I Will Save the World and Retire Chapter 85

Unwilling choice (1)

I expected Lee Mi-seon to ask.

These are the words exchanged with the guy who attacked. You might get a clue as to what he’s after, and even if that’s not the case, it’s definitely a story about the ark.

So, I was thinking about an answer early on.

Or gloss over it… It’s not like I didn’t consider answering that I was roughly echoing what the other person said.

But what is the benefit?

Rather, it was given to me if it caused confusion in the tracking of the Ark, but there seemed to be no gain for me.

In that case, it is much better to give real information. There is no need to show your cards honestly. All you have to do is not give incorrect information.

No, whatever. Honestly, it’s not that I don’t feel helpless and wondering what I’m doing right now. Should I run away now? I ran away and closed the room-dong dungeon… . then? So what can you do? Even so, the fact that everyone dies and is ruined remains the same. Unless you plan to enjoy it for just 20 years.

Well, if you think about it that way, it might have been fortunate that you got caught by Hong Seok-young as soon as you came to the past. She had no desire to remain as an illegal awakener, and although she didn’t know it at the time, she also had a plan to seek cooperation from the International Association of Supernatural Talents.

okay. Things are going well.

… Still, it’s not like I don’t feel like I shouldn’t have brought up the story about my younger brother.

That damn younger brother. I thought the only thing that held me back in the past was my adolescence, but I never thought it would hinder me in this way.

Of course, even if I went back to the beginning, I would have no choice but to bring up my younger brother. There is no story as obvious and effective as a family that unfortunately broke up. Actually, the effect was good.

Just, what? Instead of selling myself to you as my non-existent younger brother, I think it would have been better to create a character that doesn’t exist at all.

Even if it’s a story about my younger brother, it’s all about me. Since I am a person involved, it is reasonable enough, but how can I feel good about making up a pitiful story about my childhood through my own mouth? It’s true that it was an irritating time, but I don’t think it was such a pitiful past.

Lee Mi-seon’s gaze stings. I think they’ll think it’s strange if I don’t answer quickly.

Also, I have to tell a story that I don’t feel like telling. Now, imagine the younger sibling you never had.

My little brother. young me Number 12 for a ten-year-old.

A child that 30-year-old Woo Hee-jae desperately tries to save.

… Even if I don’t have to search for her like this, she will be rescued by Hong Seok-young next year. Go to school, take the civil service exam, and… .

He could be your son.

Wow.

“… Teacher Wu?”

“ah.”

I relaxed my jaw and smiled awkwardly. Mi-seon Lee looked at me quietly, then hesitated and opened her mouth.

“If it’s something difficult to talk about… .”

“no.”

I decisively cut off Lee Mi-seon’s words.

Even if it’s not because of your younger brother, speaking up is something you have to do in the end. Rather than speaking directly to Hong Seok-young, it would be better to convey it through Mi-seon Lee.

“It’s something we have to talk about at some point. Rather, it was too late.”

In some ways, the fact that he didn’t force himself to listen to what I had to say could be proof that Hong Seok-young trusts me.

To be honest, I sometimes feel like I’m full because I’m not hungry for information.

I guess I don’t have to worry about it up to that point.

Maybe you already know what I’m about to say… Isn’t that possible? Considering that Hong Seok-young and Kim Chae-min had completely misunderstood the purpose of the research institute, it seems unlikely that Lee Mi-seon would be any different.

I got up from the sofa. Lee Mi-seon’s eyes followed persistently.

“… “I don’t know where to start.”

The pension, which Lee Mi-seon’s family often used as a vacation home, was one-story but spacious as Dayeon’s reputation was. Enough to give her children their own rooms. There is also a kitchen in each area.

I searched the kitchen. The kitchen here is not large, but it is large enough to make coffee. I turned on the electric kettle, looked through the drawers, and found a coffee mix.

Even places like this have coffee mix.

“Simply put, we look at horsepower.”

I took out a cup and poured two coffee mixes into it.

“Magic power. I see it. “With both eyes.”

Lee Mi-seon blinked.

My mouth feels dry. I have never told this to anyone other than my uncle.

Lee Mi-seon opens her mouth. I hit the player first.

“This is different from saying that you are sensitive to magical power. It’s true that you’re sensitive to magic, but being sensitive and seeing are different, right? “I can see it.”

“… … .”

Lee Mi-seon remained silent for a long time. Unlike the seasoned Lee Mi-seon twenty years later, this Lee Mi-seon still shows emotion on his face.

It was clearly visible that he was embarrassed.

Lee Mi-seon repeated what I said once more.

“I see magical power.”

“yes.”

Do you know what it means to see magical power? I don’t know. I knew I had to explain, but I didn’t feel like it either.

I glanced at the electric pot.

“For me, it’s like an unexpected success. “I wasn’t supposed to see it in the first place.”

The sound of water boiling is heard.

Still, we started talking slowly.

The story I will tell Lee Mi-seon from now on is not entirely my story. As she lives at the research institute, there are many stories she cannot help but hear. This was one of them.

“Didn’t I say that I wore a mask around the ark?”

Lee Mi-seon licked her dry-looking lips.

“yes. so… “No one knows my face.”

“Do you know what that mask means?”

Lee Mi-seon’s eyes, which had been shaking, became sharp. Her reaction was too sharp to be the reaction of a stranger.

