The Initiation Ceremony... But These Guys Really?! (3)
I was watching the news about the damage from the magnitude 7.2 Richter earthquake that struck Tokyo, Japan, when Hiarid entered the office and informed me that =the branch manager and a man and a woman I had never seen before were approaching.= Upon checking with spatial perception, it was indeed true.
Kang Hyunwoo, the branch manager, had come to the Grand Blue Building with two people in their twenties, a man and a woman. No, he had come to me.
“Allow me to introduce them. This is Aran Shaker, the Director-General of the World Phase Ability User Federation Headquarters, and Altina Meldios from the IWO Aberrant Research and Management Board.”
“Hello?”
The man who was the Director-General of the Federation was a physical reinforcement ability user with B-class Phase Power of 39,999,999. He had reached the limit of B-class Phase Power, with black hair, thick eyebrows, blue eyes, and sharp features that made him look very handsome.
In contrast, Altina Meldios appeared to be a researcher type woman with blonde hair and glasses, a bit plain but slightly pretty.
“Nice to meet you. Grand Blue Master.”
“Nice to meet you too, Grand Blue Master. We are here to celebrate the founding of the raid team.”
“Thank you. That...”
“Ah, are you Miho? You really are a high-tier variant. Ah, and there’s a living Flauvis race there.”
- What kind of aunt is this?
I had sent her to protect Mom, but since I didn’t give clear instructions, when Mom and Dad came home from work and returned to the office, Altina Meldios saw Miho and her eyes became teary.
Miho was taking a cookie from a cookie box, nibbling on it slowly, and looking up at Altina Meldios who was staring at her with a strange human expression. Altina, turning her gaze away from Miho, looked at Hiarid and her expression became one of collapse.
Just as she was about to speak, Aran Shaker, with a serious expression, spoke to me.
“The woman over there will return to normal in a short while. More importantly, Grand Blue Master, may I discuss the current situation in Japan with you?”
“Yes. Please sit over here.”
I lifted Miho, who was lying on the sofa eating cookies, patted her butt, and she jumped onto my desk in a trot. Altina Meldios, following Miho as if hypnotized, also jumped onto the sofa.
Sitting in the middle of the long sofa, Franc sat on my right, and on the opposite side sat the branch manager and the director-general.
After seeing that, I opened my mouth.
“If you’re the director-general, what position do you hold within the federation?”
“Directly below the federation president. In this case, I came out personally to obtain the Grand Blue Master’s arbitrary entry permit into the Phase World.”
The federation president is Gerald Packard, the only S-class ability user who founded the federation?
I nodded slightly to the serious director-general, and Aran Shaker continued.
“I heard the official declaration of the Grand Blue Master on the way here. Are you really planning to drop a map onto the capital of Japan?”
“I hope such a situation doesn’t arise.”
“By any chance, did you see the magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Tokyo?”
“I did. That’s different from this. If you ignore my warning, I’ll show you something that won’t be comparable to a magnitude 7.2 earthquake.”
Aran Shaker director-general stared straight into my eyes and maintained silence. By the way, since B-class physical reinforcement ability users look like they’re in their 20s to 30s, you can’t tell their actual age. He looked like a handsome man in his 20s with a mature aura, but how old was he really?
“Understood. If the IWO and the ability user federation come forward for mediation, would you accept it?”
“More importantly, I’m curious why the IWO and the ability user federation are paying so much attention to me.”
I asked directly and boldly, and the director-general smiled as if looking at a cute little kid and opened his mouth.
“The federation headquarters selects several individuals who could become issues and designates those with high social influence as hyper-class observation targets. And the Grand Blue Master falls under the top tier of that.”
“Hyper-class?”
“Hyper-class observation target means, simply put, that if information related to the Grand Blue Master appears in the foresight department, they will be placed as the top priority for analysis. I don’t know why. Only the foresight department head and the federation president know the exact facts.”
