Chapter 66: It's Not Only Riders Who Transform (3)
A young couple in their 20s stuck together from Friday to Sunday?
“Anyone would think that wouldn’t they?”
“They’d think we’re being patriotic.”
Brewer roughly arranged the items that were in the bag.
Then, to create an alibi, she hid the key evidence, two medical health supplies, under the TV shelf.
“Wouldn’t filling up all 24 later be a hassle?”
“There’s a way for that, so don’t worry.”
“How are you planning to do it?”
“Just need to create it with the Goblin’s Club.”
“Hehe, won’t your mana be depleted?”
“Who are you worried about?”
I spread my arms out, exuding confidence.
“I’m the Goblin. I haven’t transformed for a while, and after healing on Ulleung Island, I’m in full condition now. It’s as if I’m fully charged.”
“But you said you’d sneak around for the treasure hunt?”
“There’s still some time left until then.”
Three days were left until the start of the treasure hunt on Friday.
“I should be able to recover after just 24 uses of mana.”
“Assuming you recover, something important must happen in the treasure hunt? There was no intelligence about a demon appearing or a villain showing up.”
“They might show up.”
“Hmm. When did our boss start making efforts for crime prevention?”
“Are you being sarcastic?”
“I’m not being sarcastic. It just doesn’t seem to fit with your previous actions.”
Brewer’s sharp words were accurate.
“Boss Do always came to solve the problem after an incident occurred. Like a hero who always arrives late at the scene.”
“You’re belittling all heroes with that statement.”
“I’m not really a fan of heroes. I’m from Gyeolsa in the first place. My role is to provide missions that are easy for Boss Do to carry out based on the information coming through Gyeolsa, and there’s no information about the treasure hunt.”
Brewer lightly covered her ears with her hands.
“If there’s any information I shouldn’t know, don’t tell me. I’ll just cooperate in making the alibi. Okay?”
“It’s not like that. I just want to check out the treasure hunt for personal reasons.”
“Tell me if you can. If not, don’t even tell me.”
“It’s nothing big. Just like you said, it’s a precautionary measure, patrolling, you know.”
“…So, the sun is going to rise from the west now?”
Even in response to my sincere answer, Brewer only cocked her head as if she didn’t believe my words.
“You’re a villain-hunter, Chief Do. Not a villain patroller. If we were to speak a little dramatically, let’s take hostage situations as an example.”
Brewer mimicked a motion of strangling herself.
“… Wasn’t the Goblin not a person who saves the hostages from the hostage-taker during a hostage crisis, but the person who goes to kill the hostage-taker if the hostages were killed?”
“That’s right. It’s always been like that until now, and it will continue to be so.”
Rescuing hostages was a hero’s job.
If there was a hostage-taker who killed the hostages, we would not let it slide.
“It’ll be a bit different at the treasure hunt.”
However, this time we intended to manage things in advance to prevent a hostage situation from happening.
“What kind of change of heart made you do this now, huh? Doing the work of a volunteer patroller, which is not even a mission of the Gyeolsa, isn’t that a bit too much?”
“Because there’s a chance a Duoexini might appear?”
“…I don’t have such information.”
Brewer’s expression immediately became serious.
“Did I miss something?”
“No. If it’s not on Brewer’s intelligence network, the probability of appearance would be less than 0.1%.”
“So you’re saying you’ll patrol because of that 0.1% chance? All day Friday? What’s your basis?”
“It’s a hunch.”
“……Well, I can’t say anything if you put it that way.”
Brewer raised both hands and shook her head at my words.
“Fine. What do you need me to support? Anything other than making an alibi?”
“If Duoexini, their organization, and including Hwalbindang, if anyone tries to mess with the treasure hunt, just let me know right away.”
“Of course. But are you going to leave your Taegeuk Watch here?”
“I have to leave it. If there’s any such information before Friday, let me know.”
“Should I ask the company for something like that? A communication device that can contact you and me without being caught by all the radars on Sejong Island.”
“If such a thing existed, Sejong Island would have been in the organization’s hands long ago.”
It was inconvenient, but we couldn’t help it.
Sejong Island was a place where the world’s attention was focused.
Having strange frequency conversations there, sensitive conversations, or conversations on channels that the organization couldn’t control could cause serious problems.
“But I’ll think about a way. Maybe it would be possible if we find and hire a telepathic superpower user.”
“… It’s not an impossible proposition.”
While broadcast or communication was susceptible to interception, ‘magic’ was a different story.
“I guess it would be good to give it a try, despite the risk. Somewhere other than Sejong Island.”
