Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 95

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Episode 95

 

Chapter 95. Who Is That?

 

At the thought of making money by selling Park Kang-hoon’s information,

 

Gulp!

 

The paparazzi kept swallowing his saliva.

 

Originally, he had planned to offer it to the high-ranking officials first, but that was cancelled.

 

The first person to receive the information had been decided.

 

‘I’ll have to pay a penalty fee to the higher-ups to make up for this.’

 

The paparazzi’s own life could be in danger.

 

Just the fact that they were pushed to second priority in the information trade might be taken as an insult by the higher-ups.

 

But.

 

This was worth it.

 

The ‘she’ that the paparazzi was trying to contact now was one of the world’s most remarkable Hunters.

 

However.

 

With her small 152cm height and thin build, plain engineering student-like fashion.

 

Her tiny face was pale, her eyes looked like an angry squirrel no matter how wide they opened, and her long straight hair was always disheveled.

 

Just looking at her appearance, she looked like a high school student at most, far from being a grown adult.

 

Still, judging a ‘Hunter’ by appearance alone was absolutely forbidden.

 

Seo Mi-do was the world’s most famous Magical Engineer and a genius.

 

Normally, she was more indifferent to Hunters’ private lives than anyone else.

 

But if a ‘Golem’ appeared, the story would be different.

 

The ‘key’ she most desperately wanted.

 

That thing.

 

──It meant that Park Kang-hoon was holding it.

 

‘If I show her the video, she’ll come running immediately.’

 

Burying his body in the darkness─

 

Rustle!

 

He disappeared like a cockroach.

 

* * *

 

And now.

 

The spot that Alba had cleaned spotlessly.

 

“Yaaawn….”

 

They say pleasure comes after hardship.

 

Words that couldn’t be wrong.

 

Even if no great reward was given, after hardship anything would be good, so it had to be that way.

 

The same was true for Kang Hoon.

 

Just washing his dirty body that had been vibrating with muscle pain and getting a good night’s sleep in bed.

 

“This is nothing short of paradise….”

 

Just lying there was satisfying enough.

 

Next to him was Lucky, snoring softly.

 

And by the bedroom door stood Alba holding a glass of warm water.

 

– Master, please sleep a bit more. It’s only 8 AM.

 

Oh,

 

Alba’s voice had returned to normal.

 

By the way, Alba in Cleaning Mode was a bit scary.

 

‘His voice was just like the spaceship AI from old movies.’

 

At the same time.

 

He was just as capable.

 

Alba had organized every single item in the workshop according to its properties without missing anything, and meticulously cleaned everything without leaving a speck of dust.

 

At the same time, despite Lucky’s pleas, he had softened the dead skin and cleaned out all the dirt between his claws.

 

Alba had been merciless in turning Lucky back into white rice cake.

 

But now Alba was… well, just Alba.

 

“Mmm~! Yawn…. No, I slept well so I should get up soon.”

 

And so Kang Hoon shuffled toward the kitchen.

 

“Just finishing the dungeon mission is good enough~. What should I eat for breakfast? Should I throw all the ingredients in the fridge together and make bibimbap? With about six fried eggs on top.”

 

– …Fried eggs!

 

“Yeah, yeah. Two each per person. Let’s eat like we’re totally rich.”

 

While joking around with Alba like that.

 

Buzz, buzz─.

 

A phone call came in, breaking the peaceful holiday.

 

The name that appeared on the phone screen.

Big Brother Cheong Jeong-kwon

─As soon as he saw it, Kang Hoon had a gut feeling.

 

It would be difficult to rest today.

 

And for good reason.

 

Starting from the early days as ‘Pure Guild Master’, gradually changing to friendlier titles.

 

Today, Cheong Jeong-kwon was saved as ‘Big Brother’.

 

Unless something really big happened, there was no reason for him to disturb Kang Hoon’s rest.

 

Especially the morning after returning from a mission.

 

“Hello?”

