When I Returned to Farming, National-level Big Juniors Flock - Chapter 110



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110. There is no incurable disease.

A commotion broke out in a small town.

Tattooed men sprawl on the floor of the hut, their bodies tangled here and there.

“Ugh… Ugh…”

Bam!

A foot was stuck in the face of a man who was writhing on the floor.

The guy who fell backwards with his double nose burst fainted, but even this was just a single blow that used extremely little strength.

“I’ve never seen a proper hunter among those big guys. They’re so sloppy that it’s hard to control their strength.”

Joo Ji-hye shook her head and clicked her tongue.

It was rare for her, a high-ranking hunter, to get involved with such weak Awakened people.

The amount of nerves required to control one’s strength so as not to kill someone was much greater than the magical power or mental strength required to use the ability.

“Uh… uh, what just happened?”

Eun-ha Yoo stared blankly with her mouth wide open as she saw Ji-hye Joo subdue a group of Awakened people in one breath.

These people were folded here and there without even having direct contact, let alone sharing anything.

Of course, if she was interested in the hunter world, she would have known that she was using her special ability, ‘psychokinesis’, as soon as she saw Joo Ji-hye’s face, but she was lying down so she couldn’t properly see Joo Ji-hye’s face standing on the other side.

Above all, I was out of my mind because of the shock from falling down.

“Are you feeling better?”

“I, I’m fine.”

Oh Hyun-seong approached Yoo Eun-ha and checked her condition.

Eunha Yoo still looked dumbfounded, as if she had been in shock, but there were no visible signs of trauma.

After sitting her up straight and calming her down, Oh Hyun-seong turned his gaze toward the living room.

“How’s it going over there?”

“It’s not at a dangerous level, but there is some bleeding.”

Joo Ji-hye, who had approached Yoo Seung-soo without realizing it, answered.

He was lying in the living room, still conscious, but bleeding profusely from his head.

“I think I need to get some treatment first…”

“There are bandages and medicine upstairs.”

“all right.”

Joo Ji-hye nodded at Yoo Eun-ha’s words and went upstairs while supporting Yoo Seung-soo.

She stared at her older brother heading to the second floor, then came to her senses and wiped her face.

“I didn’t want to come all the way here and see you like this…”

“You know this is a very dangerous situation to just gloss over, right? Tell me quickly. What happened?”

“That… that…”

Eunha Yoo, who had hesitated for a moment, opened her mouth.

“You know, the reason you settled down here… You said you were tired of your job and came down to Changyeong-ri, right?”

“That’s right.”

“That was a lie. We were being pressured by our creditors.”

“You… didn’t use illegal loan sharks?”

She nodded silently at Oh Hyeon-seong’s startled words.

In the past, loan sharks had to move between legal and illegal means of doing business, and it was not as easy for them to use violence or other extreme methods as the public perceived.

This is because the government, which is aware of the harmful effects of large corporations, has tied them down with various regulations and has various legal devices.

However, after the gate was created and the presence of the Awakened began to spread to the back alleys, the loan sharks’ methods became more vicious.

Since the role of the regular police has been reduced, the same level of public order and law enforcement as in the past cannot be maintained, and the situation has become overflowing with organizations that recklessly cross the line, led by the Awakened.

In short, it is an area that you should never touch unless you are truly at the end of your life.

“How did you end up doing something like that?”

“… I had no choice. My parents needed immediate hospitalization and medicine costs. Since it was a rare disease, our income was not enough.”

The parents of the siblings who suddenly collapsed were diagnosed with a terminal illness with a very long and unfamiliar diagnosis.

It is a new disease with a short history, but no one has been cured and the course of the disease is very serious.

Until a clear treatment is found, the best we can do is stay hospitalized and keep them alive, but the problem is that the cost of medication alone is enormous.

The income of the two siblings, each working at a large company, was not enough, and they had to borrow money and eventually even resorted to private loan sharks.

Even if the odds were slim, there weren’t many people who could complete their parents’ treatment with their own hands.

But even in the midst of all this, the siblings made their own decision and quit their jobs to come down to Changyeong-ri.

It is not for escapism, but to start a business again.

“I knew that even if we both worked our entire lives, there would be no answer. That’s why I started a big smart farm business here. It was a field I was always interested in, and I was confident that I could use my major.”

That was also why her older brother, Seungsu Yoo, was so obsessed with business.

In reality, he was an ambitious person and he put him forward as an excuse, but more than that, he was in a desperate situation where he thought that if he did not succeed in this business right away, everything would be over.

Eventually, they succeeded in supplying their products to department stores, and as their business expanded, they were able to earn enough to pay for medicine and hospital bills.

If things continue this way, we will be able to repay all the borrowed money and interest within this year.

But in the midst of such hope, they came at an unbelievable time.

The timing was so coincidental that it felt like they knew it from the beginning and did it on purpose.

Kwaaang!

At that moment, the entire front door was ripped off and rolled across the living room floor.

A man with slicked-back hair entered through the front door and saw Oh Hyun-seong, Yoo Eun-ha, and his subordinates spread out around them.

“This is a total mess. I heard they set up a fancy smart farm nearby, so I went to check it out, and what a mess this is.”

He said with a hollow laugh.

