I Became the Academy’s Kibitz Villain

When a man and a woman meet and get married, they give birth to an ability user. Wasn’t that common sense for a married couple?

This had become the truth of this world after the Great Cataclysm.

The meeting of a man and a woman was simply for the purpose of having children.

Everything was deemed necessary for childbirth, for raising future leaders of the industry.

Thus, the term “DINK (Double Income No Kids)” did not exist in this world.

Even if there were such couples, the term itself wouldn’t exist, as it didn’t form a large enough group to establish a social phenomenon or terminology.

However, not every meeting ended in marriage and childbirth.

-I’m going to date freely, and then get married.

-Do you really have to have children just because you get married? Can’t I be someone who doesn’t need to have a child?

Some people pursued freedom, some pursued relationships, and some pursued love, delaying having children.

-Hey! Having an ability user is like hitting the jackpot, why wouldn’t you want to have one! The younger you are, the higher the chances of having an ability user!

-But I’m not mentally or financially prepared to raise a child.

-The state will raise them, so what’s the problem?

-What if a non-ability user child is born? Will you raise them? Will you buy a house and all that?

-Kuhm…!

Sometimes people gave up due to economic circumstances.

Anyway.

These people were often jokingly called unpatriotic or traitors, but it’s not that they really lacked patriotism; it’s more of a self-deprecating joke among themselves.

And to delay the process of accepting a new life, they had resorted to various methods, from traditional to medical.

“Well, yeah, I did it from behind.”

One of those methods was exactly what Hyeon Se-rin is talking about.

“What do you mean from behind?”

“What do you think? I imported firearms.”

“…Ah, right? You’re not talking about what I think you’re talking about, right?”

“Who knows…?”

It seemed Hyeon Se-rin’s shoulders shrugged.

The three women blushed and looked back and forth between Hyeon Se-rin and me, exchanging meaningful glances.

“Hey, Director Do. Could you explain?”

“It’s a bit awkward to say it myself, but one of the unique advantages of those who form their bodies with mana is this.”

This was true.

“It was fine doing it from behind. No special preparation was needed.”

“Huh. You should clarify your words. You mean there was no difference whether you prepared or not?”

“That’s true. Well… that’s how it is. If I were told to do it with Hye-ra right here, I could do it right away. Without any prior preparation.”

“…No, I wouldn’t do that.”

Yun Hye-ra turned her head away, but her ears were still perked up.

“Hey, unnie. When did you even do that? Huh?”

“Not while I was alive, after I died. Well, that…”

Hyeon Se-rin fiddled with her lips, then looked at Yoon I-seon with a meaningful smile.

“Was it on Jeju Island…?”

“Jeju Island?”

“Oh, right. You might not know much about it. What kind of place Jeju Island is.”

“Hey, you’re not saying…”

The relatively innocent Yumir and Yoon I-seon didn’t understand Hyeon Se-rin’s words, but Yun Hye-ra immediately stiffened her face and glared at Hyeon Se-rin.

“You went to Jeju Island with him?”

“That’s right. Anyway, we can’t have children with this body. We just went to test it out. There are plenty of drugs, tools, and devices there for that. I didn’t do anything special, just…”

Hyeon Se-rin clenched her fists with both hands, then wiggled them next to her face.

“I just tried a little cat play, nyang.”

Ulleungdo was a sacred place of patriotism.

And most of the people who visited here were newlyweds or couples in de facto relationships who were about to get married.

Of course, even if that’s not the case, they could still travel to Ulleungdo, but it’s rare for people to visit a place where the cost per night exceeded one million won with a light heart.

So, where would be the best place for couples to travel to on the island?

Considering the couple’s budget, Jeju Island would be appropriate.

It’s a place you had to fly to, and it had been well-established as a tourist destination for a long time. It was more stable than overseas, and if the cost of traveling abroad and to Jeju Island was similar, Jeju Island became the most suitable place.

But then, a problem arose.

Ulleungdo was a place where you went to seal the deal.

Then what about Jeju Island?

“The Mecca of adultery….”

Late at night.

A silver-haired woman, Baek Seol-hee, sat alone in front of the computer, clicking the mouse while staring at the monitor light.

