Chapter 94 : Chapter 94
Chapter 94: Illegal Awakening (6)
Yoo jin came out of the Money Laundering Shop.
Using the First of the Money Laundering Shop, who knew the area, as a guide, he was leisurely walking through the underground Dark Store, a maze with no signposts.
As it had been since he first entered, the streets and shops all looked similar, and there were too many alleys.
Naturally, the entrance and exit were not clear either.
So he chose the First gangster, who knew the geography here better than anyone, as a guide, and Yoo jin thought his choice was definitely right.
“By the way… Why did you bring me… I don't need to be here…….”
A voice heard in the midst of that.
While maintaining his pace, Yoo jin’s head turned.
Kei was making the expression of an office worker desperately wishing to go home.
“Because I thought you’d just be lying down if you stayed there. And I told you to earn money by sweating. Sweat a little.”
“What? I’m not going to do illegal work anymore….”
“Who told you to work at the Dark Store? Just be my porter today.”
“Ah, porter…….”
Kei, walking side by side, looked down at the wooden box he was holding.
The wooden box he was told to carry from the start.
He didn't know exactly what was inside, but judging by being told not to run and that he would die if it broke, it seemed like something with relatively weak durability was inside.
“But what exactly is this?”
“You don't need to know.”
“No, but I should know what it is before I carry it, too.”
“It’s the highlight. For Chan-yeong’s revenge.”
“…….”
Because Yoo jin was speaking evasively without knowing why, Kei’s head tilted to one side.
“Highlight…… Tsk. Just tell me… It’s not even twenty questions, geez…….”
“Oh my. You’ve gotten better at talking back?”
“It’s not talking back, even the lowest porters over there know what they are carrying and moving, geez.”
Yoo jin, staring intently at Kei, nodded as if he understood.
“Really? Then I’ll tell you. But…… if I tell you, will you be able to carry it as safely as you are now? You might sprain your ankle from being nervous, or not even walk properly?”
“…What? Just what on earth is this……?”
“I think it’s better if you just don’t know…… If I tell you for no reason, hmm…… is it better to tell you?”
Kei’s eyes and lips hardened in a straight line.
‘What on earth is it. Is there a bomb inside or something? Wait, a bomb……?’
As the image of a bomb filled Kei’s mind.
“Eek!!!!”
Kei’s body began to tremble.
Yoo jin, capturing that sight in his eyes, lightly curled up the corners of his mouth.
“This is why I said I didn't want to tell you, geez…… Anyway, follow well so it doesn't break. Because if it breaks inside, your head might break too.”
Saying that, Yoo jin took a step.
Kei’s face, whose pace had become noticeably slower, was pale white.
“I knew it from the moment you dragged me here! Uaaah! I don't want to die! Is it a bomb? A nuke? Just what is inside!!!”
At the tearful sound ringing from behind, Yoo jin smiled lightly.
Bomb.
Nuke.
Kei’s imagination, not knowing what was inside, was only stretching endlessly.
“Well, it could be worse than those things. For those guys.”
Yoo jin’s expression walking ahead sank in an instant.
It's not a bomb, but perhaps.
For the guys they would meet from now on, who made Chan-yeong like that…….
It would become something more fearsome than a bomb.
Like that, he moved his steps to find the Illegal Awakening organization.
***
At that time.
Chan-yeong and the children who escaped the Dark Store.
As they crawled out of the Doghouse, one vehicle standing in front came into Jin-ho’s view.
And the tall man standing in front of it.
It was Lee Si-wang, the Vice Guild Master of the Ignis Guild.
Well, rather than Vice Guild Master now.
“Assistant Homeroom Teacher.”
Assistant Homeroom Teacher of the Returnee Class had stuck more to the children's mouths, but.
“Hurry up and get them in the vehicle. I've prepared a hospital room at the guild headquarters.”
No long story was needed.
It seemed he had already roughly grasped the situation through contact with Yoo jin.
“Geez, to think the entrance to the underground Dark Store we couldn’t find no matter how hard we tried was this Doghouse…….”
