episode_0426
by adminAll of the businessmen on the list he blew up, including Takahashi, were listed as missing. By disappearing, I meant that they all turned into corpses and were sucked into my inventory.
In the process, an endless stream of trash came out, and only those directly involved in Olivia’s affairs and mine were dealt with first. The plan was to deal with the rest separately through surveillance and tracking after Maria remembered them. Awaken takes care of the little things that I can’t handle myself.
Even though I’m only a businessman, the thought that this might be too much crossed my mind. Murder in real life tended to take more thought than in travel destinations.
But even if I think twice, they were people I had no reason to look at.
For example, among the people I went missing, Simon Elliott was a man who sold weapons to local gangs who preyed on local residents, and Emily Chang was a bitch who dyed children’s toys with toxic substances.
I was rather fed up with the guy who openly sold guns for people to shoot each other to death.
Emily Jang was sued by the parents of a baby whose baby died or had a disease that would have to be carried with her for the rest of her life, but she dragged it out and even killed the parents to stop her. The reality was that toy companies were strangling people to death even though they couldn’t bring laughter to families, which was like a boring joke.
Besides that, there are those who sell drugs, those who traffic in human beings… Surprisingly, there were also Americans who kidnapped and sold fellow Americans.
By Blackfoot’s standards, those guys were all businessmen. A businessman who makes a lot of money in any way, regardless of good or evil. At this point, I could see that Takahashi’s words that the purpose of Black Foot was to maximize profits had become very purified.
What all these different types of trash have in common is that they all see other people’s lives as money.
The world truly had no idea since when such violent criminals were allowed to wear the skin of businessmen and conduct business with people.
If such acts had been widely known, the boycott would have been laughable, and it would not have been surprising if factories and company buildings had caught fire before the police arrived. Maybe the people involved would have been shot and killed on the street without me having to step forward.
So, they probably formed a secret society called Black Feet so that they wouldn’t be left behind even if they make money by doing bad things.
-The owner has dealt with the people who are the link, so the place that was maintained by the influence of the organization called Black Foot will be ruined.
‘yes. Blackfoot’s activity will be reduced for a while. Maybe it will disappear.’
I went and killed the guys that came out one after another, but it wasn’t where they had their headquarters. This means that even though I have the keys to wherever I go, I am not an organization that can be erased overnight.
Since we dug up the information and cleaned out the most annoying things first, the guys belonging to the Black Foot will be quiet for the time being.
As it turns out, secret societies are generally reluctant to come into major conflict with each other. However, it was not the unwritten rule I had assumed, so there was a good chance that another organization would devour the weakened Black Foot.
Of course, Blackfoot couldn’t be the only secret society whose purpose was to make money, so it wouldn’t be strange for them to be greedy elsewhere.
Then a thought suddenly occurred to me.
‘Are those thieves who were said to be phantoms also part of a secret society?’
It doesn’t seem very likely, but I thought it would be quite funny if there was a secret society of thieves. Perhaps the rich will try to catch and kill him somehow. It would be no different from enemies with guys like Blackfoot.
‘Maria.’
-yes.
‘Are all secret societies like this?’
Maria answered without hesitation.
-You can’t judge everything with the information given now. The information about other secret societies obtained from Black Foot is not detailed. Maybe they aren’t all criminals like this.
‘okay?’
-However, even if it started with a good purpose, if such secret activities continue, it is likely that the original intention will eventually become corrupted. I think there are probably quite a few organizations that have crossed the line.
‘I guess so.’
The wider your field of view, the more you can see.
Then, when you start to see something that bothers you, you start to meddle, and as you meddle, you want to step in and fix it. I think that’s what all people are like.
That’s how I felt when I saw the jokes being played by secret society bastards.
If I hadn’t known, I would have just thought there was a lot of trash in the world and moved on, but after finding out, it wasn’t easy to pretend not to know.
‘Maria.’
-yes.
