Ch.131Chapter 5. Do Ji-hwan’s Ambitious Project (8)

A scream!!

The alarm, the screams, the howls echo again.

While this is happening at Ulleungdo’s harbor, villains and demons appearing and causing havoc around the world is no longer unusual.

“Die, you bastard!!”

Demons typically form when negative emotions surge intensely.

“Aaagh! H-help me! Someone, please help me!”

Especially when an ability user becomes a demon, it means something happened to make those negative feelings explode.

“I didn’t do anything wrong!! Please, do something about that woman!!”

“Dieeeee!!”

The demon let out a roar.

Her white wedding dress was covered in red bloodstains, and her skin, once as white as her dress, had transformed into the distinctive purple skin of a demon.

Anyone could see she had come to Ulleungdo as a bride.

Whether for concept photos or something else after the wedding, the fact that she came to Ulleungdo in a dress meant she hadn’t been married long.

Perhaps she had just gotten married today and arrived at Ulleungdo by boat this evening.

“You bastard! To think I called you my husband!! Ugh, aaaah!!”

The female demon clutched the ring on her left hand in agony.

She looked so tormented that she seemed to be in more pain than the man who was bleeding profusely from his shoulder after being attacked by the demon.

“S-someone call an ambulance! P-please save me! It hurts, it hurts…!!”

Of course it hurts.

It must hurt.

With flesh torn away to the bone, it’s natural that it would hurt when a magical blade grazed the shoulder of an ordinary man who wasn’t an ability user.

“Aaaah…! I…! I loved you so much!! How could you betray me like this!! You piece of trash!! I, I waited for you until you passed the civil service exam!”

But why did the bystanders feel more sympathy for the woman who had become a demon and was shedding red liquid like bloody tears, rather than for the man’s physical pain?

“How could you sleep with my sister!!!”

The demon’s scream left everyone at the harbor speechless.

“D-darling! That was a mistake! Really, just once, please…!”

“Aaaaaaah!!!”

There were ability users present, people who could subdue demons, and others who had rushed over after hearing about the demon’s rampage.

“Tsk tsk, that’s the man’s fault.”

“Wow. That’s really terrible. How could a non-ability user think of cheating on his ability user wife? Maybe if it were the other way around…”

“What are you saying? Regardless of abilities, anyone who cheats after getting married is trash. Sigh, what’s the point of saving someone like that? The real victim is that woman.”

In an era where giving birth to an ability user is like winning the lottery, and marrying an ability user to form a family is everyone’s aspiration.

Yet the man cheated on his ability user wife with her sister.

Though there were heroes with a duty to save the man, few were eager to step forward.

“Men really need to be careful. Marrying an ability user and then fooling around with her sister. Goodness, how angry must she have been to become a demon.”

“Shouldn’t we stop her? If we leave her like this, that man will die.”

“Let him die. I don’t want to risk my life fighting for a guy like that.”

After all, an ability user’s power stems from their will.

The ability users who came to Ulleungdo all came to share love, and it wasn’t easy to stand up for someone who had cheated.

However, even if people hesitate, even if the man was wrong, the situation of “a demon trying to kill a person” remains unchanged.

Rather, the situation only worsens to “she’s about to kill him.”

“Die! You die, and I’ll die too!!”

“Ugh, aaaah! Someone, please—!”

Whoosh!

Just as the demon was about to unleash magical bullets toward the man.

Flash!

A golden circle formed in front of the man, and from within it, a woman appeared with the click-clack sound of heels.

“That’s…!”

“Could it be!!”

Everyone’s eyes widened.

The sudden appearance of the golden circle was surprising enough, and a person emerging from it was even more shocking, but the person who appeared was someone who had been making headlines across the globe.

“Geumbodosa!!”

[Platinum Sun has arrived.]

Geumbodosa, Platinum Sun, wearing a black hood and black mask, held a red aura handle like a whip and raised her head.

[I’ve come to purify the demon. I will purify you now.]

“Get out of my way! I don’t know who you are, but I need to kill that bastard!!”

[You must not kill people.]

Platinum Sun spoke in a firm voice, placing her aura to the side.

“Are you saying you’re going to save that piece of trash?!”

