episode_0174

I finally did it.

“… … .”

“… … .”

A mother and daughter who look alike as if they were copied and pasted.

Commander Thalia and Baine finally gathered together.

‘It’s really unexpected that I’m stuck here.’

Baine had no choice but to accept my request, but he put a condition on it.

That was to prevent any arguments that might arise during the conversation with the commander.

I don’t know why they’re calling me here because they think there’s something good about me coming in between mother and daughter.

But the situation might be better now than anxiously waiting for the results.

Since I’m here, if a problem arises, can’t I take action right away?

Your mind will feel much more at ease this way.

“… Good job.”

The mother and daughter could not open their mouths for a long time and just ate the food prepared in front of them.

Still, Commander Thalia spoke to Baine first, saying he was the elder.

The first start wasn’t bad.

“Yes, I’m glad it worked out well. “The kids gave us a lot of strength.”

“I don’t intend to settle for just one medal. “Is there any place you want to go later when you enlist?”

“Where do you want to go? “It’s not like I can go if I want to.”

“You guys can go wherever you want.”

“Is this compensation for what happened?”

“okay. “They are talented people who solved the monster wave, so wouldn’t that be natural?”

Baine thought for a moment and then said.

“I will decline. “I don’t want to receive preferential treatment.”

“You shouldn’t think of it as a privilege. “It’s definitely a reward.”

“It’s enough that I helped my mother.”

Baine continued to reject the Commander’s proposals.

I quietly listened to the two people talking and slowly opened my mouth.

“Baine, I have something to tell you.”

“Please speak.”

“I would like to make you a proposition. “When you enlist, I want you to join the unit I’m preparing.”

“The boss is preparing a unit?”

It may not be easy to understand that an ordinary general store owner has a plan in advance.

“Yes, special forces to be exact. “You will be doing dangerous and difficult work where survival is not guaranteed.”

“It’s dangerous and we can’t guarantee survival… aren’t you being too scared? “If this were to happen, who would want to join that unit?”

“I don’t want to deceive you by lying. “It is also a place where you have to be properly prepared before entering.”

Clumsy determination will only hinder you.

“What kind of work does this place do?”

“The special forces I am planning will be responsible for cleaning up the contaminated area.”

Until now, we have continued to suffer from the threat of pollution.

They had to lose their fertile land to polluted areas, their livelihood, and their hometown.

“We are working to completely remove and purify such contaminated areas from this world. I will provide all necessary resources to the unit. And I want you to be part of that unit.”

“Me…?”

Baine’s eyes naturally turn to the Commander.

It seemed like he wanted to know if she knew this too.

I spoke on behalf of the commander.

“The commander said he respects your opinion. “If you say you’ll do it, I won’t be against it.”

“Is it possible to purify the land?”

“I couldn’t do it until now because I didn’t have enough strength, but I think it’s possible with your skills.”

“Would other people agree to create such a unit? Aren’t there very few people interested in cleaning up polluted land?”

I’m not interested right now, but I had an ace up my sleeve.

It’s a secret number that you can’t help but be interested in.

“I have a special way to purify polluted land.”

“A special way?”

“okay. “There is a special liquid that can quickly purify contaminated areas.”

thud!

The commander who heard me was startled, got up and asked me.

“I guess that’s something I’ve never heard of before?”

“It hasn’t been long since we succeeded in development. And since I haven’t tried it many times, I didn’t think it was time to tell Commander Thalia. With this, even people who were not interested will probably become interested again. “There’s no way you wouldn’t be interested in purified land, right?”

Although they said it had been a while since the development was successful, it was precisely the content that had been suddenly updated.

When the children solved the monster wave and the tutorial was over, the achievement was cleared and they were able to receive a new reward.

And the reward was a special solution that could purify the contaminated land.

However, this solution could not be purchased with ‘money’.

“This is the purification liquid. “If you spray this on the ground or tree roots, the contaminated land will be purified.”

“If what you say is true, this is an incident that will shake the country.”

“This purifier has its drawbacks. If there are monsters around, they will quickly be eaten by pollution. So it is important to deal with monsters cleanly.”

