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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Vine
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It was morning.
Gang-so woke up at 4:30 AM as usual.
After he finished his circulation and opened his eyes, he heard Yoo Soon-tae coming down from the second floor.
Gang-so went out to the shop and greeted Yoo Soon-tae.
“Good morning.”
“Yeah. Good morning.”
“You look tired.”
“Hahaha. Do I? I have to make money to live, so I have no choice but to be tired.”
Gang-so asked,
“Soon-tae, do you want to be rich?”
Yoo Soon-tae laughed.
“Is there anyone who doesn’t want to be rich?”
“I can make you rich.”
“Can you? But I want to become rich through my own efforts, not with your help or anyone else’s.”
“…Why?”
“Because what you get easily is worth less.”
At that answer, Gang-so chuckled.
“I see.”
He continued.
“I’ll help you prepare the ingredients today.”
“Will you be okay? You’re starting deliveries today too.”
“Of course.”
“Then I’m grateful.”
There were a lot of ingredients to prepare today as well.
Cabbage, pumpkins, meat, and other ingredients had to be sliced according to their use, and a significant portion of the ingredients was the notorious tear-inducing onions.
“I hate preparing these onions the most.”
Yoo Soon-tae frowned as he put on his swimming goggles, and Gang-so asked, seeing this,
“What’s that?”
“They’re swimming goggles, usually used for swimming, but now I’m using them to prepare these onions. Preparing onions is a tear-inducing task. Do you want a pair of goggles, too?”
“…I’m fine for now.”
Gang-so started preparing the onions.
Preparing onions was not difficult for him at all.
Slice, slice.
Having spent twenty, no, almost thirty years wielding a knife, he could prepare onions with his eyes closed.
Meanwhile, Yoo Soon-tae was surprised.
He had felt that something was unusual when Gang-so was cleaning the restaurant ceiling, but Gang-so’s knife skills were even more astonishing.
In fact, peeling onions wasn’t easy.
The onion skin was quite sticky, and peeling it off required meticulous work.
But when the kitchen knife in Gang-so’s hand casually brushed past the onion, no matter how sticky the skin was, it peeled off easily.
Whoosh-!
The problem was that Gang-so’s hand was moving so fast that it was almost invisible.
He was preparing about one onion every three seconds.
‘What the! Is he an onion-peeling machine?’
Flick-!
And he was even casually flipping the kitchen knife with his fingers!
Although he was now running a Chinese restaurant, in his heyday, Yoo Soon-tae was a famous and skilled porter.
That’s why he often supported elite teams and was able to observe the skills of hunters up close.
So he could tell for sure.
That Gang-so’s skill in handling the kitchen knife was extraordinary!
Suddenly, Yoo Soon-tae remembered the gate that appeared in the Land of Death, which he had seen on the news.
The person who had finished off monsters that would require an S-rank awakened individual to swing their weapon several times with a single punch!
No one knew the whereabouts of that person yet.
‘Could it be…?’
Yoo Soon-tae thought about Gang-so.
He had met him as the benefactor who saved his daughter’s life, and they had become friends at Lim So-young’s suggestion.
He said he came from another world.
A world of martial arts that he had only seen in books.
As if to prove that those words were true, Gang-so always showed exceptional skills.
Cleaning with his internal energy, returning faster than riding a motorcycle…
According to the customers who came to Yang Chun Gak while Gang-so was away for a day for his isolated person training, his movements when he saved Ha-young were incredibly fast.
‘And he said he could manipulate the results of the awakened assessment, and he actually did.’
Yoo Soon-tae started working as a porter at the age of eighteen, at the suggestion of his high school friend.
He worked as a porter for a total of 10 years, until he quit five years ago.
The average tenure of ordinary porters was less than five years.
Usually, they either died or quit within five years.
That’s why those who worked as porters for more than five years were given a kind of title.
The title was ‘a tough guy with a long lifeline.’
