Became a Human Rights Advocate

59 – Episode 11. Midterm.

＜16＞

“… What?”

Chaehee Rin felt a strange sensation and looked around her.

She seems to have been on the second floor of a fast food restaurant, but now she is standing outside staring at the second floor for some reason.

There are a lot of people around her looking at the second floor like herself.

That’s natural. Since such an ‘accident’ occurred in the middle of the city, it is only natural that onlookers flocked to it.

As the person involved in the accident, I felt a bit bad, but if it had been the other way around, Chae Hee-rin would have watched it peacefully, so she didn’t even express her dissatisfaction.

… So there is nothing strange about it.

But why do I feel so uncomfortable?

The strange feeling of not having the person you need to be by your side.

Chaehee Lin frowned in her nervousness.

How much time had passed, a man’s name finally came to Chae Hee-rin’s mind.

The name of the guy who studied with you all this week on the second floor must be-

“… Lee Si-hyeok?”

“Why. Chae Hee-rin.”

Her back Hearing her voice behind her, Chaehee Rin turned her head in surprise.

Then, Lee Si-hyeok with a carefree expression tilted her head.

“You… Where have you been?”

“I was always behind you?”

“If you were in the back, you should talk!”

Chaehee Rin looked at Lee Sihyuk and screamed at her.

“I told you to keep your mouth shut for a moment. That’s why you stayed quiet.”

“… That… did you?”

“Uh.”

Seeing Lee Si-hyuk nodding her head, the anxiety that rose in Chae-hee-rin’s heart slowly subsided, but some questions still remained.

“Were we not up there just now?”

“I did.”

“But why are you here now?”

“The clerk told us to evacuate, so we both came down straight away.”

“….Yes? That’s right, right?”

As Lee Si-hyeok said. But why do I feel so uncomfortable about something?

“Why are you like this from earlier, Chae Heerin. Aren’t you sick?”

Lee Si-hyeok said that and naturally put his hand on Chae Hee-rin’s forehead.

As soon as her big hand touched her, she took a step back in surprise.

“Lee Sihyuk, you, Ji… Now, what is this-“

“No fever.”

Unlike Chae Hee-rin, who was flustered, Lee Si-hyeok muttered calmly.

Chae-hee-rin tried to say a word at Lee Si-hyuk, but her red-stained lips didn’t move.

‘… What?’

Looking at Lee Si-hyuk’s face makes my heart race.

Until just a moment ago, Chae-hee-rin’s feelings for Lee Shi-hyeok were clearly distasteful.

She’s a no-nonsense guy who dared to turn down her own offer.

She thought of ending her study meeting today as she didn’t feel any reason to see her face anymore.

But why does my face turn red just by looking at that guy’s blank face?

Maybe it’s because of the damp hair.

I don’t want him to see me as messed up as a mouse soaked in the rain.

‘… But why was my hair wet?’

A vague question that comes to mind again. Before he could even begin to think about the question, Lee Si-hyeok interrupted again shyly.

“So Chae Heerin. What are you going to do next week?”

“Next… main?”

“Study meeting. Because I can’t continue here. Shouldn’t we move to another location?”

Lee Si-hyeok said that and looked up at the messy second floor.

“… It’s okay.”

“Huh?”

“The meeting ends today. You take care of the rest.”

Chaehee Rin spat that out and immediately took her steps with great strides.

“What is this all of a sudden? Hey wait! Chae Hee-rin!”

Lee Si-hyeok shouted from behind, but Chae Hee-rin didn’t care and continued walking.

Lee Si-hyeok looked at Chae-hee-rin from the back with a puzzled expression, and then as soon as she completely disappeared from her sight, she sighed lightly.

‘First of all… Did you cover it up?’

It is better for Chae Hee-rin not to remember this.

If Joo Si-young hears that Chae-hee-rin has been attacked, it is certain that the schedule for the upcoming bazaar will be distorted.

I felt sorry for deceiving everyone, but Lee Si-hyeok decided to finish this job like this for now.

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‘I didn’t know it would go this far.’

The boss of the Zetas family, Los Zetas’ ability is the ability to manipulate the mind.

It was impossible to force an action against one’s will, but it was a threatening ability that could cleverly distort memories or temporarily disable one’s ability.

However, Lee Si-hyeok had a passive that completely countered Ross’ ability.

This ability, which cures all mental ailments, immediately cancels the mind manipulation.

‘It’s also good to know how the passive works.’

However, Lee Si-hyeok’s passive skill, ‘Will’, had a subtly different nature from Leoa.

