Ch.517Chapter 20. American Doblin (7)

When someone accuses a person of being a criminal.

Proving that it’s not true is truly difficult.

That’s the situation now.

“Do you understand now? I am not a pedophile.”

Facing several pairs of eyes looking at me, I proved with all my might that I am not a pedophile.

“Isn’t that right, Chairman?”

“Of course. Goblin being a pedophile? That’s as absurd as saying this world is actually inside a novel.”

The Chairman answered while taking a big bite of the ice cream that Seong Ji-eun had brought, sitting on my lap on the sofa.

“Goblin just loves me no matter what form I take. It just happens that my current form is like this—in a ‘lightweight state.'”

That’s our Chairman for you.

Her willingness to personally defend her subordinate against the world’s false accusations and misunderstandings is so lovable.

“Aah.”

I held a spoon of ice cream to her mouth. The Chairman bit into the ice cream, while the person who had the biggest stake in falsely accusing me of being a pedophile just stared with envious eyes.

“Ms. Ymir. If you want to experience this too, it would be impossible with that large body of yours, wouldn’t it?”

“Ngh…!”

“Being able to sit on Goblin’s thighs, having Goblin hug you from behind with his chin resting perfectly on your forehead, having Goblin wrap his arms around you from behind and hold you like a doll—all of this is only possible because I’ve become this small. Do you understand now?”

“Grrrr…!”

Ymir ground her teeth as she looked at the Chairman and me with a complicated expression. Her gaze was clearly one of envy, comparable to someone sucking their thumb while watching Baek Seol-hee and me being patriotic together.

…Correction.

“Mir.”

“Yes, teacher.”

“If you’re thinking about being patriotic while in this position, that’s a bit much, don’t you think?”

“…Teacher.”

Ymir put down the ice cream she had been eating and spoke seriously.

“Do I look like someone who would think, ‘I should also shrink down, sit in his lap, and do those things secretly while others aren’t looking’?”

“Your expression says exactly that.”

“Then let me change the question. Do you have an ability to read people’s minds among your powers?”

“That’s something this person has.”

I gently stroked the head of the Chairman who was eating ice cream in front of me.

“Mind reading is possible if the conditions are met. And I can also telepathically transmit those thoughts to specific individuals without others knowing.”

“Don’t tell me the Chairman read my thoughts and transmitted them to you?”

“We just cross-verified.”

I read Ymir’s expression by intuition, and the Chairman provided confirmation.

“Chairman. Are you really going to make Ymir your ‘partner’?”

“I think she’s a perfect partner. Actually, I want to learn from her. How can she think such things in this position?”

The Chairman genuinely admires Ymir.

“It’s not like all her mental filters lead to patriotism.”

“I don’t think that way about everything, but I speak and act freely with you, teacher, because I can!”

“I like that mindset. Keep that patriotic spirit and feel free to be patriotic with Goblin all you want, Ms. Ymir.”

The Chairman reached out toward Ymir, moving her hand in the air as if a king knighting a warrior.

“I hereby appoint you as the Syndicate’s official handler for the Goblin’s Bat.”

“It’s nice to get a title, but what benefits come with it?”

“The right to pounce on Goblin without him complaining?”

“Oh my, really?”

“Chairman?”

I pulled back the spoon I was about to put in the Chairman’s open mouth.

“Why do you keep encouraging someone who’s already prone to going overboard to be patriotic?”

“But there’s no other woman as enthusiastic, dedicated, and capable of lasting as long as Ymir.”

“So you’re assigning her to me exclusively? That means I’ll be forced to be patriotic at all hours?”

“Being patriotic is the fastest path to ruling this world.”

The Chairman spoke with conviction.

“Remove politicians from each world from their positions and replace them with many of Goblin’s offspring and their followers.”

“No.”

“The children born between Goblin and S-rank individuals would be SS-rank talents who could lead corrupt nations back to the right path.”

“Are you planning to revert the world to a monarchy?”

“I’m just joking, joking.”

Her words didn’t sound like jokes, which sent a chill down my spine.

“But you know, there’s something that sounds like a joke but isn’t. It’s about time I revealed the ‘truth’ to everyone here.”

The Chairman adjusted her posture seriously.

“Why do I cherish and love this man so much? Why do I care for him enough to send three of the four executives?”

Ymir, as well as Cheon Ju-yeon and Seong Ji-eun who had been quietly listening, straightened their postures.

“The reason is that Goblin’s genes are superior.”

