episode_0456
by fnovelpiaBaek Seol-hee has a new ability.
Weather manipulation.
Although it was only a matter of lowering the temperature in a certain area, people were able to feel the majesty of Baek Seol-hee just by lowering the temperature, which would have originally been close to 40 degrees, to 32 degrees.
-That’s because I became a patriot after all!
-We are trying to make this country comfortable for the baby that will be born in the future.
-Do you think it would be okay to turn off the air conditioner and just turn on the fan? Ah, is this a bit over the top?
No matter how great a talent is, in the end, people can only truly feel how great the talent is only when they experience it for themselves.
No matter how much Baek Seol-hee uses her ice powers to subdue villains, her feat is not felt at all except by those who are directly threatened.
Just as the police do not normally feel the need, but only feel it when a situation arises in which security is needed.
So, I created a situation so that Baek Seol-hee could more clearly have the image of a ‘patriot’ rather than an ‘adulterous woman’ and that the people of this country would have a positive image of Baek Seol-hee.
‘I can’t stand the heat.’
Thanks to air conditioning, the only way to avoid the heat is when you’re indoors.
Who would want to go outside if the surrounding area was heated up by the enormous heat emanating from the outdoor unit of the air conditioner?
In particular, people who work outdoors without air conditioning are bound to feel even more uncomfortable.
Baek Seol-hee has now erased that discomfort.
Although it is still limited to the Busan area, it is gradually expanding its area.
Like right now.
“Rise up.”
Pajik, pajik.
A lump of ice made like a balloon soars into the sky.
‘Ice crystals’, which look like snow crystals, rise into the sky like a fluttering kite and rise to a height that is invisible to the ordinary human eye.
Now, that ice crystal will remain in the air like a satellite and become a barrier of ice that blocks the heat coming down to the Korean Peninsula.
It doesn’t completely block it, but it just neutralizes some of the heat, but if it’s spread out in many places and cools the heat in multiple layers, the temperature will eventually drop.
“Phew….”
Baek Seol-hee wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand.
“Every time I make an ice crystal, I lose more mana than I thought.”
“Once you get used to it, you will be able to produce it more efficiently.”
I approached Baek Seol-hee, wiped her sweat with a handkerchief, and handed her freshly prepared iced coffee.
“Drink.”
“…is it fake?”
“It’s organic.”
“If it’s real, it’s real. What does organic mean?”
“It’s not something that was created with AI or anything, but it was made with real human blood, sweat, and effort.”
“Hmph….”
Baek Seol-hee lightly sipped coffee and looked up at the sky.
Her mind was still focused on the ice crystal she had shot, and she seemed worried about whether the ice crystal would be effective.
“Be confident. In Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam, people are already walking around outside wearing short-sleeved T-shirts.”
“It only applies to Gyeongsang-do.”
“…are you worried?”
“Of course. I am not a hero of Busan, but a hero of Korea.”
Baek Seol-hee puffed out her cheeks with an expression as if she didn’t like something.
“It’s not like I’ve had this kind of skill for a long time, and I’m just starting to learn this skill one by one…”
“In the first place, people who try to force themselves are not doing it because they don’t like it. I enjoy making that person angry by intentionally belittling him.”
“Then what are you going to do if you get caught as the perpetrator of demonization?”
“Then, in front of others, you would say, ‘I didn’t know that!’ and giggle in the corner of the room, saying, ‘Kihihi, I turned Baek Seol-hee into a devil!’ ”
“They are annoying kids.”
“It couldn’t be kids. How can kids say ‘Korea is the Republic of Busan’?”
What makes Baek Seol-hee angry.
“It is the same no matter which country you go to, where infrastructure is built starting from the capital and where the population is large, and then gradually spreads to the provinces.”
That’s because there are people who belittle Baek Sul-hee’s abilities and achievements by saying, ‘Why do you start from Busan?’ about Baek Sul-hee, who spreads ice crystals like satellites in the sky and spreads a barrier to suppress heat.
“Aren’t local people even people! It’s unreasonable to say that, it’s unreasonable. People say that. If you’re that dissatisfied, you should live in the metropolitan area.”
“…If you answer like that, you would say, ‘Then give me money for the house price so I can live in the metropolitan area’? Who are those people?”
“I know it well. After all, he is a Korean S-class hero.”
“You’re not making fun of me, are you? That’s it then.”
Sometimes, even when I criticize the vicious aspects of the people of this country, Baek Seol-hee just ignores it and laughs bitterly.
