11 Virtues A Hero's Civilian Friend Must Uphold (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 96

Is this really okay for a direct superior? In the elevator, which took quite a while to reach the top floor, Seol Ah glared fixedly at the rising floor numbers.

She knew he was on vacation, but he was still field personnel—and her direct boss—so reporting before every mission was mandatory.

Even if she informed the boss directly, if it didn’t get relayed through Jae Kyung, the middleman, the whole operation would fall into disarray—it was unavoidable.

But the real problem was that this guy simply wouldn’t answer her calls.

There’d never been anything like this before; suddenly, like some cruel joke, he’d gone completely silent and now rarely even picked up the phone.

Eventually, after sending him several warning texts, Seol Ah decided to visit him in person.

Though “warning” was generous—it was just her endlessly repeating, [If you don’t reply, I’m coming over! Seriously! I mean it! Ugh, you’re really not replying?!]

Let him get mad all he wanted—she’d clearly warned him. Last week, she’d still had to tread carefully around Jae Kyung, whose sensitivity pierced the heavens, but not anymore.

These days, with every day feeling like spring, Han Jae Kyung wasn’t scary at all.

Seol Ah entered the penthouse by punching in the familiar password—and froze the moment she stepped inside.

“Huh?”

It was broad daylight, and because the floor was so high, sunlight flooded the living room through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Standing in the center, a short-haired woman spotted Seol Ah entering via the password and widened her eyes in surprise.

She tensed momentarily but soon relaxed, noticing only bewilderment and curiosity—not disdain or suspicion—in the other’s gaze.

The clinical trial medication he’d been taking was clearly working.

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