25.NTL Fantasy

Some representatives nodded at the Chinese representative’s words.

 

 

It’s true that Yoo-eun didn’t exactly strive for the sake of the world. He just stormed into Varkana to save his lover, Han Sarang, and defeated them in the process.

 

From this perspective, his words weren’t entirely wrong, so it made sense to nod.

 

 

 

“That’s a very cowardly thought.”

 

 

If it was fortunate, it was only this.

Not everyone thought that way.

 

 

The French representative gained the floor and continued speaking.

 

 

“It is true that they acted for their own benefit, but it is also true that the world was saved from an unprecedented danger as a result.

 

 

You said that if the world had joined forces, they could have been defeated sufficiently, but that’s just an assumption. The reality is that they couldn’t even respond properly, and with the army annihilated, the metropolitan area of the D10 core directorate was almost blown away before the global communication network was even activated.

That alone is clearly a global disaster, and Harem Palace, including Yoo-eun, stopped it. Can we ignore them just because they ‘acted for their own benefit’? As Representative Agnes said, people shouldn’t do that. If we’ve received something, we should at least show some sincerity.”

 

Several representatives nodded at his words.

But a rebuttal immediately followed.

 

 

“Even if the capital area was destroyed because it couldn’t be stopped, that’s just a disaster for Korea. No matter how rampant the aliens were, it’s just an A-class disaster. If the world’s power is gathered in one place, it would have been suppressed before it left the Korean peninsula.”

“…Are you saying that sincerely?”

 

The French representative stared with a dumbfounded expression.

It was a look of disbelief that such words could come from his mouth, of all people.

 

 

“Of course, if the Korean capital area collapsed, a global economic recession would have occurred. But that’s just an external effect. The direct damage is ultimately suffered by Korea, and it shouldn’t be framed as if ‘Yoo-eun prevented the world from ending’.

Emotions and facts are different. We, as representatives of each country’s intellect, must make rational and reasonable choices. Choices based solely on rising emotions will only lead to ruin.”

 

“Ha… I’d like to hear what that ruin is.”

 

 

“For example, Harem Palace. They’ve already grown too much. They’re claiming their territory in the Seoul metropolitan area, and they’re shamelessly regarding the capital of a country (Tokyo) as their own territory under the guise of humanitarian aid. Even without Yoo-eun, they’re acting like this, so if he comes back, how much more arrogant demands will they make? How far do we have to accept their demands?”

 

 

He stood up and passionately spoke.

 

 

“There are rules in the world. Rules that must be followed. But they don’t follow them. They’re acting arrogantly just because they have some power, as if they’re the masters of the world. If we bow down to them first and offer capital and resources, they will see us as colonies.”

 

“…You have severe delusions of grandeur.”

 

“No. It’s not delusions of grandeur. Their Earth colonization has already begun. They forcibly took Tokyo, took part of Incheon, and are constantly eyeing Seoul.

 

 

The real enemy we need to be wary of and drive out is not aliens like Varkana, but Harem Palace on this Earth!”

 

 

He finished speaking and sat down.

 

It was the Japanese representative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“You’ve worked hard.”

“Seo-hyun-ssi worked hard. You must have a lot to do. To even take care of me like this.”

“It’s only natural.”

 

 

Sora slumped into the van.

 

 

She had deployed a large-scale healing field throughout the entire Incheon area and healed and saved over a hundred thousand people, so her position in Korea was truly saintly.

 

 

Naturally, attention was bound to be focused on her.

 

 

Even now, she was coming back from an interview.

 

 

Originally, she would have rejected interviews that seemed unhelpful and tiring, but she participated in each one, thinking that it might be good to gain some favor since a UN resolution was needed to find Yoo-eun.

 

 

As she did so, she ended up filming commercials and appearing on various entertainment programs, and now there really isn’t anyone in Korea who doesn’t know her.

 

There are even tons of people who know her but don’t know Yoo-eun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Has a conclusion been reached today?”

 

 

On the way back.

She asked Seo-hyun.

 

“Well… it’s been dragging on for two weeks, so it should have passed, but there’s no news at all.”

 

 

She frowned while fiddling with her phone and clicked her tongue, tsk.

She was pretending to be calm, but she was just as anxious.

