[Battlefield of Myths (6)]
A clash between gods.
People watching the broadcast were left dumbfounded from the middle.
The battle between Noh Eun-ha and Armageddon was truly a fight beyond their comprehension.
""""..."
Flames and darkness collide.
Players in the world of flames are armed with fire attributes added, and resurrect even if they die.
"Hey, what's going on..."
"Stop talking and just watch."
The screen flashes repeatedly.
The frame stutters.
Nevertheless, people could hardly take their eyes off the screen.
Even though only fiercely swirling flames were visible on the screen now.
They tried to find Noh Eun-ha appearing even a little there.
By then they could sense intuitively.
That the battle would end soon.
"...What's this, what's happening? The screen's gone black and nothing's showing!"
"Just stay still for a bit. It'll come back soon."
People held their breath.
They all prayed for Noh Eun-ha's victory with one heart.
And finally.
The reddened screen gradually faded, and N Seoul Tower was appearing.
Whoosh!
The flames were subsiding.
All the monsters in that world were disappearing becoming embers.
The battle had ended.
Players fighting monsters lowered their hands holding devices.
"Noh Eun-ha! Where's Noh Eun-ha!?"
"Ah, geez!!"
People approached the screen.
Then other people cursed and did the same thing.
They searched the screen thoroughly, forgetting even to breathe, as if burying their faces in the monitor.
They could intuitively sense how the battle had turned out.
But they wanted to confirm if what they imagined was really true.
So just one person.
They searched for that person.
""""..."
Players' faces appear.
Players who achieved great merit in this battle and raised their value to citizens.
Among them were Twelve Seats.
There were also Pandora Clan members.
But the person they were looking for wasn't visible anywhere.
Thud thud thud thud
The screen was moving from the observatory elevator to the edge of the observatory.
The propeller sound was annoying.
People forgot even that and finally found a figure visible at the edge of the screen.
"Oh!?"
A man's foot was visible.
Soon the screen moved sideways.
The man's silhouette was revealed.
A man gripping two swords with both arms pulled to the opposite shoulder.
The screen slowly zoomed in.
""""...!!""""
At that moment, the man collapsed.
People watching the screen all exclaimed in surprise.
They were deeply worried if he had died.
To this, they leaned their heads in even more trying to check the life or death of the man lying face up towards the sky.
─Stretch
And shortly after.
When the screen got closer to the man, suddenly the man raised his right hand.
The hand not gripping a sword clenched into a fist, raised straight towards the sky.
At that moment, people could no longer hold back the cheers about to burst out.
""""Waaaaaaah─!!!!!!!""""
""""Noh Eun-ha won!!!!!!!""""
Cheers that started from who knows where.
As cheers echoed in every home, eventually the whole country was in an uproar.
By then, loud cheers were also echoing in the broadcast.
The commentators were also shouting at the top of their lungs forgetting their roles because they were so happy.
[Pandora Clan Lord! <Crimson Lotus Sword>, no, that's not it! Lord! Player <Lord> Noh Eun-ha has just defeated Armageddon!! The disaster... the disaster is gone!!]
When that sound belatedly burst out.
People cheered again.
People who had their faces close to the screen now jumped up and down in their seats showing gestures of joy.
An old man who couldn't even straighten his back properly straightened his body without feeling pain and hopped around.
"Pa-Panties!! Where are my panties!? Everyone take off your panties and shout! No, take off your shouts and panty!"
"Grandpa, that's right!"
"Waaaaaaah!! I've decided! I've decided now! I'm quitting my job! Who cares about work at a time like this!!"
For two weeks.
People were each preparing to accept death.
In that process, they had the opportunity to look back on the lives they had walked.
People who thought they had fallen to money-making machines working about half the day decided to retire that day.
Noh Eun-ha opened a new world by defeating Armageddon.
So they impulsively decided to retire to live a new life.
"Waaaaaaah!! Screw school! What's the point of studying! I'd rather become a player!"
"I'm not going to academy today! Everyone just know that!!"
People's shouts didn't stop even after 5 minutes.
That day, while the number of people retiring nationwide explosively increased, a similar phenomenon occurred in succession.
On the other hand─
"─Make <Lord> a Twelve Seat! If you kick <Lord>-nim out of the Twelve Seats again like last time, I won't stand for it!"
"Make the Crimson God this country's lord! Make the Crimson God a Twelve Seat!!"
