Episode 17: The bad guys don’t get excited.
After parting ways with the Demon Lord, I went to the infirmary.
Seo Dae-ryong, who had arrived there first, was surprised.
“Huh? How did this Confucius get here?”
It seemed unexpected that I came there.
“Why are you so surprised?”
“No. I didn’t know that this gentleman would come to the hospital.”
“I’m more surprised that you’re here?”
“yes?”
“You say you’re hated by your colleagues?”
“So I’m trying to make up for it.”
Contrary to what I said, I didn’t feel any great discomfort with my colleagues.
“What is the condition of your injured friend?”
“The Magic Doctor is currently treating you. Thank you for calling the Magic Doctor.”
“Of course I should call you. Even though it’s a temporary job, we’re still colleagues.”
It was something said without much thought, but Seo Dae-ryong and the Hwangcheon-gak investigators next to him looked slightly moved.
After a while, the magician came out of the treatment room.
He was the most excellent divine doctor in our school, and the sect called him the Demon Doctor. The divine doctor liked to be called that, so we called him the Demon Doctor.
“How is the condition?”
“Fortunately, his life is not in danger. However, he will need to recuperate for a while before he can return.”
“Please give me the best medicine.”
“Okay.”
The Hwangcheon Pavilion investigators who heard our conversation came to me and thanked me. They had never had the opportunity to receive treatment directly from the devil’s doctor, even if they had been injured during a mission.
As they returned to their residence, Seo Dae-ryong asked.
“What did the Demon Lord say?”
“I hope you’ll go back around here.”
“What about the death of the first lord?”
“Let’s make it so that he’s behind this.”
Seo Dae-ryong was shocked.
“Your most beloved subordinate died?”
“It’s not your favorite subordinate, but the one you use the most. Someone else will soon fill that void. What on earth did you expect from the Demon Lord?”
“I knew he would go crazy and seek revenge for his subordinates.”
“You’re mistaken. Don’t you think the bad guys would be more excited?”
“Isn’t it?”
“That’s just the case with the Parakho guys. Real villains don’t get excited easily. On the contrary, pure and good people get excited easily. They get emotional quickly.”
Of course, the Demon Lord would harbor great ill will toward me. Whenever he gets the chance, he will plunge his sword into my heart and try to recall today’s humiliation.
“What are you going to do now?”
“I’ve thrown out the bait, so let’s see what happens.”
“Bait?”
“I’ll tell you if you ask.”
Since he said that he needs evidence to cover up the incident, it’s time to wait and see how the Demon Lord comes out.
“So what should I do now?”
“Come have a drink with me.”
Then Seo Dae-ryong turned in a different direction.
“Where?”
“I’m going to buy some alcohol. Do you have any alcohol you like?”
“Buy whatever you want to drink. Here, your money.”
As I tried to take out the money, Seo Dae-ryong walked towards me with brisk strides.
“I’ll buy you drinks today.”
I drank with Seo Dae-ryong in broad daylight.
The alcohol he bought was sweet and good to drink, but it had the disadvantage of easily leading to overdrinking.
“Because I like sweet drinks.”
“You said you don’t like eating much?”
“I drink alcohol sometimes.”
After a few drinks, Seo Dae-ryong revealed his true feelings.
“You said I was a power-oriented person the other day?”
“It sounds too cruel to add the word ‘human’ at the end. Let’s just say that he has a tendency to be power-oriented.”
“That’s it.”
“It’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s better than being helpless, right?”
Despite his gloomy appearance, Seo Dae-ryong had a big dream. A person without a dream would not talk about ‘change’.
“Honestly, I want to be successful. I don’t have the slightest desire to stop corruption in our school and achieve justice. I have a hard time making a living on my own.”
I should have brought Ian here. This is the heart that Ian needs.
“Why are you so discouraged when you say you’re working hard for yourself? Lift your head!”
Seo Dae-ryong raised his head.
“How old are you?”
“I’m thirty-two.”
“Wow! You’re older than you look.”
I was surprised. I thought he was about twenty-three or twenty-four. Well, no matter how smart you are, to become a special investigator, you need to have been in office and gained more than ten years of experience.
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“Why did you become an investigator?”
“To be honest, I didn’t have the confidence to succeed in martial arts. I hadn’t learned the martial arts that would make me a top master, and I’m not tall enough to have the right physique for martial arts… … .”
Due to the nature of the organization, Hwangcheon-gak was not a place for fighting. It was a place that maintained discipline within the school with absolute authority.
