Chapter 1193 – [The Changing World]

The next morning, Ji-hee complained of a hangover, but did not say anything about what had happened yesterday. It seemed to me that it would be better to bury the matter.

However, looking at Jihee’s eyes, it doesn’t look like she gave up. It looked like he was trying to get to the next one.

We decided to have an in-flight meal for breakfast and headed to Korea on a private plane. After a few days of travel, we are finally going home.

“It was fun!!!! I hope to come again next time!!!!”

“So do i”

“Next year… Well, next year, instead of going on a trip to Italy, Ana might come over to play. I don’t know when she’ll come.”

Eden and Eve were talking to each other, and Ji-hee was hanging out from a hangover. I’m already sick to my stomach, but it’s because I’m even more upset after boarding the plane.

“Uuuuuedied was supposed to drink moderately yesterday……”

“It’s because you drink something with a high alcohol content like a soft drink. I can’t eat ramen… Would you like some soup?”

“I want to eat”

Surprisingly, there are many people who eat spicy soup to get rid of the hangover, but doing so is rather bad for the body. It is good to eat something soft that your body accepts even if you eat something with soup and hydration.

Among the in-flight meals, I brought some mushroom soup and broccoli soup and fed Jihee. So it’s a little better, so I’m a little better.

A few hours later, we arrived in Korea. It’s only been a few days, but the smell of Korea that I smell after a long time is warm.

“Mmmm, the smell of garlic wafting through the air. It’s fucking good!!!”

“As expected, Koreans are a nation of garlic”

“If Koreans don’t eat garlic for 100 days, the contract with Koreans is broken and they go back to bears.”

“Aren’t you a pure Korean anyway?”

“Then it’s better. Since I’m half Korean, won’t bear ears grow?”

“What are you guys talking about?”

Shion is, on the surface, a naturalized person in the United States, but since I was born in Korea, it is true that I am only half Korean.

Anyway, he gets in a car and takes Ji-hee to the officetel where he lives first. Ji-hee, who has recovered to some extent but still looks tired, put on a sad expression when she arrived home.

“It’s been quite a long trip, but it’s over.”

“Okay, take a good rest today and see you tomorrow.”

“Okay, see you tomorrow, mister.”

And finally return home. A line of companion animals, including Shion and Keter, pops up and welcomes us.

Even if the other kids didn’t know, Mangmung and Kkoyang warmly welcomed Eden. The two are really animal-born, so it’s more welcome because their sense of time is different from humans.

“Jzuin-nim!!! Jjuin-nim!!!!”

“Why are you here now!!!!”

[Did your trip go well?]

“Are you home, Master?”

[Kreureung!!!]

It’s a noisy house because of the pets. I left Eden to play with the children and exchanged greetings with Zion.

“Hasn’t anything happened in the meantime?”

“Fortunately, nothing happened. I had something to play with, so I wasn’t bored.”

“Are you going to play?”

“The one you sent to the Horizon”

“Ah”

Shion seemed to be referring to the members of the Corleone Family that I had sent. I was on vacation, so I didn’t want to ruin my mood, so I left it until the end, but I forgot.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I haven’t done anything in the meantime. Horizon had a basic torture routine, so they were running it, so the guys over there wouldn’t be bored either.

“Would you like to see this?”

“What?”

I saw the video coming out of the pad that Shion was showing. Out there came Dio Corleone, a son of a bitch with a familiar face.

However, he had just been hit by a subway train and his body was smashed to pieces. It’s a miserable look, but that’s for a while. After a while, the screen changes again.

This time it is on the roof of a building somewhere. It was a fairly high-rise building, so it could have been 2 or 30 floors. And Dio Corleone looked around him with a trembling look, and before long he was about to leave.

However, the roof railing suddenly broke… His body lost control and fell down the building. And after the fall, iron! And stain the floor.

And the background changes again.

-What!!! What!!! Please, please, I beg you like this, save me, no, rather kill me!!! I want you to kill me!!!!!!!!!!

Listening to the lines he shouts, I feel a little relieved. It’s a price he has to pay, but it’s quite enjoyable.

“Could this be it?”

“I thought it would be better to give him a proper punishment because he’s a drug-selling mafia boss.”

“I don’t think I’ll last long if I die rather than torture.”

“Still, thousands of years will go by internal time.”

Even in a virtual world, if you die in minutes like that, your ego wears out. Afterwards, only an empty shell will remain.

But it’s enough treatment for him. If it’s something like ‘don’t come close to me!!!’, Then I’m convinced.

