The Outer God Needs Warmth

The third world dawned.

While Belle's body was sleeping, quite a lot happened.

First, most of the harvesters attending the Royal Academy heard about the incident that happened yesterday.

Most of them were Aurora, Kanna, and Polaris. These three.

I heard from them that the executives of the country treated me like a goose that laid golden eggs, healing people and preventing dangerous incidents if I left it alone.

The reason I didn't know was because Hypion explained it to them at a state council meeting or something. Students don't get involved in such a place, right?

And since I didn't really act actively, they judged me harmless and just told their children not to touch me.

Hypion also let down his guard against me.

I found out last night when I heard Sorindigues and Aurora talking.

First, as I thought, the dormitory in front of the Royal Academy was a place to keep me safe and watch me.

But after looking into it for half a year, this is what I found out.

He doesn't go out unless something really bad happens.

He seems to be somewhat obsessed with Victoria, so if something happens to her, he goes to find her.

He returns to the capital on his own after finishing his work without making any promises.

And if there's a problem on the way, he solves it by performing a miracle.

He doesn't have the strong ego that's typical of those with power.

It's hard to know what he's thinking, but many say that he lives without thinking.

No, but isn't that too stupid?

I'm like that... ... .

Hmm.

Yes. I didn't really think about it.

I'm confident that if I make a harvester, it'll make warmth on its own. And that confidence has been projected into reality up until now.

It means that it's going well.

Anyway, Hypion described me as someone who doesn't have many relationships with others, but once I do, I tend to make them deep.

But I heard that some fool touched it.

Then he brought up something that happened about half a year ago.

That I sealed Maleficent in a small crown of thorns.

Even if I had the ability to seal it like the saints in the old stories, there was no way to know what would happen if it exploded.

And even if it didn't explode, there was no way to stop it if I went to another country. Hypion sighed deeply.

No, if you just listen to what I said, you'd think I was holding Hypion's leash?

When did I ever come off so strong?

He said something harsh.

But that was the extent of my conversation. When Sorindigues asked how I was going to handle this, he scolded the boy and told me to apologize and it would end well.

And that's exactly what happened.

And it immediately led to international affairs.

Pride Industries, Rocketmobile Company, Gunn and LeFou Company. Let's talk about these three companies.

First, Rocketmobile Company. They mainly sold goods, so they cut off the other two.

They said they were just distributing without knowing much.

Then they changed the signboard of their subsidiary and pretended not to know and returned to the market. They were not simply distributing wind-up machines, but they were creating a comprehensive distribution network based on that, so other countries had no choice but to turn a blind eye.

If you start arresting them one by one, you have to dig up every hole-in-the-wall store in town.

And they said that even without that, too many people are already dead. They arrested and executed those in the center or sent them to prison, and they said that they are each legislating so that they cannot have too many rights.

Of course, this country is doing the same.

I thought they could just make a law prohibiting them from exceeding a certain amount, but they said that if you restrict them too much, all the companies will dry up and die.

I wondered what the problem was, but then I remembered that it was dangerous because companies that grew up in foreign countries with fewer restrictions would dig into the market.

If you look at the countless related search terms, you would have been criticized for not knowing if it really had a personality.

Anyway, the head of the Rocketmobile Company was cut off, but the remaining limbs are said to have made a soft landing. Maybe the real head is still there.

Next.

Pride Industries, which produced the hardware for the product.

Most of these were acquired and merged into state-owned enterprises.

Of course, in order to secure important technologies, the people involved would write the blueprints in a special room. Since the industrial base itself is an important element, it is said that it is operated by the state, not the company.

In the meantime, some countries benefited, and conflicts broke out between countries.

That's because Pride Industries' factories were located in countries with cheap labor. Countries without them couldn't gain anything.

At least that's how it is on the surface.

However, countries with cheap labor are mostly weak countries, and countries with expensive labor are powerful countries. They say that the powerful countries use this as an excuse to harass the weaker countries. They suspect that there is ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) a connection and extract resources.

This country?

They are the ones who are harassing.

And finally, the Gun & Le Fu Company that was in charge of the software.

This is the biggest problem, Hypion said seriously.

They have disappeared.

They are the companies that wrote and installed programs that can suddenly turn a wind-up machine into a killing machine if the company wants to.

It is unclear where this is from and to where it is, so they need to catch the person involved and figure it out so that they can tear it down and make a new one, but that person has disappeared.

The power unit, which was the biggest problem, is being replaced, but there may be other problems in the other internal programs, right?

I thought it would end with one program, but they say that the programs that are running now have a history of building up layers.

If there is a problem in the lower layer, everything above it could be damaged, so they say that they need to remove the risk factors.

The most certain way is to create it from scratch, but that’s not as easy as it sounds. It’s difficult.

