America VS The Strongest Clan's Youngest Daughter (1)
America VS The Strongest Clan's Youngest Daughter (1)
Rewinding a little, while Yujin was in the middle of his hypnosis-treatment highlight reel...
One reporter had captured the entire scene.
'I only came over because of the commotion... This was a scoop!'
It was just as Yujin staggered toward his final patient.
The sight of a young man at his limit staggering forward for a suffering child was nothing short of heroic.
Her professional instincts took over.
She captured the miracle before her in full.
Not a tremor shook the camera. She even held her breath.
"Don't hurt anymore, from now on..."
—Thud.
Yujin smiled even though he could barely control his own body.
The child's face, twisted with pain moments earlier, relaxed as if by magic.
Only after seeing that did the little hero collapse, as though finally reassured.
All of it was captured on the reporter's camcorder.
It was a masterpiece.
'This was insane. I had to publish it now... No, while I was here, I should get an interview too.'
She wanted to break the story immediately, but held herself back.
At that point, the reporter didn't know the full story behind the miracle.
If she published without enough information, a more detailed follow-up could bury her scoop.
So she quietly approached the brother and sister.
It was for an interview.
"My little sister had CRPS."
"She cried in pain every day, but after Yujin treated her, she has not hurt at all...!"
The siblings cooperated fully with the interview.
They had heard Yujin's name by chance while visiting the hospital for treatment.
Clinging to a thread of hope, they'd forced their way past the guards and reached the ward.
And then... salvation.
It was a vivid interview overflowing with praise and gratitude toward Yujin.
The siblings' interview and the reporter's footage quickly set the internet ablaze.
[Korean Awakener Minor Gallery]
Title: Did You Guys See the New Hypnosis King Article???
(Animated GIF intercutting Yujin's collapse with the siblings' interview)
(Article link URL)
They say he treated patients in a psychiatric ward with hypnosis.
Apparently he even cured some incurable disease called CRPS.
└ I thought this would be the same old clip again. Why is it actually new?
└└ Fr, I thought they were milking this for the 8,229th time.
└ Why is the video quality so insane?
└ Damn, look at his face. Something that wasn't there before is growing, and my heart is going doki-doki!!!
└└ ???
At first, everyone just marveled at the quality of the video.
The footage itself was so good that even minimal editing gave it an epic quality that put movies to shame.
Of course, it took only a few minutes for the article's true significance to emerge.
[Korean Awakener Minor Gallery]
Title: Let Us Learn About the CRPS Hypnosis King Cured
(Screenshot from the article video)
Its full name is Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
It causes excruciating pain even from something as slight as a breeze, often without any clear cause.
It was literally the most severe pain a human being could experience.
If you get it, you can barely do anything.
You can end up doing nothing but lying down on opioid painkillers.
It is a rare, intractable disease with no reliable treatment.
(Gif of Yujin going 'Actually, I'm kind of a big deal')
Hypnosis King << This bastard cured it.
How the hell did he do that...?
└ Just how painful is it then?
└└ In severe cases, it's comparable to terminal pancreatic cancer
└└ Wtf
└ So all that talk about treating mental illness with hypnosis was actually true.
└ Did the psychiatric version of Ryu Suyeon just arrive??
Title: Analysis) Looks Like Hypnosis King Treated at Least Several Dozen People Today
(Screenshot of Yujin bleeding from the nose)
From the very start of the video, he was already on the verge of collapse.
One more use made him pass out.
But if he had been suffering from severe Overload,
he should have collapsed while coughing up blood.
Hypnosis King merely slumped over,
so a single use could not have caused that much Overload.
(Screenshot of Võ Chí Công issuing orders with a nosebleed)
Same situation as S-rank No. 7, anyway.
Comparing the two, he must have used hypnosis at least several dozen times.
Probably used it nearly 100 times?
└ Wat
└ Isn't Ryu Suyeon limited to about ten people a day too?
└ Guess EX-rank really is on another level. Damn.
The more detailed the analyses became, the more public excitement grew.
The mind was a domain even awakeners had never been able to touch.
Yujin hadn't merely become the first to affect it; he had proved he could heal it.
And by all estimates, he could do so for dozens of people a day.
Needless to say, it was an extraordinary achievement.
Yujin's performance—which had not really been an act—also helped shape public opinion.
He had performed a miracle that stunned even doctors, yet appeared to be squeezing out his last strength solely for one suffering girl.
To anyone watching, he looked like a hero incarnate.
In other words, he had displayed an unprecedented ability and the character worthy of wielding it.
It was only natural that the reaction grew feverish.
Mortifyingly effusive praise spread across the world.
[Korean Awakener Minor Gallery]
Title: God.JPG
(Gif of Yujin going 'Actually, I'm kind of a big deal')
└ I worship you... GOAT...
└ GoddammitItsSeoYujinAgainNowIHaveNoChoiceButToWorship
└ (Square Dog meme saying, 'This bastard just said upvote')
Title: Your Innate Talent Is 'Complete Hypnosis'.jpg
When you awaken and your ability turns out to be hypnosis:
The average awakener loser:
(Gif of a frog in a kindergarten uniform going hooray)
WAH! Tags: mind control!! Hypnosis app!!
