Chapter 113 – [Raccoon Man Beginning]
Shion and I came up from the underground laboratory with the dimension seismic sensor again.
I don’t know why this is the medium that is connected to Yejin’s wisdom. But if it’s the same as last time, you’ll see the same future.
“Last time, I was also unconsciously unable to control it. This time… This time I’m determined to control myself and touch it, so there won’t be anything like the last time.”
“Are you 99 percent sure, if not 100 percent?”
“……It’s not that far.”
There is no absolute in this world and there is no perfection. It is because of the absolute of twist among the absolutes involved in the creation of this world in the beginning.
But that’s why the world is fun. There is no 100 percent because there is no perfection, and there is no 0 percent because there is no absolute.
That’s why there can be elite Earth agents who just miss in front of a 99% hit rate, and it’s only a 0.1% chance, but a free draw can come out at once. That’s why the world is interesting
“First of all, I’ll prepare just in case. Last time I couldn’t collect data because it was too sudden, but if something happens, there will be a reaction like that.”
“I know”
“First of all, let’s unite my wife and me like last time. Just in case.”
I can’t have detailed computer-level control, and Shion can’t have detailed control over creatures. So if the two of us join forces, we can stop Ye-jin from running out of wisdom like last time.
I had Shion ride on my shoulder, and after I mounted her wooden horse, I placed the dimensional sensor in front of her.
Yejin took her few deep breaths and then she concentrated, then she quietly placed her hand on her dimensional sensor.
“……? There is no response.”
“Oh, wait a minute. It’s not plugged in.”
“Did you eat electricity!”
“Otherwise, what power source do you use here as a civilization?”
Shion pulled a cord from her dimensional detector like a cord from her vacuum cleaner and plugged it into an outlet near her.
Then, along with the feeling of electricity bouncing around her, Ye-jin started to tremble as if she had been electrocuted. And she let out her moans of pain.
“Ugh… Evil?!”
“Hey, are you okay?! Shion! Coalesce! Coalesce! If you run wild like last time and get pissed off, you’ll be fucked!”
“I-I’m still fine! I can hold on more than last time!”
Ye-jin, who was trembling all over her body, removed her hand from her dimensional sensor. And she felt the heat rising from her body as she kneaded her eyes as if the heat was seething.
Shion quickly brought her ice from her refrigerator. He brought a fan near her and brought a towel cooled with cold water and put it on Yejin’s eyes.
After some time, Ye-jin let out a big sigh, as if her fever had gone.
“Are you okay, Yejin?”
“Yeah…… It’s okay.”
“At least it’s not like last time, is it?”
The last time I had a fever was no joke. If he wasn’t a force user, it wouldn’t be strange if he had serious aftereffects, so he was fully prepared for this time as well.
But this time, as if she had endured differently, her consciousness remained. There was a definite difference from last time.
“Last time, it felt like multiple images were overlapped on one screen… But this time, it was less of a burden because it seemed to be showing only one image.”
“Okay?”
Apparently, what Ye-jin saw last time was not only about the events in the US, but also what would happen in other countries.
However, it is more persuasive to say that I and Shion interrupted Wisdom in the middle, so only the American side remained in my memory.
It seems that America’s foresight can see many places, and seeing that Ye-jin does it too… No, Ye-jin also saw the results, right? Isn’t that a lot wider?
I suddenly thought that Ye-jin’s foresight was better than I thought.
“What did you see this time?”
“That’s… I don’t know. I’ve seen something like a Western-style mansion explode…”
“A Western-style mansion?”
I can’t think of any Western-style mansions that come to mind. Even if I was asked to think of something famous, there was no way there would be a Western-style mansion in my memory.
In a similar analogy, it is said that there is no way to know whether it is Gyeongbokgung Palace or Deoksugung Palace just because a large tile-roofed house has collapsed.
Do you know that there are one or two Western-style mansions in England? Of course, it’s less compared to normal buildings, but I don’t have time to look through them all. Even if England is an island country, two bodies are not enough to search every place in the countryside.
“Besides, if it’s not a castle, but a mansion, the range expands…”
“Wait a minute”
Suddenly, Shion took out her cell phone and searched for something.
And she enlarged one of the photos from the search list and showed it to Yejin.
“Is this what it means to explode?”
“Oh, yes! That’s right! That’s it!”
“……..”
I checked the picture Shion showed Yejin from behind.
It was definitely a building with the atmosphere of a Western-style mansion. If you look at something like a triangular relief hanging on top, or a large stone building that feels like three buildings connected together.
But isn’t this what I’m thinking? It’s a place I used to sneak in because I had business to do before.
I remember going in to meet people who lived there a long time ago. It was a very long time ago, so it’s hard for me to remember…
“This is Buckingham Palace”
“……..”
By the way, Buckingham Palace is where the British royalty lives.
Britain is still a country with a royal family. That’s why it is also such a country where the royal family pampers themselves with people’s taxes.
Simply put, it’s the Queen’s house.
* * *
Britain is still a caste society. Just like there is a queen, there are people of aristocratic class such as dukes, and that is why it is difficult for people of different classes to get entangled even in modern times.
Putting other things aside, I don’t like it very much when I see people living on public taxes just because they were born into royalty. Looking at things like that, I’d rather be born in Korea, even if I’m a dick in many ways.
But the status system is not for me to judge. What I’m going to judge is ‘society’.
