KYB Ch 42

Ye Woo-won widened his eyes as if surprised.

There were cases where someone would run off with the bracelet or not return the money, so normally, during these trades, people held the other party’s bracelet as collateral.

But he disappeared?

While Ye Woo-won was looking at HealingJjimo, puzzled, HealingJjimo showed him the information about the bracelet he had received.

Ye Woo-won immediately checked the information. And the moment he checked, he let out a small sigh.

‘This is…’

Beginners might not know. They might not know which bracelet options were expensive or cheap.

But even if the race differed, anyone who had played for a decent amount could tell.

The bracelet HealingJjimo showed had one useful option on one of its skills. It reduced the cooldown of Melody’s main skill [Fantasy Performance] by 2.0 seconds. But what did that matter?

‘It reduces the cooldown by 2 seconds and increases the cooldown by 2 seconds.’

In the end, wearing the bracelet or not wearing it made no difference.

A beginner could easily be confused since the debuff option was shown small and far below.

‘People throw these out the moment they drop.’

Besides, with a debuff like that, it’s only logical to drop the equipment, so HealingJjimo must have only checked the main skill. He’d been way too naïve.

‘What kind of scam is this.’

He wondered how to explain it when HealingJjimo typed again.

Ye Woo-won paused. HealingJjimo probably already suspected it. The fact that the other person took the bracelet and vanished was strange to begin with. That was why HealingJjimo probably tried calling customer service.

This was a scam. A very nasty one.

While studying the deceptively written bracelet options, Ye Woo-won asked what bracelet HealingJjimo had given away. HealingJjimo showed him the original bracelet information.

‘This looks like a bracelet that would cost at least 1.2 million won^[1] in cash.’

It had almost all top-tier options.

Ye Woo-won let out a breathless laugh. Bracelet thieves had once been rampant, but since the method had become well known, the trend had died long ago.

‘He must have been targeting newbies only.’

The scammer had clearly done this several times to beginners.

Seeing HealingJjimo hesitate, Ye Woo-won didn’t press it.

He had seen something like this before, so he lightly searched the nickname. Sure enough.

Seeing the posts flooding in, it was clear he had caused a huge mess. And since the posts were fairly recent, it looked like he had scammed several people at once, intending to disappear afterward. Staring at the endless list, Ye Woo-won typed:

Ye Woo-won explained everything step by step. As a result, HealingJjimo successfully submitted a support ticket.

Only then did HealingJjimo let out a relieved breath and sit down heavily. He quickly turned toward Yewoo Beomjeol and began crying.

As he accepted the request, Ye Woo-won looked at his friend list.

‘Now that I think about it, I’ve added a lot of guild members.’

Most of the recent additions were members of the Gaesae guild.

‘I cleaned out all my old contacts when I returned anyway.’

While scrolling down the list, Ye Woo-won blinked.

‘I didn’t add Kisekki-nim.’

Considering how they had spent so much time recently and always partied together, he assumed they had already added each other. But in reality, they had only opened the messenger attached to the voice room and talked there, never actually adding each other.

‘Well, it’s not like we ever had the time anyway. The moment we logged in, we were always rushing straight into Territory War. And all our conversations happened through the voice room messenger.’

When he suddenly remembered Kisekki jumping back like he had seen a bug the moment he suggested marriage, the corners of his mouth rose slightly. Since Kisekki disliked everything he did, he would definitely complain if Ye Woo-won tried to add him as a friend now.

“Why should I… Again with your bullshit.“

He could already hear the line. His low voice sounded cold at first, but listening closely, the disgust was stronger. Laughing at the thought, Ye Woo-won opened the shop. The ring for the marriage system was already in his inventory.

He had chosen a simple rose gold ring engraved with a long, thin flower design. And of course, in Ye Woo-won’s mind, the idea of Kisekki refusing marriage did not exist.

‘If we get married, friend requests won’t even matter.’

He had to succeed no matter what.

Calmly having a thought that would make Kisekki grab the back of his neck if he heard it, Ye Woo-won only fixed his characteristic clear smile on his face as he stared at the screen.

When he quietly left the shop, he saw HealingJjimo still on the screen. HealingJjimo kept glancing at Yewoo Beomjeol. He had probably wanted to talk but hesitated because Yewoo Beomjeol kept entering and exiting the shop.

When Ye Woo-won casually spoke, HealingJjimo immediately smiled shyly.

Yewoo Beomjeol checked the item info. He figured HealingJjimo must have spent most of his resources on the scammed bracelet, so he assumed this one would be ordinary.

‘Aside from the enhancement level, this one also has top options?’

It was a misunderstanding. Though not as expensive as the first bracelet, it was still quite pricey.

Seeing him like that made Ye Woo-won smile.

He had been the same as a beginner. Afraid of burdening the party, he poured a huge amount of money into raising his character’s gear. Even if he made mistakes, he wanted his gear to make up for his shortcomings.

Remembering his early days and growing curious about the healer Melody class, Ye Woo-won asked,