Hermit Wizard

* * *

Ding-dong.

The man, the king, rings the bell in the hallway.

“Come in.”

I hear awkward Chinese on the phone, so the door opens. The agent enters the room. There was only what was needed, but the interior felt luxurious during the year in finishes and furniture.

“It's a little dark for a guest. ”

The one who took out the horse was a Gramperi caretaker who had relatively recently crossed the earth. Her voice, which flowed from the Interphone, was also hers.

The caregiver standing by the bed approaches the wall and presses the button. The curtain of the window was slowly lifted along the electromagnetic rail. A light rod leaked in, and another woman curled up on the bed.

“· · · Liang? ”

With a superficial face, Grampery calls the agent's name on the bed.

“Long time no see, Remish. ”

Wang Quang and Lemisch came back alive from the world beyond the channel of injury, the land that the Chinese government named as the 4th Shin Zone. The resistance of Lanwien who lived there was formidable, and even unknown magic was mobilized, causing many victims. However, the People's Army's firepower was not defeated at last.

Shortly after returning to Earth, Remish gave birth to a child. It was the first time since birth that a royal agent met her.

“Aah, Liang! ”

Faced with her face in the bright light, the monarch forcibly endured groaning to leak out.

Is that it? ’

He clearly remembered what Remish said before giving birth.

I envy Earthlings for that. We can move freely during pregnancy compared to us, and even after childbirth, we can live a normal social life. ”

At that time, the monarch misunderstood Remish's words. It is mistaken that postpartum cooking takes so long. The implications of her words were more than he imagined.

Lemisch, who was squatting on the bed, was like a living breathing corpse. The eyes are bloody and the complexion pale. Only bones remain, no matter how much weight you lose.

And the king soon realized. Worse than her body, it was her mind.

Lemisch shook his body with a swirl.

“Ah, welcome. Please help me, Liang! ”

Spit urgently.

“If you think of me as a friend, help me get my child back. Put pressure on the Grampery leadership. Please act in accordance with your values and laws, not the Grampery! ”

I reach towards the agent and scream with my dry fingers.

“Get the baby! He took my child only a month after he was born! ”

She was always calm, rational, and kind, but I couldn't find her now. I embraced Lemisch's shoulders, as the Gramperi caretaker who was standing by comforted me. I whisper in a warm voice.

“Lemisch, this is unavoidable. The baby didn't become Andaz, unlike you or me. Sub-class can't live with Andaz. ”

“This is weird. Why can't I raise my child? ”

“Think before giving birth. Lemisch, you're losing your mind because of the hormones. Our Andaz are those who serve the Gramperi. You agreed to this experiment because you understood that, didn't you? ”

“· · · No. No!”

“That's right, Lemisch. This is what you already agreed to. ”

“I didn't know I was going to be like this. I didn't know how I felt! ”

“No, you knew ahead of time. It happens right after you give birth to a child. Remish is just a little confused in his head right now. ”

“I'm sorry, I was wrong. I think my chest is ripped and torn. I miss my baby. I didn't volunteer for these experiments in the first place. Because I was born in this world. Probably because of that. It wasn't Andazelkia, it was born on Earth, so she became a bad Andaz. Definitely!”

Lemisch cries. Looking at her face, the king recalls what she used to say in a row.

It's worthwhile for the whole Gramperi race. It creates a precedent through my childbirth. This information will be useful for all of us. It's natural to value group development more than individual life, isn't it?

Andaz is the upper class of the Gramperi. It is decided within a month of life whether you become Andaz or not. Remish's child was found not to be Andaz and was immediately separated from her mother.

And Lemisch has yet to accept that fact.

The caregiver whispered in a calm voice.

“Just a little patience and we'll get through this, Remish. The symptoms you're experiencing will soon be gone, and you'll be proud of yourself once you regain your mind. Everyone will acknowledge your ball. It's going to be recorded as the first instance of Grampery giving birth in two dimensions. It's a pity that the baby was not born into Andaz, but rather, the next experiment will be more careful. It means a lot to our kind. ”

“No. · · · Not this! ”

At one time, Lemisch, who had left his child behind more than his race, was now crying out for a completely different story with a completely different look.

