episode_0039
by fnovelpiaI fell to my knees.
Absolutely without thinking about it.
As soon as I saw Ruina’s expression, my body reacted reflexively.
“Women. Blaze. Weekend. Meeting.”
“… … … … .”
The words that Ruina spoke in a curt manner were the worst combination of all.
Who would have thought that Si-eun would call me while I was doing something else?
And who would have thought that Ruina would pick up the phone?
It was already out of the question that the cell phone had been destroyed without a trace by her powers.
Just for now.
All I could think about was how to get out of this mess.
“You were trying to meet a girl without telling me?”
“That’s right, Ruina… … .”
“Answer.”
Ruina’s sharp words, looking down at me like a midwinter snowstorm.
The saying that a normally cheerful and innocent person hides a deeper darkness inside than anyone else suddenly came to mind.
No, actually, even without thinking about it, isn’t the girl in front of you a SSS-class super dangerous villain?
I barely managed to open my mouth, with cold sweat running down my forehead.
“Hey, I had an appointment… … .”
“Without me knowing?”
“That’s… . I was going to say that… .”
“ did you do it?”
“Somehow… … .”
“Hey.”
Ruina lets out a cold exclamation and passes me by.
Click.
Soon the sound of the door locking was heard.
“Ru, Ruina?”
“I’ve always thought about going out with you on the weekends.”
“Me too… … .”
“But you were going to meet Blaze this weekend, right?”
“That, that’s right! You’re the one who’s being rude… … !”
Ruina came silently to me as I knelt down.
I could feel an extremely cold chill creeping from her.
“You said you wouldn’t betray me, right?”
“Huh… ?”
“I told you last time. I hate betrayers the most in the world.”
“Of course… … .”
“But?”
I ended up keeping my mouth shut at Ruina’s short words that seemed to be floating around.
This was definitely my fault.
No, it was clearly a mistake.
To my girlfriend who loves me so much.
Because I didn’t even tell anyone that I had made an appointment with a woman I knew.
This situation was entirely my fault for being indecisive about what to do about it.
And it was the result of a mistake I had no choice but to make.
“In some cases, I can make you stay in this room forever. Because you are mine. Because you are my angel who helped me find my lost daily life.”
“… … … … .”
I just listened to Ruina’s threats in silence.
It’s entirely my fault for making her so angry.
To appease her anger, I thought it would require appropriate courage and determination.
“Ruina.”
“Why.”
“Please don’t trust me?”
“Suddenly what is that──.”
Before Ruina could even react.
He grabbed her defenseless hand.
“!!??”
That moment.
Ruina was so shocked by the world that she suddenly pulled her hand back.
“Haa! Haa! Haa! Haa! Haa!”
How surprised I was.
Ruina was hyperventilating.
“I knew you would trust me.”
I too was drenched in cold sweat, and I managed to raise one corner of my mouth with a grin.
If my ability and Ruina’s ability meet, which one will have the effect first?
It seemed like the gamble on trust was a success.
“You idiot!!!”
Ruina squeezed her eyes shut and let out a loud scream.
“Are you crazy!? What are you going to do if something big happens!!?”
“I thought this was the only way to express that I betrayed you.”
“You could have just hugged me, patted me, and comforted me… … . I don’t think I’d know what to do if I died… … !!”
Ruina’s whole body begins to tremble.
Soon, large tears fell from her eyes and fell to the floor.
“I’m sorry. Really.”
“You’re a real idiot, you fucking idiot!! Euaaaang──!!”
Eventually, Ruina hugged me tightly and started crying.
I just gently stroked her head as she cried sadly.
It seemed like this incident could somehow be brought to an end.
* * *
After barely calming down Ruina, who had been crying for a long time.
I was out of the house for some reason, including to get some fresh air.
It was already dark outside, and only silence hung in the air.
But the fact that there were men hiding in this silence was now common sense to me.
“If I call, will you come… … .”
Other than casually striking up a conversation in the middle of the street.
I was wondering how to summon the agent hiding in the shadows.
“Huh?”
Even though I haven’t even tried to call yet.
A man in a black suit from the National Intelligence Service was approaching me straight from the darkness.
