Don't smile on me

Beautiful singing voice

Thump, thump, only the sound of shoe heels quietly echoed in the quiet alley late at night.

The female protagonist's face was filled with exhaustion and fatigue as she returned home today after finishing various hard work, including part-time jobs.

It had been 17 years since I had lived alone with my younger sister without my parents. Now that I had become accustomed to the wheels of work, part-time jobs, and home life, I was just living on without even saying that it was hard.

Rather, he should have been grateful that he had managed to live well for all those years without revealing that he was a capable person.

이 여주

"Haa~ I'm tired"

이 여주

"....There's going to be a mountain of work tomorrow too.. "

Yeoju sighed deeply at the mountain of work that lay ahead tomorrow, stopped thinking, and hurried her steps.

이 여주

The world has gotten scary these days... I really just need to get home quickly...

The reason the female protagonist said she had become scared was precisely because civilian massacres were breaking out and people were trembling in fear these days.

It was a civilian massacre, an incident where more than 10 civilians were brutally murdered at once in a corner warehouse or alleyway.

There have been quite a few incidents recently, and it is presumed that the culprit is a single individual with special abilities, but since no one has seen the culprit's face clearly yet, it is a case that is causing the police to struggle.

이 여주

"Come to think of it, I think the news said there was one survivor from the last massacre... I wonder if they saw the killer's face..."

After saying those words, the female protagonist kept her mouth tightly shut. It was because, while she wanted the culprit to be caught quickly... she also hoped he wouldn't be caught and would survive until the end.

If the culprit was a person with special abilities... I could fully understand why they would commit such a massacre. This world was... too cruel an environment for people with special abilities to live in.

이 여주

(They probably just want to struggle... in this cruel world...)

이 여주

(But I realized it early on... that as long as I'm capable... I can't be happy... )

이 여주

(Damn... born with an unwanted, completely useless ability... a fate where I have no choice but to live in hiding...)

The heroine was lost in thought in that dark alley for only a moment, when soon a beautiful singing voice filled the darkness.

이 여주

"....? What on earth is this singing sound.. "

As soon as the female protagonist heard the singing, her body moved on its own as if she were possessed, and she began to follow the sound of the song.

As her body moved involuntarily to follow the lyrics, she arrived in front of a warehouse. In that instant, when the female protagonist’s eyes opened from their closed state, the color of her eyes turned green.

Yeoju used her ability to zoom in on a distant area and examined the inside of the warehouse.

Then inside... people who had entered the warehouse as if entranced by the lyrics, just like the heroine, and a man who looked like the protagonist of the song, leaning against the warehouse wall with green eyes like the heroine and singing a beautiful song...

There was a man who mercilessly stabbed to death with a knife those who approached him, lured by his singing voice.

The female protagonist, snapping back to reality with a shiver running down her spine at the sight of people being brutally murdered, wanted to run away immediately, but her body moved on its own toward the man singing, as if possessed by the lyrics.

As the people who followed the lyrics were all brutally murdered... just as the female lead gave up hope, thinking she would die too,

호석

"Hey, Park Jimin, stop the song"

The man who made eye contact with the female protagonist while committing murder removed the earplugs blocking the sound of the singing and shouted at the man who was singing.

Then, the green eyes of the man who was singing turned black again, and the singing stopped.

지민

"Huh...? What's wrong, Hyung? There's still one left."

호석

"Look at those eyes, you're so talented..."

In that moment, the female protagonist, who had been using her ability while completely forgetting about it, suddenly realized her mistake and changed her eye color back to black... but it seemed it was already too late.

지민

"Ah, seeing that he's not wearing a choker... I don't think he's a slave... It's been a long time since I've seen someone with that kind of ability."

호석

"Hey, you..."

As the man pointed at the woman with his bloodstained hand, she flinched and recoiled.

호석

"There's no need to tremble like that."

호석

I have only one thing to say: won't you join us?

이 여주

" what....? "

When I made a face as if I couldn't understand what the man was saying at all, he chuckled and continued speaking.

호석

Our goal is for the capable to once again stand above the incapable.

호석

"People with abilities are being treated worse than dogs because of the non-abilities... You're pretending to be an ordinary person, but you never know when that pretense might be exposed, right?"

호석

Why don't you join us instead?

호석

"I'm going to make it a world of people with special abilities again..."

이 여주

" I am....... "

Yeoju hesitated for a moment, but before she could even think, the siren started to blare loudly.

호석

"!!...Did the police catch me already?"

지민

"Brother, you have to back off now."

지민

"We killed the survivor we couldn't find and kill last time... so we've achieved our objective."

호석

"Okay, I understand."

Saying that, the man met the woman's eyes just before running away.

호석

"My name is Hoseok, and that guy over there is Jimin."

호석

You'd better think it over carefully.

호석

What choice you truly need right now..

With those words, the man ran away to the back of the warehouse, and as soon as he disappeared, the female protagonist collapsed to the ground as if her legs had given way.

And soon, the police entered the warehouse in a group.

정국

"Kim Tae-hyung, is this the right warehouse location?"

태형

"Yeah, I'm sure... It says the survivor from the last incident is located here."

And so, the police officers sighed as they pointed to a man among the many dead bodies.

태형

"Damn it, we're a step too late..."

태형

"He was the only survivor of this incident..."

정국

"No, look over there, there's a survivor."

One police officer pointed at the female protagonist who was sitting on the ground, and soon two police officers approached her.

태형

Are you okay?

정국

Are you... hurt anywhere?