Chapter 413 – Special(4)
Did he never think that I would refuse so firmly?
A slight ripple appears in her eyes as she looks this way.
But even for a moment.
“Is it because you don’t know why I’m trying to persuade you by revealing confidential information to you?”
“I know. “It’s because of senior Seoyeon.”
“Is it so.”
A small spark flashes in her eyes.
“I am giving you advice as Seoyeon’s mother, not on any side. “I am taking risks to keep my daughter and her friends safe.”
The alliance with Lü Bu is the most powerful hand held by Hexagram, which operates in secret within China.
Opening such a hand to the opposing force was such a risky action.
It is clear that the moment this is discovered, you will be branded a traitor.
I don’t know what her status is within her organization, but she won’t let a traitor who stole her key information remain silent.
When you think about that, it’s true that she is a mother trying to save her daughter by taking risks…
“Thank you for your concern.”
Isn’t there any reason or obligation for me to count that?
“I’ll take care of it.”
A second, firm refusal.
Han Joo-hee bit her red-painted lower lip as if she didn’t like it.
“I think I got the wrong person.”
A cynicism forms on the lips.
“I thought he was a rational person because he was calm and didn’t show much anger for his age… “It wasn’t.”
An expression and tone of voice that seems to look down on a person.
A long string of words can be condensed into just one word.
Bantling.
I guess he was trying to provoke my feelings by calling me a brat who is obsessed with his own pride and can’t tell the difference between heaven and earth, but he couldn’t help it.
She smiles at her and gives her answer.
“Hey… “Have you finally seen me properly?”
The words she said just now to make me feel bad were actually correct.
“Until now, I have pretended to be rational in order not to reveal my true feelings to Hunter Joohee Han, but in reality, I am a person whose nature is much better than my reason.”
Not to mention the life he lived in this body, even when he was Son Si-woo, he wasn’t particularly rational.
A person who has to eat it with poop or soybean paste.
That was me.
It was more impactful to engrave it on my body than to hear it a hundred or thousand times in words.
It’s a job you risk your life for, but isn’t it too dangerous?
It’s dangerous.
A lot of that too.
But if you ask why… , Well.
All I can say is that I was slightly crazy at that time.
It was a time when the death rate for new hunters was much higher than it is now.
I think it was because I was more afraid of the poverty that was tightening by the minute than the crisis of death that I had not experienced yet.
Anyway.
“Maybe that’s why Hunter Joohee Han’s efforts don’t really resonate with me.”
Maybe it’s because she doesn’t recognize her efforts.
Or maybe it’s because he doesn’t like the sight of me rebelling against him.
It was around the time that an evil aura was rising, as if something was going to happen at any moment.
“Ah, we’ve arrived.”
A car stops at a hotel in downtown Beijing with perfect timing.
The bodyguard sitting in the passenger seat speaks in broken Korean, as if he had learned it through a translator.
“The accommodation where Kim Do-jin Hunter will stay… No see. If you go in… , You can receive guidance.”
What.
Was I the only one staying here?
If that’s the case, why did you get in the same car as that woman?
I shake my head at the incomprehensible arrangement, open the car door, and head out.
Then, suddenly, behind her, Han Joo-hee, clearly picturing what she was going to do in her head, let out a small sigh, turned around, and spoke to her beyond the door that was not yet closed.
“Since you gave me good information, let me give you some advice.”
“I do not need it.”
Either that or not.
As if she didn’t want to hear it, she continued talking without paying attention to her looking away.
“Don’t think that every action you do with good intentions leads to a good ending.”
Then, Han Joo-hee turned her head and glared at me, meaningless when she said she wouldn’t listen.
He strikes first before his pursed lips can spit out words.
“Keep in mind that no matter how right your intentions and actions are, the moment you ignore the other person’s intentions, they can only lead to violence and tyranny.”
After finishing what I wanted to say, I immediately closed the door and turned around.
She won’t change just because she took advice.
It’s not even something she said in the first place because she wanted her to change.
However, I hope that it will suddenly pop into her mind in the distant future.
People, fame, and the future.
The time when I lost everything I dreamed of and seriously looked back at my life to see what went wrong.
