< 110. Shock and Terror (8) >
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After capturing the wizard, Minjun began interrogating him in the empty hospital room. He had originally planned to read Choi Seon-ah’s mind first, but the order was changed. She had passed out from being poisoned by magical substances and had not yet woken up. It seemed that waiting for Yumtus’s power to recover or for her to naturally come to her senses would take about the same amount of time.
“Kill me….”
The wizard spoke in a hoarse voice. The poison in his mouth had been removed. His eyes were ominous, as if he had given up on everything.
As expected, the happy bug didn’t work. Something had been done to the brain.
Minjun asked.
“What are you? Where did you come from?”
“······.”
“Why did you target Choi Seon-ah?”
“······.”
The wizard, who had been responding to the agent’s questions with silence, soon sensed something strange.
He could tell instinctively. Minjun was not afraid of getting blood on his hands. He was clearly a man worn down to the point where he could fall asleep to the sound of the torture chamber screams.
However, he was interrogating them too peacefully. If it were him, he would have started by cutting off a few fingers or pulling out a few teeth. As a means of gaining the upper hand.
But Minjun stands silently and shows no sign of moving.
Moreover.
‘Why on earth are you still holding that frying pan?’
Minjun continued to ask questions to the troubled boy.
The wizard who heard it.
‘······!’
Soon, a possibility occurred to me.
‘no way!’
Immediately after realizing it, he began to fill his head with all sorts of useless thoughts. They were like a jumble of thoughts that were hard to find context for. Illegible and improbable delusions flooded in. In this way, the wizard pushed important information out of his surface consciousness.
Then Minjun clicked his tongue.
“He’s a quick-witted kid.”
Those who trained him knew of his rare and threatening powers, such as mind reading. Minjun realized that he had been reckless. If he had pretended to torture them, they might not have noticed.
The agent asks the frying pan.
‘What do you think? Is this too much?’
=Umm… I’m sorry, Agent. This is like looking for a grain of sand in a muddy pond.=
“okay?”
=There is so much clutter that it is difficult to pick out just the information you want.=
‘Then what should I do?’
=To increase your chances of success even a little, it is better to contact the author.=
‘Should I tie it up by your hand?’
=If possible, please attach it as close to the brain as possible. And··· The resistance and barrier protecting the mind are thick right now. It would be good if we could break it down.=
It’s a psychological defense mechanism.
Minjun said while fiddling with the dagger.
‘Will torture help?’
=It would be better to do them in parallel.=
Minjun approached him with a frying pan. The wizard had his eyes tightly shut and was desperately concentrating on random thoughts.
Shhh!
A shadow spread out and wrapped around the man’s neck.
“Ugh!”
The black wave grabbed his hair and threw it back, causing him to sit up and look at the ceiling.
Roll!
A shadow creeps between his lips.
“Ugh! Ugh!”
The wizard resisted, but could not overcome the force. The rippling shadow forced its mouth open. Boom! There was a sound of a jaw being pulled out.
At that moment, despair filled the man’s eyes. Those who want to get information do not pull out the target’s jaw or cut out the tongue. It is natural because it makes the statement more difficult.
So, it is clear that the other person has the ability to read minds.
As he desperately tried to keep his mind from being seen through, Minjun lifted the frying pan. He was holding the metal frame instead of the handle.
And the wizard saw an unbelievable scene.
Wormwood!
“Kuuuck!”
Minjun shoved the long handle of the flipped single-handed frying pan into the wizard’s mouth.
“Ugh! Ugh!”
The wizard writhed in shock and disbelief in his eyes. But the frying pan was still stuck in his mouth, crushing his vocal cords. The magic tool was amazed.
=Wow! That’s quite a bold play···.=
Minjun answered without even batting an eyebrow.
“shut up.”
It was a double-edged sword that brought the frying pan close to the wizard’s brain, while also reducing the screams that would escape during the torture. At the same time, it also prevented the tortured man from chewing off his own tongue.
The warlock pulled out his dagger while covering the mouth of the person who was about to testify with the handle of the frying pan.
“Okay, let’s get started.”
