I Became the Academy’s Kibitz Villain

Warrant.

If you were a man living in Korea, you had probably received one at least once.

-I received an arrest warrant, though?

-He’s a criminal!

For the most part, if you lived an ordinary life, you only got one warrant.

Of course, there were cases where you delayed your military service and then couldn’t postpone it anymore, leading to receiving a second warrant, but generally, everyone only received one.

A situation where the ultimate authority waved one hand, welcoming the person who received the warrant.

The road to the Military, where you spent two years at the longest, or a bit shorter depending on the person, or even longer if you fell for an officer’s persuasion and walked the path of a professional sergeant.

A warrant was an invitation to the Military.

Then.

There was one question.

How did the military apply in this world?

-Do we have to go to the military too?

-Isn’t it more efficient to gather the salary for a thousand soldiers to operate one ability user, so why bother?

-Wow! So, we don’t have to go to the military?!

-I said it’s efficient, not that you don’t have to go…^^

-Ah.

Human hearts were truly ambiguous.

From the perspective of someone who had been to the military, even if it was just lip service, you could say, “If you can avoid going to the military, it’s better not to.”

-In that sense, from 2022, the criteria for military conscription had been significantly adjusted, reducing the number of army recruits by about half…

-Stop the nonsense! Defense is power! Just because North Korea is gone doesn’t mean we should slack on defense!

-Are you perhaps thinking, ‘It’s unfair that my son is suffering in the military while someone a few years younger doesn’t have to go’?

-If that’s the case, what are you going to do about it!

-I feel the same way.

No matter how much men were encouraged to find common ground, when it came to ‘military service,’ reaching a conclusion was difficult, regardless of how much discussion and debate occurred.

How much physical ability should someone have to be conscripted?

And how long should the military service period be?

’I served for 20 months, and they only served 14 months? Man, the world is really messed up,“ one might say, expressing dissatisfaction towards the politicians who made that decision. How should such decisions be made?

The answer lay in patriotism.

-If you get pregnant with an ability user, or if you give birth to an ability user, should you be exempt from military service?

-Oh…

-It’s about men competing fairly. If ordinary people have a child who turns out to be an ability user, shouldn’t the parents take care of that child rather than go to the military?

-Would people accept that giving birth to an ability user grants military exemption?

-Let’s mix in a bit of a success story. A young man, with a grade 7 academic record, who was deciding between attending a local university or joining the military because he got sick on the day of the college entrance exam, becomes exempt from military service by becoming the father of a B-grade ability user child and benefits from policies supporting ability user families.

A true turnaround in life.

In an era where giving birth to an ability user was likened to winning the lottery, the prospect of military exemption as well made it very appealing to men.

-No way, that guy was messing around with women, and he got one pregnant, gave birth to an ability user, and got exempt from military service? He even became a father of an ability user?!

-I, I’ll have one too!

The temptation of military exemption was strong.

Even in international events like the Olympics, there was open talk about ‘exemption steroids’ or ‘exemption buffs.’ How could ordinary people resist the temptation if they could achieve exemption just by excelling in their skills?

-What if the child born isn’t an ability user?

-That’s the responsibility of the parents who gave birth. Surely, there’s no parent in this world who would say, “I’ll give birth to an ability user to turn my life around and get military exemption!” right?

-Wow.

-Didn’t everyone have children out of love, because they like each other? Hahaha.

-You’re this year’s exemplary public servant!

Giving birth to an ability user was a national pride.

Giving birth to a non-ability user was a personal responsibility.

The nation and its people paid no heed to the criticisms and condemnations, both domestically and internationally, regarding this issue.

If the child wasn’t an ability user, just raise them.

Although this was said outwardly, you couldn’t easily speak about the reality.

Because once you started talking about where all these born children went, there was no end to it.

Anyway.

This world encouraged childbirth, and both environmentally and policy-wise, ‘having an ability user’ was greatly welcomed.

As a result,

The state paid a lot of attention to ‘adult female ability users’ who could give birth to ability users, especially those with a high probability.

