55 – Chapter 3. Mental care (1)

It is said that from now on I can talk in detail about why this woman has come at this time, but I have run into a big problem.

“Isn’t this s*xual harassment?”

“What?”

“I’m in an open-air bath naked right now, and Seol-hee Baek is sitting across from me wearing a long padded jacket.”

I am naked now.

Although it is said to be an open-air bath, it was a place where I entered by reservation alone, so of course I came in naked.

What if someone sees it?

Could there be a CCTV in the open-air bath attached to a place that costs 5 million won a day?

at all.

There may have been in the past, but not now.

To protect the privacy of people visiting here.

Thanks to that, even if Seolhee Baek is here now, even if I come here naked, it won’t be recorded in places like CCTV.

instead.

“Baek Seol-hee, why aren’t you looking away?”

“I can’t see you anyway because of the heat and water on the hot spring, so what do you think?”

“If it had been a gender swap situation, it would have been a real uproar.”

“Really? In a TV drama, a woman enters a men’s bath wearing clothes and pulls out the man’s hair before taking him outside.”

“…….”

So, I wanted to ask what would happen if the gender changed, but Baek Seol-hee’s current state seemed too gloomy for that.

“You can’t see it, right?”

“Yes. I can’t see it. I can’t see it even if I want to see it. Just like Do Ji-hwan can’t see inside my long padded jacket.”

Baek Seol-hee was wearing a long black padded jacket that reached her ankles.

At least one good thing is that there is nothing on her wrist.

“You took off your Taegeuk Watch. You did a good job. If it were known that you were with a man on Ulleungdo because you were tracked by the Taegeuk Watch, Ms. Baek Seol-hee would probably be in the limelight as a scandal.”

“Yes. That’s why I took off my Taegeuk watch to avoid a scandal. By now, the superiors over there must know that I’m having a blast drinking beer in the office room.”

“Did you fight?”

“Yes. Well. We fought very well. In that sense… can you give me some advice?”

“Well.”

I don’t know why Seol-hee Baek thinks of me as a trash can for pouring out insults from high-ranking people.

This is a bad idea, and if I think good, it must be that I am comfortable with it.

I didn’t hear you were a goblin.

If they were caught, they would have been wary of me instead of those eyes by now, but it wasn’t like that at all.

“Okay. What on earth did the high-ranking people provoke Baek Seol-hee?”

“Dori as a human being.”

“Um… Considering what just happened today, there’s only one answer.”

As with the Red Scarf, the answer is already out there.

“Did you try to cover up the information about the dead villain above and disguise it as a ‘simple runaway incident’?”

“…It’s similar.”

“Similar?”

“The government is trying to fabricate this incident as an incident caused by an unidentified goblin follower. No, they have already fabricated it.”

What is this?

“It’s different from what I’ve heard on the field.”

“Were you at the scene?”

“Yes. I know everything about it because I moved from a distance according to the faculty manual. The doppelganger student talked about patents at the site.”

“…Yes. But the sound of the field has become less important. The important thing is how the government makes an official statement. Do you have a Taegeuk Watch? You’ve probably made a statement by now.”

“Well….”

Through Taegeuk Watch, I quickly skimmed through the summary to find Baek Seol-hee’s official statement.

“The Villain Doppelganger is a goblin follower who is obsessed with goblins, and wanted to become a goblin by making his suit a new goblin appearance.

“Yes. Actually, that’s not the case.”

“Well….”

Those present at the site must have heard the story of ‘patent’, but when I looked at the related news, I couldn’t find any story about patents with my eyes open.

– No, why is there no patent talk?

The comment also changed to ‘This comment was deleted by the author’ after refreshing.

“It’s under control. I think the topic of patents is a bit sensitive.”

“Do you often use the sun shade?”

“No. I’m participating in the boycott of Sunshade. Fried chicken is a Western food and seasoned chicken is a Korean dish, so ever since I started selling fried chicken at a higher price, I hate Sunshade.”

“Do you like fried?”

“Yes.”

Patriotic marketing has its fair share, but how in the world can you lower the price of seasoned chicken just because it’s Korean food?

“There must have been a shadow behind the patent. And the shadow slipped behind them so that they would not be criticized.”

“That’s right. And the heroes were also banned. There are many people on Sejong Island who are spawned in the shade of the sun, so even if I skip it, I’m a newcomer to this island.”

