episode_0466

Grumbling!!

The fire burns.

A completed air conditioner stored in a warehouse catches fire.

Summer is almost over, but there is always a demand for air conditioners, and air conditioners, which cost tens or even millions of won per unit to manufacture, are all on fire.

“Kwaaaa!! Come on, turn off the lights!!”

The CEO of Haegeuneul Electronics, who was in person at the Gumi Industrial Complex, pointed his finger at his subordinates and shouted.

“Call the fire truck, immediately!”

“So, there’s nothing you can do with a fire truck…”

“Even if there is nothing you can do about the warehouse, you don’t have to stop the fire from spreading!!”

“!!”

The fire never went out.

“What is the state of the flame?! This is this ability, right?! Please call it a spark of magic!!”

“…Sorry, boss! It’s a real fire, a real fire!!”

“Ugh!! How can this be a true story!!”

Could it be a short circuit?

No way.

Although the place where the fire broke out was far away from the site where the prisoner villains reported the labor exploitation of Haegeuneul, it was inevitable that they would be suspicious.

“Didn’t we turn our eyes here and then set fire to the warehouse!!”

Seongdonggyeokseo.

They use criminal villains to focus attention on the production facilities, and actually commit arson on finished products in the warehouse.

“People?!”

“Oh, no casualties have been confirmed yet.”

“Really?!”

“There is no Taegeuk Watch that has stopped responding in the fire area! Before the flames broke out, everyone nearby saw the flames and evacuated immediately!”

“Damn it!!”

The president’s fists were shaking as he watched the fire continue to grow.

“Then it’s obvious! It’s the work of a goblin! If innocent people are burned to death, it’s other people’s fault, but the fact that no one died in this mess is their fault!”

Although the flame is not a flame made with this ability, it is a real flame. Using this ability to sneak into the industrial complex and set it on fire is not a problem for a villain.

“Aren’t the ‘Kkobogi’ coming?!”

“Sir, boss. Such a derogatory term for someone with special abilities…”

“If you’ve been paying taxes, shouldn’t you run quickly and put out the fire!!”

The president pounded his chest in frustration.

“And the people who were mobilized as agents are all physical gangs! I paid a lot of money to hire them, so how could they break through the main gate so easily?”

“Goblin….”

“Goblin, goblin! Damn that damn goblin! What kind of dark hero are you to commit such a terrorist attack on someone else’s company? Aaaaa!!”

Did he hear the boss’s angry shout?

Fire trucks rushed by with red sirens blaring and stopped near the burning warehouse.

“Hurry and light the fire!!”

“It’s dangerous, so please step away.”

The firefighters got off the fire truck with tired and exhausted faces.

I understand that it was late at night and there was a dark look on his face, but the president became even more frustrated at the sight of him looking like he was confused somewhere.

“Turn off the light right now! Where are the people with firefighting skills? Come and tell me to put out the fire by squirting water from my mouth or my hands!”

“Yes, yes. It’s dangerous, so please stay back.”

“This…?!”

The fireman’s attitude as if he were dealing with someone who was troublesome made the boss’ blood rise in his neck, but as soon as he looked into the fireman’s eyes, cold sweat ran down his spine.

Contempt, anger, and irritation.

“Boss. It’s really dangerous if you keep staying here like this. We will do our best to put out the fire, so please stay back.”

Even though he knew that he was the president of Haeguneul Electronics, the firefighter’s expression was not very good.

The look in his eyes was like that of a civil servant who said, ‘I do it because it’s my job’, or that if I didn’t want to do it, someone would be in danger or my job would be in danger.

“No….”

Grumble!

“Ugh, ugh!!”

“Boss!”

He barely managed to avoid the sparks that almost flew out.

“This, this!!”

“I told you. It’s dangerous.”

It’s so calm.

There is still annoyance in his voice.

I don’t want to show courtesy to the CEO of Haeguneul Electronics, but-

Beep beep.

“Oh, ah?!”

When a call came in from Taegeuk Watch, the president quickly ran away from the fire and answered the phone.

“Chairman!!”

[What is the situation at the industrial complex?]

“Well, that’s it… The air conditioner looks like it’s going to burn out…!”

[Excuse me, go comfort the children right now.]

“Yes?”

[Whether 100 or 1,000 air conditioners burn, you can just rebuild them, but if the image is damaged, it cannot be restored. You know that better than anyone else.]

“Ugh…!”

[This situation cannot be ignored. Someone has to die to live.]

And that’s not me, the chairman.

Although he didn’t say anything, the words in his voice sent a chill down the president’s spine.

[My nephew. If you resolve this matter well, I will let you keep your stocks and assets.]