??? :
(Screenshot from Yujin's hypnosis healing highlight reel)
『——I shall devote this body to saving those who suffer.』
└ (Frog shedding tears meme)
└ (Frog praying meme)
└ (Frog masturbating meme)
└└ You, get out
Title: Legendary real-time foreign reactions
Title: 'This Bastard Just Loves Humanity'
Title: I'm the Awakener Loser from the Interview...
Even communities notorious for their vicious language were full of it.
The entire world was buzzing over Yujin's achievement.
Among all those posts, however, one stood out above the rest.
It claimed that the sitting President of the United States had issued an official statement.
[Korean Awakener Minor Gallery]
Title: The U.S. President Just Released an Official Statement—Holy Crap
Even amid the flood of sensational threads, this one had an unrivaled presence.
It concerned the United States, after all.
Although it lagged behind Korea in awakeners, it was still indisputably the world's most powerful country.
And the president of such a country had issued an official statement?
No Korean reader could resist clicking.
Everyone expected bait, yet clicked as though hypnotized.
Title: The U.S. President Just Released an Official Statement—Holy Crap
Taylor Madison Buchanan reposted this
(Translated foreign article about Yujin)
"A virtuous and principled young man"
It is real. A natural translation would be 'a sound and upright young man.'
└ ????????
└ Fake, no
└└ (The actual SNS URL)
└└ ????????
└ How is this real?
———It wasn't bait.
The President of the United States had praised Yujin from an official account.
The entire world erupted once again.
[Korean Awakener Minor Gallery]
Title: The U.S. Is Already Trying to Poach Him—Holy Shit
(Photo of the U.S. president licking his lips)
That Gold Sun behavior—blond, Pacific-born Yankee—is way over the line.
└ "Pacific-born" lmaoooo
└ But honestly, it was plausible. The U.S. is desperate because it has no S-rank.
└ ???: Ooohhh, a fresh talent appeared, lol.
Nobody took the president's praise at face value.
Despite its vast territory, the United States was an awakener wasteland without a single S-rank.
It had an enormous number of A-ranks instead, but the absence of an S-rank was still humiliating.
And now a promising future S-rank had appeared?
He was a Korea Pentagon cadet with no risk of villain affiliation, and he possessed an overwhelming ability no one had ever seen.
It was only natural for the US to want him.
The praise looked less like a compliment than the president planting a flag on a talent she hoped to recruit later.
Reactions differed sharply from country to country.
South Korea, naturally, erupted in uproar.
People cried that a Gold Sun could not be allowed to intrude on the Korean people's pure-love route.
The US, on the other hand?
[R/awakener - It will be one of President Buchanan's greatest achievements]
[R/awakener - We welcome Yujin's naturalization to the US]
The mood was welcoming enough that users even ran their posts through Korean translation tools.
Some even said that successfully recruiting Yujin would become the president's greatest achievement.
That was an exaggeration, of course, but still.
What about countries other than Korea and the United States?
[Thread About Aika-chan]
They say Yujin-chan might move to the United States.
>>882
I'm begging you. Please go.
>>884
Two S-ranks are too much for such a tiny country.
Everyone sided with the United States.
Korea was already the world's strongest awakener nation.
And now it was about to gain another asymmetric weapon in the form of an S-rank.
Consciously or not, people backed the United States with the sentiment, 'Wasn't one S-rank per country supposed to be the rule?'
The people suddenly under pressure were neither Seol Hayeon, president of the Korean Awakener Association, nor Yujin himself...
———but Cheonhwa, Korea's strongest clan.
'I thought we had time while he attended the academy, so I left it to my daughter. This was troublesome.'
A deep furrow formed between the brows of Yoo Jeongcheol, head of the Cheonhwa Clan.
His third daughter had awakened in the very year a prize like Yujin appeared, so he'd expected recruitment to be easy.
The US president was showing interest?
On top of that, global public opinion was subtly cheering it on?
Even he lacked confidence.
He was not confident he could recruit Yujin into Cheonhwa.
'Even if I prepared a record-breaking offer, there would be no competing if the United States started throwing dollars at him.'
He knew.
He knew how desperately the United States hungered for an S-rank.
He knew how much it could pay for a talent like Yujin.
Even if he scraped together every last won in the clan's budget, he'd still be no match for a serious American dollar punch.
Even Cheonhwa was in a different weight class from the United States.
Meanwhile, Yujin?
With his market value soaring that high, would Yujin truly sign with Cheonhwa?
Yoo Jeongcheol could not imagine it.
At worst, Yujin would leave for the United States without looking back.
Even if patriotism kept him in Korea, he'd demand several dozen times the price Jeongcheol had expected.
He sighed in disappointment, but then...
—Viiiing.
"......Sia?"
[Father, you were worried about recruiting Yujin, weren't you?]
Then his beloved third daughter—the apple of his eye—called unexpectedly.
And then...
[Leave it to me! I'll definitely bring him to Cheonhwa!]
"......!!!?"
She even boldly declared that she would recruit Yujin herself.
Startled, he hurriedly questioned her.
"Do you truly mean that...? No, you may not understand how serious the situation has become."
[I saw the gist of it. It looks as though the United States may make him an offer.]
"And you still say that knowing the situation? This is the United States! It's drawn its sword to take him from us!"
[It doesn't matter.]
A smile curved Sia's lips on the other end of the line.
"Because I'll win."
* * *
After that turbulent Saturday came Sunday.
"Forget that vixen. What about me? If you join our clan... y-you can even hypnotize me, you know?"
"......Huh?"
Sia crossed the line hard.