EP 26 – Necessity (8)
good bye
The shiny car key was in my hand. He bought the used car that CEO Cheon used to be at a ‘reasonable’ price.
It was close to the list price measured by the manufacturer, so there is nothing strange about it. Except that prices have risen 7 times since then.
“… … Hmm. Hmm.”
I never thought the day would come when I would drive a car like this in my life. If it’s really good, a hum comes out automatically.
The unseen boss snorted.
“… … It’s a little bit embarrassing that you like it so much.”
“How can a chaebol know the hearts of the common people?”
dark night.
I was invited to dinner and came to Mr. Chun’s house.
It was a penthouse at the top of the apartment.
“… … .”
The night sea of Busan swayed through the south-facing window, but I liked the scenery on the other side more.
Brilliant city night view.
A social infrastructure that can handle the electricity used there, and a thorough air defense network that can stop monsters that rush to see the light.
Waves of light flowing on countless roads, and countless vehicles that make up them.
It was a beautiful night sky shining with people.
“… … What do you think, are you laughing so hard?”
“I am looking forward to how delicious dinner at a chaebol restaurant will be.”
“It tastes like spaghetti, and it must be there… … .”
CEO Cheon smiled as if he was seeing an innocent person. And he muttered softly.
“So, what are you thinking… … .”
“yes?”
“Did you hear that Hunter Hong was hospitalized?”
“Oh, yes. It’s malnutrition. When did you retire?”
“I ate one potion and was already discharged. I’m going to travel for a while. I can’t even use teleportation anyway… … .”
“Ah, did you wake up last time? No, is it correct to call this an additional awakening… … ? Anyway. Just don’t go abroad. The state can’t control it anyway… … .”
I don’t really get used to seeing the portrait ability either. Doesn’t a person with the ability to enhance the body manipulate his body’s magical powers to spit out sword energy? Wouldn’t a pyrotechnician change his body to fire and use the chukji technique?
One day, a person who suddenly awakens turns into a monster with a terrible probability. Apparently, the monster was an infected individual, so there was a case where a city was devastated.
Hong Kong was like that.
Protesters who lost their families were awakened and an explosion of infection occurred. There are also papers that say that this is because people who harbor resentment are awakened. This was a society that could be destroyed at any time.
Anyway, I was really scared of magic. Change people and destroy the world.
Papers published yesterday are overturned today, and numerous phenomena that are not even named are occurring.
So all an ordinary person could do was worry.
No matter how much power you have, people don’t become special.
After all, I am an ordinary person.
I lamented so plainly.
“anyway… … Hong Seon-ah must also recover soon. The ranking system will be applied soon, but 2nd place is most likely. Because it’s a way to measure your body’s magical power… … .”
Hong Seon-ah burns down a forest at the time everyone else is beating them up. Thanks to this, he grows faster than other hunters.
This is also the case for Gam Ji-yoon. A medium-sized guild as a group grabs a monster that needs to be captured, and absorbs the large manastone by catching it alone, so can the growth rate be comparable?
It really is an unfair world. And ‘unfair world’ can also mean ‘unstable world’ in other words.
A hunter who will become stronger becomes a threat to the nation by becoming stronger, and a weak hunter becomes a parasite of the nation because he does not try to become stronger.
It is the result of each pursuing their own interests. And I try to regulate them for my own benefit.
There was a moment of laughter.
Paranormal society or what? I just said it’s a world of superhumans, where are the superhumans?
There are no superhumans in the world of superhumans.
Everyone is just criminals pursuing their own interests.
So, who is this society calling?
Can the superman on a white horse come?
With that thought in mind, I was gazing at the night view of the city, and CEO Cheon, who was approaching me, spoke to me.
“What are you thinking… … ?”
I answered right away.
“When does spaghetti come out?”
“… … ha.”
President Cheon sighed heavily and went back to sit down at the table. And he slammed the chair with no strength.
“Come and have some rice… … .”
“Yep.”
When I went to the table, there was only one pot on the table. It’s crunchy spaghetti. It was just plain spaghetti.
I wondered if there was a sirloin under the noodles, but when I looked up, there was nothing.
“… … What are you doing?”
“I was wondering if you didn’t add truffle or something… … .”
“Why put truffles in spaghetti… … ?”
“Because he’s a chaebol… … ?”
“I do not know… … .”
President Cheon continued to speak in a dry manner. Maybe it was because I saw it from the house rather than the outside, and it looked a little different from usual.
“People always have a strange misunderstanding. Rich people know how to sprinkle gold powder on ramen noodles. We don’t have much either. If it bothers you, cook ramen. If you’re hungry, order chicken, or take out what’s in the refrigerator and eat… … .”
