Still hanging beneath CEO Cha’s arm, I savored this unbelievable situation.
My impression could be summarized in a single phrase.
‘This is driving me insane.’
After hearing Je Hyuno’s declaration, CEO Cha gave a brief, disbelieving laugh.
“Lieutenant Colonel Je Hyuno…. You’re awfully confident.”
Then the two stared silently at each other.
I knew this was no time for it, but I alternated between looking at Je Hyuno and CEO Cha as they stood facing one another.
The sight of those two similar yet starkly different beings in the same place was so unbelievable that my eyes kept returning to them.
In the world of Archive, they had almost never occupied the same space.
Putting people whose individual stats pierced the heavens into a single Trial was a waste.
Even when the government-run Trial Response Agency and the private company Pasung cooperated, Je Hyuno and CEO Cha did not clear Trials together.
They therefore had virtually no reason to meet, yet each was fully aware of the other’s existence.
And of the fact that, in the end, they would need each other to stop the steadily hatching Trials.
‘Though Lieutenant Colonel Je might not realize that.’
He already seemed to have nothing in mind but carving CEO Cha into pieces with his metal hand.
CEO…