"There's no dealer more suited for that position than Pandora Clan Lord in this country anymore!!"
People absolutely didn't want Noh Eun-ha, temporarily appointed as a Twelve Seat, to step down from that position.
The people's will was heaven's will.
☆
In a world where myth was ending.
Eun-ha thrust swords into himself.
The two swords eliminated Armageddon's mana dwelling in Eun-ha.
Whew, I thought I was going to die.
For a moment he almost had his body stolen by Armageddon and was about to disappear.
He also almost died by his own swords.
Fortunately, Eun-ha who wasn't injured at all collapsed on the ground.
"..."
He felt refreshed.
The sky was deep blue.
He was just satisfied that he had protected this world.
It was then.
"He~y! Eun-ha Eun-ha, are you alive?"
"Are you alive?"
Ariel and Hoshimiya Kaede.
The two occupied the sky Eun-ha was looking at.
Ariel squatted down and poked his head.
Kaede was smiling faintly.
Eun-ha smiled faintly back.
"How does it feel to die once?"
"Since I died in an urgent situation, I'm not sure if I even died. But it wasn't a very good feeling."
"Eun-ha Eun-ha! I hurt so much I really want to eat dew, waaah. Can Ariel drink alcohol today?"
"Didn't I tell you not to use third person?"
Ariel makes crying sounds.
Eun-ha wasn't fooled by her.
Sure enough.
Ariel clicked her tongue.
By then other clan members also approached asking about Eun-ha's well-being.
"Are you okay?"
"How do you feel?"
"Hmm... I feel somewhat refreshed."
This time Ryu Yeon-hwa spoke.
She almost accurately grasped what Eun-ha was feeling.
Eun-ha silently nodded.
Then she held out her hand.
"Here."
"Thanks."
Ryu Yeon-hwa pulls him up.
Eun-ha raised his upper body.
He sat cross-legged on the ground and chatted with clan members.
He didn't feel pain.
Is it thanks to Belphegor's inner pill?
Though strength drained from my body when I activated the gift, it doesn't hurt.
His heart was quiet.
It was beating no different from usual.
The backlash from gift <Amplification> wasn't big.
Just strength drained from his body.
There wasn't much backlash from myth either.
Is a Mine's body really tough?
Unlike last time, I don't feel like my soul is being pulled out even after manifesting myth.
The price for manifesting myth couldn't be ignored.
You lose existence power and soul as the price for maximizing your existence in the world.
The body breaks down like that.
But Eun-ha's heart seemed to be preventing his soul from leaking due to myth.
Yet his body felt comfortable.
"Oh my, look at your body. It's because Riya unni and I cast magic to suppress pain."
"...Ah, so that's why?"
"A lot of adrenaline is being secreted so you feel less pain. Strong pain will come soon."
"..."
Though he avoided soul loss.
It seemed pain would come a little later.
Eun-ha decided to entrust his body to Noh Eun-ah and Ilya's treatment.
Meanwhile, Ryu Yeon-hwa pointed at the swords on the ground.
"Eun-ha, perhaps..."
"Yeah, that's right."
Eun-ha gave a bitter smile.
Both Zangetsu Kōsei and Hundred Flowers Scattered.
The sword blades were pure white.
There were no patterns at all.
"I don't know if they couldn't withstand myth or if it's because of the final attack, but it seems the built-in magic disappeared."
""""..."
As if they had fulfilled their role.
The two swords eliminated Armageddon inside Eun-ha's body and lost their inherent power.
Eun-ha knew by feeling.
Even if he entrusted them to Byeok Hae-su for repair, he wouldn't be able to fix the magic of the two swords.
In the end, his swords had no particular value other than being made as Eulji-grade treasures.
"Well, whatever. Swords can be made anew. Right? They'll go into a museum because of this incident."
Jo A-ra spoke changing the mood.
Her words were right.
Though Mammon and Lilith remained, he would receive rewards according to merit after defeating the remaining Seven Devils.
Moreover─
─Probably with high probability...
I'll be able to obtain a Taegeuk-grade treasure this time.
Obtaining a Taegeuk-grade treasure.
Eun-ha smiled just thinking about it.
"By the way, are you okay A-ra? How does it feel to die once?"
"How does it feel, you try experiencing it yourself. I thought my hair was going to fall out."
"That's why I said don't like free things."
"Excuse me? My hair is healthy you know?"
Eun-ha got up from his seat.
