09. 3,827th Class Enrollment
09. 3,827th Class Enrollment
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"From now on, you'll stay here. When neither I nor Master are around, just do simple cleaning and facility maintenance, and handle the rest at your own discretion."
"Yes. Bari-ssi."
Jihye's brainwashing was completed in a mere half day.
The woman who had been extremely doting on her son was completely changed, leaving only her intellectual appearance intact.
"Ah, and do you see Seong-hyeon-ssi over there?"
When Bari pointed to Seong-hyeon collapsed inside the glass tube, Jihye's face twisted up horribly upon looking there.
The Misandry that Bari had implanted was working perfectly.
"Please take care of that one too."
"......Is that...an order?"
"Yes."
"Understood."
"No need to manage him diligently. Just keep him from dying. If you get stressed, feel free to beat him a bit."
"I don't really want to touch him."
Even though she was just staring from afar, she hugged her arms as if goosebumps were rising and trembled violently.
Jjaak!
"Hyaak!"
Suddenly, Bari smacked her on the butt.
The taut and chewy buttock flesh made a chalsak sound.
"Hmm. Nice texture. Since you'll be meeting Master for the first time today, there can't be any shortcomings."
"Offering...today?"
"Of course."
"...Understood."
An offering to her Master.
For her entire life—or based on the newly implanted personality and memories—it was the first time seeing her Master, yet she had to act coquettish and spread her legs for him.
That alone would be perfectly natural, so no issue, but of all things, her Master was a man, the very thing she loathed so much.
Just thinking about a man entering between her legs sent chills running through her entire body.
"Alright, it's lunchtime right now, so? Feed this to Seong-hyeon-ssi."
"F-feed...him too?"
"Yes. As you can see, he has no arms?"
"...."
Her very first task in life, and it was this hellishly difficult.
Jihye took the lunchbox Bari handed over, her eyes tearing up.
"Today I checked the time and made the lunchbox myself, but starting from dinner tonight, Jihye-ssi, you'll have to manage everything."
"I-I see."
Just thinking about it pissed her off—that man, and not even her Master, yet she had to make food for him every meal and feed it to him.
It made her want to puke.
But since it was an order from Bari, who was on par with her Master, she had no choice but to obey.
She nurtured her disgust toward him exponentially, never once dreaming that he was her own son.
Chiik.
Entering the glass tube where Seong-hyeon was with all sorts of negative emotions, Jihye felt pointless anger surging when she saw his peacefully sleeping face.
'She definitely said...I could beat him if I got stressed....'
When she'd heard that from Bari, she'd given a lukewarm response because she didn't want to touch a man, but now that she actually had to take care of him, she felt like she couldn't hold back without hitting him.
She cautiously approached and stomped on Seong-hyeon's ankle with the heel of her shoe.
Kwajik!
"Kuaaaak!!!"
Having had all his Nobling extracted and regressed to the level of an ordinary human, he couldn't even withstand the heel's force.
"Don't open your mouth since you stink."
He woke up instantly and cried out in pain, but Jihye's face was utterly cold and icy.
An expression like she was dealing with maggots.
With hands trembling dal-dal-dal from disgust, she opened the lunchbox lid.
Inside was food so questionable you'd wonder if you could even call it a lunchbox.
Rice.
Only that, packed tightly into the container.
But for Jihye, who extremely loathed men, even this felt excessively generous.
"Not even Master, yet giving a piece of shit man like you this kind of feast...!"
Wasn't this a serious waste?
For the environment and resources, she absolutely had to change this bastard's meal plan.
At that moment, Bari's words came like rain after a drought.
If it's hard, she could start from tomorrow.
Well, yeah. Even the frailest human could last a week.
In other words, didn't that mean she only had to give him rice once a week?
Having finished thinking, Jihye immediately threw the rice at his face.
Peok.
"Eat it yourself or don't, whatever."
And she muttered harsh words.
Seong-hyeon, hearing the familiar voice from earlier, lifted his head and looked up at Jihye.
Kwajik!
"Don't look at me. You're filthy."
Jihye, who nearly puked on the spot, stomped on his face, and though he couldn't see clearly, Seong-hyeon recognized it was his mom from her silhouette alone and painfully opened his mouth.
"M-Mom...why...why...are you doing this!!"
"Mo...mom...? Me...mom...?"
Jihye stammered in shock.
But it wasn't like those scenes in dramas or movies where lost memories come flooding back.
She was utterly enraged that this loathsome man dared to call her 'mom.'
"You little shit! You!"
Peok! Peok!
The assault commenced.
Unable to contain her rage, Jihye began a merciless beating.
She savagely stabbed at Seong-hyeon's fragile body here and there with her heel, driving him right to the brink of death.
"Stop. That's enough."
"Huu...huu...."
Only after Bari entered did she calm down, brushing back her bangs with a bit of blood splattered on them and wiping the blood off her glasses.
"Sorry. I got too worked up."
"That can happen. But be careful. It'll be a hassle if he dies."
"Yes. Bari-ssi."
"But you're totally unfazed?"
"What do you mean?"
"While beating Seong-hyeon-ssi, don't you feel any pity or sympathy or anything?"
