Chapter 143
Chapter 143
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 143
Chapter Title: Beach Broadcast and Rift Incident
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“Oh…….”
“Definitely has a different vibe to it.”
I let out a sigh of relief upon seeing the Perception Inhibition Magic in place.
Yeah, well.
I knew my mutated body was that of an exceptionally stunning beauty, and I no longer cared much about gender.
But people making such a fuss over me like this was still hard to get used to.
I was used to them freaking out over my abilities by now, but over my looks? Eh……
Honestly, it was burdensome.
I wasn’t someone who could view the world through the eyes of an ordinary woman.
Even if the identity of once having been a man had faded, a life lived that way couldn’t just be erased in an instant.
Well, it’d be embarrassing to back out after saying I’d wear it, so I just put it on.
The design was unnecessarily appealing—who was it supposed to tempt, anyway?
It wasn’t shameful or anything…… just, a sigh escaped me.
“Seen it now? I’m just throwing on the coat.”
“Yeah.”
Ha-rin glanced once, her eyes sparkling slightly, then nodded.
She said it was just pure curiosity.
The ones actually disappointed were Unnie Yeon-hwa and Seo-ah.
“What a shame…….”
“Yeah…….”
“Unnie, why are you too?”
“No, I was gonna turn on the stream soon and show it to the viewers.”
“Please, I don’t want to be plastered everywhere again?”
This time, I pushed back pretty firmly. Lately, people were weirdly obsessed with me, and I didn’t want to stir up more buzz and end up on everyone’s lips.
I used to enjoy that attention-seeking stuff back in the day, but now I felt the need to hold back.
No more brain rot.
I needed to stay at the level of an approachable high-up—going further might hurt my credibility.
Just this far.
I draped the coat over myself.
The swimsuit wasn’t overly revealing to begin with, so that alone covered everything up.
At this point…… maybe I could drop the Perception Inhibition Magic? But I decided to keep it up.
Without it, people would recognize me, making the stream impossible.
This outdoor stream was something Unnie Yeon-hwa had wanted badly, so better to keep things comfortable.
We’d come to the beach today for their vacations, after all.
And so……
[Today’s an outdoor stream! w. Seo-hyun, Ha-rin, Seo-ah]
“Hello, hello. It’s Yeon-hwa~”
-?? What’s going on?
-Didn’t you say no stream today? Sudden outdoor? And what’s this lineup?
“Oh, it was a little surprise plan. I’ll turn on the cam soon. Oh, but should I mark this adults-only……?”
-????????
-Why adults-only?
“We’re at Haeundae right now. Haeundae Beach. So we’re in swimsuits.”
-Wha-wha-wha-what!
-Ha-rin and Director too in swimsuits?
“Yeah. But Seo-hyun’s already pulled tons of aggro from the Ark Angels tour lately, so she says front-page exposure is a no-go for a bit. So she’s covered up with the coat.”
-Ugh, covered up
-When’s the cam on?
-Director’s little sis is there too?
“Yeah. These swimsuits are ones Seo-ah made. Jin-ha’s apprentice.”
-This real?
-Jin-ha as in Seo Jin-ha?
“Yeah, that’s right. Seo Jin-ha. She was modeling before mutating and somehow ended up as her apprentice. Anyway…… enough yapping, cam’s on now!”
As soon as Unnie Yeon-hwa finished, she turned on the cam. She panned straight to Ha-rin, who waved indifferently at it.
“Hello, viewers. I’m Yoo Ha-rin, team leader of Management Bureau Team 2.”
Ha-rin’s outfit was more revealing than mine, so the chat exploded with whoas and gasps.
……I get how they feel.
But I wished those exclamations wouldn’t come my way.
Wishful thinking, though.
“Hello! I’m Yoon Seo-ah, agent with Management Bureau Team 2!”
Seo-ah started engaging the viewers with energetic gestures. Then she grabbed my arm under the parasol.
“Unnie, what’re you doing? Say hi to the viewers.”
“Y-Yeah, yeah……. I was taking a break after the mental damage you caused.”
And so I peeked into frame……
-That’s a guy that’s a guy that’s a guy that’s a guy……
-That? You calling the Director ‘that’?
-Wow…… isn’t that a pretty revealing swimsuit? Even with the coat, something’s there……
-Could you take off the coat?