Baek Seol-hee’s voice became more and more melancholy.

“Anyway, in order to tame me, since I have a bad relationship with the goblin, he threatened me to take advantage of it.

“I have two questions.” “What is it?”

“Does the government dare to threaten Baek Seol-hee, who is an S-class? Dare?”

“……That’s true.”

Baek Seol-hee let out a deep sigh with a melancholy face.

“It’s a very ironic problem. Even if the country offers me many unfavorable conditions, I have no choice but to accept the conditions in the end.”

“Why?”

“Because you know I can’t leave this country.”

Baek Seol-hee is being threatened.

With the emotional problem of patriotism held hostage.

“Occasionally, I see such articles anonymously while wandering around the Internet community. If you have a lot of money, there is no reason to stay in a country like this. You can go abroad and live happily. You can stay abroad and reign as a single hero and god.”

Actually it is.

Among Koreans, there are already a considerable number of people with special abilities who have moved to the Middle East, Europe, and Africa and have established themselves as the only gods in that region.

“Can’t we just leave?”

“You can leave. If you emigrate, they will give you money that you will not be able to use for the rest of your life there, and they will support you with your house and car. But…”

“Are you saying you can’t give up your nationality?”

“I see.”

Baek Seol-hee let out a laugh.

“What nationality really is, this drives people crazy again and again. Villains do that sometimes. Heroes have been brainwashed with patriotism since childhood, so they can’t think of resisting the government. If you throw away that petty patriotism, freedom overflows. Because they couldn’t throw it away, they keep seeing the loss of creation.”

“It’s all because the country forced passion pay while threatening with patriotism.”

“Passion… Payo?”

“It’s an experience that turns into blood and flesh, so you should think of it as earning money because you’ve gained a life experience that’s more valuable than money.”

“…….”

Baek Seol-hee smiled lightly.

“As expected. It was good to talk to Mr. Jihwan.”

“Is it because it’s gukkka?”

“Yes. It seemed that Ji-hwan was the only person around me who could speak harshly to the government like this. As expected, I was.”

“Why fold?”

“Ji-hwan, you live in Seoul.”

oh.

Any regional drips here?

“Not everyone who lives in Seoul is a soup.”

“But aren’t most people living in Seoul negative towards the government? They don’t even send heroes.”

“I said it wasn’t 100%.”

We got to know each other by sharing our hobbies, but Seolhee Baek seems to have a little liking for me because I was a Seoul citizen.

“Anyway, that’s why they turned a man into a demon for their own benefit, concealed and manipulated it, and put all the blame on the goblin. It wasn’t enough. Mr. Baek Seol-hee, with his patriotism, was disillusioned with the country that used to threaten him and came to me because he wanted to curse at me. That’s it.”

“Exactly. It seems that the congestion has eased a little now.”

Baek Seol-hee’s smile gradually relaxed.

Baek Seol-hee’s worries are problems that I-library librarian Ji-hwan Do can’t solve.

But sometimes, just listening to the story in silence is the way to get counseling on your worries.

Women are not the ones who want solutions to their troubles.

They are people who listen to my concerns, want me to curse with them, and want empathy.

“After hearing Baek Seol-hee’s story, I think it’s too much. I’m sure it’s okay to continue boycotting the shade of the sun.”

“Huh-huh. That’s a good word. Sunshade, me, association, everything…ha.”

Baek Seol-hee looked up at the sky for a while before turning her gaze to me.

“The thing I don’t understand the most is the response to that ‘Doooksini’.”

“Are you two billion?”

“Yes. They’re making a fuss about catching a goblin, when they should immediately hunt down a person who uses strange magic that seems to create demons.”

“The magic that turns people into demons…?”

“Yes. Did you see the video? Something like tentacles inside the doppelganger’s body.”

“I wasn’t there at the time… I tried to watch the video again, but it all went down, so I couldn’t watch it.”

“That’s right. The video has also been taken down. I can’t help it because you said you didn’t see it yourself. Why are you making a fuss about catching the goblin when you have to catch him?”

Baek Seol-hee lamented and put her hand on the long padded zipper.

“Can I go into the hot springs?”

“……Yes?”

“It’s okay. There’s no problem.”

flutter.

“I want to curse at the beggars in this country where everyone else says they like it.”

In an instant, Seolhee Baek took off her long padding and sat down on the railing.

“Will you be my bamboo forest today?”