Ch.60Chapter 3. It’s Not Technology Leakage, It’s Advice! (1)

Morning had come.

Outside, the sunlight sparkled, and birds chirped their songs announcing the morning on Ulleungdo.

“Did you sleep well?”

“Yes. How about you, Seol-hee? Was your bed comfortable?”

“Completely. …Hmm.”

Baek Seol-hee limped slightly, but soon shrugged her shoulders as she fiddled with her hair using a towel and sat down at the vanity.

Whirrr.

As she naturally picked up the hair dryer and began drying her hair, I felt an inexplicable awkwardness.

This woman is standing in front of me wearing only a white robe.

Last night, she had left her Taegeuk Watch behind, come all the way to Ulleungdo, and tormented someone all night under the pretext of counseling.

Whether it was me who was troubled or whether she herself was troubled by talking, only Baek Seol-hee would know, but at this point, after some time had passed, there was something quite embarrassing.

“Seol-hee.”

“Yes.”

“Shouldn’t you be checking your Taegeuk Watch soon?”

“……”

Baek Seol-hee briefly turned off the hair dryer and pouted.

“I’d like to talk more.”

“It’s Monday today. You need to go back to work.”

“That’s fine. Actually, I took a day off today.”

Baek Seol-hee playfully winked at me and turned the hair dryer back on.

“Since there was such a major incident with demons running wild, I was instructed to rest at home for a day. That’s why I came here.”

“Won’t someone be looking for you?”

“After arguing with my superiors yesterday until our faces turned red, no one will contact me carelessly. At least… not until noon?”

“Noon, huh.”

Coincidentally, checkout time is also at noon.

“I know you’re worried that someone might call the Taegeuk Watch, and that they might find out I’m not on Sejong Island but in Ulleungdo, but you don’t need to worry too much. If a scandal breaks, I’ll take responsibility. For you, Ji-hwan.”

“That’s reassuring, but if I were a powered individual, my mental state would probably explode along with the scandal. Haha…”

“Why?”

“The moment I become known as the man who had an ‘Ulleung’ time alone with the national hero Snow White, death threats and curse letters would fly in from all directions.”

“I’ll make sure that doesn’t happen by arranging a house in some quiet place on Sejong Island. If I request the government to create a quiet position for you, they would do at least that much.”

“But wouldn’t you have to give something in return to the government?”

“If I say I’ll serve the country this way, the government would be happy about it, right? At least outwardly.”

Baek Seol-hee lightly tapped her stomach, and I felt dizzy at her words.

“Seol-hee…”

“I’m joking. I have no intention of constraining you because of my circumstances. I just wanted to see you flustered.”

“Me?”

“Yes. Like… if we could just solve the risk of someone discovering that I’ve disappeared from Sejong Island, I feel like you’d want to continue talking here.”

“That’s true. Though I’d prefer if the conversation didn’t keep going in that direction.”

There are things I want to tell Baek Seol-hee.

I have thoughts I want to share after organizing my thoughts during sleep about what we discussed until dawn, and there are also some things I want to tell her about her abilities.

‘If I don’t tell her now, she’ll do a “cast off” in front of the protagonist, so I need to talk to her about it now.’

To prevent her from facing an embarrassing situation later.

Although the protagonist hasn’t been specified yet, Baek Seol-hee’s “cast off” incident in front of others is one of the events in the original work that happens at the beginning of the semester.

‘As a friend, I can’t allow that.’

I need to naturally lead the conversation.

“Seol-hee. How do you plan to return?”

“…Well, I’ll have to wear my long padded coat.”

Baek Seol-hee started looking at me with a sour expression.

“How many sets of clothes do you have right now? No, what do you have that can be called clothes?”

“A robe, a swimsuit, and a long padded coat…?”

“At night it might be fine, but now it’s daytime, a Monday weekday at that. Don’t you think people would find it strange to see you in a tightly buttoned long padded coat?”

“If the weather is cold today…”

“Have you ever heard of an S-class hero being affected by the weather? Moreover, you’re an ice-type ability user.”

“……”

She had impulsively swum all the way to Ulleungdo out of anger, but now Baek Seol-hee faced a major problem.

“Where is your Taegeuk Watch now?”

“In my room at the dormitory.”

“No, how did you leave?”

“I left the Taegeuk Watch behind and climbed out through the balcony window.”

“So when you go back, you’ll wear the padded coat and climb in through the balcony window?”

“Yes.”

“Are you confident no one will catch you? All the way to the center of Sejong Academy?”

“……”

Baek Seol-hee gave an awkward smile.

“You didn’t think of a plan before leaving?”

“…I just left because I was angry. I wanted to meet you right away and vent.”

“Haa. Well… alright. It’s not like we don’t have any options.”

I held up two fingers to Baek Seol-hee.

