episode_0914

Homo ludens.

It is said that humans are playful animals, and that they are the most perfect creatures when they let go of their worries and worries and play.

That’s what happens when you play so-called play-games.

When humans let go of all the hardships of their lives and focus solely on play, they become the happiest and have the most valuable time.

Of course, in a capitalist society, you can’t just play and eat, and you also earn money to enjoy more and more diverse things.

Even those who rode cheap bicycles as children have to spend triple digits to ride a bicycle as adults.

If you take up a hobby like fishing, yachting, or even traveling, you end up spending a huge amount of money.

In the modern information society of the 21st century, the concept of ‘making money while playing’ is often created by making extra income by posting one’s entertainment on U-Tube, etc., but the ultimate desire is the same whether it is a child or an adult.

-I want to become rich quickly so I can have fun.

Humans need to be honest.

-I don’t want to work, I just want to play and eat.

We need to be more honest.

-I want to live without working at all, spending lots of money every day, and doing everything I want!!

I see

In that case, I guess I should save up enough money in advance to earn it without having to work.

-Hoeeeheng. The company is still working today.

iced coffee.

Are humans born to work?

Or are they born to play and eat?

Although it may not be possible to give a definitive answer to that fundamental question, at least those who see this scene right now would answer, ‘Human nature lies in play.’

“Oppa, let’s play rubber band play!”

“…….”

The girl looks up at me with innocent eyes, and with narrowed eyes, pulls me to a place where there are people.

“Oppa, you came to play too, right?”

There is no malice in her questions to me.

But that makes it even more scary.

“I didn’t come here to have fun.”

“Huh? Really?”

“Okay. I didn’t come to have fun, I came to pick someone up.”

“Uh, um….”

It’s not like his abilities went out of control and he became a devil, but rather he’s closer to a pure blank slate.

“Who are you here to pick up? Everyone is having fun, so don’t disturb them!”

Its influence is more intense and serious than that of the devil of Amta or the wish-granting devil, and even though it is not a devil, it has more influence than that of a devil.

“What happens if I interfere?”

“Well, I’m going to do it!”

The way she furrowed her eyebrows and made a threat seemed cute, but I was unknowingly strained by the strong aura shimmering behind the girl.

‘crazy.’

What is that huge shadow that appears momentarily?

A giant green dinosaur?

A blue penguin with a yellow hat?

The Mana aura, which appeared blurry for a moment, was staring down at me as if two things were overlapping, and was waiting to materialize as if to say, ‘I will intervene as soon as I get in the way.’

“What a fearsome ability.”

I wondered what was contained on both sides of the dumpling head, and it contained what could be called a two-headed chariot as the guardians of children.

It even encompasses the entire period before and after the cataclysm, so if you include the buffs starting from Hwan’s will, the innate magical power of the person with this ability, and the ‘full will’, it would be impossible to suppress even if you tried.

“Little friend. What’s your name?”

“Me? Hookah! My friends call me Hookah!”

“I see.”

Hookah.

I kept thinking that it reminded me of a certain figure, and it turned out that even that figure was similar.

‘I’m sure he’s physically strong. Martial arts too.’

As I looked at the games being played around me, I saw that each and every child was having fun.

Those who play soccer, ride the playground equipment, and ride the trampoline are all passionately participating in the fun.

Even children playing alone are building sandcastles, making blocks, or repeatedly building and destroying houses using their abilities.

Not only are they playing with toys, but there is also a computer on one side that looks like it came from somewhere, so they are playing their own games.

There is no LAN cable.

It seems like they only play games that are installed offline, without the internet.

‘Everyone is playing arbitrarily.’

It’s not like I’m playing because someone specifically told me to.

It can be said that the reason they cannot get out of this place is because someone told them to, but the reason they cannot get out of this place is related to the deep ‘desire’ of the people involved.

“Huka. Before I find someone, I want to find something to have fun with. Is that okay?”

“Huh?! Let’s play together?! Good!!”

Fuuka, the devil of Banrohwan-dong, jumped and cheered in place.

“What are you going to play?! What are you going to play? What are you going to play?!”

“I’m going to look for that from now on…”

I made eye contact with Fuuka and then carefully lowered my voice to her.

“Aren’t you ‘interfering’ with my choice to play?”

“Uh, huh…?”

“By any chance, they’re not just forcing you to play, right?”

“Uh, uhh….”

Fuuka’s eyes are shaking.

At the same time, the entire amusement park stopped as if time had frozen.

“Uh, ah, no, uh, uhh…”

And at the same time, the eyes of everyone playing start to tremble.

Just as people under hypnosis receive a mental blow while trying to force themselves out of the hypnosis, unstable magical power begins to flow out as if the ‘evil’ within them is awakened.

“Huka.”

I calmed my voice with mana and smiled broadly at Fuuka.

“After looking around, can I tell you what I want to play?”

“Uh, yes!!”

Fuuka laughs again.

At the same time, as if time had stopped and started moving again, the children started laughing again and concentrating on their play.

“Then I’ll take a look. Wait a minute?”

“Yes, okay! Then I’ll hang out with you over there!”

