Chapter 39 – [What Is Life, Just Live as You Live]

No matter how much I think about it, going to work on Sunday is not a good feeling. I rest once a week, on Saturday, but the blow that the next day is Sunday is quite significant.

Of course, the day people eat the most chicken is the weekend, so I can’t help but do business……. It’s annoying, but should I take Sunday off?

Later, if Baekri can completely follow my recipe, I will take another part-time job and leave it to the store and I will take a break. In a few years, you’ll become proficient.

Even now, seasoning or trimming the chicken is okay, but frying skills are still lacking. The passing score is in the 90s, but the hundred is in the 80s.

It is easy to raise to 80 points, but it is difficult to rise to 90 points. I am also thinking in terms of years. As much as it is, it takes a reasonable amount of time to master a dish. Rather, Baekri is a force user, so his conditions are better than ordinary people, so he is shorter.

“I’ll go to the store. Take care of yourself today”

“Is there something?”

“No, I just feel bad.”

Since yesterday, an ominous feeling creeps up my back. It is impossible to predict the future, but we can roughly grasp what will happen in the future. Even if this isn’t accurate, it’s better than nothing.

“If possible, don’t go out. You don’t have to go out today, do you?”

“I don’t really have to go out. I don’t even plan to go grocery shopping because I think I’ll be able to cook with what’s in the fridge today anyway.”

“That’s all right”

It’s okay because there is a security system at home. Since it is a system installed by Shion himself, it can repulse quite a few intruders.

My wife is stronger than that in the first place, but isn’t there a case? There is no such thing as absolute in this world, so there is no 100% and there is no 0%. There are only infinitely close probabilities.

“Have a good trip”

Shion waves her hand and sees her off. I lightly kissed her on the lips and left for work.

There must be something. I’m very anxious.

I feel bad even though I am happily dragging a Lamborghini to work. I want to stay at home for at least one day today, but today is Sunday when there will be many customers.

To be honest, on a day like today, there are many customers who eat chicken and prepare for Monday. Besides, there are a lot of customers who come a second time because people who play like it’s Sunday and tomorrow won’t come.

“Oh, brother, are you here? You’re a little late.”

“Today is so unlucky.”

It is impossible for an existence that can deceive my feelings unless it is a higher transcendental person than me. Even if it’s an equal number of opponents, it’s absolutely impossible to attack me like a surprise attack.

That’s why my gut feeling works in tandem with my intuition to warn me of what’s about to happen. Just don’t know what’s going on

People who knew this said it was a fraudulent ability to derive only results by integrating the information they knew, but honestly, I’m not a genius, so how do I know that.

I’m just a reincarnated person, so I’ve come to this level because of my experience, and my talent is mediocre. It’s better than having no talent at all.

Out of all the things I have, the only thing that stands out is… Hmmm, is there only one ‘Singularity of Possibilities’? Because of that, I’ve lived well until now.

“Is it ominous? What happened this morning?”

“Just a feeling”

“Ah, then it must be just my mood.”

“No, the senses of transcendental people are beyond human common sense, but thanks to my ability, I’m even better than them. If I’m ominous, it’s a sign that something will happen.”

It is an intuition that can partially control molecular activity and imitate the ability of the freezing system. In terms of delicacy, there are few guys who can control the power more precisely than me.

That kind of intuition sounds an alarm bell, but ignoring it is an asshole.

“Let’s finish quickly and go in today. Even if there are still ingredients left, I think I’ll have to finish and go back around 6 o’clock.”

“It’s good for me to go in early. But are you that anxious?”

“Because I rarely get itchy like this? I don’t care if I’m ambushed, but if my wife is involved, I feel like an ant is constantly crawling on my back.”

“Ouch! I feel dirty”

“Isn’t it? My wife won’t get beaten up somewhere, but it’s better not to suffer…”

Then my pocket vibrated. The ominous feeling intensified.

On the screen of my cell phone when the call came, the caller was written as ‘my wife’. Oh, how long has it been since I went to work?

“…….Hello?”

[Oh, I should have just gone to work, sorry for calling]

“What’s going on?”

[I was kidnapped]

“Fuck”

Every time I feel like this, life doesn’t turn out the way I want it to.

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Shion, who vacuumed and cleaned up at home, refrained from going out as much as possible. Anyway, today is Sunday. The mart was also closed, so I had to go all the way to the market to buy groceries, and since I didn’t intend to go far, I thought of staying at home.

After the worst went to work, she was watching TV and suddenly remembered her. Today is the last day to take out the trash.

I’ve sorted it out, but piles of trash that are still in the house. In particular, Xion, whose energy surpasses that of ordinary people, and worst of all, tissues and toilet paper used for post-processing filled the 10-liter pay-as-you-go bag. And that’s only been a week.

Honestly, it’s OK to leave it alone, but that’s what it’s used for, so if you leave it for a few days, mold will form and mushrooms will grow. Even more so in summer weather.

When the worst comes back in the evening, it may be okay to throw it away, but Shion’s conscience is stung to tell her to take out the garbage after seeing the person who came back from work.

