Looking back, I was out of my mind back then. And I was the only one who didn’t know I’d lost my mind.
[Kwon Dajeong] Why did you suddenly leave the guild?
[Kwon Dajeong] Babe?
“Hah……”
In the present, regretting my idiotic dark history, I firmly pressed down on the name of the bastard I once loved most in this world.
[Would you like to block ‘Kwon Dajeong’?]
And I blocked him.
Hoping that his existence would be completely erased from my life.
* * *
After that, I decided to be reborn with a new name on a new server.
Originally, as soon as I realized I’d been deceived by Kwon Dajeong, I was planning to delete my character right then and there and quit the game.
But when I actually tried to quit, lingering attachments kept bubbling up. How much effort did I put into this? I can’t quit a game I was doing well at just because of that one bastard.
My deliberation was long, but purchasing and using a server transfer ticket with cash was instantaneous.
And so, I settled into a new server.
But there was a slight problem with my new home. More precisely, it was my problem.
Card of Fantasy has a limit on the amount of gold you can transfer when moving servers. You can only take a measly 10,000 gold, so my account, which had billions, became destitute the moment I transferred servers.
Naturally, only the in-game gold disappeared. The cash I’d charged remained intact.
And the easiest and fastest way for me to earn gold was…… buying and selling items from the cash shop.
What I chose was the [Royal Kit], sold for a limited season. I charged up all the cash I had and bought tons of [Royal Kits].
It would be great to just sell the [Royal Kits], but [Royal Kits] are non-tradeable items. However, the items that came out of them could be traded.
With the plan to sell what came out of the [Royal Kits], I started opening them one by one without even properly looking at the results.
[‘Aang’ has obtained ’10 Enhancement Stones’ from the Royal Kit.]
[‘Aang’ has obtained ‘3 Megaphones’ from the Royal Kit.]
[‘Aang’ has obtained ‘1 Red Fox Tail’ from the Royal Kit.]
Double-click and double-click.
My hand, which had been clicking away mindlessly, came to an abrupt halt. If it’s the [Red Fox Tail], a cosmetic item used for avatar decoration, that’s a pretty decent haul.
When I checked quickly, my inventory was a mess with items from the [Royal Kits] randomly piled up. I even found out that this was the third Red Fox Tail.
Since it’s chaotic, I should sell once and then keep opening the rest.
The cosmetic items including the tail, as well as miscellaneous items like enhancement stones and potions, had accumulated to a considerable amount.
It was while I was diligently selling off items that someone approached.
[Banye] -nim
[Aang] ?
[Banye] How many kits did you open?
For a while now, fireworks that appear when opening [Royal Kits] had been bursting continuously above my character’s head.
Moreover, when you get good items from [Royal Kits], they’re also visible through server messages, so it wasn’t difficult for the other person to deduce that I’d been continuously opening [Royal Kits]. They probably approached after seeing the server messages.
I hesitated, then answered honestly.
[Aang] About a thousand…?
[Banye] oh wow
They seemed incredulous, like what kind of crazy person opens a thousand, but I didn’t care. I was also spending money to the point where I was sick of opening them.
Instead of saying more, I opened another [Royal Kit]. This time a miscellaneous item came out. And Banye, who had spoken to me, remained standing in front of me without leaving even though I didn’t answer anymore.
[Banye] Hey, did you happen to get a gold fox?
The item Banye was talking about, the golden fox, is a limited pet that only drops this season.
It not only has a critical additional damage option but is also cute-looking, so it sells for the most money, making it the target of most people opening [Royal Kits], including me.
The problem is this thing really doesn’t drop for shit. As far as I know, there aren’t even ten people on the server who have a gold fox yet.
[Aang] Yeah…… ㅠ
When I answered gloomily, Banye said to me.
[Banye] If it drops, will you sell it?
[Aang] If it drops, well…
[Banye] To me?
[Aang] Yeah, if it drops
Then Banye whispered to me as if sharing some secret information.
[Whisper][Banye] Want me to tell you a good spot for Royal drops?
[Whisper][Aang] Where?
For a moment, I was tempted and asked right away.
