The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 3

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 3

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace Episode 3

Return (3)

How long has it been?

I don’t remember exactly, but it was at least over a thousand.

“I filed a death report not long after you disappeared, Oppa [an affectionate Korean term for older brother used by females]. So all the family property became mine.”

“You didn’t even think I’d come back.”

“……I’m sorry about that, but I couldn’t help it! That was the fastest and easiest way to inherit the estate. Your registration would be revived anyway when you returned.”

“So?”

“I invested all the inheritance and the money you left behind in Abyss-related stocks. If it failed, I was just going to follow you.”

“This crazy girl.”

“Ah! Think about the people left behind too! Mom and Dad died, and even you disappeared, what kind of normal thinking could a seventeen-year-old have!”

“I guess that’s true.”

At the time, Yoo Ji-woo was too young.

With Yoo Seong-woo, who could be called her only family, gone, there was no way she could have thought normally.

No matter how much of an adult she was.

So she did something almost out of anger.

“But the stock hit the jackpot. I thought I was doing some kind of coin thing back then.”

“How much did you make?”

“It kept growing day by day. After diversifying and buying continuously, it was about four thousand percent…….”

Yoo Seong-woo added up the amount of inheritance he remembered, then stopped thinking about it.

He just knew that it was an amount he could never earn by working as a salaryman his whole life.

“So what did you do with that money? Did you start a company or something?”

“Yeah.”

“……My sister is a CEO after 10 years?”

“And there was something a little unusual. I also awakened in the meantime.”

It was hard to believe.

But Yoo Ji-woo proved it by driving the car to the underground parking lot of a large building in Sehyun City.

After parking the car, she gestured for Yoo Seong-woo to follow and said.

“Since I had quite a bit of capital, and the Abyss business will continue to develop, and I’ve been studying continuously since I awakened, so I tried it once, and it worked out well.”

“What kind of business are you doing?”

“Running divers [individuals who explore and exploit resources from the Abyss], and processing and selling things that come out of the Abyss. There are a lot of renewable energy sources and stuff like that. I’m also negotiating with other races in the Abyss. It’s one of the top five businesses in Sehyun City.”

“I never thought my sister would look so cool.”

Yoo Ji-woo’s back, walking forward, had grown bigger than before.

“What’s the company name?”

“……Meteor Industry.”

Meteor Industry.

Meteor meant meteor. Yoo Seong-woo tilted his head for a moment after hearing the company name, then shrugged as if it was okay.

As they entered the company building from the parking lot, people inside the building bowed to Yoo Ji-woo.

They showed surprise for a moment when they saw Yoo Seong-woo, but that was only for a moment.

Meteor Industry was an Abyss-related company. It wasn’t strange for one or two oddly dressed people to be walking around.

Besides, it seemed like Yoo Ji-woo had brought him herself, so no one said anything.

“Welcome back, CEO.”

“Have a good day today.”

“Don’t bother greeting me and go do your work.”

Yoo Ji-woo lightly scolded those who greeted her, and a woman in a suit approached from afar and greeted her.

“I’ve been waiting, CEO. Today’s executive meeting is…….”

“Cancel all of today’s schedule for now. Something more urgent has come up.”

“Something more urgent?”

“Yes. You see him behind me, right?”

“Yes, I see him.”

“I have to make that human presentable today, so cancel everything.”

“Is that why you went to City Hall?”

The woman in the suit turned to Yoo Seong-woo.

When he nodded, the woman bowed deeply.

She didn’t know who he was yet, but the fact that her boss, Yoo Ji-woo, had brought him herself meant that he was no ordinary person.

“He’s my brother. A returner who just came back from another world.”

“Shall I clear the measurement room?”

“Do that. Buy some clothes from a nearby clothing store too. Just a few of the biggest sizes. Oppa, do you have underwear?”

“No.”

“Just buy some. The biggest size.”

“Understood.”

She understood immediately.

She was a very quick-witted woman, probably because they had been working together for a long time.

As she left, Yoo Ji-woo took Yoo Seong-woo into the elevator. And the place they were heading to was the measurement room in the basement.

It was an essential system for companies that hire divers.

The measurement room, which periodically measures the limits of their power for those heading to the Abyss, was an important facility for the company to judge whether the hired person was a dud or a jackpot.

“Oppa, you know what? Returners from other worlds are either duds or jackpots.”

“What does that mean?”

“Some people return with only mental trauma, and some people return with power and achievements from another world.”

“So you’re going to find out if I’m a dud or a jackpot? Is that something you should do to your brother who just came back from another world?”

“Think of it as being for your safety too. There are many people who are keeping our rapidly growing company in check. If they know you’re here, they might try to use you as a weakness.”

“Our Ji-woo has a lot of enemies…….”

Yoo Ji-woo tapped Yoo Seong-woo’s chest with the back of her hand.

The young high school sister from the past had disappeared somewhere, and all that was in front of her now was a dignified company CEO.

She was a great boss who struggled to protect those under her.

The elevator they were in stopped on the 5th basement floor.

The sight that appeared as soon as the door opened was a pure white room with the words ‘Measurement Room’ written on it.

Inside the room, there were several other rooms, and inside each room, there were instruments that could measure various physical abilities.

“Shall we measure your strength first?”

“Is there any kind of standard?”

“The strength measuring device is similar to a normal punching machine…… If it’s over 800 points, it’s A-grade. If it exceeds 1000 points, it’s S-grade. I’ll operate the measuring device, so go into that room.”

The strength measuring device was not a device that measured ordinary strength.

