Episode 24
Babel Network
▷ Local ─ South Korea
▷ No. 1 domestic ranking channel (ranking 1st to 50th)
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David: Well, I’ve been living abroad for a long time, so I’m not that familiar with Korean culture, but when there’s something to celebrate, isn’t it common courtesy (manners) to give out rice cakes and greet the neighbors?
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White Bird: It’s not a yes, it’s manners.
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David: Shang— You’re a newbie who’s trying to interpret the text
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David: Hey, are you going to keep saying no comment, No. 1?
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David: If we’re really going to be framed as being friendly, let’s do some friendly stuff, okay?
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Bambi: Go look somewhere else. It’s going to be hard to see you for a while.
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Night Snack King: ? What are you talking about? You’re acting like you know me, but are you a little close?
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Night Snack King: ???
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Night Snack King: That crazy kid from Jumma is ignoring everything I say and is a total idiot;;;
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David: Oh my godㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Why is that? You’re always the only rival;;
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Imagination: The reason everyone knows but he alone never knows…
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Sam: Head. Stop chatting. Please.
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Tomorrow’s public certificate renewal: Team Leader Shigyun! The tutorial work ended earlier than scheduled, but will the new hunter registration proceed on the fixed date? Please contact me after checking.
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David: Ah, don’t change it, just get a little more. That’s right. A week of compulsory education is too short.
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Christmas: It reminds me of the old days. It’s good for newbies to learn new things and make new friends… Office workers miss school life.
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Alpha: That’s right. March is a new beginning, and flowers bloom and storms sprout^^ It’s also the traditional starting point of the school genre. Watch The Heirs^^~ It’s a masterpiece of the era.
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Christmas: ;;;; Why is the conversation turning to drama again?? And it’s always The Heirs;;
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Alpha: I think of you when I see Mr. Tan. If you don’t like it, just change your name^^~*
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March, the month of blooming flowers.
New tutorial.
New semester.
Spring is a season filled with exciting new beginnings.
After the tutorial was over and before ‘registration’, the newbies who entered the training center for mandatory training were getting to know each other.
Optimus Prime, the prestigious entrance exam school.
A new relationship was also sprouting in the special management class for the Jongno main branch art program.
“This is a secret… Actually, ‘Joe’ is my older brother.”
‘Huh? You little brat?’
“It’s a real secret, so you must never tell anyone. Okay?”
‘Why are you doing this to me when we first met…?’
First day of class.
An early departure letter given by the homeroom teacher (on the subject of academy) stating that he would only send me home if there was a good reason.
Third-year test taker Kyeon Ji-oh scribbled on a blank piece of paper with a soulless face.
I am requesting early retirement for the following reasons…
[Reason: Partner forced gender reassignment]
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“If this continues, the entire nation will end up using the same family register. Everyone will say, ‘My brother is Jogo,’ and ‘My sister is Joya.’”
“Brother, what are you looking at?”
“Just internet comments. Look at this. This is the worst impersonation ever. Oh, why did this kind of big incident happen when I was locked up in a training camp? Damn it.”
“That’s right. I heard from my friends that it’s almost like a World Cup victory atmosphere outside. I guess there’s a festival going on every day at the Han River. I’m jealous…”
“That’s understandable. If he had just reclaimed the throne, things would have turned around, but he didn’t just become number one, he became number one in the world.
“That’s right, that’s right. I saw World Notification for the first time in my life. Goosebumps.”
“The timing is also great. How did it end right at the same time as the tutorial?”
“Our Majesty knows the drama. I told you that the Balrog Ttaga Jo Jjamppong won’t go anywhere.”
“Have you all been to the Hunter Intranet? The comments are hilarious. It seems like His Majesty knelt down for a moment to gain momentum.”
“Oh. I was really curious about what Hunters talked about on the intranet, but it turns out they all live the same lives. They all joke around and have fun.”
“Blood, what is it? Can we get in there too?”
“We’re all Awakened, we just haven’t registered yet. Some of the functions are locked, but there’s no problem accessing the game.”
People who wake up and say they didn’t know.
It seemed like he was planning to quickly log in and take a look.
A flexible training schedule left me with plenty of free time.
Here, in Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, is the ‘Preliminary Awakening Ability Adaptation Training Center’.
It is also called a training center or reserve center, but most people just call it ‘Mars’.
It is basically a national organization under the center, but it can be seen as being jointly operated with the association.
It was established about 10 years ago.
The incident known as the ‘March of Nightmare’ prompted people to keenly realize the need for controlling the Awakened and quickly implemented measures to fix the barn, and the newly launched government, with the full support of the people, pushed forward with ‘mandatory education before registering Awakened’.
As a result, a special law was enacted stating that prospective awakeners aged 14 or older must have a training institution completion record in order to be able to ‘register’.
There are two ways for an Awakened Person to officially register their name on the server.
1. Enter the Tower of Babel.
2. Contact with the ‘Stone of Babel’.
The ‘Stone of Babel’, which is the base of the One-Grade Measuring Machine, is a high-level magical substance that is very difficult to handle, so it is absolutely not something that an individual can handle.
As soon as the special law was passed, the government quickly began to thoroughly supervise all routes leading to the entrance of the Tower of Babel.
How is this a human rights violation in the 21st century?
Are you Big Brother?
The murmurings of rebellion by some of the Awakened were short-lived.
Oh my, whoever changed that government is doing a great job. It is something that cannot be done against the public sentiment of applauding.
Now that the tutorial is over, the picture of being taken to Mars as instructed feels very natural.
“Honghae, aren’t you going?”
“I’ll eat some more. The food is so delicious… I think the facilities here are really nice. Honestly, when I read the reviews, I thought they were all lies.”