 

 

Heuk-hee’s transcendental technology existed, but everything still came down to money.

 

Even if the resources to build the facility were created using raw material arrangement technology, etc., it was impossible to create something from nothing, so materials were still needed.

 

 

And the amount of material alone was enormous, so the first cost occurred here.

 

 

Even if the facility was built somehow, a giant city-level power was needed to operate it, so the second cost occurred here.

 

 

Not only did it have to be operated, but it also had to be maintained until Yoo-eun was found, so the third cost occurred here.

 

 

When calculated, the costs were so enormous that tens of trillions of won didn’t even feel like money. No matter how successful Harem Palace was as a guild and how much profit it made as a group, it was impossible to cover it with that.

 

 

In the end, it meant that finding Yoo-eun was virtually impossible without global support.

 

 

She couldn’t help but be anxious.

 

 

 

 

 

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Sora returned to the palace, lay down on the sofa, and turned on the TV.

As if the timing was perfect, a current affairs program called ‘Harem Palace and the UN’s Power Struggle’ was being broadcast.

 

 

– You may remember the Incheon incident about three weeks ago, when an alien group called Varkana attacked Incheon, causing approximately 400,000 casualties and nearly 100 trillion won in economic damage, the biggest crisis since the Korean War.

 

The guild that defeated them and healed 100,000 injured people at that time was Harem Palace.

 

Unfortunately, Yoo-eun-ssi, the leader of Harem Palace, and his fiancée, Lee Yu-na-ssi, went missing after the battle at that time. Harem Palace is putting in a lot of money and effort to find them, but experts say it’s difficult to find them because they were sent to another dimension by the alien monster.

 

 

However, Harem Palace has been consistently claiming that ‘they can be found if they have the money’.

 

 

-Yes. That’s right. This thing called a dungeon, you know. It’s something that changes the history of mankind. Harem Palace probably got something related to dimensions from there. That’s why they’re saying it so confidently.

 

-Is it possible?

 

-Well, you know. So many extraordinary things are happening these days, right? For example, when Yoo Sora-ssi used area heal during the Incheon incident and saved even people who were almost dead, that’s actually medically impossible.

 

-That’s right.

 

 

-Looking at that, I don’t think I can say it’s impossible, but the problem is the cost. According to the data released by Harem Palace, it costs at least 391 trillion won to find Yoo-eun-ssi and Lee Yu-na-ssi, who are somewhere in space and dimensions, and bring them back to Earth.

 

 

-Almost 400 trillion? Isn’t that the level of our country’s budget?

 

 

-Yes. Our country’s super budget is continuing, so it’s a little less, but anyway, the amount is too large.

 

 

-That’s right. 400 trillion is… even a national project wouldn’t be that much.

 

 

-First of all, our country’s annual GDP is about 1,900 trillion. 400 trillion is one-fifth of that. This… an individual guild can’t handle it. No matter how much money they have. And if our country supports them? That’s impossible. If we support them, our country will break its back.

 

 

That’s why they turned to the world, but the problem is that it’s by no means a small amount even on a global scale. To execute this much budget… Harem Palace is giving themselves three months. To complete the facility and do it? But there’s no way. How can they execute 400 trillion in three months? First of all, that doesn’t make sense,

 

 

Secondly, there are too many enemies-,

 

 

 

 

-Ah! Breaking news!

 

 

The announcer shouted, interrupting the talkative expert.

She pressed the in-ear she was wearing with her finger, listened intently, and immediately received the data and began to recite it.

 

 

-We have just received the results from the UN.

-Ah, is that so?

-Yes…

 

 

With a somewhat stiff face,

 

 

-First of all, our country voted in favor… but China, Japan, and Russia voted against it. The United Kingdom, the United States, India, Germany, and Indonesia abstained, and the remaining six countries voted in favor, so the international Harem Palace support proposal by the UN was rejected with 3 votes against, 5 abstentions, and 7 votes in favor.

 

 

After that, the program discussed various things related to this matter.

Of course, it was said that it would be rejected, that it was too much of a demand, and that it was amazing that the agenda was even proposed…

 

 

But Sora couldn’t hear anything.

 

 

Only the word ‘rejected’ was circling in her head, creating anger…