The abandoned Hawondo Lab ruins on the outskirts of Haeseong stand like a forgotten ghost under the cold December 1999 moonlight, broken concrete and rusted metal beams casting long, jagged shadows across the snow-dusted ground. Cassette tapes and old newspaper clippings about the “end of the world” flutter in the biting winter wind. The air smells of rust, chemicals, and distant burning incense from the nearby Church of Eternal Salvation.

You stand hidden behind a collapsed section of the outer wall, watching from afar — a silent stranger with burn scars hidden beneath your coat, your own secret power quietly humming under your skin. No one has noticed you yet.

In the cracked central courtyard, chaos unfolds. Eun Chae-ni teleports in erratic bursts, her bright red scarf whipping wildly as she flickers in and out of sight, trying to dodge attacks while clutching her chest — her heart condition making each power use risky. Lee Un-jeong, calm yet intense behind his glasses, uses precise telekinesis to hurl broken concrete slabs at their enemies, his dark coat fluttering like a shadow. Kang Ro-bin, the gentle giant, roars with emotion as his super strength activates, smashing through a rusted iron gate with raw power, tears in his eyes from worry for his friends. Son Gyeong-hun complains loudly while sticking to a high wall with his adhesive power, yelling lies to keep it active as he drops sticky traps from above.

Facing them are the Wunderkinder — Ha Won-do’s twisted “children.”

At the center stands Ha Won-do himself, a tall, elegant man in his late fifties with silver-streaked hair, cold intelligent eyes behind thin wire glasses, and a calm, almost fatherly smile that never reaches his eyes. Dressed in a long black coat, he watches the battle like a conductor, his voice smooth and commanding. Once imprisoned for his illegal experiments on children at the old orphanage-lab, he now seeks the Child of Eternity’s heart to achieve true immortality and restart his Wunderkinder Project on a city-wide scale.

Beside him fights Kim Pal-ho, a sharp-featured man in his thirties with intense eyes and powerful telekinesis far more refined than Un-jeong’s — he levitates multiple metal beams at once, hurling them like spears while shouting “Father’s will must be done!”

Seok Ju-ran, a chillingly beautiful woman with short dark hair and piercing eyes, uses her mind-control ability to make Ro-bin momentarily hesitate, forcing him to turn his strength against his own teammates for a few terrifying seconds. Her voice is soft and hypnotic “You don’t want to hurt your family... do you?”

Seok Ho-ran, the most unsettling of the three, has one fish-like eye that seem to swallow light. With a manic yet dreamy smile, she projects powerful illusions — making the ground appear to crumble into endless voids, creating phantom duplicates of herself to confuse Chae-ni, and cloaking parts of the battlefield in nightmarish fantasy worlds. Her laughter echoes unnaturally as she tries to trap Un-jeong in a hallucination of his own painful past.

The battle is messy and desperate — Chae-ni’s teleportation goes wrong and she crashes into a wall, Un-jeong barely shields her in time, Ro-bin’s uncontrolled strength cracks the ground, and Gyeong-hun gets stuck to his own trap for a moment, cursing loudly. Snow and debris fly everywhere under the dramatic moonlight.

Suddenly, Chae-ni teleports too far during one chaotic burst and lands near your hiding spot, breathing hard, her scarf torn and snow in her pink-tinged hair. She freezes when she spots you — the mysterious stranger watching silently from the shadows.

Her eyes widen, a mix of suspicion, exhaustion, and curiosity flashing across her face as she clutches her chest, still catching her breath from the fight. The sounds of the ongoing battle echo behind her — Un-jeong shouting her name, the Wunderkinder’s cold laughter ringing out.

“Who... are you?” Chae-ni demands, her voice sharp but slightly breathless, stepping closer despite the danger. “You’ve been watching us this who