Chapter 139
Even when an event that has a great social impact, such as death or injury, occurs, society returns.
Social constancy is firmer than you think, and the lives of those who are not the parties to the problem do not change much.
It was in that context that Noblesse Academy closed. After the building was repaired, the students returned to the academy.
“Soyul, are you okay? Wouldn’t it be better to take a break?”
Seol Ga-eun looked back at Min So-yul with a worried expression. It was already known among teachers that she was involved in the Veritas incident.
It was okay to rest for a few days, but Min So-yul refused to rest.
“it’s okay. And if I take a break, the graduation season might not match with my friends.”
“Still, overdoing it… .”
“It’s not overbearing. It’s really fine.”
Min So-yul shook his head and replied. She wasn’t as weak as Seol Ga-eun thought.
And above all.
-You protected everyone.
It wasn’t just bad memories.
Those words of recognition for her efforts were deeply rooted in her heart.
‘Who was it? I felt like I knew Sam… .’
Min So-yul recalled the iron man. Coming out of the lab, he found Kang Tae-min and his friends, and after a few words of conversation, he disappeared.
‘Sam also told me to keep it a secret… .’
The existence of iron man was not mentioned in the news. This meant that the other researchers also kept the secret.
“Sam.”
“yes?”
“… I did a good deed, but why don’t I reveal it to others?”
Seol Ga-eun was momentarily taken aback by Min So-yul’s question, but then tilted her head.
“Well, there must be several reasons. Was it something you didn’t do to be praised, or that it could actually be a hindrance if it were revealed?”
Seol Ga-eun answered, recalling people she knew. The former was Kang Tae-min, and the latter was the iron man who saved his father.
“Are you interfering? Are you doing a good job? Wouldn’t it be better if people helped a lot?”
“Uh, um… Isn’t it hard to do good work? He’s probably trying to shoulder it all by himself.”
Saying that, Seol Ga-eun shed a bitter laugh.
“And even if they want to help, they don’t ask for help if they don’t have the ability… .”
It was its own story.
She said she would repay the benefactor, but he never looked for her.
“Sam?”
“yes?”
“I think you called.”
After a moment of gloom, she turned her head away. My phone, which was plugged into the charger, was vibrating.
“hello?”
She answered the phone as she left the infirmary.
“Dad? what’s the matter?”
＜My daughter, is it okay on the phone?＞
“uh.”
It was a call from Seol Gyu-jin.
But her head tilted. My father never contacted me during business hours.
＜Because the benefactor asked for something.＞
“ask?!”
＜Yes. maybe… ＞
“Sir Gaeun.”
Seol Ga-eun was startled by the sudden voice and hid her phone.
“Ah, Master Taemin! What are you doing?”
“sorry. Were you on an important call?”
Taemin Kang was standing in the hallway. She shook her head hastily.
“No, no. it’s okay Wait.”
Seol Ga-eun grabbed the phone again. I was going to ask to call you later.
＜Oh, it looks like Mr. Kang has arrived. You’ll know when you see the details. Then please don’t.＞
“uh? Ah Okay.”
Seol Ga-eun hung up the phone with a puzzled expression. Then Kang Tae-min came over and held out a box.
“The association asked me to deliver this.”
“This… ?”
Seol Ga-eun opened the box slightly. There was a broken mask inside. He said he would see it, but there was nothing else.
‘If that person asked for it, he must be borrowing my abilities.’
But Seol Ga-eun was not an idiot. She knew what she had to do.
“Oh, wait a minute.”
“Okay, I’ll wait outside.”
Seol Ga-eun returned to the infirmary. Min So-yul was concentrating on his thesis. She manifested her abilities right behind the screen.
‘I don’t know what this is…’ .’
It wasn’t difficult to fix a broken mask. When she manifested her ability, the seams of the fragmented mask disappeared in an instant.
She looked for a moment at the mask, which had just been replaced like new, before closing the box.
“Here you go.”
“thank you.”
“I, Taemin teacher… !”
She said to Kang Tae-min who turned around.
‘Eun-in asked dad, and dad asked teacher Taemin. then… .’
Do you think Kang Tae-min knows his own ability?
“That… Do you know who sent this?”
Seol Ga-eun turned around and asked.
I heard from Seol Gyu-jin that the existence of the benefactor had already been revealed.
There was no way his father would reveal his ability, so if Kang Tae-min found out, it would have been through a benefactor.
“Yes, I know.”
Kang Tae-min calmly replied. Then he looked at her and shook his head.
“But it’s good that you don’t know. It could be dangerous if you get involved more than this.”
“ah… ! I asked a stupid question.”
“No, then.”
Taemin Kang left with a smile. Seol Ga-eun frowned as she looked at her back.
‘Ugh… I’m stabbed.’
It was because of the joy of knowing that Kang Tae-min was worried about him and the strange guilt of hiding the truth from such a person.
Without even thinking that Kang Tae-min might have a bigger secret.
And above all.
‘I can find out the location with this.’
Kang Tae-min’s current interest was not in her.
* * *
“I didn’t expect it to be this easy.”
Seraphine muttered with her chin resting. The city was visible through the window, and many people were busy moving.
Damian, who was next to her, averted his eyes.
“Wouldn’t Nobody ask for a price? Wouldn’t it be better to get rid of it?”
“No, it’s useful for now, so let’s leave it. In particular, the human ability called Pete is convenient.”
People outside found Seraphine. As soon as they made eye contact with her, they bowed.
“For now, I’ll decide after I get my hands on this place called North Korea.”
Pete transported them to a city in North Korea. Of course, upon arrival, the Awakeners, the ruling class of the city, responded, but they couldn’t resist her.
