Episode 54
A man was sitting on an empty bench on a deserted and eerie walkway. It was Yoo Hyeon-soo, Jang Hak-gi’s chief aide.
He was constantly smoking a cigarette, as if he was nervous about something. There was a briefcase at his feet.
After some time had passed, a black sedan approached where Yoo Hyeon-soo was. When Yoo Hyeon-soo discovered it, he threw the cigarette he was smoking on the floor and extinguished it by rubbing it with his foot.
The darkly tinted window rolled down and a person’s face appeared. Hyeonsoo Yoo looked a little surprised. Because the face that appeared at the window was that of a young woman.
“Let’s get in.”
said the woman.
Hyeonsoo Yoo opened the backseat door and got into the car.
There were two people in the car. It was a stocky man in the driver’s seat and the young woman I saw earlier sitting next to him.
A look of puzzlement appeared on Yoo Hyeon-soo’s face. The man in the driver’s seat was seen wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a mask, trying to hide his face. If you think about it, he was right.
It seemed normal for a member of an assassination group not to try to reveal their identity, even in front of a client.
However, the woman in the passenger seat was showing her bare face as if she didn’t care about that at all.
“I guess you were in a hurry.”
“what…?”
“So, as soon as the congressman came out of the hospital, the aide must have accessed that trash site, right?”
The woman smiled thinly. It was an unusual smile, with the mouth smiling but the eyes not smiling.
Hyunsoo Yoo just remained silent without answering. Even though his identity was read, I thought he had that much information. There will be many lines reaching across all walks of life. So he probably came in person without sending an agent.
“Let’s get to the point.”
As he said that, Yoo Hyeon-soo thought about this incident. He had a lot of questions about this matter. Representative Jang Hak-gi suddenly mentioned the black card and the name of a man named Lee Si-hyeon.
However, no detailed explanation was given at all. It almost seemed as if he was deliberately trying to avoid mention. Of course, I understood the meaning of asking Lee Si-hyeon to murder him.
But the inside story was difficult to understand. When I asked Lee Si-hyeon what kind of damage she suffered, the only answer I got was, “No.”
But it couldn’t have been a lie. This is because Representative Jang Hak-ki was a person who did not forget even the slightest thing when others did something wrong to him.
So, more questions arise. Even though no harm has been done, you are being hired to commit murder?
It was difficult to understand. There may be unreasonable malice, but the murder contract went too far. He still couldn’t understand it, but he couldn’t refuse Rep. Jang Gi-gi’s instructions, so he came this far.
“Would you like to buy it?”
said the woman. She could guess what was being said.
A black card with an inverted cross drawn on it.
There was a rumor that spread secretly only to some members of the upper class. There is a rumor that if you can get the black card, you can kill whoever you want. He said that in order to obtain it, you had to go to a specific site and contact a seller. This was impossible without information.
There are hundreds of millions of sites on the Internet. Among them, finding a site where one could contact the Black Cross was like finding a specific grain of sand on a sandy beach. This was even more so because I changed addresses every few weeks and did my laundry.
However, Yoo Hyeon-soo was a person in a position to obtain information. Of course, it was because he had Assemblyman Jang Hgi behind him.
“Isn’t it too expensive?”
Hyunsoo Yoo said before handing over a briefcase filled with a bundle of 50,000 won bills. Even if you are not a person who is at the end of your life, you can find someone who is willing to commit murder for 100 million won. The power of money was that great.
But 1 billion is too expensive. The price was set at this level because it was judged that the target was not a difficult target. If it were a difficult target, it would have jumped several times more.
“Can an ordinary person kill an awakened person? I heard he’s an E-class hunter.”
The woman said with a polite smile on her face.
In fact, Yoo Hyeon-soo thought little of the E-class hunter. This was because he knew very well that no matter how awakened they were, Class E were possessed of insignificant abilities.
But what the woman said was not wrong. It was almost impossible for an ordinary person to kill an awakened person. Hyeonsoo Yoo nodded in agreement and handed over a bag of money.
“We ask for strict confidentiality.”
I’m already in the same boat. Moreover, without trust, even a group of awakened people with great abilities would not have survived. Still, he said that just in case.
“You have a lot to worry about. Keeping secrets is like life for an assassination group. If we fail a request and die, we’re dead. We don’t leak secrets or anything like that.”
“Excuse me, but you seem too careless for something like that. It seems like you’re just walking around with your bare face….”
Yoo Hyun-soo must have been a little worried, so he spoke out what was on his mind. As she said, secrecy is the key to contract murder. But who would want to trust someone who sells his face without hesitation?
“No matter how much the client is, he speaks a bit harshly. This person….”
For the first time, the man in the driver’s seat spoke.
“Ahaha.”
The woman’s laughter interrupted the man.
“No, no. You can think that way. So how about this?”
The woman suddenly raised her left hand, spread out her fingers, and brought them to her face. And after a moment she took her hand away.
OK.
“no…!”
Yoo Hyeon-soo’s face became blank with surprise.
The woman’s face changed in an instant. Until now, she had the face of a young woman, but now she has become a middle-aged woman. Not only her facial features, but also her wrinkles and skin color completely changed. She felt like she wouldn’t change like that even if she had plastic surgery.