 

As soon as he answered the phone with an uneasy feeling, sure enough.

 

– Sorry for calling on your day off! But it’s an emergency, so I have no choice!

 

“Huh? An emergency? What happened to the guild?”

 

– Rather than the guild, Hunter Park Kang-hoon. Information about you has leaked!

 

“What information?”

 

– Information that Hunter Park Kang-hoon brought a golem out of the dungeon!

 

At the urgent news,

 

“…?”

 

Kang Hoon was somewhat deflated.

 

“Oh, really? What’s… so serious about that?”

 

Compared to Kang Hoon’s bewildered response, Cheong Jeong-kwon’s voice was firm.

 

– It is serious. Very serious! And the woman who got that information happens to be… ‘Seo Mi-do‘!!

 

“Gasp! ‘Seo Mi-do‘?!”

 

At that, Kang Hoon gasped and asked back.

 

“…Who is that?”

 

– ….

 

* * *

 

Seo Mi-do.

 

A twenty-eight-year-old genius Mage.

 

──She is the leading figure in the world’s Magical Engineering research community.

 

Already in her teens, she had placed a graduation cap from a prestigious American university on her petite head.

 

She swept through all kinds of invention competitions and was active in F1 racing car development teams.

 

At the time, there was a rumor that ‘the team that recruits Seo Mi-do takes first place.’

 

It was several years ago that she, who had been devoted to scientific design including aerodynamics with her genius brain, ‘Awakened.’

 

At that time, Korea played fanfare.

 

Saying ‘The birth of a Korean genius Awakened!’ and all.

 

On the other hand, her F1 team shed tears of blood.

 

Pleading for her not to leave, asking who would develop new cars if she left.

 

Moreover.

 

Her Awakened profession was ‘Mage’, and her passive Skill was ‘Mana Operation.’

 

Seo Mi-do Awakened her abilities and simultaneously Awakened a new career path as well.

 

She made headlines by rejecting all enormous contract renewal offers.

 

However.

 

“Seo Mi-do, why isn’t she active?”

 

Breaking everyone’s expectations.

 

She didn’t actually join a Guild or go around Dungeons.

 

After living in seclusion for 10 months just like that.

 

She utilized her major to create a new path.

 

──Its name being ‘Magical Engineering.’

 

Magical Engineering.

 

Simply put, it’s an academic field combining magic and science.

 

Seo Mi-do was essentially the one who fastened the first button of that field.

 

In other words.

 

Magical Engineering was swayed by Seo Mi-do’s influence.

 

According to her preferences, one of the things junior Magical Engineers came to pursue most was.

 

‘Fully autonomous robots’!

 

Naturally, Golem research couldn’t be left out for that.

 

And among those, Dungeon-Produced Golems that homemade(?) Golems couldn’t match were bound to be coveted.

 

Eventually.

 

Seo Mi-do had poured all her magical energy into researching Dungeon-Produced(?) Golems!

 

However.

 

Ah, how heartless.

 

The Dungeon-Produced Golems didn’t understand her heart.

 

The years of repairing them with her own hands, only to be attacked after painstakingly fixing them, and reluctantly destroying them again in an endless cycle.

 

“Hic! Hic, hic!”

 

While smashing the lovely Golem she had lovingly repaired, Seo Mi-do shed tears of blood.

 

But what was this?

 

“…There’s a Hunter who brought out a Perfect Golem from a Dungeon?!”

 

Smack!!

 

Striking the Research Lab table with her cotton ball-like hands, Seo Mi-do shouted.

 

“Who is it? Who is that genius magical scholar?! A Graduate Student from our department?! A disciple?! A junior?! Or maybe, a child?!”

 

Having even founded a ‘Magical Engineering Department’ at her prestigious alma mater.

 

Since all notable Magical Engineers were Graduate Students of this small professor, Seo Mi-do.

 

Naturally, they must be my subordinate!

 

─So assumed Seo Mi-do, but.

