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[Chapter 194]
[Pandora Clan Disclosure (3)]
<Crimson Wing> No Eun-ha has a gift called <Future Sight> that sees the future.
Or there is someone with the <Future Sight> gift around No Eun-ha.
This rumor was already well known in the player industry.
And after the Mana Religion soul-returning ceremony terror attack, the latter was gaining more credibility.
Then who has <Future Sight>?
This suspicion can be said to be included in the issues the world's people are currently interested in.
Therefore, Pandora Clan had to resolve suspicions with somewhat plausible explanations in this plan.
If not, suspicions would only grow and Pandora Clan's room for maneuver would narrow.
They would be nitpicked by other stakeholders on every little thing.
If that repeats, they will surely lose trust someday.
They had to make it clear on this opportunity.
☆
Rewinding time, a few days before the gift inspection date.
Eun-ha had dinner alone with No Eun-ah after a long time.
"It feels like it's been really long since I ate with you. How long has it been since we ate together?"
"Was it? We ate together yesterday too."
"Don't include eating with all the clan members. I mean it's been a long time since just you and I ate together. Eun-ae would be disappointed if she knew this. She'd want to eat together too."
"We can't help it since she's busy with clan work."
"It's not just being busy with clan work, it's become hard to eat with you too."
"Well, that's true."
Tap tap.
Eun-ah taps her foot under the table.
Then she pointed at Eun-ha's left hand with the fork in her mouth.
The ring on his left ring finger.
Eun-ha looked down at his ring and smiled bitterly.
After marrying Seo-hyeon and Ha-yang, I've been eating dinner with just the three of us almost every night.
Unless something unusual happened, they ate together every night.
That was why it was difficult for Eun-ha to make time with other people in the evenings.
"Don't eat with just the three of you every day, sometimes eat dinner with just Seo-hyeon once, Ha-yang once, just the two of you. They'd probably like time with just the two of you rather than all three together too."
"Yeah, I should do that. Actually, Seo-hyeon has been saying such things lately."
Eun-ah advised.
Eun-ha nodded.
Eun-ha was also thinking of ways to spend time alone with his wives.
We even sleep in turns.
Since they say they don't want to sleep together in a narrow bed...
Still, on Sundays I sleep alone or we sleep together sometimes...
In the newlywed home Eun-ha prepared in Hannam-dong, there were separate rooms for Eun-ha, Han Seo-hyeon, and Jeong Ha-yang.
There were many other rooms too.
Anyway, Eun-ha had never slept alone when at the newlywed home.
Leaving his own room empty, he had to alternately visit the bedrooms prepared in Han Seo-hyeon and Jeong Ha-yang's rooms.
Sometimes he wanted to sleep alone.
At those times, the person whose turn it was would come and sleep together in Eun-ha's room.
Others would be dumbfounded if they heard.
It was a story he couldn't tell even Eun-ah.
Eun-ha couldn't help but smile bitterly just thinking about returning to the newlywed home later.
"Sigh, it'll get even harder if Yu-jeong gets married too. What will you do?"
"...I'll manage somehow."
"Don't try to avoid it like that. If you decided to take responsibility for all three, you should show a clearly responsible appearance."
"I know. I'll do that."
Then Eun-ah brought up Lee Yu-jeong.
He decided to marry Lee Yu-jeong next year.
When he welcomes his third wife, he will have even less personal time than now.
It was something he couldn't blame anyone for.
It was something he had to take responsibility for with his greedy self.
"End with three."
"I'll end with three."
"Really? Remember when you said you'd end with two people last time?"
"...I'll end with three."
"Hmm, we'll see."
Soon she makes drowsy eyes.
Eun-ha answered while avoiding No Eun-ah's gaze.
She didn't say much else either.
Instead, she brought up the ring she pointed at earlier as a topic.
"The ring you got this time is pretty. I like that it's not cumbersome and doesn't blatantly show it's expensive."
"Seo-hyeon and Ha-yang said that too. I agonized quite a bit since I can't wear 3 rings."
Eun-ha recently got a ring.
Han Seo-hyeon, Jeong Ha-yang, and Lee Yu-jeong each had different rings.
