100 – Step by Step
After that, the schedule in Japan continued.
News began to emerge that the patients who had absorbed energy from the grid started waking up one by one, and Japan’s reaction was explosive.
“It is a mountain of letters.”
As soon as the patient started waking up, the number of letters being sent increased exponentially.
Now dozens of letters were being sent every day, but Grid read each one out loud.
It was an indescribably strange feeling.
Because Grid wasn’t originally like this.
Grid is basically a cynical guy.
However, the behavior I’m seeing right now seemed to be trying to understand the feelings of the people who sent me this letter, rather than making fun of me.
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As evidence of that, Grid took out the stationery again.
Gathering his hair with both hands and tying it into a tie, he began to write a reply with his back straight.
Now I’m not sure how to embrace the grid.
“Still, that excessive lip service seems to have boosted the pride of the Japanese government.”
As Grid wrote his reply, he brought up a topic about a story that happened a while ago.
“I guess so. People in the government will feel comfortable.”
From the perspective of the Japanese government, I am more like a VIP.
Because he is like the only doctor who can save a patient with psychic syndrome, which is said to be incurable.
But from the perspective of the Japanese government, I must have been a little burdened.
Even if I am a VIP, it can be interpreted as damaging the prestige of the country if I appear too low-key.
If you treat it too negligently, however, you will be criticized by the international community for not being able to take care of even the hero who gave a helping hand in good faith.
In that situation, my lip service appeared.
It was the first thing that showed an atmosphere of respect for Japan while speaking in Japanese.
So it’s easier to create an image that Japan treats me with utmost respect.
Seeing the Japanese government treat me, a Korean, with utmost respect, has created many effects.
Due to past history, there has always been an emotional rift between Korea and Japan.
However, my activities had the effect of filling that emotional gap to some extent.
The atmosphere between the two countries was visibly warm, and the diplomats from the Korean government were able to easily bring up business.
The most important agenda is to persuade black technology holders who left Korea to Japan.
The Japanese government has decided to reply by today, so you can wait a bit more leisurely.
“Thank you, Brave! Thanks to Brave, Asuka’s brother woke up! Thank you so much!”
“What is it?”
“Looking at it crookedly, it looks like a letter written by an elementary school student. You are not the only one like this.”
Grid is looking at the letter with a kind expression on his face.
That figure… Uh….
This isn’t it.
Grid appears to be a benevolent woman.
This looks like the real Evan.
‘That’ grid?
People worse than monsters, selfish and ignorant beings, cowards who want to speak out but avoid responsibility.
These are expressions often used by grids to express humans.
I know that she is a stickler with such a chosen people idea and cynicism….
The expression on Grid’s face could not be seen by ‘that’ Grid.
Beep.
Grid turned on the TV with her remote control, apparently not liking the quiet hotel room.
The sound of Super Hero Brave came from the remote control.
Since Hiro said he was a hero, he must be talking about us again.
“Hero Brave is a very compassionate person.”
“Yes, really.”
“Eh? What do you mean?”
“Look at this, I got a reply to a letter from my daughter this time.”
While writing a reply, Grid vomited the spirit of translating the conversations of TV panels in real time.
Reply by the way?
“This is a letter written by my daughter with a camera.”
“Ah, cute~”
“Brave! Thank you so much for helping my uncle this time! I decided to go to an amusement park with my uncle, but I think I can finally go! Thank you so much!”
“So what is the reply?”
“Tada-san, please wait a little bit~”
“Quickly, quickly!”
“Oh, really…. Great.”
“Hello, thanks for the letter. I’m glad Rina-chan’s uncle woke up. I hope you get well soon and can go to the amusement park with Rina-chan. Rina-chan, thank you for sending me this letter. But I didn’t do anything great. The reason her uncle woke up was because he had worked hard to keep his promise to Rina-chan and not get sick. Get along well with your uncle in the future. Hero Brave.”
“Ah, in words… ah….”
“Awesome.”
“Yes, really… cool.”
“Because my uncle held out to keep his promise….”
The eyes of the panelists turned red and the atmosphere in the studio warmed up.
I stared blankly at it, then turned my gaze to Grid.
Grid put down her pen and crossed her arms, giving her a confident look.
“That… What?”
“What… Can’t you see?”
Grid, who gave off a feeling of being stretched out more than before, stood up and confidently shouted.
“This is the superhero Brave, like a friendly neighbor!”
A foolish fellow.
“You really wrote that?”
“Of course not.”
Grid showed me the letter he wrote, but he didn’t write it in Korean, so I don’t know what it meant.
“Creating a good image, instilling dreams in children, that is also the activity of a hero, Brave.”
I have nothing to say because it’s a theory.
While I was making a subtle expression, Grid ran his index finger through his hair.
“Don’t you remember what you said?”
“What did I say?”
What did I say?
“When you get on the bus, you say hello that you don’t have to. You said that the reason is because you can make the other person feel good in a short time of less than 5 seconds.”
“Uh… Did you?”
This is the answer the author gave when he asked why he said hello.
No way?