As soon as I did, my rationality returned, thinking there’s no such thing, but Banye had already moved somewhere first and used a summoning scroll on me.
[‘Banye’ has summoned you. Will you accept the summons?]
[Yes] [No]
I had no choice but to press [Yes] and go where Banye called me.
The place I arrived at was the Chinese-style city, Janggyeong.
Banye moved back and forth very precisely on top of the tallest spire in Janggyeong, adjusting several times, then fixed me in one spot saying this was exactly it.
[Whisper][Banye] Try opening it here
[Whisper][Aang] ok
Believing in this kind of superstition.
I pressed [Royal Kit] without any expectations.
[‘Aang’ has obtained ‘1 Golden Fox Egg’ from the Royal Kit.]
But as soon as I opened it, a gold fox egg dropped as if it was rigged! Crazy……!
“No way!”
[Whisper][Banye] Jackpot
Normally it doesn’t drop even if you open them day and night, but to get it in one try…… it really was a jackpot.
I’d been wondering earlier why Banye was adjusting the position down to the pixel, but it was totally worth it.
[Whisper][Aang] Wow ㄷㄷ is this even possible
[Whisper][Banye] Told you it was a good spot
[Whisper][Aang] Amazing
The gold fox egg was sweet enough to instantly blow away my thoughts that this kind of thing was superstition. That’s because the gold fox egg’s price was whatever the seller asked.
Forgetting that Banye and I had just met, I started getting clingy with Banye’s character using the [Hug] motion.
Banye seemed to think for a moment, then accepted the motion. We had a moving embrace like that.
[Whisper][Aang] ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠThank you!
[Whisper][Banye] haha
After the hug ended, Banye asked me as if they’d been waiting.
[Banye] How much will you sell it for?
[Aang] Hmm
I deliberated. Because I don’t know the market price on this server well.
‘They don’t seem like a merchant though……’
I tried to deduce internally while looking at what Banye was wearing. Their equipment window was also public, so I checked the equipped items too.
“Fully enhanced?”
But unfortunately, their ranking seemed to be set to private, so I couldn’t check it.
Still, with this level of equipment, they probably aren’t the type to resell it even if I sell it a bit cheap…… Also, they told me about the lucky spot for the gold fox egg to drop.
[Aang] How much will you buy it for?
[Banye] How about 250 billion?
[Aang] ok
[Banye] thx
Banye made a cool transaction, probably offering a reasonably cheap price from their perspective. And as if worried I might run away, they immediately requested a trade.
[‘Banye’ has requested a trade. Will you accept?]
[Yes] [No]
I pressed the [Yes] button and put up the gold fox egg that just dropped. Banye put up 250 billion and pressed the trade confirmation button.
[You have obtained 2,500,000,000 gold.]
[Banye] ty
[Aang] Enjoy
And Banye disappeared like a shot.
“Huh?”
But at that moment, something felt off in my head.
I hurriedly looked at the gold that came into my inventory, and only then did I realize something was wrong and furrowed my brow.
“Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions, ten millions, hundred millions, billions, ten billions…… What! This isn’t 250 billion? It’s 25 billion?!”
How could this happen!
I urgently sent a whisper to Banye.
[Whisper][Aang] Banye-nim! You gave me the wrong amount of money! You were supposed to give 250 billion but gave 25 billion ㄱ-
[‘Banye’ cannot be found.]
However…… this bastard had already taken the goods and run long ago.
“Ahhh!”
I’d been had by them. No, to fall for such a basic zero-removal scam right after transferring servers!
I was so frustrated, dumbfounded, and couldn’t believe it, so I kept whispering to Banye, but…… Banye naturally didn’t come back. Well, I wouldn’t log in either if I were them. Damn it!
With a heart dripping bloody tears, I entered the free community board on the official website to catch this scammer bastard.
And I searched for ‘Banye’ there.
[‘Banye’ search results: 113,224 results]
And I was shocked by the tremendous number of search results.
“Whoa……”
I read through the posts mentioning Banye in order of highest views and most comments, and my mind went blank.
Banye was…… a star on the free community board.
In a very bad way, that is.
