It took a moment for me to understand the words that reached me.
After staring blankly at Je Hyuno for several seconds, I seized his wrist.
When I pulled hard, he allowed himself to be dragged along. I hauled him into the room at once and shut the door.
Je Hyuno remained standing before the door exactly where I had pulled him.
Despite the weight of what he had just said, his expression was perfectly calm.
Meanwhile, I was so shocked that even my heart was running wild.
I took out my phone and showed it to Je Hyuno.
When I held it up to ask whether he minded Samra hearing, Je Hyuno answered simply,
“It doesn’t matter.”
My lips parted slightly before I asked in a trembling voice,
“What do you mean? You weren’t infected?”
Je Hyuno merely stared as though his words had meant exactly what they said.
I nearly resented his aversion to speaking.
But my resentment would not suddenly transform him into a friendly, explanatory crow.
I tried to assess the information as calmly as possible.
“Your human appearance now… is produced by an item, correct?”
Je Hyuno nodded lightly.
That meant his true body was the one transformed into metal.
Then why had everyone classified him as infected when the BT-Z virus had never infected him?
Ham Jiwol, the Research & Analysis Headquarters, even Samra.
Upon reflection, the circumstances had made their…