304. Just Walking (3)
Marie thought about that several times a day.
‘Am I a useful person?’
Kang Seul-hye, who calls herself mother.
Yoo Yeon-ho, who calls him father.
Yoo Gwang-ik, who calls him “older brother.”
I want to live for those three.
I want to help them.
One day, when my mother asked me what I wanted to be.
“Marie wants to be a useful person.”
Marie answered like that.
To be honest, I didn’t want to be abandoned.
That’s why Marie was so happy when the moment came to prove herself.
It’s so enjoyable that it sends shivers down my spine.
He holds the axe in both hands and looks around.
She is a shapeshifter born as an experimental subject.
You can’t say they’re mixed-blood, nor can you say they’re pure-blood.
So is it a failure?
“Blood doesn’t prove a man’s talent, you know that, Maria?”
Mother asks. Marie answers.
I know, Mother. Marie knows.
My brother says.
“Park Mari, you’re a real bitch.”
It wasn’t an insult. It was a compliment. However, when my mother heard this, she just slapped my brother on the back.
“Is your snout starting to resemble Hye-min’s?”
“Mother, why are you saying such harsh things? You are going too far. I will run away from home.”
“What does a guy who has already left home and is living there call running away?”
“I’m going to run away from the house I’m living in now and stay at my parents’ house for a few days.”
My brother is always confident.
He says that he will live at his parents’ house even though he is independent and runs away from home.
It would be good to learn that confidence.
The father, who was watching from the side, said.
“Honey, did our son hurt his head?”
Kick.
Marie laughed, covering her mouth with the axe as she recalled the memory.
My mother taught me how to smile politely in front of people I met for the first time.
It’s laughing with your mouth covered.
“Are you crazy? Are you laughing? Why are you covering your mouth with an axe?”
One of the black market guards raised his voice when he saw that.
The other person had no manners. How could he embarrass someone who was smiling?
Marie placed great importance on manners.
Her mother’s teachings made her that way.
“Marie hates being spoiled.”
As I spoke, adjusting my grip on the axe, the sound of machinery moving again rang out from behind me.
Kkirrik. Boom!
A crossbow device hidden inside a sleeve.
There was no threat.
Marie read the arrow’s trajectory and struck it.
Ta-ang.
A metallic sound rang out. It was the harmony of metal arrowheads and axe blades.
Doo doo doo.
Immediately the machine gun opened fire.
Certainly, the opponents are trained.
Instead of aiming at himself and firing bullets, he formed a barrage of bullets in the direction he was moving.
The number of people rushing in is five in total.
Three of them have submachine guns.
One shot a sleeve arrow.
The remaining one began to lick his lips.
Then a crimson cloud appeared above Marie.
Marie took a deep breath and jumped sideways.
bang!
The black market floor was dug up. It was a stampede of monstrous force.
In one leap, I reached the second floor window of the prefab container next to me.
Sigh.
Marie hit the wall of the container building with an axe.
Then he used the axe he had stuck into the wall as support to hold his body in the air.
The barrage was dodged, but not the crimson cloud.
The clouds followed her.
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Soon rain began to fall from the clouds.
It was a strange thing.
It was just a cloud floating above her head. Originally, all spells were strange. So it wasn’t surprising.
When you are caught in an unknown spell, there is only one thing to do.
It’s my mother’s teaching.
Shake the little bird’s snout that placed the order.
Marie did so.
Booths.
The falling rain melted the bulletproof vest. It was like raindrops made of hydrochloric acid.
White smoke rose. Marie ignored it and bent her knees against the wall.
My thighs are swollen.
Crunch, bang!
The elasticity of the bulletproof vest could not withstand her muscles and it burst.
This is also a pretty expensive item, but I couldn’t stand the muscle swelling.
It was a muscle that contained that much monstrous strength.
“membrane…….”
The orderer opens his mouth.
Marie kicked the wall as she watched it.
Hmph, suddenly the surroundings become slow, the body becomes heavy, and the sound disappears.
A world where sound dies, Marie experienced such a world when she gathered strength and charged forward.