Gates were already dangerous, and since porters were ordinary people with no abilities or F-rank awakened individuals, the danger was even greater.
But Yoo Soon-tae had made it possible, thanks to his uncanny ‘instinct’ that warned him of life-threatening dangers.
‘Is Gang-so a Zero-rank awakened individual?’
Yoo Soon-tae had retired five years ago, so he had seen the S-rank awakened individual ‘Shin’, who had been active during the Great Clash ten years ago.
But he couldn’t get close to him.
The S-rank awakened individual, Shin, was a person who exuded an overwhelming aura that made people automatically kneel just by looking at him from afar.
Most awakened individuals couldn’t even get close, and only A-ranks could meet him face to face.
Ordinary people would collapse, spitting blood, if they were exposed to his aura, which was also why Shin acted alone to avoid harming others.
And now, there was a Zero-rank awakened individual, supposedly even stronger than an S-rank.
How could an ordinary person like him casually peel onions next to such a great person?
Yoo Soon-tae still remembered the feeling he had when he saw the S-rank awakened individual, Shin.
At the time, his instinct screamed at him to run away.
‘But my instinct doesn’t react to Gang-so, so he must not be a dangerous person who would threaten my life.’
Yoo Soon-tae glanced at Gang-so.
How could Gang-so, who was peeling onions with the most serious expression in the world, be a Zero-rank awakened individual!
‘There’s no way!’
He sighed, feeling foolish for even thinking for a moment that Gang-so was a Zero-rank awakened individual.
“Sigh…”
Gang-so said,
“Why are you sighing?”
“Oh? No… Seeing you peel onions so well suddenly made me feel like I’m terrible at peeling onions.”
“That’s absurd. How many years have I been wielding a knife…?”
“Huh?”
“I’ve been handling knives since I was six years old.”
He had been abducted by an assassin organization when he was six, and he had lived with a knife for almost thirty years since then.
“R-Really?”
“Thanks to that, I’ve never been looked down upon when it comes to knife skills.”
Of course.
Who would dare look down on the King of Death’s knife skills?
“What should I do next?”
“Slice the onions, and then slice the cabbage.”
“How should I slice them?”
“Like this, into squares…”
As Yoo Soon-tae explained how to slice the onions and cabbage, Gang-so’s knife moved quickly.
The onions and cabbage were quickly transformed into the shape Yoo Soon-tae had described.
Gang-so hadn’t revealed that he was a Zero-rank awakened individual, but he didn’t hide his skills in front of Yoo Soon-tae.
That meant Gang-so trusted him!
Yoo Soon-tae chuckled.
‘Good grief, why was I even worrying about that! The fact that Gang-so is my friend hasn’t changed.’
If he had been wielding a knife since he was six, Gang-so’s almost magical skills made sense.
‘You must have suffered a lot since you were a child.’
However, Yoo Soon-tae was still bothered by what Gang-so had said before.
That it was possible to manipulate the results of the awakened assessment. But Yoo Soon-tae decided not to think about it seriously.
‘Well, the martial arts that Gang-so uses are different from the aura that awakened individuals use, so it might be possible.’
That day, thanks to Gang-so’s help, the preparation time was reduced by almost an hour, so they had some rare free time.
At 11 o’clock, customers started to come in gradually.
“Welcome!”
“Please have a seat here!”
Lim So-young greeted the customers, and Gang-so helped her by setting pickled radishes and kimchi on the tables.
Gang-so was now wearing a helmet.
Thanks to the goggles that covered his eyes, people couldn’t see Gang-so’s face, so naturally, the attention on him decreased.
At first, Yoo Soon-tae had clicked his tongue, but now he acknowledged that it was an excellent decision.
Even now, the people who had seen his face were still at a loss for words, just looking at Gang-so’s exposed jawline.
Just then, a group of housewives from the neighborhood association entered.
“Welcome.”
“We came to eat jajangmyeon.”
They looked at Gang-so and tilted their heads.
