Chapter 403
We arrived at the Ruins Portal in Gangnam, Seoul.
“The explanation is complete. Upon using this admission ticket, you may operate within the Elf ruins for 10 days. Would you like to enter the Elf ruins?”
“Yes.”
“Ticket confirmed. I hope you have a good time.”
And so, we rode the Portal and arrived at the Elf ruins.
And we received countless stares.
Of course we did. Right now, everyone was disguised as ordinary people. Even if we weren’t mutants, our appearances would draw attention, but it was because of the unique sex appeal of female mutants.
This couldn’t be helped.
There weren’t even that many people, yet they were all staring only at us.
“Wow, fuck, look at the level of those women.”
“Crazy, they’re fucking awesome.”
“They say birds of a feather flock together. Looks like they came with friends.”
“Should we try talking to them?”
“Don’t you think it’s disrespectful for you to even talk to women like that?”
“You crazy bastard.”
On one side, men were looking at us with their mouths hanging wide open.
It was pathetic, but even if they talked to us, we had to ignore them.
Literally, the difference between us and those guys was clear.
We were the perfect women among women.
There were no alpha males on our level anywhere.
“Honey, are you looking at those women right now?”
“Huh? N-no, it’s not like that.”
“That’s all plastic surgery!”
“As a plastic surgeon, that’s not plastic surgery. Eek!”
In some places, couples were fighting like that.
This was quite unfair.
Well, sure. We had to hear things like this.
They say women’s envy is like the sky. There’s a saying that women are women’s worst enemies. Wouldn’t that apply exactly to this moment? I thought so.
Of course, no matter how much those inferior cunts threw a fit at us, it was useless.
Because, honestly speaking, those females were subpar.
They didn’t have bodies optimized for sex, nor did they have childbearing hips meant for easy delivery.
Every single one of them had a body inferior to ours.
A woman should naturally have a body optimized for sex. That was how one could perform mating and reproduction well, but the vast majority of women in these Elf ruins were far uglier compared to us.
“So these are the Elf ruins. They’re truly massive.”
“I know, right.”
Seeing it in person like this after only reading about it in the novel felt like a new experience.
These ruins themselves were structured like a Gate.
They said they artificially repaired an abandoned Gate on this side to use it.
It was said to be for the sake of protecting the entirety of the Elf ruins that had flowed into Korea with a Gate.
Since they said it was entirely possible and not just physically moving it, it was easy to see how much this world had developed.
“But is it okay for me to come?”
“Come on, senior Yujeong. We’re all in the same boat.”
“Hearing you say it like that makes me feel uncomfortable.”
“We’re pussy friends, aren’t we?”
Pussy friends. Pussy friends because we rubbed our pussies together.
I decided to call us that.
Next time I fucked Lee Yujeong, I would definitely corrupt her.
I wondered how she would change.
“But it’s a bit boring.”
“To call our ancestors' ruins boring? You’re being rude.”
“You went on field trips when you attended a normal school, right? I remember people visiting Bulguksa Temple a lot, both pre-Cataclysm and now.”
“Yes. I’ve been there a few times, so it’s boring.”
“Exactly. It’s amazing when you first see it. But after seeing it a few times, it gets dull.”
Ray nodded at Lee Yujeong’s words, convinced.
Certainly, ruins like this might be fine once or twice, but seeing them often would likely get boring.
“What if a Slug were added here?”
“N-no way?”
“Seeing it in person, it really is huge.”
“I only heard that Elves were the forest People.”
“I guess it’s their own form of civilization.”
“It’s a completely different style from ours.”
Look at the various architectures visible in the distance.
They were quite grand.
In Dahaka’s memories, there was no record of destroying those, so I figured the Elf world must have been ruined for some other reason.
“I am Kim Mi-young, the team leader of the guide department for today. I will now guide you through the ruins.”
Not long after, the ruins tour began.
First, the tour guide stood in front of us and moved forward, explaining the ruins one by one.
In the distance, a stone statue of a woman with long ears could be seen.
“According to records, this is said to be the statue of the Elf Queen. Of course, not all the records have been translated yet, so we don’t know what the circumstances of the Elves were like at the time. But perhaps once they are translated, we will be able to know what happened back then.”
“Ooh. That’s amazing.”
The meticulous guide explained the Elf Queen’s statue for a long time.
Well, just listening to it, it sounded like there was some truly pitiful backstory. Though it was just speculation.
