He is a legendary prison guard. - Chapter 3
Episode 3: Recovery?
prog?
I paused and thought about the message that suddenly came to mind, but this time, a shape began to appear in my field of vision like a mirage.
It is the shape of a man.
No, can you call that a man?
The extremely close appearance of the skin and bones reminded me of a skeleton.
His arms and legs were extremely thin, and his ribs were all exposed.
‘no way?’
Who was the original owner of this power?
While I was making that guess, I suddenly felt extremely thirsty.
I was thirsty, as if I had run a marathon without drinking a single sip of water.
Si-hyeon opened the refrigerator door as if he were jumping, took out a bottle of water, put it in his mouth, and drank it down.
“Huh… huh….”
After frantically emptying a bottle of water, I felt my thirst subside a little.
Then, this time, a terrible hunger came over me.
Sihyeon scooped rice out of the electric rice cooker, stuffed it into a large bowl, mixed it with red pepper paste and a few vegetables, and began to eat it hungrily.
After I finished eating without leaving a single grain of rice, my hunger subsided. Normally, it would be enough to make my stomach explode, but I didn’t feel full at all.
“Huh. What is this? These things influence each other, right?”
I couldn’t think of anything else other than that.
As the man over there was starving, I suffered from hunger myself.
And a message telling you to eat quickly.
That would mean that what you eat will have an effect on the other side as well.
As if to prove that thought, a new notification appeared.
It kindled a little fire in Poahim’s feeble lamp of life. However, consistent meals are needed in the future.
[Strength +1, stamina +1 recovery]
‘recovery?’
Sihyeon quickly checked the stat window to see if there were any changes.
<Stats> Strength 2 (E) Dexterity 1 (E) Wisdom 1 (E), Stamina 2 (E), Spirit 1 (E), and Magic 1 (E):
‘It really went up.’
My strength and stamina actually increased.
Of course, it was still very minimal.
but.
‘It’s important to go up.’
There was not even hope in the list of hopeless statistics.
But there was hope.
It was possible to reasonably assume that the statistics were derived from the physical condition of the original owner of the power, who was practically sick.
What if your body recovers properly?
Even if I fully recover my abilities, I’m still at E level, and they won’t give me a quest like this.
Then D? No, C?
It would be really nice to get a B.
Then, what is your salary? Wow… .
Although I thought it was greedy, Sihyeon had such a pleasant imagination. Only now did he feel like he had awakened a bit.
Si-hyeon, who had been lost in thought for a while, suddenly thought of something and turned on the computer and accessed the ‘Burning Bulletin Board’ of the community M Park, where she was usually active.
Sihyeon’s hands quickly tapped on the keyboard.
Title: I seem to have awakened.
Content: Yesterday, I drank three bottles of soju and woke up, and suddenly I felt something. It feels amazing. If I turn my life around and escape from the dirt, I will choose ten people in line and shoot them chicken.
I wanted to try something like this once.
shedding.
How many times have I been hurt by abominable things like bragging about women, boasting about my education, and boasting about my job?
Perhaps because it was a community site with many people, comments started flowing at a rapid pace.
First, let’s stand in line.
Yes, two bottles of Daum. Heavy weight.
Yes, the next fantasy author.
Just give it a go.
-line.
-Ugguggul.
Come out to the next aggro.
See previous posts.
-uh? This person is not an aggro user. Aren’t you the kind of person who sometimes posts ‘Today’s snacks for drinking alone’?
Have you really awakened?
Sihyeon laughed as he looked at the comments on his post.
From the common aggro comments that exist in every community to those that demand people stand in line,
Normally, I would have been offended by the aggressive comments, but right now, to Sihyeon, it just seemed cute.
His hand quickly began to write the next text.
-Title: Whoa… You can see the status window.
-Content: I haven’t checked the content yet, but I’m nervous. I don’t want it to be a big hit; I just hope it’s a medium hit.
The comments were running at a faster pace than before.
-omg!
Wow, a real awakening? Oh my god!
Oh, I’m so jealous. Aren’t there any awakenings in my life?
Does this sound like a lie?
Beep, you’re a clumsy wizard.
a very immature article.
-Aggro.
Let’s refrain from making malicious comments just because we’re jealous.
-congrats.
Isn’t Sword Master going to explode on our burning bulletin board too? If the sword master explodes, you get 1,000 pizzas.
– First of all, congratulations on your awakening. From now on, every day you spend as an awakened person will be very happy. When we talked to new awakeners at 00 Bank, most of them were people who wanted to open a negative account and give it as a gift to their parents, people who were preparing for an overseas trip to compensate for their hardships, and people who wanted to solve their housing problem. The contact number of our 00 Bank Awakened Special Team is 010-xxx… .
The jealous comments she received for the first time on the bulletin board made Sihyeon feel good.
“What? A clumsy wizard? An inexperienced knight? You’re looking for a very E-class.”
After all, it is an eternal truth that when your cousin buys land, you get a stomach ache.
Sihyeon smiled and wrote the following:
Title: I scratched it.
Content: The gloomy jailer wins. I honestly don’t know if it’s good or bad.
Soon, sharp comments started coming, one after another.
Ah, I got aggro right from the morning.
-bittern? Where is the guard in the Awakened?
because I’m aggro.
Insects are active early in the morning.
I reported it.
those who need treatment. If you want to attract aggro, you should know a little bit about it. What a guard!
Yes, I am a jailer.
Sometimes, something that isn’t a lie feels more like a lie. So, as expected, I tried it once, and the reaction was the same.
