Chapter 141 – What, That. I Don’t Know. Scared (2)
Instead of killing the adventurer who came from Desperado, I sent him back with my seed planted in his body. And soon, the moment her life stood before the threshold of death arrived, and I whispered the seed into her ear. At the last moment, what do you want the most?
Originally, human beings are most honest at the moment before death. Death means the complete end, and since there is no need to think about oneself afterward, at that moment, human beings are finally freed from the various restraints that bind them. Of course, they may not be full of consideration for those left behind, but on the contrary, if there are no people left behind, you cannot be more free and honest.
I asked her what she wished for, as she intuited her own death. In her last moments, she became honest with herself and what she wanted was to return to her hometown… To the sea.
Her seed, which I planted in her, responded to her will and blossomed in an instant, and her heart turned her surroundings into a landscape of her home to which she could not return. Awakened as a force.
Her achievement of submerging a huge old castle in a small sea in an instant, which is difficult for even the average archmage to do, was told through the mouths of the expedition members who came with her… I, who lives in Landfill, ‘Sir’ Information spread among adventurers that it was an existence capable of giving
The fact that I didn’t kill Kurin, and even planted her seeds and sent her alive was the groundwork for this painting. It’s kind of a marketing strategy.
It is hard to believe that it is possessed by an individual, a power that lightly breaks the existing power balance. There will be those who want to get rid of me out of fear that I might upset the existing balance of power, but at the same time there will be those who want to increase their own power through the power I have. I’m kind of… The goose that lays the golden eggs.
Now, which side will move first?
Who wants to get their hands on a goose to get richer than everyone else? Who wants to open the belly of a goose to prevent others from becoming richer than they are?
Either way, I hope they move quickly. Depending on who takes what attitude, you can clearly classify the force as an enemy or an ally. Well… First of all, the adventurer’s guild is actually close to the enemy.
“Suddenly, the stabilization of the landfill is coming to an end.”
The Acid Family, an organization in charge of the eastern sector, was destroyed, recruited as subordinates only to those who wished, and expelled those who refused. As a result, the five most powerful organizations in Landfill have been integrated into one, and divisions and conflicts within the organization are gradually decreasing. Now, if you deal with the toxic gas coming up from the underground, all the problems inside the landfill are solved.
I sowed the seeds to all members of the organization. I’ll tell you in advance that there might be a misunderstanding, but the seed here is, of course, not the sperm, but the seed of my ability.
The power I can wield in this world is to awaken the power of a person’s own mind by planting seeds and tying up desires. Who will awaken what ability depends on what kind of mind that person has, so I hope that at least one of these many, many people will be born with the ability to handle that gas, and I hope that the seeds I sow will sprout. Was waiting
“Hey, sir, can I ask you a question?”
“Hmm? What is it?”
Aine, who was my escort and faithful confidant and at the same time had heard all about my plan, tilted her head as if she couldn’t understand.
“That, you said that the ability to awaken depends on the person in question, right?”
“Right.”
“Then, wouldn’t it just be enough to induce the mind of the person to awaken the ability to awaken the ability related to the gas? That, hypnosis or mind manipulation…”
And the shocking words that came out of her mouth shocked me.
“…What, that. I don’t know, it’s scary.”
“Uh?”
“How can you say anything about manipulating people’s minds like that? Ugh, my God.”
“Huh? Huh? Now, wait a minute. You’re not someone else, sir, are you coming out like that?!”
My reaction must have been unexpected, and Aine was visibly taken aback and flustered. But for me, it was absurd. Acting as if her body was good, her brain wouldn’t have to suffer.
“First of all, that’s not possible.”
“Huh? Why?”
“It’s complicated to explain, but… A person’s wish is not originally one.”
Everyone has experienced it at least once in a while.
I know it’s something I should never do, but I want to do it. When they tell you not to do it, when you say you shouldn’t do it, you want to do it even more.
The human mind cannot be defined by a single word, and is more dynamic and colorful than a flowing waterway. Some human beings are not even sure of their own minds. The human mind is that complex. The power I have is to make the strongest desire among them affect reality.
Even if I forcibly emphasize a desire to someone through hypnosis or mind manipulation, there is no guarantee that the ability related to that desire will be awakened when the seed is received from me. Besides, thoughts injected in that way are desires created by others. Desire created by the outside world is infinitely weaker and futile compared to the pure and intense desire of one’s own self that wells up from the depths of one’s inner self.
