episode_0021

No matter how much you think about it, it’s strange.

They hired 30 mercenaries to catch just four people.

Unless it is for the purpose of making money, that means that those four are equivalent to the 30 mercenaries who rolled around in the back world.

But just the five of us are going to catch those guys?

Doesn’t that make sense?

“Da… Captain, as expected, entering with the guys outside… ”

“This bastard has been… Just shut up and follow me.”

Even before entering the inn, they kept insisting that they attack all at once, but they were all ignored.

The captain said that since it was inside the building anyway, it would be useless to have a large number, but

The truth is, I just don’t want to get caught up in a group of four people.

In the end, I had no choice but to follow the captain and his colleagues into the inn.

A dark interior where you can’t even see an inch ahead.

I climbed the stairs, relying only on a small flashlight.

We walked slowly, skillfully hiding our presence.

To go to room 403 where they are staying.

When we crossed the second floor and arrived at the third floor, we stopped for a moment and went through a final inspection.

Entering the room, we checked with simple hand gestures how to subdue them, how to respond if they ran away, and whether there were any problems with the pre-determined hand signals.

After confirming that everything was in order, the captain ordered by hand to enter the 4th floor.

however,

Whoosh – whoop!

I heard the sound of something flying through the wind and getting stuck somewhere.

“Quaaah!”

At the same time, the captain’s scream rang out.

“I… It’s an enemy attack!”

The shout of Cole, who was right next to the captain, was,

Hissing– hissing-

With the sound heard again,

“Kwaaak! green onion… My arms!”

It turned into a scream.

bang-! bang-! bang-!

Three bullets fired straight ahead.

bang-! bang-! bang-!

And Jabber, who was next to me, also shot.

The shooting of the two of us didn’t even mean anything,

Whoosh – whoop!

Something flying again.

“Keuuu..!”

This time Jabber got hit.

gulp-

My body is shaking.

I’m sure I’ve been paying close attention since a while ago to detect any signs of presence, but

The enemy is not felt anywhere.

However, I could clearly hear the sound of memorization coming, and I had already suffered three attacks in that short period of time.

“Keuuu… ”

Judging from the moaning coming from the floor, it appears that the comrades are not dead but are incapacitated.

He is quite skilled just for hitting us hidden in the darkness, but if he had intentionally aimed to subdue us without killing us…

‘city… Fuck… I have to run away… ‘

Requests are no longer important.

Money has meaning in life, but when you die, it becomes nothing more than idle money.

I carefully stepped back.

Slowly, so as not to provoke him.

I stopped suppressing my presence. Because it has no meaning.

I also threw away the gun. Because it has no meaning.

Tuk–

“Ugh…!”

I was startled by a feeling on my back and fell asleep.

“J… Jason?”

A familiar voice calling my name.

Another colleague among the five who was not attacked was Walter.

“Jason, where is he?”

Walter shines on me with a flashlight.

The gun was still in his other hand.

Are you planning on fighting even in this situation?

“Wow… month… do… Doh… ”

I tried to warn Walter, but

My whole body was shaking and I couldn’t speak properly.

“Where is he?”

“I… I’m fine too… mole… ”

Crunch—

Suddenly, the sound of bones breaking was heard.

“Eup… ! Ugh..! Well… !”

And then Walter’s moans follow.

It sounded like my mouth was blocked.

‘Damn, damn, damn..!’

The guy came. It’s right in front of you.

I wiggle my limbs, which have lost their strength.

It doesn’t matter if it looks ugly. You have to run away quickly.

But is it possible to escape in this condition?

What is the meaning of this struggle?

‘Fuck… I’m anxious, it’s a fuck. ‘Why don’t you listen to me…!’

I swallowed a curse that I couldn’t even spit out at the boss, who didn’t know if he was dead or his mouth was blocked.

chuck-

For the first time, I felt its presence.

How can you hide your presence so much that you can barely feel it when it’s right in front of you?

Maybe he wasn’t a human but a ghost?

I turned on the flashlight and illuminated the guy.

Was it for the purpose of confirming whether it was really a ghost?

Or maybe it was just to see his face for the last time.

He just acted like he was possessed by something.

The enemy’s identity, revealed through a small light, was a breathtakingly beautiful woman.

Purple short hair and eyes. Neat maid uniform. And an expressionless face that seems to have no emotions.

“It is not polite to glare at people.”

Even the intonation of his voice showed no emotion.

I once said this while having drinks with colleagues.

‘If I’m going to be followed, I want to be followed by a beautiful woman.’

What I just said as a joke,

It was no longer a joke.

*

*

While Kuen and Vir dealt with the first wave, I was lazily rolling around in bed.

