Clearing the Game at the End of the World Chapter 421

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Chapter. 19. Playing tag (2)

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Big city Wigen.

The alley where a wandering knight and a newsboy met just one day ago.

“That’s ridiculous! “This is a scam, a scam!”

“hmm? well. “I don’t remember tricking you?”

Click, click,

slurp!

Hyde, who was eating the same cheap mushroom soup from the same box as before, desperately suppressed laughter as he looked at the boy who appeared completely different from him.

Of course, that face with quivering cheeks, half-hearted eyes, and twitching corners of the mouth was the main culprit that was causing newsboy Pablo’s temper.

‘How I have looked forward to this day and this moment!’

Pablo thought of Hyde, whom he had met here yesterday.

Guests who get their own rooms at the station.

Despite the shabby appearance, it is quite a bit of a spendthrift.

That strangely wise and relaxed attitude!

Big Mouth’s newsboy Pablo had a hunch. This man must be a big guy hiding his identity!

So that morning, I abandoned my morning duties and rushed back to the newspaper office to find the boss.

‘Sa heo eok heo eok sa sa boss!’

‘If you have an accident again and run away, I will kill you with my own hands.’

‘That’s it! That’s not it, I won the jackpot! oh my god!’

‘….oh my god?’

Although he had a bad personality and preferred money over life, the boss was grateful to him for taking in orphans who had nowhere to go and creating jobs and income for them.

Pablo, who always thought he was indebted to his boss, talked to ‘Mr. Hyde’ whom he met in the morning about the permission to enter the station that he gave him for his subscription, and asked

‘…Pathfinder?’

The boss, who was just listening indifferently, at some point adjusted his posture and spoke.

‘Pablo.’

‘Yep bonus!’

‘….You are dismissed as morning newsboy as of today.’

‘Eeek! No, why!’

The boss faces the boy with a serious face and a heavy money bag and the sound of dismissal rather than an award.

‘I’ll skip all other work, so I’m telling you to focus on that, you guy. Now, this is performance expenses.’

‘This much?’

‘Other reporters receive it similarly. Those guys are station workers, security guards, and where do they come from with their deep pockets? The company is giving it with the mindset of investing. If you do this job right, I’ll promote you to reporter.’

‘Reporter Ki…! I’m a reporter!’

‘okay. It’s that important. I already thought the atmosphere was suspicious, but this is an access ticket to a station full of information about external activities at a time like this. And that… hmmm. no.’

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Uh… now that I think about it, you said a lot of things.

Anyway, Pablo, a boy who had received expectations from someone for the first time in his life, struggled with holding the heavy money bag.

‘How can I make Mr. Hyde look good?’

What was in the pocket was not even a thin piece of silver, but an old shilling. A shilling coin that is said to be ten times the value of the same weight as the silver piece mainly used in the city. As many as twenty shiny coins with the faces of past kings and emperors engraved on them. With this money, he could eat a lot of pork as well as pork fat, buy a lot of magicite powder for heating in the newsboy’s apartment, and donate it to the temple of the priest who gave him the name Pablo.

However, the boy Pablo was mature for his age.

‘invest. The boss said this was an investment.’

Where should I invest? Right now, all I know about Mr. Hyde is that he’s an important person who knows how to eat cheap food with good taste, so what am I supposed to do with this?

And the boy sees his reflection in the rain gutter.

A scruffy face that doesn’t even remember the last time it was washed.

Dirty clothes stained with sweat and dust from running around the crowded city every morning.

Mr. Hyde is obviously a very precious person. No, Mr. Hyde.

‘….good!’

After making his decision, the boy ran with the jingling silver coins.

This is a salon located a little outside of the city center where lower class people like Pablo don’t go.

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“Ah, that’s why… Pusup!”

“Oh, don’t laugh! “I did my best!”

“Ah hmmm! okay. “The sincerity is truly admirable…. Sigh!”

“Iike!!”

Hyde tried to hold back his laughter, but every time he tried, he couldn’t help but feel a tickle in his throat at the sight of the back alley and the sight of the boy standing a long way away.

‘How can I tolerate this?’

Her hair, which used to be messy and shaggy, was thickly oiled and pulled back into an all-back ponytail.

The clothes that were not much different from trash were shirts and pants made of tightly woven fabric.

In addition, he wore a cheap but shiny vest made for aristocratic servants, and leather shoes that were small but made a clear clicking sound every time he walked.

A back alley newsboy was waddling around wearing a miniature butler’s uniform one morning. If you don’t laugh at this, wouldn’t it be better to visit the temple?

“I thought Mr. Hyde was definitely a great person, so I invested a lot of money because I needed to match his level to train next to him! “Why are you eating that soup here again?”

“I’m not that great of a person.”