The man in the black suit approached me without making a sound, and immediately took out a brand new cell phone from his pocket without a single scratch and handed it to me.
“New communication device handler.”
“I haven’t said a word yet… … ?”
Of course, the reason I was trying to find the NIS agent was to ask if I could get a cell phone urgently.
For now, the intended purpose has been achieved.
Eventually, the man in the black suit took out a sturdy military radio.
[The signal from the device you were using was abnormally lost.]
As expected, the voice coming from the receiver of the radio was a very familiar man’s voice.
“Team Leader… … .”
[Did you have any trouble with Ruina?]
Team Leader Lee Tae-seok’s tone of voice sounds cold.
I swallowed my dry saliva for a moment.
“That… …. I guess there was a bit of a misunderstanding.”
[You say it’s a misunderstanding?]
“I… . Um, um. I got into a misunderstanding that I was seeing another woman instead of Ruina… … .”
[I see. So your cell phone was destroyed by Ruina’s ability.]
“Haha… … .”
I could only laugh it off and brush away this awkward atmosphere.
If I had said a few more words here, I felt like the National Intelligence Service agents would have come to arrest me, just like Team Leader Lee Tae-seok had warned.
But fortunately, the black suit that gave me my new cell phone was the same.
There was no sign that they were trying to capture me.
[Anyway, I’m glad that nothing major happened. It may be presumptuous of me to say this now, but the handler’s cell phone is being tracked in real time by Hero Ex-Machina, so please keep it with you at all times.]
“Ah, yeah… … huh?”
What did you just say?
Real-time tracking?
[Of course, we are not wiretapping or filming as you requested. We are only checking the basics such as where your cell phone is and whether it is transmitting a normal signal.]
“Oh, is that so… … .”
Team leader Lee Tae-seok, who is in charge of this monster taming operation we’re involved in, is speaking over there.
But I found out a pretty embarrassing secret.
I guess it’s okay.
[Since the mobile phone’s activation and computer information has been transferred as is by X-Machina, you will be able to use it exactly as you did with your existing device if you transfer the cloud data you backed up.]
“Thank you for everything, Team Leader. Please tell Ex Machina that I am grateful to you too.”
[All right.]
Chiik─, and after Team Leader Lee Tae-seok’s radio transmission was cut off.
The man in the black suit holding the walkie-talkie nodded silently and walked into the darkness.
“Haa… … . Thanks to that, I ended up changing all my phones… … .”
Due to an unexpected turn of events, my two-year-old phone was suddenly upgraded to the latest model.
Should I like this… … .
I tried turning on my turned off cell phone.
Was what Team Leader Lee Tae-seok said true?
Even though I was touching a new phone, all the contacts and call history from my old phone were still there.
It’s really amazing how he did it, but it’s understandable that he’s the hero of the battery who gave me this new phone.
“This number almost caused a huge problem today.”
What I was looking down at was an unsaved number in my call log.
After quickly adding the name of a female academy classmate to that number.
I called right away.
Thump… . Thump… . Thump… .
After a few rings.
A click was heard.
[Uh… Seonghun… hey?]
Si-eun’s voice became cautious somewhere.
“Okay. I’ll do it.”
I answered with a small sigh.
[Ha. The phone suddenly disconnected. Seonghoon. I was just wondering. Yuri, are you mad because of me…?]
I thought he just acted like a brat.
It was a tone of voice that seemed to indicate that Ruina was very upset.
“I’ve already explained it well, so don’t worry about that part.”
“Oh, really? I’m so sorry about this. I think I caused a misunderstanding with Yuri.”
“I hope you feel sorry for me for being mistaken for cheating because of you. Han Si-eun.”
“Sorry… … .”
When I said that with a lot of sarcasm, Si-eun readily apologized.
Sigh. What’s the point of taking it out on him so late?
“Then I guess I’ll cancel this week’s appointments… … .”
“That’s what I was calling to talk about anyway.”
“Huh?”
“I made a promise. Let’s not cancel it.”
“Is that okay? Yuri-ssi said she had plans this weekend too.”
Of course, it’s not okay at all as it is.
“So what I’m saying is, let’s add one more seat. Two men and two women.”
While I was comforting and soothing Ruina, I brought up the matter that we had agreed upon.
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