Rust - Chapter 789



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RUST -789

Nurse Ono Nanae’s heart pounded.

Although it wasn’t many times, she had also experienced the Maru Dating Simulation (Mayenshi).

‘Even if the two of them had dated first, nothing would have happened.’

So I could roughly understand why Kim Yang and Na Ju-yeon were satisfied with meat and research. She was gentle, not stupid.

‘If you get it wrong, it could be dangerous.’

Na Ju-yeon often stepped on landmines, which resulted in a quick game over. Kim Yang was good at avoiding landmines, but there was little progress in their relationship.

And the nurse, who had been catching her breath for a moment because her heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to burst, clenched her fists and stood up.

In the last Mayenshi, Kim Yang, Na Juyeon, and Hood’s feelings were visible, so they didn’t go all the way, but… The nurse’s face, flushed red, showed the will to fight.

‧

Even though she was a determined nurse who was determined to win, Maru saw her as if she was a ripe persimmon about to burst.

“Are you sick anywhere?”

“Hueeeet- No. No. It’s okay. It’s really, really okay.”

What was she thinking? She jumped up and down as if she had been caught as a thief. Seeing the nurse’s actions like that, Maru thought, ‘Am I that burdensome?’

Anyway, as Ki-soon had said, it was true that there was a need to relieve some of the dissatisfaction and desires, so Maru thought about what the nurse’s desires might be.

‘Ms. Kim put out the fire with meat and gold, and Na Ju-yeon got permission for this DNA treatment and brain research.’

What do nurses like?

Talking to animals?

Should we look for a new animal friend?

The magpies that were recently forced to join the farm were refusing access to capitalist humans to the farm area, claiming that farmers are the foundation of the world.

Since Ms. Kim has been forcibly holding on and pushing for relocation, the magpies will probably be dissatisfied. If a nurse who can talk comfortably goes, it will be good for the magpies and the nurse will have a new animal friend.

As I was about to take the nurse to the magpie village, a message from Ki-sun came in.

[Where are you going now?]

“Where are you going…? Are you watching me right now?”

[Surveillance is freezing to death. You are the king. Wherever the king goes, the guards have to follow. Why would they just sit there?]

“Since when have you been escorting me?”

Even if it is doubly and triply safe in the Holy Kingdom, it was natural to have an escort in Korea.

[Since when did you start escorting him? Except when the King was on a solo mission, you were escorting him from afar. What did Kim Yang and the guards think?]

“······.”

[And where are you going now? If you go that way, it’s the countryside. You’re not going to Magpie Village, are you?]

“······.”

Ki-soon sighed at Maru’s silence.

[No… what about you.]

[Ha- Really-]

[Ah- Really-]

[By any chance… I should take the nurse and let her meet her new animal friends. That’s not what I’m thinking, is it?]

“······.”

Ki-soon was outraged at the exercise of her right to remain silent.

[Don’t you know that the nurse came out with all her might? I was looking forward to going on a date, but you took me out and left me to work in the magpie village? Is this true?]

“I’m not passing the buck.”

[conflict!!!]

Ki-soon, who had been shouting loudly, calmed down and let out a deep sigh.

Looking back, Maru was popular until middle school, but since high school when Maru’s family went bankrupt, he was basically the head of the household.

Even though I graduated from high school and went to college on a scholarship, my circumstances were still poor. I had to go to the military and be discharged early, and then work at World Livestock, where I worked overtime, extra work, and even weekends, so I didn’t really have time to get involved with women.

The women around him were his younger sister Naru, his mother Mrs. Oh, and his fiancée Na Juyeon. It wasn’t like he didn’t know how to have fun with women.

Rather, it is a situation where we should be praising the fact that no phobia (fear or disgust) towards women has developed.

[···If you don’t have any plans. Ha- Don’t go past Bundang or Dongtan, but go to a cafe near there first. There seems to be a pretty famous bakery cafe there. If not, brunch···.]

“Isn’t a cafe something you go to eat?”

[Ah. A little-]

Ki-soon had a seizure.

‧

The nurse sat in the passenger seat and drank water. Riding in a car driven by him himself. This was an event that had never been experienced in Mayan City.

‘Uh. Where are you going?’

I looked along the highway, pretending not to notice the motels and hotels passing by.

After- After-

She drank water without knowing it. She drank water again. The feeling of cold water going down her esophagus and cooling her hot stomach and heart, and then the thrilling sensation of it rising.

‘Uh. Where are you going?’

Glancing to the side, I saw Maru’s profile with a serious expression on his face as he talked.

“Isn’t a cafe something you go to eat?”

cafe?

Are you saying you’re going to eat?

It’s not lunch time yet.

The nurse was drinking water again because her mouth was dry. After a while, she started to feel like she had drunk a lot of water.

“Excuse me. When will I arrive?”

“Just walk a little bit. Is there anything inconvenient?”

“Ah. No. Huh-”

It was a nurse who was twisting her body here and there. Since the nurse’s face was already red, Maru nodded and continued driving.

‘I think Kisun told me about a famous house.’

It was said to be a famous brunch cafe, but the road leading to it was very busy. To make matters worse, there was a minor accident, and the road in front was completely blocked.

The nurse now began to break out in a cold sweat.

‘Ah- ahhh-‘

It was too embarrassing to say I needed to go to the bathroom to pee.

I had reached my limit of patience, so I expressed it indirectly, but Maru didn’t notice it at all. The nurse felt like she was going crazy because of the tension on both sides.

I heard that the destination was a brunch cafe. It was just a little further, but that short distance was not getting any shorter.

