Ch.617Chapter 23. Patriotic General Do Ji-hwan (21)

I could not obtain the gold ball through the cradle without breaking it.

It’s a selfish mindset wanting returns without taking risks, but it can also be called efficient thinking.

For irredeemable waste, there’s Zenros or execution.

But if something is recyclable, it’s obviously better to turn them into heroes who work for the world as ability users.

If something just looks dirty because of contaminants, you can wash it and use it.

If contaminants have seeped into the body, you can cut off and discard only the contaminated parts.

If it’s not completely ruined, you can recycle it in whatever way is appropriate.

However.

S-class ability users are different.

The mental strength of S-class ability users is both stronger and more delicate than anyone else’s, making them difficult to break or brainwash.

Because their sense of self, their ego, is strong.

Even if their remaining mana is depleted, they would resist brainwashing with their already developed brain and mental strength.

If S-class users could be easily brainwashed, couldn’t we just hit them on the back of the head with a magic club and send them all to ideological training? That would solve everything.

Since that’s impossible, we have to use these cumbersome methods.

Just as losing your virginity once doesn’t make you worthless, if someone doesn’t need to be sent to Green Camp, we try to rehabilitate them with the mindset of making them human again.

With love, motherhood, and contribution to humanity and the future.

To create that situation, I placed a restriction on three women, including Yoo-hyun.

“For an ability user to lose their mana—to create what’s called a ‘Zenros’ state—you have to destroy their future potential. To put it medically without euphemisms, Zenros is the complete destruction of reproductive cells.”

Making them infertile.

Among those methods, the most certain way for men is ‘breaking the eggs,’ and for women—

Since the expression might become a bit intense, to put it more delicately, it could be euphemized as ‘removing the function of the baby room.’

The moment one loses the ability to bring forth future possibilities, mana no longer dwells in the ability user’s body.

The mana residing in the body also leaves because it has no intention of blessing life creation in rotten seeds and barren fields.

That’s Zenros.

Here, I had one thought.

-Then what happens if an ability user gets sterilized?

It was a question worth pondering.

A matter worth thinking about.

And since there had been no such cases until now, I experimented on three women.

And the conclusion.

“When I tied them, they underwent Zenros.”

“!!”

Yoo-hyun remained still with her ears open, her expression indescribable.

She wasn’t questioning whether my words were true.

She was shocked by the realization that what was happening to her body was a ‘semi-permanent sterilization.’

“Y-you crazy… Don’t tell me you tampered with my organs…?”

“Yes. It’s a miraculous seal created by combining modern medicine, science, and ability.”

An obstetrician.

An acupuncturist specializing in long needles.

An electric-type ability user.

A mana gold transformation ability user.

“I tied your fallopian tubes with mana gold.”

And me.

“I inserted a very thin thread into your body and tightly tied your fallopian tubes.”

“Y-you’re insane…. What on earth are you talking about…?”

“It’s a crazy idea, but it was possible. And it succeeded. Just as you are now.”

“You crazy bastard—!!”

Yoo-hyun’s face flushed as she jumped up from the bed.

Thwack!

“A flying kick, really.”

“Kyaah!”

Her posture as she launched a dropkick toward my face was as impressive as professional wrestling, but my face received no impact.

“L-let go! You crazy trash! How could you be so low…!”

“Low? No. I’m giving you a chance, I tell you.”

“This kind of chance…!”

Yoo-hyun landed on the bed, keeping her distance from me, her face red as she began to breathe heavily.

“Is that all you have in your head?! How could you think of such things and do this?!”

“But you underwent Zenros. As an ability user. Shall I loosen it a bit, just once?”

“!!”

I raised my hand as if untying a thread.

“If I undo the mana string of the seal wrapped around your fallopian tubes, just slightly…”

Slowly.

“……!!”

A blue light flashed in Yoo-hyun’s eyes.

It was just for a moment, but mana flowed in her eyes.

“That’s enough.”

“Ah, aah…!!”

Plop.

Yoo-hyun collapsed onto the bed.

Her legs gave way, and she knelt down, hanging her head low with a vacant expression.

Like someone who checked an old lottery ticket found in an old coat, only to discover it was from a year ago and past the collection deadline.

“Ah, ahaha…. This can’t be. This, this method….”

“It worked. That’s the law of the world.”

“Did you tie my sisters too…?!”

“Yes. I’ve already explained everything to them. You’re the last one left.”

“!!”

Yoo-hyun pointed at me with a reddened face.

“W-what did you do to my sisters! What exactly happened in the next room!”

Let me clarify in advance that the rooms are thoroughly soundproofed, so no sound could be heard between them.

