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[Chapter 105] [Catch Your Player (4)]

Catch Your Player achieved a rating of 13% in its first broadcast.

This could be considered surprising compared to other variety programs airing at the same time on Friday night, which maintain around 10%.

This figure was no different from the ratings of popular weekend variety shows currently airing.

Above all, since it was Catch Your Player's first broadcast, it was even predicted to record higher ratings in the next episode.

A great success indeed.

Some were already saying it shouldn't end with 4 episodes but should be scheduled as a regular broadcast.

Even saying that material to breathe new life into the dying broadcasting world's variety shows has appeared.

As a result, students who appeared on Catch Your Player didn't fall from internet search rankings even until the day after the broadcast.

Among them, there were a few students who became incredibly famous─

"─Eunha, you saw that too, right?"

"That? What?"

"The gif showing how an insider avoids being late to class."

"......"

Eunha frowned in the back seat of a car where the inside couldn't be seen from outside.

Dojun sitting next to him, giggling and looking out the window, answered for him.

"It's climbing the wall and entering the classroom through the window. Then quickly raising your hand when attendance is called."

"...I know, I saw it too."

"Right... There's no way you wouldn't have seen it. When your sister took attendance like that, you don't know how much I burst out laughing."

Yoo Dojun cackled as if recalling the broadcast he saw yesterday.

Eunha was keeping his mouth shut as if displeased.

My sister is quite quirky.

Eunha let out a small sigh.

The so-called Attendance King Noh Euna.

It was Euna's nickname occupying the top of entertainment news since this morning.

In the first broadcast of Catch Your Player, she barely cleared a mission before the time limit.

But there was far too little time to enter the next class.

An unavoidable crisis.

At that time, she opened her mouth in a lively voice unlike the heavy BGM laid over the screen.

"It's okay! This wasn't even rare, so what!"

Noh Euna smiling with a cheerful face.

Soon she manifested internal mana and wall-walked up the lecture building wall, then ran to the classroom where the lesson was being held.

Yeonhwa's support was added too.

Ryu Yeonhwa who received a telepathic message from Euna suddenly stood up from her seat at the back of the classroom, went to the window seat, and opened the window.

The instructor calling attendance looking on as if already used to such things was a bonus.

Anyway, thus Euna was able to safely arrive at the classroom.

As a result, people watching the broadcast came to call her by the nickname Attendance King Noh Euna.

"I don't usually watch variety shows but yesterday I laughed comfortably for the first time in a while. Let me meet your sister next time. I don't know why I haven't been close to someone who's so hilarious on broadcast until now..."

"You're asking me to introduce you to our sister?"

"...Ah, right. It was all because of you."

Yoo Dojun made a disgusted expression and pressed his body tightly against the window.

On the other hand, Eunha was showing hostility towards him.

In the end, Yoo Dojun raised both hands as a sign of surrender.

"Forget about CYP talk... More importantly, what happened with Myeongwang Clan?"

"Ah, that?"

On the way to the underground market.

The old man Yoo Dojun recruited from the underground market before drove the car down night streets where people's footsteps had noticeably decreased.

Bruno sitting in the passenger seat was keeping silent.

Eunha checked the route they were going, then soon changed the topic.

To hear news about Myeongwang Clan which had subsided due to Catch Your Player's success.

"When I said I'd provide support from my side, several clans tucked their tails and withdrew clan wars as if they never did anything. Moreover, the Seonnyeo government said not to cause problems with unnecessary fights."

"I didn't know the Seonnyeo government would move..."

"Probably because of CYP. The government is trying to make a positive image of players, but what if clan infighting breaks out? Then well... It would all be for nothing."

He perfectly carried out what Eunha had advised before.

As a result, Yoo Dojun was able to join hands with Myeongwang Clan.

It seems Myeongwang Clan harbored hostility towards successors who were trying to abandon them.

What were the successors thinking...

I don't know why they did such a foolish thing.

Eunha thought while hearing a story that hadn't changed from before the regression.

The successors were too greedy.

Blinded by greed, they tried to change Yeongwon Group's sword as if they were already chairman.

It wouldn't have been too late even after firmly establishing their support base and completely occupying the throne.

Yoo Seongyeong isn't someone who dies so easily.

Yeongwon Group's chairman Yoo Seongyeong.

Eunha learned through Yoo Dojun that Yoo Seongyeong had fallen into a coma and this incident occurred.

The successors seemed to think Yoo Seongyeong would never open his eyes again.

However, as far as Eunha knew, Yoo Seongyeong didn't die at this time.

The time he died coincided with when Yoo Dojun became chairman.

