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

Chapter 56: Mental Care, At Your Service (2)

"Do you know what is the most frequently heard nagging, which isn't really nagging, for S-Class heroes?"

Given Baek Seol-hee's question, I was uncertain about how far I should respond.

Even though we had laid our bodies bare and were soaking together in the open-air bath, we weren't in a relationship, and there was a clear 'line' between members of the opposite sex.

One should not recklessly cross that line, especially when the other party was an S-Class hero.

If anyone found out, it would be a life-threatening matter.

Yet.

"Isn't it about having children?"

"...Yes. You're correct."

Baek Seol-hee crossed that line first, and it seemed she wanted me to be sincere after crossing that line.

"Then, if two ability users marry and have a child, do you know the probability that the child will be a power user?"

"It's well over 50%."

Statistically, it was so.

Among the ability users who are 20 or over—in other words, adults—there were quite a few who had become pregnant and given birth.

Just like the saying, 'no cub is inferior under a tiger', a tiger was bound to be born from a tiger's seed.

Of course, there were cases where they were tigers only in pattern, but most often, a tiger was born.

"The chance of having a child with abilities is significantly higher when an ability user marries an ordinary person than when two ordinary people marry. There are various variables, but the chance of having a child with abilities is highest when three factors are ensured. Do you know what they are?"

I raised three fingers above the water.

"One. When both parents are ability users."

"That's correct. That's what we were just talking about. What about the other one?"

"Two. When the power user has a high mana rank."

"That's right. Although we can't accurately quantify the mana in the body... a child of someone with a lot of mana in their body has a high possibility of being born with abilities. And do you know what the last and most significant factor is?"

"... When the woman has never given birth before."

"That's right."

Baek Seol-hee looked up at the sky with a gloomy expression.

"There's a rumor circulating on the internet. They say that a child born from an S-Class power user virgin has a 100% chance of being a power user. Everyone agrees as it's always been the case."

"......."

"Even though the power level in newborns varies, everyone agrees that they will all be born as ability users."

I didn't know how such a thing would be possible.

Perhaps it was something genetic, or perhaps the genes of ordinary people mutated during the modification process to match the genes of ability users. It was probably one of these two.

If I knew more than this, I would be known as Professor Goblin or Doctor Super and would work as a genetic engineer.

"Right now, the first wave of ability users is starting to step into society, but in about five years, there will be a flood of ability users of 'adult' age. If children were made between non-ability users in the past, now they will actively start making children using ability users."