Therefore, the investigators of Hwangcheon-gak selected people who were smart, had excellent judgment, and were good at handling investigation subjects, rather than those with strong martial arts skills.
“It may sound pathetic, but I chose to become an investigator because I had no confidence in my martial arts skills.”
“Seeing you keep emphasizing that, I guess you still have some attachment to martial arts.”
“Who wouldn’t be like that? Anyone who has entered the world of martial arts.”
“It’s not too late.”
“It’s late.”
“This sounds a bit pathetic.”
Seo Dae-ryong looked up from the glass he was looking down at and looked at me.
“You can’t do it because it’s late? You can’t do it because the martial arts you’ve learned are weak? You said it’s because you’re short? Do you really think that’s why?”
Without being able to make any excuses, Seo Dae-ryong drank the alcohol he was holding.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been really beaten up, my bones hurt.”
“Later, even if you stay still, your bones will hurt. You have to move before you get old.”
“You’re younger than me, but you say things so well.”
I smiled and emptied my glass.
At that time, the Hwangcheon-gak investigator came and told me something.
“The Demon Army brought this.”
It was a booklet and several thousand nyang worth of vouchers.
“He took the bait.”
The book was a record of requests for murder. It was a ledger of requests to kill people and receive money by mobilizing the local demon hordes.
“They say this was discovered at the home of a wealthy man.”
The ledger contained detailed records of who among the people in the area had been mobilized for the contract, how much they had been paid, and who they had killed. Coincidentally, the demons listed in the contract were the ones who had died by my hands earlier.
It seems that they only extracted the parts of the Cheongbu-rok where they were active and created a new Cheongbu-rok. They intended to finish this case by using the already dead. Furthermore, they reduced the number of cases to three or four, and treated it as a deviation by Godang and some demons. The responsibility of the demon lord himself was minimized.
I handed the booklet to Seo Dae-ryong.
“Soak your face in cold water and sober up!”
“Yes. I will check the receipt first.”
“It’s no use. It’s probably an untraceable voucher. Please investigate something else instead.”
“Please speak.”
“Find out who the smartest guy among the demons is. There’s bound to be one who’s unusually educated and smart.”
“All right.”
“I must go and meet the Demon Lord again.”
“Why him?”
“I need to buy some time.”
We hurried out of the room and went about our own business.
The Demon Lord I met again had a much more at ease expression on his face.
“Evidence has been found at the home of Il-dae-ju Godang.”
“Oh, that went well.”
“This gave me a breath of relief.”
“Haha, I guess I should drink this to celebrate. I’ll make a reservation, so I’ll see you there later yesterday.”
“But there is one problem.”
“Again? What is it this time?”
“The Demon Army brought this. We should have found it ourselves.”
A look of irritation crossed his face. Why were you nitpicking so much?
“Does the source really matter?”
“It’s important. How can the General Staff be an ordinary person? If it is revealed that the information was received from the Demon Army, they will immediately doubt the investigation process and results. If it is revealed later, even I will be in danger.”
“What if I do it?”
“I think we should at least pretend to investigate for a little while. I’m going to conduct a full-scale investigation for just one day, so please cooperate. Do you think I would want to stay here forever?”
One crucial thing to convince him.
“I won’t go through any confidential documents. Just general documents will suffice. This is a formal investigation anyway.”
Only then did the Demon Lord nod his head and give his permission.
“Good. I’ll tell my subordinates to cooperate.”
A large-scale search and seizure was launched with the permission of the Demon Lord.
The Demon Lord’s ledgers and documents were moved to the investigation room, and the investigation began.
I did not request any confidential documents that would embarrass the Demon Lord.
I didn’t need it anyway. That wasn’t what I needed. What I found was the application forms they had written when they first applied for the Demon Army and the wills they had left behind before going on a dangerous mission.
I secretly called in the best handwriting expert in the school.
And through the materials brought in, he tried to find out who wrote the appendix.
When Seo Dae-ryong returned after finishing his investigation, I pretended to be a fortune teller.
“Let’s see who is the smartest person among all the people in the world.”
I gave him the name of a person who was doubtful.
“Yanggu?”
“Huh, how did you know?”
The handwriting comparison results showed that the person who wrote the appendix was Yang Gu.
Now we have figured out who was in charge of the Demon Lord’s household. And we have solid evidence through handwriting comparison.
“What do we do now?”
“What should I do? We have to take the next step. Bring Yanggu to Magachon Tavern without anyone knowing. Can you do it?”
“Let me think about it.”
“Trust me, Chief Cabinet Secretary!”
