Chapter 470 – The Twisted Plan
After quietly leaving the hotel and arriving at home, I took off my clothes and took a shower.
It was because I wiped all the blood from killing the enemies with my hands at the hotel, but it was disgusting.
While taking a shower with the water running quietly, I thought about killing a person today.
‘I’m fine.’
It was the first time I killed a person in real life, but it didn’t matter because of the mental enhancement of the ‘half body’.
I don’t feel any guilt feelings. I don’t even feel disgust for killing someone.
When I woke up in the morning, I didn’t feel anything like going to the bathroom and eating when I was hungry.
‘Can this be?’
Since I was a child, I often killed insects, but this was the first time I killed a person, and I never thought I would do this.
I thought I might be shocked that I killed someone, but it’s okay.
I felt like I had become something other than human, a feeling I couldn’t describe in words.
“Hmm…”
There is no problem with the body. On the way back, I asked the system if my mind was unstable, and I heard that there was no problem.
Saying that there was no problem even though I really killed a person with my own hands.
Because of this strange feeling, I decided to ask the Creator about this as well.
She asked the system and she said she didn’t know much about this either.
Around the time I was about to go back to bed after taking a shower at the hotel alone.
-Tiriling
Suddenly, when I saw my phone ringing, I checked the caller and thought something was coming.
The caller was Mom, and the mercenaries escorting me were attacked, so it was worth worrying about.
‘I’ve already thought about everything.’
There is a girl I got to know for the first time after coming to America, and she said she wanted to rest for a while, so I stayed with her at the hotel.
Then, suddenly, I heard an explosion somewhere, so I left the girl alone and returned home because of my anxiety.
This was a simple excuse I had in mind.
I didn’t want to be found out that I had the ability, so I ran away in fear, as if I didn’t know anything as much as possible.
If I said this, there was a high possibility that neither mom nor dad would worry too much.
“Whoa…”
In case I made a mistake, I took a deep breath and answered the phone.
“Hello?”
-Where are you now!
My mother’s voice screaming, as if she was worried that I might be attacked.
I said curiously to my mother’s screams, which I had never heard except when she did something wrong.
“I just got back to my room, why are you so angry? What’s going on?”
– You said you went back to your room…?
When I reached the room and told her that she was resting, her mother’s voice calmed down a bit.
“Yeah, I went out for a while and heard an explosion in the distance so I went back to my room in case something happened.”
– So you’re saying this is the hotel room you’re living with your mom right now?
“Yeah, why did something happen?”
– No, I just want you to come back to your room.
I had a lot of excuses prepared, but she tried to cut off contact because her mom said I was safe.
‘I can’t just skip over here.’
I have always been interested in family affairs. Even though you know the mood of your mother, if you just go over it, you can doubt it in reverse.
So I deliberately dragged her horse to inquire about her mother’s condition.
“No, it’s not something. It’s been a while since my mother was so angry.
-I’ll explain it later, so now I think mom has to go back to work.
“Okay, then tell me later.”
-Yes, my son should be taking good care of himself.
“Ah, don’t worry about anyone living as cautiously as I do, and mom works safely too.”
-Okay…
I even received a confirmation that I would listen to the story next time.
‘Whoa…It’s over.’
Fortunately, I was able to sigh and lie down on the bed when I safely passed without having to take out the excuses I had prepared.
‘Hiding my abilities is harder than I thought.’
After experiencing it myself, I could understand why the heroes who gained abilities in the movie had a hard time hiding the fact from their families.
My conscience pricked at the thought of lying to my parents who had taken care of me since I was born.
“Even if it’s not now, I’ll tell you everything when I talk to the Creator.”
There is no other reason why I cannot tell my parents about my current abilities.
The reason why my parents would worry about this because my ability is still unstable.
That’s why after I finished talking to the creator, I planned to announce my abilities as quickly as possible.
It felt like I was going to deliberately avoid contact with my parents because I felt uncomfortable if I stayed like this.
Thanks to my mother’s phone call today, I fell asleep slowly, forgetting that I had killed as many as 10 people, albeit enemies.
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By the time Lee Jin-seok hung up on the phone with Park Ha-eun and went to sleep. Lee Jong-wook asked after seeing him finish the phone call with his son.
“What about Jinseok?”
“We’re back at the hotel we were with.”
“Is he alone?”
“Yeah, they said they heard an explosion in the distance and went home in fear.”
“I’m glad…”
Only then was Lee Jong-wook relieved when he heard that his son had arrived home safely and was resting.
‘He’s amazingly aware of danger no matter who he resembles.’
Today, those who attacked the escorts guarding Jinseok appeared.
That means that the enemy’s target was his own son, Lee Jin-seok.
Otherwise, there was no reason to aim for the mercenaries who were just escorting them.
‘It’s us who are aiming.’
Realizing that the enemy was targeting them, Lee Jong-wook was troubled.
Are these enemies related to Swann’s escort or are other forces just targeting them?
If it was something other forces were aiming for, that would be a nuisance, and if it was deliberately involving Swann’s escort in the name of it, it would be a bigger problem.
It was because he was saying that those with that level of skill were aiming for his family along with himself.
