episode_0293

“Hoo- Hoo-”

I drag my tired body against the wall and catch my breath.

With my legs shaking, I wanted to collapse at any moment, but I had no desire to roll around on the floor.

As I was panting heavily, Victor threw me a cold wet towel.

The feeling of the towel sticking to my heated skin brings a smile to my face.

“Don’t overdo it.”

I nodded to his words.

However, that doesn’t mean the amount of training could be reduced.

I had to get stronger.

Heat rises from the heated body.

I close my eyes and let the cool air-conditioned breeze take over my body.

This feeling of the heat cooling off was one of the few pleasures I could feel after training.

I wiped my face with a cool towel and watched Victor’s expression.

He was walking around in a surrounding that had been turned into a mess by training.

“Over there. Victor.”

“Why?”

“What happens to Allen?”

Victor didn’t answer any of my questions.

I just quietly cleaned up my surroundings.

As the training fever was cooling down, a little chick came to visit.

It was Rain.

A smile appears on my face as I see him creeping up on me, pressed against the wall, without being noticed by others.

Victor also seemed to have noticed Rain’s appearance, as he stood there with his arms crossed and a frown on his face.

“Why are you here?”

Victor checked his watch and asked Lane.

Training time is not over yet.

That meant Lane had to be training.

The fact that you came here before your training time was even over meant that you had missed a lot of training.

Lane flinched at Victor’s words, then shouted with a confident expression.

“Jeff asked me to see you!”

Instead, as Rain stepped forward confidently, Victor looked back at me with his eyebrows furrowed.

It seemed as if he was asking if what he said was true, so I could only nod.

It was true what I said to Lane about seeing him.

But he said it was after training was over.

It was clearly Lane’s fault for coming before training time was even over.

But Victor, who didn’t know such details, nodded, grabbed his training tools, and left the training grounds.

Training is over.

Victor finished training early today.

“Ahem…”

Lane, who had been watching Victor’s expression, came up to me and sat down as soon as he left the training ground.

Her small, sweaty body clung to me, making my skin feel sticky.

“Hey, hey. Jeff.”

“Yeah.”

I closed my eyes and answered Rain’s question.

My body feels tired as the cool air-conditioning breeze blows.

I didn’t want to move.

“When do you shower?”

“Ugh. I have to wash.”

I just wanted to get some fresh air and fall asleep, but if I didn’t wash up, I’d end up smelling like sweat later.

I couldn’t let Rain and Shine smell that.

I jumped up from my seat.

“Let’s go.”

“Yeah!”

Rain’s eyes began to sparkle.

His gaze, a mixture of anticipation and excitement, scans my body.

I avoided his strange gaze and spoke to Lane.

“Over there. Rain.”

“Yeah!”

“Do you really like washing with me?”

At the direct question, Lane was visibly embarrassed.

She turned her head to make sure no one was listening, then answered in a small voice.

“Yeah…”

“Really?”

What’s so great about it?

I tilted my head at Rain’s words.

It was common for friends to wash together.

It meant that it wasn’t something to be happy about like Rain.

As I was thinking that, I opened my mouth when I saw Rain’s height.

Yes, that’s right.

Rain was short.

She was much smaller than Amy, who was the same age.

She was embarrassed.

Washing among people much taller than you.

I looked down at my hands and thought.

Short arms and legs.

A child’s hand with white skin.

This time I looked at Rain’s hand.

Small and cute hands, not much different from mine.

I see

Lane just wanted to wash with a friend who had a similar build to him.

While I understood Rain’s feelings, I felt sorry for her.

Poor Rain.

I nodded and hugged Rain tightly.

He was soaked in sweat and a little sticky, but he didn’t show it.

“Uh, over there? Jeff? Everyone’s watching…”

Rain, who had been flustered and flustered from the sudden hug, soon became quiet and accepted my hand.

As I gently patted his back, Rain’s expression began to slowly relax.

After we finished hugging, on our way to the shower room, Rain looked around and asked me.

“No shine?”

“Yeah. Shine is getting separate training. She’ll be here a while.”

I nodded and answered.

At some point, Shine began receiving separate training.

I didn’t know why.

“Then, are you two going to wash up together?”

“I guess so? Because it usually ends earlier than training time. There won’t be anyone else using the shower room.”

I nodded in response to Rain’s words.

Because we finished training earlier than usual, there will be no one using the shower room.

“All of them, just the two of us… No shine either…”

Is it really that nice to be showering alone?

I shook my head, looking at Rain, who was smiling happily.

It was at that moment when I arrived in front of the shower room and was about to take off my clothes.

Brrr-!

Peep-!

Rain and I both had our phones ring at the same time.

This kind of situation was not that rare.

A group text message has arrived.

I quickly checked my phone.

[Emergency call]

It was a text message from Jin.

“Aaak!”

Lane screamed and started to put her half-off clothes back on.

When did you get naked like that?

Judging by the fact that her panties had been slightly lowered, it seemed like she had thrown her clothes away at a very fast speed.

