NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 11



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Exile – 1

Midu.

It is a type of ‘speculation’ in which rice (including various grains) is traded based only on promises without actual goods.

Unlike many European countries that suffered damage in the World Wars of the past few years, the United States and Japan, which were far from the battlefield, suffered little damage.

As a result, they enjoyed great profits by taking advantage of the war boom, consumer sentiment that had been suppressed during the war and the Spanish flu exploded, and the amount of currency in circulation increased as money was printed for post-war recovery in Europe.

In Europe, where the gold standard had been suspended due to the war, silver was needed to print money.

That was also needed a lot.

The only countries on earth that could meet their demand were the United States and China, so naturally the price of silver began to soar and a bubble began to form.

The bubble that started in China naturally influenced neighboring Korea and Japan, which soon led to a boom in the rice market.

In such a bubble party, the one who rode the wave well was Miduwang Boksu Chang.

“Oh, this time I’m going to go!”

“Banhyung, it was a three-day downhill battle.”

“So you’re saying it’s going up this time? If you look at the indicators, it looks like a tiger is crouching down before it can climb Mt. Baekdu!”

“No, last time you said the frog jumped up and down···.”

“I told you it’s real this time?!”

······Well, now he’s just a fallen speculator.

Still, from what I heard about him, it was clear that he was a man who demonstrated significant investment capabilities in Joseon, a country where capitalism was just beginning to emerge.

“Let’s go up!!!”

******

The soybean paste stew that everyone has left.

The repeater was sitting at the entrance, holding the transaction sheet tightly in his hand, and burying his face between his legs.

It was clear that Bonama had lost something again.

“Why…? My calculations were perfect…”

“If you look at something like that and call it calculation, you’ll lose money.”

“?”

When I approached and spoke to Bok-soo-chang, who was in despair after losing all his assets, his reaction was impressive.

“Rain, if it’s debt, I’m not ready yet…”

“I’m not a debtor.”

“Whew… Well then, that’s a relief.”

Repeater got up with a happy face and naturally took the lead and walked somewhere.

After walking a few steps like that, he stopped and looked at me with a smiling face.

“What are you doing?”

“What are you doing?”

“Oh, if you came to me to ask about investing, shouldn’t I treat you accordingly?”

“???”

As I looked at his appearance, which I couldn’t tell if was confidence or arrogance, I was speechless with absurdity.

“Listen here.”

“Ah, even if you call me that, I can easily teach my investment skills to others…”

“Hey, repeat window.”

“?!”

At that moment, a group of men with fierce expressions and their whole bodies like a piece of paper came rushing out of the alley and surrounded the backroom.

“Hey, repeater.”

“Ha, Mr. Hasegawa…”

“If you borrow money, you have to pay it back, right?”

“That, that…”

“Did you lose it in the rice field again?”

“······.”

At the gangsters’ words, Ibongchang lowered his head.

“Tsk. I knew it.”

“Oyabun, that guy’s wife is quite pretty. If you take her to the mainland and sell her, you’ll make some money.”

“It was going to be like that anyway.”

When the story of the family came out of the gangsters’ mouths, Bok-soo-chang was startled and hung on to the leg of the one who seemed to be the leader and begged.

“I’ll save you some money somehow, but I’ll save your family…”

“You’ve said that more than twenty times already!”

“100 million!”

But the man who appeared to be the leader simply kicked him coldly.

The repeated kicks from the wooden clogs, which looked quite hard at first glance, rolled around in the snow.

Nevertheless, he got up again and clung to the captain’s leg, pleading.

“Please don’t touch my family. You have families too, don’t you? I beg you…”

“Really? Then don’t touch your family.”

“Really?”

“Did you believe that?”

The brutal violence began again.

A group of thugs surrounded him and beat him mercilessly, lynching him as a group.

But people passing by on the street were busy pretending not to notice this sight.

“Hey, save me!”

“If you borrow someone else’s money, you have to pay it back on time!!!”

“Ugh!”

The gangsters didn’t seem to have any intention of accepting the money.

Today, he was beating him up as if he was going to kill the repeater.

“That won’t work.”

He flicked the cigarette he was smoking on the ground, then picked up a rock next to him and threw it with all his might.

-Ttaaak!

“Ouch!”

The rock sent a large child flying into dreamland, and as one of them fell, the gangsters’ eyes all turned to me.

“No matter how much Joseon is the world’s best in kimchi, is it okay for radish pickles to be walking around in broad daylight, reeking of kimchi?”

“What are you?”

“Me? Who am I?”

He threw the stone he was holding in his hand.

This time, he aimed for the leader of the gangsters.

But he must have been a guy who did some work in this field, because he took it lightly.

“He asked who I was.”

“Who am I? You don’t need to know.”

As soon as I finished speaking, a fist flew.

They swung their fists and kicked me indiscriminately, hoping that I would hit them.

Naturally, their hands and feet didn’t even touch my collar.

“100 million!”

“Ouch!”

“Huh?!”

Extend your fist and then pull it back again.

The three who were hit in the chin fell to the snow and never got up again.

“Oh, Oyabun.”

Although they had the advantage in numbers, everyone panicked and retreated when three of them fell in an instant.

“······This kid.”

The captain pulled out the sword at his waist, as if he was furious at his subordinates falling.

I don’t know if it was well maintained or if it had never been used, but the black one was very shiny.

“How dare you touch my brothers…?”

“A knife.”

Even for me, I was a bit reluctant to fight an opponent with a sword with my bare hands.

It wasn’t a question of whether or not one could do it; it was the realm of Ho-oh.

