— Karma points have been paid out.

— Karma points have been paid out.

— Karma points have been paid out.

"Point buffs all day long. Heh."

The notices had started the moment I opened my eyes, and they kept going into the afternoon.

Points had been rolling in nicely lately.

Director Ha Gwan-u had been bringing in the Daeung alumni who'd been sitting idle.

They'd been carrying so much grief that every hire paid well in points.

I hadn't been sitting idle either.

A few days ago I'd crippled a son of a bitch.

A devil of a man who'd put out a contract on my life and then stood around smoking pot and pissing.

I'd made him suck up every drop of the piss he'd spilled.

I didn't kill him.

For a man like that, not being able to walk would be harder than dying.

The lunatic never knew I was watching from behind him while he spouted crap about putting a bullet through my skull.

I'd put a hole through his life instead.

That bastard wasn't going to be eating standing up again either.

I'd earned a big helping of good karma points.

Apparently, taking down people who've done evil earns you points for virtue, the self-sacrificing kind.

"Spring's really here."

Out the window, Bongeunsa Temple had turned green on green.

In the warm weather, the forsythias had burst into bloom early.

A soft breeze off the Han River drifted in through the open window.

Spring, full of life.

My heart swelled in the spring breeze too.

"Ye-seo's luck is turning early."

Freed from Lee Gwang-ju, Kang Ye-seo had moved out of the office suite.

Staying here could stir up a scandal for no reason.

She'd found a place near CEO Hwang's company.

Nobody knew what that lunatic Lee Gwang-ju might pull, so I'd assigned her bodyguards posing as her manager and stylist.

She'd moved in with her lonely aunt and found her footing.

The capable CEO Hwang had brought her work.

A second-lead-level role in Iljimae the Righteous Thief, the drama that blew up in 2008.