Epilogue – Kim Seon-ah

Kim Sun-ah sat in the cafe with a nervous expression.

She didn’t have the identification tag on her neck that proved she was an Affected.

As soon as the bill that allowed Affecteds to become free citizens passed, she had gone to City Hall with her current husband and, after filling out some complicated paperwork, returned as a free citizen.

Since she didn’t have particularly unusual looks to begin with, no one would know she was an Affected unless she revealed it herself.

However, the person she was about to meet was someone who had received the characteristics of an Affected more strongly than anyone else.

‘What if there’s some trouble on the way…?’

That was Kim Sun-ah’s worry. Not blonde hair that could pass her off as a foreigner, but pink.

No matter how much she tried to hide it, there was no way she wouldn’t be found out. Of course, considering she had sent me a letter and expressed her intention to come and meet me, it meant she probably didn’t care about such things, but she couldn’t help but worry.

‘Has it already been five years…?’

Five years had passed since she left the Education Center. During that time, she had been busy and had met up with people she had met at the Education Center a few times.

Soo-ah Han was unexpectedly living a relaxed life. She still had the identification tag that she was an Affected on her neck, but she was having fun with her owner (who had a very fierce face but was more sensible than she thought), and above all, they seemed to care for each other quite a bit.

Even though they had met by chance in the city, he had rented a proper restaurant so they could talk.

The next person she met was Si-won Jin. The dark circles under her eyes were still there, but unlike her past when she was struggling to die, she seemed to have some vitality.

However, the person who became her owner took her away to use her as a paperwork slave, so she had to hold onto documents for more than 12 hours a day.

She lamented that she would rather have sex, but she didn’t seem to have the thought of dying like before.

She said she was too busy working to think about her painful past, but Kim Sun-ah thought it was all for the best.

Besides them, there was also Yeon-hwa Joo, who became an issue in the underground world as a woman who walked around naked on the internet, and Jin-ah Ryu, who appeared in military promotional magazines, but she couldn’t meet everyone.

But among them, the person she wanted to meet the most was the one person she was eagerly waiting for now.

‘When will she be here?’

Looking at the time, it was almost the appointment time. Considering that she had arrived 30 minutes early, it was about time for her to arrive.

As she was waiting, a sleek sedan stopped right next to her.

Kim Sun-ah glanced at it and was about to turn her head away, if the person who got out hadn’t had pink hair.

But even after seeing the person who got out of the car, Kim Sun-ah couldn’t immediately recognize her as the person she was waiting for.

That’s because she was holding a child in her arms who looked just like her!

‘…Am I seeing things wrong?’

Even as she was blankly opening her mouth, she said something in the car and immediately entered the cafe.

The customers’ eyes turned to her because of her unusual hair color, but she didn’t care and came in, then looked around as if looking for something.

And when she found Kim Sun-ah, who was making an awkward expression, she smiled brightly and shouted.

“Sun-ah!”

“H-Ha-yoon…”

Her long-lost friend had become a mother to a child.