episode_0392

At that time, the President’s Office at the Blue House in Busan.

Most people think of the president as an omnipotent person with power.

Depending on dramas, movies, or novels, the president may be portrayed as a puppet controlled by someone else, but the president is clearly a person with tremendous power in this country.

Those who are a little older even refer to the President as ‘Naratnim’, so no one dares to start a fight in front of the President.

The same goes for ministers and secretaries appointed by the president.

The executive branch is an organization under the president, and most administrative organizations must act immediately when the president speaks.

The president is the top of the executive branch.

But the top doesn’t know everything.

Sometimes, some departments rebel against the president, and there are cases where thoughts from a department trace back and affect the president.

“Hey! Are you crazy?!”

That’s it now.

“When I brought you from Seoul to Busan, do you think I brought you there to cause an accident like this?!”

President Tae Chae-jin shouted into the receiver with veins standing on his neck.

“Do you know what the Ministry of National Defense did?! During my term, I told you not to act carelessly toward women with special abilities!!”

[Yes, that was the president’s pledge as well.]

Despite the president’s anger, the person answering the phone was extremely calm.

[I simply issued a pregnancy warrant according to the law.]

“You could have sent it once within the year, but you could have sent it secretly around November. Why did you send it all now?! Without even reporting to me!”

[How can I report to someone who has completed all the construction and then move on? The Ministry of National Defense follows laws and principles….]

“Laws and principles are nonsense! You, be honest! I’m going to get cut off and go into the shadows, I won’t go in!!”

In response to the President’s explicit interrogation, the other person on the other end of the phone – the current Minister of National Defense – fell silent.

“If you brought in the person who managed the remaining site of the Defense Command in Seoul and elevated him to the position of Minister of National Defense, at least you wouldn’t have to stab me in the back! All I have to do is hold out for the remaining time of my term, right? huh? Is this the kind of cider you won’t see when you return to Korea after a regime change after running away overseas for several years?! What does Hae-neul say about getting her grandchildren into kindergarten?!”

[Those words are strong, Mr. President. Are you talking as if I received instructions from the sun and sent you a pregnancy warrant?]

“That’s right! Oh, damn it…! Pack your bags! My government doesn’t need people who are loyal to the sunshade logo rather than the national flag! As a final mercy, I will only give you a chance to voluntarily resign!”

[I was already writing my resignation letter.]

“This shit…!”

The President roughly put down the receiver and hung up.

The face was red and it looked like it would bleed even if a needle was pricked just a little.

“Ha, ha. Damn… How could I have thought it would be quiet for a few years…!”

” Judging by the fact that pregnancy warrants were sent as soon as the 17-year-old adult law was passed, it is clear that Class A people who have gone to Jeju Island are the main targets. ”

Taejo, a young man in a black suit who was quietly drinking tea in one corner of his office, silently expressed his opinion.

“Send out a pregnancy warrant and persuade and mobilize surrounding family members to get pregnant with the person who best suits Haegeuneul’s tastes. This is the method that Haegaeun has been using until now and will continue to do so in the future.”

Taejo put down his teacup and stood in front of the president’s desk.

“The accident has already happened. The minister, under the instigation of the sun, sent the pregnancy warrant, and it cannot be undone.”

“Keuuuu….”

“The best way is to prevent talented women from leaving the country, and the next best thing is to prevent them from joining hands with Sunshade.”

“The worst thing is exile abroad, and the worst thing is becoming a woman in the shadow of the sun. Phew….”

The President took a deep breath and managed to relieve his fever.

“Taejo. What do you think? Do you have any good ideas to overcome this situation?”

“The best way is to tell them that the pregnancy warrant is just a legal thing, and that I hope they don’t think of it as a bad thing… but since the other person is in their early 20s and has A-level talent, it’s hard to just ignore it. It won’t be easy. So.”

Taejo pointed to himself.

“They are looking for a Korean man who is good enough to say, ‘I wouldn’t mind getting pregnant with this man,’ but has nothing to do with Hae-neul. It’s an open audition.”

“Open audition?”

“Yes. To be precise, it means securing a large portfolio. So that A-level female heroes can choose and meet men in their portfolio.”

“That seems a bit similar to the system run by a marriage information company…?”

A woman makes a choice after looking at numerous men’s photos and information.

It doesn’t feel like the government is stepping in and acting as matchmaker, but if it doesn’t do that, the sunshade will soon fill the world around the female heroes.

“Yes. The advantage of this plan is that it provides women with ‘freedom of choice’ and men with more opportunities to be chosen. Of course…”

“Of course?”

“It will not be easy with this plan to relieve the hurt feelings while already receiving a pregnancy warrant. Because he was treated like livestock.”

No matter how many carrots the government offers, it cannot completely erase the wounds caused by someone else’s malicious stick.

