Black Badger - Chapter 449



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449. Ripple (2)

“Can you contact the book lover?”

Kairos spoke without answering Amy’s question.

Then he roughly closed the conference room door. Boom! The door closed with a loud noise, but no one paid any attention.

Scar, who was sitting at the top, said.

“no.”

The man looked at Kairos and asked sharply.

“Can’t you contact other people of the same species?”

“yes.”

The man in question walked in with a blank expression and plopped down on the empty seat.

“I don’t feel like it at all, but I guess it’s a blessing in disguise.”

“uh?”

Ami asked with her eyes wide open.

“Then you can’t contact Del? Igor? The others? Then…”

“In the case of Deltey and Igor, I even went as far as to erase their contact information.”

“Trying to hide in step?!”

Ami jumped up from her seat, shouting in a voice full of hope.

“I guess so? That must be it? It was all planned out, right? Huh?”

Kairos did not answer.

Instead, he frowned, crossed his arms, and stared off into space.

The man, who seemed to be locked in boiling anger, only laughed after a while.

“Probably so. I can’t say for sure, though, since I didn’t even see the scene of him being taken away.”

“You didn’t even tell Jack?!”

“What on earth are you trying to do?”

Beside the surprised Ami, Sophia couldn’t hold it in anymore and raised her voice.

“What do you mean, ‘I’m going to hide’? Could this be what Hildebert intended? Does that make sense?”

“Did Hilde say anything strange to you, like saying she would definitely come back to you?”

“So they already knew he was going to go this far? What the fuck is this…?”

“Jack. Didn’t Hilde say a word to you?”

bang!

Carl questioned Sophia while looking at her in anger, Ricardo frowned while looking at Kairos, and Yehyun leaned her upper body towards Kairos while holding her trembling hands, but her words were cut off mid-sentence.

Scar, sitting at the head of the table, slammed his fist on the conference table.

“Quiet.”

Everyone falls silent at the short command.

Scar looked over his subordinates who were in a state of still motion.

Then I lowered my gaze to the laptop in front of me.

“From now on, everyone, answer only the questions I ask.”

Those gathered in the conference room expressed their agreement through silence.

The acting commander let out a heavy sigh.

“Who heard Hilde say that she intended to be taken away voluntarily?”

Yoon, Yehyun, Ami, and Ricardo raised their hands.

Others looked at those who raised their hands with wide eyes. Kairos was the only one who wasn’t surprised that no one raised their hands.

Although his cold, orange eyes showed no emotion.

“Have you heard that anyone is thinking of doing something like this now?”

No one raised a hand.

“Have you not heard anything about what will happen after you are taken away?”

“I said I was going to go into hiding.”

Ye-Hyeon answered in a subdued voice.

His hands were still shaking faintly, but his voice was still.

“But I will definitely come back.”

“Did you just say that and that’s it?”

“yes.”

“Will.”

Ricardo blurted out the words.

As Scar turned his head, the green-eyed man met his old comrade’s gaze and spoke ominously.

“I came early on the day of the promotion exam and wrote my will.”

Scar didn’t ask again.

Instead, he immediately looked down and pressed a button on his laptop. A short call connection tone rang out in the conference room.

Click!

[Yes, Assistant Scar.]

“Open Hildebert’s will.”

Scar gave an order to the head of the personnel department, Kang Joo.

“Read it and bring it here.”

[… I don’t think there’s any need to open it.]

After a brief silence, the Lord answered quietly.

[The body wasn’t found, was it?]

“I didn’t conclude that he was dead. I just thought there might be something written on it.”

[ah.]

The head of personnel shouted.

The subsequent answer was faintly brighter than before.

[Okay, I’ll take it right away.]

Scar hung up the communication without answering, and turned his gaze back to those seated in the conference room.

The air was tense and tense.

Everyone in the same space looked at me with a mixture of fear and anger.

Among them, only Yoon was unable to read his emotions, but the Zippo lighter in the man’s right hand had long since lost its shape due to being crushed by the evil force.

The current leader of the Black Badgers remained silent for a moment before letting out a sigh.

“I don’t think Hilde is dead.”

Carl and Amy’s bodies relaxed greatly.

“I can’t stop tapping my fingers on the table since I entered the conference room,” said Jonathan.

“Then where is it?”

“I told you to just answer the questions.”

Scar responded coldly.

Jonathan Kudo didn’t listen.

“Where was Hilde last seen?”

“Be quiet. I called you here to explain what I know.”

“The amount of bleeding is….”

bang!

Scar slammed the table again, and Ricardo twisted his upper body and grabbed Jonathan’s shoulder.

The green-eyed man grabbed Jonathan and began whispering something.

Only after Badger’s soft taunts from the second period had ceased did Scar let out a deep sigh.

“Listen, I’ll explain.”

The Badgers focused on what Scar was going to say next.

“Let me share with you what I’ve been told so far. Needless to say, it’s a secret that can only be shared here. First, this incident was committed by a faction within the CIS led by Don Child, and all of the people in that faction died. As a result, that agency is in disarray and is trying to figure out the situation, and in the process, we discovered that all the hard drives in Don Child’s office were gone.”

“omg.”

“Hilde.”

A few people took a deep breath, and Ye-Hyeon muttered to herself.

“I’m sure you’ll get the information….”

“Second. According to the CIS, there was no one with an enhanced body at the scene. However, during the two days he was taken in, I heard reports that the raccoon’s limbs clashed several times near the CIS building. Those who don’t understand, just listen. I don’t intend to explain this in detail.”

“Why won’t you explain?”

Jonathan asked, but Scar ignored him.

The leader of the Black Badgers continued his explanation.