This is only the technical part.

What if a country secretly absorbed this engineer?

Of course, any country would have absorbed the technology by dismantling the company, but absorbing the technology and absorbing the engineer are completely different.

It’s safe to create the technology from scratch, but it takes too long and you fall behind other countries.

However, if you cut it to some extent, the country that absorbed the engineer or the country that found out about the secretly controlling technology is in danger.

It’s a dilemma.

Rather, it’s not a big deal if one of the count’s boys messes with a scary witch without knowing it.

For now, we’ll officially declare that we stopped it and make excuses like scolding them, but if the boy suddenly dies, we can just close our eyes.

I laughed because no one was worried about the boy.

And no one was worried about me going wild. Well, I don’t really plan on going wild.

That’s why no one spoke to me when I went to school in the morning.

It was Victoria who actually talked about yesterday.

“Belle. What should I do?”

“What?”

“No, did you know that there was a boy who confessed to me yesterday?”

“Yes. I heard.”

And I swallowed the words that he was trying to take out his anger on me.

“That kid. He didn’t come to school today, but it wasn’t my fault, right?”

We were in the same class.

Now that I think about it, he didn’t come today.

“No.”

When I spoke with confidence, Victoria nodded and narrowed her eyes to examine my expression.

“Did Belle do something?”

“No. I think it would be good if Victoria got married quickly and had kids.”

“That’s too much, Belle.”

Victoria made a disgusted expression. In this world, it’s not that strange to have kids at such a young age.

No, of course, that's the average. The nobles do it after they graduate from school.

The phenomenon of pregnancy being pushed back as you get higher education is also present here.

Oh. But not marriage.

Surprisingly, there are already married students in this classroom.

There were even students who got married right away without an engagement due to a family agreement.

However, if you exclude the fact that they are not a couple but just living like strangers, there are people who have already been sold, so to speak.

"Ugh, Belle doesn't lie, so she can't be the real Belle... ... . It's not like she really rejected you, right?"

"Why are you worried?"

"I feel a little sorry because I think you were so heartbroken that you couldn't go to the academy?"

Victoria doesn't know what happened after she got kicked.

"Tori. Don't you know what happened yesterday?"

At that moment, Polaris approached her with a dumbfounded expression.

"What?"

In response to Victoria's question, Polaris describes what happened yesterday in vivid terms and the neighborhood where Polaris lives.

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I spoke in a dialect. When I glanced around, it seemed like all the students here knew.

As soon as this story came up, they didn’t look away, but their voices became quieter overall.

“What? That happened? And you touched my chest?”

Victoria looked at me in surprise.

“Yes.”

So I answered yes.

“Yeah. That’s right.”

“Tori. Kill me. The normal kids are going to fall.”

When Victoria spoke softly, Polaris urgently stopped her. Kill me? Is there such a thing?

I didn’t feel anything. However, when I looked around, there were students who looked at me with creepy expressions, or even stood up and aimed their weapons at me.

“But I thought you were a person because you called me properly and confessed, but you’re like that... ... .”

Victoria stood up, bowed her head to the people around her, sat back down, and muttered.

Ugh. If this was here, he would definitely be dead. That boy.

“No, but is Bell okay?”

At that time, Polaris looked at me and asked worriedly.

I nodded there too.

“Yes. When the pressure on them becomes too much, humans seek the most primitive pleasure to solve it. One of them is sexual desire. He just broke down quickly because he was weak.”

Not everyone is like that, but some of those who blurt out words full of sexual desire have no other way to sublimate their stress, so they only know that.

The boy named Lavo Facilier did it with actions, not words.

“Wow, you’re a total saint.”

But Polaris looks at me like that and admires me in a different way.

“Pola. Maybe this isn’t that kind of feeling. Yeah.”

Victoria, who knows a little about me, looks at me with a creepy expression.

“A toy?”

Huh?

I thought that maybe she had erased what I was while reconciling, but Victoria didn’t ignore what I really was.

“You can’t call a person a toy, Victoria.”

But you have to point out what needs to be pointed out.

Using the word toy when you mean something that’s broken. No, no matter how much you think of her as a monster, isn’t that too much?

So when I objected, Victoria only said one thing with a pitiful expression.

“This is a big deal.”

“Why are you telling a story that only you know?”

When Polaris grumbled next to me, Victoria looked back and forth between Polaris and me.

And she pointed at me with her finger.

“Have you forgotten what a bell is?”

“No matter how much she, a girl... ... uh. No, even if... ... .”

Polaris’s eyes became cloudy. Her pupils dilated and she made the expression typical of someone reminiscing about the past. And after finishing her reflection, Polaris said this.

“Please don’t kill me so horribly.”

So I answered,

“He’ll choose.”