This side was difficult just the same, but as a result of twisting and turning his path here and there, he was able to find a few facts.
That Woo Jiyoo was the hidden son of a high-ranking government official.
Even though he was an adopted child, not a biological one.
When he had found out this much, Lee Hyunjae had been engulfed in doubt.
He wondered why, after adopting Woo Jiyoo with so much trouble, they had kept him carefully hidden until now.
Usually, high-ranking figures adopted children largely to create a good external image.
But the person who adopted Woo Jiyoo had hidden the fact without making any kind of announcement.
“They brought him over believing that Woo Jiyoo would awaken as a high-grade guide, but the problem was that he manifested as a D-grade.”
It was literally like that. It was a fact he found out while continuing his investigation into Woo Jiyoo.
At the Ability Center, besides measuring and finding out the grades of awakened beings, they conducted various tests.
Among them, there was something called the precise energy prediction test, which was a test that could figure out the probability of ability awakening.
Woo Jiyoo, who had taken the precise energy prediction test at the Ability Center before adoption, came out with an absurdly high guide awakening grade figure, and as a result, he became the adopted son of a high-ranking official.
However, unlike the figures expected from the test, Woo Jiyoo’s initial grade at the time he awakened as a guide was D-grade.
So it was understandable that the family in question had not publicized the fact of Woo Jiyoo’s adoption.
However, after becoming an adult, Woo Jiyoo faced a change in his grade during a re-measurement test for guides.
He went from a D-grade all the way up to an A-grade, rising by several tiers.
Although there were foreign cases where ability grade figures increased, there was barely any dramatic grade change like Woo Jiyoo’s.
“It’s definitely a bit unnatural.”
On top of that, the moment Woo Jiyoo’s guide grade rose to A-grade, didn’t he also snatch up the position of dedicated guide for Special Management Team 1?
Since Lee Hyunjae had been serving as the head of the security team at the Ability Center at that time, he clearly remembered the situation when Woo Jiyoo appeared.
It was the moment when Team 1, which had been surviving on drugs and machinery because they couldn’t find a guide with a high matching rate, finally got a dedicated guide.
Yet, even with a fair amount of knowledge about Woo Jiyoo, he hadn’t found any tangible connection to Go Yeonwoo.
The reason Lee Hyunjae investigated Woo Jiyoo was because he didn’t think Go Yeonwoo would have killed Woo Jiyoo simply because of Lee Dohoon.
It wasn’t just a gut feeling.
He couldn’t accept the reason why Go Yeonwoo had to kill Woo Jiyoo even while risking everything.
Go Yeonwoo killed Woo Jiyoo because he deeply loved Lee Dohoon?
If he killed Woo Jiyoo, he would become the target of Lee Dohoon’s resentment, so why bother?
Moreover, Woo Jiyoo was the dedicated guide for Team 1 and someone treated preciously at the center.
The fact that Go Yeonwoo killed such a Woo Jiyoo with his own hands meant that he couldn’t think of it as anything other than having a grudge deep enough to kill him even at the cost of everything.
And a very deep, sticky grudge at that.
“……Let’s check the documents first.”
Temporarily snapping out of his thoughts, Lee Hyunjae slowly pulled out the materials inside the document envelope.
There were various documents, among which he first checked Go Yeonwoo’s ability evaluation test data. Letters marked in red caught his eye.
「The latent guiding energy is so vast that grade prediction is impossible.」
“The center already knew. That Go Yeonwoo might awaken as a guide.”
The center surely must have reported this result to Center Director Koo Hyukjun, and Koo Hyukjun had concealed this fact.
But why?
Lee Hyunjae slightly furrowed his brow inside his head, which had become as complex as if a spider web had been spun across it.
Go Yeonwoo was a guide of a grade incomparably higher than Woo Jiyoo’s.
He guessed it must have been an enormous figure so high that even grading was impossible.
What could be the reason why, instead of treating such a Go Yeonwoo with utmost respect, he concealed the fact that guiding energy was latent in him?
Lee Hyunjae, who was skimming through the pages as he flipped them, soon paused.
“The period is missing…….”
The traces after Go Yeonwoo received the ability evaluation test at the center were cut off. And for two whole years at that.
Go Yeonwoo’s activities as an esper belonging to the center began two full years after the date of his evaluation test.
What Go Yeonwoo did and where he was during that time were not mentioned at all in the data.
Lee Hyunjae’s eyes narrowed as he carefully read the words “Confirmation Impossible” written in the remarks column.
“……Two years, two years.”
What if Koo Hyukjun took Go Yeonwoo and secretly did something?
But what on earth was there to do for two years?
The spider webs spun inside Lee Hyunjae’s head became even more intertwined.
“My head feels like it’s going to burst.”
Lee Hyunjae, letting out a slow breath, pressed hard on the bridge of his nose.
Even so, he didn’t stop checking the remaining documents.
But instead, it only produced more questions, and no conclusion was reached.
It seemed he should be satisfied with just this much for now.
After putting the documents he had looked at back into the envelope and using an item to apply a seal and invisibility, Lee Hyunjae stood up from the sofa.
Stepping out of the room, Lee Hyunjae boarded the elevator.
When he pressed the basement floor, the elevator began to descend at a steady and fast speed.
It didn’t take long to reach the parking lot.
When the elevator doors opened, Lee Hyunjae stepped outside and headed toward the section where his car was parked.
It was the moment he unlocked the car and tried to get into the driver’s seat.
The presence of two people was suddenly sensed.
Even though it was night, it was a hotel, so sensing a presence wasn’t unusual.
However, the presence Lee Hyunjae perceived was by no means an ordinary level.
The moment Lee Hyunjae turned around, instantly getting ready to attack, his eyes widened uncharacteristically at the unexpected figures.
“……Esper Park Jaerim?”
Lee Hyunjae spotted Park Jaerim standing in front of him and Seok Kiwoo standing at a further distance.
“Did you stalk me?”
