Hyeon Sujin's worry wasn't for nothing, as I learned as the investigation progressed. How well they hide and only manipulate from behind - all sorts of interference ca in.
Which agency's who says this could be problematic, soone from sowhere says this isn't quite right. If you keep doing this, you might suffer disadvantages. People around you might distance themselves from you. My thoughts hearing those words? Fucking bastards. Should I just tell Irina about this?
At tis like this, it was truly fortunate that I had no family around . If I had family, they would have used them as blackmail targets to make deals. I newly understood why ability users fall into the villain path.
But this ti will be difficult. The situation itself is completely different from Hyeon Sujin's ti.
"Reveal the reality of unethical research and experints!"
"Citizens have the right to know! Guarantee the safety of citizens!"
"Absolutely oppose experints that could bring destruction!"
During Hyeon Sujin's ti, they perfectly erased evidence so nothing could be done? This ti too, since there's no remaining evidence except the facility, they probably thought they could do similarly.
But what about this? Even though I may look like this, I've actually bumped into citizens quite a lot on the front lines. I wasn't trash like you guys who just dump work on subordinates and pocket money.
People shut their mouths when they think indirect benefits will co to them. And conversely, they imdiately rise up when they think direct damage will co.
An S-rank gate suddenly appeared in Changwon due to the research facility's experints. Dozens of lower-rank gates also appeared simultaneously due to that aftermath. Changwon city could have almost beco a field of massacre!
What's important here isn't that the experint is unethical, or that it insults ability users' sacrifices, or such things. The fact that gates are induced by those experints. Moreover, that it was S-rank.
Truth or falsehood? That doesn't matter. They're the ones trying to manipulate first, so why should only our side be nice?
'I understand why Hyeon Sujin threw everything away and beca an Elder, you bastards.'
Moreover, our weapon isn't just public sentint. That alone isn't enough. To drag out those bastards hiding deep in power. Now all those who can truly 'physically' drag them out are beside .
[The first hero, Kang Minseong, expressed that this is sothing that directly denies the hard work and sacrifices of all ability users who have fought until now. If there is no severe punishnt...]
[The reaction inside clans is also not good. If replacents for ability users are created, they will all instantly lose their positions...]
Now that even the dia has stepped up and started properly crushing them, there won't be any way to endure anymore. On top of that, ability users are feeling anxiety and anger and even touching the 'strike' card.
Of course, an ability user strike is sothing that absolutely shouldn't happen, so everyone is hesitating. But if by any chance they choose that card, the entire world could be paralyzed.
"Go ahead and try. Then we'll also fucking just beco Elders."
Finally, S-ranks led by Han Jiyoon moved. The one they believed was a traitor until now was actually manipulated. It's not just insulting Hyeon Sujin, but insulting them too.
When people from all directions, all sorts of people start stabbing like this.
Then what happens next is those who co out desperately trying to survive. Soone says nonsense and just gets more cursed at and lies down defeated. Soone else points to those still hiding, trying to survive sohow.
It becos a kind of passing the bomb ga. Everyone wants to avoid being the ringleader. So even those who were hiding well end up ratting themselves out. The result is finding all involved parties without us having to search hard.
"The world is in complete chaos."
Kang Minseong, who ca to see , inford of the outside situation in more detail.
He said the political world also went into a complete shakeup over this incident. Keeping such people in their party at a ti like this would an sinking together. Rather, quickly cast them out to reform the internal atmosphere and prevent image deterioration!
"They entered politics to grab a piece of the pie but ended up only strangling themselves."
"Politics is originally like that. Isn't it a place where you can always end up strangling yourself?"
Kang Minseong sitting beside glances at and carefully opens his lips. Asking if I know that Hyeon Sujin's fiancé died so futilely. When I say yes, he was silent for a while. The aning of that silence is obvious.
"I'm fine. Probably, I seem to be a mutant. Or maybe I'm originally another failed product of an experint that normally fails."
"No. You're not a failed product. Rather... No, that's not it."
Kang Minseong clears his throat and looks at with firm eyes.
"You're not a work or product. You're a person. A wonderful and amazing person. It might be hard just rembering the past..."
Kang Minseong's continued consolation after that. But actually, it wasn't hard at all.
Well, was it hard? The past wasn't , so there's nothing I can say about that part.
"More than that, Chairman. Still no traces of Hyeon Sujin found?"
