episode_0095

“Mr. Siho!”

Jisoo shouted as she looked at the fallen bartender.

She immediately gestures to get off the ice.

But I couldn’t bring myself to do that.

Because Assemblyman Park, who Siho had knocked out, woke up.

Not only her, but the rest of the rankers followed her down the stairs.

All the rankers in Korea just look up to their older sister, who is just a test subject.

Overwhelmed by those gazes, Jisoo’s fists tremble.

“Fuck…”

She pondered desperately whether there was some sharp number.

Then suddenly, the note that Siho had given me along with the potion caught my eye.

She read the paper quickly.

“If I get caught, run away immediately. And go to Moment in Sindorim.”

moment…

I wonder why, it feels so familiar even though I’ve clearly never been there.

Just like your own hideout.

But even so, how could he leave behind the woman who saved him?

Jisoo’s brass eyes glance down at Siho, who has fallen.

Soon, the rankers of Counters gather around her.

Their leader, Park Shin-ae, looked up at Ji-soo, who was standing on the ice.

And he points with a determined expression.

“Catch it.”

04 and 06 follow her orders.

In the face of such oppressive pursuit, Jisoo had no choice but to turn her head away from Siho.

And then we hurry out of the resort.

Indeed, thanks to Siho’s potion, Jisoo’s running speed has also increased.

In comparison, 04 and 06 have slower movements due to Hypnos.

Thanks to that, she got out of the mountain safely without being hit.

The two rankers could only watch in vain as the back of the B-class hunter walked away.

They reluctantly returned to the resort, muttering.

Meanwhile, Misha and 09 were encouraging the unconscious Shiho.

Shin-ae watches the scene leisurely.

“Sorry… I missed it.”

04 and 06 lowered their heads as if they had no face.

But Shin-ae wasn’t angry at all at the sight of those rankers.

Instead, he smiles and encourages them.

“No. Everyone, I’m not feeling well right now.”

“Yeah… because of that damn kid’s drinking…”

06 glares at Siho with eyes filled with hatred.

The congressman patted the man’s sturdy shoulder, telling him not to worry.

“It’s okay, I can always get some cheap food.”

“Instead… we got a much more valuable harvest, didn’t we?”

The congressman gently held the tip of Siho’s chin as he fainted.

Then lift it up gently and observe the face.

“I’ll make an antidote for you once you extract the power. Just be patient until then.”

The rankers of the Counters returned to the dark underground once again.

With a little bartender.

Misha, who was chasing from behind, turns her head and looks at the glass window through which Jisoo escaped.

She reached out towards it.

Then, the shutter on the second floor, which I thought wasn’t there, comes down.

The shutter soon completely obscured the sky.

“—.”

My head hurts so bad.

I feel lethargic, as if I’ve been sleeping all day.

I barely managed to lift my heavy eyelids.

The first thing you see is the backs of two women standing at a workbench.

I know them.

03 and 09.

They are fiddling with the flasks, transferring the medicine into syringes.

The two rankers raise their heads as they sense the presence.

The door opened and Rep. Park Shin-ae entered the laboratory.

She leisurely examines my condition while carrying a backpack.

“Is the lab chair sturdy?”

“Yes, it is the same product used in the facility.”

09, unlike the arrogant attitude he had shown until now, was very polite in front of the assemblyman.

My whole body automatically tenses up at the sight.

“You have to buy the most expensive ones. The Incheon Research Institute was destroyed because they bought them cheaply.”

“Yes…”

Even a crazy bitch can be polite…

I barely managed to swallow the saliva that had collected in my mouth when I made eye contact with her.

The congressman smiled brightly and asked me how I was doing.

“Oh my, Siho. You opened your eyes?”

“…”

I didn’t answer her at all.

He just kept his mouth shut and lowered his head.

I see my limbs firmly fastened to the chair.

I don’t think I can ever solve it with my weak strength.

“The operation was really good. It almost worked.”

She herself removed the hair stuck to my lips.

The scent of Shin-ae’s flowers tickles my nose.

“But you didn’t know my abilities. Just like I didn’t know your abilities and got hurt.”

The congressman smiles and puts his hand on his shirt.

Soon she begins to undo the tightly fastened buttons one by one.

Then, a tattoo of the number ’01’ is revealed, written just below her collarbone.

It flashes red as if it had just been set on fire.

“My ability is a subordinate.”

She gently squeezed my palm.

And then, before I knew it, I gently stroked the engraved pattern.

“If someone shakes hands with me and is weaker than me, they become my family.”

Shin-ae tickled the pattern engraved on my palm.

It’s so painful, it feels like I’ve been stabbed with a soldering iron.

“You are now part of my family. For the 10th time!”

01 patted my head.

As if encouraging a child.

“Ah, but if I take away her powers, Siho will become a normal person. Then, she’s too weak to be considered family…”

Shin-ae put her hand on her lips as if she was in trouble.

Then suddenly a good idea occurred to me and I rubbed my fingers over the pattern carved into my palm.

Then the pattern that had been suffocating me disappeared like dust.

Instead, she spins around and approaches me from behind.

“My family needs each individual to be very strong. Siho is weak…”

“I’d rather have a pet than a family.”

Suddenly I feel a pain in the back of my neck.

She started writing something with her finger.

It’s so painful just to have your fingerprints touch my skin.

A pain as if one were being burned by fire.

I couldn’t make a sound in that pain.

So a number was tattooed on the back of my neck.

“10.”

“You can’t get away from me now.”

