At Su-ho’s demand, Grid’s eyes narrowed.
Then he stared at Su-ho for a while before opening his mouth.
“Take it as a compliment?”
“I did take it exactly as I heard it. So, can you or can’t you?”
“How’d it go?”
“Yeah?”
At the words that authorization had been granted, the corners of Su-ho’s mouth lifted.
Of course.
As long as you match the conditions it set, the system will permit anything within those bounds.
When Su-ho smiled, Grid clucked his tongue as if fed up.
“Was that a question? Then is that perhaps a trade?”
“Suit yourself. So, what’s the method?”
“Ilwol Jiche?”
At the words Ilwol Jiche, Su-ho began rifling through the Library of Memory.
But even after searching the entire Library of Memory, Ilwol Jiche was a term he was hearing for the first time.
“First I’ve heard of it. What is it?”
“Aha?”
So that’s why it’s Ilwol Jiche, huh?
A constitution where both the power of the sun and the moon coexist, of all things.
Hearing that, the corners of Su-ho’s mouth couldn’t help but rise.
Ilwol Jiche was, to anyone’s eyes, the perfect answer Su-ho was seeking.
“Plenty. Then how can one obtain Ilwol Jiche?”
“Where do you think you’re going. There’s still the third trade left, isn’t there?”
“What’s with the tch... fine, I’ll keep the third trade in reserve.”
“Can’t I?”
Sensing the deal was wrapping up, Grid started rubbing his hands like a fly again, and only then did Su-ho hand over the Rune of Lust to Grid.
The moment the Rune of Lust entered Grid’s hand, his eyes grew the largest Su-ho had ever seen.
For a time he gazed at it as if entranced, and after he had admired it enough, he did something astonishing—he gaped his mouth wide and swallowed it in one bite.
Gulp!
Though the Rune of Lust was as big as his own bulk, Grid, without a shred of hesitation, swallowed that huge thing in one gulp.
And once the Rune of Lust had completely vanished into Grid’s belly—
Fwaaaah!
Grid’s body began to glow red.

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