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

Chapter 83: How To Capture A Hero (4)

There were good and bad aspects of the world, but this world had a lot more downsides than the one I used to live in.

An era where special abilities were prioritized.

An era where money could not solve everything.

If your body was not in good shape, you could make it through exercise and medicine. If you didn't have a good-looking face, you could live with a handsome and beautiful body even through plastic surgery.

But this era was different.

No matter how much money you had, there was no way to become a gifted individual.

There were even efforts to use that money to research how to become gifted.

And here was reality's cold, dirty, rational, and garbage-like aspect.

[Do you know how many children are born in a year?]

I left the temple and rode my bike again, using the burner phone I received from Monk Samuel to play a video on a streaming site.

[Yes, you're correct. We were worried about the low birthrate and aging society since 2000, but fortunately, the birthrate didn't decrease. After 2000, everyone started having children.]

Newborns inevitably turned out to be gifted.

People wanted to pass on gifted abilities to their children, so they started having children everywhere.

[Would the newly growing gifted individuals have any reason? There are parents killed by gifted children, and there are many people killed by the gifted. Even in the north, they tried to turn a gifted child into a nuclear weapon, but the child blew their heads off. So many people died like that.]

Many died.

[Even in Seoul. After 2000, where was the highest concentration of maternity clinics? Obviously, it was Seoul. Everyone was having children, and then the gifted would go berserk there. People died in the basement, and only the baby was left when you looked. It was truly horrifying.]

There were corpses everywhere, and there was indeed a lot of death on this land.

[Did you know that the number of deaths after 2000 was much higher compared to before? Cancer, suicide, and traffic accidents were the leading causes of death in this country. Now, 'death by gifted ability' has also been included. Yes, being killed by a gifted individual.]

Whether it was due to incorrect use by a child unable to control their ability...

Or as a result of being engrossed in one's power, ignoring those around, and using their abilities recklessly.

[Even before a young child who could barely speak had uttered 'papa,' they were labeled as murderers. Our society was far from mature enough to accept them, and many died as a result.]

The changes in society were abrupt.

[But believe it or not, the population of this country has reached a whopping 60 million.]

Despite the increasing death rate, the population grew.

[This is because new lives were born at a higher rate than deaths. For every 10 deaths, 100 new lives were born in the neighborhood next door. I will make my child, my offspring, an ability user.]

A Baby Boom generation usually occurred during economic golden ages.

[After the turn of the millennium in Korea, the children of people living near where the meteorite fell started to produce ability users at a meaningful rate. As this became public knowledge, everyone started to have children. This marked the beginning of the Millennium Baby Boom.]