He would go back and forth to the hospital several more times in the future, but stubbornly didn't give up on life.

"If your grandfather wakes up, what do you think the situation will be like?"

"What? That old man is said to be dying, how could he wake up?"

"That's why I'm asking what if."

"Then you could say everyone who turned Myeongwang Clan into an enemy is dead. That old man is someone who won't let go of power from his hands until just before dying."

Dojun's evaluation of his grandfather was scathing.

Eunha who shrugged his shoulders predicted that if Myeongwang Clan safely defends the next clan war, it would be quite an advantageous situation for Yoo Dojun.

Then something he wanted to ask came to mind.

"By the way, you said you met Player Do Wanjun directly, right?"

"Yeah. So?"

"Did Player Do Wanjun tell you any information separately?"

"Information?"

Yoo Dojun frowned.

As if asking what he meant.

Eunha grasped the general situation just from his expression.

Myeongwang Clan still didn't fully trust Yoo Dojun.

Seeing that they didn't pass on the information Myeongwang Clan was holding to him.

In the end, there was only one piece of advice Eunha could give.

"Maintain a close relationship with Player Do Wanjun from now on."

"Of course I plan to. He'll be my support base in the distant future."

"Make it Yoo Dojun's Myeongwang Clan, not your grandfather's Myeongwang Clan. Make Player Do Wanjun completely your person."

That would probably be the most difficult thing compared to what he's done so far.

However, completely taking Myeongwang Clan into his hands was the way for him to sit on the throne.

"...I'm not sure if I can do it. Actually, I was thinking of replacing Myeongwang Clan's clan lord with another player once things were moderately resolved."

"You'll be able to do it."

In his previous life, Yoo Dojun accomplished that difficult task.

So Yoo Dojun in this life will also accomplish that difficult task.

Eunha believed in his success without a doubt.

"But what are we going to the underground market for this time? To buy slaves again?"

"It's not like that this time. Just to buy a few ingredients. It wasn't something you had to come for."

"As the owner, I should know where my card is being used, right?"

"Just say it honestly."

"It looked really fun."

"That's like you."

Eventually, they arrived at the underground market.

☆

The reason Eunha visited the underground market was to obtain ingredients for an artifact.

Fortunately, the ingredients weren't difficult to obtain enough to require an auction.

It's just that there was no one selling the ingredients.

A cork made from red pine trees that grow naturally in areas with pure mana.

About 20 pearl eggs from the 7th tier monster Star-patterned Giant Clam that appears in the deep sea.

Embers of a 5th tier Ifrit.

And other ingredients.

All of them were highly rare items.

To the extent that they had to be obtained at quite expensive prices even without an auction.

"What on earth are you planning to make? It looks like you're going to take all the money I was going to give Myeongwang Clan."

"I didn't buy that much. Ah, I need to buy that too."

Yoo Dojun was suddenly acting like a servant following Eunha around carrying the items he purchased.

Because the old man who came with him didn't enter the underground market.

In the end, Bruno who couldn't stand it carried his luggage instead.

"Couldn't you have bought these items that aren't illegal without going to the underground market?"

"You're right but... There are also items that can only be obtained here. Things like the Star-patterned Giant Clam's pearl eggs are almost never distributed in the market."

Eunha roughly explained to the grumbling Yoo Dojun.

Then he searched for the ingredient he considered most important while going in and out of shops.

─Found it.

The fifteenth shop he visited.

Eunha shifted his gaze to the item the owner brought.

Honey inside a small bottle.

"This honey is hard to obtain except here."

"What kind of honey is it?"

Yoo Dojun showed curiosity towards the honey emitting blue light.

As he tried to bring his face closer, Eunha answered his question.

"Among the Nepenthes series, there's a monster that blooms flowers in areas with many microorganisms buried, this is honey extracted from that monster."

"Is it illegal because it's monster honey?"

"No. Land with many microorganisms buried means land with many corpses buried."

"...Ah, I see."

Eunha gave additional explanation.

Yoo Dojun let go of the bottle without lingering attachment.

As if he touched something dirty, he shook both hands vigorously.

This honey is the highest quality honey among honey produced by Nepenthes growing in land where corpses are buried.

Eunha kept the words he was about to say in his heart.

Honey of the 7th tier Corpse Nepenthes.

This was the core ingredient for creating Snow Flower Fairy's essence.

He was in a good mood after obtaining Corpse Nepenthes honey that came out to the underground market at an opportune time.

If he couldn't find it in the underground market, he would have had to wait until the item came in.

It was better to suffer less trouble.

"Is this all?"

"Yeah. Let's go back now."

