Chapter 164 – 27. White Night (2)
Hurrying across the school and arriving in front of the principal’s office, there was a female professor wearing glasses instead of Sanya.
It was like waiting for me to come.
When she found me, in her blunt tone, she poured out the words I least wanted.
“The principal is on a business trip right now.”
“Sañaga… She’s not here right now? Professor Shiana too?”
“Yes, you haven’t come back since I saw you leave in a hurry the day before.”
Her head feels like it’s about to explode
Not even the only person who can handle this situation somehow.
Damn, what should I do?
…Should I just run away?
I came to defend, not to fight.
Maybe I’m reacting too sensitively to the cloaker case. Anyway, the government will announce countermeasures after time, but if I step out here, I could be angry with myself.
Good. Decided.
Just like this, I go straight to Juhane’s house and bring only Juha with me.
No matter what anyone says, I just have to protect my woman. As for the cleanup… Competent people will take care of it. It’s none of my business.
“Oh, and… There was a message from the principal.”
“…Yes?”
The professor, who grabbed my arm as I was about to turn around and left, rummaged in his arms and then pulled out a small note.
After holding the crumpled note in my hand, I opened the door to the principal’s office and stepped inside.
“Check it out. Enough then.”
Knock-!
The door closed with a heavy sound.
Sanya disappeared without a word, a female professor with a sharp impression.
And only one note left.
First of all, I decided to check the notes before leaving school.
What did Sanya want to tell me?
Calmly unfolding the folded note, almost crumpled, revealed the dense writing.
[Jihoo, I’m sorry for leaving so suddenly. Do you know the mind of the teacher?]
Laughter flowed out.
I thought of Sanya diligently writing notes.
Her always playful tone seemed to be heard in her ears.
“You should have said something…”
[Something unusual is happening right now. You know that the passage of the Demon Exploration Act itself is originally nonsense, right? So I go to find out how the crazy law was passed. I will try to prevent a war that seems to happen soon.]
Is it the insight of the strong?
Sanya also realized the seriousness of her situation in her own way, and she set out to prevent it somehow.
I hurriedly read the next sentence.
[Jihoo. Teacher, I believe in you, Sanya Dominas. I know that you have a secret you’re hiding, and that you don’t really want to reveal it… But as a teacher, you can turn a blind eye to that. Yes? So let’s do our best in each position. Even on the day we meet again, let’s not be ashamed of each other.]
“…”
I chew on the sentence she carefully wrote.
Sanya’s sentence as if she knew everything about me, but her tolerance for still treating me as a student without questioning me.
It felt like her heart was tickling.
As I was about to fold the note, I found a short phrase written at the end of the paper.
…There was still one more sentence left.
[Ps. When you meet Juha, ask me about me.]
I was thinking of going to see Juha.
However, my mindset has definitely changed from before.
Because I know that Sanya believes in me. She believed that even a weak and worthless person like me could do it.
So let’s go now
The steps to leave school were no longer heavy.
* * *
…Is a trap.
He wanted to run to his disciple right away, but Sanya Dominas’ footsteps couldn’t fall.
The moment you turn your back on this place, things can no longer be undone.
The world is changing.
That too in a very negative way.
The hostility towards the demons is overheating more than necessary.
I don’t know what the demon response committee and its authors intended to incite such a stir, but it was only a matter of time before the swollen conflict erupted in a single incident.
…And finally the incident happened.
[Emergency arrest and killing of demons in Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do]
Her instinctive senses warn her.
That this isn’t going to be an ordinary incident.
Clap, Bang!
The gunshot sounds play in her mind.
Something irreversible was about to happen.
What should I do? It’s a trap! What is the quickest solution? What are the future prospects? It is inevitable that things will explode…!
Sanya’s thinking, which has reached the limit, accelerates infinitely.
The conflict that was on the brink of explosion due to the arrest of the demons finally erupts, and the movement to systematically eliminate the demons will be revealed in earnest. A terrible massacre may occur, so we must first aim to initiate strong sanctions and measures against unreported vigilante acts…
…
One, two, four, eight, thirty two…
Her thinking, which calculated numerous assumptions, resulted in only one result.
Bottom line, don’t leave here.
The moment she leaves this place, the rope she’s been holding on to will be completely cut off.
Since she had left her letter for Jihoo, she thought that Jihoo would take care of it as best he could.
Because she believed in her own disciple.
“It’s 11:55! You can enter!”
“Siana, come in.”
“Yes, buy it.”
[Conference on the ecology of demons]
The final turning point ahead of the massacre of the demons.
There was only one reason why she attended this conference, which was originally held to let people know how dangerous the demons were.
Sanya Dominas, is about to take the biggest gamble of her life now.
Risking her own body, half of which belonged to the demons.
* * *
Without Sanya’s help, in the end we have to get through it by ourselves.
The NIS facility raid case, just like that time.
Even though we lost then—we must win this time.
No, I will make it win somehow.
Our goal is not to wipe out the demons.
Rather, slaughtering demons at will was the action Pantagruel wanted us to take, so we needed to act more carefully.
The enemy is inducing humans to ignite the conflict with the demons.
By the time that roaring anger spreads throughout society, the demons will induce an all-out war.
Even the demons who don’t want war, who want peace, will be enraged at the sight of their own people dying horribly.
And for that perfect scenario, these meticulous pups have a few more gadgets in store.
Sprinkling a large amount of cloakers all over the city to mass-produce ‘anti-demons’ that are artificially caught on detectors.
It was a question that could be easily answered if one thought it through calmly, but I almost got caught up in the problem right in front of me and couldn’t grasp the essence.
“Then what we need to do now is…”
Calmly recall the number of cases.
What can I do to prevent conflict from spreading throughout society?
Looking at the sun that never sets in the distance, I continue my thoughts.
…Okay. Sun, sun. White night.
The reason why the Midnight Sun occurred in the first place was because of the amplification of demonic energy.
The fact that the citizens firmly believed in the danger of the demons and the effect brought about by the phenomenon that could be seen right away clearly existed.
If so… How do I fix it?
Can a being of that size be tampered with by less than 10 people?
No, the approach itself is wrong.
Rather than changing the phenomenon itself, it is to change the perception of it.
“Should I use hypnosis…?”
We can’t cover all of the city’s population, but if we can change the perception of even a part of it.
With the help of Juha and Ellis on the collective hypnosis ability she recently acquired… It might be possible.
The city currently has a large number of cloaker invaders.
Elise’s eyes that can separate normal humans from cloaker eaters, Juha with a large amount of magic power capable of continuous teleportation, and my ability to completely distort people’s thinking.
In theory, there are no flaws.
However, this awareness improvement is only limited to the city I am in, and the situation will still be similar or worse in other areas.
How to solve this… I don’t know yet. It’s not that Juha’s magic attribute is so large that it can cover the whole country.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t be idle.
Once you’ve made a plan, it’s time to move.
“Ellis, how much magic do you have left?”
– There are still about 80% left.
“Okay, go straight to Juhane’s house.”
The operation begins after contacting Juha.
It keeps teleporting around the city in a counterclockwise direction, and when it encounters a group of humans, it discriminates the cloaker encroacher while conserving magic as much as possible.
Group hypnosis for humans, apart from cloakers that cannot be hypnotized.
Draw concentric circles as far as your magic power allows, covering the entire city as much as possible.
“Let’s go, Alice.”
– Yes, Master!
A black hand reaches out from my shadow and pulls my ankle.
The movement of the shadow, which was still a little unfamiliar even though she had been with Alice and Juha, seemed to be getting used to it only today.