This purifying liquid will only be truly effective when there are no monsters spreading the contamination.

“And it’s also very expensive.”

“I don’t care if it’s expensive! “The government will purchase the entire amount.”

The only purification fluid that can be purchased is a special by-product of a monster.

For example, something worth 300 million won that Ariando paid me as reinforcement.

There was one special by-product per 100L.

Don’t you think it would be possible to put it in a pesticide sprayer or something like that used to spray pesticides?

Thanks to getting this as a reward, I felt like the purification process would be much faster in the future.

“Then I will give this to Commander Thalia as a gift.”

“You can’t get it for free.”

“The government will have to continue purchasing this product anyway. Since we have to hand it over to the government anyway, wouldn’t it be better if the commander reports it directly? “If someone like the commander raises the agenda, the procedures will be greatly reduced.”

Handing this over to the commander in itself meant that I was going to push her.

“Hmm. “If that’s the case.”

No matter how much Commander Thalia was a person who followed principles, it was difficult for her to refuse something like this.

“anyway! The conversation has suddenly taken a strange turn, and this is exactly what I want to suggest to you. “We need to catch monsters to purify the land, and I’d like you to become a member of the special unit that does that.”

Baine thought carefully before opening his mouth.

“… “Can I help you?”

“Did you think it wouldn’t be helpful when you showed off such a huge display when solving the monster wave?”

“I’m willing to do it if it’s not a nuisance.”

“Is it okay to make a decision that easily?”

Commander Thalia spoke with a displeased expression, probably because Baine seemed to be answering too easily.

It’s natural that he doesn’t like it because his daughter has ended up in a dangerous unit.

As you know, didn’t Commander Thalia want to protect Baine?

“It’s not an easy decision. Ever since my boss gave me a lot of strength, I had been subconsciously guessing that something like this might happen. We became stronger than other kids, and it was so easy. “I thought there was no way they could have given me this kind of power for no reason.”

Although I received money, what I did for my children was also something that money could not buy.

“My heart started pounding as I listened to the president’s words. And I thought, this is it. I like it. No, please let me in.”

At Baine’s words, Commander Thalia washed her face dry.

I spoke to the commander as if to say, “Look at me flying.”

“Look. “You said Baine would accept it, right?”

“Why do you insist on taking the difficult path instead of taking the easy path? .”

“Isn’t it because you resemble the commander?”

As that mother’s daughter, didn’t Commander Thalia sacrifice her life for humanity on the front lines even though she could have lived a comfortable life?

It was natural that Baine wanted that kind of life.

“How are you? “You know that’s not the case anymore, right?”

“… Okay, you won. “I admit defeat.”

Baine, who heard our conversation, expressed doubt.

“What is it? “Just the two of you, excluding me.”

“It’s no big deal.”

“I made a bet with the commander. “Let me guess what you want.”

“Is this what I want?”

“Yes, and as you can see, I got it right. “Because you said you would join the unit I proposed.”

If Baine had rejected the unit I was considering, he would have gone into the honey-sucking unit prepared by Commander Thalia.

When I told him that fact, Baine looked disgusted.

“I hate that even more!”

“Well, you’re not going to hate it that much, are you? “I said that to make you comfortable.”

“I don’t want to be comfortable! “I never said I wanted to receive preferential treatment, so why did you think that?”

When Baine realized that what I had been saying was not a lie, he cornered the commander with an angry expression.

The commander said with disappointment, as if he had never thought that his daughter would hate him so much.

“I am the commander, Commander! Do you think I’m so incompetent that I can’t even do this much for my daughter? And it’s not a privilege. “It’s a reward for what you’ve done!”

“I don’t like it anyway. I never once thought about wanting to have a comfortable military life. “Why should I become a stain on my mother?”

“What a stain!! “Usually, when you’re in a situation like this, you take care of the family’s convenience, knowingly or unknowingly!”

“I don’t like it. I will definitely go into the unit that the boss suggested. “Don’t ever think like that again.”

