Chapter 95. We’re Here to Share Some Good Words (2)
Nova stood in front of a mirror wearing a beige blouse.
The clerk who had recommended it squealed beside her.
“Oh my, miss! It looks perfect on you! Are you going to take it?”
Nova’s reaction was lukewarm.
“Do you have it in another color?”
“I’m sorry. That was the very last one.”
Nova did not hesitate.
She took off the blouse and handed it back to the clerk.
“I’ll come again next time.”
With that, she walked straight out of the clothing store.
She could hear the clerk grumbling behind her, but she ignored it.
“That makes six stores.”
Nova calmly counted the shops she had already visited.
The method she had chosen to spread the live vaccine was clothing stores frequented by girls her age.
She deliberately went to crowded stores, tried on one outfit after another, then returned them.
If she contaminated the clothes with the live vaccine like this, she was certain it would spread efficiently through the other girls who tried them on later.
More importantly, with her exotic silver hair and slightly mature appearance, she attracted attention easily inside clothing stores.
Anything she wore would probably catch another customer’s eye sooner or later and be sold.
This was the best she could do.
Despite the fatigue washing over her, Nova started toward a seventh clothing store.
“Ghk... ngh!”
Suddenly, a tearing pain surged through her chest.
Nova stopped walking and staggered into a nearby alley.
Fortunately, no one was there.
“Ghhk! Cough!”
The moment she opened her mouth, a thick clot of blood spilled out.
After coughing up blood several times, she muttered to no one in particular,
“Not yet...”
She had not told anyone, but the side effects of the live vaccine were already tormenting her.
Just as Victoria had warned, the weakened bacteria were still dangerous to someone as physically frail as Nova.
Even so, doing nothing was something her pride would never allow.
“Just a little more.”
Even if it was only a little.
Even if it barely made a difference.
“I have to prove why I was born into this world.”
Nova steadied herself after saying those words.
No. 11’s bacteria were still spreading.
There were still countless people she needed to save.
She could not collapse here.
Driven by that single conviction, she forced herself back to her feet.
Then she staggered toward the seventh clothing store.
“So gathering people with dancing was a failure.”
After returning from the police station, Victoria quietly reflected on the disastrous result.
The police had let her off with a warning, taking into account that she was a foreigner.
It was fortunate.
If things had gone badly, she might have ended up in a holding cell before she could even spread the live vaccine.
“The fact that you thought it would work in the first place was the problem.”
Yukgap criticized her flatly.
Victoria, who had considered the dance strategy one of her finest ideas, cursed under her breath.
“Damn it! Who knew Korea would be so hostile to art?”
“I heard this was supposed to be a nation of excitement and festivity! Where did everything go wrong?”
“Before it’s a nation of excitement, it’s a Confucian country.”
Yukgap casually pointed out the flaw in her plan.
Korean culture might have become heavily Westernized, but Confucian values still remained deeply rooted beneath the surface.
In a country where even an actor showing a little too much skin could become controversial, there was no way people would calmly accept someone dancing in broad daylight wearing an outfit that revealing.
“A Confucian country!”
Victoria’s eyes suddenly lit up.
She had clearly thought of another ridiculous idea.
“Of course an open, provocative dance wouldn’t work in a Confucian country!”
“I should’ve used a different method from the beginning!”
“Why didn’t I realize that?”
Something about the way she even began blaming herself made Yukgap uneasy.
She was definitely about to cause trouble again.
“What useless idea are you thinking up now?”
Victoria ignored him, as always.
“Yukgap, trust me.”
“This time, I’m going to create a strategy that targets the Korean Confucian spirit!”
“I already feel nervous.”
Ignoring his concern, Victoria burst into laughter full of absolute confidence.
“Muahahahaha! Just you wait, people of Confucianism!”
“I’ve already seen through your psychology!”
“Come on, come on! Children, move along! This is for adults!”
Victoria shouted dramatically in the middle of a crowded market.
Perhaps because of the loud music playing beside her, or because she had even put up a banner to advertise, more people gathered than expected.
Victoria focused on the elderly people among them.
“My dear mothers and fathers, don’t you feel like today just isn’t what yesterday used to be?”
“Do your joints ache whenever it rains?”
“Don’t you feel your strength dropping more and more every year?”
Her foreign appearance combined with a voice dripping with charm caught the elderly crowd’s interest far more easily than expected.
Victoria immediately pulled out the item she had prepared.
“For people just like you, we have prepared something special!”
“Victoria Alchemy’s premium health supplement, Hanbang-AeGaU!”
With an extravagant introduction, Victoria held up the live vaccine she had prepared.
To avoid suspicion, she had even packaged it in small plastic packets.
At a glance, it looked no different from an ordinary health supplement.
“Now, this stuff has everything that’s good for your body!”
“Natural underground water from the bedrock of Seoraksan!”
“Hundred-year-old wild ginseng!”
“An Elixir, the crystallization of alchemy!”
“And even space vitamins created with special NASA technology!”
