Lord really loves the misfortunates. Kim Suho, the boy I gave misfortune to, got the highest score in all of Korea, he scored perfect in CSAT and is now going to the best university in the nation.
If I hadn’t told him he killed his mother, he surely wouldn’t be like this. If I hadn’t driven his father mad, the lord surely wouldn’t have loved him so dearly. It’s just that I ask forgiveness from the lord that I find pleasure in giving misfortune to others.
— Torn pages of retired church sister Seo Yeji’s diary.
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[Seyeon, the ex-director of True TV, has been arrested by the NOI and faces over a thousand allegations] (NOI=FBI Equivalent of Korea)
[Under intense riot in the capital, the president and prime minister has officially resigned on their own and surrendered.]
[The chairman and vice chairman of the Hong Group resigned, wanted to flee the country but got arrested.]
Suho chuckled as he read the newspaper while eating a piece of dry bread. The first page was filled with people resigning and Hong Group’s stock value tanking significantly, yesterday’s incident made the whole nation tremble with rage.
[Kim Sungjun, the ’Manchild’ who revealed everything to the NOI, was an orphan. The chairman of the Prince Group has decided to give Sungjun a proper job, so he is now capable of leaving the orphanage.]
Suho, seeing this piece of news, looked more interested, so he turned to the article page where it was fully published. NOI took Sungjun away yesterday, so no one in the orphanage knows what happened to him afterward.
"He is a crucial national treasure along with Yejun, THE mastermind? Both are currently held at the highest level of protection under the government and Lee family, information extraction is in process."
Suho was just shocked, if the system didn’t have his back, he would’ve been fucked. Although he was ready to get fucked, now that he’s calm and looking at this from a third person’s perspective, it felt dangerous and almost unreal, he wasn’t actually a player of this caliber at all.
"Alright, now that my life has been saved, it’s time I take care of the few things before I move out tomorrow, sigh!"
Suho stood up, and you could see his room: a single bed, a half-burned cupboard that was barely hanging on the wall, and a small desk attached to the bed so he could study. This small personal room was awarded to him when he was sixteen after he ranked first in the Korean Biology Olympiad. He was asked what he would want, and he asked for privacy.
Suho pulled out a plastic bag from under his mattress, then stored all the clothes he had in it, he was planning to give them away to someone in the orphanage, then he looked at the desk where books he used to read were stacked together.
Although they accompanied him for a few years, they were not his, they were given to him by the orphanage and would be taken back by them. He only owns the clothes, so he was free to give them away to whomever.
Suho pulled out his phone, and it took three seconds for his old Samsung A24 to get unlocked and five more seconds to open the newly installed banking app. It was automatically installed by the system for him, otherwise, his phone barely has any storage left.
[Balance: 10,000,000 ₩] ($7,000)
The little funds that were given to him by the system were a massive ten million won, the highest he has ever earned by doing a part-time job was a million at most, and even then he had to work the whole month for it.
"Guess I’ll buy a phone first, this one is wasting a lot of time."
Taking the plastic bag with him, he left his room. The morning sun was looking beautiful as he walked on the empty corridor. Almost everyone in the orphanage went to school or college, so he was alone for the day other than caregivers.
"I’ll give these clothes to Little Daji, he is almost the same size as me and adores the little ones."
Suho has already decided on the candidate who to give his clothes to, Daji nearly fifteen, a little dull academically but can take care of the little ones just fine.
Should I give him my phone as well? Nah, this one is too slow. I’ll also buy him a new one so he can call me if kids need something.
Suho directly went to Daji’s room, it was as usual six people sharing one, but everyone has their personal cabinet, so Suho just placed the bag inside and walked out of the orphanage’s main gate.
When he looked back at the orphanage, he saw a half-burnt roof, the destroyed caregiver’s quarters, and windows blackened by smoke, covered in burn marks, his window was among them.
Shaking his head, he walked along the narrow road and entered the main street. The streets were not that busy, and cars barely used this road, making the whole place very backward. Today he wanted to check out that coupon book, system gave him.
It has a thousand coupons, let’s rip one out before entering the shop.
Seeing GS25 convenience store was just across the street, he pulled out the book from his pocket and ripped the first page from it, it says ’Universal Convenience Store Coupon: One Item, Quantity Limit: 50 (Kilo, Liter, Pieces)’ on top of the small page.
I know it’s real, I know everything so far is real, but I still feel nervous about showing it to the employee.
Oh! Well, I can say I was pulling a prank and use the bank transfer instead, if this doesn’t work somehow.
*RING*
Cracking his neck, he crossed the empty street in no time and pushed open the glass door, the small bell chimed for the employees to know someone was here. Entering the environment full of delicious food he never had with almost unlimited buying power felt unreal.
"Welcome, Sir."
He was greeted with a lazy voice, an older person was seated behind the counter and looked too lazy to stand up. Suho didn’t care about this and went directly to the food section.
Hmm, so, if I understand clearly, I can get only one item type for free, so to buy two types of items, I need two coupons, but to get like 50 items of the same thing, one coupon would do, so what should I get?
As he was passing by the refrigerated case, he saw the exact thing he was looking for in his mind, ’Fresh Chilled Meat.’ He instantly pulled out two Han-don (sliced pork meat) packs, it costs over 35,000 ₩ to only buy these two packs, and he has eaten this once in his life.
I still remember the taste, it was such a tasty thing, but I need to BBQ it. Let’s pick two more and share it with Minjun so I can use his grill.
Picking up two more, he went to the counter, it felt weird taking out a cartoonish page from his pocket, but he had to try at least to calm his mind down.
"It’s buy three get one free, so your total is 56,640 ₩, cash or card?"
The employee got up when he saw the thin boy coming to the counter with four 500g meat packs. It was rather unusual for a ragtag-wearing boy to buy this much fresh meat, but he couldn’t care less about who buys what, as long as he pays.
"I want to use a coupon actually, here."
"Eh? Boy, are you joking with me?"
The employee taking the coupon in hand frowned and looked at Suho from head to toe.