Jo A-ra and Jin Seo-na supported him.
He could see other players approaching him from far away.
Meanwhile, Jin Pa-rang came running stark naked.
This time unlike before, he tactfully sent telepathy.
[Hey! I found the soul stone!]
Jin Pa-rang shows what he's holding in his hand.
Eun-ha burst out laughing.
There was no need to be tactful in the first place.
"Who would ask for that."
Undisputedly.
The only owner of Armageddon's soul stone could be Eun-ha.
With this, <Lord> was born that day.
☆
Somewhere in Gyeonggi-do, an underground laboratory.
The lab was lined with glass tubes filled with green liquid.
There were people with closed eyes inside the glass tubes.
They were all dead people.
"...!!"
At that moment.
One man's corpse twitched.
The man opened his eyes wide.
The man who checked his condition immediately swung his arm breaking the glass tube.
The glass shattered miserably at one strike imbued with mana.
"Hup, hup, kuk...!!"
Green liquid gushes out.
The man took off the mask in his mouth and gasped for breath.
Then he removed devices stuck all over his body.
The man came out of the glass tube.
"It was, beyond expectation. I almost really disappeared. Leaving a soul in this child's body just in case was a brilliant move."
The man, Armageddon, spat out words.
He who wiped moisture dripping from his hair tips with his hand recalled the final battle with Noh Eun-ha shared through his soul.
The more he thought about it, the more amazing it was.
A myth of immortality, resurrection.
It was a myth that seemed to completely deny the path Armageddon had walked so far.
How is that possible?
Did he actually experience death?
No, that can't be possible.
Even I could only reach the brink of death at best.
There can't be a method I don't know.
Armageddon shook his head inwardly.
Noh Eun-ha's myth was incomprehensible.
On the other hand, Armageddon realized one thing by momentarily possessing Noh Eun-ha's body.
That too was an amazing fact.
He still couldn't believe it.
"That child's myth isn't complete yet."
Noh Eun-ha probably didn't know.
But he who had researched myth in detail could tell Noh Eun-ha's myth was still imperfect.
"That child... hasn't completely approached the essence yet. Yet to show such a myth... What kind of life must he have lived to embody a myth surpassing resurrection."
That guy was a monster.
Just thinking about it made his teeth chatter.
But because of that─
─I covet it even more.
Armageddon chuckled.
He was deeply curious how omnipotent a being he would become if he stole his body.
"Though I failed this time, I won't be defeated like that next time."
Rather it's good.
Noh Eun-ha would surely have received people's unwavering faith because of this incident.
That faith would make him stronger.
So it wasn't a bad situation for Armageddon trying to steal his body.
"So I should prepare for next time. It seems this child's body also has power similar to yours, I'll face you using this child's power next time."
Armageddon soon looked at the face reflected in the glass window.
A handsome face.
He was very pleased with a face that seemed to easily gain people's favor.
It was pleasing to look at too.
"I'll need time to adapt to On Tae-yang's body for a while, but well, waiting isn't bad either. I've waited for over decades. What's a few years?"
Armageddon looked forward to next time.
He looked around.
One more test tube was broken.
"Did Mastema already leave? I should contact him soon."
Armageddon muttered calmly.
Then he too decided to quickly put on some clothes and go outside.
It was then.
Click click
Beyond that hallway.
The sound of high heels was heard.
Armageddon flinched.
"..."
Few people knew about this place, and they wouldn't be here at this time.
Moreover, the only women who knew were Lilith and Beelzebub.
Then who are the women approaching now?
No, who are the 'women'?
Armageddon tensed.
Eventually they revealed themselves.
"My thought was right. I don't know how many years I struggled to find out up to here."
A woman wearing yellow sunglasses.
A woman dressed in fashion that looked like it came out of a pictorial smiled seeing Armageddon.
On the contrary, the woman beside her wearing a suit stood expressionless.
"Who... are you?"
Armageddon was wary of them.
At the same time, he was scheming to kill them using force if necessary.
Though he didn't know what was going on, it was good to eliminate witnesses.
Even if he hadn't possessed On Tae-yang's body for long, he could find an opening somehow.
So he spoke to them while quietly trying to cast magic.
Right then─
─Snap
The woman wearing sunglasses suddenly snapped her fingers.
Armageddon's magic was cancelled.
"This level of magic, well... I might look like someone who just travels around ignorant of the world, but I was selected as a Twelve Seat candidate, I can't not do this much."