The sound is dead and a heavy weight is placed on the body as if an endurance device is being worn.
It’s harder to swing the axe than usual, but it’s bearable.
The training wasn’t done in vain.
The shape of the opponent’s mouth is visible. The tongue inside the mouth moves and ripples. Marie swung the heavy axe in the slowed time.
At that moment, I returned to my original time zone.
Whoaaaaah! Bang!
A sound followed, piercing into my ears.
“……ah!”
At the same time, the opponent’s shout is completed.
Thud.
The hydrochloric acid rain has stopped.
Droplets of blood formed on Marie’s shoulders and other parts of her body. White smoke rose from various parts of her body.
The crimson clouds floating overhead began to spread out and then melted away like cotton candy in water.
She shook her shoulder once.
And then turned around.
I saw the scene I had created.
The container building that was first kicked into the ground collapsed. The building collapsed in the opposite direction of where it was kicked, as if it was half destroyed.
Afterwards, marks were visible where he had swung an axe.
Half-dug land.
Because the axe was drawn from top to bottom, some of the ground was scratched by the axe blade.
The lower half of the orderer’s body standing in between was visible.
The completion of the scream was done by the severed upper body.
The body caught in the axe blade’s path was split in two.
And the spellcaster fell down with his body cut into pieces.
Three gunmen, one sinister guy.
Marie threw the axe into the air and caught it.
Drops of blood spurted from the axe.
“… … saying he was going to hit me.”
What a pity, said the sinister man who had been shooting arrows.
Marie was confident.
“He was hit with an axe.”
What the f*ck, why did you hit him?
The sinister man couldn’t finish his words.
Because Marie kicked the ground again and split the bastard lengthwise with her axe.
Two of the remaining gunmen fled.
One of them was unlucky enough to get caught by Jeongjik.
“Where.”
The honest man who crossed his legs knocked down one of his opponents.
The audience was speechless.
Marie didn’t care. She overpowered her opponent. She proved herself. She was filled with joy.
“Woooooo!”
Shouted.
There was no response. However, most of the people watching felt a thrill.
Isn’t it so strong that it’s stupid?
The screams were mixed with wild murder.
That made Marie look bigger.
“… … Aren’t we going to be ruined here today?”
Someone muttered.
Isn’t the destructive power completely different from that of a limited staff member causing trouble on his own?
* * *
When Yoo Gwang-ik first suggested that they eat the black market, Woo Mi-ho was against it.
Because the black market wasn’t a good option for a third business.
First of all, the image is the worst.
Isn’t the black market a hotbed of crime?
It will be a burden that NS does not necessarily need.
So, of course, I thought Lee Dong-hoon would also be against it.
“Well, that’s what it is.”
Are you saying that you can accept it so easily?
I asked Donghoon why.
“Look at his eyes. Did you see that? Those are the eyes of a crazy idiot. When you have eyes like that, you don’t listen to others. Give up. It’s easier if you give up.”
He answered like this.
“Black Market Yum Yum!”
When you see Gwangik shouting like that, you can’t help but agree with what he says.
“Agjak agjak I chew and swallow the black market!”
Crazy guy.
Umiho also gave up and devoted herself to work.
If you do something, you should get as much benefit as possible from it.
That is Umiho’s theory.
It goes without saying that there is no loss. What is important here is how much profit can be made.
After running countless simulations, she made a plan.
She did her best.
Even though I didn’t know that it was for my younger brother.
‘Yoo Gwang-ik must not come out.’
If you eat the black market, there’s something to show.
This is NS’s strength.
Reader business, supernatural trade.
Both businesses are operating stably and have made profits.
It proves that NS’s administrative capabilities are no less than those of large corporations.
NS was running two businesses so well that even the loners in the community who used to babble about how great the company was could no longer say that.
Umiho thought that half of this was the power of money.
It is the synergy effect of two things: annual salary and welfare.
The other half was created by internal discipline and culture.
If you have attracted capable people with high salaries and welfare policies, the next step is to create a working environment.
The one who made it was Kim Joong-go.
