By Zephyria 
Ban No-ah leisurely left the Management Bureau.
‘Fools.’
Controlling the entrance was utterly useless to him. Brainwashing and disguise were the best of the abilities he had acquired.
‘The goal has been achieved. I was able to copy and steal all the information about Hyeon Jae-ha and his colleagues that was being kept at the Management Bureau.’
It wasn’t that there were no talented people in the Management Bureau, but they were no match for Ban No-ah, who could freely use various abilities. As long as he had the clattering crystal of ability in his ear, he was invincible.
Besides, he had a reliable collaborator, so he wasn’t afraid of any of the Management Bureau employees.
Except for Hyeon Jae-ha, who was always an exception.
‘…That damn Hyeon Jae-ha!’
An unbearable sense of inferiority surged.
It was frustrating, but just thinking of Hyeon Jae-ha’s name reminded him of what happened at the abandoned factory.
He only meant to distract Hyeon Jae-ha and his colleagues and scare them into not digging any further… but he almost got caught by the scruff of his neck.
That’s when Ban No-ah decided.
It was time to end this sluggish twenty-year game of tag.
By the time Ban No-ah arrived home and washed up, he received a phone call.
The caller was his younger brother.
“Hello?”
Un-dried water dripped from Ban No-ah’s head. A small puddle formed on the floor, but he didn’t care and answered the phone cheerfully.
On the other hand, the person on the other end of the line sounded quite troubled, his voice slightly tinged with annoyance.
-What are you doing, Hyung? You promised you’d go to the depths of the Management Bureau without causing a big fuss!
“Did I? Sorry. As I get older, I get more and more forgetful.”
-You should at least try to make your lies believable. You haven’t aged a day since ‘that incident.’
His younger brother’s sarcastic voice was heavier and more aged than his Hyung’s.
In fact, if the two were compared side by side, they could easily be mistaken for a father and son rather than brothers.
Ban No-ah listened to his younger brother’s words with half an ear, toweling his wet hair.
To him, his old younger brother, who was just an ordinary human without any abilities, was someone he could ignore.
-Are you listening? Because Hyung stirred up the depths of the Management Bureau, even I, as General manager, almost got into trouble!
“As long as you didn’t get caught, it’s fine.”
-Hyung!
I’m being nice to you.
After becoming the General manager of the Management Bureau with the family’s power, despite being a non-Ability User, his younger brother would occasionally nag him like this.
It was nice of him to open the doors of the Management Bureau, but Ban No-ah’s patience ended there.
-Please stop causing trouble! What if you get caught one day…? You’ve already caused so much trouble recently!
“Shut up.”
Ban No-ah’s short rebuke silenced his younger brother.
-Mmph!
A red bead sparkled in his ear. He had used his ability.
“I’m only being lenient because you’re my only brother.”
-Mmph! Mmmph!
“It’s best to shut that incessantly barking mouth for a while. Consider it the price for talking back to your Hyung and reflect on your actions.”
His younger brother tried to protest with his mouth blocked, but Ban No-ah hung up the phone right there.
There was no point in talking to his dim-witted younger brother, who couldn’t even speak properly, any longer. It might just make him feel so dirty that he would try to kill him.
After quickly drying his hair, Ban No-ah read the data on Hyeon Jae-ha and his colleagues.
“The White Tiger Unit, huh…”
Ability Users branded as deserters, so he thought they would be exhausted from being chased by the government and self-destruct.
But they stubbornly survived and were tracking Ban No-ah.
He thought of the Tracking ability User who was quite threatening after Hyeon Jae-ha.
The Management Bureau hadn’t been doing nothing all along; the information on Hyeon Jae-ha and the White Tiger Unit members was relatively detailed.
Ban No-ah sneered as he read through it one by one.
“How should I stab these guys in the back to see them suffer the most?”
Hyeon Jae-ha’s weakness was his precious people.
His partner Guide had already been killed by Ban No-ah’s parents, so all that was left were his colleagues in the White Tiger Unit.
Therefore, using those colleagues as a trick would be the best revenge.
Ban No-ah, as excited as a child writing a Christmas wish list to Santa, began to plot.
