Chapter 7: Take the test.

Ring-
Ring-

Click.

“Hello, this is Kim Heejeong, a counselor at the Korean Angel Center. How can I….”
“No! The angel-nim is so disheartened like that, and I don’t even understand why you are getting the taxes without properly comforting the angel? Do your job properly! I’m so angry I’m about to die!”
“… Yes, I’ve heard your valuable opinions. The stated contents will be immediately delivered to the care department….”
“Hey! Do your job properly, huh!? I’m watching you every day! Huh!? Just like that!!!”

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

“Ha, ha… this… damn… you freakin’ bastards!!! Ugh!!!”

When the phone call ended, Kim Heejeong ruffled her long black hair that reached her waist with both hands.
Then, as she grabbed her hair with her hand, she noticed that a handful of hair had fallen out and was in her grip.

“Ha… damn, I’m going bald! I should quit soon….”

Kim Heejeong sighed deeply.
Most of the calls she received in a day were like this, so she was about to get a mental illness.

Feeling disillusioned with life, the damn phone started ringing again, without a care.

“Hello, this is Kim Heejeong, a counselor at the Korean Angel Center.”

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Kim Heejeong.
The place where she works is the CS team of the Korean Angel Center.

In other words, it was a call center that received all calls related to the angel-nim.

Currently, there were nearly 800 people working here, but the number of calls received per day was also an average of 150,000.
By simple calculation, each person had to handle an average of ‘187 calls’ per day.
Therefore, a person who doesn’t know might ask, isn’t the number of 800 people too small compared to the incoming calls?

And that was very accurate.

That’s right.
It was small.
It was a situation that was far from enough.

However, it’s not like they weren’t hiring people.
Notices were posted every day, but there was no one to apply.
Because the workload here was notorious in the industry.

“Ha….”

Kim Heejeong, who had just ended a call with a religious zealot who spouted a lot of strange words, gritted her teeth.
Now, she had a more hated existence than them.
It was Lee Hyejin and Park Gyutae, the angel-nim’s care attendants.

Well, the work here is greatly affected by every action they take.
Every time those two cause an accident, the number of calls increases dramatically.

Even the other time, they made fun of the angel-nim openly, and they had recorded a record-breaking 270,000 calls in one day.

It was a relationship where you couldn’t help but resent them.

She gritted her teeth and cursed under her breath, and it didn’t last long due to the incoming call again.

“Alright~ Angel-nim. Let’s try lifting the small stone slowly~?”

A woman spoke, looking intently at the small stone placed on the table, wondering what its role was.
The woman was looking at me from the other side of a solid glass window, and I could see many people watching me from the side as well.

… That’s right.
I was now in a special space where the protagonists who had superpowers or special abilities were always captured and experimented on.

‘Bur, embarrassing….’

There were too many people watching, and my body and mind shrank.
For some reason, I felt like I was truly an animal at the zoo this time.
Moreover, I felt pressured because everyone seemed to have high expectations.

What are they expecting from a kid like me…?
I swallowed, and with tension, turned my eyes back to the table.

Anyway… I was told to lift the stone…?

Coming here and being told to lift a stone… I felt a little strange.
Anyway, I tilted my head for a moment and carefully picked up the stone with my small hand, and

Swoosh-

How is it? I looked at the window with that feeling.

…Huh?

However, contrary to expectations, everyone seemed quite embarrassed.
It seemed like the result they wanted wasn’t this.

… I, isn’t this it…?

I, feeling very disheartened, carefully put the stone back down.
Well, it’s not like they would ask me to do such a simple thing after coming all this way.

‘So what am I supposed to do…?’

I looked at the stone with a very shrunken heart.
The speaker in the room still echoed a voice that seemed embarrassed.

“Uh… uh! Ah~ Angel-nim, you did well! You did very, very well~ This time, not with your hands, but with psychokinesis~?”

……Yes? Psychokinesis?

At that moment, I wondered if I had heard wrong.
Well, how am I supposed to use psychokinesis?

I looked at the window blankly out of absurdity, and they seemed to have felt something from my gaze, and quickly added an explanation.

