I Don’t Want This Reincarnation

“Ha, Han Yi-gyeol.”

Kim Woo-jin, who had been restless since Kwon Jeong-han asked, hurriedly called me. It seemed like he was worried about I was going on my own.

“It’s okay.”

I followed Kwon Jeong-han and walked in front of Lee Soo-jin. Kwon Jeong-han, who had stopped at a certain distance, walked alone and untied the cloth that was covering Lee Soo-jin’s eyes.

Kwon Jeong-han looked at Lee Soo-jin’s blinking eyes with a frown and came back to my side.

“…Honey, you look so different?”

Lee Soo-jin, who quickly rolled her eyes and saw the people standing behind me and Kwon Jeong-han, smirked and laughed.

“I used some items back then.”

“You look more like my type now? I don’t like flashy things.”

“Thank you for your kindness.”

Even in this state right now, this wasn’t my true form.

Lee Soo-jin’s efforts to somehow buy time were impressive, but I didn’t want to waste time any longer, so I glanced at Kwon Jeong-han.

“Let’s get started.”

At Kwon Jeong-han’s words, Lee Soo-jin bit her lip and hardened her shoulders. I didn’t know how Kwon Jeong-han would use his ability, so I watched quietly.

“Now, Lee Soo-jin-ssi.”

“……”

“You don’t have to be so scared. ‘Take it easy.’ Listen to me.”

At first, there wasn’t much difference from Lee Myung-soo. As Kwon Jeong-han’s ability was activated, Lee Soo-jin’s raised eyebrows came down little by little and the tension was relieved.

“How is it? You don’t feel bad, do you?”

“Nonsense…”

“Then please focus on this now.”

Kwon Jeong-han came behind me and wrapped one arm around my waist. As I was bewildered by the sudden action, Kwon Jeong-han opened his mouth.

“Lee Soo-jin, isn’t this cute?”

“……”

Lee Soo-jin came out with cold eyes and looked at Kwon Jeong-han. I didn’t do anything, but it felt unfair.

“Kwon Jeong-han…”

“Haha, this is a joke. I will do it for real now.”

Kwon Jeong-han, who burst out laughing when I stared at him, used his ability properly this time.

“Lee Soo-jin-ssi, ‘Think of this person as a very good man.’ Isn’t he the kind of person that suits your taste?”

Lee Soo-jin’s eyes suddenly clouded. There was hazy energy in her eyes that looked towards me and her cheeks were dyed red.

“Um?”

“…why?”

Kwon Jeong-han, who had been staring at Lee Soo-jin for a while, leaned closer to me and said in a complaining voice.

“The reaction is faster than I thought.”

“Faster?”

“That person, she seems to be interested in you from the beginning?”

Interest? Of course, interest here meant interest in that direction, right?

After thinking about what happened with Lee Soo-jin for a while, I shook my head.

“I don’t think so.”

“Well, when things get easier, it’s better for us.”

Kwon Jeong-han lightly shrugged his shoulders, and resumed his stopping ability.

“Shall we focus more on emotions? ‘Love and trust this person.’ Believe him.”

“Ugh…”

Lee Soo-jin’s face was dyed even redder than before. She couldn’t make eye contact with me and bit her lip as if embarrassed.

It was then that I realized how Kwon Jeong-han was trying to move Lee Soo-jin’s emotions and sighed.

To make you fall in love with someone you don’t know… I felt it again, but it was a really scary ability.

“Hey, Kwon Jeong-han…”

“Yes?”

Kwon Jeong-han, who kept holding my hand and holding my body, was slowly pushed away.

“Stop playing around.”

“But, Hyung.”

Kwon Jeong-han, who pretended not to know and forcibly hugged me, responded with a voice saying that there was nothing he could do.

“You know the side effects of my ability. I made that woman love Hyung, so now I…”

“……”

Even if I didn’t listen to the end, I could understand the story behind it. Kwon Jeong-han looked at my trembling gaze and smiled as he bent the corners of his eyes.

“Anyway, the basic work is done. If you get stuck while talking, I will use my ability more… In my opinion, it’s enough for now.”

“Alright.”

It was very uncomfortable trying to use the fake love he planted, but I can't stop now. I pulled myself together and opened my mouth.

“Lee Soo-jin-ssi.”

“Uh, ung? Wh, what?”

Lee Soo-jin was startled by my call and glanced at me. The rough and sensitive appearance of the past had disappeared.

“I want to know a little bit about you and the Praus Cult.”

“P… Praus Cult?”

“Hold on, Hyung.”

Kwon Jeong-han, who was still hugging my waist with his arm, bowed his head and whispered low in my ear.

“If you do it that way, it gets more complicated.”

“It gets complicated?”

“Yes. That woman loves Hyung now and she is desperate to look good somehow. So it would be much better to ask for help.”

Lee Soo-jin opened her fierce’s eyes and stared at Kwon Jeong-han, who had intervened in the conversation. The vivid jealousy that flowed from her face felt very unfamiliar.

If I had to ask for help… I said it again after thinking.

“Lee Soo-jin-ssi, I’m threatened with my life by the Praus Cult.”

