Yi-An stared out the window of a cafe as a stream of people passed by. They wore lightweight clothes, signaling the arrival of summer.3

His mind was wandering, so it took him a second to realize that someone was sitting across from him. Yi-An greeted her.0

“Hello.”0

“What are you looking at? You didn’t even realize I was here.”0

“Just…”0

He just stared at Ji Ha-Yeon who tilted her head questioningly at him.0

Even in the world of Elder Lord, where people could customize their appearances, she had a beauty that was hard to emulate.0

He enjoyed looking at her.0

“The lighting here is nice, right?”0

She smiled and pointed at her face. The sunlight seeped in through the window and lit up her face.0

“This is the best spot in the cafe… What?! I can’t believe you like mint chocolate. Eww, you have bad taste even though you own a cafe.”0

“All the more reason to expand my taste buds.”0

“But still…not mint chocolate. Do you usually drink this?”0

Yi-An took a sip of his mint chocolate frappuccino and asked, “So any updates on the thing I asked for?”0

“You are blatantly changing the topic. Well, whatever.”0

She reached into her bag and pulled out a few documents.0

As Yi-An skimmed over the contents of the document, his expression subtly changed. They didn’t have anything particularly useful. They were about Albino and Myeongsong Group’s attempts to investigate it.0

Myeongsong Group tried to scan Albino’s internal system to understand it better but everything came out blank. They were unable to even speculate how it was constructed because they didn’t...0