114 – Chapter 5. you’re not ready yet (4)

The S-class villain and demon, ‘Haftod’, has gone missing.

“Find ‘Geumbu Dosa’! He must have disappeared this way!”

The hero who suddenly appeared like a magical girl, Geumbudosa, grabbed Halftoad with a red rope and kidnapped him.

What is the true identity of the woman?

It would be easy to figure it out, but the important thing right now was the capture of Halftoad.

It’s been a while since I became an S-class demon.

Mosol’s Demon.

fiery demon.

A demon who has changed due to his inferiority complex about his own appearance and his anger at other people’s love affairs.

It’s also a male devil, so if you use it well, it will be of great help to ‘demon research’.

“Move quickly! Come on! This way, it’s definitely in the direction of the forest! Spread out and search, and tell them to report any anomalies as soon as you find them!”

The president of the academy directly led the staff, heroes, and agents mobilized to subdue the demons on the spot and tracked down the golden master.

“We must find it! If the Gold Master is the person we think it is…!”

The principal swallowed his words behind his back.

“I should be able to find out about that ‘total disappearance’ event!”

It wasn’t that he had unknowingly spit out something he couldn’t say to others, but his words were cut off because his heart was filled with joy.

“President.”

“Ah, Professor Jung.”

“Does the president want the devil Halftoad to play Zenroth?”

“…of course.”

In response to the professor’s question, the president repeatedly licked his lips and could not calm down his excitement.

“If he appears without this ability, then we should of course try to restore his ability, right?”

“Do you think this ability passed on to someone?”

“Yes. I think so. Losing this ability does not mean that it simply disappears, it means that this ability is stolen by someone. Why, wasn’t there such a thing in the cartoons you and I watched when we were young?”

“Because I’m not from that generation again.”

“Grunt.”

The president frowned, but soon flowers bloomed at the news from Taegeuk Watch.

[President. A searcher found a halftoad in a clearing. He’s a white-haired human, not a demon. It seems to be Genross.]

“Um…! Have you confirmed that you can feel the magical energy?”

[I checked it myself. It didn’t feel like it at all. It is clear that this ability has been lost.]

“I see… Ah, what a pity. Losing this ability…!”

The principal blushed and wiped the tears with the back of his hand.

“Academy is not a place where a student gets into an accident and throws it away. Our ‘Foundation’ will take care of Halftoad. Just in case, seal his limbs and move him to an intensive care unit to see how things go. I’m sure he doesn’t run out of control anymore. If possible, release the restraints to a minimum.”

[All right. If you’re going to the Foundation, are you doing ‘rehabilitation training’?]

“Of course. I lost this ability, but isn’t there a possibility of recovering it again?”

It is, however, an area of possibility.

“The academy does not give up on its students. This is, hehehe, isn’t it a place to nurture talented people who will lead the future of our country?”

[All right. I will follow your instructions.]

“Yes. Hard work.”

The president put his hand on the Taegeuk watch.

As soon as the phone hung up, the president took out a white paper bag with ‘Hallasan Mountain’ written on it from his pocket.

“I really want you to meet the Golden Master. And if it’s not to destroy the devil’s ability, but to steal the devil’s ability…”

sigh.

“If this ability becomes like an object, wouldn’t it be possible to hand over property that you do not own to another person through a legal process? Then, even those who do not have this ability can become people with this ability.”

The president’s eyes were shining like a child’s.

“This country will become stronger and stronger.”

* * *

[The Devil’s Heart is a little different from the one you extracted. However, the devil’s ability is the same in that it is an object that escaped from the devil himself.]

“Is it just the difference between the heart and other parts?”

[right. It depends on the extraction method, but in the end, coffee is just like coffee, whether brewed or hand dripped.]

“Suddenly, when you say coffee, something feels strange. Does drinking coffee make you a person with superpowers?”

[It’s coffee that makes you possess supernatural powers when you drink it. A certain ability.]

In this world, this ability is the foundation of imagination.

[Until now, in this world, there has never been a case where this ability became an object. Officially. However, just as you take away the devil’s ability and keep it in the form of an etheric mass, there are people in the world who study devils and extort their abilities.]

I thought that Ymir could steal this ability from the devil, and she had the magic to fully realize it, and because her will reached the law of the world, she extracted this ability from the devil.

[It is possible to steal this ability. Then wouldn’t it be possible to remove this ability?]

