episode_0459

Just because Do Ji-hwan continues to stay at Baek Sul-hee’s house, that doesn’t mean I’m always at Baek Sul-hee’s house.

Externally, I can be anywhere as long as it doesn’t bother me that someone named Do Ji-hwan is out there.

Right now, it’s like I’m in Yoon I-seon’s room back on Sejong Island.

[…The entire Haeguneul Gumi Industrial Complex has been shut down, but Haeguneul has not yet revealed the exact cause, and if this situation continues, the amount of damage will be….]

“Exponential.”

I interrupted the anchor and drew a line in the air with the tip of my finger.

“The damage on the first day will be about 1 billion won, but as the days go by, the damage will double, or even more than double.”

“…Experts say that if the damage lasts for more than a week, it will well exceed 100 billion. If it gets to the point where it can’t be recovered.”

“No problem. Still, it’s much better. Rather than revealing the cause.”

I quenched my thirst with the tea that Yun I-sun had brought and pointed to the material that Yun I-sun had scribbled on the whiteboard hanging in the room.

“Your prediction is correct. The factory was run in a way that should not be known to people.”

“This is an ability, right?”

“Okay. The answer is…’gungi’.”

Yun Yi-seon’s expression immediately became serious.

“Hye-ra unnie?”

“To be exact, I am referring to the sparkles that Yoon Hye-ra left behind as a favor during her lifetime. To put it simply, she secured all the flames for the boiler that she gave as a favor to the elderly living alone, and then used them to generate geothermal heat and secure energy through thermal power generation.”

The efficiency could not be said to be particularly high due to multiple intermediate processes, but Hae-neum already had the technology to run the factory using geothermal energy.

“Externally, it would have been said that the factory was run by generating industrial electricity. But in reality, that electricity was stolen somewhere else, and the firepower that runs the factory was replaced with mana.”

“Then….”

“It will be difficult to recover unless you turn it back on to electrical equipment. If the equipment has already been dismantled or has deteriorated without repair.”

The generator that runs the factory just broke down and is not being replaced.

I can’t fix it.

In the first place, it wasn’t the generator that broke down, but the geothermal generator.

And what cannot even be repaired is that a person with a special ability who can recreate the ‘unquenchable flame’, which can be called a part, is dead.

Those with flame-related abilities who were S-class heroes but died after being overthrown by the state no longer exist, so magical power can no longer be used.

“I understand why it can’t be fixed right away. If you get caught, you won’t get ripped off for swearing.”

“Are you just going to get insulted? The stock price will fall even further than now.”

Even if a problem occurs at the factory, the stock price tends to fall.

However, if the equipment cannot be restored and no effective means can be found, and if the factory is completely shut down for about a month, there is a high possibility that the products produced at the factory will experience a great depression.

“There will be a lot of problems with home appliances for a while. I don’t know about seasonal appliances, but kitchen appliances are in high demand these days.”

“Why kitchen appliances?”

“Although Baek Seol-hee was an adulteress, the number of people starting families has increased these days thanks to people saying what it would be like if there was love.”

“Uh, um…. What is the connection?”

“There are people who want to get married before an affair occurs, there are women who become desperate when a 25-year-old girl says she is getting married because of her age, and there are men who try to drive a wedge into marriage before their woman has an affair with an adulterous man. Something like that.”

The relationship between Baek Seol-hee and Do Ji-hwan is a scandal all over the world, but it is a scandal that has heated up the entire Republic of Korea.

Although it is funny to say that it was a ‘successful’ case despite having an affair with a married man, the fact that Baek Seol-hee tried to find a man and get pregnant ‘as if in a hurry’ at the age of 25 had a huge social impact.

“Even S-level talented people try to have children with adulterous men before they get older. Could it be that people with special abilities are not born as we get older? Well, there are people who think like that, these words.”

“To think like that…”

“And those people will force you to use this ability.”

“Yes? Me?”

“Of course.”

I held Yun Iseon’s hand and drew a flame shape on the back of her hand with magic.

“Who is the S-class psychic with the most firepower right now? If you think about it now, what if it was a fire fox concept at first, but a junior who gradually resembles the abilities of a certain ‘masterpiece’?”

“…Will you try to use my spark?”

“Of course. You haven’t realized the ‘unquenchable flame’ yet, but there are probably people who want you to learn or use that skill, right? Because….”

“Like the ice crystals that Seolhee sprinkled in the sky, I guess she wants to use my fireworks in the winter.”

“That’s right.”

Humans can’t stand the heat, but they can’t stand the cold either.

Especially when it’s hot, you can find a way to do it by covering yourself with water or going for a getaway, but when it’s cold, there’s no way to do it unless you create heat.