“That’s how people are. If everyone tells me to play, I want to play too, and if everyone works hard, I work hard too. Oh, I know, I know. If there are people who are slacking off while everyone is working hard, we have to weed them out. There are some people who are incredibly good at cutting out the rotten parts. Let’s hire them and use them.”
The team that was created in this way is known as the illegal expert team.
Some of the criminals who made a living from fraud have been weeded out.
It made us find loopholes in the poor system and improve them.
The work culture that was created naturally because of this.
Naturally, the image of NS as a company that does its job well was created externally.
Half of this work was also done under the leadership of Lee Dong-hoon.
Image making is a more important part than you might think.
It’s the same this time.
‘Show your strength.’
The benefit gained by demonstrating the power of NS without Yoo Kwang-ik.
It is a proof of combat ability, not administrative ability.
In the world of the Internet, trolls and haters keep popping up everywhere.
Most of what they say is bullshit.
But Umiho got an idea from there.
The problem isn’t Jintta and the malicious commenters. The problem is the different perspectives on NS.
It was a message to them.
Even without Yoo Kwang-ik, NS can do this much.
Dozens of thoughts run through Umiho’s head. It’s not for nothing that she’s called a genius.
She also predicted the other person’s reaction.
Anticipating the other person’s reaction was also key to this work.
We imagined dozens of situations and planned our operations.
How will the king of the back alleys act?
Figure out his behavior patterns, see it on the spot, and move the guy’s intentions.
That’s what Umiho did.
In conclusion, what she wanted was to make the king of the back alleys come forward himself.
How do I get that cautious guy out of the way?
“It won’t be difficult.”
Dong-Hoon said during the meeting.
Umiho also agreed with that statement.
“If a bird is so stupid that it ignores me even when its nest is broken, then you can just ignore it.”
What is the most important thing that the king of the back alleys has?
It’s a noise market.
What if there’s a guy who’s going to try and smash it all up?
Just sit back and watch? That’s nonsense.
A nerd can’t be the king of the back alleys. That’s what Umiho thought.
* * *
“f*ck.”
The blond, blue-eyed king of the back alleys spat out thick curses from the seat left alone.
“Oh my god, my god.”
It’s different from his usual cool and cold image.
He was really excited. His eyes were bloodshot and his neck was swollen.
He even snorted loudly.
Five minutes later, the king let out all his excitement.
After that, he returned to his original face and went outside.
“situation?”
“Assassination attempt failed, sniping attempt failed, there’s a commotion on the outskirts too. Heuk Gil-dong went there and got hit.”
He is a black man who uses magic similar to Korean Taoism, so his nickname is Heuk Gil-dong.
A wizard between low and intermediate level.
‘He’s not the type of guy to be taken advantage of so easily.’
The same goes for failed assassinations and sniping attempts.
It means that the opponent is well prepared.
It’s not like it was a bad thing.
“where are you?”
“As far as I know, it is not the Church of Immortals. It is not Prometheus, nor Isis.”
They say it’s not one of the world’s top three terrorist groups.
They have a symbiotic relationship with each other, but they are also enemies who prey on each other.
“Then Old Force?”
“The government says no. They said they will send police officers if necessary.”
The secretary’s words made my head spin.
These are the guys who are shaking up the market. We need to know their identity before we can respond.
He exhaled. It was a moment when he had to pretend to be calm even when he was excited.
When I took a deep breath, I actually felt calm.
“It’s not Dangun. As of now, I think it’s a new power.”
A new force?
Some people come to mind.
NS, Se-Choi-Teuk, Blue Knight Slayer.
But why them?
The black market is a lucrative land.
What do they gain by hitting here?
You’re going to destroy a criminal organization like that?
That’s not an easy task.
There are many people involved here, including those in power in various governments, terrorist groups including the Immortal Church, and of course Excuracy and mercenary companies.
It also has ties to the United States.
The king shook his head.
If I get stuck, I’ll have to seek help here and there.
Anyway, anyway.
It’s time to take action.
If we left these crazy guys alone, they would really destroy the entire black market.
