episode_0070

It was an afternoon not long after the day I heard the truth about the world from Yoon Sia.

I was in Boston, where the headquarters of the International Defense Organization was located, with Helen Burns.

Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, located in the eastern United States, is a large city located in the New England region and is a symbolic city in the Northeast along with New York and Philadelphia.

Because it is a city with quite a long history, if you ask people about Boston, they will answer that it is the historical place where British pioneers who pioneered the American continent first arrived, or they will think of the Boston Tea Party, which is mentioned in world history textbooks.

However, if you ask about Boston today, most people would probably answer that it is where the most powerful force protecting the world is located.

This is because it is where the headquarters of the International Defense Organization, which is no different from the Earth Defense Force, is located.

And there I was walking out of the building with Helen.

“It looks like it was resolved well. Yes, it should have happened a long time ago.”

“That is correct. It’s probably thanks to me that those idiots have their heads attached. They gave me too much grace.”

He visited the organization’s headquarters in the guise of a red dragon.

The reason I didn’t go for a humanoid shape was because this shape was better suited to achieve my goal.

Behind me, many people in black suits from the organization came out and bowed to see me off as I left the organization.

It made me laugh a little because I felt like I was the leader of the Yakuza.

Actually, if you think about it, you could say it was true.

Because now this instrument is mine. Although the leader is someone else, he will not be able to defy me.

I remembered the meeting I had just had with the new head of the organization.

─No, Mr. Northmund. However, if this happens, the efficiency of the device drops too much. Please reconsider.

─So, does that mean you can filter out the spies of the Circular Church? Hoo. If so, I would like you to tell me how.

A balding middle-aged white man bows to me, sweating profusely. His name is Liam Rashford.

I was the reason why he, an incompetent person, was able to become the head of GDO, whose CEO resigned. What I put into it with my breath.

First of all, he was incompetent. You could say he was a bit severely incompetent.

In general, incompetence is an object of contempt, and it would be normal to avoid it for fear of being criticized for his foolishness, but in this case, perhaps his incompetence was helpful.

There were quite a few spies of the Circular Church within the organization, but because he was so incompetent and greedy, he was able to be free from the clutches of the Circular Church even though he held a mid-level position.

… No, to be exact, it’s a bit different. This is a person who just squandered the money brought in by the circular bridge lobby.

This was my first time seeing a person like this, so when I saw the results of the survey, I also clicked my tongue.

In any case, the fact that he received funds from traitors around the world is itself a problem, so he cannot defy me now.

─But… .

─Tell me. Please suggest me a better way. It would have to be a proposal that would cover up the dirty money you embezzled from the organization and received from the circular church.

He is startled and his whole body shakes at the faintly radiating fear coming from me. It must be scary.

The situation where a huge dragon over 2 meters tall looks down at oneself coldly and exudes fear is a situation that would make an ordinary person urinate and run away.

─Oh, no. I will do that, Mr. Northmund.

─It’s a good decision. But it’s a bit disappointing. It was a good opportunity to cut off the head of you who tried to sell humanity to monsters.

─Huh… Huh!

If he fussed any further, I was really planning to slit his head. Because there are many other candidates. In fact, I could have changed him into someone who obeyed me more.

Or, another option would have been to sit at the head of the organization myself, risking a little notoriety.

“Now you have it all in your hands. Hehehe.”

“Why are you happy, Burns?”

I responded bluntly to Helen’s voice coming from next to me.

When she heard a grumpy voice, she widened her eyes for a moment and then laughed.

“Of course, how could I not be happy to hear that the person I serve is doing well? The success of a boss is the same as that of an employee.”

Helen puffed out her chest and said, “Ahmmm.”

It felt like she was showing off with her breasts sticking out, but I thought for a moment that her breasts were rather scanty for a Westerner, but I quickly looked away because I thought it was quite rude.

She seemed to recognize where my gaze last rested, and her eyebrows changed and she made a pouty expression, so I just tried to ignore it and changed my mind.

What I got from Rashford was full inspection rights.

All notifications sent to the head of the organization are also sent to me. In other words, all the information that comes to the head of the organization is also conveyed to me.

Since I can also check the final operational approval that can only proceed if approved by the head of the organization, since I hold all inspection rights, the head of the organization is only the president of the barge.

Rashford, the head of GDO, is in a position where he cannot do anything alone.

“Oh, indeed. You didn’t eat, right? Shall we eat something and go in?”

“We won’t be able to go back together anyway. Burns, you’re a non-talented person, so you can’t use teleportation, right?”

“Wow, what are the Grandis people? In this case, you just escort the lady. Blunt magic tower lord.”

Helen spoke in a friendly tone, as if she were an older sister checking to see if her younger sibling, who was about to go to school, had brought any supplies or homework.

Well, the mouth was smiling, but the eyes weren’t. If you look at it as a whole, it was a face that seemed to have lived the whole world and had come to wiser time.

