episode_0631

The number one hero in Korea is Gwangikgong.

And second place is Baek Seol-hee.

What is the difference between these two?

What is the ultimate difference between first and second place?

If Gwang Ik-gong is a being who ‘knew but was able to suppress’, Baek Seol-hee can be said to be a being who ‘could not suppress because he did not know’.

Baek Seol-hee had no idea what happened behind the scenes.

I probably knew there was some backstory, but I had no idea how it was done in detail.

Not knowing is not a sin.

However, if a person who can exert some influence remains unaware of it for the rest of his life, it is something to think about.

I was worried about that.

Just like Ymir, I am afraid that the more Baek Seol-hee gets to know her, the darker she will become.

The more pure a hero is, the more likely he is to turn into a devil if he receives a great psychological shock.

I guess that’s what everyone thought when they watched from the side.

If he makes a mistake, he will become something like the ‘Demon of the Ice Age’.

So, I approached Baek Seol-hee carefully, and, just like I did with Ymir, I very slowly revealed the darkness of this world and this country, one by one.

“The circumstances behind it? No matter what there is, now I will face it and live with it.”

And now, Baek Seol-hee has the mental strength to not degenerate into an ice witch even after facing such circumstances.

“I’m sorry for not knowing that you had a hard time facing it yourself. It’s hard to say it’s a replacement, but from now on…”

“There is no need to apologize.”

As soon as Baek Seol-hee lowered her head slightly, Seong Ji-eun reached forward and grabbed Baek Seol-hee’s shoulder.

“You didn’t do anything wrong. The bad ones are all government officials who made mistakes, and they are the sunshades who took advantage of them and tried to siphon off money. Well, I made a little mistake too.”

“Mistake…?”

“Okay. lets think. No matter how many things I did that didn’t even dry my head and that they thought were flashy, I was still an S-class hero. But why did they get rid of me?”

“…….”

Doubts begin to appear in Baek Seol-hee’s eyes.

Seong Ji-eun glanced at me to see what I was thinking, and I responded by nodding at her.

‘Baek Seol-hee can handle it.’

Why did this country get rid of Seong Ji-eun?

And what was the reason for eliminating the successive S-classes one by one?

“This is because three conditions are met.”

“Three things?”

“Okay. One is…transfer of technology.”

one thing.

If I were to make an excuse, rather than an excuse, for them, it would be that their fault was too good.

They are people who are naive and kind enough to believe that if a friend around them approaches them and begs them to lend them just 5 million won, they will just lend that amount and not even use the IOU, believing that they will pay it back properly.

The four executives were also such good people at the time.

They had no idea how malicious humans would treat them, and they naively trusted them.

I believed that humans were good.

Without even realizing that they were thinking of ways and means to eliminate themselves.

“The apartment. Even after Seong Ji-eun died, it continued to rise, right?”

“Uh, yes.”

“So, were those apartments built using the existing construction method?”

“…No?”

Even after Seong Ji-eun’s death, the apartments continued to go up ‘at the expense of others.’

Although the construction cost increased due to the shock caused by Seong Ji-eun, the building’s rise through the power of this ability did not stop even after Seong Ji-eun’s death.

“There is this ‘Earth Magic’ that I am referring to. I passed it on to other people. This ability.”

“What…?”

“And then they went into Haeshaune Construction or the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Are you thinking, ‘Why did you teach me that?’”

“…….”

Seong Ji-eun immediately pointed out the question that flowed from Baek Seol-hee’s mind.

“That’s right. If I could go back to before I died, I would have slapped that bitch first. How dare you give away this ability? Everything they said was just flattery and an attempt to create a replacement for you.”

“5 to 6 A-class slaves who obey well are more helpful to the apartment construction market than one S-class person who does not listen. That’s how I decided.”

The method of coaxing people from above is always the same.

He said to Seong Ji-eun, ‘If you teach your juniors skills, I will stop you from building apartments.’ Seong Ji-eun taught his juniors his skills.

Not knowing that the juniors were people who had secretly entered into a contract with the government and the sun, I taught them with all my passion and sincerity, thinking that they were ‘heroes’ who naively hoped to learn this ability.

“That’s exactly… that kind of feeling. People who fall victim to scammers….”

“There’s no law saying you can’t be a hero.”

“Okay. It’s the fault of the person who cheated, not the fault of the person who was scammed.”

If there is a mistake, it is because I trusted people too much and looked at the world in a positive light.

“I was taught that people are good from birth, right? After I died, I realized something: humans are born evil beings. I was born with a devil inside me.”

“…….”

“…Oh, sorry. I didn’t mean to say that.”

When Baek Seol-hee placed her hand on her stomach without realizing it, Seong Ji-eun quickly waved her hand and denied what she said.

“It’s just that people with such evil hearts caught me. Anyway, so the first condition is solved. Taking my abilities. And the second one….”

