Chapter 43 – 043. Vampire Detective
043. Vampire Detective
The Special Investigation Unit for Jeokgwang.
In that conference room, a woman was giving a presentation in front of detectives selected from various police stations.
When Moon Ji-hyuk first saw her, he was momentarily speechless. She was a woman with such outstanding looks that she could easily be mistaken for a celebrity.
A sophisticated bob haircut, a neat suit, and a tight skirt. The cold aura emanating from her. She was what one would call a cold city woman.
“Everyone. The criminal you are tracking and must capture, Jeokgwang, is a vampire.”
“……”
The detectives all started looking at her with faces that said, “What are you talking about?” Moon Ji-hyuk appropriately mirrored the detectives’ expressions to avoid suspicion.
“What I’m about to explain is top secret. First, I am Choi Sun-mi, team leader of the 4th Support Division of the Korean Black Cross Society. I know it’s hard to believe what I’m saying. But after seeing this video, you’ll have no choice but to believe me.”
Choi Sun-mi spoke stiffly and displayed a video on the screen. It was the murder video of Jeokgwang at the Noeul Fitness Club.
The faces of the detectives, including Moon Ji-hyuk, hardened. In the video, Jeokgwang dodged every bullet and slaughtered over 20 people with a single sword. It was impossible to believe it was the power of a human.
“Everyone. Vampires are real. Jeokgwang’s power and abilities are proof of that. If you still can’t believe it, I can show you more data, but… looking at your faces, I don’t think it’s necessary.”
After seeing this video, it was harder to think of Jeokgwang as a human.
One detective raised a hand and asked Choi Sun-mi a question.
“…I have no choice but to believe that that crazy bastard is a vampire, but what was with him suddenly getting faster in the middle? Does he have some kind of superpower?”
“As expected of a veteran detective. You’re sharp. Jeokgwang, as a True Ancestor vampire, possesses superpowers. However, his abilities are related to manipulating machines, not instantaneous acceleration. We believe that his sudden speed increase was due to him starting to move with his full power.”
“So, that wasn’t a superpower or anything, but just normal physical ability?”
“Yes.”
“That’s insane. A monster like that exists in the world?”
A laugh escaped the detective’s lips. It was a hollow laugh of disbelief.
“Jeokgwang is a True Ancestor. A special individual among vampires. The Black Cross Society’s combat unit, the vampire hunters, will be the ones to engage in combat with Jeokgwang. What you all need to do is track Jeokgwang and find his location.”
Choi Sun-mi spoke coldly.
This Jeokgwang Special Investigation Unit was just for show. The Black Cross Society had no expectations for it.
“…I’m Detective Moon Ji-hyuk. Won’t the police special forces be involved in this?”
“They would if we requested support. However, that won’t happen. Our Black Cross Society will catch Jeokgwang first. We are professionals when it comes to catching vampires. I am confident that even the most famous special forces cannot match us when it comes to vampire hunting.”
“……”
“I will provide you with more information about Jeokgwang. If you look at the data, the incidents believed to be committed by Jeokgwang are…”
Moon Ji-hyuk’s eyes widened as he looked at the data. The murder case at the Saeoneul Apartment complex that had happened recently was mentioned.
‘The victim’s body was found decapitated. If it was Jeokgwang’s sword… it’s possible.’
A broken CCTV video flashed in Moon Ji-hyuk’s mind. A man in a suit. The man’s physique matched Jeokgwang’s.
‘…That guy is Jeokgwang.’
Six bodies were found in the apartment. Three of them were the victims of the bloody alleyway incident.
‘…Perhaps Jeokgwang is.’
A clue was found.
Moon Ji-hyuk decided to organize the thoughts in his head and proceed with the investigation step by step.
•••
I sat by the window in a motel near Kim Chun-seok’s secret villa in Yeongdeungpo. In front of me was a desk and a laptop on it.
I glanced out the window through the curtains. What I was looking at was a four-story building, Kim Chun-seok’s secret villa. It was built in a place where not many people passed by, and on the outside, it looked like an ordinary villa.
‘8 PM. It’s about time they came….’
Once a week. Every Thursday, a female celebrity would visit the secret villa with her agency president.
Most of them were actresses, but there were also times when female singers and girl groups would enter. It seemed that the celebrities who entered were roughly 10 people, and they were on a rotation.
After entering the secret villa, they would come out again after about an hour.
‘…They’re here.’
A black van stopped in front of the secret villa. The car door opened, and five people got out. One was the agency president, and the other four were a rising girl group.
They were covering their bodies as much as possible with coats and hats. I had already known about them through the data, so it wasn’t difficult to deduce their identities.
They were a girl group that had recently risen to fame after a long period of obscurity, though they weren’t rookies.
‘Ha. I’ll get a good video today.’
What I was aiming for was a sex bribery video.
It was easy to just barge in, massacre the guards, and cut off Kim Chun-seok’s head.
‘But then I’d just be another victim killed by Jeokgwang. It’d be annoying if that bastard died as a victim.’
I waited until they entered the secret villa and some time had passed before activating my hacking skills.
[Hacking successful.]
[You can hack Kim Chun-seok’s smartphone for 20 minutes.]
The screen of the laptop on my desk changed. It was a live video taken by the camera of Kim Chun-seok’s hacked smartphone.
‘…A short video would be good. Even a photo is fine. Just get caught once.’
If this failed, I was planning to forcibly raid the place wearing a clown mask and take photos and videos.
-Hehehe. My pretty little darlings are healthy today too. What are you doing? Why aren’t you taking off your clothes already?
