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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Xrecker
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I couldn’t tell exactly when the gaze that was observing me had started. No matter how much I wracked my brain, I hadn’t felt that kind of feeling before, and the first time I had felt it was a short while ago, when I was shopping with Ha-yeong.
Was that really the first time, or had they been watching me even before that? One thing was certain: it wasn’t a gaze that was just looking me over, or looking at me after recognizing the superhuman girlfriend next to me. It was looking at me, and it was watching me.
However, the person was not professionally trained or primarily in surveillance, as they couldn’t completely hide their presence. Even though my body was feeling very tired recently, the fact that I could notice it probably meant that there had been no gaze watching me before the day I was shopping with Ha-yeong.
Suddenly, the thought came to me: had they started watching me when I was with Ha-yeong? If that was the first time and the surveillance had started after that, then I had noticed the surveillance not too late.
The bigger problem was that if this surveillance continued, my actions would be greatly restricted. Especially when I went out, it was only to meet my superhuman girlfriends or to go to the Spacetroe headquarters, and in either case, if I were to be discovered, it could be a big problem.
No, perhaps I had already been discovered. On top of that, since there was no clear evidence yet and it was a deduction based on the footprints I had found and my intuition, I couldn’t say for sure that there was someone watching me.
“Haaah…”
At the sound of a deep sigh, Yu-ra, who was wiping the dishes and cups next to me, tilted her head and looked at me.
“Is something wrong?”
“Huh? No, just wondering when work would be over.”
Since I couldn’t tell her my current situation, I just made up an excuse and continued to wash the dishes. She also took her eyes off me without any suspicion and continued to wipe the dishes and cups. I continued to think as I washed the dishes.
If the person who was watching me had found me today, there was a possibility that they were near the café right now. The problem was that even if I caught a glimpse of them, I couldn’t just say that they were the person who was watching me.
There were too many loopholes for the other person, whose face, age, and gender I didn’t know, to escape if I were to say that they were the person who was watching me as soon as I met them.
And if I tried to gather enough information to close all those loopholes, my identity could be completely revealed in the meantime.
If the other person was related to superhumans, my current position would become even more difficult. There were so many unsettling factors that I almost wished it was someone I knew.
If it were someone I knew, besides my girlfriends, it would only be the people from Spacetroe, and although I wasn’t keen on it, I could at least make the excuse that I was gathering information while dating the Hunter Killer members.
But that was unlikely. There was no need for someone who knew me to watch me and see the situation, and if there was something strange, they would have just asked before watching me.
Then the probability of the person being related to superhumans increased. But was there anyone who would recognize me, who had not exposed my personal information to the outside world? And if they had started watching me when I was with Ha-yeong, that was also strange.
Even if Hunter Killer’s Blue had a boyfriend, that was no reason to watch him.
At that moment, the worst-case scenario came to my mind.
What if it was another one of my girlfriends? So far, the people I had felt were watching me when I was with them were Ha-yeong, Eun-ha, and Su-a, a total of three.
If it were really one of my girlfriends, the situation would be narrowed down to Yu-bin and Yu-ra, but I didn’t want to think that way. Moreover, since there was no change in their usual behavior with me, I didn’t think it was one of them.
“You don’t look so good today.”
“I guess it’s because I haven’t been sleeping well lately.”
“Why?”
“I just can’t fall asleep at night.”
Yu-ra, who had been wiping the dishes, put down the dish and the dishcloth in her hand and reached out to put the back of her hand on my forehead.
“You don’t have a fever.”
She checked my temperature as a makeshift measure and looked for any abnormalities in my body, but there was nothing strange. Since the reason I couldn’t sleep recently was because I was constantly thinking about my schedule and various other things, there was no way there was anything wrong with my body.
In fact, it would be normal for something to be wrong with my body in the future. It wasn’t that I couldn’t sleep because my body was sick, but that my body was gradually getting weaker because I couldn’t sleep.
“Wouldn’t it be better to check it more properly?”
I took down her hand from my forehead and approached her, pressing my forehead against hers. No matter how much I had to think, and no matter how tired I was from not sleeping properly, I felt a little better and my mood improved when I was with my girlfriend.
“You said we shouldn’t do it at the shop anymore.”
Yu-ra, who was staring at my eyes as our foreheads were close, gave a meaningful smile, and I let out a hollow laugh at her obvious words.
“This isn’t a signal, I’m just doing it.”
“It wasn’t? What a shame.”
Yu-ra, who was always full of thoughts of having sex with me, would often try to create a situation even in the kitchen, and I was busy controlling her actions at those times. We had done it in the storage room before, but even then, it was a situation where we would have been caught with a slight mistake, so I tried not to do it at the café after that.
To put it simply, having sex with your girlfriend in the café storage room during work hours was a big risk, and it was just absurd.
