I was invited to a penthouse on the highest floor of the tallest building, a 30-story hotel, in Samcheok City.
“Welco, Manager Do. What would you like to do first? Eat? Shower? Or ?”
“Is it possible to do all three simultaneously?”
“Oh….”
The woman laughed sardonically at my words.
“I didn’t expect such a response.”
“I’m used to such jesting.”
“What if it wasn’t a jest?”
“Then let’s start with tea.”
I sat down on a chair next to the tea table.
“May I revert my transformation?”
“You’re transford? Doesn’t matter…hold on.”
I imdiately reverted my transformation.
The clothes that had been sticking to my skin disappeared imdiately, and the woman walked toward the minibar, then straight toward the entrance of the room.
“What are you doing now!”
“What’s there to be shy about between us?”
“Put sothing on imdiately!”
“If you say to put on, I will, but that ti to care about such things has passed, hasn’t it?”
“It’s about manners, manners!”
The woman angrily threw a robe, and I imdiately put it on and tied the waist belt.
“Feels much better. Always felt like I was walking around naked with mana covering my body.”
“Right?”
“Because it looks like a suit to others, it’s okay.”
“… You’re just saying what you want, aren’t you?”
“Yes.”
The woman brought sothing to drink with a smirk on her lips.
It was not alcohol.
It was black tea.
The minibar was already stacked with alcohol, but neither she nor I intended to drink.
“What brings you here?”
“That’s what I wanted to ask you. I was surprised to feel your magic power from the sea all of a sudden.”
“I’ve been drifting. I went to Sejong Island.”
I explained my situation to the woman.
She listened to with a serious face, and I also explained in detail so that she could understand my situation.
“So you stopped briefly due to a lack of fuel while returning to Seoul after persuading that Solar Platina? Did you, by any chance, fight with Solar Platina?”
“There was no physical clash. But there was a bit of psychological warfare using mana.”
Yumir touched , and I did my best to protect my body from her touch.
As a result, my magical power decreased a bit, and more mana was consud than I thought as I ca riding my bike.
“I’m not planning to go to and from Sejong Island again. It would be more comfortable to move around by boat or car.”
“It seems that the consumption of mana was more than I thought. Rest comfortably… I would like to say, but I thought you ca to support , Manager Do.”
“Support?”
“Yes. Here, it’s a battlefield now.”
“…….”
It seems I stepped into the wrong place.
No.
I might have stepped into the right place.
Apart from my lack of mana, the Goblin should be at the execution ground.
“The Goblin tends to be where the bad villain is. What’s going on?”
“October Travel. You know?”
“Isn’t it an airline? A company that has made a big step into Yangyang Airport.”
Of course, all airports in South Korea were managed by the public corporation, Korea Airports Corporation.
However, in places like Incheon and Yangyang, which saw a lot of foreign traffic, foreign airlines had successfully invested their stakes through various lobbies, and I knew that October Travel had staked all their shares in Yangyang.
I used it occasionally.
I often flew first class when I t the Chairwoman, and it was nice to have a lot of opportunities to eat Western food as in-flight als because it was a foreign airline.
“That’s right. Everyone uses October Travel when they use an international airline. But there’s a problem. The chairman of October Travel and his granddaughter are here in Samcheok, you know?”
“Do you have a pad to research information? I left the Taegeuk Watch in Seoul.”
“I’ll tell you. What are you curious about?”
“That granddaughter, from my mory, was an ability user.”
“That’s right.”
I rembered.
She was one of the supporting female characters in the original work.
“Her na is….”
“Yuliana Feygreen. According to international standards, she’s a Class C superhuman. She needs to go up to Yangyang and get on an international flight, but she’s currently staying in Samcheok because she’s receiving death threats.”
“People from October Travel wouldn’t not fly planes or not go to Yangyang because the chairman’s granddaughter is receiving death threats… What happened?”
“There’s a more formidable organization behind the murder threat than you might think.”
The woman showed another photograph.
In the sowhat low-quality CCTV image, familiar figures were heading down an alleyway. I instantly recognized who they were.
“It seems an unfortunate connection has been established here.”
“That’s right. The ones threatening a terrorist attack now are the… ‘Hwalbindang’.”
The woman curled the corners of her lips in a smirk.
At the sa ti, I, too, could not hold back a hollow laugh.
“Why would the Hwalbindang attack Yuliana? Because she’s a foreigner?”
“If that were the reason, she would have been terrorized a long ti ago. That’s not why. The reason is actually quite shocking…”
The woman leaned her upper body slightly towards .
