# Chapter 182
I quickly turned around, but the interior of the house remained unchanged from before. …Was it my imagination? Iyeon tilted his head briefly, but at D.S’s urging to hurry up, he swiftly turned around and exited through the front door.
The video D.S showed was just as she had described. The screen displayed normally, then suddenly turned pitch black as if the lights had been turned off. And after a moment, the same screen from before reappeared.
“It really is true…”
“I told you.”
Iyeon examined the monitor thoroughly as if trying to penetrate it, but nothing was visible beyond the blackened screen. Seeing Mirae’s entrance into the house captured completely afterward, it didn’t seem like someone had replaced the feed with pre-recorded footage or anything like that.
“How could all the cameras be blocked simultaneously when there are so many of them?”
Iyeon muttered in bewilderment. It was a strange phenomenon in many ways, but again, he couldn’t think of anything except organized hacking. The question was, who would target D.S’s house, and with what intention…
Just as he was scanning the screen again, unable to make sense of it all, something caught his eye right at the moment when the black screen was returning to normal.
“Oh, wait. Could you rewind that a bit?”
At Iyeon’s urgent call, D.S rewound the footage. Another loud exclamation burst forth between the slowly reverse-playing scenes.
“There, right there!”
The screen froze. The image of the house interior just emerging from the black screen filled the large LCD display. Iyeon moved closer to the monitor and pointed to the bottom left corner.
“Here. There’s something strange here.”
D.S’s gaze followed Iyeon’s finger. Camera 6 was installed right next to the window in a position to immediately detect if someone opened it. However, what Iyeon pointed at wasn’t the window but the wall beside it. Specifically, it was the most corner area that the camera could capture.
“Doesn’t it look distorted?”
“It looks like a viewing angle issue. That camera isn’t designed to focus on such details.”
D.S said this while looking at the screen again. Even with some inadvertent experience analyzing surveillance camera footage, she was unsure. Since it was an angle where sunlight shone strongly, it could easily be attributed to lens refraction.
But Iyeon was certain. This was a superpower. The reason he knew was simple.
“D.S-ssi, do you know about Spatial Integration ability?”
He had met someone who used this superpower before.
“Spatial Integration ability?”
“Yes. It’s about connecting spaces through a passage…”
Just as he was about to explain, footsteps were heard from the path beyond the workshop wall. It couldn’t be Mirae since elementary school classes were just ending, so it must be a client of D.S’s.
“We’ll talk later.”
“Sure.”
Iyeon got up. It was a familiar situation since his visits to D.S’s workshop occasionally overlapped with her other clients.
Due to the nature of an engineer’s work, many clients preferred not to have others see their commissioned items. Besides, it would be uncomfortable for someone unrelated to listen to their conversation, so it was courteous to step out. Iyeon nodded politely to D.S and turned to leave the workshop temporarily.
Since Mirae might arrive while D.S was talking with her client, it might be a good idea to go out and meet her. With this thought, Iyeon left the workshop and casually lifted his gaze, only to make eye contact with the workshop visitor who was just about to enter.
A moment of silence ensued.
“No way, you…”
The light-colored eyes gradually widened. The other person also stopped in his tracks, startled. Bewilderment slowly filled his face with astonishment. As soon as Iyeon saw him about to back away as if to flee, he immediately grabbed the visitor’s arm. The hand was covered with a thin leather glove.
This couldn’t be a chilling coincidence. It could only be a chilling deliberate act.
“Are you a regular here?”
Iyeon smiled faintly. It was a strangely ominous smile.
“Yu Jeongheon-ssi.”
“…So, are you saying the Spatial Integration ability you mentioned earlier is this person’s ability?”
“Yes.”
Iyeon nodded firmly. D.S looked at Iyeon and Jeongheon with an incredulous expression.
“Is that true?”