It was too serious to ask if it was a tenderloin steak, not chicken nuggets, in your refrigerator.
President Chun continued to speak as if he was murmuring with a slightly hazy atmosphere, probably already wearing a bowl of wine.
“Whether you have a lot of money or a little… … After all, when you open the lid, you are an ordinary person. Besides, these days, there are only people who inherited everything and became a chaebol. There are very few people in our generation like Jung Joo-young or Lee Kun-hee… … ?”
“Ugh. Are you saying that being rich is nothing special?”
“It’s not just the rich. everyone in the world is like that Moderately good, moderately bad, swaying when I see money, I like delicious things… … .”
At first glance, she seemed annoyed.
“… … That’s all it has been so far. It sounds a little childish. Anyway.”
All human beings are there.
It was a very sensible sound. The chaebol right in front of me was wearing a comfortable box tee at home.
Of course, if you know that, it will cost several million won, but the original box tea is there. However, luxury T-shirts are thousands of times more expensive than Dongdaemun T-shirts.
Of course, to say that everyone in the world is there was an idea that didn’t feel like a chaebol girl’s tantrums.
However, the story is different if the chaebol is an economic criminal.
So, I listened to President Chun.
she asks me
“… … What are you going to do tomorrow?”
“I do not know. It’s been a while since I went to Parliament. Do some civic activity. I’m going to get a little bit of stress while watching malicious comments.”
“Then what are you going to do next?”
“… … .”
It’s a future schedule.
well
Catch the bastards who tried to get the secret to stimulants by stealing the organs of a Korean hunter. America’s ambition to conquer the world again puts a brake on it.
Even the Yakuza government troops and civilians dying in the civil war. It was time to start intervening little by little in the Japanese political situation that was filming the Three Kingdoms.
Watching the international situation that is divided into the Maseok economic sphere and the petroleum economic sphere and confronting each other, and the domestic situation of Won Ok-bun and Yoo Jae-kyung, I walk a tightrope.
Isn’t it the role of politicians to solve this complicated world?
So I smiled kindly and replied back.
“Haha, I have to go into politics from now on. little by little… … . Shouldn’t the world be fixed?”
“I do not know. I think the boy soldier is a bit of an astral idea.”
clink.
The chopsticks he was holding fell to the table with a clear sound.
I have hardened as I was when I smiled kindly, and President Cheon is still smiling meaningfully and looking at me with raised eyes.
She spoke first. gracefully.
“What are you so surprised about? By looking at the supplementary budget, I can understand it. There are straws in the government.”
“… … How many people in the world know about it? Ugh, I was surprised.”
“Ah… … ! I feel good every time you startle me like this… … .”
“Did you drink?”
“A little bit… … ?”
She got up and opened the refrigerator. Then, I poured two glasses of bokbunja into a wine glass.
“Would you like some medicine… … ?”
“… … I tend to refrain from drinking in public places.”
“It’s not a public place, so please feel free to talk.”
She smiled faintly and handed me a glass of wine.
anyway. What the hell are you thinking about? I can’t get my hands on it at all.
With that thought in mind, when she received the glass she handed over, President Cheon muttered mutteringly.
“anyway. I can’t figure it out… … .”
“… … .”
In an instant, his expression hardened.
It was because the thoughts I had just flowed out of CEO Cheon’s mouth.
I observed her with as much reason as possible, knowing that this was realistically possible.
And, apparently, she wasn’t reading my thoughts. At least with superpowers.
in other words,
“babe. Can’t you just open your head once?”
“… … .”
We were thinking the same thing.
“I don’t know what the minister is thinking. Do I even need to do this… … ?”
“… … .What are you talking about?”
“Injecting stimulants to orphans. educated from an early age. I want to use it as a civil servant.”
She shook her head.
“After all, these are mainstream hunters, aren’t they the Minister’s friends? Who was the person who brought the retired hunters to the National Assembly? Can’t you just stick with it and make it good… … ?”
“… … .”
“The stock price of Aegis has been cut in half because of this change. we’re on the better side Someone else got caught and just did it. Because you are now half an enemy in the hunter industry… … ?”
She lamented looking at me.
“Politicians need to know how to take advantage. Why do you keep making enemies? … . I like my personality so I’ll give it to you first… … .”
“Yes?”
“Anyway. When you see what you’re doing… … .”
She laughed lightly. He seemed to be laughing at someone.
I don’t know if I’m laughing at myself or laughing at myself.
“… … If it were me, I wouldn’t be living like that.”
Silence ensued. She tilted her wine glass like a soju glass, and made a resolute announcement with a smile that seemed rather hazy.
“So- I’m just going to ask you this one thing. If you can answer this honestly, I am willing to actively cooperate with the plan in the future. Isn’t this a complete hogu deal?”
