# Chapter 55
“Save them, noona.”
After looking down, I raised my head to see my sister who couldn’t believe this situation.
“Hey… you… are you crying?”
Yeah.
My nose was getting stuffy and tears were really flowing.
What did it matter if I could save Lee Ha-min and the S-class Espers?
But truthfully, those tears came before I could even make such calculations.
After learning that everything that happened where I had been was exactly described in my sister’s novel, the ending I heard from her hurt like someone was carving out my heart.
The idea that our lives were being controlled by my sister’s whims was unbearably irritating, but right now I needed to change her mind at all costs.
“Stop it. Get up. What’s wrong with you, seriously?”
“Save them. You’re going to save them, okay? You haven’t sent the manuscript yet, right?”
“I’ve scheduled it to be sent…”
My sister grumbled as if wondering if she really needed to do this, then approached her laptop.
Even the time it took for the laptop to boot up seemed to make my heart burn.
“Ah… it’s gone…”
I couldn’t understand what my sister meant when she spoke after clicking her mouse.
“Gone? What? The manuscript?”
“Yeah. I thought I had scheduled it, but it seems it was sent automatically. I got a confirmation email. They received it.”
My sister glanced at me as she said this.
I had the expression of someone who had lost their country, and my sister nervously ran her fingers through her hair.
“Haa, really. I don’t know what I’m doing anymore.”
Then she quickly made a phone call.
“Hello, PD-nim. This is ‘YesterdaysEatenPearBones’.”
The voice on the other end sounded startled but pleased.
[Yes, author. We received your manuscript well. I was just checking it, actually. I think we can proceed with it as is without any further edits. It has impact and leaves a lasting impression. It was very moving. The scene where Seo Eunwoo doesn’t recognize Lee Ha-min or any of the S-class Espers until the end was particularly impressive. And the S-class Espers and Ha-min desperately trying to make him remember them was so heartbreaking. I haven’t felt this way in a long time.]
Ah, what are they saying?
This isn’t their life!
My sister seemed to waver as she heard those words.
“Really? I was worried that readers might not like sad endings, so it could be risky.”
[That’s true. I worried about that a lot too. But wouldn’t an ending where everyone lives happily together be too predictable? I think this ending fits this novel perfectly. I really like it. I’d like to go with this.]
I couldn’t just blame my sister.
There was someone even worse next to her.
Now I could understand why my sister had been acting that way.
It seemed that thanks to this person, the originally depressing novel had changed like this, but the situation was too serious for me to feel grateful.
“But, PD-nim. Please put that on hold for now.”
My sister looked at my expression several times during the call, then apparently decided she had no choice.
[What? Why, author? This is really good as it is!]
“I’m not satisfied with it. Please just discard it for now.”
[Discard… it? Not just hold it, but discard it?]
“Yes. I’ll rewrite the latter part.”
[When you say the latter part, from where exactly? You know we don’t have much backlog, right, author? We need to post it right away, and this makes things difficult. We’ll have to proofread it again too. Do you really have to do this?]
My sister’s eyes wavered.
From her perspective, this must have been truly incomprehensible.
Suddenly her younger brother was crying and begging her to save the characters in her novel and change the ending.
And it was a BL novel at that.
Even to me, it seemed absolutely ridiculous.
I don’t have a younger sibling, but if my sibling acted like this, I would have smacked them on the back of the head and told them to snap out of it.
“Well…”
My sister couldn’t continue speaking and ended the call, saying she’d call back in a little while.
Then she looked at me.
“Hey. Explain this in a way I can understand. This is important to me. You… no. As full of quirks as you are, you’ve never cried like this before. Do you really have to do this? Is the ending I decided on completely unacceptable?”
“Yes. It absolutely is.”
“Then what would you like instead?”
I looked at my sister meaningfully.
“First of all…”
***
Cha Yoon looked at Seo Eunwoo with interest.
It was strange.
He himself had forgotten that he had hypnotized Seo Eunwoo before.
He had been lucky.
That was the only way he could think about it.
Otherwise, he would have had to give up on mind-controlling Seo Eunwoo, an S-class Esper, from the beginning.
Without any certainty it would work, he had snapped his fingers, and seeing Eunwoo’s eyes become hazy, Cha Yoon belatedly realized what had happened.