The woman grumbled.
She leaned on the stair railing.
"It's difficult to see a Mine's star. But it's relatively easy to see the stars of people involved with Mines
"It's difficult to see a Mine's star. But it's relatively easy to see the stars of people involved with Mines. So I traveled around the country. Looking for clues to catch you."
"..."
"And I reached here by reading and chasing people's stars like this. I wonder if this answers your curiosity."
Though Armageddon hadn't asked.
The woman kindly explained.
Meanwhile, Armageddon cast another magic.
Snap
Of course, that too was cancelled.
"Stop being so persistently annoying. Just give up already."
"Who on earth are you?"
"Just a fortune teller passing by chance. Just know that much."
Armageddon gritted his teeth.
He rolled his eyes trying to find a device that might be somewhere.
But it was too late.
The woman's words were faster.
"Hermit."
"Yes."
"It's that person."
"What should I do?"
"Kill him. Can you do it?"
"Really... do I have to kill him?"
"If you don't kill him now, countless people will die. He's originally a dead person. He's just a corpse with a soul overlaid on it."
"...I understand."
The woman who had been quietly standing by.
The woman with long tied-up hair leapt down the stairs.
She took a boxing stance wearing black gloves.
Armageddon activated magic.
"...What!?"
The woman throws one punch.
The magic is miserably crushed.
Armageddon couldn't believe what happened before his eyes.
Eventually─
────!!
The woman's fist touched him.
One lightly thrown punch shook his entire body.
The woman immediately straddled his fallen body.
"W-Wait, hold on...!!"
Wait a moment.
I don't know your purpose but surely we can resolve this with words.
So...
Armageddon's words didn't get through.
The woman emitted a murderous aura.
"So it's because of you that I've had to hide like this all this time."
"...!!"
"I can't forgive you."
One strike, one strike.
Destroyed Armageddon's body.
The woman swung her blood-covered fists until Armageddon died.
"With this, the future trouble is eliminated."
The woman wearing sunglasses.
<Star-Counting Witch> Song Yun-seo watched with her eyes as Armageddon's soul disappeared.
[Lilith]
Though Armageddon has been eliminated.
The disaster is not over yet.
There was one surviving Seven Devil.
In the final battle, Mammon was subjugated, but Lilith managed to escape.
[Breaking] <Yama> Kang Hyeon-cheol subjugates Mammon!
[Breaking] Twelve Seat <Earth Dragon> Chong Eun-ju dies
And that day, Chong Eun-ju died falling to Lilith's magic.
Most of the core members of Samra Clan who participated in Lilith's subjugation with her ended up dying.
It was natural that Samra Clan suffered a huge blow because of this incident.
As it was, Samra Group had been on a downward trend since last year's South Sea Wave incident.
The group that had been looking for an opportunity to recover its image through Samra Clan has now become unable to recover.
[Breaking] Twelve Seat <Great Tree> Seon Gi-jun severely injured
[Breaking] Donghae Clan Lord dies while being transported to hospital...
Meanwhile, Donghae Clan also suffered damage.
Though fortunately <Great Tree> survived, Donghae Clan Lord Kim Seong-min died after being attacked by Lilith.
Because of this incident, Donghae Clan's honor was tarnished, and KK Clan showed active movements seizing this opportunity.
In <Great Tree> Seon Gi-jun's case, some people appeared criticizing him.
They harshly criticized that he as a guardian failed to protect the clan lord.
The problem spreading below the surface gradually rose above, leading to heated debates.
Eventually, voices doubting <Great Tree>'s qualifications as a Twelve Seat grew louder.
[Beloved citizens. Though the great disaster ended with one superhuman appearing, we are still in the midst of disaster. So please be mindful of safety every day...]
Im Ga-eul appeared in the media.
She praised Noh Eun-ha who defeated Armageddon that day.
Though she didn't call Noh Eun-ha lord, she used the word superhuman to emphasize that Noh Eun-ha was separate from other players.
Just with that, Noh Eun-ha's support became even more solid.
"Now if the 2nd Fairy ascends and Noh Eun-ha remains as a Twelve Seat, it wouldn't be strange if he rises to the highest position in this country."
All people with political insight thought that way.
What was once suspicion was now turning into certainty.
But there was no one opposing.
Im Ga-eul had to give up now too.
No matter what she does, she can't gain more prestige than Noh Eun-ha.
