Became a Dark Merchant in the Academy - Chapter 159



158 – Fiance_17

“So how can we get information about the investigation of that association?”

A streetlight seen occasionally.

On the wall, neon signs are falling down.

A creepy alley where bad guys often hang out.

The back of the city at night.

Xiaomei, who was walking next to me, opened her mouth as if curious about what happened during the day.

“Oh, you were wondering that?”

“yes.”

“It’s nothing special. Should I just say that I know someone of high rank?”

“Your Majesty?”

“To be exact, I know the family of the person in question.”

Isiah.

The only daughter of the Changcheon family.

Heir to a family that has influence all over Korea.

She would probably know some information about the association.

‘Of course he wouldn’t give me that information.’

Even though we had become close, we were just friends, so how could she possibly tell me the details of the association’s investigation?

Absolutely not.

Even if I tried to tell her by chance, she wasn’t the head of a household with any ties to the association. There was no way her daughter would know about the association’s investigation.

From the beginning, this whole thing was in the palm of my hand.

There was no need to know other people’s information.

But I had to say something plausible so that Xiaomei would believe me. It was just a vague statement.

“The family of a high-ranking person…”

“There is a kid like that.”

“Even so, there’s no way he would give you the information. No matter how I look at it, it’s impossible. How could someone who isn’t even an official do that? Even if he were an official…”

‘Well, how could you be fooled by such words?’

If you’re not an idiot, that’s a given.

“It’s okay. I can trust that kid.”

“but…”

“It’s really okay. I’ll swear on this necklace.”

However, I have a special move.

Skills and necklaces.

“…Okay, I understand. I’ll believe you.”

Xiaomei had no choice but to pass.

“Thank you, I will definitely find it.”

“We have to find it together.”

“That’s true. But more than that…”

Although it was out of sight, there was a presence.

“Fuck, didn’t I tell you to somehow fill the quota?”

“No, that’s…”

“Get down on your stomach X.”

It seemed like there was someone over the wall next to me.

“Yes, there are some people. There are about 10 of them.”

There is only one being out of ten who would be in this place at this time.

A person related to the back society.

Even so, most of them will fall off.

“Then shall we go?”

“yes.”

Xiaomei and I looked at each other and nodded.

At the same time, he focused his mana on his feet and jumped over the wall.

**

“You’re crazy. You’re crazy.”

A secret room on the top floor of a high-rise building somewhere in Seoul.

One of the two people sitting at the round table kicked the desk and expressed his opposition to Han Sang-won’s words.

“Yeah, that’s crazy. No, let’s take it a step further. You’re going to expand the plan and destroy the gate. Do you even know what that means!!”

“It doesn’t end with just monsters appearing. The state could wipe us out on a large scale.”

Others sitting at the round table also expressed their opposition to Han Sang-won’s words.

“Do you think I don’t even know that?”

Han Sang-won didn’t care, either way. He glanced around the round table and opened his mouth.

““…””

Then what came back was silence.

They know too.

There’s no way Han Sang-won would say something like that so carelessly.

But because the issue is what it is, I couldn’t help but react strongly.

That’s understandable, since he’s going to destroy the gate and release monsters into the real world.

Even if they temporarily mobilize another organization to that organization and then fabricate evidence, they will blame that organization for causing the incident.

No matter how you look at it, this was crazy.

Since the cataclysm, all nations have judged the destruction of the Gate not as a simple act of terrorism, but as an act that harms the survival of humanity.

The state literally disposes of those involved.

Even though they are a part of the underworld, they know that they can do nothing against the state.

The police are coming.

The hunter is coming.

The hero is coming.

The army is coming.

The country is coming.

Even if you escape overseas, you will only be dealing with that country’s police, hunters, heroes, military, and state.

There is no place in this world where they can rest.

If there was even a chance of being caught, it was the right choice not to touch it.

No, the right thing to do was not to get involved in this plan from the beginning.

“This kind of thing will never happen…”

“As expected, you don’t know anything. We’ve already fallen into a trap.”

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“what?”

“What is that…?”

However, the words that came out of Han Sang-won’s mouth planted doubts in the minds of those gathered at the round table.

Already fallen into the trap?

“Do you know Kang Chun-sam?”

But the doubt was short-lived.

Those gathered around the round table were simply dumbfounded by Han Sang-won’s explanation that followed.

