## Chapter 208 – An Unpleasant Reunion (1)
“Looks like you two aren’t interested in resolving this through conversation? I didn’t want to force either of you to do anything.”
Seeing Chaeryeong and Sua being so aggressive towards her after their long-awaited reunion, Jia couldn’t help but feel disappointed and sorry.
If they were willing to talk to her, considering their past as family and comrades, she wouldn’t have killed them right away.
But if they defied her and refused to comply, trivial things like family or comradeship meant nothing to her.
‘That stance… could she be planning to use that red thread I saw before…!’
Seeing Jia’s posture with her hand outstretched, Chaeryeong instantly recalled what she had seen through her clone.
– Whiiiiiirrrrrrr –
But by the time she remembered, the crimson thread had already shot out of Jia’s hand.
“Chae… Chaeryeong?!”
The thread flew towards them, only a single strand, and Sua was spared because Chaeryeong quickly pushed her out of the way.
But the problem was that Chaeryeong took the hit instead. The thread, which she barely managed to dodge, pierced through the lower part of her ear.
“Tch…”
The thread was too fast, and there wasn’t enough time to block it with a clone. She tried to deflect it by swinging her arm before it hit her head, but it dodged her arm and flew straight for her head, leaving her unable to avoid it.
“Ugh… m-my body…”
Suddenly, her body started to lose strength as if she had been injected with an anesthetic, and her vision blurred, losing focus.
“Chaeryeong… Chaeryeong…!”
Chaeryeong, who had instantly lost strength in her entire body, collapsed and slumped down next to Sua, and the clone stationed on the rooftop vanished in a puff of smoke.
“With the Trickster’s claw, even a powerless sister without abilities is… I can eliminate her cleanly without having to move myself.”
Having successfully embedded the red thread extending from her right hand into Chaeryeong’s head, she scoffed as if it was nothing and raised her hand.
“Clone… Fireball… Ice… everyone seems to have such weak abilities… I don’t use such low-quality things.
Like this… I just stretch out my hand and wiggle it, and everything is under my control.”
The movement of her fingers was like controlling a puppet in a puppet show.
As she wiggled the fingers from which the thread embedded in Chaeryeong’s head originated, Chaeryeong’s body twitched slightly.
“You think… it’ll go your way…?!”
In the moment when the thread connected and she began to lose strength, Chaeryeong finally realized the ability Jia had been hiding since they first met.
The ability to extend an invisible thread from her hand and stick it into the opponent’s head.
It not only incapacitated them, preventing them from moving, but also stole control of their body and mind, allowing her to manipulate them as she pleased.
The reason why she, a young girl, was able to establish large villain organizations multiple times was because she secretly planted the thread and manipulated anyone she wanted.
“At first, I was a powerless person without abilities, just like you, sis. But the difference between you and me… was that I was a bit smarter.”
When Jia left home, despairing over her own powerlessness and the state of humanity, she was also a powerless person, just like Sua.
But Jia believed she had to gain abilities.
The world was in turmoil due to heroes and villains with abilities, and in order to subdue them and achieve her goals, she needed even greater power than theirs.
“Abilities aren’t something you’re born with or… that just naturally appear. If you use your head a little… you can create them yourself.”
“Create abilities…? There’s no way that’s possible…!”
Since abilities began to appear in humanity, not even the most talented researchers had been able to define a clear cause or tendency for their emergence.
But Jia, who was just an ordinary girl, had not only figured it out but was also claiming to have found a way to create abilities at will, which was absurd.
“There’s no way that’s possible? Then how do you explain the fact that you, Trickster, are being controlled right now?”
Suddenly, her legs, which had collapsed, began to twitch and move slightly, and her hand, which she had been leaving limp, suddenly rose to her shoulder.
Connected to the red thread, Chaeryeong tried to deny Jia’s words, but she was gradually making unwanted movements due to the thread.
“And what’s even more surprising is… that people can’t only gain one ability. Like this…!”
– KWA-GWA-GWA-GWA-GWANG!!!
Instead of her right hand, which had produced the thread, she slammed her left hand into the wall at the entrance of the rooftop, and with a tremendous roar, the wall instantly shattered and collapsed.
“I didn’t particularly want this… but there were times when I needed it.”
‘Could it be… that this ability was the reason why the Director-General’s hand was mangled…?’
Before using the red thread in the previous conference room, Jia had crushed the hand of the Director-General, who had rejected her proposal, with force.
It was beyond what could be considered the grip strength of an ordinary adult woman, and it was because she had created and was using another ability related to strength.
“I have a few more besides this… but there’s no need to explain further, right?
After all, I’ll use Trickster a few times and then turn her into a modified human… and I’ll just eliminate my useless sister without any abilities right here.”
“Don’t think… you can control me so easily…!!”
Growing tired of explaining, Jia tried to control Chaeryeong to deal with Sua, but Chaeryeong was resisting the control more strongly than she had anticipated.
Even if someone was an ability user, they should lose consciousness if hit by the red thread, but Chaeryeong was not only moving her body erratically but also maintaining her consciousness properly.
‘What… why can’t I control her…?’
Jia was slightly flustered when something she had been doing without any issues suddenly stopped working.
Even making her arms and legs twitch had become impossible over time, and all she could do was incapacitate Chaeryeong, preventing her from moving.
The power that could instantly subdue even heroes or villains with strong abilities and mental strength was not working on Chaeryeong, whom she had been using as a subordinate.
‘Tch… I hate getting my hands dirty…’
But Jia simply thought that she hated getting her hands dirty and didn’t show any signs of panic on her face.
Even if she couldn’t use her control ability, she had other abilities she could use, and she could just move herself, even if it was a bit of a hassle.
Without releasing the red thread connected to Chaeryeong, Jia slowly walked towards Sua, who was standing by Chaeryeong’s side.
“You were so frail when you were in the hospital, sis… but now you’ve become a proper young lady like me, haven’t you?”
“What do you want to say…!”
The joy of finally meeting her lost sister was overshadowed by betrayal and despair, and Sua could only bite her lip and express her contempt.
Jia enjoyed even that contempt as she ran her finger across Sua’s cheek.
“Why? Can’t we at least say goodbye? I’ll be sad if you react so coldly to your beloved sister.”
As if she didn’t intend to use her abilities on her sister Sua, Jia reached into her coat pocket and took out a small knife.
“N-no…!”
She pressed close to Sua’s body and held the knife in front of her chest, her face devoid of any emotion, erasing the smile she had had until just now.
“It was fun when we were young.
…Goodbye now.”
Sua, realizing that she couldn’t avoid death, closed her eyes, and Chaeryeong could only watch in despair, unable to move.
“Huh…?”
But the knife that Jia’s hand was holding couldn’t pierce Sua’s chest, as if there was an invisible wall between her chest and the knife, blocking it.
“W-what… Ke… Keheuk…?!”
A man turned Jia’s body around, who was once again panicking, and grabbed her neck, subduing her.
A large and sturdy physique that wouldn’t be inferior even compared to a modified human. Slightly tanned skin and a face with a somewhat playful smile.
“Let… go… of me…!!!”
Jia tried to use her abilities to break free from the hand strangling her neck, but she couldn’t muster enough strength, perhaps because her neck was being constricted.
– KU-DANG-TANG!
“Keheuk… Kkyaaaaak…!!”
The man grinned and threw Jia against the collapsed wall at the entrance of the rooftop, and Jia, who collided with the debris, fell over with a great impact.
“I almost… lost my precious females.”
To save his females, who were facing a life-threatening situation, Siyoon had rushed to the rooftop where they were.
