By Zephyria Physical methods. As Choi Goyo repeated the words, a funny post he had seen on the internet suddenly came to mind. It was the story of a person who fed raw onions to a test subject, hypnotizing them to taste like apples, and forcing them to eat onions until they said it tasted like apples.
The thought that he might become the test subject of that apple-flavored onion hypnosis flashed through Choi Goyo’s mind. Finally, he could fully understand Eui-jae’s smile.
‘I’ll give you physical therapy until you say you don’t remember anything.’
So Choi Goyo answered triumphantly, like a quiz show panelist confident in the answer.
“Where is this?”
At that question, Eui-jae also nodded with a satisfied face. It was a perfect answer.
After peacefully reaching an agreement without bloodshed, Cha Eui-jae dragged the unconscious kidnappers and lined them up. He set aside the guy who splashed seawater on his face and the mustached guy who fainted with a nosebleed.
Anyway, Eui-jae was planning to pick out the strongest and most knowledgeable guy among them, wake him up, and torment him a little. He could get information and pay back what he had suffered. Wasn’t it killing two birds with one stone? It would be the icing on the cake if he could feed him some seawater too.
Choi Goyo, who was sitting quietly in the corner watching the Hanover Soup Restaurant worker choose a sacrifice, raised his hand in a polite manner like a student giving a presentation in front of a professor.
“Alba-nim. I don’t know where this is or what happened, but would it be okay if I opened the door?”
“…The door?”
Eui-jae glanced back at Goyo. Choi Goyo put his hands together and smiled mechanically.
“My ability is to open doors. I can move people to where they want to go through the door. Anywhere, as long as I have the street address.”
‘…That would be good for deliveries?’
Eui-jae’s eyes flashed like a professor who had discovered a talent worth dragging to graduate school. The thought of a Hanover Soup Restaurant worker came to mind first. But he soon erased the business plan that came to mind. There was no way such a good ability wouldn’t have a penalty.
In particular, whether it was the System’s mischief or not, most space-time related skills had one huge flaw. Eui-jae grabbed the most sturdy-looking guy by the collar and lifted him up, asking.
“Do you have any penalties for your ability?”
“Yes? Ah, I do.”
For some reason, Choi Goyo’s eyes were shaking slightly. Eui-jae nodded as if to tell him to speak quickly.
“It’s okay, just tell me. I need to know the penalty to decide whether to ask you to open the door or not.”
“Uh, um. Well, you see.”
“Yes.”
It was the moment when Eui-jae sat the sturdy-looking guy on the steel chair he had been tied to and simulated how hard he should punch him. Choi Goyo, who had turned pale, shouted.
“I faint!”
“Yes?”
It happened just as Eui-jae was about to punch the sturdy-looking guy in the face to wake him up. Choi Goyo recited his ability penalty quickly, like rapping.
“If I know the street address or the coordinates on the map, I can open the door to that place, but it uses the current location as the central axis, right? The farther the distance between the central axis and the space you’re moving to, the longer I faint!”
“Can multiple people pass through the door when you open it?”
“Yes? Yes. As long as the door lasts.”
“How long does it last?”
“Until I faint.”
Eui-jae was deep in thought. The ability to teleport multiple people at once was very rare. Moreover, it was a penalty that seemed serious but wasn’t.
‘Should I check it out?’
He took out his cell phone to check the address of where he was now. But… the screen of his precious cell phone was shattered!
‘Crazy.’
Eui-jae quickly unlocked it to check the status. But the shattered screen only showed Yoon Ga-eul’s kaleidoscope instead of the original screen…. His body was S-class, but his precious cell phone was not S-class and could not withstand the beating.
Eui-jae called Nexby in a gloomy voice.
“Hi, Nexby. Tell me the current street address.”
―Searching for the current street address based on GPS information.
Fortunately, Nexby responded properly, as if it wasn’t completely broken. Nexby faithfully said the address. Eui-jae closed his eyes, looking at the colorful screen.
‘Shit. There’s still a long way to go before the contract ends….’
He muttered in a gloomy voice.
“If we calculate based on the address you just called out…, if I open a door from Incheon to Seoul, how many days do you think you’ll faint?”
Choi Goyo answered quickly.