But Eun-ha couldn't wear all three people's rings.
So they jointly made one that's good for wearing normally.
Thanks to Hae-su hyung's idea.
I didn't know there were rings like this.
Yellow, white, rose gold.
A large diamond was embedded in the center of the ring made by alternating three thin rings.
It could be said to symbolize his three wives including himself.
Eun-ha stroked his ring as if handling something precious.
"Still, it's good it looks nice."
"It's a marriage I did because I like it."
"It's surprising you can say such things now."
Eun-ah looked at Eun-ha like that with warm eyes.
Eun-ha was just embarrassed hearing such words from his noona.
"─Hey, noona."
"Yeah, what?"
"Can I ask you for something?"
"It's unusual for you to ask me for a favor. Yeah, tell me."
After finishing the meal.
Eun-ha spent time drinking beverages with No Eun-ah.
Then, Eun-ha brought up the reason he called No Eun-ah today.
"─I'd like you to say your gift is <Future Sight> at the upcoming gift inspection."
"<Future Sight>?"
Currently public sentiment was flowing favorably towards Eun-ha.
But it flowed too favorably and unable to overcome their public sentiment, he ended up having to undergo gift inspection.
The problem is that other intentions are hidden in the public sentiment currently unfolding.
Eun-ha wasn't unaware of rumors circulating in the industry since the Seoul Disaster.
I can't keep ignoring rumors that someone among me or people around me has <Future Sight>.
I need to resolve the rumors somehow to prevent them from swelling greatly anymore.
Who spread the rumors?
It wasn't Dangun Clan Lord Jang Bong-jeon.
He just picked up rumors floating around.
It was nothing more than rumors mentioned during the Seoul Disaster period swelling and bursting out on this opportunity.
He couldn't know what rumors would come out if he left them to swell further.
So he had to handle it somehow to eliminate the rumors.
The easiest thing is to just lie that my gift is <Future Sight>.
However, after the Mana Religion soul-returning ceremony terror attack, rumors that he had <Future Sight> lost credibility.
So he had to deceive that someone else has <Future Sight>.
Among them, the only person he could trust and whose gift wasn't known yet was No Eun-ah.
Seo-hyeon is dangerous since she's in political and business circles.
It'll be troublesome if flies asking to tell the future gather for no reason.
And if I consider someone digging into my past too, noona who's family is most suitable.
The conclusion reached after long contemplation.
Actually, he didn't want to burden Eun-ah.
But he had no choice.
Eun-ha bowed his head and asked.
To this, Eun-ah smiled faintly─
"─Why are you bowing your head? Think I can't do that much for family? Stop making noona feel burdened and raise your head."
"...Thank you, noona."
Eun-ah readily agreed.
She looked around and put up a barrier so others couldn't hear.
"I've been under pressure to disclose my gift for a while anyway? Yeon-hwa and Chang-jin disclosed long ago, but I hadn't disclosed so I was under quite a bit of pressure."
Eun-ah shrugged her shoulders.
Her gift was <Miracle >.
She didn't know when she was young, but realized after becoming Park Hye-rim's <The Seed>.
But No Eun-ah didn't try to use her gift following Eun-ha and Park Hye-rim's advice.
"Hye-rim unnie initially thought of researching my gift too, but she said her thoughts changed after seeing Seo-young unnie activate her gift and pay the price in Uijeongbu."
<Miracle > shouldn't be handled to fill her research knowledge.
Park Hye-rim seemed to have given up early on even before bringing No Eun-ah in as <The Seed>.
So she who recognized the danger of <Miracle > didn't report Eun-ah's gift to the Fairy government.
Eun-ah agreed too, so she had been keeping her gift secret.
"I was already contemplating whether to reveal my gift or not, so this works out well. Since the Fairy said she'd turn a blind eye to some extent, I'll just deceive it as <Future Sight> on this opportunity."
As if it's no big deal.
No Eun-ah accepted nonchalantly.
Nevertheless, Eun-ha felt grateful for No Eun-ah's consideration.
He wasn't unaware that she was deliberately speaking nonchalantly to lessen his burden.
"But I am worried. I have to pretend to have <Future Sight> from now on. Can I do well?"
