Vroom.
The passenger ferry departed from the harbor, emitting white smoke.
To prison with the criminals! How can it be Sejong Island?!
Hurry, turn the ship around! Why are they sneaking off to Sejong Island?
We dont pay taxes to support you! Cough up my taxes!
Despite the protesters voices being louder than the ships horn, the ferry left the harbor, heading for Sejong Island.
Several warships followed the giant passenger ferry, providing an escort. On the deck of the ferry were two S-class heroes in uniform and dozens of hero agents.
This is Busan Port! Amidst protesters raising their voices about whether the ability loss sufferers are being sent to a resort instead of a prison, the ship has ultimately turned towards Sejong Island.
A reporter aboard a helicopter relays the live situation, holding a microphone. Beside him, soldiers in a military-colored helicopter keep a vigilant watch, prepared for any unforeseen incidents.
Ah, theres the ship! A rubber boat in sight!
From the direction of the southern coast, a small rubber motorboat, smaller than a fishing boat, appeared suddenly. A man on the boat, shirtless, waved a flag with sothing written on it.
-Killed my child and now Sejong Island?
The man waved the flag vigorously.
A patrol boat rushed towards the motorboat, but the man, before the patrol boat could reach him, planted the flag on the boat and picked up an object from inside.
Ah, is thatoil?
Whoosh.
The mont the man poured the liquid from the oil can over himself, flas erupted below, engulfing him.
Self-immolation protest! Presumably a family mber of a victim killed by the Zenros, now performing a self-immolation protest!
The reporter in the helicopter reported exactly what he saw.
The patrol boat quickly approached the motorboat, but the swift current pushed the boat further away.
Wh-whos pouring water?
Despite the seawater below, the flas seed poised to consu the man before the boat could explode.
Suddenly.
Jump!
S-class hero, Lee Jun-young, on the deck of the passenger ferry, leapt off the railing, covering a vast distance in a single bound.
Boom!
Lee Jun-young landed next to the boat, generating a massive splash.
The towering spray resembled an underwater torpedo explosion.
The splash struck the lifeboat, flipping it over instantly.
Splash!
Lee Jun-young springs up again, clutching the man at his waist, and lands on the nearby patrol boat, gently laying the man on the deck.
Did you see that?! Lee Jun-young saved a man attempting self-immolation! A heroic act of saving soone hundreds of ters away! Truly an example for all heroes!
The reporter excitedly continues broadcasting the scene.
Ah, yes. This was the main reporter on site. Shortly, the President will deliver a special address
The situation was broadcasted live worldwide via TV and the internet, with the ships image shrinking into a small window as the President appeared.
Respected citizens. I have been inford of the recent situation while preparing this address. First, I extend my deepest apologies.
The President, holding the microphone, bows 90 degrees from the podium.
As a father who has lost a child, I too understand the grief of losing a child. I, too, have lost my child and their spouse to a demon. So, I implore you, please refrain from these extre actions. Trust in the state.
The small screen showed the patrol boat.
A healing ability user approached the man who set himself on fire, and gradually his burnt skin began to heal.
The burns were healing.
Through the power of magic.
The governnts decision to send the ability loss sufferers to Sejong Island is not to treat them as emperors but to confine them in the safest place on our land. The governnt will dispatch a special court to Sejong Island to try each individual, and they will be punished according to strict laws and order.
The Presidents address was broadcasted nationwide and worldwide.
The judgnts will be fair, the process just, and the trials conducted without succumbing to any external pressure. The executive, judiciary, and legislature will all combine forces to ensure this.
The President then returned to the podium.
From now on, I will personally discuss the sentencing guidelines for those suffering from ability loss, organized by the Ministry of Justice and about 100 judges. First, those who have killed soone will be sentenced to life imprisonnt at the minimum
Subtitles flowed with the announcent of the punishnt criteria for Zenros.
Doesnt automatic execution apply to all murderers?
Those who killed soone were sentenced to death.
This was also stated in the Eight Provisions Law of Gojoseon.
As a villain, this was also my principle of action, but even in a world transford by the great ability cataclysm, sentencing for murder did not imdiately result in the death penalty.
Am I being too conspiratorial to think that this self-immolation was a staged show?
Being involved in the underworld, seeing a man who ca in a lifeboat to perform self-immolation, and the President releasing a statent to match, conspiracies keep coming to mind.
If this wasnt a pre-arranged scenario, then the President must be exceptionally quick-witted.
Either way, it doesnt matter much.
The ssage of warning has been properly delivered to Zenros trapped on this ferry heading to Sejong Island.
