NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 18



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The Trumpet of Jericho – 3

Late in the afternoon, a few days after the Jongno Police Station explosion.

A quiet Japanese-style mansion.

Inside, a large tatami room was filled with a large crowd of people, all dressed in black and wearing overcoats with unique patterns.

The figure who appeared to be the leader of this group, which seemed to be some kind of gathering, was sitting at the head of the table and looking around at the people with a serious face.

“It is said that the Jongno Police Station collapsed and many people were killed or injured due to the terrorist attack committed by the Bulyeongseonin.”

“Isn’t that the news you heard last time?”

“He is a different person from the person named Kim Sang-ok.”

“Another person?”

The old man, who appeared to be the leader, sighed deeply.

“Kawaguchi, the head of the Gyeongseong branch, was hit.”

“If it’s Kawaguchi Ramen···”

“Aren’t you the guy in charge of raising funds for the Black Dragon Society?”

The conference room was in an uproar at the news of Kawaguchi’s death.

As the surroundings became noisy, the leader of the Black Dragon Society hit the table twice with the fan he was holding.

-Knock knock.

“Quiet.”

“······.”

The people were silent at the old man’s words.

And I looked at him and waited for the order.

“It is sad that Kawaguchi died, but it is not something we can just mourn.”

The old man pointed to one person among the people lined up in front of him with the fan in his hand.

“Murayama.”

“Yes, sir!”

“I’ll send Katsuyama to you, so go to Gyeongseong. Go and find the Bulyeongseonin who killed Kawaguchi…”

The old man slit his throat with a fan.

“To kill.”

“Are you moving in conjunction with the Governor-General?”

“Yes, the Chief of Police of the Government-General is a comrade who shares our views, so he will actively cooperate with you.”

At the old man’s command, Murayama bowed so low that his head almost touched the floor and answered in a loud voice.

“I will carry out your order without making a single mistake.”

******

As morning came, people began to gather one by one at Jongno Police Station.

The magnificent building of Jongno Police Station has now disappeared into history, and in its place only the rubble of the collapsed building and police officers groaning in pain remain.

“What is going on?”

“Well, I don’t know. I heard that a bomb exploded at Jongno Police Station last night, killing the chief and injuring several police officers.”

“really?”

“Really.”

“Wow… I never thought Jongno Police Station would collapse… It’s something I’ll only see if I live long enough.”

“That is what I mean.”

If it had been the usual police, they would have used violence to disperse the Koreans who had gathered around and were making a fuss, but now they seemed to have neither the strength nor the will to do so.

Everyone was either sitting in the rubble, smoking cigarettes as if the world had collapsed, or busy pushing through the rubble to rescue their comrades who were trapped there.

“Matsuda! Matsuda! If you’re alive, answer me!”

“Ugh··· Ugh···.”

“Kiyoshi, wake up! I’ll take you to the doctor right away.”

“Stretcher! Bring me a stretcher!”

“I need a bandage here! Bring me a bandage!”

Some people ran around frantically looking for survivors, while others were carried out on stretchers.

In this chaotic scene, a series of cars appeared and pushed their way through the crowd.

“What is that?”

“Uh… I don’t know. But since there are so many cars, I wonder if they are from a higher-up position.”

“See···.”

“Should I stop it?”

“What are you blocking?! Open the way.”

Inspector Miwa, who was leading the scene at Jongno Police Station in place of the upper-level officers who were dead or injured and unable to command, simply wiped away the dirt with a handkerchief.

Meanwhile, the car stopped, the car door opened, and the person inside got out.

“Ahem.”

“Your Excellency, Governor!”

The one who got out of the car was Governor-General Makoto Saito, the head of the Government-General of Korea.

As soon as he got out of the car, he saw the collapsed Jongno Police Station building and let out a deep sigh.

“Whew… It’s more serious than I heard.”

“Your Majesty… My name is Inspector Miwa Wasaburo from Jongno Police Station.”

“Nice to meet you, Inspector Miwa.”

“It is an honor to meet you.”