“Genes…?”

“You see, with Goblin…”

The Chairman lowered her voice.

“A child born with Goblin’s genes inherits the mother’s rank exactly. That’s how you should think of it.”

“……?”

Ymir tilted her head.

At the same time, the expressions of the other two began to harden.

“…That wasn’t a joke?”

“Chairman. Are you serious about this?”

“I’ve never joked about this.”

The Chairman is serious.

“Because it’s not a joke, I want to be the first to have a child and confirm it.”

“…No way.”

“What kind of being would be born from an SSS-rank, no, an EX-rank ability user and Goblin? Of course I’m having the child out of love, but I’m also curious about what kind of ability a child of Goblin would be born with.”

She’s truly serious, not lying at all.

“If a child is guaranteed, definitively, to be born with the mother’s ability. Or if they’re born with not just the ability but also the same level of magical power. What kind of being would that be?”

“…Insane.”

Cheon Ju-yeon let out a hollow laugh with her mouth wide open.

“So, if I… well, I don’t even need to use myself as an example. If Baek Seol-hee had a child, that child would be…”

“Snow White. An S-rank ice ability user born with Goblin’s mana silver spoon in their mouth from birth.”

“…Then if.”

Seong Ji-eun cautiously raised her hand.

“Assuming I’m alive, if I were to get pregnant with Goblin’s child and give birth…”

“There would be one more S-rank earth sorcerer. In your case, Cheon Ju-yeon, it would be a male Cheong Hye-seong or a female Cheon Ju-yeon.”

“This is crazy.”

Cheon Ju-yeon glared at me with a hardened expression.

“You’ve been spreading such incredible genes all over Korea?!”

“I haven’t been spreading them carelessly.”

My genes are precious.

“The frequency might be high, but I’ve only spread them in limited places.”

“Are those limited places here, there, and two other places?”

“Um, pointing so explicitly at my stomach is uncomfortable…”

Ymir blushed and adjusted her posture.

“Ahem. So, teacher…”

“If he swings his bat around and spreads his genes to every woman in the world, it would mean copying the mother’s rank in an ability user every 10 months.”

The Chairman raised both hands to stroke the top of my head.

“Frankly speaking, if this man went to China and revealed this ability, what would China do? They would line up all their ability users from E-rank to S-rank and have them imprinted with Goblin’s genes.”

“…The number of ability users would double every year.”

“Exactly. And would China be the only one? This isn’t confirmed yet, but what about non-ability users?”

The Chairman is convinced.

“Even if the mother is an ordinary person, since Goblin is an ability user, the child would be born as an ability user with minimum compensation.”

“…So if he spreads his seed to ordinary people, the child will definitely be at least E-rank?”

“That’s what I believe.”

“…Wait, my head is spinning.”

Seong Ji-eun frowned, pressing her head with her hand.

“Sis. Did you know about this?”

“No, I thought it was a joke. It doesn’t make sense. That every child born would be an ability user? It’s not logical.”

“That illogical ability is what Goblin possesses.”

The Chairman proudly slipped her hand under my chin, cradling my face with her hand.

“An ability user maker.”

“…….”

“In a world where maybe one ability user is born among a million people, if he spreads his seed to a million people, a million ability users would be born… no, that’s not right. Let me correct myself.”

The Chairman shook her head firmly.

“There’s exactly one person on Earth who can make ability users be born plus additional ones, and what would happen if the world found out about this?”

“Um, what do you mean by additional ones…?”

“Twins or triplets.”

“Ah.”

That’s right.

“If twins are conceived, both twins are born as ability users. And it’s not like an S-rank splits into two B-ranks—they’re both born as S-ranks.”

There is an enormous future potential latent in me, or more precisely, in this man named Do Ji-hwan.

“If Goblin’s genes were spread to all 3 billion women on Earth, what? 3 billion ability users in just one year?”

What can be created with the Goblin’s Bat is the materialization of imagination.

“Among the 6 billion people in the world, wouldn’t there be at least one person with the ability to ‘guarantee that any child born will be an ability user’?”

And in this world, imagination becomes power.

“Goblin has the power to preserve the mother’s ability and magical power and pass it on to the next generation.”

The power to copy ability users.

“Possessing that power exclusively within the Syndicate is the fastest and easiest way to rule this world.”

The Chairman plans for the Syndicate alone to monopolize this.

“Should we distribute SSR guaranteed gacha tickets, or should we keep them all to ourselves?”