Chapter 49 - The Power of Reason (1/2)

The Power of Reason

“Ah……what?”

Seol-young stared at the falling pieces of the core.

The core she held in her hand was shattered.

Il-Hyun felt frozen and embarrassed in place, and several thoughts passed by in a short moment.

Phoenix, the criminal who broke the core, trembled happily.

And then, when what it had done had finally registered into its head, its happy face gradually started crumbling.

Phoenix and Il-Hyun both looked at their empty palms.

An awkward silence filled the area around the three of them.

“I heard that you could break a core, but this is really…what do you want to do now?” Ah Seol-young, who fixed her crumbling expression, asked Il-Hyun with a light voice.

He thought she was going to turn them both upside down while she’s enraged, but she came out surprisingly calm.

“Why not think of it again? Won’t you consider the offer ?”

There she goes again.

“No. It’s better to just repay,” Il-Hyun quickly replied.

Obviously, the broken core now has a different appearance and scarcity.

However, even if it was a core derived from a mutant, the difference from the common core was not as great as to affect its price that much because it had never been revealed by any studies.

Anyway, even if he paid back, it wasn’t too hard to pay some extra bit of Money.

Anyway, for some time, he kept struggling like that, and what else was he supposed to do about it?

“I don’t know what you’re wishing to do because it’s been a long time since……that accident happened.”

“I don’t want to work for the government, and I don’t really care about money.”

“Money? Ha! Does it look like we’re here for Money? Of course, our operation costs much more than Aegis. What’s so important about Money when it comes to us? We’re working with a sense of mission.”

“I don’t know about that,” Il-Hyun laughed a bit.

The conditions for recruitment were unparalleled as she and other top-class Awakeners were competing to take over countries around the world.

And then there were salaries, but at the same time, there are also conditions that need to be met.

Perhaps power is the first condition that she’d have.

As a key government official, she comes with considerable power that no other ordinary Awakener could ever get.

It was an open secret that even the gate-related departments and private companies that lined up underneath them posed no restrictions to her.

In a world like this, having some high-ranking Awakeners are the priority to governments.

“I can’t do that,” Il-Hyun said.

Ah, Seol-young looked at Il-Hyun as if she was unconvinced and shook her head.

“Where can I send the money?”

“It’s okay. I don’t need any money. It’s like you owe me or something.”

“No, a person cant just manipulate their debt at will. Can’t I just give it to you?”

“I’m not taking it,” Ah Seol-young responded resolutely to the simple words of Il-Hyun.

This won’t work, Il-Hyun thought.

While wandering, Seol-young listened and put her finger on the communicator for a moment.

Then, while she was talking, the Summons of Il-Hyun came.

The wolf ran over from the West, and a mouse probably hiding somewhere suddenly appeared on his shoulders.

Their family had already increased to give off the feeling of being a bit too big.

“Okay. First, send one down to this location. The last one we sent there was caught. Then, call for transportation, so that if you are worried, you can easily escape. These are…are they all your Summons?”

“Don’t touch them. If someone else touches them, they will bite them.”

Ah Seol-young, who was already reaching out to the wolf, jumped at his words.

Of course, it was a lie, but Seol-young unexpectedly took a step back.

A plane waiting outside the range of view flew in and lowered its altitude above them.

“I’m sorry for breaking the core. Let’s go! Good work.”

“Hey! What’s going on with this strange bird? It looks like it’s a mess.”

“I know,” Il-Hyun pretends to have heard what she said as he boards a blue plane.

Unlike the Aegis transport, the structure was opened on the back.

After sending away the Summons first, he sighed and sat down on a chair.

It’s the first time he felt exhausted after just a conversation.

“When we meet next time, I wish I am more stringer than now.”

Seol-young smiled and waved her hand.

* * *

“You’re dead!” curses poured out from Lee Soo-Yeon’s mouth.

She was sitting in a small chair, and the attending physician was bandaging her head from behind.

The color red was all over the loose bandages, but Lee Soo-yeon’s head looked clean.

“I think the speed of recovery is getting faster.”

Just 10 minutes after the blood spilling out was stopped and bandaged, the doctor clicked his tongue. She looked at her hair that had been cleaned of all the blood of the wound.

As an Awakening specialist bounded to Aegis, it was surprising that they didn’t already have knowledge of their speed of recovery.

“What, no? I don’t need that bandage in the first place.”

She even took off the remaining bandage and threw it into the trash.

Lee Soo-Yeon went alone to block the A3 rank gate.

Their goal was to draw common ground, but unlike the rest of the team, they fought away a horde of monsters from in front of the door.

Support from other Local Awakeners came in late, but the doors were already closed—the Awakeners had gone back in surprise.

Of course, no matter how many times she had asked, there was no information about the monsters, but there was definitely a lot of them.

The defensive coat was smashed in half, and her head was hurt.

However, it luckily didn’t cause any damage to the people in the area.

When the attending physician went out, and it was confirmed he had closed the door, Lee Soo-Yeon opened her mouth again.

“He doesn’t even think about being cautious, though I didn’t expect it in the first place.”

“It was a shock because he was completely different from the person I thought him to be. He looks good for the part, but how can he be so different?”

“Did you believe in this footage? Ghost is completely different in front of the camera.”

“Ah……?”

Il-Hyun’s gaze turned to the side for a moment.

However, Ghost maintained her appearance in front of the camera completely differently.

“Please stop already. This is an inevitable situation…… Ugh.”

“It’s another one,” Ghost sat at the desk while eating bread, and suddenly, she pointed out.