EFME 132

The man was sitting on the sofa. On the tablet PC held in his hand, a report submitted by his lackeys was displayed.

The lengthy report contained details of an investigation regarding only one person.

“…Lim Sunyul.”

The unprecedented EX-rank Awakened.

The man slowly reviewed Lim Sunyul’s past history, which he had already looked at multiple times.

Since when he stayed at the orphanage, what kind of life he led, what kind of child he was in school, how his grades were, how he fared as an Awakened, what his performance was like as an ability user, what kind of human relationships he formed….

He meticulously read Lim Sunyul’s life over and over again. To the point of completely memorizing it.

Of course, he also investigated how he fared as I—21. Because he had stayed under the strict protection of the Cheongyeon Guild, he couldn’t find out much, but there was still a decent harvest.

Sunyul, who lost his memories, acts much more awkwardly than originally, but his core has not changed.

Lim Sunyul is kind, gentle, righteous, and altruistic.

The man originally did not like people like that. In fact, he loathed them, calling them hypocrites. Yet right now, the man was completely infatuated with Lim Sunyul.

The savior of this era… who willingly threw himself into the rift for the sake of all mankind.

He liked Lim Sunyul so much. Strong, beautiful, devoted… and even down to being unfortunate, all of it.

Perfect.

“Haa….”

The man let out a low, excited breath.

He wanted to have him.

He wanted to make him his own from head to toe, and he wanted to color everything down to his passing thoughts and deeply ingrained way of thinking as his own.

He wanted to possess him entirely as his own.

Just thinking about it was satisfying, so the man let out a low laugh.

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Sunyul received a message from Yoonjae on his way back from the Jinseong Research Institute. At the words to meet up, he straight away set up an appointment and headed to the meeting place.

He wasn’t feeling very good, but seeing Yoonjae’s face made him glad, so he felt better. It seems they are definitely friends.

“Did you have a good vacation?”

As soon as he saw Sunyul, Yoonjae asked with a smile. Sunyul felt needlessly sorry and read Yoonjae’s countenance.

“Yeah. You couldn’t use your vacation, right?”

“That’s how it is, I guess…. I’m fine.”

“You’re working hard.”

“Since you rested, that’s enough….”

Yoonjae’s face, which had been speaking with a smile, suddenly froze stiff. Because of Yoonjae, whose expression stiffened as if he was extremely shocked, Sunyul also became stiffly tense along with him.

“Why?”

“What is this.”

Yoonjae snatched his left hand. What Yoonjae was glaring at was the ring worn on the ring finger of his left hand. Only then realizing the root of Yoonjae’s anger, Sunyul smiled awkwardly.

“Ah, an item?”

“….”

“It’s a ring.”

It wasn’t a wrong statement. It was an item, and it was a ring.

“Did you buy it?”

“Not really that….”

“Is it Kwon Muyoung?”

The end of Yoonjae’s voice trembled slightly as he asked sharply.

“Uh, yeah.”

“…Ha.”

Yoonjae, who had been full of energy until now, suddenly slumped as if he had aged ten years.

“Y-Yoonjae?”

“Kwon Muyoung, that son of a bitch….”

“….”

To advise him not to swear in that manner, too much deep resentment was embedded in Yoonjae’s voice.

“…Are you okay?”

“Yeah, as long as you, are okay…. Yeah.”

Mumbling in a voice that didn’t sound okay at all, Yoonjae stood up. And then he gulped down his Americano all at once, before crunching and chewing down even on the ice.

“Wait a moment…. I’ll buy some more drinks.”

“Okay.”

Jumping up, Yoonjae walked staggeringly toward the counter with powerless footsteps.

Is it that shocking?

Sunyul waited for a while until Yoonjae calmed down. Yoonjae came out after having drinks and even cake at the cafe, and recovered from the shock only around the time they had almost finished eating a meal.

“…Ah, I had something to tell you too. I almost forgot.”

“Um, okay.”

Sunyul examined Yoonjae to see if he was truly okay. Looking at how the focus of his eyes was fine and he didn’t talk strange nonsense, it seems he is okay.

Yoonjae, who had become perfectly normal like that, brought up his business.

“You said you were investigating Choi Seong-ha, right?”

“Ah, yeah.”

“This guy, he turned out to be high school classmates with Yoo Sung-hyun.”

This was yet another unexpected connection.

“…The two of them know each other?”

“Yeah. They were quite close. It seems they live without contacting each other now but… who knows. There are traces of them exchanging contact until a few years ago.”

“That’s….”

Could the point of contact between Yoo Sung-hyun, who is suspected of being an influential figure in the Church of Doom, and Choi Seong-ha, who is an ardent follower of the Church of Doom, have absolutely no relation?

The fact that they were close but had no contact for several years was rather suspicious instead. Because they might have deliberately refrained from public contact because there was a shady corner.

“It is suspicious, but we can’t investigate just on the grounds that Choi Seong-ha belongs to the Church of Doom.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

Just like how an investigation cannot be proceeded with solely based on having the [Magician’s Hand] skill.

