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If we don’t start soon, we might be late.

Eun-chae went in to help Gyeoul get dressed, but she’s not coming out.

“What are you doing? Kang-woo oppa went to get the car, we need to go out too.”

“Yeah, just a second! I’m helping Gyeoul get dressed!”

Eun-chae is still helping Gyeoul get dressed.

‘It’s been over twenty minutes since she went in to help with the clothes…?’

What could she have been doing all this time before finally helping with the clothes?

Jeong Ha-yul’s mind flashed back to a past event.

Five years ago, the day Jeong Ha-yul and Eun-chae first met.

-What, what is it! You’re so cute! Even cuter than in the photos!

-…?

-I’m Yoo Eun-chae. Starting today, I’ll be Ha-yul’s stylist.

-Nice to meet you.

-Yeah! Nice to meet you too! Come here for a second?

Without thinking, she took her hand and followed her into the room.

And that day, she couldn’t leave the room for three hours.

She must have tried on about 40 outfits that day…

Is she doing that again?

‘The next day, Kang-woo oppa scolded me for an hour, surely she wouldn’t do that again…?’

At that moment, she was torn between waiting in the living room or going into the room.

“Ahhh!”

“Ugh!”

Screams erupted from inside the room.

Did Gyeoul get hurt?

With a startled heart, Jeong Ha-yul rushed into the room using her magic power.

“What happened!”

“….”

Gyeoul was sitting there, wearing a cute suspender skirt with a big ribbon in the middle, looking dazed.

Eun-chae, looking at Gyeoul, covered her mouth with both hands, unable to speak.

Fortunately, neither of them seemed to be hurt.

If they’re not hurt, then what happened?

She quickly started looking around the room.

No matter where she looked, there was nothing strange.

Why did Eun-chae scream, and why is Gyeoul like that?

“What happened.”

“She’s too cute…”

“…?”

Eun-chae, who had been staring blankly at Gyeoul, grabbed Jeong Ha-yul and stood her next to Gyeoul.

The combination of Ha-yul in a white tee and jeans, and Gyeoul in a white tee and blue suspender skirt.

Jeong Ha-yul, who is gradually shedding her cuteness and transforming into beauty.

Jeong Gyeoul, who wants to monopolize all the cuteness in this world.

In fact, the two looked so similar that it created a synergy.

Eun-chae couldn’t help but lose her mind at the sight, which could be called the epitome of similar looks.

“Ahhh! I’m dying!”

“It’s my fault for falling for it again…”

Jeong Ha-yul, holding her head, sighed and left the room.

It had been quiet for a while before Gyeoul arrived, so she had forgotten.

Every time Eun-chae sees something cute, she screams and makes a fuss.

‘She is cute though.’

Jeong Ha-yul couldn’t hide the smile on her lips as she recalled the sight of Gyeoul she had just seen upon entering the room.

Soon after, Eun-chae and Gyeoul came out.

“Let’s hurry. We’re going to be late.”

“Okay.”

They hurried to the car, but…

“…What do you mean the broadcast might be canceled?”

“I just got a call from the writer, begging to postpone it for a few days.”

“Why?”

“It seems there’s some trouble between the main MC and the PD.”

They received the cancellation notice an hour and a half before the recording was supposed to start.

Not because of a monster, or a villain.

Not even because of a natural disaster.

Just because of some trouble between the main MC and the PD.

Ha-yul didn’t feel the need to accommodate such circumstances.

“Just cancel it. From now on, skip that MC and PD.”

“Okay.”

“What… So this pretty look won’t be on broadcast?”

After all the hair, makeup, and styling were done, the broadcast got canceled.

Eun-chae, who had been lively just moments ago, wilted.

“It’s their fault anyway. Since we’re already out, let’s go to the Hero Association.”

“Right, we were supposed to do Gyeoul’s rank assessment today, right? Did you contact them?”

At Kang-woo’s question, Ha-yul tilted her head.

“…Do we need to contact them for a rank assessment?”

“Don’t you remember? Last time we didn’t contact them, and we almost broke through the main gate because of the crowd.”

“Did that happen…?”

“Team Leader Jeong Ho-min almost submitted his resignation that day.”

“Team Leader Jeong Ho-min? Who’s that?”

“You saw him yesterday in front of the bank.”

“Ah… The bald guy?”

“…Yeah, that bald guy.”

Kang-woo shook his head as if he didn’t know anymore.

Gyeoul, sitting quietly in the back seat, couldn’t hold back her curiosity and asked Eun-chae, who was wilting.

“But why is he a bald guy?”

“…He used to have a full head of hair, but it all fell out because of her. So he’s a bald guy.”

“No, why is it because of me? It’s genetics, I tell you! The Association Head is bald too.”

“Hey, you’re not the Association Head’s son, why are you saying that?”

The Association Head is Mr. Kim, and Team Leader Jeong Ho-min is Mr. Jeong.

But Jeong Ha-yul is part of the MZ generation, free from prejudice.

“No? They’re both bald, so I thought they were family.”

“They have different surnames!”

“These days, you can take your mother’s surname.”

“…Anyway, no, and just in case, did you save the Association Head’s number?”