“A day and a half? If it’s long, I think I’ll be unconscious for about two days.”
From Incheon Port to Seoul, it wasn’t that far, but the intensity of fainting was more severe than he thought. Eui-jae asked a question purely to satisfy his curiosity.
“Then, if I open it to Washington, D.C….”
Choi Goyo’s eyes were moist. For some reason, the reaction was unusual. No matter how he looked at it, it was the reaction of someone who had already experienced it. Choi Goyo wiped away tears with his sleeve and said politely.
“Not Washington, but my Guild Leader had an emergency business trip, so I opened it to Toronto, Canada….”
“You did?”
“When I opened my eyes, the season had changed.”
“…….”
…The penalty is very severe for such a good ability. Eui-jae took out his cracked cell phone to check the time, but failed, and asked Nexby for the time. 2:20 a.m. It would take about two hours to take a taxi from Incheon Port to the Hanover Soup Restaurant. If he included the time to call a taxi, he would barely have time to prepare for business. Eui-jae frowned and scratched his temple before turning to Choi Goyo.
“I’m really sorry… but could you open the door for me?”
“Ah, yes. Of course!”
“I’ll take you to the hospital if you faint, so don’t worry.”
“Ah, you don’t have to worry about that.”
Romantic Opener put his index and middle fingers on both temples and closed his eyes tightly. He seemed to be concentrating. Then, he stretched out his hands forward and shouted forcefully.
“Open, Door to Anywhere!”
It was a skill name that seemed to infringe on two copyrights at the same time. It was even childish. However, the skill effect was great, contrary to the name. A large wooden gate appeared in the middle of the container, which was full of groaning guys lying down.
“Oh.”
Eui-jae, who was sincerely impressed, began to tie the wrists of the unconscious steamed buns with cable ties like dried corvina. It was too much trouble to move them one by one, so he was going to drag them out all at once. After tying all the steamed bun corvina, he opened the bags that the big guys had brought in and checked the contents.
The bags were full of thickly packaged white powder. Eui-jae stuffed them all into his Inventory and put one on his back.
‘I guess I’ve taken everything I need.’
Eui-jae nodded to Choi Goyo as if he was ready and gestured for him to open the door.
Romantic Opener, Choi Goyo, had actually been turning blue in the face like a zombie since he opened the door. He approached the door with trembling legs, like someone falling into hell, and opened it.
What appeared when he opened the door was…
“…….”
“…….”
Lee Sa-young.
‘…Why?’
Why are you coming out of here? Sa-young was sitting at a desk in a spacious office, touching his cell phone, but for some reason, he had taken off his Gas mask and was wearing glasses. A mother-of-pearl nameplate on the desk shone brightly.
‘Wave Guild Leader Lee Sa-young’
Judging by the way it looked, it seemed to be the Guild Leader’s office of the Wave Guild. Eui-jae was overwhelmed by the urge to close the door immediately and take a taxi with Wave’s corporate card. If possible, he would call for double the fare.
‘I told him to open the door, but he opened the door to the Guild Leader’s office and is acting up….’
At that moment, he met a cold gaze.
‘Shit.’
Lee Sa-young slowly took off his glasses. Eui-jae turned to Choi Goyo. He needed an explanation for what kind of crazy situation this was. However, Choi Goyo raised his thumb with a trembling hand like a vibrating mode, giving a faint smile that he would only show right before death. He looked very relieved, as if he had done everything he could.
‘Ah, this crazy brat, the reason why he said the hospital was okay…’
From the beginning, Choi Goyo had no intention of opening the door to where Eui-jae wanted to go. Choi Goyo’s only goal was to Spaceship Delivery Cha Eui-jae to Lee Sa-young!
Eui-jae was furious with betrayal. No wonder he didn’t ask for the destination!
Sa-young, who had already gotten up from his seat, was approaching right in front of him. The two stood facing each other with a door in between. Murky purple eyes scanned Eui-jae from the tips of his toes, legs, waist, neck, and head, without missing a single spot. Sa-young, who had his arms crossed, raised the corners of his lips.
I was wondering what kind of crazy thing you were doing, saying you were going to hold onto my feet.”
“…….”
“You’re a mess, Hyung?”