episode_0476

In a situation where you have nothing to do but have to kill time, what would be the surest way to kill time?

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No, we are discussing a useless topic.

For example, isn’t there a topic like who would win if a lion and a tiger fight, or which is tastier between ttukbok and waterbok?

If you discuss something like that, an hour or two goes by quickly.

Of course, in order to use this method, there is a minor(?) prerequisite that you must have someone nearby to discuss it with you, but if you can use it, it is one of the very useful ways to kill time.

When I said ‘IF’ in front of Helena and presented absurd conspiracy theories, there was actually some intention to lead the situation in that direction.

‘The facilities are definitely good, but there’s nothing to do…’

Even if the hospital facilities are good, what can you do?

After all, it is a hospital.

And since the place was a hospital, there was no way there would be anything fun to do.

However, it wasn’t right to kill time by looking at something like your phone like you do when you don’t have anything to do in real life.

It wasn’t because there was nothing to see.

Because it is a completely separate world from the reality I live in, there is so much to see.

Nevertheless, the reason why I don’t want to get my hands on a portable display is because it’s difficult to have fun.

It’s not that it’s not fun, but I guess I should say that it doesn’t really hit me.

Roughly how it feels is that I went abroad and turned on the TV and something that looked like an entertainment program came on and I was watching it without much thought. The audience was giggling and telling the studio to leave, but I was the only one who couldn’t laugh because I didn’t know what that meant or why it was funny. Feeling the same way?

Well, that’s how I feel, actually, I haven’t been out of Korea yet.

Anyway, no matter what I look at, I only see things like that, so even though I want to kill time by looking around communities like I do in real life, I don’t feel like doing that.

However, as I spend time focusing on good-looking people like Ha-young, who is stuck in the corner, or the nurses who come in and out of my hospital room, the fact that this is a hospital under the management of this family makes me feel like a fish thorn stuck in my neck. got caught.

If you do something like that with harsh words and the news comes to the ears of our party chairman, it is obvious that rice mixed with poison will be served on the dinner table that night. Would you be so crazy that you would do something like that?

‘No, even if that’s the case, is Hayoung in a bad condition from earlier…?’

That doesn’t sound good.

The sight of him sitting crumpled on the sofa in the corner of the hospital room and secretly watching others reminded me of the sight of an ostrich sticking its head in a hole when it senses the approach of a natural enemy.

Did Helena really have a weakness or something?

However, what is the point of being caught with a weakness…?

Anyway, because of the location and Hayoung’s condition, it was impossible to kill time by doing dirty things.

So I kept looking around here and there with the feeling of ‘Isn’t there anything worth doing…’ and finally I reached that place…

‘The reaction is too serious…’

In order to kill time by discussing pointless things, it was necessary to become somewhat overly immersed in the topic, but for Helena, that was a bit too much.

I can clearly see that they are taking something that is just a conspiracy theory very seriously.

Thanks to this, I couldn’t help but feel a little burdened.

However, as someone who spoke first, it’s a bit of a stretch to say, ‘Actually, I just tried it once~’… so what can you do?

At this point, I can’t really guess where this discussion will end, but for now, I have no choice but to go along with it.

‘Unexpectedly, you seem to like things like conspiracy theories…’

If you look at his intellectual appearance alone, it feels like you wouldn’t believe anything like that.

It must have been at that moment when I was feeling the same way about the unexpected side of myself that I had finally discovered.

“Hmm… As Su-hyeon said, if someone planned this whole situation, who would be worthy of it?”

Are you really asking me now?

No, how do I know that…

“Well, I don’t know if I’ve told you this before, but until recently, I stayed in the mountains and just practiced.”

“Ah… Indeed, so…”

Indeed, Rani.

What does that mean again?

“Sometimes, whenever I talked to Suhyun, I saw empty spaces here and there, so I thought something was a little strange, so that’s why.”

“It’s a side effect of being confined to the mountains as I grow older.”

I shrugged my shoulders, thinking that this was the reality, but Helena, seeing my reaction, did not tire and asked me the same question I had just asked.

Because of that, I had no choice but to give up on skimming over it and pretend to be seriously thinking about it.

“Maybe…”

“Maybe?”

“If we narrow down those who benefit when the two situations mentioned above actually occur, wouldn’t we come up with a rough answer?”

