Chapter 285: Park Sirin (2)

The important matters on Earth had ended.

It seemed that showing an overwhelming power against Russia and crushing Vladimir Horowitz, one of the Three Mighty, made a huge impression on the world.

‘Well, I guess the biggest thing was the nuclear missiles.’

Between nuclear energy and me, there is quite a bit of compatibility.

The main destructive force of nuclear weapons the heat wave and the radiation was practically harmless to me thanks to the Clau Solas, and the shockwave I could withstand with my regeneration.

If I took more than a dozen nuclear missiles head-on and still didn’t die, the world probably thinks there is no way to kill me.

“Th-This… this is France’s dimensional portal development blueprint.”

The European Union.

With the great powers gathered, I received directly from them everything related to the development of dimensional portals.

In that same place I burned it with runes, and the expressions of the leaders who had invested astronomical amounts were worth seeing.

I showed no kind of courtesy toward them. After all, officially I am supposed to be a god from another world.

“I don’t think you turned over everything.”

“O-Of course w—”

I interrupt the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who was sweating buckets.

“If you want to come, try it. Whoever sets one foot in, I’m going to destroy him without fail.”

“……!”

They swallowed nervously.

The world had witnessed the fall of Russia.

After Vladimir Horowitz took power, he concentrated everything on raising his military strength.

That army practically evaporated entirely.

Even Park Sihoo, a high-ranker they were so proud of, died without lasting even two exchanges.

“Reappearance of the Demon.”

That is apparently how people were evaluating me.

And that Park Sirin, what the hell did she do on Earth to cause such a reaction?

Aside from that, leaders of other countries started making proposals to open formal relations with our world.

They offered me pretty humiliating conditions, but I rejected absolutely everything.

“We can provide advanced science and technology. All we ask for is a small autonomous city—”

“I don’t need it.”

“This is a small show of sincerity from the United Kingdom. If you decide to maintain relations with us, we can offer even more—”

“Do I really look like someone who needs something like that?”

“Democracy is an excellent political system that contributes to the development and well-being of civil society—”

“You mean an addict and I would have the same political decision-making power? President, I think you failed mathematics.”

Anyway, that’s how Earthlings are. If you leave a crack, they think they can push through.

Exchange with an advanced civilization almost always leads to a type of semi-colonization.

I rejected everything and attended the banquet.

“Corin~, try this! It’s too good!”

After the meeting with the European leaders, at the banquet organized to honor me were Marie, Alisha and Hwaran.

— M-Marie Dunaleff…

— They say she blew up the Pentagon…

— Alisha Arden destroyed all of Japan’s Park Sihoo!

— In Western China, the Blood God was torn apart by the Heavenly Raksha…

The United States, Western China and Japan were practically begging to get rid of them, treating them as a calamity, and yet they still ended up sending them by plane to France to negotiate.

“Is everyone enjoying the party?”

“Yes, Corin-ssi! The food is amazing! This lamb doesn’t even have a strong smell and it’s super soft!”

“The pudding… is good.”

“I’m glad you’re having fun. Hey… have you seen Erin?”

My wives shook their heads.

I also asked the leaders, and since they also hadn’t seen her, where the hell could she have fallen?

“Corin. I have an idea.”

Marie shared her theory.

“We fell in front of dimensional portals in different countries, right? Surely Director Erin also fell in one.”

“All existing portals are already destroyed.”

The ones in the United States, Japan, China and Russia we destroyed ourselves.

And we destroyed the rest by traveling through countries and pressuring them.

There were loud voices, but not something I needed to take into account.

“There’s one place we haven’t gone.”

“Korea, right?”

Now called Magic Empire of Korea.

It surely had the most advanced and perfect dimensional portal.

We headed there.

***

Although I was Korean, Korea always had a complicated geopolitical position.

Seventy years divided by a troublesome sibling country.

That sibling country backed by a gigantic continental nation.

Former leader of the “Red Team”, which was second place in the world.

The islands across the sea, always looking to betray.

And with neighbors that absurd, Korea was a country with little land and population, struggling to barely be third in class with ranks 1, 2, 3 and 4 living next door.

But now its prestige was comparable to that of the United States.

The Magic Empire of Korea.

This successor of the Republic of Korea, which self-proclaimed itself empire and hegemonic power, occupied not only North Korea, but also the vast Manchurian plain, Gando, and half of Beijing.

