Chapter 119 : Chapter 119
Chapter 119: The Blue Dragon Guild and the Rare Awakened (4)
Near Nambu Station.
“How many hours has it been already?”
“I know, right? I feel like we’ve searched this place over a hundred times. Hah....”
The short distance from the intersection where the vehicle that kidnapped the children disappeared to the next block.
The personnel dispatched from the Blue Dragon Guild had been searching this single alley thoroughly without rest since yesterday.
“No, seriously, did the car vanish into the ground or soar into the sky? It’s frustrating enough to drive me crazy.”
“Dude, if we feel like this, imagine how frustrated the Team Leader must be.”
Even while spitting out lamentations, the eyes of the search team from the Blue Dragon Guild were moving ceaselessly.
Last night, they were deployed immediately after confirming from the headquarters facility that the vehicle that kidnapped the children disappeared here.
It was already well past lunchtime, beyond staying up all night.
Perhaps this grumbling of the search team was natural.
Still.
“You brats. What are you doing whining over just this much! Kids have been kidnapped. You call yourselves adults.”
A voice like a thunderous shout.
At the voice flying from behind, the backs of the Blue Dragon Guild members searching the alley straightened up stiffly.
Being startled was a bonus.
“Team Leader... When did you.......”
“So, sorry.”
The search team members who formed a group bowed their heads and quickly moved their legs to get away.
The excuse was to find the children, but they ran away because they were scared.
“Whew... Those punks are slacking off.”
“Oh my, don't be too harsh on the kids. They've been suffering all night too.”
“That's right, Team Leader.”
Next to the giant man who shouted, two Team Leaders and the Fact-bomber approached.
Executives of the Blue Dragon Guild with terrifying facial features that would make most gangsters go away.
Except for Team Leader Nam, who was designated as the response team, all were deployed here.
“But I also understand why the kids are acting like that. Common sense dictates that from that intersection over there. To here. This single alley. The vehicle must have stopped within this line... How many buildings are there here anyway. We searched all the parking lots and buildings, but nothing came out at all.”
“Even putting the vehicle aside. It makes even less sense that there isn't a single small clue even though we searched every single building in this surrounding area without missing one.”
“We caught and grilled all the suspicious-looking guys, but none were involved.”
“You grilled people who weren't suspicious too, Team Leader.”
“.......”
“.......”
“I understand why Team Leader Nam dislikes you.”
Like that, the Team Leaders gathered together and were agonizing over a problem that seemed to have absolutely no answer.
“If it's a fight, I'm confident, but geez.”
“This kind of problem is difficult.”
“If we just figure out the base, we could deal with them all in an instant, geez.......”
Not detectives.
But Hunters.
And executives of one of Korea's 3 Great Guilds at that.
The Blue Dragon Guild, known as the most radical faction.
With strength, with ability.
They prided themselves on being better than anyone at coolly conquering dungeons and monsters.
That was why even more.
They felt frustration in their hearts.
Just when the expressions of the Team Leaders were sinking.
Screech!
A fast-moving car stopped next to them.
A black high-end sedan.
The Team Leaders' gazes gathered at the vehicle.
The vehicle's window rolled down slowly.
“Let me ask you something. Is this the scene?”
A familiar face.
A familiar smile.
“Lee Si-wang.......”
“R... Returnee.......”
To save the case in the labyrinth.
The detective appeared.
***
It had already been over 17 hours since the Blue Dragon Guild's search began.
That a van evaporated entirely in the middle of Seoul was impossible by common sense.
But no matter how much they increased the search teams, they still couldn't find traces of the kidnapping vehicle.
“Returnee, this is a place we have already searched all over.......”
“Hey, Vice Guild Master. You say something too.......”
Face gangsters.
Not meaning they were handsome, but the executives of the Blue Dragon Guild who really looked like gangsters were following closely behind Yoo jin and Lee Si-wang, who were searching here and there on the street with their hands shaped like magnifying glasses.
“It's not easy.”
“Indeed.”
Yoo Jin and Lee Si-wang, who scanned the street once, finally stopped their legs and crossed their arms.
The Blue Dragon Guild executives, who were following their tails closely, continued the basic briefing.
“As we have told you several times since earlier, the vehicle definitely passed that intersection. And disappeared within this block.”
“Because of that, we dispatched search teams since yesterday and investigated the entire vicinity in pairs.”
