episode_0086

“Sis…”

At Hong Gil-dong’s call, the woman sitting across from him, Hong Ryeon, the president of a future company, takes a deep drag on the cigarette in her mouth and then coughs painfully.

“Ugh… Huh, this is really… I have no idea what it tastes like…”

After coughing for a while, she sat down comfortably on the chair. Hong Gil-dong was sitting across from her.

The man who hijacked a massive private jet in just five minutes was definitely a man capable of killing his own father, Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae.

Should we see it as a twist of fate or as inevitability?

Hong Gil-dong was sitting in front of Hong-ryeon, who was supposed to board the plane that the vice president was supposed to take.

“Don’t call me sister now. There’s a huge age difference between us. I thought I was 50.”

Hongryeon took a few more awkward drags on the cigarette in her hand and then stopped smoking.

It was really dangerous to throw an unlit cigarette on the floor on an airplane, but it wasn’t a problem.

Her husband sitting next to her had already died instantly, and on the ground lay the cold, cooling corpses of the clone bodyguards who had tried their best to protect her.

“Sis, I’m sorry. I don’t think I can fulfill your request.”

Hong Gil-dong spoke with as little emotion as possible, but there was some emotion in his words.

Hongryeon snorted in amusement at how the legendary troubleshooter could not hide his emotions in a situation where he had to kill just one woman.

“When I investigated last time, I couldn’t believe that you were my brother… the Vice President’s abandoned child. But now that I see your face like this, I understand a little bit.”

Hongryeon spoke and raised her glass to drink the wine that would be her last in life.

Gil-dong didn’t touch the wine she gave him and just sat there with his hands clasped together with a dark expression.

All defense systems inside the plane were disabled. Hongryeon was not a specially modified human, just a basic cyberware procedure.

Even if a physical fight broke out or someone suddenly attacked with a gun, Hong Gil-dong was able to respond sufficiently.

“…And, my request did not fail. I’m sure the request period was set to unlimited.”

“Sis…”

The unlimited period is the default setting. The tighter the time limit, the more additional fees will be charged.

“Ah, I have to see my nephew’s face…”

Hong-ryeon, who had taken a sip of wine, took off the pocket watch around her neck and handed it to Hong Gil-dong.

He hesitated for a moment, but he could not refuse the item handed to him by his sister, who had lived her entire life in the same situation as him, but in a more miserable state.

“family photo…”

“That’s right, my brother shot and killed her, but isn’t our honey handsome? The one under my hand is Seoyeon, and the one next to her with her hair tied up is Hyeyeon.”

“Why are you telling me? I don’t understand.”

“…Seoyeon and Hyeyeon, they weren’t born whole from my stomach, but they were born because my stomach hurt. I wanted my uncle, my brother, to take care of them.”

“Me is…”

There’s no shame in that. In five minutes from now, this plane will be irreversible and will crash.

Hongryeon’s body will sink to the bottom of the vast Pacific Ocean, leaving no trace.

This heist, this assassination, was planned by Hong Gil-dong from start to finish. He knew better than anyone what would happen to this plane.

“…Request.”

Hongryeon smiled and lifted her wine glass.

“You know there’s no limit to the period, right? Even if it’s 5 years or 10 years, it’s fine.”

In a world where the world changes in the blink of an eye, a woman who has failed to keep up with trends asks her older brother for a cure that will one day come true.

“Please, kill my father. Please.”

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Hong Seo-yeon, who had been fiddling with her pocket watch for a while, accepted reality.

His uncle acknowledged the existence of Hong Gil-dong, the abandoned child of Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae.

He was a legendary troubleshooter, a ruthless man, a killer, but at least in front of his mother, he was a human ‘uncle’.

“Honey, here’s a towel…”

As a favor, Ji-hoon brought a wet towel, and as soon as Hong Seo-yeon received it, she thoroughly wiped her face, which was dirty from tears and snot.

“…Let’s talk for a minute. My makeup is all ruined…”

Hong Seo-yeon got up from her seat and went into the room as if telling everyone not to come in.

Normally, it would take less than 10 minutes with Android’s help, but right now, at this moment, I couldn’t tell how long it would take.

“Mr. Hong Gil-dong, if you had this kind of story, you should have told Ji-hoon and me first.”

“Keeping appointments with clients is the basics of a problem solver.”

“Who doesn’t know that? Still… . Tell me in advance.”

Hong Gil-dong nodded silently at Sonagi’s words.

If you had clearly told me in advance, the story might not have become this complicated.

But there is no IF in human life. Hong Gil-dong and Hong Seo-yeon chose a long and wandering path, and fortunately, they were able to reach the finish line together.

No one was eliminated, but now is the time to think about the future.

“Originally… I was planning to go find the person who killed Hong Seo-yeon’s parents and use him as bait.”

Ji-hoon begins to tell the story.

“As bait? How do you use it as bait?”

“It’s not that big of a deal. I’m just giving the problem solver a choice. Let’s make Hong Seo-yeon die right here, right now, or meet Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae and have him tell her the whole old story from beginning to end, with his own mouth…”

“Ah… Well, sometimes the troubleshooters find out who the client is and charge more money.”

