NOVEL NEXT Chapter 5 – Recruiting 5
Lee Hyun-Woo finally reached Rekka and was about to trap him inside the barrier. But, his attention was grabbed by something else. He saw his sister inside the glass tank filled with a liquid. He failed to understand what’s going on. Isn’t his sister only undergoing a medical check-up once in a while? Why’d she lain unconscious inside the glass tank filled with liquid?
“Those damn bastard!! How dare they!!” Lee Hyun-Woo could hear a voice full of fury from Rekka. He looked at Rekka and saw the man's attention was focused on the glass tank. He decided to ask him, he wants to know the truth.
“What do you know? What are they doing to them?!” His voice was full of concern, Esper Association had promised him to help his sister, but now he could see his sister was treated like some research subject.
“That doesn’t matter right now!! I must secure my sister before the reinforcement coming.” Rekka entered the room and began rescuing his sister from the glass tank.
Lee Hyun-Woo also entered the room and took his sister out of the glass tank. The condition of his sister was bad, her previous long black hair was cut short, her skin turned pale and she became skinny. Lee Hyun-Woo was furious, he looked at Rekka and saw the other girl's condition was no better than his sister's.
“Let’s get out of here.” Rekka said while carrying the other girl. Lee Hyun-Woo guessing that the girl was Rekka’s sister.
He picked up his sister and carry her, they exiting the underground and saw an amazing sight.
The figure wearing the mask had defended herself from the other guards without trying. She just stood in her position and using her right hand to lift the building, she didn’t even try to counterattack the guard.
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(A while ago)
Naomi’s situation
As soon as Naomi lifted the building, Rekka rushed to the underground. Alongside that as a signal, the guards started their attack. They launched their ability to Naomi without stopping. Fire, Water, Wind, Earth and other kinds of abilities were aimed at me. Naomi put on her Telekinesis shield around her body since she started the plan, so their ability was blocked before they reach her body.
‘This is it!! This is the Esper fight that I want!’ When Naomi was attacking Hokkaido’s jail, only 3 guards were there. And among 3 guards only 1 of them dare to attack her. Now, because this HQ is located at the heart of Okinawa, a lot of guards were present.
‘Show me your abilities more!! Good thing I bullshit Rekka to follow me, I only trying to connect his incident with his sister's medical problem! The fact that he was fired up to attack Esper Organization with me is a plus.’ Naomi didn’t know it, she only knows that Rekka's sister has been sick and turned skinnier day by day since Rekka was apprehended. She told Rekka the bullshit about the experiment and the other, and he believed her.
‘Now, where’s the SS-Ranked? Show me your power!!’ Naomi observes her surrounding to find the SS-Ranked Esper, Lee Hyun-Woo. But, he isn’t there. Lee Hyun-Woo had chased Rekka underground.
‘How did this happen?!’ Naomi was crestfallen. She wanted to fight an SS-Ranked Esper, but he chooses to chase after Rekka rather than fight her?
‘Isn’t he supposed to guard the HQ against attack? Why’d he chase after Rekka?!’ Naomi was disappointed, she lowers her head and thinking about what mistake that made the SS-Ranked to chase after Rekka instead of attacking her.
Feeling down, Naomi lowers her head, she didn’t even try to attack her enemy because she doesn’t want to end the fight quickly. After enduring her enemy's attack for a while, she felt a presence from the underground’s direction.
Rekka and Lee Hyun-Woo came out from underground, each of them carrying a girl in their arms. Naomi guess that Lee Hyun-Woo who carrying a girl in his arms had lost his trust for Association, after all, who wants to cure a person but make them look so malnutrition? She decided to invite Lee Hyun-Woo once again.
“Good timing, I was about to get bored. So how is it? Do you want to follow me?” She want Lee Hyun-Woo to join her Organization, she had a simple reason.
‘Isn’t the former enemy a perfect candidate to join my Organization?’
“Tell me your goal.” Lee Hyun-Woo asked Naomi.
“It’s simple, I want to take down Esper Association. You, after coming out from the underground, I expected you to understand why I want to do that.” Naomi said. Even while they were talking, the guards never stopped their attack. Suddenly, Naomi was surrounded by an invisible barrier. The barrier guarded Naomi against taking the guard's attack directly.
Seeing the barrier, the guards stopped their attack. They thought that Lee Hyun-Woo will take care of the enemy directly. But, without them expecting it, a torrent of flame had engulfed them, burning them with high temperatures. After the flame disappeared, there were no remains of the guards.
“I accept. From now on, I Lee Hyun-Woo will follow you.” Lee Hyun-Woo bowed his head to Naomi.
“I, Homuhara Rekka, will honor my promise from earlier and will follow you forever.” Rekka bowed his head too.
“Good, now let’s go.” While saying that, Naomi had launched the building that she lifted into the sky. She doesn’t care about the one that remains inside the building. She guesses that the building will somehow survive and floating in space, or landed somewhere in the sea.
Rekka and Lee Hyun-Woo were amazed. They had a look of respect radiating from their eyes.
“Now, our announcement to the world was completed. I expected more members will try to join us after this. We need to build our base and secure funding. I leave that to you, Rekka.”
“Yes!!” Rekka answered.
“Now, let’s our fight begin.” Naomi said and walking away from what remains of Esper Association HQ in Japan. Rekka and Lee Hyun-Woo followed after her while carrying their sister.
That day will be remembered as the start of the Esper War.