World Domination through Planet Development - Chapter 2
Only Noblemtl
Episode 2. A UFO (?) fell
“I’m back~”
When I opened the front door and entered the house, I could not feel any signs of life.
But when I lowered my head, I noticed my father’s shoes neatly placed next to my feet.
Are you sleeping?
I opened the tightly closed door and went in.
“Uh… Dad?”
I could see my father’s limp legs hanging over the overturned chair.
* * *
My vision suddenly became blurry, as if my eyes were closed.
“Ahh… Honey, Jungwoo is going to wake up… .”
Churp suck.
Her voice… .
And then I heard the sound of someone rolling their tongue dirty.
“Don’t worry. I know him. He can only drink one bottle, but he’s already had two bottles. He’ll never get up.”
“Ahhh, not there.”
Their groans continued loudly.
I didn’t open my eyes until the next day.
* * *
Hmm… .
Jungwoo opened his eyes rustlingly.
Having bad dreams was a daily occurrence.
But this is the first time I’ve had the same dream over and over again.
As you can see, that’s how my father passed away.
It was only after time passed that I came to know why my father made that choice on his own.
My mother passed away at an early age and my father raised me alone, but he was a capable father.
Because she was trying to fill the void her mother left for her children, and her business was prospering day by day.
However, it seems that he could not handle the great shock of the betrayal of his close business partner alone.
After that, my father settled his business and left the remaining assets to me before leaving this world behind.
Me, a college student in my early 20s.
It was an age where one could be young. At that time, all of my human relationships and my society collapsed.
A close friend who spent middle and high school together and went on to the same university.
Kang Seung-hyun.
No, the guy I thought was my close friend also transformed himself like his father.
And she, who he thought might be his future spouse.
After sending off my father like that and not knowing what the whole story was, I received a proposal from Seunghyun to go on a trip with my lover.
I just thought it was an act of kindness for me who was having a hard time.
I never dreamed that he would do that to his lover.
Naturally, both couples were torn apart, but surprisingly, the two cheating bastards are now married.
A relationship that led to that dead end.
I thought it would eventually go bankrupt, but I guess not.
I left school right after that and lived a miserable life.
He tried desperately to get back what his father had lost.
I constantly studied the research materials my father left behind and looked into many ways to find a way to retrieve them.
However, when my father started his business in earnest, the technology became the company’s property, and all research records from that time were kept by the company.
There were some things left, but they were too old.
Even my father’s company was acquired and all of the related technologies were transferred, so legally, there was no chance of success.
How many years have you been running like that?
I guess it was time to realize it by then.
Maybe I was flying too high.
The birds around me who had been looking up at me had abandoned me and flown away as I fell with broken wings.
That’s what I thought.
Only now I feel nothing.
I forgot all about my desire for revenge against the author who made my father like that, and all my desire to somehow succeed and get my father’s company back.
Right now I’m just a bum in my mid-30s.
A bum who lives off of other people’s money by occasionally working part-time at a convenience store.
No, he’s not a gangster. He must have a job. He has over 2 billion won in assets.
Deep down, I think so too.
Why did you only get that much in return for your shares? Give me a little more.
Yeah. What’s so special about life?
That’s how everyone lives.
Is my life the only one that is unhappy and unfair?
Even I don’t have any money.
This is a pretty good life.
Suddenly, Jeong-woo, who was lying down on a folding chair on the rooftop and lost in thought, noticed a twinkling star.
… That star is pretty bright? Was there a star like that?
Since Jungwoo lives in an old residential area in Seoul, his house also has a rooftop. So, at night, he sometimes comes up here and looks at the sky, but he has never seen stars that bright.
I guess there’s less fine dust today. I can see such bright stars.
No, if it was that bright, how could I not know?
In fact, there aren’t that many stars that can be seen.
Suddenly, I was looking up at the stars with that thought in my mind, and something felt strange.
The stars… are getting brighter?
“What the heck is that? Huh… Huh?”
As it grew brighter, I realized it wasn’t a star but something falling, but it was too late to avoid it.
“Eww!”
Boom, boom.
Jungwoo rolled on the floor, his eyes tightly shut as something got closer in an instant.
Swoosh.
Jungwoo slowly opened his eyes as he heard a strange noise and realized that there was nothing unusual around him.
As if to prove that what I had just seen was not a hallucination, something unidentifiable was standing on the rooftop.
The surface appeared to be metallic, and the shape was an elongated oval about 2 meters long. It was floating without touching the ground.
Isn’t this something that looks exactly like a UFO? No, is it a UFO?
Is it from outer space? Or is it America’s secret weapon…?
Just as I was about to wonder what to do with this unidentified object, it moved first.
And then somewhere in the center of that unidentified thing, a light flashed.
I couldn’t avoid the light that instantly penetrated my pupils.
Jungwoo’s pupils dilated and he suddenly felt as if something was poking into his head.
[… $%^ @!#$]
An unknown language echoed in Jeong-woo’s mind.
“Ugh…!”
[…synchronization in progress.]
Soon the language began to sound like Korean.
[Synchronization completed.]
In an instant, the unidentified thing learned Korean from Jeong-woo and began speaking into his head.
[Hello. The item you have acquired is the property of our Dimension Development Company. There are currently no registered users. Would you like to proceed with user registration?]
“What… What did you say? User registration? Is that what you’re talking about now?”
My head is ringing.
It definitely felt like this wasn’t a sound that could be heard from the ears.
[Yes. I am a planetary development kit from Dimension Development Company. To use the functions of the planetary development kit you have acquired, you must first register as a user.]
Gulp.
Planetary development kit?
“What is a planet? What is that?”
[Planetary Development Kit is a product that provides convenience to users in exchange for transferring some of the planet’s resources to the company.]
Providing convenience…?
Despite the grand name of Planetary Development, I felt like there wasn’t much content.
“What exactly do you mean by convenience?”
[It provides technology that is several levels higher than the current user’s civilization, and all the convenience improvements that can result from it. Small improvements include the user’s physical health and abilities. Large improvements include the growth or revival of civilization, and various experiences such as domination and governance.]
What… civilization domination…?
Is that something you can just call convenience?
Even if that were true, how on earth would something this small make it possible?
Is it like in the movies where alien ships come rushing in?
[No, that’s not true. What you’re seeing now is all there is.]
“Ugh?!”
What the… What are you doing? Did you read my mind? Didn’t I just say anything?
[I am currently connected to the mind of the temporary user. I can read the thoughts of the temporary user.]
“Huh? No, I never agreed to that….”
[Don’t worry, I’m not harming you.]
… Even if you say that, how can I believe it?