“You never see my baby again? Just because you don't have a lump of beans in your head? · · · It's all crazy! ”

Bloodfoot shouts at the agent with his standing eyes.

“Liang! Help! Save my baby from these lunatics, please! ”

Remish, who suddenly woke up, loosened his legs and fell under the bed to see if he was powerless. A caregiver approaches and tries to support her, but shakes her hand roughly. Lemisch crawls toward the monarch with his hands and feet. Then the caregiver grabbed her waist and pulled her. The two fought close to each other.

Lemisch exclaimed in a trembling voice.

“Liang, now I know! Grampéry's all crazy. I was thinking about using my birth as an experimental ingredient. ”

“Oh, Lemisch. I don't think so.”

The caregiver pressured her with strength.

“Argh!”

The caregiver grabs Lemisch's two crossed arms with one hand, presses them against her waist and left thigh with her knee, and then pulls the syringe out of her arms with the other free hand and stabs Lemisch in the neck.

“Liang · · · ·. Please! ”

Remish, who was eagerly pressing his lips toward the throne, nodded a little further and buried his face on the floor. I lost my mind.

“Phew, sorry. Agent Wang.”

Causes the body, and the caregiver wipes the sweat on the forehead. Then I lifted the axially stretched Remish and put it on the bed.

“Aah! No.”

His majesty only replied with a cold-cooled face. The war seemed to have swept away in a small room.

The caregiver lays Remish in the correct position and covers her with a blanket.

“Surprised?”

“ · · · · · ·. ”

The caregiver takes out the handkerchief and wipes Lemish's mouth. I was biting my lips while I was struggling, and blood was pouring out. A calm, unshakeable smile returned to the face of the caregiver who cared for her. Keep your gaze on Remish and ask in a gentle voice.

“Have you ever heard of the term" postpartum schizophrenia "? ”

“· · · Yes. ”

The king nodded.

“That's exactly what you're seeing. Our gramperies show abnormalities after childbirth. Especially when Andaj's mother is in isolation from her baby. It's not often that a child born to an Andaz woman can't become an Andaz. ”

The agent listened to the caregiver with a heavy expression.

“If your symptoms get worse, you believe in the wrong thing, and you suspect the right thing. You can make rational decisions just before giving birth, but after giving birth, you show extreme selfish tendencies and aggressiveness. ”

“ · · · · · ·. ”

“If you don't have any education yet and you're not worth it as a member of society, you value a baby more than your own life with decades of experience. It's a symptom of Gramperi's social system being abnormal, obsession with babies taking precedence over racial discipline. Lemisch is a bit of a bad guy. ”

Their values were well known. All Gramperi do, but the birth of the Andaz class is done in line with a more thorough supply plan. There is no such thing as a lack of supply of newborns. The right investments, namely children before they received education and training, were of low importance in their world.

“No ‘it’ was found in Lemisch's baby's head. We could detect it with our magic, we could take it with Earth's MRI technology. ”

What the caregiver said was a ‘screening spur’ found in the brain of the Andaz class. Gramperi's body was not completely identical to the Earth's human body. The soft, boneless part of Grampery's newborn's sternum was covered with a solid skull within a month of birth. The Andaj class then developed a screening protrusion in the brain before the head was completely covered with bone. Whether or not it was in the mind was also the only decisive criterion for distinguishing ranks.

“Lemisch's child, unfortunately, had a complete craniotomy with no protrusions in his brain. ”

“Are there any protrusions after a hard bone is covered? ”

“I haven't had one in Grampéry's long history. The baby can't be Andaz. It's a pity, but you're going to go back to your original world and grow up with the lower classes. ”

Most Andaz live in sub-classes and isolated places from birth. Most often they never encounter the lower ranks from birth to death. Class-to-class exchanges take the form of documents or videos, or are superseded by magically moving military ∙ slave golems.

“I honestly don't understand. It's called a bump, but from the medical perspective of the Earth, it's close to the tumor. ”

He spoke to himself and was astonished. Don't you think it's offensive?

But the caregiver noticed that he didn't care.

“It could be from another race. ”

A faint smile did not leave her mouth.