Shion earns all the money, but when it comes to the effort it takes to make it, the worst is far superior. But can’t you just collect the trash and throw it away?

“I’m going out for a while… Nothing special will happen.”

The street is really right in front of you. There is a garbage collection point in this neighborhood that only takes 2 or 3 minutes from the house. I don’t know if it’s going far, but I don’t think anything will happen in 5 minutes round trip.

Shion took her cell phone in case she didn’t know, and listened to the garbage she had collected. Although she is small, she has the physical abilities of a typical adult woman, so she can lift seemingly heavy objects lightly.

Recognizing that no one in Zion had ever explored her surroundings just in case, she decided to return as soon as possible.

There were no problems while going. She met no one and no one was seen. Zion was alone.

She was sorted out at home anyway at the master of separation, so she was on her way back after throwing away quickly according to the type.

Something grabbed her wrist.

“Ugh?!”

Shion turned his head to figure out who was holding his hand.

But no one was there. It was only the feeling of someone holding him that made him know that something was there.

Lifting herself up with her ignorant power, a strange power she felt for the first time enveloped her body. Then she became invisible, as if she had melted into her surroundings.

Shion realized and recognized it. The opponent is the culprit and force user of the serial kidnapping of elementary school students that I heard about from Inspector Lee Yu-seong the day before yesterday. And that’s why she couldn’t find a single trace even after searching all the nearby CCTVs.

Like a chameleon, assimilated into the surroundings and was able to hide completely, no trace of him could be found.

The kidnapper took Shion and escaped. She ran at high speed and headed somewhere.

“………Hmm”

Zion could have escaped right now. She just has something to think about.

If the worst fights sincerely, Zion will lose, but even so, in terms of destructiveness, Zion is superior. She was only a Force user, but Shion couldn’t defeat her.

However, it is the other kidnapping victims that are the problem.

A total of three children were kidnapped. One of them was found murdered, but the other two have yet to be found. There is a possibility that he is dead, but there is still a good chance that he is still alive.

She thought deeply about it, and decided to quietly kidnap Shion. If the other person is a force user with this kind of stealth-type characteristic, she cannot find it even if she searches the CCTV for 100 days. There is a way if you want to find it, but there is no better way than now.

Zion is also quite selfish. He checks his own comfort first. But if that’s guaranteed, he’ll have time to think about other things.

If it was a really dangerous situation, I would have used everything I could to get out of this position. But now, her own safety is guaranteed, and when she thought of the other kidnapped children, Shion’s conscience was too human to ignore and think only of herself.

She chose to be quietly kidnapped. And not long after, her captor took her somewhere in the woods.

“Here is…..?”

Shion thought of a place where there might be a forest nearby.

On the way she passed a river, so it is clear that she crossed Cheonggyecheon. If so, where is the forest in the vicinity?

In the middle of Seoul, it is rare to find a place where trees are thick enough to be thought of as a forest. Even if it’s a park, I don’t think it’s a forest unless it’s a decent size.

If there is a place where you can feel the scenery is wonderful, there is a place that Zion will guess.

As they passed by, countless people passed by, but no one found the appearance of Shion and her kidnapper. The majority of people considered the aftermath of passing by as a strong wind, and rather thought it was a good thing in hot weather.

And in the middle of the forest, far from the roads, there was something like a small hut made of rotten branches. If it rains, it’s made so poorly that it can’t even serve as a ceiling, so it looks like it’s about to break.

The kidnapper put Zion down beside the hut. And with a small sound, the presence disappeared.

Shion, who looked around her, was a little surprised by the kidnapper’s hiding place, who couldn’t even see her footprints. No matter how vulnerable she is to this ability, even Shion is able to trick her with human skills that she has trained for 20 years at most, proof that her ability is quite outstanding.

Shion decided to check the surroundings first. It is important to identify the most important abducted children.

“Garbage left over from eating, water bottles, vinyl, etc… Are they mainly the remains of daily necessities?”

Shion looked at the trash scattered around and figured out that they were mainly basic necessities for survival. And she peered into the hut.

There were two little girls huddled together, covering some of their clothes with a blanket.

“………”

For a moment Shion thought the worst, but fortunately she was relieved to see her clothes go up and down regularly.

The first kidnapped child was found in a miserable state, so I wanted to just in case, but it’s fortunate that it ended with a guess. No matter how long Shion has lived, she can’t get used to seeing children die.

She decided to ask for help first. It’s easy for her to get out of her body by herself, but she can’t guarantee their safety if she’s even got children involved. Her powers are specialized for destruction and are not used to protect others.

She pulled out her cell phone and she called Worst. She answered the phone before the first tone ended.

[What’s going on?]

“I was kidnapped”

[Fuck]

The current situation was conveyed in a concise conversation. The worst one quickly grasped the situation in one word and began asking questions in order, starting with the most important.

[Are you all right?]

“I’m fine. Didn’t you prepare for it in the first place?”

[I don’t believe in absolutes or perfection. I always think of my name as well]

“Besides me, there are two other children who have been kidnapped.”

