am-books Chapter 441: Lily of the Valley (16)
Chapter 441: Lily of the Valley (16)
Chapter 441: Lily of the Valley (16)
Chapter 441: Lily of the Valley (16)
“...Ugh.”
After being kidnapped for the first time, Han Seo-Eun lay down for a long time.
Then she finally opened her eyes.
“...?”
When she opened her eyes, she saw a pure white room.
At first, Seo-eun didn’t understand the situation.
‘That’s right, I was kidnapped...’
An alleyway on the way home from school.
There, she suddenly saw a man covering his mouth with a white towel.
And a voice that said, “HanEun Group...”
“...Ah!”
As her mind raced, she realized that she had been kidnapped and only then could she see before her.
She was in a pure white room, like a laboratory. One side of it was glass and beyond that, a lab with people in helmets walking around looking at papers and computers.
Subject I – 27... You will live here for the rest of your life.
-A place that somehow reminded her of home.
She was trapped again.
“Ugh...”
Seo-Eun was momentarily overcome with dizziness.
...She regained her senses and looked up.
Yes. She is not the same Han Seo-Eun who was once their puppet. She shouldn’t dwell on what happened seven years ago.
After regaining her senses, Han Seo-Eun immediately screamed out the window.
“What the hell are you guys doing? Let go of me right now!!!”
And to that shout.
In response, a cold, mechanical voice replied.
[Be quiet, you talkative rat who betrayed HanEun and fled.]
A researcher’s voice came from a speaker through the glass window, not even looking this way.
Han Seo-Eun gritted her teeth at the words.
Yes, this is what these bastards are like.
Cold, heartless, seeing people as numbers and data...human scum.
In her heart, she wanted to smash the glass window right now and take revenge, but there was no way to do that for now.
...The only thing I’m wearing is my school uniform. I don’t have a weapon because the school doesn’t allow weapons. Even if I had, they would have confiscated it.
Of course, I kept it in my backpack, just in case...I couldn’t see the bag.
As she gritted her teeth the researcher clicked his tongue, then opened his mouth to speak to Seo-eun once more.
[And, be prepared, Dr. Kim Sun-woo will be coming to talk to you soon.]
“...What?”
And some time after those words were spoken...a laser shot out of the room.
A blue hologram rose up and began to reflect the figure of someone.
Long black hair, round glasses, and a sharp-looking face.
His appearance had changed quite a bit, but he was still recognizable, even through the hologram.
“You...”
“Long time no see, runaway.”
The head of the HanEun Group’s research team.
The mastermind behind the plan to create the artificial superpowers that Han Seo-eun was a part of and now, the planner of all this, Han Seo-eun’s nemesis in life, Dr. Kim Sun-woo.
***
“Kim Sun-woo...”
“Yes. Han Seo-eun. It’s been a while.”
Dr. Kim Sun-woo spoke to Seo-Eun through the hologram in the same calm voice he had always used before, with no highs or lows.
She was in total isolation, where all her actions were meaningless.
When Han Seo-eun’s helplessness took its toll.
“...!”
Suddenly, the entire building shook.
It began to shake with a huge impact, as if an earthquake had struck.
And then, one after another, a loud boom.
-Kaaaaaaaaaaaah!
“Muh... what’s going on.”
[Sorry Doc, we’re still trying to figure out what’s going on...]
Before the staff could finish their sentence, the roar was heard again.
The sound was getting louder and louder.
[...! Ji, Zone 1 is collapsing, Zone 2 is collapsing too!]
-Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
[Zone 4 is also collapsing...!! Evacuate everyone... Kaaaaaaaaaahhhh...]
And then the building shakes even more, and finally.
The ceiling above them ripped off, as if swept away by a storm.
Night had finally come, and the sky, once pure white, was quickly engulfing the lab in darkness.
The dust settled around them, and the researchers hunched over.
-Thud. Thud.
Only one man walked this way, out of the darkness.
[Aaaahhhh...!]
Next a researcher is lifted lifelessly into the air.
As everyone held their breath a deep, chilling voice filled the room.
“Where did you put Han Seo-Eun?”
[Heh, heh, heh... there, there...]
-Boom.
The employee was tossed to the ground and Han Seo-Eun finally realized who that unfamiliar, yet somehow familiar voice was.
“Oppa....!”
He came to save her, how did he know?
That’s right.
Da-in, he’s arrived.
To rescue Seo-Eun, he smashed everything in his path with a strength he’s never shown before.
[Ha...Ha ha! I didn’t know he had that much power. I guess it’s the power of ...]
The hologram of Kim Sun-woo, which had flickered but still hadn’t been extinguished, said that with an expression of having taken a blow.
...And yet, an entire branch here is being destroyed by an individual.
Even though all of his own men are falling, Kim Sun-woo didn’t blink an eye.
“You really are...”
Han Seo-eun frowned at the disgusted look on his face.
Kim Sun-woo turned his head back to her, and said with a quizzical expression.
[Well, nothing has changed, the preparations for the final chapter have not changed.]
[Han Seo-eun, you want to kill me, you want to stop me, then come to my headquarters, and I will tell you the whole truth there.]
[There, unfold the final chapter]
-Uh-uh-uh.
Before she could decipher the words, Kim Sun-woo’s holographic device exploded.
And at the end of it.
“Seo-eun...! Are you okay?”
“Oppa...!”
Da-in flew towards her and Seo-Eun, too, ran straight for him.
Han Seo-eun was rescued 7 hours after being kidnapped by the HanEun group.