By Zephyria 
At my wary words, all the Secrety members shook their heads.
As if trying to reassure me, with a hint of injustice.
“It’s not suspicion. It’s concern as a colleague. The Jin Eu-tteum incident last time, and the criminal stirring up the Administration Bureau… I couldn’t help but worry about you disappearing somewhere every night.”
At Ra Ho-yeon’s words, Seo Yun-chae clenched his fist so hard that his fingernails left marks.
“We’re… team members. And Esper and Guide partners.”
“……”
Partners.
If I said that the moment I heard that word, Jae-ha with a smiling face came to mind, these guys would definitely be hurt.
I didn’t truly acknowledge the Secrety members as partners.
Unaware of that, Seo Yun-chae teared up with a flushed face.
“But you can’t even tell us this?”
Was there nothing between us?
I could read the misery in Seo Yun-chae’s distorted eyes.
It wasn’t much different for the other members either.
They were barely holding it back, but the agitated energy of the Espers felt like it was pricking my heart.
Cha Si-yoon looked straight into my eyes and asked.
“Yujin Hyung. I hope you tell us the truth.”
“……What truth?”
“Just as it sounds. Where you go every night when the Hyungs and I are asleep. Even if it’s not an outing… Yujin Hyung, you were hiding in your room and having secret conversations with someone.”
“I thought you were all asleep. Even you were awake and eavesdropping?”
I thought everyone had fallen asleep quickly from the hard practice. An Ga-hyeon of all people was fooled.
As I grumbled in vain, Cha Si-yoon frowned.
“Don’t change the subject, Hyung. Is the person you often go out to meet at night that person?”
The youngest, who was second to none in seriousness, asked with determination, so there was no way to avoid it.
“…Yeah.”
Oh well, whatever.
Hiding it any longer would be more suspicious.
It would be a big deal if the Secrety members found out about Jae-ha and the White Tiger Unit, but I couldn’t back down from something that involved the trust of the entire team.
The members trusted me and didn’t want to repeat the mistake of ruining the relationship with mere suspicion.
It was different from when they treated ‘Yeon Yu-jin’ carelessly.
Then I had to respond to them as well.
So, when I honestly affirmed it, the expressions of the members except for me hardened.
Shin Tae-beom asked me in a growling voice.
“What does that human do?”
He seemed to have tried his best not to show hostility, but seeing him fiercely raising the corners of his eyes, it seemed difficult to expect a good reaction to Jae-ha.
“Uh… um…”
That’s right. What should I introduce him as?
‘Where should I start?’
I couldn’t possibly say, ‘Yeah, that guy is the leader of an anti-government force that the Administration Bureau is desperately chasing.’
Seeing me hesitate, Cha Si-yoon narrowed his eyes.
“Could it be…”
Could it be what?
“That person is involved in the Ability Measurement Center, the Jin Eu-tteum incident, and the Administration Bureau intrusion…”
“…Involved?”
My mouth felt parched.
‘Were these guys stuck to my door without sleeping, secretly listening to the conversation?’
There’s no way that could have happened, but did they already figure out Jae-ha’s identity?
As I was feeling uneasy inside, I heard something unexpected.
“It’s not that you’re being forced to meet the criminal, is it? If you’re being forced to meet the criminal, report it to the police, no, the Administration Bureau right away. What are you doing so dangerously…”
“Hey! It’s not like that!”
Hyeon Jae-ha is a criminal?
That was absurd nonsense, even if the world turned upside down.
When I became serious at the ridiculous words, Cha Si-yoon, who had been boldly pushing me, was taken aback.
“…It’s not?”
“I swear on my life, absolutely not.”
As I said, grinding my teeth, the members nodded as if they understood. The guys were surprised by my spirit and took a step back.
The fact that they misunderstood Hyeon Jae-ha as a criminal was so funny and creepy that I couldn’t help but babble. It was because I was excited.
“A criminal? That’s ridiculous. The one I’m looking for with the person you misunderstood as a criminal is the criminal.”
Then Ra Ho-yeon’s eyes widened.
“What? Does that mean… you’ve succeeded in finding the real criminal?”
I should have stopped there.
My mouth didn’t stop flapping.
“Not yet. But I’m almost there. If I go a little further, I’ll be able to reveal the criminal’s face.”
One step closer to revenge.
Even to me, my voice sounded excited.
“……”
The members’ expressions were strangely stiff, but I didn’t notice it.
In the heavy silence, Shin Tae-beom barely opened his mouth and asked me.
“…Who are you?”
