I Became the Academy's Kibitz Villain [part 1]

Chapter 38: Artificial Demons And Natural Demons (1)

"Demons are born in two ways. They can occur naturally or be artificially created."

The demons known to the world were generally understood to be 'naturally occurring'.

"Do you know the cause of the former?"

"Corruption?"

"...Yes, corruption."

In the case of natural occurrence, it was generally believed to be caused due to the 'rampage of superpowered individuals'.

[Hehehe, the demon within me is raging...! Bow down! I am the newly born demon, Devil Chong!]

[Agh, the name itself is so demonic!!]

[You've been weird since you were a kid, and now you've finally become a demon! Get out of the way, you devil, Satan's spawn!]

[I'm not Satan's spawn! I am Satan himself!]

The desire to become strong.

The desire to possess something.

Hatred towards someone.

The sorrow of losing a loved one.

Anger and vengeance.

Obsession over a concept.

Madness caused by mental stress.

"There are many factors that corrupt a superpowered individual. What's scary is that these factors are emotions that all ordinary people experience."

The fact that superpowered individuals transformed into demons due to the excessive negative emotions of humans had been widely known as 'routine' since the great transformation.

"The first demon appeared in 2002 when a child born in 2000 was 3 years old...? Anyway, it started when he was still a toddler."

"Do you remember? That one whose parents were murdered...?"

"Yes. A robber came in and killed his parents, and the baby awakened his power due to his parents' pain and became a demon."

Those who became demons all dramatically increased in strength.

Either their bodies would change, their physical abilities would significantly improve, they would turn into a completely different non-human entity, or they would remain in human form but embody evil itself.

"That child set himself on fire when he turned 10, committing suicide. After that, several more demons appeared. They called children who used their powers at a young age 'monsters!', and then the child, after watching monsters in TV movies, really thought he was the same and projected himself as such."

"The 'Snow Woman' incident at Mount Fuji?"

"Yes."

In a small rural village near Mount Fuji in Japan.

A girl whose hair turned white due to the awakening of her powers was teased by the surrounding children as a monster, and she thought she was a real monster like the ones on TV and became a monster-demon.

"She froze the children and tragically trapped herself in ice. That's why we're trying to educate and raise superpowered individuals in separate educational institutions, like this Sejong Island, rather than in places where ordinary people are."

If you awakened as a superpowered individual from a young age, you had no choice but to be isolated.

It was so that superpowered individuals do not become demons themselves.

It was also so that non-superpowered individuals do not end up as their victims.

"And now that things are socially stable regarding superpowered individuals... everyone has reached the point where they create their own demons just because they are a little hot-headed. Whatever form that takes."