If I really want to awaken one ability I want with my own power, I have no choice but to remove all the variables to awaken another ability from that person. In other words, it is to remove all emotions other than the desire to raise that ability. That would be theoretically possible. Of course, the results are also messy because the theory itself is made with the wrong premise.
Desire is the desire for something and the will of the person. However, if you exclude all emotions other than desire, even if you get what you really want, there will be no sense of satisfaction or achievement that you have achieved your goal. Just as the reward obtained at the end of a hard road is sweet, the road is worthwhile because there are hardships. However, the moment you remove all other emotions to forcibly awaken one ability, the emotions created lose their value. Because, there is no other feeling left in you to compare it to.
“…For this reason, it is impossible to partially awaken the desired ability.”
“Ummm…”
“Well, but you can induce that ability to become more likely. Like seeing sick people as a child and dreaming of becoming a doctor because you want to make them better, there is no way to induce them to come up with a specific idea. Do it. However, the success rate is not very high compared to the effort put in. And honestly… There is no one in this landfill who does not suffer from gas? Is there anyone who doesn’t?”
“But…”
“Well, that’s what it is. Anyway, all that’s left is to wait for the awakening of a person with abilities that can purify the surrounding air or manipulate gas at will…”
“Sir, something big happened!!”
Quaang! The closed door opened violently with the momentum of being destroyed, and Baine, my henchman and escort, hurriedly rushed into the room along with Aine. The fact that Baine, who is usually more polite than anyone else in front of me, acts so urgently and urgently means that the matter is that urgent… How could I have come to this world and wanted most of the plans to go smoothly so that I, the person in charge, was anxious… As expected. .
“A few members who awakened their abilities, centering around Karun, who was an executive of the Red Lantern Organization, rebelled!”
“…”
I had foreseen the possibility of this happening, but when it actually happened, I felt very bitter. Not everyone can have the same thoughts, so of course I expected that there would be people who would rebel against me, but I didn’t expect a traitor to come out of the unified organization. It feels like being bitten on the hand by a dog that I cherished and raised.
“Currently, Karun is holding a sit-in with three of his companions in the eastern sector where the airship dock is located! There are only 15 minutes left until the next airship arrives, but the abilities they have awakened are so… “
“Guide me, Baine.”
Corporal punishment and reward. Also known as stick and carrot. When educating someone, if you only punish someone, you will have a resentment, and if you only give a reward, you will feel complacent about the educator. Therefore, if you are a proper educator, you need to properly educate your opponent by properly distributing these sticks and carrots. However, I didn’t swing the whip because I had a lot of work these days, so they started to run wild as if they were full from eating carrots. It seems that the time has come to show the taste of the whip.
“Aine, take care of Mono.”
“Eek… No, why do you keep making me clean up after her?”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s the same girl, doesn’t it?”
“I don’t care! That girl, I don’t know what she’s thinking, but she’s scary! She’s got eyes that will eat me too!”
“Don’t be rude.”
“Sheesh…”
I asked Aine for Mono, and immediately headed to the eastern area of Landfill, where the airship dock was located. On the back of Bain, who can run in the sky with the wind wrapped around his two legs, and after constant motion sickness, I was able to get from the southern section to the eastern section of Landfill in just three minutes. And the scene I saw at the airship dock where the traitors are holding a sit-in…
“Don’t move! Don’t move! If you act nonsense, this guy’s head will fly!!”
A woman with cat ears over her dark hair held her gun hostage at the head of an outsider who had entered the landfill in an airship, screaming in a shrill voice until the next airship arrived. It was a bitch crawling.
…That’s why you shouldn’t trust hair roaches.
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Karun. Her life was turbulent and miserable.
Originally from Maboroshima’s feline beast tribe, as soon as she celebrated her coming-of-age ceremony, she got permission from her elders and left the island, heading to Metaverse City, the city of technology she had dreamed of so much. However, by the time she had just left the island, the rules and justice established by the representatives of the seven cities had not yet fully taken root, and the airship she was riding was for believers in the gods the representatives of the seven cities each worshiped and those who were hostile to them. They had no intention of abiding by the laws set forth by the Seven Representatives, and Karun, who was only fifteen, suffered the terrible pain of a shameful slave’s seal stamped beneath her belly as soon as she left the island that guarded her. Saw.
