I Was Kidnapped By The Strongest Guild
Chapter 235: Secondhand Trade

We kept our eyes closed.

Not knowing how long we had to stay that way, I squinted and glanced at Levinas.

"Huff...!"

Levinas's cheeks were flushed red, as if she wasn't even breathing.

As a beast-kin, she could probably hold her breath for quite a while, but I was still worried.

Concerned for her health, I decided to end this.

"Levinas."

Poke, poke-

I pressed her cheeks, which had puffed up from holding her breath.

"King, we were playing dead...!"

"Levinas, I don't think it's actually a monster though."

"It's not...?!"

Levinas sat up.

She looked back and forth between the soldier and the monster mask in his hand a couple of times, then opened her horned rabbit eyes wide.

"It's a fake monster!"

"Uh, yeah. This is for training..."

"Levinas was tricked!"

Sigh.

Levinas let out a relieved sigh and took out a carrot from her bag.

Then she held it out to the soldier, telling him to take it.

"Trade for Levinas's carrot!"

"You want the mask?"

"Yes! Levinas wants to wear monster mask too!"

"...Then I'll give you a new one. We have plenty. Wait a moment."

He was giving her a new one.

Aren't you not supposed to give away military supplies so casually?

While I was thinking that to myself, he brought out a new mask from the military tent.

There was a receipt from a toy store attached to the mask.

It didn't seem to be military equipment after all.

"Here, I'll give you this as a gift since I feel bad."

"Okay! But take carrot!"

"Hmm... Alright."

The two exchanged the carrot and mask.

Levinas giggled as she put on the mask.

It was a Frankenstein mask.

"Wow, Levinas became a monster."

"Gyeoul, let's play dead together!"

Yeoreum hugged me and lay down on the ground.

Yoon Chaerin next to us also played dead.

Were they trying to start a game?

I decided to go along with it.

"Grr, grrrr."

Levinas walked around us, imitating a monster.

I buried my face in Yeoreum's arms and held my breath.

Regrettably, my tail was wagging again.

Monster Levinas pretended not to notice the wagging tail.

"All dead!"

Grrrr.

Monster Levinas walked like a dinosaur and disappeared into the forest.

When I opened my eyes slightly and looked around, I saw soldiers watching us with fond expressions.

Our Levinas is cute, isn't she?

It was a moment that made me feel a bit proud.

Levinas, who had taken off her mask, came running out of the forest.

"King! King!"

"Levinas?"

"There's a monster in the forest over there! Let's run away!"

"Okay. Let's run away."

Did she want to play more?

I ran to the park with Levinas.

Then I heard Yeoreum's voice from behind as she stopped playing dead.

"Kids, we shouldn't bother the soldiers anymore, okay?"

"Okay."

We should play as far away as possible.

I made a mental note not to make this kind of mistake again.

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The next morning.

After a long time, I picked up something from the recycling area.

A metal storage locker.

There was no space, so I put it outside the tent.

"Gyeoul, did you pick up something again?"

Yeoreum opened the door of the metal locker I had brought.

It made a creaking sound of rusty metal.

"Yes. This is practically new."

"Uh, yeah. I guess it's new enough..."

Yeoreum avoided my gaze and looked around the tent aimlessly.

She kept touching her lips as she looked at the piled-up items.

"What's wrong?"

"Well... Don't you have too many things you're not using? I think it would be good to organize them."

Organize?

She meant to throw away a few things.

Surprised, I waved my hands frantically.

"No, no. I use all of these."

"...All of them?"

"Yes..."

To be honest, there were a lot of things I wasn't using.

But it felt too wasteful to throw them away.

"Okay, since you treasure them."

"Hehe..."

I was glad she understood.

As I lowered my hands awkwardly, interlocking my fingers as if praying, Saebyeok tugged at my clothes.

"Gyeoul, there's a suspicious person over there."

"A suspicious person?"

"Yeah. Over there."

There really was a suspicious person where Saebyeok pointed.

They were looking around aimlessly while holding a large box.

'What's this?'

Were they doing some kind of illegal deal in the middle of Yeomyeong Guild?

Surprised, I looked up at Yeoreum.

"It's probably a secondhand deal."

"A secondhand deal?"

"Yeah. I've done it a few times too. Since you don't know each other's faces, you end up looking around like that."

"Ah."

So even rich Yeoreum did secondhand deals.

I looked up at Yeoreum with surprised eyes.

"Look, they're making the deal."

