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104. Yamtti’s Past
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“Ye-dam. Are you going to work like this?”
Shrrrk—
A report scattered across Kim Ye-dam’s face.
‘Fuck, it’s a report I spent two whole hours writing.’
She wanted to spit in her boss’s face right then and there, but she held it in.
Because only if she endured could she keep earning a living.
“Go rewrite it and bring it back.”
“……”
“Why aren’t you answering? You don’t want to work? Then submit your resignation and get out.”
“No. I’ll rewrite it.”
“Ah, before you go, bring me a cup of coffee. Even if you can’t write reports, you mix coffee unbelievably well, don’t you?”
“Yes.”
Biting down hard on her lower lip, Kim Ye-dam went into the pantry, then came back holding a coffee she’d spat in.
“Here you go, Manager.”
“Thanks. Mm, it’s good as always. Ah, what are you staring blankly for? We don’t have time, so hurry up and rewrite the report.”
“Yes.”
That day, Kim Ye-dam rewrote the report five more times.
It was the first time in her life she’d ever harbored the thought of wanting to kill someone.
‘Work’s piling up like this, and that manager—ha…’
The alcohol she drank after getting off work tasted like honey, and the last night of December was hell.
‘The new year’s coming soon—do I really want to live this kind of shit, seriously?’
Even if she wanted revenge on the manager, there was nothing she, a regular employee, could do.
Did she, a woman, have power? Or did she have money?
She was an orphan, and her family circumstances weren’t that comfortable either, so just eating and living on her own was already overwhelming.
‘If only I won the lottery at a time like this.’
With that thought, she drank and fell asleep—then woke up in a grassland.
No—before that, she saw an angel in her dream.
‘Something about surviving until Round 20…’
It was so unbelievable that she still felt dazed.
She thought it was a dream, and then, out of nowhere, she was told to make a nickname, so she chose Yamtti.
It didn’t have any special meaning—it was the nickname of a female-cam BJ she’d always wanted to resemble.
Soon, an angel appeared in the sky and said:
[If each of you kills only 100 goblins, you can return to Earth.]
At those words, Kim Ye-dam snorted.
‘Damn, this dream is realistic.’
But it didn’t take long for her to realize reality.
Green blood and a scene turned into chaos.
Screams erupting everywhere, the desperation like a battlefield, and more.
The sight was far too unfamiliar and realistic to be a dream, and it snapped Kim Ye-dam’s mind awake.
‘Th-this is real. This is really real.’
If she didn’t kill 100 goblins, she would die.
With only that fact hammered into her head, she struggled to kill goblins.
But killing a moving living creature wasn’t as easy as she’d thought.
What’s more, in Kim Ye-dam’s hands there was only a short goblin dagger.
‘What do I do? What am I supposed to…?’
At that moment, what flashed in her mind was the Rune she’d been engraved with from her first random Rune fragment.
[Rune of Allure]
-Effect: Just by making eye contact with the target or physically touching them, you can seduce and dominate humans. You can dominate up to 5 people, and it can only be used on the opposite sex.
The duration is infinite, and a human afflicted by Allure is loyal to their master. Cannot be used on monsters or angels.
‘Right, I had this.’
Kim Ye-dam used the Rune to dominate a nearby male player.
“E-excuse me!”
“Yes?”
The method of domination was simple.
The moment she merely stared and decided in her mind that she would seduce him.
A brief pink tint flickered in the other person’s pupils, and a message appeared saying he had been dominated.
[Player ‘Hogu-nam’ has been afflicted with Allure.] <Currently Allured Humans>
- Hogu-nam (Player)
- (None)
- (None)
- (None)
- (None)
[If you say a number along with the trigger word ‘Release Allure,’ you can release the chosen human from Allure.]
Hogu-nam looked at Kim Ye-dam with an expression like something was missing in his head.
“Is there something you’d like me to do, my master?”
“Ah…”
Only a moment of dazedness.
