NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 143



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The Hunter and the Prey (2)

A dark room with not a single ray of light coming in.

In the middle of the room was Chun-sik, tied to a chair, with his lips and other parts of his face bruised from being beaten so badly.

He had been taken to an unknown place for several days and was undergoing intensive interrogation.

‘Ouch… … . Ouch. Oh my, it’s a sack.’

Chunshik lifted his swollen eyelids with difficulty and looked around.

But all he could see was darkness, as dark as his own future.

‘Where the hell am I?’

In the pitch-black darkness where he couldn’t see even an inch ahead, Chun-sik’s breathing became ragged.

“Ugh.”

Chunsik grimaced at the slight pain he felt as his chest heaved with each breath.

‘Ugh… … How much did you beat me up?’

In the pitch-black darkness, before Chun-sik loses consciousness.

I recalled my last memory.

* * *

In front of Chunsik stood Miwa Wasaburo, the head of the special investigation team of the police department, who is said to make even crying children in Gyeongseong smile these days.

That’s also the opposite.

If the world wasn’t turned upside down, then it must be Chunsik’s body that was turned upside down.

Chunsik felt blood rushing to his head and looked up.

Then, just like back then, when I was born into this world from my mother’s womb without a single scrap of cloth, I saw a naked body tied to a rope hanging from the ceiling.

“You seem to be coming to your senses.”

“Hey, where is this place?”

“Where do you think it will be?”

“… … .”

Although it was a situation that was not funny at all, Miwa had a big smile on her face.

At that sight, Chun-sik’s liver became as small as a soybean and his body began to tremble involuntarily.

“Do you know the ghost of Gyeongseong?”

Miwa immediately asked Chunshik if he knew about the ghost of Gyeongseong.

Then Chunshik shook his head, flinching.

“No, I don’t know.”

“Really? Let’s soak it.”

The police officers next to Miwa lowered the rope.

Then, Chunsik felt dampness on his head, and soon his face was submerged in the water bucket, making it difficult for him to breathe.

“Ugh! Ugh!”

As the water surged in through his nose and mouth while he was suffocating, Chun-sik tried to escape from the water tank by twisting his whole body, but the police officers watching him would not leave him alone.

“Catch it.”

“yep.”

The police officers who were next to Miwa caught Kim Chun-sik as he was writhing and causing a ruckus like a loach jumping out of water.

And Miwa asks Chunshik, who is writhing in pain.

“Do you know the ghost of Gyeongseong?”

“Eww!”

“How many seconds have passed?”

“It’s been about 40 seconds now.”

“That’s perfect. Put it up!”

At Miwa’s command, the subordinate police officers quickly pulled the rope and pulled Chunshik up.

“Poohak! Choke choke choke… … .”

“Kim Chun-sik. No, should I call you Jeon Woo-jin?”

“Tsk tsk… … . Later… … .”

“Jeon Woo-jin.”

Chunshik kept his mouth shut and did not answer.

“The Korean people are all acting with only the slightest confidence that will be quickly broken.”

“… … .”

“I just received instructions from the Chief of Police today that I can remove a body from here.”

“… … .”

“Hey Jeon Woojin, let’s take it easy and not tire each other out, okay?”

“… … .”

“Oh my~ Those Joseon guys.”

Miwa shook her head.

Then he took a deep breath and gave the order.

“Soak it again.”

After that, Miwa’s intense interrogation continued.

At first, he started with water, but soon he started using his hands and feet, and now he even brought out a whip and a club, and he beat Chunsik like a dog on a hot day.

“Tell me! Where is the ghost of Gyeongseong!”

“Ugh! Ugh!”

“Speak! Tell me to do so with your open mouth!”

“Ugh!”

Every time I was hit with Miwa’s club, it felt like my flesh was being crushed and my bones were breaking.

Chun-sik, who was hit by this, was in so much pain that he lost consciousness several times, but he still never opened his mouth.

“Whew… … Whoosh… … Hiya… … They say that Joseon bastards are more poisonous than a venomous snake that just woke up from hibernation in the middle of winter, and that’s exactly right. Whoosh… … .”

“Hehehe… … .”

“Are you laughing?”

“Are you that curious?”

When Chun-sik, who had been beaten for a long time, opened his mouth to laugh as if he had lost his mind, Mi-wa, the class president, threw down the bloody club she was holding in her hand and crouched down in front of Chun-sik.

Then, he looked into Chunshik’s eyes and asked him.

“Do you feel like talking now?”

“Are you curious as to who the Ghost of Gyeongseong is?”

“say.”

“I’m going.”

“… … ?”

“I am the ghost of Gyeongseong.”

At Chunshik’s words, Miwa stood up from her seat without realizing it and took a couple of steps back.

The same was true for the other police officers who were with him.

It was clear that Chunshik was tied up, but the police officers in the interrogation room were afraid of him and stepped back.

