Part 1, Chapter 12, 3

The happening caused by Undine’s escapade almost escalated into an international issue.

-Just who is this young man who caused a scandal with Undine?

The young man who followed Undine around, enjoying all sorts of escapades, looked purely Korean except for his blonde hair, and since the Russian Association had never dispatched such an ability user as a bodyguard, it was enough to drive them crazy.

-I will personally go find those who spread malicious rumors about my daughter and destroy them.

Naturally, the person who reacted most violently was Suvorov, the head of the most powerful family in the military and Undine’s father. The Oracle, who was supposed to control Undine at his request, went into hiding.

In the end, while forcibly proceeding with an engagement to get Undine to enter Russia, Suvorov also tried to enter Korea alone.

-Flights to Korea are currently fully booked, so there’s no space for a plane to come in from Russia….

The fortunate thing was that this period coincided with the time when foreigners were flocking to Korea, where the three SS-class ability users Phoenix, Seok Harang, and Xiaolin were. Suvorov had to go to the air force base and then return home, swallowing his tears.

For the Korean government, it truly became a case of being caught in an unfortunate coincidence.

The government and association were most curious about the identity of the audacious young man who dared to treat an S-class Hero of the Round Table like a dog and engage in naked outdoor leash play outdoors. Unexpectedly, because of this young man whose nationality was unclear, they incurred Suvorov’s wrath.

-No, why are you blaming us for a foreign couple coming to Korea without immigration screening and touring illegally?

If the young man were Korean, it would be different, but if he was a foreigner, Korea was only “guilty” of providing the location.

Meanwhile, Executor Baek Heea obtained top-secret intelligence.

-Undine’s master, they say, is actually Korean.

The young man was actually pure Korean, and to elope with Undine, he even dyed his hair blonde to pretend to be a foreigner. While having a passionate love affair in the Busan area, he couldn’t suppress his youthful vigor.

-Then that changes things.

-No matter how much they say a young man and woman fell for each other, *ahem*.

-This is an opportunity. If we play our cards right, we can bring the Round Table to our side again.

Since it was information brought by the Executor, it certainly wouldn’t be wrong. The government put forth a plan to kill two birds with one stone: achieving the splendid feat of having an S-class Round Table Hero as a daughter-in-law, and forming friendly relations with the most powerful family in Russian politics.

Dispatch of a special envoy.

By dispatching an emergency special envoy to Russia regarding this issue, the government sought to appease Suvorov’s anger and simultaneously solidify friendly relations between the two countries.

-So, who should we send as a special envoy?

Executor Baek Heea firmly asserted that she couldn’t go to Russia due to a certain mission, and others didn’t have the capacity to handle Suvorov’s anger.

-Then send me.

Ryu Cheon-seong actively promoted himself, and Baek Heea also strongly insisted that Ryu Cheon-seong was the right person.

-There are no volunteers, and since he’s an ability user, he’s someone who can proudly stand tall in front. If we dispatch Heroes as both escort and surveillance, there will be no problem.

Thus, Ryu Cheon-seong took on the mission as a special envoy to Russia and arrived at Moscow International Airport by private jet, accompanied by the Architect, who seemed to be assisting him, one cameraman, and three Heroes.

“Alright, we’ve arrived. Everyone, riding Yuseong’s private jet really gets us to Russia quickly. Spasiba! This is the only Russian I know, but this watch will translate anyway, so it’s fine.”

Ryu Cheon-seong fiddled with the black smartwatch wrapped like a band around his wrist. The cameraman cleverly obscured the camera’s angle, and people wondered about the strangeness of the watch on Ryu Cheon-seong’s wrist.

“It looks like an advertiser from Yuseong came, not the mayor.”

“Aren’t most of the goods entering Seoul supplied by Yuseong? The mayor must have taken a bribe.”

The two Heroes grumbled behind them. The Architect was already thinking about drinking Russian vodka, so broadcasting or special envoy issues were secondary, and only Lee Seung-hyung, who received the situation update after arriving at the airport, had a grim expression.

“Sunbaenim-deul, all the viewers-nim are listening right now….”

“They should all hear it. Oh dear, I wonder how much time is left until the by-election.”

“……In the first place, how many people would be watching such a mess?”

“We’ve exceeded 600,000 viewers, and Executor-nim is also watching.”

