NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 113



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Kyung Sung Scandal (2)

Yongsan Korean Garrison Forces (hereinafter referred to as the Korean Army) Command.

Private First Class Yasushi ran until his feet were sweaty again today in order to see a little bit of his twisted military life.

Today was warehouse cleanup day, but I was called in for not collecting the senior’s laundry on time and was given a military drill behind the ammunition depot, so I was a little late.

Considering the temperament of his supply officer, Major Tsugimoto, it seemed better to just steal his gun and desert, rather than running around like crazy, but Private First Class Yasushi ran until his feet were sweaty.

Private Yasushi, who had just received the overflowing love of his seniors and had been instilled with military discipline, arrived at the supply warehouse, clutching his aching thigh, but Major Tsugimoto was nowhere to be found.

“Your Majesty?”

Major Tsugimoto, who had never missed a single appointment, was nowhere to be seen.

There are two possible cases to consider here.

It could be that Lieutenant Tsugimoto was late for some reason, or he had completely forgotten to organize the warehouse today.

‘Lieutenant Tsugimoto?’

However, Private First Class Yasushi knew that Major Tsugimoto was never a person who would break or forget a promise.

He was the kind of person who would make appointments no matter what happened… no, he would calculate everything that would happen.

To begin with, Lieutenant Commander Tsugimoto was known within the Joseon Command for being a man of sharp promises.

Is that person late?

That was nonsense.

So what makes sense?

‘It seems like the Lieutenant came first and then left… … .’

This makes sense.

And if this is true, it also means that our Private Yasushi’s military life was more tangled than a Gordian knot.

‘X happened… … .’

Private Yasushi, who intuitively felt that his military life had become terribly messed up, seriously considered leaving this world.

But I stopped because I thought that if I continued like that, Major Tsugimoto would follow me to the afterlife and torment me.

When Lieutenant Tsugimoto returned later, I had to at least clean up the warehouse to avoid getting scolded.

“Whew… … .”

The thought of organizing the warehouse by myself made me feel dizzy, but what could I do when it was too late?

As soon as Private Yasushi opened the warehouse door with determination, a stranger he had never seen before was lying inside.

“huh?”

A childish scream escaped Private Yasushi’s mouth at the sudden appearance of an outsider.

* * *

And a little later.

Team Leader Miwa, who had arrived at the scene of the incident, nodded her head alone after checking the condition of the body lying on the floor.

‘This is the work of a ghost.’

A pistol shot from close range went clean through his forehead and came out clean through the back of his head.

Of course, there is no evidence.

There wasn’t much blood splattered at the scene, and no gun was found as a murder weapon.

‘It would be easy to get a gun to use as a weapon in the military, and it would be easy to hide it.’

Guns were ubiquitous in the military camp, and it was not hard to hear gunshots.

The supply warehouse where Captain Miwa was now was located was located in a very remote area within the headquarters, and its walls were made of thick concrete, so it was highly likely that the sentries on duty would not have been able to hear the sound.

Even if they had heard it, they might have just let it go, thinking it was during training.

‘It is clear that this is the work of the ghost of Gyeongseong.’

The culprit of this incident anticipated all of this and planned it this way.

That means there was a high possibility that the culprit of this incident was the ghost of Gyeongseong who had caused such a stir in Gyeongseong.

‘But why did you do it in a military base…? And why did you do it in a supply warehouse?’

The usual ghosts tend to commit crimes in places where they don’t leave much of a trace, such as busy streets or dark alleys, or in places where their victims are likely to be alone.

But this place didn’t seem like a place where traces would be easily left or where the target of a crime could be alone.

‘Who was the victim in the first place? It seems like a soldier, but it doesn’t seem like a Japanese soldier.’

At first glance, the victim appeared to be an ordinary person with no connection to the military, but judging by the calluses on his hands typical of soldiers and the scars accumulated over many years on his face and body, he was presumed to be a soldier.

But even so, his appearance seemed closer to that of a Korean than a Japanese.

‘Are you a Korean officer?’