A single bed of an appropriate size that can accommodate approximately one and a half people.

Unlike the sofa that I usually roll around on, it is a size that I can actually physically roll around on.

So I was rolling from side to side without thinking, but I miscalculated the distance and ended up falling under the bed.

“Pfft..!”

Alessia, who was watching the scene, couldn’t stop laughing and burst out laughing.

“Kuhhh… crime… I’m sorry… .”

“No, laugh as much as you want. It’s polite to laugh at your boss’ jokes.”

I was so embarrassed that I packaged it as if it was an intentional body gag.

Alessia frowned and desperately resisted, as if she was trying to hold back laughter even now.

I laugh a little more comfortably. This isn’t the military.

I roughly shook the dust off my body.

Perhaps because the floor was dirty, my clothes quickly became dirty after touching it for just a moment.

‘It would be better to change clothes altogether.’

So, without even thinking about it, I took off my clothes,

“Director!? What happened suddenly… !”

Alessia was startled and turned her head.

“I want to change my clothes.”

“W… Do you mean here?”

“It’s dangerous to go somewhere else.”

“That… But… ”

She turned her entire body around and muttered softly.

“Director… You are so careless.”

This is something I often hear. Mainly to Mariela.

This is probably because the appearance is created through the power of the system, so it is difficult to feel it.

What I see in the mirror is just an ordinary guy.

Still, in my own way, I tend to be cautious in front of other people.

However, in the case of Mariela, there is no particular problem even if she shows such carelessness.

We’ve been like that for years, but he’s never shown any interest in me.

“It’s because it’s in front of you.”

It’s annoying to always maintain tension.

Therefore, in front of a patient person like Alessia, that is, someone trustworthy, it is inevitable that it will be resolved somehow.

“ㄴ… yes? What do you mean by that?”

“That’s because I thought it would be okay for you.”

“Uh… Uh…?”

Alessia is embarrassed and makes an unusually strange voice.

“Uh… Uh, since when did you treat me like that..?

“You’ve been together the past few days, right? Isn’t it natural?”

I stayed in the same room for two nights, and isn’t it enough to prove that nothing changed?

“That… Is that so?”

Why am I so embarrassed?

Do you think I give trust too easily?

Does that mean you are careless?

Or is it something like this?

Is it that feeling when you go out on a business trip at work and the CEO comes out of nowhere, changes his shirt, and praises you for being a very trustworthy person?

‘What the fuck, he’s just crazy.’

Just because your clothes are definitely dirty, there is no need to change them right away.

If you were going to change, you could have told me in advance to give you time to change.

Isn’t it a bit strange to suddenly expose one’s upper body in front of the opposite sex?

Still, it’s strange to praise someone for being trustworthy.

“Alessia, don’t worry about what I just said. It wasn’t something I should say in the current situation.”

“Oh, no… no. It certainly wasn’t something you would say in an operational situation, but… I am okay. rather… Well, I was happy.”

“Then I’m glad.”

As expected, Alessia is very good at social life.

If the other security guards were like this, we could have become closer to each other.

match-!

Sudden sound.

Alessia slapped herself on the cheek.

Then, after taking a deep breath, he spoke again in a calm voice.

“Sorry. Even though it was an operational situation, he looked disheveled. that… I would like to talk about this again next time.”

“Ah… Yes.”

I don’t think it’s an issue worth talking about again next time.

Well, you don’t need to worry too much.

I surrendered myself to the bed again.

However, this time, instead of lying down, he just sat quietly.

*

*

As if the situation outside had been resolved, Bir returned to the room.

“Master. All those captured were placed in room 401.”

This room is number 403, so it’s right next door.

I told them to keep a few people, but I didn’t actually think about how they would be used.

Anyway, they are probably low-ranking or external mercenaries.

There is no way to know the internal situation, and there are no vehicles or manpower to transport them to a rehabilitation center.

I vaguely thought that a living person would be more useful than a corpse, but I never thought it would be this useless.

“What was your relative level?”

“……I don’t know.”

I knew it.

Although he is more special than anyone else when it comes to assassinations,

Vir is not very strong in battle.

Among the heroines who can fight right away, she is the weakest and will lose no matter who she fights with.

The fact that they failed to leave any impression even on Bir means that they are third-rate or lower-level idiots.

“You underestimated us, but you underestimated us too much.”

Even though the purpose was to see them, they sent such weak people.

“Bir, where is the telegraph that the president used here?”

In this era, the only telephones were landlines, which were quite expensive and were considered a luxury used only by the rich.

However, even this can only be used in areas where there is a telephone line, so you cannot use the phone in a remote city like Eli.

Therefore, for short distances, the telegraph, famous for its Morse code, is used.

