263 – [5] Mutual Help
#263
Okay, maybe someone could ask for a favor.
Why is there such a thing as mutual aid or mutual aid in tribulations?
Isn’t it to lead a happy life by helping each other?
In that sense, it wasn’t that difficult to be asked to do something that only academy cadets could do.
Anyway, if you go to the academy, you have time to spare.
I was confident that I would at least give my daughter a boat, even though I was going around doing everything.
However, if there is the condition of being an ordinary person and appropriate compensation.
What does this mean?
Exactly, the request of the National Assembly member is different.
To be more precise, it was difficult to receive requests from people such as ‘public officials’.
“Do you have a favor to ask me?”
“Yes, it is impossible unless you are a person with skills like cadet. Of course, there will be ample compensation as well.”
This is a request.
If you get it wrong, it could be something that catches you off guard.
I wanted to go long and thin, not short and thick.
Especially if it meant destroying my future.
– “Today’s headlines. There was a report that an active member of the National Assembly had made a secret request to a cadet at the Palaistra Academy…….”
Flying Spaghetti Monster Oh my god, the news seemed to be good.
Aren’t you making too much of a fuss?
After processing the World Tree, I would have continued to live as an elf without dying, but I didn’t want to tarnish my reputation by doing something unnecessary.
Right now, in the hunter industry, reputation also means the amount of money coming in.
No matter how good your skills are, if your reputation is at the bottom, you’re out of luck.
Unlike in the past when skills were the most important, today it is inevitable because the influence of the Internet is infinitely strong.
A representative example was an S-class hunter who was caught shouting ‘I want to become a TS female pretty girl’ on a SNS back account and ended up in the abyss.
Still, they say he has some skills and makes a living as an instructor, but in any case, compared to before, he’s gone to hell.
Unless you are planning to own a large company like a thousand birds, it would be right to avoid a position like this.
I decided to think of their proposal somewhat negatively.
“How do you feel? Are you interested? “This is as much as having an intuition of baseball—”
“No. “It doesn’t pull at all.”
“Yes?”
“If you’re going to ask if it’s appealing, shouldn’t you first explain ‘the whole story’?”
“Ah…… That… ….”
“If you ask me for a favor without even showing the slightest facade, there is nothing I can do other than refuse.”
A person who comes to you at random times and is even a member of the National Assembly makes a suggestion like this?
Regardless of whether you understood it or not, it just seemed like a vicious act against a child.
This is a behavior often seen by people wearing armbands in internet communities.
A common misjudgment made by those whose self-esteem is at its peak.
“Oops, sorry. “I should have explained it properly from the beginning, and I apologize again.”
But unlike those people, I put my tail down right away.
It seemed like he tried to check his liver but it didn’t seem to work so he changed it, but in the sense that he tried it like this, it could be said to be a higher personality.
Well, if you do this, trust increases strangely.
First of all, I felt like I had to ask about the most important issue.
“What I’m asking you this time is exactly…” ….”
“Wait a minute, before that.”
“Is this your personal request? Or is this a favor from the government?”
It was the most important thing.
Who benefits from the work was more important than what exactly I did.
However, neither of the two options I presented was chosen.
Rep. Cha So-yul hesitated for a moment, and I carefully opened my lips again.
“If not that…… A request from the party?”
“…… “Strictly speaking, the second and third are the same.”
Second and third.
The government and the party are not very different.
That was correct.
It wasn’t once, but it is now.
Only then did the coffee come out.
She took a sip of coffee.
“In the 2030s, while the world was greatly turned upside down and chaos ensued, some hunters staged a coup, and hunters and elves loyal to the civilian government united to stop it…….”
“We stopped it and won the civil war. And that party, the Tribal Alliance Party, continued to be in power. “We already know that this country has had a one-party dominant system for 20 years.”
So what do you want to say?
I don’t think I want to discuss the history of the ruling party, which has been in power through elections for over 20 years under a democracy that came back from the dead.
“…… “I heard that something unfortunate happened during the blocking process.”
