episode_0377

Sae-Ae-Aek.

On the Jeju Island coast, where the waves are crashing, people wearing black hats like the color of the dark night on their heads walked out onto the sandy beach one by one.

[Return.]

As soon as the person in front could speak, the others who followed took off their wetsuits.

The clothes inside the wetsuit were clearly anachronistic or conceptual ninja uniforms.

People may say that in an age of supernormal abilities, people are ninjas, but if someone with body-enhanced supernormal abilities decides to move like a ninja, it is not impossible for them to act like a ninja.

The most important factor for a ninja is stealth maneuver.

I wonder how on earth they can move secretly on Jeju Island, but they already have the means to move secretly.

[Leader. I think I will soon be caught on the Mikan radar.]

One of the ninja subordinates pointed ahead.

There, the leaves of the tangerine trees were fluttering in the wind, and even though it was midsummer, the tangerines hanging from the trees were moving like CCTV.

[Shall we detour?]

[no. Break through head on. I’m going to explode the EMP.]

[EMP…?]

[Take a good look, newbie. There is always a way to destroy this ability.]

The ninja leader took something out of the black bag he was wearing on his back.

What was inside the plastic zipper bag was something orange and somewhat mushy, and the ninja leader opened the plastic zipper bag and threw the small sphere near the tangerine tree.

Cheolpudeok.

Nothing exploded or anything.

If anything explodes, it’s just the juice and kernels that fall on the asphalt floor and leak out from the mushy shell.

[Mikan…?]

[The only tangerines that Jicheonhyang can control are those from Jeju Island.]

The ninja leader walked forward casually.

[Captain, it’s dangerous!]

[Okay. It’s not dangerous at all.]

Despite his subordinate’s dissuasion, the ninja leader approached the tangerine tree.

The tangerines on the tangerine tree did not react at all, and the ninja leader lightly stepped on the tangerines he had thrown and kicked them forward, scattering the juice.

[The tangerine trees around here were neutralized by spraying the juice and scent of Mikan from Fukushima. Before Jicheonhyang’s consciousness reached here, before the magic power reached the tangerines here, the magic power was blocked.]

[Is that possible…?]

[If it were impossible, wouldn’t these tangerines explode and attack us right away?]

The ninja leader looked towards his subordinate and lightly tapped his temple.

[Because my imagination is so poor. You’re not an otaku, are you?]

[Yes, yes…?]

[anyway. If you’re an otaku, you probably have this level of application ability. Too bad. Young people these days are all insiders, so they lack the things that otakus and hikikomori fantasize about and imagine in the corners of their rooms… tsk tsk.]

The ninja leader continued to move forward, throwing tangerines from the zipper bag.

The men walked along behind him, anxious that the tangerines on the tangerine tree might fly or explode.

[Leader. When all those tangerines are worn out….]

[It will be difficult to find them after they invade from the coast. Jeju Island relies on tangerines for all its security, so the chances of being caught on CCTV are low. There will be no problem as long as you act normally enough not to get noticed by Ji Cheon-hyang.]

[I see… But is that boiled?]

[Only Mikan was removed from Mikan Hot Pot. The effect is not certain.]

Passs.

As I passed the coastal road lined with long tangerine trees, behind it was a general road with no tangerines to be found.

[oh my god. Destroying Gyuligate like this…!]

[This is a new destruction method discovered by the Talent Research Institute. You guys should know better from now onㅡ]

Ta-euang.

The sound of a gunshot heard from afar.

He momentarily lowered his body and took out his weapon and aimed it in the direction from which the gunfire sounded, but the sound that followed was one that should not have happened.

puck.

[sage?!]

[You idiot! Don’t call me by name!]

The ninja hit by the magic bullet fell flat on the sandy beach, leaving a deep red mark on his forehead.

[shit…! Is it a tangerine?!]

[no! It’s not a tangerine…it’s a matan!]

[Pfft! Newbie?!]

[It’s alive…there is!]

The ninjas quickly checked the condition of their fallen comrades and then hid behind nearby cover one by one.

[Pfft, has Korea already deployed snipers along the coast…! [A person with such powerful abilities…?!]

[Nonsense! There is no way that a person with extraordinary abilities that the captain would not notice would continue to wait on this coast…!]

[It may be possible…!]

The captain gritted his teeth and extended a small dagger across the rock.

[As for the hunting dogs that the Korean government is said to be secretly raising to catch villains and turn them into government dogs-]

Ta-ang.

Another gunshot rang out, and another ninja fell.

One shot, one kill.

