episode_0090
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We continued our inspection.
Now that we know what effect the primordial stone has on the body, it was time to find out what power it possesses.
“You can start comfortably as soon as you enter.”
“… Yes.”
Excluding Shin Yu-na, who had no fighting ability, only I, who could handle gravity, conducted the test.
Against a living monster.
‘Is this okay?’
Entering the spacious booth in the basement, I stared at the water drop-shaped monster writhing in the center.
It is a monster called ‘Slime’ that commonly appears in all towers.
At the Busan research institute, monsters were being secretly trained at the national level for research purposes.
Raising a dangerous being, no matter how weak, outside the tower could be a very controversial issue, but most countries seemed to be keeping quiet about it.
… It felt like I was encountering the dark side of science.
“Phew.”
anyway. I took a deep breath, raised my inner magic power, and stretched out my hand toward the slime.
and.
Kuuk. I drew an image in my mind and clenched my fists.
Bye! At that moment, the slime’s body bursts up and down as if it were being held in a hand.
Then, surprise began to spread among the researchers outside the booth who were watching this.
‘I feel like a monkey at the zoo.’
In addition, several other technologies were demonstrated.
“B, it’s a black hole… !”
“It doesn’t make sense.”
“I never thought the day would come when I would see a black hole with my own eyes… !”
The researchers were enthusiastic about the abilities I showed and looked at me in awe.
‘Is it that much…? ?’
Although I didn’t know how great it was.
“Isn’t that too much?”
“It seems like that.”
After taking a short break, I was relaxing with Shin Yuna.
She barely participated in this test, so she just watched me the whole time.
‘It’s a little unfortunate that we can’t fight together.’
If Shin Yuna, who has the deceptive ability to predict the future, could fight directly, it would have been a great help.
It’s already been a big help, but I’m left with some regrets… .
A question suddenly occurred to me.
‘… Now that I think about it… .’
I don’t know why, but I, who possessed the Stone of the Beginning, awakened a new power by mating with Shin Yuna.
Maybe it’s because the stone I have was lucky enough to be paired with Shin Yuna’s ‘Stone of Time’.
So one day, Shin Yuna also said that she had gained new powers.
then… .
How far does Shin Yuna’s power extend?
I now have the ability to completely ignore the physical laws of the world.
To borrow from the reactions of previous researchers, to the point where I could destroy the world by myself.
This means that the combined primordial stones have tremendous potential.
Shin Yuna’s abilities were still shrouded in mystery.
“Yuna.”
“Why?”
“Can I ask you something?”
“?”
In the end, I couldn’t control my curiosity and asked her a question.
“I became able to control gravity after meeting you.”
“Yes.”
“How far can you go?”
OK.
“… … .”
She began to stare with wide eyes.
It felt like he was observing my face.
Then he suddenly answered with a bright smile.
“It’s a secret.”
“What.”
It wasn’t the answer I expected.
“I told you this before, right? You shouldn’t try to know the future.”
She hummed condescendingly and pointed her finger.
“It’s not difficult to tell you, but I’m not telling you because I don’t know what the consequences will be. You remember, right? Time Paradox.”
“… They just can’t tell you.”
“That’s right.”
She laughed at my poignant reaction and then told me something meaningful.
“Actually, I can’t talk about it because it’s my older brother. So don’t get too upset.”
“What does that mean?”
“In the first place, fate is absolute. Just like my brother and I became ‘this kind of relationship’.”
“… Right?”
In the past, we made great efforts not to mix with each other.
However, I just realized that fate cannot be avoided in any case.
“But… . That’s not necessarily true.”
“En… ?”
She looked into space with a somewhat vague look on her face.
“From around the time my brother began to control his powers, I began to gradually escape from my destiny.”
What kind of future have you seen?
“Everyone else follows their own fate, but in this world, my brother is the only one who is not affected by fate.”
It also looked strangely sad.
“As a result, other people’s fates change because of my brother.”
She then glanced at me as if she had never done that before, and gave an example of the time when she had decided on the order of lodging during this business trip.
“I was originally the first one back then?”
It means that my fate changed when I turned the wheel.
“So I can’t say anything to my brother. I’m afraid it might lead to something bad.”
In many ways, Kang Yu-chan was an annoying person to Shin Yu-na.
“Do you understand?”
“Then… . Are you saying that my fate is completely determined by my own hands?”
“That’s right.”
Surprisingly, I didn’t feel too bad.
No, I even felt relieved at the thought that I had gained true freedom.
“Is it good?”
Shin Yuna, who was looking at me blankly, smiled somewhat worriedly.
“… … .”
It’s like looking at a child released into the water.
I didn’t really understand the meaning of that smile.
*
This was after all schedules in Busan were over.
“I have some work to take care of, so I’ll go up separately.”
Shin Yu-na, who returned to Suwon, began to move individually.
When I returned to Seoul with Ma Yeon-seo, I started searching the house with her.
“Where did you put it… .”
To be exact, my mother’s belongings I brought from the house I moved to.
‘It was a good thing I didn’t throw it all away.’
After my mother died in an accident. I have gathered my belongings and stored them carefully.
Of course, I couldn’t keep everything, so I had no choice but to organize most of it.