“… … Why are you biting people like this?”
“Why are you living like that?”
“… … .”
It was a question without context, but I instinctively understood the question clearly.
And it took a lot of time to answer that question.
I looked out at the splendid city from one window. And I thought about the many people who make up the night view and the complex and subtle society.
Then, looking at the dark sea from the other window, I thought about the huge monsters that were wriggling in it, and the infinite threat.
From where I sat I could see both windows.
In other words, I was in the middle.
I drew the line.
Separation of barbarism and civilization. Civilization was protected from barbarism. However, he is still wandering between the two worlds. After all, the world is divided by one thin line.
So, I had no choice but to reply to the woman who was looking at me from the other side.
“… … I don’t have any particular beliefs.”
just.
“… … Isn’t that what politicians do?”
SIDE EP – Yang Il-ho’s Bizarre Day (1)
Sometimes, I have a dream like this.
When he turns his head to a terrible scream, he is in Uijeongbu.
Black rain is falling from the sky, and those who are hit by the rain set up black veins and bite people with blood dripping from their mouths.
scary.
I soon forget that this is a dream. If you are shuddering with fear, you will hear a calm voice next to you.
“D-06. ‘I’ case. Infectious Plague Tumor.”
The agent of the National Intelligence Service, who conducted the biological experiment, said in a calm voice.
“There were two infected individuals from the Yeoninsan underground bunker.”
“If that’s a D-06 or a case for sure… … .”
“It’s a mental illness. I can’t kill you.”
The agent heads to the battlefield with him. After breaking through a city full of zombies and monsters, he arrives at the military command center and tells him not to kill the infected.
Then, he delivers the prototype vaccine brought from the underground bunker of Mt. Yeonin to the military, and hides himself in the shadow of Han Seung-moon without sound.
And, I leave you with one question.
“Do I look like a villain?”
“If there was a button that could kill one and save ten. Are you going to press?”
“Specifically. To kill a maniac who wants to start a nuclear war, can you shoot a North Korean kid digging for mushrooms?”
He can’t answer that question himself. It’s just looking at the agent’s back as he climbs the stairs, standing still awkwardly.
It’s still nice to see the back.
the stairs he climbed. Footprints in blood.
Those red footprints remain in my heart even years later.
So, I open my mouth to answer that question, even if it’s late.
and.
“… … Whoa! uh… … ! uh… … .”
I always wake up right before I speak.
* * *
Only then did Yang Il-ho realize that he was dreaming.
Looking at the color of the window, it seems that it is still dawn.
“… … .”
As he is wiping his cold sweat and breathing heavily, someone is tossing and turning next to him.
“Uh… … what… … ?”
This is Hojeong Lee.
“… … Oh sorry. Are you awake?”
“Yes… … Another nightmare… … ?”
Ho-jeong Lee, who was half awake, twitched and entangled her body. Unlike usual, she has a bare face without makeup. There was one small scar on his chin.
I heard that it was a wound caused by being beaten by a broken soju bottle by my biological father. He said that it is a scar that he hides his whole life and shows only to himself.
It’s a bad idea, but I like it so much that I kiss the scar a little.
“ah… … ! Yang Il-ho, this perverted bastard is really… … .”
Today’s morning also starts with harsh profanity.
* * *
Yang Il-ho’s life was very easy. At least I thought so.
Although I grew up in an orphanage, life wasn’t particularly difficult.
“Ouch… … How can our Ilho be so smart?”
“Our first class has joined Korea University! Well… … !”
“Law school! law school! ah ha ha… … !”
Yang Il-ho skipped elementary school in an instant and was terribly favored by the head of the orphanage.
Because he was so successful, he was harassed by other students, but the orphanage director punished them by loosening his belt.
Should I take it for granted? I entered university a few years earlier than others. And at the age of twenty, he passed the bar exam. So I became a lawyer.
Yang Il-ho’s life was a series of praise and applause. He used to get tired of hearing compliments for a long time, but at least it wasn’t for him. Recognition from those around me was not so good.
Love or people… … .
It didn’t seem to matter at all.
He also has a pretty good face, so he met a lot of different women, and after becoming a lawyer, he chased away his parents who came late and begged for forgiveness.
life was nothing
Love is a short-lived entertainment, and if it goes well, people will naturally get caught up in it.
The reason he first thought about love was when he heard from his girlfriend’s parents who said, ‘You can’t grow up without your parents’.
And, she comforted herself.
The only thing better than me was that she, who had a good family, ‘dared’ saw herself as a subordinate and ‘comforted’ her.
Just because he’s an orphan.
“brother. it’s okay? My parents are a little… … I’m sorry. Yes? Shall we go to a cafe together? Let’s get some rest.”