“We, we can’t help with the methods~ but~ other angel-nims can do it, so you can definitely do it~!”

What is that…!

This time, a more ridiculous word came back than the psychokinesis just now.
In terms of context, it’s an ‘ace student’.

In other words, it was no different from comparing me to the child of a mother’s friend.

Moreover, why can other angels do it….
The basic qualifications of an angel… something like that?
Why are they all so amazing…?

I was greatly embarrassed and turned my eyes back to the stone.
Then, I felt a deep sense of melancholy because it was too vague.

No… how am I supposed to use psychokinesis when I was an ordinary person until recently…?

I didn’t have a clue what I was supposed to do.
But I also thought that these people would be disappointed if I didn’t succeed.

I fiddled with the hem of my dress with my small hand.
The expressions of so many people who were expressing their doubts seemed to be weighing on me.

I tried to calm down slowly, but my heart was already in turmoil.

Kung… Bang.

I felt the sound of my heart pounding.
It was a loud sound that didn’t match my small body.

Kung, bang….

Even if it wasn’t what I wanted, I had been eating well, sleeping well, and playing well here until now.
But, I failed to meet expectations at such an important time, what an embarrassing situation is that.

… What if I get kicked out since I have no place to go…?

As I thought of those thoughts, something welled up in my chest.
And because of that, it was really embarrassing.
It was really, really embarrassing that I, a 23-year-old, was shedding tears.

“Hmm….”

Choi Eunju, the director of the research institute, tapped the analysis table of the Korean angel with a pen and tilted her head.
No matter how she thought about it, there were more than a few strange points.

The angel-nim who appeared in Korea was a true irregularity.
Compared to the angels in other countries, there was not a single similar aspect.
Of course, the external characteristics, such as hair color and eye color, were all identical like a stamp, but what she was thinking wasn’t that simple.

“Huuuum….”

She tapped the analysis table with a pen, and then turned her eyes to the TV screen to check the progress of the test.
The Korean angel-nim was sitting and receiving the psychokinesis test.
It was something when she lifted the stone with her hands in the middle, but it seemed like she was cooperating well.

‘… Huh?’

But that was for a moment.
For some reason, no matter how much time passed, the image of using psychokinesis didn’t show on the TV screen.
No, from the beginning, there was no sign of using it at all.

‘What? Did something go wrong?’

Choi Eunju was full of doubt and tilted her head.
It was at that moment that she picked up the phone to check.

Chiji-jik-

Suddenly, noise began to appear on the monitor.
The noise quickly became so severe that the screen couldn’t be seen at all.

“What? It can’t be a malfunction….”

Choi Eunju mumbled, tapping the monitor with her hand.
Since the building itself had been renovated entirely since the angel-nim awakened, it didn’t seem like a malfunction.
It was certain because all the equipment was replaced.

She, bewildered by the sudden situation, increased the intensity of tapping the monitor.
Then, this time, she accidentally hit it with her arm, and the pen that was on the desk rolled and fell.
Kuguguung….

As the pen fell, at the same time, a sound that seemed to be ringing came.

“… Huh?”

Kuguguuguung….

The sound was getting faster and faster before she could even figure out what it was, and suddenly, a huge earthquake began to occur throughout the building.

It was a sudden and unexpected earthquake.

“Su, suddenly an earthquakeeeeak!”

Due to the sudden situation, she didn’t have time to hide or take shelter anywhere and slammed her body against the wall.
After that, she started to roll around on the floor frantically.

Tudok. Thud! Zzzzzang!

Books fell like crazy from the bookshelves that were scattered throughout the room.
At the same time, all the lights and lamps that were illuminating the wide room began to break.

But fortunately, the earthquake subsided as abruptly as it had started in less than a minute.

“Huk… huk….”

She was breathing heavily and stared at the broken flowerpot right in front of her and sweated.

‘Th, this is….’

At the same time, she realized instinctively.
This wasn’t an ordinary natural disaster.

She immediately got up from her seat and contacted the test team, and asked.

“Wh, what’s going on!?”