Chapter 182 – Immortal Sword ( 1 )
“Candidate Jae-yeol Cheon should abolish his pledge!”
“Abolish it! Abolish it!”
In the middle of Gwanghwamun Street in Seoul.
“Beasts and incompetents are people too!”
“It’s a person! It’s a person!”
Thousands of people flocked to protest.
[Withdrawal of the ability-based benefit law! ]
[Guarantee human rights! ]
Most of the protesters wore headbands with yellow letters written on a red background.
Twitch- twitch-
There are animal ears on the headband.
Yes. The identity of these demonstrators is Suin.
Prisoners who have been with human society for a very long time now form the main axis of the protest scene.
“Candidate Jae-yeol Cheon intends to kill all the beasts and our incompetents?!”
Of course, there were no humans at all.
In the ability verification stage, those who were judged as ‘incompetent’ due to their infinitely low magic attribute growth rate were also participating in the demonstration.
The reason why they came to the protest in broad daylight was because of the recent pledge made by Candidate Cheon Jae-yeol of the People’s Democratic Party.
– We will set a grading system based on ability and give appropriate treatment accordingly.
It was a very fair promise in words, but ability is not something you can learn by honing it like studying or skills.
You can only become strong through training if you have a natural foundation, and if your magic growth rate or magic control rate is low in the first place, you won’t be able to strengthen your abilities no matter how hard you try unless a miracle happens.
“Stop the unreasonable discrimination immediately!”
“Even prisoners and incompetents have human rights!”
In such a situation, when a grading system based on the level of ability was implemented, it was obvious that those with low innate abilities or those with genetically fewer abilities than humans would be enslaved by society and abandoned.
“Haa.. Why are you fucking again?”
“It’s really absurd. What kind of rights do parasites in society want to be recognized…”
The police and soldiers on the government side, watching such protesters, looked at them with contempt and disgust.
A society based on the ‘competence first’ principle that has been passed down since ancient times.
In a society where there is a strong perception that people with strong abilities and historical heroes developed the country, incompetent people who were useless at all or inmates who were always considered a minority rather than the mainstream in the society of people with abilities seemed like parasites eating away at the country.
The fact that presidential candidate Cheon Jae-yeol’s pledges are in the limelight by most of the people, except for some, is also because of his ability-first perception.
[Open the way right now! I’ll have to talk to the President myself! ]
At that time, the head of the protesters, the Bull Beast, holds a loudspeaker and calls out to the government guards.
[Ah- the president is a busy person. First of all, disband the protesters and go through the legal process to apply for an interview. ]
And a police officer who responds with a voice that is annoying by concentrating his magic on his vocal chords, not on his loudspeaker.
[ Already! Already! How many times! I kept applying for interviews with each government department! But no one accepted it… No one! ]
To that, the middle-aged man, a bull-beast, answers with a bloody neck.
[Ha ha.. Even if it’s like me. ]
[ What?! ]
The head of the association jumps up and shouts at the self-talk of a police officer who speaks with a sigh.
[Honestly, who listens to the beasts and incompetents? People who live without the ability to eat what others do for them. ]
The police officer speaks his mind without the slightest hesitation or respect from the protesters.
Thousands of people are gathered on the other side, but it is only incompetent people with no ability or mostly prisoners who are treated as slaves or objects.
People with abilities did not participate in the protesters, and most of the janitors with abilities sympathize with human society, and in the background of shouting the principle of ability first than anyone else, the probability that there are high-ranking people in the protesters is zero.
[ We didn’t eat some! Even if you don’t have the ability, each of you will do your best to help..! ]
[Enough. If you bother more, I’ll take it down with force, so go back in moderation. Moderately. ]
100 capable soldiers and policemen were enough to clean up all the thousands of incompetent demonstrators, so there was no reason to fear the opponent.
[Huh-!! ]
A screaming prisoner, the head of the Human Rights Association for the Incapacitated Person, perhaps because he knows that fact.
Touk-.. Giying–!
A loudspeaker hit the floor and roared.
“Kreung!! Push with your body right now!”
“..If this happens, we will be subdued sooner or later. In that case, why don’t we bump into each other at least once? President.”
Behind the head of the association, an angry tiger-beast woman and a sharp-looking, incompetent man wearing glasses talk to the bull-beast union leader.
“…”
The head of the union is unable to speak for a moment with a sunken face.
He had a fiery temper because he was connected to the blood of a beastman used mainly in bullfighting in the past, but he knew that the protesters would not see a good look if they were to engage in armed conflict now as the head of the union.
‘The cops are trying to beat us up by making things that don’t exist…’
The moment they collide first, they will use that as an excuse to suppress the protesters with violence.
In order to be safe, the protests must be organized at this level and retreated.
Just holding on to the position will try to suppress it somehow after time.
‘..But.’
Will the government listen to society just because it resigns like this?
There will be no one to help the prisoners and the incompetent who are alienated from human rights and the law, and as time passes, the prisoners and the incompetent will be discriminated against and crawl on the bottom.
“Do you have leftover soju from making the Molotov cocktail?”
“Yeah?”
At the words of the union leader, the woman who was the beast of a tiger made an expression that was out of the blue.
“Here it is.”
“Thank you.”
The representative of the incapacitated person immediately handed out soju to the head of the union.
Gulp– Gulp– Gulp–..
“Big..-“
One shot of a bottle of soju at once.
Chaeng-Grang-!
“Let’s go! Let’s show that we are definitely here!”
He broke soju bottles and shouted at the union members and protesters in a loud voice.
‘…If we stay still, our voices will be drowned out anyway. If that’s the case, let’s get on the news page.’
