*
This was how Production-class Hunters usually earned money.
1. They used their Skills to craft items.
2. They sold them.
Because Geuru was a Production-class Hunter, they could easily craft items.
But the problem was selling them.
The Hunter Market used by Hunters was only accessible to those with a Hunter’s license!
[Of course, only Hunters with a license can trade.]
Dun-dun!
Geuru’s lips drooped sullenly as they read through the answer on Knowledge iN.
Yet even for such a Geuru, heavenly fortune had descended,
and it was none other than the portal’s main headline.
[Illegality’s Hotbed, ‘Yangpa Market’. Is This Okay?]
[To Block Yangpa Market, the Anonymous Store Act Must Be Amended…….]
[Yangpa Market Has Become Hunters’ Illegal Tax Evasion Route. Can the Platform Evade Responsibility by Watching Idly?]
The article came with an explanation that Yangpa Market was a place where anonymous transactions took place, along with detailed instructions on how to use it.
Although the comments were full of curses, saying such articles encouraged illegal activity, to Geuru, it was simply a stroke of heavenly luck.
Geuru immediately downloaded Yangpa Market on their kid’s phone and familiarized themselves with how to use it.
There were various transaction methods on Yangpa Market, but usually, it was done through direct trades.
However, there was one problem—
‘Geuru can’t go in person!’
Dun-dun!
Because meeting and trading with scary, strong Hunters was far too dangerous.
‘I have to hide my identity.’
Hiding their identity was simple if they used a Skill.
The difficult choice was only what kind of appearance to take.
Geuru wanted to show the Hunters a very scary and strong appearance.
‘Scary. Shiver, shiver.’
While recalling many strong and scary things, they drew a simple diagram in their head.
Strong and scary thing = Saw.
At the orphanage, the older sisters and brothers used to secretly watch horror movies at night, and unfortunately, Geuru, who had been about to go to the bathroom, happened to see Saw unexpectedly.
They had memories of trembling for two days without sleep.
‘Creepy.’
Geuru, shuddering all over, decided on their stand-in just like that.
And they poured out all the pocket money they had saved to barely purchase a half-made teddy bear (extra-large), an old remote-control car, and a pet cam.
[You have acquired ‘Inanimate Object Remote Control (D)’.]
[You have acquired ‘Real-Time Recording (E)’.]
Using ‘Pluck-Pluck Extract’, they extracted each respective function and synthesized it with the half-made teddy bear.
[Item: Half-Made Automatic Teddy Bear (D)]
Next, it was time for the scariest and most dangerous extraction.
From that day on, for a full week, Geuru watched Saw every night.
[Skill ‘Pluck-Pluck Extract’ has failed.]
[Skill ‘Pluck-Pluck Extract’ has failed.]
Every day, trembling and shivering, countless failures were repeated, but…….
.
.
[Activating Skill ‘Pluck-Pluck Extract’.]
[You have acquired ‘Jigsaw’s Altered Voice (C)’.]
‘I did it!’
In the end, they extracted ‘Altered Voice (C)’ from Saw.
‘A whopping C-rank!’
Once they synthesized the altered voice into the half-made teddy bear, it was finally complete.
[Half-Made Automatic Teddy Bear That Emits an Altered Mechanical Voice (C)]
Speech patterns are automatically converted.
Geuru moved the teddy bear with the remote control.
It creaked, perhaps because the connection was unstable, but it moved as desired.
On the old TV, the screen transmitted exactly what the teddy bear was seeing.
After confirming the teddy bear moved well, Geuru tried speaking.
“Aah—Geuru earns money.”
—Geuru, it is time to earn money.
The speech pattern automatically converted to something like Jigsaw’s, and they liked it.
Because to Geuru, this was how the speech of the strongest Hunter felt.
With all preparations finished like that, Geuru completed market research on what items sold well on Yangpa Market and then posted their first sales listing, and the results were successful.
After receiving their first customer, they also developed payment know-how and began receiving payment only in Yangpa Pay.
Because it was less risky than cash.
Back then, it had seemed like happy days would continue, but that didn’t last long.
Because as they began gaining fame within Yangpa Market, requests to buy items from Geuru flooded in.
‘There are too many messages…….’
With their level still low, Geuru couldn’t handle that much volume, nor could they accommodate everyone requesting various trading methods.
They had to devise another way. For stable sales, Geuru went through several trials and errors.
And now, a few months later.
Geuru had become a professional peddler who traveled dungeons directly and sold necessary goods.
Geuru entered Yangpa Market.
My Yangpa Pay: 19,100,000 OP
A hum naturally flowed out at the amount covered in so many zeroes.
With this much, wouldn’t they be able to find Mom and Dad?
But soon, Geuru couldn’t help but realize. That the world wasn’t so easy.
*
Q: Hello. I am Yangpa Market user IAMGROOT123. I have a question.
Not long ago, I tried to buy an Earth Candy at the supermarket with Yangpa Pay, but the owner said I couldn’t buy it with this. Other stores said the same.
It says that Yangpa Pay can be used the same as cash, so why can’t I use it?
A: Hello, customer IAMGROOT123. We will answer your inquiry regarding Yangpa Pay.
Yangpa Pay can be used for the same purposes as cash on Yangpa Market or cryptocurrency exchanges, but it cannot be used at general retail and wholesale stores.
When using Yangpa Pay at general retail and wholesale stores, you must exchange it for cash, and Yangpa Market deposits the amount minus fees into your registered account.
If you register your account number at [My Account (link)], we will process the exchange. Thank you.
Geuru rolled their eyes, reading Yangpa Market’s reply over and over.
‘General retail and wholesale stores? Exchange? Account?’
What are those!
To a four-year-old kindergartener who was financially illiterate, it was full of completely unknown words.
When they had asked the teacher to decipher this code and learned the meanings of exchange and account, they couldn’t help but despair.
“Um, Geuru. An account is like a wallet on the Internet where you can withdraw and deposit money. You’re still too young to make one.”
Crash-boom!
It felt like lightning was striking nonstop above their head.
Without knowing Geuru’s heart, the teacher handed over a Sprout Bank wallet used for playing bank.
They studied extensively to find another way, but what Geuru found out was no different from what the teacher had told them.
Unless they did something called exchanging, Yangpa Pay was nothing but a scrap of paper from Sprout Bank.
Not only that.
At present, was there any way for a kindergartener without a guardian to create a bank account?
No matter how much they clung to the kindergarten teacher’s or orphanage director’s pant legs and begged, such a thing didn’t exist.
It was a desperate situation where twenty million won lay dormant in Yangpa Market, all for the crime of being a kindergartener.
*
‘I’m a failure…….’
Geuru, huddling in despair, glanced at the TV.
For a kindergartener without a single hill to lean on, there was nothing better than TV for learning about the ways of the world.
On the screen, an interview with Hunter On Jurim was playing.
The childcare workers fixed their gazes on the TV screen the moment On Jurim appeared.
“On Jurim does interviews too, huh?”
“Right?”
“I heard he’s still Rank 1?”
“I guess the right face awakens the right power after all. Look at that upright face.”
“I know, right. He’s just handsome.”
Just as they said, On Jurim was a handsome man with a teardrop mole beneath his left eye.
If it weren’t for the caption reading ‘Hunter Special,’ one would have mistaken him for a model or an actor sitting with his long legs crossed on a plush chair.