A heavy silence fell over the interrogation room.

Let’s do that for a few minutes.

“No, no. You are not a ghost.”

A curve formed at the corner of Miwa’s mouth, and then he came to his senses and walked towards Chunsik again.

Even though he said that, his hands were shaking slightly, as if he still wasn’t sure.

-puck!

“side!”

Miwa suddenly kicked Chunshik in the chest and then trampled him with her combat boots.

“You’re calling me the ghost of Gyeongseong? Bullshit! Nonsense!”

“Ugh! Ugh!”

“If you were the ghost of Gyeongseong, you wouldn’t have been caught here. Right? Right? If you were that guy, when we went to catch you, we would have been caught in return! Right?!”

“Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!”

Until just a little while ago, Miwa had been watching Chunshik’s condition and controlling it to some extent, but now her eyes had completely wandered and she was trying to kill Chunshik.

Then, fellow police officers also tried to stop Miwa.

“Stop it, class president. Hurry up!”

“Oh my… … . Class president, calm down… … .”

“Let go! Let go of it! Won’t you let go?! Let go!”

The police tried to grab Miwa, who was running wild, and drag her outside, but Chunsik saw Miwa being dragged out by her fellow police officers and used all his strength.

“Detective Nari! You won’t be able to hear anything from me just because you’re struggling so much! Even if you keep chasing after the teacher and shutting people’s mouths! In the end, our teacher will drive you out and bring independence to my country! Korea!”

Then, the police officer standing next to Chun-sik kicked his head and covered his mouth.

“shut up!”

“Kukuk… … .”

Chunsik, who had kept his mouth shut and said nothing a moment ago, now said what he wanted to say until the end, even with blood pouring out of his mouth.

“No matter how much you struggle, you cannot stop Korean independence! As long as the teacher is with us! Your country will collapse!”

“This guy is still like that!”

The police officers, impressed by Chun-sik’s tongue play, soon responded with punches and kicks, and Chun-sik did not stop talking even though he was beaten by numerous people.

“Thanks to you, I will die as a patriot of Korea! Thank you, you fools!”

That was Chunshik’s last memory.

* * *

“Ugh… … . No matter how harsh my words were, I ended up like this… … .”

Chunsik tried to move his body here and there as it screamed in pain, but it only made the pain worse.

“Oh my… I’m starting to get hungry, but they don’t serve food here?”

He seemed very relaxed, considering that he had been brought to the police station, which is known to make sane people out of people.

It can’t be helped.

‘This teacher must have heard that I was taken to the police station, so he will come to rescue me soon.’

This is because Chunshik believed that the ghost of Gyeongseong, where the Japanese police were trembling, the Governor-General’s Office was screaming, and the Japanese military was pleading, would soon save him.

That is why Chun-sik never opened his mouth no matter how severe the torture was, and he held on stubbornly.

Pain that has no end in sight can break a person’s spirit, but pain that is certain to end someday actually makes the spirit stronger.

There’s one more there.

‘I don’t know anything about this teacher in the first place, so I wonder what he plans to do by dragging me here.’

The information about the ghosts in Gyeongseong that Chunshik remembered at the time was inferior to the information that the police department had.

In the beginning, Chunshik worked with the Gyeongseong ghost for a short while and helped him out occasionally.

When asked to tell that person the location of Gyeongseong’s ghost, Chunshik was at a loss as to what to say.

‘If you ask me something I know, I’ll answer! If you ask me something I don’t know, how can I answer?’

Even though he didn’t know anything, the other person thought that Chun-sik wasn’t answering so he beat him up without thinking, and Chun-sik was also possessed by evil and got the police officers really annoyed.

‘By the way, I’m worried about Miss Kim who was dragged in with me… … .’

Chun-sik held his aching body and worried about Kim Hu-dong, who was dragged in with him.

Since he was always rolling around, he could easily endure something like this…

“ouch…….”

… … There are no numbers, but isn’t the torture that a frail woman receives more lethal than that of a man?

That’s why Chun-sik was worried about Kim Hu-dong, who had been dragged off somewhere.

‘Ms. Kim… … . Are you okay?’

Chun-sik thought of Kim Hu-dong in the dark room.

I was worried that she might be sitting alone in a dark room like me, and that maybe that crazy guy, Miwa, had beaten her up like he had.

‘It’s stuffy.’

But there was nothing Chunsik could do.

I just stare blankly into the pitch-black darkness.

There was no way of knowing if there was a wall beyond, or some hideous torture device, or if there was a door leading out.

But one thing was certain.

One day, this teacher will open a door somewhere and come inside, sweep away the darkness in the room, and save you.

So, Chunsik decided to endure until that day, and to endure again.

He trusted this teacher that much.

Chun-sik believed that Mr. Lee would come and save him and Ms. Kim at any moment.

