Leinster's non-existent antennas immediately stood up straight.
They caught a delicious spicy thing that Leinster was familiar with—
Malice!
A strong hint of malice, stinging like chilli pepper and bitter like someone's unemployed life.
Leinster's eyes flickered with a hint of understanding but he just smiled and took the watch from the leading shopkeeper's hand.
"I'll just wear it myself."
Leinster rubbed the watch that he endearingly called "Hoe Hoe Watch" and pretended that he was about to wear it on his left wrist.
The leading shopkeeper's still breath suddenly became ragged, his eyes turning red with excitement.
Even the other shopkeepers around fidgeted, their eyes nailed to Leinster's wrist.
Wear it! Wear it!
Leinster didn't hear their voices but it felt as if he could hear their heart voices.
With a smile on the young man's face, the watch slowly touched the metallic handcuff on Leinster's wrist...
And then, Leinster suddenly—
Yanked the chain that was coiling around a certain someone's neck.
Swish!
"A-auhh!!"
Wong Dae's body was suddenly pulled towards Leinster, like a kite with a broken string.
His face instantly turned red and purple as his eyes widened in disbelief.
How is this possible??
His weight was at least 90 kilograms!
How could someone as thin as Leinster drag him with just a tug of his chain?
The barbs in the chain once again dug into Wong Dae's neck and the person felt that the oxygen in his lungs scrambled to escape outside.
"H-help— "
Before Wong Dae passed out, his body fell to the floor, right next to Leinster's feet.
Thud!
"A-auhh..."
Wong Dae grimaced in pain but his mind was still dizzy, his reaction was slow.
At this exact moment, Leinster leisurely squatted and put the Hoe Hoe Watch onto Wong Dae's wrist with a flowing movement.
Click.
With a crisp sound, the Hoe Hoe Watch secured itself on Wong Dae's wrist.
The leading shopkeeper's face instantly twisted.
What the hell is this customer doing?!
Under everyone's gaze, Wong Dae had just glanced at the watch that suddenly appeared on his wrist when his body suddenly trembled from head to toe.
"A-ah! Ah!!!!"
He felt something in his body get drained in one go, flowing towards his wrist.
Wong Dae's entire body became so weak, without even the strength to lift his fingers.
Naturally, the fingers that were holding the oil lamp loosened and the flickering lamp slipped onto the floor.
Clang!
Crash!
Wong Dae's oil lamp was extinguished with a puff but then, something even more horrible happened.
His black hair instantly turned white from the roots to the edge.
His skin instantly wrinkled like an orange skin.
Soon, his arms dried up, becoming as thin as a branch and as brittle as a biscuit!
"M-my hands!!"
Wong Dae screamed with shock and he instantly realized the crux of his problem.
It was the watch!
The watch was sucking his life force!
Wong Dae completely ignored the chains around his neck and he quickly tried to take off the watch, but to his horror...the watch wouldn't budge.
The strap that resembled human legs clung tightly, not wanting to let go.
Kyuk Hoe's face on the dial slowly...changed.
If before, it was screaming, then now, it was...smiling.
It was smiling with delight!
"Ahhhh!!"
Catching a glimpse of that smiling face, Wong Dae was so shocked that he subconsciously stretched his arm as thin as possible, trying to escape the watch's grip.
But the watch's strap actually shrunk relentlessly clinging onto that super-thin arm!
No matter how Wong Dae struggled, in the blink of an eye, his arms had completely turned into skin and bones.
Even his legs, his torso, his lower body and his head...
All of them dried up, turning his body into a mummy as thin as paper.
Because Wong Dae was stretching his arms and legs as long as possible to be so thin, his entire body became like a dried noodle.
It was an abstract shape.
Wong Dae didn't even scream for the last time when his breath ceased and silence returned upon the store.
Otomen Lover covered her mouth and turned out to retch, dry-heaving without puking out anything.
The audience who witnessed this scene without a mosaic collectively felt their stomach churning and their chests tight.
[Fck! Fck! Fck! What a shady store!!]
Only Leinster calmly picked up the watch that fell from Wong Dae's pocket and smiled sinisterly.
"Oh! Another thief! We should punish them!"
As soon as Leinster's words fell, Wong Dae's dry noodle-like body slowly turned into an equally strange...watch.
This time, the audience was already too speechless to even send comments, so they could only watch as Leinster picked up the watch and started to...
Bargain.
"I want the previous white watch with red rubies. How about I trade that watch with these two new products?"
Shopkeeper: ...? Meow? Meow?
"C-customer..."
The leading shopkeeper's voice trembled and his body staggered, almost falling straight to the floor.
"Yes? Isn't this a good deal? Two watches for just one! Oh, if you don't want to, how about just trading this brand new noodle watch with my red robe?"
That's his real goal, anyway, hehe.
Leinster waved the " noddle watch" and saw the leading shopkeeper's face turn crimson red, smoke rising from his head.
He immediately furrowed his eyebrows while kicking the non-existent pebbles on the floor.
"No? Okay, okay, so greedy! How about I give you this brand new noodle watch and a fresh tongue in exchange for my red robe?"
"I can't give you more than this!"
The leading shopkeeper felt like his head was about to explode, but he could only grit his teeth and spelled them out one by one.
"D.E.A.L!"
Take it! Take it all, you opportunistic bastard!!
And so, Leinster took back his red tongue robe, kept his Hoe Hoe watch and then...
He started to rummage through the broken oil lamps on the floor.
Audience: ...?
What is he doing again?
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