“no. Let’s just break up.”
“What?”
“Thank you for that time.”
Yang Il-ho pondered for a long time as to why he was ignored because he was an orphan.
Orphans don’t know love? Don’t know how to take care of people? Are they the ones who grew up unloved? So you don’t know how to love?
no. It’s because I still lack social status.
You’re a university professor, and you can’t ignore people. It’s a problem that gets solved when it’s that high. Maybe a gold badge is enough. He thought so.
Thus, Yang Il-ho suppressed the opposition from those around him and devoted himself to politics.
Because I thought life would be better if I wore a gold badge.
However, the people he met at the Capitol made his life better before he even got the gold badge.
Yang Il-ho met three people.
“… … older brother. Are you okay? Come on. I’ll do it.”
Kang Seok-ho, a reliable young head of household who was in charge of the four younger siblings alone.
He dreamed of becoming a politician so that poor people like him would be treated better.
“No, why does that old boy get angry with the person he loves? what the… … You said you got hit by throwing an ashtray? Look at the wounds. See if there is no blood.”
Ho-jeong Lee, who lived by hiding the wounds caused by domestic violence with makeup.
He was a person who worked under a progressive lawmaker and dreamed of eradicating domestic violence.
“hello? uh it’s ilho is my brother buy beef Jump under the oyster bridge.”
Han Seung-moon lost his left leg and his parents in a car accident.
He was a kid who said he would avenge his parents by changing the road traffic law and killing all drunk drivers and trespassers in the world.
“… … .”
poor, disabled, orphans, victims of domestic violence.
In any case, only assholes gathered because they gathered together. Every day, I laughed and ate cup noodles in the parking lot. Consoling each other that tomorrow will be a little better.
They were very precious people. To the extent that my ambition to succeed in the future disappears like snow.
Then the disabled hyung wore a gold badge. He and his friends went under it.
The world was so easy. I was very grateful for that too. So I was happy.
By the way,
The gate was opened on the first day of his tenure.
* * *
Yang Il-ho always thought he was an outstanding person. It wasn’t actually wrong. Who would say that he is incompetent?
However, in a world that had become hell, he met himself infinitely helpless.
“Honestly, what do you do if you know the law? The law has been broken.”
“… … .”
“Looking at the title of lawyer who graduated from the Korean Law School. I wasn’t that great.”
Yang Il-ho knew himself for the first time.
He shudders with fear. I wander around not knowing what to do. He was a person who blamed the world rather than changing it.
Of course, this is not incompetent. Because everyone in the world is like that. So it would be appropriate to say that this is normal.
“… … I am an ordinary person.”
There are really special people out there. Instead of blaming the world, change the world. A person who appears on a white horse and becomes the hope of everyone in the world.
Such a person was a superhuman.
In fact, he was also the one who really stood above all the superhumans.
“Seungmoon is the older brother.”
“… … .”
“I’m not going to the next general election.”
So Yang Il-ho decided to put down the gold badge. What is the portrait management chairperson? It’s too much of a position for you.
Of course, Lee Ho-jung was a woman with such ambitions, so she also served as the floor leader. I hold onto my head and fight with someone, but that’s it.
“I don’t think I fit in with power… … haha.”
“… … .”
“… … just. Yes.”
Yang Il-ho was now afraid of power.
Even though the power he used was all that Han Seung-moon ordered and wielded, that alone caused the Republic of Korea to shake.
That was really, really heavy.
“… … It’s a bit embarrassing.”
It was refreshing to tell Han Seung-moon what he was doing, but at the same time, it was also scary.
It’s not really running away. Putting all the burden on him.
However, Han Seung-moon, who had been seriously silent for a long time, got up from his seat with a bright smile with a wide eye.
“Would you like a cup of barley tea?”
“Ah yes… … .”
Han Seung-moon served the yulmu tea from the corner of the parliamentarian’s office. Clearly, it was the food that Vice Minister Cha Jae-gyun enjoyed eating.
something. It was odd.
That was the time when I was savoring the scent of Yulmu tea.
“okay. If you are a member of Parliament. What are you going to do?”
“uh… … work?”
“Rather than work, just. I’m curious what you’re going to do next.”
“… … I do not know.”
Ho-jung Lee is busy with the work of the floor leader. It looks like it will be busy in the future. So you’ll need someone to help you at home. It’s impossible to use a housekeeper carelessly in these dangerous times.
and Kang Si-ho.
You have to take care of the fourth sibling that Seok-ho left behind. That is my duty as a friend who left the lagoon in Seoul.
I don’t know what a father is, but a child must still need a guardian.
So the answer that popped up is this.
“maybe… … I think I will be doing housework.”
“Ugh. okay.”
“… … And first, I want to go to Cheongsong Prison.”