In that way, Baine decisively struck out Commander Thalia’s heart.

The commander’s face turned bright red, perhaps because he was slightly annoyed by Baine’s attitude.

“Stop!!!!”

“Tsk!”

“!!!”

I know it’s rude, but I didn’t think I could leave it like this, so I screamed.

Thanks to this, the emotional battle that was getting more intense stopped.

“Whoa, you two, please stop. Commander, have you forgotten the bet you made with me? “You have to accept the result.”

“Hmm! “It didn’t mean I wouldn’t give in.”

By his nature, he is not a person who speaks twice, so he quickly excuses my words.

“Then why are you fighting Baine over that? “All I can see is that you still have some regrets.”

“I said no, well! Wow, my throat feels a little clogged. “I need to order some drinks.”

Commander Thalia ordered a lot of alcohol to soothe her sore stomach.

Baine seemed a little dissatisfied because his words were interrupted in the middle of the conversation.

“Please tell me everything about how this happened from the beginning. “Please tell me in detail what the bet was.”

“Sweet, I don’t know anything.”

The commander said he didn’t know anything, but I quickly told him the whole story.

“You may have guessed, but the commander wanted to keep you safe. So, I tried to send the unit to a safe place. I thought you would definitely like it.”

“Keuhum!”

“Without even telling me? “You’re really doing it too!”

Baine purses his lips and looks at the Commander.

“What is too much? “It could be because I’m worried about my daughter.”

“I told you not to do that. You won’t like it. “It’s good to be able to live comfortably, so what’s the bad? So I suggested we make a bet.”

“As you can see, the boss won the bet.”

“huh. But I didn’t expect the results to come out this quickly. I thought you’d say you’d think about it for a few days. “Are you really ready?”

“Of course it was. Just because I had a short amount of time to think about it doesn’t mean I answered it lightly. “I like the unit the boss mentioned.”

“okay? thanks. “Thanks to you, I feel reassured.”

“I am truly grateful. “If it weren’t for the boss, we would have been in big trouble.”

The commander, who was drinking, spoke with an expression full of dissatisfaction.

“Okay, you win! Very congratulations! So stop now. “I’m already so embarrassed that I can’t even raise my face!”

After hearing Baine’s words, the commander suddenly expressed his frustration.

“Are you going to simply end up losing? “You need to figure out why you lost and fix it so it doesn’t happen again.”

“Why did I lose?”

“yes. Would something like this have happened if you had a regular conversation with your daughter? “No matter what, I am a stranger, and the commander is my mother.”

“Yes, I am a mother… This doesn’t make sense. If only we had a little more time… .”

Commander Thalia seemed to be very proud of the fact that she really knew nothing about Baine.

It seemed like she was finally painfully aware that she was spending too little time with her daughter.

“If it bothers you that you live like that, please spend more time with me from now on. “I like being with my mother.”

Baine, who was watching the situation, secretly made a small wish to the commander.

He said that he wouldn’t talk to me because it wasn’t comfortable for me, so he would just live his life like this.

‘That must be sincere.’

This is why blood is thicker than water.

“The commander said he would directly manage the unit I’m planning to build, right? “Maybe if we enlist, we’ll have more time to spend together.”

Baine’s expression brightens at my explanation.

“really? Then I can continue to see my mother.”

“You will see it every time you go on an operation. And you won’t have to break up with your friends.”

“Are the children also joining the special forces prepared by the boss?”

“It’s not confirmed. “I have to meet them one by one and ask them.”

“The way I see it, if I like it, I like it, I don’t think I’ll hate it.”

Baine smiled brightly.

I was depressed because I had to separate from my friends when I enlisted, but isn’t that no longer necessary?

The commander, who was staring at Baine smiling, suddenly looked at me and said.

“you… .”

“yes?”

“Do you really have no feelings for my daughter? “Is it really that true?”

“yes?”

You haven’t even had much to drink, but are you already drunk?

I burst out laughing at the commander’s unexpected remark.

Even though he was grumbling awkwardly, it was fortunate that Baine didn’t seem to be opposed to joining the special forces.