If you had to describe Ido O’n, you would have to begin with “responsibility” and end with “stamina.” Those were the two indispensable qualities for someone who lived as though a day contained forty-eight hours.

Ido’s sense of responsibility was not limited to work. Once she took someone into her care, she poured every ounce of energy into steering that person’s life in the “right” direction—for as long as they lived.

Of course, the help she offered was shaped by a distinctly psychopathic way of thinking, so not everyone who received it was necessarily happier for it. That, however, was a minor detail.

In any case, it was a given that once someone entered Ido’s boundary, she would not let them go.

So when Caesar plunked Han Jeheon down in front of Ido without ceremony, the meaning was clear: “Now that you know him, take responsibility for him.”

Ido looked back and forth between the pale, half-exhausted boy and her son, thinking, “This is absurd.”

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Volume 1 Chapter 18

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