I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 46

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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 046

New Residence (2)

Baek Jin-woo’s mother, Hwang Myeong-hee, felt like she was living in a dream these days.

Thanks to Yubaek’s family care service, she received 10 million won per month for living expenses.

Hwang Myeong-hee reduced her jobs from three to one, and thanks to that, she could attend alumni gatherings she couldn’t participate in before.

“Jeong-hye. Your son. Didn’t you say there was new news about him?”

“Haha, my son? Actually, he joined Baekho this time.”

“Baekho? Isn’t that one of the Big 3? Oh my, girl. Why are you only telling us this now!”

“Really? He must be doing incredibly well.”

Even with the same old bragging about children, Hwang Myeong-hee felt no impact at all.

Should I say her expression had gained composure?

‘Baekho?’

She learned about that thanks to her friends too.

One of the three major guilds representing South Korea, right?

Baekho, Arirang, Ilwol.

These three are such massive major guilds that you’d be called a spy if you didn’t know them.

“If you’re a Baekho player, aren’t you called quasi-chaebol? Jeong-hye, you’ve made it big?”

“Hehe, it’s not quite that level yet. He’s still a newcomer. He was specially recruited, and the guild master there praised him saying he sees potential.”

“Wow, the Baekho guild master… That’s the 2nd ranked player in the country!”

2nd ranked, Park Ho.

A monster player who achieved 3rd place in this National Team Selection as well.

For reference, Kang Geon-ho, who’s 1st ranked domestically, is Baekho’s vice guild master!

That’s why Baekho was the most renowned among the Big 3.

Even though it was like a fairy tale.

Grinning widely.

Hwang Myeong-hee just smiled.

Baekho or whatever.

‘Our Jin-woo is just Baek Jin-woo.’

Baek Jin-woo.

The impact those three characters bring to South Korea is tremendous.

Park Ho? Kang Geon-ho?

Standing before Baek Jin-woo, they’d all be finished in one minute.

But Hwang Myeong-hee didn’t tell her friends this fact.

Though she desperately wanted to brag, she had reached an agreement with Baek Jin-chul.

Let’s not go around blabbing about it.

It was enough to support their child’s success from behind; why would they need to go around talking about it?

“But… Myeong-hee, it’s been a while?”

One of her friends spoke to Hwang Myeong-hee.

To summarize what the alumni thought of Hwang Myeong-hee:

‘Dirt spoon.’

‘Son in traffic accident.’

‘Lives in old apartment.’

‘Works hard, even taking on three jobs.’

‘Pretty daughter. Still, too much as a daughter-in-law.’

All negative thoughts.

“Haha, it has been a while, right? I quit work recently so I have a lot of free time.”

“Oh my, but why is your skin like this?”

Skin.

At that word, the alumni’s gazes turned to Hwang Myeong-hee.

“Now that you mention it, you’re right?”

“You, I can slightly see how you looked when you were young?”

“…You seem younger too. Why don’t you have any wrinkles on your face?”

“Oh my, look at your hands. Why are they so soft? Do you just not age?”

Finding it fascinating, their interest shifted from the lady called ‘Jeong-hye’ to Hwang Myeong-hee.

“Ah, this.”

Hwang Myeong-hee smiled.

Then with innocent eyes, she brought out her summon.

“A snail?”

“What is this?”

“A summon…?”

At her friends’ reactions, Hwang Myeong-hee did some bragging that wasn’t quite bragging.

“Yeah, it’s a summon my son bought me, seems like it’s like cosmetics. After applying this, the effects have been tremendous. Want to try applying some?”

Hwang Myeong-hee offered the snail to the alumni who had spoken to her first.

“Really?”

The alumni’s eyes lit up as she carefully received the snail.

And she gently spread the small amount of mucus that came out on the back of her right hand.

“It is moisturizing.”

“If you look tomorrow, you’ll be shocked. Your wrinkles will be smoothed out.”

“Really? Then let me try the left side too.”

