< 71. Dragon Lover, Dragon Hater, Dragon Slayer (5) >
***
It was a few days after subduing the monster that Minjun reunited with Edward Mitchum.
There were some matters to discuss with Jenkinson before informing him of the results.
“Huh? You caught him?!”
The news of a monster that was a mix of dragon and alien was captured was not something that would leak to the press.
If we do that, it will only increase social anxiety and hinder the search for the mastermind behind it.
So there was no official announcement, but Edward must have guessed. Even though the cycle of returning every three days was met, no threatening video came flying in. As his expectations became reality, a sense of relief finally spread across Edward’s face.
“Here is the evidence.”
Minjun showed Edward the video so that he could believe that the immigration office had captured the blackmailer and was in custody.
“How is it?”
“······That’s right.”
The monster on the screen is a polymorph. It is the pure-blooded elf body she used when she met Edward. She is reciting her current state as Minjun tells her.
In order to prove that it wasn’t fake, he was deliberately telling the story of that day that only monsters and vampires knew. It was something Edward had never shared with Minjun.
Minjun said as he turned off the video, thinking that this was enough.
“This woman will not harass Mr. Micheom again from now on.”
Edward asked hesitantly.
“Are you going to kill me?”
The agent shakes his head.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you.”
And Minjun decided to tell the part that he had been hesitant to reveal until the end, with some modifications.
Letting them live in guilt, mistaking themselves as rapists, and traumatizing them by telling them that they are actually victims of rape, not perpetrators.
Minjun couldn’t make a value judgment as to which of the two was moral.
However, from the perspective of someone who receives money and carries out a request, I concluded that it was right to tell something as ‘close to the truth’ as possible.
“But let me tell you this, Mr. Micheom. In fact, the one who charmed the other person… wasn’t Mr. Micheom.”
“yes?!”
Edward’s face turned pale as he listened to the explanation that followed.
“The ability to charm vampires?”
“You can think of it as an ISP manifester that doesn’t discriminate between species. Since it can reproduce, strictly speaking it’s not a true ISP… but let’s skip that kind of academic classification.”
Jenkinson, who was busy absorbing the medical and pharmaceutical companies of Changcheon, was planning to study the ingredients of the chemical.
“Oh my god, I can’t believe it.”
The vampire, who had become the first victim of rape in Earth’s history instead of the rapist, muttered blankly.
“By any chance… do you know what race it was?”
Minjun asks, pretending not to know.
“Does that matter?”
“······It’s important.”
He couldn’t tell them that the dragon’s genes were mixed in. That was something he had promised Jenkinson, the representative of the dragon tribe in this land. Instead, Minjun decided to tell them another name that would identify the creature.
“It was a spider-like creature.”
Five seconds of silence.
“······yes?”
Edward, frozen like a stone statue, asks again.
“I’m sorry. I heard something wrong just now…”
“I think you heard correctly. It was a creature that looked like a spider.”
“A spider? The one with eight legs?”
“Yes. It definitely had eight legs. Three of them looked more like protruding internal organs than legs, though…”
“Woof!”
Eventually, Edward couldn’t stand it anymore and ran to the bathroom where he vomited profusely.
Meanwhile, Minjun muttered to himself as he watched her back as she kicked the door open and left.
‘It was already in a polymorphic state, so why make such a fuss? It doesn’t matter how many legs it has.’
For someone who had lived with a creature with twenty-six tentacles for decades, eight legs were nothing more than a nuisance.
After a while, Edward returned, looking even more haggard, and sat down.
“······sorry.”
“it’s okay.”
The matter is not over yet. Edward brings up the topic he had been putting off.
“Then what about the children?”
A more sensitive issue than what to do with the monster is the fate of the children. After all, the fact that they are Edward’s children remains unchanged.
“First, look at this screen.”
The inside of a facility is shown. The boys Minjun brought were being looked after by Jenkinson’s employees. There were more nannies than children in the playroom. Books and toys were prepared everywhere.
Edward says in a bewildered tone.
“······There are four of them. Another one was born in the meantime.”
“Yes.”
Not only had their numbers increased, but Edward’s eyes were drawn to the children’s remarkable growth over the past few days. The oldest child was already showing signs of development that would make one believe he was ten years old.
Minjun said.
“If you wish, you may claim custody of these children. But before you do, please listen to my story.”
Edward stared at the image as if he was possessed.
Four half-elf boys. The children who look exactly like him are playing with innocent expressions in the video. The cold expressions like mannequins are gone, and they all smile brightly, then frown, then throw a tantrum, and then cry. A variety of emotions are expressed.
The children who were controlled like marionettes under the Queen Spider’s rule turned back into normal children the moment she broke her chains.
No, strictly speaking, it wasn’t truly ordinary. The results were the same as normal children, but the growth rate was abnormal.
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The children learned language at a rate that was impossible for a normal half-elf, and showed supernatural intelligence, emotional and physical development. The sight of the eldest child approaching and comforting the third child, who had fallen down while running around and was crying, was difficult to judge as a creature that had not even been born for two weeks.
In order for the brain, muscles, and bones to develop at that speed, a tremendous amount of energy must be consumed.
In other words, vitality was being rapidly consumed.
“Those children have about a year left to live.”
“!”
Edward turned his head to look at Minjun, then looked down at the screen with trembling eyes.
“A year…?”
Edward, who had secretly and hurriedly ordered a genetic test, ended up only confirming paternity.
But Jenkinson took the blood and entrusted it to the best researchers for thorough analysis.
