NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 17



Only Krnovel

The Trumpet of Jericho – 2

“Ugh… I’m so cold.”

At the request of this teacher, Jeon Woo-jin, or rather, Kim Chun-sik, who was watching Jongno Police Station, blew on his frozen hands and put a cigarette in his mouth.

“How long do you want me to monitor this?”

Chunsik shivered in the bitter winter wind, but he didn’t take his eyes off the Jongno Police Station.

As I was warming my frozen body a little with the hot smoke of a small cigarette, I heard a sound from far away.

“huh?”

As I was walking down Jongno Street, I heard a sound that I couldn’t tell if it was a person screaming or a deer’s cry.

“What is this?”

Chunshik turned his head in the direction of the sound.

Then the screams became a little louder.

‘scream!’

Chunshik turned his head and looked at Jongno Police Station.

The scream should have been heard from there.

But now it was coming from the other side.

This means only one thing.

‘So that’s why this teacher gave me this job.’

Chun-sik, who saw the Japanese police officers coming out of Jongno Police Station one by one, pulled down his hat.

Then he looked around, flicked his cigarette butt on the floor, and hurriedly left.

‘When the police get busy… I told them to put this in the trash cans around the police station.’

A small black box came out of Chun-sik’s pocket.

This was what the teacher gave me.

Chunsik hadn’t heard anything about what exactly this thing did, but he vaguely knew that he would be using it for a long time later.

There were many things I was curious about, but since it was this teacher’s job, I didn’t really question it.

This was because he was not the type of person to pay attention to things he could not understand.

“Huh… Everyone seems really angry.”

When Chunsik turned his head at the loud noise, he saw heavily armed police officers gathering one by one in the courtyard of the Jongno Police Station in the distance.

Everyone looked like they were going to rush out to where the screams were heard at any moment.

‘Should I even attract attention?’

Chunsik seriously thought about how he could help this teacher, but he didn’t think he could do anything in this situation.

If you set out to do something and get caught, that would be a nuisance in its own right.

‘······If I get dragged to the interrogation room again, it’ll be a big problem.’

Chunsik shook his head and walked into the dark alley.

‘I’m sorry, Mr. Lee!’

The moment when Chun-sik was about to disappear into the darkness of the alley with tears in his eyes.

A dagger that looked badly injured at first glance passed him by.

“Thank you for your hard work, Chunsik.”

“?!”

I turned around at the sound of a familiar voice, but he had already run far away to Jongno Police Station.

******

“Everyone, move quickly!”

“This time we have to catch him!”

The detectives were yelling and urging the constables.

The police officers who were preparing to leave work were all startled by the sudden call and ran to the armory.

“What is going on?”

“They say the ghost of Gyeongseong has appeared?”

“Hey, the ghost of Gyeongseong?!”

“Why him?”

“I don’t know! It looks like one of the checkpoints is being completely destroyed!”

“Ha, shit… I’m really lucky today!”

When everyone was busy preparing to go out.

Through the dark streets where the streetlights were not yet on, a police officer covered in blood ran towards Jongno Police Station.

“Ugh···.”

“What the heck? What kind of guy is this!”

“S, save me···.”

The police officer who had been running with difficulty collapsed right in front of Jongno Police Station, and the surprised police officers hurriedly helped him up.

“Kimura? Isn’t this guy Kimura?!”

“Hey! Come on, Kimura!”

The police officers who recognized their colleague hurriedly carried him into the police station building, roughly moved the desk, and laid him down there.

“Kimura, come to your senses!”

“Hey Kimura, what happened at the checkpoint? What was that scream?!”

“Ugh. Ugh···. Ghost···.”

“ghost?”

A voice came out of Kimura’s mouth as if he was being squeezed.

“Gyeongseong’s···. ghost···.”

“The ghost of Gyeongseong attacked the checkpoint?”

“Tsuneda···. Captain Tsuneda···. While fighting···. was seriously injured···.”

“Did Tsuneda get hurt?”

“Ugh···.”

“Kimura? Kimura! Come on, Kimura!”

Kimura writhe in pain and gasp for breath.

Anyone who saw it would think that he would lose his breath at any moment.

“First, take Kimura to the hospital, and the rest of you follow me. Hurry!”

“yes!”

Inspector Miwa was on a business trip, and other field officers had already been dispatched or were working on other matters within the base, so this dispatch was handled by Inspector Yoshino of the Higher Division.

“Ugh.”

“Kimura, wake up! Yoshida is going to call the doctor right now, so just hold on for a little longer!”

“Shouldn’t we start by giving her some painkillers?”

“Where is the painkiller here!”

“If we leave it like this, it might be dangerous···.”

“Damn it! First, find something useful!”

The two officers searched all over Jongno Police Station for anything useful for their fallen comrade.

And when they came back to Kimura again.

“······?”

“Kimura isn’t here···?”

Kimura is gone.

“What the heck is going on?!”

