# Chapter 65
Cha Yoon looked around with a troubled expression, wondering if something had gone wrong.
Then he was knocked down by an impact that felt like being hit with a piece of metal.
“E-Eunwoo…”
Lee Ha-min barely managed to stop Seo Eunwoo, who was mercilessly kicking Cha Yoon.
“Wait. Let’s have him remove the verbal command first. Otherwise, we’ll just keep repeating the same situation.”
Hearing those words, Eunwoo came to his senses and somehow managed to calm his anger.
“Remove it.”
When Byun Tae-young spoke, Cha Yoon hesitated.
Tae-young didn’t have as much patience as Eunwoo.
If his patience was worse than even Eunwoo’s, that was really saying something.
Cha Yoon felt the temperature of the air surrounding him rising endlessly and promptly removed the verbal command.
“You can go anywhere, Seo Eunwoo!”
“Remove the suggestion too. Remove everything you placed on Eunwoo and Ha-min.”
When Tae-young spoke again, Cha Yoon hesitated, but not for long.
His skin was already flushed red, and if he upset Tae-young any further, it wouldn’t be surprising if his flesh began to melt.
“Ha-min. You no longer respond to my call. Eunwoo. You too… you too no longer respond to my call…”
“ARRRGHHHH!!!”
“Eunwoo, hold on! Hold on! He’s not finished yet!”
The hallway became chaotic, and only after being beaten by Eunwoo did Cha Yoon finish his words.
“…respond to my call…”
As soon as those words were spoken, Ha-min frantically unleashed his amplification ability, and Cha Yoon collapsed again.
The only reason he was able to keep his life was because of Cha Yoon’s desperate cry that he knew where the people who had demanded the stabilizer were.
***
“Were you hungry? Did that bastard keep you locked up without feeding you? Eat. Eat a lot. But eat slowly. You’ll get indigestion that way.”
Kyun In deboned a yellow croaker for him, acting cutesy.
“I don’t remember well. My memories are all mixed up. But I definitely don’t remember eating. That bastard!”
Eunwoo suddenly stood up in the middle of eating, as if getting angry again, and the S-class Espers hurriedly stopped him in unison.
“Eunwoo. Please be patient. The multinational management people asked to handle this themselves, so let’s wait for now. We agreed that would be better. If Origin and the multinational management clash, we can resolve things comfortably.”
Shim Woo-jin repeated what seemed like the fiftieth time he had said this.
He gave Eunwoo a look as if asking whether he understood correctly, and Eunwoo sighed deeply and nodded.
“Eat this too. You like ribs, don’t you?”
Byun Tae-young also quietly placed ribs on Eunwoo’s spoon as he spoke.
“But why am I the only one eating? None of you have eaten either.”
Eunwoo asked, seeing that the meals of the S-class Espers and Ha-min remained untouched.
They hadn’t even picked up their spoons.
They only moved their chopsticks occasionally, but that was to add side dishes to Eunwoo’s rice bowl, and once that task was completed, they put them back down.
“Don’t disappear again. Never again.”
When Byun Tae-young said this, everyone nodded vigorously.
As if to say that such a thing should never happen again in the future.
Eunwoo himself nodded most enthusiastically.
The dream had been so vivid that he wondered if he had really met his sister, but if that dream was reality, then the S-class Espers and Ha-min had escaped death thanks to him.
‘Because of me. I saved them. But I can’t even tell them that.’
With immense regret, Eunwoo looked at them.
The dream was remembered as clearly as if he had just dreamt it.
Vividly, right up to the end.
***
“Make it so the S-class Espers’ attacks don’t work on me and I win everything.”
With my hands on my sister’s shoulders, I spoke with a serious face.
“You? What are you talking about?”
“Ah, no. Not me, but Seo Eunwoo.”
My sister looked at me with an exasperated expression, as if wondering if I really had to go that far.
“Sis. It has to be that way. This is really important.”
“But that’s too boring. And given the explanation that came before, it would break the balance. Why would the attacks of the S-class Espers, who fear nothing in this world, not work only on Eunwoo?”
“Eunwoo has the writer-god’s blessing.”
“Are you kidding me? But why are you so serious about this? Do you like Eunwoo?”
I didn’t particularly like the look on her face that seemed to invite me to praise her freely, but I told her yes anyway because I had no choice.
In the end, my sister agreed to accept what I said.
“Would you prefer Eunwoo to live happily with everyone? With the S-class Espers?”
