Chapter 96 – Episode 96. Even if You Go to Moro, You Only Have to Go to Seoul (2)
Episode 96. Even if you go to Moro, you only have to go to Seoul (2)
When Minha Kim’s phone vibrated on her desk, she stopped typing and stared at the name that appeared on it.
After some thought he picked it up.
“Yes, senior, it’s been a while.”
[It’s a lot of trouble. Junior.]
The person who called was Kang Ga-hyeon.
Until just a few months ago, she was a relatively young woman, close to 40, who was in a promising position as the de facto leader of a large institution called B.H.
She was also a curse to Kim Min-ha.
During her time as a student, she did not hesitate to share her genealogy books with her, often bought her meals, introduced her to her friends, said nice things to her professors, etc… She was generally very kind to her. Although he was an innocent person.
Only one thing.
She is the youngest person to have broken Kim Min-ha’s dream of becoming her full-time doctor of B.H. What’s worse is that she is the one who prevented Kim Min-ha from getting the position she dreamed of so much.
Unlike magical girls who have a short retirement age, full-time doctors work until their sixties for the sake of expertise.
Of course, for her own reasons (it was a job that put her under a lot of stress), she sometimes stepped down earlier than expected, but it was common for her to be over 50 years old.
In other words, even if Kim Min-ha, who is two years younger than him, turns 40, she has no chance of becoming a full-time doctor, which means that the next B.H. Full-time doctor is likely to skip Kim Min-ha’s turn.
I know very well how elite Kang Ga-hyun is.
Her parents also worked at B.H. For a long time, and her achievements are impressive, including receiving awards for the best paper during her time in college and graduate school.
In particular, Paramas’ contribution to dramatically improving the method of tracking salt waves is almost a legend in the industry.
Even though Kim Min-ha is a bright student who never missed her top spot except once, no matter how much she clenched her teeth and studied hard not to lose to her senior, she was always one step behind her.
Even when former Dr. B.H revealed her collusion, Kim Min-ha sensed that she could not defeat Kang Ga-hyeon.
The result was also as expected.
However, the opportunity returned when Kang Ga-hyeon was captured by the Paramas gang and suffered from the aftereffects of brainwashing.
Now her Kim Min-ha felt sorry for her.
Although she has no intention of giving this position back.
Kang Ga-hyeon was an ‘advisor’, and Kim Min-ha is the leader of B.H.
“Senior, what’s going on?”
[I did some research on magical girls.]
“… Yes? “If they were magical girls…”
[Hmm, I knew you were very busy, but I guess you didn’t do anything. If it became possible for Sentai’s magical girls to transform without a transformation tool, wouldn’t it be time to find out if previous magical girls also had similar symptoms?]
“Ah…”
Minha Kim bit her lip.
She knew, but she was struck in a blind spot.
These days, my body was running out of heat due to complaints related to recovered patients, their treatment plans, interviews with the base commander, and meetings with related departments.
She suffered from occasional nosebleeds, but she persevered.
Isn’t this the position she so desperately wanted?
I wasn’t the only one thinking about you, senior.
Don’t act proud.
Moreover, as the number of magical girls increases to ‘six’, she is the first to operate ‘two units’ of magical girls, something that no doctor in history has ever experienced.
When Jang Hye-ri and others brought in the Sentai Magical Girl represented by Jeong Min-hee and asked her to work at B.H., To be honest, even Kim Min-ha was embarrassed.
In order to prove that her professionalism was no less than Kang Ga-hyun’s, she usually paid a lot of attention, but her poker face fell apart.
Kim Min-ha first accepted their request.
The strangely tense atmosphere between the magical girls made it seem like there was something going on between them, but she didn’t answer even when asked.
However, even with three magical girls, it was difficult to handle, and the recent recoveries were causing trouble everywhere.
The number of civilian criminals has fallen sharply in recent years, and the reason for this is the increase in the number of recoveries.
People who had been living like rats until now committed murder and arson as if something had changed.
From looting to rape.
Public opinion increasingly criticized B.H. And the government.
Naturally, voices of resentment grew louder, saying that it was their fault that Smile Face, who had long ago defined the recoveries as part of the axis of evil and massacred them, disappeared.
