Chapter 147 : Assassination, As It Should Be
Chapter 147: Assassination, As It Should Be
The opponents Kim Hana faced as a special agent of the Otherworld Management Bureau were generally those who possessed matching caliber.
For starters, most of them were Awakeners with supernatural abilities.
Considering the minimum was illegal Awakeners and the maximum was Hellhounds with several heads’ worth of power, it was no exaggeration to say she only dealt with formidable foes.
Of course, given her strength, this was natural. You wouldn’t use a butcher’s knife to kill a chicken, after all.
She had been treated as a promising prospect from the moment she joined the Otherworld Management Bureau as an ordinary agent, and was soon earmarked as future team leader material.
Using someone like her to catch thugs that ordinary agents could easily handle would be a waste of stupefying proportions.
‘Well, that’s why she’d be mistaken about the level of thugs.’
Baek Woohyun wouldn’t have known this fact either if he hadn’t rolled around at rock bottom ‘over there.’
If that were the case, the two of them would still be continuously discussing how to breach the warehouse’s tight security—at least, tight on the surface.
In many ways, it was fortunate they could proceed smoothly without wasting time.
Click!
What greeted Baek Woohyun and Kim Hana as they opened the unlocked door and entered the warehouse was a security guard dozing off.
As if proudly displaying the shambolic security system, he sat in a chair with his upper body completely bare, his muscular frame covered in hideous tattoos.
“Hm?”
The security guard who barely woke up and raised his head blinked in confusion at the sight of the two. He seemed unable to tell whether what he was seeing was a dream or reality.
Baek Woohyun considerately made sure he didn’t need to distinguish whether this situation was a dream or reality.
By sending him into a dream he would never wake from.
Pow! Crack!
The fist he thrust out struck precisely at the jaw, and just like the assassin earlier, the security guard’s head turned to the side with a chilling sound.
However, what differed from that time was that Baek Woohyun didn’t hold back his strength at all. His single blow contained enough force to send a person straight to the grave.
The security guard, an ordinary person, could not withstand that force. In other words, he went to the grave.
“Hmm.”
Whoooosh—
Kim Hana said nothing about Baek Woohyun’s brutal handiwork. She merely made an interested sound through her nose, then wrapped the wind with her supernatural ability.
This action also revealed that, like Baek Woohyun, she wouldn’t show even the slightest mercy to those in this place.
“Let’s slowly whittle them down from the outside.”
“Yes, understood.”
Having decided on their strategy, Baek Woohyun and Kim Hana stepped toward the interior of the warehouse.
The fact that the security system was a mess had been sufficiently proven by the CCTV and the guard at the door, so their movement was truly unrestrained.
It’s just that they didn’t move around making loud noises openly—they didn’t even try to muffle their footsteps.
However, separately from that, Baek Woohyun’s senses were sharpened extremely keenly, keeping an area of about ten meters within his domain.
Moving freely without considering getting caught didn’t mean he was being careless and going around saying ‘Please kill me!’
“There are enemies.”
“Two of them. Shall we each take one?”
When Baek Woohyun, who detected enemies, stopped and spoke, Kim Hana naturally responded.
Just like Baek Woohyun, who was surveying the surroundings with keenly sharpened senses, she also seemed to be monitoring the area through her supernatural ability.
Since her supernatural ability was based on the wind attribute, she probably spread the wind she controlled around to use for detection.
In any case, having decided to each take one, their movements were incomparably faster than before.
Baek Woohyun, who obtained a superhuman body based on [Perfect Being], goes without saying, and Kim Hana, wrapped in wind, was also very swift.
The two infiltrated their respective positions without giving the security guards, who didn’t have supernatural abilities, even a moment to notice.
“—?!”
Crack!
The security guard who was sitting comfortably looking at his smartphone couldn’t avoid the death that struck him in an instant.
Baek Woohyun’s forearm, which descended silently behind him, wrapped around the security guard’s neck, demonstrating overwhelming strength once again.