‘I guess Awaken needs to get a little bigger.’
I half-impulsively decided what to do.
Originally, we were planning to increase Awaken’s influence, but we decided to speed up the process a bit.
In reality, it is a place I cherish more than other travel destinations as it is my hometown, but if this kind of garbage overflows, there is a high possibility that it will become increasingly ruined. I don’t want that.
‘Is it because of secret societies that we see so many outrageous things in the news recently?’
-Some things are like that, and some aren’t, right?
‘If I keep doing this, I’ll become a conspiracy theorist. ‘Before that, I need to clean it up.’
However, due to their nature, it is difficult to even know whether they exist without direct contact.
The reason Awaken is scaling up is to create that contact. If our influence spreads around the world, it is clear that it will come naturally from there. We become one giant sticky trap.
I had no intention of leaving it entirely to Awaken.
I planned to travel around the world, check out secret societies all over the world, and kill any bad guys if Maria gave me a target.
-We need to look at places where big or small problems often occur. If the problem is caused by a secret society, there will be clues.
‘It will require a lot of computing power. ‘We will have to collect information more actively than we do now.’
-There is equipment added while making the glitch this time, so it will be okay.
‘I don’t know if this is going to lead to world domination.’
I burst out laughing without realizing it. Because I had no intention of doing such a troublesome thing.
This is a kind of house cleaning. Repairing the structure of a building or changing its interior is not my field. It is better and more comfortable both physically and mentally to leave such matters to a professional with the will and skills.
However, I can clean up the cookie crumbs or flies flying around the corner of the house.
This is something you just have to accept.
‘That alone makes me play bigger than I thought.’
But unlike before, I wasn’t worried about my identity being discovered. Because I have Maria. This was the same thing. Now I can act like a ghost in modern society if I want to.
Even if I travel around the world cleaning, the information about me will only be an urban legend spread by word of mouth by a very small number of eyewitnesses, like those thieves. And, as is always the case with legends, if they are not recorded, they are slowly forgotten.
***
I used the anywhere key to move near Olivia’s house in San Francisco. Since I remembered the scenery there well, there was no need for Maria to search for images.
As Maria had already researched before coming here, there was only one feeling of popularity at home. Raymond was working at a law firm, and his wife, Melissa, was out.
‘Olivia is alone.’
The reason I came to see Olivia was to see her face since I had already come to America.
Because the work here is roughly finished.
The target, the managing director of the Hisako Network, and other Black Foot affiliated trash were disposed of, and the evidence related to the Amor trial obtained in the process was disguised as if it had been sent by Takahashi and delivered to Raymond.
I thought about quietly leaving the materials in the study like in the movies, but I decided against it out of concern that Olivia’s family might worry about intruders. They must have already become more sensitive to this kind of thing since the kidnapping incident occurred.
What’s interesting is that Maria, who looked at Amor’s AI in the process of collecting evidence, evaluated it quite well.
In some ways, the conversational AI that Amor was developing was a basic feature of Android in the New Kind world. This was because the androids there were indistinguishable from humans without special markings.
So, if Maria evaluated it favorably, we could guess why Hisako Network tried to steal Amor’s technology.
-But we still have a long way to go! Even when my performance is at the lowest level due to lack of assistive equipment, there is no artificial intelligence that can match me!
‘of course. ‘Maria is the best.’
She was secretly showing her jealousy in the wrong places.
Maria said as I approached Olivia’s house.
-There are bodyguards around, what should I do?
‘Just leave it alone.’
Since I wasn’t covering my face right now, there was no need to try to avoid being caught on camera.
Ding dong ㅡ
Olivia heard the doorbell and looked out the window. When she made eye contact with me, her eyes widened in surprise, and she opened the door in an instant and came out, crossing the yard with her hair flying.
“Minho! what! When did you come back here? You were in Korea until just yesterday!”
It seemed like she was still watching my broadcasts regularly. She opened the door and ran towards me and hugged me.
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