Chapter 93
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- The Magical Girl in Crisis
Unexpectedly, the money problem was solved quickly.
“Huh?”
Heesu, who had been organizing her bankbook to scrape together even the loose change left in her account, was startled and her eyes widened when she saw the detailed statement. An amount of money she had never seen in her bank account in her entire life was recorded there. The amount itself was such an unfamiliar unit that she first misread it as five million won, and only on the second try did she correctly read it as fifty million won. Even then, she couldn’t quite believe it and stared at it for a long time.
“What’s wrong?”
Violen looked at Heesu, who was so engrossed in her bankbook that she had buried her face in it, with a puzzled expression.
“There’s an enormous amount recorded here, for some reason…….”
“Let me see.”
“Can you read numbers?”
“Yes. Izzen taught me.”
Violen took the bankbook from Heesu and checked the numbers.
“It’s fifty million won.”
“Right? I didn’t misread it, did I?”
“Was this money not originally in your account?”
“If I had this much money, would I have worried that much?”
Heesu took the bankbook back, frowned, and checked the details once more.
“There’s no way I’d have this kind of money……. Maybe some kind of system error…….”
“I don’t quite know what it is…… but if it’s an error, couldn’t you just pocket it?”
“You shouldn’t make light of human world rules! If you do, it’ll be confiscated and you’ll be arrested!”
Heesu said firmly, but she still couldn’t take her eyes off the bankbook. She stared at it for a long time, then tilted her head and mumbled.
“Who’s Hwang Sam-sik?”
“Hwang Sam-sik?”
“Yeah. It says that person sent me the money…….”
“Hwang Sam-sik…….”
Violen mumbled the name, lost in thought. His tone sounded somewhat uneasy.
“Why? Do you know him?”
At Heesu’s question, Violen replied with an ambiguous smile.
“It’s Izzen’s Korean name.”
“What?! That guy had a Korean name?!”
Heesu gasped in shock and looked at the name recorded in the bankbook again.
“He said he had a forged identity.”
“Holy s**t! So that guy has nationality and a resident registration card?!”
“Yes. That’s how he does stocks.”
“Wow, that’s totally amazing…….”
Heesu, who had been shaking her head in disbelief, suddenly burst out laughing and clapped her hands.
“Ahahaha! But Hwang Sam-sik! Sam-sik! With that face, Sam-sik! His name is so country bumpkin! How did he end up with a name like that?! Ahahaha…….”
“That’s why he doesn’t talk about it much.”
“I guess so. Ah, Sam-sik…… Sam-sik…… Ahahaha…….”
Heesu laughed for a long time, then suddenly stopped laughing and mumbled with a regretful expression.
“A forged identity, that’s nice. If he can make something like that, he should make some for our kids too……. So I can make them work…….”
“Izzen did try, but he said the human world is tougher and tighter than he thought, so more than one was impossible.”
“That’s true. Especially in Korea…….”
“He complained that it was ‘Hell Joseon’.”
“He knows well…….”
Heesu, who had been nodding, suddenly asked as if something had just occurred to her.
“But why did he come to Korea of all places? There were plenty of other wide and good countries.”
“How would I know?”
“Is there no magical girl culture overseas……?”
Even as she exchanged trivial conversation with Violen, Heesu couldn’t take her eyes off the bankbook.
“The transfer time is…… the night he ran away.”
“Is it?”
“Sending it like this means he wants me to use it however I want, right?”
“Probably?”
“Does this mean he wants us to live on our own with this money?”
“Perhaps?”
“Izzen…… he was a better guy than I thought…….”
Heesu mumbled sincerely without realizing it. The fact that she had been scammed remained unchanged, but the thought that he had sent her some money made her feel that way, which she knew was a contradiction, but she couldn’t help it. She truly felt like she had come back to life after dying.
If he had decided to run away, there was nothing Heesu could have done if he had just left her high and dry, but the very fact that he had specifically put money aside for their future living expenses made him seem like a different person. But because of that, she understood Izzen even less.
Heesu, who had been lost in thought for a long time, frowned and said,
“So…… what was Izzen’s real purpose? To make me responsible for you guys?”
“Well…….”
At Heesu’s question, Violen smiled bitterly and shrugged.
“So, you’re not going to look for a part-time job anymore?”
“No, I have to!”
Heesu said firmly and shook her head.
It was fifty million won. At first, she had only thought it was an enormous sum, but the more she thought about it, the less so it seemed. It was nowhere near enough to live with these demons for life. Roughly calculating, even if they lived on two million won a month including rent, it was only enough to last about two years. It seemed she would have to live frugally and earn money at the same time.
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