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Lua’s younger sister’s reply also returned immediately.
[Younger sister]
[If we meet, where?]
[My name is Sia]
[I will send you the address]
An address of a certain cafe flew in.
[I am going now]
The Demon God declared sternly and raised his head from his phone.
Seeing that it wasn’t Lua herself but her younger sister wanting to consult, it seemed serious.
“Team Leader, I have a place I must go to right now.”
“What?”
He briefly explained the content of the messages they just exchanged—
“Really? Then we must go?”
Oh Dae-ho also nodded and agreed.
“Indeed. Turn the car around immediately.”
“Wait a moment. I want to do that, but I have to move Ha-gyeom and Ji-ho.”
There was a schedule for just the two of them. The route didn’t match to go to the cafe at the address.
Tae-young, who was listening to the conversation, opened his mouth.
“And from Senior Lua’s perspective, this is a very private matter. I don’t think we should go in a swarm either.”
It made sense.
It was closer to a private matter rather than a public casting matter.
“Even so, we can’t send Sun-woo alone, so it would be good if at least one person tags along.”
“Hm? Why can you not send me alone?”
Unlike the puzzled Demon God, everyone in the van nodded.
Just in case, Tae-young tried throwing a question to the Demon God.
“Sun-woo, how do you do ‘comforting’?”
A short-answer question.
Total points: 5.
“Boost their confidence and make them step forward for revenge?”
“Ding.”
“What?”
Ji-ho did that and it worked?
When the Demon God turned his head, Ji-ho was just staring out the window.
“Sun-woo, one more question.”
Fortunately, another chance was given.
“This time, try explaining the heart of a younger sister worrying about her older sister.”
Also a short-answer question.
Total points: 10.
“Looking for an existence to worship…?”
“Ding.”
“Why!”
Whether it was a 5-point question or a 10-point question, the score obtained was 0.
“She is anxious and fearful. It’s true she’s looking for someone to lean on, but it’s a bit different from worship.”
“Anxious? Fearful? Is that not generally bad? And if she worships, everything is resolved?”
“…….”
No way.
Sun-woo must absolutely not be sent alone.
“Because Sun-woo Hyung has ups and downs not only in common sense but also in empathy….”
“Listening… he’s surprisingly good at. But he has a quite selective side.”
“Anyway, alone is a no. It would be better if Tae-young Hyung tags along.”
Yoon-seo, Ha-gyeom, and Ji-ho each added a word.
“Right, then the company can trust it too. Tae-young, I’m counting on you.”
And even Team Leader Oh Dae-ho.
The conclusion was accompanying Tae-young.
“I am still puzzled.”
The Demon God just tilted his head.
***
In front of the cafe.
He arrived immediately by taking a taxi with Tae-young.
“By the way, Sun-woo, were you acquainted with Senior Lua’s younger sister too?”
“No, I did not even know of her existence.”
“Then why did she call you, Sun-woo?”
The Demon God answered immediately without even thinking.
“Was it not because I was the most trustworthy in the friend list?”
“Hmm.”
Doubt bloomed fully in Tae-young’s heart.
Just in case, he put strength into his eyes and thoroughly searched around the cafe.
Even after doing so, he did not let go of his doubt and kept wary of his surroundings.
“Tae-young?”
“A quiet alley. No place for a person to hide. Right, let’s go in. Since there’s two of us, it’ll work out somehow.”
Only after saying this did they go inside.
“She is over there.”
“She is. They look alike.”
She was on the plainer side compared to Lua, but a woman clearly resembling her like a sister was sitting there.
However, her face was full of sorrow.
Standing up belatedly, she bowed deeply.
“Hello, I am Sia.”
“Bow at 120 degrees.”
“I am Tae-young. Sun-woo isn’t used to Korean, so I came along. Please don’t be too surprised.”
After finishing their respective greetings and sitting down.
“I heard from Unni that her junior, Sun-woo, cured her phobia. I thought… perhaps you could help with the current situation too.”
The Demon God looked at Tae-young.
“Did you hear? Is it not true that she contacted me because she trusted me.”
“Unbelievable.”
The Demon God asked Sia with a triumphant attitude.
“So? What is the current situation?”
“That is…, recently Unni has become too lethargic.”
“Lethargic?”
“Yes. But it’s not just at the level of lacking energy, her mind is also somewhat hazy, should I say. And I don’t even know what’s causing it.”
Even as she spoke, Sia fiddled with her hands or bit her lip.
Seeing her anxious, Tae-young carefully opened his mouth.
“How about a hospital by any chance?”
“A hospital…. She did go to the psychological counseling center at the healing center.”
The Demon God’s eyes shone.
“The healing center?”
“Yes, to manage her condition.”
He was planning to visit there anyway.
It was definitely a suspicious place.