-Ah… Yes.
-You too, don’t just stand there, take them off. It’s not like it’s your first time… Do I have to order you around for everything?
-Hic… Yes….
-Tsk. Don’t cry. I hate the sound of women crying the most.
-…….
‘……The sound is coming through properly, but the video isn’t showing. Let’s switch to selfie mode.’
When I switched to selfie mode, the video appeared.
I smiled with satisfaction. The screen was showing properly.
To be precise, it looked like the smartphone was thrown onto the table, but the inside was visible through a mirror on the ceiling.
It was a luxurious room with an interior that rivaled a top-class hotel. Kim Chun-seok was sitting naked on the bed, and the four women were slowly taking off their clothes.
“…You’re using that shriveled, old thing that can’t even get properly hard to lust after women?”
I muttered in disbelief. They say that men will look for women as long as they have the strength to hold a spoon. That saying seems to be close to the truth.
-You two suck my thing, and you two come over here.
-…Yes.
-Really. You’ll give us a new song, right?
-Not just a new song. Dramas, movies, radio… Tell me what you want to do. There’s nothing I can’t do in Korea. I am the king of Korea.
‘What a joke. He’s talking like he’s the king of Korea.’
Kim Chun-seok’s thing was finally ready after being sucked for five minutes.
‘It takes me 5 seconds to get ready, but it takes him 5 minutes. I must not get that old.’
-Okay, everyone lie down on the bed. I need to taste all of you.
-…….
-I’ve been under a lot of stress lately, but I feel energized after being nourished by your bodies.
The sex lasted for 10 minutes.
However, Kim Chun-seok clung to the women’s bodies and wouldn’t let go.
20 minutes passed. The hacking time was over. I replayed the video on the laptop and chuckled.
“This bastard is done for. Should I sell this for money? …No. No one would buy it because they’d be scared of Kim Chun-seok. I’ll have to release it myself.”
I packed up my laptop and left the motel. To be honest, I wanted to rush in, kill Kim Chun-seok, and rape the women, but I barely managed to restrain myself.
‘It’s a relief that they’re not real idols. If they looked exactly like real idols… I might have rushed in.’
I will definitely choose a game with idols in it someday and have a wild sex session. Definitely.
•••
I put on comfortable sportswear and a clown mask, then started climbing a mountain. My destination was a remote mountain village in Gangwon Province. It was a rural village where I suspected Kim Chun-seok had hidden his slush funds.
It wasn’t a place that came up in internet searches, so I had no choice but to search for it myself.
Fortunately, thanks to Kang Yu-jin’s data, I found the mountain village in two hours.
I hid my body slightly behind a large tree and used the scope I had obtained when I stole a sniper rifle from the armory to observe the inside of the village.
‘There are 7 houses. It’s barely even a village… And everyone here is a man. I came to the right place.’
The men pretending to be residents were gangsters. They all had menacing looks and large physiques, so it was impossible not to notice.
‘…Hmm. About 30 of them? That’s a lot. Well, that means Kim Chun-seok has hidden a lot here.’
The place where I suspected the slush funds were hidden was the largest house in the center of the village. It seemed to be the village hall, and there were more than five cars parked there, and over 20 people gathered.
There were CCTV cameras all over the village, and the men patrolled every hour.
‘Those guys. Their inner pockets are bulging, they’re carrying handguns. And it looks like they’ve received professional military training….’
I racked my brain.
‘There’s no need to rush. I have plenty of time.’
It was 9 PM now. There were about 9 hours left until dawn. Even if it became dawn, it didn’t matter. The advantage of this place was that it was hidden, and the disadvantage was that support would be slow.
‘They’re probably monitoring the village situation 24 hours a day from the village hall with CCTV.’
It would be best to avoid the CCTV as much as possible. And if I wanted to leisurely collect Kim Chun-seok’s slush funds, it would be better to kill all the guys here. No, I would have to kill them to collect it.
‘The answer is assassination.’
Plans were popping into my head.
I liked and had played a lot of assassination games, so I knew how to move.
‘The definition of assassination is simple.’
If there are no witnesses, it’s an assassination.
Having come to a conclusion, I decided to wait a little longer. The guys were human, so they would get sleepy, and their vigilance would loosen to some extent.
‘They must be at ease since this place has never been discovered before.’
I could tell just by looking at the faces of the men on patrol. They had no tension at all, only boredom. They were doing it because it was their job. That was the feeling.
12 AM. Midnight.
I started to move.
Yeongcheon Style Practical Technique: Gi-eunbo (Concealing Step).
I started descending the mountain using the footwork. Even when stepping on fallen leaves, there was no sound. Gi-eunbo was a footwork optimized for stealth.
‘Good. Gi-eunbo is perfect too.’
The place I was going was on the side without CCTV.
A barbed wire fence blocked my path. It was a barbed wire fence over 1.5 meters high. It was impossible for an ordinary person to jump over it. To get in, I would have to remove it with a wire cutter.
But I had the Hwaryeon Bido, which was incomparable to a wire cutter.
Yeongcheon Style Practical Technique: Sal-eum (Killing Sound).
I grabbed the sword with both hands and swung it with all my might.
The barbed wire was cut in an instant. But it still looked difficult to pass through, so I used Sal-eum a few more times to cut the barbed wire.
‘What’s amazing about Sal-eum is that it doesn’t make a sound when cutting barbed wire.’
It wasn’t that there was no sound at all. There was a slight rustling sound.
If Sal-eum successfully cut the target, there was no sound at all, or very little.
I cut the barbed wire into small pieces and quietly infiltrated the village.