To use a slightly harsh analogy, if the recoveries were like rats spreading infectious diseases thanks to the background of B.H.’S former base commander and the recovered president of the PR group, then Smile Face was the cat.
[Ah, Smile Face, I thought it was spring after the sunset.]
When the news that a person in recovery stabbed someone at a subway station and someone was seriously injured appears on a portal, it has become a culture to leave comments like that.
Although he himself has disappeared these days.
It was clear that the magical girls knew something.
However, no matter how much Kim Min-ha interrogated Jeong Min-hee and Jang Hye-ri, they just kept their mouths shut.
Jang Hye-ri still seemed to have a lot of loyalty to Kang Ga-hyeon, and while Jeondae Jeong Min-hee secretly thought of Kang Ga-hyun as her junior, Kim Min-ha seemed to ignore her even more.
For her, it was a pain in her head.
It seemed like they were learning and planning things among themselves at the training ground, but when I asked them, they were silent.
Still, I followed what I was told.
As we hear of recoveries working in groups and often turning into ‘monsters’, armed police and soldiers are often not enough.
At that time, the magical girls had to be dispatched.
After passionately asking what was ‘present’ on the scene, when they found out that it was not what they had hoped for, they soon became indifferent and put it off to each other.
Kim Min-ha seemed to know what they wanted, but there was no way he would return.
Because Smile Face has completely disappeared.
Why on earth are six magical girls obsessed with one man, a villain at that?
Before she was a doctor, she was a woman. Kim Min-ha carefully watched the videos of her smiling face, but other than her face being a bit cute, there wasn’t much to like about her.
Rather, his tone was childish and frivolous.
[Minha, are you listening?]
“Ah, yes, senior.”
Minha Kim woke up from her fantasy.
Kang Ga-hyeon spoke over the phone.
[Other magical girls don’t seem to have any particular transformation abilities. Have you guessed anything?]
Why tell me that?
Complaints almost came out, but since she was a senior and still needed a lot of help, Kim Min-ha kept her many possibilities in mind.
“The phenomenon became worse after a creature called Ogre was killed by Jang Hye-ri. Perhaps that creature had some kind of command in Paramas. Or, the leader in control disappeared around that same time. Personally, I think Ogre’s transformation form is the main character.”
[Pretty accurate.]
… Are you evaluating it?
Minha Kim suppressed her anger.
“Is there anything else I should listen to?”
[Sherwood Kelly. It’s the name of the head of Paramas. And there have been quite a few sightings of him recently. She is the woman who commands the recoveries. Looking at cases reported in other places at the same time, it seems like she is a clone type.]
“… How can you do that…”
[First of all, it’s advisory. I know some inside information about B.H. I put it together and found out through personal information route. It’s not a bad feeling, right?]
“… It can’t be.”
I feel bad, seriously.
[Then I’m glad. I think it’s Sherwood Kelly’s job to make the recoveries run amok. The problem is that he is not the only one. Since Sherwood Kelly is a clone, there is a possibility that he has the ability to lead the recoveries in different ways, but there is also a possibility that the original has split into several branches. Personally, I think it’s the latter. So, the recoveries who had been operating under one command system all of a sudden became scattered. As Sherwood Kelly’s clones die, the control of the restorers scattered around the Earth becomes weaker.]
As a result, the more the magical girls, soldiers, and police kill Sherwood Kelly and the recoveries, the more they become confused and riot.
The number of people who have recovered exceeds 1 million in Korea alone.
Kang Ga-hyeon said in a cold tone that if they were released all at once, there would be severe social unrest.
“… Thank you. “Senior, I will be careful.”
[They say there are six magical girls. It should be hard. It’s not what I want to say, but please do your best.]
“…”
Kang Ga-hyeon seemed to have recovered quite well and gave a monotonous but serious presentation of her research results. However, in the middle of the conversation, she received a direct call from the operators.
Using that as an excuse, Kim Min-ha ended the call.
[It is a simultaneous invasion. The area is-]
The danger zone that the operator spoke of, that is, the zone that is difficult to control by the military and police, occurred in three places at the same time.
“Okay.”
Minha Kim contacted Magical Girls.
They didn’t take it.
“…”
She got up from her seat.
