episode_0731

Humans are learning creatures.

It is a creature that can learn from mistakes and think about how to do better without making mistakes next time.

However, those who are called ‘evildoers’ or villains also think like that.

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So, when I was still a librarian at the Academy.

“Mir. There is a lot of trash in the world.”

“Are you talking about someone like you who meets many women? To tell men to be careful?”

“No. Real trash.”

In order to build resistance to manage Ymir’s meteor counter, I gradually unraveled the information mentioned in the original work and the information I learned as a goblin.

“He is an even worse piece of trash than Haeguneul Chairman Choi Ho-jeong, and there is an evil person who is presumed to have joined hands with Choi Ho-jeong.”

“I prepared my heart. How evil is it? Who is the next person in this ‘World Garbage Villain’ lecture?”

“It’s less than ‘Villainous Min Ji-young’, which we’ll learn about next week, but its influence is just as great as Min Ji-young. It’s still alive.”

“…….”

In some ways, it can be said that she is better than Min Ji-young.

Although it can be said that it is less than Min Ji-young, who killed her own children and hundreds of Pyongyang citizens at one time, which would have been more than 5 million people, including young children who are not recorded in statistics.

“The name is Kim Jo-sun. I know you changed your name. Wouldn’t you be living near China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture now?”

“…You don’t know exactly where you live? How could his name be Kim Jo-sun…?”

“The Kim clan loves Joseon so much that they want to become Joseon themselves. According to rumors, it is said to be of Baekdu bloodline, which is not recorded.”

“Hmm…. Just listening to the background keeps listing things that are quite worrisome. How much do I have to mentally prepare?”

“Quite a lot.”

It is unacceptable to hear the whole story, or to get so angry right after hearing it that you say you will drop a meteorite in inland China.

There are victims who have been unfairly accused of being reactionaries and have been working as laborers for over a dozen years, and there are even a very small number of collaborators who have been kidnapped by them.

“Did you know that the organization hears information and receives help from people living in various countries?”

“Yes. Mother-in-law or babysitters.”

“Okay. But there’s one place they can’t access. For convenience, we call it ‘West Joseon’. Officially.”

“Informally?”

“Hell Joseon.”

Hell Joseon.

In some worlds, it refers to the Korean Peninsula, but in this world, it is commonly used to refer to the underground empire located under the Chinese mainland, not the Korean Peninsula.

“Just for convenience, can we call it Hell Joseon from now on?”

“First of all, the fact that it has ‘Hell’ as a prefix makes me very scared, but it’s okay. You will get used to it as you listen.”

“Good. Anyway, Kim Joseon, the leader who created Hell Joseon, joined hands with two major powers. That would be around the time you were born.”

“…It’s a much older story than I thought.”

“That’s right.”

If there was someone in this world trying to create Hell Joseon at this point, I would have immediately flown in and smacked them in the back of the head.

However, that was a time when most of the original characters, let alone the original work, were not even born.

“There was an issue in Korea at the time. It was a huge issue where an apartment was built for a 5-year-old child by giving him a piece of candy.”

“Oh, could that be…”

“Okay. That’s what Kim Jo-sun thought. Construction is also possible using people with special abilities. Maybe it would be possible to ‘develop the underground’.”

“If you develop it externally, it will be visible to satellites.”

“That’s right.”

No matter how much you try to cover it up with a tent, camouflage, or anything else, Cheonjoguk’s satellites and radar networks are not just decoration.

Even if you build an underground bunker, you can estimate its location and size by looking at the vehicles and resources coming in and out of it, so how great would it be for a country and political system?

“Kim Jo-seon has a son. Likewise, a person with the ability to freely manipulate the land. A being who was S-class from birth, but was not officially recorded.”

“…Why are there so many S-class secretly hidden in the world?”

“The S-class, which is capable of purifying demons, has been hiding its identity well so far, but there may be an S-class developing and building metropolitan-class cities underground in mainland China, right?”

“…So, in Hell Joseon, there is a person with extraordinary abilities who can manipulate the earth to a level of chaos that is almost deadly?”

“Okay. If we were to compare classes, Chaos is more versatile, but this guy specializes in this. Digging deeper and deeper into the ground to go underground.”

“It’s literally hell.”

“Yes.”

If it weren’t for the power of this talented person, if it weren’t for his children, it might have been fundamentally impossible to build a great underground empire.

The background to the creation of Hell Joseon is based on the premise of ‘creating an open space where a city can be built several kilometers underground.’

“It seems that Kim Jo-sun was about to lose the position of ‘leader of the people’s paradise’ to his half-brother. Even if he went there with his S-class child, he would have been shot and the baby would have been taken away, and he would have been seen growing up thinking of someone who was not his biological father as his father.”

“Teacher, to add to what you said, people who think like that can be said to be crazy for thinking like that, right?”

“Exact. Now I’m starting to understand the mindset of some villainous scum. As a compliment, I’ll give you a pat on the head.”

