episode_0627

At that time, at a history museum in Busan, two men were quietly walking inside the museum.

“President of the Association.”

“Yes, Mr. President.”

“I still can’t forget this day.”

President Tae Chae-jin looked at the video on the monitor in front of him with a faint look on his face.

“It took only 3 months to build a huge bridge connecting Busan to an island in the middle of the East Sea. It wasn’t even building a new bridge in a village, it took 3 months to build that 4-lane road bridge.”

“That too….”

“Okay. Out of the three months, the actual ‘frame’ of the bridge was built in less than a week.”

Coo coo coo.

With the vibration, the bridge began to float in the waters of the East Sea.

Even the camera filming the video from the helicopter was shaking, and the concrete bridge rising from the ground was like an ancient ruin from a fantasy movie.

“I don’t know much about construction, but wouldn’t it take almost 2 years just to build the framework?”

“Will it only be for two years? If you are already trying to build something like that in the deep East Sea, it will take at least 10 years.”

“But an S-class talented person did it. At just under 10 years old.”

The President scanned the museum information board with his hand and tapped his Taegeuk watch.

Cheezy.

Video played through mirroring.

In it, a girl with chestnut brown hair was looking through dozens of model miniatures, surrounded by several men in suits.

-…Hero! Remember all of this and connect from Busan to Sejong Island! …The fate of our Republic of Korea depends on the hero!

As the architects spoke, the girl held onto the miniature with a sense of duty and looked around.

She was a child who was supposed to be playing with push pop toys with her friends in elementary school, but she had to work with architects to create a model of a bridge in her head until 1 a.m. for the sake of the country and its people.

“…If you know that this has actually been going on since the age of 5, and that they even made you do construction work until dawn, your world will turn upside down.”

“It will be raised internationally as child abuse.”

“I guess so. Although they also did something similar.”

It’s a thing of the past.

Everyone was like that.

This is a story from the past, and the story is different now.

In the era of special abilities, civil society has matured, and those with special abilities are no longer forced to be loyal based solely on their spirit of service and passion for the country and the people.

The fact that it could not be forced also played a part.

“President of the Association. What would you think? He is a person who went through such hardships and was finally born again in the United States. Is there really no possibility of ‘Choi Ho-jeong’ not doing it?”

“…I wouldn’t necessarily plant a bomb underground. There is no need to plant a bomb in the first place, just grab the stem of the Taebaek Mountains and shake it and it will all collapse.”

“A fearsome being. S-class. No…S+ level person with special ability.”

The President displayed another photo of Taegeuk Watch in front.

“Should I call her [Miss Akos] now? Or…like Red Rider Yoon Hye-ra, [Black Rider]?”

“You can just call it ‘chaos’ as you originally called it.”

What appeared on the monitor was an ID photo of a woman who looked like the girl in the video from earlier had grown up and matured.

Among the yellow hair that is brighter than chestnut brown, some of the hair is dyed blonde.

“One of the four captains of America.”

It was a profile picture of one of the official documents officially sent to the Korea Hero Association.

“President of the Association. So far, the four executives of the organization have not been directly involved… Do they officially have a ‘murder record’?”

“Yes. There is no criminal record for murder. …First of all, they are officially saying, ‘It’s not me.’”

“I wish it were that way.”

The president smiled bitterly and posted other people’s profiles as well.

“How burning with revenge would they be? Jeondae and Jeonjeondae…. It may have been something that the people called the President deliberately hid, but I know roughly how it went down.”

“I heard that the law on access to records is currently being revised, putting pressure on lawmakers who were hiding in the shadows.”

“Okay. Since there is no sunshade, something like that is possible. Then…now the whole country will know. The terrible history of oppression against people with special abilities, which some people called ‘Pandora’s box’.”

A secret that can turn the so-called rising mood into self-destruction and hatred.

“President of the Association.”

“Yes, Mr. President.”

“Why do you think you came back to Korea after going through something like that and were able to do so much for Korea?”

“Um….”

Jerk, jerk.

The two men arrived at a place.

In the central square inside the museum, in the exhibition hall, which can be called the ‘main’ of the museum.

“From a young age, you will have the mindset to serve the country.”

Below the glass floor was a bird’s eye view of the ‘planned city of Neo Busan’.

As the president of the association fiddled with the control console, the bird’s eye view immediately changed to a bird’s eye view of ‘Busan in 1997’.