**

“The Union side said they would accept the plan.”

When my gaze met Eishun, who was lying face down on the floor of an abandoned factory and giving a report, he trembled as if he was so afraid of something.

Either way, I was lost in thought for a moment.

According to the investigation, there was talk that the leader of the Namseoul faction, who could be called the head of the union, was a bit crazy.

To accept such a suspicious-looking offer without hesitation? No matter how I looked at it, it was not a normal judgment.

‘Is there something you’re decorating?’

There was no way they wouldn’t have realized that this was the organization that had committed the recent nationwide academy terrorism.

In the first place, the society of the Republic of Korea is divided into two. If it is not them, then in the end, it has to be this way.

If not, it means that there was interference from a foreign country.

‘I think that makes even more sense.’

Therefore, the probability of there being any decoration was high.

For example, if Eishun realizes that I’m baiting him and is thinking of turning this strategy around, or something ridiculous like that.

‘I gave a good reason for it. I’m sure I erased all the evidence that could be found.’

The Black Death faction was already in a civil war before I intervened.

Even before I got involved, Eishun had already joined the Black Death Sect because of that incident a year ago. The situation was perfect.

‘And yet you noticed something so quickly…’

You’re the cautious type. I expected you to notice it someday, but this was too sudden.

So, that means this wasn’t something that was discovered through circumstantial evidence or investigative information.

‘Ability? Or a feeling? Or a connection?’

If you were a leader in the most privileged area in South Korea for 10 years, it means that you had to have skills, luck, connections, or something else to make it happen.

“It’s a little funny, but it’s kind of boring.”

“…yes?”

“I’m just talking to myself. More importantly, when is the operation execution date?”

“Oh, tomorrow. We were going to do it at the place you mentioned, but they said they had a better place so we changed the location…”

As soon as we receive the operation, we put it into action the next day.

It meant that he would not give us any room to plan something quickly.

“What should I do?”

“Take that, and you can do whatever you want with the operation details.”

Well, it was good anyway.

All of these operations were bait in the first place.

The only thing that mattered was that it was Eishun, not the Black Death faction, who was invited to the Villain Alliance.

To be exact, it was enough for Eishun to just enter and exit the building where they were gathered.

I don’t need anything else.

What can I do if I fall on my own?

‘It would be fun to watch the clown show.’

And to be honest, even though the Villain Alliance was a bit annoying, if you wanted to take it slow, you could’ve ended it without much fuss.

That’s understandable, because I have time limitations but no spatial limitations.

And yet it caused this uproar.

The reason was simple.

It was meant to handle annoying tasks all at once.

Even if there is no space problem, there is always a time problem.

You can even deal with heroes who smell it there.

‘This is what is called killing two birds with one stone.’

[─ calls out sobbing.]

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Anyway, it didn’t matter what kind of fight they provoked from that side.

The outcome has already been decided, now all we have to do is wait for time to pass.

But there is always a what if for anything.

Don’t they say you should knock on a stone bridge before crossing it?

Still, I couldn’t be 100% sure.

If things went wrong, they could have dealt with Eishun.

‘Then it won’t work.’

When a person who should be testifying diligently dies, all that is left is a few circumstantial footage as evidence.

That’s more or less enough, though.

In order to wrap up the matter with Xiaomei, he couldn’t die like that.

[Ray, I’ll ask you again this time.]

[…yes.]

In that case, there is no choice but to take out insurance.

Now there’s absolutely no way Eishun will be caught.

“Then I’ll take good care of you.”

“…I will do it perfectly.”

I helped Eishun up from where he was lying on the floor, patted his shoulder, and prayed for the success of the operation.

At that, Eishun’s body trembled, but his eyes shone with determination as if he would somehow manage it.

It was an expression of the will to survive somehow.

‘hmm.’

When I saw that expression, I felt so sorry.

But what can we do?

This is his fate, his destiny.

If you want to blame someone, blame the heavens for letting me meet them, not me.

‘I’m not sure if that exists.’

Isn’t it somewhere?

Something that sent me to this world.

“Your shoulders are too tense.”

“I will do my best.”

“Okay, I’ll believe you.”

A night where only moonlight can be seen dimly through a crack in the ceiling.

A fly that didn’t know when it should be was shivering in the cold.