“Anyway…. Do you really want to do that?”
“What should I do? Those are the stigmas of life. There are people who make a living by making money out of it rather than pleasure, and there are people who only prove their existence and fill their pride by doing so.”
You can’t always have only good people around you.
Don’t they say it’s one thing at a time?
Just as there is always one idiot in every company, there are many possibilities for bad trash to exist in any place.
“As Baek Seol-hee lowered the temperature in Korea, people’s desire to buy and eat ice cream decreased, so ice cream sales decreased.”
“Ugh.”
“You need some heat to make the fruits grow well under the strong sunlight, but because Baek Seol-hee lowered the temperature, the fruits are predicted to have a poor harvest this year.”
“Ha.”
“We prepared a long-awaited festival to beat the heat with the Chicken and Beer Festival, but the night temperature was only about 25 degrees, so people did not enjoy the chicken and beer, so the festival was ruined.”
“That goes up to hundreds of millions.”
“Okay. It’s all worth it. …Well, I can’t say that the previous story doesn’t actually have that effect…”
I pointed to an old man in a vest pulling a cart in the distance, out of sight of us.
“At least, the reason people like that can come out like that even in this weather is because of the Ice Princess who allowed them to come out even in the impossible weather.”
“Hmph. People who are skeptical will say, ‘Because Baek Sul-hee lowers the temperature, the elderly have to come out to pick up waste paper and have a harder time.’”
“But it is better than having the elderly die from heatstroke.”
It is much better, both for the world and for Baek Seol-hee’s psychological stability, to break the ice.
“Look at places like Europe over there. How many people die from heatstroke every year due to abnormal climate and heat waves?”
“…….”
“Of course, you will be able to take care of them someday. If ice crystals could be spread not only on the Korean Peninsula but also around the world, each country’s meteorological office would adjust the temperature on its own through its own judgment. Just by creating something like that with this ability, you have done your part.”
“I guess so? Still, if this can prevent people from dying, that’s a good thing, right?”
Even if someone loses money financially because of this, it is better than someone dying.
“…The world is so complicated. Even if you do one good thing, it doesn’t always turn out well…”
“Isn’t that what life is all about? You can’t worry about everything. I gradually expand my base by paying attention to my surroundings and those I can influence. Or…”
I walked next to Baek Seol-hee and wrapped my hands around her waist.
“If there is an organization that can do something like that, why not join hands with them?”
“What do you say? Are you crazy?”
Baek Seol-hee lightly tapped her fist toward my solar plexus.
“Even if I die soon, I am a hero of this country, man. Even if such an organization exists, as an S-class hero of this country, if you were to ask me to join hands with an unknown world-conquering organization, do you think I would just say ‘Yes, I understand’ and follow suit?”
“But it’s not a bad organization?”
“Even if it is not a bad organization, there is a thing called trust that people have towards me.”
Baek Seol-hee took out a piece of ice from a plastic cup, then used her ability to fling the piece of ice a long way and bounced it onto the old man who was pulling the cart.
“People in this country believe that I am a hero. He is a just hero who has worked for everyone since he was young. Although now, as I get older, I look at her as a woman who was forced to sit on one man’s back, even if it was through an affair, out of fear of missing out on marriage or getting older…!”
“Are you worried?”
“Of course! If you don’t care, are you human? Anyway, even if you look at it that way, people still think of me as Snow White, a hero.”
Shoot!
A piece of ice breaks.
Ice crystals broken into particles flutter above the old man like a butterfly flapping its wings, and the old man lets go of the handle of the cart for a moment, wipes the sweat with the hem of his vest, and collects some waste paper.
“At least I must not betray the expectations of the people in the world. Isn’t that right?”
“What if the man who got you pregnant was actually an executive of such an organization and a villain goblin?”
“Really? I don’t know.”
Baek Seol-hee nudged my side with her fist and narrowed her eyes.
“Wouldn’t it be better for a hero to go crazy saying he can’t get rid of the child even though he had a child without knowing he was a goblin, rather than going crazy saying he’s going to have a child even though he knows he’s a goblin? Isn’t that right, Ji-hwan?”
“Am I not the only one who becomes trash?”
“Goblin is a villain. Can’t you do that much?”
Baek Seol-hee stretched her hand below my waist and smiled sinisterly.
“I become the owner of the title by overthrowing Baek Seol-hee.”
“…I don’t do that.”
If I was going to throw it away in the first place, I wouldn’t eat it.
“It’s this country that’s eating away.”
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