“They must know that the bad things are the politicians and sunshades who took advantage of them, not that the Korean people are bad.”

Coo coo coo.

As I operated the console, Busan in 1997 began to change as if I was running a high-speed camera.

At some point past the number 2000.

Busan’s roads and building structures suddenly changed to resemble Manhattan, New York.

“…More than anything, isn’t it your home country?”

“It’s my home country….”

The President shook his head.

“My current nationality is American, but I was born in Korea. This is not a documentary about a child adopted overseas and working in the country where he or she was born. What is this?”

“But thanks to that, we…”

“Okay. I was able to sit still and get my hands on the Gwanbuk region, which is being redeveloped in the same way as Manhattan.”

The President looked around and tapped the Taegeuk watch.

A holographic image began to appear above his Taegeuk watch, and data about the northern part of the Korean Peninsula – the Gwanbuk region – appeared in the image.

“Based on data developed along the Rocky Mountains, it is newly applied to the Taebaek Mountains. …I don’t know if this is right.”

“But Mr. President.”

The president of the association clenched his fist and pointed to the planned city and railroad rising in 3D in the video.

“The tax involved is 0 won.”

“…….”

“No, exactly…”

“Support for Patriotic Masters.”

The President raised his head to the ceiling.

“…I’m so glad the master craftsman is Korean.”

* * *

Build roads without paying taxes.

Build a railroad without taxes.

Build an apartment without taxes.

Without taxes, the entire Gwanbuk region will be redeveloped in a more sophisticated form than the cities near the Rocky Mountains.

Is there really a place that rejects companies with these conditions?

You even pay the taxes you owe, and 50 years later, everything goes to the Korean government?

Additionally, from a personal perspective…

“People who move into Geumgang Dogistate Kaosia Complex 1 will take over ownership of the apartment 50 years later. Until then, you just have to pay a usage fee to the government in the form of monthly rent.”

“You guys…. What the hell.”

Baek Seol-hee looked back and forth between me and Seong Ji-eun and laughed.

“Usually, I just thought about how to beat the villain and how to make it more fun by being patriotic. I guess there was a plan like this?”

“…….”

Seong Ji-eun slightly raised her head without saying anything.

“Hmm… I can see you sighing, so I guess that’s not what you think?”

“Ugh.”

And Baek Seol-hee immediately sensed her true intentions in her silent words.

“Isn’t it true that they are collaborators in making plans or something like that? You are just suggesting a ‘method’ with this ability.”

“…That’s right. Sheesh. How did you know?”

“No matter how much you do it, I don’t think you’ll be able to create such a large-scale planned city in just a few years. It’s natural.”

“…well.”

Seong Ji-eun twisted the corners of her mouth with a meaningful expression.

“Can someone come up with a planned city like this in just one night?”

“…….”

” Baek Seol-hee. No matter how much you aim for first place, you know that you will never reach first place, right?”

“You have no intention of aiming for first place? But if you’re the ‘first’ among heroes, it’s not that bad.”

“……Hmph, who knows how to be a hero.”

She dragged someone else in and tried to scratch Baek Seol-hee, but Seong Ji-eun only got annoyed by Baek Seol-hee’s counterattack and kept her mouth shut.

“Anyway, to summarize, there are no construction costs at all to redevelop these lands. There may be things like raw material costs and transportation costs, but at least it doesn’t cost anything to build an entire apartment building.”

I don’t know anything else, but ‘building a building’ doesn’t cost any labor costs.

“When I was young, I built buildings and laid roads out of patriotism and a sense of duty. But, the girl who would do anything for just one piece of candy is dead. It was this country that killed it, and now I am America’s hero – [Black Rider].”

“Where is the black?”

“You don’t have to worry about that. Anyway, since I’m from America, I have no intention of using my abilities like this just for free? So…”

Seong Ji-eun twitched the corner of her mouth, pulled my arm and crossed her arms.

“In exchange for redeveloping the Gwanbuk region, I bought three nights of a patriotic master.”

“What…..”

“South Korea sold Do Ji-hwan. To me.”

“…That’s how it happened.”

Yes.

Construction cost.

It was replaced by the price of rice cake.

“As Do Ji-hwan maintains his loyalty to the country, apartments will be built in droves in the Gwanbuk region.”