* * *
Cheongsong Prison is a place in the shadow of modern history.
At first, a prison in Gyeongsangbuk-do that housed the worst criminals in Korea.
At one time, it was a place that procured subjects for in vivo experiments.
“Long time no see. Rep. Ilho Yang.”
“Ahaha… … long time no see. Agent Jang.”
“Call me Captain Jang. I don’t know if it’s the head of the research institute or the head of the prison.”
And now, it was a top-secret research facility under the Ministry of Portrait Management, where Director Jang and Dr. Do studied all kinds of monsters.
And Yang Il-ho is one of the few people who knows of the existence of this facility and the only person who visits this facility occasionally.
Director Jang welcomed Il-ho Yang.
“Did Congressman Yang come after two months?”
“I bought you chicken last week… … .”
“ah. It was. Being trapped, I have no sense of time. At that time, Dr. Do cut the neck with a scalpel because a bone was caught in his neck. haha.”
“… … haha.”
It was not unusual for Yang Il-ho to visit the Cheongsong Research Institute.
The Cheongsong Research Institute was (albeit unofficially) a subsidiary of the Portrait Management Department, the National Assembly Portrait Management Committee was the position to oversee the Portrait Management Department, and Yang Il-ho was the chairperson of the Portrait Management Department.
But,
Yang Il-ho’s reason for visiting Cheongsong was a little special.
“… … Uh, Chief Jang?”
“yes?”
“… … Question, I have one.”
This is because of a very personal curiosity.
There is one question I would like to ask Director Jang.
Then, a question from Uijeongbu. Footprints in blood. It remained in Yang Il-ho’s mind.
For that one reason, I came to Cheongsong every time. However, he did not hesitate to ask, and he walked in vain every time.
One, now that I’m about to put everything down. Yang Il-ho asks him for the first time.
“… … Why the hell did you-”
“Ahh-! Who is this!”
“Ugh… … !”
A monster appeared from behind Yang Il-ho.
Skin as white as drawing paper. glowing yellow eyes. Weird hair, as if dyed.
“Didn’t you buy chicken this time!?”
The monster was wearing a white scientist robe. And people spoke.
“Dr. Do, Do… … !?”
“okay! It’s me!”
“That, that figure, what the hell… … !”
Yang Il-ho was shocked to see Dr. Do. Obviously, until the last time, he was acting like a human being.
Even though it had a large mouth hanging over her neck and shoulders, her skin paler than a corpse, and her blood vessels wriggling in blue.
Still, it was a sloppy look that looked like an adult male.
“Hey, what is this… … !”
“Don’t be too surprised, just calm down. Senator Yang.”
Director Jang smiled candidly and tapped Yang Il-ho’s shoulder. And lightly pointed at Dr. Do with his thumb.
“This guy is a little bit fussy these days.”
“Well, what’s coming and going… … ?”
“Gender.”
Dr. Do had become a normal adult woman.
Except for skin color, hair color, internal structure, blood vessels, teeth, vision, strength, and DNA.
SIDE EP – Yang Il-ho’s Bizarre Day (2)
To be honest, it wasn’t funny.
“The first time I started remodeling my body was because I had to do a living experiment, but I was a little reluctant to do it with a human… … Of course, after I fled to Seoul.”
It’s sudden, it’s frustrating.
It might be a bit inappropriate to use this expression in reality, but it seemed unlikely.
“But as I kept doing biological experiments with my own body, my body collapsed. In the end, about 93 percent of our humanity, that is, our physical humanity, was gone. Besides, my mouth stretched all the way to my shoulders, so if I didn’t move my snout, I could get a headache because my nerves were compressed!”
How did the world feed back?
a sane person No, I wasn’t fine, but
Still, a half-monstrous deformed human with super regenerative power with a half-melted molgol. How can you turn into a woman overnight like this?
How am I supposed to express this?
“anyway… … I was monstrous at an average of 0.012% per day. The skin is turning white. limbs are crushed. Sometimes it turns violent. Besides, the headache was so severe! I couldn’t even sleep because I kept moving my mouth muscles!”
weird? No, I can’t describe it in words.
bizarre, bizarre, bizarre,
“So that’s why I finally came to a conclusion!”
“… … .”
“To stop being human!”
It was weird.
* * *
Should Dr. Do be a woman, a man, or a slime? Anyway, he changed back and forth into a bizarre form and continued explaining like a madman.
Blue blood vessels on white skin. And only the bright yellow eyes remained.
“Are you listening?”
“Yes?”
“You seem to be listening well.”
In the end, Director Jang stopped Dr. Do.
“It is good that you succeeded in your research, but please change your habits. Aren’t you too distracted?”
