CH 117

While trying to eat breakfast with Kim Woo-jin and Kwon Jeong-han, who came early in the morning, someone knocked on the door. I opened the door on behalf of Kim Woo-jin, who was busy cooking, and Kwon Jeong-han, who was setting the table.

“Woo Seo-hyuk-ssi.”

“Good morning.”

Behind Woo Seo-hyuk, who greeted me with a calm face as usual, there were two attendants with shopping bags. When he saw me with a puzzled expression, Woo Seo-hyuk opened his mouth.

“I understand that today is the day we met Deputy Master Chloe.”

“That’s true.”

“This is the clothes sent by Master.”

Aha. I smiled helplessly and brought Woo Seo-hyuk and the attendants into the room. As they came in with strong men behind their backs, Kim Woo-jin and Kwon Jeong-han rushed out into the living room.

“What is this?”

Kim Woo-jin began to be wary of the appearance of strangers like a furry cat. I waved my hand to mean never mind.

“It’s just clothes delivery. Do what you’ve been doing.”

“Did Master send it like last time?”

As I nodded, Kwon Jeong-han’s expression became strange. What are you thinking with such a face?

“Woo Seo-hyuk-ssi.”

The attendants who had left the shopping bags in the living room left the room. I grabbed Woo Seo-hyuk’s sleeve as he was about to follow them.

“Since you’re here, have breakfast before you go.”

“……”

Perhaps the proposal was quite sudden, Woo Seo-hyuk bowed his head without responding right away. He was thinking about it.

“Did you have breakfast?”

“That, I haven’t…”

“Then let’s eat together.”

I grabbed Woo Seo-hyuk’s sleeve and went to the table, Kim Woo-jin opened his axe’s eyes and looked at us. Indeed. Kim Woo-jin was still unfamiliar with Woo Seo-hyuk.

“Woo Seo-hyuk-ssi is going to eat before leaving.”

“……”

Either way, I’m the owner of this room. Speaking proudly, Kim Woo-jin slightly lowered the tip of his eyebrow and pulled out another bowl of rice.

“I’m really fine…”

“Please sit here.”

I looked up at Woo Seo-hyuk and pointed to the seat next to me. After that, Woo Seo-hyuk, who looked at me without saying a word for a while, finally sighed and sat down.

“Seeing so many shopping bags… Kwon Jeong-han-ssi, do you have any clothes?”

“That’s what I know.” (그렇다고 알고 있습니다, not sure)

Kwon Jeong-han, who was sitting across from Woo Seo-hyuk, held up chopsticks and said.

“Thanks to Han Yi-gyeol, I have a lot of good clothes.”

“Um, it’s not all thanks to me…”

“Thanks to Talented Han Yi-gyeol, that’s right. Because of the master’s personality, no one else would have taken care of me like this.” (마스터 성격에 다른 사람도 이렇게 챙겨 줬을리는 없으니까)

This. There was one more person who misunderstood us strangely.

“I knew for a long time that the two of you were close, but looking closely, it’s definitely different.”

Instead of answering, I smiled awkwardly and drank the water.

‘Cheon Sa-yeon doesn’t take care of me, he just acts in his own way… Rather, you wouldn’t believe it if I explained that it was me who was being swayed.’

It wasn’t surprising now that there weren’t one or two people who thought like that. I turned my gaze away from the smiling Kwon Jeong-han and asked Kim Woo-jin, who was sitting in front of me.

“Kim Woo-jin, when does training end today?”

“About four o’clock. When I’m done, I’ll go to the drawing room.”

Kim Woo-jin wasn’t able to go with me because he had a training schedule from the morning. I nodded and looked at Woo Seo-hyuk, who was eating just like us. Fortunately, Kim Woo-jin’s cooking was in his mouth and his expression didn’t look bad.

After eating, I looked at the clothes that Woo Seo-hyuk brought. The clothes that came this time were a shirt and suit pants. Judging by the size, the white shirt was mine and the larger black shirt seemed to belong to Kwon Jeong-han.

“Woo Seo-hyuk-ssi, are you going with me too?”

When I asked a question while holding the clothes, Woo Seo-hyuk made eye contact with me and answered.

“Yes. Master is in the drawing room, so I will go right there.”

Cheon Sa-yeon was already in the drawing room? With a puzzled expression on my face, Woo Seo-hyuk added an explanation.

“He has a separate appointment with Deputy Master Chloe.”

“Aa.”

Come to think of it, Chloe told Cheon Sa-yeon to meet separately in two days. This was a story that Cheon Sa-yeon and Chloe would meet and talk…

‘I’m a little curious.’

No matter what he did, Cheon Sa-yeon seemed suspicious, so I kept getting more and more concerned. Of course, there was nothing I could do about it.

After washing and changing clothes, then seeing off Kim Woo-jin, who was going to training, Min Ah-rin, who had just left for work, came to the room. Min Ah-rin, dressed more neatly than usual, greeted me with a bright voice.

“Yi-gyeol-ssi, good morning!”

“Good morning.”

I added, buttoning my shirt sleeves.

“You look prettier today, Min Ah-rin-ssi.”

“Really?”

“Yes.”

I glanced around at the other men in the living room. Not only Woo Seo-hyuk, but also Kwon Jeong-han, surprisingly, had a personality that didn’t say things like this, so there was no one to recognize her except me.

Not surprisingly, Min Ah-rin looked at me and smiled a little shyly.