“I'm telling you there wasn't a single suspicious point.”
“Just in case they set up a barrier, I even went around separately with personnel.”
At the Fact-bomber's voice, the other Team Leaders became surprised rabbit eyes and gathered their gazes on him.
Unlike these reckless radicals, at least the Fact-bomber seemed to be a guy who used his head quite a bit.
Yoo jin and Lee Si-wang, who were listening to their story, stroked their chins and made eye contact.
“If you even checked for barriers, maybe it's not here? Sherlock.”
Sherlock?
At Lee Si-wang's voice, the Blue Dragon Guild executives made blank expressions.
“That could be possible. It could be a strategy to evaporate the vehicle here and tie down our feet for sure. Watson.”
Watson?
Returnee.
At Yoo Jin's voice, this time the Blue Dragon Guild executives looked at Yoo jin and made blank expressions.
The duo who ate Two-Plus Nine raw egg bribes.
Their first mission was to uncover the case that had fallen into a labyrinth.
So it seemed they were imitating a famous detective and assistant.
Unlike the Blue Dragon Guild executives who became speechless, Sherlock and Watson.
No, Yoo jin and Lee Si-wang talked even more.
“The purpose being to tie down feet is definitely a possibility. Since if the vehicle disappeared here, anyone would guard only here somehow.”
“Right. But it's too early to be sure. Tying down feet is the same, but those kidnapper guys called Karma or Carda might really still be here. Using a method that doesn't get caught by anyone.”
“But what did they do with the vehicle? Is there a teleportation ability user or something?”
“Well, since there are many mysterious Unique Skills. They might have used a teleportation skill here just to really tie down feet. Or they might have had a skill that makes the car smaller.”
“That could be possible too.”
Exchanging a word each, Yoo jin and Lee Si-wang were trying to get closer to the correct answer even a little bit by any means.
Because deduction starts from imagination.
“But why would they try to tie their feet?”
“Stalling for time is basic common sense for kidnappers.”
“Have you ever kidnapped someone? Teacher?”
“What kidnapping for a teacher. Putting that aside, if you're going to do it, call me Sherlock until the end, why are you suddenly throwing away the character concept.”
“I got flustered without realizing... But, asking you to make me Conan or something else instead of Watson.”
“We decided I'm the detective and you're the assistant.”
“When did I. I wanted to be the detective too, not the assistant.”
At the appearance of Yoo Jin and Lee Si-wang suddenly going off on a tangent and bickering, the focus disappeared from the Blue Dragon Guild executives' eyes.
‘Is there a person who can argue like this with a Returnee?’
Like that, after a long quarrel ended.
“Ah damn, whatever. Let's stop the detective play here. Since I roughly figured out where they are anyway.”
At Yoo Jin's single remark, not only the Blue Dragon Guild executives but even Lee Si-wang who was next to him became rabbit-eyed.
Eh?
“.......”
“.......”
As numerous gazes turned toward Yoo jin.
As if it was nothing special, Yoo Jin said.
“I don't know yet how they made the car disappear. Well, whether they teleported it or really made it small, but I found one place that smells out of place.”
Lee Si-wang and the Blue Dragon Guild executives couldn't even open their mouths because they were too surprised.
Yoo jin brought his right hand slowly to his nose.
“Do you guys know the smell of summer?”
“What does that.......”
Leaving behind the expressions that said they had no idea at all.
Yoo jin moved his steps.
Thud.
Thud.
“After passing the camera at that intersection over there. To the point where the next block's camera doesn't reach. I walked all the way, but you see.......”
Yoo Jin, who was walking down the street, stopped at a certain place.
“Only here, the smell of summer didn't exist.”
Lee Si-wang and the Blue Dragon Guild executives staring piercingly at the place where Yoo jin stopped.
However.
“It seems like... the same road....”
“Yes, just a sidewalk.”
“In the first place, the smell of summer... what is it?”
The road shoulder of the vehicle.
The sidewalk right next to it.
Small trees lined up based on that sidewalk.
Whether they were exactly trees or just grass, one couldn't tell.
Landscaping trees that grow only up to below the knees, existing anywhere in Seoul.
Yoo Jin was pointing at one spot of those lined-up trees with his hand.
The Fact-bomber opened his mouth.
