Chapter 38 Part 3: Commission – Head Removal

[…Are you okay?]

“Do I look okay?”

[…]

I found a place where there were no people and got out of the ventilation shaft, and assembled the arm that I had disassembled.

…If I had spare parts, I would have thrown it away right away.

I couldn’t hide the discomfort, so I furrowed my brow, swinging my arm once.

Running away through ventilation shafts in movies and stuff is all fiction, fiction.

There’s no way a person can come out clean from that dirty place.

As I was inwardly cursing the movie director who makes content as a guy who doesn’t even know reality, Haran called out to me.

[The sound wasn’t as loud as I thought. Is it because of that, anti-gravity module?]

“That’s right. If I make the output too strong, it can’t be used for a long time because it overloads… but I can lower it to the level where I have no weight for a while.”

It’s also a method that I don’t want to use if possible because it puts a lot of strain on the module.

That’s also why I got out of the ventilation shaft now.

Because the module had been used for too long, my body was starting to get hotter and hotter.

I endured until it got so hot that I thought the ventilation shaft might melt and I might fall, but it didn’t seem like I could take it anymore.

I can’t help it.

I stroked the arm that had started to get hot because the heat was being conducted, and activated the optical camouflage function again.

[That method seems like you’ll get caught.]

“I know. What can I do when there’s no other way?”

[Instead of that, please wait just 5 minutes.]

“Huh?”

[In about 5 minutes, it’ll be time for the guards around that place to change shifts. There will be a gap, so get out then.]

Huh?

How does she know that?

Did I hear correctly?

“How do you know that?”

[I hacked it. You taught me, right?]

“…?”

What is it.

I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had heard a story that I couldn’t understand at all.

No, I did teach her.

I did teach her, but…

She understood that? Really?

The thought that she might be saying that without properly understanding it crossed my mind, but Haran’s appearance as she spoke calmly was far from that.

Just in case, when I activated the infrared camera function, surprisingly, as she said, two people seemed to be doing the shift change and were having a conversation.

[It’s right, right?]

“Oh my god. You really understood?”

[Didn’t you teach me to understand?]

“No, that’s true, but…”

At Haran’s voice, who asked me with an innocent voice as if to ask why I was asking such a thing, I was speechless and hesitated for a long time about what to say.

Yes, it’s true that I taught her to understand.

But I didn’t think that she would understand what I taught in such a short period of time.

I thought that I would have to explain it to her while sticking with her for at least a year or more in order for her to understand.

Because the technology system is different, and even the education method is different.

I was going to teach her with the mindset of teaching calculus to a child who had finished arithmetic.

I was going to lightly explain it, adding the story that it’s okay if you don’t understand, with the thought that even if I explain it, you won’t understand it anyway, so I’ll engrave it in your brain until you understand it.

…But she understood that?

If it’s the children of rich people who live in Neo City, they can understand it.

Because for them, there’s no need for processes like explanation or understanding, and the education is practically over if they implant a chip containing information into their brain.

But Haran isn’t like that.

I only taught her for a short time, but she understood it.

“She has talent….”

[Really? That’s a relief!]

Can I explain this as having talent at this level?

If Haran had been born in Neo City.

If she had walked the path of a hacker.

I had the thought that one more hacker that no one in the world could stop might have been born.

Such a person is under someone like me who learned in a crude way.

I don’t know if I should say this is fortunate or unfortunate….

“Thanks to you, I got good information. Thank you.”

[You’re welcome!]

Well, there’s no point in thinking about impossible hypotheses.

I moved my steps based on the information that Haran taught me.

[According to the CCTV, two people are passing by in the next alley. Stop for a moment and go, and at the next fork…]

“Tell me one by one. I’ll get confused if you tell me everything at once.”

[Ah, yes.]

While having the thought that even if I only teach her for about half a year, Haran would take care of most of the information on her own.

“Hoo….”

How many minutes passed while the cigarette smoke was scattering in the luxurious room?

He opened his mouth, watching the employee, who had sensed the scolding that would happen in the future, close his eyes tightly.

“Why do you think I called you?”

“Th, that’s….”

“It’s okay to answer honestly, so tell me.”

“You’re not planning to say anything?”

You called me and didn’t say anything, so how am I supposed to know that? I’m not a mind reader.

