Ep.193 Dependency
The worldview of the original comic [Stardust!] is very dark.
Most people with superpowers become villains, and a country is half-eaten by entrepreneurs.
The power balance was not right, so no matter how much the main character became stronger, the villains became stronger faster than that, causing infinite pain to the readers. Nevertheless, why did the readers, including myself, continue to read this disgusting comic? It’s because I continue to torture hope that someday Stardus will be happy. Frankly, I didn’t think the world view would get any darker. How much darker is the world view already overflowing with villains slaughtering civilians with superpowers, even if it gets dark here.
And as if to overturn the expectations of such naive readers, an unprecedentedly terrible incident breaks out.
The Moonlight Gate incident, also known as the end of the second phase.
Wolgwanggyo, who are they?
In the original comic, a villain group that half-destroyed Seoul with Moonlight Shaman. They’re those who try to connect this world with another dimension with the determination to bring the Moon God back to this world.
And at the end of the second phase, they made it. It opened a portal, or portal, that was connected with South Korea and this world.
Wow. I’m already excited to see the dimensional text in person?
“Fuck…”
I murmured low. Sigh… Just thinking about it makes my head hur.
“…Hey, Da-in?”
“What?”
“Our training, haa, haa, we’re done.”
“Oh, really?”
I, getting out from my thoughts by the voice coming from the front, removed my arms that were resting on my chin and looked up.
Then, in front of me, a girl with red hair sweating profusely.
No.3, so-called red.
And I saw the figures of No. 2 and No. 4 sitting behind her and gasping for breath. No. 1 is also leaning against the wall and holding his form, but he seems tired of breathing hard.
To Red, whose eyes are sparkling as if to say to me, ‘You can rest now, right?’ I said with a smile.
“Yes. Let’s do 100 more sets.”
“I-I can’t…”
“You can.”
It’s said that he trained hard after that.
Yeah, I’m already dizzy when I think about the future. From now on, I’m going to raise them and prepare for it.
I followed, like that, to give one-on-one feedback.
***
Who am I.
A skilled coach with a lot of experience coaching our Ego Stream members so far and training the abilities of S-class villains.
I’ve trained our PMC members for the past week, with that familiar know-how. I’ll work really hard.
There aren’t many days when I can watch this one-on-one all day. The anger of the Ego Stream members is gradually rising as the leader disappears when he leaves the house to focus on the PMC kid.
In other words, this is a golden time that is hard to arrange.
As such, our PMC kids have no choice but to endure practical compression training…
Thinking like that, I approached our No. 3, Red. She, with red hair, was wielding a sword hard.
In fact, she was the one who fought with fists in the original, but she’s holding a special sword made by Seo-eun at my recommendation.
If her ability was overwhelmingly strong like our Ego Stream members, her attack only would be strong enough. But if it’s halfway, it’s better to borrow the power of the tool.
Heo Dahee, who is fighting off dummy monsters by wielding a fiery like that… No, No.3.
As I approached her stealthily, she turned to me.
“Now, concentrate and look forward. Let’s deal with five at the same time.”
“…Yes! All right!”
She answered with a lot of energy.
The most powerful of the four PMC members, she was the most passionate about whether she was wrong to say that she liked sports. He was brave, too.
However, I felt like her skills couldn’t keep up with her passion, so I had to keep the direction for her.
“Now. Don’t swing like that, hold your arm like this. Look.”
“Ack… Yes.”
More frustrated, when I grabbed her arm behind her and caught the motion of wielding a sword, she blushed slightly and answered like that.
“Is this how you do it?”
“Oh, good! Just keep it like that!”
“Yes!”
“Wow, I think our No. 3 is growing the fastest? You’lll be flying around in no time!”
“Haha, is that so?”
As I said so, she swung the sword more enthusiastically as if she were excitedly.
With a whip and carrot strategy, it’s important to compliment like this after full of feedback.
After watching Red, I went to see Yellow.
She’s shooting a bow, with a murky, slightly dark beigeish yellow hair.
“How is it going for you?”
“…Yes, I think the record is better than before.”
She breathed a sigh and refocused the bowstring.
No.2. Yellow. She has her own feisty personality.
…Of course, it was not difficult to get close to Yellow after a week sticking to her, just like Seo-eun, she stopped being edgy and got over with the male phobia.
“Yeah. When you shoot, try to match with your hair.. Yeah, yeah. That’s it.”
“Hoot. It’s not bad, is it? More than before.”
“Oh. You’ve improved a lot in a week?”
After saying something similar, and comforting our arrow-shooter, Yellow,.
I came to take a look at the weakest, No. 4, then headed to our swordsman, No.1
“…Yeah. That’s it.”
“Yes.”
Our No. 1 who learned while listening to me from the first day. The one with gray hair.
He flew like the wind and wielded the sword, but it wasn’t bad in its own way.
After finishing hundreds of training robots made by Seo-eun for hours, we finally gathered at the restaurant after the kids showered.
“Ah… I’m hungry.”
“Me too.”
The kids walking while talking, maybe the awkwardness has been relieved after a week. In the white restaurant, chefs were coming out and cooking in advance.
They’ve been training all day, they need to eat tasty meals to gain strength.
“Thank you for the food.”
“Oh, this is delicious.”
“Hmm…”
Watching the kids putting rice in their mouths in admiration, I also chatted while eating.