Captured slaves were sent directly to the underground city of Landfill. Even at that time, Landfill was a playground for criminals where various illegal things were done because of the harsh environment and the difficulty of sending and maintaining troops to maintain public order. In Landfill, where all kinds of drugs are trafficked in daily life, the degree of trafficking of slaves who disappeared with the abolition of slavery was an extremely common ‘daily life’ with nothing much to do with it.
Fortunately, instead of living a miserable life as a sex toy after meeting a bad-tempered master at Landfill, Karun was fortunate enough to be accepted as a member of the Red Lantern Society. Although the slave tattoo on her lower abdomen could not be erased, as a member of the Red Lantern Society, she sometimes clashed weapons with other members of the organization, and sometimes sold her body to a man she liked for a certain amount of money… As one of Landfill’s residents, he has completely integrated into the abandoned city.
Then one day, the existence that others call Sensei appeared.
A mysterious man wielding strange powers. With his overwhelming power, he instantly unified the organizations of Landfill, including the Red Lantern Society, to which Karun belonged, and even recovered the eastern district that the Acid Family had arrested and unified the city, which was torn into five districts.
With the exception of the only downside of revealing a little too much about women, he was definitely Landfill’s benefactor.
However, the moment she swallowed the seed he gave her and awakened her special powers, a thought popped into her head.
‘Uh? If I do this well, can’t I start a new life in another city?’
The thought that came to Karune’s mind was not a loyalty that she would repay a benefactor for helping her city, but rather a selfish desire to possess the things she wanted but could not have and now could.
With this powerful ability that person gave me, I don’t have to continue to rot in this musty and gloomy landfill. They could get more than this just by leaving the city with the few people they had their eyes on and going to Metaverse City or Desperado. Money, fame and power. Karun, who bounced the abacus in his head a few times, soon calculated that it would be more comfortable and much to gain from starting anew in a normal city rather than changing the landfill to a normal city, and persuaded a few deaf members with useful skills to landfill. Made plans to leave
Unfortunately, on the day the plan was carried out, one member of the organization, who had originally agreed to, could not bear to betray the benefactor who gave him a new opportunity. I confessed.
As long as the betrayal plan is discovered anyway, it is only a matter of time before it is dealt with. Karun, who judged that, along with his like-minded colleagues, arrested the airship dock without permission, and fought a sit-in until the airship arrived to leave Landfill.
Only 10 minutes left. If you hold out for just 10 more minutes, an airship will arrive that can escape this landfill. Karun was even more desperate because it meant that he could leave this disgusting sewer that he had not been able to leave because of the disgraceful stigma of slavery stamped on his ship, the price of plane tickets that the Acid family exploited close to profit, and his lack of fighting ability due to his lack of special abilities. A new life will begin if she endures for the next 10 minutes, and a chance to make amends for her ruined life after leaving the island at the age of 15, even belatedly. He shouted and threatened to break up.
Landfill is a place where you cannot return without outside intervention due to its poor environment. The organizations that took over Landfill’s land allowed drug trafficking or prostitution in their own territory, and with the money they received in return, they imported food and clothing to feed and clothe their members. But what if an outsider who came to Rand Phil loses her life because of an internal quarrel? Besides, what if the outsider she is holding her hostage is not even her ordinary tourist, but a high-ranking person from Metaverse City, the land of technology and innovation she so longed to go?
It was for this reason that her cohorts surrounding her and her comrades were unable to move. If she provoked her by mistake and her hostage was injured, and her trade with the outside world was cut off because of that, it was obvious that many people in her landfill would starve to death.
Only one side of the scale risked the rest of her life, and the other side risked the lives of countless people who could not die in this poor city.
“Ha, really…”
But there was one thing she hadn’t calculated.
“Unilateral destruction due to non-fulfillment of the contract. I will receive compensation for damages caused by it.”
With her familiar voice coming from somewhere, she was clearly aiming her gun at the hostage’s head, but her own arm wriggled and pointed her gun at her own thigh, holding her own. The finger pulled the trigger.
“…!!”
A man walked leisurely in front of her as she groaned in pain, struggling to suppress the screams that were about to burst out.
“Yes, you should have checked the terms and conditions carefully.”
Landfill’s benefactor, who nurtured many of her abilities, had no intention of forgiving the ungrateful student who aimed at her with the blade she gave her.
