episode_0494

Late evening, Osaka Comic World censored doujinshi sales office.

“Heung, heung, heung.”

A young man wearing glasses is humming a song and making his way through the crowd of people, holding a paper bag in both hands.

One by one, the people passing by had their eyes closed due to empty stomachs, perhaps because it was evening time, or they were unable to hide their tiredness.

Or, he looks sleepy.

One by one, people begin to leave, and the crowd slowly begins to decrease.

“Obviously…. Ah, I found it.”

As soon as the young man found a fanzine booth, he was delighted.

It seems like a lot of books have been sold, but even though it’s almost time to close, the sales booth is still piled with books.

The person guarding the place was a beautiful maid with short black hair and glasses, and if you look closely, the inside of her hair was sparkling blue.

“Um.”

The young man looked at the pamphlet placed at the entrance.

According to the guide that lists the products and types sold at each booth, the products sold here are clearly…

“Where is my doujinshi with the concept of ‘A player trapped in a VR world with a female avatar turns out that this world is a Tsugur game’?”

The pamphlet clearly states that they are selling such items, but in reality, what you see is not a feast of flesh, but a feast of death.

in other words.

I found the right one.

“Excuse me.”

“…….”

“I came to see the ‘Apocalypse’ water.”

The maid’s eyes began to shine at the young man’s words.

“Apocalypse….”

Life slowly returned to his dead eyes, and his hands, which had moved mechanically, slowly began to change organically, like those of humans.

“Which apocalyptic water are you looking for?”

The maid pointed to the piled up doujinshi.

The place was full of monsters of bizarre and grotesque shapes, but most of them were ‘human deformities’.

“Zombie virus, human change, demonization. We have a variety of options available.”

People screaming and being scared and humans turning into monsters.

A ‘creature’ item that is rarely seen at the Comic Market, and even if you do see it, it is very rare.

“If what you’re looking for is something pornographic, we have a few copies of that too…”

The only thing sold inside the area where ID cards are checked at the entrance is not a feast of flesh, but a feast of monsters.

“Most of them only deal with the end of humanity.”

It’s not 19+ because it’s lewd or lewd.

It was an apocalypse genre doujinshi with strong 19+ elements that were cruel, disgusting, and terrifying.

“What material are you looking for?”

“Hmm, is there anything related to ‘water’?”

“Water….”

“A tsunami will occur, a flood will occur, or the city will be submerged in water.”

“…If that’s what you’re looking for, here’s just the thing for you.”

The maid took out a book from inside the sales booth.

“Would you like to take a look at this?”

“Hoo, this is….”

“A strange disaster story. One day, a small water droplet appeared in the sky over Shibuya, and the water droplet began to grow larger as the days passed.”

Although it is a short cartoon, the content clearly had a solid plot.

-What is this? Wow, cute.

-Isn’t it just a natural phenomenon?

At first, it was a strange phenomenon and the topic spread mainly on social media.

-Uh, why does that thing seem to be getting bigger?

-It grows bigger by absorbing the surrounding water… Hey, you have no idea! Why is it getting bigger!

Gradually, the water droplet grew larger than a room, and eventually as large as a building.

-Well, it’s dangerous, so let’s leave! If that explodes, there could be a flood!

-Let’s see the floods in Tokyo. What are you worried about? It’s just a hologram show, a show.

-The end has come!!

-Uh, well, citizens, take your seats…

Citizens are fleeing the streets of Shibuya, people are talking on the Internet about the end of mankind and that it is Judgment Day, and politicians are gradually coming out and discussing it seriously.

“What happens in the end? The only thing left is for the streets of Shibuya to be empty of people as they leave.”

“After this…. I don’t know.”

The maid twitched the corner of her mouth sarcastically.

“If it doesn’t actually happen, no one will know.”

“Hmm….”

“This is just a cartoon. Created by human imagination. If this happens in reality, as this character says…it will be a ‘divine punishment’ to punish someone.”

“Are you the author of this?”

“Yes. I am a writer.”

The maid stretched out her white-gloved hand, and the young man shook hands with the maid.

“My name is ‘Aoi Sora’.”

“I….”

Slur.

A very faint sensation transmitted through the hand.

In response, the young man twitched the corners of his mouth and held onto his hands tightly.

“This is professional gay, Meogu Cheongyeon.”

“…Yes?”

“[Pro gamer]. My last name is Gu, and my name is Cheongyeon.”

“…Uh, um…?”

“My friends call me [Bibi].”

“…….”