“Is that the goblin’s bat?”

[It’s one of the goblin’s various abilities. It’s embarrassing to ask how this is possible. because….]

“I write because it became possible.”

[I know you well.]

Same for me.

[I can erase this ability. There are things that mesh with your abilities, but these are abilities that I originally had.]

“How is that possible?”

[It’s a company trade secret, so I can’t tell you the details. However, if there is a condition, it is only possible when this ability is displayed in a form that is not owned by anyone.]

He leaked information in secret.

If Ymir is quick-witted, he will surely notice.

“…You mean there are people with such abilities? In an organization?”

I knew it.

Ymir is quick-witted.

It took a bit of time, but it didn’t just take an hour or two to produce the result, and it accurately caught my intention right away.

“I wanted to take Ermina’s ability, so I wanted to make it my own. I was trying to figure out how to do it. But you, goblin, got rid of Ermina’s ability in front of everyone’s eyes. I’ve already guessed from then, but it’s the same.”

[Ermina. That sounds like a pretty old story.]

It was only a month ago, but it seems like a long time has passed since so many things happened in between.

[It feels like bringing up a story from a long time ago. Interesting.]

“The world is busy, and there are so many things happening. I’m just bringing out what I didn’t say then. And thanks to that… I’ve been able to confirm it again like this. There.”

Ymir turned towards me with a serious face.

“I also learned about the Devil’s Heart. Thanks to that, I became aware again. I think my ability is special, but there may be others with abilities like mine.”

[This is a good attitude.]

“There can be many people with abilities like goblins in the world, right? Combine with another person with special abilities, take out the rider suit, and erase the abilities.”

[Of course.]

The abilities that I materialize with the goblin’s bat are all abilities based on the subculture of the other world, the earth.

“It seems there are more things in the world that I don’t know.”

[It’s a world of darkness that Platinum Sun doesn’t know. And the world of darkness is more profound and bizarre than I thought, and if I knew that the ability of the platinum sun was to create the ability of the devil as a substance, I would immediately follow the platinum sun.]

“For the incompetent to become the supercapable?”

[yes. Whether it’s Zenross or whatever, the Gold Master has appeared. And I got rid of this ability from the frog demon.]

Human thinking is diverse.

And it’s not just people with special abilities who think.

[Even those who are incompetent can come to such an accident. Did you get rid of this ability or did you take it away? If stolen, will it be transferred as it is, or will it be stored and transferred in some form?]

“The background to come up with that is…”

[Even before 2000, there were many creations, and there were actually settings that fit perfectly. It is still being published.]

Devil Seed.

Devil’s Heart.

Considering that seeds grow well and eventually bear fruit, it would be correct to use the word fruit, but not using it directly would be because it is not polite to refer to something bad.

‘Thanks to that, I’m looking good.’

To fight alongside the younger brother without being executed.

Whether it’s because the worldview has changed since 2000 or because this ability actually exists, many stories that are quite different from what I knew unfolded.

The older brother of the main character dies in a youth magazine that gives children dreams and hopes?

People with special abilities who were watching cartoons could be out of control due to culture shock.

[The world will try to capture you and create a devil’s heart. We will start investigating you everywhere to figure out your identity. The world will not look at you, but will rather persistently start digging into you.]

“…I’m prepared.”

[really?]

“Yes. Is it a bit harsh to say that I am a billionaire? I can overcome adversity and hardships. If my identity is revealed, I can live while hiding the fact that I am an academy student.”

[Positive. Being pursued by the world, you don’t know unless you experience it yourself.]

“Dokkaebi, an S-class villain, is living like this right now, right?”

[It just looks like a good life.]

Every time I go out, I have to take off my Taegeuk Watch, I have to worry about being naked every time my transformation is released, and I have to worry about my magic power running out all the time.

“That’s enough. And determination as a hero? Something like that…”

Ymir smiled at me and came towards me.

“It was much more difficult to resolve to break into the house of a man I liked alone.”

[……Does that compare to that?]

“Dokkaebi doesn’t know because he’s a man. The mindset that a woman goes into a man’s room alone.”

With his back to the sea, Ymir leaned over to me and grinned.

“If you’re determined to take away the goblin as a woman against the gang, can’t you say that you can fight against the world as much as you like?”

I thought I wasn’t ready.

It wasn’t.

[You were already a prepared hero.]

“As a hero. And…”

shit.

“Even as a woman.”