“You can ask me that···.”

“If you don’t know, that’s the end?! Shouldn’t you find it quickly!”

“Yes, yes!”

“There is no need to look for it.”

“?”

The two turned their heads at the sound of a voice coming from behind them and saw Kimura standing on both legs.

“Kimura?”

“Are you feeling okay?”

“As you can see.”

Kimura waved his arms in the air.

Then, with a cheerful sound, a long staff popped out from his fingertips.

“Kimura···?”

“Do you still think I’m Kimura?”

“?!”

As Kimura lowered his head slightly, a shadow fell over his face and his voice changed.

“If you keep your mouth shut like a good kid, I’ll let you return home safe and sound, Chief Sasaki.”

Sasaki realized that the person in front of him was not Kimura.

At the same time, I immediately saw through his identity.

“Hey, the ghost of Gyeongseong···!”

“Joe, captain···?”

Sasaki’s hand went to the pistol holster.

“I gave you a chance.”

******

I headed toward the police station armory, crossing the two officers lying on the floor, shivering.

Since I had been to Jongno Police Station before and checked its location in advance, I wasn’t confused or anything.

“Huh? What’s going on here, Kimu···.”

He knocked down the guard standing in front of the police station armory and quietly went inside.

Inside, all kinds of ammunition, guns, and explosives were neatly organized by type.

‘Let’s just take what we need right now.’

I couldn’t take care of all of this right away.

If I had been a little greedy, I could have done it, but now was not the time to take that risk.

‘You can get things like explosives as much as you want if you just go through the Shanghai route.’

Now I had to pack firearms and ammunition.

There have been more than a few times when I’ve been in trouble because I didn’t have a gun whenever I went out to the field.

So this time I really had to pack a little more.

“Isn’t there anything like a submachine gun?”

If only we had a machine gun, there would be no need to get so close to the police and risk getting so close.

All you had to do was roughly determine the distance, fire indiscriminately, and then run away.

But no matter how many times I looked through the armory, there were no automatic weapons, only rifles, pistols, and some explosives.

Since most of the weapons were old and had been retired from the front lines, there was nothing to take with them except for a few hand grenades.

“We robbed Jongno Police Station, but this is all we got?”

The result was not as good as I expected.

I brought a fairly large bag just in case, but it didn’t even fill half of the bag, let alone the whole thing.

Since most of it was ammunition, this raid on the police station was a failure.

‘Isn’t there anywhere I can get more weapons?’

At times like this, the best thing to do was to look back on my memories.

If I think back carefully, I can recall what I had missed.

Then, I remembered the words of Mr. Kim Sang-ok, who had left Gyeongseong a few days ago.

[Kim Tae-seok···. You can’t even imagine how many comrades have fallen at his hands.]

This meant that detective Kim Tae-seok, a member of the Jongro Police Department, had captured and tortured Kim Sang-ok’s comrades.

then···.

‘They must have confiscated the items that Uiyoldan and other independence activists had.’

By the way, Chun-sik, who had recently helped Mr. Kim Sang-ok exchange weapons and funds… no, Jeon Woo-jin, was caught at Jongro Seo.

That was a while ago, and since I’ve been poking around here and there in Gyeongseong, there’s a good chance that the weapon is in the evidence storage room or something.

As soon as the thought crossed my mind, I ran straight down to the evidence storage room.

The police officers guarding the evidence room were surprised to see me, but soon rolled around on the floor like the other officers.

“bingo.”

As I opened the heavy iron door of the evidence storage room, museum-like objects overflowed.

Weapons, valuables, or photos or documents containing someone’s memories poured out.

‘Found it!’

Unlike the police station armory, which was filled with old-fashioned weapons, this one was filled with German-made weapons that appeared to have been imported from China.

However, looking at the finish and workmanship, there were more items that seemed to have been copied and made in China than those made in Germany… but I was still able to find the submachine gun I had been looking for here.

“Hmm.”

Since it was a different thing from modern ones in many ways, I had to learn new operating and maintenance methods, but it was better than nothing.

So he packed a bag full of weapons, ammunition, and even explosives that he planned to use in the Uiyoldan.

He did not forget to install a few of them in the evidence storage and armory, and one of the rest in front of the Jongno Police Station chief’s office.

This won’t do anything to the police station, but it will at least destroy the armory here, distract the police, and buy me time to escape.

“Whew···.”

Now the preparations are complete.

Now it was time to let the police know exactly who I was.

-dripping.

“Come in.”

When I opened the door and went inside, the Jongno Bookstore manager was startled and asked me.

“Hey, are you okay? What’s going on outside….”

“Chief Kawaguchi.”

“How dare a single police officer use the chief’s name in vain…”

“I told you I would come find you, didn’t I?”

“What on earth are you talking about···.”

Suddenly Kawaguchi’s face turned pale.

“S, really···?”

“Kawaguchi, I hope you are happy in the next world.”

