Having special abilities from birth means there are also many things to handle.
As the saying goes, “With great power comes great responsibility,” the group she belonged to always had a deep sense of responsibility that their power should be used for the right purposes.
Despite having just over a dozen members, their ability to handle all kinds of terrorism occurring nationwide was due to each individual’s tremendous capability.
However, outstanding abilities were not always proportional to one’s character, and there existed a mutant-like fellow among them.
“You psychopath!”
Sun Jin glanced at the corner where the Center Chief’s shout was directed.
The leader, who was the first to be active in the Center and now treated as the top of the group, was a quite gentle person, but that demeanor would disappear without a trace in front of a certain individual.
Seung Joo, who received the call together and changed clothes later, stood next to Sun Jin and looked at the now quite familiar scene.
Seung Joo tapped Sun Jin’s shoulder with her own and asked, “What is it this time?”
“I think he dropped a civilian into the sea because they were interfering.”
“He did something like Seo Hee Won.”
It wasn’t surprising because it was such a typical behavior for the team leader.
Sun Jin, who merely shrugged her shoulders at Seung Joo’s reaction, stared at the side profile of Hee Won, who was listening to the scolding that would make her eyes water without even blinking.
Hee Won didn’t look even slightly wronged for being scolded, but rather had a quite bored expression.
The team leader’s expression was usually like that when working or preparing to work.
A face filled with a look that said she was bored to death and didn’t want to do it.
Nevertheless, she always did her job sharply, and the mission success rate was overwhelmingly better than other teams, so the Center Chief left her alone for the most part.
“Why on earth would you drop a perfectly fine person into the sea off Busan? If they really got swept away by the currents and died, you would be the one who killed them, you crazy bastard!”
“I thought they looked like they wanted to die, so I just helped them out. I didn’t expect to be misunderstood like this.”
“What the heck?”
A vein bulged on the Center Chief’s forehead. Seung Joo clicked her tongue, and Sun Jin shook her head.
In the two main missions of suppressing terrorism and rescuing civilians, Hee Won always prioritized the former.
Of course, she protected civilians out of moral obligation, but if they interfered with the work or seemed expendable even if they died, she would abandon them without hesitation. That was Seo Hee Won’s way.
Sun Jin and Seung Joo didn’t like it, but after roughly hearing the details, they let it slide this time.
Apparently, they had warned and evacuated all civilians from the location due to a terrorism threat, but one man secretly stayed until the end to film it and make money, nearly getting taken hostage.
Hee Won chose to throw him into the sea rather than let him become a hostage and ruin the mission.
The villains probably didn’t expect someone who was even called a hero to do such a thing.
Fortunately, another person at the scene rescued the man, so there were no casualties, but Hee Won, who openly challenged the Center’s beliefs, couldn’t avoid harsh words this time either.
After being thoroughly scolded in front of everyone for over 5 minutes, Hee Won let out a languid yawn as soon as the Center Chief left.
Seung Joo and Sun Jin walked towards their psychopathic team leader with a “that figures” look on their faces.
“At this rate, our Center Chief will die of high blood pressure first. Can’t you at least pretend to listen?”
Still, they had been through life and death together as a team for a long time, so Sun Jin didn’t speak too harshly.
When you work together for a long time, even if you don’t like the other person’s work pattern, you start to think, “Well, that’s how it is.”
Hee Won, tired from the long scolding, put one hand behind his neck and did a light neck exercise.
With the sound of bones colliding, he tilted his neck left and right a few times and said,
“Is this round two of nagging? Why, are you going to be the next Center Chief?”
“If I had a bastard like you under me, my blood pressure would go up and I’d die quickly.”
Sun Jin retorted, shoving her hands into her pockets. Seung Joo chimed in from the side, supporting Sun Jin’s words.
“You better be careful. If that man had died, it would have been all your responsibility.”
“Is that so.”
Hee Won yawned languidly again.
Covering his mouth with one hand and exhaling a sleepy breath, there was no hint of nervousness or regret in his action.
That sincere, leisurely attitude made Sun Jin’s entire body break out in goosebumps for a moment.
Seung Joo also furrowed her brow.
They could notice it because they were born with sensitive senses and, whether they liked it or not, had been tied together as a team for several years.
Seo Hee Won really thought it was okay even if that man died when he threw him into the sea.
Just looking at those emotionless, indifferent eyes was enough to feel the other person’s boredom.
“Didn’t the Center Chief have him go to the hospital and get tested before because he might have something like a empathy disorder?” “Yeah, but surprisingly, he was normal.”
“What, so they really did take him to the hospital?”
Leaving the two teammates whispering among themselves behind, Hee Won opened his slightly creaking locker.
This mission had been going on for two days straight, so he probably didn’t get a wink of sleep.
That was why he rarely showed signs of fatigue.
Staggering, he still took his outer garment from his baggage as soon as the Center Chief left and went outside.
Seung Joo and Sun Jin didn’t stop him and just stared blankly at his back.
