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Chapter 10: To Become Stronger (2)
[Chief Do. I’m going to the academy next week. Do you need anything else?]
“Several suits. I think you should buy several suits of the same design. They will surely tear when I transform.”
[Are you going to pretend to be a gentleman in a single suit? Haha, as expected from Chief Do. I will send you seven identical suits, so you can change them every day from Monday to Sunday.]
“So you mean I have to work even on weekends?”
[Ah.]
“Chairwoman? Chairwoman!!”
Beep, beep, beep.
The call ended.
Of course, the chairwoman wasn’t the type of person to push me into work madly just because she ended the call like this.
She was just implying, ‘Go around on weekends and seduce talented women!’
Not saying it directly was the chairwoman’s pride; catching that meaning was my intuition and ability.
Beep.
A photo of the main target arrived on my smartphone.
“So Snow White is the top priority.”
She was a woman I’d already had contact with and, at the same time, the heroine that I needed to seduce - no, persuade the most.
‘If it weren’t for this woman being an instructor, I wouldn’t have been able to get in, right?’
The reason I could enter the academy this time was all thanks to Snow White.
‘It’s not just one or two guys who quit their jobs because of her.’
Not because Snow White was the goal but because many academy positions were vacant thanks to Snow White becoming an instructor.
Mostly, those with shady backgrounds quit immediately.
They were more corrupt than villains.
Commonly, if a hero like Snow White entered the academy, they would probably stay just to see her face once. Still, they wouldn’t want to create unnecessary trouble.
[After investigating, you embezzled the supply cost of mint chocolate ice cream!]
[Ugh, I’ve been caught!]
[I won’t let you escape! Ice Hell!]
[Aaargh!! My lower body!]
Nobody would want to be hit by Snow White’s ice whip.
I didn’t want to be hit, either.
Snow White’s ‘Ice Magic’ not only slowed down the body but also the flow of mana.
There were two ways to deal with Snow White.
[Haha! Fire melts ice!]
[My ice is colder than that]
[…Ah!]
Someone like a Pyrokinetic who had a fire magic ability that’s superior to Snow White’s Ice Magic.
[Why aren’t you freezing…! What the hell are you?! What kind of power is this?!]
[Where in the world is a villain who would reveal that?]
Or, like me, someone who doesn’t get affected by Snow White’s ice magic due to special abilities.
“Immunity to Ice.”
For instance, I infused the properties of a ‘Mana Insulating Suit’ into a suit using the power of the Goblin Bat.
It was a skill dedicated to countering Snow White. It was useless against other ice magic, and it drained a lot of mana, but thanks to it, I could escape from Snow White as much as I wanted.
‘My specs are B-grade, or if you look kindly, A-grade, but I’m pretty good at running away from S-grades.“
That’s why my villain ranking might be S-grade.
Almost no one could catch me in this country, including Snow White, and it was the same for foreigners who had entered this country.
‘The problem is the heroines and the bodyguards that follow them.’
But the story differed for the foreigners who would soon ‘come in.’
Beep.
I opened the V-Tube app on my smartphone and turned on a V-Tube channel, which also existed in this country.
[…There are people who have recently become the topic of discussion on Hero Wiki, right? Right now, an airplane is arriving at Gimhae Airport. Seemingly announcing the royal aircraft of the UK, with the Union Jack painted on the exterior…]
Celebrities were pouring in from all over.
The princess of the UK, the granddaughter of a German corporate chairman, the successor of a powerful American family, an Arabian princess.
[All of them are rumored to be beautiful women, but why are they coming to Korea? According to local news, they love kimchi-]
There were also many other women who were called ‘heroines’ in the original world’s setting.
[This novel is about Korea taking over various countries like Japan, China, the USA, the UK, France, Germany, Arab, and so on.]
[In my opinion, the author is just a nationalist who adores foreigners. There’s not a single Korean heroine. All of them are foreigners.]
[They’ve eaten a lot of kimchi, so now they want to try sausages, mint chocolate, pineapple pizza, things like that…]
[Does the author possibly have a fetish for foreigners?]
That was how many foreign heroines there were.
Indeed, most of the influential people coming to Korea now were heroines.
Those who were trying to force admission under the name of ‘Special Admission’.