"Oh..."

I turned my gaze towards the person holding the box.

They exchanged three 10,000 won bills for the box.

'It is a secondhand deal...'

I looked at the items piled around the tent.

Things too precious to just throw away.

It would be good to sell them secondhand.

Of course, it wasn't because of greed for money.

I just hoped someone would cherish and use these items I had collected with such difficulty.

"Hmm..."

I'd set the prices as low as possible.

I moved to the tent and looked at the items I could sell secondhand.

Despite not using them often-

"Gyeoul, what are you doing?"

"I was thinking of trying some secondhand deals too."

"You're, you're going to sell these?"

"Yes."

I should sell a few spare tent canvases, and one pot I'm not using.

Though dented, it could still function as a pot.

'...No one would use a pot with holes in it.'

The wooden chair with one broken leg could be used again if the leg was reattached.

Someone who knows carpentry might buy it.

"Should I just try selling this much for now?"

"That... okay."

Yeoreum gave me an uneasy look.

It felt like she was worried about something.

"What's wrong?"

"Ah, it's nothing. Let's give it a try?"

"Okay."

I borrowed the smartphone from Levinas, who was sitting nearby eating a carrot.

I searched for "secondhand deals" in the app store and downloaded the top app.

It was a secondhand trading app with over 10 million users.

Click, click-

I took pictures of each item for sale and uploaded them to the trading site.

Since it was my first time, I tried to be as thorough as possible.

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[Selling chair with broken leg.]

Author: AmIACat??

You can fix it and use it.

It's 1000 won.

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[Selling dented pot.]

Author: AmIACat??

It's very dented but you can still boil water in it.

It's 1000 won.

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I uploaded the posts along with photos.

Anyone interested would contact me soon.

I should keep the smartphone with me for a while.

I put the smartphone in my pocket.

Just as I was starting to forget about posting the listings,

Ding-!

I got a message from the secondhand trading site.

It was a message saying someone had requested a trade.

"Huh."

I hurriedly took out the smartphone.

As I opened the chat window right away, the message was quite strange for some reason.

[Who would buy that crap??]

Was this message picking a fight?

Knowing what happens in the anonymous world, I wasn't particularly surprised.

[This is actually quite rare.]

[Lolol Isn't it just garbage?]

[No, it's not. This is hard to find.]

[What lolol]

The other person kept picking a fight.

There was no need to engage with them.

[Please buy it nicely. And don't talk to me.]

[This is ridiculous lolol. Is it okay if I post this online?]

They picked a fight first and then threatened to post it online.

This person was really strange.

Angrily swishing my tail, I closed the chat window.

And a little while later.

Messages started flooding in.

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A post appeared on an internet community.

People's attention was drawn to the quite provocative title.

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[Found a weird person while secondhand trading.]

Author: DomesticSparkling

This bastard is posting garbage in real-time lolol

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Photos were uploaded along with the post.

Gyeoul's conversation was also posted.

[IAmAMan: Why is he selling that stuff?]

[└DayByDay: To save disposal costs. These troublemakers are always like that ㅇㅇ]

[CryingCrying: Should I sell the trash at my house too? Seems like I could make 100 million.]

[└popo: Do idiots shop at the dump?]

[└CryingCrying: This used to be a house originally]

The site where this was posted happened to be a community with strong anonymity.

As such, there were many comments that didn't mince words.

'He really posted it.'

Yeoreum sighed as she looked down at her smartphone.

There were already six chats on Gyeoul's secondhand trade post.

They were all chats meant to prank Gyeoul.

"Gyeoul..."

"......"

Gyeoul was lying face down on the bed, not moving at all.

With her face buried in the bedspread, it was impossible to see what expression she was making.

"Gyeoul?"

Gyeoul's tail was hanging limply.

The tail that had fallen between her slightly parted legs evoked pity.

"It's not really garbage..."

"I know. You use all of it. I understand."

Yeoreum kept patting Gyeoul's back.

She had worried people wouldn't buy the items, but who knew they would openly pick fights like this.

It must have been quite a shock for Gyeoul, who had treasured each item like a treasure.

After all, the things that were her everything had been denied.

'This won't do.'

Just trust your big sister, Gyeoul.

Yeoreum took out her smartphone.

While Gyeoul wasn't looking, she sent text messages to several people.

For now, comforting Gyeoul came first.

Yeoreum decided to call the best blacksmith she knew.

The blacksmith who would give new life to Gyeoul's old treasures.

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