Chapter 10: To Become Stronger (2)

Chapter 10: To Become Stronger (2)

[Chief Do. I’m going to the academy next week. Do you need anything else?]

“Several suits. I think you should buy several suits of the same design. They will surely tear when I transform.”

[Are you going to pretend to be a gentleman in a single suit? Haha, as expected from Chief Do. I will send you seven identical suits, so you can change them every day from Monday to Sunday.]

“So you mean I have to work even on weekends?”

[Ah.]

“Chairwoman? Chairwoman!!”

Beep, beep, beep.

The call ended.

Of course, the chairwoman wasn’t the type of person to push me into work madly just because she ended the call like this.

She was just implying, ‘Go around on weekends and seduce talented women!’

Not saying it directly was the chairwoman’s pride; catching that meaning was my intuition and ability.

Beep.

A photo of the main target arrived on my smartphone.

“So Snow White is the top priority.”

She was a woman I’d already had contact with and, at the same time, the heroine that I needed to seduce - no, persuade the most.

‘If it weren’t for this woman being an instructor, I wouldn’t have been able to get in, right?’

The reason I could enter the academy this time was all thanks to Snow White.

‘It’s not just one or two guys who quit their jobs because of her.’

Not because Snow White was the goal but because many academy positions were vacant thanks to Snow White becoming an instructor.

Mostly, those with shady backgrounds quit immediately.

They were more corrupt than villains.

Commonly, if a hero like Snow White entered the academy, they would probably stay just to see her face once. Still, they wouldn’t want to create unnecessary trouble.

[After investigating, you embezzled the supply cost of mint chocolate ice cream!]

[Ugh, I’ve been caught!]

[I won’t let you escape! Ice Hell!]

[Aaargh!! My lower body!]

Nobody would want to be hit by Snow White’s ice whip.

I didn’t want to be hit, either.

Snow White’s ‘Ice Magic’ not only slowed down the body but also the flow of mana.

There were two ways to deal with Snow White.

[Haha! Fire melts ice!]nôvel binz was the first platform to present this chapter.

[My ice is colder than that]

[...Ah!]

Someone like a Pyrokinetic who had a fire magic ability that’s superior to Snow White’s Ice Magic.

[Why aren’t you freezing...! What the hell are you?! What kind of power is this?!]

[Where in the world is a villain who would reveal that?]

Or, like me, someone who doesn’t get affected by Snow White’s ice magic due to special abilities.

“Immunity to Ice.”

For instance, I infused the properties of a ‘Mana Insulating Suit’ into a suit using the power of the Goblin Bat.

It was a skill dedicated to countering Snow White. It was useless against other ice magic, and it drained a lot of mana, but thanks to it, I could escape from Snow White as much as I wanted.

‘My specs are B-grade, or if you look kindly, A-grade, but I’m pretty good at running away from S-grades.“

But the reality was different.

“...I wonder if her intention is the same as mine.”

The recruitment of Snow White.

As the Ice Mage with the most potential among the heroines over 20, she became the second strongest being after the protagonist.

To claim such a being, or to bring her into their country, or to arrange her marriage with a handsome man from their country to induce marriage immigration, each country sent representatives to Sejong Academy.

‘If Korean law was applied, it would have been immediate deportation, but Sejong Island is not like that.’

Sejong Island was part of Korea’s territory but followed international law first.

[Sejong Island is Korean territory!]

[They yelled, but how could they handle the sudden pressure from the entire United Nations?]

[Darn it...! We might not know everything, but if we don’t get recognition from the United Nations that this is the ‘East Sea’ and clearly our land, something serious will happen!]

No matter how strong Korea was, they couldn’t win against worldwide pressure. Now, the United Nations representatives and embassies of powerful countries were also installed in Sejong Academy.

[Don’t use English on Sejong Island! The official language of Sejong Island is Korean! If it’s difficult, learn Hangul! Unlike the fragmented languages of the world, the characters and the language won’t be mismatched here!]

And thus, Sejong Island probably became the place with the most diverse nationalities gathered from all over the world.

Of course, the island itself had few foreigners as it mainly consisted of the Academy and a few other facilities.

With a population of around 50,000, the number of foreigners did not even reach 1,000 on the island. Still, most of those 1,000 were superhuman abilities holders or workers related to these abilities or government officials.

But there was no need for me to encounter them all.

Because...

“If I’m holed up as a librarian in the library, no one will come!”

Who would come to the library when they were busy accumulating mana?

“I hope it’s empty. Then I can spend my time there reading manga and novels.”

Regardless of it being a mission or being a villain, there’s something called ‘working hours.’

“I’m an office worker who sticks to 9 to 6.”

Unless they gave overtime pay, from 6 p.m. to 9 a.m. was entirely my time.

Sometimes there were things that were worth more than money.

“Wow.”

Looking at the footage on the TV channel, I felt a thrill.

“This is coming out here.”

In this world,

All the contents released after 2000 were ‘new things’ to me.

Manga.

Movies.

Novels.

The one regret was that some of the works released after 2000 did not appear in reality.

There are cases where, like someone, one awakened as a superhuman and turned mana into life force to create manga, but some manga and novels had not even been started because the author ‘died’.

Or, they came out much later than in reality, with different actors and directors.

“It’s about time for the movie to start....”

I grabbed my coat and went outside.

“I can’t resist a movie where a dinosaur pushes away a meteorite falling from the sky.”

“......Snow White?”

“Oh, the motorcycle guy from Banpo Zai?!”

By chance, I ran into her next to me at the cinema.