episode_0071

At the time when students were wandering around looking for treasure, the situation room at the ‘Treasure Hunt’ outdoor training in March 2022.

-Busan District 1, treasure has been discovered.

-Busan District 1, the first treasure has arrived at the target location.

“Yes!!!”

Professors in suits burst into cheers in the situation room.

They brought a box of treasures on the big screen, dropped them off at their destination, and were excited to see a girl with pigtails sitting on top of them.

“Hahaha! As expected, is ‘Youngae’ the first place this year? Hahaha!”

“That’s right. I’m so glad. Wow, there was almost an uproar over there at Dongbaek Island. Hehe.”

While the professors were watching the real-time results of each other’s treasure hunts through Taegeuk Watch, Baek Seol-hee, who was with the professors, looked at one spot on the chart with a heavy expression.

Injured: 43 people.

Persons requiring dispatch of emergency personnel: 7 people.

There are more than you think.

Even in the military, it is said that if an accident occurs during training and someone is injured, training is stopped. However, outdoor training does not stop even though there are as many as 7 seriously ill people in the general public who need to be taken to the emergency room.

“Oh my, Teacher Baek Seol-hee. What are you looking at?”

“…This is a report of injuries to injured students. Professor Jeon.”

“Hehehe, you don’t have to worry about that. All children grow up getting hurt anyway, and the same goes for people with special abilities. Oh, I don’t know about Mr. Baek, but the talented people growing up here have been waiting for the treasure hunt since the beginning of this year. Hehe.”

The professors just smiled at each other without any tension.

“Are you saying it’s natural to get hurt like this?”

“Amyo. Of course. People with different abilities are competing against each other, so they can get hurt. Fortunately, thanks to this ability, as long as it doesn’t break your body in two or cut off your head, you can easily heal from a minor stabbing in a day. With the power of this ability.”

“Are you talking about someone with special abilities in the treatment field?”

“Yes. Oops. Teacher Baek has never been hurt, so he might not know.”

“…I got hurt a few times too.”

There were instances where I got stabbed, but it wasn’t enough to warrant going to the hospital or getting help from a healer.

“But does that mean it is okay for there to be this many injuries…?”

“Oh my, Mr. Baek. At first, everyone says that. However, it is the students with high ability who want this. All we have to do is create an environment to grant their wishes. Afterwards, everyone gets so excited that they hit each other and fight? ‘Legally’.”

“……In other words, even if we fight, we will condone it? What if it’s not enough to kill you?”

“That’s the way it is. Of course, each person’s Taegeuk Watch prevents Class A and Class B fighters from fighting each other and being driven to the brink of death…”

The professors looked at each other and smiled lowly.

It was as if everyone except Baek Seol-hee had implicitly agreed to something.

“Rather than that, Mr. Baek, let’s eat something. Don’t look so serious. The food arrived just in time.”

“Yes, Professor Jeon.”

The situation room door opened, and steaming hot soup was delivered to each seat in an earthen pot.

There was no plastic packaging, and the food was delivered as if it were from a real restaurant.

Baek Seol-hee laughed for a moment as she looked at the food neatly prepared in front of her, but soon felt as if her whole body was being twisted by the hand stretched out from her side.

“Of course, the radish radish soup tastes best when poured over. Teacher Baek, it was going to swell anyway, right? Huh?”

“Hey, as expected from a former professor! Even in the face of S-class heroes, Professor Jeon’s drive is truly amazing!”

“What? Haha, it’s a carrot!”

“…….”

Baek Seol-hee watched the white soup turn red and clenched her fists under the table.

“…Please eat at your seat, Professor.”

“Yeah, right. haha. People really. When someone showed me a favor… ugh.”

“…….”

Baek Seol-hee quietly closed her eyes.

but.

With the red soup flashing before her eyes and the number of injured people on the screen increasing, she could not close her eyes completely.

* * *

Gradually, the students’ lunch time gets closer and closer.

What’s a little funny about this lunch time is that students are free to eat lunch.

Groups that are confident in their treasure hunting can go to a restaurant somewhere and eat, while desperate students can fill their bellies with water and devote their entire time to the treasure hunt.

– In my time, ugh! I filled my stomach with water from the tap, put it in a bag of cream bread, and then went home and gave it to the kids!

It’s a really old story, but people from those days are now sitting in key positions at the Academy.

As a result, students now solve light missions in each area based on the data sent to Taegeuk Watch, and after solving the mission, they use the clues to find the treasure.

Without even having time to eat.

-Sejong District 2, treasure has been discovered.

-Busan District 5, treasure has been discovered.

-Seoul District 9, treasure has been discovered. The third treasure has arrived at the target location.

News of the discovery of treasure rings through many people’s Taegeuk watches.

Fortunately, no treasure was found in the current location ‘Gangwon Area 10’, the area where Ymir is with Ermina.

How do you know that?

Because I have now found the treasure.

‘This is just like the original.’

I am currently inside Sejong Island, near the rock near the coast of the Gangwon section of the treasure hunt competition.

This place is quite sparsely populated, and if we were to compare it to the actual terrain, it could be said to be a place like the sea off Sokcho.

‘The boxes the employees left there are still there.’

It’s not actually that wide, but inside the steep cliff there is a treasure chest that looks like it often appears in fantasy games.