“What do you do? If the facial muscles do not move, the nerves are compressed, resulting in headaches. I’ve been living on my own for so many years. You want me to stop talking in one day?”
“Yes.”
“Then there is nothing you can do.”
Dr. Do’s facial muscles twitched and returned to their former form.
Except for white skin, blue veins, and yellow eyes, he is an ordinary adult male. it looks a little nicer
In fact, the time when Dr. Do contacted the government was already at the beginning of the monster transformation. It was the first time Yang Il-ho had seen his normal days.
“Hmm… … ! Anyway, I have something to show you both.”
“Yes?”
“great. Let’s go!”
* * *
“The classification of superhumans is broadly divided into three categories. Actually, there is no specific classification. Let’s deal with the internationally accepted content first.”
“First. physical world. They are superhumans who control the magic inside the body. With that, I can use rigid body art and spit out swords, too.”
“Second. mental realm. Manipulating magical powers outside the body. Usually, they are divided into Telecommunication Magician, Elementalist, and Healer, but in fact, there are so many complex abilities, it is difficult to distinguish them. In the first place, even between telecasting magicians, their characteristics are different.”
“The third… … Monsterization.”
Yang Il-ho, who was listening to Dr. Do’s explanation, suddenly had something to refute. Han Seung-moon usually explained that he was the third person with the ability.
He said that there were hunters who could not be explained in detail, but could not be classified into the physical world and the mental world. Seeing Han Seung-moon with Pi Chae-won every time, it seems that the girl is also ‘that person’.
However, Dr. Do presented a new theory.
He, no, she recalled my past with a complicated face.
“It was the first thing that was developed as a biological experiment in the underground bunker of Mt. In fact, it wasn’t about making people superhuman, it was about making them into conscious monsters.”
“… … Then he escaped-“
“okay. Cha Jae-gyun gets f**ked. I was afraid of being shot, so I fled to Seoul, which is full of monsters. And I continued my research on stimulants and monsters.”
Dr. Do tilted his head, not knowing whether he was a woman or a man now. It was a bit disgusting to see her white skin constantly wriggling and changing.
“by the way? Wasn’t monstrousization not just a stimulant? Just look at the Hong Kong situation. Were the protesters who lost their families mutated into infectious individuals and went crazy?”
“… … .”
“I know that even at the Hunter Academy, if you administer stimulants for a thousand people, three or four people who are constantly turned into monsters will come out. In the first place, I do research with the samples that they send me.”
It was true.
Rather than becoming a monster, it was more like the human spirit being trapped in the body of a monster.
Some turn into giant monsters and some turn into extremely dangerous conditions, so somewhere on Jeju Island, a sanatorium was operated for them.
Of course, it was a place jointly operated by China, Europe, and the United States participating in the Hunter Academy, and in vivo experiments (even sampling activities to say the least) were being carried out through humane procedures.
If we send those whose bodies have turned into monsters to the battlefield. Because there was an unexpected danger.
Didn’t the monstrous subjects actually escaped and massacred citizens during the Cha Jae-gyun era?
That’s why there are no monster hunters in Korea. In foreign countries, he was a common type, but the people had not forgotten Cha Jae-gyun.
It is a kind of political sensitivity issue.
However, Dr. Do has come up with a solution.
“… … by the way. Monsterization means that magical powers fuse with the body, and the body evolves in an unpredictable direction.”
“Isn’t that a monster?”
“okay. All monsters constantly evolve to match their environment. After that, the appearance becomes a little scary, yes. But after all, this is just a phenomenon!”
Dr. Do tapped his forehead with his long, black nails. and laughed out loud.
“Shouldn’t we look at the essence?”
“… … .”
“Flesh, bones, and lumps of useless organic matter. If this is human nature, there is nothing more sad than that. Man is the sum total of philosophy and intelligence. That’s why even if you deviate a little from the frame of your body, if you keep that spirit… … .”
can be seen as a person.
That was the argument of Dr.
“So I gave up being human altogether. Originally, I made this and that to slow down the speed of becoming a monster. It feels good to give up.”
He smiled and repeated the lengthening and shortening of his nails.
And I was excited by myself and took a strange pose.
“Voila!”
“… … .”
Yang Il-ho slowly began to give up talking to this madman. The headache slowly subsides. To be honest, I was even annoyed because I kept getting distracted.
Knowing that, Director Jang looked at Dr. Do, and she smiled shyly and went back to the topic, whether she realized that she was overdoing it.
“So… … The biggest problem with monstrous talent. You don’t even know your own body.”
“… … What do you mean?”
“It feels human, and when I move my arms, my tail moves. Sneezing can spread the zombie virus.”
Dr. Do added, ‘However, there are so many different types of infectious individuals that it is impossible to collectively describe them all as zombies’, but Yang Il-ho did not give much thought.
