Chapter: A Sensation Sparked by an Industrial Spy
[Title: Lee Soyeon’s Life Update After Fleeing to China.jpg — Smiling Bright in Singapore]
[Breaking News] Lee Soyeon Confirmed to Have Flown to Singapore
Soyeon’s left China and flown to Singapore.
Rumors say she’s either seeking asylum there or preparing to regain South Korean citizenship.
China’s planning to announce a new item Soyeon supposedly finished just before leaving—a god-tier mech transformation device called the S-Rank [Metallic Armor Changer]~
[Comments]
Fuck, they drained her dry and tossed her out grinning
When one of Soyeon’s former lab colleagues was on the radio, he sounded pissed as hell saying she took the entire project and dipped right before it was done, lmfao
So that mech-transformer was ours?
You think China let her in for no reason? It’s take and take over there lol
Going to China just means your tech gets stolen and you get canned~ Hey, devs, you watching?
[Title: Chinese Diss on Jjapso—This for Real?]
[China Dumps Soyeon, Mentions Railgun Drone During [Metallic Armor Changer] Reveal... “Low Practical Combat Value”]
...Practical combat usability is essential for any item...
...Rankings exist for a reason. There are numerous concerns when judged holistically...
...We question how useful a mass-produced weapon with limited real-world applications would truly be...
[Comments]
What a fuckin power trip
This is straight up the world hating on Korea
It’s not Korea getting hated on—it’s just Jjapso...
Pissing me off. Stay strong, Jjapso bro
They said it wasn’t ready for mass production lol like they don’t already hoard a bunch of S-Rank items for themselves and act all high and mighty
[Title: Railgun Drone Is Sick, Why the Hate?]
Korea: Railgun Drone (B)
China: [Metallic Armor Changer] (S)
Japan: Kagehira (S+)
Huh?
[Comments]
Bro what country you from? Come here, you’re under arrest
Forget the patriotism, the rankings speak for themselves...
Traitor. Noted.
Even if Jjapso’s amazing, maybe the world stage is still too tough
But seriously, he’s carrying the whole Korean tech industry on his back, and they’re giving him shit? For real?
Woojoo had gotten really busy.
The countryside reality show they filmed had totally blown up, and now other programs were flooding his agency with offers. Pressure was mounting.
PD Hwang would sneak into the group chat every chance he got, bragging about how “Clumsy Countryside-Cation” was trending and sending screenshots of Instagram tags climbing.
He even started going on about how the planning was genius, and that the tambourine scene was the greatest footage ever shot in TV history, patting himself on the back.
Turns out it wasn’t all bluster—requests for Guru were pouring in like a tidal wave too.
Thankfully, thanks to the ever-watchful adults who never blinked when it came to Guru, she was still enjoying a peaceful daily life.
But in truth, Guru was sulking for a completely different reason. Her little lips kept jutting out whenever she had a spare moment.
Gidan, finding this amusing, pulled her onto his lap inside the guildmaster’s office.
“Gruu-Gruu, what’s wrong? You wook wike a duck, ducky Gwuu.”
“Gwuu not a ducky.”
Guru mumbled sullenly, hanging her head low.
“What’s wrong, huh? Hey. Something up with Gruu?”
Jurim, who’d been checking application forms, finally looked up.
“You still gotta get your shot, though.”
“Shot?”
Guru drooped her shoulders even more and burrowed deeper into Gidan’s arms.
It wasn’t just because of that. But it was one of the reasons.
“Oppaw. Gwuu hafta get a pwevention shot.”
“Aw, you do?”
“Uh-huh. Only da Awakened gotta get it. In Chick Cwass, just Woojoo and Gwuu hafta.”
“That what got you all worked up?”
“...Hyuung.”
Sniffle sniffle.
While gently patting Guru’s trembling little butt, Gidan tried to soothe her.
But it didn’t last long.
“Pfffhahah!”
Eventually, Gidan burst out laughing.
Shhiiing!
“Ah—sorry, sorry. Gwuu’s just too cute. Scawed of shotsies? You still a wittow baby~”
Guru gave him a fierce glare, then climbed off his lap and plopped down in front of her Tini-Ping Hospital Play Kit.
No one understood her unjust suffering, so she’d prepared these items to comfort herself.
She shoved Gidan’s apologetic pokes aside with her shoulder and got to work—filling a water cup, preparing the scroll Woojoo had infused with a skill, and pulling out the star candy extracted from the scroll.
“Our little Gruu put an F-Rank skill in an A-Rank scroll.”
Normally people used blank scrolls for Teleport or Emergency Escape.