“P-please protect me from the goblins! From the goblins!”
“Understood, my master.”
The instant she gave the urgent order, Hogu-nam moved.
Shraaaak—
“Kieek!”
“Kyaaak!”
A player afflicted with the Rune of Allure obeyed Kim Ye-dam’s words well.
Seeing the man become a faithful escort knight made her think she should increase the number.
‘It said I can dominate up to five, right?’
She dominated any human nearby as she could catch them.
“Tank in front!”
“Block the goblins’ daggers with your bodies!”
“You there! Guard me at my side!”
No matter what command she gave, they listened.
Once she created human meat shields, killing goblins became far easier.
‘I-I survived. I cleared Round 1.’
The usefulness of the Rune of Allure was outstanding even in reality.
“Ye-dam! What time is it that you’re only now com—”
On the day she went to the company to write her resignation, the manager who’d harassed Kim Ye-dam became her subordinate.
“Crawl like a dog. Beg me that you were wrong.”
“Woof, woof. Understood. I was wrong, my master.”
The manager crawled around the company all day, not caring about anyone’s stares.
A master’s command was absolute.
‘That boss who always felt so difficult… and he could be made to submit this easily?’
She’d long since forgotten any pity.
Looking at the manager crawling like a dog, the first thing that came was a laugh.
“Now kill yourself. Disappear from in front of my eyes.”
“Understood, my master.”
After that, she never heard anything, but there was no need to wonder what happened to him.
“Haha, haha, hihihit.”
After that day, Kim Ye-dam’s laughter never stopped.
‘Anyone—anyone at all—I can make them kneel under my feet!’
From a bottom-of-the-barrel life, in a single instant, she rose to the pinnacle of humans.
The hellish reality was now a reality worth living.
The Rune of Allure was powerful.
Just by making eye contact, she could make anyone fawn, and she could control them.
If she told them to transfer money, they transferred it, and if she asked for what she wanted, they handed it over without hesitation.
‘Hehe, it really was a good call to quit my job. Even without a job, this is totally livable, isn’t it?’
She could have as much money as she wanted, and even—
“From now on, this house is my house, so don’t come out of that room over there.”
“Understood, my master.”
She could even break into someone else’s house and live like it was her own.
‘Seducing one rich Ahjussi is nothing.’
She seduced a man living alone in a 100-pyeong Han River view apartment.
Living in a tens-of-billions-won apartment like it was her own, Kim Ye-dam thought,
‘The world is so unfair. Same Seoul, but someone lives in a semi-basement, and someone lives above the sky.’
It wasn’t that she was blaming the unfairness.
Because now, her position had completely flipped.
It was just that she muttered with a feeling of, so there’s a world this high up, too.
‘I want to keep living like this for longer.’
To do that, she had to endure the Rounds.
The problem was that the Rune of Allure didn’t directly help with hunting.
‘If I could dominate monsters, I could hunt so easily.’
But it wasn’t bad, in its own way.
Because she could hunt more safely than anyone by bringing along players who could act as meat shields.
Later, she even monopolized experience points by having humans suppress the monsters, then taking the finishing blow herself.
‘Now that I think about it, the usefulness is insane.’
Because of that, she could grow faster than others.
In Round 3, she was even able to change classes into a Tamer.
It was a job where you captured monsters and used them as underlings, and for her—who couldn’t allure monsters—it was the best possible job.
As she kept growing, racing ahead, one day Kim Ye-dam belatedly discovered a drawback of the Rune of Allure.
“W-who are you? What are you doing in someone else’s house!?”
“Huh?”
Somehow, when she erased the homeowner’s name, the Allure got released.
Up until then, she’d used humans once and thrown them away, so she hadn’t realized that if they were removed from the list, the Allure would be released.
And she also learned that once a target had been afflicted with Allure one time, they could never be afflicted again.
“Ah… so you can’t put it on the same target, release it, and put it on again.”