Fuuka looked around and ran towards a certain place at a brisk pace.

“Guys, let’s go~!”

That place was none other than Yun Iseon juggling with fireworks.

“Wow, how do you do this?”

“Uh, this…?”

“Yes! Wow, you are really good!!”

“Well, that is…”

The shy Yoon I-seon started twitching her fingers and chattering about the principles of her fire juggling to Huka.

“Awesomeㅡㅡ!”

Fuuka was genuinely surprised and happy.

“It’s amazing, it’s amazing.”

It’s truly amazing.

“To make someone with SS-level abilities vomit out his speaking ability like that.”

It’s just amazing.

The phenomenon that occurred in this space and this world.

“…You apply group hypnosis and brainwashing with the intention of playing together.”

The basis of this ability is gaslighting.

It is hypnosis, brainwashing, and a type of suggestion that prevents you from thinking about anything else.

“The problem is, is the root of it holding the desires of people with special abilities here?”

The reason I feel like the two children’s guardians standing on both of Fuuka’s shoulders, the demons of Banrohwandong, are glaring at me is probably because Fuuka’s feelings and wishes, wary that I might ruin her game, are manifesting themselves in the form of this ability. .

“Ah, are you watching?”

I whispered softly to my Taegeuk watch away from Hookah.

“Block entry here. Don’t let anyone in. You must never destroy or touch this amusement park.”

[…Ah, um, yes. Has confirmed. We will impose a lockdown. however….]

The voice of Heukseongong Jegalwook, who barely caught the signal, was full of deep confusion.

[I never thought there would be so many missing people with special abilities here…]

“In the name of disappearance, he was brainwashed and couldn’t escape.”

I looked around.

“You must not release the hookah. As soon as Huka goes out into the world, the adult empire begins. Uncontrolled.”

[What is that…?]

“It will be a world where all mankind becomes a child in spirit and everyone wants to play.”

I like playing best.

“It will be a world without adults, where no one engages in economic activity.”

[There are people with S-class abilities…]

“Can’t you see that someone with SS-level abilities is being held now? Same goes for you. If you come down here, you’ll immediately put down the keyboard and play house with the kids. Secondly, glasses, a reclusive loner who doesn’t come out of his room.”

[…It seems like they’re criticizing me in great detail, but since they’re paying that much attention, I’ll be as careful as possible. Even with the lockdown, we didn’t mobilize people just in case, but drones, so it’ll be okay.]

“Good. If anyone tries to enter, ask Cheonma and Seong Ji-eun to stop them.”

Absolutely no one should enter here.

“Because I am the only one on earth who can handle this brainwashing.”

* * *

Two hours.

As I looked around at the children – children of all abilities ranging in age from 4 to 26 – as if I was going through all the attractions at an amusement park, I realized that they were more focused on playing than I imagined.

“Everyone is having fun.”

Even when I play with my friends, I play alone, and then when I want to play together, I join in the middle.

“No radish radish.”

There are no people here who don’t participate in the play.

There may be at least one person, but there is no bullying due to everyone’s fundamental desire to ‘play along well’.

“The more people have not played as children, the more they want to play.”

This is true even for Yun Yi-seon.

Since he was an elementary school student, he has been educated to become a ‘highly talented person’ by serving as a class president at Sejong Academy, and because he has no experience playing like other elementary school children, he is even more absorbed in Fuka’s brainwashing.

The destruction law came into effect.

However, that is a special destruction law just for Yun Iseon, not a destruction law for the entire place.

To bring down the whole place, you need powerful means, such as making a child who wants to play sit in a chair and then do his/her own red pen homework from start to finish.

If you fail.

-I’m going to play, ppaaeaeaeekㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!

…The hundreds of people with special abilities in this basement, all people with special abilities ranging from F-class to SS-class, are ‘golden’ and will even be willing to act somewhat violently against those who interfere with their play.

so.

“Oppa!”

To the devil of Banrohwan-dong.

“Have you decided what you want to play?!”

“Uh.”

“What?!”

“That is.”

Showing the cold reality is the only way to break this place.

“Not here, I’m going to go somewhere else and have fun.”

“……Huh?”

“There is nothing I want to play here.”

“Are you saying you don’t want to play with us?”

Once again, the world stops.

All the children are staring at me and slowly approaching me with their toys.

‘There is no such thing as a horror movie.’

Wouldn’t it be helpful in making a movie if I passed this scene over to Juyeon Cheon later?

Since it’s that scary, I have no intention of launching an all-out war in front of it.

“No, no. I want to play, but there is no game I want to play.”

“What is it? Is this a game we don’t know about?!”

“Uh. Maybe?”

“Wow ㅡㅡㅡ!!”

Huka claps his hands and shouts.

“What is it, what is it!!”

“Canyon.”

“……Huh?”

“I don’t think Hero’s Canyon is available on the computer here.”

The fundamental reason why I don’t get brainwashed by Hookah.

That’s not to say that I’ve given up on entertainment or that I’m not a person who wants to return to childhood.

“Unfortunately.”

My childhood innocence.

“In this world, there is no roll.”

It is located in Hero’s Canyon, in a world called a PC room.