Declaration Of Extra Strike Chapter 50

Chapter 50

 

“Something strange?”

 

“Don’t you know him? Joo Ho-hyun? He’s famous these days. He lost his memory and suddenly recovered from guiding, apparently it’s due to a guiding supplement.”

 

“What do you mean……. Wait, a guiding supplement?”

 

“Yeah. He’s been recommending it everywhere. I asked them to tell me the name of the supplement, but he didn’t know it either. Instead, he told me to ask Ye Seong-woo.”

 

“Crazy. Who eats something suspicious like that?”

 

“That’s what I’m saying. It’s no wonder he fell down when he’s eating something like that. Like what Hyeong-jun said just now.”

 

“Oh, my God……. I had no idea he was that guide.”

 

The team members’ topic soon went back to something else, but Han Seo-jin, who was standing in front of the window, was frozen just like he did at first. Han Seo-hyun, who guessed the situation from the side, reached out her hand anxiously.

 

“Seo-jin ah?”

 

“Right now…… We need to go to the center right now.”

 

Han Seo-jin, whose face had turned white, muttered.

 

Han Seo-jin and Han Seo-hyun rushed into the helicopter. Out of the window, he could see the gate where control was starting. Han Seo-jin’s fist clenched at the sight.

 

“…….”

 

His heart pounded. The more he did, the more he applied his power to make his emotions dull.

 

Han Seo-hyun frowned and looked back at him as if she felt agitated.

 

“Han Seo-jin…… It’s the sky here. Control your energy.”

 

“I don’t run away. You know that.”

 

“I’m not worried about that. Ugh, do as you please.”

 

His unwillingness to admit that Joo Ho-hyun died and his desperate desire to find his body disappeared without breaking through the castrated emotions with his power. It’s just regret and stubbornness, Han Seo-jin thought, staring at the gate away from his cold head.

 

As soon as they arrived at the center, he didn’t even take off his shoes, and stepped into the dormitory. He broke open the door and began to search the whole room. Why can’t he find the white medicine container, that usually catches in his eyes when he needs to find it?!

 

Han Seo-hyun, who was leaning on the doorstep with her arms crossed, looked at it and asked curiously.

 

“What are you looking for?”

 

“……a medicine container.”

 

“Medicine? It’s not like you to take it……. If it’s a guide drug, shouldn’t you go to his room and find it? You don’t sleep with the guide.”

 

“No, I…….”

 

Han Seo-jin, who had stopped talking and was breathing deeply in emotion, turned to the closed door in the corner of the room. The image of the morning when Joo Ho-hyun was walking into the next room, which he was sick of doing, reminded him of something, and his feet naturally stepped there.

 

As expected, there was a medicine container that he was looking for at his bedside. When he reached out his hand and lifted it, a clatter rang out the silence.

 

“……Hyung.”

 

If Joo Ho-hyun’s death was really due to this drug, he felt like he woldn’t be able to forgive myself.

 

***

 

416b. It was the last time they had spent a long time together. It was a place full of memories, but he wasn’t disappointed. Because he is with him now.

 

Yeon Seung-yeon, who looked around the lab, came out with a USB containing confidential information and research results. He returned his lab key and USB to his senior and headed to the central research center to say his final greetings. At the central research center, which actually arrived, there were many other doctors as well as senior and lead researchers.

 

Is there something wrong? Although he was curious, he wanted to finish his work quickly and get out of a crowded place.

 

“Good morning…….”

 

When he quietly greeted them and entered, the researchers, who discovered Yeon Seung-yeon, greeted him with joy.

 

“Researcher Yeon Sung-yeon! You said you were going today, but you’re not gone yet.”

 

“You like being Free? So, you are not really telling us me which guild you were scouted for?”

 

“Look, no matter how much security or whatever, the guilds’ information networks are all planted in the center. Still, I have never seen superspeed like Seungyeon. Flash! You snatched it up as soon as they offered it, huh?”

 

Yeon Seung-yeon, who was struggling because of the pressure of the pouring attention, moved his eyes to find his senior in a hurry.

 

“That’s, that’s not what I’m saying……. Guilds are not allowed…….”

 

“Hey, tell me. It will be known anyway.”

 

“More than that……. I have to say goodbye, but where is Hwang…….”

 

“Senior Hwang? He’s with the head of the lab inside.”

 

At an unexpected remark, Yeon Seung-yeon opened his eyes wide. Why did the director, nicknamed the hibernating pig, appear at the central research center? Because he was stuck in the research center’s office 365 days a year. Unbeknownst to him, a mysterious question arose.

 

“With the cattle and the warden? Why did the director……. What brings him to the lab?”

 

“No way. Didn’t you hear that?”

 

“What do you mean……?”

 

“Oh, my. Can I tell someone who’s quitting now?”

 

“Right. You’re a Free now, aren’t you? Hmm, but I haven’t quit yet, so should I tell you?”

 

“It’s all right. I’m just here to say goodbye…….”

 

Everyone seemed to have a tickle in their mouths, so when Yeonseung-yeon was about to leave, they hurriedly grabbed him and sat down.

 

“Haha. Researcher Hwang is busy right now, so why don’t you wait a little bit? Do you want to be scolded until the end?”

