## Chapter 79 – (6)
“So, they’re actually giving the okay…”
Emerging from the interrogation room, the team leader stared at his phone with a look of disbelief.
“They approved it?”
“…Yeah, well… they said we got all the intel we needed, and the safety of a future S-rank hero taking point is more important…”
“Haha…”
It seemed the seeds I’d sown in the past were now bearing fruit.
A future S-rank, huh?
Maybe it wasn’t wrong.
Back then, I was perfectly suited for A-rank, but now, even objectively speaking, I was probably ten times stronger than I used to be.
Who knows, maybe I was as strong as an S-rank hero now?
“Now all that’s left is figuring out how to get him out of here naturally…”
“Hmm…”
The team leader was lost in thought when he suddenly jumped, spotting a detective walking by.
“Detective Lee, what are you carrying?”
“Ah, Team Leader. It’s just a toy.”
“That’s a toy?”
The team leader stopped Detective Lee, who was carrying a menacing-looking dagger.
He took the dagger from Detective Lee and examined it from all angles.
On the surface, it looked just like any other dagger.
But once you held it, you could feel the lightness of a toy.
“There have been a lot of toys like this since the carrot knife craze. I bought one for my nephew.”
“Carrot knife craze? Wow, it looks so real.”
Indeed, it was impossible to distinguish it from a real dagger at first glance.
Moreover, its shape was eerily similar to the ones used by the thugs who attacked the bookstore.
The team leader pressed the blade with his finger, and it retracted into the handle.
It was a fake knife, the kind used in magic tricks.
The team leader and I exchanged glances.
“…Isn’t this useful?”
“…Hey, Detective Lee, go buy three more of these.”
“Huh? Ah, yes, sir.”
The team leader and I didn’t say much, but we probably had the same idea.
***
“You want to attack a police car?”
“Yeah, you got any buddies or younger brothers you know around?”
“Yeah, I do… but aren’t you strong enough on your own, boss?”
The driver looked at me as he spoke.
My title had become “boss” at some point.
It felt strange to be called that by this guy, but I let it slide.
It wasn’t important.
“I need to get Alex out of there.”
“…Huh? So you’re saying we have to attack the police with just us?”
The driver’s eyes widened.
Even the most reckless villains didn’t attack the police.
That was practically declaring war on the country.
That was why there were still so many ordinary people within the police force.
“Don’t worry, it’s all been arranged. And here, a weapon.”
“Arranged?”
I kindly handed the bewildered driver a toy dagger.
His expression turned peculiar as he received it.
“Um, boss.”
“Yeah?”
“What is this?”
He took the dagger, looking back and forth between it and me.
It was an excessively light dagger.
Because it was a toy dagger. Of course.
“What about it?”
“You want me to stab someone with this?”
“Yeah.”
He held the dagger upright and stabbed his palm with it, still looking clueless.
The blade retracted smoothly into the handle.
He let out a hollow laugh at the sight.
“I couldn’t even kill a squirrel with this.”
“So you were planning to kill a cop?”
“Ah, no… you said attack…”
He flinched as I frowned.
With a look of injustice.
“I told you, it’s all staged.”
“So, even the police are on Wolf’s side?”
He looked horrified.
To the misunderstanding driver, I told him the truth as it was.
“The police and I are on the same side.”
That I was a cop, and that I was going to deceive Alex and Bella.
And that ultimately, I would eliminate the Wolf organization, or at least drive them out of Korea.
There were two reasons for revealing this.
First, the guy in front of me was also a victim who had his organization destroyed by Wolf.
He had bad feelings about Wolf, so he seemed like he would be cooperative.
The other was that he was very afraid of me.
That fear seemed to have grown even more after seeing me stand up to Bella.
I aimed for that point and revealed the truth now.
As I expected, he nodded.
“I wanted to give those Wolf bastards a taste of their own medicine too.”
It was a satisfactory answer.
Even though his hands were trembling.
“Then act well.”
“Yes.”
I could feel the determination to pull it off on his face.
I should have told him sooner if I knew it would be like this.
Holding that toy knife and making that expression, it felt a little funny.
He took the black van and went to the agreed location first.
I waited for Alex in front of the police car.
After a while, I saw the team leader and Detective Lee grabbing Alex’s arms and approaching.
And we got into the police transport vehicle.
Alex, who was in the car, looked at me with uneasy eyes, and I smiled faintly and nodded.
