Chapter 4: As soon as I finish this job, I’ll definitely go to vacation!

After my two friends came and went, I was just staring blankly at the ceiling when someone knocked on the doorbell again…

Hmm, there are a lot of visitors today.

As I hesitated and approached the front door, the visitor seemed to have a bad temper and banged on the door loudly.

“Hey!! Open the door!!”

Hmm, should I say that he was polite because he didn’t break the door, or should I say that he was displeased because he came to visit me while I was resting…

“I’ll try to be more patient.”

“Oh, it’s so hot outside, what patience do you have!!”

Hmm, that’s true.

In fact, one of the reasons I don’t go out is because it’s so damn hot outside.

On days like this, the best thing to do is to turn on the air conditioner and stay home.

Air conditioning sickness?

It’s a strange disease for awakened people like us to get.

Anyway, as soon as I opened the door, the guy outside quickly came inside.

“Wow! That’s refreshing! I thought you’d always have the air conditioner on full blast!”

The world is a mess and the electricity bill is high, but I can’t believe you don’t have enough money to cover that.

The reason I was able to retire confidently was because I made a lot of money.

“Anyway, what’s going on?”

What day is it today?

Three friends came to visit me without contacting me.

It’s not that I don’t have any friends, but since I’m the type of person who stays home all the time, I’d come if they contacted me, which wasn’t common.

Hmm, with these unusual things happening one after another, are you thinking something’s going to happen?

“Oh, it’s nothing special. Let’s just have a meal together.”

The guy waved his hand in the air, took something out of his own subspace, and handed it to me.

“Sushi?”

“Don’t you like this?”

“Yes. Hey, you only packed delicious things?”

Salmon, tuna, shrimp, eel.

Considering that the price of fish has also gone up in this world overflowing with danger, it was only natural that the price of sushi would go up.

But among those things, you only brought expensive ones?

“If you’re going to drink at your house, you should bring this much!”

“If you brought this much for dinner, you should bring it out. What should I bring out?”

“Wine. Something expensive!”

“Okay.”

I was going to order dinner because I didn’t want to bother eating, but it turned out well.

It’s not just about eating, but if you cook something yourself, the cleanup is all a chore.

It’s more of a hassle to clean up after yourself than eating.

That’s why I usually order delivery food.

It doesn’t take much effort to clean up.

I use a cleaning service, so if there’s any trash, I just leave it outside and they clean it up for me.

That’s the good thing about having a lot of money.

You can solve annoying things with money, right?

Anyway, I roughly picked up one of the bottles of liquor that looked good from the ones I had piled up like interior decoration and held it out in front of him.

“Wow! This is it! I told you that if I want to drink, there’s no better option than coming to you.”

“Even though you’re a civil servant, aren’t you a field worker?

If you get allowances for this and that, you probably don’t have money, so why bother?”

This guy is also a government employee, similar to the guy who came earlier.

To be exact, he is employed by the government…

Well, that’s it.

He is similar to a civil servant.

Oh, he may get paid a lot, but it is dangerous work, so they should pay a lot.

In the past, they didn’t pay properly and tried to exploit us, but the world is in chaos, so how much would that work?

Thanks to them rising up and going on strike, the country was almost ruined and their treatment improved a lot.

Especially now, people who risk their lives to work get paid a lot.

Like this guy.

Oh, they are in a different department than the duo from earlier.

They deal with crimes committed by the Awakened, and this one belongs to the Dimensional Phenomena Management Department.

The Dimensional Management Department handles all dimensional phenomena.

They cooperate with organizations like guilds created by private companies or ordinary Awakened people, and they are also connected to the World Dimensional Phenomena Management Organization.

Well, that was originally created by the entire world.

Anyway, this guy is a freelancer who works alone, but he is employed by the Dimensional Phenomena Management Department.

His main job is to respond to dangerous things discovered in dimensional rifts, or to investigate and assess if something big has happened in the Northern Reconstruction Zone or the sea around Korea.

It’s dangerous, so he forms a team and moves, but since it’s work, he moves often.

Instead, you’ll get paid a lot.

If you can survive, this is a job where you can earn a lot of money steadily.

The government will compensate for any injuries you get while working.

“Oh, that’s actually why I came.”

“What is it?”

“It’s nothing special, I’m planning to take a long vacation and go to Jeju Island! Classically!”

“Oh…?”

