information from the Hunters Guild… … .”

“It’s hard to find, isn’t that what you want to say?”

“That’s right. I think what about searching for the spot where the red comet appeared? Since it’s a monster, there should be a nest. You are looking for it.”

It was the most reasonable judgment Luke made, but Keter spoke in a nonchalant tone.

“You want to come with me?”

“What if I find a red comet while doing it alone? They say he’s incredibly fast. If you run away, you won’t find it again.”

“The word ‘discovery’ came out. How did you find me?”

“That’s it, with this ability… uh?”

Luke felt like he had been hit in the head with a hammer.

Soon, his body trembled.

“Why did I make it difficult for such an easy way?”

If you can find ‘something’ with your misfortune detection ability, you can of course find the red comet too!

Luke immediately closed his eyes and concentrated. I remembered the appearance of the red comet I saw in the book.

‘Red Comet. Named Monster. white bat. I want to find him.’

It was that moment of joy that I had finally found a way to live. Suddenly, my head spins, and the sky turns bright yellow.

It was Luke’s last memory.

Keter was dumbfounded.

Luke, who had closed his eyes out of nowhere, fell backwards while bleeding from his nose.

“Hey, what is it?”

I patted my cheek and opened my closed eyelids. Passed out.

“I tried to find it with my ability, but I failed. Anyway, people with special abilities think that their abilities are omnipotent.”

Keter scratched the back of her head and pressed her fingers hard against Luke’s temple.

“Oops!”

Luke wakes up from fainting with a strange noise.

Luke grabbed his head and looked around.

“Ugh, what happened? Why do I pass out so often!?”

“You know your body, not me. Don’t pass out in front of me again, can you pass out somewhere else?”

“Obviously I was looking for a red comet, but I couldn’t feel anything.”

“Now you ignore my words. I go too.”

Luke grabbed Keter’s wrist.

“Don’t be mean, this is important to you in the first place. If you don’t want to catch it in the first place, tell me a little bit. I’m going to die of burden too.”

“I’ll get it, but not now. It’s not ripe yet.”

“Ouch! I don’t know! let me know please! Your intentions!”

Eventually, Luke wipes his face and pleads with Keter.

But Keter took Luke’s fingers one by one and said.

“If you’re curious about my thoughts, bring me 5 million gold.”

“… … .”

So Keter abandoned the distraught Luke and resumed his work.

Retrieving the scattered bonds was, of course, a lot of money to spend in the future.

‘If you save it, it’s sh*t.’

I already knew it, but I hadn’t been able to properly use the power of money in my previous life.

In a hostile situation with the Queen, it cost at least three times as much money to buy the same item. Because the price of water sold on the street and water sold in the desert cannot be the same.

The effectiveness of money is, of course, a special effect in saving time.

Elixir, the best way to get aura and mana for free. It is said that there is a limit to equipment, but there is no limit to elixir. It’s unreasonably expensive, but it works great.

Keter intended to cash in on the bonds and purchase the elixir from the liqueur.

‘There’s nothing better than the elixir of the world tree given by the inspiration of Vulcan, but I’ll have to scrape it all the way to the bottom.’

I’ll eat the best of them, and sell the rest to good guys.

Had he known Keter’s thoughts, Luke would have raised his hand and said,

‘Why are there no plans to catch the red comet?’

What the hell is Keter thinking about not catching a red comet that needs to be addressed right away. The reason was not revealed until later tonight.

Luke returned to the office still trying to find the red comet by himself, and another day flew by.

It’s finally today.

Cork could have returned this evening, or sooner.

Luke nervously chewed his nails. Keter was still running around the liqueur. However, it was not a move to find a red comet.

Contrary to Luke’s burning inside, there were people who were relieved.

“So it is. What did you catch the red comet for? Ha ha ha!”

After hearing the news that Keter hadn’t done anything, Cork felt relieved.

The surprise plan failed and it was painful to lose the magic tool, but I thought it might be because of that.

“I took it as a warning. Don’t do anything nonsense, and you understood my meaning.”

Cork, who couldn’t sleep a sigh of anxiety, felt much lighter.

“We almost won. It was a game I won 100 percent from the start. It’s like 200 percent now.”

There is nothing urgent now. Even if you give it a week or a month, Keter can’t catch the red comet.

However, I really had no intention of giving her more time. I wanted to quickly make a deal with Kether and destroy it.

“No one can stop me now!”

It was a time when Cork celebrated their victory with open arms.

The communication glass marbles trembled loudly. Cork stopped laughing and cleared his throat.

“What’s going on?”

“Ji, branch manager! where are you! Come quickly, damn it!”

The urgent voice of the subordinate in charge of monitoring Keter. But Cork, certain of victory, was in no hurry.

“You sound stupid. Why do I have to go quickly?”

“Ke, Keter! Go Keter! Heck, heck.”

A subordinate gasping for breath and unable to speak.

Cork was annoyed at hearing the name of a bastard he didn’t want to hear.

“What about Keter! He swore an oath not to disturb me. Are you going to come and try to block my path?”

“I’m fighting a red comet! damn it!”

As soon as he heard that, Cork’s eyes widened. Wanting to confirm the facts, he held the glass marble with both hands and shouted.

“Stop Keter at all costs! Stop him from catching the red comet!”