“Then what is it!”

“He is a person who suffers from quite a strong mental defect, he is so poor that the cost of the clothes you wear is several times more than the money in my pocket, and he is currently asking for your rather active cooperation.”

“Ughhhhh! Nonsense! Mr. Hyde wasn’t a member of the knights who hid his identity! “It was an empty can!!!”

“Yesterday you learned about investing, and today you learned that investing comes with risks, Pablo. “Keep in mind that investment responsibility always lies with you.”

Slurp –

slurp!

Hyde emptied the bottom of the soup bowl, laughing breathlessly at the sight of the boy flinching while trying to rip his hair and flinching again while trying to throw away his clothes.

“Now, a newsboy friend who is sincere, quick-witted, and has now become very classy with his eyes? “Let’s finish breakfast here and then get back to our work.”

“Phew…. Yes. What are you curious about? Fragment price? News that came in yesterday? Noble family gossip? You can say anything. “I did this yesterday and went back to the newspaper office and memorized every single word amid harsh ridicule.”

Hyde said, looking at Pablo, who was muttering and swallowing words like, ‘Connects with a great person… he will flatten your nose…’.

“Please show me the city.”

“Yes – city guide… yes?”

“This is a big city. It’s only been four days since I arrived in Wigen. “Don’t you have any idea what to do?”

“Uh… So, not verbal information or written city geography… but guidance? “Me myself?”

“yes.”

“So, when you dragged me to this secluded place in front of the main gate, you didn’t bring me to a secluded place without reporters or other distractions because there was an unavoidable situation inside the station, but you really brought me here to walk around with me?”

“That’s right! “The classy Pablo is smarter than yesterday’s simple Pablo!”

“Oh how much. By any chance, the destination is…”

“Um… First of all, every corner? “I want to be familiar with all the important places.”

“her.”

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“…Uuuuuuu! really! Even if you get caught, it’s only because you’re caught by someone like this!”

Pablo stomped his feet, alternately touching his shiny leather clothes and his neat hair.

Guidance. What I’m asking for is a city guide!

Some people may ask why I don’t like following people around and showing them around, but anyone from the big city of Wiggen would have slapped the person who made such a request in the face.

Because this place is none other than Wigen. Thanks to its location in the Teldrat Empire, which was famous for its fertile land, this is the city where the largest number of Earth Wizards reside. The Earth Wizards have rolled up their sleeves to solve the shortcomings of the narrow rocky area! The result was Wiggen, a large city with a tangle of high-rise stone buildings that clearly displayed the wizards’ strange aesthetic sense!

In Wigen, you don’t ask for directions. Natives of the city only follow the ‘proven’ paths that their parents or those who raised them have held their hands and shown them since childhood, while people from outside, like Mr. Hyde, only follow the ‘yellow roads’ that the city has painted for them.

What are the other ways? The whole thing is like a labyrinth. This is because the earth wizards, mostly dwarves, turned Wiggen into a terribly tangled city that resembled anthills stacked on top of each other, as if to show their roots.

Thanks to this, the current number of people residing in the city of Wigen is about 35,000. In name and reality, it was the city with the largest population in the former Teldrat Territory, and this did not include the number of people who may have been hiding in the maze-like city.

When a person who doesn’t know the way asks, ‘Where should I go, Mr. So-and-so’, the explanation begins with ‘Go straight and go to the third alley…’ This is a city that can fill 30 wooden blocks.

Asking to be a guide in such a city meant the same thing as asking someone to be a built-in guide who would guide him wherever he went. It’s not a path you can memorize anyway. If you don’t guide me to the end, I will inevitably end up lost in the middle of the city.

‘I was deceived. From the beginning, they needed me as a guide rather than a newsboy or something, so they caught me very well!’

In fact, there was nothing more suitable as a city guide than a newsboy. They are the ones who run around the city every day and spread the news. Perhaps this man named Hyde was trying to catch such a newsboy.

The sweet bait called [station entrance ticket].

“…Mr. Hyde? “If I refuse to be a guide-” “

Unfortunately, the relationship between the ‘classy boy Pablo’ and the ‘non-special Hyde’ will end here, right? Ah, this must be such a pity. When I left today, I met the crew of the Magical Train ‘Dynamite Lady’-”

“Uuuuu#*(@#&*$^&*@!!!!”

I couldn’t even refuse. I told the newspaper office that I had already obtained a ticket to enter the station. Because he did it and even received the accompanying expenses.

A newsboy who is like the life of Paris received all the expectations of the city newspaper owner, but on the same day he went to visit a customer, he was kicked out and returned? Not even stepping on the threshold of the station? I can

assure you that he will crawl for another month. He will be beaten to the point where he will have to go. He said he blew the opportunity he had. The other newsboys he works with will also laugh at Pablo. They say he used a trick to get the boss’s attention by inflating things that didn’t exist. He was used to getting beaten up, but he was angry with the other guys. I hated being treated like a fool.