“Unfortunately, there’s a limit to how much comes out per day.”

Jeong-hye, who had been quietly watching the two chat, frowned.

She was displeased that the topic changed when she hadn’t even finished bragging about her son.

However.

“Huh?”

Jeong-hye tilted her head.

‘That snail.’

Where have I seen it a lot?

What was it?

She searched her memory for a moment, then was shocked.

‘Ra, rainbow snail?’

The rumor had already spread among ladies who liked luxury goods and spent quite a bit of money.

That rainbow snails were the ultimate for skin.

That Daeseong would soon open a skin treatment center using that summon.

There aren’t many snail-type summons in this world, and there was only one summon with such a rainbow-colored shell.

“Th, that’s impossible!”

Finally, Jeong-hye shouted loudly.

“Huh?”

“What’s impossible?”

When her friends looked puzzled.

“That snail!”

She pointed directly at Hwang Myeong-hee’s summon.

“Isn’t that a rainbow snail?”

“…Rainbow snail?”

“What’s that?”

Jeong-hye was frustrated.

“You clueless people! Do you know how much that costs?”

“How much?”

“Is it expensive?”

“Myeong-hee’s son gave it as a gift? Now that I think about it, didn’t Myeong-hee’s… have an accident?”

“Oh my, girl. You haven’t heard the news. He woke up quite a while ago, right?”

Jeong-hye looked at her chattering friends and felt slightly puzzled.

‘Come to think of it, how does Hwang Myeong-hee have that thing?’

Myeong-hee is from a poor family.

She has no money.

She has no connections.

She’s below average even among ordinary citizens.

But?

The current market price of a rainbow snail, as far as she knew, was 50 billion won.

Even that was limited to 100 worldwide, so the price was trending upward.

The estimated value was around 100 billion won?

Because of this, wealthy people quick with information jokingly called it “snail investment.”

“….”

Sensing the strange atmosphere, Hwang Myeong-hee hurriedly unsummoned the snail.

“Oh, I just received it as a simple gift. I don’t really know the price either. It’s probably not that expensive, right?”

She was sweating profusely as she said this.

‘I need to be careful.’

Honestly, Hwang Myeong-hee never thought any of her friends would recognize this snail.

More importantly, she didn’t even know the snail’s price.

“….”

Fortunately, Jeong-hye didn’t say anything more.

‘What exactly is her son doing to give her something like that as a gift?’

She just continued to look at Hwang Myeong-hee with suspicious eyes.

“Complete! It’s finished!”

At the foot of Geomdan Mountain in Hanam City.

Yu Ji-a stretched both arms wide and shouted in celebration.

“Wow….”

“Amazing….”

Kim Byeong-jin and Hwang Tae-seop, who had followed her, were gaping in admiration.

The construction company had finished all cleanup and withdrawn.

The site Yu Ji-a had purchased had become a kind of paradise.

Buildings stretching upward and a magnificently designed entrance!

“Impressive, isn’t it? This will be Yubaek’s headquarters from now on.”

Yu Ji-a murmured, suppressing her ambition.

“…Yubaek’s headquarters.”

“As the world’s best solo management company, we’ll only hire the world’s best elites…. Naturally, we must promise the industry’s best treatment and benefits.”

The first step of that was ‘housing.’

「Yubaek」 would provide spacious homes to its employees and their families free of charge.

The period would last as long as they worked there.

Of course, when they retired after reaching retirement age, she planned to transfer ownership of those homes to them.

“Then we’ll be moving here too?”

“Of course.”

Yu Ji-a smiled brightly and continued.

“Before that, there are some people we need to bring here first.”

Yu Ji-a named the complex 「Yubaek City」.

It felt like a small city that only Yubaek members could enjoy.

Shall we take a brief look at the design?

First, in the very center stood a 35-story Yubaek headquarters building.

This would house research labs, legal teams, sales teams, marketing teams, finance teams, sales support, and so on.

Various departments would be divided to take care of Baek Jin-woo.

