80 – Two people who resemble each other
The hero that Si-eun said had never come was clearly in front of her.
He wasn’t just passing by, he was saying something that clearly meant he had come to visit me.
Were you from the same agency as Draconius?
The thought passed only briefly, but I am a civil servant belonging to the Hero Bureau.
I knew that Masquerade belonged to a completely different agency.
So Masquerade came all the way here to see me.
That is now.
It was the only conclusion I could come to as I stood there in a daze.
Jerk! Damn it! Damn it!
Like a cheerful and refreshing personality.
The Masquerade, whose footsteps were cheerful, quickly approached me.
“For all the fuss about how great it is, it looks ordinary.”
“Oh, hello… ….”
Immediately scanning the exterior without even saying hello.
At first glance, I felt the same feeling as when I first met Ruina.
Now that I think about it, no matter how many times I think about it, it’s Ruina and the Masquerade.
Since the two always fight against each other, there is a subtle resemblance between them.
For both of them, no information is known to the outside world, and their entire bodies are wrapped in masks.
“Hmm. I’m sorry. “I am the Masquerade, the messenger from hell.”
After a few beats of delay in his greeting, Masquerade suddenly held out his hand.
“What the hell?” Was the self-introduction he always said whenever he appeared on the scene.
I held the hero’s hand and shook his hand awkwardly.
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“Oh. This this. “Aren’t you Mr. Masquerade?”
Could it be that voices were heard inside the living room?
No, there’s no way I couldn’t hear this booming voice.
Anyway, Draconius’ large dragon head popped out through the gap in the door, showing off his anger.
“Wow. “It’s the real Masquerade.”
“Oh my… ….”
Soon, the other heroes also put their faces under Draconius and expressed their appreciation.
As Si-eun said, is it because someone who is quite individualistic came to visit?
Although they were clearly among the same top heroes, their attitude toward Masquerade seemed more surprising than welcoming.
“Mr. Masquerade. Are you really here to see the handler?”
He seems to be close to Blaze because he belongs to the same agency.
Si-eun asked with an embarrassed face.
“Hmm! “I heard that there is someone with amazing abilities that I have never seen before!”
Even the answer is very confident and exciting.
He had an arrogant personality, like something out of an old generation special effects hero film.
“Come on, don’t just stand there, come in.”
“Please excuse me!”
Soon Draconius kindly opened the door.
Masquerade, who was still with his arms crossed, nodded his head sharply and took strides into the living room.
A sudden confrontation with the 2nd place hero ranking.
And that hero came to see me because he wanted to see me.
I felt sick again as the burden I had forgotten for a while reached its peak again.
“Handler? “Are you sure you haven’t found the bathroom yet?”
Draconius looked down at me and asked.
“Ah, ah. No, no. hahahahaha.”
I was dumbfounded by that, and even though I hadn’t done anything wrong, I bowed my head and walked away to the bathroom location that Draconius had told me about.
First, report to team leader Jang Se-hee and then go to sleep.
I think I should go wash my face or something.
* * *
After the Masquerade suddenly arrived.
The heroes’ meeting continued much the same as before.
Unexpectedly, Masquerade didn’t show much interest in me, and they just checked my abilities with their own bodies like other heroes.
Other than that, I just sit there and do nothing, and when someone talks to me, I say “Hmm!”, “I see!”, “No!” All he could say was a bold, short answer.
Is that why?
Other heroes who had actively talked to him at first soon stopped talking to Masquerade that much.
No, whatever. The other person gives such a meaningless answer.
Even if I wanted to talk at length, it wouldn’t be worth it if I did that.
“You really wear that mask all day.”
“Because it’s my identity!”
Fortunately, they were from the same agency, and Si-eun was the only one who took care of Masquerade.
Well, what did they actually do to even say they would take care of that?
I just threw in a few random words.
“……… ….”
Rather than that, let’s look at myself now.
Masquerade only figured out my abilities and didn’t ask any additional questions after that.
But he didn’t just ask questions.
He was just looking at me with his arms tightly crossed.
That gaze was so blatant that even Si-eun sneaked up on me and showed a worried look on her face.
“Mr. Masquerade. I don’t usually look at other people that closely……. “Did you do something wrong?”
“Is that possible? “I saw that hero for the first time today.”
Of course, I may have encountered it somewhere that I don’t remember.
At least in my memory, Blaze was the first time I faced a famous hero as an adult.
I’m starting to have a really bad feeling about something…….
You won’t be looking at me like that until the end of this meeting, right?
………… There was a time when I thought that too.
“I will contact you again. Goodbye, Handler.”
“Thank you for the invitation today, Draconius.”
“Then Seonghun. See you later.”
“Uh, huh. “You and Gyeongtae are doing well too.”
“Ah. What.”
As time passed, the hero group, which had not achieved much, was disbanded.
I had just come out of the agency lobby, saying goodbye to the heroes.
“Then… ….”
The moment Ruina craned her neck and was about to head to her house where she was waiting.
I stood tall and slowly turned my head.
There, arms still tightly folded.
A hero in a white rider suit was standing looking at me.
Because of the mask helmet that covers his entire face, I have no idea what the hero is thinking right now.
“Hey…. Masquerade?”
“Hmm! “Are you going back now?”
“Yeah, that’s true… …. “Isn’t Masquerade returning?”
“Did you say hero handler?”
Could it be that my words are not being heard properly because of that helmet?
I asked if I was going back, but I was asked back.
It’s difficult.
This hero is really difficult in many ways.
I was secretly missing Draconius’ overly polite kindness.
“Hmm… ….”
Modulated breathing sounds were heard from behind the mask.
Masquerade was slowly loosening his tightly bound arms.
Soon his posture became as if he was subtly blocking my path home.
“Uh, over there… ….”
“Hero Handler. Any abilities you have are nullified. “It lasts about 3 minutes.”
“Yes?”
What is this hero suddenly saying again…? … ?
My personal information? Suddenly? Why?
“Handler. “Do you know much about the villain Ruina?”
Soon, another completely unexpected question was heard softly.
Masquerade, who always speaks loudly, knows how to speak in such a low voice.
No, no. More than that, why are you suddenly asking about Ruina?
I don’t think so, but… ….
Do you know anything about the relationship between me and Ruina?
“Of course you know, right? “There is no one in this world who doesn’t know Ruina.”
I tried to maintain my composure and answered while clenching my hands in my pants pockets.
In my hand was a cell phone, the only means of contact with the National Intelligence Service, which would support me unconditionally whenever I called.
If you make a mistake, there is also a way to call her directly through her accessory communication network, which is connected 1:1 with her Ruina…….
If you call Ruina straight away with that question, the true meaning of which is still unknown, it will only be a matter of time before her doubts turn into certainty.
I looked directly at him without thinking about the Masquerade.
If you have strong thoughts here, your thoughts will be passed on to Ruina even if you don’t want to send them.
“Hero Handler.”
Eventually, with our backs turned to the setting red sun.
Masquerade quietly reached out his hand to me.
“Can you help me?”
………… Huh?
Help? Help me, what does this mean?
“Villain Ruina. I must catch that person. “For that, we definitely need your skills.”
The Masked Hero’s modulated voice politely asks.
Seeing that calm appearance, the doubts I had only grew bigger.