“Are you ignoring me? “I told you to keep in touch with me on a regular basis, so I’m sure you will do that today as well.”
Minha Kim took the elevator and entered her biometric information in front of the magical girl training center in the basement.
Weeeeeing.
As soon as the door was opened, a dome-shaped beam of light spread out in a space of approximately 100 pyeong centered around the three magical girls, and then light was emitted.
One of them passed by Minha Kim’s face.
Passsss.
A small groove appeared on the inner wall.
“Stop.”
Minhee Jeong said.
“I can’t believe I can’t even control this much power. Are you sane? The doctor almost got hurt. Do you think you can get a smiley face with this? It was better when you were younger. “What are you all thinking?”
Her voice rose.
The ones who just created the light were active magical girls.
In terms of atmosphere, it seemed like the Sentai Magical Girls were teaching them new techniques under strict instructions.
“We are on the move. “Three places.”
Minha Kim said.
She wasn’t very happy either, so she looked around at them, speaking in a more businesslike tone than usual.
“Is it your turn today?”
Minhee Jeong said.
“…”
Is it because it is technology transfer time?
The magical girls were still rigid.
Although it was just an atmosphere, Kim Min-ha thought that some serious words might have been exchanged in the previous situation.
Jang Hye-ri looked dissatisfied after hearing Jeong Min-hee’s words, but she soon seemed to have given up, shook her head, and walked out with her colleagues.
***
Kim Min-ha cannot help but feel that she is being ignored by the magical girls. She returns to the lab and hears about the espionage situation related to ‘Sherwood Kelly’ from various places.
Presumably, most analyzes say that he appears to be the head of Paramas, which has been harassing the people of Earth for the past several decades.
It was a consistent conclusion, but the sudden pouring of that amount was too much for Kim Min-ha, who was still inexperienced in her work.
It was a mystery why the person who had kept his identity well hidden until now suddenly went on a rampage with the recoveries who could not be controlled, and I also did not understand why the timing was right at this time.
Didn’t the operation change from the beginning?
Sherwood Kelly came up with a strange plan to intentionally infiltrate recoveries into human society.
Why change the strategy now?
Sherwood Kelly, who was seen by spies, military police, and even citizens, was in the form of a prostitute, only smiling like she was a crazy bitch, and didn’t seem to have much charisma.
It’s like my brain is missing.
Kang Ga-hyeon’s guess seemed to be correct.
Sherwood Kelly’s true body is hidden somewhere, and rather than being controlled by a clone, her powers have been downgraded as her body has split into multiple alter egos.
It seemed like a more reasonable guess to see it that way.
Fortunately, she wasn’t a big threat.
As they were ‘divided’, not only their intelligence but also their various abilities deteriorated, so each individual was not strong enough to die if the military or police shot them with weapons specifically designed for use against aliens.
She will just have to keep moving forward like this.
“… The magical girls are still okay.”
Minha Kim muttered.
The magical girls were strangely rebellious and grumpy, but for now they did what they were told.
It hurt their pride to know that they had something planned and that they were hiding it from themselves, their leader, but once they settled in a little more, they planned to call them together and properly interrogate them.
Minha Kim, who had been mechanically listening to the play-by-play about Sherwood Kelly, her recoveries, and the now completely missing brainwasher, was interrupted in her thoughts when she came across a piece of news.
It was a live intelligence report scattered all over the place.
[(Breaking News) Smile Face, the only descendant of the PR group, is planning to marry Song Bo-yoon, the wife of the late Cho Mi-hyeon!]
Even if other people don’t know, it’s news that magical girls will be shocked by.
Feeling a chill in her stomach for some reason, Kim Min-ha impulsively contacted them.
If she spreads this news herself, it will help her control them, who don’t know where they will go.
However, the news had already spread in the media.
Smile Face appeared ‘again’ in real time, and the news that he was marrying Song Bo-yoon was all over the media.
This much was spilled by them themselves.
“Why, secret agents report this news later than the media!”
Minha Kim was furious.
Smile Face was not just a villain.
If he had left a great influence on the magical girls, the organization itself would have collapsed.
As Kim Min-ha took over, her heart seemed to tighten as she accepted the hypothesis that magical girls may have been ‘brainwashed’ by Smile Face.