“Welcome, Mr. Corin Loch. And distinguished guests from the other world.”

The one who greeted us was the Prime Minister of the Magic Empire of Korea, assigned as Delegate of the Great President for the past year.

The presidential system disappeared; now all absolute power was in the hands of the Great President, and the rest was a Prime Minister system.

During the 6/11 coup the joint removal of the United Democratic Party and the People Power Party, this man was the Prime Minister who led it.

The congressmen who participated were turned into zombies, forced to return all their fortune and sentenced to serve the people for free without free will.

And although this Prime Minister looked normal on the outside, he had been unable to retire for more than ten years, forced to work endlessly like a slave of the people.

Well something like that.

But when I heard he had 300 billion in assets gained through illegal real estate speculation, any pity disappeared.

“Lady Erin Danua appeared in our portal ten days ago.”

“Really?”

As expected, the dimensional portal where Erin was summoned was on the Korean peninsula’s side.

As soon as she made the jump, she destroyed the portal and fled, avoiding government tracking.

“Are you sure you put up notices? Why isn’t she coming to find me?”

From what they saw of me destroying Russia, it seems the Korean government was also desperately looking for Erin.

“With all respect… after she disappeared on the east coast, we haven’t been able to find her…”

The Prime Minister was sweating buckets with an uncomfortable expression. If my master decides to hide, maybe she really is hard to find…

“The United States said they had equipment to measure energy. You couldn’t find her even with that?”

“Yes… w-we have an information exchange treaty with the United States, so we were tracking Lady Danua’s position in real time, but…”

Even that trace was cut completely. As if she had disappeared in a cursed triangle.

“Yeah?”

More or less I could figure it out. It’s surely the direct result of my master’s will.

“Well, I’ll look for her myself. More than that, for now I want to do some sightseeing.”

“Sir?”

The Prime Minister tilted his head, puzzled, as if he didn’t understand anything.

I imagine it seems strange to him that I want to sightsee in Korea when I didn’t in any other country.

“Don’t worry. I have no intention of informing you of my itinerary.”

I plan to hide my face and travel around Korea for a while.

Well, it’s nothing big, but—

It’s sixteen years.

In the sixteen years I disappeared from Earth, how must my parents and friends have lived?

I plan to discreetly tell my parents that their son is alive and, while I’m at it, to see them— I also need to see Younghee nuna, Hanbyul, Seyoung, Chulho, Sangwoo, Misha and Fujiwara at least once.

The others well, if I wanted to see everyone it would take me months. I’ll have to leave that aside reluctantly.

Now that I think about it, Yena, Chaehee and Hoyoung must already be university-aged.

When I worked as an instructor at the taekwondo dojang, they were kids who followed me a lot.

I also want to stop by to see how they’re doing.

I wonder if that old face-reader is still alive.

And thinking of that, I also remembered the noonas from the gym who always touched my muscles very confidently.

“Should I see my parents at the end and go see Sangwoo first?”

Sangwoo, my soulmate friend~ He must already have retired from baseball; maybe now he’s a coach or something.

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“D-do you really… are you my friend?”

“Yes~ Hey, you’re a coach for the national team, huh? You’ve made it big.”

“I-I can’t believe it… say a memory only you and I would know…!”

“When you got injured, I gave you a full-body massage and took care of you. Ah, do you remember when we accidentally walked into the gay bar in Hokkaido?”

“Y-you! You came back, my love!”

“Huh?”

Sangwoo hugged me crying with intense emotion. He hugged me tight, grateful that I was alive.

He always had intense ways of showing affection but well, sixteen years have passed.

“By the way, did you get married? If you have a child, I can give a blessing as a sun god.”

“……No. I didn’t get married.”

“You didn’t get married?”

He was single. My friend from sixteen years ago was still single.

And he wasn’t the only one.

“Isaac Toast? It’s really you! Huaaaaang! Why do you show up only now?”

“Hey, Younghee nuna. She’s crying again already. I told you not to throw precious jewels on the floor.”

“Huaaaaang! You’re saying the same things you said when we were in kindergarten!”

Younghee nuna also didn’t get married.

What the hell? It’s not like this nuna wasn’t popular.

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“Kim-kun… long time.”

“Fujiwara~ you look super young. How is your face not changing at all?”

