## Chapter 39 – 04. As Long as It’s Not Me
The prosecutors, led by Lee Na-eun, advanced relentlessly after entering the building.
The opposition put up some resistance, but their biggest problem was the lack of implants capable of canceling or detecting optical camouflage and soundproofing.
Naturally, optical camouflage and soundproofing were technologies used in aircraft and battleships costing trillions of won. It was absurd to think that a mere businessman could obtain something to counteract them.
– What do we do with those who surrender?
– Execute them without exception.
– …Even when they surrender?
– Yes. That way, they won’t dare to even consider it. They won’t dare to test the waters by resisting and not cooperating with the investigation.
– …Understood.
Under Lee Na-eun’s command, a massacre under the name of “execution” began.
The sound of the Terminator’s blasts echoed throughout the building, and each time, piercing screams erupted.
It was as if they had entered a house of horrors.
“Su, surrender…!! I surrender! I’m surrendering!!!!”
Prosecutor Lee Na-eun came across a man in the hallway, begging like a fly with tears and snot streaming down his face.
His abjectness might have caused a moment of displeasure, but it was a desperate cry that would make anyone lose their will to fight.
However,
Tu-ang!
She pulled the trigger without the slightest hesitation.
“Kkeu, kkeuaaaaaaack!!!!”
The sound of exploding flesh and screams echoed.
“Eueueue!!! Euaaaaaa!!!!”
The wall of the hallway shattered as a hail of bullets rained down.
“!”
Kiiing.
– September 17, 2076, 09:11:28, Incheon Advanced Quarantine City, Ganghwa District 1, Dream Road 7, Blink used. Incheon Central District Prosecutor’s Office, Special Prosecutor Lee Na-eun.
Whoong.
She accelerated her already lightning-fast speed, instantly reaching the opposite end of the hallway.
A beat later, the hail of bullets poured in, following her.
Tuk.
She kicked off the opposite wall, turning her body.
And aimed.
Beyond the almost completely collapsed wall, she saw a man holding a heavy machine gun.
He was firing wildly with a terrified expression, and if he aimed just a little more towards the end, he could intercept Lee Na-eun, but unfortunately, he couldn’t tell where she was.
‘If you don’t know, you die.’
Tu-ang!
A thick line of light.
“Kkeuaaaaack!!!!”
The man was torn apart with a scream.
– 1st floor, right side, cleared.
– Left side cleared.
– 2nd floor, execution complete.
– 3rd floor, there are still targets for execution in the hallway.
– 1st and 2nd floor personnel, support the 3rd floor hallway.
– Roger.
– Roger.
+++
Squeak!
Reporter Yoon Ha-young, who had caused an accident by stepping on the accelerator too quickly, arrived at the scene a little late.
“Please don’t let me be late~~~!”
She got out of the car, calling Prosecutor Lee Na-eun.
“Ugh…?!”
She immediately covered her mouth, gagging.
The pungent smell of blood assaulted her nose, stimulating her senses.
“Wha, what…?”
Thud, thud, thud!
“Load them quickly!”
“We need to collect DNA before the tissue decomposes!”
“Forensics team!! Over here!”
“There’s one over there too!!”
Dream First.
It was a proper company that had succeeded enough to build a 10-story headquarters, but the once-pristine building was now half-collapsed, with holes everywhere, and blood and flesh scattered haphazardly around the site.
People in white gowns and masks, and people carrying stretchers, were running around busily, and four medical AVs were hovering in the sky.
“….”
On the stretchers she saw in passing, there was something unidentifiable.
It was a texture of clumped flesh.
“….”
Her brain processed it.
That was,
something that ‘used to be’ a person.
It registered.
“Ugh!!”
Realizing what it was a beat late, she finally threw up and ran frantically behind a wall.
“Ugh! Uwaeeeck!!”
Everything she had eaten in the morning, as well as everything she had eaten yesterday, came pouring out.
“…Reporter Yoon Ha-young?”
Just then, someone spotted her and approached.
“Oh my, goodness…. Are you okay?”
They patted her back kindly, checking on her.
“Ue, ugh….”
Reporter Yoon Ha-young, who had vomited everything inside her, finally raised her head.
She wiped her mouth with the tissue the woman offered.
“Thank you…. What on earth, happened….”
“Ah…. That? They ‘executed’ them. The prosecutors.”
“Exe…cuted…?”
She knew what it meant for prosecutors carrying Terminators to “execute.”
Strictly speaking, execution via Terminator also included an “arrest” mode (anesthesia), but usually, “execution” meant the “Terminator” mode, which completely shredded the target.
The overflowing pieces of flesh were all the result of that.
“It’s awful, isn’t it? The smell of blood.”
“How many…people died?”
“Uh…. That…. We’re still trying to figure that out…. Haha….”
“….”
They didn’t even know how many people had died?
“Did Prosecutor Lee Na-eun order this?”
“Yes. That woman is amazing. How can she give such orders?”
“…?”