The treasure was not touched directly.

Because to open the treasure, it needs to be linked to Taegeuk Watch, and I don’t have Taegeuk Watch.

Even if there is, I have no intention of opening it.

Because there is a treasure over there that is not a treasure.

A dark hole that is a little far away from where the treasure is hidden, and is not easily visible from the outside.

‘There it is.’

When you lower your head and go into the hole, there is a cave to your immediate right that you can barely crawl into.

[found.]

After removing my spirit form and taking on the true form of the goblin, I carefully approached the inside of the sea cave.

And found it.

[Is this a trace of ‘thinning out’?]

A place where there are no waves and no one will know unless they come close and check carefully.

There is a skull lying here.

Unfortunately, the skeleton lying straight against the wall like a decoration is actually a human bone.

Why should I say it again?

These are the bones of a person with special abilities who was ‘murdered’ here.

Some of the bones were even gone, and only the torso remained, allowing us to estimate the approximate size of the body.

manhood?

no.

That’s about the size of a high school boy.

Since I’m not a psychometrician, I can’t figure out specifically what happened in this place, but just by looking at the state of the bones, I can immediately guess what happened here.

‘He died in an attack. To someone with the same ability.’

There are no signs of battle.

This means that the victim was killed unilaterally or died instantly, and at the same time, it means that someone waited until the bones had weathered to white and then took the human bones that were here.

‘He’s probably an E-level psychic who went missing during a treasure hunt last year or the year before.’

On Sejong Island, there are people who go around killing people without even batting an eye.

On the outside, they may talk about being ‘hero wannabes’ and ‘heroes’, but in reality, they are the ones who kill people and pretend that nothing has happened.

[If you find the person who killed you, I will definitely kill him with my bat.]

The moment I reached out to the skull, it crumbled into dust, as if it had heard me.

And the skull crumbled into white powder in the same position it was in.

The reason it has maintained its form until now is probably because of lingering resentment after death, or because it hoped that someone would recognize my death.

[Anyway, this world is hell.]

There are probably more than a few ‘talented people’ on Sejong Island who died unjustly like this skeleton.

Even if a person dies, quietly being buried as missing is something that can only be done with the tacit consent of high-ranking people in the academy.

And in my estimation, there are two main reasons why they died.

One is to secure the mana powder that appears after they die.

And another one….

“Found it!”

A voice came from outside.

It’s Ermina’s voice.

“Ha, really. Trying to carry around a bunch of useless luggage… huh?”

Ermina sniffs.

“This can’t be right….”

I immediately hid myself in a quiet place.

With the intention of assimilating into the darkness, I hid myself in a crevice in the rock of the cave and held my breath.

“It smells, it smells….”

Ermina crawled inside.

Shining the flash of the Taegeuk Watch inside, Ermina crawled inside and found mana powder scattered on the floor.

“Ugh, ugh, ugh…!!”

Stamping both feet in place and trembling in confusion.

I thought they should film the incident on video and make fun of it over and over again, but Ermina soon did something even worse.

“Ha. Mana powder in its natural state… it hasn’t rotted, right? Huh. Oh, I can’t do it… Jo, just a little bit…?”

It was a treasure, and it was nothing, and it bowed down like a dog, lowering its head towards the mana powder.

“Write it.”

Ermina, who was taking a deep breath as she was about to do something terrible-

“What are you doing inside?”

“……Huh?”

“……What are you doing inside?”

I made eye contact with Ymir, who had just followed behind me.

“What is that white powder…?”

Smirk.

“You saw it?”

ah.

Could it be that this is a little twisted because of me…?

Come to think of it.

It is around this time that the protagonist notices Ermina’s mana powder?

I tried to hide it by pretending not to know, but I got stabbed in the head by Ermina and almost ended up taking mana powder?

No, wait a minute.

Put a question in your head.

Q. Among the following, please select the correct one as the cause of the distortion from the original flow. (3 points)

1. Because the goblin made the skull into mana powder.

2. Because Ymir is a woman, not a man

3. Because Ermina’s teammate is not a man

4. Ermina is not the heroine of Goblin

5. Because of the original author who did not solve the problem properly

conclusion.

If you think about the reasons why the original work was distorted and this and that.

Is she just an unlucky extra paired with Ermina because there is no main character?

Or is it the ‘main character’ whose story proceeds in the same way as the original, but with one element changed?

-joy…! I think people look at me because I’m handsome, E-class! Still, his face is S-level, so I consider it an honor to have him with me. Do you understand?

-Yay, yay. We will be there to help you wherever you go.

-joy…!

Was the reason why this scene disappeared because of Ymir’s gender?

Is it because the main character, Ymir, is a ‘woman’ that it is now so twisted?

Because it was actually the main character who had such incredible magical power as Solar Platinum?

‘no.’

It shouldn’t be the main character.

‘I came here to kill the main character, but it turns out that the main character is a woman?’

because….

‘Isn’t it too convenient for me?’

If it’s a woman.

‘It’s a mess?’

Because it gets too easy.

‘Shouldn’t I just lure him in and take him with him so he doesn’t run away?’

If you can persuade Ymir with pure love, you can prevent the meteorite’s destruction.

in other words.

If you attack Ymir with pure love rather than murder.