Chapter 38 : Supernatural Ability Countermeasures Headquarters

October 14

“White Wing! Magical Girl of [Medical] Captain! Park! Sae! byeok! I’ve come to the Supernatural Ability Countermeasures Headquarters on official business!”

“Ah, yes… co-come in.”

Step step

The girl in military uniform who entered with short pink hair and a light pink aura undulating took a deep breath.

“Hmm… the smell of makeup!”

The scent of perfume or shampoo that 1-star magical girls belonging to the Supernatural Ability Countermeasures Team were giving off as they came and went after finishing volunteer activities using supernatural abilities was coming from all over the building.

A sweet fragrance as if the building itself was dyed pink.

‘A smell that can’t be found among our unit members.’

Park Saebyeok, who came from an all-girls middle and high school and was serving in the military, knew all too well that there could never be a fragrance in a place where only women gathered.

This was the scent of makeup and pretense planted by society.

She was very displeased.

“Kang Dorim! Where is Kang Dorim!”

Park Saebyeok sniffed and remembered the magical power smell of the person she had to see today.

A smell like carbonated drinks and potato chips mixed and sprinkled on a keyboard, then left for a week.

Slam!

“Eek?!”

“Pa-Park Saebyeok?! Why are you coming here again?!”

“Hey! Go play at your unit!”

The 1-star magical girls belonging to the countermeasures team, who were resting while eating snacks, looked at Park Saebyeok in shock.

“Excuse me for interrupting your break.”

Slam!

“Kang Dorim!”

“Aaah?! Are you an assassin sent by the Minister?!”

“Oh, Team Leader, excuse me. White Wing!”

Slam!

“Kang Dorim!”

“Ah, Park Saebyeok! Why are you making a fuss again!”

Kang Dorim controlled her avatars while watching dozens of monitors placed throughout the office, and snack crumbs and half-finished drink cans were scattered around the office.

And there was one person cleaning it up.

‘Hm? A new person? Her hair color is similar to Kang Dorim’s, is she a relative?’

A woman wearing a neat women’s suit skirt with ash-gray hair tied back was slowly cleaning the office.

On the nameplate dangling over her particularly noticeable chest was written the name Kang Eunbit.

“Park Saebyeok, why are you barging in here again.”

“Is it so annoying for a supernatural ability user to visit the Supernatural Ability Countermeasures Headquarters?”

“Crazy bitches like you are annoying.”

“I may not be your superior, but I am your elder, so wouldn’t it be better to show some respect?”

“What are you talking about, you’re just a newbie private at best.”

“I was commissioned as an honorary captain after completing the nationwide treatment tour this time, though?”

Dorim responded regardless of Park Saebyeok’s words.

“Yeah yeah, Captain Korea elder, please leave.”

“Service period doesn’t matter! What’s important is willpower!”

“Yeah yeah, elder, please take your dentures and leave.”

“More importantly, patients! We need patients that our proud White Wing unit needs to save next!”

“You’re really crazy; we already have three company members on standby at major hospital intensive care centers across the country.”

Park Saebyeok shouted in a resolute voice as if Dorim’s words were not even worth considering.

“It makes my teeth chatter to think that there are still sick citizens whose voices can’t reach even us at this moment!”

Kang Dorim grumbled and threw a list, and Park Saebyeok retrieved all the dozens of documents in midair before they fell to the floor with a disciplined posture.

“It’s a request for support from local transportation hospitals across the country, so go check it out.”

“Thank you! I heard you sometimes do healing volunteer work with your avatars, too. How about joining the White Wing unit while you’re at it?”

Kang Dorim quietly raised her middle finger.

Park Saebyeok looked at it as if displeased.

“Excuse me… Company Commander.”

“Yes?”

“I’m sorry, but could you move aside? I need to clean up the trash underneath.”

“Ah, excuse me.”

Park Saebyeok stepped back in a disciplined manner and looked at the girl named Kang Eunbit.

Kang Eunbit was nonchalantly picking up trash and putting it in a bag when she suddenly asked Park Saebyeok.

“By the way, how long have you been enlisted?”

“Hmm, I enlisted in July this year, so it’s been 3 months now.”

“Captain, in 3 months after awakening special abilities…”

Kang Eunbit’s eyes, which had been closed all this time, trembled. She mumbled a few times before bowing her head deeply.

Park Saebyeok tilted her head as if she didn’t understand while watching this.

“Oh right, Kang Dorim.”

“What now?”

“I heard there’s an unbloomed 2-star magical girl discovered in Busan this time. Is it still difficult to persuade her?”

“I tried to persuade her because I heard she’s been quitting school and just going to the beach for 2 years, but it was a complete failure.”

Flinch

Kang Eunbit was surprised to hear that conversation, but Park Saebyeok and Kang Dorim, who was looking at support request forms and monitors, respectively, didn’t notice.

“I heard there are American headhunters going around trying to scout magical girls who aren’t affiliated with state institutions.”

“Not just America? Brokers from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa are hanging around with all sorts of excuses, so she seems to hole up whenever she sees a foreign broker.”

“Hmm, she seems to be quite a sensitive person.”

Tap!

Park Saebyeok grasped all the support request forms after fully understanding them and held them straight.

“Anyway, I understand. I’ll be going now.”