The important thing was this.
“So. We need to make it possible for monstrous talents to have human control over their bodies.”
“Humanly?”
“It’s fitting the right software to the broken hardware.”
She brought the drug in an Erlenmeyer flask. It was a transparent color, but it looked like something was coming out of smoke.
“Right now, in my case, the mouth went down to the shoulder and stimulated the facial nerve. That’s why it hurt so much that I couldn’t stand the pain if I didn’t move my snout. This is bad design. It’s because he can’t control the evolution of his body.”
“… … .”
“That means we have to adapt the nervous system to the mechanics of the human brain. Then, monstrous talents can use the body transformations unique to monstrosities. You can change and control your body the way you want. At least within the limits of the race value given to him.”
Yang Il-ho was smart, and thanks to him, he got to the point at once.
“… … Are you saying you can transform your body at will?”
“right! Just like me!”
Only then did Yang Il-ho understand Dr. Do’s words.
As for the word that a third type of Hunter has appeared.
Dr. Do smiled and shook the flask.
“I’m going to call this the Transmutation System.”
* * *
“… … Have you finished speaking?”
“Uh, uh. Perhaps.”
“Haha, Dr. Do is a bit talkative.”
The empty playground of Cheongsong Prison. Director Jang, who was blown away by the night wind, greeted Yang Il-ho with a friendly smile.
Being in a remote place, the night air was really clear.
The round full moon was really bright.
“Today the night air is very clear. In fact, it is always clear. So good.”
“… … It seems that the director has become much brighter too.”
It was said that there was a lot of talk.
“haha… … ! Every time I say something without realizing it, I keep getting stuck. I don’t know if it’s that guy or a b*tch who sticks around all day, but his mouth is a sanctuary… … .”
There were criminals in prison. Two key collaborators of the biological experiment. Director Jang and Dr. Do.
It is doomed that, after not being able to come out of the world, studying in prison for the rest of his life, it may one day be discarded according to the needs of the government.
“… … .”
Yang Il-ho thinks. The red footprints he left behind. And the questions you left for yourself.
ask this
Why?
Why did you kill civilians and conduct biological experiments on the subject, saving civilians? Tell them not to kill the infected.
Why the hell does the villain pretend to be good? Why the hell did I ask you why you look like a villain?
Perhaps, Yang Il-ho already knows the answer.
“… … .”
However, Yang Il-ho lacked the courage to find the answer given to him.
I didn’t want to touch anything. Because it’s obvious that you’re going to change too much.
He has a companion whom he loves more than anyone in the world, a legacy of a friend he is responsible for, and a harsh world he must endure.
Now, whether it is good or evil, we have to get entangled in such a childish and complicated problem, and there is no answer.
And it wasn’t his taste to rush into unanswered questions like a madman.
“… … .”
So Yang Il-ho was silent. I gave up on asking questions to Director Jang.
However,
The fact that he approached Director Jang itself might be proof that Yang Il-ho is trying to get an answer.
“Did you look at me earlier and ask why?”
“… … Yes.”
He answered with a voice that he did not know whether it was a question or a affirmation, but Director Jang looked straight at Yang Il-ho with a smile.
“I do not know. Why?”
“… … .”
“Why kill people to save the country? Why on earth did you do bad things and eat civil servants? Even my salary was lower than that of a rat’s tail.”
Director Zhang smiled softly and tilted his head. And stroking his ragged beard, he fell deep in thought.
The night wind blew quietly in the silence. Her hair and hem of her clothes fluttered softly.
The moonlight shone softly in the dark. It was a shining light because it was in the dark.
“An individual who is violently devoted to the country. Totalitarianism is a long-standing issue. Maybe I was not much different from my colleague who was loyal to the Nazis.”
“… … .”
“Haha, without realizing it, I keep talking like Dr. Do. The gist is this. The country called me, and I went and dedicated myself.”
Director Jang led the biological experiment in the underground bunker of Mt. Yeonin. It included the vicious criminals of Cheongsong Prison and some civilians involved.
“I know that Senator Yang is somewhat interested in me, but I am a rather unusual group of people than you think. In movies, he’s a third-rate villain next to a great villain. He is a pawn who is blindly loyal to his country.”
“… … .”
“But if you ask me why I am loyal to the country. In fact, the only answer I can give is inertia. We have come too far to change the way we live.”
Yang Il-ho looked at him quietly. He smiled brightly and answered the gaze.
“However. If you really want an answer.”
Yang Il-ho heard the answer he hated the most.
Chief Jang smiles brightly.
“Someone had to do it, so they did it.”
* * *
I didn’t want to admit it though. They had already taken the place of the villains they had condemned.