“…”
Unlike D.S, who sat alone on a single-person sofa, Jeongheon was sitting close to Iyeon on a two-person sofa. Of course, it wasn’t Jeongheon’s intention, but purely Iyeon’s will. Iyeon’s hand firmly gripping Jeongheon was unwavering, like human handcuffs.
“No, why are you here…”
Jeongheon asked in a voice full of displeasure. Iyeon had only seen Jeongheon a few times, but this was the first time he’d seen him react as if he was hiding something. He looked like someone caught in the act of stealing.
That attitude confirmed Iyeon’s suspicions.
“I’m a regular here.”
“…Really?”
“Yes.”
Iyeon, smiling gently, suggested in a light voice.
“So shall we go to the police station together now?”
Fairy housekeeper my ass. A man using superpowers to block all surveillance cameras and doing who-knows-what in a house where a woman and child live was not just suspicious but worthy of arrest. Are you a pervert? You need to be handed over to the police immediately and get a red mark on your record to come to your senses.
The smile Iyeon had maintained out of courtesy disappeared without a trace, leaving only cold contempt on his determined face. His grip, forcibly pulling Jeongheon up, was rough as if he would drag him along if he didn’t comply.
“No, no. Wait!”
Jeongheon waved his hands in confusion. The pervert seemed to have something to say.
“I, I understand what misunderstanding you might have, but that’s not it…”
“Are you saying you didn’t use your superpower in D.S-ssi’s house?”
“…That…”
If Jeongheon had been coming and going under the pretense of commissioning D.S, distinguishing when D.S was watching the monitor and when she wasn’t would have been as easy as pie. After all, Yu Jeongheon himself could divert D.S’s attention right in front of her. He must have blocked the cameras in the meantime. And then done perverted things…
“You’re the one who blocked the surveillance cameras, right? It’s all been recorded on video.”
The effect of air rippling near the camera was a type Iyeon had seen many times. Someone who had never seen the Spatial Integration ability might not recognize it, but Iyeon, who had directly faced Jeongheon’s ability, couldn’t mistake it.
“If you’ve stolen anything or taken photos, bring them out quickly. It’s better for you to surrender them now.”
“No, hey! What do you take me for?”
“What do you think I take you for? Yu Jeongheon-ssi, you look like a total pervert right now.”
“That’s not it! I did block the cameras, but I’ve never entered the house. Ah, this is all…”
Jeongheon’s voice, which had been shouting indignantly, gradually became quieter and eventually turned into mumbling, making his subsequent words completely inaudible. He blocked the cameras but never entered the house? Iyeon puzzled over his words. That would mean…
“Do you have an accomplice?”
This person is truly beyond redemption. Iyeon asked with a serious face. D.S, who had been quietly listening, was also looking increasingly displeased.
“No, ah, geez. That’s not it. …Hey! Come out! Are you going to sacrifice me alone?”
Suddenly Jeongheon shouted loudly. The scream-like shout echoed loudly throughout the spacious workshop. Is an accomplice hiding? Iyeon and D.S scanned every corner of the workshop with suspicious eyes, but there was no suspicious figure.
“Are you really going to do this? Should I tell them? I’m asking if I should tell them.”
However, when Jeongheon sneered derisively, a reluctant creaking sound was heard. Both of their gazes immediately turned to the source of the noise.
What opened was an inconspicuous door the same color as the wall. It was where they had just come from.
Yes, D.S’s house.
A person’s face was visible through the slightly opened gap. …Surprisingly, that person was also a face Iyeon knew.
“No way…”
An astonished moan escaped Iyeon involuntarily. As if the person had somehow heard it, the door stopped opening with a creak. They seemed to feel embarrassed too.
The face he encountered after a long time looked much healthier than when they had met before, but given the situation, it was unsettling not knowing why their condition had improved. He hadn’t expected a reunion like this. Iyeon muttered glumly.
“Young-ssi, why are you coming out of there?”
Even though there had been no news for a while, he had assumed she was doing fine on her own, but he never expected her to have turned into a stalker.
