23 – A bit of a new routine (3)
Three days have passed since I passed the hero ability test.
I was able to receive the ‘that’ I had been waiting for.
“Tada!”
When I opened the envelope and looked inside, there was a temporary hero license I had been waiting for.
ㅡ Is this it?
“Yes. This is it.”
I lay down on the bed with my temporary hero license in hand.
Now, after going through an internship, you will be able to act as a hero.
ㅡ TO BE HERO!
Grid, too, must have been quite excited about this, and started laughing with his tentacles opening his mouth.
“Is it good?”
ㅡ Tsk tsk. I have no sense.
“What?”
ㅡ TO means non-hero.
“You’re not a hero by using the No Visa?”
ㅡ Exacta!
Grid, who was at a slightly better level than a middle school student, was now intelligent enough to play with words.
Buwon Hospital, Eunseong Hospital, and even the monster that turned into a human.
Grid showed a gradual growth by absorbing the power of supernatural powers or monsters.
ㅡ However, this also has its limits.
“Are you sure you need a nuke?”
– Yes.
Grid absorbed something that did not become a superpower from the bodies of the people in the hospital room.
He said that at the same time he was learning and imitating the abilities of the people in the hospital room.
However, Grid’s abilities were limited to body strengthening, hardening, and transformation.
Grid was originally equipped with the body transformation ability as a monster’s ability.
That’s why it was easy to imitate the hardening ability and strengthening ability that can utilize that body transformation ability.
However, since the other abilities were separate issues, it seems that a nuclear weapon is needed to deal with them perfectly.
ㅡ Did you think of a method?
“Well….”
To put it in conclusion, it is enough if the nucleus is not operated inside the body.
The monster’s core and corpse go into the monster detector.
The principle of the monster detector is to detect the unique wavelength emitted from inside the monster’s body by the resonance of the nucleus contained in the detector.
That’s why you don’t have to be affected by its unique wavelength.
ㅡ Black Technology….
Yeah, that’s it.
The monster detector does not detect suits and weapons that use monster cores and corpses.
Because researchers who have awakened to psychic powers like the author have created a technology that uses nuclear weapons and corpses as pure energy sources.
It’s easy for people who can create strange things that only come out of science fiction.
We also need to create a core, take it out, and then make a suit or weapon to use the core.
ㅡ It’s quite complicated.
Yeah, it’s complicated.
A weapon or suit that uses the core or corpse of a monster is expensive.
You can’t even order a suit like that unless you have a certain amount of track record.
Of course, having a lot of money, having a strong sponsor, or preparing yourself is a different thing.
ㅡ It is virtually impossible.
That’s right.
ㅡ A muddy spoon is a world where it is difficult for even a hero to do.
I see….
“Anyway, let’s go to the side of the mountain where there are no monster detectors for the weekend.”
ㅡ Mmm!
Synthesizes a nucleus in a place that is not caught by the monster detector and pulls it out.
And, like an auxiliary battery, it draws out the power of the grid using nuclear power.
At that time, check whether or not you are caught by the monster detector.
That was the goal this time around.
ㅡ Next, the hero name, the hero suit, and the intern.
Grid skillfully wrote down what I needed to do right away in a notebook with a sharpie.
Hero Myeonggwa Hero Suit….
Come to think of it, I think the author told me to contact him if he has any concerns about this.
ㅡ Is there something?
Because the author’s superpower is special.
After thinking about it for a long time, I started looking for the appearance of the hero suit.
“Ummm….”
ㅡ Hmm….
Heroes have been as varied in appearance as they have appeared in numerous media from the past to the present.
ㅡ What is the standard shape?
“Bodysuit type?”
– Yes.
“It’s okay.”
Most of the heroes in American hero comics fight wearing bodysuits.
For example, heroes such as Superman and Batman.
ㅡ The rider suit is fine too.
“I can’t throw that away either.”
A rider suit is also called a motorcycle suit.
The suits worn by the characters in the Japanese Kamen Rider series are also of this type.