After a while, Seo Dae-ryong successfully completed his mission.
He brought me to a tavern in Magachon, which was the meeting place for Yanggu.
The one who brought him was Jo Hyang, a beautiful investigator from Hwangcheon-gak.
“The food here suits my taste.”
“I like the food here too.”
Yanggu was filled with anticipation that he might be able to have a wonderful night with this woman today.
“Why are there no customers? This place usually has a lot of customers.”
Yanggu looked around with a puzzled expression.
“Isn’t it cozy and nice?”
“I guess the heavens welcome our first meal.”
Jo Hyang smiled and agreed with him as he talked grandly about the sky.
“I learned for the first time that there is such a thing as love at first sight.”
“The atmosphere is nice, let’s have a drink.”
“great.”
Yanggu shouted toward the kitchen.
“Bring out the best wine and food here.”
Then, Seo Dae-ryong and I, who had been waiting in the kitchen, came out.
“It’s unfortunate, but I guess I’ll have to drink next time.”
Yanggu was surprised by my appearance.
“This Confucius?”
He rolled his eyes, wondering what the heck was going on, and glared at the steering wheel with a fierce look.
“You damn bitch! You tricked me!”
Sigh.
The next moment, Yang Gu’s jaw turned and he rolled on the floor. Seo Dae-ryong rushed at him like lightning and struck him with one blow.
“I’m not the kind of person who deserves to be cursed at by someone like you.”
Seo Dae-ryong imitated me. He showed the sole of his foot in the bastard’s face and spoke frighteningly.
“Would you like to burst your fists like your master?”
Yanggu shook his head like crazy.
“No! It was my fault.”
Seo Dae-ryong was not at all afraid of the two-legged creature that was twice his size. It was not because he trusted me, but for another reason.
While the other investigators who had been waiting came and subdued Yang-gu and took him out through the back door, Seo Dae-ryong approached Jo Hyang.
“great job.”
“I did as you advised. Since you are said to be the smartest person in the Demon Army, I asked you to have a meal with me. I didn’t know you would follow me so easily.”
“If it were you, I would have come even if you had glared at me and asked me to eat.”
For a moment, the steering wheel smiled strangely.
“Is that a compliment?”
Seo Dae-ryong didn’t answer.
After Jo Hyang said hello to Seo Dae Ryong, he left the place.
There are only two men, I said to Seo Dae-ryong.
“He’s a man, he’s a real man.”
“yes?”
“Do you like that guy from earlier?”
“no.”
“It was too powerful to say no?”
The guy who was dull in front of me shined in front of Jo Hyang.
“I just threw it away.”
Seo Dae-ryong quickly changed the subject with a red face.
“What happens now?”
“We need to wrap things up quickly. So, mobilize all the investigators and enforcers you can.”
“yes!”
“Call that junior you liked earlier too!”
“I said no!”
Seo Dae-ryong quickly left the place, raising his voice for no reason.
“It has to come out like this… … .”
I went into the kitchen, got a bottle of liquor, and sat down on the railing of the bar.
“Come here!”
Then Ian walked out from next to the building with his head bowed.
“You foolish bear, is it so bad to play alone?”
“I was just wondering how you are doing.”
“Come here. Since you’re here, let’s have a drink.”
“I’ll bring you a glass.”
“it’s okay.”
After I finished drinking the bottle, I handed it to her.
“Drink it and give it to me.”
“How dare you?”
“Why? Is it dirty because I drank it?”
“No, that would be impossible. I’m just embarrassed to dare put my mouth on it. Drink, drink.”
She drank alcohol. She tried to drink without touching her lips as much as possible, but she spilled it all over herself and threw her clothes away.
“I’m sorry, Young Master.”
“Ian.”
“yes.”
“You don’t have to do that.”
“……yes.”
“Everyone in the world is like that, but you don’t have to be like that.”
I took the bottle of alcohol from her again and drank it.
“Still, it’s nice and good to see you even though I haven’t seen you in a few days.”
Ian laughed bashfully and her eyes were buried in her flesh. When you laugh with real joy, it shows.
“Are you doing well in your martial arts training?”
“Yes, I am trying my best.”
“We need more than that. Even the bad guys do their best.”
“When you say things like that, I find strength in myself without even realizing it. Your advice is addictive.”
“If I keep hearing it, you won’t like it?”
“That won’t happen.”
He handed her a bottle of alcohol.
“I’m worried about you, so drink that alcohol and go back and wait.”
And he added a finishing touch to Ian.
“This work will be finished today.”
