Ch.138Chapter 6. Classics Are Classics Because They Help Us in Modern Times (3)

After cultivating patriotism on Ulleungdo.

Ymir and Baek Seol-hee had become close enough to call each other sisters.

Baek Seol-hee did speak formally to Ymir, but since she was naturally formal with everyone, it wasn’t strange.

What was truly strange was the exchange between these two.

“I’m telling you, the Goblin disappearing after battle is invisibility.”

“It’s not invisibility. I’ve watched it happen several times. It’s not becoming invisible, but its existence vanishes from that spot. The physical being disappears.”

“Then is it teleportation?”

“It’s not teleportation… Sigh, if I knew, I would have countered it already. Ymir, do you have any ideas?”

“……”

It’s good that they’re exchanging knowledge about abilities.

It’s beneficial for me to explain techniques from novels and comics that don’t exist in this world, and for them to make those abilities their own.

“I wouldn’t know. You’ve encountered the Goblin much longer than I have.”

“Ah, really. Next time I meet it, should I deploy an ice barrier to trap it like putting it in a refrigerator?”

But I wish they wouldn’t talk about the Goblin in front of me.

Especially…

“Ji-hwan, what do you think?”

When they ask for my opinion about the Goblin, I have no way to answer.

“…You know when a cockroach appears in your room and you trap it with a large paper cup, it flutters inside? Then it tries to crawl out from underneath.”

“Then should I create an ice barrier on the floor too? Hmm, this is difficult…”

In the end, I ended up suggesting methods to catch the Goblin myself, and Ymir refrained from making any “serves you right” gestures toward me when Baek Seol-hee was present.

-Teacher, you seemed extremely flustered earlier? Huh? Surprised? Weren’t you?

Instead, she only teased and needled me when Baek Seol-hee wasn’t around.

“If the Goblin’s ability is similar to Ymir’s spatial movement, there’s no reason for it to appear that way.”

“Reason to appear?”

“It shows up riding a motorcycle. Unlike Ymir who opens space and appears directly, it jumps over crowds to appear.”

“Does it appear like that…?”

“Not often, but the times it suddenly appeared are countable. That’s why everyone thought, ‘Ah, the Goblin just arrived extremely fast.’ It’s confusing because it disappears differently.”

Baek Seol-hee is right.

It appears from a distance when arriving, but disappears by becoming ethereal.

“I’m really curious how it vanishes from people like that. Didn’t someone shoot at the Goblin when it appeared in Gimpo?”

Ah.

I remember.

When I went to kill a demon that appeared on the Gimpo Airport runway, a villain who got off a plane shot at me as I was about to leave.

“All the bullets grazed the Goblin, and its body became blurry. As if it had become a phantom.”

“What? So it became a ghost or something?”

Ymir stretched her hands forward like a jiangshi and raised the corner of her mouth.

“I am the Goblin ghost…! Like that.”

“…Sigh. Forget it. Let’s talk about your ability instead, Ymir.”

Thankfully.

Thanks to Ymir, the topic shifted from the Goblin to Ymir’s ability, spatial movement.

“Teach me.”

“No, I don’t want to. If I teach you, you’ll always sneak off to the teacher. Then you’ll forget to take off your Taegeuk Watch and cause an accident.”

“I’m managing it thoroughly. Look. I don’t have my smartphone or Taegeuk Watch right now.”

“But you’re always busy checking, constantly worried about getting messages.”

“Ugh…!”

Baek Seol-hee wants spatial movement, and Ymir refuses to teach it.

“Among ability users, sharing your technique is like giving away your bank account password and bankbook. Surely you know this?”

“How much do you want?”

“If all abilities could be bought with money, wouldn’t the Haeguneul Group’s S-class be the strongest in the world?”

“Ugh… Really, you know why I need it!”

“I’m saying this because I know what you want to use it for. To travel between Sejong Island and Busan to handle villains all over the country? If so, I’d understand. But that’s not it.”

“……”

Baek Seol-hee, completely refuted.

“I wouldn’t sell it even for 10 billion won.”

“…What if I double that?”

“I wouldn’t sell it even for 1 trillion won.”

“I’d need to take out a loan for that.”

“No, I said I won’t sell it! It’s just a figure of speech! Ah, seriously, how much money can this woman get to be talking about loans for 1 trillion?”

“Government money.”

“Are you saying you’d use tax money to buy my ability?”

“If it’s for the nation, I think the government would support it.”