My main job is the Great Demon King. It is to judge the civilization that has been built up. However, since I cannot judge by myself, I make a decision by dividing them into areas of expertise.
There are many items for judging and examining human civilization, but among the current great kings…
Morals and ethics.
Technology and culture.
Society and norms.
Domination and rank.
Freedom and rights.
Just look at this part
Among them, I am in charge of the third, society and norms. However, it is annoying to see the norms, so I only look at society.
If you ask if you’re not negligent, you’ll be pissed if the teacher checks the wrong answer because the subjective answer is wrong when you check the score. The person on the judging side needs to be flexible and generous so that the people below are comfortable.
Phantom, the ‘strongest demon king’ I’ve seen before, morality and ethics. And Utopia, Zion’s cousin and my brother-in-law, judges technology and culture.
I ask if it’s too much, but since the minimum number of people is usually three, it’s rare for all five of us to get together.
You may ask if domination and freedom are in conflict, but aren’t there still powerful people such as the president or members of the National Assembly in a democratic society? If a large number of people exist, what is absolutely necessary is a person in a higher position than others.
Therefore, although freedom and domination contradict each other, they cannot but coexist.
The actual parties, the ‘Demon King of Domination’ and the ‘Demon King of Freedom’, play well with each other, perhaps because they are of the same age.
For a second, the story went elsewhere. Still, it’s embarrassing to see that the status system remains until today.
Buckingham Palace wasn’t built with public money. At least, if it were a place where a president elected by the people lived, it would have international dignity, so it would be acceptable and luxuriously built, but it would be nice to have a king who I did not elect live there.
There is something called noblesse oblige. It’s said that if you’re a noble, you have to fulfill your duties as a noble… Oh, let’s put aside the criticism of this statement these days.
Now we’re talking about people who spend extravagant money on people’s taxes just because they were born into royalty. It is not a story of a rich man who made his own money and became self-made.
Personally, I don’t like people with power like that. Is it only the people who are decided by the vote of a democratic society?
Besides, I hate England even more because the food is not good.
……It’s not that I hate everything because of cooking.
“If Buckingham Palace exploded, is it an enemy species again?”
“Maybe”
I feel a little bit uneasy. There seemed to be a few things missing.
I asked Yejin a few more questions. I think I need to put the missing puzzle pieces together to figure out something in more detail.
“Have you seen anything different?”
“Um… Looking back, there was nothing unusual. Other than the sight of this palace flying away with a bang…”
“From what point of view? Someone’s point of view, or from the sky?”
“Oh, it was just like the view from the front of the building.”
“Is there anything different from this picture?”
“Uh…Yes, it’s the same.”
I looked at the picture and thought a little.
I don’t know what Yejin saw like a picture, so let’s think slowly. It’s like trying to compare each other like finding the wrong picture.
Even the smallest things can be different, so it’s good to look for them.
Suddenly, a realization crossed my mind.
“Are there any other people around? At least the ones like the British guards in red and sea urchin hats you see here.”
“Were they there too?”
“It’s ruined”
“Why is that… Ah!”
Yejin also noticed what I was saying.
There is a possibility that it is an enemy species, but if it is, it is only natural that a dimensional tremor alarm be sounded in advance.
I don’t know if it was before, but the latest dimensional seismic sensor that Shion planted is so new that it detects it much faster than before. In other rural areas, it may be because the priority is low, but there is no doubt that the dimensional detector in the vicinity related to the safety of the royal family has not been replaced with a new one.
If the dimensional seismic detector worked properly, an alarm would go off, and then people should have evacuated after hearing the alarm. No matter how much the British guards stand guard with guns, if they are an enemy species, it is meaningless to sit inside the building.
To compare it to our country, what do you think of when you hear the story that the National Assembly building exploded (wow!) Out of nowhere?
I can’t help but think that it happened artificially.
And if such a landmark-like building artificially exploded, one conclusion is reached.
“Terror…..!”
Destruction of ideology, ideology, and profit is often called terrorism.
It is also an act that understands the purpose but does not understand the action. Do you think I will forgive the atrocities you make to convince others of your will?
But one problem arises here.
“Among them, it’s rare to find a place that has done such a major accident. Moreover, it’s not the US, but the UK.”
In modern society, there are quite a lot of groups capable of terrorism, but among them, places that can cause such a major accident are rare.
Somewhere in the Middle East is busy doing samba samba with the United States, but there is nothing else to think of.
In the midst of that, if there’s anything that comes to mind, it’s the Atlas guys.
“Huh? Aren’t they a secret organization? But can they do something like terrorism?”
“They didn’t plan the terrorism itself, other guys did it. And they must be Atlas’ abandoned gang.”
A secret organization cannot do anything like terrorism. Words will change when you go out in front of the world, but…
It’s a different story if you cooperated with terrorists. Pseudo-religions have also been used, much less terrorist organizations. If it’s not a close relationship, but just giving and receiving each other, you might not care what you do, or rather, you might like it as an opportunity to get experimental data.
There’s no way a Force user was involved in this, so if the Force user was given something like the grace of the Gaia religion in exchange for using it for experiments…
Even if Shion finds them, there’s no way they’ll be able to track them down to the level of the current Earth. There is no guarantee that the terrorist group will be caught, and considering that, it is almost completely hidden.
“Anyway, there’s no place that Atlas doesn’t like.”
For now, you guys stay there.
I’ll go and twist your mouth.