Chapter 113: Pervert

“Lee Tae Hwan, you pervert bastard!”

Seung Ho and Ji Oh, whose brows furrowed at the word ‘pervert’, followed Bodam’s lead and glared at Tae Hwan.

Tae Hwan, flustered by the instantly chilling atmosphere, raised both hands and swore to the heavens.

“I just changed his clothes! Just the clothes!”

“That means you took them off! Without permission!”

“I took them off and put them on! Why are you thinking about it with the ‘put them on’ part left out?!”

“What is this then?! This!”

Bodam pointed to the mark he had discovered while trying to wash his face in the bathroom, a mark that almost made him faint.

At the noticeable red mark on his white neck, Ji Oh’s curses exploded like a bomb.

‘On top of changing Yoon Bodam’s clothes, don’t tell me that bastard…!’

“You don’t remember yesterday?”

Bodam was even more shocked by Tae Hwan’s question, who had blocked the charging Ji Oh with his psychokinesis.

He covered his exposed neck at the nuance that something had happened last night and shook his head.

In that moment, a short voice grazed his mind, which was ringing with a hangover.

‘Be gentle…’

“Heok.”

Bodam, who took a sharp breath, felt his legs give out.

It was a voice that exuded a strange and suggestive atmosphere even at a glance.

Bodam, whose memory had been cut off after giving guiding to the crying Tae Hwan in his bedroom, was horrified.

“You, you… you.”

Among his fragmented memories, the last thing that came to mind was Tae Hwan’s face looking down at him on the bed.

Even the uselessly vivid ragged breaths and strange sensations.

“Ueup.”

The memory that had been continuing hotly was cut off by a wave of nausea brought on by the alcohol he had drunk after a long time.

Bodam, who had quickly run up to his room, locked the door.

Among the scant remaining memories, the scene of him kissing Tae Hwan first had come to mind.

‘Do I… have this kind of drunken habit?’

“……”

Noisy curses and cold stares poured down on Tae Hwan, who was staring blankly at the stairs Bodam had gone up.

There was no one to listen to the wronged Tae Hwan’s excuses.

“I must be crazy.”

Bodam, who had thoroughly emptied his stomach and rinsed his mouth, muttered.

The memories of last night were trying to come back one by one.

Lee Tae Hwan had cried and poured out apologies, and in trying to comfort the crying guy, he had burst into tears too, and somehow or other, they had kissed, no, done mucous membrane guiding.

That was the end of it.

“Why am I like this…”

It was definitely the end.

‘Then why do I feel this way?’

Even after splashing cold water on his face, the heat on Bodam’s face didn’t subside.

Tae Hwan’s gentle touch and the body heat where they had met kept lingering.

‘Why on earth. It’s just mucous membrane guiding, which I’ve done countless times.’

‘Bodam.’

Now he was even starting to hear auditory hallucinations.

He covered his ears at Lee Tae Hwan’s voice, which felt unfamiliar, and took a deep breath.

Because his heart was pounding as if his rapid heartbeat had been transferred.

Bodam, who had checked the red mark on his neck several times and slammed his forehead against the mirror multiple times, made a resolution.

Alcohol.

Let’s quit that damn alcohol.

No, let’s cut down.

***

‘What does he want.’

“How many places have we located Kang Yi Jun?”

“Yes. Including this place, there are a total of 18. We have deployed our men.”

Attack Team 1, gathered in front of a closed auto repair shop, continued their strategy meeting on site.

The location tracker installed on Yi Jun’s watch was sending signals from a whopping 18 places.

Among them, the auto repair shop where they were gathered was the closest to the place where Tae Hwan had called out Aram.

“Do a final check to see if all civilians have been evacuated. And absolutely no contact with anyone.”

Team Leader Baek warned them to be wary of Aram along with the Crow.

“What should we do about Kang Yi Jun? It seems he’s trying to keep causing confusion.”

“Don’t increase the deployed personnel. Ignore any additional locations from now on and just focus on finding the gate. He’ll come out on his own even if you don’t look for him.”

‘And if he doesn’t, there’s nothing we can do.’

Team Leader Baek looked up at the night sky, which had become dark again, and took a long breath.

The damp air, which grew thicker as the night deepened, was bringing rain.

Her sharp eyes, moving busily, were watching all around.

“Team Leader-nim. But aren’t you being too confident? If Aram or the Crow don’t show up, then-.”

“Want to make a bet?”

“…No, sir. It’s about time they showed up. Yes. Of course.”

The bald man, who had quickly tucked his tail between his legs at Team Leader Baek’s confident gaze, nodded his head repeatedly.

After all, Team Leader Baek-nim, the next in line for the Esper Bureau Director position, had never been wrong in her hunches.

She herself often said that she had gotten to her position with her innate intuition and the multi-ability she had luckily obtained.

Jiiing. Jiiing.

Team Leader Baek, who ignored the call from the Esper Bureau Director, continued her thoughts.

‘What does the Crow want? For what purpose did he even reveal his form and start gathering rare ability users?’

‘Is that important?’

A snicker escaped her as she recalled Seung Ho’s answer to her own question.

To the same question, Kang Yi Jun had shown a similar attitude to Seung Ho, asking if he really needed to know.

They were guys who were quite similar in their simple and rigid way of thinking, not even trying to understand the enemy’s intentions.

“We will definitely catch the Crow, including the rare ability users, before sunrise. We’ve dragged this on for a ridiculously long time, so let’s make the end short.”

She walked on, with the long-echoing answers of her team members at her back, watching the sky.

It would be a fight so short it would be hollow.

