episode_0248

That time.

Those gathered in the small conference room of the Thai Hero Association remained silent, with serious faces on their faces and just scanning the data in front of them without saying a word.

“…Mother.”

When Nguyen cautiously opened his mouth, everyone turned their eyes to him.

“It would be virtually impossible to find the children’s mothers, right?”

“That will happen.”

Normal people did not specifically deny it.

“The children’s ages range from as young as 3 years old to as old as 17 years old. Even though we could miraculously find the mothers of children as young as 3 right now, where would the mothers of 17-year-olds be? If I write it down, I’d be 37 years old.”

“Red Brassard. The law that says you have to be 37 is…”

“Unless you’re 37?”

“Keuhum. It’s difficult to even say it directly. Well, the possibility is a little lower…”

bang!

“What harsh words are you talking about? Anyway, that’s true!”

The normal person blushed and shouted.

“So are you saying that those villains committed unspeakable acts?! Until this happens…!”

“Sorry. Red Brassard.”

Nguyen glared at the Vice President of the Hero Association, who had been criticized for saying something for no reason, and then apologized on his behalf.

“But please understand. This country is not Korea.”

“…I’m sorry. I’ll stop getting excited.”

“No. This is a completely normal reaction. For now, I think it would be right to just discuss how to resolve this situation first and then talk about it.”

“…….”

The children are looking for their mother.

Fortunately, the children did not show much resistance to the Marine Corps Academy’s education.

Experts’ opinions that it would be better to achieve military-style education in a limited environment were widely accepted, but the fact that children became very interested after hearing about Korea’s Marine Corps-style education was also a positive factor.

Even though they grew up only on an island, the children did not know how to swim, and the survival swimming training of those with special abilities, which started from the first day of the Marine Academy, had a huge impact on the children.

The problem, apart from education, is that the conditions for cooperation put forward by the children’s representative and eldest member must be met.

“…Has your father been confirmed?”

“We are drawing blood from children and running the test machine. It may be possible to investigate only those whose genetic information has been registered, but even then, it will probably be difficult to find the father…”

“Tsk.”

These are children born and raised in a limited environment.

And it would be fine if that limited environment were a place where men and women were confined, but God’s resting place is not where children are born.

“Nguyen. Has that other island you mentioned, ‘Succubus Island’, still not been located?”

“Unfortunately, yes. We have been scouring the surrounding islands, including the vicinity of Phuket, but have not found a place believed to be the island of the succubus. Instead.”

Nguyen briefly covered his face with his hands.

“…General Jeokrang’s minions have not yet surrendered and are holding out, occupying a small island. Firearms were fired at boats trying to enter the island, and people with special abilities are currently being deployed to each island to suppress the interior of the island.”

“How many islands are there?”

“More than seven islands have been confirmed so far. One place is even estimated to have about 500 armed troops…”

“That’s…! ……It’s terrible.”

Sangin almost got angry again, but suppressed his anger by taking a deep breath.

“If rioters occupy the island and are holding hostages, it is an even bigger problem. I don’t know if there will be mothers of children there…”

“Isn’t it a situation where we don’t even know if the children’s mother is Korean, a foreigner, or Thai? Nguyen. Has Thailand activated ‘genetic registration’ like Korea?”

“Not at all. Even in Korea, genetic registration has only reached about 30% of the total population. There is probably no place other than China where 100% official genetic registration can be achieved.”

“Gun…. You can’t search using fingerprints. I’m going crazy.”

The two A-class people bowed their heads.

No matter how much I think about it, there is no way to find my mother.

And even if I were to find my mother, would that mother really be my true mother?

Beep beep beep!

In a situation where it was difficult for anyone to say anything, an emergency signal suddenly rang.

“What’s going on?”

“A large-scale fire broke out on a coral island in western Pattaya!!”

“…On Coral Island?”

fire.

Even an ordinary fire cannot be overcome, but how can people who are already nervous be able to overcome it calmly?

“Satellite photos now!”

“…Oh my god.”

The real-time video of the coral island displayed on the screen inside the conference hall was truly devastating.

The entire coral island was on fire.

As if they were trying to erase the island itself, not only were the trees on the island burning, but all traces of humans on the island were burning as well.

Is it an illusion?

The black smoke was like a young scream of human evil.

It looked as if the dying people’s deaths were rising together with the smoke.

“Perhaps….”

“…Mobilize the nearby navy immediately! Maybe Laplace’s collaborators set the island on fire!”

“If that’s the case…destroy the evidence!!”

In a hurry, the heroes mobilized.