2030S, the process of blocking, a somewhat unfortunate event.
When it comes to me, ‘Kang Xian’, there was only one thing that was true.
“Are you talking about my deceased parents?”
“Yes. A time when Cadet Kang Xian was only two years old. “He died while standing up to the greed and injustice of those for whom the word ‘hunter’ is a waste.”
I didn’t know you would bring that up.
I sipped my coffee while avoiding eye contact, as if I didn’t understand his intention.
When I put down my coffee, there was an alley at the end of my gaze.
Although it was familiar, it was a place filled with memories of Cheonma-ri.
…… For a moment.
I didn’t know the intention, but I felt like I could send a message.
“Senator. “Do you know that?”
I suddenly asked.
Pointing to an alley where rain is falling.
“Originally, there were many bullet marks and knife marks on that street. There were even pieces of weapons lying around.”
“It seems to be a place where there was a big fight between hunters under the command of the civilian government and hunters belonging to the corporation-guild that staged the coup.”
“Because this is an area where gates are not often created. “Maybe so.”
“Thank goodness.”
“And those things have been gone since the late 40s.”
When I first joined forces with Cheonma-ri to deal with the Iljin.
Even back in elementary school, places were dented and damaged.
But not anymore.
After full-scale restoration work began, everything was refurbished.
So, the once ugly alley turned into an alley full of childlike drawings.
Naturally, the incidents of iljins attacking that alley have also disappeared.
“My parents passed away when I was 2 years old. “If you look at it now, it’s old enough that the broken streets need to be renovated.”
“…… Yes.”
“And after my parents passed away, it was my aunt and uncle who raised me. “The only people I consider family are those two and my cousin.”
I turned my head again.
Right now, I have only two messages to send to Representative Cha So-yul.
– ‘Don’t rely on your emotions.’
– ‘Why don’t you stop talking nonsense and get to the point?’
Even if he seemed like a psychopath, if he got caught up in it, it was over.
The opponent was a person who was used to the political world and should never show weakness.
At this, she laughed.
Immediately he nodded and gave me a look.
– ‘Okay, I understand.’
– ‘I’ll get straight to the point.’
Probably so.
Otherwise, it will lead to a breakdown in negotiations.
“Cadet Kang Xian, there is someone I need to deal with.”
“…… I couldn’t believe it. Is this someone the government should deal with? “Is this someone the party should deal with?”
“It is both. For the government, it is a threat to the system to stand by and there are many people in the party gnashing their teeth.”
Threat to the system.
There are many people in the party gnashing their teeth.
This is why lawmakers make suggestions to others.
It is her job, and for her, it will be her biggest cause for getting nominated next time.
“Seup… ….”
“Strictly speaking, there are probably many people gnashing their teeth even if they are not part of the party.”
Anyway, at first glance, he seemed like a dangerous person.
But how is such a dangerous person related to Palaistra Academy?
Well, maybe he’s a professor?
If that were true, it would be impossible for me to even attempt.
“What kind of person are you? “Please explain clearly.”
“In the past, right after the civil war ended. “You probably know that those who drove the people to death have been punished.”
“Yes.”
“And among them, the leaders of the corporate-guilds, that is, the instigators, were given stricter punishment.”
It was not a strict punishment.
Because a verdict that could be said to be the end of punishment was handed down to them.
“According to the textbook, I understand that he was sentenced to death or life imprisonment. Is that correct?”
“That’s right. They all received that ruling. “It is justified in some ways, but the problem is that there were not many people in the country who could receive the judgment at the time.”
“By the end of the civil war, most of the instigators had fled abroad.”
After destroying a country, he abandoned his men like a fear and ran away.
It was indeed a journey that could be said to be a hanamam-haja, but it was also the only way for them to survive.
If you listen to this point, it could be heard as a call to catch them.
The problem was that quite a long time had passed since that incident.
“But as far as I know, many of those who escaped through the 2040s were caught or killed.”
“Yes, that’s how he was captured or killed. But there are still some who have not been caught.”