You will never reach the 【Truth】!!!

Oh, someday I’ll reach it About thousands of years later there. At that time, the ego would be worn out to the point where it would be meaningless, and there would be no time to rejoice at it.

“Suddenly, Eden’s summer vacation is coming to an end… If I go to school for half a year more after school starts, I’ll graduate and I’m in middle school, right?”

“Wow!!! Time flies!!!!”

[I think it will be time for me to win the Nobel Prize]

“Oh, come to think of it, Keter, you’ll get the Nobel Prize too. Didn’t that announcement come out around October?”

[Yes, and the awards ceremony will be held in December]

“I’ll do it at the end of the year. I don’t have to follow you?”

[I’m not even a kid]

“I’m busy with work, but come back before Christmas”

[Okay!!!]

If you don’t know what’s going on because no announcement has been made, Keter’s peace prize is confirmed. If there is a person who deserves the Peace Prize beyond Keter, it is difficult if it is not about destroying a giant meteorite flying to Earth and returning to life.

What’s unclear is whether or not it even gets a medical award. It’s a little vague, but I’m guessing I’ll get it.

“It’s around October when the Nobel Prize is announced? My school trip goes around that time too!!!”

“Ah, come to think of it, Eden also has school trips.”

“Because it’s a memory trip to finish elementary school together with the school festival. Do you know where you’re going, Eden?”

“Maybe they should go to Jeju Island?”

“What is Jeju Island?

“No, Jeju Island is enough. And if you think about it, Eden has never been to Jeju Island.”

“You should eat a lot of tangerines when you go!”

“Eden likes that too.”

The important thing in travel is not where you are going, but how you play. Even if you go to a place with a lot to see, you can ruin your trip, and even if you go to a place where there is nothing special, you can relax and come back.

And overseas travel has just returned. There are many places to play in Korea even if the school trip is a few months later.

“Ugh, then I’ll support the budget and make sure Eden goes and doesn’t feel uncomfortable. As long as I keep my eyes open, I can’t see Eden sleeping in a place with an assistant who says, ‘I can be either an angel or a devil depending on what you guys do’ give”

“Nowadays, it must have disappeared a lot.”

“It’s embarrassing to think of the teachers staying together in such a place on purpose to give them a break. I’ll support the budget, but if I get caught, I’ll wipe it all out.”

“The principal over there will take care of it and do it well. Before, he even called the Minister of Education to do the job, but he knows very well that he will be in trouble if he makes mistakes.”

When I was in school, I also stayed in a not-so-good hostel in the name of a retreat, and I’ve heard what teaching assistants say about catching poop. Teachers then? The kids left it to the teaching assistant and drank.

Of course, teachers are people too, so it’s true that they need to rest. But you can’t fucking do it that way.

As long as I and Zion are together, I can’t see Eden suffering from something like that. Look at that, I’ll wear a mask and fly off and twist off the limbs of the teaching assistant.

Aside from our thoughts, Eden was already thinking about what to do in the next few months. She’s Hagisa Eden is also a child, so at this age all she does is play.

“I should go and do a lot of fun things. A card game with the kids at night.”

“Will you take the Trump card?”

“No, Yu-Gi-Oh!”

“What the hell are the kids these days…!!!!”

“Mom, Mom. Can I take my regular dragon deck with me?”

“It’s used when you’re trying to crush an opponent in seconds. But what kind of deck is the opponent using, why are they carrying a realist deck?”

“There is also a child who uses a super magic dragon knight based on a wizard deck, or a child who puts Trish in Infernity and rolls it.”

“No, isn’t that a joke?”

“Actually, the strongest among them is a kid who rolls an Exodia deck with romance.

“What kind of demon is half of my daughter?!?!”

“No, in another class other than my class. There is no other kid in my class who plays Yu-Gi-Oh, except for me. There are no banned cards in the Duel of the kids in the neighborhood, so it’s even more demonic!!!!”

“These days, even if my dad doesn’t know Yu-Gi-Oh well, I think it’s something weird”

After talking about this and that, we packed our things. There are souvenirs I bought from Italy, and I organize some of the clothes I used there and wash or put them away, so time passes quickly.

When I put everything together, it was evening. For the first time in a while, the whole family gathers for a meal and leisurely gathers in front of the TV to watch the news.

In today’s world, you can watch the news on a computer or cell phone, so I wonder if it’s necessary to watch it on TV, but this time is really more about spending time with family than watching the news.

How much time can our family get together in one place? Even so, how much time can you relax?

So the important thing now is not the news, but the family. Thanks to this, the spacious living room feels full.