Naturally, the rooftop was lavishly decorated as Yu Ji-a and Baek Jin-woo’s personal offices.

Only founding members like Kim Byeong-jin and Hwang Tae-seop would be able to come and go here.

Next.

To the north was a training room exclusively for Baek Jin-woo.

They had installed a spacious outdoor gym with a design similar to the existing vacant lot, plus a perfectly soundproofed basement, various exercise equipment, shower facilities, and refrigeration systems.

It was designed in multiple ways so that summoned creatures could train in optimal condition.

Next.

To the east was an apartment complex.

A total of four buildings had been constructed.

The 30th floor penthouse had an exclusive area of 489.25㎡, which was a 148-pyeong duplex penthouse.

All other floors were 60-pyeong units, which qualified as large apartments.

The parking lot extended down to the second basement level.

It was spacious enough for all residents to park two cars each, and the community facilities were incredible.

Breakfast service, cleaning, valet, laundry, fitness, golf, swimming pool, pet care, shops, and more.

They made it possible to live completely without ever stepping outside the complex.

Next.

To the west was a bunker.

For the safety Baek Jin-woo had requested, they had dug deep underground to be safe even if a nuclear bomb fell.

All residents had rooms available if they went underground, with conditions for self-sufficiency.

Finally.

To the south was a magnificent entrance and garden.

There were beautiful walking paths.

“…Wow.”

“What is all this?”

“Heh heh heh.”

Yu Ji-a brought Baek A-jin, Baek Jin-chul, and Hwang Myeong-hee first.

“This is part of the care service I mentioned before. Since you three are no different from VIPs of our company…. We’ll provide you with penthouses.”

The owners of the four penthouses had already been decided.

1. Baek Jin-woo

2. Yu Ji-a.

3. Baek Jin-chul, Hwang Myeong-hee.

4. Baek A-jin.

Following Yu Ji-a’s guidance, the three who toured the penthouses and facilities showed expressions of deep emotion.

“…Mom, Dad. This seems like the best house I’ve ever seen in my life?”

Baek A-jin exclaimed in admiration.

“Thanks to our son, we can live without worrying about housing for the rest of our lives.”

“…Is it really okay for us to just receive something like this?”

Baek Jin-chul and Hwang Myeong-hee didn’t know what to do with themselves.

They had lived their entire lives only in old apartments.

“I’ve never seen a house like this even in my dreams.”

“I guess it was beyond our imagination.”

“Even so…. We had grown attached to our house….”

Baek Jin-chul, who had been speaking, smiled wryly.

“What attachment?”

“Right, honey.”

Hwang Myeong-hee nodded firmly.

“Don’t say such scary things. Attachment, my foot.”

Attachment?

Attachment, my foot!

No matter what anyone said, a new house was the best.

That’s right!

My son is the world’s best Player!

I saw on the news that the national tax support for my son alone is 2 trillion won!

We can afford to live in a house like this, right?

“I knew from way back that our Jin-woo would become a great person!”

“…When did you say that? You gave up on him saying he only played games?”

“When did I ever! What about you? You said you wished he’d follow even half of that Jeong-hye’s son…!”

“Hahaha, honey.”

Hwang Myeong-hee hurriedly covered Baek Jin-chul’s mouth.

“Someone might hear. Let’s just say nice things today. Okay?”

“Okay.”

Yu Ji-a watched the two playfully banter with a warm smile, then handed over the keys, manual, and blueprints.

“We’ll help you move as quickly as possible from our end. Please feel free to look around.”

“Hehehe, thank you.”

“We’re always grateful.”

Yu Ji-a smiled as she watched the two parents exchange greetings.

‘Don’t mention it.’

Compared to the assets Baek Jin-woo will earn in the future, this level is trivial—practically nothing!

After finishing the greetings, Yu Ji-a moved busily again.

Because as Yubaek properly expanded, work kept piling up.

Still.

Yu Ji-a was working with what seemed to be the happiest smile of her lifetime.

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