“What? By the Praus Cult? Come to think of it, I saw you… did you use wind ability? The wind ability person they’re looking for…”

“Yes. I’m the one. So I hope you can help me out. Please tell me a little bit about the Praus Cult.”

I added, just in case.

“You’re not going to let me die, are you?”

As I frowned as if I had been hurt on purpose, Lee Soo-jin opened her eyes wide and looked extremely embarrassed. She was nervous enough to shed a cold sweat as she stuttered on her open lips.

“The fact that you are the ‘wind ability person’ they are looking for… I didn’t know. It had nothing to do with finding you. In the first place, all I had to do was take over the drugs.”

“Did you come to Korea to spread drugs?”

“That’s right. It’s the mission they gave me. Because if I succeed, I will meet ‘that person’…”

Lee Soo-jin’s explanation reminded me of the puppeteer Abel I met in Area D45.

“She gave you a present. Receive divine blessings that no other human being would ever have, now!”

A mad cry for Cheon Sa-yeon’s death. Cheon Sa-yeon’s attitude was calm without any reaction. I remembered everything one by one and asked in a low voice.

“Tell me what you know about the ‘that person’ you spoke of.”

“…I don’t know much either. My parents know better.”

After hesitating for a while, Lee Soo-jin slowly brought up her story.

The person that the Praus Cult approached wasn’t Lee Soo-jin, but her parents. Lee Soo-jin’s parents, who were C-rank ability users, were often discriminated against for their ambiguous abilities, as was Lee Soo-jin, who had a weak telekinetic ability that could barely lift light objects such as syringes.

“When I said that I have a telekinetic ability, they praise me as if I was extraordinary, but in the end, they laughed and looked down on me, saying I didn’t have enough strength. I was just like anyone else.”

For Lee Soo-jin’s family, who had been through such humiliation, the doctrine of the Praus Cult, who regarded her ability as an evolved individual, seemed very attractive.

“I soon found out that the Praus Cult was suspicious in many ways, but… not my parents.”

Despite Lee Soo-jin’s persuasion, her parents’ attitude were very strong-willed. Her parents were so engrossed in Praus Cult that they immediately kicked out Lee Soo-jin when they heard that if they sent their daughter to Korea, she would meet that person.

“I was about to throw it all away and run away… in the end, I chose to go to Korea.”

“What about when you came to Korea?”

“…I didn’t do anything great. I just followed orders. Gathering people with money to spread the alcohol and welcome guests to the club. That’s all.”

“Didn’t they tell you that they were selling a lot of things other than alcohol with drugs?”

“Not me… Doctor sold it. In fact, most of them are people who have visited Doctor. From ordinary drugs to monster body fluids. I honestly don’t know the details. I wasn’t interested.”

Doctor…

As expected, the one who was involved with the Praus Cult was Doctor. I should have stopped him from escaping somehow.

Lee Soo-jin, who had barely been caught, also didn’t know anything. Clicking my tongue inwardly, I changed the direction of the question.

“When did you meet Doctor?”

“As soon as I arrived in Korea. When I went to the address they gave me, it was the club building… Doctor had been working there before I came.”

It was said that when Lee Soo-jin arrived, he had already finished researching the winged woman and was making the drugs.

The drug that spread the most was made for the first time, so it didn’t work beyond B-rank. So he made a new product and was going to feed me, a tester who came just in time.

“It’s the same with what’s in a syringe. There… that, at that time, I… I, I’m…”

Lee Soo-jin tried to apologize for her act of putting a syringe in me. But she didn’t mean it anyway, so I didn’t want to hear it.

“Never mind, do you have any idea where Doctor went?”

Heartbroken at my indifferent attitude, she answered in a hoarse voice.

“That… I don’t know for sure…”

“Do you have any guesses?”

“Probably America.”

“America?”

“I told you again that he is making something big in America. Even if you hadn’t come anyway, I would have left Korea and gone to America next month.”

Making something big? Did he get crazy with just one drug?

“Pretty useful… they’ve even brought in a space controller, so I’m sure he’ll be able to finish it soon…”

“Wait, space-controller? Since when did you bring him?”

An ominous feeling ran through my mind. At my urgent question, Lee Soo-jin shook her head with a look of exhaustion.

“That’s all I know. I didn’t even want to get involved with Doctor, that damn bastard, in the first place. It’s just a story that bastard said he was bored when he was making drugs… It’s up to you to believe it or not.”

America. Useful space control ability. Luke’s request was overshadowed by the fragmented clues.

“He is a producer just like us… It’s been a long time since we lost contact…”

Producer Li Wei disappeared after leaving contact with the siblings Luzel and Luke four months ago. The fact that the last place where he was before disappearing was the American Red Market was very difficult.

‘Is it possible that the Praus Cult took Li Wei?’

What if he was forced to create something because of Samael’s mind control ability?

‘…it is highly probable that not only Li Wei but other producer talented people were also kidnapped.’

I needed to find out more. After finishing the conversation, Lee Soo-jin frowned as if her head hurt.

“How is it, Hyung? Should I use my ability more?”

“No. Let’s stop here.”

For now, this was enough. It would be better to organize the information obtained and make a new plan.

In particular, we could get more information about the cult if we went to the person who was Doctor’s test subject.