If you included extra characters other than the heroines, there were dozens of special admission applicants this time.
They couldn’t be considered few in number because the quality of these applicants was too high.
There were already people who were C-grade, B-grade, and even an A-grade in this batch.
What was the reason they came to Sejong Academy?
Because the protagonist was enrolling?
Because information about a man who claims he ‘wants to live quietly as an S-grade’ had already gone around the world?
No.
It was all because of ‘Snow White’.
[Do you know why these princesses suddenly applied for special admission this year?]
[I’m not sure…. isn’t it because it’s a place of learning?]
[There’s nothing like that. They all came to meet ‘Snow White’, who came as an instructor!]
A line from the original work came to mind.
Next to them was a character with glasses playing the role of an explainer. This character said, ‘What? You don’t know this?!’ and went on to explain everything.
The author seemed to have deliberately created an explainer character to inflate the volume of the dialogue.
Anyway, according to that character,
[They are followers of Snow White, and that’s why they came to Korea! Do you know another nickname for Snow White?]
“Lily Princess.”
It could also be read as Lily (百合) and Clam (白蛤).
Of course, as fitting for a light novel, it had subculture implications and could be read as the Lily Princess.
What did it mean?
Lesbian.
To be exact, Snow White herself was not a lesbian, but she was the popular sister type among girls, so she stirred up a lesbian-like atmosphere around her.
Most of the heroines become involved with the protagonist while trying to seek an encounter with the Lily Princess. In the end, the protagonist conquered one heroine after another until he finally conquered Snow White. That seemed to be the main framework of the story.
But the reality was different.
“…I wonder if her intention is the same as mine.”
The recruitment of Snow White.
As the Ice Mage with the most potential among the heroines over 20, she became the second strongest being after the protagonist.
To claim such a being, or to bring her into their country, or to arrange her marriage with a handsome man from their country to induce marriage immigration, each country sent representatives to Sejong Academy.
‘If Korean law was applied, it would have been immediate deportation, but Sejong Island is not like that.’
Sejong Island was part of Korea’s territory but followed international law first.
[Sejong Island is Korean territory!]
[They yelled, but how could they handle the sudden pressure from the entire United Nations?]
[Darn it…! We might not know everything, but if we don’t get recognition from the United Nations that this is the ‘East Sea’ and clearly our land, something serious will happen!]
No matter how strong Korea was, they couldn’t win against worldwide pressure. Now, the United Nations representatives and embassies of powerful countries were also installed in Sejong Academy.
[Don’t use English on Sejong Island! The official language of Sejong Island is Korean! If it’s difficult, learn Hangul! Unlike the fragmented languages of the world, the characters and the language won’t be mismatched here!]
And thus, Sejong Island probably became the place with the most diverse nationalities gathered from all over the world.
Of course, the island itself had few foreigners as it mainly consisted of the Academy and a few other facilities.
With a population of around 50,000, the number of foreigners did not even reach 1,000 on the island. Still, most of those 1,000 were superhuman abilities holders or workers related to these abilities or government officials.
But there was no need for me to encounter them all.
Because…
“If I’m holed up as a librarian in the library, no one will come!”
Who would come to the library when they were busy accumulating mana?
“I hope it’s empty. Then I can spend my time there reading manga and novels.”
Regardless of it being a mission or being a villain, there’s something called ‘working hours.’
“I’m an office worker who sticks to 9 to 6.”
Unless they gave overtime pay, from 6 p.m. to 9 a.m. was entirely my time.
Sometimes there were things that were worth more than money.
“Wow.”
Looking at the footage on the TV channel, I felt a thrill.
“This is coming out here.”
In this world,
All the contents released after 2000 were ‘new things’ to me.
Manga.
Movies.
Novels.
The one regret was that some of the works released after 2000 did not appear in reality.
There are cases where, like someone, one awakened as a superhuman and turned mana into life force to create manga, but some manga and novels had not even been started because the author ‘died’.
Or, they came out much later than in reality, with different actors and directors.
“It’s about time for the movie to start….”
I grabbed my coat and went outside.
“I can’t resist a movie where a dinosaur pushes away a meteorite falling from the sky.”
“……Snow White?”
“Oh, the motorcycle guy from Banpo Zai?!”
By chance, I ran into her next to me at the cinema.
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