13 – Chapter 1. to be strong (4)

The conversation was in full swing, and after a delicious meal, it was around the time when I wondered if we should part.

“Mr. Jihwan.”

Baek Seol-hee started calling me by name.

“Jihwan-san, if you awaken as a person with ice abilities, how will you use this ability?”

“Are you asking me for advice as a person with ice barrier abilities?”

“Yes. Just a question. I hope it helps me.”

“I don’t know what to say to the ice barrier specialist.”

“They say it’s better if you can fight a blank sheet of paper. Yes? If Jihwan-san is a person with the ability to awaken ice magic, how do you think he will fight if he is a person with the ability to create ice freely?”

“Well….”

Are you seeking advice from the enemy?

Well, I don’t know that they’re enemies yet, so I guess they can talk comfortably like this.

“I-I only know how Seol-hee fights from what I’ve seen on video. Using ice whips, making ice walls, spreading ice wings…?”

“That’s right. What do you think would be good if we could give a little more variation here?”

“Well….”

do i need help?

When it comes to freezing-related abilities, I certainly know better than Baek Seol-hee.

The ability to freeze is an indispensable ability in subcultures.

“First of all…how about an ice pick?”

“An ice pick?”

“Yes. It’s literally an awl, but it’s an awl that’s almost the size of a stalactite. You stab it into the enemy and subdue it. If it pierces your shoulder and gets stuck into a wall, the enemy won’t be able to escape unless you break the ice, right?”

“okay.”

The reaction is lukewarm.

It’s because there’s no big difference from the existing method of manifesting her superpowers – ‘skill’ in two letters, ice spear.

‘How to do it.’

Shall we tell you about the ice magic that she awakened in the original work?

Or should I tell you about the ice magic that doesn’t exist in this world, but I know about it?

‘Sir. The commander-in-chief told us to conciliate with all our might, so please don’t say anything later.’

Baek Seol-hee, if you tell me later that you strengthened Snow White, just say that I was faithful to my mission.

“Anyway, you seem to already know something like an ice pick.”

“Um…for now.”

“Then how about this? It’s like spraying ice crystals into the air, like compressed dry ice that instantly freezes enemies it touches.”

“…Well.”

This time, in a different way, it’s difficult.

“Is that…possible?”

“Isn’t it up to Seol-hee whether it’s possible or not? Isn’t it the way a person with special powers develops further based on their imagination?”

“You know quite well. About the ability of a person with special abilities.”

“For people living in this world, knowledge about this ability is like knowledge about computers and smartphones.”

I moderately passed Seolhee Baek’s doubts and pointed at the ice cream that came out for dessert.

“Ice pieces of this size spread all over the place, and the number must reach hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands. If you touch an ice piece, the compressed ice pieces spread and cover the opponent with coldness.”

“Well….”

“Wouldn’t it be okay to roughly name the technology ‘Gingeryeong Oxidation’?”

“Even the technical name? It’s specific.”

“Everyone tried to make their own hero when they were young, didn’t they?”

So-called self-making.

“It’s just one of those manifestations of the imagination.”

“No. I think it will be of great help. I can’t feel it yet, but I’m sure if you come up with something with this, it will be a great skill later.”

Of course.

Because that’s your ultimate skill in the original novel.

I managed to push the words that were up to my chin into the ice cream.

“Then, if Jihwan is a person with special abilities, what kind of person do you want him to be?”

“Am I capable?”

“Yes. A person with a special ability. Any ability is fine. Any level is fine. Do you have a special ability you want?”

“Big…”

If it was me before becoming a goblin, I probably wouldn’t have wished for such a superpower.

No, I’m still hoping for it.

“Ability to enter the book?”

“Yes?”

“The ability to directly experience the world of various stories. It is to enter the world that I have only seen in print and see, hear, and feel the main characters in action, and feel the world vividly.”

“Ji-hwan…you seem to really like stories.”

“Yes. I really like it.”

So I liked it so much, I watched this and that, and I came to this world myself after taking out the excessive Gukppong La Novel.

“Ji-hwan seems to genuinely enjoy the story… while other people look at the story, they analyze how to make it their own.”