However, Sia’s words did not end.
“And.”
“?”
“Company people keep coming to Unni’s house. They don’t let me go in much either.”
“From Izm?”
The reason Lua came to use the healing center itself was because Izm and the center had signed an agreement.
Anger was also slightly showing on Sia’s face.
“Because of those people, I went in 3 days ago and haven’t seen Unni since then. They even changed the door passcode. When I last saw her, she was just spacing out even when I talked to her next to her. But today, an article about her canceling her schedule came up.”
The reason she asked to meet at a cafe was also because of the company people.
Not because she didn’t want them to come to the house, but because it was impossible.
“I was so worried I didn’t know what to do. But seeing the messages Sun-woo sent….”
[Contact me]
[Whatever it is, do not hesitate]
[I shall help]
“They felt like a ray of light.”
“Darkness.”
“Pardon?”
“A ray of darkness.”
Tae-young looked at the phones placed in front of Sia.
There were two. One was covered in lively stickers, and one only had a clear case.
“And the cell phone?”
“I brought it out 3 days ago. Thinking there might be a hint as to why Unni is like that. But I couldn’t figure it out.”
“During that time, didn’t Senior Lua or the company people look for the phone?”
“Yes.”
The Demon God and Tae-young looked at each other’s faces.
“Tae-young, let us barge in first.”
“Is that ‘first’?”
“Then? Do you have another opinion?”
Tae-young cupped his chin and thought for a moment.
Why block family?
The reason they have to do so is—
“Sun-woo.”
“Hm?”
“You said Senior Lua wants to leave Izm, right?”
“That is so.”
The Demon God also answered meaningfully.
The period when an S-class soloist’s contract renewal is on the line.
Blocking family while only company people are swarming?
It is a move trying to exclude family and force her to renew the contract.
“I think your words are right, Sun-woo. First, we must barge in.”
“It is as expected, is it not?”
To dare inflict harm upon Lua.
When this Demon God has already requisitioned her for the concert.
“A punishment might be necessary.”
***
Lua was sitting vacantly on her bed.
Hazy.
Her thoughts are blurry, and she has no motivation to do anything.
‘What was I trying to do…. No, was I trying to do anything?’
Even this thought disappears into the fog.
Not eating meals, hardly drinking water.
Just sitting or lying down like that.
Click.
The door opened.
Actually, she couldn’t even recognize that well.
“Lua, please take a look at these documents.”
A female manager who entered the room held out a piece of paper.
A cold and businesslike voice.
No respect for the artist could be found.
“What is this…?”
“You see here, right? You just need to sign.”
The manager didn’t even answer the question and placed a pen in Lua’s hand. As she blankly lifted that pen—
– ♪♫♬♩
The bell rang.
Hearing that, the manager spoke outside the room.
“What is it?”
There must have been someone else in the living room, as they cut off the bell sound.
– ♪♫♬♩
But it rang again.
“Uh, who is…?”
Lua reacted, albeit weakly.
“No. Don’t mind it. Rather, sign first.”
The manager closed the room door and returned to Lua.
Perhaps because of that, or because they completely blocked the bell from the living room, the sound wasn’t heard anymore.
“Done, right? Now sign—”
However.
– CRASH!
Piercing through the closed room door, a loud sound was heard.
“W-What is that!”
Incomparable to the bell sound.
The manager herself ended up screaming in surprise.
The sound even turned into a song and continued.
– On the sand
Spilled memories
I flew above it
On the path toward you
And.
“This song is…?”
Lua reacted more than earlier.
She lifted her head and looked toward the room door.
“Tsk! Stay still here!”
Realizing the abnormality, the manager hurriedly went outside.
In the living room, Izm staff were looking at the intercom screen.
“What happened?”
“Someone came. They don’t listen even when told to go away. Lua’s younger sister is seen too.”
“The younger sister? Don’t tell me she brought people?”
In the midst of this, surprisingly, the music was coming from the apartment door, not the intercom. And a person was singing it directly.
It was a live performance.
“Are they crazy?”
The manager spat out rough words, not even considering the actions she herself was committing.
Still, she approached the door first, engaged the latch, and opened it slightly.
The person who was singing tremendously loudly right in front of the door also stopped for a moment and looked this way.
The manager flinched at that person’s identity.
“Who are you?”
“Indeed.”
What do you mean indeed.
The person Lua’s younger sister brought was Pantheon’s Sun-woo.
That gaze looking down through the door gap was far too cold and ominous.
“Please open it. I came with Lua’s family.”
The one speaking politely from the side was Tae-young.
The manager recognized him too.
‘She brought celebrities? How did she bring those two?’
If things go wrong, it could become a big deal.
Not opening the door and holding out was the best option.
“Lua said she won’t meet even family right now. I’m sorry, but please go back.”