Wusa, who had an e-cigarette in his mouth and was about to take a puff, was startled by Lee Seung-hyung’s report and put it into his inner pocket.

“……This counts as performance for the mission, right?”

“They told us to be fully prepared for escort.”

Baek Heea participated as a manager for the live broadcast and conveyed commands via chat. Malicious chats, asking why such a top-secret mission was being broadcast live to the whole world when they weren’t even attention seekers, were mixed in, but the messages were cut off by those managing the chat room.

“Huhu, coming abroad after a long time is truly moving. Do you see it over there? The scenery of Russia. Thanks to coming on Yuseong’s private jet, we were able to evade the monstrous birds and arrive safely, but I hope the sky routes open safely soon and return to how they used to be. Or perhaps the railway…. *Ahem ahem*.”

Ryu Cheon-seong cleared his throat and changed the subject. All sorts of speculations and predictions ran rampant in the chat window, but Ryu Cheon-seong didn’t care at all.

“There may be people who feel uneasy about the S-class Fire Fist suddenly coming abroad. However, according to what I’ve heard, SS-class Seolhwaryeong-nim can exert influence not only over the Korean Peninsula but also over all of Japan if she puts her mind to it. So please rest assured. Korea is safe.”

Ryu Cheon-seong patted Lee Seung-hyung’s shoulder and grinned. Although they didn’t directly confront each other during the Seoul Recapture Operation, when he, who was once an enemy, pretended to be close, Lee Seung-hyung awkwardly smiled and bowed his head.

“Haha. Yes. That’s right. I will do my best to protect these people right now. Huh? You’re asking if it’s special treatment? ….”

Lee Seung-hyung’s expression instantly stiffened.

“W-well, to call it special treatment, it’s a bit….”

“Of course it’s special treatment. He’s the only S-class ability user in the country, so he should receive this level of treatment. Is S-class just some common thing? In some foreign countries, they even offer their daughters to get an S-class, you know.”

The Architect sneered at the camera with a flushed, drunken face. The “otherworldly” broadcast, which had already crossed the line long ago, was filled with incessant noise, and Lee Seung-hyung, suddenly placed in a position where he had to mediate, was having a terrible time.

“Architect-nim. That’s not it….”

“Oh, they’re coming. They came to meet us over there.”

The Architect waved his hand at the men in black suits approaching the group.

“Hello! Oh, is it not? I don’t know! They’ll translate it themselves! How are you!”

The alcohol-filled greeting took the first step in diplomacy by committing a serious breach of etiquette from the start. Even Baek Heea, who was carefully watching the chat window, couldn’t think of anything to stop him, and Haneulseong lowered his fedora and bowed his head to the stiff-faced men in suits.

“Nice to meet you. I am Ryu Cheon-seong, the Special Envoy to Russia from the Republic of Korea.”

*Crack*.

Ryu Cheon-seong’s upper body swelled as if it would burst. The benevolent old professor suddenly swelled up to three or four times his size, becoming a muscular giant.

“In Russia, do you greet with killing intent rather than words? Hahahaha.”

Even though he had become a muscular giant whose clothes seemed about to burst, Ryu Cheon-seong let out a hearty laugh and offered a handshake. The first to approach, a giant in a black monastic robe, greeted him by clasping hands.

“I am Rasputin. …Welcome to Russia.”

“……What is your relationship with Undine?”

“I am her fiancé.”

Ryu Cheon-seong clearly saw with his own eyes Rasputin, who was holding his hand, licking his lips with his tongue. His gaze was clearly as sharp as a beast with prey before its eyes, directed at him and the special envoy.

“……It’s truly a pleasure to meet you. Truly, huhu.”

“…….Indeed. It is a pleasure. …How about we release the handshake now?”

While the two were shaking hands, a bird with blue wings slowly folded its wings and began to descend over Moscow.

* * *

“Alright. We’ve arrived. Let’s start infiltrating.”

I flew after them towards Vladimir Mansion, their destination. As the time difference was 6 hours slower than Korea, it was still past midnight in Russian time.

Current time: Russian time, July 22nd, midnight.

“Get up now. Time to work.”

“……It’s annoying. I’ll just keep clinging to you. You can’t do anything anyway, because you’re afraid of being *kyungkyung*-ed.”

“This guy, really.”