My gun was pointed at Kawaguchi, and at the same time, his face turned pale.

It was a little awkward because it was my first time using it, but I quickly got used to it once I put my finger on the trigger.

“Wait a minute… Wait a minute…!”

Kawaguchi hurriedly opened his desk drawer, waving his hands in the air.

Then he took out securities, checks, valuables, etc. from there and laid them out in a row on the desk.

This was the first time something like this had happened.

“This, this is everything to me···.”

“What do you want to do now?”

“If it’s money, I’ll give you everything I have… If it’s not enough, I’ll give you more even if I have to go into debt… Please…”

“Ha, this kid is out of his mind.”

As I watched Kawaguchi begging for his life for a mere few pennies, a hollow smile formed on my face.

“Do I look like a robber who moves for a small amount of money?”

“I didn’t mean it like that! This is just the price of my life!”

“The price of life?”

“Yes! I am not a person who should die in a place like this! My body is to be used for the Empire of Japan…”

“I see.”

It wasn’t worth listening to any more.

He pulled the bolt, loaded the gun, and aimed it at Kawaguchi.

“I have no personal feelings.”

“Wait a minute. Shut up!!!”

He aimed at Kawaguchi’s chest, who was trying to get up, and pulled the trigger.

As the window of the chief’s office shattered, Kawaguchi’s heavy body was thrown into the pitch-black darkness.

He pulled the magazine out of the gun, white smoke billowing out.

Then he took the money and valuables lying on the chief’s desk and searched other places as well.

“huh?”

As I was opening and closing the drawer of the director’s desk, I felt something was bothering me.

Just in case, I pulled out all the drawers and looked inside, and I saw several letters that the chief had kept hidden away.

“letter?”

I didn’t think someone as high as the Jongno Police Chief would hide a personal letter like this, so I felt like it contained some information I didn’t know about.

‘Pattern?’

The envelope of the letter had a certain design drawn on it, something I had never seen anywhere in Gyeongseong.

I glanced at the sender and saw that the words “Heukryonghoe” were written in regular font.

‘Black Dragon Society?’

It looked like some kind of group name, but it was the first time I heard it.

‘What does the Black Dragon Society do?’

All sorts of questions followed one after another, but unfortunately I didn’t have much time.

“What did you just say?!”

“A gunshot… wasn’t it?”

“Who shot a gun at the police station···?”

“Chief···?”

“Chief!”

Because they were making such a fuss, the police officers nearby gathered like moths to a flame.

I opened the door to the chief’s office slightly and saw the faces of those who had headed to the checkpoint a little while ago.

It seems that he was nearby and returned to the police station after hearing gunshots.

“Sasaki? Kojiro?! What the hell is going on!”

It seemed difficult to walk out through the entrance.

‘then.’

I turned my head and looked at the window through which Chief Kawaguchi had fallen a moment ago.

It was about 2-3 stories high, so if you fell from here, you wouldn’t die or get seriously injured.

The thoughts were short and the actions were quick.

I carried the bag in front of me and pulled the strap that adjusts the length tightly to make it fit my body.

“Whew···.”

I took a few deep breaths and jumped down.

“uh?!”

“The person is falling.”

At the same time, he pulled the switch on the detonator he was holding in his hand.

Then, a strong wind blew in and my body flew into the sky like a kite.

“sleep.”

It flew high into the sky and crashed straight into the ground.

******

“Ugh. Even the Chief of Police doesn’t know anything.”

Inspector Miwa, who was returning from an errand at the Governor-General’s Office, lowered her body as the ground suddenly shook.

“Is it an earthquake?!”

But the vibration was short-lived.

Instead, a tremendous noise engulfed Miwa.

-Quaqua light!

“Ugh!”

Miwa lowered her body, covering her face with her sleeves from the dust storm that swept over her.

After a while, the dust storm subsided, and the rumbling and noise stopped. Miwa raised her head and looked around.

“What is going on?”

Soon Miwa realized that her surroundings had become brighter.

Just a moment ago it was so dark that I couldn’t even see in front of my nose, but now it was bright enough to see the face of a police officer a little way off.

The scenery Miwa saw was a face that had turned pale and was looking somewhere.

Miwa’s gaze also turned towards the place where the scenery was looking.

Then I saw something explode in the distance.

It was hard to see what was exploding because it was blocked by the building, but something was definitely exploding.

‘That’s… the direction of Jongno Police Station…?’

Miwa’s face became increasingly hardened.

But the girl next to him liked it, with a big smile on her face.

“Mom! Let’s go see some fireworks.”

“It looks like Hanako’s favorite festival is being held?”

“Wow- I love festivals! Let’s go check it out!”

“It’s late at night.”

“Just take a look and go!”

“Hmm… Is that so? I have something to tell your father….”

“I’m excited!”

Fireworks blooming high in the sky in the distance beautifully decorated the night of Gyeongseong.