“I see. In that case, I will be there first in the limousine, so you can buy anything with this and come in.”

He took out a luxurious black credit card from the inside pocket of a special suit cut to the size of a dragon and handed it to her.

No, more accurately, I was going to hand it to her, but her face looked even more liberated, so I lowered my hand again.

Usually, in this case, you don’t use a corporate card. Why are you doing this?

“… No. Let’s eat next time.”

“I understand.”

I couldn’t immediately deny that something emotional was involved, so I just kept my mouth shut and kept walking.

“… .”

Helen wasn’t saying anything. It wasn’t an expression of frustration or joy, it just walked along with me with an expressionless expression.

When we arrived at the limousine in an uncomfortable state of silence, there were a lot of people gathered in front of us.

─Oh! I finally saw it! After all, you are here!!

─I love you, hero! Please look here and wave my hand!!!

─Wow! You saw me! Northmund saw me!!!

Since it was a familiar sight, I was about to walk towards them as usual, but stopped for a moment and just waved my hand.

After the ring bridge incident, it was judged that it was too dangerous to approach them.

To be precise, citizens are probably in danger. There is no way I will be attacked by them, but if an attack occurs, the citizens gathered around me could be in danger.

Besides, it would be better to keep a reasonable distance from it rather than being strangely stuffed by NewTube.

So different from usual. It’s a bit of a cold response, but the citizens don’t seem to care, and just wave their hands noisily.

Come to think of it, I spend most of my time in Ellada, but when I accidentally searched on the Internet, I found that there were surprisingly many people who I thought were living at the GDO headquarters in Boston.

So, did you think it was safe to live near me? Because so many people have moved to this area, Boston, which originally had a population of about 600,000, has already become a huge megalopolis with over 3 million people.

Thanks to that misunderstanding, Boston is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in America. I heard that many superstars live in the yolk land in the center of the city.

As I was thinking about this and that for a while, Helen was talking to me.

I couldn’t understand what she was saying because I was busy thinking about other useless things, but when I read the way she was waving a folder at me, I was able to get a general idea of what she was saying.

“… So, I’ll check the results of the dungeon near Portland and take a flight back.”

“That dungeon. Was it an erosion type dungeon? You’re talking about a dungeon that the US military cleared out on its own by pouring in artillery shells.”

“Yes. It will be approximately three days before we arrive at Ellada, Korean time. If something like an artifact came out, there would be a lot of things to deal with.”

In addition to the gate, the dungeon was gradually spreading. In particular, the erosion-type dungeon that Helen mentioned was the one that hunters most avoided.

The dungeon that I avoid the most because it is just a place where the energy of the abyss dimension flows out and erodes reality, and there are no treasures or artifacts in particular. There will probably be no special results from the place where Helen will go to inspect.

Therefore, it was common for the government to provide large financial rewards to hunters who cleared erosion-type dungeons.

‘no. It was all just a scam played with devils.’

I frowned strongly. After learning the background of the original work, it was difficult to look at this world normally.

The background setting of hunters protecting human society against monsters was a huge trap.

It was just the kind of show put on by the devil to give the farmed livestock the peace of mind that they were being protected.

The main characters of the original work, Han Si-woo and Jang Su-ri, may not have known it, but they must have realized the miserable reality after graduating from Sejong Academy.

They would have either simply obeyed the huge, undeniable flow, or they would have resisted and been silenced, or forced to choose between two choices.

It’s just that 『Kiss Siege Sense』 covers up to the third year of the academy, so the miserable reality is not mentioned, so we can only dream of a pink romance.

‘… for a moment.’

I suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of discomfort.

‘What on earth is Han Si-woo?’

It felt like someone had hit me hard on the head with a hammer. Something was wrong in my mind, but I couldn’t hold on to it.

‘Why, why did the devil want to give birth to Han Si-woo?’

Isn’t that right? A man called the devil approached Yoon Si-ah and offered to give her future vision.

Until now, because she did not know the circumstances, she thought that she had awakened Miraesi due to the shock of her family’s death, but after learning the truth, she realized that the awakening of Miraesi was not an awakening of Yunshia herself, but was given to her by the devil.

The purpose of giving the future poem was probably to make Han Si-woo be born.

According to her, at some point she was asked to meet someone and have sexual intercourse with him.

Therefore, she became pregnant with an unwanted child and became a ruiner. Because he hated his son, who was the cause of this, Han Si-woo did not meet him and grew up alone.

Han Si-woo, who grew up lacking affection, awakens to the kissing buff ability. This was the background setting that didn’t appear properly in the original work.

‘But why?’

Why do demons demand a setting as original?

They are trying to create the original situation in a very unnatural, artificial, and contrived manner.

Is there someone who designed a grand plot, and are demons just minions who follow that plot?

‘But the original work has already been broken to some extent.’