Reporter Yoon Ha-young expressed slight doubt at the barbed words.
The woman in front of her had seemed friendly towards Prosecutor Lee Na-eun, but there was a hint of animosity in her words.
“She said to execute everyone without exception, whether they surrendered or not. So they won’t test the waters in the future.”
“Without exception?”
“Yes. So there’s no one alive. Not a single one.”
“….”
“I know they were holding a protest with guns…. But there must have been at least a hundred and twenty people inside.”
Reporter Yoon Ha-young looked at the building beyond the fence.
The building, which looked like it had been abandoned for 20 years, was utterly devastated, and blood and flesh were flowing down the exterior walls in places.
Of course, all the windows were broken.
She felt uneasy.
No matter how much she pursued upright justice, was this really right?
Was it really right for them to be mass murdered like this just because they were involved in sexual favors and didn’t cooperate with the investigation?
If Prosecutor Lee Na-eun thought so, what on earth was her definition of justice?
“Haa…. But what brings you here? The prosecutor announced that outsiders should avoid coming here as much as possible because it could be dangerous.”
“Ah! That’s….”
“It seems you have something to discuss with me.”
Prosecutor Lee Na-eun appeared, showing her phone call history.
“…Then, I’ll be going.”
Seeing that, the woman gave a small bow and walked past Prosecutor Lee Na-eun.
The disregard and animosity from someone who had been friendly might have been disconcerting, but Prosecutor Lee Na-eun didn’t seem to care.
“What brings you all the way here?”
“…Prosecutor.”
Reporter Yoon Ha-young hesitated when she actually faced Prosecutor Lee Na-eun.
She was afraid to speak.
Afraid that her ominous imagination…. her delusion, would become reality.
Then, Prosecutor Lee Na-eun spoke first.
“Seeing you rushing here like this, it seems you’ve finally confirmed it. Rainbow Miracle.”
“!!”
“I had no choice. There’s no evidence. I can’t judge based on suspicion alone.”
“You can’t judge based on suspicion…?”
Reporter Yoon Ha-young glanced away.
The half-destroyed building, and the congealed blood and flesh.
And the lumps of flesh that were still being transported busily.
Her nose still stung with the smell of blood.
“….”
Weren’t they also, when you got down to it, acting on suspicion?
There was suspicion that they had engaged in sexual favors, and they had stormed in to investigate, but they had resisted by holding a protest, so they had executed them with Terminators.
How was this any different from judging based on suspicion?
If that was the case, then she should have just executed Rainbow Miracle-,
‘….’
She stopped thinking.
She felt like her brain was being contaminated.
Filth,
invaded her brain.
Reporter Yoon Ha-young bit her lip and lowered her head.
“I can’t accept it…. Neither this scene before my eyes, nor Rainbow Miracle….”
“….”
“And I can’t accept myself for imagining what it would have been like if you had executed Rainbow Miracle instead.”
“You seem troubled.”
“If you can’t judge Rainbow Miracle based on suspicion alone, isn’t the very existence of the Terminator a flawed system? Especially after seeing this scene today.”
Prosecutor Lee Na-eun took a breath and looked up at the sky for a moment.
“Isn’t the air here terrible?”
“Pardon?”
“Let’s go inside and talk. It looks like it will be a long conversation.”
“….”
“Go into the camp. I’ll just stop by the restroom.”
Reporter Yoon Ha-young, looking at Prosecutor Lee Na-eun with a complicated expression, hesitated and turned around, heading towards the camp.
+++
The phone rang.
The caller was Prosecutor Lee Na-eun.
“What’s wrong.”
– Reporter Yoon Ha-young seems to be reaching her limit.
“Suddenly?”
– She found out that Rainbow Miracle is innocent and then chased me to the execution site. I think she had a mental breakdown there. Hehe. Poor thing.
“…She found out that Rainbow Miracle is innocent?”
…?
Ah!
Ah, that’s right…!
Look at my mental state.
I hadn’t thought of that.
‘The reason Reporter Yoon Ha-young was so persistent was because of Rainbow Miracle in the first place, so if she finds out that Rainbow Miracle is innocent, of course she’ll go crazy….’
I hadn’t thought of that and let the list of innocent people be leaked….
It’s all because my head is so complicated.
I’m trying to do too many things at once, so I’m making mistakes like this.
‘Still, it’s a relief that the mistake happened in a less important area.’
– At this rate, the toy might get damaged? Or will it mature even more?
“What exactly is her state?”
– Well. She seems to be feeling a sense of disillusionment…. Or she seems to be falling into depravity…. Or she seems to be trying to become even more steadfast….
“What kind of report is that?”
– She looked very confused. It was as if she could move forward in any direction.
“Is that so? What would our special prosecutor like to do?”
– Will my opinion be reflected?
“She’s not my toy, she’s your toy.”
– ….
“My toy is you. Tell me. What do you want to do?”
– Hmm~.
She moaned for a moment, then,
– Violate?