He approached Eunwoo, but Eunwoo just stood still.
Even though he had come so close, Eunwoo didn’t instinctively back away as would be expected.
Thanks to this, he could see Eunwoo up close.
He had never approached him this closely before.
He was certainly an interesting guy.
But there was no time to leisurely indulge his curiosity.
The New Central.
The New Center.
Origin seemed like it would give him everything he wanted, and he had finally completed his empire with his own hands.
Compared to what he had thought, there were many problems there, and there were moments when he wondered if building a new city had really been the right thing to do.
The biggest variables were the S-class Espers.
Kyun In’s change of heart midway was the biggest factor.
Even now, Cha Yoon couldn’t understand why Kyun In had suddenly changed.
The money offered to Kyun In was beyond imagination.
He promised to give 2 trillion as a lump sum just for coming to Origin, and 500 billion each time he recruited an S-class Esper.
Even that enormous amount of money wasn’t difficult for Cha Yoon to manage.
Manipulating Central’s wealthy to move money wasn’t even an issue.
Everything was almost done.
If only it weren’t for Kyun In.
Even after Kyun In changed his mind, Cha Yoon tried to think that the resulting changes wouldn’t be significant.
But things didn’t go that way.
The S-class Espers stood firm, and the higher-ranked Espers didn’t move over as much as he thought.
The people Cha Yoon had been carefully watching came over to Origin after seeing the money and good conditions offered, but the ripple effect wasn’t as great as expected.
Even those who moved over seemed to constantly wonder if their choice had been wrong.
News from the place they had left particularly increased their unrest.
The one and only Center, the one and only Central.
Since its reason for existence was clear in itself, there was no need for a separate name to distinguish it from others, but at Origin they called it Beta.
There was a strong desire to emphasize their own image as having existed since the beginning, despite being formed later.
That place that needed no name, that Center, was in turmoil.
And Lee Ha-min and Seo Eunwoo were at the center of it.
‘S-class Esper.’
Seo Eunwoo didn’t even recognize Cha Yoon approaching.
A murky light flowed from his eyes, which had lost their usual determination.
Cha Yoon looked at him with interest and gently raised his hand to lightly caress Eunwoo’s cheek.
Interesting.
Curious.
Cha Yoon’s gaze quickly and persistently scanned Eunwoo’s face.
Soft hair styled neatly with wax applied.
He had done unnecessary work.
His red lips glistened moistly, though it didn’t seem like he had applied anything to them.
His gaze had already moved up from the lips to look at the round nose, then moved to the eyes above.
Mysterious eyes that were difficult to describe in a single word.
Words like “beautiful” and “attractive” weren’t enough.
It seemed like many more words would be needed to express Seo Eunwoo, but he didn’t have the ability to express it.
The transparent eyes seemed to reveal even the iris.
Without realizing it, he wondered how it would feel if Seo Eunwoo looked at him with those eyes.
It wasn’t just curiosity.
He had been wanting it.
He raised his hand again and carefully stroked Eunwoo’s cheek.
Then he realized that this was a public place with many people walking around.
Seo Eunwoo wasn’t the person he had targeted.
But the moment he saw Eunwoo, his plans changed.
It seemed like he could use Eunwoo to create a completely different plan.
He decided this because everything he had done until now was boringly easy and simple for him.
Sometimes, he approached Eunwoo thinking that he could give himself a handicap and play the game this way.
Though not particularly short, it wasn’t difficult for Cha Yoon to embrace him.
As he got close enough to feel his breath, Eunwoo’s breath touched Cha Yoon’s chin.
Cha Yoon, who had been dangerously close as if their lips might touch, quietly touched Eunwoo’s shoulder, caressed his arm, and then lifted him up.
His actions afterward were unhesitating.
Many people passed by him as he left that place and exited the restaurant, but no one looked at Cha Yoon strangely.
The ability of an S-class mental Esper.
Without giving instructions to each person individually, they blocked their sight from what they shouldn’t see due to the aura Cha Yoon emitted.
They paid no attention to Cha Yoon passing in front of them, as if he had become invisible.
Without anyone interfering, Cha Yoon put Seo Eunwoo in his car and left the place.
Although there were still things to do at the restaurant, to him who had just obtained an unexpected toy, they seemed like trivial matters.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
