episode_0083

There must be good things and bad things in the world, but there are many things in this world that are much worse than the world I lived in.

An era where special abilities are prioritized.

A time when money can’t do anything.

If your body is not good, you can improve your body with exercise and drugs, and if your face is not good, you can live with a handsome and pretty body even by getting plastic surgery.

But this era is different.

No matter how much money you have, there is no way to become a talented person.

There is also a way to use that much money to research ways to become a person with special abilities.

And here comes the cold, dirty, cold and trashy part of reality.

[Do you know how many children are born each year?]

I left the temple, rode my bike again, and played a video from a streaming site using the cannon phone given to me by monk Samuel.

[yes. you’re right. Since 2000, we have been worried about a low birth rate and an aging population, but fortunately, there has been no low birth rate. This is because after 2000, everyone started having children.]

Newly born children are gifted with special abilities.

With the desire to pass on their talents to their children, people began to have children.

[What sense can there be in people with special abilities who are just starting to grow? There are parents who were killed by their children with supernatural abilities, and there are many people who were killed by children with supernatural abilities. Even in a place in the north, an attempt was made to turn a child with superpowers into a nuclear weapon, but the child blew off his head. So many people died.]

A lot died.

[This is true even in Seoul right now. Since 2000, which place has the most obstetrics and gynecology departments? Of course it’s Seoul, right? Everyone has children, and people with special abilities run rampant there. A person died in the semi-basement, and when they went out and looked, only the baby remained. It was truly terrible.]

The number of corpses increased everywhere, and there really was a lot of death in this land.

[Did you know that the number of deaths since 2000 has become much higher than before? One of the leading causes of death in this country, such as cancer, suicide, and traffic accidents, is now starting to include ‘death by incapacity’ as well. That’s right, he was killed by someone with supernatural powers.]

Whether it is due to the child’s incorrect use of this ability and his/her inability to control it.

This may be the result of being so absorbed in one’s own abilities that one ignores the surroundings and uses these abilities at will.

[A young child who could not even speak was born with a criminal record as a murderer before he could even say papa. Our society is not mature enough to accept these people, and so many of them have died.]

The changes in society were so rapid.

[By the way, this country’s population has reached a whopping 60 million. Can you believe it?]

Even though the number of people dying has increased, the population has actually increased.

[This is because more new lives are born than people die. While 10 people died, 100 people were born in the next town. I will try to make my baby, my child, born with special abilities.]

It is said that the baby boomer generation is usually in an economic golden age.

[A little after 2000, in Korea alone, the rate of children of people living near the meteorite site giving birth to people with special abilities significantly increased, and as this became known to the public, everyone started having children, which was the beginning of the millennium baby boom.]

It wasn’t.

It was not the economic boom that increased the population, but special abilities.

[Could it have happened only in Korea? Did you know that a ‘French town’ has been created in Gangneung these days? The number of people from foreign countries has grown to fill a city, and as the northern land was completely destroyed, many people came down from above. If you add up all the people north of the ceasefire line, wouldn’t it be at least 100 million? ha ha ha.]

It’s a joke, but it’s a number that’s quite frightening to hear.

A whopping 60 million just south of the Military Demarcation Line.

Although the number of newborns on the Korean Peninsula itself has increased significantly, the number of people arriving from abroad has also increased.

[Why would they come all the way to Korea and have children? Why would you go to such lengths to enter Ulleungdo? This is all to increase the probability of giving birth to a pumpkin baby, that is, a person with special abilities.]

There is only one reason why the population increased.

To give birth to people with special abilities.

[But is it easy? everyone. Have you ever bought a lottery ticket and won even 5th place? What about 4th place? What about third place?]

So, what would people do if they found out that they missed out on a 10-month lottery ticket targeting people with special abilities?

[Of course, no one would want to have a child as a lottery ticket. maybe. Most of them.]

Most of them are raised.

This is because most people who have children do not have children to give birth to people with special abilities, but sincerely want them to be people with special abilities.