“Nothing much. I explained the situation, informed them of the limited conditions they could choose from, and told them that no matter how much they struggled, they couldn’t undo the restriction tied inside their bodies. It’s a physical restraint, but at the same time, it’s an ‘ability’ phenomenon that isn’t physical.”

“W-what…?”

“Even if you surgically remove the binding thread, you’ll remain in a Zenros state unless it’s removed through ability. Did you think I wouldn’t have accounted for that?”

“T-then if I cut it out….”

“The moment it’s cut, you undergo Zenros.”

The reason I tied the tubes instead of cutting them was to prevent Zenros.

Because they’re not cut, there’s still ‘possibility’ left; the moment they’re cut, the mana will leave the body.

“Rest assured. You can’t use your mana now, but there’s still a minimal amount left to protect your physical body.”

“…….”

“You felt it earlier, didn’t you? The mana flowing in your body. The moment the seal was slightly loosened, mana began to flow again.”

“How can I, do it?”

In Yoo-hyun’s eyes.

“How can I, become an ability user again?”

Hope began to sparkle in her eyes.

The hope of regaining her ability.

“…I’ll get revenge. I’ll definitely defeat you and tie your vas deferens.”

“Tie it? Not cut it?”

“You need to feel exactly what I’m feeling. The feeling of having everything taken away and being unable to get it back.”

“I see.”

Since I was nothing special from the beginning, losing my ability wouldn’t be terribly inconvenient.

It would just be like returning to a life without electronic devices like computers and smartphones, but I could still live.

“I look forward to it. Then, to tie my vas deferens, you need to regain your mana, and for that, you need to undo the seal. The way to undo the seal is….”

“Pregnancy, right? Tell me the principle, right now. Specifically. Without missing anything.”

“Love and motherhood.”

“What?”

“When love and motherhood grow stronger, the seal is designed to weaken.”

That’s the principle from the beginning.

“Even if it’s a seal through ability, it can’t suppress the ‘world’s desire.'”

Since it’s a seal that actively utilizes the will of Hwan, the seal doesn’t work in a direction that goes against Hwan’s providence.

“If you earnestly wish to become pregnant, the entire universe will make it happen.”

“…Suddenly talking nonsense.”

“It’s not nonsense. It makes sense both in terms of ability and logic. For the sake of explanation, I need a rough hypothesis….”

Bang.

“Let’s say you married a divorced man named Kim Min-je who lives in Dongtan.”

“Why a divorced man…? Do you want to insult me that much…?”

“No. Since he’s divorced, he’ll treat you better. Of course, it depends on how you act.”

I tapped the wall-mounted TV in the hotel room to temporarily display an electronic board.

“If you do better than his ex-wife, you’ll be loved. And if you receive that man’s love and genuinely come to love him. And then if you sincerely wish to have his child….”

I displayed a hologram of human organs, a diagram of her cradle structure.

“The fallopian tubes that were still will expand on their own. For the sake of patriotism.”

“W-where are you tapping with the back of your hand like that!”

“Your cradle. Well, actually the TV.”

I pointed to the center of the diagram with my finger.

“If you sincerely wish to have a child, your cradle will begin preparing to give birth, and naturally, it will try to bring the baby seed to the cradle. If you truly desire it, with a strong will that can break through even the seal, you can become an ability user again. Like this.”

I brought an ice model I had prepared for her.

“What’s that…?”

“Gwanun recognized from this that I have a close relationship with Baek Seol-hee. Jangdeok called it a churros hot dog… Anyway, look at this.”

A long ice tube.

Something like a snake is tightly coiled around it.

“Even if there’s a cunning snake aiming for the golden apple, it can’t stop the will of life creation.”

I took out a golden bead and pushed it into the end of the tube.

The ice tube, tightly constricted by the snake, was very narrow, but the golden bead slowly widened the ice tube as it moved forward.

Slowly.

In the face of the golden bead’s strong will to advance through the tube, the snake’s grip gradually loosened.

At the same time, the light from the tube grew stronger.

It’s mana.

As the seal is undone from the inside, the light of mana gradually grows stronger.

“In this way, as the seal is undone and the path opens, your ability will eventually return to you.”

“…How, could this.”

“It’s simple. Because patriotism is the answer.”

“That’s.”

“And infertility is treason.”

If Hwan’s will gives strength to patriots.

“You are now a traitor.”

Naturally, Hwan’s providence withdraws its blessing from traitors who don’t contribute to increasing the birth rate.

“When you are filled with the will to bear the child of someone you truly love, to become parents with your husband and create a happy future for your child, only then can you become an ability user—a patriot—again.”

To a traitor.

There is no blessing of ability.