"Don't worry. Actually, the gift <Future Sight> isn't accurately known. Everyone just thinks it sees the future, they won't know under what conditions the gift activates."
"Really?"
"Noona also just thinks it will see the future because people say <Future Sight>, you don't know exactly what it is either, right?"
"Well, that's true."
"Since there are individual differences in gift effects for each person... Just gloss over it appropriately. And Seo-hyeon and Ha-yang said they'll think of ways to prevent problems, so leave it to them."
The activation conditions are very tricky.
Actually, even the holder doesn't know the activation conditions.
Even when the gift activates, they don't know what future they're seeing.
Just knowing they saw the future, not dreamed, only when the future they saw occurs.
Eun-ha planned to falsely set <Future Sight>'s abilities like that.
There's no accurately known information about <Future Sight> at this time yet. So no matter what others say, just insist.
There's no way to measure <Future Sight>.
It can only rely on the gift holder's testimony.
So in the past, there were even cases of fake fortune tellers committing fraud saying their gift was <Future Sight>.
Nevertheless, the image given by the name <Future Sight> couldn't be ignored.
To the extent people believe there must be someone somewhere who accurately foresees the future.
And in fact, their groundless belief was realized in the previous regression.
<Star-Counting Witch> Song Yun-seo.
She disclosed her gift when recommended as a Twelve Seat.
Until that person <Star-Counting Witch> appears and discloses her gift, think of anyone claiming to have <Future Sight> as a fraud.
He felt sorry for making his own noona a fraud inwardly.
But it couldn't be helped.
Eun-ah's gift had to be disguised, and attention focused on Eun-ha himself had to be diverted elsewhere.
Thus Eun-ah's gift will be disclosed to the world as <Future Sight>.
☆
After inspecting Eun-ha's gift.
Now only Han Seo-hyeon and No Eun-ah remained.
But the two people's gift inspections ended simply.
"─I came to see the clan members, and since I'm not a player there's no reason for me to be inspected. I'll decline."
First, Han Seo-hyeon refused inspection.
Since Han Seo-hyeon's gift was seeing people's psychology as colors, there was nothing good about it being known.
If her gift is disclosed, it would make those around her wary.
Moreover, Han Seo-hyeon who wasn't even a player was somewhat out of the world's attention.
And in No Eun-ah's case─
"─I don't think I need to be inspected either. I think I vaguely know what my gift is."
"Is that so? Then could you tell us what kind of gift it is? If it's a gift that can be measured, I'd like to accurately measure it with equipment..."
"Hmm, it's probably difficult. I see the future."
""""...""""
She has <Future Sight>.
Eun-ah glibly told a lie.
Jin Seo-na and Choi Eun-hyeok seemed surprised but weren't tactless.
"Ah, I see. Still, it seems better to check how it activates first. We can only acknowledge it as <Future Sight> if we do at least that much inspection."
The research center director seemed surprised too.
But the surprise was brief.
He who had acted tactfully for a long time until rising to this position didn't try to persistently press.
He had an air of it being none of his business whether she had <Future Sight> or not.
So No Eun-ah's <Future Sight> inspection simply ended with solving a few problems.
This is why the Fairy's influence is good.
We can pass through smoothly like this without much issue.
It was give and take between the Fairy government and Pandora Clan.
To Im Ga-eul, Pandora Clan was an ally but also a target to keep in check.
However, in the situation where Pandora Clan came to protect Baek-ryeon, what was needed was embracing, not checking.
In a way, the Fairy government and Pandora Clan formed an alliance.
And to further strengthen the alliance, it was time to give each other trust.
To this, the Fairy government used Pandora Clan's fame to gather public sentiment, and Eun-ha received a promise to falsely disclose gifts on this opportunity.
Anyway, is our group's inspection all done with this?
It ended earlier than expected.
Since there's time left unexpectedly, Eun-ha decided to go see clan members being inspected in other rooms.
"Is it okay if I look around at how other clan members are doing?"
"Of course. I'll guide you."
"Please guide me to the closest place first."
He communicated well with the research center director.
Thanks to that, Eun-ha could avoid getting lost with his guidance.