“Hello, everyone. I’m Mutant Management Bureau Director Yoon Seo-hyun. No coat removal. We’re proceeding like this today.”
I greeted the viewers with a slightly weary expression.
-Lmao Director’s face is half-rotted already
-What’s that about mental damage from your sis?
“This swimsuit I’m wearing? She made it. She threw such a fit to get me to try it…….”
-Fit-lmao
“When did I throw a fit?”
“You totally did. Hey, you’re already stressed from the front-page Ark Angels tour stuff. Parading the beach in a swimsuit? Front-page material again!”
-Lmaooooooo
-Fr tho that’d blow up overseas too
-But weirdly quiet? Tons of people around but no one’s looking at Director
“That’s my Perception Inhibition Magic.”
-??? What’s that?
“Exactly what it says—makes us unrecognizable to random people. Unnie Yeon-hwa and Ha-rin worked their asses off lately, so for their beach vacay, didn’t want us swept up in crowds.”
-But how do we see you?
“You can specify targets for the magic and exemptions.”
-;;;;
-Director’s powers…… where do they end?
“Dunno…… even I don’t know. Seems like anything’s possible, so I’m curious too about my limits.”
-ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ
-Come to think, that Greece article recently…… you stopped by to fix that during the Ark Angels tour?
“Yeah. Olympus gods’ Incarnations causing chaos, so I handled it on the way.”
-Olympus gods’ Incarnations?
-Like Zeus, Hera, that kinda?
“Yep. Not too tough, just beat ‘em down and normalized things. Hera’s Incarnation was reasonable, so left it to her.”
-Gasp
-Incarnation Mutants are spiking lately, but aren’t they way beyond regular Mutants?
“Yeah. But…… I’m even more off-spec.”
-Cool lol
-‘Confidence’
“But who’d guess right after that, I’d get kidnapped by Seraph to dance and sing. Someday I’ll expose Seraph’s ugly true face to the world.”
-When’d you get tight with Seraph?
“Since Ark Angels formed. Got close through me, so she knows Tae-hwa too. That’s why we’re the sacrifices.”
-Lmaoooooooo
-But you danced great? With Actress Tae-hwa and Director
-No thoughts on debuting as 7th member?
“Nope, no way. Already dying of busyness—when’d I do idol stuff?”
-Gotcha lol
* * *
After I finished bullshitting with viewers, Unnie Yeon-hwa, Ha-rin, and Seo-ah started chatting them up.
Me? I was just staring at the sky, chilling.
The swimsuit frenzy had worn me out mentally, for real.
So I gazed at the beach scenery.
Coming to the beach…… hadn’t done it since college, so it felt oddly nostalgic.
Nice view, I guess.
If Korea weren’t safe, we wouldn’t have scenes like this.
A strange pride welled up in me.
But……
Suddenly.
An unpleasant sensation swept over my entire body.
A familiar feeling.
Then, a roar echoed out of nowhere across the beach.
-?????????
-What’s happening? What?
-What’s that noise?
“……A Rift. And…… not like any before?”
-Gasp
-You okay fr?
As Unnie Yeon-hwa said, the Rift’s scale was insane.
The one in Suwon recently looked like a joke compared.
Precisely, I’d never seen a Rift this size after full Erosion began.
“First time seeing one this big.”
I muttered, and chat lit up.
-We good fr……?
-We’re good lol look at that lineup
-Fr any Erosion Entity’d run scared
-Now that you say it
But the chat panic died quick.
Probably ‘cause our Mutant lineup here was terrifying.
“Yeah. No need to worry.”
As Unnie Yeon-hwa spoke, screams erupted everywhere.
Crack-!
With an ominous sound, the sky split, revealing a monster’s eye that could steal sanity just by looking.
I dropped our Perception Inhibition Magic instantly. That eye seemed able to induce mental chaos.
Whumm-!
At the same time, I gathered power at my fingertips, erecting a mana barrier over all of Busan. The barrier spread from my hand, immediately blocking the eye’s power.
“Wha-what!?”
The effect showed right away.
The panicked beachgoers spotted us.
Looking at that massive eye, this foe seemed leagues beyond previous ones.
Plus, dozens more Rifts spawned beyond the main eye one, filling the sky with Erosion Entities crashing into sea and land.
……Vacation, and a real incident hits like this.
We exchanged looks and sighed in disbelief.