Chapter 350 – Host #351
#351 host
‘I’m sure he’ll tell you well, right?’
Having lifted Chase, I glanced back. Chase’s bodyguards are all dead.
Except for one person.
“…”
The bodyguard I kicked was alive and not dead. The breathing of the surviving bodyguard was rough. This means that he did not lose consciousness.
He knew the bodyguard was alive and well, but he didn’t kill him.
The bodyguard overheard every conversation between me and Chase. He was a valuable decoy to convey our conversations intact to the black market.
‘Please bring me a big fish. It’s bait.’
I internally cheered for the bodyguard who pretended to faint and went outside.
‘By the way, what happened to the other kids?’
*****
“I’ll catch Mr. Kink, so oppa stay still here.”
“What?”
In front of her kink mansion, I turned to her at (Maktou) Gina’s words. What are these supporters talking about now?
“Didn’t I tell you? Kink is a psychic?”
Unlike the other targets, Kink was a psychic. So, unlike other guys who have plenty of psychic bodyguards, Kink moves alone.
The psychic level is about 7-8 levels.
Although Gina has a higher psychic level than him, her psychic powers are unexpectedly strongly influenced by her compatibility, so she could have hurt Gina.
“So be safe…”
“Brother.”
“Huh?”
“Didn’t I tell you before? Oppa is too hard on himself. But that’s true… It also means that oppa doesn’t trust us.”
“What? Hey, where do I say that there’s no one I trust as much as you do?”
“My brother thinks we’re weak, so he’s not willing to share any burdens with us. And that means he doesn’t trust us.”
“Because it’s not.”
“Really?”
“Huh.”
He nodded right away. Can’t believe my woman that I’m crazy! The most trustworthy people in the world were my women.
“Then can you entrust this task entirely to me?”
“No, that’s a different story.”
“Brother, don’t you trust me?”
“No, believe me. I believe…”
“…”
“… Ha.”
I sighed at Gina’s eyes staring at me. I had to entrust her with kidnapping her kink just to show that I believed in her.
“Okay. You go and get it. But if anything happens, I’ll step right in. Okay?”
“Don’t worry. It won’t happen.”
Gina with a confident smile used her superpowers. Her appearance began to blur.
“Because he wouldn’t even know what was happening to him.”
Gina, who became a ghost, entered her mansion. Because she is a ghost, she can fly and pass through walls.
She permeated into the mansion at once.
“… What’s going on?”
I was going to jump right in when I heard something break or crash, but no matter how long I waited, I didn’t hear any commotion.
Kik-!
“Huh?”
“Mission complete.”
After a while, the door to the mansion opened and I walked through it and made a V with my hand to come out. In her hand, a kink in pajamas was dragged out from the nape of her neck.
“Uh, uh, uh…”
Kink is like someone who has seen a ghost, ah, there are a lot of ghosts? Her face was contemplative and trembling. Besides, the weather wasn’t that cold, but pure white breath came out of his mouth.
“… Exorcism.”
“Hee hee!”
Uh… Our Gina is stronger than I thought?
*****
I brought Chase and Kink to the Skull Head hideout in District 73.
From now on, this basement will be the hideout for our team’s Steel Armor. In fact, there is no place as safe as here.
The notoriety I’ve accumulated thus far has been a good shield. Quite a few villains didn’t even come close to Area 73, and even the villains who came occasionally were all those who wanted to join the Skull Heads.
Gun-armed gangsters are roaming the streets like cops cleaning the streets, so if you see someone you don’t see, you can spot them right away.
No matter how much power and intelligence the Black Market has, I can’t avoid my eyes in Area 73.
So, the hideout of the Skull Head was a suitable hideout for Team Steel Armor.
Crucially, it was a building in my name that I bought and built with my own money.
The landlord said he would use it, but who said what!
“Hehe… This is my brother, no, the famous Steel Armor-sama’s hideout?”
“Huh? You’re new here…”
As Gina looked around here and there curiously, I remembered that she had never been to my hideout before.
“I’m sorry.”
“Huh?”
“How come you don’t visit your brother’s workplace (?) Once? He still visits your workplace.”
“… Hey.”
“Huh?”
Jina looked at me with her fierce eyes, but the word ‘hey’ came out of her mouth instead of ‘brother’.
I am a generous man, so I decided to be generous with the title issue. It’s not like I’m afraid of Gina’s eyes and move on.
Anyway, Gina looked me in the eyes and said, ‘Well, there are all those bastards?’
“I’m more embarrassed because there are so many places to tackle. Hey, proud Mr. Steel Armor. First of all, I have to invite you to come. I didn’t even invite you, so how can I come here?”
“Uh…”
It is. I’ve never invited Gina. Why did Jo Se-ho stop participating in the pro? I became a non-participant because the other party did not invite me.
“Secondly, did you come to the company for pure purpose? Did you come to the company to have sex with an office girl?”
