Episode 60
Han Yeong-seok was observing the situation outside Kang Jin-hyeok’s house.
An hour had passed since the poison gas was sprayed, but not a single bug had crawled out of the house.
“There’s still no sign of him coming out… … .”
“I guess he escaped a long time ago without being caught by us.”
“Or maybe he died in there.”
There were two reasons that came to mind now, as the aides lined up to say.
Either ran away or died.
“What happened to the guy who sprayed the gas?”
“I gave him the antidote right away so he didn’t die.”
Not only did he wear a gas mask, but he escaped using a return scroll the moment the poison gas exploded.
Despite all the efforts he had made, the hunter who sprayed the poison gas was poisoned and had to struggle for his life.
How can you survive this poisonous gas while staying inside your home?
Even if it is a state of invincibility that only appears in martial arts novels, it is impossible.
“Let’s withdraw first. Just a few guys stay here and monitor their whereabouts.”
“All right.”
Han Yeong-seok felt uneasy and wanted to just stay here and watch.
But now there were still mountains of problems he had to solve.
Executives who did not join the plan and guild members who followed them.
If we don’t deal with them immediately, our attempt to completely take control of Titan will end in failure.
In order to fulfill his duties as a person in charge, Han Yeong-seok buried his personal greed deep in his heart.
“Kang Jun-tae, you too, stop being stubborn and come with me to get treatment.”
“… … Okay, okay.”
As time passed and Kang Jun-tae’s mind cooled down considerably, he obediently followed Han Yeong-seok’s instructions.
Since he had already smashed an ally’s head in a fit of anger, he needed to take care of his image even now if he wanted to take over the guild leader position without any trouble.
“If they had run away, we wouldn’t have been able to get the patient far.”
“I will prepare a search party right now.”
“Yeah, there’s still a lot of work to do, so don’t waste too many people.”
“yep.”
The guild members who received the order gathered those who were quick on their feet and immediately formed a search party.
As Han Yeong-seok and the rest of his colleagues left to go about their respective tasks, only two hunters were left at Kang Jin-hyeok’s house.
There was an awkwardness between the two hunters because they were not close friends personally.
The hunter, who had been pretending to be friendly all of a sudden, sat down on a suitable spot and took out his cell phone.
“There’s no way those who ran away would come back here… … .”
The two hunters had no intention of working that hard.
I was assigned the role of surveillance and was standing guard for the time being, but no matter how much I thought about it, it didn’t seem like Kang Jin-hyeok and his group would show up here again.
Rather than monitoring Kang Jin-hyeok’s whereabouts.
The most important task of this job was to ensure that the poison gas sprayed inside the house did not spread to other houses.
“Ugh~”
The hunter, who had been staring at his phone until the sun went down, stretched.
My joints, stiff from sitting for hours, creaked and screamed.
“Is the shift change over yet?”
Common sense tells you that having two people watch over this place 24 hours a day is an unreasonable request.
The Hunter returned his gaze to the screen of his phone, believing that the Titan would soon send replacement personnel.
“huh?”
The hunter, who was looking at his cell phone, felt something strange.
Even though the sun had set, an unusually dark shadow fell over my head.
When he tried to turn around, wondering if the shift change had already begun, the hunter’s neck turned half a turn more than intended.
Woodduck.
The hunter fell to the floor with his head turned in an abnormal direction.
Another hunter who was with him was already lying on the ground, having been struck before him.
“… … Wasn’t it really necessary to kill him?”
“Why do we keep those guys alive when they spread poison gas in other people’s houses? What are they going to do to us later?”
Kang Jin-hyeok no longer had the heart to look after the Titan Hunters.
Even if they came all the way here, spraying the forbidden poison gas just in case they were hiding was an overreaction.
It was natural for him to do the same when his opponent tried to kill him in that way.
“I don’t intend to let the other guys live even if I meet them. Don’t bother me.”
Lee Hye-na nodded with a bitter face.
Even if she thought about it, Kang Jin-hyeok’s actions were justified.
Rather, it was great patience that he had not killed anyone until now.
If he were a normal person, he would have killed the Titan as soon as he saw it invade his house.
“Right now, let’s think about saving lives rather than killing people.”
Kang Jin-hyeok picked up Seo Sang-ho and headed to the person he had contacted in advance.
It was hard to trust anyone in this situation, but there was someone who could solve the problem by giving them money.
Kang Jin-hyeok first planned to go there and save Seo Sang-ho, who was on the verge of life and death.
In a situation where I had to fight against members of a large guild, including S-class hunters, I couldn’t continue to fight while carrying a burden.
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Jo Hyeong-il discovered that Lee Jun-cheol’s mood was more serious than usual.
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He furrowed his brow and smoked a cigarette for 30 minutes, making the office seem foggy.
“Why are you doing that, hyung?”
“I don’t know. He just got a phone call and kept doing that.”
The employee shook his head, saying that he would not give an answer even if asked why.
“Hmm… … .”
Following Lee Jun-cheol, Jo Hyeong-il’s expression also became serious.
“This is the first time you’ve done something like that since the protests last year.”
Lee Jun-cheol only showed that kind of behavior right before a fight that would determine the life or death of the organization.
That’s why Cho Hyung-il thought that this incident was either a similar problem or something worse.
“Brother, is there a problem?”
When Jo Hyeong-il approached him cautiously and asked, Lee Jun-cheol let out a long sigh filled with cigarette smoke.
