Ch.618Chapter 23. Patriotic General Do Ji-hwan (22)

Tubal ligation for magical power sealing.

Since this obviously couldn’t be used carelessly on others, we went through a practice session first.

“That’s so mean, really.”

Yoon Hye-ra, who had joined us in Uijeongbu, sniffled with tears in her eyes.

“Just because we’re dead women, you’re experimenting on us to make us traitors. Did I become a traitor because I didn’t want to be patriotic? Using us because we can’t be patriotic after death. Sob sob.”

“That’s enough joking around.”

“Tch. I still had so many follow-up routines prepared.”

Yoon Hye-ra sat down on the hotel lobby sofa with disappointment.

“So how did they react?”

“Setting aside the method, they became quite docile after having hope that they could become ability users again. All three of them.”

“That’s surprising. I thought at least one of them would keep clinging to you and attacking.”

“One actually did.”

Jang Deok kept hitting me.

It didn’t hurt at all because of my mana barrier, but she focused her attacks on my cradle with fists and feet lighter than cotton clubs.

But there was no damage.

The broken golden bead was just the external core, and even if she hit me, there was absolutely no impact thanks to the mana barrier.

“So I explained while getting hit.”

“Was she saying something about revenge while hitting you?”

“She said she’d get revenge by giving birth.”

“…That’s not wrong exactly, but hmm…”

Yoon Hye-ra placed her hand on her stomach.

“Well, I felt empty immediately when I lost my magical power, so how must they feel? This body is a doppelgänger made of magical power, but I was ejected the moment my tubes were tied.”

The rules of the world applied equally to ghosts and mana bodies.

Before experimenting on the three sisters, I proposed experimental cooperation to two people.

Even if something went wrong, they were spirit bodies, and if their doppelgängers disappeared, they could be recreated.

Above all, with the Master’s power gradually “returning” now, even if they suddenly achieved enlightenment in the Korean Peninsula, the Master could recall them to his side just before that happened.

It’s the concept of reverse summoning, but anyway, the experiment achieved great results with these two subjects as well.

“Tubal sealing. Doesn’t that sound a bit… off? What do you think, oppa?”

“I think it sounds better than ‘traitor sealing.'”

“Hmm… isn’t there a term with a better feel to it? Oh, what do you think, unni?”

“About what?”

Hyun Se-rin pursed her lips with a somewhat curt voice.

“About becoming a Zenros traitor.”

“I don’t know since I’m a real traitor.”

“…Unni, if you say that, what does that make me? I can’t even joke around.”

“There’s pressure that comes with the word ‘traitor.’ Pressure.”

Traitor.

In terms of abilities, it could be defined as someone who contributes to the decline in birth rates, leading the nation toward extinction.

But a traitor is ultimately someone who betrays their country.

Historically, there would be followers of the Japanese Empire, and going further back, there would be many more.

Hyun Se-rin is currently an exile.

The PDFs calling her “Traitor Fenrir Award” would start at gigabytes in size.

“People will do anything when backed into a corner.”

“Like when you went into exile, unni.”

“Yes. Would they be any different?”

Perhaps because her hair now had some blonde mixed in, Hyun Se-rin’s heroic aspect seemed to make her uncomfortable.

“They might just pick any man to try to release the seal on their bodies and get pregnant right away. Then—”

“I think you’re slightly misunderstanding, Serin.”

“What…?”

“Getting pregnant isn’t an automatic win. If it were that simple, I wouldn’t have placed the seal in the first place.”

“…Oh.”

Hyun Se-rin looked at me with a surprised face.

“So Do Ji-hwan has a plan?”

“Of course. Getting pregnant to break the seal placed on oneself? It shouldn’t be that easy to break a seal with such a hateful method.”

How many jerks have I seen over time?

I don’t think the Peach Sisters would do that, but there’s a possibility they might suddenly lose their minds and become the “Witch of the Rising Sun.”

Cases where pregnancy is seen as a means.

That’s the process of breaking the seal, not the trigger for breaking it.

“Even if they have such thoughts, their bodies won’t respond. The brain’s signals won’t reach the fallopian tubes and ovaries tied with managold.”

“……”

“I’ve set it up so only genuine signals get through. Not signals just for pleasure, but only when they sincerely wish to have a child, raise it, and live happily together until seeing grandchildren—only then will it respond.”

“Is that… possible?”

“Women might not understand, but men have something like that.”

The joke about how men think of grandchildren’s names just from holding hands.

To speak seriously…

“Can I use some crude language?”

“When have you ever not been crude?”

“Then I will. This isn’t something I said, but what Phoenix, a hero from America, said.”

I’m adapting something from the original work to fit the situation.

“If they desperately want it enough to make the baby store throb, the seal will naturally break.”

“…What?”

“That’s what they say.”

That’s how it is.

“You’re pretending you heard someone else say something that you just made up yourself.”

