The reason he thinks of this was that there was a need to shed light on the underlying cause of the SAVE system. No, maybe it was better to say that Jaehw.a.n.g was standing at the point of a decision to suggest a path to become a G.o.d. Jaehw.a.n.g had once seriously asked Goongi about this problem. He felt anxious that his character was getting worn out, and at the height of his extreme, his commitment to raid monsters was almost gone.
Goongi then suggested Jaehw.a.n.g one way to find the answer and that was...
KNOCK KNOCK.
"Volunteer Hyungbin! Are you up?"
"Yes."
At the sound of a knock at the door, Jaehw.a.n.g got up from his seat. After wearing a uniform that was hung on a hanger, he roughly smooths his hair. As he stepped out the door, volunteers like Jaehw.a.n.g stood rubbing their sleepy eyes.
"We shouldn't be late for the a.s.sembly."
"Okay." Jaehw.a.n.g walked after them.
The number of volunteers staying in the same building was about 50, and nearly 200 people, including those in other buildings, were said to be staying at home and serving.
"You're having a hard time, aren't you?"
"It's all right."
"But the facilities here are pretty good. I've done a lot of volunteer work here and there, and I think because this one is run by a rich hunter, the facilities are nice. Phew…"
"Oh. Yes."
"By the way, Hyeong-bin. Are you going to be okay? It's hard for a young man to do this…"
"Yes." Even if he gave her a short answer, the woman didn't stop talking. What face would she make if she knew that the rich hunter she was talking about was in front of her?
"Will this really help?"
"Yeah. Think of it as a pre-experience for our future children."
Sigh.
"It's a joke. Oh, my G.o.d. Do you hate kids?"
"Well…" A child was an unknown creature because, in Jaehw.a.n.g's life, he had little to no contact with them.
"Just give it a try. Don't think about such grand topics as "Realize the Nature of Man". Just go through them. I don't think it's totally useless."
"All right."
What Goongi said was to mix and experience life among people. What Jaehw.a.n.g lacked was the communication between human beings. Goongi pointed it out and Jaehw.a.n.g agreed, so he came to volunteer at a place called the Martial Arts Nursery in the welfare district he had created. Of course, his status was a sham.
Not even the most Hunters could recognize Jaehw.a.n.g's true face if Jaehw.a.n.g distracted them a little bit, so with a simple instruction from Irumi, Jaehw.a.n.g was able to come to the nursery the next day as a naive college student named Cho Hyungbin.
After the morning a.s.sembly, he had a simple meal and went to a cla.s.s of five-year-olds he was a.s.signed to.
Ehhhhhhhhhhh!
murmurs…
The children who woke up from their sleep began jumping and screaming,
whether they knew that Jaehw.a.n.g was coming in or not.
The teachers were arranging the blankets for the children in between.
A little boy drooled and stuck to his leg, applying saliva to his uniform pants.
"Please collect all the blankets and put them in the cart."
Pa.s.sing over the sheets that were peed on all night long, the teacher looked at Jaehw.a.n.g had him pile them up in a cart outside the door. With the other volunteers, he took them and divided them into super-sized was.h.i.+ng machines placed in the laundry room to have it cleaned. They were one-touch was.h.i.+ng machines that could even include dry functions, but the work took about an hour because their load was heavy. While the blankets were spinning in the machine, he started cleaning the room with the other volunteers.
Because of the eyes around him, he did not use up his strength as a hunter. It was now the time to play with the children now that the cleaning time was over. When he went out to the playground, the teachers were playing with the children.
The characteristic of the Martial Arts Nursery was that it hires far more teachers than any other normal nursery school, which reduces the stress that the teachers were under and allows them to pay more attention to each child. Jaehw.a.n.g was a.s.signed with a teacher to help him work at the a.s.sembly, and she was a gentle and affectionate woman in her late 30s with the last name of Chae.
When he approached her, she looked pitifully at the children on one side.
"These are the new kids. Did you hear that during the a.s.sembly?"
"Yes."
Recently, there have been more children in nurseries and ironically, many of them came from the Kingdom of the Three Sky religion in Elus. About 20 children crouched in a corner of the playground and glared around.