“But the history of Gramperi proves the value of screening. Only the Andaz hierarchy with screening protrusions has great intuition. That intuition has been the driving force behind the development of our kind. Gramperi's most outstanding invention and the most striking social, scientific and magical theory. And all the decisive choices that led our people on the right path in times of crisis and conflict came from the Andaj class. Only Andaz's intuition makes that possible. ”

“· · · Yes. ”

The king nodded. Then I swallowed up words I could not speak.

‘No matter how strange. Did you just say Lemisch's reaction was abnormal? You'll see the mother who took the child! It's not crazy after giving birth, but it feels like it's getting close to normal after giving birth. It is a little exaggerated to say that the filter of thought, which was usually paralyzing their reasoning, does not disappear for a while after giving birth. ’

The caregiver who misunderstood his face smiled and said,

“Don't worry too much. Inducing postpartum schizophrenia is a unique hormone produced in the maternal brain, which stops secreting after three months from giving birth. Remish will be back to normal soon. And as all Andaz mothers do, they will regret and be ashamed of the euthanasia they have seen. ”

The caregiver laughed, saying so.

“It's a shame, but I don't think it's going to be possible to see you today. ”

* * *

“The conversation was impossible? ”

“Yes, I am. ”

After the visit, Wang was reporting to the superior of the Ministry of National Security.

“The symptoms were much worse than expected. ”

Is it correct to describe it as a symptom? The king said something, but I didn't think it was right. Gramperi, however, are a species similar to humans, but their bodies do not fully match those of the Earth. The monarch focused on reporting, thinking that it was not necessarily necessary to judge them on an earthly basis.

“It was impossible to extract information. ”

“Hmm.”

The middle-aged supervisor had a serious look on his face.

“I thought the Grampers, who had been so quiet lately, had a chance to figure out why they were messing with me. ”

His Majesty had a thick friendship with Remich. The executives of the Ministry of National Safety thought that she might lose self-control and spill information to the monarch, who was showing signs of a "schizophrenic" nature of the Gramperi race. However, there was a caregiver next to Lemisch, and the conversation itself was unsettling.

“All right, get out of here. ”

The executive summoned another agent after sending out the king.

“Is the Gramperi leadership still there? ”

The agent nods.

“Yes, I am. They're saying they have no idea where the Gramperians who broke the deal and fled outside of China are. ”

“Can I show you the New York footage? ”

“They just say they don't know. ”

“Hmm, troublesome. It's troublesome.”

He frowned for a moment and said,

“You don't even intend to cooperate with us on the Korean case? ”

“The Seoul dispatch refused. Gramferies are deeply concerned about the appearance of the bronze tentacles in Busan again in Seoul. It can be interpreted as evidence that Yoon Min-jun can summon or create the monster at any time and place he wants. ”

“You don't even know what magic is? ”

“There are no spells that make tentacles in Gramperi's magical system. Assuming it was summoned, they didn't know what dimension those creatures were in. ”

“Shuffle. ”

The executive's expression hardened.

“I can't let go of my hand like this. I'm in a mess up there right now. We need to secure it somehow. ”

He took the documents out of the drawer and threw them.

“Last time I missed, I was a Korean government wizard. Now that the surveillance has failed, we should seriously rewrite the operation. ”

The agent received the documents. There was a picture of a young man unfolding. I read the description below and my eyes widen.

“That's a lot more detailed than we've ever had before. ”

“I embraced someone who was an instructor at the Korean Wizard Training Center. ”

Most of the human instructors died during the Hun Leung crisis, but few of them survived when they were not at the site on leave.

“Even for the wizard, this time I plan to give out the carrots. ”

“Is this a reprisal?”

“Yes.”

The executive pointed to one part of the document. At the time he was educated at the Hun Leung Training Center, the instructor had a flat comment about Kim Kyung-hwan.

“What kind of human do you think you are when you read it? ”

“It is a reporting document, which seems to have been described as good as possible, but it summarizes the verbal and written statements in a straightforward manner. ”

An agent picks up a few words and opens his mouth.

“My thoughts are shabby, and my actions are vulgar. ”

“Yes. That's why I'm more qualified. ”

Looking down at the photograph of the document, the executive glanced at him. The young man in the picture was smiling with an arrogant expression.

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