I Became a Goblin Ancestor

Neon, who had lost consciousness after hearing I was the ancestor.

I had heard that humans can faint when faced with too shocking situations, but I didn’t expect to actually see it happen before my eyes, so I was naturally flustered.

But I couldn’t just hit the patient Neon to wake her up.

Therefore, while waiting for her to wake up, I wanted to find out a bit more detailed information about Neon, but the report that came back was unfortunately that it was impossible to find more detailed personal information about Neon, who was a member of the slums.

“You really don’t know any more detailed personal information?”
“Yes… I’m sorry. It seems that most people in the slums are often not registered as citizens…”

The general manager of the medical department apologized to me and bowed his head as if ashamed.

This wasn’t something that could be called his fault, so I waved my hand at his apology and dismissed him.

It was disappointing, but in the end there was no more information to be gained and I was left with no choice but to wait.

I spent time fiddling with my device or reading the diagnostic results and opinions the doctors had written about Neon, and how long did I wait like that?

Finally, Neon, who had fainted, opened her eyes again.

At that time. Exactly one hour after she had fainted.

The soft light of the hospital room gently enters through flickering eyelids.

What she sees when she opens her eyes is not the rusty, filth-covered warehouse ceiling of the slums, but a pure white stone ceiling.

And as memories begin to surface simultaneously with opening her eyes, Neon, who had been lying in bed, sat up with a scream.

“Ah?! Aah…”

The girl who had come in after the psychiatrist left, and the fact that that girl, who had revealed her name as Shin-yeon, was the ancestor of the General Management Team.
Lastly, Neon herself who had fainted after hearing that, her head overloaded.

As memories from before fainting surfaced, she couldn’t help but scream.

After all, it would be stranger to have no reaction in the process of properly accepting such an amazing fact.

Neon wanted to keep screaming until her thoughts were sorted out, but the next moment, a small, soft hand covered Neon’s wide-open mouth.

“Ah… mmph?!”
“Shh, be quiet. Your voice is too loud.”
“An-ancestor… no, Miss Shin-yeon? Ancestor?”

When she turned to see who the owner of the hand covering her mouth was, the owner was none other than Shin-yeon.

Although an hour had passed since earlier when she looked at the clock, Neon couldn’t help but be surprised to see Shin-yeon still sitting next to her, not knowing she would still be there.

However, apart from that, Neon nodded at Shin-yeon’s words to be quiet and tightly suppressed the voice she had been making.

Perhaps the moment she said one wrong word here, her life would fly away.

‘Although she saved me…’

Despite her appearance looking the same age as herself at first glance and being her benefactor who had saved her, it was inevitable to have such thoughts just from knowing that this was the General Management Team’s tower and that Shin-yeon in front of her was the ancestor of the General Management Team.

Maybe the reason she saved her was to use her as a slave or something.

Once negative thoughts started to spread, dark futures were drawn in her mind like roots spreading.

And added to that, Neon’s rock-bottom self-esteem from the treatment she had received since birth accelerated those emotions.

Thanks to that, Neon’s thoughts endlessly headed towards the abyss.

But fortunately, should we say, Shin-yeon sitting in front of her spoke as if she could see right through Neon’s mind, cutting off Neon’s thoughts that were about to continue:

“The reason I brought you is purely because I took a liking to you. I have no intention of taking your life, so you don’t have to tremble like that.”
“Is-is that so…?”
“Yes, it seems you want to take revenge, don’t you?”
“…!”

However, the words she said to reassure Neon herself touched on something more secret than anything else of Neon’s, so Neon opened her eyes wide.

How did Shin-yeon notice the desire for revenge she harbored?

It was a fact she hadn’t told even to the doctors here, let alone the siblings she knew in the slums, yet Shin-yeon pointed it out so easily that it was disappointing, so Neon couldn’t help but be flustered.

And before Neon could ask anything about this, Shin-yeon took the initiative and readily gave the answer Neon wanted.

“You look curious about how I knew? It’s nothing special, I also tried to take revenge just like you in the past. Of course, mine was on a bit larger scale.”

However, this answer she gave was also beyond Neon’s expectations.

“You also took revenge…?”
“Yes, I was despised, persecuted, and beaten by my own kind for being a mutant. So I tried to kill them all. And that’s why I knew when I saw your eyes. That you were similar to me. My situation back then was just like you now. That’s also the reason I took a liking to you.”

Shin-yeon spoke with a bitter smile as if recalling a painful past, and Neon understood everything from her face.

Did she say her race was goblins? She didn’t know exactly what race it was, but at least the emotions felt from Shin-yeon didn’t seem to be lies, so she had no choice but to believe.

Because as someone harboring such emotions, she could never not know a person of the same kind.

Therefore, Neon nodded quietly.

And seeing that nod, Shin-yeon soon erased the bitter smile she had been holding and got to the main point.