“If you eliminate him as an S-class superpower, is it worth eliminating him as an S-class hero?”

“That’s right.”

“…….”

Baek Seol-hee’s expression began to rot in an indescribable way.

“No matter how much the government and the economic community hate you, if you have public opinion on your back, the government will not be able to easily touch you. okay. Popularity as a hero.”

“But did I have time to be a hero? All the credit went to Gwangikkong and Snowwhite.”

“That’s….”

“It doesn’t mean that working hard for the people and peace is wrong. It must have been planned that way in the first place. And….”

Seong Ji-eun pointed to Baek Seol-hee and herself.

“Since we have Gwangikong and Snowwhite anyway, we came to the conclusion, ‘I guess we can do without at least one of them?’ This is the second condition.”

There are plenty of S classes anyway.

Although there are currently 8 S-class heroes in this country in 25 years, it must be taken into account that the number of S-class heroes who died, went into exile, or disappeared as villains was officially at least 50.

And as time went by, the government and the sun went to the ‘Gwangikonggong’ strategy, but…

You probably didn’t expect that the Gwangyukgong would be on the same level as the devil.

And I would never have imagined that the four S-class dead would be resurrected as virgin ghosts and appear riding on goblins.

But that was the case back then.

Even without Seong Ji-eun, there was no reason for Korea to lose its title as the world’s most talented country, and they thought it was a situation where they could ‘weed out’ appropriately.

“Like Baek Seol-hee, ‘even if a pregnancy warrant is issued, in the end, only those who have the ability to give birth according to the warrant’ are left behind.”

“Ugh….”

“In that sense, I’m talking about the one you exploded on Jeju Island. I feel pretty good about it.”

Seong Ji-eun manipulated the shrine watch and played back the video kept in the shrine.

“My, get down…!”

Baek Seol-hee immediately covered the video of herself proudly raising her head at the press conference with her hand, and Seong Ji-eun giggled softly and covered her desperate watch with her hand.

“Look at this. Reporters were embarrassed. I guess everyone who watched this video was dumbfounded? So I realized it. ah. If you want to give these bastards a proper blow, you have to do something like this. You chose the wrong way to fly.”

Seong Ji-eun glanced at me.

“If I had had someone like Goblin by my side to give me advice or anything to help me make this choice, I wouldn’t have done such a foolish thing.”

“……Ah.”

Baek Seol-hee seemed to notice something in a voice.

“That, could it be…”

“That’s right. In the end, I made a ‘choice’.”

Circumstances pushed her, but she ultimately made her own decisions.

“You heard the rumor, right? That’s true.”

“You… tried to defect to Hawaii…”

“It’s true. At that time, I was approached from the United States.”

When America was not yet the America of death.

When Seong Ji-eun was being bombarded by the nation, media, and public opinion.

“Why not go into exile and become a hero of our country? To that, I just answered ‘OK’. Well, I was mentally stressed in many ways, and my eldest sister couldn’t consult anyone…”

“Then-”

“I thought it was useless to tell you. You know that too, right? At that time, you and I… it was almost the end.”

“…….”

A woman who worked passionately to eradicate villains and worked 24 hours a day for national peace.

A woman who spent all her time working for the Korean peninsula’s real estate economy, but now wanted to have her own time.

It’s just that we didn’t know each other.

“Well, so it’s a thing of the past. I chose exile and ended up giving it a cause. This country has a reason to destroy me.”

The moment she made the choice to go into exile, ‘Hwan’s will’, which was her last bastion, probably chose to abandon her.

“It’s a country like this. Well, the government has changed, but the opposition party is alive and the people in the shadow of the sun are now being liquidated one by one. Still, that doesn’t mean the history that has been going on until now will disappear. Baek Seol-hee. Can you really handle it?”

“Of course.”

Baek Seol-hee stretched out her hands forward and held Seong Ji-eun’s hands together.

“If I find those people, I will make them an ice prison where they can never come out.”

“Without killing him?”

“I think that you have to suffer until you die and repent for your sins.”

“…Really, it’s still the same. Well, so this guy is you…”

Seong Ji-eun looked at Baek Seol-hee and me with an expression that said there was nothing she could do.

“Good. Then, Baek Seol-hee. Because you are prepared to do that, you allowed me to call you here.”

With a meaningful look on his face, he glanced behind Baek Seol-hee.

“Seolhee.”

“Yes.”

“I’m a little scared to do it alone, so would you please join me?”

“What is it?”

“The most immoral act if done on the Korean Peninsula. Treason.”

“…….”

At Seong Ji-eun’s suggestion, Baek Seol-hee turned her eyes to me.

“Now, I’m not mistaken, am I?”

“Um.”

I just straightened Seong Ji-eun’s hair with my hands.

“What you think is correct.”

Golden hair flowing out between chestnut brown hair.