Chapter 10

“You jerk…! Don’t run away! Fight me!”

Go Yoon-seo suddenly charged at him, but the commotion was quickly resolved.

She couldn’t even land a single hit.

If I hadn’t rescued Lee Yoo-ri, I would have had no right to complain about their resentment, but hey, I did rescue her.

It was true that I had been a bit harsh with my words earlier, and the tedious task of gluing Nakki skins to their coats was unavoidable.

‘Lee Yoo-ri seemed quite close to these party members…’

Perhaps the reason she endured the harsh life at the Academy, drinking tap water and eating convenience store triangle kimbap, was because of them.

Soon, she would be leaving for the Academy, and I didn’t want to burden her with any emotional baggage.

I handed Lee Yoo-ri over to Go Yoon-seo.

Then came the nagging session.

“Go Yoon-seo, what were you thinking! Why did you try to enter there!?”

“……What about you, Soup? What were you thinking! Do you think we’d be grateful if you did that—?”

“Shut up. Do you want us all to die together? As the deputy leader, I entrusted my sister to you!”

Go Yoon-seo was left speechless when Yuna was brought up.

“Jin Yuha is right about everything. Disobeying the team leader’s orders in an emergency situation is unacceptable.”

“……”

“Haa, So-yeon, I’m really shocked. I didn’t expect this from you, either.”

“……”

“Yuna, you’re banned from hunting for a year.”

“……!”

Yuna looked devastated, but the atmosphere on the way back wasn’t bad.

Lee Yoo-ri was back.

On the way back, Choi So-yeon and I took the lead in exterminating the goblins.

Of course, there wasn’t much for the healer to do.

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At 6 p.m.

Surprisingly, we managed to exit the gate exactly on time.

Given the various incidents that had occurred, we expected to be late and incur a gate fine, but that wasn’t the case.

We hadn’t spent much time dealing with the Blood Goblin, and on the way back, I had taken the lead in dealing with the Nakki and goblins, so the others had only needed to run.

“Kheuk—”

Go Yoon-seo, who had been carrying Lee Yoo-ri on her back, made a retching sound, her face pale.

After barely making it out of the gate, we headed straight to the settlement office near the gate.

The settlement office had a modern and sleek interior, with various equipment for measuring by-products.

And there…

“……You explored the unknown route?”

The female employee looked skeptical as Lee Yoo-ri submitted her report.

“Yes.”

Lee Yoo-ri nodded wearily.

The employee turned her attention back to the report, and her eyes widened in surprise.

“You exterminated a C-grade monster, the Blood Goblin, there!?”

Yuna placed the wrapped object on the table.

Thud!

The impact of placing it down caused the wrapping to come undone, revealing what was inside.

It was the Blood Goblin’s head.

“Here, this is the evidence.”

“……Wow.”

The employee was truly astonished and inspected the head several times.

Then, she stiffened her expression.

“……And you said there were countless goblins there?”

“Yes, there were too many for us to exterminate them all.”

“So, you discovered the Carmel Forest Gate was about to collapse in advance! Thank you so much! We were able to prevent a massive disaster!”

The employee heaved a sigh of relief.

Yuna then began to lay out various by-products and magic stones on the table.

The employee quickly calculated the value of the by-products and said,

“First, the settlement amount is… 4.8 million won, but I’ll round it up to 5 million won.”

The party members nodded, not expecting much.

It was an acceptable amount, considering they had wasted precious Nakki leather by gluing it to their coats.

Still, it was about 1 million won per person, so it was something to take home.

But the employee wasn’t finished.

“However, this is the calculation for the goblin fangs and magic stones. First, what about these?”

The employee pointed to the coats made of Nakki leather.

“……That, um…”

Yuna lowered her head, embarrassed.

“We knew that Nakki leather could hide from goblins…”

“Huh… So, that’s why…”

The employee picked up the crude coats, marveling at the idea.

“But why haven’t we done this before…?”

“The cost doesn’t match. It’s better to make luxury handbags.”

“Ah, so this too…”

Yuna pouted again.

The employee looked at her fondly and then continued in a serious tone.

“But we never thought of using it to avoid the goblins and only target the Blood Goblin. That’s why I said the idea is brilliant.”

In fact, properly processed Nakki leather armor appears in Velvet School Life as a gacha item.

It’s called the Nakki Suit!

It’s like the spandex suits in tokusatsu shows(power rangers), and some people wear nothing but that, even though it looks ugly.

“The Blood Goblin’s head as evidence, along with these coats, will be recognized as a significant achievement. I estimate it to be worth about 5 million won.”

“Ah!”

Yuna exclaimed in delight.

She had thought she had wasted precious Nakki leather by gluing it to the coats, but now she realized it wasn’t a waste.

“Hmm, and I should also tell you about the settlement amount for the Blood Goblin’s head. That’s an additional 10 million won.”

“!”

The mention of 10 million won for the head alone widened everyone’s eyes.

“And for preventing the gate explosion through the unknown exploration, there will be a separate bonus of 1 million won. Normally, we should give you more to compensate for preventing a massive disaster, but this is beyond my authority.”

“……”

Initially surprised by the Nakki leather, the party members were now speechless.

It was an unexpected windfall.

The usual goblin extermination earnings of 5 million won.

Nakki leather coats worth 5 million won.

The Blood Goblin’s head worth 10 million won.

And 10 million won for the unknown exploration.@@novelbin@@

That added up to about 30 million won.

It wasn’t an amount one could expect from an E-grade dungeon.

