Ch.540Chapter 20. American Doblin (30)

The Goblin was dead.

Then why did the Goblin die?

While the Demon of Amta was rampaging, Cheong Hyeseong went berserk, and in the process, the Goblin sacrificed himself with the magical bomb that was created.

The magical bomb disappeared.

But the wounds left by the Demon of Amta still remain throughout Osaka.

What does that mean?

It means that Japan is still full of men who have been TS’d and turned into women.

“Ugh?!”

“It’s useless. Radio signals are blocked, and you can’t send rescue requests outside. You’re a rat in a trap now.”

“You… you…! You’re Korean!”

“Whether I’m Joseon or Korean doesn’t matter.”

I examined my reflection in the bedroom mirror.

‘I look like a grim reaper.’

Wearing a black hat and black robe, I really do resemble a grim reaper.

“Hiiik…! What’s your purpose?!”

I don’t have dark circles under my eyes or anything, but it’s natural to be frightened if you see me in the darkness.

“What have you done to me?!”

Especially if that person had hit their head hard once, but didn’t feel any pain—they’d naturally be terrified.

“You, with some ability, did something to me!”

“And if I did?”

“Tell me! What did you do to me? What curse did you put on me?!”

“A curse, you say.”

I merely struck the air.

I stopped the scholar’s club just before contact and used magic to hit the air layer, creating a loud noise.

“I didn’t do anything.”

“Cut the nonsense! That can’t be true!”

“Believe it or not, that’s your choice. And whether you consider what I’m about to say as truth or not is also your choice.”

Like an insurance agent reciting terms and conditions, I clearly stated to Congressman Fujimura:

“What I’m about to tell you may be true, or it may be a lie.”

“You, you…!”

“You can’t return to being a man just like that anymore.”

“!!”

“Cursed by the demon, you won’t become a man again even if you do nothing.”

I don’t know what this congressman has done with his body.

“Once TS’d, forever TS’d. Returning to normal after being TS’d is impossible.”

“Wh-what…!”

“Now that you’ve become female, you’re destined to live as a female.”

His body and mind may have already become female, or he might have already done something as a woman, or he might still be maintaining his masculinity and pride.

“Accept it. You are a woman.”

“N-no! I’m a man! I was born a man and lived as a man for decades! I have a wife and a daughter!”

“The man you were is dead. Look in the mirror.”

“……!!”

Congressman Fujimura bit his lower lip as he looked at himself in the mirror.

He clenched his fists, tears welling in his eyes, his face flushed as he trembled.

“All I see before me is a terrified high school girl.”

How can I call this a man when all I see is someone behaving in ways no man would?

“But there is one way to return to being a man.”

“……!!”

I can see desperation in Congressman Fujimura’s eyes.

Amid the fear and suspicion directed at me, a tiny bit of ‘hope’ begins to appear.

“Find ‘the Goblin.'”

“…What?”

“If you find the Goblin, he will surely have a way.”

“What does that…?”

The Goblin.

“The Goblin became a woman when facing the Demon of Amta, but was a man again when he disappeared with the magical bomb. That clearly means the Goblin somehow broke the ability used by the Demon of Amta—yes, what you call ‘the curse of TS.'”

“!!”

Of course, that’s me.

“B-but he died!”

“Who determined that? Did they find the body? If so, where is it?”

“That’s….”

“Even if it’s deep in the southern sea of Osaka, you should find it. If the Goblin is alive, save him; if dead, at least recover his remains.”

“…….”

“If you want to become a man again, find the Goblin.”

But I am.

“I-if I really find the Goblin, can he turn me back into a man…?”

“It’s merely a possibility.”

Hope is a sweeter drug than anything else.

If there’s even a small possibility, people will throw everything at it.

“And.”

From now on.

“If you want to become a man again, you must never engage in certain activities.”

“Wh-what…?”

“Those intimate activities with men. You know what I’m talking about without me having to spell it out, right?”

“!!”

This is the real beginning of the curse.

“Touching yourself to clean is one thing, but if you start wanting to experience true female sensations, that’s the end. Even the Goblin couldn’t help you then.”

This is true.

No matter how much I swing the TS club, someone who deep down thinks “I want to live as a woman” is beyond salvation.

How could an ability restore someone who has fallen so far that they can’t return to being a man?

“T-then….”

“First, it would be best to keep men away. Stay away from men, avoid contact with them.”

“…….”

“Listen carefully. All men are wolves. Those who knew you before know what’s inside you, but those who meet you for the first time are different.”

“Huk…!”

“What will men who meet you for the first time think? Those who don’t know your previous form and meet you as a woman for the first time.”

The congressman’s eyes distort with fear and disgust.

“Even if they know, things change when they’re drunk or their mental strength wavers. You should know better, having been a man yourself, right?”

“Ah, aah….”

I am.

“Men are trash and beasts. They’re just horny dogs trying to rub against you to mount you.”

I decided to instill a certain ideology in these TS’d congressmen.

“So never fall into depravity. Only you can protect yourself.”

Distrust.

“Or only those who can see you not as a woman, but as your true self.”

“!!”