Suspicious of this, he asked the soldiers around him if there was anyone who knew his identity, but they all answered that they did not know him.

‘It doesn’t seem like you’re hiding anything… … .’

Judging by the reactions of the soldiers and officers, they too seemed greatly perplexed by the sudden discovery of a corpse here.

‘Well… … That’s why I would have called the police.’

If something had happened to them or the victim had been connected to the military, the insular nature of the military would never have led them to call the police.

If we had called the police for no reason and this incident had leaked out, it would have damaged the military’s reputation.

“Who told you to call the police without permission?”

“I’m sorry, I was in a hurry so I stopped… … .”

“Tsk.”

It seemed that wasn’t the case either.

When Miwa turned around at the sound of a loud voice coming from behind, he saw an officer who looked very angry at first glance walking towards him.

“Hey! Stop the investigation! Stop it!”

“Who are you?”

“What? You don’t know me?!”

“This is the Chief of Staff.”

An unknown soldier next to Miwa hinted at the officer’s identity.

I guess he acts so arrogantly because he is a higher-up, but Miwa’s reaction was more like, “So what?”

“We are currently investigating, so please refrain from disturbing the scene and return.”

“I told you to stop the investigation!”

An officer of unknown identity barged in and started kicking out Miwa and other members of the special investigation headquarters from the warehouse.

“What happens in the military is handled by the military, so you guys go and chase after that ghost of Gyeongseong!”

“I’m chasing you right now.”

“Shut up! Get out of here! Hey! Get these bastards out!”

At the officer’s command, the soldiers also hesitated and began to capture Miwa, the squad leader, and the team members.

‘Hmm… … Are they trying to hide something? Or do they just not like the police coming and going from military bases?’

As Miwa was dragged out by the soldiers, she carefully examined the warehouse and the surrounding area, stuffing as much information into her head as she could.

‘A person died in a warehouse built in a rather remote location. That means that the Ghost of Gyeongseong has decided to use that warehouse as a crime scene, and in order to find out about the existence of this warehouse, you need to enter the military base.’

Even as she was dragged away by the soldiers, Miwa didn’t stop thinking.

Rather, I left the moving to others and focused all my energy on thinking, so I felt like my head was working better.

‘Even within the military base, it doesn’t seem like there are many people coming and going from this warehouse… … . Even that officer seemed to have come to the warehouse for the first time today… … .’

Superintendent Miwa Wasaburo, the head of the Special Investigation Headquarters, once served in the cavalry when he was young.

That’s why I prided myself on having a pretty good understanding of how the military works.

‘Among the soldiers, non-commissioned officers, and officers within the unit, only a very limited number of people visit the supply depot frequently. So, the number of people who know of the existence of the supply depot in this remote location and have the key to it is also limited.’

In Miwa’s head, the next subject of interrogation had already been decided.

‘In order for a ghost to operate in a warehouse, he would need an identity that would ensure that no one would suspect him of coming and going from the warehouse, and a key that would allow him to enter and exit the warehouse freely.’

The answer is already out there.

“So you were disguised as a soldier.”

Miwa and the squad leader, who had been dragged away by the soldiers, stood in their place.

Then the soldiers who were dragging him stopped in their tracks as if they had tripped over something.

No matter how much force they exerted, Miwa stood still and did not move an inch.

“I’ll walk on my own two feet, so let go.”

“Huh? Oh, yeah… … .”

The number of subjects to investigate has been greatly reduced.

A smile appeared on Miwa and the class president’s lips at the thought of getting one step closer to the ghost of Gyeongseong.

‘Haha… … After running on the road to success for so long, I guess these kinds of small mistakes happen.’

Already in his mind, the only thought was to capture the infamous ghost of Gyeongseong and increase his fame.

But this time things didn’t go as easily as he thought…

* * *

“The supply officer is dead?”

“okay.”

It is said that the supply officer who was supposed to be interrogated has died.

Miwa was just dumbfounded.

“What happened?”

“I don’t know about that, but do you remember when we got a call today saying there were dead bodies strewn about in the street?”

“ah!”

