Chapter 36: On The Rooftop

When my hazy mind came back, the first thing I saw was the rooftop floor right in front of me.

“Ugh…”

As I groaned involuntarily, I slowly came to my senses and recalled what happened yesterday.

I remembered passing out right after I got back.

Even though it felt like spring during the day, the weather was still as cold as ice in the morning.

Despite that, I was thankful that my body wasn’t seriously injured, and I got up, groaning like a zombie.

“Cigarettes.”

I rummaged through my pockets but couldn’t find any cigarettes, so I looked around and saw a pack of cigarettes rolling on the floor.

“Huh.”

I took a cigarette out of the pack I had picked up and put it in my mouth, and looked up at the sky to see the sun shining brightly.

“Damn, I guess I’ve been lying on the floor all day.”

“Huh Status window!”

[Tiring!]

[Name: Hangaeul]

[Age: 21]

[Position: Saintess (F)]

[Affiliation: Cheondo]

[Affiliation: Silla (1)]

[Affiliation: Netherworld ()]

[Contract Spirit: Aparsek (px)]

[Contract God: Mara Papiyas (F)]

[Contract God: Siddhartha Gautama ()]

“This is really fucked up. I’m not even a bat, so how can I have so many affiliations?”

I moved around, but besides the feeling that my body had become strangely light, I couldn’t feel anything special.

When I tried to recall my memories before I passed out, it seemed like a lot had changed, but the unfriendly status window didn’t tell me anything properly.

“Shit, I was so sick that I couldn’t even read the message properly to tell you what had changed.”

Letting out a sigh, I felt a bit uneasy because of the chaos I caused yesterday, so I went into the bathroom and thought about what I had to do next while getting splashed with shower water.

“All I have to do is shop.”

After spending a while getting splashed with warm water, I roughly shook off the moisture and went out into the yard to light a cigarette.

“Whew Status window!”

[Tiring!]

Skills that were still in bad condition were displayed above the smoky smoke.

[[Shop List]]

[Skills]

[Items]

-[Ascending]

[Search]

[Remaining Amount: 184.6 Million Won]

[Cheando (R)]

….

[Chopsticks]

[Slapstick]

[Confectionery]

[Animal Breeding Knowledge]

[Drone Piloting]

……

[Hit]

[Jigeon]

[Iron Ingot]

….

[Full-on-a-bone]

“f*ck, give me back my skills.”

Yesterday, the lifeline skills at the top had all disappeared, leaving only one strange skill.

I moved my hand and clicked on it, and words appeared before my eyes.

[Heavenly Peach]

You are the Heavenly Peach itself.

[Price: 100 million won]

[Immortal Peach]

[Heavenly Eye Shadow Peach]

[Demon Eye]

[Godly Body]

[Evolving]

“What the heck… What do you mean I’m the Heavenly Eye? What’s with the Heavenly Eye Demon Eye?”

Looking at the skill window with descriptions that didn’t even seem like explanations, I felt like I was going to get sick, so I returned the skill window to its original state.

When I returned the skill window to its original state, an even more shitty feast of skills unfolded.

“…This is really fucked up.”

I clicked on them one by one to find the ones I needed while window shopping, but all I found were things that looked like they had no nutritional value.

[Chopsticks]: You become good at using chopsticks.

[Price: 500,000 won]

• [Tiring!]

“Huh.”

[Beautiful Chopsticks Lv. 1]

Never miss your target when using chopsticks.

Increased friction at the tips of the chopsticks.

Accelerated chopstick use.

Improved expressiveness when playing the Chopstick March.

[MAX LV]

There were so many crappy skills that I couldn’t even imagine, so I was just blankly watching, but my hands moved on their own out of curiosity.

I came to my senses only after hearing the system sound.

“Damn, when did I press that? My precious 500,000 won.”

I tried clicking on various other things and looking around, but I didn’t see anything that seemed immediately necessary for someone who just broadcasts from a corner of the room.

[Iron Ingot]

Instantly increases defense power according to the level of skin hardening.

Skill level increases as purchases are stacked.

Activates when you shout the starter word (Tekkai) at a volume of 100dB or more.

[Price: 50 million won]

[Physical Strength]

Increased strength, increased cardiopulmonary endurance, increased muscular endurance, increased agility.

Skill level increases as purchases are stacked.

[Price: 1 million won]

There were so many skills that I looked around here and there, but I chose two skills that I thought would be useful right away.

Iron Ingot looked good when someone was stabbing someone, but the way it was used was so stupid that I didn’t reach for it right away.

On the other hand, I decided to only have a few physical skills that were obviously good, and moved my hand.

“Let’s go!”

My fingers created afterimages and splendidly embroidered the air.

[Tiring!]

[Tiring!]

[Tiring!]

I enjoyed the harmony of my happily moving fingers and the system sound ringing in my ears, but when there was no response in less than 2 seconds, I broke out in a cold sweat.

[Physical Strength Lv.6]

Strength greatly increased.

Cardiopulmonary endurance greatly increased.

Muscular endurance greatly increased.

Agility greatly increased.

Skill level increases with each purchase.

[Price: 64 million won]

[Remaining amount: 44.96 million won]

Time seemed to have stopped, and as I sweat profusely, I looked at my remaining amount and saw that the huge sum of 100 million won had been cut in half.

“f*ck… I couldn’t even enjoy it for 2 seconds, but the medicine is so damn expensive.”

I blamed myself for not being able to stop as if I was on drugs, and then I lifted my clothes to look at my stomach, thinking that I had gained abs, but my huge chest blocked my view.

I went into my room to take a closer look and grabbed the bathroom handle.

“Woojijik”….?”

The wooden bathroom door was torn in front of me, and I could see the torn door handle in my hand.

“What the f*ck.”

I thought my whole body had become muscular, so I went into the bathroom and lifted my clothes, but my soft, white stomach had not changed at all.

“I’m going crazy over the medicine…”

Even if my strength increases, I was dumbfounded, wondering if this made sense, when the system sounded.

[Tiring!]

Just like when Parga sent me a letter last time, a letter-shaped image appeared before my eyes.

To my beloved daughter.

When your body becomes a little stronger, I will send you a wonderful gift, so work even harder.

Mara Papiyas, who loves my daughter.

“Are you crazy? Why am I my daughter all of a sudden?”

I was dumbfounded when I saw Mara sending me a letter as if he had gone crazy from running around in hell.

Even in the midst of all that, I thought to myself that I was not in my right mind, since I was curious about what the gift was.

I threw the toilet handle in my hand into the trash can and picked up my phone, wondering what to do.

Whoa! Gaeul-ah

As soon as I called, I could feel the high tension on the other person’s part.

“Unnie, what are you doing?”

I went to receive a report from the logistics department, had a meeting, and am now on my way back up.

“Oh, you were driving?”

It’s okay because it’s Bluetooth! Did you call because you missed your unnie?

“Yeah, I was bored so I thought I’d hang out with you. It’s the weekend so you must be busy. Let’s hang out some other time.”

Huh. No! Surprise!! What do you want to do?

“Um… I don’t feel like going out. Do you want to come over to my house? Let’s do some grocery shopping today and grill some meat.”

Hah, that sounds so good! I want to go!!

“Okay, I’ll send you the address so you can meet me when you stop the car later.”

Yeah!! See you later, Ga-eul-ah.

“Omg-ya, don’t be naughty and be careful.”

Got it!!

After ending the call with my always energetic unnie, I went out into the yard and took out a cigarette and lit it.

“Huh.”

Remembering how much I had leveled up my skill before the call, I put the cigarette in my mouth and threw my fist into the air with all my might in an awkward posture.