And without hesitation, he thrust his sword in. The wizard, whose thigh had been pierced, let out a scream like an animal. The noise was muffled by the handle and could not come out properly.
The tedious work has begun.
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Woof! Woof!
A few dozen minutes later, the frying pan began to vibrate.
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Minjun pulls the magic tool out of his mouth. The wizard is half out of his mind.
“Eu …
Hurrah!
Minjun burned all the blood off his hands and disinfected the handle at the same time. He cleaned the broken teeth, the pieces of gum, the blood, and the saliva that were stuck in there. Only then did he grab that part and speak.
“Have you dug everything out?”
=I don’t think there will be anything more to come.=
The moment you receive the answer, the wizard is knocked unconscious.
“What the heck is this kid?”
=First of all, affiliation.=
Minjun was able to hear the answer he expected.
“Abrams Helper Service?”
A contract killer company that is at the height of its power.
Well, it can’t be that great, considering Minjun has never heard of it.
“Why are they trying to kidnap a congressman’s daughter? It’s not like they’re assassinating her.”
=Ah··· Actually, it is said that he is famous for providing excellent service in both assassination and kidnapping. However, this time, it seems that he did not do it on someone’s request.=
“If it wasn’t an external request, was there an internal directive?”
=Yes, there was a reason for that.=
The frying pan explains in a tone that still hasn’t lost its cheerfulness.
=This company has another service to offer besides assassination and kidnapping. When a seemingly insignificant customer asks to kill or kidnap a high-status target, they make a counteroffer to that target.=
It’s like asking, ‘I’ve been asked to kill you. What should I do?’
The goal is to negotiate with the target and extort a larger sum of money than the original client can afford.
Minjun snorted.
“It’s so obvious.”
=This is another case like this. It started when Kwak Do-chul made the request. He asked me to kill his wife.=
“No, wait a minute. Isn’t something wrong?”
As a result, the person who died was Gwak Do-chul, but he was killed not by an assassin but by his wife.
Another thing I don’t understand is…
“Wasn’t that kid the one who cheated?”
According to Jeong Pal’s explanation, it was her husband who caused the breakdown.
So, why wouldn’t it be okay if the wife made the request first, but the husband?
=I guess it might be a property issue?=
“······.”
Only then was Minjun able to understand.
Choi Seon-ah’s father is a four-term member of the National Assembly and a wealthy man. If Kwak Do-chul, who provided the reason for the blame, leaves, he will be left penniless.
But what if your wife dies before the divorce?
“That kid wasn’t even human.”
=So the company made a counteroffer to Rep. Choi Pan-seok. They said they received a request to kill one of his family members. They said they would kill the client in return for money. No matter how much they calculated it, it seemed like they had more to gain from Rep. Choi Pan-seok than from Kwak Do-chul.=
However, he said he did not reveal at all who placed the order or who the specific target was.
“If I had told you everything, Choi Pan-seok wouldn’t have paid the company to do the counter-intelligence. He would have taken care of it on his own. You expected that and kept your mouth shut, didn’t you?”
=That’s right. It’s not like asking for Kwak Do-chul with Choi Pan-seok’s power. And… I couldn’t even imagine that my son-in-law would ask for my daughter’s death. I thought it was one of them because I had received so many death threats before.=
Choi Pan-seok, who was in agony, accepts the offer of a helper service by paying a large sum of money.
The congressman also checked their reputation and reputation through his own information network.
=I would have judged it not to be a scam.=
In this case, I decided to believe it because they said that after the work was completed, everything including the identity of the original client would be revealed.
After he sent the money, the ‘headquarters’ of the helper service tried to dispatch a suitable killer. Kwak Do-chul, who was not even a person with supernatural powers, was an easy target.
But here’s where the variable comes into play.
=They say that the hired killers are also divided into several grades based on their skills and performance, and among them, it seems that the partner grade killers have shown interest in this mission.=
But the killer was unusual in many ways.
=I heard he’s a legendary assassin in that world?=
Minjun snorted again. From his perspective, it was an incredibly laughable expression.