"I can't get them relaxed at all."
The other children were playing briskly, but these ones didn't even move.
Maybe some of the children lost their parents to Jaehw.a.n.g. Considering the scale of the crime done by the Kingdom, the defeat was done in a short period of time. It's been said that the damage was incredibly small, but it was true that nearly a thousand people died anyway. Of course, it wasn't that he regretted what he did. If he had tried to break down the Kingdom in a normal way, he would have asked for much more blood. The Kingdom's people were cruel, barbaric and knowing such characteristics as well as their combative nature, the Earth could not lay a hand on them. When Jaehw.a.n.g broke down the roots of their faith and wiped out all the high-ranking officials who would lead them in a single blow, they surrendered. If the confrontation were tense, thousands or tens of thousands more lives would have been lost. To resume the story, the kids were only 3 to 5-year-olds, but they were wary of everything around them, they were afraid and showing their hostility towards the other kids.
"I've heard about the children in the a.s.sembly."
The children were supposed to be mentally treated, but the manpower has yet to be saved.
"Argh!" One of the teachers held a child's hand slightly and the child bit the teacher's hand. The teacher's hand was dripping with blood as if it was bitten hard.
"Are you all right, Mr. Han?"
"Yes, yes."
"Hurry up and go to the nurse's office."
"Okay."
Another teacher takes Mr. Han whose hand was bitten to the nurse's office. The teachers' eyes were filled with sorrow because the children refuse even those teachers who take care of them.
Jaehw.a.n.g, who watched the scene silently, expressed G.o.d's power to the children without anyone knowing it.
Swoosh...
Jaehw.a.n.g carried a spirit of will towards the children. The will was stability and peace. As the energy covered the children, the fear that had been in the eyes of the wary children became thinner. Then, they crept towards Jaehw.a.n.g as if the water were flowing to a low place.
"Huh?"
"The children…"
Jaehw.a.n.g was also a little embarra.s.sed by the unexpected response. The power of G.o.d was so high that ordinary people didn't even notice the transfer. But the children came to Jaehw.a.n.g because they knew what happened. Even the teachers looked at the scene with astonishment. The children who were hard to get close to were closing in on this young volunteer.
However, as the teachers tried to approach Jaehw.a.n.g, the children were still wary of them.
"Look, Hyung-bin," the teacher said to Jaehw.a.n.g while looking at the scene.
"Yes."
"I'm sorry that it's your first day, but since these kids aren't wary of you, can you take care of them for a while? In return, I'll let you out of the small cleaning business. Please do it until we have more teachers in charge. The person who went to the nurse's office a little while ago was also in charge, but I think you'd be a better fit to it now."
"..."
#2
Jaehw.a.n.g, who took care of about 20 children due to an unintended incident on the first day, unexpectedly became a teacher from the next day onward. Such things were not supposed to happen, but the welfare district itself was in the countryside that it was hard to bring in teachers with the certificates needed for special education. The facilities were good, but they are still short on time and lacked manpower for recruitment
.
Jaehw.a.n.g ordered Irumi to secure enough manpower to drastically increase the budget, and dozens of teachers who were contained in several tour buses came and were placed in nurseries a day after giving their orders.
But the problem didn't get solved that easily.
"Teacher Hyungbin, I like you!"
"Go away!"
"Ahhhh!"
The children never fell away from Jaehw.a.n.g. They wouldn't stop that even when the other teachers were trying to comfort them. The children followed Jaehw.a.n.g all day long like baby birds following their mother.
"I don't know why these guys follow Hyungbin like this." Ms. Chae couldn't understand this young man, who seemed naïve and indescribable in her eyes, showing no talent for parenting at all. He was neither nice to the children nor opened his mouth unless he had something to say. Strangely enough, however, the children followed him.
The funniest thing was the time when he needed to put the children to sleep.
Since they were mentally unstable, their vigilance was beyond imagination even when they slept. There were no separate rooms for those kids so that they could get along with the other normal children, so when the children slept together without using a separate room, they slept quietly, but when this man was away for a while, the kids would stand up and cry at the same time.
"Oh, I really don't understand what's going on."
To her eyes, that young volunteer was totally incomprehensible.