Sonagi nods. It’s not a common occurrence, but it’s also something that really broke troublemakers do as a last resort.

Even if Megacom had supernatural powers, if its stock price plummeted and its products failed to sell, making it unable to make money… there was no way the government could not step in.

Even in a cyberpunk world, the country exists and the law is in full effect.

There was no reason why the person who ordered the murder and committed numerous crimes could not be caught.

“If you can’t make a choice…”

As a last resort, all that was needed was to use Ji-Hoon’s cyber hypnosis app.

It was very easy to tease Hong Kwon-tae, who had an easily excited personality, watch him get angry, and extract the problem solver’s BD (brain data).

“You could give them a ton of money, or you could use a remote-detonating device. There were plenty of ways to threaten them.”

Hong Seo-yeon, who came out of the room after finishing her makeup, bit the tail of the horse very naturally.

“But now that I found out that Mr. Hong Gil-dong is the… problem solver, this plan will be difficult. Honey.”

“It will definitely be difficult, because if you do something wrong, Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae might get angry and kill Mr. Hong Gil-dong.”

“Well, there’s no way the problem solver would come out just because he called this old man.”

Sonagi spoke and Jihoon and Hong Seoyeon nodded.

“I know a reporter… I could threaten him by leaking information to him and having the media report it for days, but if Hong Kwon-tae decides to ignore that, then I have nothing to say.”

“It’s a bit ambiguous for the police to step in. They must have given him a lot of money.”

It was certainly as Sonagi said.

This operation had no meaning from the beginning if Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae had come out saying he would cut open the ship.

Hong Seo-yeon clicked her tongue and looked at Sonagi and Hong Gil-dong with an apologetic expression.

“Both of you… There was a bit of a commotion, but you’re both busy. Let’s end this heist here and think about a better direction next time.”

Unlike Hong Seo-yeon, who tried to end the meeting naturally, Hong Gil-dong adjusted his sunglasses once.

‘..If I meet Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae, it’s a problem that can be solved by uploading the program to the cyber hypnosis app…”

There was a problem.

Like Hong Gil-dong before his eyes, Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae was also likely to use a very old, outdated chip.

If that were the case, I wouldn’t be able to upload the program, and I might have been brutally murdered by Hong Kwon-tae.

“Ji-hoon, let’s proceed with the heist.”

“…Mr. Gildong… You understand heist, right?”

Hong Gil-dong nodded his head as if it was obvious to the question.

“…What are you doing?”

Hong Seo-yeon frowned at Gil-dong.

She made a face of strong discomfort and shook her feet up and down for no reason, making a clicking sound.

“Do you think we’re stupid… stupid enough to find the fixer who killed our mom and dad and send him to that old woman? Don’t you know that we thought we’d die from the start, so we didn’t even set up cameras and such, and that we were planning on collecting the BD?”

“I know that’s highly likely.”

“Then! Why are you going? If you go and die… What am I supposed to do? I still don’t plan on calling you… Uncle…! But still… How can you send me to die?”

As Hong Seo-yeon poured out her emotions, Hong Gil-dong adjusted his sunglasses once more.

It was something out of the ordinary for her, but family was important to Hong Seo-yeon. You can tell by the fact that she didn’t launch a large-scale purge operation against her younger sister, and by the fact that she treated Ji-hoon unconditionally after marrying him.

Even though I don’t plan on calling Hong Gil-dong ‘uncle’, I now know that we are close enough in blood relation to be called family.

Hong Seo-yeon couldn’t help but be angry that such a person was suggesting that they just go ahead with a heist that could result in death.

Because it felt like I was going to commit suicide.

“First, I have no intention of dying. Unlike other troubleshooters, if I reveal my identity as his son and ask to meet him, and if he doesn’t respond, he will tell the Media that he killed his daughter, there will be a definite effect.”

He was speaking very calmly.

“Second, unlike other troubleshooters, I have a pretty sturdy body. Even if Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae prepared a trap, if Ji-hoon here backs me up, I can come out alive without dying.”

“lastly, Sis’s

Shouldn’t the request be completed to the end? Hong Seo-yeon. My niece.”

Hong Seo-yeon, who heard everything Gil-dong said, pressed her face hard as if she was completely dumbfounded.

“What kind of… nonsense is that… being strong… . Now you’re calling me nephew….”

Hong Seo-yeon clicked her tongue loudly, tapped Hong Gil-dong on the shoulder for no reason, and headed to the studio.

Although he seemed angry, he didn’t take out his sentry gun like he did the first time.

“…I’ll upgrade your body to one that will never die. I’ll definitely pay you back later, and if I can, I’ll punch that old bastard in the face!”

After saying that, Hong Seo-yeon opened the door to the studio wide and went inside.

“…Jihoon, did you… order that? ”

Sonagi looked at Ji-hoon with surprised eyes, and before he could answer, Hong Gil-dong opened his mouth with a smile.

“You look just like your mom.”