NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 147



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Hunter and the Prey (6)

Kim Chun-sik was locked in a dark room, losing consciousness and regaining consciousness repeatedly, as if he were a machine that had a malfunction and rebooting itself to fix the error.

After repeating this several times, the concept of date and time gradually disappeared from Chunsik’s mind.

He didn’t know how many days, or weeks, or even years had passed.

When I came to, I was in so much pain that my head felt like it was going to burst, and then I lost consciousness again. When I lost consciousness, I had a nightmare about being tortured by Miwa, and then I regained consciousness.

“100 million…….”

“You’re awake.”

Miwa Wasaburo.

He was a very persistent man.

There was no way to know why he was so obsessed with the ghosts of Gyeongseong, but this madman was obsessed with anything related to ghosts.

Even in the case of Chunshik right now, it is the same.

He couldn’t even remember how many times he had been interrogated, but all he had found out during that time was Chunshik’s real name and information about Kim Sangok, who had now moved to Shanghai, and the people around him.

By now, Miwa should have realized that Chunshik had no information about the ghost.

No, maybe he already noticed.

However, the fact that he continues to hold on to Chunshik means that he has other intentions.

At first, they were pressuring Chun-sik rather strongly and torturing him in various ways in order to extract any information, but now it seemed like they were torturing him not to obtain information but simply to inflict pain on him.

“Jeon Woo-jin.”

“……yes.”

“I ask again. Where is the Ghost of Gyeongseong now?”

“… … How many times have I told you that I don’t know that?”

“okay?”

-slam.

Chunsik’s cheek turned.

And then straight back to the other side.

“Hey Jeon Woojin, shouldn’t you protect the one eye you have left?”

“… … .”

“Now, let me ask you again. First, who is the Ghost of Gyeongseong? Second, what is his purpose? And finally, where is he now?”

None of this was something Chunshik knew about.

The only thing I knew was this teacher’s purpose, but even that was only a vague guess. I didn’t know what his ultimate goal was.

“No, I don’t know.”

“I guess so.”

Miwa seemed to have expected the answer.

He nodded slightly and brought the box he had put aside and placed it in front of Chunsik.

“It’s a box of nails.”

“… … !!!”

Chun-sik, who had been struggling with pain while being deprived of all the essential elements necessary for human life, was in a state of confusion, but his eyes lit up at the mention of the box of nails and his confused mind regained some of its composure.

A box of nails.

It was literally a torture device with nails stuck into a box. It was a simple object that a person would be put into and would be shaken and rolled around until the person inside was impaled on the nails and injured.

However, despite its simple appearance, its power was immense.

If you put a person in this box and shake the box from the outside, the person inside will roll around inside the box, and the sharp nails stuck inside the box will pierce or tear the person’s skin.

In addition, the nails were not in just one direction, but in all directions, so it was a horrifying torture device that would tear and cut your whole body like a rag if you rolled around.

Unlike other tortures, this one is something that completely destroys a person.

There was only one reason why Miwa took out this terrifying object just now.

“I’m going to put you in here.”

“Hee, huh huh… … !”

From the beginning, Miwa had no intention of leaving Chunshik alone.

‘After arresting Kim Chun-sik and Kim Hu-dong, the ghost of Gyeongseong, which had been quiet for a while, began to act again. That means that Kim Chun-sik was a fairly important source of information or comrade for the ghost of Gyeongseong.’

Seeing the ghost of Gyeongseong running wild, it was obvious that it would invade here sooner or later.

That is why Miwa also thoroughly prepared for it.

‘We concentrated the police force in the Government-General Building and Seodaemun Prison, and increased the number of weapons and guards several times over.’

The Seodaemun Prison where Miwa is now located could be said to be a fortress where all the police officers in Gyeongseong, excluding the Government-General, were gathered.

Of course, because of this forced arrangement, the security in Gyeongseong and its surrounding areas got worse day by day, but Miwa didn’t care at all.

In any case, if we could just catch the ghost of Gyeongseong, all these problems would be solved.

At least that’s what Miwa thought.

‘The Ghost of Gyeongseong… … He will definitely come here.’

Miwa’s eyes burned brightly.

“They say that a wise hunter lures his prey by laying out bait that the prey likes and waiting.”

“… … ?”

“For example… … . Something like the smell of blood.”

“!!!”

Miwa’s thick hand grabbed the back of Chunshik’s neck.