“It’s not someone else, it’s the place to go to see Deputy Master Chloe, so I paid some attention. Yi-gyeol-ssi, you also look great today!”

“Then I’m glad.”

The clothes sent by Cheon Sa-yeon were worthwhile. Everything was customized.

“The time has come, shall we go up?”

“I will guide you.”

We had fifteen minutes left until the appointment, so it seemed okay to leave. Woo Seo-hyuk nodded at my words, and Kwon Jeong-han, who was sitting on the sofa waiting, got up.

“What should I do. I’m a little nervous.”

As I left the room and moved to the front of the elevator, Min Ah-rin, who was following me, whispered with a tense expression on her face.

“If you meet her, you will be able to talk comfortably. I think Deputy Master Chloe will like Min Ah-rin-ssi.”

When I said with a light smile on purpose, Min Ah-rin smiled more comfortably.

* * *

While holding a teacup, Chloe looked around the inside of the parlour where there was warmth and turned to the man sitting in front of her.

His fine-grained black hair and his pale skin beneath it shone brightly under the sunlight. Facing the beautiful creature that captivated the viewer’s soul, Chloe sighed and put down the teacup quietly.

“Even you look at me like that, I have nothing more to say. There is nothing strange about it, what should I do?”

“That can’t be true.”

Cheon Sa-yeon with his long legs crossed slowly tilted his head.

“Didn’t you say you watched the video?”

“I watched it.”

“Isn’t there anything strange about it?”

Chloe sighed with a tired face at the tone of incomprehension.

“It’s true that I watched the video and thought it wasn’t normal. So, I accepted your offer and came all the way to Korea.”

Han Yi-gyeol, an A-rank talented person who blocked huge fragments and debris floating in the air with the wind. When Chloe saw the video of the Gangnam incident for the first time, the emotion she felt was confusion.

‘Only an A-rank talented person has this much energy?’

Of course, he was immediately bled and passed out, but even so, it was certain that he had accomplished something that an ordinary A-rank couldn’t possibly achieve.

After awakening, she had seen the energy of countless people with her own two eyes, so she could easily recognize that Han Yi-gyeol was unique. So, to see the Han Yi-gyeol’s energy directly, she turned a blind eye to her husband’s whining and came to Korea…

“Because there really isn’t.”

Han Yi-gyeol, who she met like that, was embarrassingly normal. She was kind of looking forward to it. Chloe added, hiding her disappointment.

“I used my ability twice to check it, you already noticed.”

Once with sunglasses on, and once more without sunglasses. Twice she confirmed Han Yi-gyeol’s energy. He had a deep blue light that was close to indigo blue and the size of the energy that an average A-rank would have.

“There is nothing different from others. Gangnam case, I don’t know. Sometimes people show more power than they have.”

Cheon Sa-yeon, who had been contemplating for a long time without answering, immediately tapped the armrest of his sofa with his finger and opened his mouth.

“While you are in Korea, keep looking. To find out anything.”

“…do you want me to do that?”

Chloe frowned and asked in a confused voice.

“I’ve been wondering for a while, what do you want to get from Talented Han Yi-gyeol? You’ve never been interested in something like this before.”

“Because it looks fun.”

“It’s fun, what do… haa.”

Chloe sighed, touching her forehead, with a worried expression on her face.

“Actually, I care more about you, Master Cheon Sa-yeon than Talented Han Yi-gyeol.”

“I don’t know what you mean.”

“The last time we saw each other was around March of last year, so it’s been roughly a year since we met. But you must…”

Chloe’s eyes, who couldn’t finish her words and bit her lip, and Cheon Sa-yeon’s eyes collided precisely.

“The colour of the energy and the magnitude of the power… it’s so different from a year ago. I have never seen such a change before.”

“……”

“It’s close to impossible. You know it well, too. What the hell happened over the past year… can you tell me?”

At the end of Chloe’s question, a quiet silence settled in the drawing room. Cheon Sa-yeon, who sat silently with his head bowed slightly, immediately smiled as if drawn neatly.

“Well.”

“Master Cheon Sa-yeon.”

“I don’t know what you’re asking me to say.”

There was no sincerity in the soft voice. He was cheeky anyway. Chloe with her arms crossed glared at Cheon Sa-yeon.

“If you come out like this, I will have no choice but to be humiliated.” (이렇게 나오면 나도 치사해지는 수밖에 없어)

“Don’t focus on useless things and think about your original purpose. Han Yi-gyeol, don’t miss it and keep checking him. There must be something else.”

That guy Han Yi-gyeol. At this point, she started to wonder what he liked about a man named Han Yi-gyeol. Chloe, who was grumbling inwardly, turned to the sound of a knock on the drawing room door.

“They have come.”

It was already the promised time. Noticing that Han Yi-gyeol had arrived, Cheon Sa-yeon stood up. Chloe put a sullen expression on her face at the conversation that had ended in a rush and lowered her shoulder.

“Uh, you scared me. What is it?”

She didn’t think that Cheon Sa-yeon would open the door, and Han Yi-gyeol, who ran into Cheon Sa-yeon in front of him, was disgusted and pushed his body back.

“You’re surprised at everything.”

“I can be surprised.”

In response to the blunt reply, Cheon Sa-yeon curled his eyebrows and smiled happily. Chloe, seeing this, exhaled a sigh of relief.

‘It got really weird…’