Of course, after preventing her from creating a lewd situation, when we went to her house, we would let go of our inhibitions and explore each other’s bodies. In fact, when she would tempt me with her body language at the café, there were times when it was difficult to control myself.
However, recently, because I was feeling tired, I didn’t try to force myself to have sex. I might not be able to satisfy her, and since I didn’t know what would happen to my body, I couldn’t help but be careful.
“But I’ll do a lot for you when we get home today.”
“You promised.”
Yu-ra’s face brightened at the words that we could have a wild and fun time at home. She held out her pinky finger, and I hooked my pinky finger with hers.
“Yeah, it’s a promise.”
Seeing her bright smile, I could feel that she also cherished her time with me. As we talked and thought of each other like this, I could feel a lot of happiness, but when I turned away, I was lost in thought again.
What to do today, what to do tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the day after that.
Although there was a partially repeated lifestyle pattern, even if the same atmosphere was repeated, just as people are not in the same state every day, the situation also changes a little every day.
And I had to look at many things in the changing situation, and even when I spoke, I was always anxious, wondering if I might reveal information about myself.
Of course, even though I felt so tired, when we met, it was fun and happy, so it wasn’t that I was just annoyed. The problem was that my mood and my body were working separately.
After finishing our part-time job, we changed our clothes, said goodbye to the owner, and went outside. As soon as we came out, Yu-ra linked her arm with mine, and we smiled at each other.
As we were walking to her house, which was about a 15-minute walk away, when we were about halfway there, I felt a gaze.
“!”
I quickly turned my head and looked back. I caught a glimpse of a moving figure in the distance. Yu-ra also seemed to have felt the gaze on us, as she turned back and looked at the distant place.
“Was there someone there?”
“Yeah.”
I answered her question and, with my brow furrowed, I looked carefully at the distant place. The figure that had disappeared did not reappear, and I realized that they were watching me while maintaining a certain distance. And she looked up at me as I was looking at the distant place.
“Since when?”
“Huh?”
“I asked since when that has been following us. It doesn’t seem like it’s just a day or two.”
Yu-ra’s gaze, which had sharply predicted my current situation after seeing my reaction, was unwavering. As a superhuman, she must have never been unconscious of the gazes around her. Even though she didn’t care about what others thought now, there must have been a time in the past when she had to be conscious of the gazes pouring down from all sides, and in that sense, she was more used to the gazes of others than I was.
“Since I went out for a bit this week.”
Since I had already been caught, I couldn’t hide it, so I told her the truth. Of course, I didn’t tell her that I had met Ha-yeong. I couldn’t confess to what I had done with my own mouth.
“At this distance, it’s about 300m. Should we chase them?”
“No, they’ve probably already run away.”
Although they were not professionally trained or primarily in surveillance, they were definitely fast. Yesterday, when I was with Su-a, after sending her to the subway station first, I had followed the gaze as quickly as possible, but they had already run away.
Although they were not trained, the fact that they had secured an escape route in advance and had run away quickly made it difficult to see it as something an ordinary person would do.
Even if I were to chase them at full speed, it would be difficult to close the distance. If I were to chase them, I would have to do it with all my might, but I couldn’t use my physical abilities as they were in front of her, and if I sent her away and then happened to reveal what had happened with Ha-yeong, Eun-ha, and Su-a, it would be a headache.
“Let’s just go home quickly.”
“Okay.”
Su-a agreed to my suggestion, and we let go of each other’s arms, which we had been holding tightly, and ran towards her house at full speed. Since it was not a far distance, it was possible to run with the body of an ordinary person, and I ran at the speed of a normal person as much as possible.
She matched my speed and looked back once in a while, wondering if they were following us, but there was no sign of them after they had run away.
After arriving at her house, she asked who was following me, but since I didn’t know anything in the first place, I couldn’t say anything. I just said that I had felt like someone was following me for a while and that I was checking from time to time.
After that, she didn’t ask any more about the stalker who was following me. She knew that there was nothing that could be solved by asking various questions in a situation where there was no information and no certainty.
A not-so-distant past.
Silver, a member of the Earth Defense Alliance Seoul branch Team Special Forces, who had gotten off the elevator, had definitely heard that Blue didn’t have a boyfriend. After heading to their office and seeing that no one was there, she came outside for a moment.
“White!”
Just then, she ran into White, who had arrived at the headquarters. They exchanged light greetings and got closer.
“Sorry, I’m a little late, right? Where are the others?”
“No one is here yet. You’re not that late, so don’t worry too much.”
The two, who had started a conversation with a smile, were about to go inside the headquarters to escape the heat of the hot weather. Silver, thinking that White was the cause of her conversation with Blue, told her what she had heard.
“It’s about Blue from Hunter Killer.”
“Yeah.”
White, who was interested in whether Blue was preparing for marriage after seeing her leave a furniture store with a man who looked like her boyfriend, quickly reacted to Silver’s words.
