Goblin Library - Chapter 224

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Chapter 224.

The Dung Carrier Goblin watched Oh Jang-hyuk tidy up his coffee cup and leave the rest room, his face brimming with satisfaction.
“My protagonist has become human.”
“Indeed. He’s become a better person.”
“Hmm… now that I think about it, I believe this is the kind of protagonist I’ve always wanted.”
Yu Tae-poong observed as the Dung Carrier Goblin smiled and spoke.
“He’s arrogant and sharp with others, but warm to his own people. That’s my protagonist—and I’ve come to hope that such a person might eventually extend that warmth and help to those beyond his circle, to strangers as well.”
“Haven’t there been protagonists like that until now?”
“There have been plenty of arrogant, troublesome protagonists. But none who helped others while being like that.”
“What about Lim Ok-beom?”
He appeared troublesome and arrogant on the surface, but in truth, he was an Independence Fighter who had passed away fighting for independence.
“That one I desperately wanted to write, so I forcibly made him my protagonist—but ordinary protagonists weren’t like that. They were all just troublemakers.”
The Dung Carrier Goblin laughed with a pleased expression and left the rest room, with Yu Tae-poong following behind him.
“Should we watch a bit more?”
“I’ve seen enough.”
“But you seem satisfied, hyung. Wouldn’t it be fine to watch a little longer?”
At Yu Tae-poong’s words, the corners of the Dung Carrier Goblin’s mouth rose further.
“Perhaps we should.”
At the Dung Carrier Goblin’s words, Yu Tae-poong nodded and followed after Oh Jang-hyuk, who was heading in that direction.

After greeting the Factory Manager, Oh Jang-hyuk turned to leave the factory.
That’s when an empty truck caught his eye, parked in the yard.
And the Truck Driver had one leg propped up out the driver’s side window.
Oh Jang-hyuk tilted his head at the sight.
It was puzzling—why was he sitting idle without loading cargo?
After observing the truck for a moment, Oh Jang-hyuk approached it.
“Sir.”
At Oh Jang-hyuk’s call, the Truck Driver glanced at him from the driver’s seat.
“Are you about to load cargo now?”
“Now?”
At the Truck Driver’s question, Oh Jang-hyuk looked at him and spoke.
“How long have you been here?”
“I arrived before lunch….”
The Truck Driver glanced at his watch and replied.
“About three hours ago.”
“Three hours?”
At those words, Oh Jang-hyuk looked at him briefly before turning his head away.
He could see Factory Workers resting off to the side.
“Have you eaten lunch?”
“I was planning to eat on the way after loading… I’ll probably stop at a truck stop. But why are you asking me this if I haven’t even loaded yet?”
“I want to make sure this doesn’t happen again. By the way, has this happened before—making you wait long when loading or unloading cargo?”
“Loading takes a while sometimes, but unloading is quick when I arrive.”
“How long does it usually take when it’s slow?”
“Fast, two hours. Slow, three hours? If that’s the case, why insist I arrive before noon instead of coming after lunch?” The Truck Driver checked the time and added, “Speaking of which, looks like they’ll load me soon.”
The Truck Driver glanced at his watch again.
“Time’s up, so they should get to it now.”
As the Truck Driver muttered as if this wasn’t the first or second time this had happened, Oh Jang-hyuk nodded and walked toward where the Factory Workers were resting.
“Manager.”
Two Factory Workers operating forklifts bowed in greeting, and Oh Jang-hyuk pointed at the truck.
“When are you loading that truck?”
At Oh Jang-hyuk’s question, a Factory Worker checked his watch and replied.
“Time’s gotten away from us. We should load it now.”
At the Factory Worker’s words, Oh Jang-hyuk looked at him and spoke.
“What are you two supposed to be doing?”
“Sir?”
“Aren’t you forklift operators who move cargo? That’s what the company pays you for.”
“Why… are you saying that?”
The Factory Worker looked at him with a mixture of confusion and slight displeasure. Though they were from the same company, Oh Jang-hyuk belonged to headquarters while they belonged to the factory.
But his tone had felt uncomfortable.
“Your time is precious but others’ time isn’t? That gentleman’s time is money, and you’re making him wait three hours here—are you going to compensate him for his losses?”
“It hasn’t been that long. We did arrive before lunch, but that doesn’t mean we can load the cargo while skipping our lunch break, does it? What about our lunch time?”
“So after lunch, there was no cargo to load?”
“Well, not exactly… but we still need to rest a bit before we work.”
“So you’re saying you didn’t care that he’s been waiting without even eating lunch, just so you could have your break?”
Oh Jang-hyuk squinted at the Factory Employee as he spoke.
“Three hours is enough time for him to make another trip with a short-distance load and earn extra. Who do you think you are, wasting someone else’s time like that?”
“Come on!”
“Come on?”
“We can just load it now, can’t we?”
At the Factory Employee’s words, Oh Jang-hyuk looked at him, then picked up the documents placed beside him.
He checked the list of cargo to be loaded onto the truck. Squinting once more, he climbed onto the forklift.
“What are you doing?”
Oh Jang-hyuk started the forklift without answering the Factory Employee’s question.
Vroom!
“There’ll be an accident.”
“I’m certified.”
Oh Jang-hyuk lightly dismissed the Factory Employee’s words and pressed the horn.
Honk honk!
At the horn’s sound, the Helpful Driver climbed down from the truck and up onto the cargo bed.
Oh Jang-hyuk maneuvered the forklift to one side, lifted a pallet stacked with goods, and brought it toward the truck bed.
It took less than ten minutes to fill the entire truck.
Since they only needed to load six pallets onto the truck, it was finished quickly.
“Boss, thank you for your hard work. And use this to grab a meal on the way.”
Oh Jang-hyuk pulled out ten thousand won and handed it over.
“I’m a working man myself, so I can only offer you meal money.”
“That’s really not necessary….”
The Helpful Driver, uncertain what to do, accepted the bill and glanced at the Factory Employees before speaking.
“This won’t happen again next time, right?”
“Of course not.”
Oh Jang-hyuk nodded in response and pulled out a business card to hand to the Helpful Driver.
“If our Factory makes you wait like this again, please contact me. Ah, but if it’s because we’re busy, please understand.”
“Of course. It’s all just people doing their jobs. I’ll be going then.”
“Drive safely.”
The Helpful Driver smiled, climbed into the truck, and began driving out of the Factory.
Oh Jang-hyuk waved goodbye to the departing driver, then turned to face the two Factory Employees who were staring blankly at him.
“It took less than ten minutes. Because you delayed such a simple task, he waited three hours.”
Then, after staring silently at the two of them for a moment, Oh Jang-hyuk turned and walked back into the Factory.
“Uh… where are you going?”
“To ask the Factory Manager if he knows about this.”
“We… we were wrong.”
Oh Jang-hyuk paused mid-step and let out a hollow laugh.
“When did I ever say that… wrong?”
Then he resumed walking. No matter that he held the rank of Department Head, the Factory Manager and other high-ranking factory staff would carry more weight and inspire more fear among the workers here.

