Chapter 253: Find Mister Yi Ji-Hyuk (3)
“Hello, it’s the Blue House.” (Chief Secretary)
The gazes of everyone present focused on the Chief Secretary.
There were quite a few people here who didn’t quite understand the significance of that phone call, but then again, they could still figure out that it must’ve been sothing extraordinary if the Chief Secretary tried to answer it no matter what even under the current situation.
“Yes.” (Chief Secretary)
The Chief Secretary’s expression beca sombre as he listened.
“Yes, I understand.” (Chief Secretary)
He put the phone down and looked around the office with a slightly sheepish expression on his face. Which only elicited puzzled looks from everyone else.
“What happened?” (President)
The President questioned his employee, and the latter hesitated for a bit before making his reply.
“It was from the Aricans, sir.” (Chief Secretary)
“Alright, so what did they want?” (President)
“.....They are requesting for Mister Yi Ji-Hyuk’s dispatch.” (Chief Secretary)
Yi Ji-Hyuk?
Everyone’s gaze now shifted over to Yi Ji-Hyuk next.
“Argh, what now?!” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“..........”
Why was soone like him blessed with such incredible abilities?
It’d been so much nicer if it was soone with a modicum of patriotism or loyalty. Or sothing along that line.
“I’m not even Jjanga, so why am I supposed to go there just because they called?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk) (TL note at the end)
“....That is true.” (Chief Secretary)
The Chief Secretary smiled embarrassedly.
“However, this matter is of national interests.” (President)
“National interest??” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
President Yun Yeong-Min’s words were t by Yi Ji-Hyuk’s snort.
“It is indeed so. It’s in our national interest. And that cos before everything else.” (President)
“Why?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“....Excuse ?” (President)
“Why does ‘national interest’ co before everything else?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“Well, that is.... because, you... will be benefiting the majority of the fellow countryn....” (President)
“No, why should I do sothing so annoying for the majority of the fellow countryn?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“.........”
If you co out like that, then there’s nothing more to say.
Wouldn’t such a problem be excused by everyone else?
Like, with the thoughts of patriotism... Or sothing like that? (President’s inner monologue)
“Isn’t sacrificing yourself for the majority a noble act?” (President)
“Ah!”
Yi Ji-Hyuk shrugged his shoulders as if he didn’t know that.
“Oh, does that an....” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“Yes?” (President)
“....I look ‘noble’ to you, then?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
I’m sorry.
I made a mistake. Normally, I’d just let it slide because it can’t be helped, but... (President’s inner monologue)
Yun Yeong-Min could only sigh in resignation.
He had already been inford that this youth couldn’t be reasoned with.
This young man was utterly selfish, one couldn’t understand what his goal was, and had no fixed pattern to his behaviour.
In a word, chaos – that’s what he was.
“I request you in the na of the President elected by the people of South Korea. Right now, the United States has sent us an urgent request for help. If you go over there, surely, we’ll be able to get many things in return as compensation.” (President)
Yi Ji-Hyuk dug his ear and blew away the resulting matter off of his fingertip.
“Huh. I’ve heard that line way too often.... Can’t you co up with a different, fresher-sounding pitch?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“........”
“It’s always ‘We’ll get sothing, it’s a big profit’, but I can’t see what has improved for , you know? I an, I worked my a*s off but nothing has changed on my end.” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“Well, things don’t change that quickly, you see.” (President)
“If it ain’t gonna, then why should I go through that hardship?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“.......”
What is up with this punk’s way of addressing ?
I’m still the President of this nation, so why does he keep speaking so rudely to ? (President’s inner monologue)
“It is a good thing for....” (President)
“It’ll be good only for your side.” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
What did he an, ‘your side’!
Yun Yeong-Min’s patience was reaching its breaking point.
“Groan. So, you don’t want to, is that right?” (President)
“Yep.” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
Yi Ji-Hyuk sought out an empty spot on the couch and plopped his butt on it. He leaned his head against the cushion and spoke up again.
“By the way, you don’t even serve stuff like coffee to a guest here?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“W-we’ll get one ready.” (Chief Secretary)
“I want Cola.” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“....Of course.” (Chief Secretary)
The Chief Secretary shuffled to the rear and whispered to a secretary standing around utterly flustered.
“Go and fetch so Cola. Put so ice in it and make it look good.” (Chief Secretary)
“B-but, sir, we don’t have any Cola.....”
“Is it the end because we don’t have any?” (Chief Secretary)
“We’ll go and buy one right away.”
“That’s right.” (Chief Secretary)
The secretary hurriedly dashed outside the office, and the Chief could only sigh helplessly. This youth would be the first in history to ask for Cola after coming for a visit in the Blue House.
“But, why don’t you want to do it?!” (President)
Yun Yeong-Min jumped up from his seat and loudly yelled out, his face extrely red.