Lee Si-wang shook his head with a despondent expression.
Jin-ho and Ye-na, who escaped from the Doghouse, supported Chan-yeong and got into the back of the vehicle.
And lastly.
“Ah, seriously dog poop again…….”
There was Kang Tae-wook suppressing his anger while looking at the puppy tied to the Doghouse.
Kang Tae-wook, who was having a staring contest with the large doggy looking at him with cute eyes, sighed deeply in resignation.
What sin does a doggy have.
Kang Tae-wook wiped the poop on his hand vigorously on the wall and approached Lee Si-wang.
“Let’s go.”
“What? You are the last one? Teacher Yoo jin clearly said five people including Chan-yeong?”
“It is five people? Chan-yeong, Jin-ho, Ye-na who got in the car. Me, and…….”
Only then did Kang Tae-wook notice that one person was missing and turned his head to look at the Doghouse.
“…….”
Silence flowed.
No sign of anyone could be felt inside the dark Doghouse.
“What, where did Jo Seong-hyeon go?”
“That’s what I want to say. Wasn't he behind you?”
“I was the last one. From the time we came out the exit.”
“What is it…….”
Their expressions darkened, and they couldn't take their eyes off the Doghouse.
Silence continued like that.
“Did he go back?”
“If it’s Seong-hyeon up until now…….”
The same picture was drawn over both of their heads.
Unpredictability.
Reckless.
Self-willed.
Synonym for silliness.
Still a cool guy.
“Probably he went back because he was worried about Teacher, or he went back to get revenge for Chan-yeong.”
“Or it could just be that it looked more fun there.”
Kang Tae-wook and Lee Si-wang’s heads nodded simultaneously.
Because it was natural to think like that.
If one looked at Seong-hyeon’s appearance up until now.
And.
Because there was no time to delay.
“Assistant Homeroom Teacher.”
“Time is urgent.”
Jin-ho and Ye-na’s voices rang from inside.
At those voices.
Kang Tae-wook and Lee Si-wang’s bodies turned.
Since the top priority right now was to treat Chan-yeong quickly.
Thud!
Thud!
Like that, the vehicle doors closed.
And the black vehicle carrying the children departed for the Ignis Guild.
.
.
.
.
A few minutes after the vehicle left.
Another vehicle stopped in front of the Doghouse.
And
“Mmph……! Mmph……!”
Jo Seong-hyeon, whose whole body was bound, was thrown into the back seat of the black vehicle.
Like that.
Another incident occurred in a place no one expected.
***
A section of the Underground Dark Store.
An alley darker than other places.
The signboard of one shop that was uniquely filling the alley was turned off.
However, a small light flowed from inside that shop where the shutter was half down.
Boxes were dizzyingly piled up in the front yard of the shop where bright light flowed out.
Things that looked illegal just by their names, like Stimulant, Awakening Agent, Combination x2, etc., were scribbled on the boxes.
“Hurry! Time has been delayed too much. Don’t just take off the brand tags, just roughly pack…….”
Clatter!
Before the words of the man inside could finish, the sound of the shop’s iron shutter going up rang out.
The personnel of the shop who were quickly packing their bags were startled and threw their gazes toward the door.
Someone to come?
None.
Guest?
They had already turned off all the lights on the signboard.
And the state was that they had asked the broker not to take jobs since a few days ago.
If there was anyone who might come.
It would be the employees of the Money Laundering Shop to exchange stolen goods, but.
Even regarding that, the state was that they had already processed everything last week.
Therefore.
“What? Who are you?”
The sounds coming from the employees’ mouths were obvious.
And in front of the door where those sharp gazes and voices gathered.
The face of the man standing there was a figure they were seeing for the first time no matter how they looked.
So one more word had to fly.
“We aren’t doing business today, so get lost. We’re dying of busyness, what strange guy…….”
“You were still here? I was worried thinking you had already left.”
At the voice of the man in front of the door, the eyes of the Illegal Awakening business employees curved diagonally.