“I want to meet an Elf just once too.”
“Come to think of it, that woman was an Elf.”
“You’re looking away again!”
Seriously. They never get tired.
This was why I wanted it to be just us, but unfortunately, we couldn’t monopolize this place.
Someone in the past said that being pretty is a sin.
To the point where I wondered if our prettiness right now was exactly that sin.
“Guide, is this place blocked off?”
A man pointed to an area being guarded by Hunters dispatched by the Association.
“Ah, yes. The exploration of this area hasn’t finished yet.”
“Wow, so they do explorations too.”
“Yes. We naturally conduct explorations. That way, we can provide information about Elves to the citizens. Our Korea is diligently exploring this place, especially so that the Otherworlder Elves can know their roots.”
We couldn’t tour the entirety of the Elf ruins.
We could only see the parts that had been discovered so far, the parts that humans and Hunters had explored.
Of course, even this felt like it consumed quite a bit of budget.
I heard that President Ha Jeongseok directly invested in this Elf ruins tourist site for the Korean Government.
“Now then, you may look around this area to your heart’s content.”
“Ray, how is it?”
“Hmm. Well, surprisingly, it’s nothing special.”
“Really?”
“Yes. It’s a shame, but it wasn’t quite what I expected.”
Ray sighed.
It was probably thanks to me too. Think about it carefully. Wasn’t she that Ray?
“Han Suji’s condition is strange, though.”
Han Suji had been quite quiet for a while now.
As if her soul had been drained.
“Ah, she’s talking with the God of War.”
“With the God of War?”
I did attach the God of War to Han Suji.
It seemed like I had gifted Ray this and that, but hadn’t really given anything to Han Suji, so I asked the God of War to look after Han Suji a bit.
Originally, the God of War event was an event where Choi Siwoo received power from the God of War.
It seemed things had changed since this was shifted to Han Suji.
“Then Han Suji will get stronger too.”
“Are you okay with that? Didn’t you want to get stronger?”
Choi Siwoo already had memories of finishing the God of War’s event, so she probably thought it was meaningless. Still, just in case, I asked while grabbing Choi Siwoo’s ass.
“I am a Virgin. Superior. I’m strong even now. Besides, the Fragment of the God of War will be more helpful to Han Suji right now than to me.”
“Then that’s fine.”
It was a bit much for the God of War to suddenly act so tactlessly while we were wandering around the ruins, though.
These Elf ruins were not simple ruins.
Perhaps because it was a place where Elves lived, there was natural mana.
Well, certainly, if the God of War event were to happen in this kind of environment.
It would be the optimal condition for Han Suji.
Maybe the God of War knew that and was making a move too.
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Tokyo, Japan
Around the time Yu Eunha’s group was exploring the Elf ruins,
Korea’s lifetime President Ha Jeongseok crossed over to Tokyo through a Portal with Presidential chief of staff Choi Jisu.
President Ha Jeongseok clicked his tongue as he looked far out over downtown Tokyo, past the Japanese people who had come out to greet him.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. What’s the big deal about those Mutant bitches?”
The cause of things turning out this way was Baekhwa TV.
Although they hadn’t broadcasted much, Baekhwa TV drew people’s attention by having Erosion Zone Mutants directly broadcast the actual conditions of the Erosion Zone.
That spread quite a bit globally as well.
Naturally, Mutants weren’t entirely pleasant to look at. But Baekhwa TV had the overwhelmingly appealing visuals of those Mutants, and judging solely by the broadcasts, their 'personalities' seemed good, and furthermore, their abilities were excellent, showing them living while poking around all over Incheon, which was at an apocalyptic level.
The United States and Japan showed interest in this.
The United States essentially had its central region, including the Rocky Mountains, eroded, so Baekhwa TV’s information was quite novel.
Japan, too, had half of Honshu as an Erosion Zone, so they couldn’t help but be interested in Baekhwa TV.
Above all, Japan, which was the homeland of otakus, saw an increase in so-called otakus shouting “Baekhwa-chan!” after just a few days of Baekhwa TV broadcasts.
That was also why the Korea-Japan summit was pushed forward, driven by the United States.
“Why do I have to deal with Japan? Phew.”
They were two countries that had conflicts over historical issues pre-Cataclysm, but as the world went to ruin after the Cataclysm, Korea and Japan hastily wrapped up their historical issues and became close allies.
So it wasn’t that Ha Jeongseok hated Japan over such issues.