I felt like I’d heard somewhere that suspects were identified that way during normal investigations, so I brought it up and Helena shook her head as if it made sense.

“They are the ones who stand to benefit from the conflict between the Magic Tower Alliance and the Western US Alliance… The ones that immediately come to mind are entrepreneurs active in Europe and the Russian Megacorp.”

“I guess the conflict is related to trade.”

“Yes, well… In fact, other than that, there is no other area where the two powers can clash.”

“Well, it’s not like there’s a piece of land attached…”

Even in a fight, you have to stay close to each other. In a situation where there is an ocean, not a lake, between you, if you throw punches at each other, will you be able to reach the other person?

“Could you tell me exactly what kind of problem it is?”

“Of course it’s because of tariffs.”

Helena said that the Magic Tower Alliance, which could not bear to see small and medium-sized businesses in Europe collapsing due to the low-price offensive of the Western US Alliance, finally raised tariffs after much deliberation.

Helena explained that the American Western Confederation fiercely protested to the Confederation, asking why they would suddenly raise tariffs like this.

“I guess the damage from the low price offensive was quite significant? If you look at the way the Magic Tower Alliance acted like that.”

“When I was in Europe, I was always inside the magic tower, so I didn’t really feel it, but I heard that even companies that were relatively well-known for small and medium-sized businesses suffered a lot of damage.”

“Hmm, I see. But…”

“···?”

“Can you tell me this?”

If this were an internal situation, it could be said to be an internal situation.

When I said that after a sudden thought occurred to me, Helena smiled slightly as if asking something so obvious.

“Well, it’s not a complete secret.”

“I guess it’s my mood that makes those words sound particularly meaningful, right?”

“Well~? Maybe so?”

I can’t let my guard down… I can’t let my guard down…

“Anyway, it seems that as the conflict with the American Western Federation deepens, those are the two places that benefit.”

“That’s right. As anti-American sentiment deepens in Europe, people’s antipathy toward American products will also grow, and if tariffs are fixed at their current status, prices will also naturally rise.”

Of course, even if that happens, those who will live will still live.

Because inertia exists in everything.

Resistance to new items will also have an impact to some extent.

Aren’t there people who insist on only certain brands when it comes to mobile phones in the real world?

If you take that into consideration, people will buy it…

“Not everyone has money in their wallets, so if the price goes up, some people will hesitate to buy.”

“Yes, in that case, not only European companies that have been pushed out of price competition and have not seen the light of day, but also companies in former Russia will benefit from relatively low tariffs.”

“Is there anyone else who benefits besides them?”

“Well… at best, there are some hardliners against the US.”

“Are you a hardliner against the US?”

“There are mentally ill people who argue that the American continent should be returned to a European colony.”

Helena added that since they were only a handful and had very limited influence, the possibility that they were behind this incident was close to zero.

“Then, it means that the culprit may be one of the two mentioned above…”

“Probably not for companies in Europe.”

“Why are you so sure?”

“That’s right… Companies in Europe are under the management of magic towers that exist in each region.”

to? That’s perfect…

“Uh, um…”

“···I think there is a strange misunderstanding, but the management I am talking about here is something like gratitude to the company.”

“Ah, yes…”

“That’s right! It’s not like surveillance!”

Regardless of what Helena claims, if what she says is true, it is safe to say that it is unlikely that a European company is the culprit.

That meant that the possibility that the remaining party was the culprit was increasing.

“That… a group called the 1st Magic Army.”

“Do you have any questions?”

“If you use the expression corps, it means it is a military unit, right?”

“Compared to general military units, the number is extremely small, but for now, right?”

“Then of course there would be a garrison or something like that, right?”

“Yes, we are using the place formerly called Lithuania as our base.”

“If it’s Lithuania… isn’t it there? Next to old Poland?”

“Right?”

“As far as I know, I heard that it is relatively close to Poland and Russia. Is that correct?”

“···!”

“Are there any troops stationed in Poland?”

“No, no. There is a local magic tower, but the troops…”

That’s right.

Why deploy troops there when a military unit that may not only be the strongest in Europe but the strongest in the world is located right next to it?

Even if I were the leader of the Magic Tower Alliance, I would have diverted my troops elsewhere.

And that means…

“If, if only. What happens next if the remaining units in Lithuania are wiped out for some reason?”