“Keuuu…! Okay, okay…!”

Pop.

The phone was disconnected.

The president’s eyes were drawn to his own image reflected in the Taegeuk Watch LCD screen amidst the blazing fireworks.

Hair that is turning white.

Although the face is wrinkled, it is treated with Botox.

All of that was achieved through the wealth and power he had accumulated since his youth.

“Damn, damn…!”

But he didn’t have this ability.

“People with superpowers, you idiots…!”

If I had this ability, would I have been able to stop the goblin?

Or, if even my children had superpowers, if they were strong enough to stop the goblins, wouldn’t they have been able to stop this fire?

“Aaaah!!”

If a little more time had passed, I would have been able to use people with special abilities for money. No, I am not active right now, but I can use them for money at least a little.

“Why, why why!!”

This is completely unthinkable for him, who is now a middle-aged man, or even an old man, who has to disappear into the back of society.

“How can you use this ability to sneak into a factory and carry out a terrorist attack, you idiot!!”

* * *

[That’s why countermeasures should have been prepared to cover even people who secretly come and go in spirit form.]

If not, I should have prepared in advance.

I thought about secretly visiting him before he went to bed and talking to him while he was sleeping, but that’s not my role, it’s someone else’s role.

[It’s not the air conditioner that really burns and gets damaged, but the people’s scabs. Tsk tsk.]

The CEO of Haeguneul Electronics screamed and ran to where the criminal villains were.

It’s already a little late, but you have to move even when you think it’s too late.

The burning air conditioner is already broken, so it’s time to appease people’s complaints.

[Labor comes with a price. No matter how much they are criminals, even ordinary people, not people with special abilities, get angry when they catch children’s weaknesses and beat them for money at a young age.]

To be honest, I don’t think that burning up the air conditioner will have a big financial impact on the entire company.

The really big blow is that when people see Sunshade, they get the perception that they are ‘people who exploit our weaknesses and treat us inhumanely.’

‘There may not be a boycott of Sunshade yet, but the collapse of a dam starts from a small crack.’

Unfortunately, this firework is close to a full-blown fire right now.

However, this gunfire is a beacon that signals the beginning.

The goblin has declared war to expose all the dirty parts of the sunshade.

I checked on the radio to see how the world was receiving that declaration of war.

-I didn’t see the sunshade like that.

-Why don’t you look at me like that? It’s because I haven’t been able to say it out loud until now, but who doesn’t know that things like that actually happen all the time?

-These comments will all be deleted tomorrow, so what are you doing?

-Sunshade experts will come out and talk, so everyone can go back to sleep~

[Everyone is steeped in a kind of defeatism.]

The mountain called Sunshade is too large for one individual to deal with.

I know he’s evil, and I know he’s a villain himself, but there are many ways in which one individual cannot stand up to him.

[Why are you so lost in your thoughts alone?]

Hwiiing.

With the wind, Dool came next to me.

[What about the prison?]

[Well done. Clean and no problem. He asked a nearby housewife to rent a car and put it in an unmanned hotel, and he also obtained a ledger from the prison warden.]

Dool put his hand between her cleavages and took out a small notebook that would fit in the palm of her hand.

[Voila. The driving log sent to Villain Sunshade. Was the director also preparing for what would happen to him later? They dug a groove between the Buddhist scriptures and put this inside it.]

[Is that groove shaped like a hammer?]

[huh? What are you talking about. I heard that they took a thick Buddhist scripture like a dictionary and made a hole the size of this notebook.]

[I just tried it.]

Doyle doesn’t like movies very much.

[…No. Do you know the outcome of the prison warden who tried to make money using prisoners?]

[Getting caught by the police?]

[Pistol suicide.]

[…I think I got a spoiler, right?]

It’s too old to be called a spoiler, so it might not really matter.

[Well, anyway, from now on we just have to take it easy and see how far we can be ‘pulled’.]

[Shall we go to the venue?]

[You will get your tail cut off.]

If you’re not good at it, you can be a vice president, or if you’re good, you can be a president.

[No matter how many affiliates there are, no matter how many tails there are, when they are all cut off, all that remains is the head.]

Just like the Hydra, a monster in Greek and Roman mythology, eventually died when all its heads were cut off by Hercules.

[You can’t survive in the age of supernatural abilities using the old ways.]

The country developed with difficulty while living in the old world and the turbulent 7080s?

[In our time, taking children in, giving them cream bread and making them work may have worked, but it doesn’t work for the new generation. never.]

I admit it.

However, it is a miscalculation to think that this will be applicable even in the modern era, the era of special abilities.

[Now, the phrase ‘in my time’ no longer applies.]

There is no longer a world for those who say latte is just a thing.