— Ah! K!

"Kyaaah! You're alive? Are you okay? Are you in Korea now? Where are you?"

K couldn't hide her joy at the voice on the other end of the line.

This was the man she'd guarded—the one who'd set off a huge incident in Hong Kong and vanished with a Russian agent.

She'd rushed back to Korea, and her identity had been laundered at a safe house.

Every record of K, the contracted black agent, had been formatted.

Things had moved faster than she'd expected.

No one brought up renewing her contract.

Her direct superior, the First Deputy Director, had called one last time and told her to live well as a civilian from now on.

A civilian through and through now, K had lost all her channels of information.

Even among black agents there were levels. K had been treated as a disposable card, so she didn't have a single colleague who might pass her news.

— This is the company. Where is K?

"Me! Seoul! And please call me Kim Han-byeol~ K has vanished into history~."

Kim Han-byeol was happy.

Hearing the man's voice, alive, put her at ease.

The Russians were people you could never read.

Tasha she could trust, but the people above her were frightening.

The FSB, which handed out assassination orders more freely than anyone.

She couldn't find out anything.

Now she was unemployed.

She couldn't even reveal that she'd been an NIS black agent until now.

Once she was formatted, every record of her disappeared.

Only the NIS First Deputy Director, who knew her, could remember her past.

Even NIS employees didn't know about black agents.

She'd been selected as an agent for a special ability when she first signed, but it had vanished a few years ago.

A unique psychic power: she could glimpse other people's futures for a brief moment.

Thanks to that power, she'd been able to save the Russian agent Tasha back then.

But after that the ability faded away without a sound, and though she was still called a black agent, her position became murky.

She'd…