I hope that today’s advice that comes to mind becomes the final dagger and sticks in your head.
That was all.
* * *
When a group of strangers gather together, it attracts the attention of those around them.
To prevent this situation, hunters from the three kingdoms were divided into hotels throughout Beijing.
The same goes for strategy meetings.
They gathered at the designated meeting location, making full use of perception-impairing artifacts and disguises.
The total number of people sitting here is five.
Japan’s Association President Masayoshi Tanaka, Vatican’s Saint Sophia Saintes, and China’s Defense Minister Chen Lao.
And, unusually in Korea, two people, Son Si-woo and Han Joo-hee, attended.
Moon Cheol-jun, who realized that there would actually be two people leading the hunters during the operation, stepped down and one of the two tried to attend the meeting instead, but some friction arose in the process.
Both sides expressed their desire to attend the meeting.
Thanks to this, only Moon Cheol-jun, who was caught in the middle, was in trouble.
Because the presence of both sides was too great to take one side.
In the end, he brought up the story with the head of the Ministry of National Defense and made arrangements for both of them to attend the meeting.
Fortunately, Chen Lao, who was very grateful to Korea for sending as many as two S-class hunters, gladly accepted this, so the meeting began without any hurt feelings on either side.
“What is the current situation of the black market?”
The head of the Ministry of National Defense answered with a gloomy expression in response to a question from Masayoshi Tanaka, head of the Japan Hunters Association.
“It’s not very good. “As if we had expected, the speed of uniting forces is accelerating.”
“Umm… , In that case, this information was leaked…”
“You probably expect the government to move sooner or later, but they won’t know everything about us.”
“It’s a blessing in disguise.”
Many stories were exchanged.
How will we attack the huge black market?
What is the scope of the forces that need to be suppressed?
Infiltration routes and how they should be organized, etc.
Thanks to putting our heads together, complex issues were sorted out one by one, and the meeting was nearing its end.
Sophia raised her hand.
“There is one more thing I would like to discuss.”
“What is that?”
“Bongshinhoe (奉神會).”
A huge power in China created by those who worship Lü Bu like a god.
“I think we need to have a contingency plan in case they go all out with the black market.”
“…”
“…”
The atmosphere subsided as soon as she finished speaking.
That’s because the weight of the name Yeo Bu was beyond imagination.
To break the heavy silence, the head of the Ministry of National Defense waved his hand, saying it was nonsense.
“It’s too much of a leap. Although Lu Bu is a political opponent of the current government, he has consistently opposed the growth of the black market in China from the beginning.”
So there is no way for him to join hands with the black market.
He was saying that though.
“My thoughts are a little different.”
Sophia directly refuted his opinion.
“Among the four idioms, there is a word called iijei (以夷制夷).”
As a barbarian, I rule over the barbarians.
That means using one enemy to subdue and rule over another enemy.
For Lu Bu, the black market and the government were such entities.
“What happens if Lü Bu empowers the black market and the government loses as a result?”
“That…”
Chen Lao cannot take his mouth off his pale complexion.
Sophia answered for him.
“I don’t know, but there will be an enormous amount of responsibility. “Isn’t that right?”
“…”
Silence with positive meaning.
So she gave her word.
“When criticism is more fierce than ever toward the government… , Lu Bu will never miss that time.”
Riding on the back of public criticism against the government, Yeo Bu will likely take a more coercive attitude than now.
It was safe to say that the failure of this operation was in fact a change in the Chinese government.
“There was another idiom like this in China.”
“What… ?”
“Tosagupeng (兎死狗烹).”
After the hunt is over, the useless hunting dogs are boiled and eaten.
“If Lu Bu, who is in power, just pushes out the black market that helped him… , The people will think.”
Sophia continues speaking to Chen Lao, who is sweating profusely.
“Ah, this government is different from the beginning.”
At that time, everything is over.
The new government will walk on a solid path with the support of the entire people, and those on the sinking ship will sink and be drowned.
I turn to him, who repeatedly wipes his pale face with the handkerchief he holds tightly in his trembling hand.
“Prepare… “I have to do it, right?”
Her soft voice rushed like a mighty tidal wave.