The security guard’s body convulsed with a thud! as his neck bone broke and dislocated in an instant, then went limp.
“……”
Baek Woohyun’s gaze turned to the side as he caught the smartphone that slipped from the security guard’s hand and placed it appropriately.
There stood Kim Hana, who had already approached and slit another security guard’s throat with a wind blade, then laid down the corpse and was standing leisurely.
As if she wasn’t following in Kim Cheol’s footsteps as part of the Otherworld Management Bureau’s strongest line for nothing, she had finished off her enemy somewhat faster than him.
‘Still, compared to before, I’ve improved a lot.’
Baek Woohyun judged that he could definitely keep up now compared to when the ‘Superhuman’ build hadn’t even taken shape yet and only had a rough framework.
If he were to have a life-or-death battle with Kim Hana now, he could estimate that he would win about six out of ten times.
If he set his goal solely on escape, it would be possible with nearly a hundred percent probability.
“…Is there something on my face? Or do you have something to say to me, junior?”
“No. It’s nothing.”
“Hmm.”
Kim Hana looked at Baek Woohyun with narrowed eyes.
It was a gaze as if saying, “I know exactly what you were thinking, but I’ll let it slide!”
It was probably actually the case. When someone ‘measured’ her, she could feel it very sensitively.
“Let’s move. We still have many enemies to deal with.”
“Understood.”
What followed was a massacre disguised as assassination.
Baek Woohyun and Kim Hana went around various parts of the large warehouse, silently eliminating security guards as soon as they spotted them.
The security guards could do nothing as they met their deaths against the two who approached their unguarded rear and demonstrated the power of Awakeners.
However, the battle didn’t end quickly—the factory itself was very large, and there were quite a few security guards because they had to watch over the human trafficking victims.
That’s why the battle became a massacre disguised as assassination. Quietly killing them one by one was assassination, but when it exceeded more than ten people, it was already a massacre.
At the very least, it was definitely closer to annihilation than assassination.
Crack!
“—!” “Gack!”
In fact, around when they had cleared roughly half the factory, they really did commit a ‘massacre disguised as assassination’ in the literal sense.
They raided a place where about six security guards were fooling around gambling, with Baek Woohyun twisting three necks and Kim Hana slashing the other three to death.
Phrases like “If you kill them all, it’s assassination!” or “If there are no witnesses, isn’t it assassination?” came to mind during this battle.
—This looks exactly like watching Assassin’s Creed
—For real, assassination is so fun lol
—? Where’s the assassination in that right now
—If you don’t get caught, isn’t it ass?assination
‘Hitman’ donated ‘1000 won’!
[Assassination, as it should be, is killing all the witnesses too, and that’s assassination]
—That’s what we decided to call a massacre
—Yee~ a madman’s logic~
—No wonder Assassin’s Creed came up
—These are the kind of guys who kill innocent citizens too and get wanted posters lol
“Setting aside whether it’s assassination or massacre, this human trafficking organization is really ridiculously big, isn’t it?”
“The security guards alone are at fifteen now, so it’s definitely big. It’s not for nothing that I warned you it was big before Kim Hana arrived.”
“But, even if it’s big in size, there’s no substance. Only ordinary gangsters without even an Awakener.”
—Feels like a breather episode
—Maybe because it’s the first Special Mission
—? You guys above don’t know RePla well lol
—The fact is there’s no such thing as a breather mission in RePla lol Watch carefully
“……”
Crack!
…Thud.
With the security guard whose neck was broken falling in place as the last one, the elimination of security guards inside the large factory was completely finished.
They had thoroughly swept from the entrance to the deepest part, killing everyone who was caught by their detection, so there should be no more security guards inside the factory.
At least, not unless new personnel entered from outside.
“It’s nice and clean when you handle it that way.”
Kim Hana, who had eliminated another security guard beside him, said while wiping the blood from her hands.
Unlike Baek Woohyun, who had been breaking enemies’ necks with his bare hands using overwhelming strength, she was using wind blades created with the power of her supernatural ability.