I frowned at the story of being under constant observation, and the branch manager, with a tired expression, swept his face and said.
“It’s not a bad thing. Don’t make such a stiff face. If it were observation with bad intentions, I wouldn’t have given you the Phase World early entry permit or arbitrary entry permit.”
“That’s right. I think it’s because we judged that the Grand Blue Master has a very high possibility of growing into an ability user who will be a great help to humanity, so we are giving you special treatment.”
The director-general continued with a gentle smile.
“Regarding this Grand Blue Master’s declaration, the foresight department has not reported anything. If the Grand Blue Master had been full of the intention to directly intervene, the foresight department would have reported something. Moreover, the current response in Japan is nothing but a series of responses that worsen the situation. After all, the victims are the Grand Blue Master, and since the Grand Blue Master holds the moral high ground, the IWO and the ability user federation plan to directly impose sanctions on Japan.”
“Do you have to accept it?”
“If you accept it, I will try to proceed in a way that best matches the Grand Blue Master’s wishes.”
“...Creating a debt?”
“Hoho. As expected, you have excellent insight and vision.”
Hmph. Besides being affiliated with the ability users, you are being given special treatment in a place where you have no connection at all. If you don’t notice that, you’re an idiot.
“I don’t know. Please handle it with the government.”
“Hahaha. Understood. And this is the Grand Blue Master’s arbitrary entry permit into the Phase World.”
As he said that, Aran Shaker took a cylindrical container from the branch manager and handed it to me. Franc, who was next to me, took the container, opened it herself, took out the paper, and showed it to me. And Altina Meldios, who was fearlessly touching Hiarid’s body, seeing that the conversation with me and the director-general had ended, walked over in a trot and handed me another cylindrical container.
“This is the IWO official Flauvis Hiarid breeding permit. I plan to stay in the Korean branch for a while. If you have time, please cooperate with sample collection from Hiarid for about half a day, and I would be grateful!”
“What kind of sample is sample collection?”
“Ovaries and...”
“No way.”
Are you crazy? What are you trying to do with Hiarid’s ovaries by collecting them?
“I said I was willing to provide them as research materials!”
“Even so, there are limits. What are you going to do with the ovaries? If this other race takes your uterus and ovaries as research materials, how would you feel?”
“At least...!”
“Hiarid is my pet, so I have no intention of providing unethical research samples. Besides, I heard that the Korean government and IWO are already conducting research on Flauvis race corpses, so is that not enough?”
“Ugh... Then, please give me Miho’s tissue samples and blood samples too.”
“Alright. Then, shall we accept this as the official high-tier aberrant breeding permit?”
Altina Meldios nodded with a regretful expression and opened her mouth.
“I want to conduct research as soon as possible, so please come early.”
“I’ll come when the situation in Japan is resolved.”
The conversation proceeded smoothly, and Aran Shaker director-general left with a satisfied expression after shaking hands, and Altina Meldios left with a regretful expression, looking at Hiarid’s lower abdomen before taking the elevator down.
That woman is a bit scary because she’s like a mad scientist.
After Aran Shaker director-general left, intense reactions began to erupt one after another in Japan.
The people living in Japan, especially Tokyo, were demonstrating in front of the Japanese Diet, acting like a pig ready to be slaughtered, protesting what to do about the situation, and the scenes were broadcast live on news channels around the world.
The largest commotion was over my announcement. After the high-grade phase stone auction on August 1st, the response I showed against the backdrop of Japanese news caused the biggest uproar.
Why? Because Japanese citizens believed that the earthquake in Tokyo was caused by my anger.
I thought the timing of the earthquake was suspicious, but seeing the Japanese people who believed it was my doing made me feel a bit incredulous. How do you cause an earthquake? There’s a map, so why not just erase it.
However, it was understandable that the Japanese people were reacting this way.
My declaration broadcast live at the end of the initiation ceremony was featured prominently in global media. At the time, I didn’t think much of it, but when I saw the video the next day, it felt so sharp that it made me wonder if it was really me.
