Chapter 23

“Himsumgong, Himsumgong. Gong. Considering your job, would that make you a civil servant with hidden powers?”

That’s why she hated quick-witted people. Seora clicked her tongue inside.

In the future, wherever she went she shouldn’t say anything risky.

“As expected, you must be the one who killed the boss beast. Seeing that you are hiding your power.”

“I killed the beast. What does that mean?”

Seora took a step back and turned a blind eye to it.

When he met him at the association, he looked at her with a strange look, so she thought he knew her identity, but somehow, hearing what he said, he seemed a bit unsure.

Indeed, Kang Sejun faintly frowned.

“I saw you and yet  you’re going to pretend you don’t know?”

“It is true that I went to the gate that day, but I left immediately. It was because it was difficult to withstand the magic emitted by the grade 2 gate because of my low rank. There are many eyewitnesses.”

“The jacket of regeneration is Grade L. So the stealth effect of the jacket doesn’t work for me. In other words, you must have been the woman who blew off the beast’s head at that time. Even though I didn’t see your face behind the gas mask.”

“If you didn’t even see the face, how can you be so sure it’s me?”

“What does your face covering have to do? Won’t I still see your physique?”

Kang Sejun gave a pathetic look, as if asking her if she thought L-Ranks would not be able to distinguish such a thing.

Seora had nothing to say. So that’s how it is. Higher-ranking Awakeners can recognize people just like that.

It’s been a few days since she became an S-Rank, but she still hasn’t gotten used to it.

“Besides, you are the only one who has an energy that I can’t even see with my own eyes.”

Kang Sejun’s eyes looked around Seora. As if to measure the invisible.

Saora noticed one thing.

Ah, the silver screen worked for L-Ranks too.

If only she had properly hidden her physique, she could have completely deceived Kang Sejun’s eyes, but it’s a shame.

She would just have to pay more attention to it in the future.

“You must be strong enough to deal with the boss beast, but if I can’t see your power properly, it means you are under the protection of a high ranked Sacrament. Similar to Song Hanna, who carries a sacrament that is famous for being overprotective.”

‘The president’s sacrament is overprotective.’

That was new information.

“Even me, Song Hanna, and Jueun don’t understand you properly, so your sacrament seems to be much more overprotective than Song Hanna’s.”

Mmmhmm. Very. Well, it was rare to find a sacrament that would buy a 80 billion coin jacket or make gloves by hand.

Tips of Seora’s ears, which were embarrassed for no reason, turned red.

【Administrator: /(❁´∀`❁)/】

‘Oh really. Be still.’

Seora’s ears became even redder.

“So the bottom line is that you are that unknown S-Rank. You, right?”

His skills of making people speechless was quite amazing.

Seora looked at the ground, looked at the sky, and then saw the administrator’s emoticon.

【Administrator: ◟( ´ω` )◞】

It was as if telling her to do what she wishes, she finally let out a deep sigh.

“Oh, come on. After all, you are the first to discover my identity. Since you are a strong person outside of the norm, it will be useless no matter what I do.”

Seora crossed her arms and tapped on the floor in annoyance.

The figure of the civil servant who pretended not to know anything disappeared in an instant. Kang Sejun burst out laughing.

“That’s a hell of a performance. I would have been deceived if you didn’t back out until the end.”

“You?”

When Seora burst out laughing, Kang Sejun bit his mouth.

The person in front of him right now was no longer the nameless low-level civil servant of the association, but a strong person who can defeat a grade 2 dungeon boss at one try.

Kang Sejun clearly felt that Seora’s attitude wasn’t the only change.

“If you thought that way, you wouldn’t have come to me. Come to think of it, isn’t it weird? How did you know I lived here? I don’t think Chief Do or the association president?”

“What do you know about L-Rank abilities?”

Seora glanced up and down at Kang Sejun with an ugly face.

“Wow, the only L-Rank in Korea is a stalker……”

“No!”

Kang Sejun screamed. He was now realizing that this person was, in many ways, formidable.

“Haa, I’m sorry for suddenly coming to you out of nowhere and asking for your identity. But I’m here to talk, and I have no intention of harming you.”

Sejun raised his hands and said he had no intention of attacking. Seora didn’t think he would do that anyways.

If he was going to kill or threaten her, he would have sneaked up behind her, slap her in the back, stun her and dragged her away.

【Administrator: \٩(๑`^´๑)۶//】

Of course, if he did, he would have received the administrator’s terrifying anger. It was the right choice.

“It will depend on what you are talking about.”