“I’ll propose it to the company. You think the higher-ups would send more team members to support you, Boss Do?”
“Just Brewer would be enough, but…”
“It’s flattering to hear that, but isn’t more always better?”
“Then go ahead and give it a try. I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, though.”
I crossed my arms in an X shape.
“No men.”
“… You’re even doing gestures now? Do you dislike male team members, or do you prefer female ones?”
“Well, they say having a pink skirt is better, right?”
“……”
Brewer scrunched her face for a moment.
“…Alright. Suppose we do get more female team members. So, you’re going to create an alibi with her like you did with me?”
“That’s not the intention, but it could be a possible use.”
“Boss Do, aren’t you afraid of getting in trouble later?”
“What? Why would you say something like that? Why would I get in trouble?”
There was no reason at all.
“Who are you to say that?”
However, Brewer looked at me as if she were looking at a man who lets a woman’s confession go in one ear and out the other while repeating, ‘Huh? What?’.
“In my estimation, they’ll try to divide you later, saying, ‘I’ll take this part, you take that’. Someone will take the leg, someone the breast, someone the neck.”
“Am I a chicken now?”
“It’d be a relief if you’re only divided like a chicken. Aren’t you and Secretary Do on thin ice right now?”
“Secretary Do? Me?”
“Yes.”
Brewer pulled out a screenshot on her smartphone.
“Aren’t you in a flirtationship with this student?”
“…A flirtationship?”
The picture Brewer showed me was of a scene late at night, precisely of me walking Yumir home after she visited my house and we had dinner. We were walking towards her dormitory.
“More importantly, where did this picture come from?”
“It’s circulating on the dark web. They say that an E-rank ability user from Canada and the Librarian Parachute Director is in a flirtationship.”
“It’s more like counseling than a flirtationship.”
“But you’re not publicly declaring that, right? People who can only judge from pictures will think of it as a flirtationship, right? Everyone’s saying it’s totally a spring love story. They’re predicting you’ll go cherry blossom viewing together when the flowers bloom in April.”
“I’m not in that kind of relationship with Yumir.”
Personal and professional matters should be strictly separated.
“And even if I was, I wouldn’t stop making alibis with you.”
“…Wow. Despite being a Westerner, your view on relationships is quite Hollywood.”
“Of course.”
Since coming to this world, I have chosen to become a villain.
“I’m not a hero who needs to be concerned about my social image. Do I have to be seeing a woman?”
“Bravo.”
Brewer even clapped in admiration toward me.
“Are you planning on creating a harem as the Goblin?”
“No. The Goblin has a master. I’m talking about the person Do Ji-hwan. The librarian Do Ji-hwan, not the superhuman.”
“What’s the difference?”
“For the mission, I can meet and see different women, but the identity that I can call Goblin belongs to only one person.”
“Could it be…the Chairwoman?”
I shrugged casually.
“I’m doing all this with the Chairwoman’s permission.”
“Why would the Chairwoman allow that?”
“It’s part of the Chairwoman’s grand plan for world domination.”
“Seems like a hard-to-understand plan with a criminal’s logic. Alright. I don’t know, so you figure it out. I will stick to my duties.”
“I will do my best to avoid causing you any harm… Ah, wait a moment.”
I answered a call that came on my Taegeuk Watch.
[Hello?]
“Ah, yes. Seol-hee.”
“……”
Brewer quickly covered her mouth.
Just by hearing the name Seol-hee, Brewer immediately knew who I was talking to.
[Can you talk right now? Are you outside?]
“Yes, yes. I’m outside for a moment.”
[Do you have plans for the weekend?]
“Do I have plans for the weekend? I’m going to take Friday and Saturday off and rest at home. Thanks to that, I have a four-day holiday from Friday to Monday.”
[Oh, really?]
Upon hearing my answer, Baek Seol-hee’s voice became brighter.
“What about you, Seol-hee?”
[I’m going on a field support trip this Friday. Treasure hunting.]
“…Seol-hee, you’re going on a treasure-hunting trip? Wow. That’s amazing.”
I signaled to Brewer, and she immediately began writing with her pen.
-Snow White was not on the support teacher list.
“But is it necessary to even mobilize you, Seol-hee? I thought it was a light event for the students.”
[I thought so too, but it seems like they’re doing it a bit differently this time.]
“Differently?”
[Yes. If you look at the official document, Ji-hwan, you’ll understand….]
Baek Seol-hee carefully spoke while taking a slight pause.
[I think the treasure they’re trying to find this time is the Goblin.]
“……Who?”
[Goblin.]
“……”
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