[Next news. At around 2:00 pm today, Mr. Shin, who was running a pseudo-church using psychic powers, was arrested. He brainwashed a large number of civilians with his abilities and extorted them through offerings….]

“Oh, I knew something like that would come out.”

“There must have been people like that even before the appearance of people with special abilities.”

“In a way, that way is better. I’ll dispose of that way.”

As people with special abilities were revealed to the world in earnest, the crimes of people with special abilities also became news.

But isn’t it strange? People with this ability must have existed from before, but why do they appear in the news only after they are revealed?

In fact, before that, there were crimes of people with special abilities. And at that time, the unmanned munpas in each region investigated and dealt with crimes with special abilities that occurred in their domains while managing them.

At that time, this ability had to be kept secret from the world. To keep the secret, the bouncing guy had to cover his mouth, of course.

Now I’m going to go to prison on the news, but then I killed him and dealt with it. If you think about it, the way it was handled could have been better in the past.

“After all, protests against people with special abilities are taking place because of these guys.”

“Because humans are originally afraid of things they cannot understand. Eden, do you have any kids in your class who hate you?”

“No one except for the transferee. That’s because he started a fight first.”

“A boy named Soon-wook fought, but now he says he’s a friend? Couldn’t he be like that too?”

“I tried to do that, but when I approached, Ji took me out first. So I thought it would be better if I just ignored it.”

Well, no matter how much Eden is, not all humans can like Eden.

Because of Eden’s appearance, because of her personality, there will be children who dislike her for one reason or another, and Eden can’t help but handle that.

Just as my cooking cannot satisfy every human taste, so too, if there are people who dislike people for no reason or for reasons that cannot be corrected, it is better to ignore them than to care about them.

“If a person with special powers commits a crime, on the other hand, wouldn’t there be cases where the person with special powers cooperates to solve the crime?”

“I’ve heard that it’s done with psychometry-type psychics, but I don’t know how it’s going.”

In any case, that is proof that society adapts and changes. If there are people who use it abusively, of course there are people who use it correctly.

Booooo!!!

And in the middle of spending time with my family, someone’s cell phone vibrated. I looked for it because I thought it belonged to Shion, but it wasn’t ours.

I turned my gaze to the place where the vibration resonated by itself, and Eden was there. The phone call seems to be from Eden.

“Oh wait”

As soon as I get back from a trip, Eden gets a call. I wonder what’s going on.

Eden answered the phone. If the other person was a friend, they would laugh and talk comfortably, but Eden talked about whether the other person was a friend or not.

“Yes, I got the call. Oh, yes, how are you? What’s up with you? Ah…Yes, is that so?”

It’s right next to you and you can eavesdrop on the conversation if you want, but that’s Eden privacy. As much as I love Eden, I need to set him free.

After a while, Eden ended her call. And it tells us about it.

“I got a call from the Heavenly Mu Association, but I think it came from the Special Psychic Investigation Headquarters.”

“Special Spiritual Ability Investigation Headquarters? Where did you hear about it?”

“Why did you contact me when I went to the island and dealt with evil spirits?”

“Oh, there”

There was an agency that contacted us at the time of a similar incident that occurred in Korea other than the Poveglia Island incident.

At that time, there was no Celestial Mu Association, so I, the guardian, received a call, but since it was created, Eden will be registered there, so I will be contacted through the Celestial Mu Association. She’s my daughter, but even so, she’s the most outstanding among the spirits registered in the Association.

“What did you call me for?”

“There is an incident, and I want to get help from someone with special abilities about it.”

“They said the day they went was market day. See how they contacted me right away after talking about it. What’s the matter?”

“First of all, the information about the case is confidential, so I’ll tell you about it after we get together. So, I’m going out tomorrow, isn’t it okay?”

“Daddy, will you come with me?”

“No, I found me, but if my dad goes with me, there will be a lot of problems, and someone else will come too. There may be problems with or without a mask, but I think it’s better if I go alone.”

“I’m a little worried…”

Eden’s words have a point. If I go wearing a mask, it’s like announcing that Eden is my daughter. Then more and more problems arise.

And, as she had done several times before, she herself did the request as a person with this ability. Even if we provided support, Eden did it himself.

Yeah, let Eden do it on her own. If there is a problem, it is not too late to help her then.

“Then I’ll be back tomorrow!!!”

“If you have any problems, contact your mother. I will put an end to whoever did it socially.”

“Then Dad physically”

I hope there won’t be any problems… But somehow I feel uncomfortable.