“I saved it as ‘Big Bald Guy’?”

“…Let’s not talk about this.”

Kang-woo gave up on the conversation, fearing he might develop male pattern baldness if they continued, and drove the car.

***

“Unmeasurable?”

At the Korean Hero Association headquarters.

Team Leader Oh Tae-sik of the Measurement Management Team, who had just arrived at the office, asked while panting.

“Yes, we’ve seated them in the waiting room for now.”

“Who is it? Who on earth is it that the magic power measurement is unmeasurable?”

“Well… It’s the Demon King’s younger sibling.”

“…? The Demon King doesn’t have any family.”

“He picked him up.”

“Crazy! How do you pick up family? Is it adoption?”

“No, not that… It’s hard to explain, but you might understand if you see him. He looks exactly like the Demon King.”

“…Get the ultra-precision measurement device ready.”

“But there’s a possibility of machine error…”

“Shut up and get it ready!”

“…Yes!”

At Oh Tae-sik’s command, the staff rushed out.

‘The opponent is from the Demon King’s side. We must not give them any reason to pick on us.’

There are only two reasons why magic power measurement becomes unmeasurable.

First, if the magic power exceeds the machine’s limit, which is S-Class.

Second, if it’s a genuine machine error.

If it’s the latter, at minimum, a written explanation is required. At worst, it could lead to dismissal.

Oh Tae-sik steeled himself and headed to the waiting room.

“Jeong Gyeoul?”

“Yes.”

Awakening usually happens around high school.

Even for a top prodigy, he thought it would be around middle school.

But… the child who answered and stood up looked like she might have just entered elementary school.

A small, cute child with a big ribbon on her chest.

As the staff said, she did resemble the Demon King Jeong Ha-yul.

‘At that age, she’s awakened and got an unmeasurable result?’

Though startled, as a team leader who had been through the wringer at the Association, he showed excellent quick-wittedness.

He immediately knelt down to match her eye level and asked in a gentle voice.

“Did your guardian not come with you?”

“She went to the bathroom for a moment.”

“I see. Excuse me, but how old are you? Who are your parents?”

“…Huh?”

“Do you have any pain? Are you taking any medication?”

“Are you here to kidnap me?”

Oh Tae-sik bombarded her with questions.

At that, a sense of caution rose in Jeong Gyeoul.

There were people in the shantytown who tried to kidnap children too.

Oh Tae-sik didn’t know, but they also approached with such tactics.

It was only natural for Jeong Gyeoul to be wary.

Even the people and their families waiting nearby for measurement looked at Oh Tae-sik with strange eyes.

“What’s with that guy?”

“There are villains who kidnap people who have just awakened, could it be…?”

“Would they really come into the Association…?”

“You never know. The Association has been breached by civilians before.”

The biggest cause of that incident was Jeong Ha-yul, but people who didn’t know the details only remembered that the Association was so lax that even civilians could breach it.

As fierce eyes gathered, middle-aged man Oh Tae-sik started sweating cold sweat.

“I forgot to introduce myself. I’m sorry… I’m Oh Tae-sik, the team leader of the Measurement Management Team.”

Oh Tae-sik took out his employee ID from his suit pocket and formally introduced himself to Gyeoul.

“Oh, he’s an employee.”

“Why approach people like that? Has the Association gone downhill…?”

“…I heard guilds are trending these days, should we send our kid to a guild?”

“Team Leader! The measurement device is ready!”

The staff brought the ultra-precision measurement device and finished preparing.

This device was essentially made because of the Demon King Jeong Ha-yul.

Before that, there wasn’t a single person whose magic power exceeded the measurement of a regular magic power measurement device.

And now, five years later, it’s being used again for the Demon King’s younger sibling.

It felt like a twist of fate.

[Awakened Jeong Gyeoul. Please enter the booth.]

The staff of the Measurement Management Team.

The people watching, wondering what was going on.

Baek Kang-woo, who had just finished parking.

Yoo Eun-chae, who had gone to the bathroom.

Jeong Ha-yul and Team Leader Jeong Ho-min watching from the Association Head’s office via CCTV.

Even the Association Head.

Even though it wasn’t them being measured, they started to get nervous as the announcement sounded.

‘As long as it’s not a machine error. Please!’

‘What’s with that child? Can you awaken at that age? But why not our child…’

‘If Gyeoul becomes a hero, the manager’s salary will double…?’

‘That shy look is so cute too!’

‘I hope there’s at least a bit of physical category in her…’

‘…Isn’t that the child who was sitting in the car with the manager yesterday? Could it be… the manager and the hero?’

‘If this child is S-Class, it would be a great help to the Association.’

Each thinking different thoughts, they stared intently at Gyeoul’s back as she entered the measurement room.

If it were the Association’s measurement device, the time it would have taken to measure twice had already passed.

Finally, the measurement ended.

Subject: Jeong Gyeoul, Winter

Magic Power Level: Unmeasurable.

“…Crazy.”

Team Leader Oh Tae-sik made a face as if he was about to cry.

The machine that had measured the Demon King Jeong Ha-yul’s magic power couldn’t measure Jeong Gyeoul’s magic power.

 

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