“Anyway, it basically means love is required, right?”

“Yes.”

They can’t have the intention of using a man.

They must truly love the man, love him until their black hair turns white, and have the heart to live happily with their children.

“So…”

“We’re back.”

As the hotel entrance opened, Yoon Yi-seon and Kim Yoon-ji, who had been out, held out bags.

“We bought it. Unni…”

“Give me the mint choco.”

Hyun Se-rin reached into the bag without looking and pulled out a cup containing mint chocolate.

“If you’re going to say ‘give it to me,’ you could just take it yourself.”

“Do you want mint choco too?”

“…Senior.”

Kim Yoon-ji openly frowned at Hyun Se-rin.

“Offering mint chocolate to a junior is food torture.”

“What? I can’t let this insubordination slide. What did you just say?”

“I, Kim Yoon-ji, though I’m speaking of the deceased, will say what needs to be said. And now I have more experience than you.”

“……”

While the two glared at each other, I took Hyun Se-rin’s spoon.

“Don’t just eat mint chocolate, eat something else too.”

“Ah…”

One bite, lightly.

After taking a spoonful of mint chocolate, I immediately put the next spoonful into Hyun Se-rin’s mouth.

“……”

“My goodness. To subdue the senior so easily with such a method…”

“I’m letting myself be subdued, okay?”

Hyun Se-rin said with puffed cheeks, sucking on the spoon in her mouth.

“You’re one to talk. If this person did the same to you, you’d just open your mouth obediently.”

“T-That’s…!”

“Hmph. Completely smitten. At this rate, even if the Thunder Empress gets the tubal sealing Zenros, she might break the seal herself out of desire to have Do Ji-hwan’s child.”

“Ah, that’s actually possible.”

“…Pardon?”

Hyun Se-rin asked in surprise.

Using formal speech.

“What? What do you mean?”

“I tested it once on Ymir. As soon as the seal was placed, she broke it by herself.”

“……”

“Surprisingly, this is strong but only a temporary measure.”

A seal is just a seal.

“So teacher, Mir wasn’t sealed because of her strong will to get pregnant with your child…? It broke as soon as it was placed?”

“It’s not just about getting pregnant, it’s about thinking of spending a lifetime together.”

Is it because she’s the protagonist?

That must be it.

If love is as heavy as a meteorite, I hope its volume is as vast as the ocean.

“Um… then…”

“If you’re sealed, you just need to have the heart to spend your life with someone. Of course, not as a DINK couple, but with the desire to have children and build a family—that’s what breaks the seal.”

“…That seems like a powerful yet very loose and slack seal.”

“Because it’s based on love.”

“Then, is it the same for men?”

“Of course.”

The principle is the same.

“I want to impregnate someone. I want to plant my seed in someone and have them bear my child, whether a son or daughter or twins, and build a family. It’s the same thing.”

“Then… teacher could easily break any seal placed on you.”

“I probably wouldn’t be sealed in the first place.”

Because I have the Master’s blessing.

“And even with their magic sealed, they all have methods. What happens if they wield weapons with managold… weapons with external cores?”

“Would the mana in their bodies react and burst out?”

“No. Only power equivalent to the managold would emerge. Their physical abilities would be at normal human levels, but the power would be that of managold weapons.”

“Then… an ordinary man wouldn’t work, right? Oppa, the tavern owners are going crazy. They’re desperately looking for sweet guys who speak Chinese.”

“That’s fine. They won’t swing managold weapons at the men they choose as husbands anyway. Because…”

I pointed to the forms the tavern owners were filling out.

“I told them to send body profiles for extra points.”

“Um, hmm…”

“Wouldn’t a man whose face and body you can see together be more preferred than one with just a profile?”

The same applies to ability users.

“This is an opportunity. A chance to become the second Do Ji-hwan. As long as they don’t treat women like slaves or use and discard them, it’s a golden opportunity to take an S-class ability user as a wife.”

“Teacher won’t do it?”

“Do Ji-hwan isn’t in the candidate pool to begin with. If I were included, everyone would understand if Baek Seol-hee claimed she’d come for me.”

“Ah…”

Even if what started with Do Ji-hwan was an adulterous pure love, it would be problematic for latecomers to follow that example.

“The three sisters just need to make their choice. How great is that? The man they think ‘this one will do’ will try to do everything for them. They won’t have anything to be upset about.”

“…Oppa. No matter what, women are programmed to get upset once a month, you know?”

“Ah, about that.”

Though it’s not a major effect.

“Gone.”

“…What did you say?”

“Menstrual pain, gone.”

During tubal sealing, menstruation itself doesn’t occur.

Since the strong desire to have children is the trigger for releasing the seal, the cradle will enter a dormant state until someone knocks on it.

“When the seal is broken, it will immediately go on standby.”

“…So they won’t have menstrual pain until they get pregnant?”

“Yep.”