[Raccoon Man Beginning]
[Raccoon Man Beginning]
Sion's race, the Hanon, are a species with extremely bland family relations. They are so emotionally stunted that they're almost mechanical, to the point where you wouldn't even know if they loved their own children.
Even AI learns to understand feelings if it learns enough, but they didn't have that even after a long time. The few mutants that exist are Sion and her cousin, Utopia.
While Sion was human in a past life, Utopia is a pure Hanon. It's just that thanks to living since the primordial age, he's seen and experienced more than other Hanon... and just as his heart was about to be completed, his friend died in a war.
What happens when the heart of someone with the power to create a universe breaks, when they should have been raised perfectly fine? What else would they become but a psychopath who destroys stars in one go?
Thanks to that, he developed a personality that wouldn't be strange if it were called 'the worst' (Choi Ak), just like my name.
Even among the few Hanon, they are the only two who have any family affection, but because of his personality, Sion doesn't really like Utopia.
To the point where she gets a seizure just hearing his name.
"Please put the camera away."
Sion said, glaring at the cameraman filming us.
"Ah, sorry if you were uncomfortable. But could you film with us for a bit? This is a broadcast going out next week, so you'll be able to see it on TV later..."
"I said put the camera away."
Jin-hyuk, Chang-hyuk. I've already forgotten who's who, but anyway, the two of them tried to soothe Sion, but I can't stop Sion when she's angry.
It's not for any special reason; if I get angry, it inevitably leads to violence, so that's fine, but when Sion gets angry, even if it's violence, it's violence through money and connections, so it doesn't show on the surface.
......Thinking about the social impact, it might actually be better to just get punched or killed, though.
"I told your PD earlier that I wouldn't film. But what is this? Coming out of nowhere to film? Are you crazy? What are you going to do about my portrait rights?"
"Hey, just calm down..."
"Shut up and tell that Jin Yong-seok PD or whatever to come here. Where is he?"
Sion looked around and soon found PD Jin Yong-seok, who was watching while mixed in the crowd.
Sion left the waiting line and walked straight toward him. Even though she looks delicate on the outside, she carries an aura that no one could stop.
"Haha, miss. Since it's already like this..."
"Shut your mouth."
"No, isn't it good for both of us if it airs? You can become famous, miss. I guarantee it! If you go on air and become famous, you'll definitely thank me!"
"So what do you want me to do?"
Media is a cross-section of society. A broadcast is enough to capture one side of that society, and thanks to that, we don't say we hate broadcast programs.
However, watching a broadcast and appearing on one are different.
Even setting aside the fact that it would be annoying if Sion appeared in her Growth Form, there's no guarantee that there won't be some bastard trying to pull a fast one if she goes on air. Especially if it's a beauty who had power or wealth, it's even more so if they are guys who can't stand it if they don't keep her by their side.
It's partly to avoid such annoyances, and partly because of Sion's mild social anxiety, she probably doesn't want to appear.
"But we're already filming, aren't we? We'll have to edit it later, but it's a waste of the film we've shot so far. Wouldn't it be a waste to just throw that away?"
"Stop making excuses."
"Don't be like that, how about changing your mind? Ah! If you want an appearance fee, I'll pay it out of my own pocket until you're satisfied!"
"........."
Ah, she crossed the limit.
Right now, Sion's expression was one of extreme rage, past the limit. I don't know about others, but I know.
Sion immediately took out her phone and called someone.
"I will make it so you can't make such offers."
"Yes?"
The person on the other end of Sion's receiver answered the phone before long.
"Ah, yes. President. It's me. You've been well. It's nothing else, but... there's a bit of trouble here, so I'm contacting you because of that."
After finishing the call, Sion hung up. And a moment later. Someone's phone rang.
The owner of the phone was PD Jin Yong-seok. He checked the name of the person calling and hurriedly answered.
"Yes! President! This is Jin Yong-seok! What's the matter... Yes? Fired? Why all of a sudden?! Wait a minute, President! I don't know what I did wrong, but I did wrong........"
He, who was appealing to the phone, soon saw Sion. He looked at her with a look of disbelief, his hands trembling.
"D-don't tell me, it was you...?"
"You won't have to worry about broadcasting anymore. I talked very, very well, so it would be better not to think about making a living in the same industry."
"W-wait a minute!"
"It's your own fault. I clearly refused and warned you. You're the one who crossed the line."
Just as PD Jin Yong-seok tried to grab the wrist of Sion, who was turning away, I stepped out of the waiting line and grabbed his wrist instead.
"Who the fuck do you think you're trying to grab by the wrist? You want to get hit?"
"Who are you? If it has nothing to do with you, back off!"
"The husband of the person you were trying to pull a fast one on."
"Uh... uh?"
He had a dazed expression. He looked back and forth between me and Sion, and it looked like a short circuit happened in his head as if it didn't match up.
"PD-nim!"
"Wait a minute, mister! Let go and talk!"
Two entertainers ran toward me and pulled me and him apart. If the opponent were a normal person, I would have ignored them, but since they are Force Users, there's a possibility of raising suspicion if I don't act accordingly.
I glared at the two and said.
"Get lost with this trash. Fuck, what kind of bullshit is this while out having fun? Just because you're entertainers, you think you can ignore people and do whatever you want? Huh?"
