Chapter 8
Second skill.
It’s been a week since they moved into the new house.
When they moved without really paying attention, they naturally moved towards their old house, but that would soon come to pass.
Two things changed since they moved in.
The first thing was that Haran’s resting time had increased.
She had changed from a double shift schedule to an 8 hour shift one.
As the family didn’t need to pay the rent for the house, they were able to make such a decision.
Of course, Haran rejected the idea. The difference in wages were significant, after all.
She was saying that she could send Taemin to an academy with that money.
But when Taemin rejected the idea, even she had to give up.
What can she do, when the boy said he was too smart to go?
Of course, he did have to suffer from a headlock as punishment.
Now, Haran was able to get some free time.
Maybe it was because she got more free time, or maybe it was because of their new house, but her coughing fits completely stopped.
Taehyuk smiled proudly.
And now for the second change.
He now had a family who greets him back home.
Taehyuk moved quickly.
His sister must be preparing dinner for him.
‘That’s that, but to think that Kang Suk hyung would actually give away all of his money…’
An investigator isn’t supposed to get bounties. Getting it would give them a chance to become corrupt.
Out of the 200 million won he received, he gave Kang Suk 100 million of it.
But Kang Suk actually donated all that money to an orphanage.
When Taehyuk asked him why Kang Suk didn’t use it for marriage, the man just laughed.
Kang Suk spoke as he watched kids play in a playground.
"The only people who’re even thinking of marrying me are them, you see. Well, I’d have to wait about 10 years till that happens, though."
"Woah, an investigator is trying to commit a crime."
Kang Suk began to gain more popularity from the children.
Kang Suk said that this was enough, and smiled.
For some reason, it seemed that there were only idiots around him.
‘Come to think of it, I haven’t gotten a new skill for the entirety of last week, huh?’
There was quite a gap of time before the next event in the blacklist happened. He would use that time to try and find out more about the demonic mirror.
‘Ah, right, I decided to call it the Demon-reflecting mirror.’
He had gotten the name from a mythical item that reflected the true face of a demon.
The only thing he managed to learn in the time was that the Robbery Skill only succeeded with a 10% chance.
But the strange thing was, it actually worked extremely well.
For example, it stole stuff like wigs, handcuffs, panties…
You know what, never mind.
He still didn’t know how to get skills or points, and didn’t know anything about the mirror.
‘Shit, that psycho bastard.’
He actually brought the mirror to a famous exorcist to get it appraised. This was what the exorcist told him:
–It is made out of bronze, which is a mix between copper and tin. It reflects about 80% of the light it absorbs. This was probably made not as a normal mirror, but as a ceremonial tool. I believe it’s worth about…
Conclusion was, it was just a normal mirror.
Taehyuk glared at the mirror. It still had weird words on it.
[Suh Taehyuk]
???
‘Eh?’
There was something he hadn’t seen before.
There was some kind of hazy word in the skills section.
‘Could it be, a new skill?’
Taehyuk tapped on the ‘???’.
But he didn’t get anything.
‘Is it an error…?’
Taehyuk walked even faster.
He decided to investigate this further when he arrived home.
‘Huh, isn’t that big sis?’