“She said she’s not getting married.”
“Ah…. really?”
White’s excitement died down at the anticlimactic news, but she was soon able to cheer up at Silver’s next words.
“But I think he’s her boyfriend.”
“Right?! I knew it.”
White, who was excited at the word “boyfriend” and said that she had thought so too, liked to hear about other people’s love lives. No, normally, other people’s love lives were not that interesting.
Especially since they were superhumans in an environment that was not very conducive to dating, they couldn’t help but be more interested in their colleagues’ love lives.
“Should we ask her properly later?”
“Don’t be too persistent.”
“I have that much sense.”
The two chatted and finally went inside the headquarters.
Gainsboro from Team Guerrilla, who was coming out of the headquarters, had clearly heard their conversation.
‘They’re just talking nonsense.’
On the other hand, Gainsboro, who had absolutely no interest in other people’s love lives, lightly ignored their conversation and went on his way.
And not long ago.
The sound of something breaking echoed in the white-walled ward. The people in white coats outside ignored the sound as if they were used to it, and Gainsboro, who had just come in, was not surprised by the sound.
He calmly opened the door of the hospital room, which was the source of the sound, and inside, a man with navy-blue hair was leaning against the wall with his fists, his face wrapped in bandages. The wall was slightly cracked, and the man’s fists looked perfectly fine, as if they hadn’t hit the wall.
“You’ll just make it worse.”
“Shut up. If you’re here to make some lame joke, get lost.”
Indigo, who had been brutally defeated by Spacetroe’s Team 3, was recovering in the superhuman research institute. The memory of his defeat kept coming back to him, and he would smash anything he saw every day. Now, both the researchers at the institute and Gainsboro, who often came to the hospital to check on his condition, were used to his behavior.
“Too harsh, you fucker. I brought you something you would really enjoy.”
“What?”
At Gainsboro’s meaningful words, Indigo turned his head and saw a few photos that Gainsboro had thrown on the bed.
“What’s this?”
“Look closely.”
Indigo looked at the photos and couldn’t find anything strange, other than the fact that the woman in the photo had a familiar face. As Indigo was staring at the photo, Gainsboro was just watching him silently. Just then, Khaki belatedly came into the hospital room.
“Look at the state of this room. Are you a gangster or something?”
Khaki, who had come in, sneering at the messy state of the hospital room, sat down in the chair next to the hospital bed. Indigo, who still couldn’t find anything strange in the photo, frowned and glared at Gainsboro.
“What is it? What about this photo? If you have something to say, say it straight.”
“That bastard next to her. Doesn’t he look familiar?”
“Next to her?”
The person in the photo was Blue at a taxi stand in front of a supermarket, and at Gainsboro’s words, he checked the face of the man standing next to her.
Indigo frowned and was lost in thought, looking at the man’s face, which he felt he had seen somewhere but couldn’t remember clearly. Soon, a memory flashed in his mind.
“The bar?”
“That’s right.”
He finally remembered that the man was one of the group they had assaulted for fun at the bar. Indigo, who was smiling at the memory, soon looked at Gainsboro with a face full of questions.
“So what? What does it matter if that bastard is related to Blue or not?”
“That bastard was with Red before.”
At Khaki’s interesting words, Indigo’s eyes widened.
“With Red? Where?”
“They were shopping together in the morning at the station near the headquarters. They looked like they were dating.”
“Are you sure?”
“You think I can’t recognize a person properly?”
The appearance of Blue and the man in the photo looked like a couple who were fond of each other, for anyone to see. And after hearing from Khaki that the man had been with Red before, Indigo couldn’t erase the smile from his face.
For him, the misfortune and pain of others were his pleasure. The human named Indigo was a being who could sacrifice others at any time for his own pleasure.
“I don’t see the female researcher who used to work at this time.”
“Ah, she was transferred to another research lab because I fucked her so much in the hospital room.”
At Khaki’s simple question, he spoke as if he were proud of raping a woman, and he felt no guilt about it.
“Take it easy. You got reported for raping three women at the bar before.”
He was not the only one who had a problem. Having been with him for a long time, Gainsboro and Khaki were also tainted by his values, and they spoke as if raping women at a bar was nothing.
“Fuck, who cares? They should be grateful I fucked them. They were fucking delicious.”
Indigo, whose gaze was still fixed on the photo, couldn’t erase his smile. Soon, he lifted his gaze and, looking at Gainsboro, he said in a voice full of laughter.
“Gain, have the kids watch this bastard. If they see anything strange, tell them to take a photo and send it right away.”
“I’ve already told them.”
At Gainsboro’s quick action, Indigo burst out laughing, and Khaki, who understood what the two were trying to do, also added a curse of “You crazy bastards” and laughed so hard that the ward seemed to shake.
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Its so over