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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Xrecker
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The day of the duel arrived, and Yellow was in a good mood.
While she couldn’t definitively call him her “boyfriend,” they had crossed a line that made the term fitting, and the anxiety that had been budding inside her dissipated.
Until recently, when the members talked about their relationships, she couldn’t grasp what was so exciting about it. But now that her own relationship with A had progressed, she couldn’t contain her excitement at the thought of telling the members.
However, Yellow, who had never been one to show her feelings, didn’t suddenly become someone who could pour her heart out and talk joyfully just because of one significant event.
Knowing herself well, Yellow tried not to show that anything had happened until a natural opportunity to talk about it arose. But her unusual and extraordinary tension during the duel told the members that something was up.
“!!!”
A Spacetroe soldier who had approached Red flinched, surprised by Yellow’s rushing momentum. Yellow’s high-flying roundhouse kick slammed into the soldier’s head, smashing him to the ground.
Normally, it would have been a situation where she could attack more leisurely with support from the other members, but Yellow couldn’t contain her own momentum and charged at the Spacetroe soldiers.
If someone who didn’t know the dynamic between Spacetroe’s Seoul Branch Team 3 and the Earth Defense Alliance’s Team Hunter Killer had seen it, they might have thought Yellow was recklessly charging. But the Hunter Killer members were reassured by her vigor, and the Spacetroe soldiers, trembling with anxiety, were scrambling to stop just one person, Yellow.
Spacetroe soldiers rushed at Yellow from all directions to attack, but she moved as if she were the only one in fast-forward in a normally paced world, striking and sending each and every soldier flying.
“She’s moving a lot today.”
Among Hunter Killer’s frontline members, Yellow, who primarily used her hands and feet as weapons, naturally had the most physical movement due to her short attack range. During the duel, she displayed a variety of movements, as if using up all her usual pent-up energy at once.
Even considering that, seeing Yellow’s unusually high level of activity, the members were certain that something, whether good or bad, had happened to her.
Since the current lineup was formed, Team Hunter Killer had never once lost to Spacetroe. They had won every single duel over the past three years, so one might think their sense of accomplishment had diminished. But the Hunter Killer members felt a sense of achievement with every victory and never let their guard down.
Until recently, they hadn’t known what each other was thinking due to poor communication, but it was just that their ways of expressing it were different; they never became complacent with their repeated victories.
“Good work, everyone.”
After winning the duel and returning to the headquarters’ underground parking lot, the Hunter Killer members got off their bikes. At Red’s words, the members, who were taking off their helmets, began to lightly discuss the day’s duel.
“They seemed unusually energetic today too.”
“It happens from time to time. But I think Yellow was the cause today.”
Red replied to Blue, who was smiling and relieved that they had won again, and her gaze turned to Yellow, who was walking alongside Pink at the very back. She thought the reason Spacetroe had felt particularly strong today was because Yellow’s energy was different from usual. The moment she saw her—
“What?! Really?!”
Pink’s loud, startled voice surprised the other members, who had just turned to look at Yellow.
“Hey! You’re too loud!”
Pink had been the most interested in Yellow and Green’s stories, and since she hadn’t spared any advice, Yellow had been the first to briefly tell her the news of the past few days. Pink showed a surprised expression she had never shown before in front of the members, and their attention naturally turned to the two of them.
“What? What’s going on?”
Sensing an amusing story rather than a serious one, Red stopped walking towards the elevator and stared at Yellow with a smile.
Yellow belatedly thought that this wasn’t the right timing, but she had already told Pink, the most active talker when it came to relationships.
“She had sex with her boyfriend!”
“He’s not my boyfriend!”
Not seeming to mind that the news of her having sex was out, she first corrected the fact that the person she had a relationship with wasn’t her boyfriend yet.
“Really?! When?”
At the good news from Yellow, whom she had been wondering when would ever make progress, Red’s eyes widened, unable to hide her interest in the fact that she had had sex. Blue’s reaction was relatively small, but just by the way her gaze was fixed on Yellow, it was clear that she was also interested in the story.
“Let’s talk upstairs. Upstairs.”
Since it was an underground parking lot where people could pass by at any time, they decided to save the lewd talk for the locker room. As they were waiting for the elevator, anticipating Yellow’s story, a van entered the parking lot.
The van’s door opened roughly, and the first man who got out spat out a curse.
“Son of a bitch!”
The Hunter Killer members, waiting for the elevator, turned their gazes to the man who got out of the van, their brows furrowing in unison at his frantic appearance.
“What? Hunter Killer finished their duel too?”
Indigo, who had gotten out of the car and was venting his anger at the air, felt the Hunter Killer team’s gaze and looked at them. Just from their eyes meeting, the Hunter Killer members were sending him looks of contempt, and Indigo, for reasons unknown, took a sneering attitude towards them.
“Must be nice. Always taking the credit by fighting weak teams.”
Just then, the elevator arrived. Ignoring Indigo’s words, they got on one by one. Yellow, who had been looking at Indigo until the very end, gave him the middle finger right before getting on the elevator and went up.
“That fucking bitch.”
Indigo, left alone, cursed at the spot where the Hunter Killer members had been, and soon his team members started getting out of the van one by one.
“What? Was someone here?”
“Hunter Killer.”
Indigo answered his colleague Khaki’s question in a voice still tinged with anger, and he gritted his teeth so hard they made a sound.
“Let’s see how long you act so confident. When I get the chance, I’ll kidnap and fuck all of you.”
“Give it up. You might actually die.”