“For now, I’m planning to dig a bit more around Choi Seong-ha. Looking at him, he’s a guy who dedicates all the money he earned while living as a hunter to the Church of Doom, and pours his remaining time into the Church of Doom too. He’s a real fanatic.”

“…That’s scary.”

“I’ll investigate the rest. I should finish the investigation before the baptism ceremony.”

“Baptism ceremony?”

“It’s a fairly large ritual in the Church of Doom. It’s where the followers receive baptism directly from the cult leader. I think the guy we are tracking will also attend this. They say a baptized follower gets a much stronger faith than before.”

Sunyul knitted his brows.

“…Is that by any chance a brainwashing skill?”

“Probably.”

If it were true, he was a truly atrocious guy. That person who is said to be an influential figure in the Church of Doom.

“I want to gather as much evidence as possible, catch definitive proof there, and make the arrest. Because while ability crimes carry heavy sentences, proving them isn’t easy. Because of that, I suffered a lot before too.”

He faintly remembers. Waiting for a long time to raid a definitive scene, or deliberately inducing the opponent, provoking them, setting a trap…. He had gone through all sorts of suffering.

Sunyul smiled at Yoonjae, ignoring the headache that had faintly arrived.

“You’ll be able to do it.”

“Thank you.”

Sunyul parted with Yoonjae and returned home. He was also reviewing the materials regarding Choi Seong-ha after receiving them, when a phone call came from Jo Seokwon.

“Yes, hello.”

─….

“Hello?”

─Mr. Lim Sunyul! You are Mr. Lim Sunyul, right?!

The lively voice pouring out from beyond the receiver was not Jo Seokwon’s. A little flustered, Sunyul checked the name of the counterpart displayed on the smartphone.

“Yes. Yes? That’s right, but who are you?”

─We are ‘Pleasant Flop’, do you perhaps know us? I am Oh Hyun-seok!

Sunyul blinked. It was a variety show program that he watched quite enjoyably.

“Uh… yes, I know it. I watch it sometimes.”

─Ah, you watch it?! Really? Oh my god. Wow…. Thank you. It’s truly an honor for the family. I am always cheering for you!

“Yes, yes. I am the one who is thankful. By the way, isn’t this Mr. Jo Seokwon’s phone?”

─That’s right! Today Mr. Jo Seokwon and Mr. Yoo Sung-hyun appeared as guests, and since the two of them said they are well-acquainted with Mr. Lim Sunyul! I called to verify.

“Ah-ah… yes.”

─Did it perhaps disrupt….

“I was resting. It’s fine.”

─That’s a relief. Ah, I shouldn’t take up too much of your rest time. Then a simple question! Are you very close with the two of them?

They weren’t that close.

But since he felt sorry to speak honestly, Sunyul answered that they were.

“When I first started working, I did various tasks as practical training and tried guarding Mr. Yoo Sung-hyun for a day. It was practical training, but he readily accepted me… so I got to know both of them that day. I was thankful.”

─That guarding, I should have received it!

─No, I should have received it.

Sunyul laughed at the rowdy voices heard over the receiver.

─I’d also like to briefly hear about Mr. Sunyul’s recent whereabouts.

Even though he said he called to verify, the phone call implicitly lengthened. It seemed like they intended to milk this for all it was worth.

“I am diligently running dungeons.”

─Is there nothing other than that?

“Um… I went on a short vacation for three days and two nights. The Guildmaster said that it’s precisely at times like this that we must rest once in a while, so he adjusted the guild members’ schedules and let us take a short break.”

─Oh, I see! Where did you go?

“I went to an island.”

─An island?

“I don’t exactly know the name…. It was a small island. It was really small. It must have been a bit smaller than that island we saw during the… uninhabited island episode before.”

─It’s really small, wait, you watched that episode?! We suffered immensely! I suffered the most, right?

─What are you talking about, hyung, you picked the good one and lived easily.

─You brat, you escaped first!

─Hey, is that important? With Mr. Sunyul on the line?

─But Mr. Sunyul, if it’s a small island, is it perhaps an island owned by Mr. Sunyul?

“It’s not my island, it’s the Guildmaster’s island.”

─Oh… as expected of Cheongyeon’s Guildmaster.

─It wouldn’t be strange even if he has a few islands.

─Tch, the class of lending an entire island just because a guild member goes on vacation.

When Sunyul said one word, several people talked rowdily over the receiver. It was baffling but a bit fun. Sunyul exchanged a few more questions before barely being able to exchange greetings with the owner of the smartphone.

─This is Jo Seokwon. It’s hard to snatch the phone back.

─I am Sung-hyun, Mr. Sunyul.

─I am sorry for calling suddenly. Things got bigger while trying to brag a bit.

“It’s fine. It was fun.”

─Thank you.

Sunyul hung up the phone, thinking that all sorts of things happen. And soon, a message arrived.