“We checked all the barriers. If a Barrier Specialist of quite high rank and a passage connecting to another place in a place like this... a Gate was created, we would have definitely noticed.......”
“Did you forget what kind of organization those guys are?”
At Yoo Jin's single remark, the Fact-bomber's eyes sank.
The other Blue Dragon Guild executives who noticed something also hardened their expressions.
Representing them, Lee Si-wang's mouth opened.
“Is it... a passage created by a Rare Awakened?”
“Bingo.”
Since it was the words spoken by none other than the Returnee, everyone accepted it without questioning back.
Just.
“But how on earth do you know such a thing?”
“Even if it is the Returnee, what even an A-Rank Barrier Specialist couldn't uncover... I am not trying to ignore you, but you are definitely a combat-specialized type, Returnee.......”
“I told you. The smell of summer doesn't exist only here.”
There was no one who could say ‘That is the most unconvincing statement!’.
He is speaking calmly, but.
He is a Returnee.
And someone who returned Yeoncheon, a restricted area, with one finger.
Possessing aliases like Slaughter Machine, Samurai who cuts the moon.
Someone who wins against the same Returnee Supreme King with a single finger flick.
Monster.
In other words, Demon King.
That was why they couldn't understand even more.
What on earth the smell of summer is.
Why he says the smell of summer doesn't exist only here.
Anyway, one could barely smell the exhaust fumes and the small grass smell buried in it or not.......
What on earth.......
As they were making incomprehensible expressions.
Yoo jin spat out lightly.
“You bastards haven't killed many people, have you?”
Chill!
The bodies of the personnel looking into Yoo Jin's eyes froze.
Vice Guild Master of Korea's 3 Great Guilds.
On top of that, executives of another one of Korea's 3 Great Guilds.
People with such tremendous business cards.
Even for them, it was unacceptable that the person making that expression was the same human being.
It was only natural.
If it were monsters, they had killed hundreds or thousands, but.......
Humans were.......
The Demon King smirked and pointed his finger at the center of the tree.
“Not the summer smell. It smells of human blood here. Well, just a very tiny bit.”
The case that almost fell into a labyrinth was solved, but.
It was the Blue Dragon Guild executives whose minds were falling into a labyrinth.
***
Five minutes later.
The Blue Dragon Guild executives scattered for reports and their respective tasks.
Yoo jin marked coordinates at the designated place.
The Blue Dragon Guild personnel were watching it from a slightly distant place.
Yoo Jin and Lee Si-wang left alone.
“But Teacher Yoo Jin... That....”
Lee Si-wang asked with a trembling voice.
To the extent he couldn't even make eye contact.
“What is it, speak? Why are you like this when you usually talk back so well.”
“That is... that... Have you really killed a lot of people...?”
At Lee Si-wang's question, Yoo jin lifted the corners of his mouth.
It seemed to be because of the incident earlier.
“Well... it is true that it is a fact.”
“Ah... I see... Well, since you survived for 100 years in another world, it's not strange....”
“But. I didn't kill just humans.......”
Yoo jin's face entered Lee Si-wang's view.
There was no lie in those eyes.
“Although they were humans. I only killed devil bastards... who wore the mask of a human!”
“.......”
Behind the distant mind.
A noble who raped a maid.
An orphanage director who touched children.
A devil who reached out to believers using religion as a shield.
A wicked woman who bought teenage boys with power.
Slave market merchants.
.......
.......
The humans Yoo jin killed were listed.
Well, Lee Si-wang, who was half out of his mind, couldn't hear everything, but.
There should be a limit to how many.
Anyway.
Yoo jin, who captured Lee Si-wang whose soul had escaped in his eyes, showed a smirk.
And then.
“Then... let's go, Assistant. We have to be worth the price of the Two-Plus Nine bribe eggs.”
As Yoo jin reached out his hand toward the flowerbed.
Zzzzt!
Zzzzzzt!
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Along with a tremendous sound, demonic energy erupted from Yoo jin's hand.
Tearing space.
The orange demonic energy creating a crack in the void.
Clang!
Shattered the barrier that looked like an ordinary flowerbed.
Then appeared a portal.
As the portal appeared, Lee Si-wang's focus returned.
“Let's go, Si-wang. To execute the death penalty.”
Lee Si-wang smiled small and followed behind Yoo jin.
“Yes.”