I ran quickly, putting back on the clothes I had half taken off.

The hallway was noisy.

It wasn’t just us who received the call, other team members who were training were also running down the hallway.

[Everyone move and listen.]

At that moment, Jin’s voice echoed throughout the hallway.

Everyone’s attention was drawn to his voice flowing through the broadcast speaker.

[We have received information that there is a train transporting raw materials for doping agents.]

Doping agent.

I tilted my head at the word.

Information that only a few team members, other than Jin and our team, knew about is leaked.

People started to panic.

The ramifications of the word doping were greater than I had imagined.

I bit my lip hard.

The fact that Jin revealed this information must be because he had obtained solid information about doping agents.

The white corridor passes by in an instant.

Rain and I arrived at the office and quickly changed our clothes.

[The information is certain, so I hope everyone moves quickly.]

As expected, the story was going on in a place I didn’t know about.

I checked the support items, holding my pounding heart.

The iron bars stuffed into the bag made a pleasant, rattling sound.

It was a group mission that came down after a long time.

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and packed my bag.

Rain also seemed ready, nodding his head while looking at me.

Unlike before, she had a serious expression on her face and was a trustworthy member of Harmonize.

Exit the office and head to the warp field.

Many other team members had already arrived at the warp point.

I ran to find the most striking pink hair among them.

“Amy!”

“Are you ready?”

“Yes. It’s perfect.”

Where Amy was standing, Shine and Victor had already arrived.

The two people, who had finished making perfect preparations, were checking their belongings.

“What happened?”

When I asked Amy, she raised her hand and pointed to a place.

A place with a high platform.

There, Jin was standing, touching the large screen.

Jin nodded as if the adjustment was over. He looked back and opened his mouth.

“Focus.”

As if he had used his powers, his voice felt like it was right next to me, even though he was far away.

“Everyone must have been surprised. A doping drug that was already thought to have disappeared from the world has appeared.”

Jin’s words caused a murmur to spread among the people.

Jin didn’t bother to keep them quiet.

Instead, I just waited a little bit.

The roar subsides quickly.

Jin smiled with satisfaction as he looked at the sight.

“I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t sure until now. Do you all understand? Anyway.”

Jin looked around and snapped his fingers.

At his signal, the screen behind him changes.

A large map appears, with a red line running across it.

“This is the expected train route.”

Starting from one line, it grows like a spider web and branches out into dozens of branches.

And then the screen changed again.

Images of fast-moving trains come to mind.

“Please move to the area assigned to each team and wait. Please refrain from direct combat as much as possible. It won’t be easy to clean up afterward.”

As Jin said that and clapped his hands, dozens of warps appeared in the air.

Amy looked at Warp and squeezed my hand.

I felt a sense of anxiety coming from her hand, so I held her hand tightly in return.

***

The place we arrived at via warp was a large station.

A place where many people pass by.

I clung to Amy’s leg to avoid being swept away by the waves of people.

“I’ve arrived.”

[Wait a minute. The train will arrive in about 5 minutes. Please board it and check in.]

Through the small receiver worn in Amy’s ear, Jin’s voice was transmitted.

Victor immediately activated his perception-impairing bracelet and hid among the crowd.

Shine Lane and I disguised ourselves as children on an outing, holding our mother’s hands.

Today’s sunglasses are heart shaped.

I looked around, putting on the cool sunglasses I had taken out of my pocket.

Baby, is anyone there?

Phagejik-

The situation at the station began to flow into my head through the wide electric field that little Amy had spread out.

There was nothing particularly suspicious about it.

However, I did not let my guard down, thinking that it might be a trap by the research institute.

I always had to be very careful.

As I was looking around like that, a train arrived at the station just as Jin had said.

The long train with its large body spat out countless people and then swallowed them up again.

Our team also boarded that train.

I immediately rolled my feet.

thud-

The current flowing through the feet engulfs the train.

More accurate information is returned faster than the spread out stop.

The structure of the train has been identified.

Looking towards the back of the train, where the train’s cargo is loaded.

“Did you find it?”

I shake my head at Amy’s small voice.

Information about the items in the cargo hold was relayed to my head, but I couldn’t find any small items containing liquids.

There wasn’t even anything that could be called a liquid.

It means a dud.

Amy nodded at my answer and answered into the receiver.

“I don’t think this is the place.”

I relaxed and went to the empty seat and sat down.

I felt uncomfortable because I couldn’t get out of the shower.

While I was riding the train in a daze, I discovered a group of small children huddled together.

Children wearing yellow hats pulled down tightly.

The bags they carried on their backs were all identical.

It seemed like the kindergarteners were going on a trip.

That cute sight brings a smile to my face.

[Get off at the next station. Then take the warp to the next location.]

“Okay.”

Jin’s next order came down.

I followed Amy off the train, leaving the kindergarteners behind.

After getting off the train, we went straight to a place with few people, and were able to get to the next location by taking the warp Jin had prepared.

A wide open station.

A place where numerous trains stop for a short rest.

You could go to any city through here.