Jeju Island.

It had been said that there were three things abundant in Jeju Island.

There were many women.

There were many stones.

And there was also a lot of wind.

That’s right. Wind.

Jeju Island has become the sacred place of wind, the Mecca of adultery.

Of course, some might say,

“What are you talking about? How could that wind become that wind? Talk sense.”

But just like any forced fit, Jeju Island has become the sacred place of wind.

-True_story_of_a_tangerine_country_trip.

-Story_about_having_fun_in_Jeju.

-Climbed Hallasan with my partner…

“Tsk.”

Baek Seol-hee clicked her tongue as she browsed through the materials about Jeju Island, biting her lower lip.

“Why did this place become like this?”

Jeju Island was just a tourist attraction, so why did it turn into a place like this?

There might be various reasons for this, but the main reason is probably that it’s a large island, slightly detached from the Korean Peninsula.

Jeju Island was an island, a resort, and a tourist destination.

When people traveled, it was usually to go abroad, but Koreans couldn’t easily travel overseas.

Just look at the incidents in Thailand.

Kidnapping Koreans to use them as breeding stock—such cases didn’t only happen in Thailand, did they?

In places with even slightly poor public security, passports disappeared, and people couldn’t return home.

Even those traveling abroad for business did so in pairs, only going to places with safe security, so how could people freely travel overseas?

To get the feeling of traveling, Koreans chose Jeju Island instead of going abroad.

You often saw four men traveling around Jeju Island instead of Southeast Asia, meeting four women who also came together at a guesthouse, and enjoying tangerine soju by the sea.

Some people said this:

Jeju Island had become the island of the insiders.

As the youth districts in Seoul deteriorated, and the high-ups looking at Busan’s Haeundae caused young people to seek other places, Jeju Island became the place they found, where they could escape the gaze of others without much economic burden.

“Patriotism on the peninsula, and let loose in Jeju, huh.”

Baek Seol-hee tried to suppress the grin that formed as she read the slogan someone had jokingly thrown out.

“An island where you can enjoy freedom between men and women without the burden of having children.”

If you want to have children, then go to Ulleungdo. If you want to enjoy a fun trip and make memories between men and women, go to Jeju Island.

After the Great Cataclysm.

Jeju Island reestablished itself as a tourist destination in this way.

During the chaos of Korea’s capital moving from Seoul to Busan, as Korea stepped forward to lead the world, and as people became reluctant to go abroad.

Jeju Island, in order to solidify its position as a tourist destination, opened up various things.

What exactly was opened up can be better understood by visiting the place.

“So, the sacred place of adultery.”

They said that even a Confucian scholar loosened his hatstrings in Jeju Island.

Even a lady from a noble family lightly loosened her jacket in Jeju Island.

Most visitors to Jeju Island came with similar purposes, creating a tacit understanding among them.

Most importantly, because relatively fewer ability users were born in Jeju Island, people with such intentions flocked there.

Why did Sejong Island, Ulleungdo, and the cities near the East Coast see a sudden rise?

Why was the capital moved from Seoul to Busan?

It’s because many ability users were born near Sejong Island.

However, Jeju Island showed a lower birth rate of ability users than Seoul in such statistics.

Some said:

-It’s because the Tangerine Country isn’t actually Korea, but foreign, that the birth rate is lower.

-No, isn’t it more like they’re telling us to enjoy ourselves freely without worrying about pregnancy here?

-…Genius?

But once someone changed their thinking and shifted the paradigm, Jeju Island turned into a free and open island.

“If you want to have children, go to Ulleungdo or Gangwon-do. Why go to Jeju Island?”

Baek Seol-hee nodded heavily.

“So, Jeju Island isn’t a place to go to have children.”

If Ulleungdo was a place where two went and three came out,

Jeju Island was a place where one met one, and two came out.

To put it nicely, it’s not a place for patriotism, but a place to meet people to become a patriot.

Jeju Island was.

An island filled with the wind of freedom, love, and passion.

For some, it might be a place where they could lose their minds.

Though somewhat dizzying, it is definitely a meeting place.

And those heading to Jeju Island were called this:

“Dolphins.”