Everyone's doing well.
Especially new members are working quite hard since many don't know their gifts.
Looking around each inspection room, it seemed most executives had already completed gift inspection.
When they were Academy students, they had already realized early on after receiving advice about gifts from Eun-ha.
They just had to verify their gifts, not learn everything from scratch without any knowledge.
So Eun-ha could only see new members receiving inspection.
"─Subin is doing it here."
Just one inspection room was different then.
Entering the studio, he could see Bae Subin receiving inspection.
Why is she receiving inspection one by one like that when she already knows her gift?
Eun-ha tilted his head.
Her gift was <Boost >.
It was shortening magic chanting speed and increasing magic power.
It wasn't a rare gift.
But in Bae Subin's case, the effect was quite excellent compared to ordinary <Boost >.
It's thanks to her gift that her magic power is large and she can quickly chant large-scale magic.
Actually, <Boost > belonged to gifts with wide versatility.
It quickly progresses something and also increases power.
Bae Subin just preferred a combat style that maximized explosion magic by using the gift on magic.
And then─
──!!!!
A huge explosion occurred.
It was fortunate the glass window shook without breaking.
People in the studio were at a loss for words seeing Bae Subin who burned the space bright red.
Soon her voice was heard through the studio speaker.
[Tch, I wanted to know how powerful it would be if I maximized and used the gift, but it can't be measured?]
A grumbling voice.
It was words spoken after partially destroying the inspection room's material said to withstand magic effects.
"What is she doing there?"
"She wants to know how much she can maximize magic with her gift..."
Eun-ha asked in disbelief.
Yeowoobi who was present answered.
Her tone was sour too.
Meanwhile, the research center director─
"─Haha... Who should I complain to about this?"
Saying he might have to write an incident report.
The research center director shrugged with a face of resignation.
☆
Not long after that.
Pandora Clan updated their clan disclosure materials to the Korean Mana Management Organization.
The updated materials included the gifts of affiliated clan members.
People waiting for news immediately checked the materials.
Year 17 of Seonryeok
<Pandora Clan Disclosure Materials>
17. List of Affiliated Members' Gifts
Position
Name
Gift
Clan Lord
No Eun-ha
Heroic
Administrator
Han Seo-hyeon
Not applicable
Sub-lord
No Eun-ah
Future Sight
Sub-lord
Mok Min-ho
Strength
Sub-lord
Jeong Ha-yang
Multitasking
Sub-lord
Cha Eun-woo
Resonance
Technical Advisor
No Bruno
Strength
Executive
Kang Si-hyeong
Howling
Executive
Kim Min-ji
Haste
Executive
Ryu Yeon-hwa
Ice Flower
Executive
Byeok Hae-su
Emotion Eye
Executive
Bae Subin
Boost
Executive
Bong Gu-rae
Double Penetration
Executive
Ariel
Beast
Executive
Yeowoobi
Cell Activation
Executive
Yu Nam-hoon
Detoxification
Executive
Lee Cheon-seo
Cockroach
Executive
Jo A-ra
Quadruple
Executive
Jin Seo-na
Beast
Executive
Jin Parang
Beast
Executive
Choi Eun-hyeok
Haste
Executive
Han Chang-jin
Access
Executive
Hoshimiya Kaede
Environment Sensing
Clan member
Kim Meri
Beast
Clan member
Kim Jin-gyu
Magic Assist
·
·
·
Clan member
Meirin
Sense Sharing
Clan member
Meiling
Sense Sharing
·
·
·
·
·
·
Clan member
Seo Dam-bi
Beast
·
·
·
·
·
·
Clan member
Iriya
Miracle
·
·
·
Clan member
Oh Seong-hwan
Strength
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
Clan member
Cheon Hae-won
Boost
·
·
·
·
·
·
Administrative staff
Shakira
Not applicable
·
·
·
·
·
·
※ Check separately attached materials for explanations of gifts.
※ People who are not players are not subject to disclosure.
☆
Public opinion about Pandora Clan is good.
Especially the activities of Pandora Clan Lord <Crimson Wing> No Eun-ha are being mentioned the most among players.
Public sentiment follows <Crimson Wing>.