 

“Th, that is…”

 

Seo Mi-do, who was a professor, authority, and youngest member of this department.

 

Reading her mood, a subordinate… no, a Graduate Student opened their mouth.

 

“According to information the Dean obtained first through initial contact, th, they’re not from our department.”

 

“What?”

 

At that, Seo Mi-do’s eyes flashed like a squirrel whose food had been stolen.

 

“You, what do you mean by that? Are you saying there was another Magical Engineer we haven’t recruited yet?”

 

At her words, which were soft-spoken but more mature than anyone’s, the recruitment-responsible slave… ah, no, Graduate Student hurriedly said.

 

“Professor, that’s not it… Th… they’re not a Magical Engineer at all.”

 

“What?”

 

“…To be precise, they’re not even a Mage.”

 

The moment when not only basic social common sense.

 

But even her own life philosophy came crumbling down.

 

“Then, who…”

 

Seo Mi-do opened her trembling lips.

 

“…Who on earth is that genius?”

 

Unconsciously, a tightly clenched fist.

 

The moment purple mana began bubbling up from within it.

 

Seo Mi-do quickly made a decision.

 

“Find a way to contact them, immediately! Money doesn’t matter! Paparazzi? They want money. Well, would roughly throwing hundreds of billions at them work?”

 

Seo Mi-do was the chairman of a global big tech company.

 

Casually mentioning hundreds of billions, everyone from Postdocs to Graduate Students was stunned.

 

“Pr, Professor. What are you planning to do after finding them?”

 

Whoosh!

 

Shrinking their shoulders at the magical power that even burned the design blueprints on the table, her prisoner… no, Graduate Student asked.

 

To the question worried about potentially harming that ‘genius.’

 

“I need to secure them immediately.”

 

Seo Mi-do’s answer was unexpected.

 

──”I need to bring that adorable Golem to this Lab Room.”

 

She smiled gently with her makeup-free face.

 

“The money spent on that is just trivial. Our company’s stock will rise again tomorrow, so what does it matter?”

 

Thud!

 

What she set down was a thick bundle of papers.

 

“They say it’s the data age these days, but analog is better for final Research Paper reviews.”

 

As it happened.

 

Seo Mi-do had just finished writing a new technology Research Paper.

 

“!!!!!”

 

Amid everyone’s shock, she told them to handle the presentation well on their own,

 

Whoosh!

 

And instantly disappeared somewhere.

 

* * *

 

Meanwhile, at that very moment.

 

That very ‘adorable Golem’ that Seo Mi-do, who had walked only the path of Magical Engineering, was coveting enough to be astounded.

 

Speaking of Alba.

 

“Now, mix, mix! Three times to the right! Three times to the left!”

 

…He was mixing Metal Bowl Bibimbap.

 

“Oh! If you mix without direction like that, the bracken fern will get tangled together!”

 

While listening to Park Kang-hoon’s nagging, he held spoons in both hands.

 

– Korean food is more profound than I thought. It seems to harmonize naturally even when done roughly, yet becomes more delicious the more effort you put into it…!

 

Searching for the golden ratio of gochujang, sesame oil, and sesame seeds distributed in one spoonful of rice.

 

Scrape scrape, scrape scrape!

 

He scraped the metal bowl clean.

 

“Ooh! That looks delicious! Let’s eat now!”

 

Who would know?

 

A monumental golem that would change the history of Magical Engineering.

 

That it was sitting cross-legged following its master, gathered around a single metal bowl.

 

Even more.

 

– I’ll do the dishes after the meal, Master!

 

“No, I’ll just do that myself…”

 

【Please don’t take away my work, Master.】

 

“!”

 

…That it was being wasted doing household chores!

 

“Mmm~! R-right, right, let’s eat first!”

 

Kang Hoon decided not to do the dishes purely because he wanted to rest.

 

Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely…

 

It’s not because he’s scared of ‘Cleaning Mode Alba’.

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