Ch.646Chapter 24. Real Estate Never Die (24)

The Age of Abilities.

Although mana has become the world’s number one energy source, conventional science hasn’t significantly declined.

It’s just that those who would have researched other disciplines in the original world have all shifted to studying the extraterrestrial substance—mana—through magical engineering, thaumaturgical engineering, and similar fields.

Development may be relatively slower compared to reality, but it hasn’t been completely abandoned.

The Syndicate recruited scientists focused on basic sciences, primarily from America. They directed these researchers to develop systems that would “prevent major industrial problems even if mana suddenly disappeared.”

These research projects included the development of artificial bodies—homunculi—for Syndicate executives and future humanity.

While “homunculus” sounds grand and fantastical, calling it “artificial organ research” gives it a more medical and realistic feel.

The year is 2025.

In this Age of Abilities, human ethics and philosophy have become centered around supernatural powers.

“P-please give us just a little more time and budget…!”

“Time is not possible, but the budget? I can give you unlimited funds.”

“Un…limited…?”

“If you produce results.”

“Y-yes, I’ll work hard, Chairman Zeke!”

“……”

The Syndicate began serious research into biotechnology.

The year 2025.

Even E-rank or D-rank ability users possess intellects rivaling accomplished graduate students.

“This is amazing… ability user graduate students… incredible…”

“How to put an elephant in a refrigerator? Shrink the elephant and put it in? How does that even work?”

With these ability users studying under existing researchers and with their active assistance, the Syndicate was able to develop various technologies.

One of these was artificial organs.

While organs naturally include arms and legs, the pinnacle of human biotechnology is the “artificial womb.”

“We haven’t managed to create an artificial womb yet, but we’ve successfully developed artificial genitalia!”

“Why…?”

“Well, hahaha, we researchers have certain needs to take care of…”

“…Well, since you’ve already developed it, we can’t just discard it.”

…While research on wombs capable of bearing children continues, reproductive organs were successfully created through the combination of “researchers’ desires, imagination, necessity, and enormous budget.”

Therefore.

Even if a man named Milanio underwent Zenros.

If they created artificial genitalia through somatic cell cloning based on his current somatic cells and frozen sperm stored in a sperm bank.

“No mana dwells in artificial genitalia. I wonder why?”

“Perhaps mana itself knows it’s fake. It won’t deal with anything that isn’t real. Something like that, I guess?”

Though he might be impotent as an “ability user,” he could return to being an ordinary man as a “normal person.”

Thanks to the Syndicate’s power.

Milanio, who lost his genitals, currently wears a prosthetic (3rd) shaped like genitalia made of mana gold, but in America, he could wear a cloned prosthetic (3rd) instead of metal and enjoy married life with Firenze.

Their child might not be an ability user, but that wasn’t important to Firenze.

“I’m going to have Milanio’s child! It doesn’t matter whether the child is an ability user or not! It’s our child!”

The demon was shocked by Firenze’s powerful declaration.

“Impossible!! It can’t be! Such a method couldn’t exist! You’re being deceived!”

“…Well, maybe.”

I hadn’t told Firenze about the artificial genitalia.

“But Do Ji-hwan, no, the Goblin said so. If I believe in the Syndicate, if I cooperate with them, they’ll make it possible for me to have Milanio’s child. At the earliest, within five years… no, three years!”

In that sense, Firenze refused to join hands with the demon, believing only my words.

“Rather than falling for a demon’s temptation and becoming unable to bear children, I’d rather fight against the demon!”

Just as Firenze was about to swing a wine bottle at the demon.

“Ha, haha.”

Whoosh.

With an incredibly light movement, the demon grabbed Firenze from behind and restrained her.

“Mmph, mmph!!”

“Shhh.”

Instantly subdued, Firenze became paralyzed, unable to move.

She was alive but restrained by the demon and unable to move.

“I don’t know how well you sugar-coated it, but this woman is completely, completely enchanted? Amazing. Enchanting her with nonexistent technology, promising to grant her wish. I’m impressed.”

“It exists.”

“Then tell me! How exactly do you plan to make an impotent man potent again?!”

“That.”

Of course.

[You don’t need to know.]

I summoned my magical power and entered a combat stance.

[If you want to know, transform into something other than a demon, join the Syndicate, build up achievements, and then I’ll tell you.]

“Asking me to become something other than a demon is asking me to die, isn’t it?”

[That’s right, die.]

“…Kik.”

Yoo Yeol-chung twisted the corner of his mouth and sneered at me.

“Is that so? But what should I do? I don’t intend to end this yet.”