“Uuuuuuuuu! Let’s do it! Let’s do it!”

What could I do? If I didn’t want to go back empty-handed like this, I had no choice but to cooperate with Mr. Hyde in front of me and get information about the inside of the station.

Pablo ended up doing it. I had no choice but to hold the hand of Hyde, who was still smiling. What could I do? I should blame myself for being deceived by the strange atmosphere hidden in the cheerfulness.

… Crunch

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Mr. Hyde.

– Uses a sword. Arcane with quite a bit of usability. He also uses a shooter.

– Enjoys eating cheap food.

– Oranite? A believer in chivalry?

– ☆Customer at the station!

– Bastard

– Smart as fuck.

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“What are you doing?”

“Oh, it’s nothing! ”

The only revenge that Pablo could take was to sell his carefully recorded personal information later.

“So where should I take you? I’ll tell you in advance, but as you said earlier, if you only have to see the ‘main facilities on the surface’ of the city, you can walk along the yellow road and 5 If it’s work, it’s enough, but if not… two months won’t be enough. If you really want to know every nook and cranny of the city, be prepared to sit here for about two years. If there’s anything you’re looking for, let me know. I’ll guide you to places in the city related to that. ”

…Hyde thought that attracting the newsboy was the right answer.

Heart pounding. Heart pounding. Heart pounding.

Hyde remembered the feeling that had led him to this city in a hurry. My heart is still beating a little faster than usual. It’s faint, but it’s clear evidence that you’ve reached what you’re looking for.

and

“Warlord.”

“….yes? “Is that the one you’re hearing about?”

“okay. I’m looking for that crazy guy you talked about yesterday. “Is there any way?”

『-Kuung』

A heavy sound that feels like my heart is sinking for the first time in my life.

“First of all, I need to meet someone who came over from the old Roderick Territory about two to one year ago.”

“Are the rumors about Warlord recent?”

“It was only recently that it was ‘discovered’ and became a ‘controversy.’ The fact that this guy, who was treated like an urban legend, surfaced means that something happened. He is said to be influencing even the debris market in Wigen, which is quite far away from the old Rodrik Territory. Just saying, ‘They said they got off on a boat’ doesn’t have that much of an impact. That guy definitely did something. Depending on the type of incident, the nobles of the other city may have silenced the city. “Because it’s that easy.”

The fragment market is not small enough to be swayed by rumors like urban legends. If there is a change that causes the market to become tight, there must be a clear change that can be expressed in numbers.

“oh! In fact, it was strange that the market fluctuated at the level of rumors.”

“It’s just a guess, but it’s not that uncommon for nobles to cut off information exchange between cities if they touch the nobles’ wealth or something bigger. Of course, even if we do that, we can’t prevent rumors from spreading somehow.”

“That’s ‘Warlord’?”

“yes. If that Warlord is the one who started the incident, then in a few years, there will be people who come over from Roderick who will know what actually happened there. “I’m going to start from there.”

“Wow….”

Crunch Crunch –

The boy stood up, scribbling something on the small wooden board in his palm.

“It’s a place where people from Roderick territory are likely to be in within two years. “If you’re looking for someone who witnessed an incident… there’s a place you can go.”

“where?”

“Seonro Village. If you’re new, is there anywhere else to be? “Please follow me.”

Pablo got up with an expression that said he didn’t want to go, and then suddenly turned to look at Hyde.

“…I have no choice but to do it for you, but you must definitely pay me! certainly! please!”

“I’m going to have a drink with the drivers of the magic train ‘Dynamite Lady’ this evening… Pablo, do you want to have a drink?”

“I will serve you with all my heart, Mr. Hyde!”

Drinking with train drivers. They are the drivers of the ‘Dynamite Lady’ who arrived in the city fifteen days ago!

Pablo decided to guide Hyde without further ado. Although he was a bit shady, he seemed like a person who definitely paid the bills.

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– The hair is really, really good.

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The woodblock hidden in Pablo’s palm contained a record of admiration and a bit of respect for Hyde, who could read the state of affairs based solely on market prices and rumors.

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Clearing the Game at the End of the World

Clearing the Game at the End of the World

CGEW, 세상의 끝에서 클리어를 외치다
Score 8.2
Status: Completed Type: Author: Released: 2021 Native Language: Korean
Professor Park, a Wasteland solo survivor for the past 7 years. Depleted supplies. A broken generator. A crazy gang tracking him down. At the brink of death, he makes a desperate decision! “Shit! You call this a game?!” To go inside a game!

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