Ch.602Chapter 23. Patriotic General Do Ji-hwan (6)

Pregnancy Retirement.

When I first did it, it was quite troublesome, but once it was done, I found that no one dared to touch me.

Even Choi Ho-jung publicly declared, “Don’t mess with Baek Seol-hee!” As a result, there were almost no attacks against pregnant women.

I couldn’t say there were none at all.

But those “real” cases were simply handled by the Syndicate.

Those who criticized women for carelessly using their bodies immediately shut their mouths upon hearing the news of “pregnancy.”

Because of the taboo against harming pregnant women.

And the person who came up with the idea of using this taboo to deceive people is the woman right in front of us.

“Ms. Kim Yoon-ji.”

“Yes.”

“Thanks to you, Ms. Kim Yoon-ji, I’ve now become a historic scumbag who has impregnated Baek Seol-hee, Yoon Yi-seon, and now you.”

“……”

She ignored the reporters, boldly entered through the main gate, and came all the way to Baek Seol-hee’s house. Thunder Empress Kim Yoon-ji, still kneeling—

“Thank you.”

She said this while drinking tea.

“It may be a phantom pregnancy, but publicly I’m now carrying Do Ji-hwan’s patriotic child. I look forward to working with you.”

“Seriously. There’s not even a gap for a thorn to enter.”

“There is some room for Do Ji-hwan’s awakening rod to enter, though.”

“This won’t do. Somehow all these S-ranks are saying strange things. I’ll need to seriously educate you all soon.”

“In bed, you mean?”

“……”

Even Kim Yoon-ji is joking around.

She’s letting her guard down, and her expression is much more relaxed than her usual tense look, so I couldn’t say anything.

“Ms. Kim Yoon-ji.”

“I know. People are cursing Do Ji-hwan terribly right now. But thanks to me, other suspicions have been avoided, right?”

“What suspicions?”

“Pedo-jihwan.”

“……”

Kim Yoon-ji pointed at Yoon Yi-seon, who was sitting demurely beside her.

“I hate to say this, but thanks to me, people can’t misunderstand about you impregnating Yi-seon. You should be grateful to me, right? Thank me for helping you avoid pedophilia accusations.”

“Unnie. I’m not that young, you know? How is this pedophilia?”

“You might not know, but there were guys on the internet who made jokes about you being ‘spoiled’ after seeing your Firefox form.”

“Ugh… I really hate that.”

Yoon Yi-seon immediately released her magical power and transformed into a fire fox—a tall woman with a build similar to Kim Yoon-ji’s.

Thanks to converting her body into mana, her mana pouch was much more inflated than Kim Yoon-ji’s, but that was true even before the transformation.

“There was a comment that was censored recently. May I share it?”

“What is it?”

“‘Death to Do Ji-hwan who awakened the rarest loli with big breasts.'”

“What a lunatic.”

I have to admit there’s some truth to it.

Yoon Yi-seon’s body type was certainly not ordinary, and among so-called lolitas, she was like an oasis in the desert for those with the perverted desire that “even lolis should have big breasts.”

But from their perspective, that body type has now become just an ordinary tall woman with large breasts due to growth, so those perverts who supported her pre-awakening form would be furious with Do Ji-hwan.

“Congratulations. As an S-rank who impregnates women regardless of whether they control ice, fire, or electricity, at least you can shed the ‘Pedo-jihwan’ image.”

“You really say terrible things so casually.”

Me, a pedophile?

That’s absurd.

“Come on. Thank me properly. Thanks to me announcing my pregnancy retirement with Do Ji-hwan’s child, Do Ji-hwan can now be seen as a normal Korean man with healthy sexual desires. Repeat after me: Thank you, Thunder Empress Yoon-ji.”

“Thank you, Thunder Empress Yoon-ji, for helping me shake off the pedophilia accusations.”

I’m not sure if it’s something to be thankful for, but thanks to Kim Yoon-ji having morning sickness in front of people, the word “accusation” could be attached to an entry on the wiki.

“So now you both have about 10 months for something like closed-door training. What are your plans? You must have things to do while sitting out the World Cup.”

“Hmm… research this ability and rise to SS-rank?”

“I have similar plans. I want to focus on my personal growth and develop the strength to face S-rank villains, demons, or beings beyond that.”

No matter how much the world calls it pregnancy retirement, for them it’s just “parental leave.”