“Heeheehee.”

For Ymir, there was a time when he was satisfied with just a pat on the head as a reward for praise.

“So Kim Jo-sun looked for a collaborator. A politician who was in conflict with China’s central political party, but at the same time had great control over the inland region.”

“What is your name?”

“You can skip that. It’s Mr. Wang, but he’s dead and another Mr. Wang is taking his place.”

“Ahang. Sometimes it’s not the people that matter, but the organization itself. Is that what you said?”

“That’s right. If the organization can run properly and there are overflowing human resources, anyone can fill the position. Anyway, Kim Jo-sun made a deal with Mr. Wang.”

I drew pictures on the whiteboard to make it easier for Ymir to understand.

“I will build an underground empire, so you arrange for people to join the underground empire. The underground empire will be a world we rule, and its citizens will have to live underground for their entire lives without our permission.”

“…No one knew that until now?”

“There were people who knew but were silent, there were people who knew and were killed while trying to find a solution, and there were also people who were worried that all the ‘hostages’ would die if they were touched carelessly.”

“Umm…Why?”

“Imperial citizens wear bomb necklaces around their necks. It’s not a joke, really.”

“Wow.”

The moment I said those words, I felt a sense of déjà vu when something like a meteorite fell behind Ymir.

“How could you put a bomb necklace around someone’s neck…?”

“So. I don’t know if they were inspired by a movie about killing each other, but they are such trash.”

“How was something like that released?”

“It was a time when society was unstable due to the cataclysm. It spread to the world before full-scale censorship began. And only the impressive parts of that data remain in human memory.”

“If you don’t follow orders, the bomb necklace explodes and you die?”

“Okay. As a bonus, it also comes with a Taegeuk watch.”

“Ugh….”

Ymir trembled as if he was fed up.

I was worried that if I said more, Ymir would actually call a meteorite, but I couldn’t stop once I started.

“Last time, you said that Koreans cannot enter the mainland of China without permission, right?”

“Yes. I love Korea so much that the zombies take everything from my hair to my organs.”

“As time passed, there really were a lot of people like that, but at the time, I think it was a disguised operation like that.”

“To hide it as having killed a Korean…?”

“The same goes for Koreans, and to blame the disappearance incident on the general public – an unspecified number of people. In reality, I was kidnapped by Hell Joseon.”

For Koreans, it can be said to be death in the sense that they are stripped of their status as Koreans and are trapped in Hell Joseon, where the only light is artificial light.

“It is a place beyond the reach of Korea’s law and order, or even the reach of heroes. Perhaps neither the Korean heroes nor the government knows?”

“Ah, does that make sense? How can no one know that? Please tell me that you knew but were pretending not to know.”

“I would like to say that too, but the person who found out was the pinnacle of information control.”

“…Korea’s collaborator?”

“Yes.”

Who could it be?

“Choi Ho-jeong.”

All information was hidden.

Perhaps, that information was only shared by Choi Ho-jeong, a talented subordinate whom he trusted more than himself.

So that in case of emergency, we can go to the Joseon Union and Hell Joseon to respond.

“Kim Jo-seon gave his abilities, China’s royal family gave him land and public opinion, and Choi Ho-jeong gave him Korean people. Hell Joseon called out citizens through kidnappings and death reports.”

“I don’t understand… If I do that, I’ll just end up hiding underground for the rest of my life…?”

Effects of learning.

“…Is the person Choi Ho-jeong selling to Hell Joseon a woman?”

“Yes. It is estimated that many babies who were not registered in the family register were also passed over.”

“…Then.”

No matter how good a being is, if you continue to learn about human malice, you can read the villain’s way of thinking.

“Hell Joseon is a place where children are educated according to their tastes from the time they are babies. It’s like an underworld conspiracy theory that one day he will come to the surface and rule over everyone.”

“That’s the correct answer.”

Ymir realized the reality of Hell Joseon on his own.

“Everyone thinks like that. Those who educate children from an early age and use them as their soldiers. Persuasion doesn’t work with kids like this.”

“For children who were born in Hell Joseon and grew up watching Hell Joseon, is the earth simply an object to be overthrown and conquered?”

“Okay. Their ultimate goal is… Gwangyukgong.”

Heaven Joseon is a symbol of the God Peninsula and the pinnacle of peace.

“Until the power to defeat Gwangikong is created, we will erase our presence underground and continue to hold out. Even until now.”

“Anyone who resists, tries to spread information, or rebels…”

“They are all rounded up as reactionaries and going to Aoji.”

Aojiro from Hell Joseon.

“You were born with Baekdu bloodline in a country that is best at such things, right? A dictator in the world would not be the person born with the best bloodline.”

It’s so deep underground that you might think there’s magma boiling right next to it.

“That’s true, I’m also part of the Korean race.”

In Hell Joseon, people who were born on the Korean Peninsula and took root underground in China live, and they are still being born today.

“Even in Hell, Joseon is Joseon.”