The S-Rank Character Is My Alt

Chapter 106

[Incarnation Exclusive Trait :: ‘The Buddhist Who Recited All Teachings’ is activated!] [The Constellation uses the power of the Ten Disciples of the Most Profound.]

Kang Hana’s jade colored eyes shone sharply. A scene of what she had just experienced rose before her eyes in a screen format.

She frowned when she saw the scene of the man stabbing her with a knife. She turned her hand to the left as if turning a switch and spoke.

“Go back.”

The viewpoint shifted to an earlier time. It showed Chris putting handcuffs on the man’s wrist and Hana herself entering the man’s soul. She turned her hand to the left again.

“Further back, it is not here.”

Soon the video changed to the moment she met Chris. It was just before Chris looked at her and closed his notebook after confirming the man’s personal information. Kang Hana spoke hurriedly.

“Stop! Zoom in.”

The screen stopped at her command. With a buzzing sound, Chris’s notebook was enlarged. The suspect’s personal details were written there. With that information, she could roughly figure out his location.

Kang Hana opened her own notebook with her other hand and began to take notes with a marker in her mouth. She let out a sigh of relief after writing down the phone number while the pen made squeaking sounds.

“It is done... It is done!”

She swept her hand over her chest and pulled her hand away from Nan’s right shoulder. At that moment, the wound on his shoulder began to heal gradually with jade colored soul energy.

She turned the blood dripping latex gloves inside out, tied them, and threw them into her inventory. She stared preciously at the personal information she had finally obtained and spoke to Nan with a happy face.

“Oh, thank you so much! It could have been a real disaster.”

She laughed brightly with a satisfied expression now that the matter was resolved, but then she froze.

“Yes….”

Nan was fastening his shirt buttons with a dazed face as if he had lost his soul. Kang Hana rolled her eyes back and forth at his flustered reaction.

She did not fully understand the situation, but she had learned well from Jihoon that apologizing was the priority if you caused someone pain, so she spoke after some hesitation.

“I-I am sorry. Did it hurt a lot?”

“I am used to that now, so it does not matter, but….”

“T-then why do you have that expression?”

Kang Hana could not read Nan’s expression, which lacked focus as if he were looking into empty space. In fact, it was the same not only for him but also when she dealt with other people. The emotions felt by ordinary people were far too complex.

As she looked at him awkwardly, Nan spoke in a dejected tone.

“I am not sure. I feel like my dignity is gradually being destroyed.”

“I-I am sorry!”

“No, it is fine….”

Kang Hana apologized quickly at the mention of his dignity being destroyed. Since she was in charge of souls, it sounded like quite a serious matter to her. As Kang Hana did not know what to do with her awkward expression, Nan sighed inwardly.

“It was a joke.”

He spoke while regaining his usual poker face. Since the same situation repeated itself, he was quite used to this now. Kang Hana probably would not know how to handle things after this, so he had no choice but to do his best to pretend everything was fine.

“I-Is that so?”

“Yes, I am sure you did it because it was necessary. I was prepared for it in the first place, so it is fine.”

“T-that is a relief! I-I will make sure this does not happen next time.”

Nan fell into thought as he saw Kang Hana’s tension gradually ease.

He wondered if she got along well with her family who required a closer relationship, since she acted this way even with him, a total stranger. With that thought, Nan looked at Kang Hana and asked instinctively.

“Does your husband know that you came down here today?”

“Ah! Yes, he knows!”

“And he did not dislike it?”

Kang Hana’s face brightened, but then her expression became puzzled at his following words. She thought for a long time before she finally spoke.

“I am… not sure? Oppa. Ah, no, there is no reason for Nari’s father to dislike it, is there?”

“Does he know that you designated me as Nari’s godfather? And do you know about my ability?”

“He knows. Because I told him then. And we came down together last time.”

“Did he not say anything about it? I understand it was an uncoordinated matter. And about my ability as well. He might feel unpleasant about it.”

A relationship between a husband and wife is one where mutual trust is important. However, would it not be unpleasant to find out that a daughter’s godfather was designated without consultation, or that the wife gave someone other than her husband the ability to store her memories vividly?

Of course, reactions would differ for each person, but he felt he would not be happy if his own wife acted that way.

“Not really? Nari’s father trusts me. And about the ability, well. Nari’s father decided not to ask anything about my work in the first place. There are many things I cannot answer even if he asks.”

Kang Hana shrugged as if it were nothing. Nan saw her expression and thought to himself.

‘Ah, if he decided not to ask, he must be suffering a lot.’

Nan watched the blunt Kang Hana and decided that their business was for them to handle. He tied his necktie again and spoke.

“Then it is a relief. If your business is finished, please get out of my car. Uncomfortable things might happen.”

“Pardon? What kind of things?”

At those words, Nan suddenly raised his head and looked at Kang Hana. He closed his eyes tightly at her expression that seemed truly ignorant.

He wondered why he had to care so much about another couple’s affairs as he opened his eyes again.

Kang Hana barged into the space of others without warning. She did not care whether it was a physical space or a psychological space.

And although Shin Jihoon did not show it, he seemed to be very bothered by it.

Nan remembered the look Shin Jihoon gave him at the temple last time. That was clearly a look of wariness.

