Cheat Awakening

Although there were quite a few interesting items in the store, and some of their descriptions were very tempting, the absence of any other customers suggested anyone could take whatever they wanted and make a fortune., however, Myne, whose mouth twisted as he read the special notes provided by { ? }, couldn't help but complain that there was nothing good in this wretched world. Even regular items sold in a random store were deadly as hell.

{ Absolute Coffin: Once someone enters it, it instantly freezes the person inside to death and absorbs their soul. }

{ Prison Ball: Not only is the target imprisoned within, but the owner is also imprisoned at an equal price, and both enemies die together. }

{ Paper Warrior: They need to be soaked in blood to become powerful and protect their owner, so they first kill their owner and then do their best to protect the body. }

"Sir, would you like to buy anything?" Just as Myne was observing the items, full of scams and traps, a voice sounded from right beside him, catching him off guard.

"Motherf*cker!"

Myne cursed and jumped aside in shock. He hadn't sensed the other person's presence until he spoke, which startled him.

The person who scared Myne was a thin man in his thirties, with a pale face, large round goggles on his long nose, messy hair with worrying hairlines, and an oversized clerk uniform. He gave off a loser-like vibe.

"What?" Myne asked, observing this weirdo before giving Ted a questioning glance, asking why he hadn't notified him in advance. After all, Ted had a super nose. But Ted was as shocked as he was, not understanding how the hell he managed to avoid his super-sensitive nose.

Maybe it's his ability? Myne wondered.

"Sir, what would you like to buy?" The man repeated the question with an emotionless expression, like a robot.

"Nothing! Your products are too expensive, but I would like to ask you something, which I hope you answer honestly," Myne said in a threatening tone, taking out the cursed knife from behind, which finally made the man's expression change.

"Please, sir, as long as it is within my ability. But first, let me warn you, fighting inside our store is forbidden," The man said hesitantly. Although he looked nervous, and his tone became polite, there was no actual fear on his face, as if Myne couldn't do anything beyond a beating. He seem more worried that Myne might damage things inside the store increasing his workload.

"Oh, we'll see. That's not for you to decide. Now tell me, where the f*ck have you hidden my pet?"

"Woof!"

"Pet? What pet? Sir, we don't have your pet or anything..."

Thud!

"But I don't think so," Myne said coldly, lowering the knife in his hand and looking at the severed head at his feet. He had been reading the other party's { ? } and already found out what he wanted.

"Let's go, Ted," He said, hurriedly walking deeper into the store and kicking open an iron door.

It was the store's warehouse, where they kept their extra stock and other valuable things.

As soon as Myne entered the warehouse, two bright { ? }s instantly attracted his attention.

One was surprisingly shining in bright red light, instead of gold, meaning there was a dangerous guy inside who wouldn't be easy to deal with given Myne's current strength.

{ The Store Owner, The Paperman. }

{ Currently in deep sleep and will awaken if you come into the sight of any paper doll in the warehouse. }

{ It is absorbing the life energy of a certain creature to reduce pollution in its body. }

After reading the store boss's { ? }, Myne turned his head to the second { ? }, wanting to check Waffle's condition.

{ In an extremely weak state and has fallen into a coma due to a lack of energy. }

{ Remove her from the magic formation, and she will slowly recover her strength and wake up naturally. }

But the problem was how to remove her from the magic formation without waking that bastard? ... Wait, her? Shouldn't it be him?

Realizing the minor mistake in their rescue plan, Myne looked at Ted, who was curiously inspecting the weird items around them and wanted to slap him.

"Ahem, Ted, can you check Waffle's exact location again?" He asked, pretending to be calm and smiling.

"Woof!"

Ted threw aside a random unlucky guy's bone in his mouth and nodded seriously. He didn't find anything wrong with Myne's request. Closing his eyes, he started sniffing, trying to pick up Waffle's or Ocea's scent and soon found a familiar scent from the end of the warehouse.

"Woof-woof!"

"Are you sure it's Waffle?" Myne asked, raising an eyebrow.

Ted didn't think much about it and casually nodded. To him, it didn't matter whose scent it was, since they had to save both Waffle and Ocea's ass anyway.

"Let's see how effective your nose is."

Because it didn't affect their original mission of rescuing them, Myne didn't blame Ted for such a small mistake. At least, instead of being completely blind and searching like a headless fly, it was better to have someone pointing the way.

So, he first read the boss's { ? } for two minutes, who, although asleep, seemed to have a quite active brain, thinking a lot of nonsense. Only after figuring out the other party's weaknesses among hundreds of useless sentences did he finally make a relatively secure plan to deal with him, before moving forward.

Just as predicted, as soon as they came into view of the paper doll displays on the various shelves in the warehouse, the boss, who was sleeping in what appeared to be a coffin, opened his bloodshot eyes and pushed the coffin lid open with great force.

"Which bastard dares to sneak into my store and kill my clerk?!" The boss cursed as he climbed out of the coffin. He first checked on the unconscious Ocea, who was in a small coffin connected to his by various thin pipes and placed in the middle of a red hexagram formation that was shining with red light and slowly rotating magically.

Only after ensuring that nothing was wrong with her did he breathe a sigh of relief and turn his head toward Myne and Ted, who were walking toward him leisurely, as if they were in their own home.

"You two are quite brave, and special too... Damn! You aren't polluted! When did my luck become so good? Before, even after searching for years, I couldn't find a single person with even half-pollution, but now a human and two strange creatures, completely pollution-free, deliver themselves to my lap. If I'm able to absorb all three of you, I'll definitely be able to break through my bottleneck."

The boss, a middle-aged man with a large belly, round face, yellow teeth, a handful of hair on his almost bald head, and a height of 1.5 meters, wearing casual house clothes, spoke with unconcealed greed in his eyes.

"Humph, what's the point of overcoming a breakthrough? Anyway, you're selfish enough to save your own fat ass, willing to sell your ten-year-old daughter to two hooligans and let them rape her. A coward like you should have died from shame alone, let's not talk about anything else," Myne, as soon as he opened his mouth, directly rubbed salt into the boss's oldest but most painful wound, which he had been trying to heal for decades.

"You... You... How... how do you know?"

The boss, hearing his darkest secret from a stranger's mouth, opened his eyes wide. He stared at Myne, his eyes wide open, and pointed a trembling finger at him in disbelief.

"How do I know? Would you believe me if I said your dead wife, whom you killed with your own hands under the influence of alcohol because you had a small argument with her, told me, and now she's standing behind you?"

"What! How is this possible..."

Hearing Myne spit out fact after fact, the boss's brain momentarily stopped working. And when he heard that his late wife was standing behind him, he subconsciously looked back. Just then, Myne, who had been waiting for this moment, quickly moved behind him and stabbed the cursed knife into the other party's heart.

If it had been a simple knife, the boss might still have been able to put up a good fight after being stabbed, but sadly, the cursed knife itself was a malevolent entity, extremely greedy for blood and flesh.

As soon as it entered the boss's body, it greedily began absorbing everything, and within ten seconds, it turned him into a mummy.

"I was worrying for nothing; this idiot was killed so easily. The old saying was right: know your enemy's weakness, and it's child's play to deal with him," Myne said jokingly while pulling the cursed knife from the boss's back and cutting off the pipes connecting the two coffins before forcefully opening the lid of Ocea's coffin and taking her out.