episode_0968

April 1st, 11:55 am, a cafe in Seoul.

The beginning of the changing world was the ‘proclamation of the Great Hwan Empire’.

No matter how shocking the change is, the social change should not have a major impact on people’s daily lives.

It became an empire.

The President of the Republic of Korea has become the Emperor of the Earth Empire representing humanity, but the position of Emperor is not hereditary.

“How is the emperor decided? Will King Taejo inherit the throne of emperor? Like some kind of monarchy? Is this a constitutional monarchy?”

“They say it’s a referendum while reappointment is possible?”

“…What on earth is different from the president?”

“Is it possible to continue reappointment, and is it worth a title?”

Although people became human beings of the Great Hwan Empire overnight, their lives did not change much.

“Becoming an empire doesn’t mean taxes go up, right?”

“Wouldn’t it rather go down? Considering the amount of money that will be made by selling super-ring conductors, if the national treasury increases, it will also be enough to suck money from us.”

“Probably not? If I filled that much, I would secretly steal that much. Where is this country for a day or two?”

People’s perceptions have not changed either.

“Will the world change if you change the name of the country or the title of the country?”

The world has changed from the Republic of Korea to the Great Hwan Empire, but the changes that people perceive in this changed world are not that great.

“Well, I don’t know about taxes or anything like that, but it’s definitely good to travel safely.”

However, if there is one change that people are anticipating and feeling.

“Look at this. They’re trying to sneak in from China on a fishing boat. Since the goblin visited China not long ago, the coast guard has caught all the people who tried to smuggle in the country on small boats and brought them back to China.”

Even if making a living remains the same, everyone can clearly feel the ‘security’ aspect.

It’s “. I’m glad that Seoul is really safe. If there’s an accident or something, a talented person comes right away and solves the problem.”

“Is this only for people with special abilities? Look at the street trees over there. They removed all the ginkgo trees and planted tangerine trees as street trees, and whenever an accident occurred, the tangerines flew down from the trees to protect the people.”

“…No matter how much you think about it, doesn’t it seem crazy? What is this? Aren’t you completely crazy?”

“What do you need to know? As long as it’s safe for people to live, that’s enough. It’s much better than having people with superpowers or police officers walking around with knives on the streets, or unmanned robots with gatling guns in both hands walking around.”

Tangerines have become a kind of symbol of security and peace.

Of course, it is not a belief in the fruit called tangerines, but rather a belief in a being who can control tangerines.

“What if Bong Halla turns into a devil and turns the tangerines spread throughout the Korean Peninsula into grenades?”

“Hey. Don’t post stories like that on the internet, even if it’s just a joke. If it gets into Bong Halla’s ears, that ‘possibility’ will remain in his memory, and later, when he becomes a devil, he will immediately use the idea you mentioned.”

“Wow, that’s terrible. It’s like my name is attached to a virus that caused terrorism across the Korean Peninsula and spreads.”

And at the same time, faith in one human being causes some anxiety.

“Well, if Bong Halla turns into a devil, Gwangikgong will come forward and solve the problem.”

“I think I’ll deal with the goblin first. After crossing through space with Platinum Sun, we will eliminate the Tangerine Demon before Hallabongs around the world explode.”

“Bong Halla may not become a devil or anything like that, but at least even if something like that happens, it will be okay somehow because there are other people. Haha.”

When an S-class person is in charge of security, people have both trust and anxiety toward that person.

However, if there is another person with superpowers on top of that, even if he becomes a devil, there is a being that can be suppressed with the feelings inside the town yam, then people can believe in it and live.

“It’s not that accidents won’t happen at all, but at least someone drinking and wielding a weapon won’t happen anymore.”

“Even if it appears on the news, it will only be filled with reports of a police station picking up people who fell after being hit on the head by tangerines. Ha, really, the world will become so peaceful.”

Even in the voices of people speaking jokingly.

“Stressed mind It is said that the human mind does not want to even watch the news about violent events and accidents. How fortunate I am.”

“But senior, we are reporters.”

“Don’t you think that filming and broadcasting a news story about an elk at a zoo giving birth to a baby would contribute more to peace than talking about someone dying because of a blind spot in welfare?”

“The number of article views is…”

“I don’t get paid more per day just because I write a lot of articles. How good is that? Until now, it is better to be called a true reporter than to expose who has become a devil, who has gone into exile, who has escaped, and who has such a relationship with someone, and to be criticized by people.”

The desire and desire for peace is evident.

“So, let’s dig into the goblin.”

“Now, wait a minute. What?”

“If you want to hear from a true reporter, you should check to see if goblins are committing evil deeds. The goblin is a villain executioner and pretends to be innocent, but in reality, he may be a being who commits insidious acts against women behind the scenes, is addicted to alcohol and gambling, and commits domestic violence, right?”

