episode_0039

“Do not dare to harm your parents, your body, hair, and skin. This is the beginning of filial piety.”

Ji-hoon was momentarily taken aback by Hong Gil-dong’s unexpected answer, but he had learned the first two words at school.

“That’s right. The body you received from your parents is precious…”

“They say that filial piety begins with not daring to harm. That’s why nobles are pure people like Ji-hoon.”

After hearing Damon’s words, Ji-hoon finally understood why the family members in Incheon were drooling at the sight of him.

‘Those bastards… Did they think I was some rich kid? Did they think I’d get paid if they kidnapped me and threatened me? Seriously…’

It was a bit absurd, but considering the scenery of Incheon, wasn’t Ji-hoon a walking lottery in their eyes?

“Yes, it’s as you and Damon said. The nobles of Korea hated modifying their bodies or getting hurt. But, they had to protect their businesses and assets.”

“So, no way… a clone…?”

“Yes. I don’t think that’s what they mean by the words they always say. They think that as long as ‘their own bodies’ are healthy, there’s no problem. It’s a very twisted way of thinking.”

“That’s right, it’s a really crazy idea. But… I can’t deny that cloning technology has greatly advanced thanks to those guys. Especially. ”

Damon put his finger on the small button-like object that Hong Gil-dong had put down. Then, the hologram that was being displayed changed in an instant.

“What is this? Arm??”

“Yes, it’s an arm. But it’s not cyberware. It’s a fresh arm made by cloning cells. ”

“No… . Then what the hell… these guys called gentlemen…”

Ji-hoon felt dizzy.

I wondered if it made sense to think of that famous idiom as something they thought was their own thing, but what if they actually acted like that?

“…You’re saying that if you save cells in advance and an accident happens and your arms or legs are cut off, you can copy and paste body parts like this?”

At those words, Damon smiled lightly and nodded.

“you’ve never been to Megacorp’s headquarters, right?”

Hong Gil-dong speaks slowly and presses the button again.

There stood soldiers wearing ‘military uniforms’ that felt a little nostalgic. Soldiers were guarding the front of a huge, very huge skyscraper.

“Megacorp’s headquarters located in NeoSeoul are under their protection.”

“To the soldier?”

Instead of maintaining city security, the soldiers are protecting ‘businesses’.

“Yes, it’s the Military police of Korea. They are protecting Megacorp by receiving ‘protection fees’. ”

“Instead, you can’t maintain private armies like other countries do. You have to use your brain. The megacorps that want to have private armies to protect their assets are screwed.”

“But, Megacorp’s desires were endless. They wanted to destroy other Megacorps in some way, aggressively. So…”

“…You’re saying that you’re using the DNA of famous celebrities like Lee Ye Ah to create clones and use them to wage war?”

Hong Gil-dong nodded quietly at Ji-hoon’s words. Damon also didn’t provide any further explanation.

“Fuck… What the… human life is…”

Should we consider the pet girl as a person?

Ji-hoon still had a headache after speaking.

“…Then how do you make those clones?”

“It depends on the method, but it won’t be natural childbirth. Since there’s no mother. It’s more likely to be an artificial womb.”

“You can think of it as being made like a doll at a factory.”

“So the old man is like a product…”

Ji-hoon, whose mind was complicated, got up from his seat. He had been listening to the explanation for too long.

“Now, Sonagi is listening to me well. So there won’t be any problem.”

“There was no location tracking device or anything when I scanned my body. There were too many uploaded programs, so I couldn’t touch my head.”

After Damon finished speaking, Hong Gil-dong thought for a moment and then opened his mouth.

“I don’t think there’s a problem either. We need at least one more card.”

Ji-hoon felt strange, but decided to leave the store without saying anything.

The more I talked about it, the more I felt like I would see ‘Pet Girl’ as a ‘commodity’ rather than a ‘human’.

* * *

“Hey…”

Ji-hoon, who returned to the hotel, felt quite uneasy until he opened the door.

But the moment I opened the door and stepped inside, I saw Sonagi hanging a lot of clothes in the closet, and in front of her was a pet girl wearing clothes that smelled like spring.

“Why, isn’t it pretty?”

“No, you.. At first, you really hated it when he called you mom. What the…. Wow, shit.. How much did you spend? Didn’t you spend a million won?”

