Evidence -2-
I returned home with the USB and my loot.
Come to think of it, I didn’t have a single laptop.
I contacted Director Choi and asked him to get me one. Director Choi came flying in like a jet, carrying the latest model laptop.
“No, Superman! What is this?”
“Haha. Are you jealous?”
“Your hair is… hmm, and what is that smell? What happened last night?”
When I came back and checked my appearance, it was quite a sight.
First, all my hair was burned off.
I washed it once, but my body still smells like smoke and blood.
If you were wearing the latest protective gear at the human hunter’s house, you would have looked like a human, or else you would have looked like a homeless person.
“Actually, I was attacked last night.”
“A raid?”
“Where should I start······ Ah, wait a minute.”
I turned on the TV as a thought suddenly occurred to me.
I keep flipping through the channels.
The news I was thinking of was just being broadcast on a cable news channel.
[Here’s the news. Last night, just after midnight, there was a large-scale gunfight between gangs in Daerim-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu. A gas station exploded and five commercial buildings and over twenty houses were completely burned down in the gunfight involving bombs and heavy weapons. Let’s take a look at the footage.]
A screen shot taken by someone with a smartphone.
A group of vagrants surround a building in a blurry image.
Soon they will start dying one by one.
The video was a bit shaky, perhaps due to the shock, but it clearly showed the explosions going off one after another.
[There are dozens of confirmed deaths. Even in this dire situation, Yeongdeungpo Police Station is not doing anything about cleaning up or finding the culprits, citing the fact that it is outside the security zone and a lawless area. Even fire trucks did not show up, so citizens had to put out the fire themselves and evacuate people. Let me connect with you from the scene. Reporter Park Dae-won?]
[Yes, this is Park Dae-won. This is Daerim-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu······]
I turned off the TV.
Director Choi looked momentarily bewildered, then his expression changed to one of realization.
“Did you do that, Superman?”
“Yes. There were so many that I couldn’t help it.”
“No, that’s not the point, but why did you go all the way there? Daerim-dong is the worst lawless area in this area.”
“I didn’t go because I wanted to.”
Explained step by step.
A member of the Iron Fist gang called me.
Bulletproof limousine.
From gas station explosions to raids by vagrants to sniping attacks by human hunters.
Director Choi’s face hardened.
“Surely not, President Kim?”
“That’s not true. You know that, Mr. Iron Fist is benefiting a lot from me. If I disappear, the Iron Fist faction will lose Shillim-dong. The Poison Faction and the Naked Faction will come right in.”
“Actually, the Iron Fist faction is growing rapidly. President Kim is already level 3, and the leaders under him are also level 2.”
“Huh? Then isn’t it already at the level where you can eat up the poison faction and the naked faction?”
“That’s why we’ve been meeting constantly these days. The Iron Fist faction clearly has the upper hand in terms of executives. Both the Poison Faction and the Naked Faction have level 2 bosses. If the Iron Fist faction secures a few more level 1 people, both will be finished.”
Kim Cheol-kwon is excluded from the list of suspects.
However, Director Choi strongly insisted that Kim Cheol-kwon should be summoned.
In any case, since gang members were involved, Kim Chul-kwon must also prove his innocence.
That’s true too.
I immediately called Kim Cheol-kwon and summoned him.
Kim Cheol-kwon was so surprised that he came running with the gang leaders.
“What the hell are you talking about? My subordinate attacked you, Superman?”
I sat down and looked around at the Iron Fist executives.
Everyone looked dumbfounded.
I glanced at a familiar face.
The gnome who runs the identity market.
“You mean.”
“Yes? Why are you doing that?”
“You know that guy among your direct subordinates, the short guy with the shaved head and the scorpion tattoo? The guy who guarded the Shinwon Market.”
“Uh······ Yes. Isn’t that what Daehoon said?”
The executive opens his smartphone and shows a photo.
The gang member who lured me was hit.
“That’s right. That guy. He took me to Daerim-dong around midnight last night.”
“Huh? Daerim-dong? Why?”
“You called me?”
“Huh? Me? Brother, no, Superman? Me? Absolutely not! If something comes up, I’ll come and see you in person! You’re friends with Brother Tekken!”
The executive jumped up as if he was being treated unfairly.
Kim Cheol-kwon sits down on a chair and asks.
“Superman. What on earth happened?”
“Let me tell you.”
Director Choi stepped forward and explained on his behalf.
Step by step, in chronological order.
The more he listened to the explanation, the more Kim Cheol-kwon’s eyebrows twitched.
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When I showed the news on TV again, I couldn’t hold back my anger and got up.
“Hey, you idiot!”
“Oh my, brother!”
Kim Cheol-kwon roughly beating up an executive.
It’s a prosthetic hand that has become much thicker since it was replaced.
The moment he struck, his elbow joint opened and, phew! A blast of flames erupted.
The executive was hit and fell to the ground.
He was hit in the face on the floor, causing blood to flow from his eyes, nose, and mouth.
Kim Cheol-kwon bowed his head to me.