“Lastly. It is said that Don Child’s agents threatened Hilde about the safety of several Badgers, including Tom, Hesi, and Asil. They even threatened to reveal Jack Black’s identity online, and threatened her life by showing her secretly filmed footage of Badgers.”

The backs of the people sitting in the conference room straightened.

The shock in their eyes quickly turned to anger.

Ricardo let out a hollow laugh.

“What the fuck is this…?”

“Then what?”

Ami’s face, which had been noticeably relieved after the statement that Hard was gone, distorted.

Her voice trembled again.

“Was it because of us that Hilde was held there for two days? Hilde… . So you cut off Hilde’s hands and legs to use us as hostages so that she wouldn’t rebel?”

“I don’t understand this situation at all.”

Sophia joined the conversation, her voice barely able to contain her emotions.

“I know I don’t know much about the circumstances, but even so, it doesn’t make sense. Why were you taken away on purpose?”

“To get information, fake death, and move freely.”

Yoon said casually.

The dry voice sounded more like a monologue than an answer to the questions Sophia had posed.

People’s attention was focused on it.

The scientist, who was staring blankly into the empty space of the conference room, spoke as if he was gathering and organizing the evidence in his head.

“The reason he was held captive for two days without resisting was probably to create solid evidence that he was dead, and also because of threats. The threats weren’t completely invalid. However, it’s impossible to kill Hildebert with that alone. There’s no way an ordinary person could kill someone with that much power. I don’t know if he cut off his hands and feet or if it was a human, but if he hadn’t collided with the limbs while escaping, Hildebert would still be alive.”

“yes?”

Ami looked at her own older brother without even thinking about wiping away the tears flowing down her face.

“I see. Hilde is alive, right?”

“I didn’t tell anyone for sure because I wanted to eliminate even the slightest possibility that the plan would go awry. I made it seem like the death was the result of CIS negligence because I wanted to arouse public outrage. Now, society and Black Badger headquarters will react very sensitively to Black Badger’s suspicious death. The Badgers will also be filled with anger and sensitive to external stimuli for a while. That means it won’t be easy to kill Badger. That’s probably what that bastard intended. To gain information, gain freedom, and buy the Badgers’ safety for a short time.”

“Arrogant little brat.”

Ricardo spat out his words as if chewing.

Anger burned in the eyes of the man leaning back in his chair with his legs crossed.

“A crazy creature….”

“What do you think of us?”

Sophia, who had been blinking, also expressed her emotions.

She was furious.

“Are you sure you see me as someone like yourself?”

As Sophia grabbed the edge of the table, it broke with a crunch like a piece of candy.

“Otherwise, how could you plan something like this? You didn’t take into account the shock that people who watched the news without knowing anything would feel. It’s like you’re treating us like chicks that you’re holding on to, not knowing when they’ll explode, like something that needs to be protected, not on the same level as you!”

“Hahaha. Senior.”

Kairos smiled with his eyes wide open.

“Then what will I become?”

Sophia looked back at Kairos with an “Oops” expression.

The air in the conference room suddenly became cold. The hot air froze in an instant.

People looked at Kairos for the first time since entering the conference room.

Even Scar, who had been staring at the laptop as if he was burning it, raised his head and looked at the man’s face.

“…sorry.”

Sophia apologized.

Kairos smiled broadly.

“no.”

“So are you sure Hildebert is alive?”

This time, Jonathan Kudo was the only one who didn’t pay attention.

“Is there any concrete evidence that he survived?”

“doesn’t exist.”

Yoon answered coldly.

Carl couldn’t stand it anymore and washed his face dry. Ami stared at Yoon with wounded eyes.

Yehyun threw her cell phone away.

bang!

“I don’t accept it.”

The man who had been calling Seunghyun Lee like crazy buried his face in his trembling hands.

“I called several times… Why aren’t you answering? At times like this… .”

“By intuition?”

Scar Owen asked Kairos, who was just looking down at the table.

“Did you hide it?”

“I hid it and went.”

Kairos smiled cynically, one corner of his mouth raised.

“I should have noticed when you brought up the fan site while telling me to go home alone. If it were the Empire, I would have immediately read the implications of that strange conversation. And since you called me right before the promotion exam and gave me another incomprehensible apology, I guess I thought you understood. In fact, if it were me back then, I would have understood.”

“The fact that after Hilde pushed you out, she would go into hiding with her own people using such extreme methods?”

“yes.”

And then I wouldn’t have been this angry.

Kairos thought, still feeling the intense emotions that were hindering his rational judgment.

Rather, one might have admired that he had the appearance of a gambler… .

“What about the right hand and left foot?”

Kairos turned his head at Ricardo’s sharp words.

“Your people knew that he would be tortured, yet they agreed to it?”

“I was left like this, so what would I know?”

Kairos answered with a grim smile.

“Is it Hilde’s stubbornness or a crazy move that everyone agrees on…?”

The conversation couldn’t continue.

There was a knock.

The locked door opened as Scar pressed the laptop button. The conversation stopped and people turned their heads. Ami, who was holding Yoon’s arm and crying silently, and Kal and Yehyun, who were burying their faces in their hands, also raised their heads and looked at the visitor.

The head of the human resources department, Kang Joo, was standing in front of the open door.

In his hand he held a will tied with a blue ribbon.

Eyes that don’t smile as usual.

“I brought Hildebert’s will.”

The stock price said.

***

Hildebert watched the scene in front of the Black Badger headquarters in silence as it was being broadcast live.

After not moving for too long and just looking at the screen, Lin couldn’t stand it anymore and came over to say something.

“Captain. What are you looking at like that?”

Hildebert’s golden eyes close and open.

The man, who didn’t even roll his eyes towards Lin, remained silent for a long time before speaking.

“I should not have loved humans.”

It was his monologue.

“It would have been more comfortable if there had been no give-and-take affection….”