“I’m worried because I don’t know what to do.”
“I don’t know what to do.”
“A little while ago, Kang Jin-hyeok asked me to introduce him to our Mr. Park.”
“Mr. Park? Did he get stabbed somewhere?”
“No, he said he had to treat someone else, not himself.”
“Then why didn’t you just go to a normal hospital… ?”
“Of course it’s because it’s an uncomfortable injury.”
When you’re part of an organization and dealing in goods on the black market, getting stabbed in the stomach is an annual occurrence.
If I showed that kind of wound to an ordinary hospital, it was obvious that I would be caught by the police.
But if you don’t treat it, your life will be lost.
People like Mr. Park exist to prepare for those times when neither one nor the other can do it.
The gentleman who converted his entire house into an operating room showed considerable ability despite not even having a license.
“Because sometimes hunters beat up people, it’s not really that shameful. What’s the problem?”
“The person you brought is the problem.”
“Who did you bring?”
In response to Jo Hyeong-il’s question, Lee Jun-cheol snapped his fingers to signal for him to come closer.
When Jo Hyeong-il bent down and put his face in, Lee Jun-cheol whispered quietly in his ear.
“Titan’s Guild Master Seo Sang-ho.”
“Huh?!”
Jo Hyeong-il was so surprised that he almost fell over, but then realized the eyes of those around him and quickly shut his mouth.
Since it was such an important secret, it was understandable why Lee Jun-cheol had kept it to himself and not told anyone else.
And on the other hand, I was touched by the way he opened up to me without hiding anything.
Jo Hyeong-il cleared the air by coughing and lowered his voice so that no one else could hear.
“Why is that gentleman looking for Mr. Park?”
“I don’t know. I can’t stand it anymore because Mr. Park contacted me and said something was strange.”
“Huh… … . Shouldn’t we contact Titan directly?”
“Idiot. If that were the case, would you have brought Seo Sang-ho here?”
This is something that cannot be left to the Titans.
Kang Jin-hyeok’s action of taking Seo Sang-ho to find Mr. Park was representative of that.
“Then what are you worried about right now, hyung… … .”
As Jo Hyeong-il spoke, as if he had noticed, Lee Jun-cheol nodded his head slightly.
“Yeah, I’m thinking about where to stick it.”
Kang Jin-hyeok, who earns a lot of money and has high growth potential.
Titan, a large guild with a reputation.
Either way, he was a greedy customer.
Although Kang Jin-hyeok periodically provided high-quality monster materials, he still had limitations as an ‘individual’.
As a large guild, Titan had a lot of falling beans, but they were already in close relationship with the association, so there was a high risk of them being thrown out at any time.
Among these choices, Jo Hyung-il came up with an answer easily.
“I think that guy, Kang Jin-hyeok, is better.”
“What are you talking about giving birth to? Is that lady even pregnant?”
“No, this is not the time to joke around.”
“What, what time? You little punk, you’ve grown up a lot and now you’re rebelling, what’s going on?”
“It’s not a good time to swear. And why are we raising our voices among ourselves now?”
Lee Jun-cheol suppressed his anger by making a grunt.
As Cho Hyung-il said, now was not the time to argue about useless things.
“A guy who only knows how to rob poor kids… … .”
Since starting a business with Kang Jin-hyeok, Jo Hyeong-il has been building up remarkable achievements.
Didn’t Lee Jun-cheol tell Jo Hyeong-il a secret that he didn’t tell other employees?
It was evidence that he also thought of Jo Hyeong-il as his right-hand man.
Lee Jun-cheol realized that fact and smiled bitterly.
“Okay, let me hear why you like that guy, Kang Jin-hyeok.”
“Why would you do that? There’s no point in trusting those Titans.”
“hmm…….”
Contrary to expectations, Cho Hyung-il’s argument was extremely simple.
But it was enough to garner sympathy.
It was the fault of the large guilds that the organization was unable to come out into the open and ended up doing business behind the scenes.
I don’t think it would turn out well for me to stick with those guys.
Lee Jun-cheol also thought so in his heart.
What weighed on my mind was the fear that I might fall out of favor with the Titans.
Although they have been growing at a frightening rate recently, they are nothing more than a dirty organization.
If a large guild came pushing forward with the power of public authority, there was no way to deal with it.
“older brother.”
Jo Hyeong-il felt frustrated at the sight of Lee Jun-cheol having difficulty making a decision.
“Now is the time to properly board.”
“What are you boarding properly?”
“As a service professional, we are trying to push forward here by impressing our customers.”
In order to keep their relationship intact even if Kang Jin-hyeok becomes successful later, Jo Hyeong-il insisted that they should strengthen their relationship here.
“What if I end up getting screwed like those guys who were doing coin flips?”
“No. This is a safe asset. My gut tells me so, bro.”
Jo Hyeong-il showed strong conviction as if he had received a revelation in a dream.
Lee Jun-cheol quietly watched the table, then took out a mat and put it in his mouth.
Before he could take out his lighter, the spark Jo Hyeong-il held out lit the cigarette first.
“We can’t just spend our whole lives cleaning up the shit of hunters. Now is our chance.”
“Is this the time to gamble… …?”
Jo Hyeong-il met Lee Jun-cheol’s gaze and silently agreed.
Lee Jun-cheol, who had been lost in thought for another five minutes, stood up abruptly, stubbing out his cigarette, which was still smoked, in the ashtray.
“Okay, let’s give it a try.”
