episode_0068

After hearing a slightly shocking story from Yoon Iseon.

I couldn’t help but think again about my plan to act as a goblin and ‘find Duokshini’.

I’m afraid that damage will come to Yoon I-seon, who suddenly fell under the spell of dirty adults.

I’m afraid that Ymir, who is preparing his own plan, will be harmed.

I am afraid that this will cause harm to Baek Seol-hee, who is participating in a large-scale event for the first time as a faculty member.

…no.

In fact, those are all just secondary reasons.

What I really want, what I’m really aiming for, is to keep an eye on one woman.

“Hmph, Hmph, Hmm.”

I see a blonde woman humming as she walks.

A woman carrying something in a black plastic bag is walking alone on the street, not just blonde, but with her hair parted in a bun, so to speak, ‘lady’s hair.’

The time was almost 1 am.

At this time, all the neon signs have gone out, and even the streetlights have gone out, with only a few lights remaining.

The woman walking alone in the dark over there is my goal.

‘A link to the main character.’

What should I hide?

The blonde girl walking proudly alone holding a black bag is the heroine on the cover of volume 1, a woman called ‘Ermina Sternfert.’

Why, if you look at the Academy light novels, aren’t there characters like that?

-I can’t accept you!

-Oh hohoho!

A character who causes trouble with the protagonist by irritating him with a girlish tone of voice, but develops infinite affection for the protagonist because he saved her after an accident occurred.

In light novels, she is the leading heroine, a character that the author decided to push forward.

However, the true heroines that the readers thought of were Baek Seol-hee and the general manager, and Ermina was reduced to an ordinary heroine A as the story progressed.

In terms of status, she is probably the granddaughter of the chairman of a leading conglomerate in Germany.

Such a woman is now without an attendant, alone at this hour of 1 a.m., wearing a black hat, mask, and scarf wrapped around herself so that no one else can see her, buying something and heading somewhere.

Not in the dormitory area.

It is probably a living room rather than a dormitory, the German embassy, or a mansion on Sejong Island that was purchased for a huge amount of money by the large company ‘Stern’.

“……?”

I thought it was, but after seeing people’s notice, I quietly headed to the park.

Even the place she heads to is the women’s restroom in the park.

‘What are you trying to do by going into a public restroom at this hour?’

I’m curious.

However, no matter how much information I want to get, I am not a pervert who sneaks into the women’s restroom.

[Maybe I just need to go to the bathroom.]

Even more so when he is in the form of a ‘goblin’ like he is now.

[This is difficult.]

You need to know why it’s doing that.

You need to know exactly what state you are in now.

-Ugh, you’re insulting me like this! I cannot forgive you!

Because right now, that woman is planning to kill the main character!

-No, what kind of heroine is trying to kill the main character?

-A woman from a foreign country is trying to kill the main character? At A-Academy? Does this seem strange?

-What kind of heroine is the woman who tried to kill the main character? Let’s kill her before she becomes a heroine.

-Yes, that’s right, Ermina is an attempted murderer~ If it wasn’t for the main character, Himsumjjin, she would have died~

A heroine who tried to kill the protagonist cannot exist.

However, the author set Ermina as such a heroine and told the story.

In the end, other heroine followers pointed out her actions towards the end of volume 1, and the author began to give more importance to the true heroine that readers preferred.

– Oh, run away! I’ll try to stop it!

-I, I tried to hurt you…! I could have died! Why are you saving me!

-That’s…a hero…? That’s so stupid…!

If it weren’t for the process of falling in love with the main character, she would have continued to slander, envy, and be jealous of the main character, and would have become a villain or a devil.

After volume 1, the goblin whose operation was interrupted by the main character was the woman who tried to persuade and brainwash him the most.

‘Come to think of it, a goblin also came forward here.’

He was just going around trying to corrupt an unspecified number of people by showing his face.

To be exact, another villain in the group was beaten to death by the main character while carrying out an operation, and the goblin came to his aid, and the evil relationship between the goblin and the main character began.

Just as I came here to persuade a talented woman to join the organization, the goblin and the members of the organization in the original work tried to recruit those who were eliminated from the treasure hunt to join the organization.

They are people who are angry because their treasure has been taken away by a strong person.

They were so weak that they had no choice but to form a bunch, and the radish pods fell off from there too.