ㅡ These days, there are also casual clothes.
“Because it is important for heroes these days to catch the eye.”
From heroes who wear coats to heroes who fight wearing miniskirts.
The more exposure you have, the more opportunities you have to sortie, and the more you do, the better your earnings will be.
The hero industry is a market that is more of a red ocean than you think.
ㅡ You have no dreams or hopes.
That’s right.
***
“So I’m wondering what would be better.”
“Really?”
Ji-Eun stared at Jin-Woo, who was thinking about the hero suit right in front of him.
Jinwoo usually has a grown-up and gentle look, but when he talks about heroes, he behaves like a child and gets hotter.
He’s a little clumsy, but his actions are cute. For some reason, Ji-eun thought of her younger siblings at home.
“Isn’t a rider suit better?”
“Is that so?”
“I think the rider suit is better.”
“Ummm….”
Jinwoo frowned and started stroking his chin.
That’s the action when a selection disorder comes.
Ji-eun stared blankly at Jin-wu.
‘Yes… Interesting.’
Ji-eun thought that she never knew the day would come when she would fall in love with someone.
I remember the moment I first met Jinwoo.
Ji-eun: She hated men.
Because she went up to middle school and started to look more and more feminine, men’s gazes on her were so frightening.
So she went to a girls’ high school, where men’s gaze was not reached.
Her parents were also aware of her troubles, so she readily agreed.
I was able to put my mind at ease as the men’s eyes disappeared, but that was only for a moment.
Those who stand out are divided into two categories.
Those who save their appearance and those who suffer from their appearance.
Unfortunately, Jieun fell for her latter category.
Jieun’s feminine figure and her passive attitude have become a good punching bag for adolescent students suffering from the stress of her studies.
I didn’t reveal it openly.
She was at an age where she could discern that much sari.
Because of that, Jee-eun couldn’t ask anyone for help and suffered for a long time.
She put on huge glasses to hide her face and crouched down.
When the so-called shrimp back and round shoulders became commonplace, the gossip she said about being vulgar, being a rag, or looking fat has decreased.
However, what really bothered Ji-eun was her superpowers rather than her looks.
She had a special superpower called Black Technology, named after one of her novels.
Once I read the book, I was able to understand it logically, no matter how difficult theories and laws were.
For her, who knows her knowledge that she has not learned yet, her education at the college entrance exam level is not that different from her lower grades in elementary school.
A far-away genius who feels like a wall even when he studies.
It has a smooth appearance, but it is neither aggressive nor sociable.
The rejection of such beings was the same for all groups.
Eventually, Ji-eun dropped out of her high school and hid in her house.
She is such a smart daughter that even one of the greatest geniuses on TV looks like her child.
Her parents understood why such a daughter was shutting herself in her house, and she stayed at home like that.
Surprisingly, she wasn’t lonely.
Because there were younger siblings at home with a considerable age difference.
After recovering her mentality while staying with her family, Jieun decided to take a step outside.
She
She took the GED and she proudly entered Y University as a freshman.
Her parents wanted her to go to a place closer to home, but Jieun wanted to be reborn.
Her self-guided life began like that.
She was surprisingly scared at first, but gradually her heart became lighter.
She lifted her head, bowed to her heart that had become so light, and found herself standing alone in the midst of her crowd.
Ji-Eun Ji For the first time, she felt like she was lost.
“Are you okay?”
He appeared when she was overcome by feelings that were hard to explain.
Her tall, cool-looking man was staring at Jee-eun.
“Wow!”
Ji-eun felt fear at that gaze.
To Ji-eun, he handed her a bottle of water with a worried expression.
“This is still new, drink and chill.”
He placed the water bottle in her hand, a little forcefully.
You can buy bottled water at convenience stores for 500 won, and you can find it anywhere.
It’s just bottled water… The living water permeated his body in a strange way.
Later, she found out that the man was a senior named Jinwoo Lee.