"Of course not!! He's a disgusting man...and calling me, m-mom...! Urk...just thinking about it makes me wanna puke."
"Oh my, really?"
"Uwek."
She actually started puking for real, so Jihye dashed off somewhere and only returned after about 3 minutes.
"Haa...."
Her face pale as a ghost, pressing a tissue to her mouth.
She genuinely loathed her own son, Seong-hyeon.
"But is that okay? Master is a man too."
"T-that's...fine. Because he's Master. I can't let my feelings get in the way."
"Even though you have to devote everything to him?"
"Of course. I'm already Master's property."
"Yeah. You know it well. Master owns every part of you. From head to toe, mind and personality too. So if you ever pull any weird shit, you'll be disposed of."
"I'll keep that in mind."
As she conversed with Bari and regained her composure, at Bari's instruction to clean up, she let out a small sigh and began wiping up the blood and flesh bits splattered everywhere.
Of course, while dry-heaving from the intense disgust surging up.
Watching her for a moment, Bari nodded in satisfaction, then left the glass tube and headed toward the Nobling facility.
By acquiring the female Noblesse Jin Ji-hye this time, she'd gained an excellent slave, but the biggest harvest was the feminine Nobling.
And it was extremely concentrated too.
Though she'd been carelessly captured in vain, Jin Ji-hye was the head of the Jin Family, one of the maintainers on the 5th floor. If you lined up all Noblesse by strength, she'd definitely rank in the top tier.
Extracting Nobling from a woman like that was a haul incomparable to just any female body.
"Hmm...this should be scrapped."
Pondering the use for the masculine Nobling extracted from Seong-hyeon, Bari soon judged it useless and unhesitatingly discarded the whole batch.
The process to produce masculine Nobling or feminine Nobling was almost identical anyway, and the costs were similar, so if she needed Nobling, she could just produce feminine Nobling and use that. And if masculine Nobling was ever needed, she knew the method, so she could produce it then.
Pussshhh.
After scrapping all remaining masculine Nobling in the facility, she released the Nobling module from her cardiac organ.
Even as masculine Nobling, it carried an extremely potent energy, so she scrapped the module whole.
Then she installed a new Nobling module injected with feminine Nobling.
"Wow."
A short exclamation.
She'd felt it during experiments too, but masculine Nobling and feminine Nobling were on completely different levels.
With precise calculations and sufficient Nobling quantity, it could even temporarily reverse entropy.
Perhaps the top Coding Type Noblesse could reverse time itself.
Of course, it'd require an insane amount of Nobling and utterly ridiculous calculations, so with a living body's limits, maybe 3~5 seconds at best, but even that was huge.
'The head of the Yu Family was definitely Yoo Tae-hee or something. That woman might be capable of reversal.'
Suddenly, she recalled the woman who'd visited the mansion over the bet between Sihwan and Lee Yu-na.
A woman with immense pressure and a mountain-like aura.
Back then, Bari had been severely short on Nanomaterials and didn't even have masculine Nobling, so fighting would've been certain defeat.
Of course, Sihwan had diligently pulled aggro even in that situation.
"...Let's hurry and make the Suit."
Given Sihwan's personality, the aggro would keep coming nonstop from now on.
Plus, now that he'd gotten a taste for women, he was rampaging everywhere like an excited bull, so they needed to fabricate the Suit ASAP.
The good news was that the frame was almost complete.
It was practically a finished product that operated smoothly, but a few more processes were needed.
Namely, using feminine Nobling to max out the Suit's defense to the limit.
Raising defense with existing methods or magic would surely make a usable Suit.
But what Bari aimed to create was one with 'defense that could block anything.'
No matter how usable it was, as long as Noblesse existed who could Reading an object's info and Coding it away, risks remained. And if Bari herself ever got weird ideas, or some AI overtook her from somewhere, it'd be a dire threat to Sihwan's survival.
Thus, it needed not just physical defense but also to block external Nobling interference infiltration. For that, Bari had devised a new material called 'Reflexium.'
If Novril was metal specialized for offense, Reflexium was specialized for defense: by assigning phase concepts to its constituent molecules, 95% of the area (non-interference area) cancels incoming vibrations and info to repel all types of interference, accepting interference only on the remaining 5% (interference area).
Thus, building the Suit with this would allow easy attachment/detachment and transformation via interaction with Nanomaterials (interference area) while repelling 99.99% of external stimuli (non-interference area), birthing absolute defense.
The problem was that processing and use were extremely difficult.
Not permitting interference on most of the area meant processing was nearly impossible.
To make something with metal, you need to cut and bend it, but with such interference impossible, you couldn't create anything.
Thus, to use Reflexium, you needed a perfectly designed blueprint accounting for non-interference and interference area layouts in advance, then output it flawlessly using Nanomaterials and Nobling.
This meant calculating every single molecule's arrangement without a single error. And since it wasn't just static armor but existed as a wristwatch in peacetime and deployed into full-body armor in emergencies, the calculation difficulty skyrocketed.
Naturally, only an AI could pull this off.
"If only Master pulled a bit less aggro, that'd be great."