If this got listed on the market, it’d go for over 100 million won easy.
But with an F-Rank skill loaded into it, even with a 50% markdown, it had turned into overpriced trash.
Amused, Gidan took a photo of the scroll labeled with the F-Rank skill “Swoooshy-Swooosh-Swoosh!” and posted it in Raid Team 1’s group chat.
Immediately, people started losing it—demanding to know whose cursed creation this was.
Team Lead Jongwon
This is a crime
Taeha
LMAO who’s the rich idiot that made that
Ah, that one?
Guru made it, actually.
Team Lead Jongwon
Our princess? Then she gets a pass~ Princess can do what she wants~
Taeha
Knew it. I could sense the luxurious aura of royalty
LOOOOOOOL
Seeing Gidan cracking up while reading the chat, Guru lunged to snatch the phone.
“Iiiing! Stop dat!”
“Ahh okay okay, sowwy.”
...I got wots of scwowws. I’ww use dem how I want!
Dani Oppaw dumb. Meanie.
Shhiiik. Guru grabbed a star candy with a pouty face.
I just gotta show dem someding amazing.
The skill Swoooshy-Swooosh-Swoosh! extracted from the scroll was infused in the star candy.
Combine it with water and...
[Activating Skill: ‘Squish-Squish’]
Tada!
[Swoooshy-Swooosh-Swoosh! Syrup]
All the chaos up until now had only been a first step toward a truly great invention.
Guru poured the syrup over the potato planters lined up in the guildmaster’s office.
“Awso gave dem an ewixuh.”
Gulp gulp.
As the nutrient soaked in, a dirt bunny poked its eyes above the soil, twitched its ears, then disappeared again.
Just then, Gidan, who’d been examining Guru’s items out of curiosity, let out a stunned gasp.
“Huh?”
“Nooo touching. Gwuu gonna teww Daddychann.”
“No, I’m not teasing this time—seriously.”
“Huh?”
“Where’d you get this?”
Gidan had picked up a round item—the [Metallic Armor Changer].
Gasp!
Guru bolted over.
“Th-thaaat...? Gwuu, uh... found it...?”
“What?! You found an S-Rank? Don’t tell me you snuck off to China or something?!”
With Gidan starting to make a scene, Jurim casually glanced over at them.
No good. If this kept up, they’d find out Guru secretly teamed up with Chuen unnie at night to defeat the bad guys and was trying to quietly cover it up.
“U-um... not dat... Gwuu made it, when we went to da countwyside... It’s a Miwacwe Change toy... for turning tatoes into sowdiers...”
“Miracle Change Potato...?”
Gidan inspected the item again, now with deeply suspicious eyes.
He had never seen the actual [Metallic Armor Changer] China was supposedly about to announce. So while he had his suspicions, he couldn’t confirm it.
But... China’s cutting-edge S-Rank item just happened to be lying around in the hands of a 5-year-old in Korea? What, was Guru some kind of toddler industrial spy...?
“I don’t wanna believe it...”
And yet... considering all the chaos she’d already caused, it wasn’t impossible.
Loading an F-Rank skill into a scroll worth over 100 million like it was nothing, running an anonymous dungeon shop when she was just four...
...So maybe at five, being an industrial spy wasn’t too far off.
Gidan narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
Guru, sweating bullets, yanked the item away from him.
“Now time fow Potato Twansfowm...”
Mumbling vaguely, Guru squeezed her eyes shut and extracted a star candy from the [Metallic Armor Changer].
“Come on out, pwease!”
[Activating Skill: ‘Pluck-Pluck!’]
[Shape-Shifting Star Candy (S)]
“Wuv you, masteryyyyy!”
Her recent level-ups and skill training must have paid off—this time, the extraction went smoothly.
“Dis... this is what we use to make it.”
Guru said casually, trying to act like it was no big deal, as she pulled a mana stone from her bag.
Her nostrils were still flaring from the excitement.
Gidan leaned in, focusing seriously now. Even Jurim had subtly shifted his gaze to Guru.
“...Now mix dis wif da mana stone...”
“The potato?”
“Uh-huh...”
Mechanically speaking, it’d definitely need magic power, so she also had to combine a small mana stone from her watch.
Side-eye. Gidan was still very much in “suspicious mode.”
Guru hesitated for a moment...
“Potato twansfowm...”
With zero enthusiasm, she sloppily fused the potato and the star candy.
[Activating Skill: ‘Squish-Squish’]
And then—
Boom!
The mana stone’s energy suddenly surged.
A stream of mana wrapped around the potato and began to glow—like it was bursting into flame.

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