On the contrary, because Jinseok had helped Japan, he was looking down on Japan as being a step below.
Therefore, even if they held a summit, it was something Japan should have come to them for on their own, yet hadn’t they asked their older brother, the United States, to hold the summit like this?
“Your Excellency. First, before that.”
“What is it?”
“Association President Choi Cheolsik asked me to request, Your Excellency, that we need to send an expedition team using magic gear back into the Erosion Zone.”
“Tsk. It’s a mess everywhere because of that Baekhwa bitch. Fine. Tell him to do as he pleases.”
It wasn’t like he wouldn’t do it just because I stopped him.
With the US and Japan acting like that right now, there was no justification to stop him either.
Perhaps because of that, he didn’t like the Japanese prime minister and the woman in a kimono visible in the distance.
“Welcome to our Japan. President of Korea, Your Excellency.”
“Haha. Prime Minister, Your Excellency. This is the second time we’re meeting for summit matters. But who is this?”
“I am Shinohara Yuzuki, the 3rd House Head of the Shinohara Family.”
Ah, so this was that Shinohara.
I had definitely heard that Shinohara was holding Japan in its grasp at the level of a modern shogunate.
Ha Jeongseok examined this woman named Shinohara Yuzuki.
Because there was little information about the Shinohara Family.
Since there was The North Korea issue right now, there was no reason to pay attention to it, so he had just sent Jinseok, who was said to be exceptional among Hunters, to resolve Japan’s issues.
But to think the current House Head would be this young.
“A shogunate in this day and age.”
There’s an Emperor of Japan, a prime minister, and a Shogun.
Truly, this nation called Japan was a nation he couldn’t understand at all.
If there was a difference from the shogunate of the past, was it that they even held the current prime minister in their hands?
Did he have to hold a summit with a girl whose blood is barely dry?
Honestly, if it weren’t for those American Yankee bastards.
If the US President, who was his alumnus from a school in Switzerland, hadn’t asked him to help sell some votes, he wouldn’t have come.
Still, it was a place for business.
Ha Jeongseok laughed heartily without the slightest hint of displeasure.
“Oho. You still look young, but you’ve truly shouldered a heavy burden.”
“Fufu. Does age matter in times like these?”
“Right. Right. Then, Prime Minister, Your Excellency. You said you wanted to cooperate regarding the Sin issue.”
On the surface, he heard it was probably about the Sin issue.
Because the existence of Sins was already widely known at this time.
Well, since they had to search the Erosion Zone to find the existence of Sins in the first place,
“Yes, that is on the surface. First, please relieve your travel fatigue today. President, we have prepared many things for Your Excellency’s party.”
Well, this kind of treatment wasn’t bad, though.
If it were pre-Cataclysm, he wouldn’t have even received this kind of hospitality.
Thinking about this, that guy Jinseok-i was truly an exceptional bastard.
There was talk that his younger sister was also amazing.
It would be very good to use her as a pillar of the nation.
Afterward, Ha Jeongseok’s party was able to stay at the famous Shinohara Hotel in Tokyo, guided by the Shinohara Hunters.
“Kya. As expected, Japan is the place for hot springs, isn’t it?”
“You can say that again.”
“But you know, the Shinohara House Head looked quite young.”
“I heard the Shinohara House Head died a few years ago and his young daughter ascended. I didn’t expect her to be that young. I looked into it, and they say she’s just turned 20.”
“She became the House Head in her prime. But we shouldn’t ignore her. She must have stepped on her siblings to rise up with a woman’s body, so she wouldn’t be an ordinary woman. Still, in the old days, wouldn’t she be a Shogun?”
“I suppose you could see it that way.”
Even though Jinseok had a track record of handling Japan’s issues.
In the eyes of Ha Jeongseok, who had maintained power until now, that woman named Yuzuki was not ordinary.
Therefore, she shouldn’t be ignored.
Besides, if they cooperated with the Shinohara Hunters to deal with the Sins this time, that wouldn’t be bad either.
Even though China was in that state, they were still suffering from big-power syndrome, lacking humility and being incredibly prideful, but Japan was reasonable and the United States was a reliable allied nation.
Since it was China managed by that outcast bastard Jang Hak-chae, it was enough to just let them ruin themselves.
Around that time.
The Japanese prime minister had a lot of complaints about Shinohara Yuzuki.
“Do we really have to bow down to the Korean President like this?”