novelraw Chapter 115 : Chapter 115
Chapter 115 : Chapter 115
Chapter 115 Cabinet
The Mayor's office.
“......”
Cha Hak-jun froze just like that while looking down at his phone.
It was because of a single photo transmitted to his phone.
His eyes looking at that photo slowly began to become bloodshot.
“Th... This...!”
Words couldn't even come out of his mouth properly.
Because there was absolutely no vocabulary to express his anger right now.
“Uaaak! Aaaaaak!!”
BANG!
Slamming his phone onto the desk, he let out a scream.
The employees working in the next room flinched but didn't even think about going to the Mayor's office.
Because entering wrongly in such a situation could get them shot.
Not metaphorically, but literally.
“Huk, huk...”
After vomiting a bout of screams.
Cha Hak-jun looked down at his phone screen once again.
There was a photo on the screen.
It was a photo of the four agents from the Black Orphanage he had sent.
The problem was that all the subjects captured in the photo were dead.
In other words, it was a photo of corpses.
And the one who took this photo and sent it was none other than Riman.
Taking it intentionally to provoke Cha Hak-jun.
“...Leman, Leman, Lemaaaaaan!!”
Cha Hak-jun muttered Riman's name over and over again.
As the name was repeated, Riman's image in his head became vivid.
Simultaneously, the murderous intent also became distinct.
“...I can’t just stay like this.”
At that moment, an idea flashed through Cha Hak-jun's mind.
“You too... you must suffer exactly like me.”
Cha Hak-jun began to retrace in his head where this situation started.
The beginning was simple.
The death of the artist he sponsored, Francis Appel.
This ill-fated relationship started when Riman killed Francis.
“...Right, all this started when you bastard killed my person.”
Of course, the fact that Francis was a wanted criminal who killed a tremendous number of people was not important to him.
Only the fact that he killed his person was important.
“...Right, I will return it exactly as it is.”
Cha Hak-jun summoned his secretary.
And said.
“Leman White, extract a list of people involved with that bastard.”
“You mean related parties. Understood.”
It didn't take even an hour to extract the list.
Because Riman had no family, no friends, no team members, and no boss.
At least currently, only one person came up.
Bart Sinel, who was officially in charge of being Riman's broker.
Seeing Bart's name, Cha Hak-jun said.
“Kill this bastard.”
“You mean... Bart Sinel?”
“Do you want to make me say it twice?”
“U-Understood...!”
At that time.
“Wait a moment.”
Someone put the brakes on this conversation.
It was Joseph Han.
“That guy, I’ll go and deal with him.”
“You?”
“Yes. If he's a broker, there is a high possibility he has friendships or protection agreements with other hunters. To finish it definitely, someone of my level should go.”
Joseph Han, currently the troubleshooter with the highest reputation externally in Korea.
Simultaneously, he was also a spy attached to Cha Hak-jun's side from Riman's side.
To this, Cha Hak-jun said.
“Good. However, don't go alone. I’ll attach two agents, so go and deal with him together.”
“Alone is sufficient though...”
“I mean don't end it with killing just that bastard Bart. Raid the office after killing that guy, find anyone related to him, and kill them all.”
“...Wait, what did you say?”
“Find all people associated with Bart Sinel and kill them.”
“...Even people unrelated to Leman?”
“Of course.”
“That is...”
“Bart is entangled with Leman. So people entangled with Bart are practically entangled with Leman too. Kill them all. Every single one.”
“......”
Joseph doubted his ears.
If it was an order to kill all those directly related to Riman, he could understand it justification-wise for now.
Because Riman was Cha Hak-jun's enemy, and Joseph was currently employed by Cha Hak-jun.
But kill even people without direct relation to Riman?
This was a nonsensical act.
No matter how common murder was in this city, a massacre without justification to this extent couldn't be accepted.
‘...Should I just kill this bastard Cha Hak-jun?’
Even so, he had leaned his long sword next to the sofa he was sitting on.
A state where he could slice Cha Hak-jun's neck like tofu if he just reached out and swung once.
But Joseph couldn't do that.
Because things afterward would become too messy.
Frankly speaking, he would just become a crazy guy who suddenly killed his employer.
If he intended to make a living as a troubleshooter continuously, he shouldn't do something like this.
So for now, the only way was to interfere within the line of not being noticed.
“Then I will wait for instructions.”
With those words, Joseph went out of the Mayor's office.
After that, Cha Hak-jun asked the secretary.
“By the way, did you find the whereabouts of that human Pyo Seok-jung?”
“I apologize. Since he dared to escape at the point our surveillance personnel were wiped out...”
Cha Hak-jun sighed long.
“...Then what about Chae Hong-gyu's side?”
“Only a reply came that he is attempting to summon the escapees.”
“Right. Everyone is very... slow.”
Simultaneously as he finished speaking, Cha Hak-jun picked up the crystal ashtray on the table and struck the secretary's head.
CLANG!
Along with a clear sound, the ashtray shattered into pieces, and the secretary collapsed holding his head.
“Guk...”
“Consider yourself lucky you survived because the ashtray was less hard, you son of a bitch.”
“S-Sorry...!”
“Your expression isn't good?”
“Not at all...!”
“Are you dissatisfied? Feel wronged? You even get money from me, so you can get hit a little, can't you?”
“M-Mayor is right!”
“Retard.”
Cha Hak-jun threw the broken ashtray onto the floor.
* * *
Outside City Hall.
Joseph called somewhere.
“Mr. Leman.”
“What is the matter?”
“I am going to kill Bart Sinel soon. Accompanied by two of Cha Hak-jun's agents.”
“Hmm.”
“So first, you leak information to Bart. Tell him to take refuge in a safe place...”
“I already evacuated him a few hours ago anyway.”