The man, who appeared to be an executive of a major corporation, gave off a completely different vibe from the guys who had been installing things just now.

“Is that you?”

“No, that’s not what this person is like…”

At that moment, Oh Hyun-seong spread his arms and stopped Yoo Eun-ha from speaking.

Then he stepped forward and faced the man.

“Even if we’re the ones who came here to get money, is this okay?”

“I just jumped in first and helped out.”

“Oh, really?”

The man scratched his head and licked his lips.

Of course, I couldn’t believe this, and I expected that he would come out aggressively in some way.

But unexpectedly, my expectations were shattered.

“Please understand. These guys are uneducated and grew up rough.”

“You don’t plan on jumping in, do you?”

“I’m not the type to just start pointing a knife at something. Unlike those guys who just break things down, I’ve come to realize that the best way to solve things is to talk things out without causing unnecessary trouble.”

Sarak.

“So let’s talk it out. I don’t know why the Awakened One got involved, but isn’t this woman in charge of the 8 billion won in debt who has no intention of paying it back?”

The man took out some documents from his bosom and waved them around.

“Hey, don’t make me laugh! 8 billion? I’ve never borrowed that much money!”

Eunha Yoo shouted angrily.

An amount that is impossible to calculate by common sense, no matter how much interest is added up.

But the documents and contracts he handed me contained amounts and interest rates that were impossible to calculate.

“What, what is this number… Are you kidding me?”

“You signed it yourself. What kind of joke are you talking about?”

The man said with a sly smile.

“Since you borrowed it without any plan, there’s no way you could have saved up money to pay it back. That’s why I decided to have the repayment be made to your business instead.”

“What? If it’s a, a business place… a farm?”

“Yeah, I just saw it and it’s been taken care of very well. You have talent. You’ve even set up a delivery route to the department store. With this much, we can give you a pretty good price. Of course, it’s not like we can spend all 8 billion won, but how about making the rest of the money by working on our farm and getting an allowance? I’m making a special offer because I think you have talent in management.”

“That… that kind of nonsense…”

Eunha Yoo’s face turned pale.

It was a farm that they had grown with great desperation.

It was the only option he had to pay off his massive debt and save his parents.

But they were trying to rob that farm in this absurd way.

But then, Oh Hyun-seong snatched the documents from the man’s hand.

“What, what is it!”

“As expected, your tricks are obvious.”

Oh Hyun-seong’s mouth twisted into a smile as he looked at the documents.

I felt a subtle magical energy coming from this piece of paper.

It was not, of course, because this ordinary piece of paper was an artifact.

Pass.

“Hey, it’s been erased?”

The sight of the letters on the documents becoming disheveled one by one.

As Oh Hyeon-seong breathed magic into it, the contents inside began to change.

He simply returned the documents to their original state after they had been manipulated with magic.

It was a method that was used a lot by various criminal organizations where the Awakened gathered, and it was especially close to being the mainstay for large corporations like them.

Because detecting such tricks requires expensive, magically-powered equipment, most ordinary people are easily fooled.

Today’s loan sharks are specialized in preying on ordinary people in desperate situations in all sorts of ways.

‘Of course, I chose the wrong opponent this time.’

Sreung!

When his trick was exposed, the man drew his sword without hesitation.

Anyway, the non-awakened side could manipulate them as much as they wanted, and the goal was to kill the awakened side and silence them.

Judging from the fact that he has taken down several of his subordinates, he is not an easy opponent, but there is no way he would fail to launch a surprise attack at such close range.

Thud thud.

But what fell to the floor was not Oh Hyeon-seong’s neck, but his wrist that was holding the sword.

Blood began to drip from Oh Hyeon-seong’s dagger, which was taken out from his bosom.

“Turn it off…”

“Quiet.”

A blade suddenly entered the mouth of a man who was about to fall backwards and scream.

The scream that was about to come out in that chilling anticipation was quickly silenced.

“If you play with other people’s lives, you must be prepared to give up your own.”

“Ugh… Ugh… Ugh…!”

The trembling man shed tears.

Just a little bit of force here could snap your head in half.

But Oh Hyeon-seong took a step back and put away his dagger.

Then he punched the man in the face.

A man loses consciousness with a loud crash.

“Oh… Oppa…?”

A surprised Eunha Yoo looks at him with her eyes wide open.

Even if you were an ordinary person who had never seen a fight directly, you could tell that the movement just now was not that of an unawakened person.

Above all, he completely overwhelmed and knocked down the Awakened One.

The moment when it was revealed that Oh Hyeon-seong, who was thought to be a non-awakened person, was actually an awakened person.

‘I expected that this would inevitably happen as time went on… but it has finally come to light.’

Oh Hyun-seong let out a deep sigh.

Even though it was inevitable for the juniors, I wanted to keep it a secret from the people around Changyeong-ri as much as possible.

It may not be so obvious from the outside, but here in Changyeong-ri, people wanted a quiet and ordinary life, separated from the past and the outside world.

But this time, there’s nothing I can do.

Because it was a matter of human lives, not something else.

Even though the means to help are within our reach, we cannot just sit back and do nothing.

“Get up, let’s go to your parents.”

Oh Hyun-seong said, extending his hand to her.

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