Chapter 923 – [Eden’s Occupation of the Kindergarten]

With the appearance of the former Santa, the world has undergone significant changes.

First of all, the number of crimes against children has decreased sharply.

Everyone already knows the story of Santa intervening in the civil war in Sierra Leone, wiping out the rebels and putting China’s leadership under 6 months. It’s just that the Chinese side has their own face, so they don’t say it openly on the official line.

There are people who don’t know that it is to save children suffering from civil war and as a punishment for adults who harm children.

If you abuse or touch children, Santa will come to punish you for Christmas.

At least because of that perception, crimes against children did not occur.

Thanks to that, the number of juvenile crimes committed by ignorant children in the world has increased considerably, but that’s like growing pains.

And the second change is the territorial dispute over the Arctic. Since Santa existed and seems to have returned to the North Pole, the North Pole is Santa’s land, but then the question arises as to which country Santa is from.

Turkey, where Saint Nicholas, the prototype of Santa, was born, claims to be their people, and countries claiming that Santa is theirs, such as Finland, where there is a Santa Claus village, and Canada, which issued a passport to Santa, are widely spread.

If Santa becomes a native of his country, the North Pole will become their land too. And it is because they can bring an individual named Santa into their country, at least formally.

“Human greed knows no bounds. It would be foolish to think that something like Santa would be bound by human greed for political reasons like that.”

“Because what moves Santa is children’s innocence”

But thanks to that, it might have made the world a little better to live in. At least the number of people who mistreat children has decreased.

……It was only reduced, but not nonexistent.

“There are a lot of sick bastards in the world.”

“What’s wrong?”

“Wait a minute at Cheonmuhoe. There were so many things to clean up about last year’s title issue, so I thought everything else would be fine, but one thing happened.”

Previously, when Santa just appeared, there was an uproar in each door.

These days, the munpa is an environment where people can not openly gather people, so most of them take the form of a family while calling it a munpa. In short, it’s closer to Sega than Munpa. Thanks to that, there were always a few children inside the munpa.

And such children are also eligible for gifts from Santa. It was quite a disgrace to Mu-in for Santa who secretly gave presents to no one from the Munpa, but the important thing was that it wasn’t the problem.

Last Christmas, it was difficult to learn martial arts, so I begged Santa to give me an easy-to-learn martial arts book, and there was a child who received as a gift an interpretation version of his school’s martial arts in an easy-to-understand way with annotations. It is said that thanks to that, the door was in an uproar……..

“People say that human greed is endless and they repeat the same mistakes, and there is nothing wrong with that.”

“I mean”

If children wish to Santa, they can learn their martial arts more easily and quickly.

Since ancient times, martial arts, elixirs, and greed to be recruits are the instincts of a warrior. No, on the other hand, it was also human greed. And Santa was nothing short of a surprise in this world where neither spiritual objects nor elixirs were rare.

When children want martial arts, Santa presents them. If a child wants a tax-free martial art that suits him best, Santa will give it to him as a gift even if he obtains it from a different dimension.

However, it required many conditions. First of all, the child must be that kind and have big dreams, and the child must sincerely hope for that.

………And there was a Munpa who abused the children for that.

“How is it?”

“I’ve searched for all the people who sympathized with me”

“No, how related was it?”

“Most of the Heads”

“………..”

And those Munpa people who prepared for the coming Christmas all died.

No, even if it sounds like a joke, it’s real. Most of those people are dead.

Most of the leaders of the people of that sect died, and there is no way that the sect could properly continue to the next generation. No, if they were the head of the clan, they would definitely be direct descendants, but if they all died, wouldn’t it be obvious what happened after that?

But that wasn’t Santa’s job. It wasn’t because of Santa, but because of the influence of another being named Freddy.

“If I had followed the rules, there wouldn’t have been any problems.”

“Wouldn’t that be a meaningless story at the point of Freddy stepping out…”

His name is Freddie Nightmare. He’s not a human like Freddy Krueger, who could come out of a movie somewhere.

Still, it must be the worst opponent for those who abuse children as long as Santa is involved. Surely he would appear in that dream, no matter who the opponent was.

I briefly attended a meeting of the Cheonmoohoe. I attended because I was looking for advice on various things in preparation for the upcoming Christmas.

I should have told you earlier, but I dealt with it properly and the person died. Well, it’s not something I feel guilty about, but it’s something I had to let you know.

Anyway, I visited Cheonmuhoe to talk about various things. If you don’t tell them properly, these guys will definitely happen again.

“I’ve been waiting for you, senior.”

