episode_0079

Hermina Sternfert.

A person with A-level talent.

The ability to create sound waves by attaching mana to the voice.

“Uh…?”

When I opened my eyes, everything I could say was gone.

The mana that had filled my body has evaporated everywhere, and a deep sense of fatigue that I have never felt since I became a superpower is weighing down my whole body.

As if something like water was pressing down on my body.

All I can see in front of my blurry vision is a piece of clothing that looks like a hospital gown. There is nothing holding my stomach down, but my body feels heavy.

“I….”

“Are you out of your mind?”

He was lying in a place that resembled a hospital.

He wasn’t just lying down, but was ‘constrained’ with his hands and feet tied to something.

“How did this happen….”

“Where should I start explaining?”

A man who appeared to be a faculty member took out a tablet with a stern voice.

“Don’t scream, but listen slowly. Because there’s probably a lot to talk about. Please don’t interrupt me mid-sentence by shouting, ‘What are you talking about?!’ or ‘This doesn’t make sense!’ Everything I say from now on is ‘true.’”

“…….”

What on earth are you trying to say?

Ermina couldn’t understand the ‘incompetent person’ who was giving her a disdainful look that seemed both annoying and irritating.

“One. You attacked fellow Ymir students during field training in March. You tried to take the mana powder that was inside the sea cave, student Ymir discovered it, and you attacked student Ymir to cover his mouth.”

“That’s ridiculous-”

“Do not deny it. The forensic team and investigators have already completed all investigations. All evidence of your crime has been secured. Your Taegeuk watch, Ymir student’s Taegeuk watch. The materials contained therein. Secured.”

“Ha….”

I wanted to deny that it was a conspiracy, but I no longer had a Taegeuk watch on my wrist.

“Whoever wants to use Taegeuk Watch…!”

“Two. Hermina Sternfert was expelled from school. I committed two acts that I should not have done as a student. He touched the mana powder and tried to kill his fellow student.”

“At least it’s E grade…!”

“Three.”

The faculty member spoke in a cold voice, deliberately interrupting the conversation and taking a long breath.

“Hermina Sternfert is no longer a Class A talent. You have lost all your mana and are no longer able to use this ability.”

“What…?”

“Don’t you feel better about that?”

“Ah, ah…. Ahhh ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!”

Ermina screamed.

It wasn’t because he was in pain, but because his voice was one of his special abilities.

“…128 decibels. You are tall. This is the maximum frequency you can produce. It’s completely different from when you shout with mana.”

“The machine is broken….”

“That doesn’t happen. As someone with special abilities, you should know better. You are now in a ‘Zenloss’ state where you have lost all your mana.”

“My, I am Zenloss…?! That’s ridiculous!”

“Don’t often say things that don’t make sense. You might not believe what I’m saying right now, but it’s all true. Your hair has now turned white, and all of your abilities have disappeared. You are now Zenroth… It is true that you are ‘in a state of loss of special ability’.”

“…….”

This ability has disappeared.

The abilities I was born with, and the abilities I always used after I established my identity, disappeared.

“Although it is extremely rare, it was a frequent phenomenon in places such as Quebec, Canada and New York, USA.”

“Ha, but that’s less than 10 people…on Sejong Island…!”

“You are the first case. Well, it might have something to do with the goblin that attacked you.”

“It wasn’t a goblin that attacked me-”

No words came out.

It felt like there was something like a rope around my neck, and no more words came out.

“…If there is something that investigators have not yet clearly revealed, it is the process by which you were attacked by the goblin.”

“I…Kuh?!”

“The goblin did something really bad. Have you ever imposed a ban? Did the goblin put a ban on it? Did the goblin take away your special ability?”

“Oh, no…! The reason you did this to me…!”

The faculty asked several questions, but Ermina remained speechless.

Because of the curse.

“If so, you are the first case to have lost this ability due to a goblin. It is also living proof that goblins have the ability to remove the supernatural abilities of people with supernatural powers.”

“Oh, no…!”

“Was there anyone else?”

“……!!”

“It looks like the ban is in effect. Every time you try to say something, something like a red line flashes. It has also been confirmed that goblins also use this ability… It may not be true, but it is a possibility…”

“Ugh, uh…!”

Conversation doesn’t work.

Ermina tried to get up and find someone she could talk to, but she couldn’t escape the restraints that were tightly binding her wrists and ankles.

