Became a Dark Merchant in the Academy

252 – Kyoto Samgul_5

The top floor of the Aksha Auction House headquarters.

Elizabeth, an S-class hero of the American Holy Empire, read the report submitted by her subordinate and was so dumbfounded that she couldn’t help but laugh.

It wasn’t just because of the news that the Aksha Auction House had been raided by what were believed to be villains.

Since the items handled by the Aksha Auction House were hard to find anywhere else, and no matter how much I warned them and set examples for them, I knew that I couldn’t be free from such incidents and accidents without fundamentally overhauling the brain structure of the fools who didn’t put in the effort and just went for luck or easy money, so I didn’t really care about the auction house raids since they were like annual events.

For example, didn’t a few cases happen last year and the year before?

Of course, there was no problem because the deployed security personnel suppressed the situation early.

So, is it because the scale of this attack was so unexpected that the deployed security personnel evaporated, the building collapsed, and more than half of the customers died?

No, of course it was compensation for damages and I was called in to explain various incidents, so if you look at it closely, it wasn’t completely unrelated, but I couldn’t help but feel absurd because of that.

The reason it was so absurd was because of what was written at the end of the report.

[Based on the review results, all of the auction items that were put up for auction at the Seoul branch were found to be unharmed, so it seems highly likely that this attack was not simply a terrorist attack targeting auction items, but rather a raid with other intentions.]

The purpose of a bank raider is to steal the money in the bank.

If that’s the case, then the reason for raiding the auction house must be because of the auction items.

But this raid was different.

Nothing was stolen, and it seemed as if the purpose of the raid was to just steal everything.

Then what on earth does that mean? What is its intention?

‘You took me for granted, didn’t you?’

Elizabeth threw down the report she was holding.

Then he snapped his fingers.

Then the door opened and a man wearing a black suit and mask quickly approached the sofa where Elizabeth was sitting.

“Did you call?”

“Cancel all plans for this week.”

“All right.”

“And get the plane ready.”

The man asked, looking puzzled.

“If you say airplane, where are you planning to go?”

“korea.”

“I will prepare.”

The man immediately realized Elizabeth’s intention and lowered his head.

Then he left the room just as he had come in.

I know.

If only they would take appropriate action on this matter, the Korean government, which has suffered damages from celebrities, would roll up its sleeves and take care of it.

There is no need to cause a fuss by going through the hassle of an S-class going to a foreign country.

‘I know, but.’

Knowing and doing what you know are two different things.

also…

‘Elizabeth, your topic?’

‘Ugly Ellie.’

‘I don’t have any friends.’

‘Poor Elizabeth.’

A thing of the past.

Current actions.

Although I knew that its grudge was not in the present.

Instilled principles of behavior, like habits, are more difficult to change with age.

That’s why Elizabeth couldn’t possibly forgive those who ignored her.

**

Since there was a contract in place, I couldn’t directly interfere, so I couldn’t stop it properly.

But it wasn’t all in vain that we tried, because we were able to save half of the people who came to the auction house, including Marie and me.

Of course, he was in the VIP room, but in a way, it is true that he was at the scene of the attack.

‘Did you see the faces of the attackers?’

‘Do you happen to know how many people there are?’

‘Have you suffered any damage?’

A formal investigation like this did come in.

However, since only Yukina and I knew that I had stopped the attacker Yukina in the dark, it wasn’t a big deal.

If someone had seen his face or if his movements had been captured on surveillance cameras or something, it would have been a problem, but since he had teleported straight to the auction house and done it, there was no reason to get caught, so the investigation was concluded without a hitch.

“Are you okay, Seong-Hyeon? Are you hurt anywhere?”

When Akari heard that I was at the scene of the auction house raid, she immediately rushed over and touched my body to check for any injuries.

“It’s okay, Senior. It’s the thing I asked you to do last time. Is it not finished yet?”

“Huh? What do you mean? I gave it to you yesterday.”

You gave it to me yesterday.

Unless my memory serves me wrong, I never received that item from her.

So what this meant was one thing.

It was said that Yukina Ishihara used a transformation technique to imitate the appearance and voice she had seen last time and received the items on her behalf.

“Oh, that’s right. I’m in a state of panic.”

“Are you really okay? If you feel dizzy or something, go to the hospital first…”

“It’s okay. I was just a little bit away from the scene of the incident.”

