episode_0730

The weak are infinitely weak in the face of violence.

Even if you are within the boundaries of a society protected by law and order, you cannot protect the weak at the moment of violence.

Is there someone around you who can help you?

The weak unite as one to fight against the strong.

But sometimes that happens.

Like a duck egg in the Nakdong River, when you are in an environment where you are the weak and everyone around you is your enemy.

When you fall into a world completely different from your own thoughts and beliefs, and all the common sense and concepts you know are denied.

When social norms force irrationality and obedience upon oneself.

And when even those who stand in solidarity against absurdity comply with it, humans become infinitely weaker.

“There, move! Come on!!”

Dude, voila.

The whip sounds loudly.

“Keuuu!!”

“Who told me to rest! You gave me a 5-minute break earlier!”

Along with the sound of skin being torn, a middle-aged man stands up, suppressing a scream despite the pain of being whipped, and blood comes out along with a moan from the mouth.

“Move quickly! Show your patriotism through labor!”

The person wielding the whip was a young woman who looked to be about 17 years old.

The woman, who everyone would call a high school girl if she were wearing a school uniform, was wearing an officer-like uniform instead of a school uniform, and was holding a bloody whip in her hand instead of a ballpoint pen or smartphone.

“Attention everyone!”

As soon as the woman tapped the Taegeuk watch on her wrist, those who were digging in the wide underground cavity immediately stood at attention.

“Listen carefully! Your identity! You are not yet a ‘citizen’! I am just a slave with impure blood still flowing through my body!”

There will be people who want to question what kind of outrage this is in modern society.

“Why? Do you have anything to say? It looks like everyone has something to say!!”

Even though a high school girl much younger than them spoke in an overbearing manner, those who remained unmoved were unable to express any dissatisfaction.

I just bowed my head and waited for time to pass.

“Cough, Cough…!”

The only one who made a sound was a man whose clothes were all red from being whipped.

His physical strength seemed to be very low due to his already damaged skin and bones, but the whip marks on his entire body made it seem like something was wrong inside.

Dying.

Anyone can clearly see that he is dying.

However, no one saw the dying person and asked for help, called an ambulance using the Taegeuk watch on his wrist, or even ran to check on the patient’s condition.

onlooking.

is not.

It could certainly be said that they were bystanders, but through learning and experience, they knew better than anyone else what would happen if they did not stand still.

I’m going to help.

That is death, and neglect is survival.

“If you have any complaints, come out! We don’t need weak people in ‘Joseon’!!”

Those people were all rendered unable to speak anymore by the magic contained in the whip.

“There is only one way for you to become ‘Korean people’, or ‘Korean-Chinese’ in the true sense of the word!”

The woman raised her voice, pointing to the Taegeukgi attached to her shoulder strap.

“We are just proving that we are useful to Joseon! Everything for the victory of Joseon! Sing it again, Joseon, long live!”

“””Hurrayㅡㅡㅡ!! Long live, long live ㅡㅡㅡ!”””

The workers raised their hands and shouted at the top of their voices.

Even those who had already lost their voices shouted three cheers with their throats torn apart.

“Ma, man…cough.”

Even the person who was coughing up blood after being whipped raised his trembling hands and shouted for independence.

“You bastard!”

And when the woman saw that, she twitched her lips, heavily covered in red lipstick, as if she had caught it, walked up with a whip, and grabbed the middle-aged man by the collar.

“I can’t believe you didn’t sing three cheers! You are a reactionary!”

“Oh, no…kegh…!”

Without a moment to deny it, the fist of the woman with the whip stuck into the man’s abdomen.

“If you are a true Korean, even at the moment when your life ends, you should shout in a voice that makes your blood boil!! Who was Officer Jeonghun who taught you? That bitch?! say! Right?!”

“Well, that’s…!”

“Oh my! Even if a former slave became a Joseon citizen thanks to the grace of the regent, their origin is no different from that of a slave, so they look at their origins! Ahaha, it worked!”

Phew.

The woman threw the man to the ground.

No matter how skinny and gaunt the middle-aged man’s body was, the woman threw him like a wrestler throwing a child.

“Good! I’ll interrogate you and find out who she really is! How dare I expose the fact that a woman who is not even a Han Chinese is pretending to be Han Chinese and pretending to be Korean with the grace of the regent!”

“Ah, ah….”

Despair was visible in the eyes of the men and others, but they still could not say a word.

As soon as you say that, that whip will come at you and rip off your neck.

If you die like that, no matter what the truth is, you will die as a reactionary, as that woman and other powerful people in society say.

“Oh hoho! Okay, the picture is done! If I use you guys to bring that woman down, victory will be mineㅡ”

The moment when the woman leaned back and laughed.