Waiting for the wound to heal.

Or, some other big variable arises.

Knock knock!!

There was a harsh knock on the door.

“Taejo.”

“…big, ah. Oh, what’s going on!!”

King Taejo cleared his throat and spoke frivolously in a somewhat raised tone.

I shouted loudly.

“When I was talking to my grandfather, I told him not to knock like that!! Who are you?!”

“Si, excuse me! However, a very important situation arose…!”

“How important is it that my grandfather and I were talking alone, so let’s take a look and hear it. What is it?”

“Baek Seol-hee said she would catch a man and get pregnant…!”

“Wow.”

King Taejo opened his mouth in surprise, and the President tilted his head.

“Are you saying that Snow White captured and killed the man who proposed pregnancy to her? Baek Seol-hee became a murderer?”

The president heard the secretary’s words, but interpreted them as a completely different situation.

“No…! President, let me say it again!”

“No, that’s because I don’t understand. So what you’re saying is that Baek Seol-hee caught a man and declared in front of everyone, ‘I’m going to get pregnant with this man’s child’?”

“Yes.”

“……Why?”

The President tilted his head with an incomprehensible expression.

“No, why? Suddenly a pregnancy warrant came out?”

“Who is that man? Who are you to talk about Marnie when Seolhee is pregnant?”

“This is this man.”

The secretary quickly uploaded the data to the wall-mounted TV in the president’s office.

“……!”

“A man named Do Ji-hwan, 25 years old. Same age as Baek Seol-hee. I am a man who is currently working as a librarian and employee at the Sejong Academy library.”

“…The face looks good. But that guy, there is no ability level in the data?”

“I am not a person with special abilities. He is incompetent.”

“What…..”

The President could not come to his senses due to the flood of unbelievable truths.

“No, do you think this makes sense now? It’s hard to believe that a man called the Minister of National Defense took a bribe and sent out a pregnancy warrant, but as soon as he received it, Baek Seol-hee arrested another man to say she would get pregnant? Are you kidding me? Huh?”

“It’s not a joke. The real problem is that they didn’t make the offer to the man, they hit him in the solar plexus, knocked him out, and took him into the room!”

“…Rape?”

The President’s expression became so pale that he could not express it in human language.

“Are you saying the man’s doctor took him away without even asking? No, what on earth is that woman…!”

“…The stress exploded.”

Taejo laughed and rubbed his chin with his hand.

“I was always asked, “Get pregnant, get pregnant,” and whenever I met for a national event, government officials or people in the sun asked me, “So, when are you going to get pregnant?” That must have piled up stress over and over until now.”

“No, that was last time on Sejong Island-”

“Grandpa.”

King Taejo gave the President a quick glance, and the President took a moment to catch his breath and then pointed outside to his secretary.

“…I will talk to Taejo for a moment. Is that the end of the report?”

“Ah, yes. For more details, I will post them briefly via internal messenger.”

“Please.”

As the secretary closed the door and left, Taejo pressed his hand to her neck again.

“…I may have committed it suddenly, but choosing a man may not have been sudden.”

“What do you mean, Taejo?”

“That man may be the target of Seolhee’s sister’s extramarital pregnancy.”

“……So.”

The president moved his hands outstretched forward in a circular motion, switching back and forth.

“The post-war relationship was overturned? I was planning on having an affair with this man and getting pregnant from the beginning, but a warrant just came out so I committed it? I guess Baek Seol-hee wasn’t that kind of person originally?”

“Don’t originally good people pile up and pile up, and when they explode, they run wild and become uncontrollable? Now, I can express it just like this.”

Taejo nodded with a liberated smile.

“The pregnancy you told me to do, I got pregnant because it was like Jo-ok.”

“No, he is still incompetent…”

“My mom is S-rank, so what does it matter? I don’t think I’m from overseas, and I don’t think I’m related to Sunshade.”

“…….”

“Well, or maybe it’s just a performance-”

Tiring.

A text message arrived through an internal messenger.

When the president received a text message containing a link, he immediately accessed the link, and the link was showing a live streaming video from a video site.

-Hey, be quiet! I can’t hear you!

-If you hear noises from a hotel suite, that’s strange. Still…it seems a bit audible. Dear viewers, can you hear me?

Those presumed to be academy male students were broadcasting live from inside a hotel room.

-Something, a creaking sound.

* * *

“You, shake it a little louder. The sound of the bed creaking echoes throughout the hotel.”

“…Advertise to the whole world that you are very pregnant, advertise.”

“They told me to get pregnant so I got pregnant, so what? Anyway, shake it some more. Even if you can’t hear the words, you have to make the building vibrate.”

“…I’m the one who fainted, why do I have to move?”

“You are stronger than me, keaaan…!”

Creak, creak.

That night.

The creaking and clanging noises from the hotel suite rang out until dawn.