Kang Hana was far too ignorant of the emotions of others, but her husband, Shin Jihoon, was very quick witted in contrast. If not that, then it was possible he simply could not hide all of his feelings for her.

Therefore, keeping as much distance as possible was the best course of action, but Kang Hana always created situations where that was impossible.

It seemed that Shin Jihoon was in a relationship where he fully trusted and followed Kang Hana’s judgment, but it seemed clear that Kang Hana did not notice his minor disappointments and internal conflicts.

A relationship where one side endured everything would collapse someday. Since his thoughts reached that point, he gave Kang Hana advice.

He did not know why he had to be the one to tell her these things.

“Hana, you might have just been working. However, from an objective point of view, a scene where a married person is in another person’s car together while that other person fixes their clothes is a sight perfect for being misunderstood as an affair.”

The passenger door burst open as soon as he said those words. Kang Hana, who did not want to cause any unnecessary misunderstanding, tumbled out at a high speed.

“I-I am sorry. I almost caused a misunderstanding for no reason.”

Kang Hana smiled awkwardly as if she had truly not thought of it. Nan pressed his brow at the sight. It was not his right shoulder that had been pierced by her hand that was aching, but another side of him.

He opened the closed passenger window and spoke to Kang Hana.

“Is this the end of what I need to help you with?”

“Ah, yes! Thank you! I was able to find it thanks to you.”

“I am glad it was helpful. Then I will be going now.”

He started the car quietly. The sound of the engine turning on was heard. Kang Hana waved her hand slightly as if seeing him off.

“Goodbye! Give my regards to Nahan!”

“…Ah, now that you mention it.”

Nan remembered something at the mention of Nahan and opened his inventory quietly. There was a wrapped cheesecake inside.

“Is it your birthday by any chance?”

“Not today, but tomorrow!”

He had suspected it, and it was true. There was no way Nahan would suddenly throw a tantrum about wanting to eat cake, so it was clearly a gift prepared for her.

Nan, thinking that he had surely been used by the two women, quietly took the cheesecake box out of his inventory and held it out to her.

“Then, take this.”

“What is this? A cake?”

“Yes, my mother suddenly said she wanted to eat it and asked for it, but it seems she prepared it for you. Do you like cheesecake?”

Kang Hana took the wrapped box. She made a humming expression, then smiled brightly at the mention of cheesecake.

“Oppa likes that, not me!”

Nan’s expression stiffened slightly at those words. It was because he understood why Nahan had gone through the trouble of making him prepare a cake that Kang Hana’s husband liked.

‘Never harbor any useless greed.’

It was clear that such a meaning was contained within. He had no such intention in the first place, and he was even thinking of keeping his distance, yet he felt ashamed.

He pushed up his glasses while feeling like a middle school boy who had been caught by his mother for a mistake he had hidden. He was already used to not revealing his burning heart.

“That worked out well. Then, have a happy birthday. I am sorry I could not prepare a gift. I will give you one later, so please stop by the temple with your family when you have time. My mother is waiting for you to come.”

“Yes! I will go visit soon. Thank you for today. And… ah, that is right. I forgot. Nan.”

He was about to leave after fastening his seatbelt when he looked at Kang Hana again. She was staring at him with a blank expression and vivid jade colored eyes.

When he suddenly thought that the universe was reflected in those jade eyes, a dry voice was shot directly into his brain. It was a completely different tone from before.

“I did not allow that just now. Destroy it.”

Jade colored threads came out of the scar on her shoulder and bound him once. At the same time, a single frame within the space of the pagoda was destroyed. Nan blinked once.

“I have confirmed it. Then, goodbye. Ah, your clothes as well... Do not forget to change them before you go home.”

Kang Hana nodded and waved her hand. As Nan’s car left the parking lot, Kang Hana sat down while hugging her knees.

[The Constellation, ‘The Great Emperor (abbreviated),’ worries about you and asks if anything is wrong!]

“No. I just...”

Do you not feel a sense of heterogeneity within your family?

She recalled Chris’s question and buried her head between her knees. She would not have known if she had not been conscious of it, but the reality she encountered like this always made her remember that sensation.

Jihoon did not nitpick her behavior. He smiled and said everything was fine. But Nan and Nahan pointed out such points.

Every time that happened, Kang Hana felt that her behavior was not normal. Her mouth felt parched as if such a person like herself was becoming a bad person to her family.

She did not know well where the limit was and what kind of behavior crossed the line, and other people did not tell her about such parts either. Except for her two friends with green souls.

Since she took the position of a married person who had given birth to a child, that line seemed to have become more complex and dense. It even seemed to affect her family if she did not perform that role well now.

[The Constellation, ‘The Great Emperor (abbreviated),’ comforts you by saying you should not care about such trivial matters and that you have greater things to do!]

“…It is true that I don't have time to be depressed like this.”

She shook her head and brushed off her thoughts. The time was already 4:00 PM.

If she did not return by midnight today, her family might be truly disappointed. She hated that alone.

“You are right. I will not care about such trivial things. I was born to do greater things.”

Trivial matters tended to pile up and cause a big problem later, but she did not want to care about that. Because she could not care about it in the first place.

“So… I will just finish my work.”

She held her fan again while making an excuse that was close to avoidance.