Of course, Morse code is not used yet, and text messages can be sent and received simply through typewriters and printing devices connected to the telegraph.

In fact, you can think of it as a mobile phone that only has a text function.

“I left it in the room where the president was detained.”

The owner of the inn who was selling information to the Zetas has already been arrested and imprisoned.

As a result of persuasion in a peaceful manner, the president revealed the hidden location of the telegraph, the connecting line, and even the password.

“Okay. Then I should send you a text message.”

In Korea, where people have been serious about games since ancient times, losers have lost a lot.

The winner denied the existence of the loser’s fingers, denied their intelligence, and denied their human rights.

Even though you only lost the game, you become something that is not even human.

The worst among them are those who deny their parents, commonly known as padrips.

In a Confucian country that values filial piety, parents are a forbidden area that must not be touched.

Therefore, it was more commonly used as a trigger button.

However, as time passed and sanctions against swearing increased, people changed their ways.

It seems like a pad lip, but not a pad lip, but a pad-like drip.

I’ll have to see if this works here too.

*

*

“Heung!”

A large man threw a roughly crumpled piece of paper onto the table.

“Is this a message from the director?”

“Okay.”

The brown-haired man opened the paper and checked its contents.

“Hmm… Is this all?”

“Yes. That one sentence is all. It’s an obvious provocation.”

The brown-haired man tilted his head.

“This is a provocation? It doesn’t look like that… Isn’t this a compliment rather than a provocation?”

“Sending good words to the enemy means that you have plenty of leisure. The mercenaries would have been wiped out long ago.”

“That’s why you send strong guys.”

The large man snorted loudly at the brown-haired man’s point.

“Ha! They sent some top-notch people. Well, at most they were mercenaries, but they weren’t that weak. It’s so strange that only 3 people attacked me.”

“…Mr. Kenzo. I told you. Common sense does not apply to the management bureau?”

“Chet, what are you saying? On the same subject as being a monster beyond common sense.”

Kenzo, a large man, put a cigar in his mouth and lit it.

“So, is the plan going well?”

“Yes. The drug testing is going smoothly, and the Liberators are also cooperating obediently.”

“Khehe… okay. I thought it was a ridiculous plan, but I never thought it would work out so smoothly.”

Kenzo exhaled a faint puff of cigarette smoke and continued.

“It goes beyond the backworld and eats up the entire South. All I can say is that it’s really crazy.”

“I’m not crazy. It’s more than possible. The only obstacle is the management office. However, once the medicine is completed, even the power of the Management Bureau will not be able to stop the alliance.”

“Okay… It has to be that way.”

Kenzo took out a glass bottle containing a small liquid from a box on the table.

“You dilute such a good drug and use it. The empire wonders what’s in their heads.”

“You are probably worried about side effects. Because there are no excellent scientists like us there.”

“Khehe… Those side effects… ”

Kenzo attaches a needle to the vial and injects it directly into his forearm.

The blue-colored drug flows through the blood vessels and throughout the body.

“Phew… Ugh… This is it. This is the power… If you have this, you can take over not only the south, but the entire empire..!”

“Use it in moderation to avoid addiction.”

“Addiction? Even if you taste this power, don’t become addicted… Hehehe… ”

The brown-haired man shook his head.

There is no point in saying anything to Kenzo, who is already under the influence of drugs.

The brown-haired man leaves Kenzo’s office.

“By the way, this message is… ”

A mere three-word sentence written on crumpled paper.

“I think it was sent to me.”

The woman who gave me information about the management bureau told me who to be most wary of in the bureau.

Although he has no power, he is a monster worse than the monsters who put a leash around the necks of the monsters called Pixie with only his outstanding brain.

Siegfried, the only man in the bureau and its director.

Such a monster would not have sent a meaningless message.

The man reads the sentence written on the paper again.

-Long live the life of Neg’s mother.

At first, I thought this was just a meaningless compliment.

But as I thought about it again, I gradually began to accept it with a different meaning.

This message felt as if the director knew about the man’s mother, and furthermore, knew about the man’s past.

“Yes. If that’s the case… This is a provocation. That’s a great provocation too… ”

The man roughly crumpled the paper.

He hated his parents.

Because he irresponsibly gave birth to her and then abandoned her.

It can be said that all misfortune in a man’s life began from then.

To him, his parents are actually murderers who tried to kill him.

Therefore, if he found his parents, he also planned to repay them in kind.

“It doesn’t feel good even if you change your drink, but will you live forever?”

Originally, he did not want to show himself until the day of the decisive battle, but

I couldn’t stay still after being provoked like this.

“I guess I should take action myself.”

Tonight, the Director of the Bureau will be put to death for a misguided finger.