“…”
There is no way to overcome Gina’s factual violence in the past and now. To beat up my brother with facts, there was really no bad support.
‘That’s why it’s attractive!’
I thought I would fall for Gina more.
Anyway, I’m going to play around here and read their memories to find out the secrets of the black market.
“I’ll be reading these guys’ memories, so tell them to wait for them to come.”
“Huh? You read memories?”
Gina made a puzzled expression at my words. Come to think of it, you don’t know Gina, do you?
“Yeah. I can read people’s memories like Miha… No, like a memory hunter.”
“What? Brother?”
Gina’s eyes widened.
“How many psychic powers does your brother have?”
“Um… About ten?”
“Hey, ten?!”
Her eyes, which were already wide, grew larger as if they were about to pop out. I patted Gina on the cheek, who couldn’t help but feel astonished, and put my hand on Chase’s head.
“Yeah. Anyway, tell the kids to wait for them to come.”
“Oh, hold on brother! Brother!”
“Read memory.”
I left Gina’s cry behind and used her memory reading skill to enter Chase’s memory.
*****
“You will one day become the ruler of this Dark City.”
It was a phrase that Chase’s father used to say since he was a child.
Little Chase didn’t understand what his father was saying. He was so clever that he was called a child prodigy, but he was too young to realize the weight and power of the word.
And later, when he became an adult and followed his father into the black market, he could understand the meaning.
In the black market that appeared with the beginning of Dark City, there are three types of operators.
A person in charge of funds in the black market.
The armed forces responsible for the security of the black market.
Lastly, the production manager who makes things that suit the taste of the customer.
Many operators were unconditionally affiliated with one of these.
Chase, who would follow in his father’s footsteps as chairman of Norma Enterprises, was among the three in charge of finance. Brilliant since his childhood, he used his talent to the fullest and greatly increased the circulation of money in the black market.
Chase’s achievements, his father’s halo, and personal connections were added, and he became a key figure in charge of finance within a year.
But with that, he couldn’t be called ‘the ruler of the dark city’. Also, in fact, what his father said meant more than that.
There was one more existence above the three operators of the black market.
[Host].
The ruler of Dark City meant the host.
“The host is the ruler?”
This is where Chase had his doubts.
It was because the name of the host was quite well known to the ruler.
The host Chase had heard of was indeed a strange being.
Some say the host is a man, and some say the host is a woman. Others say it is a young kid, and others say it is an old man with dark spots on his face.
Everyone says something different, so Chase, who had never met the host, couldn’t pinpoint who the host was.
Speaking of a ruler, shouldn’t people who know his true identity be rare? Everyone says it differently, but didn’t that mean there were so many people who saw the host in person anyway?
“Well, it doesn’t matter.”
It didn’t matter if the host was male or female.
His father wanted him to be the ruler of the Dark City, and he wanted to be the ruler of the Dark City too.
Chase’s goal was to kill the host and he himself became the new host.
And one day as time passed, Chase finally ran into the host.
“May the souls of the deceased refrain.”
“…”
It was the day that Chase’s father died of cardiac arrest.
At her funeral, a woman he hadn’t seen before came to pay him his respects, and the sight of her face took Chase’s breath away.
Fair skin as white as her eyes, mysterious eyes that seemed to hold the universe, and red lips like cherry were so beautiful and alluring that Chase, who was not interested in women, fell in love with her just by meeting her.
“Thank you. By the way… Who are you…?”
“Oh, I’m sorry. I’ve offended you. I didn’t know that President Chase passed away…”
“No, thanks.”
At the woman’s words, Chase hurriedly waved her hand. In fact, the moment her woman spoke to her, he had forgotten that this was her father’s funeral home.
“I’m… Teresa Dominique. And…”
Lightly- The woman took a step closer to Chase. When her woman hooked up, Chase caught her breath in surprise.
The woman whispered in Chase’s ear.
“I am the [Host].”
“…!”
Chase couldn’t say anything about the fact that the host was the woman who put her love curse on him.
That day, Chase kills the host and he abandons his dream of becoming the host himself and becoming the ruler of the Dark City.
And she decided to dedicate her life for her host.
*****
“Tsk. Pause.”
The world stopped as I muttered with my tongue closed. I got closer to Chase and the host.
“This bastard was a boy after all.”
Because this space was constructed based on Chase’s memories, I could feel his emotions and thoughts intact.
There was only one reason why young Chase abandoned his lifelong dream to become the host’s agent: love.
“By the way, this woman is the host?”
I studied the host’s face closely. She was a woman full of beauty and nobility.
“Hmm…”
It’s so beautiful that even I, who really, really, really, really fucking like women, falls for it. But why?
“You mean they don’t react? Is it because they’re memories?”
I muttered as I looked down at my lower extremities.
Basically, his soul mate, who reacts immediately when he sees a pretty woman, was silent without any reaction as if he had become a middle school student.
I’ve only had this happen once in my life.
“Could it be the host, is this bastard Mija?”