“Argh, that startled !” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
Yi Ji-Hyuk also raised his voice, looking surprised for real.
“Excuse , ahjussi, you are too damn loud! Why are you trying to bite my head off? Did I do sothing wrong here?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“N-no....” (President)
“So, why are you shouting at like that without a reason?! Are you going through nopause or sothing?!” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“....Wha?! What!!” (President)
The Chief Secretary hurriedly ran over to the President and supported his boss’s wobbling fra.
At this rate, the top politician of the land was about to have a heart attack. His face was so red that it’d not be strange to see him suddenly pant laboriously out of breath.
“Hey, it must be true.” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“No, it’s nooooooot!” (President)
“Look! You see? If it’s not, it’s not! But look at him shout! I’m telling you, that must be a sign of nopause, am I right?!” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
Yi Ji-Hyuk ‘asked’ others, but no one dared to answer him. Besides, it was rather unclear who’s side one should be on, to begin with.
“It’s nooot!!” (President)
“Sir, please calm down.” (Chief Secretary)
The Chief Secretary tried to calm his heavily-panting boss down, and President Yun Yeong-Min began sucking in deep, deep breaths.
“Groan....”
Yi Ji-Hyuk studied this scene and tilted his head.
“By the way, why is that geezer getting so worked up like that?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“..........”
How should one go about answering that?
What a troubleso matter this was....
“It’s true that the Aricans have sent in a request, but is there really a reason for us to agree to that, everyone?” (Defence Minister)
The Defence Minister tried to change the topic.
“What do you an by that?” (President)
“We’re no longer in a situation where we must agree to whatever the Aricans demand from us, yes?” (Defence Minister)
“When were we ever in such a situation?” (President)
“Sir, we certainly didn’t deploy the missile defence system because we wanted to back then. We only went along with it because if we didn’t, there would be no answering the aftermaths.” (Defence Minister)
“...........”
“However, the circumstances have changed. We don’t need to worry about the Arican’s moods anymore. However, dispatching Mister Yi Ji-Hyuk without even establishing suitable compensation terms is akin to lowering our status, Mister President.” (Defence Minister)
“H-mm....”
Yun Yeong-Min nodded his head. That did make sense.
But then, Yi Ji-Hyuk chuckled loudly.
“Well, that sounds nice and all, but....” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“Yes?”
“When did I say I’ll go?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“........”
“I ain’t going nowhere, so you guys take care of it yourselves. Do I look like soone who’d co and go just because I’ve been told to?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“.....Mister Yi Ji-Hyuk, please. You’re in front of our nation’s President....” (Chief Secretary)
“So what?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“No, well, it’s not that we want sothing particular from you....” (Chief Secretary)
Yi Ji-Hyuk snorted again.
A President, was it?
Pre-si-deeeeent~??
A dang President of a country that didn’t even occupy 1% of the landmass on this planet, plus the number of citizens that got sowhere close to the 1% mark to the overall human population would not be able to pose any sort of threat to Yi Ji-Hyuk.
Indeed, he was soone who would make fun of the Emperor lording over the entirety of Berafe, the land that was at least twice the size of Earth, right in front of his face. Oh, and he’d not hesitate to flip the bird to the man who wielded twice as much power than the Emperor, the Pope of Latrel, too.
If it was dudes with political power, then he had already experienced enough of their antics that he was now almost fed-up by them.
But here was a man who wasn’t even a king, but an elected official who could hold office for only five years. It was impossible for such a person to hold any authoritative power over Yi Ji-Hyuk.
“I, I’m the representative of this nation’s citizens!” (President)
“Okay, so?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
Yun Yeong-Min’s entire body began quivering next.
“Just because the citizens ordered , I should do it? Huh. I get beaten up everyday by mom because I don’t even do what she asks to do.” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“Well, that is also true.” (Chief Secretary)
The Chief Secretary unknowingly voiced his agreent, but after being subjected to piercing glares, he sheepishly dry-coughed to clear his throat.
Of course, Yi Ji-Hyuk didn’t care about any of that.
“It’s the saaaaa old story, every day. Why are you telling us to sacrifice and endure? Why don’t you do that instead?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“There is no aning in us sacrificing ourselves, is there?” (President)
“Oh? Then, why don’t you get a salary cut to match that?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“K-h-hmm....”
As if he was done talking, Yi Ji-Hyuk stood up from the couch.
“Whatever. Don’t forget the reason why I ca here today. I’ve been holding it in because there happens to be an excellent hard worker right next to , but if that dude keels over from overwork, let tell ya, I shall show you what the true chaos looks like. Capiche?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“Are you threatening ?!” (President)
“Yup.” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“Wait, it really is a threat??” (President)
“Yuuup.” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“.........”
What the hell? Now normally, shouldn’t you be saying stuff like, “No, this isn’t a threat per se, but...”???