Hwanryong clung to me and seemed to have no motivation to do anything. But rather than persuading Hwanryong to motivate him, it was better to just do something else.

“Get down. I’m going to revive them all in that container over there.”

I secretly snuck into a deserted container and poured out the Cores onto the empty lot. Hwanryong and I found our respective monstrous humans, gathered the Cores in one place, and revived the monstrous humans made from Cores.

“Blaze!”

*Snap*. As soon as I snapped my fingers, the monstrous humans revived. The platinum-haired young man standing at the forefront, Gwanggeom, seemed ready to dash out at any moment to save Rusalka.

“…….”

“Why?”

“……No, well, is that so. ……Then maybe there’s nothing to be done.”

Again, Hwanryong talked to himself, saying meaningful words and answering his own questions. I wanted to break his waist and make him confess what he meant, but at Hwanryong’s next words, the thought of carrying it out vanished.

“According to the principles of Yin and Yang, I, who was born from chaos, command. Illusion (幻) born from the heavens and earth overturning and mixing. Revive.”

“……Wow.”

To think I’d hear that live. I wanted to hide in a mouse hole if there was one.

“The Azure Flame Formation was at least better.”

“I prefer that one, though.”

Ignoring the chattering from the sidelines, I whispered softly to Hwanryong, who had revived the Hwanryong Corps led by Baek Cheong-yeong.

“Aren’t you embarrassed doing the incantation yourself? You can do it without chanting, too.”

“……If I want to revive them more strongly, there’s nothing I can do, is there?”

Hwanryong pointed at the revived monstrous humans with a bewildered expression.

“You have to put in the incantation for them to revive strongly, you know.”

“No, that’s true, but-“

I covered Hwanryong’s mouth. Did they hear? They must have, right?

“Hey there.”

The scoundrel, who treated his superior like a dog at a funeral home, was looking down on me from above, his bald head gleaming.

“You’re always saying that no-chanting is fast and good and all that, but actually, you were just embarrassed, so you revived us normally?”

“……Do you have a complaint?”

I retorted, getting angry in return. It’s not like they’re the ones chanting; I’m the one doing it, so at least regarding incantations, don’t I have the right to choose?

“No, it’s just…. look at how embarrassing it is. *Ugh*, you’re saying we have to chant like that every time we make a monstrous human. I hate it.”

Deokbae shuddered and stepped back, and the other monstrous humans were no different. Seohaemugi, who was born after hearing my full incantation, suddenly clapped his hands as if he had realized something.

“Now that I think about it, I was about mid-A class level, but after becoming a monstrous human, I think I’ve become about A+?”

“What?”

“……This one put in some effort and made him into an apostle. I can tell just by looking.”

“Don’t say strange things. You’re making me embarrassed. If you utter even one more word here, I’ll burn everything down, so don’t ask me to chant for you or anything like that in the future.”

For my dignity and Azure Flame’s, the incantations for monsterification and revival were nothing short of an evil practice that had to disappear.

“Incantations are a bad practice. Understand? There will be no more incantations now.”

“What if Cheon Gaeul’s situation happens again?”

“I’ll just recite it like the Heart Sutra, why ask something so obvious?”

The heroine died, so what’s a little embarrassment? At my answer, the executives, including Deokbae, snorted, and only Hwanryong calmly nodded his head.

“Then let’s start the operation. Everyone, take good care of your own dicks, and the two of us will only oversee this operation. Everyone knows why, right?”

“If we get *kyungkyung*-ed, you’ll all get *kyungkyung*-ed together…. I hope that doesn’t happen.”

At Hwanryong’s words, the 25-man suicide squad swallowed hard. In particular, the groom, Gwanggeom, who was entrusted with the grave mission of cutting off the evil hands that kidnapped and threatened the bride, had an extremely solemn expression.

“Then everyone to your positions. Even if you die, we’ll recover you and revive you again, so be prepared to die and protect Gwanggeom’s honeymoon.”

July 22nd, 1 AM. At that time, when the sun would begin to rise in Korean time, Rasputin’s cutting ceremony finally began.

And I had to recall a point I had overlooked.

The original work’s settings certainly had many parts to be careful about, but this world had already twisted 25 years before the original work.

Surely not.

Rasputin, who pursued women as if breathing.

I never imagined he was someone with *that* kind of taste.