“Look! From now on, I’m going to run into those policemen and soldiers. If you die after one bite, follow me!”
-Waaaaah–!
Among those who have always lived with neglect and contempt, there was not a single one who refused.
Chaeng-Grang—! Blazing–!!
Whoa—!
And the protest scene that got closer to the dog fight that started.
Smoke from smoke bombs fills the surroundings thickly, and flames from Molotov cocktails burn everywhere.
“Ahh-!”
Soo-in ran towards the police with a club.
Poo-!
“Knock..!”
In just one shot, he fell face down.
“On the subject of being a dirty beast…”
It was a police officer wearing a knives and holding a fist with a blue air current.
“We are not dirty!!”
Another prisoner next to him jumped at him right away.
I’m sorry–!
Once again, I am thrown to the floor with one kick.
“Ahh-!”
“We are people too! People!”
Prisoners and incompetents rushing at police and soldiers everywhere.
Pooh–! Quick–!
Roaring–! Chijik–!!
The image of the cops and soldiers collapsing and collapsing due to their abilities.
“Heo-euk… Heh…”
It unfolded before the eyes of the head of the union.
‘I… I made the wrong choice…’
It was done out of anger, but if this happened, all the demonstrators would die.
Prisoners and incompetents thought that they were also worthy of society’s respect, but that was a complete misunderstanding.
Prisoners sold as slaves and incompetents who could kill without punishment without punishment.
“It’s disgusting to see trash like you out there breathing!”
“How dare you attack us, who are working properly for useless bastards?!”
The social perception was more and more grim and merciless.
Again-..
At that time, the sound of shoe heels was heard in the ears of the head of the union.
“Can I help you?”
When I look up, I see a black figure that wasn’t there before.
Shuuu-…
A monster wearing a black hood and surrounded by black mist-like smoke.
‘…The eyes?’
The two pupils visible from under the hood have no light at all, just like the black universe.
“Even.. To come.. What is that..?”
“I thought I might need strength…”
Power.. Is needed.
He was not born with the power most of humanity is born with.
“You look like a talented person… If you’re kidding, right now!”
When you’re about to say go away.
Shuwook-..!
Black smoke emanated from the monster’s hand and was absorbed by the guild leader.
“Gagging..! Big..!”
The head of the head of the union, who is rolling around in pain while holding his chest, gradually turns red…
Roaring–!
“Huh..!!”
A fire soars from its body.
“Uh… Uh… My body…?”
For an instant, the union leader was embarrassed to see his body burning as a fire.
Hwareuk..!
‘Ability…!’
Surprised by the flames moving according to their own will, they see the monster in front of them as if they were seeing a ghost.
“Are you… God?”
There is no one who can bestow ability anywhere.
However, such a “Medicine” Did exist.
Seruk.
As he took off the hood he was wearing, his long black hair flowed down.
“Not God…But. He’s the one you’re supposed to believe in.”
A beautiful girl holds out her hand with a benevolent smile.
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‘Be careful… Be careful…’
A girl walking cautiously, wearing a maid’s headdress over her head and waving her white ponytail hair.
Chalang-..
A single teacup was placed on a silver tray that the girl was holding.
“So this Thursday…”
Front view of a woman in a red sweater sitting on a sofa and talking.
“It’s… The milk tea you said! Lady!”
“Yes?”
She shouts with a red face as she cautiously sets her car down in front of her.
“Hmm-Does it smell good?”
“I! I boiled it hard..!”
“Thank you, Seo-hee.. Are you completely done with being a maid in the mansion?”
“Wow..!”
The maid, Baek Seo-hee, puts on a delighted expression as the owner, Hiro, strokes her hair and compliments her.
In a situation where it’s hard to believe that these two fought to death each other not too long ago.
“Maid Seo-hee! The lady praises you, so of course you should say thank you!”
“Ah.. Thank you! Miss!”
At the stern words of Baek-gu, who was watching from her side, Baek Seo-hee immediately bowed her waist and bowed politely to Hiro.
“It hasn’t been that long yet… Isn’t that too strict?”
When Hiro asks while looking at Baekgu.
“Since you’re already wearing a maid’s uniform, you’re just one servant! Shouldn’t it come out with sloppiness?”
Baek Gu looked at Baek Seo Hee in a sky-blue maid uniform and said as if he couldn’t just skip this.
“Bring me a cup of tea too.”
“Ah.. Four! Master.”
When Cheols, who was watching quietly from the side, spoke, Baek-gu took Seo-hee and headed back to the kitchen.
“So… You’re going to the museum on Thursday?”
“Yes. The teacher told me to bring a packed lunch.”
“Hmm..”
Watching Hiro answer while sipping black tea, Chuls touched his chin as if he was lost in thought for a moment.
‘..If it’s a museum tour.’
In the creations that usually appear in the academy, places like museums and amusement parks are always places where incidents and accidents occur.
And ‘Boy, Be a Hero’ was no exception.
‘Recently, news came out that people with no powers or prisoners became people with powers and started terrorism.
I didn’t want to send Hiro a tour of the museum because I didn’t want him to be in any danger.
‘I should send this one..’
He couldn’t say no to Cheols, who knew that the weapon could only be obtained by meeting certain conditions in the museum.
“Daughter, how are you feeling these days?”
“The body..? Um… Alchemist Nero said that my body and babies are all healthy.. Bar.. I’m eating well.
“Yes?”
Cheols was a little relieved by Hiro’s bright talk.
‘There’s no way my daughter couldn’t do what the original Baek Sang-hyeok did.’
“What should I pack for my daughter’s lunch box?”
She decided to send Hiro to the museum.