“Find them. Those who can see you as your complete self. Those who can be on your side. Those who can see you as a person, not as the opposite sex.”

Hope.

“Why… are you telling me all this? Aren’t you… Korean?”

“That is.”

I turned toward the balcony and stepped onto the railing.

“Because I am human.”

“……!”

After leaving that vague statement, I immediately fell from the railing and concealed my body with spirit form.

Thud.

Simultaneously, I grabbed the railing of the floor below, climbed back up to the apartment, and returned to the floor I had jumped from.

“Aah….”

The congressman looked down from the balcony with trembling eyes.

Thump thump thump.

“What’s happening, Congressman?!”

“Is something wrong?!”

Beyond the bedroom, security guards in the living room started stomping around.

They roughly knocked on the door, frantically trying to turn the doorknob to open it.

“Hii, hiiik…!!”

The congressman collapsed in fear.

I quietly climbed up to the roof of the apartment.

[What if he commits suicide?]

Platinum Sun and Ymir, waiting on the roof, looked at me with somewhat bitter eyes.

[What if he loses his mind and jumps off the balcony?]

[That’s why we’re watching now.]

[And when we leave?]

[It’s fine. He won’t die from this. If he was going to die, he would have done it when he first became a woman. And he definitely won’t commit suicide.]

The curse laid by the Demon of Amta is quite vicious.

[The Demon of Amta didn’t want those women to die; he sincerely wanted them to fall into depravity as women when he used his ability.]

[Hmm….]

[It’s better that I gave them hope. What if the Goblin is alive, or someone has inherited the Goblin’s ability? What then?]

[They’d try anything to get hit by the TS club and become men again.]

[Yes. Correct.]

They’ll search the Pacific Ocean to find the Goblin.

If someone claiming to have inherited the Goblin’s ability appears, they’ll do anything to arrange a meeting.

[So you want those people to support you?]

[Of course not.]

I’ve visited dozens of places besides Congressman Fujimura, but I don’t want the support of those who’ve been TS’d.

[Neither man nor woman. Socially, how many could there be?]

[…Social minorities?]

[Even if they were politicians, if they push away those who would support them, how will they have allies? They’ll push men away themselves, and they might want women around them, but who would take their side? Did these people ever treat women well in the past?]

The only ones who might support them would be women, people, family.

And if even they don’t support them, they’ll just be isolated from society.

[When they attacked social minorities as people in power, they thought it was natural, but now let’s quietly observe what happens when they themselves become social minorities.]

[Hmm….]

Wasn’t there a saying that there’s no country for old men?

Now, we could say there’s no country for TS women.

[Rumors are spreading. That the Demon of Amta turned men into women to make them bear children.]

-Maybe TS women give birth to 100% ability users www

-The reason they immediately looked for men after being TS’d was to get pregnant.

-Look at this www Superior Korean genes that only produce ability users www

[Is that…?]

[It’s not the Syndicate. The Syndicate is actually trying to stop it.]

I lightly tapped the floor with my foot.

[These rumors are spreading through keyboards in Tokyo’s net cafes and single-room apartments. That since they’ve been TS’d, their only way to serve the country now is to live as women.]

[……Ugh.]

[Since they became women through an ability, maybe if they get pregnant, they’ll give birth to real ability users.]

[Ugh…. Is that possible?]

[Yes.]

Surprisingly.

[Because the Demon of Amta desperately wanted it to happen.]

[…….]

In the age of abilities, imagination can create anything.

[What the Demon of Amta created wasn’t just TS women. It was an ‘ability user factory.’]

And.

[To avoid falling to the demon, you can only believe in yourself. I didn’t lie, did I?]

I could have told lies, but I told the truth.

[If you keep men close, you’ll naturally have those kinds of thoughts, so it’s only natural to keep them away.]

[Ah.]

[Of course, if that happens, they’ll reject men and need women to help them… but isn’t it their own karma if women don’t help?]

If they’ve lived virtuously, they might gain sympathy.

[There’s a reason the word karma exists.]

But if they haven’t lived virtuously.

[If you’ve wronged others, all those wrongs will come back to you eventually.]

They will lose sympathy.

[Who knows? If they start living kindly from now on, they might keep their sympathy.]

[You’re talking about sympathy, right?]

[Of course.]

Even if they fall into depravity and ruin as the Demon of Amta wanted.

[As long as they’re not bad enough to deserve death, even human trash can be recycled by the Syndicate.]

[Human trash….]

[That’s right. Even if they’re abandoned by family, country, and the world, shouldn’t there be at least one person who sympathizes with them?]

Even if they fall into the abyss, humans need a ray of hope to live.

[The Syndicate becomes that ray of hope.]

[That’s the Syndicate’s world conquest.]

[You know the story of the Sun and Moon siblings? A rope of hope for the siblings. A rotten rope for the tiger.]

[Weren’t the siblings good children?]

[Yes. But as long as the siblings aren’t beasts worse than the tiger, we can offer them a rope of sympathy, can’t we?]

Even if some consider us evil spirits like “Yimemangryang.”

[Yes, we will….]

We will be the ray of light shining in the darkness.

[The Syndicate will become ‘Heaven.’]