The Cyclops is dead. With a huge explosion, its head disappeared. And Hyeon Sujin was right next to that huge explosion.
"That's right. No matter how much they search, nothing cos up."
"I see."
"There's also this talk. That traces might not be able to co out in the first place."
I know well what that ans. It ans she didn't escape alive but died together.
"Jiyoon, that girl too, and even that crazy one. Irina is also puzzled. If she suffered such trendous injuries, traces that couldn't be erased while escaping should remain, but there's absolutely nothing. They say with that level of power, even an S-rank couldn't have been unhard."
Certainly, even I, who was so distance away then, almost died. The damage Hyeon Sujin, who was right next to it, would have received would have been much more serious than mine.
Moreover, it was an explosion powerful enough to make that ridiculously sturdy Cyclops's head disappear entirely. For Hyeon Sujin, who already had considerable accumulated physical damage, it might have been hard to endure.
"..."
Did she really die? Objectively, that possibility seems almost certain. Strangely, the thought that that woman died didn't occur to at all.
[Currently, regarding the unethical ability experints that have brought all sorts of controversy...]
[While national interest in punishing those involved increases...]
[So reactions say it was unavoidable, but most public opinion calls it an absolutely unforgivable outrageous act and urges severe punishnt...]
For over a week, the news was filled with only those stories every day.
Looking at it, you'd think they'd hand down death sentences, but honestly I don't have high expectations. Already, talk is slowly erging that there will be limits to legal punishnt.
First, there's no one who directly suffered damage from the research and experints. All the involved parties who were eliminated would have been processed as accidental deaths. It's fortunate enough that unethical life experintation stuff was attached.
Moreover, opinions are attached that the connection between the facility and gate appearance is weak. Plus, they even add that the intention wasn't impure but for national benefit.
The trial conclusion was that while they did wrong things, there was ultimately no direct damage.
Those bastards must have busily lobbied here and there. It seems they poured in all the money they had and didn't have. They must have really wanted to live. Didn't want to be buried alive?
Instead, they'll have to live the rest of their lives having lost all power and wealth. Plus they'll have to eat all sorts of curses from people. Actually, I think it would be better to pay for their cris and live rather than live like that.
Then what did I do to make the situation turn out that way?
Did I run around trying to make those bastards pay for their cris sohow?
No. What I did was only one thing. Not doing anything. I even stopped the surroundings who were angry at the situation trying to calm it down.
First, I told Kang Minseong, Ma Hakjun, and the Association President not to move. I said let's quietly watch what they do once. I also cald down Han Jiyoon and Irina, who were about to push everything over imdiately.
"No. Examiner Baek, you, didn't you want to legally punish those bastards?"
"Why are you stopping us, Seojin! If we leave those bastards alone, they'll quietly slip away again!"
"Just say the word, oppa. I'll just kill them all. S-rank? I'll just quit."
I stopped all the surrounding people saying such things. I said there's no need. Rather, the current situation is what I was waiting for.
I could overturn everything imdiately using people around . But I didn't do that. I just made sure the revealed things were pushed out of the world.
So they couldn't hide even if they wanted to, so the whole world would cry out that they should receive heavenly punishnt. So that no one would sympathize even if they died, and instead everyone would quickly bury their deaths. So everyone would forget within a day, saying they received heavenly punishnt.
Now. I've done everything I can. Now it's your turn to finish it.
"Seojin! Seojin! Look, look at this!"
What Han Jiyoon held out to was her phone with an internet article displayed. When I looked at her with eyes asking what this was about, she imdiately explained.
"Those fucking bastards, you know? They all died within the past few days?"
"They died? What, did soone commit terrorism?"
"According to the investigation results, three were in traffic accidents, one fell, two others committed suicide, and the other causes of death were varied, but murder evidence hardly cos out. The ability investigation team also couldn't find any notable magic traces."
"So you're saying they all died for different reasons within a few days. The involved parties?"
Han Jiyoon nods at my question.
"What do you think, Jiyoon?"
"A little. No, it's very unsettling, right? Logically it doesn't make sense. Not just one, but all of them died within a few days. But no matter how much I look into it, there are no suspicious points."
"There's circumstantial evidence but no physical evidence."
"Whatever. All the fucking bastards died. Must have received heavenly punishnt."
Heavenly punishnt. Heavenly punishnt, huh. Yeah, that could be it. Heaven was angry so they all died around the sa ti.
Or, soone who jumped out from the shadows might have done it.
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