The magnitude 7.2 earthquake caused damage to Tokyo that was beyond the point of being called half-destroyed.
The phase stone power plant near Tokyo was shut down due to the earthquake, and Tokyo was operating only core facilities on power sent from other regions. Real-time reports were coming in that the anger of displaced refugees was all directed at the Japanese government.
Against the backdrop of half-destroyed Tokyo, scenes of people with mouths covered by cloth, nailed to wooden planks, holding chains and ominous ritual weapons, gathering in dozens or hundreds, were literally apocalyptic.
Paralyzed transportation. Deteriorating security. The downtown shopping district became a target for looting, and Tokyo was turning into a lawless land where the weak and strong were divided.
NNC, the representative of American news desk, was pouring oil on the burning house. The core of the Golden Time News was re-broadcasting explanations that logically explained the correlation between my speech and the earthquake.
In the case of Russian news, they used 3D graphics to show what would happen if I dropped the map on the center of Tokyo: a huge crater of 150km in diameter would be created, Tokyo would disappear entirely, and as a result, Mount Fuji would erupt.
[So, does that mean the direct influence area is the entire Tokyo, and the indirect influence area due to shock waves could reach as far as Nagoya?]
[For indirect influence, it is believed that there will be no major damage. It would be like trees swaying or something. However, experts estimate the probability of Mount Fuji erupting near the direct influence area to be over 70%. In that case, secondary damage from volcanic eruption is expected to be greater.]
The story that Mount Fuji, Japan’s sacred mountain, would erupt caused the whole of Japan, not just Tokyo, to boil with excitement.
The first warning to Japan, the assassination of the Japanese prime minister, followed by my declaration. And the magnitude 7.2 earthquake.
Because of the series of major incidents, a second bomb fell on Japan, which was already chaotic.
It turned out that the Japanese prime minister who was killed was not me, but the doing of an ability user, the pride of Japan and the only B-class “Master”.
So, the head of the Ishikawa pickled radish, who came with Miyabi Japanese prime minister when he visited Korea, assassinated the Japanese prime minister.
Until then, some people who believed I killed the Japanese prime minister were spewing insults at me on the internet, and local Japanese TV stations were broadcasting shows urging reflection on me, but they became speechless in an instant.
Moreover, it was revealed that Miyabi Japanese prime minister had an affair with me, and even his semen was detected in the autopsy results. It meant that he had sex with Miyabi prime minister the day before the assassination.
No bottom is this bottom.
By making a statement that he ordered the assassination through the ability users and Aran Shaker director-general from the federation headquarters, and that he himself only carried out what they told him, he dropped another bomb.
While the director-general was suppressing the pickled radish head and arresting him for deportation, the director-general’s words, which he threw at the Japanese broadcast station reporters with a pitiful expression, were also insufficient to be a bomb.
The director-general’s words were:
“I am concerned about the foolish actions of the Japanese National Diet. In a situation where apologizing to the Grand Blue Master, who overwhelmingly dominates high-tier aberrants, is not enough, what kind of thoughts are they continuing to provoke fights for... It is not understandable from the perspective of the World Phase Ability User Federation.”
“The Grand Blue Master not only has the ability to overwhelmingly defeat high-tier aberrants but also has the ability to tame high-tier aberrants. The end of fighting with such a person will only be disadvantageous to Japan. He has nothing to lose but his own life, but Japan must face the destruction of the nation.”
“Ten hours ago, the Grand Blue Master I met directly was in a state of exhausted patience due to the continuous Japanese coercion and disputes. His anger, which has taken on the charge of assassinating the Japanese prime minister, is only natural. I heard that if the main political figures responsible are not extradited within 37 hours, the Grand Blue Master will carry out the words he uttered.”
“I express serious concern about the Japanese National Diet’s attempt to use the lives of Japanese citizens as a shield and take a dangerous tightrope walk by dismissing the seriousness of the situation and the sincerity of the Grand Blue Master as a prank by a foolish child.”