“What good is that? If you bring in national talent and they don’t do this well, you should close the store. It’s like showing off that you came from the countryside.”
“Oh, it’s not the countryside.”
“Oh, sorry, sorry. Country kids are really sensitive to the word country. Haha. Where did you say you’re from? Uh… Ulleungdo! That’s right!”
“……Ulsan.”
“Isn’t it similar? The view of the ocean must be nice.”
‘You ignorant Seoul country bumpkin……’
A bob cut and thick square glasses.
Thanks to that, the eyes that are swearing are not visible.
Hong Ha-ya (18 years old/male), a high school student who came to Seoul from Ulsan, smiled awkwardly.
The third day since entering Mars.
No matter how many couples come from the training camp and how many social gatherings there are, it’s all a matter of luck.
If you sew the first button wrong, it will be difficult to recover…
If you keep hanging out with people who don’t fit in, the situation will become irreversible.
The group had already been formed, so the possibility of making new friends was extremely low.
Hong Ha-ya looked at Choi Seong-taek across from her with complicated emotions.
‘They say everyone becomes a couple on Mars and makes friends for life, but why me…’
Even in a double room dorm, I’m using it alone.
He’s the only one in the training camp without a roommate…
“Oh, right. You’ll have a roommate soon.”
“Yeah… Yes, yes? My roommate? My roommate?”
“I heard someone in Building B had a seizure and was transferred to the special building. I thought the remaining person would be your partner? Why would you keep them separate?”
“at las……!”
“Column. I think you’ll like it. Let’s become friends. Once you become friends, you can open up to this hyung too.”
“Do you know who my brother is?”
“That’s him. The tutorial leader.”
If you are the top…… 1st place……
“Stomach, stomach, Baek Do-hyeon?”
Hong Ha-ya, who had screamed, covered her mouth in surprise. The snow rolled diagonally on its own.
Baek Do-hyun, Na Jo-yeon, etc.
This was the area where the 1st and 2nd place winners of the 40th tutorial were sitting together.
It may be my imagination, but I think I looked at this place…
Honghae put her neck in like a giraffe. She lowered her voice and checked again.
“Really? Is it really Baek Do-hyun?”
“Oh, that’s right. Why are you so careful?”
“But, it seems scary… You’re the highest scorer in history. You’re the first to score over 30,000 points… I heard you were the last to come out of this class in ‘Astronomy’.”
Right after the tutorial ends, ‘Astronomy’ moves to select the constellation.
The time spent there varies from person to person.
For some it took less than a second, for others it took all day.
There’s no way to know if you made a covenant or not unless you reveal it yourself, but if it took more than half a day like Baek Do-hyun, then it’s usually……
“You must have met the right person. You’ve already earned a high rank. That, you said it was a re-entry, but it was a real life opportunity! Everyone will rush to take you.”
Choi Seong-taek, who was following the flow, began to unravel the theories he had heard here and there.
I heard that Baek Do-hyun was originally an F-class, that he left a cat he had found at home alone a while ago, that he hangs out with Na Jo-yeon but it seems like they fight all the time, etc.
I see……
Hong Ha-ya, who had been nodding along the whole time, suddenly raised her head.
“What, what is it?”
“Brother, what did you just… say?”
“What, what am I?”
“Sir, I told you so!”
Choi Seong-taek hesitated and retorted, feeling overwhelmed by the momentum he was seeing for the first time.
“Baek, Baek Do-hyeon might enter the silver lion……”
“longer!”
“……Since I have a connection with Joe, I might take him to the Silver Lion……?”
The look in his eyes behind his glasses has changed.
When asked for a more detailed explanation, Choi Seong-taek stammered.
“That, that’s just a rumor floating around on the internet. Someone saw Baek Do-hyun catch someone on the day he became known as the hero of Seolleung Station, and when you calculate the timing of Joe’s appearance and things like that, there are also people who say it seems like it was Joe. Also… Eunsaja is famous, you know.”
Yes, that’s right.
It’s almost the only link.
It was a well-known fact that the guild “Eunsaja” was in charge of handling all matters related to Joe’s external activities.
This is something that anyone who has dug even a little deeply into Joe knows.
So Hong Ha-ya too…
“…..Wait a minute. But hey, why are you so excited? You were scared, you brat.”
“Ah, ah. I’m sorry. I was surprised because my goal was to become a benefactor…”
Hong Ha-ya pushed up her thick glasses. Her expression became timid again.
Choi Sung-taek grumbles. What am I saying again?
“Take someone you want to be your rival. My brother said so. Just because they’re my peers doesn’t mean they’re of the same class. Can’t you tell just by looking at them? I’m at least A-class. It’s written on my face.”
“As soon as registration is over, the scouts will line up and shout, ‘Baek Do-hyun! Baek Do-hyun!’ You envious little bastard. Please, at least make him smaller.”
“……”
“I told you not to be a pushover. Instead of getting angry for no reason, think about how you can become friends with her. She’ll probably never talk to you first… because…”
Huh?
Uh….., what?
The voice of Choi Seong-taek, who has lost his screws.
Hong Ha-ya raised her head at the shadow that had fallen. And.
“Have to. Have to. Right?”
“……yes.”
“Nice to meet you. I’m your roommate starting today.”
Still a young face. Golden eyes hidden behind glasses.
One of the puzzle pieces of a world that has been divided.
The Golden Rule (Hong Ha-Ye)
Baek Do-hyeon extended his hand with a kind smile.
This time, before this piece shatters pitifully, I am determined to deliver it properly to our king.
To his beloved little king.
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Kido stopped humming.
Then he recited with a beautiful smile on his face.
“Wow, it looks like X.”
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