A calm but confident voice.
On top of that, he knows they are leaving this place.
A fleeting moment where the employees made eye contact and took their hands off the boxes they were slowly packing.
And with cold expressions, they captured the man standing firmly in front of the door in their eyes.
A face seen for the first time.
An expression with not a bit of tension despite being a drifter.
On top of that.
Killing intent that was not hidden at all.
Illegal among illegals.
These were employees who had lived this kind of bottom life for nearly ten years.
So they could know at once.
Although they didn't know who this man was…….
What he came here to do.
“Haa…… Are you the government’s dog?”
As soon as the employee closest to the door finished speaking, he pulled out a dagger from his waist.
And then.
Whoosh!
He cut the air.
Precisely the intruder’s neck floating gently in between that air.
The movement was so fast that even those watching from behind only lifted the corners of their mouths as if they already knew the result.
Well, except for one.
The man with the beautiful eye smile who was furthest back grumbled.
“Ah, blood must have splattered all over the boxes. If it gets damp, it might tear….”
“Don't worry, the boxes are safe. Blood didn’t splatter either.”
“…….”
At the voice that shouldn't be heard, the employees’ corners of their mouths drooped in an instant.
Contrary to their emotions, the man in front of the door was smiling like sunshine, like a person welcoming a refreshing morning.
However.
Holding something truly unsuitable in his hand.
“By the way, where should I put this? There’s no place on the box that says ‘Arm’ or anything.”
What was held in the man’s hand was someone’s arm.
An arm clutching a dagger in its hand.
As if it didn't even know yet that it had been separated from its body, clutching the dagger tightly…….
At the man’s smile, the employees’ stopped thoughts began to spin wildly in an instant.
And a scream rang out.
“Uaaah!!!!”
Only now the one who noticed his arm was cut off rolled on the floor.
Painful groans filled the shop and the alley.
Every time the scream spread riding the darkness, the smile on the face of the newly arrived man was growing larger and larger.
Grotesque.
Like a scene from a horror movie.
The man was holding the arm he held lightly like pulling out a radish, then threw it to the floor with a thud.
At the same time the man threw the arm to the floor, someone else appeared from behind.
One guy with a silly expression and…… a familiar face.
“What, why are you there.”
The employee who discovered the First of the Money Laundering Shop shouted.
Nevertheless, the First kept his mouth firmly shut without saying anything.
Because he knew conversation wasn't needed anyway.
Because he knew for certain what remained in front of here now.
What remained for these guys.
“You bastard, backstabbing among fellow merchants! How many years have we traded! How dare you bring that government dog…….”
Just then, when the employee with the beautiful eye smile was shouting.
“Government’s dog? What are you talking about? I’m not the government’s dog. Just a teacher.”
“Teacher…? Where are you talking nonsense!”
Although Yoo jin revealed his identity only now, the employees of the Illegal Awakening business looked like they didn't believe it at all.
“Well, you might not believe that. But…… don't you guys know who I am?”
At the absurd question, the impressions of the employees, whose nerves were sharpened to the limit, crumpled.
“How would we know you!”
“Are you some rookie from some guild or something?”
“Are you police? Or sent from another organization…….”
Although their emotions were running high due to anger, it didn't seem like they were lying.
“Do you guys not watch television?”
At Yoo jin’s question, the one making an expression as if blood was rushing backwards said.
“It’s been a while since we watched that kind of thing! Because of today, how busy we were…… Haa…… We should have left quickly, but because of that strange little brat, time stretched out, sh*t…….”
“…….”
A coldly settled silence.
And the atmosphere that changed in an instant.
And the chill felt from somewhere.
The eyes of the Illegal Awakening business employee who was spitting out words slowly headed to the door.
And he was able to face it.
Just by looking.
Just by capturing it in his vision.
The feeling that his body, his mind.
Were eaten up.
“Indeed. You should have left quickly…… If you did…… You could have lived.”
Grin.
The mind of the one who met Yoo jin’s smile collapsed.