She could ruin state affairs by unnecessarily trying to raise her prestige.
In the end, Im Ga-eul couldn't go against the flow the public wanted.
If I step down from the Fairy position, this country will change centered on Noh Eun-ha.
Without taking questions from reporters.
Im Ga-eul was lost in such thoughts the entire way back to the Blue House.
Ha Baek-ryeon who will ascend next after she steps down was young.
Since she had no notable achievements, someone had to be a strong background for her and help her build accomplishments.
In the end, she was in a position where she had no choice but to be swayed.
"I hope that child treats Baek-ryeon well, like he's doing now."
You can't go against the times and public sentiment.
Im Ga-eul gave a bitter smile.
But it was still a distant future.
So she decided to focus on organizing things around for the day Ha Baek-ryeon would be inaugurated as Fairy until then.
Therefore─
─We must definitely subjugate Lilith. Only then can we end this disaster.
Im Ga-eul ordered players across the country to find her in order to subjugate Lilith.
A few days passed from then, and Im Ga-eul discovered a letter on her desk while she was briefly away.
She opened the letter curiously.
Soon her face hardened.
"Hello, Fairy-nim. I apologize for sending a note like this. My name is Song Yun-seo, and I'm embarrassed but I use the alias <Star-Counting Witch>.
The reason I'm sending this letter is..."
The letter had Lilith's hiding place written on it.
Im Ga-eul immediately sent players to confirm if the letter was true.
As a result of checking, it was revealed that Lilith was really hiding there.
☆
A law was recently enacted.
People called the extremely long law that was hard to even recall the 'Lilith Special Law'.
The gist of the law was as follows:
One, people affected by Lilith's terror must not be criticized for any reason.
One, when a spouse requests divorce, consent of both the spouse and the person affected by the terror must be obtained. Divorce requested by only one side is invalid.
One, additional clause to the above. Also, divorce registration can only be done 3 years after the date of Lilith's terror.
One, additional clause to the above. Also, the person affected by the terror must be in a stable mental state.
One, guidelines for children born due to Lilith's terror are as follows:
Abortion is as follows......
The gist was that all problems arising from Lilith's terror are borne by the state and citizens.
As a result, All-Player Association representative Jin Seo-na was called to meetings day after day.
Children born due to Lilith's terror were necessarily Ains.
They had to ensure those children weren't abandoned when born, and didn't grow up facing discrimination.
Since many Ains were expected to be born, utmost caution had to be taken.
The government can't ignore these children either.
When these children grow up and become adults, they'll form a huge interest group of Ains.
So we need to deal with them so they don't become dissatisfied with society.
That was Jin Seo-na's wish too.
Ains born in the future will probably be pointed at for institutional and emotional reasons.
If she neglected that, Ain rights would greatly fall.
So she devised solutions to protect future Ains even cutting down on sleep.
Han Seo-hyeon, Jung Ha-yang, Lee Yu-jung and others helped a lot at this time.
On the other hand─
"─How are you feeling now?"
"Seo-na, you came?"
She visited her birth mother in the hospital from time to time.
In fact, her mother had minor injuries.
But she was suffering from mental shock after seeing many people die in Abaddon's terror.
So she was resting and recovering at the hospital.
"You must be tired from work, you don't have to come so often."
"Didn't you tell me before not to live at the clan hall and show my face more?"
"That and this are different."
After Abaddon's terror.
Jin Seo-na was able to treat her mother a little more intimately.
She talked about her recent situation to keep her mother from being bored.
Her mother welcomed Jin Seo-na's change gladly.
"Seo-na."
"Yes, mother."
"Won't you call me that again like before?"
"That time? When was that..."
Her mother asked then.
Jin Seo-na tilted her head.
Her mother was smiling.
"Mom. Won't you call me that?"
"..."
The title she had been intentionally avoiding.
But the title she unconsciously blurted out when protecting her mother from Abaddon.
Jin Seo-na hesitated.
Then she relaxed her stiff face.
"Yes, mom. I will."
Though it was a long detour.
Though there was still a long way to go.
If they advance step by step, maybe someday they'll become close like other families.
Jin Seo-na now decided to go with the flow and respond to her mother's love.
☆
November.
Jung Ha-yang's delivery was now about 2 months away.
Unable to resist Eun-ha's nagging, she ended up resting at Alice Hospital.
"Are you okay, unni?"
"Me? I'm still okay. My belly hasn't swollen much yet."