‘They’ve gained a passive skill to resist mental abilities, but… if I can temporarily neutralize that skill, they’ll be helpless against Brainwashing.’
He wanted to see them brainwashed and killing each other.
Ban No-ah hummed a tune and carefully crafted his heinous plan.
When the white paper was covered with black ink, Ban No-ah paused for a moment.
“Come to think of it… why was Yeon Yu-jin there?”
Yeon Yu-jin.
A mere D-Class Guide, but Hyeon Jae-ha was watching him, so Ban No-ah also became interested in him.
He wondered if he had any useful abilities, so he tested him, but there was no gain. Other than his grade rising to C-Class, there was nothing special about him.
‘How did he appear in the depths of the Management Bureau, even with Director Shin Yun-hui?’
He had judged him to be just another Guide without any special abilities and had lost interest.
Whether he had a silver tongue or not, it was very unexpected that he had persuaded the Director to come and see the Database of the information officer.
‘Whatever it is, Yeon Yu-jin was tampering with the Database.’
When he ran into Yeon Yu-jin, he desperately blocked him, so he couldn’t perfectly grasp what was happening inside…
There was only the Database of Ability Users inside, so he knew that he had come in for that purpose.
What reason would a mere idol have to need a Database that encompassed all the personal information of Ability Users?
Yeon Yu-jin was an orphan. Moreover, since abilities were not hereditary, there was no reason for him to use the Database to find relatives.
The image of Hyeon Jae-ha he had encountered at the Measurement Center flashed through Ban No-ah’s mind.
“Could it be…”
Were the two of them in cahoots?
Ban No-ah hurriedly searched for records about Yeon Yu-jin.
[Guide Yeon Yu-jin has a record of taking the inheritance of the late Guide An Ga-hyeon on X month X day at X time.]
‘No way!’
It was impossible. The employee who wrote this record seemed to have overlooked it, but it was impossible to know the exact date An Ga-hyeon enlisted and the date he died.
It was Ban No-ah’s parents who ordered all related records to be destroyed so that no one would know what had been done to An Ga-hyeon!
And Ban No-ah and his younger brother were the ones who finished the job neatly.
‘Hyeon Jae-ha might, but it’s impossible for Yeon Yu-jin to get this information.’
Why hadn’t he known this until now?
Invading the Management Bureau was part of an effort to eliminate Hyeon Jae-ha and his gang, but as his suspicion of Yeon Yu-jin grew, he regretted not bringing the records sooner.
“Guide Yeon Yu-jin…”
Who are you?
Ban No-ah’s eyes flashed dangerously.
As soon as he returned, he was bombarded with worries and nagging from the President and the members at the news that the Management Bureau had been turned upside down.
“So I can’t let you go out anymore even if you beg! Just focus on preparing for your comeback!”
“Ah, I understand.”
After practicing to his heart’s content, it was night when everyone was asleep.
Even though he hadn’t sent Jae-ha a message to come in advance, he heard the sound of pebbles tapping against the window.
When he opened the window wide, he saw the guy floating up with telekinesis and sitting on the windowsill.
“I’ve firmly fixed the stealth artifact to my body, so no one will think it’s strange.”
“Thanks. Here you go.”
As he handed over the USB containing the Database, Jae-ha carefully took it and put it in his pocket.
“I’ll contact you as soon as I confirm the person suspected to be X.”
“Of course. You know how much I suffered to get it. If you go to catch the culprit alone, I’ll resent you for the rest of my life?”
“Haha.”
“You’re subtly laughing, but you’re not saying you won’t.”
“I’m just kidding. Once we find out X’s identity, let’s go catch him with my colleagues.”
“You promised.”
When he leaned his head on Jae-ha’s shoulder, he could feel the guy flinching in surprise.
“What’s wrong? Why are you so surprised? We used to do this often.”
“Th, that’s true, but…”
Even though the moonlight was falling and everything in the room looked cool, only Jae-ha’s face, which was flushed red, was clearly visible in his sight.
Why was that?
He felt an urge to bring his hand to Jae-ha’s cheek.
That’s when it happened.
“What are you doing there?”