[What are you planning?]

“I’ll persuade you.”

Clap.

When Yoo Yeol-chung clapped his hands, a fog-like substance formed in the room.

“Huh, what…?”

And through the fog, a familiar hand emerged, followed by a voice.

[You opened a spatial portal?]

“It’s the desperate wish to see someone reaching through.”

[I see. So that’s how you use it.]

“Darling!!”

The person who jumped out of the fog was none other than Milanio.

“H-how is this…?!”

“Do you really want to have that man’s child? Truly?”

“D-darling?!”

“You’ve already been defiled by the Goblin’s club, haven’t you?”

“!!”

The demon provokes Milanio.

“Hey, ex-husband. Did you know? This woman, to establish a good relationship with that man, swallowed cream-filled carbonara in one bite?”

“Kuh, kugh…!!”

“A stomach full of something white and thick. And she even… drank Americano with ice floating in cold water. She gave up being Italian and decided to become Korean. Do you know what that means?”

“Th-that…!”

“It means she abandoned the impotent Italian peperoncino and decided to devour Korean chili peppers. No, perhaps cucumber peppers…?”

The demon leered at me while stroking the paralyzed Firenze’s face.

“Your wife has already decided to become a Korean man’s concubine. She chose to abandon Italy, become Korean, naturalize in Korea, and live serving a Korean man…!”

“D-darling….”

“Mmph, mmmmph!!!”

Firenze tried desperately to scream, but her mouth wouldn’t open.

Her eyes met mine.

She was desperately wishing for something, but I was holding the Goblin’s club with faith, waiting for an “answer.”

“I-is that so…. Haha, of course. It’s only natural to abandon a man who underwent Zenros.”

“Right? Yes. You should start a new life with another woman too. What kind of woman do you want? If you wish….”

“A woman who isn’t Firenze is not a woman at all.”

Milanio clutched his chest with one hand and spoke to the demon.

“I swore to love only Firenze for my entire life…! If Firenze abandons me, it’s only because I’m inadequate…! Even if she dates another man and bears his child, I will support her love and wish for her happiness for the rest of my life…!”

“What…?”

The demon couldn’t understand.

“She’s not your woman anymore…?”

“If I can’t bless the new love of the woman I love, I’m not a man!”

I don’t understand either.

If a woman cheated through adultery, shouldn’t the natural course be to take down both the man and the woman?

‘Even Korean courts give some consideration in their judgments for assault and murder motivated by infidelity and adultery.’

“Wh-what are you saying…?”

That’s why the demon doesn’t understand.

The heart of this sweet man Milanio, who, despite becoming impotent, is still completely devoted to his love for Firenze.

‘It would be strange to understand a madman who could become a demon for his wife.’

I have no reason to understand.

I just need to use their emotions and create a psychological gap in the demon through them.

“Mmmmph!!”

“Firenze. I don’t know who your husband will be—”

[Oops. Before we create more embarrassing history, I should restore things.]

Whack!

I swung the Goblin’s club hard, hitting the back of Milanio’s head.

“…Huh?”

Tears welled up in Milanio’s eyes.

As if releasing all the tears he had been holding back, he shed chicken-dropping-sized tears while staring blankly at Firenze.

“You…!”

“Darling…!”

“Uh, uhh…. W-wait. Don’t tell me… fake…? Acting…?”

[There was no NTR. Did you think there was? Well, that’s unfortunate.]

Seeing the demon’s distorted face gives me a thrilling shiver.

[Let me introduce you. The disciple of patriotic master Do Ji-hwan, ‘Master Peperoncino.’ Firenze’s husband and the man who will awaken Firenze to S-rank through love.]

“F-from the beginning…!”

[Of course.]

From the beginning, this was the plan.

[To catch a vicious adulterer, sometimes I have to become an adulterer myself. Like an undercover cop infiltrating a gang, something like that.]

If the period is too long, I might end up consuming the entire organization, but at least I’m not like that.

[So, to the couple. What is your wish?]

“I want to have children with Firenze and live happily!!”

“I want to have Milanio’s baby!!”

[…I see.]

The demon backed away until his back was against the wall.

[I bet both parts of the lump on my lower half that these two can successfully have a pure love pregnancy, and that the Goblin can fulfill that wish.]

“!!”

[Wish-granting demon, Yoo Yeol-chung. Can you fulfill that wish?]

Probably not.

[The Goblin of the Korean Peninsula can fulfill that wish.]

Ah.

[You call yourself a wish-granting demon, but you can’t even do that?]

Kieeeeeeeeeeek—!!!!!

The demon went berserk.