“One is to buy clothes here in Ulleungdo. I’ll have to go buy them. You stay here, and I’ll have to go quickly by myself.”

“Won’t people think it’s strange? A man alone buying women’s clothes?”

“…How can you say that?”

Baek Seol-hee lowered her head with an embarrassed smile.

“The other option is to use your ability.”

“My ability?”

“Yes. There’s a good reference video…”

Ah.

Come to think of it.

‘Was there…?’

Search result.

In this world, there’s “Let It Be” but no “Let It Go.”

‘It would be perfect to show her the scene where she creates her own dress while letting her hair down with ice magic!!’

What a predicament.

I was slightly shocked that “Frozen Kingdom” doesn’t exist.

“What’s wrong?”

“…I’m having trouble finding the reference I was thinking of. In that case… I’ll have to show you a somewhat extreme example.”

I connected my smartphone to the TV.

“Don’t misunderstand. I’m just using this as reference material.”

“…It’s the Goblin.”

“Yes.”

The scene where he says [Transform.] unfolds before our eyes.

Although many videos have been taken down from the internet, some still remain.

“The Goblin transformed from a suit like this. How do you think he transformed?”

“……”

“Did he summon clothes? Did he convert the mana arrangement of his suit into a superhero outfit? Or did he put it on over his suit? There are all kinds of speculations. What do you think the answer is, Seol-hee?”

“…Maybe he remotely summons it from some facility?”

“Do you really think so?”

“Yes. Of course that’s-“

Baek Seol-hee was about to say something but stopped immediately.

“…I don’t know what you were going to say. The important thing is how this Goblin suddenly produced such a suit. It’s just a hypothesis, but through this, you can overcome the predicament of ‘having no clothes.'”

“What hypothesis?”

“It’s simple.”

I paused the transformation scene.

“Create clothes with magical power.”

“…What?”

“If you can create weapons, overturn mountains, and do all sorts of things with magical power, why wouldn’t you be able to create clothes?”

“Create… clothes?”

“Yes. Just as you create a protective barrier with magical power, create clothes with magical power. Make them detailed, delicate, and in colors that others would think are just normal clothes.”

“Clothes with magical power.”

Baek Seol-hee fell into serious contemplation.

Furrowing her brow, she brought her hands forward to summon magical power and began to concentrate with her eyes closed.

“……”

While she was fully focused on controlling her magical power, I quietly headed to the kitchen and closed the door.

“Alright. Today it’s nude kimbap.”

She probably won’t complain that it’s a California roll.

* * *

She gathers magical power.

She moves the magical power like a thread, creating a form.

The imaging process is like a 3D scanner.

Based on the image in her mind, she builds it up layer by layer to a 1:1 scale.

And thus, a set of clothes is created.

“…Hmph.”

Baek Seol-hee licked her lips at the clothes that appeared before her.

“It might look similar…?”

It was a white short-sleeved T-shirt like someone had been wearing, taken off at night but put back on in the morning.

It was much thicker than a winter cotton shirt, but for a first attempt, it was quite good.

“…Hmm.”

Baek Seol-hee hugged the T-shirt and closed her eyes.

The clothes she created with magical power were extremely simple, but they were enough to cover what she was wearing underneath.

If she wore this magically created shirt over her swimsuit, it would certainly divert people’s attention.

“Thanks to Ji-hwan.”

Do Ji-hwan is always a man who gives her new experiences.

He’s full of novel experiences she never had before, and she looks forward to what new experiences he’ll give her in the future.

If she could use this to create some kind of weapon or suit, then the next time she meets the Goblin—

“…Ah!”

Baek Seol-hee clutched the shirt.

“What if I transform at ultra-high speed that others can’t perceive with their eyes? Ah…!”

She remembered.

The second time the Goblin transformed, he spread a golden storm around him to conceal his body.

Perhaps that was some kind of device to hide his transformation?

Beyond simply being a gimmick to block attacks, was it a means to hide the fact that he was creating clothing from his mana released externally?

“…Phew.”

Baek Seol-hee stood in the middle of the room.

After putting the shirt aside, Baek Seol-hee composed her magical power with the thought of releasing it from her entire body.

And then—

“Trans…form.”

FWOOOSH!!

Magical power exploded from her body and scattered in all directions.

Knock knock knock.

“I’m coming in.”

Creak.

The door opened.

Do Ji-hwan entered the room with a plate of nude kimbap—and froze in place.

“…Instead of creating clothes, did you erase them?”

He quietly went back outside.

“……”

Baek Seol-hee collapsed into a chair.

Frost covered the entire room and the chair was frozen, but Baek Seol-hee’s head burned as hot as an active volcano.

That morning.

Baek Seol-hee acquired a new skill called self-destruction.

A self-destruct technique that sacrifices the clothes she’s wearing to explode massive magical power centered on herself.