Jo Seokwon

I am sorry for calling suddenly, Mr. Sunyul haha The PD insisted that we must try calling

If you dislike it, I will tell them to edit it out

It is fine

Jo Seokwon

I will buy you a meal later at least

It is really fine

In Sunyul’s view, something of this level wouldn’t be much of a problem. Probably.

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Title: Lim Sunyul came out on a variety show

(Video)

Though it’s only his voice lol This week’s Pleasant Flop

It shows them making a call to Lim Sunyul with Jo Seokwon’s phone, it’s saved as [Sunyul-nim] in Jo Seokwon’s phone LOLOLOLOL

Lim Sunyul is cute being flustered at first, when they ask questions he answers very sincerely, did the broadcasting station folks think they couldn’t miss this opportunity, they asked this and that just like an interview lololol

Summary

1. Went on vacation recently
2. The ring you guys were curious about is an item, not a wedding gift
3. The thing he likes most is Kwon Muyoung, he says it’s as a meaning of gratitude

Comments

—The thing he likes most is Kwon Muyoung The thing he likes most is Kwon Muyoung The thing he likes most is Kwon Muyoung The thing he likes most is Kwon Muyoung The thing he likes most is Kwon Muyoung The thing he likes most is Kwon Muyoung The thing he likes most is Kwon Muyoung

└Forgot everything else here

└fck lol looking at the video, Oh Hyun-seok wrapped it up saying it’s as a meaning of gratitude lollol

└He can like him, even as a man he’s likable

└It feels like that love rather than that like

└Do you think Lim Sunyul is gayㅡㅡ

└Don’t turn it into a strange meaning seriously, if it were that kind of meaning, would he have spoken in that manner in a public place

└EO-JOH-KWON

└What does that mean

└EO-chapee JOH-ahaneungeos-eun KWON-muyoung (Anyway, the one he likes is Kwon Muyoung)

└Disgusting

└EO-JOH-KWON

—He says he’s twenty-sevenㅠㅠ Babyㅠㅠ He was a twenty-seven-year-old babyㅠㅠ

└Where is there a twenty-seven-year-old like thatㅠㅠ Honestly, it would be fine even to put a school uniform on himㅠㅠ

└Real, he looks more like a high schooler than the male high schooler at my house

└Must eat school lunch, baby

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└He said the entire guild adjusted their schedules and went for a mere 3 days and 2 nights, you son of a bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!

└Die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die

└Brutal;;

└A bastard like this should be thrown into a dungeon

Title: Looking at how he answers the phone right away, he must be very close with Lim Sunyul

Good to see

Comments

—It’s good that Sunyul has celebrity friends, they upload a lot of photos too

└Jo Seokwon is also handsome but Lim Sunyul is seriously pretty-lookingㅠㅠ

└Where can I see the photos??

└If you go to Jo Seokwon or Yoo Sung-hyun’s Outstar, there are quite a lot of photos lol they must be close

—Doesn’t Sunyul rarely take photos for people… They do seem close

└Right, he gives signatures well but he didn’t take photos

└I saw a speculation that it seems to be because of being photographed badly in the past

└Ahㅠㅠ

└ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠSunyul, mankind is sorry

—I wish the three of them would come out on a talk show together

└Unpack how they became close for three hours, actually you don’t even have to speak, it doesn’t matter just show your faces

[Title] Are they crazy?

The thing he likes most is Eob-Young (Muyoung)

The thing he likes most is Eob-Young (Muyoung)

The thing he likes most is Eob-Young (Muyoung)

fck crazy gay bastards

Comments

—What do you think of a bottom making a public declaration on a terrestrial variety show on a weekend evening

➥#SchemingBottom

➥To think Sun-bam (Sunyul) wasn’t a clueless bottom

[Title] The vacation, no matter who looks at it

The two of them went to the island that Eob-Young owns

What did they do going to a small island where there would be nothing but a villa

How much of a diverse variety of marine sports would they have enjoyed among themselves there

Comments

—I bet my Apple phone that they didn’t come out of the villa’s bed

➥I think they would have done diverse play even outside the bed, so I’ll only bet up to inside the villa

➥They might have done it outside the villa

➥With Eob-Young’s personality, even if it’s an uninhabited island, I don’t think he would do outdoor play

➥Expert on Eob-Young

[Title] Ring

Looking at how it’s an item, it must really be that Eob-Young gave it

Who would give a ring embedded with a magic stone of that size, it’s Eob-Young

Comments

➥Real, I am a B-rank creator and talk was going around in the creator community too about what that is. It’s absolutely not a dungeon drop item, it’s a 99% created item. At least A-rank. But for Sun-bam to gather materials and make it himself… there is a production period it takes to make it, and considering the period Sun-bam started earning money, he can’t be wearing it already made. Of course, there is a possibility they made it quickly because of an acquaintance with Mr.B.H.M.. even if we grant that, it means he gathered all materials as soon as he earned money? It’s close to impossible. The conclusion is that Eob-Young placed an order from way back and after making it, gave it at the recent villa.

➥Thank you for the explanation, getting even more overwhelmed with more grounds

➥Did he propose at the villa, how romantic