Because of that, blood inevitably splattered at times like right now, and seeing Baek Woohyun’s clean aftermath handling, she seemed to feel quite envious.
“It’s not bad if you don’t mind the sensation remaining on your hands when you kill.”
“Mm, that’s also a problem.”
Blood staining the hands versus sensation remaining on the hands.
Kim Hana, who had been looking down at her own hands as if weighing the two, soon shook her head.
“Anyway, we’re done with the ground level. The rest seem to be underground, so let’s go there.”
“Understood.”
Perhaps for thorough security, the human trafficking organization actually operated the ground level of the large warehouse as a warehouse, and kept the victims separately imprisoned underground.
Presumably, one of the reasons the discipline of the security guards monitoring the ground level had become lax was due to this structure that made escape difficult.
The human trafficking victims would only be able to escape if they broke through the door that could only be locked or opened from the outside and left the underground.
One interesting fact was that the door leading underground wasn’t hidden at all, demonstrating the chaotic security system.
Originally, it seemed to have been wrapped tightly in cloth with various loads piled on top to hide it, but now it was exposed openly.
The security guards must have removed it because it was inconvenient when going back and forth, and as time passed half-heartedly, it naturally became fixed that way.
“……”
A door opened to facilitate passage.
Human trafficking victims, and thugs running wild.
As the three situations meshed together, one extremely unpleasant, quite horrific hypothesis flashed through Baek Woohyun’s mind.
Having once felt the malice of humans to the bone through the security guards ‘over there,’ he absolutely couldn’t shake it off. No, he didn’t shake it off.
—……
—……
Among the wraiths that had quietly revealed themselves, there were also those who had been sacrificed to such malice.
Because Baek Woohyun carried all of them, he absolutely couldn’t dismiss the hypothesis that made his mind sticky as a simple mistake.
The hatred flowing down his spine was still crying out to repay sin with punishment.
—Kill them all, oppa.
‘Yeah. I’ll kill them all.’
Even before setting foot in this place, Baek Woohyun had no intention of leaving even a single member of the human trafficking organization alive.
If they were human, they couldn’t sell other humans into hell, so those belonging to the human trafficking organization weren’t human and therefore all deserved to die.
Especially if in that process, they scattered their malice toward pitiful people, all the more so.
Click!
Since there was a high possibility of human trafficking victims, Baek Woohyun and Kim Hana, who covered their faces with masks as before, opened the door connected to the underground.
Even through the cloth pulled up to cover the nose, the musty smell rising from the underground could be clearly felt. The fishy metallic scent mixed in between as well.
As the disgusting smell combined with the gloomy atmosphere, the stairs leading underground were like a passage leading to hell.
Step, step.
“……”
“……”
How far down the stairs had they descended with both Baek Woohyun and Kim Hana keeping their mouths firmly shut?
Having reached the underground floor, they could encounter security guards resting as they pleased in a space roughly furnished like a break room.
“Huh?”
“What are those?”
The security guards and thugs, each with their upper bodies bare displaying tattooed designs, made stupid expressions upon seeing Baek Woohyun and Kim Hana who suddenly appeared.
For them, it was a natural reaction since masked men and women had suddenly appeared in what was a safe stronghold.
“Hey, you bastard. What are you doing wearing a mask? And who’s that bitch next to you?”
“……”
Baek Woohyun didn’t answer the words of the thug who approached in a swaggering manner. He didn’t even feel the need to exchange words.
Therefore, what he returned to the thug was a hand swing at a speed too fast to be visible.
Crunch!
The result was truly miserable beyond words.
With the single blow filled with superhuman strength as it was, the thug’s head burst like a watermelon.
The body that had been swaying after losing its head soon collapsed with a thud amid the spattering blood. It was truly an unrealistic sight for the thugs.
“Huh?” “Wh-what.” “No, fuck—”
“……”
Pure white pupils shining alone in the pitch-black darkness quietly gazed at the thugs.
As if declaring they wouldn’t miss a single moment of the execution about to follow.