However, the fire showed no signs of going out, and it was only when the supernatural powers created waves and covered the entire island with seawater that the fire was finally put out.

after.

About 3 hours have passed since the fire was first reported.

Inside the island, field agents discovered, deep underground, only carbonized corpses remained.

Based on size, probably female.

* * *

Couldn’t he have been saved?

Did you really have to do that?

I know this and that will come up, but I followed the organization’s guidelines.

I reached a conclusion based on a comprehensive judgment based not only on the organization’s guidelines, but also on my abilities and conscience.

A murderer kills.

Those who burned to death underground on the coral island were murderers.

Not those who had to kill people simply because they became Laplace’s slaves, but those who killed people for money.

And the number of people they killed was not just one or two.

In the first place, those who were selected and taken in by the palace were those who could at least be ‘re-socialized’, while those who were left behind by the palace were those who were subject to death or life imprisonment if taken out of society.

He died without pain, fainting, and without consciousness.

No one woke up halfway through and felt the burning pain of their bodies, and I let them go fairly cleanly.

There was a more painful way to kill him, but I decided to save that for the ‘real’ thing I’d meet later.

Then, after destroying the boat and swimming through the sea, we returned to the hotel.

“Oppa, you worked hard.”

Hye-ra Yoon, who had already arrived at the hotel, greeted me, and I undressed and immediately put on a hotel gown.

“What about women?”

“Currently, the ringleaders are verifying information through individual interviews. But…you know? In the end, if you fish out a fish living in polluted water, you will find that its body is already teeming with parasites. It takes a lot of time and effort to excise it, make it clean, and return it to nature.”

“I know well.”

Re-socializing villains is easy to say, but it is not easy to return them to society once they have been tainted by evil deeds.

Moreover, even if they did not start this business of their own volition, they are people who have already made a huge amount of money in an easy way.

As you live your life from now on, you cannot help but think that just by using your body once, you can earn the amount of money that other people earn in a month.

“I gave you a choice. Will I live like this, or will I lose my memory and become mentally bleached and live as a new person?”

“…To a hero?”

“Is it a bit much to say that it is the turn of the Sephiroth Knights?”

“Well. I haven’t thought about it seriously yet.”

The kids seem to be adjusting quite well at the Marine Academy, but the ‘chicks’ on Succubus Island are a different story.

“Mental bleaching would be the cleanest way, but I don’t know if they would want that.”

“What are you going to do with those who don’t want it?”

“If you do it the way of a group, you will save it and use it for society for a long time…huh?”

Beep.

The phone rang.

The Taegeuk watch I received in Bangkok to work in Thailand rang, and I checked the number that was calling.

“This is….”

Click.

“I received a call.”

[Oh my, there is no communication security?]

“…I know it’s the chairman’s number, but why do I need it? It’s not even Korea.”

I set it to speakerphone mode and sat next to Hye-ra Yoon.

” Here’s a report. With gung-gi….”

[Sorry during the report. I understood the situation, and I thought you might be thinking about it by now, so I called.]

“The Chairman seems to know us very well.”

[No problem. Of course it is, but you know even better.]

“…Then you know that because of my call, you have something new to worry about, right?”

[of course. You may want to tell people not to listen to bad things, but you can’t just turn a blind eye when it comes to things like this.]

The chairman and general manager continued speaking in a serious voice.

[Abortion and infanticide. The crime is so terrible, it’s something I can’t even imagine, but what can I do? First of all, such people are also people of Earth.]

“If you tell me as instructed, I will handle it.”

[There’s no need to get your and Gunggi’s hands dirty. The masterminds are working hard now, and everything has been decided on what to do.]

Tiring.

A text message arrived at Taegeuk Watch.

I tapped the Taiji Watch and opened the video screen in the air, and soon a PDF file shining with blue mana was spread out in front of me.

“…Director?”

[yes.]

“Are you really doing this?”

[Because this is also a way of association.]

“…….”

The name of the PDF file spread out in front of me.

that.

[Villains who cannot be rehabilitated are forcibly rehabilitated and recycled for the sake of social order.]

Sephiroth Project.

[Kill yourself as a vicious villain and be reborn as a new being. is it so. Angels worthy of the Order of Sephiroth. Hehehe.]

I will say one more time.

[In other words, justice brainwashing?]

Association does not discriminate between means and methods.

“Well, what about just the name…”

[no, I do not want. The Knights of Sephiroth, I was fascinated by that name. Sooner or later, I think I will have to come forward in the form of dark charisma, or rather in a different form~]

“…….”