 

“……What’s going on?”

 

In an atmosphere that would not be easy to let go, when he finally opened his mouth, everyone told him excitedly as if they had been waiting for it.

 

“The VVIP suddenly came and asked him to analyze the drugs! She’s apparently the head of the investigation bureau, but she’s someone who’s rarely been seen at the center.”

 

“……You can just go to the lab to analyze……”

 

“I said VVIP. You have to show your sincerity. Big machine, lots of capital, spectacular results! Ung?”

 

“More than that, the reason why she suddenly came is even more interesting. Listen, I know a field manager, and VVIP came to the gate first before she got here. Turns out that Guide had died in an accident there.”

 

“……….Oh.”

 

He predicted that the story would be prolonged by the researcher sipping coffee and setting the mood. Yeun Seung-yeon nodded soullessly.

 

He was not interested in the accident. The day Ho-hyun said to meet each other outside was coming. In case Ho-hyun might arrive earlier than the scheduled date, he had to go home first to clean up and check if he needed anything.

 

“……So, what’s the relationship between that VVIP and that low-level guide. If she is the head of the investigation bureau, she would be a very high-grade Esper. Could it be something like a forbidden love that transcends the ranks of an Esper and a Guide? But the hidden lover is dead…… But it turned out that it wasn’t an accident, it was someone’s ploy! The angry branch manager should come immediately…….”

 

It wasn’t a day or two that the story leaked like this. Yeon Seung-yeon, who was listening sadly today as well, hurriedly got up from his seat when he saw Researcher Hwang coming out from the inside.

 

“I’m going to go now…….”

 

Beep beep beep beep beep beep.

 

At that moment, an alarm went off throughout the central research center. Everyone froze and looked back at the machine.

 

Under the safety law, all machines in the center sound an alarm when they detect poison above the standard level. He remember being startled when an alarm sounded in the small lab room when he was inspecting Ho-hyun’s ampoule. However, as it resonated throughout this wide and large central research center, it was far more noisy than it was before.

 

The results of the analysis of the form and ingredients of the drug largely appeared on the external screen. All researchers’ eyes in the central research center were fixed on the ingredients of the drug that appeared on the screen.

 

「<The Quiet Assassin>

 

A mildly toxin, but if consumed regularly, it accumulates in the body and attacks mana. If you use mana while intoxicated, it will cause side effects.」

 

Coffee fell from the hands of a researcher who was talking about forbidden love and poured on the floor.

 

“My, my guess was correct. It was poison!”

 

At the same time, Yeon Seung-yeon’s eyes widened when he saw the pictures and pills on the screen. It was something he was used to seeing.

 

There was no way he wouldn’t have known since he had used the ingredient analysis skill himself several times at Ho-hyun’s urging. Everything was the same, from the formulation of the medicine to the unlabeled container.

 

But toxic? It’s not an ampoule; that medicine was just an supplement!

 

“No, that can’t be poison…….”

 

Yeon Seung-yeon, who was muttering, grabbed the researcher next to him and asked, thinking of a moment.

 

“The guide! Who is the guide that had an accident?”

 

“I don’t know the name? It’s a low-level guide from the Raven team.”

 

“Is the name Joo Ho-hyun? JOO HO-HYUN?”

 

Yeon Seung-yeon’s hand holding the researcher dropped. How on earth did that happen……

 

“How do you know him?”

 

“He’s been a famous guide to our team members these days. He’s been talking nonsense that C-levels become A-levels if they take guiding supplements. When I asked him to give me some medicine to study, he hid it from our team’s main Guide, saying it was hard to get it. Again, all untested drugs are like poison.”

 

“Who gave him the poison?”

 

“I can’t understand why he ate such a thing.”

 

Beep beep beep beep beep beep.

 

A loud alarm cut off a frivolous researcher’s rant. Amid the murmur of surprised researchers, Yeon Seung-yeon stared blankly at the screen.

Why did the pill, which was fine, turn into poison, and why is Ho-hyun treated as dead?!

 

“Ho-hyun nim……. Was this what you meant to say to meet outside…….’

 

“This is a definite murder case! In fact, the branch manager had a separate fiance, but the fiancé who didn’t like the guide took the heart of the branch manager on the subject of a lower-level guide……!”

 

“It’s a VVIP! Be careful!”

 

“Huff!”

 

A long-haired woman and a hard-faced man headed across the central lab to where the inspection machine was. The atmosphere became quiet, as if the researchers hadn’t made a fuss.

 

Yeon Seung-yeon’s eyes grew wider at the familiar face.

 

‘Han Seo-jin…….’

 

Before, he had a cold, unsmiling face, but now he had a face that was emotionless. Yeon Seung-yeon shuddered at the foreignness that did not look human, but his expression hardened when he found the watch on Han Seo-jin’s wrist.

 

“That’s definitely Ho-hyun’s…….”

 

When he saw that the watch he bought at the request of Ho-hyun hung on Han Seo-jin’s wrist, he felt indescribable jealousy. Yeon Seung-yeon bit his lips and turned his back.

 

‘……I’m the only one here who knows Ho-hyun is alive. And also promised the future.’