“I’m sorry, Superman. I made a mistake in guarding my subordinates. I sincerely apologize for this.”
“Tongue, bro?”
“It’s that kid’s fault, but it’s not like you need to apologize······”
The executives are confused.
The executive who was hit quickly fell to the ground.
He hits his head hard and shouts.
“I’m sorry! It’s all my fault! This whole thing happened because I didn’t manage my subordinates well! I’ll take responsibility! You had no idea about this! You don’t even know Daehoon’s name! It’s all my fault!”
“It’s noisy, so be quiet.”
“Tongue, bro.”
“I am truly sorry, Superman. I will deal with these guys properly. Please, just look at my face and spare my life.”
what?
Kim Cheol-kwon appears much more humble than I expected.
Do you think I’m a bloodthirsty bastard?
Just ask them to spare your life.
······Now that I think about it, that makes sense.
Inside the TV that is still on.
Because I’m flying around in the air, slaughtering homeless people.
Here, what does Kim Cheol-kwon think of me?
It is a monster that single-handedly hunted the Janitors’ Association and level 4 Park Dae-yeop.
He also thinks of me as a thousand-year-old.
They don’t know when he’ll have a fit and try to kill them.
Even I would bow my head once.
“Okay, I accept your apology. Honestly, even if you’re the boss, how can you control even the lowest-ranking gangsters? I think he probably took some bribes to lure me here. Honestly, I was suspicious from the moment he put me in the car. Team Leader Ko here isn’t the type of person to send a bunch of goons and tell me to come and go without even making a phone call.”
I barely managed to remember the last name.
Team leader Ko, the executive, laughed heartily.
“You understand!”
“We’re comrades. Comrades. We may have differences, but we’re not the kind of people who would betray each other like this.”
“Yes! Yes!”
“But you know what? You have to find out for sure who instigated it. If you don’t, I can’t help but suspect you too.”
The executive nodded his head fiercely.
“I know where the huns are lived, no one who lives.”
“Do that.”
“Go ahead, Junbeom. If you can’t find it, don’t even think about coming back alive.”
“Oh, I understand! I’ll go right away!”
The executive quickly got up and ran out.
Kim Cheol-kwon looks at me with a calm face.
“Superhuman, do you have any idea?”
“Now I have to look for it.”
I looked back at Director Choi once.
Director Choi made an O with his right index finger and thumb.
While I and Kim Cheol-kwon were talking, a hacking program was running to break the security.
It seems like you have some talent for this too.
No USB.
The files were organized by type.
[cog]
[list]
[Video conference]
[recording]
[Transcript]
Like this.
Director Choi is busy scrolling through the touchpad.
“This is awesome.”
“What is it?”
“Aren’t you a superhuman hunter, a superhuman hunter? You’ve killed more than twenty superhumans so far.”
“score!”
Kim Cheol-kwon was surprised and made a comeback.
Then he looked at me with new eyes.
Did you survive an attack by this type of person?
“Please leave everything else aside and check the most recent request.”
“Yes. I’m looking for it. The recent one, the recent one… Ah. Here it is. It’s a request I received three days ago. It was originally going to be declined, but it says in a note that I accepted it because the success fee was high. The success fee, the success fee… 20 billion?”
“20 billion?”
“20 billion!”
Kim Cheol-kwon and Director Choi face each other.
Both of them had their mouths wide open.
Is that so surprising?
I just shrugged my shoulders.
“I know it’s embarrassing to say this myself, but I’m an expert in interpersonal combat, and I get paid that much.”
“Even so, 20 billion······”
“How much does a level 3 superhuman usually cost?”
“According to the records, it’s around 5 to 6 billion. The cost is separate.”
“oh my god.”
“It is an honor for generations to come to serve such a person.”
Kim Cheol-kwon just opened his mouth, and in the meantime, Chief Choi was trying to please me.
“That target was me?”
“Oh, yes. I forgot that. That’s right. I heard that the Ascension Group made a request for you, Superhuman?”
At those words, the atmosphere became cold.
Kim Cheol-kwon closes his mouth and Chief Choi narrows his eyes.
Ascension Group.
I see how things turn out.
I lifted one finger and wiggled it left and right.
“It’s not Seungcheon Group, it’s Seungcheon Security.”
“Ascension Security? Oh, wait a minute. That’s right. It’s recorded that the request came in through the Ascension Security Secretary’s Office.”
“The secretary’s office? Are you the president’s secretary?”
“Just a moment. In the secretary’s office… Oh, it’s not the secretary’s office. He used the secretary’s office business card, but it’s a completely different person.”
The outlines are slowly coming into focus.
Chief Choi, who was manipulating the touchpad, shouted.
“I found it! Lee Jae-yeol, it’s Lee Jae-yeol! I hid it by changing hands several times, but it seems like this person investigated everything in advance and received the request.”
“Lee Jae-yeol······”
also.
It somehow bothered me.
But why is that happening when we only met briefly?
Even if you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, would you spend 20 billion won to try to kill me?
Is there a reason I don’t know?