“At first, we will spread videos of seniors living alone and spread the word about people freezing to death in the cold. Then, someone from some foundation will come out and ask for an interview, and ask to meet me once. And what if you show elderly people shivering from the cold in a small room in a small town, whether in Busan or Seoul? It’s over.”

“……The more capable a person is raised in a good environment, the more mental damage he feels when he sees a harsh environment that is completely different from his own.”

Iseon Yun added her own thoughts to my words in a stern voice.

“I also saw the video shown by UNICEF as a campaign for the first time in Jeju Island.”

Videos of third world refugees starving, naked, and dying of starvation are not shown to people with disabilities.

The purpose is to prevent people from being shocked when they see such scenes, but it also directs the ‘compassion’ that arose after seeing such scenes to be directed towards ‘one’s own country’ rather than towards foreign countries.

“Now the arrow will come back to me.”

“Of course. It’s S-class. He has fire attribute skills. You also have a kind heart.”

“I’m not particularly kind-hearted…”

“If 100 people see you, they will all say you are pretty, right?”

“…Ugh.”

Yun Yi-seon glared at me glaringly and shrugged her shoulders.

“I don’t think you meant it that way.”

“I was telling the truth as it is? Even if you don’t intend to help the sun, it’s true that you want to help those people. People who don’t have money to take off the boiler.”

“…….”

“I like helping. Don’t pay attention to what people say about it, whether it’s mercy, pity, or crocodile tears, think about why you want to help those people.”

I pointed to the words ‘unquenchable flame’ that Yun Yi-seon had written in large letters on the whiteboard.

“Why do you want to use this technique that Hye-ra Yoon used during her lifetime? It is not an offensive skill that can cause damage to villains, and all it does is convert the magical energy inside into heat and make it spin around a given location.”

“…If I can save people from freezing to death with my remaining magic power, that’s enough.”

“That’s right. That’s the mindset. The desire to help someone is the way for a hero to realize his or her special abilities.”

Since he is a hero, this is a possible path.

“Guys like me who are villains to the core are the type that awaken their abilities in order to take advantage of others.”

“Am I also a villain like you?”

“Rather than being a villain, you are a member of an organization that is treated as a villain in this country, so you cannot be called a villain.”

I walked up to Iseon Yun and lightly patted her on the back.

“If he were a real villain, he wouldn’t have said that he would study something like an unquenchable flame, but he would have responded to an email from over there by saying, ‘It looks good, fuck you.’”

“No matter what, it’s a bit harsh to say something like that.”

“It’s not wrong, right?”

The magical power generator was broken, so he asked for help from Yoon I-seon, who was the only one who could fix it.

huh?

What happens if you request restoration from the American S-class superpower ‘Red Rider’ in the shadow of the sun?

-Recovery cost 200 trillion won. Without any regrets.

-…Did I hear it wrong?

-Oh my, are you saying they can’t even give that much money to make an S-class person with special abilities move?

-No, how can I get 200 trillion…

-It’s a dollar.

-…….

-If you don’t like it, don’t say anything.

If you want to dissipate your anger at turning someone’s pure kindness to your own benefit, you have to show at least that level of sincerity.

“Someone said that. It’s true that you’re really angry and irritated, but if you bring something equivalent to all of your assets and get down on your knees and beg for something to be done, people will still have compassion and think about it at least once.”

“Um….”

“Even if you are walking the path of a villain, your soul has not become a villain.”

Well, they spent 200 trillion dollars to fix a generator, and if they offered to give me all that money, I would be tempted to give it up.

Of course, if they were people who would seek out a huge amount of money, such as $200 trillion, to give it to them, they would not have used the dead person’s abilities to act in such a way in the first place.

“Lee Seon-ah.”

“Yes, teacher.”

“Technology makes money. And if you learn that skill, you can use that skill to extort a lot of money from Sunshade.”

“I will threaten you with my admission.”

“You have to overcome that. The young Suzaku did not know the dirty desires of adults, but you know the dirty desires hidden behind those who ask for your sympathy.”

“Of course.”

Yi-seon Yoon.

“If you want to use someone else’s technology, you have to pay a lot of money. Why are you trying to beat me up at a cheap price?”

It’s not a pushover.

“So, teacher. Will you teach me that skill? The ultimate skill I learned from Hye-ra…an undying flame?”

“Of course.”

Because I am an agent of revenge who came on behalf of Yoon Hye-ra.

“But you already know this technology?”

“Yes?”

“The background behind this technology was that it was developed for elderly people living alone who shiver in the cold?”

Sympathy and good will created the ultimate technique that creates heat by absorbing any magical energy.

“Actually, if you think about it, it’s not that difficult.”

“What on earth….”

“I told you. It’s a boiler.”

Instead of briquettes or oil, it only uses mana as fuel.

“It’s Ondol.”

“…….”

“It’s called Ondol.”