It’s not like the travel route is completely blocked, but it’s not like it’s completely open like before, so people who still want to travel but don’t have much time usually travel domestically.

It’s gotten easier to go abroad, but it’s also hard to find safe accommodations and there are various other difficulties.

That’s why people go to the domestic area, which is a little safer because the land is small and the management is a little better.

Among them, if you have some money, you go to Jeju Island.

And among them, if you’re going for the classic, you go to Jeju Island on an expensive plane that’s fully equipped with all kinds of equipment and has superhumans stationed there to ensure your safety.

Jeju Island is a popular place these days.

Because it’s safe.

In the past, a huge dimensional crack opened in Baekrokdam, Hallasan Mountain.

The giant creature that emerged from there formed a very friendly relationship with humans, so the frequency of dimensional cracks occurring is low due to its influence.

Taking advantage of this, hotels that provide security services by covering themselves with protective gear and hiring superhumans to maintain safety and providing security services for a fee tempt visitors.

So if you have money, you go.

In this day and age, how can you resist that when safety is guaranteed?

You must already have a lot of things piling up, so you go to a place like that to relieve them.

People live in a stuffy environment, so they need a chance to relieve that stuffiness once in a while.

The price may be a bit difficult, but since there are many cases where people can’t enjoy anything else and end up with a lot of money, they say they make a lot of money.

I heard that the Awakened people who work as security guards make a lot of money, but since there are a lot of things to take care of in the service industry, it’s not as good as delivery, so I’m not considering it as a job I’ll consider later.

Anyway.

“It must cost a lot of money. You must have prepared for a long time.”

“I’ve been preparing really well! Gosh~ I’ve been waiting for this day so long!”

Judging from the anticipation, it seems like he’s really looking forward to this.

Judging from the fact that he’s taking a long vacation, it seems like he’s not just going to stay for one night, but rather for quite some time.

“This is it, if I just work hard once, I’ll be able to play in heaven for a while!”

“Just once? Are you thinking of doing just one job and going?”

“Oh, right. There’s this one job that pays pretty well. So I’m just going to do that and go.

Having a lot of spare cash when traveling is the best, right?”

“If you want to enjoy a comfortable trip, having a lot of money is the best.”

“Yeah, dude! Spend all that money and make the service amazing! The room nice! The food nice! Just how good is it?”

“I know you’re really looking forward to it, but does that have to do with me? You’re not going alone?”

“Oh, that’s true. Don’t you want to go with me? You’re always cooped up in this corner of the house and don’t move; you’ll get to smell some fresh air for the first time in a while!

You’re not going to just stay home after retiring, right? You’re supposed to travel and stuff when you retire!”

“Oh, so you’re going to pay for everything?”

“No, that’s Dutch pay. Half and half call?”

“No call, you punk. So that’s what your goal was in the end?”

“A little? Hehe!”

After laughing at each other, they took a sip of their drinks together.

“Well, I don’t mind going Dutch, but I’m not going this time. I’m just going to stay home for now.”

“Hmm, really?”

“Yeah. I’m not itching to go out yet.”

“If that’s you, then I can’t help it. Don’t be jealous of me going out like this, hyung?”

“Would you be jealous of that? By the way, what’s the last thing you did before you went on vacation?”

“Oh, that? You know? All those damned elf tribes in the Northern Zone died.”

“I know.”

By the way, he went to the Northern Reconstruction Zone to investigate and experienced racial discrimination from the elves.

Ah, of course, he didn’t just get hit; he even folded a guy in half like a piece of shit, he said it himself.

Me? I don’t know because I didn’t see it myself.

“I think it’s good that they’re dead, but anyway, that’s why it’s causing chaos. The cause is also slowly moving down,

so it’s an emergency. So my mission is to investigate that to some extent and come down. I’m only doing a rough

estimate, not a detailed one, so there won’t be much danger. We’ve already estimated that it’s at least the same level

as that red lizard, so I’m not going to go overboard.”

“Is that so? Then we’ll leave soon. Take care. Since you’re going to play, you should take care of yourself.”

“Hey, Sion, I’ve got some experience~ I’ll take you out as soon as I get all the information. And keep a safe distance. It’s not my job to subdue those monsters, right?”

After roughly wrapping up the story, we drank some more, and the party ended,

and the guy left for the north a few days later.

In the Northern Reconstruction Zone, where a monster is running wild and literally burning everything to the ground…!!