If only Kang Yi Jun fulfilled his use.

***

“Haa…”

“Hey. Pervert. Cut it out.”

Ji Oh, who was annoyed by Tae Hwan’s incessant sighing, threw his ice cream spoon.

The two were camped out in front of the shabby shopping center where they had first caught the twin brothers.

It was the promised place where Aram was supposed to appear.

“Haa-.”

“I said stop sighing! Just dig a hole and go in, you pervert bastard!”

Ji Oh cursed at Tae Hwan, adding “pervert” at the end of every sentence.

Tae Hwan, who was too tired to even argue back, just repeated his sighs next to Ji Oh, who was emptying out the unmanned ice cream shop.

‘Had there ever been a time in his life when he was this wronged?’

In the end, he hadn’t even been able to hold onto Yoon Bodam, who had followed Han Seung Ho.

He could only watch, following Bodam’s orders not to talk to him for the time being.

‘I just kissed him. It wasn’t forced either. Of course, I wanted to do more than that…’

“You horny bastard. I knew you’d cause trouble one day.”

Tae Hwan, who was suddenly being treated as a criminal who had pounced on his drunk exclusive guide, just beat his frustrated chest.

In fact, Ji Oh knew.

Before leaving the site, he had heard from Bodam while receiving guiding.

‘It’s not like that with Lee Tae Hwan.’

‘What’s not like what.’

‘If I say it’s not, just get it, okay?’

‘…I get it.’

‘I was the one who misunderstood, so don’t say anything to him.’

Ji Oh, who had given a vague nod, broke his promise behind Bodam’s back.

He had been grilling Lee Tae Hwan with all sorts of harsh words for almost an hour.

‘Because it was true that he had left a mark on Yoon Bodam’s neck.’ He wanted to kill him just thinking about the gangster-looking guy sucking on Bodam’s neck above him.

If he weren’t an S-class, he would have pulled out his tongue.

‘f*cking pervert, envious bastard.’

While Ji Oh was chewing on his envy, a Teleport Esper brought the twin brother with a restraint on.

The promised time with his younger brother was approaching.

The Teleport Esper dropped off the unregistered person who would be used as a hostage and immediately disappeared.

He even skipped a greeting and returned, fearing he might brush shoulders with the terrible rare ability user.

‘An ability user who makes a fellow Esper rampage.’ He was a being he didn’t want to meet even in his dreams.

The unregistered person, who had been dragged out without knowing the reason, had his eyes and mouth covered with a black cloth.

His wrists were bound with a cord that couldn’t be untied even with an Esper’s strength.

“Hey.”

Ji Oh, who had untied the cloth covering his mouth, spoke to the unregistered person.

He had only recently become interested in the unregistered.

If it weren’t for Yoon Bodam, he wouldn’t have even thought of catching these guys.

“What’s with you guys, acting so strange. If you’ve manifested, you should have just come to the Center nicely.”

Ji Oh furrowed his brow, seeing the revealed mouth of the unregistered person.

Half of the teeth that should have been there between his open lips were missing.

As if his regeneration ability was not sufficient, blood was still flowing from where the teeth had been pulled.

Traces of torture.

“Why is a person living in a pigsty.”

“What?”

“If you’re born a person, you should live like a person…”

“What is this bastard saying.”

“An Esper is a person too…”

Ji Oh, who couldn’t understand half of what he was saying due to his severe lisp, was about to cover his mouth again.

Before that, Tae Hwan, who had shoved the unregistered person’s chest, cut in.

He was so dumbfounded that his foot moved first.

“You guys who live by kidnapping guides and stealing other people’s things want to live like a person.”

“Ugh!”

Tae Hwan, who had stomped on the mouth where blood was pooling, sneered, telling him to say more.

He kicked him, reciting the various atrocities the unregistered had committed against ordinary citizens one by one.

“Who told you to live like that. The Crow, right? The Center is a bad place and you guys are pitiful bastards? Huh?”

Ji Oh, who had lost his appetite at the sight of him beating a person, not a creature, until he bled, put down his ice cream.

Lee Tae Hwan’s kicks, who got more excited the more blood he saw, were getting stronger.

‘Yoon Bodam needs to see this.’ Ji Oh, who clicked his tongue, threw the half-eaten ice cream tub at Tae Hwan, meaning to tell him to beat the hostage in moderation.

‘He’ll block it with his psychokinesis anyway.’

Thwack.

As expected, the ice cream tub, which hadn’t even reached Tae Hwan, stopped in mid-air and spilled.

But it was because it had been blocked by a real obstacle, not Tae Hwan’s psychokinesis.

“Lee Tae-.”

Before Ji Oh could call him, Tae Hwan extended his arm and pierced the transparency Esper’s chest with his hand.

The form of the Esper, who had hidden his body with transparency, was revealed by the melted ice cream on his shoulder.

He had tried to stab Tae Hwan’s back with a knife but had failed.

Ji Oh, who had unintentionally protected Tae Hwan’s back, moved the hostage with teleportation.

“Keuheuk!”

“Hyeon-seo!”

The unregistered person, caught by Ji Oh, struggled, shouting the name of his brother who was vomiting blood.

He struggled to continue his slurred words, desperately telling him to run away.

“Uwaaak-!”

Tae Hwan crushed the younger brother’s ribs and shoulder blade at once and squeezed his entire body with his psychokinesis.

He, who had not yet released his transparency, swung a dagger and scratched Tae Hwan’s arm.

It was a weapon that seemed far too insufficient to deal with an S-class.

Tae Hwan, who ignored this, asked.

“Aram.”