“Kim-kun did change quite a bit.”

“By the way, Fujiwara, do you have kids? I’m the sun god now, I can give incredible blessings.”

“I don’t have any.”

“Huh?”

“I decided I would only have a child with the man I love.”

“Oh…”

Fujiwara was also single.

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“Kim~ it’s really you!”

“Misha! Hey~ you held up well, you’re still gorgeous.”

“Hehe, I’ve been waiting for you the whole time.”

“I heard you naturalized as Korean and won a gold medal.”

“Yes! I wish you had been there. By the way, how is it with the women of that other world? Did you hook up a lot?”

“How can you still be so shameless being a woman? Is it really true that Russian women have open minds and all that?”

“I’m a virgin.”

“Huh?”

What the hell…?

All of them… they were handsome and beautiful, so I thought they’d already be married…

I wanted nephews…

“Then I’ll be going.”

“Yes… take care over there too.”

“I hope you come visit us more often next time bring your other daughters-in-law.”

“…Doesn’t the number of daughters-in-law surprise you?”

““We expected you to be like this anywhere you went.””

“?????”

Even my parents seemed to have lost some faith in me.

I’m planning to visit them again with my wives, but things on Earth turned out very different from what I expected.

“Haa, I never thought I’d greet my in-laws twice.”

“Me neither.”

“…..”

I think I’m done with personal matters on Earth— it’s time to go.

I headed to the east coast, to look for my wife who still hadn’t appeared.

***

On an uninhabited nameless island in the East Sea.

A place with grasslands and well-preserved nature, beautiful enough for a postcard, but so remote and surrounded by dangerous rocks that almost no one approached.

That island had only been modified five years ago.

When she became the Great President of the Magic Empire of Korea and, among so many magical researches, built a retreat house to unwind.

The mansion, erected with magic in a matter of seconds, was placed in a location almost impossible to reach, and since it was built not a single person had set foot there for years.

And only recently, that secret mansion heard a person’s voice again.

“Mama, this! Pretty!”

A girl who expressed her emotions with short words. Hair black as ink, eyes bright like rubies, just like her mother.

A girl whose future promised so much.

“T-that’s dirty, throw it away!”

“Kyaah! Nooo!”

“Hayeon! L-listen to mama, please…”

Only six months have passed since childbirth.

But her daughter, who should have been a baby, was already as big as a five-year-old girl.

The first-time mother, Park Sirin, couldn’t handle her.

“I’m hungry! I want milk!”

“N-now?”

“Milk!”

Sirin, nervous, looked around in agitation.

It was the first time she had to worry about being seen in this place that only she knew.

“Don’t worry. She’s crying, can’t you see?”

With a gentle smile and a sweet voice, Erin Danua reassured her while drinking tea.

“….”

After hesitating a lot, Sirin lowered her clothes and put her daughter to her breast. Even though the girl already looked like a five-year-old, she was still just a one-year-old baby.

“I didn’t think… she would grow so fast.”

“She has the blood of Dannan. We are born adults from the beginning. Hayeon is half divine, so she is special.”

“…..”

Sirin still couldn’t believe her daughter was half god.

A human recognized by a divine artifact, elevated to the level of divinity— that was the father of her daughter, Park Hayeon.

“Does it… bother you?”

It had been more than ten days since Erin, upon sensing the energy of Dannan, arrived at the island.

During this time, she helped Sirin with Hayeon’s upbringing, ate with her and drank tea by her side.

And during that process, she also learned that Corin planned to marry Erin.

“What fault can a child have? What is pure is pure as long as it isn’t tainted.”

“….”

Sirin, who had given birth to the illegitimate daughter of Erin’s man, did not receive from her even a single reproachful look.

Even though she knew inside that the process had not been right, Erin simply stroked her back and told her she did well, that giving birth alone must have been hard.

“I…”

“Daughter. Even if you have no justice, don’t drag your child into that yoke. At the very least, you must love her more than anyone.”

Sirin bit her lips, unable to say anything.

That woman was still exactly the same as always, she thought with admiration.

And remembered how filthy she had been toward herself.

“More than that, let’s prepare to welcome our visitor. That person should be arriving soon.”

“A-ah…”

Erin took her trembling hands warmly.

And then, as if dictated by destiny—

The man walking along the shore was heading straight toward them.