“I bought clothes like this, do you think I’ll only use them?”

Sonagi chuckled and surprisingly didn’t tell me exactly how much she had spent. She was stroking the head of her pet girl sitting on her lap as if she was playing with a doll.

“I have something to ask him to do.”

“You… This kid definitely copied the appearance of an adult…”

“Hey, what…what are you thinking about?”

“What? Weren’t you trying to make me do something weird? Like suck on a dildo?”

Sonagi, who spoke while blinking her eyes, finished brushing her pet girl and sat down next to her.

Ji-hoon, of course, was dumbfounded and scratched his head.

“Hey, even if I tell you to do it, I won’t do it in front of you.”

“What the heck, do that in front of me.”

“No, why?”

“That’s… . A little… weird. I guess I can see her sucking your dick in front of me, but if she does it somewhere I don’t know…”

“Ah, ah, I get it. I get it. You don’t like it because it seems like I’m cheating? ”

Ji-hoon, who roughly understood Sonagi’s subtle thoughts, spoke, and fortunately, she smiled and nodded.

“Anyway, that’s not what I was trying to ask you to do. Shouldn’t we know why he tried to kill us?”

“Uh… Isn’t it obvious? It must have been Hong Seo-yeon who told you to do it. Other than that, honestly, what else could it be?”

Unlike Sonagi who spoke calmly, Jihoon swallowed briefly and waved his hand.

“Why?”

Ji-hoon half-ignoring Sonagi’s question goes into the bathroom and waves his hand once more. Only then does Sonagi realize that he doesn’t want to talk in front of his pet girl and goes into the bathroom.

The bathroom smelled quite nice, as if Sonagi or Pet Girl had just taken a shower.

Ji-hoon closed the door, crossed his arms, and opened his mouth seriously.

“Sonagi, is Hong Seo-yeon also a nobleman?”

“Of course he’s a nobleman. He’s Haewon… . Was he Hong…? He made a ton of money like other noblemen and became a megacorp. But why?”

“Then they’ll keep sending clones to kill us?”

“Of course. We… . burned several groups. It won’t end with just killing them. Even if you make me a prostitute and make you a prostitute, I won’t be satisfied.”

Sonagi speaks calmly.

Ji-hoon was able to make up his mind more after hearing those words. If he hadn’t heard Hong Gil-dong and Damon’s story, he wouldn’t have thought of this.

“Then… How about we fuck Hong Seo-yeon first?”

“What, what should I do? I’ll tell you in advance. The number of troubleshooters at Hwalbindang is small, but they’re not that great. Even if you call Mr. Hong Gildong legendary, he’s only a troubleshooter.”

Sonagi speaks seriously and snaps his fingers.

“It’s not like we’re going to war with a corporation. And what kind of idiot in the world would want to go to war with a corporation? Mirae Enterprise is one of the top five mega corporations in South Korea. It has expanded into Japan and has a company in the US.”

“…Th-the fuck, I’m not even a retard, so why would I go to war?”

As Ji-hoon begins to speak while scratching his head, Sonagi listens to him surprisingly seriously.

“I’m not suggesting that we use stupid methods like war… … . The guy outside is also a clone. But I could hack him.”

“You really…”

“Yeah, there must be one or two clones that are exactly like him? I’m going to hack all of those clones and screw Hong Seo-yeon.”

“…. Hmm….”

The problem solver, Sonagi, doesn’t give an easy answer. It was clear that she was seriously thinking about how feasible this operation was.

“It won’t be as easy as you think. In the first place… That kid doesn’t think of you as his mom, he thinks of me as his mom.”

“That’s…right.”

“I felt this while being with her, not just calling her mom, but really… in that biological sense… . You know? ”

Sonagi touches her cheek for a moment and then exhales with a groan.

“…I told you that you were really happy when you were held in my arms? You’re a man. No matter how much I upload programs, code, and modify protocols, it’ll be hard to make you feel like a mother.”

“It doesn’t matter. You’re on my side.”

At those words, Sonagi chuckles and lightly scratches her cheek.

“Well, of course I’m on your side. Will it end with you being on my side?”

Sonagi even laughed lewdly. Jihoon, who knew well what she meant by that, coughed in vain and hugged her waist.

Sonagi buried her face in Jihoon’s shoulder as if she had been waiting.