While Si-hyeon was making an expression, saying yes, a growling sound came from his stomach.
I was starving, as it had been a while since I had eaten. Well, even though I ate like that earlier, I didn’t feel full at all.
The amount of food he usually ate was never that much.
So, that’s how much the man over there ate.
Although it may not be 100%, it seemed like they had a significant influence on each other.
If it were 100%, he would have already been taken to the emergency room and would be in the intensive care unit.
To make matters worse, when Sihyeon was about to go to the kitchen to eat again, he suddenly felt chills.
Then, a new notification window appeared, as if waiting for the cold.
Poahim’s body temperature has dropped too much. [Let’s raise the body temperature by any means necessary.]
[Urgent Quest: Raise your body temperature as quickly as possible.]
“Huh, it’s a new quest.”
Now that I think about it, I think I saw white snow falling past the window where Poahim was sitting. And there was no common firewood in the room.
Anyway, there was nothing bad about it.
No, it was actually good.
The more often the quest occurred, the faster the strength would be recovered.
“Anyway, it’s really cold.”
I suddenly felt like I had fallen onto the street in the middle of winter.
Sihyeon opened the closet and changed into a thick T-shirt and pants. She wore a sweater and a winter jumper over it. Then she turned on her electric blanket.
I took a thick blanket, placed it on the electric blanket, and got into it.
“Huh. It’s a little warm now.”
I stayed like that for a while, and the notification window popped up again.
[Poahim feels a little warm.]
[Agility +1, stamina +1 recovery]
Poahim’s body has regained some vitality, but his mind is still frozen. [I have to melt his heart somehow.]
[Quest: Let’s give him some comfort with the smell of prison that he has been familiar with his whole life.]
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“Sihyeon, is something bad going on?”
The next day, before entering the company building, while I was lost in thought with a blank face in the lounge, a medium-height man wearing glasses spoke to me. He was Jeong Jun-cheol, Si-hyeon’s classmate, and his five-year-old older brother.
“Uh, Juncheol? Is today the week of Part 3?”
The security department’s overtime department, where the majority of correctional officers work, operates under a four-hour system.
Day and night, day and night, day and night.
In other words, it goes on and on like day, night, off-duty, rotation, daytime, night, off-duty, and holiday.
In contrast, the part-time job that Si-hyeon was in charge of only worked during the week from Monday to Friday, like other civil servants.
Of course, this was only nominal, and the overtime workers could not properly rest on rotating shifts, and the day workers also often worked on weekends.
This was all due to a chronic shortage of manpower.
“okay.”
“I see. Nothing special. Nothing special.”
“Really? He was making a bewildered expression.”
“No, that’s just my facial expression.”
“Really? Then it’s okay.”
Juncheol sat next to Sihyeon.
He continued.
“But did you hear what I said? There was chaos yesterday.”
“What’s the fuss?”
“That bastard hurt himself last night, Mandeok.”
“Oh, did that person harm himself again? He’s a really nasty guy.”
Kim Man-deok.
He was a person of note as a fraudster and habitual self-injurer.
Although not as serious as suicide, self-inflicted suicide was still a problem for the prison guards.
If you react incorrectly, you may be subject to disciplinary action.
If he died, he could even be sued by his bereaved family.
“So, what happened?”
“I went to the emergency room right away. They said I would likely be hospitalised for two to three weeks.”
“Oh my, I’ll be back soon from my weekend shift again.”
It does not end when the inmate is admitted to the hospital. Prison guards must take turns guarding the guards. When that much manpower was lost, other people had to replace weekend work to compensate for the loss.
“By the way, Mandeok’s turn to turn the bomb seems to be your company building. You are company 2 on the 5th floor.”
The Daehan Prison, where Sihyeon worked, was a building-type prison that housed about 1,200 convicted prisoners and 800 unconvicted prisoners.
It was a 15-story building with two buildings on each floor.
And it was in Company 2 on the 5th floor that Sihyeon worked as a weekly assistant.
“Huh, when did your turn number become like that?”
Throwing bombs meant taking turns accepting prisoners with problems that were difficult to handle. It was something that could not be helped. Anyone who has never worked there would not know how stressful it is to have a problem in the company where they work.
However, since it was something that could not be kicked out, it was one of the ways to somehow share the pain with each other.
“I hope nothing bad happens while you’re in charge.”
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At the entrance to Sadong, Sihyeon stopped for a moment.
[Quest: Let’s give him some comfort with the smell of prison that he has been familiar with his whole life.]
As expected, the quest notification was still displayed.
prison.
I also felt it in the word jailer, but it is an archaic word.
Well, guessing from the words sword, magic, and knight, the other world is probably a world where the concept of reformation has not been established, so the words guard and prison are more appropriate than guards or prison.
Smiling, Sihyeon opened the Sadongmun using the card key.
He was greeted by the unique, unpleasant smell that only those who had entered Sadong could sense. Even a person with a dull sense of smell will probably be able to smell this.
[Poahim smelled the smell of prison and felt a little better.]
[Wisdom +1, Mental Strength +2, Magic Power +1 Recovery]
“Oh!”
As soon as I entered through Sadongmun, a notification appeared that the quest had been solved.
There is even a notification that your stats have recovered.
Additionally, a new notification window appeared.
Poachim, who has relaxed a little, wants to see his junior working passionately. [Let’s show that we work passionately.]
[Quest: Let’s give proper instructions to a prisoner who violated the rules.] 0/10]
New Quest!
As soon as I could solve one, the next quest appeared.
What could be better than this: becoming stronger while working at work?
Sihyeon’s expression brightened.