The door closes with a thud. The two people’s feelings became quite complicated as they looked at each other, leaving their team leader who left without a word.
They knew where he was heading after working for two days straight, getting thoroughly scolded by his superior, and then trudging to change clothes as soon as it was over.
The schedules of all members of the Center were very flexible and tight.
It was a workload intense enough to collapse in less than a week if not for superhuman abilities.
Even while eating or sleeping, if something happened, they had to fly to the scene after receiving a single call, so even if they treated this as a paid job, it was actually volunteer-level compared to the actual work.
Moreover, the schedule of Seo Hee Won, who held the position of team leader, would be even more unimaginable, but even so, unless it was truly unavoidable, he always took responsibility for Na Eun’s late way home.
With her consent, he received her weekly schedule, and if even a slight danger was detected, he would devote all his personal time to guarding her from an invisible place.
For about three months after that incident, it was something the Center first recommended for civilian protection, but now it was just Seo Hee Won’s independent action.
Left alone with her friend, Seung Joo, who had taken off the protective gear on her arm, spoke first with an uncomfortable expression.
“What do you think?”
Sun Jin didn’t ask, “About what?” She had the same question as Seung Joo.
“He’s still a bastard now, but…”
Sun Jin muttered with a strange look and then glanced at the door where the team leader had just left.
Both Sun Jin and Seung Joo had the same impression of Seo Hee Won from the beginning until now.
A piece of trash with only good skills.
A man whose personal life was so miserably dirty that it was a shame to call him a hero, who didn’t care much about innocent people getting involved during missions, and who even tried to kill them if they interfered with his work, more suited to being a villain than a hero.
He’s a bad guy, he’s really a bastard.
But in front of one person, it’s confusing because it seems like he’s not a bastard anymore.
“Do you think that’s possible because of guilt? Doing that for over three years.”
Sun Jin, who received the question, made a gruff expression. It meant she agreed with Seung Joo’s thoughts.
They also valued Na Eun, their only civilian friend who knew their identities.
Moreover, a few years ago, they let her get involved in their work on her own, resulting in her getting seriously hurt. Even her father passed away.
They couldn’t protect her, couldn’t save them.
With that guilt, they were even prepared to sever ties for life at one point.
However, they couldn’t push away their friend who cried, saying she needed them, and in the end, instead of growing distant, it was Seung Joo and Sun Jin’s will to stick close and protect her tightly.
But they didn’t expect Seo Hee Won to join that approach as well.
“I haven’t seen that guy fooling around with women lately.”
“……”
Seung Joo agreed with silence. They unconsciously exchanged glances again.
At the same time, they replay Hee Won’s attitude when he was with Na Eun in their minds.
The strangely plain attitude. The soft tone of voice, even though he acted like a thug.
The man who had a hobby of stealing other people’s lovers hadn’t been seen having any unnecessary conversations with women other than Yoon Na Eun in the past year.
Of course, there was no knowing what he might do out of sight, but at least as far as they knew, Seo Hee Won had no time for such things.
Because he was busy protecting their friend.
“Nah.”
“It can’t be, right?”
The two people looking at each other tried hard to deny it. No way, not that guy. He’s probably just doing that because he feels too guilty.
Since it was the first time in his life feeling sorry to someone, he probably had a hard time adjusting the degree of how much he should do for them.
“Should we try telling Seo Hee Won that we’ll do it instead now?”
Remembering vividly how miserably her friend’s first love ended, she wanted the second person she came to like to be a really good man.
So Seung Joo first suggested that they didn’t want the two to get involved in that way in any form.
But Sun Jin unexpectedly shook her head.
“Leave it. It’s not like he’s someone who won’t do it if we tell him not to. Let’s just do our part and stay attentive.”
As long as Han Jae Kyung was still alive, it was better to have more manpower protecting Na Eun.
Seung Joo’s expression darkened at Sun Jin’s cold judgment.
Three years ago, on that day, Han Jae Kyung did not die.
Na Eun didn’t ask them anything about what happened after she fainted that day.
She seemed to vaguely guess that since her friends won, they must have taken care of the bad guy.
Seung Joo, filled with resentment, succeeded in completely shattering Lee Seol Ah’s wrist, but in the end, she couldn’t take that woman’s life due to Han Jae Kyung’s counterattack.
Seung Joo bit her lip, remembering Han Jae Kyung, who didn’t back down even when fighting against her, whose strength was not that of an ordinary human.
That bastard.
They didn’t know why Han Jae Kyung caught and saved Na Eun like a madman when she fell off the building that day.
They didn’t want to know either.
They also remembered him pulling his body back, worried that Na Eun, who was passed out in his arms, might get hurt even while being attacked by the team leader, but they decided not to keep it in their minds any longer.
Their goal was one.
Before Han Jae Kyung could show himself in front of Na Eun again someday with any intention, they had to kill him first.
So that Na Eun could mistakenly think he just died on that day three years ago.
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