[Are you alive?]

“Yes, he’s sleeping now, but he seems healthy.”

Shion saw the faces of the children who were sleeping quietly. I’m not old, I’m in the lower grades of elementary school. She is a young child who looks like a 2nd or 3rd grader at most.

No matter how precocious children in modern society are for their age, it’s not a good thing for a child who is only 10 years old to go through.

“I’ll hack the satellite and take a picture of your exact location. Please come as soon as possible.”

[Okay. I don’t know what kind of bitch it is, but don’t worry, I’ll change that bitch. Reassure the children when they wake up]

“All right”

Shion hung up on her.

You can find out each other’s location through the couple service, but it’s faster and more convenient to hack the satellite and take a picture of the exact location. Also, because the accuracy is different between her cell phone as a medium and her own as a medium.

Invisible radio waves ride her will and reach the satellite in orbit. The barrier was strong, perhaps because it was an American satellite, but it was the difference between a piece of paper and a wood lock.

She sent the location of this place to her worst phone. It will come running in 10 minutes at the latest and 5 minutes at the earliest.

“Who…….?”

The sound of the conversation woke me up, and one of the sleeping children woke up.

It’s what I’m thinking now, but the child who died and the child who was kidnapped now have one thing in common: they are girls.

However, the condition of the two was relatively good to say that they had been subjected to sexual assault or similar acts. It’s a little dirty from not washing for a long time, but at least it doesn’t look like it’s starved or fit.

“You, have you been arrested too?”

“I’m not young enough to be called you… Well, since I’m much older than you, you can call me auntie.”

“Auntie? But aren’t you my age?”

Outwardly, Shion looks about 1 or 2 years older. She is, at least, in the upper grades of elementary school, and never to the point of being called an ajumma.

However, Shion is treated like a child, so it hurts her feelings when she is heard that way even by peers who are similar in appearance to her. Even if she comes, she intends to hear that she is an aunt.

“My name is Zion. What about you?”

“……Yoo Soo-jung, this is Lee A-ram”

Shion heard this and that from the child she introduced as Sujeong Yoo.

It took a week for the two to be kidnapped, but it was Yoo Soo-jung who was kidnapped first. A week later, Aram Lee was kidnapped.

“Have you ever thought of asking for help over the phone?”

“I wish I was there too. I must have been kidnapped and dropped on the street while walking while looking at my phone.”

In today’s world, it is rare to find a child without a cell phone, even in elementary school. It was the same for Sujeong and Aram.

Unfortunately, Sujeongi dropped her cellphone while being kidnapped, and Aram’s cellphone ran out of battery. If at least one of the two had a normal cell phone, things wouldn’t have fallen into such a mess.

“Are you thinking of escaping?”

“I’ve tried it a few times. I’ve been caught again. Sometimes I heard people shouting, but it seemed like I couldn’t hear them because it was farther than I thought.”

Run, hide, scream for help. She did everything a child could do, but she couldn’t escape.

In the first place, the opponent is an invisible monster. Thinking it was an opportunity, she ran away, but was caught again in an unexpected place and returned to this place.

After 10 attempts to run away, Sujeong gave up. Fortunately, the kidnapper did no harm.

The act of kidnapping usually falls into two categories. Kidnapping for acts such as rape, rape, and murder, and kidnapping for extortion of money.

In this case, neither. Except for the first kidnapped child, there are no dead children and no children who have gone through hardships. And the kidnapper doesn’t seem to have done it for money.

I think it’s for some more visceral reason.

“Wait, come to think of it, do you have a cell phone? If so, call the police ASAP!”

“I already asked for help”

“Really? It’s a relief……Now we can go home, right?”

At least I pretended to be an adult, but the child is still a child. It would have been a great feat if he had endured for two weeks without knowing whether his safety was guaranteed.

“Please let me go home. I miss my mother…”

Whips and cries are heard. Shion quietly hugged her and patted her on the back. How scary would it be to be alone in a place like this? When I think about it, I feel pitiful and proud.

Shion said that she had never had children, but that didn’t mean she didn’t have them. Although she’s not her biological child, she also has an adopted child while she was with Worst, and she has raised it. Just because she has a childish appearance doesn’t mean she doesn’t have maternal love.

As I calmed her trembling Sujeongi, the tears stopped with her now more comfortable face. Shion wiped her messy face with her tears.

“It’s okay now. It will definitely work out.”

That’s why I deliberately called the worst, not the police. Worst of all, even though they can’t do things like maintaining public order like the police, they’re good at solving these problems. In addition, human casualties can be reduced.

“How many policemen come? How many come?”

“A lot of them will come on their own. We already have an investigation team, so even if we can’t do it, one or two teams…”

“You can’t do that!”

Shion deliberately lied that the police were coming, but Soo-jeong shouted and reacted violently.

“There will have to be a lot, a lot of people coming. The kidnapper is invisible and he’s not human…!”

“…What do you mean you’re not human?”

Shion asked again about the unexpected story. And Soo-jeong trembled a little, and she muttered.

“There’s no way normal people have horns growing out of their heads…”