“Wouldn’t it be easier to make a believer?”
“It’s a pity, but it’s not the time for liberation yet. If you see believers, heretics will rebel. My hypnosis is enough for now.”
Seraphine swallowed the city through fog, and Awakeners and civilians wandering in the fog were hallucinating and hypnotized.
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Literally unstoppable, Seraphine and Damian took the city without shedding a drop of blood.
“It would have been better if Anne had opened the passage to this side from the beginning.”
“Then wouldn’t it be better to call Anne here?”
“I’ve become more cautious since the clone didn’t come back last time. Rather, it is faster to prepare for the arrival of the ‘High Priest’.”
Seraphine’s one exposed eye rolled quickly.
“It will only take three or four more cities. If there were that many martyrs, it would be enough for them to cross over.”
It was when she nodded. She averted her gaze at the sound of a smart knock.
“Come in.”
The former leader, the Awakener, bowed and opened his mouth.
“Apostle of the Pale Moonlight, I have carried out all your orders.”
“Be specific.”
“The surrounding dungeons have been cleared, and the hideout of heretics has been discovered.”
Seraphine looked at Damian and shook her head. Nobody asked for anything else, but he did ask for one thing.
“Guide Sanghyeon to that hideout.”
“I will prepare.”
Seraphine had no intention of leaving the job to the hypnotized Awoken.
Damian left the room with him, and after a while the Awoken returned again.
“Apostle city.”
“Is there anything else to report?”
“The foolish ones are led by the moonlight.”
Occasionally, for trade between cities, bundle merchants used to come and go. But if it was such a trivial matter, there would be no need to report it.
Seraphine did not touch such people in order to lower the vigilance of other cities.
‘There is a limit to my hypnosis.’
To maintain hallucinations and hypnosis, the subject must not be more than a certain distance from her. Accordingly, Seraphine planned to take all the Awoken people and occupy another city once she had completed all her plans.
“They are the ones who refer to themselves as the ‘League of Healers Without Borders’. What they do… .”
Seraphine laughed at his explanation.
“They take care of the sick and distribute food and clothing… What a shameless hypocrites.”
“Please tell me what to do with them.”
“It is moonlight that embraces even such hypocrites. Welcome to the city.”
There was no reason to oppose the increasing number of martyrs. However, the League of Healers Without Borders was not so clumsy.
“Apostles, I am ashamed, but they do not enter the city.”
“What does that mean?”
“They were alert and well armed, always distributing goods on the outskirts of the city.”
It was a safety guide for volunteers. It was because he was kind only when he received help, but after work there were cases where he changed his attitude like flipping a palm.
It was possible to enter the city unintentionally and become a hostage, and since there was such a case, volunteers always provided supplies and healing powers only in their camps.
“Hmm… .”
Seraphine’s eyes rolled again.
‘It’s a multinational organization, so it’s perfect for increasing followers.’
As the name suggests, it was a ‘borderless’ group, so the nationalities of the members were diverse. By manipulating their souls, the number of followers would gradually increase in each country.
After thinking about it for a while, Seraphine made a decision.
“… good. I will be especially generous and teach them myself.”
“Ahh! How glorious you are.”
Awakeners drunk with hypnosis and hallucinations were just praising.
* * *
The Healers Without Borders camp was very busy. Their field manager, Lee Young-mi, was the busiest among them.
“Are you sure you checked the quantity of supplies?”
“Yes, it seems.”
“Same? The extra ration here means that people elsewhere get less. Are you sure?”
“Well, let’s check it one more time!”
The volunteer ran out in a cold sweat. Lee Young-mi sighed as she looked at her back.
The volunteers who work here are all nice, but that doesn’t guarantee their work ability.
‘I liked that friend because he was fast.’
I can’t remember the name anymore, but I do remember the face. He was a volunteer who resembled his daughter’s colleague, and was excellent at shooting as well as at work.
‘It’s a pity that he quit after only doing it once.’
Youngmi Lee shook her head.
Contrary to the volunteer who went out a little while ago, there were people who had excellent work skills but who did not fit their aptitude for volunteering.
“Manager! A delegation is coming.”
“Yes? Already?”
“Yes, it’s a bit earlier than the time I was notified, but there’s something weirder than that.”
“Is that strange?”
“That, the white man is the representative.”
Youngmi Lee frowned.
Are you a foreigner?
“Looking at the outside, it looks like someone from Russia.”
“Um… once i got it I’ll be leaving soon.”
She tilted her head.
Foreigners were common in cities close to the border, but this place was far from the border.
However, the things she had to worry about did not change, so she left the tent.
“No, what kind of fog… ?”
The weather had been clear until the camp was set up, but it was foggy before I knew it.
Curiously, the fog was getting thicker as if it was slowly approaching.
Through the rolling fog, I could see shadows approaching the camp. Lee Young-mi, as a field manager, tried to approach them to greet them.
But I couldn’t.
“What is that?”
“Something… .”
“Fall!”
Volunteers who were vigilant in preparation for an unexpected situation raised their voices. Before everyone could even shake their heads at those words.
An iron man fell from the sky with a dull thump.
“… you are!?”
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Lee Young-mi recognized him.
How can you not recognize the benefactor who saved her husband and daughter? But why is he here now?
“Run away.”
“Yes?”
The iron man, Kang Tae-min’s answer did not resolve the question. Rather, more questions popped into my head.
“Good people like you.”
When Kang Tae-min raised his hand, an iron wall began to rise around the camp. While the volunteers’ eyes widened, Kang Tae-min concluded his words.
“It’s worth saving.”