Chapter 129: Do Ji-hwan's Ambitious Project (6)

Chapter 129: Do Ji-hwan's Ambitious Project (6)

After spending time with Yumir and Baek Seol-hee,

I prepared dinner for them, and their slightly haggard faces struggled as they came to sit at the table.

“Was it that tough?”

“.......”

“Is that what you call talking now?”

Baek Seol-hee silently drank the tea I gave her while Yumir let out an incredulous chuckle.

“Teacher, are you perhaps an ability user?”

“Me?”

“Somewhat like that. If not, this doesn’t make sense.”

Yumir seemed to be criticizing me, but in reality, she was gaslighting Baek Seol-hee.

“Be honest. You’re an ability user, right? The kind that can endlessly generate stamina?”This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.

“Not at all.”

I was not an ability user.

Do Ji-hwan was not the Goblin.

Though not the Goblin, I was presenting myself as someone with even more exceptional counseling skills for women than the Goblin.

“Being Do Ji-hwan is just one of the many advantages I have.”

“How many advantages do you have, teacher?”

“There are countless if you look. Like cooking.”

I prepared a perfect dinner so that all they needed to do was sit at the table.

The ingredients for dinner were already prepared by the pension owner, and I used them to make revitalizing food for the two.

“Eat. Abalone is said to be very good for the body. You too, Seol-hee.”

Originally, these were foods good for hangover recovery, but they needed something to restore their energy right now.

“Was it very tough?”

“......It was so different from last time.”

Baek Seol-hee glanced at Yumir and then sighed deeply, picking up her spoon.

“I thought I had given my all last time, but it turns out I hadn’t shown even half of that... Sigh.”

“Last time you had to go to work the next day, Seol-hee.”

“What would you have done if I didn’t have to go to work?”

After doing more with Yumir and Baek Seol-hee today than before.

“I guess we would have gone stronger than today. But at least tonight, there’s time to get a good night’s sleep.”

“...What if tomorrow is a day off?”

“Then, well, no need to say more.”

Baek Seol-hee looked pale.

Given how much she was already exhausted by what happened this time, it seemed she might have a fit if I casually brought up patriotism.

“Yumir, how about you?”

“I agree with Seol-hee. It’s a relief we stopped there. Ugh, it was my first time losing consciousness.”

Yumir felt the same.

“I’ve never experienced that, even when fighting villains with my powers.”

“Yumir, is speaking so openly after revealing your identity okay?”

“What’s the problem? Seol-hee and I are in the same boat, after all.”

“In the same boat....”

Baek Seol-hee blushed and fiddled with her chopsticks.

“It sounds somewhat profound.”

“The Goblin tries to kill demons, and I try to save them. The Goblin mocks me. See? The demon you want to save ultimately attacks and despises you. What’s the point of saving such beings? It’s cleaner just to kill them.”

That was right.

That was essentially what I said to Solar Platina when I first met her.

“But I want to save people. Even if they’ve committed crimes worthy of death, they should live to atone, not just die like that. Right, teacher?”

“...Of course.”

Agreeing here hurt the Goblin’s pride, but Do Ji-hwan had to support Yumir’s statement.

“I once heard a story where heinous criminals were dying terribly, and the intensity of their death was determined by the victims or the bereaved of the crimes they committed.”

Was it in a foreign short drama?

A heinous criminal trapped alone in a room like an interrogation chamber, begging for his life, while the families outside didn’t pull the lever that would cause him pain.

“Such things might happen in reality, but Yumir’s view is not wrong. If there’s something wrong, it’s the forces that make us worry about such things.”

“The government?”

“Seol-hee. I didn’t say anything.”

“Heh.”

Baek Seol-hee laughed softly at my exaggerated gesture of surrender.

“Ji-hwan. You should get used to talking badly about the government. Like Yumir, hiding your identity isn’t easy.”

“What? What did you say?”

Yumir asked Baek Seol-hee as if she hadn’t heard properly.

“Hiding your identity...”

“It’s natural for Yumir.”

Wait.

The nuance just now felt like it wasn’t my place to worry about the Solar Platina issue.

“Ji-hwan should be careful from now on. Of course.”

Not about the Goblin?

I thought it might be because of Solar Platina and the Goblin, but apparently not.

“In about four months, when I announce I’m pregnant, everyone will start looking for who the father is.”

Ah.

In that sense.

“Ji-hwan. I’ve been told that by people before.”

“What is it?”

“I’mchoemom.”

“No.”

Was she saying that herself?

“What? I’mchoemom...? What’s that?”

An unfamiliar term for Yumir, who’d been in Korea less than three months, from a nationalistic novel with unnecessary words added by the author.

“It means ‘ideal body for pregnancy.’”

“Oh....”

Like Yumir, I was quite embarrassed.

Such a term was usually used in male-dominated communities.

“I may not know other things, but I’m confident about that. I’m widely acknowledged as I’mchoemom.”

“Seol-hee?”

“Hopefully.”

Baek Seol-hee placed her hand on her lower abdomen.

“Hopefully, I’ll have a child soon. For Ji-hwan.”