I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 239

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Episode 239
Ep. 239
Thus, Ihyeon’s search for a new home ended surprisingly smoothly.
The exact area was a staggering 100,000 pyeong in Ijusi, Gyeonggi Province!
To be honest, it was a space large enough to operate a theme park rather than a home.
So much so that Deokhuun, after finishing his inspection, said this:
“Sir, should I move my warehouse here as well?”
“Huh? You too?”
“Yes, since you’ll be here anyway, what’s the point of me staying alone in Seoul? This is a good opportunity to clear out that expensive Seoul land and move here. It works out great for me.”
He’d said he’d miss being apart from me, but it seemed he’d made up his mind after all.
I nodded readily in agreement.
If it were a small plot, perhaps, but 100,000 pyeong was more than enough space even if Minjeong and Donghoo cultivated it without sleeping.
Rather, giving Deokhuun a section would be a way to reduce unused land.
Since it was a place he seemed to like, Seongnyun and I drafted the contract right then and there.
“We’ll entrust the moving company to a firm commissioned by our Management Bureau. It’s standard procedure for security reasons.”
“Yes, I’m grateful for that. But how much in taxes would it cost to purchase land of this size?”
At my question, Seongnyun tilted his head and looked at Deokhuun.
“Did I perhaps forget to explain that?”
“Oh no, I gave you the documents, but it seems you just skipped over them, sir.”
“What?”
Confused by the unclear conversation, Deokhuun explained it to me briefly.
“You and everyone on our team are now exempt from tax obligations.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“To put it more simply, you’re completely removed from the National Tax Service’s computer system.”
“?!”
That’s possible?
No matter how much of an Ilgyeok I am?
While I’d always viewed the Ministry of Defense as an object of fear, truthfully, the National Tax Service struck even more deeply into the hearts of ordinary citizens.
The grim reaper of capitalism, arriving without warning with notices at any time and place!
But in a manner of speaking, I’d been erased from that reaper’s ledger of death.
‘Of course, I’m not devaluing the noble duty of taxation, and I’ve always taken pride in faithfully paying my taxes until now….’
In any case, it seemed such provisions had been mixed into the documents Deokhuun had brought from the Management Bureau last time, saying he’d received plenty of benefits.
Rather than give out tax benefits one by one, they’d simply handed them out as a package.
Having discovered one of the benefits I’d unknowingly been enjoying, the contract was finalized.
Move-in was scheduled for a week later, and as mentioned, the Management Bureau would handle the moving.
While the distance from my original residence would certainly increase, it wasn’t so far as to make travel impossible, so Hojung Super could still be operated with a bit of effort.
In many ways, I’d found the optimal location.
…except for the fact that the land was far too vast.
After finishing the contract, I dropped off Deokhuun and Seongnyun in turn.
But before getting out of the car, Seongnyun asked with an ambiguous expression:
“Hunter, there really wasn’t anything unusual, was there?”
“Unusual? What do you mean?”
“Well… I mean, like someone coming to look for you or something like that.”
“Nothing happened.”
“Phew.”
Seongnyun exhaled a sigh of relief.
“Is something the matter?”
Between the Tower Defense incident earlier and this suspicious situation, I couldn’t just let it slide.
Seongnyun waved his hand.
“No, no. If nothing happened, then there’s truly nothing to worry about. It’s just…”
Still, he couldn’t completely dismiss it, so after hesitating for a moment, Seongnyun only said this much.
“We’ve lost track of someone, you see. That person said they really wanted to meet you.”
“…I see.”
Only then did I nod, finally understanding the situation.
“The Personnel Manager and I only just met, so how could a complete stranger find me?”
“That’s true. I really wish I could tell you more details, but that person is also highly classified, so I’d appreciate your understanding.”
“Yes, please go ahead.”
“Thank you for today. Take care.”
The Management Bureau didn’t know much information about me either.
It seemed they’d asked just in case, after a Hunter said they wanted to see me and then disappeared.
‘The Management Bureau people sure do worry a lot.’
I watched Seongnyun’s retreating figure as he hurried into the Management Bureau, smiling faintly.
I didn’t know who had disappeared, but to meet me in the Tower, they’d need to climb at least to the 86th Floor.
I’d already met all the Hunters who’d made it that far, so there was nothing to worry about.
Unless someone from abroad was so desperate to see me that they’d suddenly naturalize—which seemed unlikely.
“Haha, Ilgyeok still isn’t world-class. The 86th Floor is already considered a top-tier ranker even in other countries. Would they really go that far? Their own country wouldn’t even allow it.”
While I was entertaining these amusing thoughts, a message came through from Suyeon just as I arrived home.
– Oppa, I heard from Deokhuun. You found a place to move to? In a week?
“Yeah. News travels fast.”
– Great~ So I can level up again starting tomorrow?
“…”
My expression literally froze rigid.
Elsie, who was listening to the conversation beside me, let out a silent scream.
It was clear she was thinking, ‘How can we drag this out for just one more day!’
I’d thought I’d have about a week to run errands here and there and prepare for the move, but now that I thought about it, I had no excuse to be absent starting tomorrow!
Just as Elsie and I were breaking out in cold sweat, Jia was about to take sudden action beside us.
“Yes, Master, starting tomorrow you…”
Pap pap—! Pap pap—!
That’s when Elsie and I launched our perfectly coordinated emergency operation.
“Ah~ Ice creeeeam~.”
As Ihyeon gave a signal, Elsie smoothly spoke up and hurriedly dragged Jia away, disappearing somewhere.