When a Japanese reporter who heard Aran Shaker’s story asked why they didn’t stop it since it was a general murder case of an ability user, Aran Shaker director-general sighed deeply.
“Only twice have the exact details been revealed. According to unofficial statistics, the number of times Japan has attacked ability users from neighboring countries exceeds 130 times.”
The Japanese reporter who questioned the director-general’s shocking story dropped his microphone.
“Japanese citizens, you must pay attention to the fact that the mastermind behind the incident that not only caused terror with Phase World-related items and ability users but also involved ordinary citizens is not an individual but the political figures you directly elected.”
“Please note that the IWO and the ability user federation are discussing sanctions against Japan, not the Grand Blue Master.”
As he said that, he threw the pickled radish head into the transport plane and continued.
“The country tried to kill one ability user. That ability user overcame the crisis of being killed and grew into a tremendous power in a short time. And when he demanded proper apology, the response was to frame him with the disgraceful slander of assassination and a political countermeasure.”
“Based on this, the IWO and the ability user federation judged that it could not be seen as a dispute between ordinary citizens and ability users and decided not to intervene in the dispute between Japan and individuals. Japanese citizens, the only thing that can protect your lives is your wise actions.”
Seeing the director-general’s words encouraging Japanese citizens to stand up and protect their own lives, they realized that this was the mediation he had promised.
And the series of bombs that exploded one after another ignited the fire for “hunting politicians” as Japanese citizens, while ignoring what they were doing, went around finding and beating up political figures, tying them up, and dragging them in front of the Korean embassy.
The director-general’s story was shocking enough to temporarily halt the large-scale riot, and Japan seemed paralyzed for a moment, but soon the whole country was boiling with anger.
Scenes of people hunting down Japanese politicians with the slogan “Catch and kill all the incompetent politicians who ruined the country!” and looking like lunatics were flowing through news of various countries around the world, and the situation spread across Japan and became more severe.
And a few hours later, the International Court of Justice declared that they could not accept the lawsuit because it did not comply with their rules and that since Korea was the party concerned, it was a dispute between nations and therefore the lawsuit was invalid, and they would not intervene in future incidents.
That must be Yeongeun who did it.
When exactly 24 hours had passed since I declared I would attack Japan, the United States, Britain, Russia, China, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, India, and the Arab Emirates strongly criticized Japan’s actions as a major blow to Japan’s credibility, comparing it to the reoccurrence of Japan’s ability user kidnapping incident 80 years ago.
In addition, countries that were suspected of being terrorized by Japan’s attack also came forward and announced that if Japan did not express sincere apology along with clear apology for the ability user attack incident, there would be no delivery of relief supplies to the earthquake victims or formation of relief funds.
Articles began to appear that the Red Cross was hesitating to dispatch relief workers.
In the Arab Emirates, they took extreme measures such as boycotting some Japanese products and refusing imports. The sight was like “They did this much, and you’re going to let Miho play with them?” and I couldn’t help but laugh.
Anyway, on one side, the acceleration of politician hunting in Japan began, and on the other side, lines of people fleeing from half-destroyed Tokyo due to the earthquake to nearby cities began to form.
And with an anonymous tip revealing the locations of some politicians from the Aikoku Shimin Kai who had fled to Osaka, Fukuoka, Hokkaido, or overseas instead of Tokyo, the entire Japanese archipelago was boiling like a pot on a gas stove.
[These bastards! They blew up an incident that ruined the country and are hiding in safe places only for themselves!!]
[Get them! Find and kill these country-ruining bastards! Find them and kill them!!]
[Capture all the politicians and send them to Korea!]
Schools were closed, students and teachers poured out into the streets, and even office workers and ordinary citizens who were working at companies rushed out, attacking politicians’ offices, smashing politicians’ houses, and setting them on fire. The situation had become a nightmare for the Japanese government.