“Is this Lee Jae-yeol?”
Kim Cheol-kwon looks like he’s hearing it for the first time.
Director Choi quickly changed the screen and showed the Seungcheon Group organizational chart.
“You know about Seungcheon Security, right? It’s a private military company affiliated with the Seungcheon Group.”
“I know that.”
“Lee Jae-yeol is the eldest son of the president of Seungcheon Security. He is currently a holy knight of his father’s sect… Oh, I heard he was promoted to a holy knight.”
“But why did that guy try to assassinate Superman?”
“I’m fine with that······”
“I’ll explain that part.”
After thinking about it carefully, I understand.
When I met Jo-cheol to get my armor fitted, Jo-cheol said this to me.
The saint said that I would become the [light and savior] of the old father’s sect.
At the time, I just heard it and passed over it, but thinking back, it was meaningful.
A god who died in the war of destruction.
After a few years, it was revived, and the church is putting all its efforts into it.
But the light and the savior······
Even if you think about the meaning slowly, it must have been a real pain in the ass from Jae-yeol Lee’s perspective.
Even though I was hit by the same fever, I was crawling up from the floor, but I heard the sound of light and savior, and I was making custom armor for a level 6 craftsman.
‘Was that knight Lee Jae-yeol at that time?’
A knight who guarded Jo Cheol’s house.
It felt particularly hostile.
If it was Lee Jae-yeol, then it would make sense.
I briefly explained my reasoning to them both.
Director Choi frowned.
“Certainly, the atmosphere wasn’t very good for the ironsmith and the knight standing there.”
“I know.”
Kim Cheol-kwon, who was listening, twisted the corners of his mouth.
“It’s an inferiority complex, an inferiority complex. How upset would a rich kid who was doing well feel if he saw a superhuman who was better than him? It’s actually quite common in this world to place an assassination request with the feeling of spending a little bit of pocket money.”
Director Choi ground his teeth while looking at his laptop.
“We must set an example.”
Kim Cheol-kwon immediately sneered.
“How?”
“yes?”
“Realistically, there’s no way. Even if you’re just a small business owner, you can just storm in and kill them all, but this is Seungcheon Security. This is Seungcheon Security. If you mess with it wrong, the entire Seungcheon Group could come running and kill you.”
Kim Cheol-kwon, who at first spoke to Director Choi, but later spoke to me.
It’s telling you to give up.
The Ascension Group is a dinosaur. Among dinosaurs, there is Tyrannosaurus.
Am I just a squeaking mouse?
No, mice are overrated, and it would be more appropriate to think of them as mosquitoes.
Chief Choi muttered and then said.
“I will sue you. If I get a good lawyer and sue you······”
“You know about the preferential treatment. Since the evidence is clear, Superman will win. After about 3 or 4 years. At best, you’ll only get a small fine and some compensation. You won’t get an apology or even food. It’s called the law of predestination, and predestination, right?”
“Then expose it to the media······”
“Which media outlet would carry it? TV? Newspaper? Neither. They would block it completely at the desk and take bribes. It might be possible on a small internet newspaper or personal broadcast, but would Seungcheon Group even snort at the fact that it was exposed through that? No. No.”
A world where wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people.
A de facto caste society.
In this world, the strong cannot complain even if they trample on the weak.
Does that mean I should just take it?
Absolutely not!
“I’m threatening Lee Jae-yeol.”
“yes?”
“Threats?”
“What are you going to do by threatening me?”
“I will drag you into the arena.”
“Ah, a duel······”
A world where an individual’s power determines his or her social status.
As a result, there was a custom of ending disputes between superhumans in a duel.
The Colosseum was an enlarged version of that.
“Will Lee Jae-yeol come out to the arena obediently?”
“Think about it. What would be Lee Jae-yeol’s goal? Isn’t it to take over the family business?”
“That’s true.”
“Lee Jae-yeol is the eldest son, but he was practically banished when he was baptized.”
“ah······”
My eyes were fixed on the laptop screen.
Both Director Choi and Kim Cheol-kwon are convinced after seeing the screen.
Family tree of Ascension Security.
Lee Jae-yeol is the eldest son, and his current mother is his stepmother.
You heard it when you went to get your level 3 certification.
Talking about having to reclaim one’s legitimate rights or something like that.
I also got a few words from Seo Woo-jin.
It wouldn’t be a good thing to get involved in an assassination case in that situation.
“surely······”
Director Choi nodded.
“This will work.”
On the other hand, Kim Cheol-kwon seems to still be lacking.
“Is it possible? What if Lee Jae-yeol ignores and attacks? If he decides to use his father’s company, we won’t be able to handle it. Even if he is a son who was given up, it is possible for him to mobilize part of the company like this.”
“That’s true.”
I also agree with what Kim Cheol-kwon said.
So I had a thought.
“Then let’s also raise our weight class.”
“How do you say that?”
“Let’s mobilize our connections.”
I have a few people I can call my connections.
Several faces pass by.
The first thing that comes to mind is······
It was Seo Woo Jin.
