Chapter 147 – Will You Treat Me the Same?

“Yes.”

After leaving the common entrance of the apartment, Jaehyun moved outside the apartment and stopped for a moment to answer the phone.
Hyeon Hyun Hyun, assistant manager of the post-management team, which manages the retired guardians, recalled the Lee Seo-ha he had seen.

“Yeah, I just got out.”

Hyun Jae-Hyeon recalled the meeting with Lee Seo-Ha and answered like that.
It should be said that Lee Seo-ha’s impression was more intense than Kim Joo-won, who came in later.
If Kim Joo-won is in a state of quietly watching her from behind without revealing his presence, then Seo-ha Lee should act as if he was originally strong.

‘Such a strong person…’

Hyun Jae-hyun began to carefully tell his senior what he saw and felt.
Of course, I’ll go in and make a formal report, but since it’s the content I’m curious about above, only the part that can be done over the phone.

“If you ask me which one is the stronger one… Personally, I think it would be Seoha Lee.”

As he answered the senior’s question, he recalled Lee Seo-ha’s energy, which seemed to have always been there.
Normally, other people hide their energy to some extent, but there was no sign of that at all.
She looks like an ordinary housewife, but in reality, wouldn’t she be able to survive even if she was thrown into the mess where active guardians fight?

“Yes, I understand. I will go in and report the rest.”

Hyun Jae Hyun hung up the phone and got into the vehicle.

*

Kim Ju-won and I sat silently.
Seoha Lee.
After she gave me her identity to be here, she now has her identity as Bella Astera, which she created herself in order to be in this world.
It was about to come back to us again with headwinds.

“Joo Won.”
“Huh.”
“What should I do?”
“What.”
“The Astarteran family came to Korea.”

A fact that I hadn’t even thought about because I was intoxicated with the joy of having Sae-ah back.
The name Seoha Lee used, the weight of the surname of Bella Astarte.

“Well…”

Bella Astarte has already become a terrorist trying to blow up Cheonghwa Academy, and I have become a hero who caught Bella.
Although the Astarte family won’t take any action on the surface.

“For now, at least, I don’t think I’ll openly do anything to you…”
“They will come to me out of sight.”

No matter how much Hyunseong is a leading conglomerate in Korea, if it comes out forcefully, I will eventually be at the forefront.
Then the weight will weigh me down.
Even though I have been raised to the peak of my dimensional ability through Seoha Lee’s core, I still don’t know the details of the powers of the world’s powerful people.
Considering that even with my current abilities, I can easily win against quite a few active Guardians…

“Or, if you want to take me hostage, you’ll have to be prepared to bleed, so you can play tricks on Sae-ah or your sister-in-law.”
“Hmm.”
“Of course, it’s not like going back to that neighborhood on an emergency basis, so I won’t go that far…”

Kim Joo-won blurted out his words.
As he said, he won’t openly do crazy things, but no one knows what kind of crazy things he will do, as if people are always the problem.

“I think we’ll have to be careful for a while.”

I nodded at the boy’s words.
There’s nothing wrong with being careful.
However, I did have one ability to avoid all of these situations.

‘What do we do.’

Future manipulation does not purely bring beneficial effects to me, it brings a rebound in some way.
So I set it to end peacefully. I didn’t know how it would come back to me, so I couldn’t go out easily.

“Woo-jju-jju, our bird.”

I watched Kim Joo-won play with Sae-ah in his arms, then stretched out his hand and gently stroked Sae-ah’s cheek as he approached me.
If he uses that ability, if it comes back to me.
Even though he was drugged, what about this kid who came to me?

She removed her hand and raised her face to look at Kim Joo-won.
If Kim Joo-won knew this, what would she say to him?
Would you tell me to use my future manipulation ability, or should I not use it for now and try to get through it somehow?

“Kim Joo-won.”

Kim Joo-won, who had been playing around with Sae-ah at my call, looked away.
Can I say
In order to ask him what he would do, could he ask me what abilities I have and whether or not to use them?

“Huh?”
“What if…If I told you there was a way to solve it by force using your abilities, what would you do?”
“What?”
“The Astarte family.”

Kim Joo-won tilted his head at my words.
Then, although he may not have understood my words, he began to look shocked.

“Seoha you…”
“Why.”
“Couldn’t it be?”
“What are you saying? I don’t want to fight for nothing.”

Fortunately, I misunderstood that way.
I was worried that I was misunderstanding it for no reason.