“Yes.”
“Sleeping together too?”
“They can all sleep together.”
“You’re being naive. Do you not understand what I mean by ‘sleeping together’?”
“Huh?”
Have you ever seen such a crazy sister?
How can she so brazenly say such things in front of her own brother?
“Never mind. I’ll handle that part myself.”
She said that belatedly, which made me trust her even less.
“Sis. Just write it purely, purely. That Ha-min Guiding thing was good. Just write it like that.”
My sister smirked as if thinking, “What would someone like you know?”
Seriously, this sister?
I don’t know if that was a dream, but fortunately, it seemed like the terrible ending where the S-class Espers and Ha-min all died had been avoided.
***
It hadn’t been a full 24 hours when we received contact from Cha Yoon.
He didn’t dare contact us directly but relayed the news to our Center Director, who then informed us, and we hurriedly went to where Cha Yoon was.
Topaz, a globally renowned multinational management company, struggled particularly in Korea.
In other countries, many high-ranking Espers had joined Topaz, but in Korea, all the S-class Espers remained affiliated with the Center.
As a result, Topaz was perceived in Korea as a place for lower-class Espers.
It wasn’t a place that deserved such treatment, and they probably felt somewhat wronged because of the actions of the S-class Espers.
“Let’s see this big shot now.”
Kyun In spoke with determination, while the others had the attitude of watching a fire from across the river.
They thought they might as well enjoy the spectacle if a fight broke out, but there was no tension at all.
It didn’t matter who won between Cha Yoon and Topaz.
Whoever won, we would deal with them afterward.
“Still, I hope Cha Yoon wins.”
When asked why, Ha-min said he wanted to know how Cha Yoon fights against Espers in a real battle.
Even before we arrived at Topaz’s headquarters, it had already begun.
I don’t know how many people from Topaz were involved, but Cha Yoon seemed intent on using this incident as a pretext to destroy Topaz completely.
Not thinking about what he had done, he seemed to want to take out his frustration from what we had done to him on the Topaz Espers, but what was surprising was his fighting method.
The Espers didn’t seem to know where Cha Yoon was, and they didn’t even seem aware that they were fighting.
It took quite some time to understand what was happening.
“What the hell is this? Why are they acting like that by themselves?”
Byun Tae-young said, watching the Topaz Espers.
Cha Yoon wasn’t doing anything, but they were behaving strangely, like actors in a play.
Faces that looked like they thought their bodies were on fire…
They couldn’t stand still and ran around, waving their arms.
Sometimes they bumped into people nearby, and I looked at Kyun In, wondering if this was Cha Yoon’s method of attack.
Even Kyun In seemed dumbfounded, as if he hadn’t expected it to be like this.
“It seems somewhat similar to mine, but better? He’s doing that without anything visible.”
Shim Woo-jin spoke enviously, and I had been thinking the same thing.
It was quite similar to Shim Woo-jin in that he created illusions to attack as if something was happening when nothing actually was, but it was also different.
Cha Yoon, who had been engrossed in his retribution, seemed to notice our presence belatedly, turned around, and then quietly slipped away.
At the scene, fallen Espers were screaming, and we couldn’t immediately decide what to do about Cha Yoon.
Many who had witnessed his combat would have upgraded Cha Yoon’s ability.
“He’s an S-class Esper. Absolutely.”
When Kyun In said this, all the S-class Espers nodded.
“Cha Yoon alone could have dealt with it sufficiently. Why didn’t he do it before? What a funny guy.”
When Byun Tae-young said this, I pointed at him.
That was what I was going to say.
“Anyway, I’ve realized something from this incident. We can’t just leave Origin as it is. We can’t leave this place like this either. We’re the ones who struggle to protect Central, but others are wielding power in the Central we’ve protected. If the Center Director hadn’t pushed in from the beginning, Eunwoo wouldn’t have been kidnapped. I didn’t care about such things before, so I just left it alone, but now I think we can’t do that anymore.”
Kyun In spoke and then subtly checked our expressions.
It would be difficult for him to do it alone if we didn’t agree.
Though it seemed like a lot of troublesome matters would arise, if Kyun In stepped forward and said he would do it, I wanted to be on his side as much as possible.
Because everything he said was right.
Even though I had complaints about what was happening at the Center, I had thought there was nothing to be done because it had been going on for so long, but now it seemed like we shouldn’t just endure blindly.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