“Reply should not exceed 5 lines. It takes less than three minutes. Wouldn’t it be useful to reply if the person receiving the reply was happy with just that?”
“… I guess so.”
“That’s it.”
Grid laughed as he took out a drink from the refrigerator and drank it.
I no longer saw Grid as a monster.
Although there is an effect of silk appearance, it is not only because of that.
Grid said that when he was fighting an A-class monster, I looked like a hero who stood up without giving up.
I ran away from my seat feeling indescribable.
But now… I honestly don’t know.
Because that side of the grid looked more like a hero than me.
At some point, it felt like the monster who longed for a hero really became a hero.
***
After Grid’s reply was introduced on TV, letters started pouring in like mountains.
Perhaps Grid decided that he couldn’t handle all of this, so he started replying only to letters sent by children.
But it was still the same that it took a long time to process because it was a considerable amount.
Just when grievances started to come out of Grid’s mouth, the good news arrived.
The owner of Black Technology brought up the story of meeting him.
“hehehe! Your reputation has improved and even diplomacy has been successful.”
The condition was to meet and talk with Hero Brave first.
I wonder if the reply from Grid was introduced on TV, so I was curious.
“I hope good results come out.”
“Is that so? It is a form anyway.”
“Form?”
“Leaving the hometown of one’s birth is a matter that requires a great resolution for humans. So don’t expect good results.”
Because the country was incompetent, black technology was stolen by other countries.
He explained that the biggest purpose of his trip to Japan was to dispel such an image.
“Let’s go for now.”
“Yes.”
I left the hotel room and headed to the meeting place with the government officials.
ㅡ This is also quite tasteful.
The place we arrived at was the house where the owner of Black Technology was staying.
Is this a Japanese-style house called Wash*tsu? It was a house built that way.
—- Mr. Brave said this way.
Ah, you mean to meet one-on-one.
I thought people from the government would also come and talk with us.
I followed the guide into the room and saw a woman in her late 20s or early 30s sitting in a seat.
“Welcome, Brave.”
“Hello, Mr. Yewon.”
Park Ye-won.
He is a black technology owner who moved to Japan.
A lady who was waiting nearby got into the car in front of us and opened the door and went out.
Only then did Yewon loosen up his body and lift the car with a sigh.
“Eat Brave too.”
“Oh, yes.”
I thought he was a strict person because he was exuding a stiff atmosphere until just now, but he seems to be an easy-going person.
“Whoa….”
After setting the car down, Yewon sighed.
“I have no intention of going back.”
This is the main point.
“Is that so?”
“I thought it would be like this one day. I can’t stand it any longer among people I can’t communicate with.”
Mr. Yewon expressed his dissatisfaction as he cut the yokan into small pieces and put them in his mouth.
Korea was unexpectedly unified due to a monster that suddenly appeared.
As a result, a huge social cost was incurred.
Korea also experienced the pain that Germany experienced after being divided into East and West Germany and unified.
Usually, we have to go through the agony of unification for a longer time, but it was Black Technology’s technology and the existence of the monster that resolved that part.
The core of the monster, which is safer than nuclear power and does not cause environmental pollution, had enormous economic value.
The value of the things derived from it is beyond price.
As a result, Korea tended to use this black technology only for economic development.
“The story came up several times. It’s a story about what to do when a monster of A-class or higher appears. But the politicians didn’t listen.”
It hasn’t come out yet, so it won’t come out in the future.
I don’t have to come out only when I’m in politics.
Korea does not have more black technology owners than other countries, so we need to ‘use’ it efficiently.
In addition to that logic, there is even public opinion from civic groups that if heroes are too strong, social problems arise….
Mr. Yewon said that after suffering so much, he no longer has any attachment to Korea.
I thought he was very considerate of the owner of Black Technology, but there was also this kind of friction….
“That… You may have seen the news, but things have changed a lot this time.”
As a result of this crisis, many people took responsibility and stepped down, and new people took their place.
It must be a little better than before.
“That’s not the biggest reason.”
Yewon put on a bitter expression as she touched the teacup with her hand.
“Among the victims this time, there is a person named Yu-jeong, do you know?”
“… Yes, I know.”
“I was friends with him. After living in the same research institute, we got to know each other unknowingly….”
Yewon looked at me with cold eyes.
“If we had listened to our story a little longer, would there have been such victims? Changed? How much has it changed? Do you have the strength to stop a Class A monster from appearing on the Korean Peninsula again? Brave, even without you?”
I don’t think this is convincing.
As Grid said, leaving the country you were born in must mean that you have made a big decision.
“But Brave, I won’t say anything bad even for the sake of you.”
It would be rude to Japan if you change your nationality again shortly after announcing that you would change your nationality.
So it can be moved again later, after some time.
It was about ending the story with that nuance.
This is probably the best result.
I decided to think so.
“Then wake up.”
The moment I was about to wake up after talking like that….
With a warning siren, the surroundings began to shake as if an earthquake had occurred.
ㅡ It’s a monster!
I hurried outside at Grid’s cry, and there was a monster of enormous size standing there.