"Still, isn't that too much?"
"Then is it okay for you to try to pull a fast one on a woman who clearly has a husband, right next to her husband?"
"H-husband?"
The two seemed flustered for a moment, but soon shouted as if they were aggrieved.
"B-but we didn't know! We didn't know you were her husband! And we weren't trying to do anything weird, we were just trying to get material for the broadcast!"
"Oh, really? Then is it okay for you to ignore someone who already refused and try to film them?"
"Ugh......"
I held Sion's hand. We were already out of the waiting line anyway, and it's a waste of time to wait again for what we've been waiting for.
"They must think they're higher than others. You clown bastards. You think you own the world just because you've been on TV a few times?"
I spat on the ground because I felt disgusted and left the spot.
Fuck, I feel like shit.
Sion and I didn't say a word until we walked back to the indoor facility. Both Sion and I were in a very bad mood.
Even after coming inside, it wasn't like we were in the mood to ride anything. But there was nothing else to do after leaving.
"I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"I caused this trouble by coming in this form for no reason. If I had come in my usual form......"
"Forget it. It's just that my wife is so pretty that fruit flies are swarming. That's not the flower's fault, it's the fruit fly's fault."
Being pretty isn't a crime. It's just that the guys who covet that beauty are the ones committing the crime.
Since Sion will handle it separately, there's no need to worry about it airing or anything. Even if someone filmed it with their phone, Sion would probably cause electromagnetic interference to erase the photos or corrupt the video files.
The only problem is that it becomes a subject of gossip. It's even more of a problem if famous entertainers are involved.
Ah, I don't know. I'll worry about annoying things later. Right now, the question is how to relieve this foul mood.
"Let's go out for now, we're not in the mood to play here anymore."
"Then where are we going? It's not time for the restaurant reservation yet."
"I saw an aquarium in front of here. It should still be operating."
Let's change the date course. From the amusement park to the aquarium. Compared to a building that is an aquarium from the start, the scale might be small, but they wouldn't have done a half-assed job decorating it. At least it'll be better than the Fantasy Forest we looked at earlier.
It's a bit of a waste of the free pass, but we left the amusement park. We walked through the crowded passage again and found the aquarium.
There will be fewer people than the amusement park, and then naturally, there's less chance of trouble. Especially since the customers here will mostly be families or young children.
Fortunately, operating hours hadn't passed yet. We bought tickets and went inside.
"Oh, it looks like they decorated it pretty well?"
"The inside is cleaner than I thought."
".......Isn't that a death flag?"
The first thing we saw was the underwater tunnel in the Amazon corner. In the glass-made passage, fish that you might see in the Amazon were swimming around here and there.
Passing through that passage, we gave our eyes to the fish we saw.
"Ah, that's a piranha. It's actually quite delicious if you grill it."
"Who thinks of that first when seeing something like that, as someone in the food industry?"
"You're the same. Thinking about eating sashimi and all."
"That is true."
There were things to see, and as we talked and walked, the atmosphere improved significantly. The unpleasant incident from earlier gradually faded away.
Various types of fish caught our eyes, and there was also a corner where you could touch small fish like sardines.
"Is that okay?"
"We might find it fun, but for the sardines, the stress will be no joke."
"True."
Seeing the scene from the cartoon movie where the protagonist is a tropical fish, it was nothing short of cosmic horror.
We passed the sardine corner and this time arrived at the animal corner. There, Sion ran first and said while looking at an aquarium.
"Otter! Ta-noshi! Sut-goi!"
"Wow, she really likes that. You should have just raised an otter."
"I wanted to do that too, but in this country, otters are natural monuments, so it's illegal to raise them."
"Ah, right. That's right."
"Now that it's come to this, I have no choice but to build a zoo and raise them!"
"Leave it! You'll burn down the whole house trying to get rid of a bedbug!"
Even setting aside the money, I don't know if it's better for animals to live in the wild. A colleague at work told me that the most important thing for living like a human is freedom.
Even if they live in the wild, starving and living by the law of survival of the fittest in a life-or-death crisis, it's better to judge for themselves and live freely.
Sion, who couldn't leave the otter for a long time, only moved her feet after about 30 minutes.
So we arrived at the Beluga Zone right in front.
"Ultrasonic emission!"
"......?"
Come to think of it, did they say dolphins communicate with ultrasound? When Sion waved her hands with a strange pose, the white dolphin from far away swam over here.
It showed various tricks while swimming in the direction Sion waved her hands. When people noticed that and tried to take pictures or film, Sion noticed and stopped.
"Why? Play more."
"Forget it. I shouldn't have stood out for no reason, but I was too excited."
I thought it was nice to see.
Going a little further to the side, this time there was a seal hall. A chubby-looking spotted animal swimming in the water came toward this side.
"Water doggie!"
"No, strictly speaking, it's a seal, not a fur seal. It doesn't have ears."
"They look similar, so I can't tell them apart."
"Honestly, that's true."
Maybe it was curious, the seal tilted its head and swam while looking at us, following the shape of our hand gestures.
That look was cute, so I took a few pictures. Sion, who especially likes animals, loved it.
We blew away the mood that had been depressed just a while ago and started to enjoy the aquarium in earnest.