Chunsik struggled to escape from his grasp, but perhaps because his mental strength had been greatly weakened by the severe torture, his struggles were no more intense than those of a pet dog refusing to go into its kennel because it did not want to go to the animal hospital.

Miwa threw Chun-sik into the nail box with her vicious hands, and in the process, Chun-sik’s body was stabbed here and there by the nails, causing drops of blood to fall onto the interrogation room floor again.

“Whew… … . You guys are going to go in anyway, so why are you guys resisting like this?”

Miwa took out a handkerchief, lightly wiped the sweat from her forehead, and placed her feet on the nail box.

Then, like a child with a toy in front of him, he smiled brightly and asked Chunsik.

“They say that sheep like a sport called soccer, where they kick a ball with their feet.”

“… … .”

“At first, I didn’t know why that was fun, but seeing it with your own eyes and doing it yourself are completely different feelings.”

Chun-sik’s face was distorted with fear and horror at what was about to happen, while Mi-wa’s face, on the other hand, had a big smile on her lips as she thought about what was about to happen.

“Why are you so dead? Smile. There’s a saying in Korean that laughter brings good fortune.”

Miwa and the class president smiled as they looked at Chunshik’s face, distorted with fear.

He imagined the face of ‘that guy’ trembling with fear, overlaying the faces of countless ghosts he had seen before onto Chunshik’s face.

‘That guy too, someday… … .’

As Miwa was feeling happy while letting her imagination run wild, she heard a bustling, noisy sound coming from somewhere.

The source of the sound was not in the interrogation room, but outside it.

So, it was something that could be heard outside the security building of the Seodaemun Prison where Miwa was currently.

‘Is it time for the prisoners to go outside for activity?’

At first I thought so and tried to ignore it, but the sound was getting closer and closer.

At first it seemed to come from a little far away, but now it seemed to come from right upstairs.

‘What’s going on and why is it so noisy outside?’

There is a main gate outside the security and building.

From what I can hear now, it seems like there was some problem at the front gate. What happened at the front gate?

“!!!”

Miwa instinctively placed her hand on the gun holster on her waist and pressed herself against the wall.

Then he listened to the sounds coming from the hallway and called the security guard outside.

“Shimada! Are you there?”

“Yes, I am here. What is it?”

“… … It’s nothing.”

The guy on guard duty outside had the last name Kita, not Shimada.

There’s still a long way to go until the next shift.

If so, there is only one answer.

Miwa unlocked the gun holster with a slight, very slight force on her hand.

Then, in case any noise was heard outside, he moved as slowly as possible and drew his pistol.

‘It’s him. It’s him. It’s him. It’s him!’

Miwa aimed her gun at the chest of the guy on the other side of the door and shouted in a low voice.

“Shimada! Kim Chun-sik has fainted. We’ll end the interrogation here today, so come in quickly and take him away!”

“all right.”

As soon as the answer was heard, the door opened, and Miwa pulled the trigger and fired exactly three shots.

The bullet pierced the opponent’s chest, causing the man who was entering the interrogation room to collapse inside and die.

“Okay… … . Okay!”

Miwa approached the man in the pure white police uniform who had fallen to the floor with an excited heart and turned the body over to check his face.

“uh?”

It was a face he knew.

A little while ago, when Miwa entered the interrogation room, there was a guy named Kita guarding the entrance.

And in addition to the bullet hole that had appeared a moment ago, there was a heavy dagger stuck in his chest.

“Uh, uh uh… … ?”

My expectations were completely off the mark.

When Miwa realized it too late and raised her head, a pitch-black gun was pointed at her head.

“I’m sick of it now. Aren’t you?”

“… … .”

A black felt hat with a pleated crown and a brim that went halfway around the hat cast deep shadows against the hanging light bulbs.

A black coat that reached down to the knees completed the mysterious atmosphere.

A person who walks around Gyeongseong looking like this.

And there was only one person who felt this secretive yet dangerous aura.

“The Ghost of Gyeongseong… …!”

If I were a regular ghost, I would have said things like I hate nicknames like that and that Japanese people have a terrible naming sense, but today I didn’t do that.

instead.

“Where is Kim Chun-sik?”

I asked about Kim Chun-sik’s location.

“Kim Chun-sik?”

“Yes, Chunsik.”

Then, the corners of Miwa’s mouth twitched, and then slowly began to rise upward.

“Ahh… … . Chunsik… … . Is this what you mean?”