“Free me right now! What are you doing! I am…Sternfert!”

“Yes. Not an A-level talented person, just a Sternfert person. The Academy has already sent all research materials on the current situation to Stern. And this is Stern’s official position.”

The faculty member took out a video that seemed to have been prepared on a tablet.

“Grandpa…?”

There, a half-balding, white-haired old man wearing a black suit was holding a press conference.

[sorry.]

With a serious face, he spoke in slightly broken Korean, came to the side of the podium, and bent his waist at a 90-degree angle.

[It is my fault for raising my granddaughter incorrectly. I will take responsibility for this by resigning from my position as chairman of the company, compensating financially for the damage caused by my granddaughter, and offering a sincere apology to those who have suffered damage.]

“…Why?”

“Don’t you know what mana powder is? No matter why it was there, the mana powder…”

The faculty member shook his head with a serious expression.

“The remains of someone under the age of 25.”

“…….”

“Hermina Sternfert.”

The faculty member flipped to the last screen on the tablet.

“You have the right to remain silent…”

“Wait!! Why, why are you informing me of the Miranda Principles…! I am a ‘super-talented person’ who has nothing to do with that!!”

“Even if you don’t acknowledge it, the whole world has recognized you. You are an ‘ordinary person’… a ‘non-competent person’ to whom the Miranda principle applies.”

“…….”

“You crossed the line. It’s a shame that you lost all of your abilities, otherwise you wouldn’t be in this world by now.”

The faculty member stood up, holding the tablet.

“Because goblins execute villains mercilessly.”

* * *

-She’s a woman who did crazy things with dead children, so why don’t you kill her?

“If I don’t kill him, society will take care of it, so there’s no reason to have blood on my hands.”

Without even realizing it, I responded to the abusive language against Ermina that abounded in the Internet community.

-…Stern’s chairman apologized and resigned through a press conference, but antipathy toward Stern shows no signs of abating. Not only domestically but also overseas, protests are taking place in front of each Stern branch, burning or damaging Stern’s cars….

Most of the stories have already been revealed on the news that was turned on to check what is going on in the world, that is, how the general public perceives it.

No matter how much the world has become this way, there is a minimum ethical Maginot line that must not be touched.

Mana Powder directly touches that ethics, so no one messes with it carelessly.

‘It’s a shame because in the original work, the main character said he didn’t like that kind of thing, so he quit right away.’

In the original work, Ermina falls in love with the main character in volume 1.

He did not mention outwardly that he had taken mana powder.

However, in this world, Ermina will no longer have the so-called crush on the protagonist, and in fact, will no longer be able to show her face to the outside world.

The original has changed.

Whether it is a change due to me or a change due to Ymir.

Now that I am no longer a goblin at the bottom of a shabby evil organization, but have turned into a new being, the main flow of the original story has been reversed.

The main character was a man.

So I tried to kill the man.

But the main character was a woman.

So, should the main character be killed at all costs?

“……No.”

I headed to the bathroom to take a shower.

After becoming completely naked, I combed my hair in the shower booth, enjoying the water falling from above on my entire body.

“……If the genre has changed, you have to adapt to the changed genre.”

The reason for trying to kill the main character was fundamentally to prevent the destruction of the world.

In order to create a world where the CEO rules and unites this beggar world with one ideology, I wanted to eliminate the beings who pose the risk of destroying the world in order to protect the world where the CEO rules.

In order to prevent the meteor ending, I tried to deal with the main character in the easiest way.

That’s because he lost his temper.

But for women, it’s a different story.

Unlike men, if you are a woman, I can somehow take care of your mental state by your side.

-Ji-hwan oppa, do you really want to see me go crazy?

Aren’t women difficult to deal with?

Aren’t men easier to care for?

-Ji-Hwan, do you really want to see me turn around?

…Then maybe I’ll find a way to drop the meteorite.

“I’m a man and she’s a woman, so it can’t be helped.”

I feel sorry for the original protagonist, but this is natural.

“All of this is to protect the world that will be ruled by the leader.”

Because Ymir is a woman.

“I take care of Ymir exclusively by my side.”

A woman.

Heroine.

‘In order to protect this world, the Earth, I will become a piece of trash.’

Making her a mother would also be a way to prevent the destruction of the world.

okay.

That is the path of villains and goblins.