“Yes?”

“That’s right. It’s a world where the imagination of others develops into one’s own ability. If you express your ability as it is in comics or novels, it’s not plagiarism, but it’s a ‘homage’ that gains popularity, which is the reality of this era. .”

“…….”

“Ji-hwan, do you know what sword is used most often by people who have awakened this ability?”

“It’s a lightsaber, isn’t it?”

Orange.

A sword that comes out while doing it.

A sword made with the power of Poseu.

“That’s right. Everyone learned it that way. After we awakened to our psychic powers… that’s what we’ve seen since we were young.”

The reason why it is so popular is because the ‘superpowers’ that adults could show to children who had awakened this ability were the contents of that era.

“Have you ever watched children’s TV channels often? Most of them are like that. It’s about educating children not to use their abilities recklessly. At least when the children reach the age where they can have their own self and be controlled, they finally start to enjoy a story. “

Of course, as children got older and grew up, they gradually began to develop their own abilities, and adults used to show the world created by their imaginations as a medium to improve children’s abilities.

“I mean, this world is a world where you feel that the world expressed through imagination is hard-hearted.

therefore.

“Do you know what I thought when I saw that movie earlier? If I made a dinosaur like that out of ice and fought, it would fight just like that. If I made wings out of ice and flew into space, how would I fly? Falling from space with ice magic What should I do to stop the meteorite?”

The reality of this era is that the movies we have seen also have to be watched while analyzing the contents such as ‘how can I break through the atmosphere’ or ‘how to fight if I transform like a dinosaur’ to those with special abilities.

“In that sense, I envy Jihwan who purely enjoys movies. He enjoys content purely as content.”

Seolhee Baek lifted the car to me with a hearty smile.

“Even after going to Sejong Academy, can I ask you to talk to me from time to time?”

* * *

dinner.

Leaving behind her meeting with a mysterious man, Do Ji-hwan, Baek Seol-hee returned home and threw herself into bed.

Beep beep beep beep!!

As soon as I switched from personal privacy mode, where I could not be contacted except for emergency calls, to daily mode, all kinds of contacts started flying in.

Like suggestions for appearing in hero public service announcements.

Asking your face to shine at government official events.

Asking them to come to a meeting of the Busan Heroes Fellowship Association.

It was all public and only stories about being a ‘hero’ in front of others.

There, the individual and human ‘Baek Seol-hee’ did not exist.

The only thing that exists is an S-class talented person, the pride of Korea.

“ha.”

Baek Seol-hee covered her face with her hands.

“Am I going to have to live like this for the rest of my life?”

Perhaps, until death.

Marriage will also be taken care of by the state.

If you fall in love with a foreigner and want to get married, all the people in the country will immediately come out and make a fuss about marriage.

Freedom as a hero has already disappeared.

From the moment she starts walking the path of light.

Heroes with overwhelming power roam like wave emperors overseas, but that was really difficult in Korea.

“I….”

The moment Baek Seol-hee stretched out her hand toward the air.

“……!!”

The ice crystals he had unknowingly created in the air began to scatter in an instant.

The small ice cubes doubled from one to two, from two to four, from four to eight.

Pick up a piece of ice spread out like a grid as if making a cube and gently throw it toward the veranda glass.

shit.

The veranda windows began to freeze as if frost had settled down.

Although the area was the size of the palm of your hand, the small piece of ice exploded with ‘chill’ like a bomb.

“Wow….”

How did it happen?

Could it be that the conversation with the man helped develop a new skill?

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Just because of what the man said?

“…Nonsense.”

He hadn’t thought of such a skill.

But, as if she knew it before, she had learned a new skill.

Thanks to Do Ji-hwan’s imagination.

“……Whoops.”

Baek Seol-hee grabbed her smartphone.

And I looked at the profile picture of a man named Do Ji-hwan.

“…what?”

A profile showing his face as it is.

“Is it a selfie? Poop.”

It was a selfie taken with an awkward face.

“…Hmm.”

click.

With the sound of the capture, Baek Seol-hee started looking through the profile pictures.

click.

Click, click.

click.