“But why all of a sudden?”
“Yeah, from their point of view, I’m a nasty bitch who killed one of their members.”
“Anyway, there will be a collision.”
“Maybe.”

I closed my eyes.
The family that helped the main character in the original work is now the enemy of me.
It is not an ordinary family, but a family that competes for strength worldwide.

“It’s really ss… My life uhh…”
At best, I wanted to buy it safely, but how long should I do this?
As a writer in my own way, when I had a foundation to live on, I was dragged in and suffered such things.
I was wondering how to live.

“Seoha.”

Just then, I heard a boy’s voice from the side.
Let’s turn our heads, even though we are the perpetrators who did bad things to me.
At the same time, another victim was looking at me.

“Oh, Sae-ah is right in front of you.”
“…Don’t apologize. It’s not your fault.”
“But, if I hadn’t done that, you would…”
“It’s not your fault!”

Suddenly, I was startled by the loud sound that came out without my knowledge and covered my mouth.
Surprised by her mother’s loud voice, Sae-ah burst into tears.
I grew up with Sae-Ah with Kim Joo-Won, and continued what I was saying.

“…Sorry. I’m not going to yell at you.”

In fact, in a way, the cause of everything is in me, but why are you doing this to me?
At that moment, I suddenly felt something hard hitting my forehead and felt pain at the same time.
“Ah!” I let out a painful sound for a moment, and then, when I saw the only person here who could hit me, Kim Joo-won put on an expression that he didn’t like something.

“Why are you hitting me all of a sudden?”
“I just don’t like the way you look now.”

But, mother in front of the child…
But I couldn’t ask.
The frustrated look on his face meant that he had many things he wanted to say to me, but was holding back.

“You’re trying to suffer alone again, huh?”
“…What does it matter?”
“It doesn’t matter. I’m the mother of my baby.”

Kim Joo-won’s hand reached out to me.
Feeling his hand caressing my cheek, I fell into trouble.

Should I just brush it all off?
Then, should I leave it up to him to decide what happens after that?
Just like the time when he threw my body into his hands whether he violated it or not.

“Joo Won.”

I closed my eyes.
If so, where should I start talking about it?

“Huh.”

Momentary silence.
After that, I opened my eyes to his quiet reply.

“Hey, if you listen to what I’m saying, will you treat me the same?”

Conflict right before you can speak, then open your mouth.
No matter how much Kim Joo-won in front of me is a real person to me now, the fact that he started out as a character in a novel.
And if you find out that this world is a world that started from novels.

“Hmm…”

Will he be able to accept that fact?

“Well. I guess it depends on what you’re talking about?”

At those cautious words, the mouth that was about to fall closed again.
Because if it were me, I wouldn’t be able to accept that fact.
If all those terrible times started not in reality, but in the typeface someone scolded.

“But, when you think about it, if the truth is that I find it difficult to accept.”

Kim Joo-won’s hand reaches out to me, and his fingertips gently press my lips.
My mouth doesn’t come off easily at the guy’s behavior that tells me not to talk.

“You don’t have to try to talk.”

Hearing Kim Joo-won’s words, I felt strange in the house.
If I don’t say it clearly, I’m cheating on him.
The guy’s expression that if I’m having a hard time, it’s OK to bury me without telling me, gave me the feeling of being understood.

“So don’t just hug yourself and moan. If you want to bury it, bury it. If you want to rob it, just shake it off.”

What is it that makes you want to shed tears?
“What, it doesn’t suit you,” He said and stabbed him.

“What, why?”
“Pervert, I don’t want to be seen acting cool on the subject.”
“There’s nothing you can’t say in front of a child.”
“Hmph. Try growing up later, bird. I’ll screw up all the perverts you’ve done.”
“Hey…”

A grin appeared on the boy’s soon-to-be sullen face.
However, we should talk as much as we need to discuss what to do in the future.

“So, going back to what we were talking about earlier, it’s not like there’s no way to forcefully solve anything.”
“Okay?”
“Yes. But…”
“Is there a reason you’re reluctant to write?”

He nodded.
Kim Joo-won does not even dream that I have the ability to manipulate the future.
I just think there is one more special ability derived from some dimensional ability.

‘What would a guy say?’

He nodded his head when asked if there was a reason for his reluctance.
But the conversation stopped there for a moment.

“Seoha.”
“Huh.”
“Saeah only eats breast milk, so how is it that she packs so well?”

Because the new baby, who played well and fell asleep in Kim Joo-won’s arms, burst into tears after seeing her errands.