“Seo, senior. If you say things like that carelessly…”

“I’m not saying to write an article about it, but if it’s that kind of person, let’s be the first to expose it. If the goblin is really a person who pursues justice like that, wouldn’t the reporter who pursues the truth be left alone to see whether it’s true or not? You wouldn’t know if it was a trash.”

As the saying goes.

“Let’s say that, as rumor has it, Gwangikgong listens to what you say during the day, and a goblin listens to what you say at night. If the fact that someone keeps watching to see if they are truly just people is a villainous act that will lead to serious crimes and bleached memories, then I am rather glad about it. Because through my sacrifice, I am exposing that they are actually evil people wearing a mask pretending to be just.”

Goblins, gangsters, and the people of the Great Hwan Empire will always be under the gaze of others.

They are true reporters who are hard to find somewhere.

“Shall we first contact the cyber wreckers over there? Whether what those people say on the Internet while wearing masks is true or not. Let’s see… First, here’s the person from ‘Dosamchu TV’.”

“Well, what is Dosamchu?”

“Uh, this is Seosun, no, the order is a bit twisted, but it’s roughly similar to Dobangsam…”

Not cyber hackers who spread false propaganda for advertising payments and profits.

“First of all, our channel is unofficially pushing 22… hmm, SS, right?”

“You don’t even know that. It may not be as big as that, or it could be bigger, right?”

“So, we are conducting an investigation. Those wreckers must have said such nonsense because they had the source. After digging into it, we posted it on the Shinsung Today channel…”

A public interest U-tuber who uncovers the true nature of such people.

If you want to track down such people, you are welcome.

Sigh.

Pull the chair and stand up.

I carry the finished coffee along with the tray and hold it in front of the clerk.

“I enjoyed it.”

“Ah, yes…!”

The cafe clerk took the tray and looked me up and down.

“Well, over there…”

“Why are you doing that?”

“By any chance, what do you do…?”

“…….”

what I do.

If you ask me what I do now.

“I am a truck driver.”

I told the truth.

* * *

2pm, after lunch time.

“Damn, damn!”

A blond man walks down the road barefoot and irritated, wearing clothes you might see in a country town.

“Hitchhiking!!”

In a nervous voice, he raised his thumb at the cars driving down the road, but none of them stopped in place.

Saeng-Ang.

Rather, they just pass by the man.

“Damn, I heard everyone in Korea is friendly. Don’t you even hitchhike?”

The man gritted his teeth in frustration.

“Isn’t hitchhiking bad manners? In America, they gave everyone a ride.”

Of course, he is in bad shape, like a poor person in Harlem, but isn’t he able to do as much as pick up a person and take them to a nearby city?

“Damn, I came all the way to Korea for no reason…”

His name is Vladimir Stephen Nertosky.

A man who defected to Russia when he was very young, and as a Russian S-class psychic, he received secret orders from the Russian military and managed to swim across the West Sea to Korea.

“Ha, damn it. what? Are you asking me to somehow kidnap someone with supernatural abilities related to goblins? Since there may be a goblin’s child in that woman’s body, are you kidnapping her along with the fetus? Damn it, if there was someone who could do that, they would have kidnapped someone a long time ago. Damn.”

He swore softly at the military higher-ups who had given him this order – in fact, the Russian leader – but in the end, he was here to faithfully carry out his mission.

There are only beautiful women around the goblin.

Among the women who passed by the goblin, there may be one to whom the goblin did something like that.

Whether the goblin was someone who worked at the library in the past when he worked as a librarian.

Anyone who took training with Goblin at Sejong Academy.

Or a red-haired woman who is said to have had some sort of relationship with a goblin, a woman who is said to have set a honey trap on Jeju Island for a goblin, or a working holiday American who worked at a pension on Ulleungdo Island where goblins are said to have frequented.

Even Russian intelligence has difficulty securing his identity or figuring out where he went, but if he can’t touch anyone with S-level abilities or higher, it’s urgent to check below that.

If possible-

“If I kidnap an S-level woman and child, make her my woman, and imprint the child as my child, hehe…huh?”

Vladimir smiled wryly and raised his thumb toward the car approaching from afar.

“Huh?”

A truck speeding down the road.

“What is that logo… RE:BRITH?”

The truck had a dark tan with a completely different letter on its emblem.

“Huh?”

It was clearly visible that the driver had his head down.

Kwa—-!!

His last memory was realizing that he had been hit by a truck and looking at the truck driver who had somehow blown him away.

“How could I, an S-class person-”

You can hit it with a truck and blow it away.

When that thought occurred to him, he had already lost his mind.

Last moment.

The driver who looked up seemed to be wearing a somewhat familiar mask.

* * *

It rattled.

“Ah, you finally woke up.”

The bowl rattled, and Stephen opened his eyes.