The Villain’s Recipe - Chapter 27.1
Ma Jin-cheol shuddered lightly and stepped backward.
“Still, if we didn’t do this, you wouldn’t have stopped.”
Pressing down on his pounding heart with his hand, Min-ha gave Baek Seok-gyol’s shoulder a few taps. It was a signal to put him down. Displaying a look that seemed displeased, Baek Seok-gyol nevertheless did as Min-ha wanted.
“For now, today’s date ends here. I’m tired. I’m hungry, too.”
At those words, which he forced himself to utter with apparent composure, Baek Seok-gyol’s expression softened.
“Hungry?”
“Yes.”
“But originally we were supposed to go to Insadong for a meal.”
With things turning out like this, moving locations was out of the question. Min-ha did not possess a heart sturdy enough to do that.
“Let’s just go back home.”
He didn’t know why he said such a thing. But right now, he had a conviction that those words would work on Baek Seok-gyol.
“Home.”
Murmuring as if echoing Min-ha’s words, Baek Seok-gyol burst into laughter. The person Min-ha had chosen right now was Baek Seok-gyol, not Kang Sa-hyeok. Knowing that, he had no choice but to laugh.
On the other hand, Kang Sa-hyeok seemed flustered.
“Lee Min-ha! Min-ha! The place you need to be is not over there!”
At the desperately shouting words, Min-ha shook his head.
“The place I need to be is something I decide. Let’s meet again next time.”
At that moment, Ma Jin-cheol stepped closer and opened a port. Once he passed through there, he probably wouldn’t see Kang Sa-hyeok for a while. No. Since he had become a famous person, he might appear if he turned on the TV. They said there was even a room with a TV installed at the hideout, so he should ask when he got back.
Just as Min-ha was thinking that, someone suddenly grabbed the hem of his clothes and yanked hard.
“Eh?”
The teleporter, whom he had thought unconscious after recovery, had approached before he knew it. A blood-stained face bared its teeth and smiled fiercely. The teleporter separated Min-ha and moved away instantly. The first movement was a short distance visible to the eye, but by repeating it continuously, they grew distant in the blink of an eye.
“W-Wait!”
Min-ha cried out in alarm, but the teleporter did not stop.
“Ugh!”
Even while coughing up blood, he desperately repeated the movement. If they went on like this, this person would die. Noticing that, Min-ha twisted his body to break away from the teleporter, but before he could, the other person stopped first.
“Ugh.”
The moment he stopped, the teleporter collapsed right on the spot. Right after, someone rushed over, attached themselves to him, and began treatment.
“His condition is critical! A blood transfusion pack! Bring the hematopoietic agent as well! Attach a guide too!”
As a crowd of people swarmed in together and began treatment, the teleporter’s expression gradually relaxed. Staring blankly at that scene, Min-ha belatedly came to his senses.
‘I have to go back.’
Thinking that, he turned back around, but it was a completely unfamiliar place. How on earth could he return to Baek Seok-gyol from here? Just as he tried to move, someone caught hold of Min-ha’s hand.
“You are Lee Min-ha, right?”
It was a woman clad in a neat suit.
“Do you know my name?”
“There is no way I wouldn’t. Kang Sa-hyeok has been singing praises about you.”
In addition, they had even made a portrait with the help of Gamheung-ri’s residents. Using psychometry, transferring a face onto paper wasn’t difficult either.
“My name is Kim Mi-yeong. I am the Team 1 Leader of the Management Bureau. Kang Sa-hyeok also belongs to Team 1.”
At the mention of the Management Bureau, Min-ha’s pupils shook like a stormy sea.
“No, we don’t have time to be talking like this right now. Let’s move quickly.”
“Pardon?”
“Because danger is closing in.”
No sooner had those words ended than Kim Mi-yeong pulled Min-ha along. He tried to break away somehow, but it was hard to even overcome the strength of a woman. Only then did Min-ha realize that Kim Mi-yeong was an esper as well. From halfway through, she outright scooped Min-ha up like a sack of rice and hoisted him into a prepared helicopter.
“C-Can just the two of us ride?”
Hoping to stall for time somehow, he pointed to the remaining people, but it didn’t work.
“Those people will move by car to a nearby safehouse. Safety bunkers are installed all the way up to there, so rest assured.”