Heh, are they blatantly showing this to us?
The white-haired Zenros girl chuckled while watching the TV monitor.
One murder equals life imprisonnt? So, two murders lead to hanging, three to beheading, and four to being quartered?
.
What about ? Am I going to die? I havent killed anyone but did cause harm.
The judges will decide.
Ah, really? Which judges? Korean judges? Are they trustworthy?
Youll find out when youre tried.
Disguised as an E-grade agent, I positioned myself beside the girl to prevent her from doing anything foolish, pretending to be on watch.
Hmm, really? Will they dare to kill us when our abilities might resurface?
The girl lay on the bed with an air of confidence.
Her deanor seed as though she was showing off to the CCTV, as if citizens watching this video would imdiately call for her death.
Of course, it wasnt her.
The white-haired girls eyes, not visible on the CCTV screen, sparkled red.
Thats right.
On the day the ship left, we had already switched places on the ship.
How?
We had a space transporter, a spirit body user, and two others who could possess the spirit body user - plenty of thods.
Despite the 24-hour surveillance, they didnt monitor the restrooms in the rooms, and we managed to switch places with Zenros in the restroom in an instant.
So now,
Yumir and I were disguised as agents - the original agents were sleeping sowhere - and Gunggi and Doul had beco the Zenros girls, locked in the room with white hair.
Hey, how long are you going to stay here?
Ill be here until my shift changes.
Sending a man into a girls room? Are you crazy? Ill report this to the Human Rights Commission.
We dont have the luxury to care about gender.
Gunggi tried to act like a 15-year-old girl, but even then, her words felt more like those of a 25-year-old.
I sent her a glance.
Instead of fussing about the CCTV, a single curse word seed the most effective.
[Expletive].
Perfect.
She showed the temperant of a Zenros youth, once a devil, now human, at the age of 15.
The rest was just waiting quietly for ti to pass.
Its almost ti for the shift change. Dont do anything foolish. You will undergo a physical examination on Sejong Island and then stand trial.
.
After leaving the necessary words as an agent, I followed the manual I had learned from the agent and stepped outside.
[Ah, shift change. Each agent will take a 15-minute break, then return to their post.]
A signal ca through the Taeguk Watch.
Not mine, of course, but the watch of the agent whose uniform I had taken.
I felt a bit sorry for him, but while he was asleep, I scraped a bit of skin from his wrist.
Doul healed it with magic, so he got new skin without any pain.
I wonder how Yumir is doing.
Assigned to a completely different area, I couldnt just casually contact Yumir.
We only exchanged casual greetings when we t during breaks.
Im feeling nervous.
Its not the worry of being disguised as soone else.
Nor was it the concern that its Yumirs first ti in disguise.
I just hoped that everything went as planned, that this passenger ship safely reaches Sejong Island, a few unsuspecting Zenros are taken to the devils laboratory, and we follow them.
If the Zenros that Gunggi and Doul transford into simply went to the lab and received a trial in a relatively safe place, we could just switch them back to their original places.
I hope it turns out that way.
What worries was if Yumirs plan was realized-
Bee-bee-beep!
My Taeguk Watch rang.
Simultaneously, an ergency alarm started sounding throughout the ship.
Whats happening?!
Look over there!
Agents heading to the lounge pointed towards the southeast sea.
Looking out the ships window, I had a foreboding feeling that Yumirs plan might actually be happening, and my vision darkened.
That cant be!
Its [Susanoo]!
S-class.
Hero.
Susanoo.
Why is he here?
A purple shimring giant, tens of ters tall, was walking across the sea.
Approaching rapidly.
I turned on the translation app on my Taeguk watch.
Why isnt the Japanese Hero Association doing anything? An S-class is trespassing in another countrys waters without permission!
Hey, they say hes only 15 years old.
Hes not here to pick up a friend, is he?
Why.
[Oreno]
-My.
My foreboding feeling.
[Tomodachio kaese!!]
- Please return my friend.
Couldnt it be wrong?
Even if hes 15, doesnt he know this could beco an international issue?
Indeed.
Hey, the Japanese Hero Association responded!
What did they say?!
They said they did their best.
If they understood that, they wouldnt be doing sothing like this.
Wow, thats crazy.
An agent chuckled and pointed at the approaching purple giant.
If he cant save his friend, isnt there a chance he might beco a devil?
Thats a threat!
Exactly.
I deeply sympathized.
Boys comics are cool because theyre comics, but in reality, its just a nuisance!!
Kids dont understand that.
Unintentionally, I responded to the agent who was venting his frustration.
He thinks hes the protagonist of a boys comic.
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