He said that he was the first officer in a volunteer club called ‘With You’.
‘It’s a volunteer club….’
Ji-eun showed interest in other people for the first time.
When he went to her volunteer club, he recognized Ji-eun as if it were natural.
She was able to laugh for the first time in college, which made her feel so good that it was strange.
For some reason, being with him gives me energy.
So after much deliberation, she decided to attend the MT as well.
To her, who did not even go on a field trip in her second year of high school, her MT was unknown.
It was alcohol that troubled her, especially her.
As if possessed by ghosts who died from not drinking in their previous lives, they continued to drink.
Jee-eun, who had been drinking alcohol for the first time in her life, drank only her beer thanks to Jin-woo’s consideration, but she quickly became drunk.
So she went outside to get some fresh air, but Jin-Woo appeared.
“Is it difficult?”
Jinwoo talked to him with a gentle feeling, just like when we first met.
Is it because he was drunk? Or was it because I was drunk with the starry night sky?
Ji-eun opened her heavy mouth and spoke about her worries.
“Me… actually….”
I have a special superpower.
Whether it was because of that or it was a personality problem, I was isolated at school and had no friends.
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I thought that it would be different when I entered university, but I feel somewhat bland.
Can I do well in my college life?
I confessed that kind of complaint.
Then Jinwu looked up blankly at the sky and made a vague expression.
“They say the stars in the night sky reflect the past.”
The stars in the night sky are much farther away than we think.
A star about 10,000 light-years away would have to travel 10,000 light-years in space to be visible from here.
So the starlight seen from the Earth is always in the past.
“However, stars do not rise in the night sky in Seoul. Why?”
“It’s because the light source in Seoul is too bright.”
“No, because people in Seoul are too busy to have time to look back.”
As he said that, he looked up at the night sky.
“Since you are a Seoul citizen now, you have to live a busy life without time to look back on the past. Is not it?”
Jinwoo said that and laughed for a long time before scratching his face.
I was talking nonsense because my body was hot because of alcohol, so I asked him to forget it.
“I don’t like it.”
“Oh, that’s too much.”
Jinwu then said that this was a secret between the two of us and trudged on.
Ji-eun stood there blankly and looked up at the night sky.
It’s not too far from Seoul, but the night sky was full of pretty stars.
It was from then.
I tried to get to know Jinwoo even a little more.
He went to the hospital and exercised to straighten his bent back and shoulders.
I had to straighten my slightly curly hair and put on makeup that I hadn’t done before.
“Oh, my hair is fine. It went pretty well.”
It didn’t feel that hard.
Because Jinwoo always noticed and praised Jieun whenever she changed her appearance even a little bit.
When Jieun’s appearance changed, people’s attention was focused again.
But Ji-eun didn’t care that much.
Because I was happier at the moment Jinwoo told me he was pretty than other people’s eyes.
“Can’t we just do it roughly?”
“No… To put it in a word, you will become a single-breasted gentleman, can you do it roughly?”
“Then… We still have some time, so don’t be in too much of a hurry.”
“Shouldn’t that be the case?”
Because the juniors showed interest in Jin-woo, they started to gossip about him.
Since his motive asked about Jinwoo, he told a plausible story that could not be known unless he was dating.
And this time… Using the hero suit as an excuse, I made time to talk to him a little more.
Jinwoo wants to be a hero.
A hero is a messenger of justice who is on everyone’s side.
But love is the act of showing favoritism to someone.
That’s why Jin-Woo pretends not to know even if he faintly notices Ji-Eun’s love affair.
I don’t like that.
Even if Jin-woo becomes a hero who loves everyone, he wants to become a little more loved.
I wish he would favor me a little more.
“Yes. There is still some time left….”
Jinwu, who had a choice disability, eventually delayed his choice this time too.
Ji-Eun thought that she had a chance to talk to Jin-Woo again, and she smiled softly.
If you pretend you didn’t notice and run away, you’ll have to make sure they don’t run away.
Behind her smile was such a thought.