Above all, the possibility of the heroine Jang Su-ri being born has decreased tremendously.

At first, I also tried to get Jang Ah-hyun and Han Se-jun together, but no matter how hard I tried, it was all in vain, and the two people had no feelings for each other.

Han Se-jun went one step further and cheekily charmed several of the women in the group. It’s truly a sight to behold. Such a bully.

So, like in the case of Yoon Sia, was Han Se-jun and Jang A-hyeon also forced together by a devil?

It is highly likely that the order to hug each other was given when, where, and at what time in order to give birth to Jangsu-ri.

‘What on earth is this? ‘What kind of situation is this?’

Hundreds of different thoughts cross my mind. The signals of each color are visible to the eye, but I cannot grasp them with my hand.

My head is spinning, but I have no idea what is going on. what? What is it? Images in memory pass by each other, creating sparks.

“Um, Dean?”

When I suddenly lifted my chin and became more serious, Helen spoke cautiously, perhaps misunderstanding the situation.

“Ah. Burns. Have you not gone yet?”

When I let out my words incoherently, Helen sighed softly, lowered her face to me, and whispered quietly.

“If I come across any artifacts or anything important, I will definitely bring them to the dean. I know you’re worried. It would be dangerous if it fell into the hands of the military.”

“… .”

“I will definitely fulfill this in the name of Helen Burns. So don’t be upset and rest comfortably, Dean.”

Helen, who misunderstood the cause of my distress, nodded and smiled slightly.

“I feel this every day, but the Dean is a good person. He is a clean and pure person who is noble and thinks of the world before us humans.”

“I see.”

I sighed softly as I sorted through each image that came to my mind.

She had misunderstood me and was painting my face with gold, but she had no intention of correcting it.

No, it can’t be corrected. As far as the original work was concerned, I couldn’t tell anyone.

I nodded at her and tried to think as little as possible.

After using calculation acceleration magic, the conclusion reached was that “nothing can be known yet”.

Because the information given was so insufficient, I realized that no matter how hard I tried, there would be no answer.

Not only Yoon Sia, but also Han Se-jun and Jang A-hyeon.

Were those two people unhappy? You must have gotten married against your will.

Isn’t that really true? If you think about the occasional episode about Jang Su-ri’s family in the original, the two seemed to get along quite well.

It was an unwanted marriage, but after living together for a long time, perhaps they became attached to it?

‘No, actually, the two of them also had a sense of discomfort.’

Above all, the cause of the sense of discomfort was Jang Ah-hyeon’s personality, which had changed so much. It wasn’t that he had become a little brighter or a little more positive, but his personality had turned more than 180 degrees.

Jang A-hyeon in the novel laughs and is boisterous like a man. She was almost like Lu Bu or Jang Ki-class heroine.

In particular, the episode where Han Si-woo, who was visiting Jang Soo-ri’s house for the first time, blows him away with one punch, saying he wanted to check his skills, still left an impression on my mind.

However, when I thought about it carefully, knowing the circumstances behind it, I got the feeling that he was somehow forcing himself to smile and pretend to be cheerful. That is the cause of the feeling of discomfort.

Isn’t that right? If Jang Ah-hyun and Han Se-jun were good friends, why were they sharing separate rooms?

It’s so strange. Come to think of it, we were always in different rooms, but when Jang Su-ri came home from school, we smiled and became close friends. It was never said that those two were in the living room first.

Was there a reason why they had to pretend to be on good terms in front of Jang Su-ri?

‘No, stop. After all, those guys are just traitors to humanity.’

Jang A-hyeon, the head of the Taesung Group that dominates the world economically and a special hunter, and Han Se-jun, the president of the Korea Hunter Association. It won’t change the fact that both of them betrayed humanity.

If they were not just involved but even held the head position, there was a very high possibility that both of them would have been the first to sell out humanity.

In particular, I felt a strong sense of betrayal from Han Se-jun, who I cared about the most, and I gritted my teeth.

Of course, there will be circumstances. In the face of the destruction of humanity, we may have had no choice but to bow our heads to the devil.

Since life is precious, they may have planned to survive first and later gather their strength to fight back.

But if you ask whether that is praiseworthy, of course it is not. Not at the level of a traitor, but a traitor. Because it’s at the level of selling out the human species itself.

It was something I could never admit to because it was so different from the path I was pursuing.

‘I’ll keep watching. both.’

We should also kill all those who are willing to betray humanity.

It starts with taking control of GDO today. There will be no more mercy.

Those who try to drag this world into darkness need to know that they too will face similar consequences.

I chewed my lip as I watched the car move and Helen, who was waving at me, drive away.

The dragon man’s sharp teeth dug into his skin, and he tasted fishy blood.

Feeling a dark taste spread in my mouth, as if I had licked a worn-out iron bar, I laid down on the soft backrest of the limousine and sighed heavily.