Chapter 86: The Ace up the Sleeve is (3) (1/2)
– Hello? Guardian Yu Jitae?
It was 7 in the morning when a call came from the PR team. The voice sounded quite rushed.
“Yes.”
– Sorry for calling you so early in the morning. Did you see it by any chance?
“I am seeing it right now.”
There was a news report.
+++[Superhuman Today]WDT, “You dare upload something like this?” Excessive anger of the community…+++
PR team.
Keeping Lair’s image and protecting the professors, cadets and staff members from the turmoils of the media was their job.
They often referred to their job as the ‘rainy season’ as a joke. It was because there were countless problems occurring from tens of thousands of people which caused their work to fall like heavy rain.
“Yong Dohee here. Are you okay, sir guardian?”
– Yes
A calm voice resounded from the other side of the phone. Though she felt doubtful for a second, Yong Dohee spoke urgently.
“For now, there is no need to be too worried. It’s not that big of a problem, you see.”
Following on from the rainy season analogy, what happened today was like water leaking from the ceiling. It wasn’t a massive deal.
However, the issue was that Guardian Yu Jitae tended to be overprotective regarding Yu Kaeul. Therefore, Yong Dohee decided to pacify Yu Jitae.
“The WDT has a wrong focal point.”
– Focal point?
“Yes. Rather than doing that out of hatred against Cadet Kaeul, they’re just venting their anger. They are hardcore fans that follow every single event of Professor Wei Yan and those lunatics also visited Professor Wei Yan’s hometown in China, saying that they were visiting a sanctuary.”
– …
“Because of the unfortunate death of Professor Wei Yan, they’re shocked. They’re angry but there’s no target to vent at and it would be meaningless to point the blame at the monsters or the fissure. And then they chose the blameless Cadet Kaeul as their target.”
Yong Dohee looked at her screen. If her prediction was right, the media would probably reveal a different attitude.
To prove her right, the superhuman fandom communities and Lair’s fansite offered differing opinions.
[The WDT guys are a bit weird;;;]I understand that Professor Wei Yan passing away is sad… but why are they blaming Yu Kaeul for that;;?? Am I the only one finding this weird?
[They’re overreacting. WDT has always been a full-on fanboy and fangirl group]They’re super violent in their fan activities and it made me take a step back. I used to be Professor Wei Yan’s fan, but not anymore because of them…
[But it is a delicate timing]Guys, fucking think about it. How long has it been since Professor died? And yet casually uploading something like that? Isn’t it time for everyone to be careful? They themselves should fully know of the discord that happened between them and yet look at how thick-skinned they are. Don’t you get angry, you fucking idiots? ᄂ Next WDT member please… ᄂ Bro, this isn’t your camp…;;; ᄂ This guy’s lost.
While monitoring the reaction from the communities and the news reports being written, Yong Dohee bit on her nails.
“Sir Guardian. Cadet Kaeul is not aware of this yet right?”
– She isn’t.
“In case Cadet Kaeul finds out about it through other means, please give her a word about it beforehand, so that she can shield herself before seeing them.”
– I think so too. What about the video uploaded illegally.
In response to Yu Jitae’s words, Yong Dohee turned her gaze over to the display screen.
[Yu Kaeul video] (12 hours ago)Views: 3,894,334Likes: 31k / Dislikes: 27kComments: 999+
After she reported this being an illegal upload it went down from the trending list. However, since the vicious deeds of the WDT were intense, it was still a trending topic in other websites and the number of views was still on an increase.
“I’ve requested for it to be deleted, so it’ll go down in 3 days at the latest. We will also go through the legal measures regarding the illegal upload.”
– Three days, is it.
“The PR team will try everything we can to help Cadet Kaeul, so please don’t worry too much.”
– Thank you.
As she ended the call, Yong Dohee felt doubtful.
Why was he so calm?
She thought about Guardian Yu Jitae. Like alcohol and water mixed together, he always had an unfocused gaze and a bored expression but would form a serious and scary expression whenever things were related to Kaeul.
But isn’t he too composed now that something actually occurred?
Is there something he was believing in?
While the middle-aged woman was in doubt, her phone rang once again. This time it was from the Education Department.
“Yong Dohee of the 3rd PR team speaking.”
– This is Daniella from the Education Department. There has been a notice from the Strategy Office of the Association.
Yong Dohee was dumbfounded.
From the Military Strategy Office of the International Hunter Association?
What notice?
From the phone came the secret of Professor Wei Yan and the schedule for an urgent conference regarding that.
“Sorry? What did you say just then…? Professor Wei Yan…”
Her head seemed to have gone empty from the unbelievable news. After ending the call, she blankly stared at nothing as unnecessary thoughts surfaced before anything.
Did she have to work overtime for the next few days?
Team Leader Yong Dohee murmured to herself.
“That’s fucked…”
Windows were shattered from the heavy rain.
***
Kaeul and Gyeoul were in the middle of completing a puzzle together. It was 1.6 metres in width and 1.1 metres in length – an extremely large puzzle with 10,000 pieces. The living room was filled with puzzle pieces and the two children were struggling as they attempted to solve the puzzle.
“Uuuh! This piece, I think it goes there?”
“…?”
“No? Maybe it’s here?”
“…”
“Hmm, you’re not sure either. What about you, Chirpy?”
Chirp!
It was a toy bought by Yu Jitae.
When the holidays began, all her friends went back to their hometowns and Kaeul who was left with nothing to do, played around with her watch all day. She appeared to be searching things related to the baby chicken or food everyday.
Thus, Yu Jitae ‘accidentally’ broke her watch and it was currently being fixed elsewhere. He bought them a puzzle to make sure they weren’t bored and unexpectedly, they were rather seriously solving the puzzle.
“You guys. You can’t use magic okay.”
“Yess!”
Since Yu Jitae had taken few of the puzzle pieces, it would take a lot more time. By the time they finish solving the puzzle, all the storms should be gone and it would be good to slowly chat about it then.
Meanwhile, Bom was sitting down on the sofa checking the comments being written realtime. She had a deeply sunk expression as she checked the comments and news reports being refreshed.
When the children were about 500 pieces into the puzzle, Bom spoke with a very soft voice.
“Ahjussi.”
“Yeah.”
“I think I understand what ahjussi was worried about.”