“Anyway, that’s the full reason I brought you and why I know you want revenge, so I was thinking of making a proposal.”
“A proposal…?”
“Yes. If you want, would you like to be taken under my wing? I’ll give you all the help I can give. Of course, I have no intention whatsoever of interfering with or taking away your revenge. I’m just saying I’ll take care of the process… and before and after you take revenge.”

Since you escaped from the slums, it’ll be hard for you to live properly here, right?

Shin-yeon added those words and held out her hand as if for a handshake.

However, Neon couldn’t grasp that hand right away and looked at Shin-yeon with both hands gathered at her chest.

It wasn’t particularly because she doubted Shin-yeon.

Although the favor Shin-yeon was giving was so sweet it was suspicious, the reason really seemed to be because she had taken a liking to her.

Neon was half certain there was no lie in those words.

It was just that Neon, with her negative thinking, imagined how things would proceed if she refused her request, but before that imagination could end.

Shin-yeon spoke to Neon in a voice mixed with laughter, as if she knew all her thoughts just by seeing Neon’s eyes rolling:

“For your information, you’ve been destined to die immediately if you refuse since you learned that I’m the ancestor and about my race. There’s only one choice.”
“Isn’t that too much?!”
“Ahaha! What does it matter, you couldn’t refuse this offer anyway since you’d just die a dog’s death if you tried to take revenge as you are?”
“W-well, that’s true, but…”

To think that one path was already not just blocked but collapsed to the point where it couldn’t even be walked on. What exactly is “Would you like to be taken under my wing if you want?”

In the end, there was only one choice, a path full of only liking and favor.

Thinking like that, Neon burst into a grinning laugh along with Shin-yeon at the truly ridiculous situation, and then stretched out her hesitating hand to grasp Shin-yeon’s hand.

“I really… won’t forget this kindness.”
“Yeah, yeah. If you really don’t forget, I hope you’ll show me a great revenge.”

Shin-yeon shook their clasped hands up and down and raised one finger with her answer.

And when Neon tilted her head at that finger whose meaning she couldn’t understand, Shin-yeon showed her teeth in a grin and said:

“Within the next month, I’ll make it so you can achieve your revenge.”

Shin-yeon asserted with a voice full of confidence.

It was about a day from today that Neon would learn the basis for what she had said.

In the upper echelons of the Hyeonhwa Organization in the 8th district slums.

A woman who had been looking out the window on a leisurely flowing day raised her head at a sensation that suddenly crossed her mind.

“Hm…?”
“What is it? What’s the matter, Raje?”

And as the woman raised her head, a man turned to look at her, calling the woman’s name.

More precisely, Cha Baek-gi, the woman Raje’s father and the head of the Hyeonhwa Organization, turned to Raje and asked like that.

Her raising her head suddenly like that meant that her innate ability, ‘Foresight’ that detects ominous futures, had activated.

Therefore, at Cha Baek-gi’s question, Raje swallowed for a moment and then narrowed her eyes and opened her mouth.

“One of the trash that escaped yesterday is making me feel some disturbing foresight. What was the name… Neo? Neron…?”
“Ah… That bitch born from that foreign woman. What about her?”

For a moment, Cha Baek-gi frowned at the vague memory and then clapped his hands at the memory that came to mind.

The trash born after having relations with a foreign woman currently in his organization.

She was trash he didn’t even remember the name of because she wasn’t born with an innate ability.

But why is Raje feeling foresight about such trash now?

Unable to understand the situation, Cha Baek-gi asked Raje once again, and Raje awkwardly scratched her head and answered.

“I felt a foresight that that trash will harm you, father. So I thought it might be good for you to be careful…”
“Ha! Sometimes your foresight misses, but this time it’s a properly mistaken foresight, Raje.”

Raje’s words that couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

At that, Cha Baek-gi burst into brief laughter and then said with a sneer that couldn’t be erased from the corners of his mouth:

“Even if such trash escaped from the slums, she would have died not long after. Even if she was about to die, she’s still from the slums, so there’s no way the soldiers spread outside would have let her live.”
“Certainly… that’s true.”
“And for that trash to even threaten me, she’d have to at least join hands with the Punishment Team leader to barely be possible. Puhahaha!!”
“Kuh…! That’s right too. The Punishment Team leader… there’s no way that’s possible.”
“Heh… Yes, so there’s no need to worry. She’s probably already dead somewhere yesterday.”

The possibility of trash from the bottom of the slums without innate ability escaping to the outside world and returning to him with a knife converges infinitely to zero… it could be said to be zero itself.

Therefore, Raje also burst into laughter following Cha Baek-gi, and their untimely laughter in the upper echelons of the Hyeonhwa Organization made the organization members tremble.

Thanks to the ability that foresaw a vain future… it was their laughter that burst out after a long time.