episode_0661
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“Brother!”
As I put my arm into the [mirage mirror], Kim Jae-yoon, startled, ran over and grabbed my shoulder.
It seemed like he was trying to force his arm out of the mirror, but his strength alone wasn’t enough to make me budge.
He said this while sweating profusely, having finally failed to stop me with force.
“Wait a minute! This doesn’t seem like something to be decided impulsively! The mirror eating Scarlett is just an assumption! Even if you cause something more than that, there’s no guarantee that the same result will occur as what happened to Scarlett?!”
“That’s right.”
“Then… ”
Kim Jae-yoon is relieved that his persuasion was successful.
But I had no intention of taking my arm off.
“But this is the only possibility that comes to mind right now. And as time goes by, the chances of Scarlett surviving will decrease.”
“That’s true, but… ”
“This is largely my fault for not properly warning you about the precautions. If you become a clan master and can’t protect even one clan member, can you really say you’re qualified to be a clan master?”
“… … .”
Kim Jae-yoon was also a person with his own leadership qualities.
Right now, he’s staying in the position of vice-master because I have unrivaled power, but he, who has a cheat called the guidebook, could easily take the position of clan master if he went to another clan.
So he couldn’t argue with what I said, saying it would be better to just abandon Scarlett.
He probably feels the same way about the responsibilities that a clan master has.
And this wasn’t as dangerous as Kim Jae-yoon worried.
Even if something goes wrong and you die, you’ll just be bounced back to reality and then returned to the tower.
If we find Scarlett and make a deal before that happens, we can save her too.
This time, it had to happen, but now that it had come to this, I felt I had to make a contract with her to prevent any future accidents.
My real-life women… would probably understand if I told them clearly that it was a matter of life and death.
Even though they may be a little jealous, they are all good women at heart.
“I also do it because I have my own thoughts, so don’t worry too much… ”
Damn…
At that moment, I heard a sound like something breaking. It was so small that even I would have missed it if it hadn’t been right next to me.
I thought there was a crack in the [mirage mirror].
Because the sound I heard was exactly like the sound of glass or a mirror breaking.
But when I turned my head and looked in the mirror, I saw an unexpected sight.
What was broken was not a [mirage mirror].
It is true that a crack occurred, but the actual crack was not in the mirror but in the air around the mirror.
Damn it
A sight as if the world had turned into a mirror and was shattering.
The moment I saw it, I could tell.
‘That’s it.’
It was clear that this phenomenon was the ‘abnormality’ that was written in the precautions.
I saw cracks spread across the air and pushed Kim Jae-yoon’s chest.
thud!
“Brother!”
I pushed with a little force, and Kim Jae-yoon was thrown out of the lab and hit his back against the wall in the hallway.
But Kim Jae-yoon didn’t seem to care much about the pain coming from his back.
I looked at him with a desperate expression and continued speaking.
“Don’t worry, you guard the clan house well. If there’s no clan master, the vice-master should be in the position. I’ll take Scarlett safely… ”
The moment I almost finished telling Kim Jae-yoon what to do, the space around me finally fell apart.
Clang!
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Clang!
“Brother!”
Kim Jae-yoon hurriedly ran into the laboratory.
I felt a dull pain in my back where I had hit the wall, but I didn’t care about such trivial things at the moment.
But the situation has already happened.
Bam-
In the place where Minho, the clan master, had been, only the mirror he had been holding remained.
Just as Scarlett disappeared, he too disappeared in an instant.
Kim Jae-yoon, who could only watch quietly as the world around Min-ho cracked and shattered in an instant and disappeared, looked down at the mirror with a bewildered expression.
But the time spent standing there in confusion and daze didn’t last long.
He also hadn’t faced any major crises since meeting Minho, but that didn’t mean his ability to deal with such situations was lacking.
“First of all, it seems like your hypothesis is correct… ”
Kim Jae-yoon looked down at the mirror that had made Min-ho disappear somewhere with a disgusted expression.
And he placed the mirror on the lab desk using only his thumb and index finger, in a manner that clearly showed his dislike for it.
He figured he was being patient enough by not destroying the mirror right away, since it had already swallowed up Scarlett and now even the Clan Master.
‘I don’t think that will happen, but if someone were to walk by and step on the mirror and it shatter, something could happen…’
If only I had the amazing ability to copy objects and all, I would have immediately disposed of this ominous thing without a trace.
If Minho came back, I was thinking of actively suggesting it.
‘… I will guard the clan house as instructed until my brother returns with Scarlett.’
Even though Minho disappeared before he could finish speaking, I still got a sense of what he was trying to say.
Kim Jae-yoon held the sword sheath on his waist with a stern face.
At that moment, I closed the lab door again and came out.
Smart-
A sound was heard from the first floor, indicating that someone was coming to the clan house.
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Crunch. Crunch.
A woman wearing black shoes and a white gown walked down a metal hallway.
She was a woman with slender legs, a body, and tall stature, reminiscent of a model walking down a runway.
Oddly enough, there was no separate lighting installed in the hallway, but thanks to the soft light emitted by the metal that made up the hallway, it was not difficult to distinguish the path and objects.
A woman walking down the hallway suddenly stopped, turned around, and placed her palm against the empty wall.
Then, the light from the wall she had touched swept over her as if scanning her.
– Welcome, Emily Carte, Senior Anomaly Interpreter, ARCHIVE Department.
A voice that seemed to be devoid of even the slightest hint of emotion echoed through the hallway.
And as soon as he finished speaking, the wall of the hallway, which had no visible gap at all, split open, revealing a hidden space.
Groan groan
The newly revealed space had a completely different atmosphere from the hallway outside, where no sign of life could be felt at all.
Not the soft light that seeped out from the entire hallway, but the bright lighting that hurt my eyes. The sight was filled with people who looked like researchers, wearing white gowns like women, or rather, Emily. And the contradictory atmosphere that seemed very organized but also messy.
A group of researchers passed Emily, discussing the materials in their hands.
“We have determined that the crystal’s emission period is exactly constant at 11 hours and 42 minutes. Based on this data, we will be able to measure the amount of energy released.”
“Let’s draw a graph. But does the crystal simply act as an energy storage?”
“That’s still a hypothesis. We need data, not inference.”
“Did you hear the news? There’s a new anomaly in the place where M-3772 was being quarantined this time… ”
Most of the conversations researchers had were incomprehensible without background knowledge.
In a way, it was natural.
Because the subjects of their conversations were not ordinary beings.
This is an ECHO facility, an organization that monitors, analyzes, and isolates supernatural or abnormal phenomena.
They were an organization that investigated strange phenomena and beings spread throughout the world and managed all abnormal phenomena that could threaten the survival and order of humanity.
Emily stepped into the noisy space with a familiar attitude.
“Oh, Emily!”
Someone noticed Emily’s new arrival in the bustling crowd and called out to her.
“Why are you so late?!”
“I can’t just throw away what I was doing when it’s not an emergency. Anyway, the atmosphere seems a little more chaotic today.”
Emily, tossing back a few strands of her blonde hair, answered nonchalantly.
The researcher who had called her sighed deeply, took out a bundle of documents, and approached her.
“Really… I want to nag you more, but I’m in a hurry, so I’ll start with the briefing first. Do you remember this document?”
“Of course I remember.”
Emily took the document with a natural touch.
Palang-
The document she flipped through with her slender fingers contained information about the anomalous entity related to the incident that had prompted her summons.
“Because it’s the first document I wrote.”
[ECHO Record ID #M-3772: Mirage Mirror]
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