As I stood there awkwardly, the leader of the gang laughed at me with a bitter smile.

“Huh, if you think I’ll let you know now…”

“wait for a sec…”

I quickly checked my pocket.

The gun I received from the police officer I saw last night was still there.

“Oh, it was here.”

He pulled out his pistol and aimed it at the gang leader.

“What did you say just now?”

“······.”

“huh?”

Every time I moved the gun, the gangsters’ bodies moved around as well.

The gangster leader stood still, determined to protect Gao, but he couldn’t help but move his eyes.

“Hey, taking out a gun is cowardly.”

“Is it okay to draw a sword?”

“······The pride of the black samurai.”

“A pistol is also an agent’s pride.”

The period of silence continued.

Even though they didn’t say anything to each other, it was obvious which side had the advantage.

“I’m going to count to three now, so I want you to disappear from my sight within that count.”

“······.”

“If possible, I wish I could just disappear from Mojiri’s life forever.”

The gangster leader glanced at the groaning Repeater lying on the floor, then cautiously opened his mouth.

“······That guy is our customer.”

“It seems like the trend these days is for business owners to beat up customers instead of treating them politely.”

“That guy borrowed over four thousand won! Are you telling me to just ignore that?”

“Four thousand won?”

I couldn’t tell exactly how much it was.

But, seeing the gangster leader running wild with the blood running down his neck, it didn’t seem like a small amount of money.

“That’s quite a lot.”

“I have to get the money from that guy somehow.”

“Really? Then there’s nothing I can do.”

“!!!”

As my hand moved, the gangsters all shut their eyes tightly and flinched.

I threw a bundle of dollar bills at the feet of those idiots.

“······?”

The gangster leader carefully picked up the wad of dollars that had fallen at his feet, then looked at me and the money in turn with a trembling expression.

“Is that enough?”

“Uh, um…”

“Isn’t that enough?”

The gangster leader tried his best to act as if nothing had happened, but the corners of his mouth were twitching.

Judging from the reaction, it seemed more than enough.

“There will be no more debts from now on.”

“Ahem…”

“Be careful on your way home at night, and get out of my way.”

“······.”

The gang of thugs quietly took care of my comrade and disappeared.

Although no one said anything, judging by the smiles on their faces, they seemed happy to have handled so much money.

“Ugh…”

As they disappeared, the voice of the repeater groaning from the floor could be heard.

“So when you borrow money, you should only borrow as much as you can pay back.”

“Kuk ku ku… Did I know that this would happen to me…”

“If you don’t know, what can you do if you are right?”

I helped him up.

“I will take you home.”

“Oh, thank you…”

The repeater was quite thin, like the beggar I saw last time, as if he had starved for several days.

Thanks to that, my body felt light and it didn’t take much effort to support him, but my doubts about him grew even deeper.

‘No matter how urgent it is, wouldn’t it cause problems if we put a guy like this in charge of the company?’

But there was no one suitable to replace him and no time to fill his place.

The Manchurian independence army was weakening by the minute due to the Jayu City Massacre that occurred in the Maritime Province and the increasingly expanding reach of the Japanese into Manchuria.

So now was the time to lay the foundation as quickly as possible rather than worry about regrets.

******

The house of the repeater was very shabby for a house once owned by the man called the Midu King.

The thatched-roof gate of the house looked like it could collapse at any moment, and the reeds that had been erected as a fence swayed in the wind.

“Hey, honey… I’m home.”

“I was at the rice paddy again… Gyaak?!”

His family was also at home, and a woman who appeared to be Bok-soo-chang’s wife ran towards me screaming when she saw her husband in such a mess.

“What, what is going on?!”

The woman’s face bore the marks of the harsh winds of time, but her eyes were still clear and her white skin seemed to glow.

‘No wonder the gangsters are jealous.’

Looking at his wife’s face, I began to believe a little that the king of the repeaters was Midu.

“Why did my husband’s face become like this?!”

“I met some loan sharks on my way here.”

“Are you a debt collector…?”

“I heard that your husband borrowed a lot of money from loan sharks.”

“······.”

Sparks flew from the wife’s eyes, who had been worried about her husband, and her face became filled with hatred.

This wasn’t a case of teasing or being lovey-dovey, it seemed like he really wanted to kill the other person.

“I’m sorry, ma’am…”

“······You were having a vain dream again.”

“······.”

Even though it was already cold, I was stuck in the middle of a cold couple’s relationship during the cold winter, and my body started to shiver as if a bone-chilling cold was coming towards me.

I cleared my throat and tried to mediate between the two, trying to break the awkward atmosphere.

“Ahem… I paid your debt for you.”

“You paid it back instead…?”

“yes.”

“You paid it for me?!”

The repeating couple looked at me with surprised eyes.

If someone I just met today paid my debt for me, I think I would have reacted this way.

“No, you… No, why, teacher…?”

The repeater asked me, even stammering.

“It’s nothing special, I just have a suggestion for you, so don’t worry.”

“proposal?”

“yes.”

“What is that?”

I said to the messy repeat window with a smile.

“Let’s do just one thing together.”

“What do you want to do?”

“Surely it’s not Midu?”

“Oh, I have no interest in speculation that sucks the blood of the Joseon people.”

It was similar to sucking blood, but I was thinking of sucking the blood of others, not Koreans.

“Then what do you want to do with me?”

“I guess you’re not in a position to discuss that right now?”

“······?”

“You owe me four thousand won.”

“???…!!!”

Looking at the reaction, I started to feel like I wasted money.

My friend sent it to me right away.