…Just like this, I’ve been hanging out with these four lately. The reason is, of course, to get them stronger quickly through training, but… also to make friends with them.
Friendship. This is paramount to maintaining the organization. With the government together, it’s hard to fall from then on. Just as I live in the same house with the Ego Stream members and get close to each other like a family and create a strong cohesive organization, these four need to be like that too.
And of course, if only four of them get close, there may be a mishap of escaping altogether, so of course, it was very important for me to get close to them. Trust me and follow me, this Ego Squad… The planetary PMC is maintained.
So I purposely took charge of each person, gave counseling on worries, and gave advice and encouragement in life. Training is good, but the first priority is getting close. Trust me and follow me!
“Now, when you’re done eating, let’s go finish the training!”
“Ay… rest a little more.”
“Well, then shall we rest for another five minutes?”
“Yes~”
After finishing the training after eating like that, in the evening, I called the kids together and talked to them on a small platform. The world will be more chaotic in the future, and we need your help to stop the division.
Why the Chairman of Yuseong Enterprise makes this PMC and raises you with huge capital. It’s not enough for heroes, you’re going to be a vigilante and protect the world together. I’m hoping for that.
Of course, it was a content that was moderately drugged, but all the kids took it seriously. Yeah, it’s important to set goals like this when it comes to supporting an organization.
As such.
Time has slipped along.
Most of them expressed they didn’t know if it was because they now became adults or not, they were sad because they were still immature, and there were times when they fought over small things… Thanks to my encouragement and support, everyone has improved a lot, and sometimes has grown.
In fact, I can guess from them applying for this PMC, but everyone has no parents and has been living without anyone by their sides. In particular, everyone pretended to be okay on the outside, but they’re mentally unstable.
So I helped them with that, from time to time. Recalling what I studied to become a teacher in the previous world.
Of course, it took some time. I have to be completely close to the kids and tell them what’s in my heart.
In that way, I trained and developed their abilities, made four kids close to each other, and solved their emotional anxiety problems.
“…I see. It must have been hard.”
A dark night.
No. 1 has confessed his life of assassinating people as the hound of an organization, as if he were breathing out to me.
No. 2 became feisty and defensive in everything because she was pointed out as a monster after injuring a girl who bullied her in school with her ability.
No. 3, who shared a bitter memory of seeing her parents die in front of her eyes with a smile as usual.
And up to No. 4, who told the story of the past, where she lived diligently day by day because she had no money.
I had no choice but to hold hands and tell them that it was okay now, and that we were together now.
Like that, I devoted almost two months to raising our PMC kids. Fortunately, thanks to my efforts, the kids became better than the first time in a short time, and they became very close to each other. On weekends, it was worthwhile to go to movie theaters and amusement parks together considering the loss of the tomb. And everyone believed in me and relied on me.
At the end of the two months.
Looking at them, much stronger and stronger than before, I nodded. Yeah, I’ve done my job at this rate. Everyone can do well on their own now. Wouldn’t it be okay to come here a few times a month?
In that sense, Friday evening.
I called the kids back into the room.
“Teacher, let’s all go watch this movie together this weekend! I heard that the movie ‘The Last Dance’ was released!”
“Oh, that sounds interesting. What is that?”
“…Well, wouldn’t it be better to train than that?”
“Wow, Lee Segum… You like training too much. Da-in… Teacher, how about going to the Han River to play with fireworks this time?”
Do you know the reason I called you is to tell you where you’re going to hang out on the weekend, kids who are excited.
…Well, no, guys. I’m here to tell you I’m leaving now.
Well, you can go play without me anyway, doesn’t it matter?
I said what I had prepared in front of the kids who were so excitedly prepared.
“In the last two months, you’ve grown a lot. To the point where I don’t need to be here anymore.”
“So I’m going to leave now. From tomorrow.”
“I’m not going to stay here anymore… You don’t have to worry because there will be people in charge who are much better than me. I’m going to come and see if you guys are doing well.”
“Thank you for following me so well until now, guys.”
I smiled like that and said goodbye.
I’ve been together with the PMC kids for two months. It was actually fun. They’re all weak, so it’s fun to see them grow. Still, I think my roots are Egostic the villain. I have to slowly prepare the next terrorism to attack Stardus, comfort our Ego Stream members who are upset because I haven’t been home so much, and I have a lot to do.So thinking about the future, I didn’t notice.
The moment I said goodbye, the kids’ expressions quickly turned into shock.
To me who said goodbye like that, I heard a murmur
“….Does that mean you’re abandoning us, Da-in?”
“…Huh? No, it’s not that…”
No. 2, who bowed her head at some point, and hid her face with long yellow hair.
She soon gleamed out of her eyes and jumped at me.
“Where are you going?! You can’t go! Teacher is with us forever!”
“That’s right… Da-in’s house is here…”
Looking at the kids staring at me like that, and looking at No. 2 grabbing my leg.
I thought quietly, inwardly.
Well, maybe something’s wrong?
***
At that time, at the Ego Stream headquarters pension.
Seo-eun, who was sitting at the table there looking at the clock, murmured slightly anxious.
“…Da-in, you said you’d come today. Why didn’t you call me?”
“I know…”
The time that the Ego Stream members were worried about.
They didn’t know.
that Da-in was doing his best to appease the crying kids…