Items that could not be thrown away were collected and stored in one place.
That was exactly the size of one plastic storage box.
“found.”
I found the box among my old luggage and carefully pulled it out.
It was a bit dusty because it was stuck in a corner, but it wasn’t serious as it seemed like they had taken good care of it.
“Did you find it?”
“Yes.”
Ma Yeon-seo eventually returned and naturally took a seat next to me.
I unlocked both sides of the box and gently lifted the lid.
Then, for the first time in a long time, my mother’s memento welcomed me.
Of course, nothing had changed since the last time I opened it.
‘It’s been a while.’
Since I became alone, I have often visited the charnel house, but after organizing my belongings, I have never opened it.
In fact, this is the first time.
“Let’s take them all out one by one.”
“Okay.”
We took everything out of the box and took it out.
And before long, almost all of the items in the box were taken out.
“… You know this?”
Ma Yeon-seo, who was checking the box, took out a keepsake.
“Uh!”
The item she found was a photo album.
It was what I was looking for.
“… Hmm… . It’s cuter than I thought.”
“Suddenly?”
Ma Yeon-seo, whose eyes rarely sparkled when she saw my younger self in the photo album, suddenly looked at me with a meaningful expression.
“… Why?”
“Just. I wonder if there is any medicine that makes you younger.”
This guy. It seemed like he had no intention of hiding his true feelings at all.
‘Seup. There might be at least one copy.’
So we continued to look through the photo album carefully.
To find the face of ‘Uncle’ who may be somewhere.
For some reason, the man who was known to be a Class A awakened person was not registered with the association.
Just in case, I looked for other grades with similar conditions, but couldn’t find them anywhere.
As if such a person never existed in the first place.
At the point when we noticed that fact, we had a hunch that something was going on, so we started looking for the person called ‘Uncle’ on a large scale.
The last place I arrived at was my mother’s photo album.
but.
“… They’re all either your photos or your mother’s photos.”
“… That’s right.”
No matter how carefully I looked through the photo album, I couldn’t find his photo… .
“… Huh?”
The end of the photo album, the very last page.
“This… .”
Suddenly, Ma Yeon-seo pointed to a photo.
“?”
The photo she pointed to was a photo of me as a child smiling brightly in the yard.
“Isn’t it a bit strange?”
“What?”
“More than other photos… . It’s thick.”
“!”
After noticing something strange, I immediately peeled off the film covering the photo.
and.
“Ah… !”
I found another photo hidden behind my photo.
It was a photo of a young man holding me and smiling kindly.
“It’s the man… !”
It was him.
‘okay. This is the kind of person he was.’
After meeting him for the first time in such a long time, I fell into a sentiment that is difficult to describe in words.
“… … ?”
Ma Yeon-seo, who was looking at the photo closely with her head together, spoke quietly.
“… They look alike.”
“What?”
“You and this person. Looks similar.”
*
After finding the man’s photo, we immediately went to the association.
“How long will it take?”
“It will probably be out in an hour.”
Fortunately, the company had Hallyeowon, so I immediately requested a search.
Using face recognition magic and a cross-verification program using face recognition AI, we were able to receive results in no time.
[ No result ]
The man was not registered with the association.
“Umm… . Maybe he wasn’t an awakened person?”
Hallyeowon focused on the possibility that my memory was wrong.
“That’s probably not true. You’ve seen me manipulate magic a few times.”
Sadly, I have seen evidence that he is an awakened person several times.
“… What if I haven’t registered?”
Ma Yeon-seo argued that there is a possibility that the registration itself was not done.
surely. Although registration is legally required, if you decide to hide it, there is no way to find it.
If you don’t register, you won’t be able to enter the tower.
“That’s probably not it either. Like the parts you showed me, I’ve seen the awakened equipment several times.”
In the end, the identity of the man who fell into the labyrinth.
“It’s difficult… .”
“… … .”
“Seup… .”
That was the time when everyone was putting their heads together and thinking about how to overcome this situation.
“Ah!”
Hallyeowon clapped her hands and presented an idea.
“Government support programs… !”
“What is that?”
Government support programs. It is a system that allows the association to seek cooperation from national intelligence agencies.
You can get help from the National Intelligence Service.
“Anyway, since you are Korean, there will definitely be a record!”
Hallyeowon, full of confidence, immediately began moving to make the request.
“As expected, Ryeowon is the best… !”
“… … .”
I was clapping my hands while exclaiming my admiration without thinking, but I flinched for a moment when I felt the stinging gaze from the side.
“… Oh, of course it’s worse than Yeonseo… .”
“… Heung.”
It was a slightly dangerous moment.
“The results will be available in half a day… ! The photos came out well so there was a high chance of finding it!”
Hallyeowon, which sent the request, received a positive response from the National Intelligence Service.
‘Just half a day… !’
We waited at work for half a day waiting for the results.
[List of requested information]
And most of the time, the lights were off in the office.
Tiring-!
Finally, a reply came back from the National Intelligence Service.
[*Handle with caution (state secret)]
It is also an important document that requires careful handling.
‘State secret?’
It was not difficult to understand why the word ‘state secret’ was added to the man’s personal information.
[List of agent information]
Because he was an agent of the National Intelligence Service.
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