What was discovered as a result was that while the monster had many of the characteristics of a dragon in terms of magic and intelligence, its reproductive methods and results were very similar to those of a spider.
In other words, these ‘boys’ are designed to be short-lived instead of growing quickly like regular soldier spiders. This is despite the fact that both the half-elf and dragon who provided the genes are long-lived.
After explaining this part appropriately, Minjun said.
“So you don’t have to worry about the children claiming inheritance rights. Even if you file a lawsuit, they’ll all die before it even gets to the third trial. You don’t have to worry about the children having children. They were born with bodies that couldn’t produce children. But the immigration office guarantees that there are no plans to have them adopted. However.”
Minjun asks, looking deeply into the other person’s mind.
“If Mr. Micheom, the biological father, claims custody and parental rights and intends to take direct care of the children, the immigration office will cooperate as much as possible···.”
“no.”
Edward didn’t even wait for Minjun to finish speaking.
I say it again with firm determination.
“no.”
Minjun looked at him silently. The vampire slowly turned his head.
“Those aren’t the kids I wanted. If there was a way to ignore them, I would. They grow, age, and die in a year, and they can’t have children, and their mother is a spider? That kind of thing… That kind of thing…”
The half-elf muttered softly.
“What kind of person is that?”
***
The day Minjun caught the monster.
Jenkinson was at first shocked by the sight, then a little horrified, and after a while he began to get fiery angry.
“Who on earth would do such a heinous thing with a dragon’s body!”
The monster before his eyes was nothing more than a biological provocation to challenge the dignity of a dragon. So Jenkinson initially wanted to just kill her, but Minjun stopped him.
And as his men continued their research, Jenkinson began to feel hesitation and wavering, a departure from his initial firm resolve.
The crack led to one question:
Can that creature really be considered a dragon?
“I thought it was a chimera made by recycling parts of a dragon’s body, but it wasn’t like that.”
A characteristic that is clearly revealed when looking into the genetic level.
“That’s the result of an attempt at artificial ‘crossbreeding’. As you can see from the condition, it wasn’t a complete success. But it wasn’t a complete failure either. Perhaps it’s a concept that could never exist in nature, so it only existed in theory… Yes, maybe it should be considered a dragon hybrid.”
Up until now, heteromorphs that have expressed ISP against dragons, like Kim Yeon-ju, have only seduced their partners and have never produced a result of their love.
Minjun thinks.
‘If we look at it that way, should we consider the Ober spiders as the only species that can create dragon hybrids?’
A creature that was designed from birth to be able to breed with other species. I could vaguely guess why those who created the monster chose spiders of all things.
Meanwhile, Jenkins felt like his head was going to explode.
“The children born from that spider also have a little bit of dragon genes.”
“I thought so. My curse didn’t work. It’s a magical power that only a dragon could have.”
Of course, the dragon’s range cannot be expanded arbitrarily here. But Jenkinson could not kill them all either.
Eventually, the dragon came to a compromise.
“I’ll be protecting that spider and the kids for now. If the biological father comes out like that.”
“I don’t care.”
Minjun had another interest. The real reason he had captured that monster.
The inmate and the dragon spoke to the mutant.
“Now, tell me everything. Where do you come from? Where were you born?”
And one more important question.
“Why were you looking for the actual talent?”
The monster answered, shuddering.
***
Unlike normal dragons, the monster had no memories of the moment of its birth.
When she was born, her mind seemed closer to that of a spider than a dragon. But as time passed, her intelligence blossomed like a faint light on the dark walls of a room, and that light gradually filled her darkened mind.
The ego was created.
And I started to remember what I had been through.
=They experimented on me… a lot of experiments.=
The monster, who had already realized that his fate depended on the agent and the red dragon before his eyes, responded to the question obediently.
According to the monster’s memories, he was a failure by the standards of those who conducted the experiment. A mutant whose genes were mixed together and did not harmonize, leaving many imperfect parts.
“Have you seen what kind of people those researchers are?”
=No, I’ve always just heard the mental waves. In a similar way to how I’m conveying my will now.=
When it came to the idea that there were more spider-like creatures there, judging from their conversation, their faces quickly hardened.
=I don’t know how long it was like that. One day, when I opened my eyes, I was ‘outside’.=
I never even tried to escape because I didn’t even know the outside world existed.
I just opened my eyes and was outside.
‘You released it.’
For some reason, the monster’s creators released her into society.
“When did that happen?”
=About··· 10 years ago.=
Minjun frowned.
A monster like that has been wandering around for 10 years and you didn’t know about it?
But the question was answered through the following words.
The place where she was first released was where the People’s Republic of China used to be, and it is said that she lived for a while after that, wandering around the successor countries of the old China.
“It somehow escaped capture.”
It was relatively recently that she came to Korea. Minjun frowned when he heard the date.
“Right after Changcheon died?”
The news of Changcheon’s death was such big news that it had to be reported in the media.
The news that the Elder Dragon had committed a major crime that violated both domestic law and the Dragonic Code and was punished by other Elder Dragons was also reported as a scoop by foreign media.
Meanwhile, information that would not have leaked out if Changcheon was alive was also reported in the news. Everyone was interested in how her assets would be distributed, and it was belatedly reported by bank employees that a large sum of talent had been stolen from the list of assets.
Of course, ordinary people didn’t even know that such a thing existed, so they paid little attention to it.
But there was a monster who listened to the news.
< 71. Dragon Lover, Dragon Hater, Dragon Slayer (5) > End
