episode_0564
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Considering the influence Apophis had, I expected that this would yield a pretty hefty loot.
But the wealth that Talik Benton had amassed was greater than I had expected.
-Personal assets stored in Swiss banks amount to about $200 million, while Apophis and cult funds amount to about $70 million and $20 million, respectively. Official organization funds stored in Bank of America and Citibank are scattered here and there, but when added up, they amount to tens of millions of dollars, which is not a small amount.
‘That many?’
– This is only a calculation of pure cash assets. If you calculate the value of the companies involved, it comes to an amount in the tens of billions.
‘… … .’
To be honest, I didn’t really have high expectations for him because the scale of the cult he ran wasn’t that big.
Because the number of fanatics staying at the camp was only about a hundred.
But according to Maria’s explanation, those fanatics were also just people who made a splash in their own fields.
Looking at how well-funded the group was, one could only assume that Talik Benton had carefully selected members of a cult.
-I will swap out people here who have some social status with the executives of Apophis.
‘Yeah. There won’t be any problems, right?’
-Yes, looking at the information, it seems like they were people who were obsessed with a cult and usually just disappeared without saying anything.
To think that all this loot could be swallowed up in just one night.
Of course, no matter how big the food was, I had the ability to digest it without feeling burdened, but I couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed.
It feels like someone is throwing a fist at me.
‘Considering Apophis’s weight class, it felt like it was summarized too easily.’
Even if it was a cult, Talik Menton was the boss of Apophis, who was active within the US military.
However, in order to avoid revealing his connection to Apophis, the boy created his own kingdom in this remote area.
Although some of the guards seemed to be former military personnel, I had already taken care of the important officers.
It is not hard to understand why Maria met such a helpless end, as not only her limbs but also her torso was cut off and even her signals to the outside world were cut off.
Even if there had been contact with the outside world, it probably wouldn’t have made much of a difference.
Perhaps Talik Benton had intended to arrest anyone who found out about Apophis and the cult, but he never expected that they would come forward so recklessly and annihilate his forces.
From a modern perspective, that was a natural way of thinking.
One of the reasons for the existence of the judicial system is to rehabilitate criminals through due process.
The problem is that it was a complacent response in front of me.
‘Thanks to that, I got a lot of loot.’
At this point, I thought it would be okay to give some consolation money to Jeong Su-jin and Terence.
Even if it’s okay for Terence since he was given the position of the mastermind behind Apophis, it’s even worse for Jeong Su-jin since she was the only one who suffered damage in this incident.
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“I’m fine. I didn’t do anything special. My brother suffered all the hardships, so it’s a bit weird to just receive money as consolation money.”
“… No need at all?”
“Yeah.”
Jeong Su-jin rejected Min-ho’s offer to give her consolation money using the money he had taken from Talic Benton.
Minho, even though he was fine and unhurt, he was shot and fought against a cult, so it was only natural that he would receive a reward.
Jeong Su-jin’s heart still ached when she thought about him jumping into the crowd of fanatics.
Now I know that Minho is not the kind of person who would put himself in such danger, but regardless of what I know, I can’t help but worry when someone I like does something bad.
But all she did was assist Minho in Mantaray as Maria and Janie told her to do. And that was just touching the hologram and communicating with Minho as if she was playing a game.
Despite saying that he wanted to help Minho under the pretext of not wanting to just sit back and do nothing, it didn’t feel like he had really accomplished anything.
‘It doesn’t seem like it helped at all… Instead, didn’t I just make things more troublesome by saying I would step forward?’
Of course, Minho hadn’t said that, but she couldn’t help but think that way herself.
So it was not strange that she thought it was unfair that she was taking the fruits that Minho had rightfully won, even though she had no role in it.
“Okay, I understand. Instead, I should pay more attention to my father.”
“Thank you.”
Fortunately, Minho readily accepted Jeong Sujin’s stubbornness.
It was funny to see them arguing over whether to give money or not.
Since I had planned to support Jeong Su-jin in any case if she needed a lot of money later on, it didn’t really change anything if I didn’t give her the consolation money now.
As Jeong Su-jin said that, she looked at Min-ho, who was joking around with Janie.
To others, it might have seemed like there was no change in Janie’s expression, but Jung Soo-jin could tell. Every time Min-ho spoke, Janie’s stiff expression softened and the corners of her mouth twitched.
‘Come to think of it, Janey also said that she received a lot of help from Minho just like me.’
There must be a reason why she, who seems like such a perfect woman with no flaws, melts like ice in front of Minho.
She turned her head and looked out the window next to her.
Outside the window, the sun was slowly moving from west to east.
It is a natural law of the world that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but the scenery outside the window was the exact opposite.
Even though the sun was moving so slowly, it was clearly visible and felt with our own eyes.
A mystical sight, as if time were turning back.
But in reality, they weren’t time traveling.
The scenery outside the window was simply a phenomenon caused by manta rays flying faster than the Earth’s rotation speed.
A kind of illusion that appears when flying faster than the sun sets.
It was similar to seeing a car driving relatively slowly on the highway in reverse.
It was an incomparably spectacular sight, though, in that the object being overtaken was not a car, but the sun.
“It feels like time travel!”
“Wow… ”
“It’s not as good as the key that opens the door in the air, but this is still really amazing.”
Sarah, Olivia, and Moon Ji-yu were also looking out the window and expressing admiration.
Maria had already circled the globe several times so they could continue to see her.
Despite flying at such a fast speed, the people on board the Manta Ray were not even wearing seat belts or sitting down, but were all standing upright on both feet.
According to Maria, if you’re not at the level of warping, you don’t need to worry about things like inertia…
I didn’t understand the explanation that followed about the gravity reactor and such at all.
What Jeong Su-jin ultimately understood was that this was not a real technology, but a technology that could only appear in science fiction.
‘If I think about the superpower that Minho oppa talked about, it’s probably a skill that really appears in novels.’
At this point, even the anger I had felt at Minho for two-timing, or rather, for being an octopus, felt pointless.
There has to be some difference in their positions, considering what Minho has shown, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration at all if he said he would rule the world right away.
There was also a woman like Janey who seemed incomparably competent compared to her, who followed Minho despite knowing about his womanizing problems.
‘… I was meeting a really great man.’
Jeong Su-jin has now accepted reality.
Even though I had already made up my mind halfway before boarding the Manta Ray, I still couldn’t give up on Minho.
Even Jung Soo-jin had firsthand experience of what Min-ho would do for her and her family.
How many people in the world would deal with the culprit just because their woman’s father was kidnapped?
Even if a man had the ability to do that, it was absurd to take it for granted.
Jeong Su-jin wasn’t such a shameless woman.
And at the same time, I wasn’t someone who was particularly interested in the human rights movement.
When I see bad guys on the news, I often think that it would be better for them to die for society, and I even thought about personally killing Talik Benton, the guy who kidnapped her father this time.
I said I would help out because I didn’t want to burden Minho for no reason. It didn’t seem to help much though.
Despite his abilities, he showed an attitude of understanding women’s sorrow and even trying to embrace it to some extent.
There are men in the world who shamelessly meet many women and just suck up their money, but if you simply understand that they meet many women, there is no other man as great as this one.
If that was the case, what Jeong Su-jin had to do next was simple.
Getting along well with other women without increasing Minho’s stress by being jealous and controlling.
She approached the group looking out the window, wondering how to bring up the subject.
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