I couldn’t do anything but believe.

* * *

“You seem like a bad guy.”

Miwa’s steps were heavy as she left the interrogation room.

My composure was broken by a few words from a guy named Chunsik or Samsik, and my pride was hurt, but I couldn’t get any information from him.

Who is Miwa’s class president?

He was a person who worked in Joseon since the days of the Residency-General, arresting and torturing numerous Joseon people to obtain confessions.

Thanks to this, Koreans gave him the nickname King Yeomra and were busy avoiding him whenever he appeared on Jongno Street.

But, that kind of Miwa is at a loss because she can’t do anything about a mere rookie like that.

It was truly a blow to my pride.

“Hey, shit!”

“Please calm down.”

“Are you feeling serious right now?”

“What can we do? If we keep them here, they will eventually open their mouths.”

When Miwa exploded with anger, Inspector Sasaki tried to calm him down with kind words.

“Inspector Sasaki, how was it over there?”

“What do you mean?”

“That woman. The woman who was brought along with Kim Chun-sik, I think? Kim Hu-dong.”

“Oh, Kim Hu-dong? That woman also kept her mouth shut.”

“is it so?”

Miwa grimaced at Inspector Sasaki’s words.

“Those damn bastards are really… … .”

“Who wouldn’t? Looking at this, it seems like the days when I was monitoring the group of traitors in Shanghai were better.”

“Shanghai’s housekeeper (a derogatory term for the provisional government)?”

“Yes, it was as easy as swimming on land, as you could just watch for a while and hire a couple of people to get inside information.”

“is it so?”

Sasaki continued to talk to Miwa, wasting time.

That way, Kim Hu-dong and Kim Chun-sik, who are in the interrogation room, can rest a little and recover their body and mind, and the longer he can delay like this, the easier it will be for Mr. Lee of the Sparrow Cafe to move.

‘Teacher, please move quickly… …!’

* * *

“We can’t leave Gyeongseong right now, so you want us to storm the police station and rescue those two? No.”

I shook my head.

“So, are you saying you’re going to abandon those two?”

“Anyway, they don’t have much information about me. If Miwa finds out, she’ll probably let me go later.”

“… … And then what if two people die?”

“It’s a shame.”

In a situation where they couldn’t leave Gyeongseong right away, it was risky to stir up trouble at the police station to save the two.

The information they had was nothing special, so just quietly passing by like this might be a way.

To put it in extreme terms, all it takes is losing two local helpers. But that doesn’t mean they’re important.

Even in modern times, when asked to choose between the life of a local helper and that of an agent, everyone would value the life of the agent more than that of the local helper.

That’s what I learned when I was learning this, and I actually did it a few times.

“So, Madam and Guncheol, both of you, don’t think about doing anything stupid and just stay quiet.”

“… … .”

Madame looked quite disappointed in me.

Of course, Madame would have thought rationally that what I said was right.

However, since people are not creatures who live solely on cool reason, Madame agreed with me rationally, but on the other hand, she was disappointed in me.

“Is this the justice you are talking about?”

“No, this is called efficiency.”

“… … .”

The atmosphere in the tea house has calmed down.

The gazes of those around me were harsh, and it seemed that even if I sat any longer, I would only be aware of others’ thoughts.

“Let’s stop here for today.”

Then he quietly left the store.

The cold winter wind pierced through the hem of my coat and prickled my skin.

“Oh, it’s cold.”

I went out the back door of the building and slowly entered the alley.

Then he put the last remaining cigarette in his mouth and lit it.

-Chiiik.

With a pleasant sound, a puff of white cigarette smoke rose into the sky, and I continued down the alley.

And when I came out onto the street across the alley, I saw someone I had never seen before.

“after…….”

Miwa must have expected that I would invade the police station and strengthened the defenses there.

That’s why I have no intention of going in there.

instead.

“Hehehe, we have arrived at the Oriental Development Company!”

“Thank you.”

As I got off the rickshaw, I saw the Oriental Development Company, which was created by the Japanese Empire in imitation of the British or Dutch East India Company in order to exploit Korea.

I’m going to cause some trouble here today.

It would be great if I had bombs, but I have to use them sparingly since the bombs I stole are almost depleted, so all I have now is a pistol.

But this was enough.

“Welcome. How may I help you?”

“Tell the person in charge to come out here.”

“yes?”

I spoke again, thrusting the pistol at the guide who greeted me with a smile at the entrance.

“Tell the person in charge to come out. Quickly.”

“… … .”

Today it is the Oriental Development Company, tomorrow it is Gyeongseong Bank.

And the next day, we’ll raid the Dongdaemun Police Station, and the day after that, we’ll raid the Gyeongseong Post Office.

“When you touch someone, you should watch carefully before touching them.”

NIS Agent Tears the Japanese Empire Episode 144