People with abilities but with dissatisfaction and rebellion against the state.

Recruiting such people was the main action of the group in the original work while hunting for treasure.

That overlaps with Ermina’s attempted murder…

[The original work has already been thrown into the trash can, so should I care about this?]

I composed myself.

The story changed from the point where the goblin became an S-class villain.

The original work was distorted even before I came to the Academy, and the major flow of the original work that I know may be completely distorted from the root and not proceed.

Still, if there is one possibility and hope, it is the personality of the woman who tried to imbue the main character who was in the same group.

Before she becomes a heroine, she has no choice but to rely on her personality as an attempted murderer who deserves to die.

If there is someone that woman wants to kill.

If there is someone in the same group as that woman.

If it’s a ‘man’, there’s a good chance he’s the main character.

‘It’s about time to come out.’

What are you planning?

Hermina Sternfert.

‘Why don’t you just go in as Do Ji-hwan? ‘Acting crazy?’

If I do that, it will be reported, but I am embarrassed because it takes longer than expected.

‘He was 17 years old?’

Because he is a foreigner, he appears to be an adult, but strictly speaking, he is not an adult legally.

-Stop it! You are not a saint!

-In Germany, I am an adult! Oh hoho!

-What nonsense is that!

-Really. Where do you think the bill to lower the adult age for people with disabilities, discussed in Korea, originated? Oh hohoho! You are a Korean adult! I am a German adult! Therefore…legal!

-Stop it!!

In this worldview, Germany has already lowered the age of majority in accordance with the law targeting people with disabilities.

Of course, according to my point of view, he is a minor.

‘No. ‘Let’s not be too conservative.’

Isn’t that what’s been appearing a lot in the news?

Using secret SNS to commit truly noble and heinous crimes…

Sigh.

The glass door opened and someone appeared.

She held the black bag tightly in her hand, pushed the bag into a trash can on one side of the park, and leisurely disappeared.

[…….]

No matter how much I don’t want to check the trash, there may be traces of an assassination tool used to kill the main character.

‘Reveal your identity, Ermina.’

Are they trying to kill the main character as in the original, or are they trying to kill the main character in a different way?

Rattling.

I took out a plastic bag.

There was something scratchy inside, so I carefully opened the envelope.

[……Thank goodness. I’m so glad.]

What’s inside the envelope?

[For giving me a reason to deal with it before I become a heroine.]

It was the worst thing, even more than I thought.

* * *

Friday morning.

The time when the morning sunlight gradually brightens.

“What’s going on, since this morning.”

“Ready for operation, Master.”

As soon as dawn broke, I went straight to Joo-mo’s house.

“I thought you would come after work on Thursday or at 9 o’clock today, but you came at such an odd time?”

“Isn’t it time to eat some soup before leaving?”

“Why are you hitting the soup?”

“Give me one. Retort is fine too.”

“I knew that would happen, so I boiled the broth in advance during the week. Sit down. I’ll give you a bowl.”

Joo’s mother immediately put the pot on the gas stove.

“So, are you going to go around looking for Duoksini today?”

“Okay. And while I’m looking, I’m going to take care of some other things as well.”

“Something else? What is it?”

“Demons who turn black after being thinned out. To be exact, they are the ones who will be cornered by goblins.”

I took off my Taegeuk watch and put it on the table.

“It seems like there are many people who are trying to hunt goblins, not find them.”

“…Huh?”

Joo-mo, who was just scooping up soup from a kimchi container, frowned.

“What do you mean?”

” Just as you heard on the phone from Baek Seol-hee, and as you obtained information through official documents and sources, you are currently trying to find a goblin on a treasure hunt, right?”

“Right?”

“But I think it’s a bit strange how things are going right now.”

“In what sense? Among the information I know, there is nothing specifically about goblins?”

“Then let me ask you this. It’s not related to goblins at all, but it’s something that seems to be spreading in treasure hunts right now.”

I picked up a pinch of salt from the salt shaker that was on the table.

“Do you know how many mulberries are on Sejong Island?”

“……That’s right. Of course I know.”

Joo-mo spread her arms and laughed helplessly.

“This entire Sejong Island is a town full of mulberries. So much so that it can be found in garbage bags rolling along the roadside.”