[But what if I become pregnant to ‘give birth to someone with special abilities’ rather than my child or my child? I’m not saying I’m going to have a child with this man or this woman out of love, but what happens to those who give birth to a child with a special ability and want to become ‘supportive parents’ who live on their child’s back when the child is not a person with a special ability?]

But some?

[As many as 10,000 orphans are abandoned every year. Just work. Can you believe it? A city can be created just with the children who are abandoned on this earth because they are not capable of anything. Orphans are naturally sent to orphanages, and if the orphanages cannot handle them, they are put up for adoption.]

The temple I visited was a place that raised and managed children who society could not handle.

Most of the young monks there are abandoned children who failed to become talented.

[And most of those people are foreign… No, I’m afraid that if I talk about it this far, people with translators from far away will comment, so I’ll end it here.]

No matter how Korean you are in this world, public opinion is scary.

Unless you are someone like me who doesn’t care at all, or lives with the mindset that even swearing is just ‘because he’s a villain’.

[So what is the solution to this problem? I will build a social safety net through enormous capital and strong leadership….]

Pop.

I stopped playing the video.

The bike had already arrived at the sea, and I had heard enough to collect my thoughts along the way.

‘transform.’

I transformed into a goblin again.

In the aftermath of the transformation, my coat tore and disappeared again, and I put my mask on my face and put my hands on the bike.

It’s late at night.

There is a full moon in the sky, and there are no people on the beach to see.

[There is no CCTV, and there is no sign of popularity.]

I checked one more time to see if there was anything that could be tracked and whether there were people around.

I had already checked it before transforming into a goblin, but I always had to check it several times after transforming.

[hmm.]

The moment I felt like I was starting to run out of horsepower, I took out an item I had already loaded on the bike.

A piece of five-colored candy packed in a plastic bag.

She described it as ‘Yeouiju’, and I took a bite of the candy.

Saaaa.

A refreshing feeling surrounds the whole body.

As if vitality spread throughout my body, I felt my mana, which I had been slowly running low on, rapidly building up from below.

There are very rare means of recovering mana in this world.

Mana powder is also an item that increases mana, but it is fundamentally different from mana powder.

It is true that it came from the human body, but it is a product that poses no ethical problems.

To put it bluntly, it is made by refining what comes from the head and making it into candy.

Leader, loyal, loyal.

After expressing my sincere gratitude to the commander, I picked up the goblin bat using the mana within my body.

Buuuung.

As soon as I put the goblin bat on the bike, the outside of the bike started to sparkle.

An ordinary bike suddenly began to transform into a new form, becoming a majestic form with golden patterns on black scales.

[This is a new bike….]

I can’t ride it back to Seoul from Sejong Island, but it’s okay because it’s still cool.

And it’s not just a bike, it’s a bike that combines deadly science and magic technology.

Vroom.

I immediately grabbed the handle.

The direction the bike is facing is Sejong Island.

I put my hat on tightly and pedaled the bike.

Buuu!

The wheels of the bike rolled quickly even on the sandy beach, and I slowly moved forward.

And I moved slowly along the bottom, into the sea.

I am.

[Magic power through breathing.]

[Substance to spirit body.]

[Fantasy into reality.]

[For the lack of mana, I rely on the love and grace of the leader.]

From now on.

[Goblin running.]

Become a goblin rider who won’t be noticed by anyone.

* * *

Full moon.

Ymir couldn’t sleep today.

I usually have time to sleep, but today it was a bit difficult to sleep.

” Now that I think about it, I haven’t decided on which full moon it is. ”

Ymir muttered to himself that he wouldn’t have a roommate and blamed himself by asking himself.

” Well, there’s no way he would just come find me. It’s the first 15 days since the incident happened.”

Goblins are creatures that come and go.

There’s no way such a being would suddenly appear, hoping to meet you…

“……?”

Outside the window.

Above the dormitory fence, a strange shadow was shining.

A man in a suit riding a bike just to do a trick on the fence wall…?

Rattling.

Ymir opened the window and raised his head.

[It’s been a while.]

With his back to the full moon, the goblin stood holding a helmet in his hand.

[drive. Would you like to ride in the back?]

“…….”

Ymir took off his Taegeuk watch and jumped out of the window.