“Yeah…… Anyway, what are the munpa guys doing there?”

“Most of the leaders died, so we had no choice but to take the remaining people from other clans.”

There are things that can’t be helped, but on the other hand, it’s a problem with benefits. A faction without a leader cannot survive, so it must be reaped by another faction, and on the other hand, it becomes a matter of replenishing strength.

The country next door is ruined, so you can absorb the army there, but you won’t? To be honest, if you have the ability to reap and operate, it’s better to reap.

“But it’s a bit surprising that Santa Claus went that far.”

“It’s not Santa. Santa doesn’t kill people.”

“Yes?”

It’s not that he doesn’t kill, but Santa tends to avoid killing people to protect children’s innocence. Murder is a serious crime that even a child should know about.

That’s why I didn’t kill the rebels either. Honestly, considering how people would have dealt with them after their limbs were broken, it’s kind of obvious, but I didn’t kill them.

“If there is a being like Santa who protects children’s hearts, don’t you think that there will also be a person who kills people who bully children?”

“Hmm? That’s… Hmm… Senior’s words are also true.”

“Do a good job cracking down on the faction. Let me know that if you bully the kids, you’ll die in the worst case.”

Already, this world has become one of the domains that have received the attention of dream giants with the appearance of Santa. No, it already happened because of Korma’s existence, but it was more serious, so it was made to keep the minimum rules.

For Dream Giants, children are a big issue. Of course, the children who believe only in that and act on it do not look after them, but they still had to be protected.

If you think about it, there are cases where people who abuse children are mysteriously killed in other places, not just unmanned sects.

Anyway, with Christmas approaching, the time has come for Eden to think of a different Christmas gift.

However, it seems that he does not yet have the gift he wants to receive.

“Eden, what gift are you going to ask Santa Claus for this Christmas?”

“Um… I don’t know because I’m still playing with the robot Santa gave me.”

“There’s still a lot of time until Christmas, so think about it slowly. If you get it, you’ll be playing with it for a year, right? You have to make a choice without regrets.”

“Okay!!!!”

I can’t wait to see what gift Eden will ask for.

But if you think about it, we also have to buy Eden presents. What will you give me this time? Combined robots are a bit boring.

For a while, Eden spent thinking about what gift to receive from Santa. Even in Kindergarten, she thought of her presents for Christmas and decided to write a letter to her Santa Claus, which Eden hadn’t written yet.

“Looking at things like this, Eden is surprisingly not greedy”

“That’s right. Last year’s gift was actually a request to stop the civil war out of consideration for others rather than for yourself.”

The 15-stage combination robot toy received from Santa was given as a favor by Santa. The real Eden’s Christmas gift was the end of the civil war in Sierra Leone.

On the one hand, she’s also a little worried. It is because it is not the nature of Eden, but the nature of our Choi family.

Our family is altruistic in one way or another. In Choi Gil-hyun’s case, everyone in the world is considered, and in my case, Zion, so others are selflessly more important than one’s own life.

Eden is also my daughter, so it must be so. Unlike my other children, she is my biological daughter and she inherited the surname Choi.

Eden will decide for himself what he considers important later when he grows up. However, I hope that Gilhyun will not go down the rugged road like a great hero like him.

“Anyway, if you have time, please tidy up the yard. The grass grows in the yard so much that I wonder if it’s a jungle.”

“Oh, yes? Then I’ll have to mow the lawn.”

“I like long grass”

“It’s because you’re rolling around there.”

I decided to tackle the cat once and tidy up the yard after a while. Thanks to Eden’s birth tree, the plants in the yard grow well even if left alone, but nature’s grace is a real problem because even weeds grow without covering them.

In the first place, weeds are also decided by humans……. Seeing that we divide grasses that are helpful to humans and those that are not, and call grasses that are not weeds, it reminds us of the bad side of humans.

Well, I’m human too, so I’m tidying up the yard.

When I went out to tidy up the yard, Eden followed along with the kitten.

“Dad help me!!!!!”

“Really? Then, will Eden pull out the long grass over there?”

“Uh!!!!!”

Organizing is a necessity for children. If you grow up as a child who makes a mess and leaves it as it is, you will be spoiled in many ways.

Besides, there are many plants grown by Eden in my yard…….. Even if weeds grow, they grow well.

Eden and I were tidying up the yard in the middle of the day, and before we knew it, we reached the grave of Mangmung.

Grass grows on the grave of Mangmungi. It was buried in a good custom-made coffin, but by now, Mangmungi’s body would have rotted away, leaving only bones.