Han Seo-hyeon, Jung Ha-yang, Lee Yu-jung.
Ha Baek-ryeon was closest with Lee Yu-jung among them.
So Ha Baek-ryeon who visited Jung Ha-yang at the hospital immediately went to find Lee Yu-jung and worried about her physical condition.
This unni is already weak, wouldn't it be better for her to be in the hospital with Ha-yang unni?
Ha Baek-ryeon thought that way.
In fact, when Eun-ha recommended Jung Ha-yang rest at the hospital, he recommended it to her too.
But Lee Yu-jung refused.
She insisted she would stay at the clan while Jung Ha-yang was away from the clan now.
Because of that, Eun-ha and people around couldn't break her will.
"There's still a lot of time until the due date, so I should help Eun-ha and Seo-hyeon unni. But thanks for worrying."
"Sigh, unni is quite the workaholic too."
"Is that so?"
Lee Yu-jung who couldn't see didn't have any particular work to do at the clan.
But she was skilled at soothing people's hearts.
In the clan's unsettled situation, she was playing the role of calmly comforting clan members.
Ha Baek-ryeon knew her role too, so she didn't say anything more.
Instead, she sat next to Lee Yu-jung and placed her hand on her belly.
"It was amazing with Yu-seong too, and amazing when Ha-yang unni's belly swelled... The human body is really amazing. How can a baby be in this small belly?"
"I know, I'm amazed too. That there's a life resembling Eun-ha and me inside my belly."
Lee Yu-jung smiled.
Ha Baek-ryeon looked up at her.
Since Lee Yu-jung became pregnant.
Ha Baek-ryeon felt her smile had become strangely more mature.
Not just her.
Seo-hyeon unni and Ha-yang unni were like that too.
Can you smile like that when you become a mother?
A smile Han Seo-hyeon and Jung Ha-yang made too.
The loving, warm smile made viewers feel somewhat wistful.
She felt strangely envious somehow.
She harbored the thought of wanting to become someone who smiles like Lee Yu-jung.
At that moment, Ha Baek-ryeon didn't miss Lee Yu-jung's expression darkening for an instant.
"Unni, what are you thinking?"
"Huh?"
"You look like you're worried about something."
"Ah, it shows."
Lee Yu-jung gave a bitter smile.
She stroked her belly and said.
"I'm glad to have a child, but on the other hand I wonder if it's my greed."
"Greed? Why?"
"I'd surely be happy if a child resembling me and Eun-ha is born, but I'm worried this child might be born unable to see like me."
"Ah..."
"The hospital asserted that won't happen, but I'm still a bit anxious."
Lee Yu-jung couldn't see.
Ha Baek-ryeon belatedly recalled that and understood her worry.
There was only one thing she could say in this situation.
"It's okay. Why are you worrying about such things, unni?"
"You're right, it is a needless worry. Thanks for worrying."
Ha Baek-ryeon opened her mouth as if declaring.
Lee Yu-jung received her comfort and chuckled.
"And it's my child, so it's regrettable that I can't see my child."
"..."
"Until I met Eun-ha, I thought I could live well even without being able to see... Ah, sorry. I ended up saying weak words."
"No, it's okay."
Lee Yu-jung sighed.
Ha Baek-ryeon couldn't properly answer those words.
So she quickly changed the topic to change the mood.
"Come to think of it unni, have you thought about the name for the child to be born?"
"Father said he wants to name the child... Seo-hyeon unni said it would be better to unconditionally let Eun-ha name the first child. But Eun-ha is now..."
"Ah, he's super busy now."
"Since it's something we can think about slowly, I'm planning to discuss with Eun-ha later."
Lee Yu-jung's smile returns.
Ha Baek-ryeon spent an enjoyable time chatting with her.
On the other hand, Ha Baek-ryeon realized the country's laws don't reflect this era as she received Fairy education.
She didn't forget the concerns Jung Ha-yang and Lee Yu-jung were subtly worrying about.
'Legally I'm listed as living at Eun-ha's house... So I have to just register the child under my name in the family register, or register under Seo-hyeon unni and Eun-ha's family register. So I'm worrying. What to do.'
'..."
When she visited Jung Ha-yang at the hospital.
Jung Ha-yang was hoping for the child to be born soon to be born healthy, while worrying about how to handle the child's legal procedures.
This country doesn't officially recognize harems in principle.
Nevertheless, harems were thriving.