The nurse was so desperate that she didn’t even realize that her mouth was parched, her heart was pounding, her body was about to overflow, and beads of sweat were dripping down her body.

“It’s okay. Does anything hurt?”

The nurse’s eyes turned to the side at the sound of Maru’s voice. And then – the soft touch of a handkerchief on her cheek.

?

Maru was wiping her cold sweat with a handkerchief. Warm hands. Eyes and expression full of worry. The nurse’s concentration was broken by that unbearable kindness.

!!!

The moment when the tension that had been holding back even the soul is released.

Phew- Phew—-

The nurse who made the strange noise opened the car door and ran out.

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Time passed quickly.

Of the more than 1.12 million newborns, 370,000 received DNA treatment and brain surgery and were sent into the field.

[How about giving the local troops a vacation and replacing them? I mentioned this briefly last time, but the local troops are very dissatisfied, so I think we should start by taking care of that.]

Even Maru thought it was absurd that the local army had joined the Japanese refugee forces as a whole. Even if they had been influenced by psychic abilities or dominance, it was problematic that they had all gone over.

“Hmm- So, let’s give them some time to meet their families first. Don’t worry.”

[Yeah. If I take a vacation, my complaints will subside a bit.]

“And we plan to have the regenerative units naturally infiltrate the Korean military.”

[I said that just in case.]

“How sinister. Let’s do that.”

[What did I do to be considered sinister?]

Under the pretext of providing vacation support, they’re suggesting that the local army be sent to the Holy Kingdom Regeneration Unit. If that’s not sinister, then what is? Maru chuckled at Gi-sun, who insisted that she was innocent.

[excuse me-]

Na Ju-yeon got caught up in the tiki-taka between the two.

[I think it would be better to have the regeneration unit start with simpler tasks rather than deploying them directly into military operations.]

[That would be good, just in case.]

Ki-sun Do agreed with Na Ju-yeon’s opinion. The so-called regeneration unit was in charge of agriculture, which was previously handled by local forces, but was later deployed in armed conflicts with Chinese refugees in Incheon and Japanese refugees in Busan.

The regenerative unit, armed with mass-produced exosuits, displayed powerful combat power.

It was definitely effective to have all the information transmitted directly to the brain, rather than having an assistant AI display the information on a HUD.

The drone’s reconnaissance footage was transmitted directly, and information captured by various sensors could be recognized immediately, allowing for quicker response and reaction.

Even that response was an action combined with a response method built into the electronic chip, so there was no hesitation in taking action.

Hesitation was so difficult that there was a separate training course in special forces to eliminate it.

“That’s amazing.”

[I know.]

Maru and Gisun were surprised.

There was resistance to psychic powers and dominance.

[It appears to be due to the effects of brainwashing.]

[Immunity check against mental abilities and dominance. It certainly seems better than expected.]

It wasn’t all good.

The information embedded in the chip had the disadvantage that something unexpected could happen and that it was weak in improvising when encountering a situation for the first time.

The biggest drawback of all was that it was vulnerable to EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse). Since it was directly connected to the network, it was also vulnerable to hacking.

If we leave that out, the combat power of the regeneration unit was superior to that of the regular unit. This caused controversy among the new politicians ahead of the general election.

[This is a story about how an army can be trained at minimal cost.]

[This is an army that doesn’t even have to worry about a coup.]

It was an army in which there were no coups or disobedience of orders, as they could be controlled using chips implanted in their heads.

It was bound to be controversial to treat a child diagnosed with a disability so that he could function properly as a human being.

[We will sign an agreement with the Holy Kingdom and introduce medical technology.]

[We will create a country without disabilities, a country without the fear of old age.]

[A clean country without drug addiction, alcohol addiction, or gambling addiction! We will achieve this.]

There was no talk of technology transfer, but politicians began to make promises about what they would do with the technology of the Holy Kingdom.

“They’re out of their minds. Who would do something like that?”

[It would be better if they tried to get along with us. There are also people who openly say that we should be excluded.]

Maru’s expression changed strangely at Ki-sun’s words.

“Exclusion? You’re saying you’re going to split up with us in this situation?”

[It’s because they’re saying they’re going to pull in the votes of those who hate us.]

The Holy Kingdom maintained most of the work that the cannibal government had done, except for one change: a policy that focused on supporting pregnant women.

The discount rate, which ranged from a minimum of 50% to a maximum of 80%, was lowered to a fixed discount of 50%, and the resulting funds were pooled to improve the quality and quantity of military supplies.

[The Holy Kingdom broke its promise. It said it would leave everything to the newly formed government, and now look at what it is doing to seize control of the military.]

[We must stop the Holy Kingdom from taking all 1.12 million newborn babies.]

[Can you trust the Holy Kingdom that cuts support for pregnant women and diverts the budget to the military?]

As the election got closer, the odds started to rise.

And then the general election was held. It was an election that utilized the technology of the Holy Kingdom. It was a home election through identity verification. The result was that pro-Holy Kingdom politicians and anti-Holy Kingdom politicians were elected at a rate of nearly half.

[It is the will of the citizens to prepare for the future together with the Holy Kingdom.]

[It was the voice of the people calling for the restoration of the order that the Holy Kingdom had disrupted and for the establishment of a new, dignified relationship rather than a submissive one.]

Both sides claimed victory, but the Holy Kingdom did not comment separately. It only began accepting and transporting newborns and immigrants from the Korean military.

[Are you okay?]

“It doesn’t matter. I’m just keeping the promise I made at the beginning.”

The election that excluded cannibals was over, but reality had not changed.