At the Chief of Police’s words, Miwa sighed as she recalled the dead soldier she had seen in the morning.

“Ah… … . Ahh… … .”

The person I thought was definitely the ghost of Gyeongseong was suddenly murdered by someone… … I had a feeling that things were going wrong from the start.

‘Was the ghost of Gyeongseong murdered?’

I thought about it that way, but then shook my head.

‘No… … No. That guy wouldn’t die in vain in a place like this… … Rather, there’s a possibility that he faked his own death and went into hiding.’

The characteristics of the corpse that Miwa and the captain remembered and the characteristics of the ghost in Gyeongseong were completely different.

‘The two are different in terms of physique. Gyeongseong’s ghost has a sturdy, bear-like body, but that guy is big but slender.’

But it wasn’t certain.

Thinking about it that way, Miwa and the class president became impatient.

Apparently more information was needed.

“… … I think further investigation is necessary.”

“Do whatever you want.”

“Thank you, Director.”

Miwa and the squad leader left the Governor-General’s Office and headed straight to the mortuary where the body was placed…

“The soldier’s body this morning? Those were recovered by people from the Yongsan military base.”

“What?! Why are you handing it over to them?!”

“No… … Because I’m a soldier… … ?”

“shit!”

This time again the military intervened.

Miwa and the class president were going crazy and jumping for joy.

‘The military keeps making mistakes! What on earth is the reason they are so obsessed with this incident?’

In fact, if you look closely, it wasn’t the military that was obsessed with the incident, but Miwa and the squad leader, but let’s put that minor issue aside for a moment.

‘The body found abandoned on the side of the road in the morning and the body found in the military warehouse… … Is there a connection between the two?’

Miwa’s head began to spin.

‘The military is hiding something related to the Gyeongseong ghost? Why are they hiding it? Is there a connection between the two?’

But that’s not likely to be the case.

No matter how sinister and unknowable the military personnel were, they were still not people who protected or helped the enemies of the state.

‘Then why do you keep trying to interfere in this matter?’

I couldn’t figure it out until then.

The information he had now was very limited.

‘Wow… … .’

Miwa and the class president calmly returned to the beginning and began to organize their thoughts little by little.

‘This morning, a soldier’s body was found on Jongno Street, and then another body was found in a warehouse at the Yongsan military base.’

Up to this point, there seemed to be no connection between the two.

‘However, the body found on Jongno Street appeared to have been dead for only a day, while the body found at the Yongsan military base appeared to have been dead for about a day.’

If both incidents were related to the Ghost of Gyeongseong, then it would mean that he did something in Yongsan first and then returned to Gyeongseong to do something again.

‘But the body found in Jongno was too intentionally damaged to be the work of the ghost of Gyeongseong… … .’

There were more than a few suspicious points about this incident.

At first glance, this incident seemed like a terrorist attack by the ghosts of Gyeongseong like the past incidents, but it didn’t seem like the deaths of those two would cause much trouble for the Japanese Empire.

That is to say, the two people are not very valuable people.

‘But why did the ghost of Gyeongseong kill those two?’

First, the identity of the soldier was confirmed to be Daisuke Tsugimoto, a supply officer, so now it was time to find out the identity of the victim who had died in the supply warehouse.

“Umm… … .”

But trying to identify him without the victim’s body was daunting.

Since the military wouldn’t show the bodies, Miwa and the squad leader had to draw a montage of the faces they remembered to identify the victims… … This was another problem.

“Phew… … . But still, work is work… … .”

Miwa felt ashamed of herself for thinking that she had taken a step closer to the ghost of Gyeongseong.

So I put it down halfway, wrote a report, and submitted it to the Chief of Police, but then unexpected testimony came out from an unexpected place.

“Huh? This is a spy we planted among the Fulongseon people in Manchuria.”

“Are you a spy?”

The chief of police recognized the victim after seeing the montage of the victim drawn by Miwa.

“Yeah, that… … . name was… Lee Jeong?”

“Even your name?!”

He knew more than he thought.

NIS Agent Tears the Japanese Empire Episode 114