This time Ymir gaped in surprise.

“Teacher. Please stop her. A woman with impure intentions of illegally entering your home every day is asking me to teach her teleportation. Please help somehow.”

“I’d like teleportation ability too.”

“Teacher?”

Betrayed.

Ymir’s eyes looked at me as if saying, “Goblin, you too!”

“Honestly, I’m envious. With that… I could rush to see someone I want to meet right now.”

Since Do Ji-hwan is also envious with similar intentions, Baek Seol-hee isn’t strange.

“Ji-hwan…”

Taking care of Baek Seol-hee through this.

“Hmm, I wonder who you want to meet?”

“When someone wants to see me, I could rush over immediately to show my face.”

“What does that mean?”

“It means I’d rush over whenever someone calls for me.”

“…Hmph.”

Taking care of Ymir by saying I’d rush to her if she were in trouble if I had teleportation ability.

‘There’s so much to worry about.’

Sometimes it’s a bit headache-inducing trying to care for two women simultaneously, but it’s still somewhat better than being in the Syndicate.

Back then, being caught between the four executives was really difficult.

The Syndicate was, how should I put it, extremely… extreme.

There’s nothing else I can say about it.

“Ugh. Still, I’m not comfortable teaching spatial movement.”

“It’s not like I can teach you demonic purification.”

“Even if I wanted to teach that, I couldn’t. That’s my ‘unique skill,’ or whatever you’d call it.”

Among abilities, there are some that cannot be taught no matter how much you explain them.

Skills that only certain individuals can use are called unique skills, and my unique skill would be the Goblin’s club.

If I told others “I have the ability to create objects as I imagine them,” they might want it, but actually making it their own ability would be absurd.

“Seol-hee. Ymir not teaching spatial movement isn’t necessarily with bad intentions.”

To mediate between them, I patted Baek Seol-hee’s shoulder.

“When techniques are passed down, they inevitably end up looking similar. If you use a technique exactly like Ymir’s, you might face criticism.”

“Me?”

“Yes. Saying you’re copying Platinum Sun. Even though you’re S-class.”

Copying Platinum Sun.

Baek Seol-hee is a plagiarist.

Baek Seol-hee’s spatial movement isn’t as good as Ymir’s.

-Mine isn’t plagiarism!!

-Yes, plagiarism~ A patchwork novel with no originality~

-No!! I’ll definitely kill you!!

-Try it? You can’t, right? Infuriating, right? Angry, right? Want to kill me, right? What can you do, plagiar…wait, why are you actually here? Ugh, ahhh! It’s the demon of plagiarism!! Gack!!

“Seol-hee wants to use spatial movement to come see me. But in life, situations will arise where you’ll have to use spatial movement in front of others. And Seol-hee’s inner Snow White will use spatial movement. Yes, in a way similar to Platinum Sun.”

“And people will criticize me for that?”

“Yes. There will definitely be such people. Without fail.”

The world is full of people who nitpick over trivial things, and many become demons from the stress of dealing with such people.

“Even if you develop spatial movement, you’ll need your own special method. For now, let’s put aside creating portals in the air to move to different places.”

For the time being.

“If there comes a day when you two fight together, learning Ymir’s method for spatial movement afterward shouldn’t be a big problem.”

At the very least, someday when Platinum Sun and Snow White join forces against an enemy, it could be used as a means for the public to recognize that “they’ve become friends.”

“So even if it’s inconvenient now, please be patient about spatial movement for a while.”

“…If it’s inconvenient, I guess I’ll have to create spatial movement myself.”

Baek Seol-hee glared at Ymir and twisted the corner of her mouth.

“Later, I’ll appear here without Ymir’s help, so look forward to it.”

“Wow, that would be great for me. I wouldn’t need to transport you to the teacher’s house every day, I could just stay at the teacher’s house.”

The atmosphere is getting awkward again.

Is there something that could change the mood?

To overcome this difficulty—

“Well, maybe the three of us could lo—”

Beep beep.

Ymir’s Taegeuk Watch rang.

Soon, Ymir checked her watch, then took out her smartphone to check again, and smiled brightly.

“Yes!”

Ymir looked like she wanted to jump, no, she actually jumped and hugged me in joy.

“Teacher, I got my internship location!”

“Already?”

“Yes! Wow…! Teacher, where am I going?”

Ymir looked at Baek Seol-hee, then put her mouth to my ear and said.

“Teacher, want to go to Ulleungdo?”