“still…”

“Rather than that, let’s go see that movie we talked about last time next week.”

But there was no need to tell Akari about it or criticize her, and since I had finished updating the information, I stopped talking.

“senior!!”

“Seonghyun, are you okay?”

“saint.”

“Hey, are you okay?”

And those who come to us one by one after hearing the story.

“Where did you go to get back so late? I was with Seonghyun from the beginning.”

“what?”

“What do you mean?”

“Won’t you tell me properly?”

“So, at the auction house…”

The situation became quite chaotic after Mari finished her investigation and came out with her story.

“Senior, are you really okay?”

“”away!!””

The first day of the incident passed like that, with Yukina appearing from somewhere and pretending to be worried and clinging to me.

The second and third days passed without any problems.

And the 4th day.

A woman wearing a black witch’s outfit and a long, cone-shaped hat that looked like something you would see in medieval Europe blocked our path.

There was no need to analyze who it was.

Her coming was already expected.

“Oh, hello?”

He is one of only ten, no, now only nine, S-class heroes in the American Holy Empire, and the true owner of the Aksha Auction House at the scene of this incident.

To be exact, a 40-year-old ugly woman, or rather, an old spinster, who had never married appeared.

**

We investigated from various angles, but the only answer we got was that they couldn’t find out who the culprit was.

If there had been any evidence left behind, it would have been different, but the CCTV footage was all black, all the security guards were dead, all the customers responded that they didn’t know, and the cameras filming inside the auction house only partially captured flashes of light in the dark, and were unable to capture the criminals.

Moreover, if it was such a big incident, it would have been done by many people, and in that case, no matter how careful they were, there should have been some traces of fingerprints, hair, or even footprints, but since there was nothing there, as if they had just entered the auction house via teleportation, the only answer they got was that the incident was a mystery.

‘Does that make sense?’

Elizabeth wondered if the Korean government was not giving her the information she needed because they were not satisfied with the compensation they were receiving.

Otherwise, how could it be that the government directly investigated such a large-scale raid and found no evidence for three days?

That’s why Elizabeth secretly formed a self-reliance investigation team and began to investigate.

Since the jurisdiction is different, if a private investigation is conducted and this fact becomes known, there will be an aftershock.

This is also something to do with your self-esteem.

If you wouldn’t give me the information, I had no choice but to do it myself.

And how much time passed?

[Elizabeth…]

Our own investigation team has reported that they have found something strange.

‘What? You were really hiding something?’

It was absurd, but this was politics.

It would have been advantageous for us to strike first before the Korean government struck first.

Elizabeth immediately tried to contact the strange thing.

“hello.”

Elizabeth has slightly different standards of beauty than the typical American Holy Empire woman.

Of course, it’s not like we treat ugly things as handsome or have a biased view of others just because they’re different.

In general, I thought that handsome people were handsome, and ugly people were ugly.

So, to be exact, in the sense of the difference in beauty between the East and the West, Elizabeth’s standard of beauty was to value a slender, handsome man with a muscular body rather than a square jaw and a manly look.

And by that standard of beauty, the Lee Sung-hyun standing right in front of me was top-notch, no, the very best.

I thought he was handsome in the pictures, but in person he was on a whole other level.

‘This is crazy.’

Elizabeth swallowed blankly.

“Excuse me? What’s going on?”

“Ah, umm umm.”

When Lee Seong-hyeon made a puzzled expression, Elizabeth came to her senses and quickly looked around before coughing.

“that is…”

But since I was little, I was teased because of my looks, so I didn’t have much contact with boys.

After becoming an S-class hero, there were people who approached her either because of work or because they were after her power or wealth, but most of them were business-like and not her style, so it wasn’t a big problem.

Even so, it wasn’t very natural for her to deal with men, so she even made her secretary wear a mask so that she couldn’t show her face.

In that situation, when a man with the right taste and a younger man asked me the question, I couldn’t give a proper answer.

In other words, Elizabeth, the S-class hero of the American Holy Empire, did not have male immunity.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I couldn’t say that.

Speaking doesn’t necessarily mean conveying good meaning.

“Hehehe, uh, shall we talk somewhere alone where there’s no one else?”

Elizabeth smiled with all her might.

The witch’s smile.