As she was passing by, Park Saebyeok glanced at Kang Eunbit, who was still cleaning up trash being generated in real-time, and said:

“Kang Dorim, how about cleaning the office yourself instead of leaving it to others?”

“Eunbit unnie said she’d do it because she’s bored.”

“I said I’d do it because I’m bored.”

“Why is Miss Eunbit ‘unnie’ and I’m not ‘unnie’!”

“You’re just a crazy bitch.”

“That’s really unpleasant! But I’ll forgive you!”

Snap!

“White Wing! Captain Park! Sae! byeok! Returning after completing business at the Supernatural Ability Countermeasures Headquarters!”

Kang Dorim responded with her middle finger to Park Saebyeok, who was in a salute posture.

* * *

We had a hectic schedule over the past 3 weeks.

Three weeks ago, Sanghyuk and Dorim calmly accepted the fact that magical girls would someday have to fight demons and that the evil gods wanted <Magical Girl HAZARD> to fail by having society collapse through people’s desires before that.

-Can you believe it so easily?

-Well, with magical girls appearing worldwide and what Miss Eunbit, the magical girl of [Beginning], has shown, even if we can’t fully believe it, we should at least consider it.

Sanghyuk said, shrugging his shoulders as if by habit.

-We can’t cover our ears and say we can’t believe in the existence behind it while believing in the power of magical girls that we can see right now.

-There’s a bit of difference between vaguely feeling something and someone telling you, but what we have to do is the same.

-What’s important is the direction rather than small details.

The two people who treated the fact that humanity would be destroyed as a minor detail talked about what Korean magical girls should be guaranteed before the domain declaration in earnest.

1 – Recognize the council as an equal independent decision-making body, not a subordinate organization.

2 – Respect the countermeasures team and White Wing unit as state-recognized affiliated organizations like the relief corps or security force.

3 – The Garden will function as a protection agency for magical girls, not a representative agency of a specific country.

They even wrote a pledge to protect magical girls in all matters but not intervene in the interests between countries.

“Now we just need to submit this as an agenda.”

“The problem is that there seem to be more people who won’t view this purely.”

“[Beginning] is, after all, a hero of Japan, she’s never been active in Korea.”

“Then shall we just do it ourselves? I can do it even now.”

“Ah, Eunbit unnie, please wait a moment.”

Dorim stopped me with a serious face and said:

“Even for me, who’s purely Korean, I think people who talk about deserted islands won’t just let it go without a catalyst.”

“The work of civil servants is always like this.”

Sanghyuk shrugged once and said while tapping the desk:

“We know clearly what needs to be done, and how to do it is decided, but we can’t start because there’s no public opinion.”

We stared at the completed plan and pledge for a long time before adjourning.

After that, Sanghyuk carefully sounded out opinions while going back and forth between ministerial meetings and the Blue House. Dorim was busy organizing magical girl-related issues occurring in various countries.

Just as I went in the direction of maintaining the social system while thinking of Sato Hana and Master, I thought it would be good if we could find the maximum point of agreement since what Dorim and Sanghyuk want to protect also exists in Korea in this world.

“Eunbit unnie, let’s go eat some soup.”

“The beef bone soup place?”

“Yeah, it’s hearty and tasty there.”

“The broth was thick, and there was a lot of meat too.”

“Really unnie, won’t you just naturalize to Korea?”

Well past lunchtime, Dorim told me, who was cleaning, that the beef bone soup restaurant was known to those who knew in the neighborhood, so it would be crowded if we went at the regular time, so we should go this late.

“Then, unnie, let’s wash our hands in the bathroom and go.”

“Okay.”

I dusted off the women’s suit I was wearing because Dorim said no one would touch me if I acted like her secretary and went outside.

‘Even though I changed my hair color to match Dorim’s, no one seems to care.’

Perhaps because it was well past lunchtime, the streets were more deserted than expected, and we arrived at the beef bone soup restaurant we visited on the first day I arrived in Korea.

“Owner! Two regular orders here.”

“Oh~ Dorim’s here! Okay, two regular orders!”

Dorim was controlling her avatars while looking at her VR goggles even as she ordered the meal.

“Dorim, I’ve never seen you take those off completely, don’t you get dizzy?”

I get dizzy with just 6 clones, but.

“As long as the radio waves are connected, I can handle hundreds or thousands easily.”

I was genuinely impressed.

While she lacked noticeable combat power or physical strength, her ability in information gathering and analysis was transcendent.

We waited silently for our meal, and I watched the news in the beef bone soup restaurant because I had nothing to do.

Suddenly, red subtitles reading ‘Breaking News’ appeared on the news channel reporting entertainment news.

[Breaking news, the mysterious explosion accidents that occurred during magical girls’ healing events in Europe were all by the same perpetrator…]

[While suspected to be terrorism using supernatural abilities…]

[Our correspondent reports that a coup using supernatural abilities has succeeded in the Middle East…]

“Uh… sh-shit?!”

Dorim suddenly shouted as if screaming, breaking out in a cold sweat.

“U-Unnie!! Let’s go back to headquarters right now!!”

Dorim’s eyes, having taken off her goggles, were shaking violently.

The report of a pale-faced announcer continued on the TV news channel visible behind such a Dorim.

[Breaking news!]

[We have news that the Chinese government has declared a state of emergency and is carrying out missile bombings towards its own territory!]