In fact, neither of them is actually pregnant, but if they use the time gained through false parental leave not for personal benefit but for humanity, even I can understand.

Sometimes, heroes need to deceive everyone to protect the world and achieve justice.

This is one of those times.

“Unnie. Later, if it’s revealed that teacher is a Goblin, I’m planning to actually get pregnant with the Goblin’s child. What about you?”

“Hmm… if I get pregnant too, that would put too much burden on Irin over there, so I think I’ll do it after you give birth.”

“Oh my, you’re considering pregnancy?”

“If I were to get pregnant with another man’s child here, people would think of me as shameless for using Do Ji-hwan to get stronger and then having a relationship with another man.”

“……”

Kim Yoon-ji’s words made my head spin for a moment.

“Isn’t that right? Beyond receiving help from a patriotic hero, I developed feelings for him and had his child. People would just accept that. Even though that man sticks his awakening rod into various women, at least the public’s view of me would be that of a woman with unwavering devotion to one man. But marrying another man would be different.”

Kim Yoon-ji is right.

“The whole world knows that Do Ji-hwan was my first. If I marry another man and have a child, what would people say about that child?”

“That’s excessive criticism.”

“Someone might use that excessive criticism to break my child’s mental state. For example, if my child becomes an S-rank lightning mage. A villain might say to my child, ‘Your ability comes from Do Ji-hwan!'”

“……”

“‘Your mother actually got stronger by having patriotic sex with Do Ji-hwan, and then married your father and had you! Your genetic father might be your father, but it was Do Ji-hwan who made you such a powerful ability user!'”

“That seems like an excessive worry.”

I said that, but that’s exactly the kind of mental attack villains use.

Family insults are their standard approach.

“Even if it’s excessive, I’m thinking about it now, and there’s no law preventing villains from thinking the same way. I don’t want my child to have their mother as a weakness.”

“What about having a child with Do Ji-hwan?”

“Hearing ‘You must be happy having multiple mothers’ isn’t a big problem, but wouldn’t hearing something like ‘You must be happy having two fathers’ be more psychologically damaging?”

“……”

And Thunder Empress’s plan is to prevent her child from hearing such insults.

This is about when she has a child.

“Are you okay with this? Your marriage prospects are blocked.”

“It’s not like I absolutely have to get married, and since Do Ji-hwan has become a ‘nationally recognized intangible cultural asset,’ it’s fine. No matter how many patriotic children he creates in the future, I have no intention of dating other men.”

While Yoon Yi-seon genuinely thinks it’s okay to have the Goblin’s child rather than Do Ji-hwan’s—

Kim Yoon-ji is saying she has no intention of having another man’s child anyway, but I’m acceptable.

It’s absurd, but perhaps she’s already thinking about what would happen if she actually got pregnant after telling everyone about her phantom pregnancy.

“What do you think, Yi-seon? Is this enough qualification to be someone who bears the Goblin’s child?”

“As the honorary advisor to the Goblin Fan Club, I approve. A woman who bears the Goblin’s child should naturally be someone who experienced all her firsts with the Goblin.”

“Why do I feel like I’m being unicorned in reverse?”

The fan is demanding that I be a unicorn.

“Yi-seon. Are you saying I can’t date women who’ve dated other men?”

“Yes, of course. How dare you try to tarnish the Goblin brand?”

“……”

“The Goblin doesn’t belong just to you, teacher. People who have patriotic sex with the Goblin… no, wait. I’m speaking as if everyone already knows that Do Ji-hwan is the Goblin. But it doesn’t really matter either way, so I’ll speak as I please. Listen carefully.”

Yoon Yi-seon spoke more seriously than she did at the press conference.

“The moment you start consulting with a woman who’s even held hands with another man, all the women who’ve consulted with you or had your children become ‘that kind of woman.'”

“More precisely, people will look for excuses to criticize unfairly.”

“But what if they were all virgins? I mean, they wouldn’t be virgins anymore after experiencing Do Ji-hwan’s awakening rod throughout their bodies, but…”

“The image of unwavering devotion to one man would be maintained. Then everyone in the world would know that all the patriotic women who had patriotic sex with Do Ji-hwan are pure beings who won’t have any relationship with any man other than Do Ji-hwan.”

“This is maddening.”

They’re forcibly turning me into a virgin-obsessed—or to put it nicely, a unicorn.

“It’s convincing.”