– Huh? What are you talking about?
“Oh, it’s nothing. I think I need to start preparing for the move tomorrow. Until the move is done, I’ll have to take some time off. My parents are getting on in years, so as their son, I should be there for them, shouldn’t I?”
– Ah… you’re right. I wasn’t thinking straight.
“Right? Instead, I’ll show you the new place on moving day. Deokhuun said he’s moving the warehouse there too.”
– Oh, really? Then I could also…
“What?”
– Nothing. Just talking to myself. Anyway, see you then. Good luck with the move.
“Yeah, it’s really a shame we can’t enter the Tower together.”
– Then even three times a day…
“Yes? Mom, did you call me? Hold on, Suyeon. I’ll call you back later.”
Truly a successful operation!
Ihyeon hung up the phone, and Elsie, who had been keeping her distance while dragging along Jia—a ticking time bomb of sorts—approached with a serious expression.
Slap—!
Then came a low-level high-five, their palms smacking together.
Of course, due to the significant height difference between Ihyeon and Elsie, it didn’t look quite as cool as those old basketball players’ versions.
* * *
Time flew by like an arrow, and a week had passed.
Ihyeon, who had been running the supermarket and hadn’t been able to visit the new house, arrived slightly earlier than the moving trucks with Minjeong and Donghoo.
“Phew, the car is so nice I must have dozed off without realizing it.”
“It even has a massage function—the world really has gotten better.”
“Dad, we had that back then too. We just didn’t know because our car was a truck.”
“Oh, is that so?”
In any case, after dropping his parents off in front of the house, Ihyeon gave them a proper introduction.
“This is our home. This is the main house, and that over there is the annex.”
“My goodness, we own two houses?”
“It’s clean and nice, isn’t it?”
With premium materials and all the latest facilities installed, it was incomparable to the apartment where they had originally lived.
The few things that were missing had all been filled in by the Management Bureau within a week.
Minjeong and Donghoo looked around every corner of the house with wide eyes as Ihyeon guided them.
Whether it was touched up on Seongnyun’s orders, the interior was spotless and clean, unlike before.
“A house like this must cost quite a bit…”
Their eyes sparkled with the excitement of a boy and girl, yet at the same time, concern flickered in them—worry that this might be too heavy a burden for their son.
Ihyeon shook his head with a smile.
“No, it’s not. This land is state-owned, so we could buy it cheaply. These days, people don’t really want to move to remote houses like this.”
“Well, that makes sense.”
“We were lucky.”
The three of them, having accepted this explanation, stepped back outside.
Ihyeon pointed to the vast land spread out before them and spoke.
“This should be plenty for Mom and Dad to have a vegetable garden, right?”
“There’s no problem with it.”
“But this land you’re talking about….”
Minjeong and Donghoo exchanged a slightly disappointed look before speaking to Ihyeon.
“It’s so flat that we can’t tell where our property begins and ends?”
“Right. It would’ve been nice if there was at least a fence or something.”
“Nah, we don’t need a fence.”
“?”
The two of them tilted their heads in confusion at what he meant.
But Ihyeon was being literal.
It was the very fact I’d first heard from Seongnyun and had doubted my own ears about.
“This is all our land now.”
“???”
“So where does it start and end?”
“All of it.”
“?!?!?!”
“Hyeon, what you’re saying is….”
“Everything you can see.”
“!!!!!!!!”
Minjeong and Donghoo reacted as though they’d heard whispers from a demon rather than their son’s words.
The two of them spun around, surveying their surroundings.
Everywhere their eyes could reach was land.
Of course, mountains ringed the property in the distance, but the expanse was so vast it seemed doubtful one could traverse it all in a single day.
Yet according to their son, all of this was theirs.
“Apparently, unclaimed lands kept consolidating until it became this. The government also purchased some unusable land.”
“My goodness….”
A mixture of amazement and regret escaped from Donghoo and Minjeong’s lips.
The news lately often reported on remote lands sitting idle and unused, but I hadn’t realized the situation was this severe.
Then again, if the two of them hadn’t known Ihyeon was Ilgyeok, they would never have agreed to move to such a place.
Even now, there was some unease.
Instant Towers tended to appear in areas with low population density, and this place seemed perfectly suited for that.
“Isn’t the land way too vast?”
“Yeah, what your father meant was just a little hobby garden…but at this scale, we’d need to become professional farmers.”
Above all, the land being far larger than expected played a significant role.
To do anything with all of this, they’d need considerable farm equipment, and more importantly, it seemed impossible for just the two of them to manage.
“Hmm, is that so?”
Ihyeon furrowed his brow, apparently not having considered that far, and surveyed the vast property once more.
It did seem excessively large.
But it would be such a waste to abandon this house after already deciding to move.
Excessive as it was, aside from that issue, the location and the house itself were exactly what I wanted.
And above all….
“If that’s what you want, then sure.”
“Huh?”
“What do you mean by that?”
Minjeong and Donghoo exchanged puzzled glances at Ihyeon’s playful smile.
These days, robots supposedly handled farming quite well, but surely he wasn’t referring to something like that?
‘Those kinds of robots are still quite expensive… and even if they were robots, we’d need several units to manage all this land.’
I was about to try dissuading my son, saying it wasn’t a perfect solution either.
Ihyeon nodded toward Jia and gave her a meaningful wink.
Agricultural robots?
There was no need for those.
Whoooosh— whoooooosh——!

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