“I wish to hear it directly from Lua, though?”
“I told you she won’t meet you. Go back.”
While doing so, she gestured to the staff in the living room, signaling them to call security.
If she does this, what can they do?
With a triumphant smile, the manager spoke firmly.
“I won’t open the door, so please go back.”
“It is open, though?”
“What?”
And.
The next moment.
CRASH!
With a loud roar, the sturdy door of the luxury apartment fell off outward!
“Kkyaaaak!”
The manager screamed.
“W-What is that!”
“What is that sound! Team Leader, what’s wrong?”
The staff in the living room gathered toward the door.
“Look. Is it not open.”
“Y-You broke it!”
“This body? The door? Is that possible?”
By common sense, Sun-woo’s words were right.
It wasn’t a door made to be broken by a person pulling it. Being a door to a residential space, it was truly sturdy.
“Still, I just saw it with my own eyes….”
“You must have seen a hallucination. Step aside, I am entering.”
The Demon God entered the house without hesitation.
Behind him, Tae-young and Sia followed.
“Sun-woo, you shouldn’t break doors….”
Tae-young was definitely saying this as he entered.
“Hey, stop right there.”
A staff member with a good physique stepped forward.
With other staff standing behind him, a confrontation phase was created—
—or not.
“I refuse.”
The Demon God did not stop and continued walking forward.
Pressed by that momentum, the staff ended up hesitatingly stepping back.
Furthermore, Tae-young was with him too.
With two tall members even within Pantheon walking side by side, the coercive feeling was immense.
“What are you doing! Stop them!”
The manager, unable to just watch, shouted.
Eventually, the staff member with the best physique shouted forcefully.
“Idols like you are always dieting! You’re flimsy!”
Shouting like this, he bumped his body against the Demon God.
“Ugh?!”
Even though he bumped with force and speed, he ended up bouncing off.
Thump, he was pushed to the side and bumped into Tae-young, but it was the same as expected.
Even there, he was pushed away and rolled on the floor.
“It’s like a rock…?”
At that sight, the other staff couldn’t even dare to attack.
“Utterly insolent.”
The Demon God looked around.
The staff, even realizing they couldn’t do anything with force, remained without giving up.
It seems this place needs to be cleared up to converse with Lua.
“Dissipating them is simpler, and what rightfully should be done, but.”
Since he is living mingled in the human world.
He should follow their rules just a very little bit.
So he won’t kill them.
Let’s just carve an imprint onto their souls.
“Fear.”
The Demon God released his demonic [Aura].
Just a very small portion.
However, enough to plant eternal terror in humans.
“U, uh?”
“Kkeeeh!”
Screams flowed out from the staff, and the manager who had been blocking the door flailed her hands as if seeing a hallucination.
“You see a hallucination as expected, correct? The door breaking is also a hallucination.”
“Yes! Yes! Yes!”
Within the terror, the Demon God’s whisper dug into her brain.
The manager will definitely not remember that the Demon God broke the door.
“U-Um. Why are these people suddenly screaming…?”
Sia asked from the side.
Because it had no effect on Tae-young and Sia, who were on his side. They couldn’t even understand the scene unfolding before their eyes.
“Well? I am not familiar with human emotions, so I would not know.”
The Demon God lightly shook his head and issued his final command.
“Get lost now.”
Trembling at the incoming ominous terror, they screamed and ran out the door.
“Because of this commotion, they’ll probably come up from the security office? I have to explain it well, or the police might come.”
Tae-young quickly assessed the situation.
Having experienced so many unrealistic things related to the Demon God, this much was nothing.
“Um, then I will stay outside. Sun-woo, please go in first. Please definitely help my Unni.”
Sia had a mind wanting to run in right away and see her Unni, but she felt that if things became a big deal, it wouldn’t be good for her Unni either.
And above all, the idol named Sun-woo felt somehow very trustworthy.
She felt that no matter what state her Unni was in inside, Sun-woo would be able to take care of her.
“Good. Block the way.”
The Demon God left the two behind and opened the room door.
And.
Inside the dark room with curtains drawn over the windows.
A silhouette on the bed was seen through the light shining from the living room.
***
Hazy mind.
Dark vision.
Is there a light that can illuminate this?
The light coming in from the living room had absolutely no effect on Lua.
But.
Something was felt.
Not light, but darkness.
However, an extremely clear darkness.
That darkness devoured the fog in Lua’s mind, and devoured the other darkness covering her vision as well.
An even deeper and deeper darkness.
Because no darkness could reveal its existence before it.
The darkness that reigns over all darkness.
Awakened Lua.
“Sun-woo…?”
She slowly lifted her head.
Focus returned to her hazy eyes.
Her voice was weak, but her mind was definitely returning.
The Demon God smiled softly.
“Will you worship now?”
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