Harems that settled in this country over decades had now become a trend that couldn't be ignored.
We have to recognize it now.
We can't leave Ha-yang unni and Yu-jung unni's children in a legally ambiguous state.
Ha Baek-ryeon initially opposed harems.
But as she got along with Noh Eun-ha and became close with his wives, she had no choice but to change her mind.
To this, Ha Baek-ryeon was watching for an opportunity while devising a new law on her own.
Then she heard news that the Lilith Special Law was legislated.
There's no other chance but now.
I'll submit it when Ain rights are guaranteed by law and proper anti-discrimination clauses are created with the Lilith Special Law.
Not long after that.
Ha Baek-ryeon visited Im Ga-eul.
Im Ga-eul who was devising a Lilith subjugation operation welcomed her gladly.
The two now treated each other affectionately like aunt and niece.
"So what brings you here, Baek-ryeon?"
"I have a proposal for Fairy-nim."
"A proposal?"
"I've devised a bill, and I'd like to hear Fairy-nim's opinion."
"I haven't given assignments recently but you've been studying on your own. That's excellent. So what is it?"
Ha Baek-ryeon handed Im Ga-eul the bill she had put effort into devising.
Im Ga-eul flinched seeing the law she submitted.
"Polygamy Permit Proposal Act? Baek-ryeon, this is..."
"I'll call it the Harem Law for short."
"..."
"Though polygamy is problematic, couldn't we create a system suitable for modern society if we present certain conditions?"
"If we allow polygamy, groups might abuse strategic marriages. This is a bit..."
"So we put several restrictions. When a man forms a harem, we check if he has certain assets, and take legal measures if the man treats harem members unfairly..."
"You studied hard..."
Im Ga-eul muttered seeing Ha Baek-ryeon confidently briefing.
Moreover, the law she devised wasn't bad.
Though it needed polishing, it was quite a suitable method for current society.
The problem was─
"─We need to consider public sentiment, and be mindful of the darkness too. The darkness won't want harems to receive legal protection. Because that's how the darkness can exert power."
There were two problems.
One was public sentiment.
The other was the darkness's vested interests.
The moment Ha Baek-ryeon's bill is proposed, the proposer would create a big weakness in their political life.
"But I still want to do it."
"The reason is extremely personal. You get zero points as a Fairy."
"I don't mind. Because I get full points as the Fairy I dream of."
"What's the Fairy you dream of?"
"A Fairy who protects my people."
"Even if extremely selfish?"
"Seo-hyeon unni told me before, people start that way and gradually expand their boundaries."
"So you'll ultimately become a Fairy for the citizens? Starting by making the people around you happy one by one..."
"Yes."
"Hmm..."
There was no wavering in Ha Baek-ryeon's eyes.
She's sincere.
Im Ga-eul fell into thought.
Eventually, she handed back the bill and said:
"Sigh, let's look for an opportunity. It's impossible right now, but if your heart doesn't change even after time passes, I'll push for it then."
"Ah... Thank you! Fairy-nim!"
Proposing the Harem Law.
Im Ga-eul decided to propose a bill likely to cause controversy herself.
She had been criticized by citizens while experiencing many disasters so far.
As a result, she had become relatively insensitive to criticism.
So even if she proposed the Harem Law, there was no image left to fall further, and it wouldn't be much to be cursed at.
I'll push this bill when I step down from the Fairy position.
It's better for Baek-ryeon to start cleanly when she becomes Fairy, right?
I can't make a blemish on the child's political life and make her live difficultly.
Im Ga-eul gave a bitter smile.
Soon after Ha Baek-ryeon left.
Im Ga-eul decided to continue looking at the work she was viewing earlier.
"Let's see... Who is Pandora Clan sending out?"
The Lilith subjugation will begin soon.
The tiresome disaster is coming to an end.
She suddenly wanted to get some fresh air.
She opened the window and looked at the mountain of unprocessed documents while feeling the wind.
Hopefully─
─I hope the disasters happening during my term end with this.
That no more disasters occur.
Im Ga-eul prayed earnestly.
Dongdaegu Lilith Subjugation Operation
─Participation Application List─
Pandora Clan
Department | Name
--- | ---
Dealer | Noh Eun-ha
Dealer | Ryu Yeon-hwa
Hunter | Jin Pa-rang
Telepath | Kim Mary
Sniper | Bong Gu-rae
Caster | Bae Su-bin
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