While suppressing the urge to shout that, the employee shed tears of blood in his heart.

I want to quit.

…Damn it, I don’t know. Whatever will be, will be.

“I, I don’t know!”

“Good.”

“Ye, yes…?”

“Since you don’t seem to know, I’ll kindly let you know. An intruder has entered.”

“Yes? Bu, but…….”

The alarm didn’t go off, and there are no gaps in the monitoring system.

The employee closed his mouth, unintentionally trying to say that.

Didn’t he know well what he would suffer if he refuted the Guild Leader?

Dire rumors within the guild flashed through the employee’s head.

A person who was fired because he gave his opinion to him, a person who was slapped on the cheek and taken to the hospital because he said that it seemed realistically impossible…

The employee decided to empty his head and say positive words.

If the Guild Leader was wrong, it would be over if people suffered a little, but if he was wrong, he didn’t know what he would suffer.

In times like this, it was best to empty his brain and say positive words.

“I understand. I will immediately send an emergency contact to the internal personnel.”

“Make the content an evacuation. Don’t leave a single person here and evacuate everyone.”

“Yes? No, I understand. Is there anything else you want to request?”

“Hmm, well…. Let me ask you one more thing.”

“Please tell me.”

“Didn’t you notice anything strange?”

“I didn’t notice. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Without even thinking about what it meant, the employee just answered as he knew.

Then, seeing that appearance and sighing, the Guild Leader issued an order to dismiss the employee.

“…Okay. Go.”

“Yes.”

The employee bowing his head and leaving the seat.

Looking at his back, the Guild Leader muttered as if annoyed.

“Anyway, the youngsters these days don’t have any proper guys. Isn’t that right?”

“…You noticed?”

“If someone with an eye for it is there, there’s no way they wouldn’t know. Because a faint heat haze is rising.”

I furrowed my eyebrows at the tone of voice that he was reprimanding me as if to say that if you don’t even know that, you can’t help but be called an idiot.

I also thought that he might be able to notice it since the gatekeeper had noticed it, so I wasn’t surprised that he actually noticed it.

But, that tone was so annoying.

He was saying that although perfect stealth is impossible, it’s a thing that boasts considerable performance.

What on earth is that tone of voice, as if to say that if you don’t even notice that, you can’t help but be called a fool?

It hurts my pride.

“So? If you knew, why did you let that person go?”

“If you came here without being caught, it’s useless even if that guy is there anyway.”

“What, you’re more friendly than I thought. You don’t look like it?”

“Employees are also resources. Resources that I can use and throw away as I please.”

So, in other words…

It doesn’t matter if he throws away or does something to his employees, but he doesn’t like other people harming his employees?

…Don’t be such a child, what kind of mindset is that?

It’s like a child who gets angry when you try to throw away his trash, asking why you’re taking his things.

“There’s one more reason.”

“What is it?”

“Among the guys who can stir up the guild like this at will, there’s no one like you.”

“So?”

Although he didn’t say it out loud, he seemed to be well aware that I was the person who killed his son.

As if to prove that there’s a reason why he’s been in charge of a huge organization with that arrogant method so far.

“Then, there’s no place for that guy to meddle.”

Badeutdeuk, badeutdeuk. (sound of something creaking)

A strange sound started to come from his body, which was wearing a suit.

A strange sound that made me wonder if it’s okay to come from a human body.

At the same time, his suit started to swell little by little as if it couldn’t bear it anymore…

When his suit could no longer fulfill the role of clothes.

He had become at least five times larger than the appearance he had shown a little while ago, and had transformed into an appearance that could no longer be called human.

Muscles that seemed like they would burst out, and huge wings on his back.

A bird’s head instead of a human head.

What would be good to call that.

Half human, half bird? A strange bird?

“Only by killing you with my own hands will the revenge be complete.”

“Haha…”

I might have been taking this world too easily.

I thought that as I looked at the monster in front of me.

“I highly value the audacity of daring to oppose Hresvelgr, so I won’t grant your last words. Tell me.”

“I don’t want to say last words. I don’t plan on dying here. However….”

One thing.

There was one thing I wanted to say to him before fighting.

“I don’t know about anything else, but I like your mindset about revenge.”

With those words, the bird charged.