Grr! Kak!!

My underlings started howling at the middle-aged man. Smelling a live human and hearing his voice clearly excited them.

‘Everyone of you shut up and keep your heads down if you want to stay alive.’

I glared at them with my eyes open, and their heads sagged. After a moment, another man appeared next to the first.

“Ah, ahjussi! Are you out of your mind?”

The man—who was in his twenties—grabbed onto the middle-aged man’s shirt, his face full of fear. The older man flicked him on the forehead, which then escalated into a small quarrel. The older man raised his voice and gave the younger man a good scolding, causing the younger man to back off.

The man in his twenties, who seemed to be close to tears, disappeared somewhere. After a moment, the man in his forties peeked out of the window and yelled, “You, were you keeping an eye on us?”

His question took me aback.

‘Did he know that I’d been observing everything from the building right next to the supermarket? Has he been pretending to be oblivious? No. There’s no way.’

They definitely hadn’t been acting as though they were hunting something. They’d probably been on lookout duty, and not trying to hunt me down. He probably came to the conclusion because I just happened to appear at the right moment. Serendipity, if...