That saying is not entirely wrong.
Moreover, public sentiment that was fading after the Seoul Disaster is blazing again in the face of the Mana Religion soul-returning ceremony terror attack.
That public sentiment is too hot to go against.
Then─
"─I just have to ride the wave."
If I can't overturn this situation.
Then I ride that wave.
So I break the brakes to prevent the situation from calming down.
I was lucky.
Not just Sindorim's terror, but the second <White Silver> appearing coincidentally made it easy to open the floodgates of public opinion.
Choi Jeong-hoon, direct descendant of Galaxy Group.
He examined the materials updated by the Mana Management Organization today.
List of Pandora Clan members' gifts.
He focused on No Eun-ha's gift at the very top.
"<Heroic >... A new type of gift."
Choi Jeong-hoon was not a player.
Nevertheless, the reason he was investigating Pandora Clan was because they could potentially become his enemies.
After all, Pandora Clan is receiving sponsorship from Sirius Group.
To reclaim the usurped throne, he had to know everything about Sirius Group.
Among that, Choi Jeong-hoon recognized that No Eun-ha's existence couldn't be excluded from the process of Sirius Group rising to 1st place in the business world.
A gift that gets proportionally stronger as internal mana falls below a certain level. The limit to strengthening is said to be slightly better than enhancement-type gifts...
There's no way I can believe this as is.
Looking at the many vague contents, it seems they really didn't want to reveal much.
Choi Jeong-hoon couldn't help but sneer looking at No Eun-ha's gift.
<Crimson Wing> can't be just this level.
He was certain.
Meanwhile, Choi Jeong-hoon had a separate purpose in guiding public opinion to make Pandora Clan inspect gifts.
The rumor that there's someone in Pandora Clan who can see the future...
I don't know if they really see the future, but it's probably not completely wrong.
If they have such an ability, it's quite troublesome.
It's not something to check with Zenith Clan.
Seeing the future was a power that could be used in a wide range.
Now that he had to reclaim the throne, it would be extremely annoying if there was someone with such an ability.
So Choi Jeong-hoon tried to confirm Pandora Clan members' gifts.
It's suspicious that No Eun-ha doesn't have <Future Sight>...
But the feats he showed this time were absolutely not a level that could be explained by simple force without a gift.
In the end, I have to think there's someone around No Eun-ha who possesses <Future Sight>, but...
Choi Jeong-hoon's gaze stopped.
He called the name of the player possessing <Future Sight>.
"No Eun-ah..."
Muttering that name softly.
Choi Jeong-hoon fell into thought.
Is No Eun-ah really the person possessing <Future Sight>?
Really, is that really the case?
Choi Jeong-hoon couldn't shake off his doubts.
The separately attached materials say No Eun-ah only foresees events in the near future.
The conditions are tricky, and No Eun-ah herself doesn't know what she saw.
So she can't properly respond to the future she saw.
"─That can't be."
But Choi Jeong-hoon asserted.
Pandora Clan's actions were clear.
One, someone who knows the future exists in Pandora Clan.
One, that person is either No Eun-ha or someone close to No Eun-ha.
One, the future that person sees is very accurate.
One, ...
"..."
Choi Jeong-hoon continued reasoning.
The figure of No Eun-ah considerably matched his assumptions.
However, really, truly─
─Does No Eun-ah see the future?
Gift <Future Sight>.
A gift still not accurately explained, just claimed to be possessed by some people.
I don't know.
"Sigh... The most certain gain in this confusion is Samra Daily absorbing one of the top 10 media outlets. Externally it will be recorded as receiving investment from ghost companies bypassing Samra Group."
Then such a thought suddenly occurred to him.
Perhaps he was buried in the intuitive image given by <Future Sight>.
"..."
The first premise may have been wrong.
There is someone who can see the future in Pandora Clan.
However, that person may know the future through a method other than <Future Sight>.
Then an absurd assumption popped up.
"─Did No Eun-ha regress or something? No, that can't be possible. First I should find out if No Eun-ah really has <Future Sight>."
My head is throbbing.
Choi Jeong-hoon stopped thinking.
While blankly looking down at the ring on his left ring finger.