After killing the homeowner and disposing of the body with Trace Erasure, Kim Ye-dam sat on the sofa and thought.
‘Then if it’s a human I want to keep as an underling, I can’t casually release Allure on them?’
Realizing the new fact, she became more cautious with Allure.
‘It’s a bit of a shame there are only five slots.’
Even so, the Rune of Allure couldn’t help but be unbelievably broken.
To the point she didn’t envy even a Zone Representative’s authority of command.
‘Because Allure can dominate not just players, but any human at all.’
Level or whether they’d changed classes didn’t matter.
Even if the opponent was stronger than her, it didn’t matter.
If she set her mind to it, Allure was something that could dominate even the president.
With that power—no different from a Zone Representative’s control, no, far above it—she dominated people.
With her Tamer ability, she commanded monsters as underlings.
All living creatures were beneath her eyes.
‘This is getting boring.’
Then, Kim Ye-dam learned of a café called Plseba.
‘Players change the world? I like that phrase. And there are a lot of players who joined, too.’
She liked the café, so she decided to take the interview test.
Then she was shocked to learn she had to participate in murder.
But that was all.
Participation, at least, wasn’t that difficult for her, since she’d already committed murder.
‘Hm… if this goes well, I might be able to dominate the person who founded the café.’
After building more trust and being appointed to an executive position, she coaxed them into holding meetings not only via video chat, but offline as well.
In the end, she was able to meet the person called the “Chairman” in real life.
“Oh my, are you the Chairman who founded the café? Hello~?”
“Hello. You’re Yamtti-nim, correct?”
“Heehee, yes. Nice to meet you~”
The moment she smiled and made eye contact, Kim Ye-dam dominated the Chairman.
[Civilian ‘Song Jae-gyeom’ has been afflicted with Allure.]
‘Huh? Wait, civilian?’
For a player, it shows “Player” in front, but civilian?
Flustered, she had him introduce himself, and then learned an absurd fact.
“I am Song Jae-gyeom, the eldest son of LC Group Chairman Song Baek-hyun. I am thirty years old in international age, and I am a civilian.”
“You’re not a player?”
The ironic situation where the founder of a café that only accepts players wasn’t a player.
It was ridiculous, but for Kim Ye-dam, it didn’t matter.
‘Player or not, it means I can control Plseba’s Chairman however I want!’
That was when it started.
“In front of others, don’t call me ‘master.’ Act like you’re an early member just like the other executives.”
“Understood.”
Together with the Chairman, she pretended to be an executive of Plseba and toyed with the café at will.
Compared to Ohsung, it was inferior, but LC Group was still a gigantic dinosaur of a corporation that made you gasp.
With the eldest son of such a company as her slave, she didn’t need to worry about money.
“But Chairman, why did you make the café?”
“At first, since I couldn’t become a player, I thought I’d at least gather players… but now, the purpose is largely to expand my forces and shock my father.”
“Ahh, so you want to be acknowledged by your father.”
“Yes. For example, it’s like a surprise gift. But before that, I will kill Ma Kyung-rok.”
“Ma Kyung-rok?”
“Ohsung Group’s eldest son. He’s also the guy my father always compares me to. That’s why I have to kill him in advance. If I don’t kill him, I’ll be compared for the rest of my life.”
Even if she dominated him with the Rune of Allure, it was only that his favor toward her had risen from 0 to 100.
These were still people who thought.
That was why they didn’t act like emotionless dolls.
Even while dominated like this, the existing desire for revenge and inferiority complex remained the same.
‘So he’d been sharpening a knife in the dark.’
Kim Ye-dam understood that feeling well.
It wasn’t just once or twice that she’d wanted to stab that manager.
“I get what you want. I’ll help you kill Ma Kyung-rok.”
“Is that truly so?”
“Instead—when our forces become much, much larger than now. When our influence becomes so strong that someone like Ma Kyung-rok has no choice but to apply to Plseba.”
Kim Ye-dam smiled.
“Then let’s kill him.”