[…I’m not sure what kind of trash this man is, but for now, I—]

“We got married today, and that bastard went to a motel with my sister yesterday!!”

[…….]

Platinum Sun sharply turned her head.

The golden eyes gleaming above her mask froze coldly, and the man somehow felt that the red whip might turn toward him.

“P-please save me! I-I’ll repent! I don’t want to die! Y-you’re a hero! It’s a hero’s duty to save people! Th-there’s a villain!! No, a demon over there!!”

[Tsk.]

Platinum Sun swung the rope backward.

The rope, stretched out like a snake, instantly wrapped around the man, and after binding him with the aura, Platinum Sun took out a new weapon.

[The one I want to save isn’t that man.]

A golden folding fan opened in Platinum Sun’s hand.

[It’s you, who became a demon because of trash like him.]

“……!”

[Starting now.]

Flutter.

As Platinum Sun opened the fan and swung it wide, a golden aura began to emanate from around her.

[For this pitiful demon, salvation of light.]

* * *

It may be obvious, but in this world, abilities can be created by oneself.

Of course, this only applies to those who have awakened abilities or possess them.

‘Someone without mana can’t use abilities.’

Officially, there are no cases of people without abilities using them, or those born before 2000 using magical power or abilities.

‘But with mana, you can do anything with abilities.’

In contrast, ability users can create any ability if they have the skill.

‘Like being able to create anything with a goblin’s club, with mana and abilities, nothing is impossible.’

Naturally, this requires a lot of magical power, and since it involves creating new laws of nature in reality, it’s practically impossible in most cases.

If abilities are like coding, then algorithms are what make existing abilities readily available when needed.

The technique names people shout are the process of quickly executing these algorithms.

Then what can the process of creating abilities be compared to?

Writing your own code?

No.

It can be compared to ‘creating a coding language.’

If not a coding language, in terms of real-world theory, it’s like discovering and establishing a renowned mathematical or scientific theory in academia.

Ymir is the protagonist and a genius in handling abilities.

For someone like her, if she truly needs it, if she thinks she absolutely must create this ability, there’s virtually no ability she can’t create.

She just needs to feel that it’s absolutely necessary, that she would be unbearably inconvenienced without it, for the willpower to create an ability to emerge.

Like feeling the need to buy something that costs five times your monthly salary, even using six-month interest-free installments on your credit card.

The power of ‘spatial movement’ created with such determination showed tremendous power.

“I guess no one would realize they’re just moving from Ulleungdo to Ulleungdo like that?”

“Yes. If it were me… I’d probably think they moved from Sejong Island to Ulleungdo.”

After coming out of the open-air bath, Baek Seol-hee and I sat on the living room sofa, watching Ymir through an 80-inch TV.

-According to current information, the demon ‘Sirmilla’ was part of a newlywed couple who had their wedding ceremony this morning in Gangneung and immediately headed to Ulleungdo. Her husband, Mr. Kang, had an affair with Sirmilla’s sister, Ms. Cheon….

“…….”

We were momentarily speechless.

Given the background of the demon incident, both Seol-hee and I were at a loss for words.

“Seol-hee.”

“Yes.”

“We’re fine because we got permission.”

“…Are we really fine?”

“Yes. That case is unfortunate, but we discussed everything beforehand and reached an agreement, so we’re fine.”

It’s infidelity but not really infidelity.

Doing it without telling is cheating, but doing it after informing becomes a ‘play.’

“Besides, Ymir is really popular, as expected. Oh, Seol-hee. Aren’t you getting messages on your Taegeuk Watch right now?”

“Not today. I said it’s a magic day.”

“…Did you take menstrual leave? Seol-hee, if it’s coming, it should be a week from now—”

“…How do you know my cycle again?”

Baek Seol-hee narrowed her eyes and glared at me.

“I wonder how you knew.”

“Well, you naturally learn these things when you talk. Anyway, Seol-hee, let me tell you what Ymir and I discussed about spatial movement….”

“Let’s talk about that later.”

Baek Seol-hee raised the TV volume with the remote and firmly gripped my shoulder with one hand.

“Shall we have a quiet talk, just the two of us?”

“No, I was just saying—”

“Do Ji-hwan.”

Baek Seol-hee placed her index finger on my lips and brought her face closer to mine.

“I want a popsicle.”