I remember briefly explaining the mask to Hong Seok-young. Otherwise, she may have heard from Mr. Kim, who said she infiltrated the Ark in the first place. It seems like she went into quite a deep place. She said, I guess she couldn’t get out.

Lee Mi-seon wondered whether to pretend she knew or not. I pretended not to pay attention to Lee Mi-seon and looked out his window as I waited for the water to boil.

I can see the sea. The sea at dawn is calm. When combined with the red rising sun, a landscape that looks like a painting is complete.

“… “I understand that he is responsible for various tasks within the research institute.”

Lee Mi-seon spoke carefully. I don’t need to give any unnecessary explanations.

“I’m in charge of miscellaneous work.”

“Isn’t it a bit important to call it a chore? Monitoring researchers… .”

Lee Mi-seon blurted out her words as she looked at me.

I continued what Lee Mi-seon couldn’t finish.

“It’s a chore. I do everything the researchers ask me to do… . Sometimes I take care of the kids. Well, as Hunter Lee said, there were people who were in charge of important work. Deal with traitors, kidnap kids… . “I was also in charge of disposing of useless test subjects.”

“Disposal?”

“yes. “Discard it.”

I chuckled.

Just then, the water had boiled.

“The person in charge of disposal is changed frequently. If you destroy a person, will your sanity remain intact? So my health was bad from the beginning… “We asked the failures to do that.”

I poured water into the cup I had poured the kippy mix into. Hot steam obscured my vision.

“I was originally scheduled to be in charge of disposal work.”

“… … .”

“But luckily… I was in charge of a different task. “Now that I think about it, I’m not sure if I’m lucky.”

When the white steam dispersed, Lee Mi-seon’s face was visible. I shook up the remaining coffee mix.

Lee Mi-seon shook her head with a pale face.

“therefore… What did they say about this? That’s it for me. By genetically manipulating the baby… fabricated? “I don’t know if it’s okay to make this.”

“… “Designer baby?”

“Ah yes. That’s it. When I was still a kidney bean-sized cell, we were conducting such an experiment on the Ark. Something that makes you awake in the fetus, something like that. Of course, most of them died, and I was one of the few who succeeded. No, I failed, but I succeeded in being born.”

I drank my coffee slowly. Coffee so sweet it makes you vomit. I didn’t know I would get used to this cheap taste.

“I couldn’t awaken. So, he must have been born. So the researcher who created something that was about to be discarded… . You could say they are my parents. They stopped it because they thought it could be the cornerstone of other experiments. For your information, just looking at the results, I wasn’t really the cornerstone of that experiment.”

“… Wait a minute, Mr. Wu. “You were awakened, right?”

“I did. Later. Even after my magical power was awakened, I came to see it a little later. So I and my parents thought I was a natural awakener.”

“… … .”

“When I woke up, the project I was involved in had already ended and other experiments were in progress. So I was called out to various tasks, including dungeons and other things. There are many awakened people within the ark, but not many are born from the ark. A janitor who was raised on the ark from the time she was a cell, not even a fetus. “It’s perfect, right?”

I shrugged my shoulders.

“It wasn’t a bad job. If you work hard, there are opportunities for promotion. There were some shitty moments, but that’s the same with other things, right? “There are times when this hunter feels like sh*t at work, right?”

“… “There is.”

“yes. So.”

I sipped my coffee and smiled.

“Of course, I kept hiding my ability to see magical power. By then, I knew roughly how things worked. Even if I tell you, nothing good will come out of it… . So I was able to remain an ordinary janitor.”

I paused for a moment. We must not forget the story.

This is why you should not trust a man with a story. Lee Mi-seon also needs to develop a better eye for people.

“Until I met my brother.”

“My younger brother.”

“The fetus was too weak and failed, so let’s create children by manipulating their genes and then artificially awaken them. There was a project like that. “That’s what we’re doing now.”

“… … .”

“There were one or two children who could see magical powers even though they could not awaken. Do you know what this symptom is? You become extremely sensitive to magical power. “Like student Tae-woo.”

Memories from long ago come to mind one by one.

dark lighting. An elderly man and woman walking through a laboratory and evaluating children.

“I’m not sure what Alex Hope wanted, but I know what he was trying to do. I think they were looking for a magical work, that is, a successful work. Or kill all the test subjects.”

If this is really an internal conflict in the Ark, I think the latter is more likely. Considering that he kept regretting that it was a waste, he may have had other plans.

“Well, I’ve been thinking about it. Alex Hope, I think he might be a janitor too. “Not a low-ranking janitor like me, but a janitor.”

No. Not a manager… . It could be a case like Kang Tae-woo. I frowned. Before I knew it, the bottom of the glass was revealed.

“You said that Alex Hope’s parents are still alive?”

“yes?”

Lee Mi-seon nodded with a nervous expression.

“yes. “They are both active hunters.”

“Then, investigate the whereabouts of those two.”

“Parents?”

“Because he may be similar to Taewoo’s student.”

It was born externally and grew normally until it reached a certain age. However, this does not mean that they are not loyal to the Ark. Just looking at Kang Tae-woo, he grew up as a model student.

“Because the parents belong to the Ark, they put their children in the laboratory and conduct experiments… .”

“How do you know that, teacher?”

A small voice suddenly intervened.

“… … !”

Kang Tae-woo was leaning against the wall where Lee Mi-seon was leaning earlier, looking at me with a pale complexion.

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