“How do you feel?”
The woman asked with a calm smile.
“How can this be….”
What move did you use?
Hyeonsoo Yoo made an expression that he couldn’t understand. Even if the opponent was an awakened person, his ability was beyond imagination.
Then suddenly a memory came to mind.
“By any chance…? I remember hearing that there is an awakened person with such abilities somewhere.”
“What if it’s bast? That’s just crude technology.”
“….”
It seemed wrong. When Yoo Hyun-soo looked at the woman with a questioning gaze, the woman’s mouth opened again.
“A thousand changes.”
“A natural disaster?”
It was a word meaning to change in many ways.
“If you know what it means, call it that. If you don’t, that’s your position.”
“….”
Yoo Hyeon-soo had no choice but to remain silent, not knowing what it meant. Although it was an organization whose identity was shrouded in mystery, there was information that was revealed in its own way.
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But this was my first time hearing about Cheonbyeon. Looking at the reaction of the man in the driver’s seat earlier, it seemed like she was a woman in a fairly high position in the organization. It occurred to me that she didn’t seem like the type of person that would be sold in a book.
Yoo Hyeon-su thought that he should remember the word “natural change.”
The woman put the money in the bag on the floor without even checking it. It was an action that seemed to suggest that no one would dare to mess around with Black Cross for a certain amount of money.
“sleep.”
The woman handed me a black card with an inverted cross drawn on it.
Hyunsoo Yoo received it. The target information has already been delivered. This was just a ritual.
It’s a tradition. Just the way it is done in the other world.
Yoo Hyun-soo quickly wrote down Lee Si-hyeon’s name and handed the black card back to the woman.
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“My father is very worried. Even if I can’t show him, I need to keep in touch with him.”
The person who spoke was a neat-looking woman wearing glasses.
It was Han Yi-seol.
“I have to do that. I’m too busy learning to work.”
The person who answered was a tall man who appeared to be in his late 20s.
“No matter what, it’s still like that. We’re family.”
“As you know, I have a somewhat insensitive personality by nature. Please understand. It’s my natural personality and it doesn’t change.”
“…Is it very difficult to learn the job?”
“Just so-so.”
“You may have some experience now, but do you still have a lot to learn?”
It was already a few years ago that my younger brother, Han Gyeong-jin, went down to Busan to learn welding. Although she occasionally came up to Seoul, she didn’t have much of a chance to see his face.
“I’m still lacking and immature. I need to become more skilled so the money I get will go up.”
“I see.”
“hmm….”
Tiriring.
Just as Han Kyung-jin was about to say something, the phone rang.
“Sister, I’m sorry. Just a moment.”
He went out of the restaurant. The call came from a business phone, not a personal phone.
Han Kyung-jin’s expression hardened after checking the number. After confirming that there was no one around, he spoke in a quiet voice.
“Yes, it’s a breeze. Please tell me.”
“Seoul, right?”
“Yes, it is.”
“I have to do something.”
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It’s boring.
Jeon Hee-seung thought. He was watching a movie with a hitman as the main character.
He was a really boring man. Why does he suffer when he kills humans?
Something you can do without thinking, like stepping on an ant to death. And guns? It was a trivial tool that didn’t even feel like it could kill.
There was nothing more thrilling than strangling someone to death.
It’s boring.
Heeseung closed his eyes.
… .
… .
… .
“brother.”
“….”
“Oppa, wake up. The movie is over.”
Heeseung opened his eyes at the sound of his girlfriend calling him. He looked at his girlfriend, rubbing her eyes. His eyes were not where his gaze was directed.
white neck.
It was a neck so desirable that I wanted to strangle it and crush it with both hands. It was always a shame that I couldn’t do that.
The organization Heeseung belonged to prohibited anything other than ordered murder. I didn’t like it, but I couldn’t help it. No matter how much Heeseung did, he never even thought about going against the organization.
It was such a scary organization.
“Brother, let’s go out.”
As I walked out into the movie theater hallway holding my girlfriend’s hand, a vibration rang.
“wait for a sec.”
Heeseung answered the phone.
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[Quest: Let’s show how problematic prisoners are rehabilitated using the scary warden’s loud shouts. 1/2]
Sihyeon checked the quest window as he headed to the front gate to get off work. Seeing that the number did not rise, it seemed that the situation had not completely subsided yet.
Still, I was confident that it would end in a little while. That’s why my heart was light.
As usual, I took the bus and got off at the stop near my house. Just a 10-minute walk from the bus stop was the house where Si-hyeon lived alone.
Sihyeon slowly walked towards the house. Still, he arrived in front of the house quickly. The moment she approached the front door without thinking about it and was about to press the code on the door lock.
“…!”
Sihyeon’s hand stopped for a moment. This is because a warning notification window appeared.
[Warning: A somewhat infamous person has been detected nearby.]
The unexpected insight of a seasoned guard came into play. And in a completely unimaginable place.
But that wasn’t the end. A notification window appeared again.
[Warning: Another somewhat infamous person has been detected nearby.]
2 people… ?!
Sihyeon’s face hardened.
fantasy,
