By Zephyria 
There was no way I would know something like that.
“Don’t know.”
“Really don’t know?”
“Don’t know. I told you, I’m not the real Yeon Yu-jin. I can’t know what happened before I woke up in Yeon Yu-jin’s body in the hospital because it’s not my memory.”
I could have just blurted out any answer, but I didn’t.
The Secrety members wanted to know the truth.
Then wouldn’t it be the duty of an elder to tell them?
Ra Ho-yeon muttered with his head bowed.
“Don’t know….”
“Yeah. Don’t know. So hurry up and release th—”
“No way.”
“Why not?”
“I can’t believe you’re not Yeon Yu-jin. I need to confirm. Whether you’re someone else who’s not Yeon Yu-jin, as you say, or whether Yeon Yu-jin is seriously mentally ill.”
The guy’s eyes were so red that it looked like blood would flow if you poked them.
The sight made me feel queasy, but I ignored it and resigned myself.
“Do as you please.”
Go ahead and verify until you’re satisfied.
Does that change the reality that has already happened?
When you die, that’s the end.
There’s no way to call back the completely disappeared Yeon Yu-jin.
The Secrety members bombarded me with questions.
Most of the questions were related to the accidents Yeon Yu-jin caused or the discord with the members.
Sensitive and sharp questions that I, a complete stranger to Yeon Yu-jin, didn’t even know if I was allowed to hear.
Only the real Yeon Yu-jin could answer the questions that were like broken pieces of glass, so I consistently repeated the same answer.
“Don’t know.”
“Don’t know.”
“How would I know something like that?”
“At this point, why don’t you guys just accept it? And release these damn chains.”
It was because I didn’t even have the motivation to make up false answers.
As the answer of “don’t know” was repeated, the members’ expressions crumbled.
It was as if they hoped that I would give them an answer that Yeon Yu-jin would have given, but I couldn’t meet their expectations.
By the time the last question was over, they were all sitting down and crying.
‘Why are they crying?’
Wasn’t Yeon Yu-jin the one they hated so much?
Why are they shedding tears for him now?
Are they feeling something similar to when Jae-ha lost me?
Regret, pity, guilt for not protecting him. Something with a strong sense of unease.
Or maybe it’s the emotion of being belatedly overwhelmed and grieving for not treating him well.
Maybe they’re feeling the despair that comes out naturally when you hear the news that someone you know has died.
“…So Yu-jin really died.”
Ra Ho-yeon muttered in a voice smaller than a mosquito.
“He’s no longer in this world….”
The members wiping away tears with their sleeves looked like they had lost their souls.
I didn’t quite understand.
“Why are you crying? You hated and despised the previous Yeon Yu-jin so much.”
They were the ones who just wanted him to disappear.
Unexpectedly, Seo Yun-chae answered my question with a sniffle.
“…But I never really wanted him to die. Yeon Yu-jin was also our… team member.”
“……”
“Even if someone you only know by face dies, your heart gets cold. No matter how much you hate him, who wouldn’t be sad when someone you’ve lived with in the practice room for years has died?”
He’s actually saying something right for once.
“Damn it….”
In the end, Seo Yun-chae wailed like a leaky drainpipe.
It was ironic.
Seo Yun-chae, who I assumed was the one who looked down on and despised Yeon Yu-jin the most, was mourning his death the loudest.
The other guys weren’t much different from Seo Yun-chae.
They all sniffled tears and snot until their eyes were swollen like goldfish, genuinely expressing their sadness over Yeon Yu-jin’s death.
I was still tied up, sitting in the middle of the crying, thinking.
‘I wish they would release me now.’
My arm hurt. It was numb, as if the blood wasn’t flowing properly.
‘But they’re mourning the death of a colleague, so it’s not right to interrupt them without any tact.’
Even though they were members gathered for the group concept, Secrety was also an Ability User team made up of Espers and Guides.
I wanted to quietly give the guys who were belatedly mourning the death of their colleague a time of mourning.
But my arm hurt so much…….
And I also wanted to go to the bathroom.
Then Potato, who was rolling around on my head, whispered annoyingly.
[Your bladder doesn’t seem to have any tact.]
‘Be quiet.’