“Is that young man the handsome one? But why is he wearing a helmet?”
“Ah, he has to go make deliveries soon.”
“I see.”
Just then.
Ring-! Ring-!
Lim So-young quickly answered the phone.
“This is Yang Chun Gak! Ah, yes. We’ve started deliveries again. Yes. Yes, Samgeori Flower Road Apartments? Yes, I understand. But our delivery person is new today, so it might be a little late, so please bear with us.”
Click.
Lim So-young, who put down the receiver, shouted towards the kitchen.
“Three jajangmyeons and one tangsuyuk for delivery!”
“Alright!”
Yoo Soon-tae started tossing the wok again without a break.
Finally, bowls of jajangmyeon and tangsuyuk were placed on the preparation counter in front of the kitchen.
Lim So-young took out a large roll of plastic wrap and showed Gang-so how to wrap the bowls of jajangmyeon and tangsuyuk.
“You have to wrap them tightly like this so the contents don’t spill.”
“I understand. I’ll keep that in mind.”
Gang-so put the ordered food into the delivery box, along with pickled radish, kimchi, chopsticks, and complimentary fried dumplings.
And he looked at Yoo Soon-tae and Lim So-young with a determined look.
It was finally his first delivery.
“I’m off.”
“Alright! Good luck!”
“Please do your best!”
Gang-so went out the door.
And after reading the address written on the memo, he chose a direction and kicked off the ground.
Thud-!
His body shot forward at a rapid pace.
About three minutes later, Gang-so arrived at the place where the jajangmyeon had been ordered.
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Ding-dong-!
“This is Yang Chun Gak! Your delivery is here.”
The man who placed the order was surprised and asked back,
“Whoa…! It hasn’t even been twenty minutes since I ordered?”
Gang-so replied with quick wit,
“Yang Chun Gak’s delivery is originally fast. Three jajangmyeons and one tangsuyuk, correct?”
“Yes. Come in.”
The apartment door opened.
Even though it would take 15 minutes to get there by motorcycle, even if he ran all the red lights, he had arrived in just 3 minutes, but the food was perfectly intact, not even shaken.
Not only was it intact, but the noodles were still springy, and the tangsuyuk was crispy.
Steam was still rising from the tangsuyuk sauce.
“That’ll be 30,000 won.”
“H-Here you go.”
“Thank you.”
Gang-so received the payment of 30,000 won and said,
“After you finish eating, please leave the dishes in the collection box in front of the apartment. Enjoy your meal.”
After Gang-so left, the young man who ordered the food looked at the food with a dazed expression.
“He said he was a delivery newbie? But he got here so fast?”
And he shouted towards his sister, who was lazing around in her room.
“Hey! The jajangmyeon’s here!”
“What? Already? Awesome!”
The lunch rush was over.
Gang-so had made a total of twelve deliveries and had even collected all the dishes perfectly.
Yoo Soon-tae, Lim So-young, and Gang-so started preparing for the dinner service, and thanks to Gang-so, the preparations were finished before 4 PM.
And that wasn’t just a one or two-day occurrence.
“Thanks to you, I can focus more on housework, and I can’t thank you enough, Uncle Gang-so.”
“If I’m being helpful, then I’m happy too.”
Yoo Soon-tae sighed.
“But the number of delivery calls has increased significantly. Gang-so, are you really okay?”
In the two weeks or so since Gang-so started making deliveries, the number of orders had doubled.
Of course.
When you could get the same taste and texture as eating in the restaurant with just one phone call, there was no need to go out of your way to go to the restaurant.
Gang-so said,
“You should be happy if we’re selling more, why are you worried?”
“I’m worried that you’re overworking yourself.”
“Overworking?”
Gang-so chuckled.
“Don’t worry, it’s not overworking at all. I can handle it even if the number of orders increases fivefold.”
“I’m glad to hear you say that.”
Just then, the door opened, and customers started coming in.
The dinner service had begun again.
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