‘The fortunate thing is that Jin-seok is safe.’
Fortunately, Lee Jin-seok, who was the most defenseless, recognized the danger and got out of the dangerous place alone.
If it was there, there was a high probability that it would have been kidnapped.
No matter how basic martial arts he taught, it would be hard to beat a mercenary who had experienced combat.
‘I’ll have to add more escorts and tell them not to go outside until the job is done.’
Lee Jong-wook, who noticed that the number of targets included his son, decided to increase his escort even more.
Since he’s already been on a mission once, he can’t leave this place himself.
Around the time he was pondering about the newly appeared enemies while thinking about that.
-Tiriling
He confirmed that he had been contacted by Chrome, who had asked for support earlier, and Lee Jong-wook answered the phone.
“How did it go?”
-I went to the place the escorting mercenaries told me, but there was no trace.
“You’ve been checking that much, but there’s no trace?”
-Yes, it disappeared without a trace like a ghost.
“I get it. Let’s think about the rest here.”
-This side will also increase your son’s escort.
“Request.”
He sent mercenaries to the firing point saying he was being checked, but Lee Jong-wook thought when he heard that there were no traces left.
‘They’re so talented…’
After tying the feet of the A-class mercenary and the mercenaries right below him for about 10 minutes, he disappeared without leaving any traces.
He couldn’t help but worry more when he thought that guys with much more skills than he thought were targeting him and his family.
‘I’ll have to change my plan.’
A new variable has arisen, so the plan must be changed. I don’t know what kind of force it is, but since he touched his family, he started planning again with the thought of killing them all after the escort request was over.
Without knowing that in Lee Jong-wook’s head, the skilled mercenaries of the enemy forces had already killed the son he was so worried about without a trace.
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“Hmm…?”
While trying to kidnap Lee Jin-seok, Cynthia, who had passed out in the hotel after getting hit in the opposite direction, woke up on the bed.
‘Why am I doing this…?’
When Lee Jin-seok erased her memory with [Oblivion Potion], She entered the hotel together.
She came into the hotel together to kidnap the target, but after that she couldn’t remember her, so Cynthia felt strange.
‘Surely to kidnap him…?!’
Slowly retrieving her memory, she hurriedly found her syringe hidden in her gown.
However, the syringe was already used by Lee Jin-seok, so he took it away to leave no traces.
Realizing that the syringe that could instantly stun a person by independently combining medicines was gone, she calmly searched for her memory.
‘I’m sure I went to the hotel and took a shower… And then…’
I remember coming into the hotel together and taking a shower, but I can’t remember after that.
In addition, the syringe prepared to kidnap him has disappeared.
No matter how hard she tried to recall, she couldn’t remember anything after that, so Cynthia contacted her colleagues who worked together.
“How many people are left?”
-…
I don’t know exactly how much I lost my mind, but if I haven’t been contacted so far, the other side probably would have withdrawn first.
I would still be able to contact you, so I tried to keep talking, but there was no news from the other side.
‘Did it happen…’
With David’s emphasis, his co-workers strive to always be in touch.
However, when no call came back, Cynthia thought that everyone had been victimized.
‘I already knew everything…’
She carefully planned and moved, but she herself was knocked out, her target was gone, and her support was lost to all of her comrades.
The conclusion made there was that the other party already knew all of their plans and could only think that they had dug a trap.
‘But why do I…’
Cynthia, who was thinking that way, wondered why she was the only one who was so fine when all her other colleagues were beaten.
However, all her memories have already been erased due to the [Oblivion Potion].
No matter how much she remembered her, she couldn’t remember her, so she wanted to report this situation to David.
– What’s going on?
“I got hit.”
-If you’ve been beaten, explain properly.
She got dressed and came out, and Cynthia told David exactly what she had in mind.
-Looks like they got hit…The guys who went out to support haven’t come back yet.
“I wonder why I am the only one who is fine when all the other colleagues have been beaten?”
-Have you ever noticed something different about your target?
“Doesn’t exist. He seemed to know nothing.”
-Then it means that the process was carried out covertly while the target was not even aware of it…
The two never had any doubts about Lee Jin-seok. It’s because he was too ordinary when he had already investigated the background to be suspicious.
Unlike my parents, who worked as mercenaries for a long time, I lived a normal life.
I’ve been investigating for a while, but I haven’t found any suspicious circumstances.
Perhaps Lee Jong-wook had not only the people he knew in advance, but also other escorts on standby to prepare for an unexpected situation.
After that, after subduing Cynthia, he must have left with only his target.
‘But why did they leave Cynthia alone?’
Enough of her suspicions that things have exploded since she walked into the hotel with her.
Still, Cynthia had doubts about her well-being, and David told her not to come here.
-Don’t come to our base and work alone for the time being.
“All right.”
The thought that comes to her mind is that her opponent is trying to use her to find out the stronghold of her side.
You might think Cynthia has betrayed her, but David knew that would never happen.
Because she was a person who could never be like that while I’ve been with her since she was a child.
– I will not give you any instructions. To hide while it’s all over.
“Yes.”
In order not to give her enemies any information, David told her to stay away until this was over.
Without knowing that someone is listening to all of this.