[Just say it. Ask them to release you. No matter how much you care for them, what would those young Esper know? It would be fortunate if they don’t misunderstand you as an evil spirit who killed Yeon Yu-jin and took over his body.]
That’s a good point.
Even though I revealed that my identity was An Ga-hyeon, the Secrety members reacted by asking who that was.
It was a natural result for a government that concealed my death, but it was a little bitter.
It was also because the young Espers were close to ordinary people, so they were weak in Ability User-related common sense.
I was saddened to realize that my sacrifice and death were only recorded as a dog’s death. I suddenly missed Jae-ha, who used to roll around on the front lines with me.
[Stop with the distracting thoughts and just ask them to release you. Before the members who stopped crying regard you as a dangerous person.]
‘Okay, okay.’
Look at my situation, being scolded by my own ability.
I sighed deeply, raised my head, and spoke to the members.
“If you’re done crying, why don’t you release me now? My arm hurts, and I want to go to the bathroom.”
Shin Tae-beom retorted in a cold and intimidating voice that I had never heard before.
“Why should we? To a fake who is brazenly occupying Yeon Yu-jin’s body.”
“……”
I have a name, An Ga-hyeon, you little brat.
I was not in a good mood because these kids whose blood hasn’t even dried were talking down to me.
[Puhuhup.]]
Potato burst out laughing on my head.
I’m really going to steam that Potato and eat it.
Cha Si-yoon glared at me with his red and swollen eyes as I gritted my teeth.
“How do we know that you killed Yeon Yu-jin Hyung and took his body?”
This remark was really absurd.
“I was the one who was incredibly embarrassed when I woke up in this body, okay?”
“What….”
“If you have a brain, think about it. Even if I, who was originally a Guide rolling around in the front lines, generously concede that I have the ability to choose the body I want and be resurrected, would I really have chosen a guy named Yeon Yu-jin?”
“……”
Everyone’s mouths were shut as if they had eaten honey.
Even the members would think that there was no reason for An Ga-hyeon to choose Yeon Yu-jin.
“If I had such an extraordinary ability, I would have chosen to possess the youngest son of a chaebol family. Not a guy who has no family, whose colleagues have no trust in him, and who ends up attempting suicide.”
The light went out of the members’ eyes at the word “suicide attempt.”
I had definitely heard it when I woke up.
Yeon Yu-jin had been taken to the hospital after attempting suicide.
It was reported to the outside world as a traffic accident, but it was by no means an accident. Yeon Yu-jin wanted to die of his own will.
And he finally succeeded.
Otherwise, there’s no way I could have come into Yeon Yu-jin’s body.
“That….”
Cha Si-yoon, who was shocked, stammered and eventually burst into tears again.
Shin Tae-beom and Seo Yun-chae were the same.
‘They must have no rebuttal.’
That the real Yeon Yu-jin had taken his own life.
That I came into Yeon Yu-jin’s body and succeeded in Resurrection was purely a trick of fate or a coincidence.
And… that the cold gazes of the members may have been the reason why Yeon Yu-jin eventually chose suicide.
However, they were just unable to admit it easily, so they couldn’t say anything.
In the subdued atmosphere, I wiggled my body and demanded again.
“If you understand, then release me now. I really need to go to the bathroom? I don’t want to relieve myself here, so release me.”
“…Why should we trust you?”
Ra Ho-yeon, the leader who barely managed to hold on to his sanity, barely retorted to me.
“That person.” I didn’t like the degraded title.
“I’m disappointed. Even if I wasn’t the real Yeon Yu-jin, the time I spent as a Secrety member after waking up as Yeon Yu-jin wouldn’t disappear.”
“…So?”
“In any case, you guys are my partner Espers and my colleagues now. I won’t commit any dishonorable acts that harm my colleagues. I’d rather die than do such dirty things.”
“…Are we your colleagues?”
Ra Ho-yeon’s voice trembled slightly.
“If you weren’t, I would have left here without caring about you guys. My longtime partner is still alive, and he even recommended that I come over there.”
“……”
Ra Ho-yeon’s mouth was tightly shut.
Not many minutes after the silence fell, Shin Tae-beom quietly stood up and approached me.
He used his ability to create a sharp ice knife and cut the chains that bound me.
“Are you releasing me?”
“Not yet.”
“Not yet?”
“I want to hear your real story. ……Guide An Ga-hyeon.”