A congressman wipes his fingers after getting his tattoo done.

She kissed my cheek and whispered softly.

“Wherever you run away to, your location will be revealed to me.”

The congressman no longer spoke to me formally.

Just like family.

“Of course, you can’t run away.”

The congressman calls Misha with a much more refreshed face.

She asks her daughter in a gentle voice.

“Misha, then I’ll ask you to do the next step.”

“Yes, Mother…”

Misha muttered with a gloomy face.

Satisfied with the answer, the congressman leisurely left the laboratory.

The sound of her shoes gradually fades away.

Only after the sound had completely disappeared did Misha open her mouth again.

“Sister… Why on earth did you do that?”

The girl looks down at me with a bitter expression.

Her hand holding the syringe trembles.

“How well I did…”

“You don’t understand.”

I glared at her with a haggard face.

“When I think about what you did to us, I can never forgive you..!”

The voice cracked infinitely.

But I somehow managed to squeeze it out and scream over and over again.

My saliva fell on 09’s arm.

She asks, wiping her drool in displeasure.

“You’ve been saying strange things since a while ago.”

09 approaches me leisurely.

And I raised my left arm, which used to be a part of my body.

“Did we have a family member who died?”

“That’s right. I guess there was an incident we don’t remember.”

09 rolled up his left sleeve.

Her body and the stitches on my arms are revealed.

“I’ll have to look into it.”

With those words, the area around the lab begins to brighten.

My eyes sparkle at the unexpected miracle.

Because a soft, familiar glow emanated from 09’s arm.

And I know that brilliance all too well.

“How…”

“Why did you think only you could use Angelic Hand?”

09 already knew the name of my ability.

Her light is getting closer and closer to my body.

“You’ve been spying on other people’s memories for a long time, right?”

“Now it’s your turn to be read.”

no…

Don’t read it.

All my memories are being read by the enemy…

I feel anxious at the thought of all my flaws being exposed.

He twisted his body like crazy.

However, the chair that had been holding Anna didn’t even move.

He shook his head violently.

But nothing changed; the pain from the tattoo on the back of his neck only grew.

Soon 09’s hand grabs my wrist.

And at that moment.

It was as if time had stopped and I stopped all my actions.

I tried to resist by using Angelic Hand.

But every time I do that, I feel pain from the tattoo on the back of my neck.

The pain prevented me from using my abilities.

Because of that, I just ended up in a half-stunned state.

I can hear the rankers exclaiming in admiration as they read my memories.

The first to react was 09.

She looks down at me, laughing in disbelief.

“You… You were the bug of Sindorim back then? How could this be a coincidence…”

No matter how much he thought about it, it was still funny and 09 burst out laughing.

In comparison, Misha’s face is still gloomy.

“Sister… was it a guy?”

Misha’s eyes turn red.

She looked down at me with compassion.

“Oh my god… Then, all those corpses you picked up are just like my sister…”

Soon Misha glares at 09 as if she’s going to kill him.

Then the red-eyed woman waves her hand.

“Hey, it’s all Mother’s orders. We just followed her orders!”

Misha shook her head at the unbelievable reality.

I was killed by my own rankers, suffered through many hardships after being possessed, and finally met her…

There was so much going on.

After 30 minutes, 09’s memory reading finally ended.

Thanks to that, I was able to move a little bit.

The voice also begins to come out little by little.

“Can we not help but blame them?”

09 looked at me and laughed heartily.

She whispered to Misha, putting her arm around his shoulder.

“Misha, if we leave this kid alone, he’ll definitely betray us again.”

09 takes out the dagger he had hidden in his bosom.

And then he slowly aimed it at me.

“Let’s just extract the abilities and kill him. There will be no regrets.”

The red dagger gradually gets closer to my neck.

I avoided the sword and sat on the chair as much as possible.

“No… How can I kill such a poor sister!”

Misha cried out loudly.

Then 09 makes a dumbfounded expression.

“What is that, Sister? The contents are a smelly man!”

Misha shook her head at the unbelievable reality.

And then he looked at me with a very calm face.

“Then, wouldn’t it be okay to just erase my memories of being a man?”

After the girl finished speaking, silence fell over the laboratory.

I instinctively questioned her scary words.

“What, what did you say…?”

“Until now, your life has been full of painful memories.”

“You must have lived your whole life with resentment and anger toward us.”

“Even Jisoo, who I saved with great difficulty, doesn’t remember me.”

Misha opened the syringe.

And then start filling it with green liquid.

That color feels somehow familiar.

“If I’m going to live like this, I’d rather forget everything.”

Remove the syringe cap.

The girl gently presses the needle to drain the liquid, making sure it is working properly.

“From now on, be my pet fox and live happily.”

“You’ve experienced it before, so you’ll adapt faster, right?”

The girl’s shadow gradually gets closer.

The nightmare from Chinatown suddenly comes back to me and attacks me.

“I hate it…”

“Okay, here’s the Hypnos that my sister made. I’ll put it around my sister’s neck.”

“I hate it…!!”

He shook his head like crazy.

But the girl grabbed my neck tightly.

I was shocked by her evil power, which was much stronger than it seemed.

“Good night, Sister.”

A hot needle digs into my neck.

And through that gap, cold Hypnos is injected.

The liquid spreads down my throat and throughout my body.

As the cold spread to my head, I gradually became unable to think.

“Someone help me… please…”

When I was about to lose my mind.

Suddenly, two faces come to mind.

“I don’t want to forget…”

Anna and the enemy.

Their faces gradually became blurred.