It can’t be helped. Unless something like embalming is done, the dead body goes back to the soil. Besides, in the next few hundred years, the bones of the goblin will become powder without a trace and become part of the land.

“……I want to see a fool.”

“Who is the mangmungi?”

“It’s a dog I raised in the past.”

For Eden, Mangmungi was a memorable pet in many ways.

First of all, it’s my first pet, and I don’t remember playing with it properly because I’m old, but it was nice just to be together.

Besides, the end of the gongmung-I…… I met death while bringing a ball to play with Eden. Even if it was because his body didn’t follow him, Mangmung wanted to play with Eden.

Through that, Eden learned to say goodbye through her death. I learned that the death of someone is such a painful and pitiful thing. Thanks to her, she grew up to be a child who knows the value of life.

Eden, who pulled out and cut down the weeds that had grown on the grave of Mangmung, suddenly asked me if I remembered something.

“Dad!!! If I tell Santa that I want to see Gogmung, will he bring me Gogmung?”

“Huh? Uh… Well, I don’t know what that would be like.”

To make Eden’s wish come true, there is the most important problem. Whether Mang-mungi entered the reincarnation, or he went to the land of dogs ruled by the dog god.

No matter how you can meet the latter case, it is easier to pick stars in the sky than to meet the former case. It’s because it’s such a tough job to find a person who doesn’t know what kind of existence he reincarnated as in this wide dimension.

What? But how do you grant a wish to meet a dead person? It’s hard work, but even if the other person is a good kid and wants to see his dead parents, he should listen.

Anyway, it seems that Eden’s wish for this Christmas has been decided. Like her last year, Eden wrote a letter to Santa.

“Our Eden is better at handwriting than last year. Did you learn it in kindergarten?”

“Wow!!!! I learned hard!!!!”

This small growth of a child is noticeable. Last year’s Eden’s handwriting was quite crooked, but this year at least he was writing straight and right.

Seeing Eden grow well just makes me happy. Personally, she wants Eden to grow up like this.

Anyway, the letter Eden wrote was that he wanted to see Mangmung. I don’t know how Santa will grant this wish, but I hope it comes true.

“…If I can get a gene from a body part taken out of Mangmung’s grave, I can clone a dog like Mangmung.”

“That’s not an asshole”

“I know that too. Even if the memories are the same, they are different entities after all.”

That part is a considerable dilemma. If two people have identical memories, are they really the same person?

In a future society, human memories can be converted into data and transferred. By scanning your brain and transplanting it into a new body, you could in theory live permanently.

But what if those memories are simply cloned rather than implanted?

The old self and the young self with memories transplanted. In this case, who is real and who is fake?

This part is a considerable dilemma. In the end, the content is the same, so you can see it as the same person, but on the other hand, it’s not.

These are issues that need to be considered as technology advances. Of course, since I am the king of the demons in charge of society, I cannot interfere in this field as it is the realm of phantoms in charge of ethics or utopias in charge of technology.

However, in my personal judgment, such a life-prolonging procedure can be done, but it should not be done.

Because I think the value of human memory decreases infinitely at the point of increasing when it is duplicated.

The individuality and value of each human being is valuable because there is only one. Even if you search all the dimensions of this world, you can find someone similar to your doppelganger that is infinitely close to you, but it is not exactly the same. That is why it has a personal value.

However, at the point of duplication, human values ​​become dog shit. A human being who can copy and create memories at will… Is such a human worthwhile? Is there an entity that can be reproduced as many times as possible with just one computer button?

“It’s a problem because you talk a lot about that part.”

“……Ah, sorry. I was talking too much.”

“But I think I understand what you mean. Doesn’t it mean that ethics and morality must be combined in the development of technology?”

“Roughly right”

Even if it sometimes hinders human development, it is not a simple hindrance, but a safety device that does not cross the minimum line.

If it went beyond that, it would only become a runaway locomotive like a train with a broken brake, run amok and derail, causing a catastrophe.

Tiv civilization was like that too……. If they didn’t perish in the aftermath of Tiv breaking up, the great demon kings would unanimously beat them to death.

Anyway, leaving the heavy story here, I received Eden’s letter. You can give this to Santa later. Well, even if you don’t, you know.

This Christmas, unlike last year, people will be preparing to greet Santa. Not a fake Santa, but a real Santa.

Thanks to that, it was impossible to secretly deliver gifts. Maybe the children will wait until dawn to meet Santa.

I was very excited about what kind of Christmas this Christmas would be.