Why are you brazenly chucking threats around like this?! (President’s inner monologue)
“I am threatening you. So, do your best to not to rile up, alright?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“Are you aware that you have actually threatened the President of your own nation?!” (Defence Minister)
“Of course I do. I’m not a dummy so you think I don’t know that’s the President? So yeah, I am threatening a President.” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“Groan....”
Just what sort of stuff was filling up the head of this crazy b*stard?
Where would you find a guy saying things like that as if it was nothing?
With him coming out in a completely unexpected direction, it beca hard for the others to think up of a suitable response. Besides, President Yun Yeong-Min had never thought there would be soone openly threatening him like this, not even in his wildest imaginations.
“I hope you aren’t thinking of walking away scot-free after saying sothing like that?? What you said just now is a huge cri, young man!” (President)
“Huuuul, really?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“That’s right! Don’t you even know the law?” (President)
“Oooh, so that’s how it was. Okay, so. Whatcha gonna do about it, then?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“N-ng?” (President)
“Why don’t you try to arrest ?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“............”
Arrest?
Arrest who, exactly? Yi Ji-Hyuk?
The Chief Secretary ended up chuckling softly.
A governnt capable of arresting Yi Ji-Hyuk would be designated as the world’s most powerful in an instant.
The Korean governnt trying to do sothing that not even the Aricans could attempt? What a nonsensical notion that was.
Even if every single combat-capable personnel in this country was mobilised right now, it was unknown whether they could still subdue Yi Ji-Hyuk or not.
‘Unknown, my foot.’ (Chief Secretary)
Chief Secretary Park Du-Jin felt dumbfounded by his own thoughts and chuckled again.
Unknown?
The forces that could be mobilised right now were the Korean national army, the ard police, and the KSF. That was it.
Ard forces manned by regular, non-ability users wouldn’t work trying to suppress soone like Yi Ji-Hyuk. Which ant that the KSF would have to step forward, but that was....
‘....An impossibility, that’s what it is.’ (Chief Secretary)
The KSF would be completely annihilated when ordered to fight Yi Ji-Hyuk. Besides, there was a higher percentage of surviving by jumping into an inferno with a jerry can full of oil, so who would obediently say yes and do as they were told?
If it was ability users from other countries, at least they might have a go first.
The folks at the KSF knew best how scary he was.
And the core fighting strength of them was the NDF – which was pretty much Yi Ji-Hyuk’s hands and feet by now.
According to what the Chief Secretary managed to dig up, there was a higher chance of the NDF working alongside him, rather than hindering him, if Yi Ji-Hyuk decided to stage a coup d’etat tomorrow.
So, you wanted to order that NDF to stop Yi Ji-Hyuk?
How could that even work?!
“....Wow, what is this?” (Chief Secretary)
“Mm?”
“Ah, it’s nothing.” (Chief Secretary)
Now that the Chief Secretary thought about it so more, he realised that if Yi Ji-Hyuk decided to lop Yun Yeong-Min’s head off right now, the Korean governnt didn’t have any ans to punish him.
No, never mind punishing him, this nation lacked any ans necessary to even stop him.
‘So, this is what they call beyond the law.’ (Chief Secretary)
He lived as a citizen of South Korea, but at the sa ti, was completely unaffected by the Korea’s law.
Rrrr.....
It was then, the phone began ringing again.
Yun Yeong-Min sighed in relief. Sohow, this situation had rapidly devolved into a crisis of facing off against Yi Ji-Hyuk, but that crisis was proving to be a huge burden on the President himself.
Yi Ji-Hyuk shifted his gaze over to the ringing phone and that allowed everyone to breathe again.
“Isn’t this the office of the President?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“Yes, it is.” (Chief Secretary)
“So, since when did this place beco a Chinese takeaway? Why does the phone keep ringing?” (Yi Ji-Hyuk)
“..........”
The Chief Secretary coughed again and picked up the receiver.
“Hello, this is the Blue House.” (Chief Secretary)
– “This is Christopher McLaren speaking. Is Mister Yi Ji-Hyuk there with you?”
“Yes, he is, but....” (Chief Secretary)
– “Please put him on. This is an ergency situation. Besides, why does he even bother to carry around his smartphone if he’s not gonna answer it?!” (Christopher McLaren)
Why are you asking that??
You, him, the whole lot.... You just don’t want to let be in peace, don’t you. Seriously! (Chief Secretary’s inner monologue)
< 253. Find Mister Yi Ji-Hyuk -3 > Fin.
(TL: This ‘Jjanga’ reference is a pretty obscure one, even in Korea. In the early 1970s, there was a cha ani called Astroganger which aired in South Korea dubbed as, you guessed it, Astro-Jjanga. Incidentally, it’s the very first giant cha ani ever produced, beating Mazinger Z by two months. There’s a page in Wikipedia dedicated to it, so check it out if you’re curious.)
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