The maid’s eyes slowly narrowed and she frowned.

“If the end is approaching, what do you plan to do? For example, like this…”

Knock knock.

The maid took off the cover of the fanzine.

“If the end of humanity approaches when cities are flooded.”

The normal city of Shibuya depicted on the title page has disappeared, and what appears is just a flooded and dilapidated city.

There wasn’t a single person to be found.

* * *

[The principle is clouds.]

I released mana with the goblin bat and created an illusion.

[No, should I say magnet.]

In the middle of Seoul.

[Like an ice crystal, it creates a ‘core’ that attracts the surrounding energy, absorbs natural moisture and drops it.]

Huge water droplets appear in the sky above Yeouido, and the water droplets grow large enough to cover the entire Yeouido and then fall down.

“Why Yeouido?”

[Because it’s the easiest place for me to think about.]

People who live in Seoul can roughly guess that what is often said in the news is ‘N times the area of Yeouido.’

That idiom is often used in this world as well.

Think about it.

What kind of chaos would occur if water droplets suddenly appeared in the middle of Seoul, especially over Yeouido, that would cover the entire Yeouido?

In a world where Seoul has a population of 10 million, there will definitely be a panic as people try to escape Yeouido, or rather Seoul.

[Raising the sea level will only cause humans to climb up the mountain. It is a sure method, but time will be limited. It would be enough to draw attention right now.]

I definitely knew the method.

Although you can’t drop a colony-class meteorite floating in outer space to blow away ugly memories.

Based on the idea of dropping something on the ground, I clearly grasped the idea of creating a giant water bomb and delivering a direct hit to the city.

“You are trying to share the plan to destroy humanity through a fanzine. The idea is cute yet terrifying.”

Docheol frowned openly as he flicked his finger at his smartphone.

“Hey. Trash worse than elementary school. Don’t you have something to say?”

“…….”

The ten scholars kept their mouths shut.

“I don’t know anything. I just came to Comiket to have fun.”

“It’s a shame to come here to play. He must have volunteered for this mission, excited to see how he could screw up Japan. They said it was a golden opportunity to sink Japan.”

“Please, if you are Korean, attack Japan, ugh!!”

Bah-ah.

“This.”

I didn’t hit you.

“Because of a kid like you, we’re in a lot of trouble right now. Do you know?”

Docheol grabbed the smartphone and took a picture of the top of Sibseonbi’s head with the corner of the smartphone.

“We also try not to destroy the world, but where…”

If you have the will to destroy the world, the thing that can destroy it faster than anyone else is death.

Under the premise of sacrificing your soul.

Provided that there is no interference of any kind.

There are people who have the power to explode dormant volcanoes around the world.

It could create a wave in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and submerge the entire continent.

By distorting the Earth’s atmosphere, we can create hurricanes all over the world every day.

Aside from everything else, it could shake the entire Earth’s plate and cause a large-scale earthquake.

“Ugh, really.”

Bah-ah.

[Can I faint?]

“He doesn’t know anything. All I had to do was follow the instructions written on my smartphone. Find someone who sells the apocalypse genre. The plan will be contained in the book you sell.”

[Spreading a plan to destroy the world through a doujinshi. This is crazy.]

This is such a ridiculous idea.

It’s an idea that only children would do, and I sigh at the fact that I missed it.

‘Where have all the things that appeared in spy films gone?’

Agents in black suits come out and carry 007 bags.

If you operate the hanger in the fitting room of a men’s custom suit store, it will go down to the basement.

That didn’t happen this time.

[iced coffee. This is a goblin. Request local cooperation. Let’s thoroughly investigate social media right now. Look for SNS with keywords in photos of the covers of doujinshi you bought at Osaka Comic World, their contents, or things you took while passing by. The keyword is….]

water drop. Apocalypse. destruction of mankind.

[okay. ASAP.]

We have requested support from the desperate agents dispatched to Japan, the ‘mastermind’ and ‘bobusang’, so the results will come out soon.

[Nadeshiko. Could you please go to the scene?]

“On-site?”

[There was nothing like that when I visited the site. But that’s how it was when we walked around. Maybe now, or tomorrow, such a booth could ‘suddenly’ appear. or not….]

This guy.

Sibseonbi.

[Is it bait?]

“Bait?”

[Docheol. Is there a ‘touch time’ displayed on your smartphone?]

“…there was none.”

[Then, this is the trigger.]

The point at which Sipseongbi sprinkles sleeping powder.

[Right now, we are also going to the scene.]