=He worked alone for a long time and recently joined this company, but his true identity has never been properly known even among the other killers, and more importantly, he has never failed. He is said to be an assassin with a thousand faces, and he is so good at shape-shifting that he leaves no traces of himself. Even Interpol is not sure if this person is real or not, so they have not issued an arrest warrant. The only thing that is known is that he mainly uses a sword···.=
At that moment, Minjun’s eyes widened.
“knife?”
=Yes. That’s why the nickname you’re called in that world is Blade. It’s a bit childish, though.=
“Please continue talking.”
=It seems that even the headquarters can’t properly control this guy. Since there was another mission to be given in Korea anyway, they just sent him to finish both and come back. But then this author suddenly started going wild.=
“What are you talking about?”
The killer, who was known for being unruly but never got in the way of work, caused a major accident.
There are two of them.
The first of them is···.
=They say that originally, Choi Seon-ah was not supposed to be found at the scene of the crime like that.=
There would have been much better ways to kill Kwak Do-chul, but the killer ‘manipulated’ Choi Seon-ah to cut off his head. She was the daughter of the client who had placed the reverse request and was the target of the original request.
It was a foolish choice. He could have just picked any random orc that happened to be wandering around.
An even more fatal mistake was leaving evidence at the scene.
=The killer’s specialty was to hide all evidence, including the weapon, at the scene… but this time he failed.=
After hearing this, Minjun was beginning to become certain of the identity of the ‘legendary killer’.
And why Interpol hasn’t been able to arrest him until now.
“What about the second accident?”
=You know, there was a mission that the headquarters originally wanted to give that killer? It was to take out a member of the Korean National Assembly.=
Minjun’s eyes became sharp.
“no way?”
=Yes, I heard that he is the congressman who was found dead today.=
A member of the National Assembly murdered by an unregistered weapon master.
He was also a target of helper service.
“Then, from their perspective, the request was a success, right? Because they killed them. Why was that an accident?”
=This time, the method of handling it was also a problem. In fact, it is said that it was a very difficult mission. I don’t know what the congressman was so worried about, but he hired several people with special abilities to maintain 24-hour security.=
Therefore, it was not an easy task for the assassin to solve by secretly infiltrating.
=But··· It seems that the author called Blade controlled the killer of the Korean branch that should not be exposed this time. The person who acted as a medium for him and the headquarters to communicate. In the end, the target was killed, but the Korean branch killer also died.=
The frying pan showed Minjun the person the wizard had imagined in his mind, and Minjun confirmed the familiar face of the troll in the wave of thoughts.
He was an unregistered weapon master who ran a cigarette shop.
‘That troll was the contractor’s contact in Korea?’
Minjun recalls the memories of the deceased. The two people exchanging bills and cigarettes.
‘It seems right to assume that Choi Seon-ah was already under control when she made contact with that man. She must have gone to find that troll in order to contact headquarters.’
Minjun seemed to know why Choi Seon-ah was in front instead of moving the blade herself.
‘The remaining question is this. Why is he suddenly doing such strange things one after another? Exposing the ‘sword’ to the police, using the client’s daughter as a tool, manipulating a colleague to kill… Isn’t it almost madness?’
It was to the point where I suddenly thought I had gone crazy.
=So the headquarters is said to be tracking Blade without knowing the English. Because he was suddenly killed by the team. And the reason he tried to kidnap Choi Seon-ah was because of timing. Didn’t he show interest in this mission right before he started acting strangely?=
I decided that it wasn’t a coincidence, and like Minjun, I tried to get even the slightest clue from her.
But since she was in a situation where she had to do something today or tomorrow, she waited without doing anything. She also postponed reporting the results to the person who requested the reverse request, Assemblyman Choi Pan-seok.
Then, when she miraculously recovered today, they planned to kidnap her.
Minjun made a decision after a brief moment of deliberation.
“I should take a crack at those contract workers.”
But before that, there was something to do first.
“I’ll have to read Choi Seon-ah’s inner thoughts first. I’ll have to see if she was really just being manipulated for no reason… or if there’s something more hidden.”
Of course, I couldn’t put the frying pan handle in the girl’s mouth in front of the congressman, so I planned to find out as secretly as possible.
But Minjun, who returned to her hospital room, had no choice but to change his plan.
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