“I didn’t tell anyone that you were the unknown S-Rank. Song Hanna too. I’m willing to keep my mouth shut if you don’t want to be found out. Would this be enough for an answer?”

That was still surprising though.

“What do you want to talk to me about? Let me tell you, even if I am an S-Rank, it doesn’t change that I am the lowest level civil servant in the association.”

“I don’t care. I just have one question for you.”

“To me? What?”

“I am a regressor. I’ve already lived a life that no one remembers, over and over again.”

Seora widened her eyes. She already knew, but she had no idea that Kang Sejun would reveal it himself.

Was it alright to say something important like this?

“……regression, what? Regress? Regression? Did I hear you right?”

Perhaps because of the embarrassment, the way of acting pretending to know nothing came out more naturally than usual.

“Are you that, regression, growing up?”

“It is up to you to believe. But since I’ve revealed a secret, I hope you can give me a proper answer if possible.”

“Okay, huh, really. No, even if the world has changed, what kind of thing are you talking about?”

Seora glanced at him up and down as if she was dumbfounded. Seeing her eyes filled with suspicion, Sejun frowned.

“Why? Are you going to call me an L-Rank scammer this time?”

“OMG! Even mind-reading!”

“……”

Kang Sejun wiped his face with both hands as if he was going crazy.

Seora, who already knew the truth, was having a lot of fun, but pretending she wasn’t.

Ah, even though he is the strongest in Korea who has returned five times, it seems that humans are humans. He’s funny too.

“Hmmm. Anyway, sashimi, sashimi, regression. Anyways. I didn’t even know that such a thing was possible. It’s surprising even if reality turned upside down.”

Seora looked straight at him again.

“By the way, can you tell me this? If you look at novels, you can’t usually reveal special things like regression for some reason. No matter what the causality ratio is, you will receive a divine punishment.”

“I don’t know what the hell you are reading, but don’t compare everything to a novel. Fiction is fiction, and reality is reality.”

“Okay? So can I reveal this to anyone?”

Kang Sejunn frowned. His face darkened, but in the end he didn’t say that it didn’t matter.

Then yes.

“Why are you telling me it? OMG! Do I have to pay a price for it?”

When Seora raised her eyes and asked what he had done to her, he immediately waved his hand.

“If there was, I wouldn’t have said it in the first place. It’s true that you can’t tell anyone. If I behave differently from the past, the future will change to that extent. I’ve been regressing for just one goal. I don’t want to take that risk.”

“What. Then why are you talking to me? Have you ever told me this before?”

She thought the odds were quite high, but he shook his head firmly.

“No, never.”

“I am not catching up. So why are you telling me now? Let me tell you, I’ve never been through anything like you.”

“Really?”

Kang Sejun’s eyes, which looked straight at Seora, expressed confidence in the fact that it never happened.

Making her rather embarrassed.

“I’ve been through a few lives, but I’ve never seen you except for this moment.”

“……what?”

“Why am I only telling you this? Because this is my first time seeing you. Because the future has changed just by a living person who did not exist in the past. I thought it wouldn’t matter if you knew my secret.”

Seora shut her mouth. He had returned several times, but he never saw her. Something like that, it’s……

“Why are you only here right now? Have you ever been through something really special? So who the hell is your sacrament? What are you?”

Seora looked into the air without realizing it. The administrator was probably watching her.

There was no answer from him.

“……how would I know that? I know nothing.”

She had no memories of her missing lifelines.

Because she was just an overworking, ordinary low-level awakener with nothing special.

Until she got the very special opportunity to form a contract with a system administrator.

‘Then it means that the former me died early, or did not sign the contract with the administrator.’

Seora felt very strange about this, because it meant that it was very special that she was alive and became an S-Rank.

***

In the last few days, whenever she had spare time, Seora often stared into the void.

She doesn’t go to work, doesn’t work, doesn’t eat, and so on. Hoping the administrator will give her an answer then.

However,

【Administrator: (~ • ω•)~】

The administrator only showed such a reaction to her. Even though he clearly knew why she was staring.

‘No. This is something that can’t be explained with emoticons.’

It was since that day. The day the regressor Kang Sejun came and asked about her.

‘I’ve been through a few lives, but I’ve never seen you before except for this moment.’

It wasn’t really that shocking.

In the first place, on the day that Park Jinyong threw her into the grade 3 dungeon, Seora would have already died if it hadn’t been for the miracle of the administrator.

And miracles didn’t happen very often.

She only had one question.

Why did the administrator choose to perform a miracle this time?