Yu Tae-poong smiled as he watched Oh Jang-hyuk enter the factory.
“If my time is precious, then others’ time is precious too.”
“That’s right.”
The Dung Carrier Goblin then watched the two employees hurrying after Oh Jang-hyuk and lightly swung a cloth.
Whoosh!
Yu Tae-poong looked at him.
“What did you just do?”
“People who don’t understand that others’ time is precious deserve to waste their own time too.”
“How so?”
“When they go out to catch a bus, it’ll pass right before they reach the stop. Then they’ll have to wait for the next one. And if they try to catch a taxi, someone else will get in first. From now on, every public transport they use will be delayed by ten or twenty seconds, making them wait longer.”
Yu Tae-poong was slightly taken aback by the Dung Carrier Goblin’s words. It seemed trivial, but for someone who relied on public transportation, it was truly dreadful.
“Wait, but what if those two have their own cars?”
“Doesn’t matter. There will always be other cars ahead at the gas station. There will always be people ahead at restaurants, and there will always be someone ahead in everything they do.”
“That seems… a bit harsh as a punishment, doesn’t it?”
“It’s fine, it’s fine. I’ll only waste ten times as much of their time as they wasted from the drivers, and then I’ll reverse it. They need to learn that others’ time matters.”
As the Dung Carrier Goblin spoke and laughed, Yu Tae-poong said:
“You seem to be in a good mood.”
“My protagonist treasures others’ time, after all.”
The Dung Carrier Goblin pulled out a notebook from somewhere and began writing.
“Seems like good material.”
“It is good material. Oh Jang-hyuk’s story was flowing along just fine, but this came at the perfect time.”
The Dung Carrier Goblin looked at Yu Tae-poong with a pleased smile.
“I think I can wrap up Oh Jang-hyuk’s story here.”
“Are you going to finish his story?”
“We writer goblins choose our protagonists and write their stories, but we don’t write until they die. Sometimes we stop mid-way if they change and grow differently than we expected, and we conclude when we feel there’s nothing more to show. Oh Jang-hyuk has shown me the protagonist I wanted to portray. Writing more would just be unnecessary.”
The Dung Carrier Goblin turned away without hesitation.
“Let’s go.”
“Are you going to write now?”
“No. Since we’re out, let’s check on another one. Oh! Let’s go see Oh Mi-hee.”
When the name Oh Mi-hee, the protagonist of the novel written by the Gluttony Goblin, was mentioned, Yu Tae-poong spoke:
“She’s been doing really well lately.”
“Her identity was revealed.”
The fans who had been curious about her true identity finally succeeded in discovering it.
Keeping it hidden for a whole year was quite an achievement in itself.
Oh Mi-hee barely wore any makeup when broadcasting, so most people didn’t recognize her on air.
But among her devoted fans, someone appeared who recognized Oh Mi-hee without her makeup.
So my identity was exposed… and as a result, my subscriber count skyrocketed to a million in an instant.
People loved it even more because a celebrity—a gymnastics fairy, no less—was doing mukbang content, and she ate better than most mukbang creators.
Once my identity was revealed, I started showing my face while eating.
Then my subscriber count began climbing again.
“Let me see. Where is Oh Mi-hee?”
Gluttony Goblin waved a cloth around and spoke.
“She’s doing volunteer work.”
“Volunteer work?”
“But it’s interesting volunteer work. Let’s go.”
Gluttony Goblin walked toward a nearby door and opened it.
Click!
As the door opened, Gluttony Goblin and Yu Tae-poong stepped inside.

Whoosh!
Upon entering through the door, Yu Tae-poong could tell they had arrived at a chicken restaurant.
“Didn’t you say it was volunteer work?”
At Yu Tae-poong’s words, Dung Carrier Goblin laughed and pointed to one side. There, Oh Mi-hee was eating chicken.
“For every chicken Oh Mi-hee eats, one hundred chickens go to underfed children.”
“One hundred?”
“So if she eats ten, a thousand go to underfed children.”
“Ten? Even for Mi-hee, wouldn’t she struggle to finish ten?”
“Probably. She said if she can’t finish all ten, she’ll cover the shortfall herself.”
At Dung Carrier Goblin’s words, Yu Tae-poong watched Oh Mi-hee with curious eyes.
Oh Mi-hee was eating whole chicken deliciously. With fried in one hand and seasoned in the other, a heap of chicken bones had piled up in front of her.

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