Noticing something in my attitude, Alex smiled faintly and nodded back at me.
Don’t worry.
You’ll be released.
Every cop in this car wanted Alex to escape.
The transport vehicle was occupied by me, Detective Lee, the team leader, and Alex.
It was quite a few people to escort one person, but in a way, it was natural.
Alex was a member of Wolf’s executive after all.
The car naturally passed through the city and headed for a secluded mountain road.
“…Y-you’ll rot in jail for the rest of your life.”
“…”
“…Team Leader, you shouldn’t engage with him.”
“Ah, right, right…”
For a moment, I was worried that we would be caught because of the team leader’s awkward acting that made the car feel cold.
But Alex just seemed to regard the team leader as a strange eccentric, looking at him pitifully before turning his head.
Detective Lee told the team leader not to engage with him as if telling him not to speak again.
After driving for a while, the car slowly stopped.
“Team Leader, get out for a second.”
“Huh? Uh…”
The middle of a secluded mountain road.
I saw a familiar black van.
Detective Lee and the team leader got out to protest because it was blocking the road, and a few men in black clothes followed out of the black van.
They were holding daggers in their hands.
“That’s…”
Alex smiled when he saw the black van and the men holding daggers.
Then he looked at me and smiled.
“Haha! That’s it!”
“Come on, let’s go.”
I took Alex outside.
The men with menacing toy daggers approached and stabbed the team leader and Detective Lee mercilessly.
“Kuaaak! Uwaaak!”
“Y-you guys, who are you! Keuek…”
The team leader exaggeratedly clutched his stabbed stomach and rolled on the floor.
If it wasn’t for Detective Lee’s realistic acting, we would have been caught because of the team leader.
I just told him to lie down when he got stabbed…
Alex whistled as he watched the scene.
Maybe it was because of the dopamine-filled situation of escaping.
Alex didn’t notice even after seeing the team leader’s awkward acting and the awkwardly colored blood that came out late.
After briefly watching the team leader and Detective Lee get attacked, he got into the black van following my guidance, wanting to escape even a little faster.
My driver was sitting in the driver’s seat of the van.
“Good, let’s go to Bella.”
Alex’s face was full of smiles.
Of course, so was mine.
Knock knock.
“It’s open.”
Bella didn’t lock the door properly this time either.
“…What… huh?”
Bella, who had been staring at me coldly as I opened the door and came in, jumped up from the sofa when she saw Alex standing behind me.
“Alex…?”
“Bella!”
The two hugged each other warmly as if they were a separated family.
Alex’s hands were still handcuffed, so it was a scene of Bella hugging him unilaterally.
I knew that the two were not dating.
Because I got quite a bit of information from Alex.
The two were closer to family than lovers.
To be exact, they were from the same orphanage.
The two abandoned people grew up relying on each other in the orphanage.
Like all villains, they had a painful past.
Of course, that past was not a reason to forgive them.
There were people who worked hard and lived even in harsher environments.
The two talked to each other, asking about each other’s well-being, and after about 10 minutes, Bella looked at me and said.
“…I can’t help but admit it. I can’t believe you actually pulled it off.”
“It’s easy.”
I answered casually.
It was really easy from my point of view.
“Okay, I admit it. Now you’re a real member of Wolf.”
“Bella, are you okay with this?”
“Of course, you saved him, and your skills are at least A-rank or higher. The conditions are perfect.”
“A-rank?”
Alex looked at me with a somewhat uneasy expression.
I slowly approached and ripped off Alex’s handcuffs.
It wasn’t difficult at all if I used internal energy.
“…Huh.”
But Alex smiled as if he was impressed by the sight.
“Yeah, I have to admit it.”
[Hidden quest has been cleared.]
[Infiltrate Wolf.]
[Gain Bella’s trust.]
[Weapon skill level greatly increased.]
[Weapon skill has reached level 7.]
As I smiled looking at the cleared quest, Bella and Alex smiled along with me.
There seemed to be a slight misunderstanding, but it seemed to have worked out well.
“I’ll give you plenty of time, so go get a cool wolf tattoo on your body.”
Bella said that and threw a card at me.
“Use the card as you like.”
I caught the card that was flying quickly with just my fingers.
I didn’t lack money, but I had no intention of refusing the money they gave me.
I nodded, put the card in my pocket, and came out.
While wondering where to put the wolf tattoo sticker.