Unlike in the game, where all mental disorders of team members are cured at the start of each turn, in this world, Lee Si-hyeok’s will was more important.

If he didn’t want to, he could have just stopped treating him like Chae Hee-rin did before.

In other words, rather than being a passive ability, it became an ability closer to another active one.

‘… Anyway, how do I do it?’

Lee Si-hyeok remembered what had happened on the second floor of Ex-Donald’s a while ago.

＜15＞

“Your underling did a bad job.”

A large man with tanned skin slightly lowers his head towards us.

Los Zetas. The boss of the Zetas family and the final boss of the booster episode.

He is a person who left a lot of rice cakes and left, and the reason for his actions is being revealed little by little in the latest episode.

“What did you do!”

Chae Hee-rin shouted with a clear expression of embarrassment.

Due to her powers in Ross, she was now unable to use her own spark.

It’s only natural that he’s so flustered since he’s in an unprecedented situation where his limb-like abilities are sealed.

“Bo… boss. This.”

But it was none other than Leah who was more noticeably flustered than Chae Hee-rin.

Looking at Ross and shaking his head hurriedly, it seemed like he was looking for an excuse.

“Let’s talk about it later.”

Lea’s body snapped to the side as soon as Ross said that.

“Now what… ?”

“It’s my ability. It’s not a grandiose ability, so there’s no need to be so vigilant.”

Ross picked up Leah’s body as she collapsed and seated her on the chair next to her, then took his seat across from her.

Then he picked up a hamburger on the table, soaked in the aftermath of the fight, and put it into his mouth.

While chewing on the hamburger, Ross continued his conversation.

“I’m sorry. He didn’t mean to harm you, but this guy just won’t listen to me.”

“… After attacking a person, if you’re sorry, that’s it?”

Hearing Chaehee Lin’s harsh voice, Ross shrugged her shoulders.

“You guys who messed up my factory have nothing to say.”

“Factory… ? Maybe you.”

“Yes. My name is Los Zetas, the boss of the Zetas family.”

Chae Hee-rin’s face stiffened as she looked at Ross, who was willing to reveal her true identity.

“Well, when we say family, there are actually only four of us.”

Ross said that and took another bite of the hamburger. Chae Hee-rin looked at Ross like that, and then spoke to me in a quiet voice.

“… Sihyuk Lee. Jump out the window right now.”

“Huh?”

“Revealing your identity means you have no intention of leaving us alive. I will draw attention, so you can escape and seek help.”

Chae Hee-rin has a very serious expression. Her personality can’t be said to be good even as a joke, but seeing that she is the first to sacrifice herself in such a moment of crisis, she is also a fundamental part of a proper guy.

“Lee Si-hyeok!”

Chae Hee-rin runs towards Ross calling my name. But before he could move a few steps, the movement stopped like a puppet with a broken string.

Ross got up from his seat before he knew it and grabbed Chae Hee-rin’s body as it collapsed.

“Aren’t you running away?”

“I wondered if I had to run away.”

“… What do you mean?”

“You never intended to harm us in the first place, you.”

When I said that, Ross put on a look that he had taken a shot, then opened his mouth again with a faint smile.

“As I’ve heard, you’re an interesting guy, Lee Si-hyeok.”

“Paulo?”

“Yes. It seems to be interested in you.”

“… I am not interested in men.”

As I said that, I looked straight into Ross’s face. Because it is covered by dark sunglasses, it is impossible to read the feelings of the guy beyond.

Los Zetas is the enemy of Academia. He has no excuses at the point of joining hands with the deluded bag Astray and distributing a dangerous item called a booster throughout Academia.

However, there are many contradictions that are difficult to explain in his actions to conclude that Ross is a perfect villain.

There were a few situations where he could have wiped out the Singularity Division if he put his mind to it, but Ross didn’t.

And in the end, he betrayed Mihok Baek and protected Academia.

Ross’s true intentions, which left numerous questions, were slowly being unraveled through recent episodes. He’s not perfect, but he’s also had some hypotheses.

“Shall we finish soon, Lee Si-hyuk?”

“… Before that, let me ask you one thing.”

“What is it?”

This is a kind of gamble.

If the hypotheses organized by the users are correct, what I am going to say now is definitely the wrath of Los Zetas.

You won’t leave me alone knowing this.

But Los Zetas is also a person who never kills students.

Los Zetas is a contradictory figure who poisons students by distributing boosters, but does not harm students at the same time.

There is a high possibility that it will end with erasing my memory.

The question I’m asking now is risky, but at the same time it will help me set my own course of action.

I took one gulp and asked Ross.

“What do you have to do with the ‘Lost-Child Plan’?”