Monopolizing Skills to the 666th Floor - Chapter 38

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Skill Devouring to the 666th Floor Episode 038

38. Camouflage

‘As expected, it’s Camouflage. To think it could replicate this perfectly.’

In the mirror was a different face.

It was the face of Kang Hee Seong, whom I had just killed by snapping his neck.

‘This guy was also an Apostle. I can tell from the black smoke rising.’

Black energy rose from his corpse.

When I touched it, it was absorbed into my body.

[You have absorbed karma.]

[8% until core completion…]

‘I might get caught, so the corpse first.’

Before disposing of it, I stripped Kang Hee Seong’s clothes first.

If you’re going to impersonate someone, you have to look authentic.

I changed clothes and stuffed the corpse into the cabinet.

Just then.

Clank!

The office door opened.

It was Park Do Hwan, his right-hand man.

“What? Who told you to come in without permission?”

“I’m sorry. The conversation was taking so long that I was worried about you, hyung…”

“Unnecessary worrying. Tsk.”

Fortunately, the corpse wasn’t discovered.

Even though he saw my face, there wasn’t a hint of suspicion.

‘Of course it would be flawless. I changed clothes and my face is identical.’

However, he would be curious.

Why I was alone.

Sure enough, Park Do Hwan, who had been looking around here and there, asked.

“But why are you alone? What about the guy who came earlier?”

“He left. Jumped out the window.”

“Earlier he jumped off the rooftop… What a strange fellow.”

Fortunately, the lie worked.

“What did you talk about with that guy?”

“What else. Business talk.”

“Will he really go with our proposal?”

I shook my head and said as planned.

“No, rather he made an even better proposal.”

“Huh? An even better proposal?”

“Let’s go outside and talk about it.”

As we stepped outside the office, thirty organization members all focused on me at once.

Unlike earlier when they were drawing their blades, they all looked at me with docile eyes.

‘To think no one is on guard after seeing my face.’

Is this the effect of Camouflage?

It was perfect disguise combined with acting.

I looked around the crowd and lowered my voice as if possessed by Kang Hee Seong.

“The guy who came earlier left this behind. Do you know what it is?”

I took out a piece of paper from my pocket and showed it.

“That’s a lotto ticket.”

“Why did he give that?”

“This is supposedly a first-place winning ticket.”

“Whaaaat?”

“First place?”

The gangsters who saw the lotto ticket began to stir.

They thought he came to make a business proposal, but he left something like that?

“Let me take a look.”

Surprised Park Do Hwan examined the lotto ticket.

“What? Why are all the numbers the same?”

The strange thing was that all five games had the same numbers written on them.

And…

“The drawing date is today?”

“Today?”

“Come to think of it, it should start soon?”

“Then they haven’t drawn yet?”

“But he said it’s a first-place ticket?”

Not understanding, the crowd’s murmuring grew louder.

Park Do Hwan looked at me with a bewildered expression.

“The drawing hasn’t even happened yet, what do you mean first place?”

“That guy said so. That he would definitely win first place.”

“Do you… believe that?”

“He has a skill. A skill that sees the future.”

“….”

He didn’t say anything, but I could tell from his expression.

Pure absurdity.

But my expression was serious.

“That guy has 19 more of these. He said he saw the future of winning first place and bought 20 tickets with the same numbers.”

“Haa… Boss.”

“He made a proposal to give all of these. The condition was…”

“Boss, sorry to interrupt, but… I think that guy fooled you. It hasn’t even won yet…”

“I believe him. We can check, right? Turn on the TV.”

At my instruction, one of my subordinates turned on the TV.

[1,784th Lotto drawing. We’ll begin today’s drawing. Now~ the balls are rolling. The first lucky number is 41.]

The round number matched.

So did the first number.

[The second lucky number is 25.]

[The third lucky number is 9!]

[The fourth is…]

“Boss. How many have matched so far?”

“….”

“Do Hwan hyung?”

Park Do Hwan’s eyes, who had been checking the numbers, grew wider and wider.

[The sixth lucky number is 22!]

[Let me summarize the 1,784th Lotto winning numbers. 41, 25, 9, 23, 29, 22!]

“Cra, crazy! Fuck!”

Park Do Hwan’s eyes bulged as he finally burst into profanity.

“Guys! This is live, right?”

“Of course.”

“Why are you asking, Boss?”

Park Do Hwan’s hand holding the ticket trembled violently.

“First place… it’s first place.”

“Huh?”

“It’s really first place…”

“Are, are you serious?”

“Let, let’s check it.”

“Let me see too!”

As his subordinates rushed over, Park Do Hwan quickly pulled the paper away.

“Hey, hey! Where do you think you’re going! Do you know how much this is worth? What if you tear it by mistake? Will you take responsibility?”

“How much is it worth?”

“If it’s first place, wouldn’t it be around 2 billion?”

“But you said there are tickets with the same numbers.”

“Wait, now that I think about it…”

Park Do Hwan examined the Lotto ticket once more.

“Five games with the same numbers… then the prize money would be 10 billion…?”

“Hey, you simple bastard. It’s not 10 billion.”

Unable to watch anymore, I scolded him and snatched the winning ticket.

“The total first place prize is divided by the number of games and distributed, you know.”

“Then how much is this worth?”

“If the total prize is 33 billion and there are 110 first place winners, you’d get 300 million per game. Since there are five games on one ticket, that’s 1.5 billion.”

Shock filled Park Do Hwan’s eyes.

1.5 billion on a single piece of paper.

The organization members listening to the story couldn’t hide their amazement either.

“Crazy. It’s really first place…?”

“A skill that sees the future… that’s insane.”

“What kind of patron spirit gives such a cheat-like skill?”

“I’m so jealous… damn.”