Gain, who got out after Khaki, said with a laugh, but Indigo, blinded by his anger from the duel’s defeat and the Hunter Killer members’ disdainful looks, wasn’t listening.
The members, having arrived at the 3rd-floor Hunter Killer office, had encountered Indigo, but they quickly forgot about him in their excitement to chat. They didn’t think he was worth their attention, so the encounter had little effect on their moods.
The moment they entered the locker room to change, Pink’s lewd gaze turned to Yellow, and Yellow unconsciously avoided her gaze, which felt like it was licking her.
“So, how did it happen?”
“……I pounced on him.”
“You pounced?!”
Yellow, who had been wondering how to start the story, found herself easily recounting the heroic tale of the past few days once she began. And the point that excited the members the most was that the day Yellow had pounced on her boyfriend was the day he was waiting at her house, the same day she had skipped lunch with them.
“So you were probably having sex while we were talking about what might happen?”
“What about your boyfriend? Is he good in bed?”
Behind Red, who was recalling the day they had discussed when Yellow and her boyfriend might make progress over lunch, Pink threw a direct question.
Although the question was direct, Yellow, who didn’t feel much resistance to talking about lewd things, only corrected the fact that he wasn’t her boyfriend yet.
“He’s not my boyfriend yet…. As for sex…”
She couldn’t bring herself to tell her members that she had had countless orgasms while having sex all day and had been helplessly defeated in sex the next day, feeling nothing but pleasure. So Yellow cleared her throat lightly and continued.
“He was okay. But he can’t beat a superhuman in terms of stamina.”
“Really? My oppa is an ordinary person, but he doesn’t fall behind in stamina when we have sex.”
“Aren’t men usually like that? My boyfriend, too, is uncontrollable when he drinks.”
Pink, conveniently leaving out the fact that she was the one who couldn’t handle herself when drinking and having sex, slowly turned her gaze to Blue. Blue, knowing what kind of answer Pink wanted the moment the members started talking and Pink looked at her, smiled lightly.
“My darling seems to have more stamina than me in bed.”
“Right? That’s what men are usually like.”
Pink, who said that men were like that, had, like the other members, only had experience with one person, but she acted tough, wanting to seem a little more skilled and experienced.
Of course, even as she said that, she had no confidence that she could beat her boyfriend, A, when they had sex after her shift this week, making up for last week.
Meanwhile, with Yellow also joining the romance talk—though it was more like sex talk—the person who found it most difficult to participate in this conversation was Green.
“…….”
Unable to keep up with the conversation about whether their boyfriends were good in bed or not, Green, her face flushed, had to listen to the members’ continuous chatter.
Blue, who noticed Green quietly changing, asked her in a low voice.
“What about you, Green? Have you met the person who helped you?”
A week had passed since the trip, but Green hadn’t met A once since returning. Their meetings at the park, which had started by chance, had become something they arranged after exchanging contact information.
“No. Not yet since the trip…”
She had mustered the courage to text him first a couple of times, but she hesitated to call him, feeling that just meeting up without a purpose was taking up his time. Moreover, something must have happened to A in the meantime, as he hadn’t texted her first, and Green was falling into a deeper state of worry.
“You haven’t met? Why?”
“I’ve been a little busy.”
Not wanting to worry the members any more after telling them about her family situation, Green didn’t reveal her growing concerns.
“Because of the move?”
“Yes. There’s a lot to look into.”
Her father was in detention, and since his imprisonment was practically confirmed, she was preparing to move to avoid seeing him after his release. The members knew she was moving, and Blue, who had the most recent experience with moving, could understand that Green was busy with the preparations.
“You could prepare for the move together, couldn’t you?”
At Pink’s curious question, Green flinched as if startled and waved her hands.
“No. He’s already helped me a lot, and this is something I have to do on my own. I haven’t even told him I’m moving yet…”
“You haven’t told him?”
“No.”
Red, surprised that Green hadn’t told him even though she had been preparing to move for a while, double-checked, and Green simply nodded in reply.
“Green, I hope you don’t misunderstand what I’m about to say, but you do…like him, right?”
While not telling him about the move didn’t definitively confirm her feelings, Red thought it was normal to want to tell someone you liked about what was happening in your life and to want to hear about what was happening in theirs.
Red hesitated to ask A about trivial matters because she hadn’t revealed her identity as a superhuman to him, but it was precisely because of that situation that she hoped Green could have a full-fledged relationship.
Moreover, the person who had helped Green had done so even after knowing she was a superhuman, so she thought Green was in a better situation than herself, who had to hide her identity.
Hearing Red’s question, Green was about to say yes but hesitated and fell into thought.
‘Do I…really like him?’
In the end, she couldn’t answer on the spot, and Team Hunter Killer finished their work and headed home.
On the way home, Green wondered if she really liked A.
She did like him, but was it really as a man?
When she heard the members talk about having physical relationships with their boyfriends, she didn’t immediately feel the desire to have a physical relationship with A.
If it were to happen, she wouldn’t dislike it. But Green was more concerned about whether she liked it or not than disliked it, and she couldn’t make up her mind.
‘Do I like him because he helped me?’
She definitely liked him. But she didn’t know the direction of that liking.
She had only thought that she had come to like A, but since they hadn’t met since the trip, her thoughts could only deepen.
‘Will I be able to see him today?’
She took her smartphone out of her pocket and, looking at their last text exchange, considered sending him a text to ask if they could meet for a short while.
But she didn’t have the courage to text him when she didn’t even know how she liked him, so she put her smartphone back in her pocket and headed home with a deep sigh.
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