Although they are not killed, they are not killed, but the ninja unit, which is supposed to move through stealth maneuvers and prayers, is knocked unconscious one by one by a sniper, which is no different from death.

“Damn…!”

The captain lowered his mask and cursed.

“Wasn’t it okay to just go over Jicheonhyang!”

Ta-ang.

Gunshots were heard again.

The captain turned his eyes in the direction from which the gunfire sounded, and soon stopped looking at the ridiculous sight.

“Crazy…?”

The adjutant is falling.

While hiding behind cover, a magic bullet that appears to fall vertically from above the cover hits the top of the adjutant’s head, stunning him.

“Uh, how could this…. Oh, this is ridiculous…!”

The ninja leader slowly began to become afraid.

He was so frightened that he saw this ability that was so shocking that he couldn’t understand it rationally.

Can’t win.

The sound of the gunshot is clearly audible very faintly, and considering the distance, it seems to be coming from several kilometers away, but is the invisible magic bullet flying from the sky rather than piercing the cover and sniping the target?

“How can there be someone with this kind of ability…!”

Ta-ang.

A gunshot rang out.

Now the only remaining ninja is himself.

Knowing that the magic bullet was targeting him, the ninja leader swung his dagger while looking forward and upward at once.

“When something like a magic bullet flies, if you bounce it off—”

Baaah!

Something hit me hard on the back of my head.

The impact was such that the sight before his eyes turned completely white, and the ninja leader slowly lost consciousness, feeling as if his entire body was losing strength.

“This is so absurd…”

Last moment.

What he saw before losing consciousness was golden stardust dispersing like fog in the air somewhere.

maybe.

It must be starlight.

* * *

[…Now even ninjas are swimming in the sea.]

Relaxing my finger on the trigger of my anti-materiel sniper rifle, I scanned the video screen right in front of me.

The video screen shows multiple locations at the same time, like a CCTV screen.

Some screens turned black and were no longer visible, but if you can’t see that place, a CCTV located far away towards that location can illuminate the screen there.

Although it is written as CCTV and read as tangerine.

[It’s amazing. Hey there, brother. I didn’t know they would climb over the fence like that.]

Ymir was disgusted when he saw the boiled tangerines scattered on the floor in the CCTV footage.

[Sprinkling Japanese tangerines to prevent Jicheonhyang’s mana from reaching the tangerines. Is this correct?]

[Right. If it actually succeeded, it is still an ability.]

If a fantasy fails, it is just a delusion, but if a fantasy actually works in reality, it becomes a ‘supernatural ability’ and a ‘law’.

[After all, it is the country of otaku. No other country can match this ability and imagination technology.]

[What is that…?]

[If there is a Sejong Academy in Korea, there is something like a talent research center in Japan. A national character research institute is operated, and the images of people with special abilities created at the character research institute are cultivated into actual people with special abilities. That is one of Japan’s methods of educating talented people.]

Those ninjas are like that too.

Rather than developing a concept based on one’s own ability, it is a method of adapting oneself to a being with a concept similar to this ability.

It can be said to be quite similar to the method of selecting knights of the Sephiroth Order.

I base my work on cultural content from a world divided by cataclysm, but the Japan Research Institute of Extraordinary Talents uses the imagination of otakus as its power and creates the concept of extraordinary abilities.

[Ymir. Keep this in mind. This ability can be used in any way, but if the opponent understands the core of the ability, he can destroy it as much as he wants.]

[Like they neutralized Ji Cheon-hyang’s Tangerine through some unknown method?]

[It’s not an unknown method. It is a perfect and accurate weak point attack aimed at the conditions for the expression of this ability.]

Ji Cheon-hyang can control ‘tangerines produced in Jeju Island’ at will.

Then, if you bring in tangerines produced outside of Jeju Island, you cannot control them.

Moreover, if it were Mikan that was grown in Japan and boiled once in hotpot soup, and if its scent was so strong that it covered up the scent of the fresh tangerines around it, Jicheonhyang’s mana would not be able to reach the coastline.

[This ability is ultimately a battle of application. Depending on how you use this ability, you can easily subdue your enemies. Ymir. There is still one ninja left.]

[I will open the door.]

Ymir relaxedly stretched out one hand in front of my anti-materiel sniper rifle and watched the CCTV video screen-

[Get ready.]

I opened a portal in front of my gun.

[Shoot.]

Ta-ang.

The magic bullet went over the portal and hit the top of the head of the ninja who was hiding behind cover.

A gunner of magic bullets.

100% hit rate so far.

[This is sniping.]