“…You can’t hide until you die.

“Right~, well, if I’m with you, living underground like this isn’t so bad…”

Sonagi, who was laughing as if joking, stroked Jihoon’s waist.

“You saw it today. You can buy clothes just fine, and drones come underground too? If Hong Seo-yeon had a brain, she wouldn’t be exploring underground.”

“Why?”

“Because it’s sooo big. And we always take the elevator that the Hwalbindang uncles use to go down really deep, so the basement to the 10th floor is full of homeless people. ”

“Then of course you can’t do it.”

Ji-hoon said and patted Sonagi’s waist a few times before pointing to the bathroom door.

“Then let’s do as I said. Let’s ask him. There might be a secret room where he gathers the clones and gives orders.”

“If there’s a room like that, you can just ask him to show you to it and then barge in?”

“Yeah, and wouldn’t they hide the clones in a secret hideout like that? There must be a reason why they look different from the clone guards. If they look exactly like him, the program would be the same, and it would be easy to hack them. ”

As he spoke, Ji-hoon opened the door and walked over to his pet girl, who was sitting on the bed and wiggling her legs up and down.

She was watching TV while Sonagi was on.

“Today’s show features the latest trend, the Black Black religion─”

Ji-hoon turned it off before he could even hear the celebrity’s words and gave Sonagi a brief glance.

“Ah, um. Okay… … . Hey, Jihoon. But shouldn’t we really decide on a name for this kid first?”

“…Well, it was only yesterday, so I can’t call him “hey” or “hey”.”

“And calling her Lee Ye-ah is a bit… Yeah, that person is from 50 years ago.”

Ji-hoon scratched his head and pondered at Sonagi’s words.

‘We’re not even deciding on a baby name…’

He thought about it for a moment, but still no good name came to mind.

“How about Lee Ji-ah?”

“It doesn’t seem that different from Lee Ye-ah…”

Sonagi shrugged, unable to think of a better name.

“From now on, your name is Lee Ji-ah. Do you understand? When my brother and I here say ‘Ji-ah’, we will call you.”

“Okay, Mom.”

The pet girl, who spoke in a voice that showed almost no emotion, or rather, the girl who was now given the name ‘Ijia’, stared blankly at the raindrops.

“Mom…”

Sonagi opened her mouth to ask something, but was unable to say anything.

“… I wanted to ask if there was a room you always asked for.”

Ji-hoon caught on to that and spoke, and surprisingly, the pet girl, Lee Ji-ah, blinked.

“That’s because Mom suddenly couldn’t go to that room. Didn’t you sneak up to the ground and get the package earlier? You’re trapped here because of those bad guys..”

“Yeah.”

“So I want Zia to guide me. Can you take me with you?”

Could he ask any better questions? Sonagi glanced at Jihoon after finishing her question.

“Okay, I’ll show you around, Mom.”

Lee Ji-ah speaks bluntly and gets up from her seat. Then, in an instant, her skin turns black. Ji-hoon, who knows very well what that means, quickly grabs her shoulder with his hand.

“Wait. We’re not going to fight. Didn’t you hear what Mom said? Lee Ji-ah. We’re being chased by bad guys, so we have to sneak in.”

“…Are you infiltrating?”

“Yeah, sneaking in. But what if you go into full… combat mode? Your mom could be in danger.”

“Is Mom in danger?”

That can’t be true? Lee Ji-ah said it as if she felt that way, but the rain was heavy and she coughed.

“That’s because there are really, really bad people. Even Mom is in danger sometimes.”

“…Yeah, so Jia is a bodyguard? But she’s infiltrating?”

How many missions have they actually done? Sonagi and Jihoon felt a little uneasy, but nodded for now.

“Yeah, you’re your mom’s bodyguard and the three of you are infiltrating together. You have friends too, right?”

Ji-hoon asked with a “please!” attitude, but unfortunately, Ji-ah shook her head.

“No. I have younger siblings.”

“…Do you by any chance look exactly like Jia?”

“Yeah. There are so many. They’re all waiting for their mom to wake them up. Always.”

It was a success. Ji-hoon could now smile at the thought that he could fuck Hong Seo-yeon nicely if he just received guidance.

“Jia will guide you. Mom and Mom’s friend. Get ready.”