From 20 years old—now that the legal adult age in this world has been lowered to 17, but before that, the state raised them like princesses until the previous legal adult age.

-So, since you’ve grown up with taxes for 20 years, shouldn’t you now repay those taxes…?

-So, you’re telling me to get pregnant?

-For the nation. For this country. For world peace.

All the taxes spent on raising ability users, feeding their families, were recovered through ‘ability users.’

-Do you have a boyfriend by any chance? It doesn’t matter if he’s an ability user or not. If your boyfriend hasn’t gone to the military yet, and if you have his child who turns out to be an ability user, he won’t have to go to the military.

-What benefit do I get if my boyfriend doesn’t go to the military?

-He’d have to serve and cherish you for life, wouldn’t he?

-…I’ll think about it.

This was the warrant sent to young female ability users with such intentions.

Pregnancy Warrant.

In my world, it was no different from a military warrant.

-You can come to the military on the day the warrant comes out, or you can postpone your enlistment~

-But you must enlist before you turn 25 unless there’s a special reason?

-If you don’t enlist, you become a criminal~

Here, if you replaced ‘military’ and ‘enlistment’ with ‘pregnancy,’ it was easiest to understand.

That’s how this world was.

Wouldn’t this naturally cause backlash from women?

So, right now, there are only four female S-class ability users left in Korea.

Moreover, excluding one who had risen to S-class and Baek Seol-hee, who wasn’t an adult when she became S-class, only two female ability users remained as heroes in Korea.

Despite dozens of women in Korea becoming known as S-class ability users, only four remained as heroes in Korea.

Of course, these individuals hadn’t even held hands with a man, let alone considered pregnancy - before meeting the Goblin - but they were openly receiving proposals regarding having ability user children.

That was what the pregnancy warrant was.

In nice terms, it’s proposed as, ‘Would you like to try pregnancy?’

This was just coercion…!

Since it created a social atmosphere where not getting pregnant made one a traitor, how could the recipient feel good about it?

-Where have women’s rights gone!

-Women are not livestock! This is gender discrimination! How can you force women to get pregnant!

Someone started voicing out.

Whether it was with pure intentions, hidden political motives, or if it was a specific ideological group shouting, it was hard to tell.

-Ordinary people don’t receive pregnancy warrants. Pregnancy warrants are issued only for ‘female ability users.’

-Oh.

-The cost of raising them to adulthood, including the taxes spent on the child and their family, would be over 200 billion won. It’s almost like repaying that tax by having one child.

-Ah.

-It’s called tax recovery. Since the taxes you paid go to ability users, they have an obligation to give back by having ability user children for you.

Pregnancy warrants had existed for a while.

If there was a military warrant for men, for ability user women, there’s:

Everything was for the sake of patriotism.

“So, Iseon, this warrant thing, it’s been issued to all the ability users who came here for the summer session, right?”

“Yes. Probably.”

Yoon Iseon gritted her teeth while pointing at the light pink letter.

“This is my warrant, but other students received them too. They cautiously talked about it and came to me, and I told them I needed some time to think, so I came down here separately.”

“Did they follow you here?”

“No. I told them I was going to consult with Seol-hee, so they won’t follow.”

“Did Seol-hee get a warrant too?”

“It’ll come soon.”

When Yoon Iseon pointed out the window, soon a white snowstorm entered through it.

“Are you crazy?”

Baek Seol-hee, her face full of anger, thrust the pink warrant she had received at me.

“Do you think it makes sense for the country to send out warrants telling us to have kids before we get too old or hit menopause?! Take responsibility!”

“…Of course, I think it’s ridiculous, but why is it my responsibility?”

I reached out to stop Baek Seol-hee.

“I’m the librarian, Do Ji-hwan-”

“Yeah. So, take responsibility.”

“…Huh?”

“Would I want to get pregnant with a villain’s child? Since I’ve got the warrant anyway.”

Baek Seol-hee threw the warrant at my lower half.

“Do Ji-hwan, I’ve chosen you.”