“What? Who am I? I’m Yeon Yu-jin…”
“‘Yeon Yu-jin’ may have lost his memory, but he wouldn’t easily meet someone who can immediately track down a dangerous person that even the Administration Bureau hasn’t caught.”
A short silence passed.
The members didn’t tell Shin Tae-beom that he was crazy.
Instead, they listed the strange things one by one.
“Come to think of it… why was only Yeon Yu-jin attacked at the Ability Measurement Center?”
“Your abilities have also improved dramatically. I had a rough idea that you were trying to deceive the Administration Bureau.”
“Did you ask the Administration Bureau for the Ability Users’ Database on purpose to chase the criminal?”
Questions poured down like rain.
The excitement subsided, and a heavy sense of unease filled the space.
“I’m…”
What can I say?
Shin Tae-beom, who distorted his eyes at my hesitation, demanded an answer.
“Answer me. Who are you, pretending to be ‘Yeon Yu-jin’?”
I smiled weakly.
This is the end. Me pretending to be ‘Yeon Yu-jin’.
Realizing that I could no longer hide my identity, I told the members the truth.
That the one inside ‘Yeon Yu-jin’s’ body was actually ‘An Ga-hyeon’s’ soul. That the reason it was possible was probably because of my ability.
I couldn’t leave out the explanation about Jae-ha, so I told them everything with the determination to reveal all my secrets.
Then the members were so shocked that they froze with pale faces.
“That can’t be…”
Cha Si-yoon covered his mouth with his hand and trembled.
“Yu, Yujin Hyung… is dead?”
“Yeah. I’m using this body, and if I don’t know anything about Yeon Yu-jin’s whereabouts, it must be true.”
“Such, such a ridiculous thing… But Yujin Hyung’s body is moving properly. Here, in front of us.”
“I’m An Ga-hyeon. I don’t know why I came into Yeon Yu-jin’s body, but it’s certain. The real Yeon Yu-jin is already dead.”
“Yujin Hyung…”
Tears welled up in Cha Si-yoon’s eyes, who couldn’t say anything.
The other members were no different.
Ra Ho-yeon covered his face with both hands and couldn’t speak, and Seo Yun-chae seemed to have lost his mind, leaning his head against the wall and staring blankly into the air.
Shin Tae-beom leaned his upper body towards me with eyes that were red with blood, as if he had barely stopped the tears from flowing.
Shin Tae-beom, who was sitting across the table and supporting himself on both sides of me, gritted his teeth and asked as if chewing.
“It’s a lie, isn’t it…?”
“No.”
“It’s a lie. Tell me it’s a lie. I can’t believe it. Since you woke up, you weren’t the Yeon Yu-jin we knew? But even so… we didn’t even know that and were just happy that Yeon Yu-jin had changed… It doesn’t make sense.”
Shin Tae-beom finally shed tears.
He seemed to be angry at the shocking truth and at the fact that he, as a member who was the closest to him, even though he was a jerk, hadn’t noticed anything.
But I had to tell him the cruel truth.
“Everything I said is true.”
Yeon Yu-jin is dead.
The one moving using the empty body is ‘me’, and I will definitely catch the criminal who killed me in my previous life with my own hands.
Ra Ho-yeon, who had been depressed, got up after washing his face roughly.
His eyes were also red and swollen.
“…Give me some time to think.”
“…Okay.”
It was late dawn.
I wondered if it would get better if I took a nap and woke up, so everyone went to their rooms to sleep.
‘…That’s what I thought.’
When I woke up, my whole body was tied up.
“Are these guys attacking a sleeping person so cowardly?”
They even used their abilities to tie people up?
As I gritted my teeth, bound tightly by ice chains, Cha Si-yoon apologized.
“I’m sorry, Yujin… no, should I call you An Ga-hyeon.”
“Aren’t you going to untie this?”
Even when I glared at him with a fierce expression, Cha Si-yoon didn’t even nod.
“I’ll untie you right away after checking a few things.”
“What?”
I was terrified.
‘These bastards, are they going to report me and Jae-ha to the Administration Bureau and hand us over?’
Damn it, I shouldn’t have told them the truth.
As I struggled with all my might, Potato sneered at me.
[Tsk tsk.]
‘Don’t just watch, help me somehow!’
[How can I? I can only use my power in the realm of Resurrection.]
‘Hey!’
The members approached me, terrified.
‘Is this the end?’
At that moment when I was afraid.
Ra Ho-yeon, one of the members, asked me.
“When we joined the Secrety debut team, remember what we said to Yeon Yu-jin.”