Kwa—–!!

With a sudden explosion, a hole opened in the wall.

“Huh?”

No one could understand what was happening.

That’s because this was a ‘mining site’ hundreds of meters deep underground.

The only light was the Taegeuk watch worn on each wrist and the light from the fairy light rail hanging from the ceiling, and other than that, there was no other light at all.

So I couldn’t believe what I saw.

“My Bach S-Class jumped through the wall…?”

Traces of the civilized world on earth that I have seen for the first time in a very long time, and for some, almost 10 years.

Wow!

The car, which was like an aircraft carrier, drifted and changed direction as soon as it could break through the wall.

“What, what?!”

The woman was embarrassed and swung her whip sharply.

The whip that flew towards the car was filled with blue mana, and even though it was a car, it was ready to cut it down.

thud!

The whip fell to the floor, blocked by a huge gray pillar rising from below.

“Uh, that!”

The middle-aged woman shouted in surprise when she saw the gray pillar.

“Have I seen that in Jeju Island…hee?!”

The woman put her hand over her mouth with a look of regret at the words she had uttered without realizing it.

But it was late.

“Dangerous situation…! For the victory of Joseon!!”

The woman whose whip attack failed immediately pressed the button on her Taegeuk watch.

Beep beep beep.

At the same time, an electronic sound rings.

The Taegeuk watch worn by everyone at the worksite, including middle-aged women, and the center of the gray necklace began to glow red.

Like just before a bomb explodes.

“Joseon’s victoryㅡ”

[The moment you become proud of winning is the weakest point.]

“!!”

Amidst electronic sounds and sounds of astonishment, a young man’s voice rang low.

The woman felt as if she had been possessed by the ghost-like voice, which she had no idea where it was coming from.

“This voice is-”

Bah!

The woman fell to the floor.

Before I could even say anything, my back was immediately stepped on by someone.

At the same time, my hands and feet were tied up by a stream of water that I didn’t know where it came from, and I couldn’t move.

“What, what…!!”

[Is this the ‘real Aoji’? That’s amazing.]

“Ha, ugh…! Hahaha!!”

The woman who was stepped on by an unknown man suddenly started laughing like crazy.

“I don’t know who you guys are, but it’s already too late! Everyone here-”

“I already cut it.”

“Huh?”

The machines strapped to the necks and wrists of those who panic break in half and fall to the floor.

It is no exaggeration to say that the speed is almost ‘simultaneous’.

The woman got goosebumps all over her body as she saw that the cut end of the machine looked as if it had been cut by something sharp, like a sword.

“Ha, but-”

“Yes, yes. Good job on the explosion.”

Hwareuk.

The moment the explosive installed in the severed machine was about to explode, the explosions began to converge in one place rather than exploding in all directions.

“Heehee.”

The woman saw.

A red-haired woman with a mischievous smile.

With her index finger stretched forward, the ‘explosions’ gathered from various places coalesce into one.

“What is this….”

[If you ask me if this is nonsense, I will tell you that this is what I will say.]

Wow.

“Ugh!!”

[Inland China, hundreds of meters underground. Didn’t they use people with special abilities to dig into the ground and create an underground area, trapping millions of people there and turning them into slaves?]

“!!”

The woman’s eyes shook greatly.

“Oh, no!! They are inferior people, inferior people who dare to resist Joseon-”

[You were born here.]

“How do you do that?”

[In that case, conversation is unnecessary.]

Baaah.

A loud impact sound came from the back of the woman’s head.

The man in the black suit who quickly overpowered the woman was wearing a mask that looked suspicious to anyone, and that mask looked like-

“Oni…?”

[It’s a goblin.]

The man called Goblin shook his head as he aimed a large black bat at a middle-aged woman called Oni.

[iced coffee. Among these, they know me, or us. Raise your hand.]

“…….”

No one raised their hand.

It’s not because a powerful person suddenly appears, it’s because I really don’t know.

[then.]

The one who called himself a goblin.

[If there are North Koreans, Chinese, refugees, or Koreans among them, please come this way. more.]

A magical light emanated from the tip of the bat.

[We are determined to commit suicide. He is a villain who came to destroy this twisted Joseon.]

* * *

“Under the surface of the continent where no sunlight shines.”

Cheonma said.

“There is a huge organization created from the ambition that began with the interests of a capitalist and a politician.”

Among the data secretly brought into the body by the Heavenly Demon.

“A political group that claims that they are the true successors to ‘Joseon’.”

The size of that huge political group is one ‘nation’.

“…Those who say they will overthrow China and become ‘China’ by mass producing talented individuals over several decades.”