“Ah, already?”
“Because given that human Cha Hak-jun's personality, it was obvious he would try to crush my surroundings if he couldn't touch me.”
“...You had seen through everything already.”
“Still, it’s fortunate you called. If you end up going to Bart's office, there was something I absolutely had to tell you.”
“What is it?”
“Be careful of the black cabinet.”
“...Aha.”
Joseph read Riman's hidden meaning immediately.
“Understood.”
“And...”
The two exchanged a secretive conversation for a moment.
A few minutes after hanging up the phone like that.
Two men he had never seen before approached Joseph.
Joseph said.
“You are...”
“Agents.”
They were agents from the Black Orphanage.
“Let’s go together.”
Joseph nodded and stood up.
They began to move together without much talk.
Because the mission was simple anyway.
Raid the office, murder Bart Sinel, then gather information from there and murder related parties in order.
Like that, they soon arrived at the building where Bart's office was located.
SLICE!
As Joseph swung his sword and cut the lock of the front door, the agents stormed inside immediately.
Naturally, no one was inside.
“Hmm...”
“Did he go out for a moment?”
The agents walked around the office examining the inside.
“First, let’s loot what we can loot.”
“Okay.”
The two agents began to rummage through Bart's office.
They opened the computer main body to take storage devices and quickly scanned through documents.
In the meantime, if there was anything that looked valuable, they quickly stole it into their bosoms.
Things like expensive miniature liquor, wristwatches, army knives.
Joseph stood a step behind watching what they were doing.
While doing so, he also scanned the office interior once.
‘He meant that.’
A black cabinet placed in the corner of the office caught Joseph's eye.
Although the color was a bit black, it was a metal cabinet of ordinary design that could be seen in any office.
Joseph subtly stepped back and widened the distance from the cabinet.
And a while later, the agents, who had rummaged enough elsewhere, finally approached that cabinet.
“What is this cabinet? It’s locked?”
“Locking a cabinet when it’s not even a safe...?”
The fact itself that it was locked stimulated their interest.
They pulled out the doorknob of the cabinet with their bare hands.
After neutralizing the locking device like that, they opened the door wide.
However, that was not a door.
It was a trigger.
CLICK.
The door opens, the wire is pulled, and thereby the switch of the detonator goes up.
For reference, what was inside the cabinet was a Claymore mine.
An explosive so-called ‘Claymore.’
The moment they flung the door open, the detonator activated, and there was no time for them to dodge.
BOOOOOOM!
The cabinet exploding with a roar.
The agent who opened the door from close range was pulverized as soon as he was hit directly by the explosion, and the agent behind him became covered in blood and was thrown away.
Both were quite strong mana users, but there was no strength in front of a Claymore exploded at this distance.
For reference, naturally, the person who installed this Claymore was Bart Sinel.
Because he expected there would be someone coming to raid his office, he had installed it in advance.
Meanwhile, Joseph...
“Ugh...”
Was lying on the floor.
He was grazed a bit by the blast pressure, but this much was nothing.
So this was a kind of acting.
Acting saying I was hit too, I am also a victim.
Joseph looked at the sprawled agents.
One didn't even have a shape left, and the other was barely breathing.
Amazing physical durability.
To survive even after being hit by a Claymore at that distance.
“Huk, huk...”
“Hmm.”
“Sa... ve...”
Joseph just watched the guy quietly.
Until the guy naturally breathed his last.
Like that, 2 minutes later, when the guy's breath stopped completely—
BEEP.
Joseph called the emergency medical team contracted with him by phone.
Not long after, loud sirens rang outside.
And the rescue team ran up.
The rescue workers handled the corpse with orderly movements and loaded Joseph onto a stretcher.
While being transported to the hospital in an ambulance like that, Joseph thought.
‘With this, I step out of this board for a while for now.’
All this flow was discussed with Riman earlier.
Riman had said this.
—“If you stick next to Cha Hak-jun in the current situation, you will continue to be deployed to kill innocent people.”
Therefore, it was Riman's recommendation to step out of this board for a while under the pretext of hospitalization.
Furthermore, a good excuse of being hit by a bomb just happened to arise too.
‘...Plus, with this, I even cleared away two agents on Cha Hak-jun's side at once.’
Joseph was moved onto a hospital bed by the crew.
Lying on a hospital bed with a healthy body was surprisingly unfamiliar as it was his first time.
For reference, this was a VIP-only single room.
This was also recommended by Riman.
—“So lie down in a single room and rest comfortably for a while and come back.”
—“Well, it’s not something I can't do, but such hospital rooms are quite expensive.”
—“It’s okay. Just get the receipt properly. I’ll process the expenses later.”
—“Process expenses...?”
Well anyway, for such reasons, Joseph laid his body on the comfortable and unfamiliar bed.
Joseph turned the air conditioner to maximum and pulled the blanket up to the tip of his chin.
* * *
A residential area somewhere in Gyeonggi-do.
A man walked up to a corner store.
Another man who came first and was sitting under a parasol greeted him.
“You came, Sven.”
“Ah fuck, you startled me. I thought I was back in Mugan.”
“Bullshit.”
The arrived man entered the corner store, picked a drink, and went to the counter.
However, no matter how long he waited, the owner didn't appear at the counter.
“Excuse me? Let me calculate!”
“Not there. Just bring it out and eat.”
“What do you mean?”
“No owner.”
“If there's no owner, you don't pay, you bastard... Hey, don't tell me you ate the owner?”
The man under the parasol grinned and said.
“The son of a bitch told me to pay money when I tried to buy goods. So I ate him.”
“Is the word purchase not in your head?”
“What, punk?”
At that time.
“Now now, everyone, please calm down.”
Chae Hong-gyu appeared.