It was a device that measured the maximum strength of an awakened person, enhanced by the power that awakened people wield, such as mana [magical energy], internal energy [energy from within], magic power, and karma.

She didn’t explain it in detail.

At Yoo Ji-woo’s words, Yoo Seong-woo threw the robe on the floor and entered the room.

Then the door closed, and Yoo Ji-woo’s voice was heard through the speaker installed inside.

-Just go all out. It’s a new material, so you don’t have to worry about it breaking.

“All out?”

-Yeah. All out.

‘Are they looking at pure physical ability?’

Yoo Seong-woo nodded and stood in front of the punching machine, loosening his shoulders.

When Yoo Ji-woo pressed a few buttons from the outside, the cushion part of the punching machine went up with a thud.

Squeak. Yoo Seong-woo clenched his fist and took a short breath.

Without magic power, with all his might.

Clang, clang. The flow from the ankle to the waist, from the shoulder to the arm. Just like when wielding a sword, the grain is the same.

Cutting through the air and striking with the flow of rotation and power.

The moment his fist, which went forward tearing through the air, struck the cushion of the measuring device.

Bang!

A loud noise that seemed to tear the air apart echoed.

Ding-a-ling-a-ling.

The score on the measuring device goes up endlessly.

And the final number that stops is 1001.

Yoo Ji-woo said that the full power meant the number using magic power, but Yoo Seong-woo managed to exceed 1000 points with pure brute force alone.

Yoo Ji-woo, who didn’t know that he had struck the measuring device with pure brute force, smiled as she watched the scene from the outside.

‘If it’s 1001 points, it’s close, but I can say it’s confirmed S-grade. I don’t have to attach a bodyguard.’

She hadn’t said it yet, but Yoo Ji-woo was also an S-grade diver.

The reason she was able to grow the company so large was also thanks to being a powerful awakened person.

When she struck the measuring device with her full power, it was close to 1020 points, and she was recognized as an S-grade diver after receiving a score close to 1000 points in other measurements.

However, she couldn’t even imagine what would have happened to the measuring device if Yoo Seong-woo had hit it with his real ‘full power’.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had struck the measuring device, shook his wrist and said to Yoo Ji-woo, who was watching from beyond the reinforced glass.

“Shall I do it one more time?”

-Uh…… Do you want to try?

“Yeah.”

The measuring device came up again.

Yoo Seong-woo struck. The roar echoes as before.

And the score that rises is 1012 points, higher than before.

“Hmm, is this it.”

Yoo Seong-woo, who rotated his shoulders, let out a long breath.

He seemed a little tired. When I think about it, he took a break at the sauna, but he returned to Earth right after defeating the Demon God, so he wasn’t fully recovered.

He had been fighting day and night for several days, so he would need to recover for a few days.

Yoo Seong-woo, who showed performances that crossed between A and S in other measurement rooms with pure physical ability alone, let out a long breath and cooled his heated body.

When he came out of the measurement room, Yoo Ji-woo, who was waiting outside checking the measured values, said.

“Oppa, you’re no joke? It’s a score that you can work as an S-grade diver right away.”

“I don’t really have any intention of working.”

“I didn’t say you had to. I’m just saying it’s a great score. At this rate, you’d be in the top 10 in the country.”

“Top 10…….”

Yoo Seong-woo clicked his tongue at Yoo Ji-woo’s words.

Does that mean there are so many strong people in the world?

“Do you have any special abilities?”

“Special abilities, like magic?”

Yoo Seong-woo shook his head.

He tried to learn magic, but he gave up early because it didn’t suit him.

Then Yoo Ji-woo clicked her tongue as if she was disappointed.

Then, after a while, footsteps were heard from the direction of the elevator, and Yoo Ji-woo’s secretary, holding shopping bags in both hands, approached.

“You came at a good time. Oppa, take this and change into it in the dressing room over there.”

“Thank you.”

Yoo Seong-woo felt strange as he held the shopping bags in both hands.

In the past, his sister used to wear the clothes he bought her without saying a word, but now she just buys him things like this…….

As he disappeared into the dressing room with the shopping bags, Yoo Ji-woo showed her smartphone to the woman and said.

“Sister, take a look at this.”

“CEO.”

“We’re the only two here. Just let it go.”

“Understood. Is this your brother’s measurement?”

She narrowed her eyes as she looked at the various numbers on the screen.

Unusual numbers. He boasted strength that was enough to work as an S-grade diver right now.

What was the reason Yoo Ji-woo showed her these numbers?

She opened her mouth, thinking about the true meaning.

“Are you thinking of hiring him as a company diver?”

“That’s not it. Even if he does, he has to want to do it himself. I’m just telling you to keep it in mind.”

“Understood.”

“Say hello to Oppa too. You may see him often in the future.”

“I’m all dressed.”

At the same time as their conversation ended, Yoo Seong-woo came out of the dressing room.

His appearance, freed from the tight sauna clothes, was a shirt, cotton pants, and shoes.

He went from sauna clothes to a neat outfit. It seemed a little tight, but the size was perfect, so he looked like a muscular model.

“Oppa, I think you need to cut your hair too.”

“It’s pretty long…….”

As he was touching the bangs that came down to cover his eyes, Yoo Ji-woo’s secretary approached him and held out her hand.

“I’m sorry for the late greeting. I’m Seo Yeon-jung, CEO Yoo Ji-woo’s personal secretary.”

“My sister is in your care. I’m Yoo Seong-woo.”

“No. I’m the one who’s more indebted to you. I look forward to working with you.”

“Ah, yes.”

Yoo Seong-woo thought that this atmosphere was really unfamiliar.

In the end, everyone he met in the other world rushed at him to kill him.