Now you can empathize with the villain.
What does it mean?
“Good bye! Next time, don’t come empty-handed!”
“Thank you for always looking out for me. Senator. I hope to see you again someday.”
Yang Il-ho’s steps to leave the Cheongsong Research Institute were too heavy.
Of course, you can ignore these things and live your life. Become a shameless power and enjoy the romance of the end of the century.
Actually, it’s a little bit different to put Cha Jae-gyun and themselves on the same line.
Cha Jae-gyun killed hundreds of his own citizens as a soldier, and he sacrificed 600,000 North Korean citizens for the country.
The monsters that were pushed north during the Seoul incident. North Korean defectors who caught what had crossed into South Korea and sent them back to North Korea. All of these were for the public good.
It is the name of the powerful.
Just think about it, hardboil it, and go stylish.
If you have to leave it in your heart like a moth like this and grumble, it’s just a question with no answer in the end. Only you are suffering
However, in Yang Il-ho’s head, Dr. Do’s words linger.
‘Flesh, bone fragments, and useless mass of organic matter. If this is human nature, there is nothing more sad than that. Man is the sum total of philosophy and intelligence. That’s why even if you deviate a little from the frame of your body, if you keep that spirit… … .’
can be a person
If so, can you call a person who just walks around in skin, giving up conscience and morals?
I want to remain human.
That was the issue.
“… … under.”
went into neurosis.
When the shackles of morality, which were finally ignored, put a human being in prison. What choices should a person make?
On what basis is it appropriate? individual? country? world?
In a world where laws are broken, which one has the meaning between morality and survival?
Is reason a refinement of nature or a bondage?
Is human nature body or spirit?
Is the superman closer to a human or a monster?
“… … f**k.”
People curse when they have nothing to say. And as Yang Il-ho was walking down the street, he suddenly stopped and chewed his profanity.
It was at that time when I was not confident to look at the sky, and I was about to start arguing on the street.
Good profit-!
A black Equus stopped next to Ilho Yang.
Then, as the driver’s window went down, a mature, white-haired middle-aged man stuck his head out.
“ah… … ! Long time no see! Rep. Ilho Yang.”
“… … uh huh? No, what the hell is going on here… … ?”
“Hey, I’m here to see you.”
The person who visited Yang Il-ho was Seok Jae-bong, chief of staff.
Along with the prime minister, he was one of the second in power in the administration.
“I know a house that is good at oden soup near here. Why don’t you go there first?”
* * *
“The Portrait Management Department was originally designed on the premise that Minister Han Seung-moon was in charge. So it’s not overly powerful. There is a reason for a coalition government.”
“… … .”
“By the way, it seems that Minister Han Seung-moon will not be able to return to the portrait management department. In the near future, the UN General Assembly has been caught… … .”
“Yes!?”
Yang Il-ho got up from his seat in surprise. Odentang soup splashed on the suit shirt. It was so hot that I sat down on the road seat, but I was not comfortable.
“… … .”
I don’t know what the UN General Assembly has to do with Han Seung-moon, but it should never have happened that Han Seung-moon could not lead the portrait management department.
In the first place, not only were there few people capable of doing that, but it was clear that if that great power was given to a strange yangban, even after four months, I would be strong.
“Well, then, what happens to the next minister… … ?”
“The Blue House is also in an emergency right now. First of all, there are very few talented people who have both the political symbolism of Han Seung-moon and the Kuomintang, and the expertise in the field of the paranormal.”
The portrait management minister must be Han Seung-moon of the Kuomintang. That was Yang Pan-seok’s core promise, and it was the government that the majority of the people wanted.
In that sense, it is safe to say that the foundation of the government is now in a state of shakyness.
Seok Jae-bong, Chief of Staff, spoke seriously.
“So, professionalism and political symbolism. I need an equivalent that has these two… … The VIP made a decision after much deliberation.”
“… … .”
“At the beginning of the crisis, I supported the guild by running the Han Seung-moon Foundation, and is currently serving as the chairperson of the Portrait Management Committee in the National Assembly as a member of the Kuomintang… … .”
How would you like our lawmaker Yang Il-ho to ascend to the ministerial post?
“… … .”
Yang Il-ho sat blankly for a long time and pondered. Of course, it was a proposal that he would have refused mercilessly if it were him.
Because he was the one who realized how terrifying power is, and ultimately decided to give it up.
It was only in the morning that I announced that I would quit the National Assembly. And it wasn’t a decision so light that it could be changed in just one day.
But,
“… … Yes.”
He fell into a neurosis.
Those who want to remain human suffer from not being able to cross the line,
The agonizing one always goes one step further.
“I’ll do it.”
it’s weird
SIDE EP
Yang Il-ho’s Bizarre Day
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