Miwa moved her body slightly and showed the box of nails behind her that Chunshik was trapped in.

The sight of Chunshik in the box of nails was so hard to bear that I couldn’t even open my eyes to look at him.

His body was emaciated, as if he had not been eating properly for a long time, and he had a bandage wrapped around one of his eyes that was soaked with red blood. There were also clear signs of torture all over his body.

“It’ll be hard to get out of here with a guy like that. So, wouldn’t it be better to shoot your comrade with your own hands to relieve his suffering?”

“… … .”

Miwa giggled beside her, wondering what was so good about it, and the other person looked at Chunshik without saying anything and asked.

“Who was in charge of interrogating Chunshik?”

“Huh? Can’t you tell just by looking? Of course this body… … .”

“I get it.”

The ghost put the gun away, then took something out of his bosom and roughly pushed Miwa away.

“Ugh!”

Miwa was thrown backwards by the sudden attack, and soon he felt a dull pain in his hand.

Miwa turned her head and looked at her hand, and saw that it contained the same dagger that had been stuck in Kita’s chest a moment ago.

I tried to pull it out by grabbing the handle with my other hand and applying force, but the dagger wouldn’t budge.

“her!”

Even though it was a situation where it seemed like death would come at any moment, the smile on Miwa’s face remained.

“Kuuuuu, you seem really angry~?”

“… … .”

Either way, the ghost paid no attention to Miwa and was busy getting Chunshik out of the nail box.

“Hey! You’re trying to escape from a prison swarming with police with a corpse that’s barely breathing? Do you think that’s possible?! There’s probably a line of police outside right now, waiting to catch you!”

Whether or not, the ghost silently took care of Chunshik.

He administered first aid with the bandages and simple medicine he had brought, then carried Chun-sik, who was too weak to walk properly, on his shoulders and tried to leave the interrogation room right away.

Miwa provoked him by hitting the back of his head with a ghostly gesture that didn’t even pay attention to her.

“Teacher! He’s already dead! So, if you’re going to struggle like that, shouldn’t you at least avenge your comrade who passed away?”

But the ghost left the interrogation room without answering.

“Hey! Hey! Hey you little shit! See me through! Finish me off quickly!”

Miwa called out to him with a hoarse voice, but all she could hear from the hallway was Miwa’s voice coming back from a distance.

“Ha, am I not worth dealing with?”

Miwa lay down in the interrogation room and looked up at the ceiling.

Miwa felt a strange sense of rivalry as she pursued the ghost of Gyeongseong, but it seemed like the other person wasn’t even aware of him.

“shit.”

Previously, even if I was subdued by a ghost, I would just let it go, thinking it was something that happened during the arrest process, but seeing him not kill me in a situation where he could have killed me and instead let me live, a deep sense of defeat welled up in my chest.

“Fuck… … . F**k! What the hell!”

Miwa tried to vent her anger by pounding the floor, but that didn’t make her feel any better.

Rather, he felt that his situation was miserable.

‘Everything in this world is fleeting.’

Miwa picked up the pistol lying on the floor and aimed it at her own head.

‘I think a police officer who bravely stood up to a ghost and died would be more attractive than a police officer who was defeated by a ghost again.’

Miwa thought so and put her finger on the trigger.

And at that moment, when I was about to close the last chapter of my life with a complicated heart.

A burning, acrid smell was wafting from somewhere.

‘Burn?’

Miwa slightly raised her head and looked around.

Then I saw something moving in the hallway.

Why is it that when you see a well-heated road in the middle of summer, it looks like azaleas are blooming?

And then the surroundings gradually became warmer, and soon I saw flames blooming in the hallway.

“Huh! I see. That’s what it was. That’s what it was!”

A smile blossomed on Miwa’s face, which had been filled with despair, along with hope.

“You were trying to give me a painful death? Hehehe, that’s right! If it were you, this is how you should have come out!”

Miwa burst into laughter as she watched the flames gradually approaching her.

“Hahahaha! That’s right! This is how it should be! Now it’s starting to get a little fun, teacher!”

That day.

The day when the Ghost of Gyeongseong attacked Seodaemun Prison while the police were gathered in the area due to a large fire at the Joseon Industrial Bank.

That day, the main gate of Seodaemun Prison was smashed by a truck and the security office building was completely burned down.

Someone’s hearty laughter spread throughout Seodaemun Prison.

NIS Agent Tears the Japanese Empire Episode 148