The attitude of the subordinates who didn’t believe just moments ago changed instantly.

Park Do Hwan was the same.

“There are 19 more like this?”

“Right. 19 more worth 1.5 billion each.”

“Wait, wait. Let me calculate…”

“Including what I have, it’s roughly 30 billion.”

“Gasp!”

The gangsters’ eyes widened at the unimaginable amount.

“That guy said if we listen to his proposal, he’s willing to hand over the remaining 19 tickets.”

“Wh, what was the proposal?”

I brought out the answer I had prepared.

“The proposal was to forgive all debts of the debtors and disband the loan shark company. As if it never existed from the beginning.”

“…What?”

“He said if we do that, he’ll hand over all the first place winnings.”

“H-hyung-nim. You’re not seriously considering accepting that, are you…?”

“I have to accept it. It’s a matter involving 30 billion won.”

30 billion won was definitely enough money to not need the loan shark business.

It was sufficient justification to disband Heesung Capital.

“D-did he really say he’d give you that much money?”

“Yeah. He said he could easily make that much money since he can see the future anyway. This first-place lottery prize was the proof he offered.”

“Huh…”

“Do you believe it a little now?”

There was nothing to believe or not believe.

I had experienced winning first place in real time.

“Let’s fold the business like that guy said. Fold it, and get the remaining 19 tickets too. Let’s get our hands on 30 billion won.”

“Hyung-nim… But we don’t know if he’ll really keep his promise.”

Park Do Hwan was suspicious.

At times like this, I needed to be firm.

“I’ve already decided.”

“No, hyung-nim. You can’t just believe that guy’s words so readily.”

“The lottery ticket won right before my eyes. And you still can’t believe it?”

“What if he just gives us one ticket and ends it there? It might be a trick to make us fold our business.”

“So what? You want to throw away the chance to earn 30 billion won?”

“You’re being too hasty. This is a business we worked so hard to build… We can’t just fold it like this.”

His opposing opinion was quite firm.

But that was fine.

This was actually what I had wanted.

‘Guys like this can’t be persuaded with words.’

Planning to push harder, I glared at Park Do Hwan.

“Are you defying me right now? I’m saying I’ll do it, so why are you talking so much, you bastard.”

“Sigh… Get a grip, hyung-nim. We can make plenty of money among ourselves, can’t we?”

He spoke in a worried tone, but I deliberately picked a fight.

“This bastard is presumptuously giving advice to his hyung-nim? I treated you well calling you my right hand and whatnot, and now you want to be on equal footing? Huh?”

Park Do Hwan couldn’t back down anymore either, as he didn’t avoid my gaze.

“Still, I have to say what needs to be said.”

“What? Has this bastard gone crazy?”

“The crazy one is you, hyung-nim. Please come to your senses. How can you believe the words of some guy who just appeared out of nowhere? Are you really thinking of paying off the debts and folding the business?”

“Wow… I was too lenient with you, and now there’s nothing you won’t say.”

I looked up at the ceiling and held my forehead.

Peak acting skills.

‘Now I need to show them. What happens when you defy the boss’s words.’

The reason I disguised myself as Kang Hee Seong.

It was to destroy the loan shark company and save Park Se-jun, Park Se Hee’s younger brother, but there was another purpose too.

‘I need to get this organization under my control. It’s too valuable to just throw away.’

If I was going to throw it away anyway, I judged it would be better to use it first then throw it away.

For that, one sacrifice was necessary.

An example, so to speak.

“Come at me.”

“…”

“I said come at me, you bastard. This is what you want, isn’t it?”

I picked a fight with Park Do Hwan and provoked him to fight.

“Hyung-nim. Are you really going to do this?”

“Don’t even call me hyung-nim. Where does a little punk like you get off trying to climb over his hyung-nim? You want to die?”

“Wow… Hyung-nim. Did you eat something wrong? Why are you suddenly acting like this?”

“This bastard…”

I didn’t need to take a weapon from my Inventory.

In an instant, I snatched the sashimi knife from the subordinate next to me.

Slash!

I suddenly slashed Park Do Hwan’s throat.

“Kuk, kheuk…”

Park Do Hwan collapsed to his knees with a thud.

He reached out his hands to try to stop the flowing blood, but it was futile.

I kicked the guy over.

And then.

‘Dissection.’

I used the skill I had copied from him.

Slash slash slash slash slash!

Blood splattered and flesh flew as his entire body was dissected.

At that merciless sight, the eyes of the subordinates watching became as wide as saucers.

“Whew…”

Having finished the work while covered in blood, I looked around at everyone present with bloodshot eyes.

“Anyone who crawls up to me ends up like this. Got it?”

“….”

“Why aren’t you answering?”

“…Y-yes!”

“If anyone wants to defy me, come out now. I’ll lay you down right next to that bastard.”

“….”

No one moved.

‘Of course they wouldn’t.’

An Apostle had just died without being able to resist at all.

Unless they had a death wish, there was no way they’d step forward.

‘Words alone won’t work. You have to handle gangsters with strength.’

Suppressing the crowd with superior power and charisma.

That was the quality a gang boss needed to have.

[You have absorbed Karma.]

[9% until Core completion….]

I gained Karma from Park Do Hwan’s corpse.

[Skill ‘Dissection’ disappears.]

With the target’s death, the skill disappeared as well.

Even looking at his gruesome corpse, I didn’t bat an eye.

‘He deserved to die.’

Honestly speaking, all the gangsters here were the same.

Parasites who only caused harm to others while alive.

I intended to train such people.

Under the name Kang Hee Seong.

‘Even vermin like these have their uses somewhere.’

For now, the immediate use was….

“From now on, there is no Heesung Capital. Understood?”

“Yes!”

Having them destroy the loan shark company with their own hands.

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