"What on earth are you going to use the things you bought today for?"

On the way out of the underground market.

Yoo Dojun who had been conversing calmly with Eunha until then asked while fixing his mask.

Eunha stopped walking and turned back to look at Yoo Dojun.

Eunha tilted his head.

"─Do you really want to know that much?"

Yoo Dojun didn't ask what he would use the ingredients to make.

He asked 'where' he would use them.

He was asking what scheme he was planning to pull off.

So Eunha who grasped the intention of the question gave him a choice.

Asking if he really wanted to know.

""......"

It could be good to know.

It could be nothing good to know.

But if he tries to know, Eunha will keep him under surveillance on his palm from now on.

In some sense, that wasn't much different from Yoo Dojun keeping him in check.

However, Yoo Dojun shook his head.

"─Well... Not really? If you needed my help, you would have told me separately. But seeing that's not the case, it seems to have nothing to do with me so I'll just live without minding."

"......"

"Surely you're not thinking of backstabbing me. Right?"

Yoo Dojun acted slick.

Eunha stared steadily at Yoo Dojun's appearance that was no different before or after the regression.

Yoo Dojun was always like that.

He always pushed for what he was trying to do without any suspicion, even when he didn't try to say it.

"If you do well, I'll do well too."

"...Sometimes I'm really curious why you do that."

"Huh? What?"

"Why you trust me so much."

Eunha avoided Yoo Dojun's gaze and took a step.

In his previous life, he had asked Yoo Dojun the same question before.

At that time, Yoo Dojun said this too.

"Well, my intuition tells me I can pick up money if I'm by your side."

"......"

"All the stocks I pick go up, you know? So you must be no joke too. Actually, you're already famous."

"You might go bankrupt later talking like that?"

"What are you saying. Do I look like someone who would go bankrupt?"

The only stock Yoo Dojun picked that couldn't avoid falling.

That was when he invested in the Seonnyeo government and sponsored Noh Eunha.

From Yoo Dojun's perspective, he should have cast him out when he became Yeongwon Group's chairman.

But Yoo Dojun still sponsored him.

Even when he went against the trend to protect Ha Baekryeon, he raised his hand for him.

Even though he must have lost more than he gained.

"I guarantee the Noh Eunha coin will definitely keep mooning. Even if it falls, it'll only fall briefly then use that momentum to skyrocket again."

"Are you crazy? What are you doing mentioning real names here."

"There's no one listening here. Only Bruno ahjussi."

"Still, you never know."

The two grumbled at each other while exchanging conversation back and forth.

That appearance was like─

"─You get along well."

To Bruno's eyes, they looked like friends hanging out without formality.

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Yesterday, he spent time in the underground market until late at night.

He even fought battles with people picking fights along the way.

So Eunha wanted to sleep in on Sunday morning.

It was also resting at home.

Eunha still felt more comfortable using the bed at home than the dormitory bed.

"─Eunha. Hey, wake up."

"Mom... Let me sleep a little more."

Although he was sleeping sweetly.

When his mother tried to wake him, Eunha pulled the blanket sharply and covered his face.

"You're not going to get up?"

"......"

However, he couldn't ignore his mother speaking gently.

The women of the Noh family were scary.

Except grandmother.

Eunha had no choice but to get up groggily.

Eunha who scratched his messy bed hair turned his head to his mother sitting at the edge of the bed.

"Won't you take some snacks to Euna?"

"Snacks? What snacks?"

Eunha asked with his eyes almost half closed.

He received the lunchbox his mother held out and waited for her to continue speaking.

Hearing the story, it seems his mother who watched CYP didn't like Euna performing missions to eat breakfast.

According to mother─

"─You shouldn't play with food. Understand?"

Eunha who heard his mother's doctrine from the morning nodded calmly.

In this house, mother's words were absolutely right without exception.

Eun-ha, who had been listening to her mother's advice since morning, nodded indifferently.

Since ancient times, in this house, mother's words have been absolutely right.

Didn't your father say that too?

Grandma as an absolute being.

To worship mother as a goddess.

By the way, Eun-ah and Eun-ae were princesses.

“And Eun-ah said she had something to bring this time, but she couldn’t come home, so she asked you to bring it to her?”

“Oh, that’s right. That’s right, that’s right. If that’s the case, then there’s nothing I can do.”

Even though it was the weekend, Eun-ah couldn't rest and was filming Catch Your Player at the academy.

Her mother wanted to pack something for her when she couldn't come home.

And the mother's heart was soon like the heart of the galaxy.

“Okay, then I’ll bring it to you.”

At that time, Eunha had no idea.

I never thought it would end up on TV.