“I’m sorry to ask this while you’re on duty, but I can let you know if you help out.”
“Will you lend so mana?”
“It’s not impossible. But I can’t do it for long. I’m in the middle of a real-ti battle.”
“In that case, I will take my leave. I will finish as quickly as possible.”
I rose from my seat.
“Please assist with a light mana supply then, Hye-ra.”
“Why are you suddenly calling by my na…?”
“Should I call you by your villain na, then?”
Na: Yoon Hye-ra.
Ability: S-Class. Pyrokinesis - Fire magic.
“Honestly, all the Yi Maemangryang executive nas are rubbish.”
“…… You’re shaking the foundations of the Yi Maemangryang. You know that?”
“Well, I personally think we should switch to ‘original nas’ as a philosopher.”
“Uh, I hate that. Especially for . I’m ‘that,’ you know.”
“Isn’t it better than ‘Gunggi’?”
“It’s not villainous!”
“Yes, yes, I get it.”
Villain Na: [Gunggi].
“I will recover mana… no, I will take back so of the mana that’s inside you. I will extract it directly from the mana pouch.”
“…….”
“Shall I start by singing the first verse of the national anthem?”
The way to recover mana in this country?
“Let know if it hurts, Hye-ra.”
“It won’t…!”
Of course, it was a patriotic spirit.
At that mont.
In a suite on the 29th floor of a hotel in Sokcho, a blonde woman was gritting her teeth with an anxious expression.
“Ugh, why am I in this state….”
Her cheek was swollen as if she had been hit by sothing. She pressed her reddened face with her hand, gritting her teeth.
“Sigh….”
“Does it hurt? I’m sorry.”
On the opposite side of the woman, an old man, Desmond Faygreen, the chairman of October Travel, bowed his head with a heavy expression.
“But you know what that thing is.”
“I know. That’s why I tried to take it ho.”
“If the outside world finds out, it’s the end for us. You know that, right?”
“…but if we bring it to our holand, the effects would be trendous.”
Desmond let out a sigh at his granddaughter Yuliana’s suggestion.
“Grandfather, think about our country. We can’t bow our heads to this small country forever.”
“But Yuliana, the mont you do sothing wrong, everyone in our company can be hard. You know that, right?”
“I will take responsibility for that. You can say it was my doing alone, that it was my sche.”
“But that’s why there’s Onerysk….”
“Why should the company be hard for my mistakes? I’m not even a company person.”
“Sigh.”
Desmond tried to explain many tis, but it was no use.
“You saw the case of Stern. Ermina Sternfert, an A-Class Esper, beca a demon trying to kill an E-Class Esper and lost all her abilities. What happened to her after that? Stern is on the brink of bankruptcy now.”
“Even if they’re on the brink, they won’t go bankrupt.”
“That’s not sothing you should say so lightly….”
“It’s okay. Everything will be fine. Who moves thinking things won’t work out?”
Desmond felt dizzy.
His granddaughter certainly had exceptional abilities, but her view of the world and experience were still lacking.
No, this was inevitable.
She was just a 17-year-old kid.
Even as Desmond’s granddaughter, who had a lot more experience compared to others, she was still a child who thought the world revolved around her.
“Yuliana. Are you confident that you can protect that ‘item’ from the Hwalbindang?”
“Yes, of course. My ability will never reveal its location. That’s why the Hwalbindang is trying to capture , trying to kill now.”
Grin.
The corners of Yuliana’s mouth rose to her ears.
“This is a ga between them and . In the age of ability users, I’m the one who has the most precious thing, and the Hwalbindang is after . If I manage to leave the country with the item safely, I win. If I fail, I get killed.”
“At least to the country….”
“No. Don’t say anything.”
Yuliana sternly shook her head.
“The item I managed to get even after being slapped by you. If I say I can’t return with it and ask for help now-”
Squeak.
There was a sound of sothing moving from upstairs.
Subtly, it sounded like the national anthem.
“Tch. Does the soundproofing even make sense in a suite….”
Yuliana pointed her middle finger at the ceiling.
“Just eat this.”
“Understand, Yuliana. They are ‘patriotizing’ now.”
“Patriotizing is not everything.”
“In this country, it’s patriotizing. The person who has a long stay in the penthouse on the 30th floor is patriotizing. Naturally, an ability user will co out.”
“…So everyone who gives birth to an Esper is a patriot? Ah, seriously.”
Yuliana tossed and turned on the bed in frustration.
“Hey!! Keep the noise of your patriotism down!!”
Still, the bed squeaked.
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