Once we were done, the Lee brothers headed back to the apartment, while I took ten of my underlings to the supermarket. The gangsters’ heads were still hanging at the entrance. Thanks to them, everything inside was still intact.

I grabbed all the food I could see and passed them to my underlings. In the span of a week, all the frozen food had gone bad. The watermelons felt rather warm on the outside. I wasn’t sure if they were edible but I grabbed a few anyway. Lee Jeong-Hyuk or Choi Da-Hye probably knew more about me when it came to food and meal prep. I also got some fresh water and clothes.

No one had changed for a couple of days. I picked out some clean underwear and some summer clothes, along with blankets and duvets just in case it got cold at night.

I stopped by the hardware section at the end. I gathered some tools that seemed useful. I wanted to procure some weapons for them. I wanted to make sure that they would be able to take care of themselves, even in the event of something unfortunate occurring, such as me being gone for a week. I knew they needed tools to protect themselves.

After filling the shopping basket with all the tools I thought were going to come in handy, I realized I had put in a lot more than I thought. I grew worried that we couldn’t carry everything back.

I looked...