“I can give you 1.5 million won now. Should I deposit it into your account, Team Leader?”

“Yes, yes…”

Lee Yoo-ri nodded, dazed.

“Once again, thank you so much. We were able to prevent the gate explosion.”

We left the settlement office, leaving the deeply bowing employee behind.

“……”

“……”

“……”

Even outside the settlement office, the party members stood there, mouths agape, dazed.

Go Yoon-seo soon started jumping up and down in excitement.

“Kyaaaah! This is insane! How much is this!?”

But her outburst was quickly stopped by Lee Yoo-ri, who had her eyes closed.

“……Go Yoon-seo. Be quiet for a moment.”

“Yes.”

A moment later, Lee Yoo-ri opened her eyes.

She looked at the party members and spoke in a stiff voice.

“First of all, today’s dungeon raid was successfully completed. The results were not bad. You all worked very hard.”

Whoosh.

Lee Yoo-ri took a deep breath and continued.

“But I don’t think today’s results are ours. Does anyone disagree?”

“Yes.”

“……Ah, that’s true.”

“Hmm, yes. If it weren’t for Yuha, we wouldn’t have made it.”

Despite the large sum of money that was sure to come their way, Choi So-yeon, Go Yoon-seo, and Yuna readily nodded in agreement.

Lee Yoo-ri’s eyes turned to me.

“But, Jin Yuha. I’d like to ask for your understanding. The other party members worked hard too, so…”

“Yes, of course.”

I readily nodded, and Lee Yoo-ri seemed relieved.

“Then, the rest of the money should go to Jin Yuha…”

“Wait a minute. I object.”

I raised my hand, interrupting her.

“What is it?”

Lee Yoo-ri’s eyes flickered with a mixture of disappointment and acceptance.

The disappointment was probably because she thinks I wanted her to give all the money to me, and the acceptance was because she knew I was right.

But my objection wasn’t about that.

“How much are you taking, Team Leader?”

Wobble.

Lee Yoo-ri trembled.

“I, I’m not taking anything…”

“That’s why I’m objecting. Everyone else is taking something, so why aren’t you?”

I had already figured out that Lee Yoo-ri intended to give me everything and take nothing for herself.

Money?

More is always better.

But now that I would be living in a dormitory, I wouldn’t have many expenses, at least for a while.

Later, when I needed to, I could easily make hundreds of millions by properly forming a party and clearing dungeons.

And Jin Yuha wasn’t in debt like Lee Yoo-ri.

Of course, I wasn’t saying I wouldn’t take my share of the earnings. But it didn’t make sense for her to give me everything and take nothing for herself.

Lee Yoo-ri’s eyes flickered with surprise.

“Then, let’s break it down one by one. First, the Blood Goblin. You and I, Team Leader, didn’t we catch it ‘together’?”

“That, that’s…”

“Didn’t we work together there?”

“……”

“Lee Yoo-ri, you pushed the Blood Goblin away, and I sliced it.”

Lee Yoo-ri glared at me.

“Don’t talk nonsense, Jin Yuha. No one here is unaware that you could have handled that thing alone.”

“Ah, is that so? What about Go Yoon-seo?”

“……Huh? Me?”

Go Yoon-seo, suddenly brought into the conversation, pointed at herself, confused.

“You’re saying that because I’m better than her, I should take everything. Right?”

“Yes…”

“Then, Team Leader, why are you giving Go Yoon-seo anything? Or Choi So-yeon, Yuyuna, for that matter? Should everyone in the party be equal?”

I nodded slightly, and Choi So-yeon immediately understood what I meant.

She knew that if they left it to Lee Yoo-ri, she wouldn’t take anything for herself.

“We honestly didn’t see the fight, so we don’t know. Team Leader, why did you get mana depletion?”

“Huh? Yeah, Soup, why did you get mana depletion?”

Go Yoon-seo chimed in, having realized what was going on.

“Because Team Leader pushed the Blood Goblin with her shield to create an opening for me.”

“Really…?”

“Woooow. So, it makes sense that she got mana depletion.”

As the three of them ganged up on Lee Yoo-ri, she trembled, biting her lip.

“Then, what about my life!?”

Pathetic, Soup.

“Haa, Team Leader. How much do I owe you for saving my life?”

“Hmm, Soup… how much should I give you…?”

“Team. My entire net worth is about this…”

“……”

“Do we take money from a party member who saved another party member’s life here?”

Unable to hold out any longer, Lee Yoo-ri bowed her head and spoke in a pleading voice.

“……0.5:9.5”

“3:7”

“……1:9”

“3:7”

It was a strange standoff.

I was insisting on 3:7, knowing the value of my contribution, while Lee Yoo-ri was stubbornly refusing to take anything.

I knew I deserved 7, but it wasn’t fine to let her have only 2.

“For the unknown exploration and the Nakki leather coats, I’ll give you everything… but for the rest…”

“Ah, wait a minute. I object.”

“What is it?”

“Are you going to take money from your sister, who worked hard to glue the Nakki leather, and give it to a man!?”

“That, that’s… I, giving it to a man…”

“Haa, fine! Instead, I’ll give more to the other party members with what I’ve earned!”

Lee Yoo-ri stubbornly insisted on this point.

“Whatever, do as you please.”

In the end, we had defeated the criminal who tried to rip off the party members, thanks to our righteous negotiation.

You jerk.

How dare you act so high and mighty in front of a former Velvet School Life user.

What a beautiful girl can do in front of a former Velvets users?

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