Governor-General Saito, who had even shaken hands with Inspector Miwa, looked back at the scene again and clicked his tongue in regret.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk. You just completely collapsed.”

“Last night, a traitor who infiltrated Jongno Police Station installed a bomb in the armory, and the explosives there caused a chain reaction of explosions all at once…”

“I am a former Navy man, but I was a soldier. I know that an explosion of this scale cannot be caused by a few bombs from a police station’s armory.”

“······.”

“What did you hide in the armory? Well, is the epicenter really the armory in the first place?”

“······.”

Miwa and Kyungbu were biting their lips.

“That is… In fact, a few days ago, with the help of informants, we completely destroyed a group of rebels called Uiyoldan who had infiltrated Gyeongseong.”

“I know that after receiving a report from the Chief of Police.”

“Yes, we captured them and placed the confiscated weapons and bombs in the evidence vault.”

“So? Are you saying that the bomb from the Bulyeongseon people blew up the entire police station?”

Inspector Miwa nodded quietly.

“······Really?”

“Yes, Your Majesty… According to my research, the Uiyoldan has hired a new bomb expert and has greatly improved the quality of their bombs in the past few years.”

“To what extent?”

Inspector Miwa stepped aside and showed us the collapsed Jongno Police Station.

“As you can see···.”

“oh my god···.”

Governor Saito took off his hat without realizing it and looked at the collapsed Jongno Police Station.

Inspector Miwa spoke carefully to Governor Saito, who was looking at the Jongno Police Station with an expression as if the world had fallen apart, in an attempt to reassure him.

“Of course, they didn’t produce this much power with just a few bombs. There were dozens of bombs confiscated from the Uiyoldan lying dormant in the evidence storage room, and there were various types of ammunition in the armory, so they all caused a chain reaction at once.”

“······.”

“And we are also tracking the traces of the evil spirit who committed this incident, so we will bring you good news soon.”

“······I hope so.”

Governor Saito looked around the scene for a few minutes, greeted the injured, and received several reports from Inspector Miwa.

Meanwhile, the police chief followed the governor-general around, careful not to step on his shadow.

“Your Majesty, what’s next on the agenda···.”

“Cancel.”

“······It’s Tokyo.”

“Uh, okay. Then there’s nothing I can do.”

Governor Saito, who had been looking around the scene for a while, got back into his vehicle.

“Chief of Police, I am very disappointed by what happened yesterday.”

“I apologize, Your Majesty.”

“You’re apologizing to the wrong person. Shouldn’t you be apologizing to the fallen police officers instead of me?”

“······.”

“I will arrange a meeting with you again as soon as I return from Tokyo.”

With those words, Governor Saito left the scene.

The police chief, who felt a fire under his feet, immediately kicked Inspector Mi and his shins with all his might.

“Ugh!”

As if that wasn’t enough to appease him, this time he slapped her in the face and yelled.

“How much is the annual budget for your high-level organization, and you can’t catch one of the evil spirits and create this mess?!”

“sorry.”

“This is something that will end with an apology!!!”

Now, the police chief, who had been hitting the police chief with his fist, kicked him far away and gasped for breath.

“Whew, whew… Before His Majesty returns to Gyeongseong, catch that evil spirit and have him sit in front of me. Got it?!”

“······Okay, I understand.”

“Eww! Tsk.”

The police chief caught hold of a passing rickshaw, got on it, and drove away.

Inspector Miwa glared at the police chief and spat out phlegm mixed with blood.

The other police officers who were busy cleaning up the scene also added their own comments upon seeing the police chief looking so stern.

“The rickshaw puller is strong too.”

“Okay, go far away, please.”

“Oh my···.”

******

At a time when Inspector Miwa was receiving all of Japan’s proud love.

I treated my wound with Kim Hu-dong’s help at the office.

“Ugh···.”

“Are you in a lot of pain?”

“It’s okay.”

“No, how did a man with all his might fall down the stairs?”

“I was going down to get some water when I heard an explosion.”

“Oh my god.”

I was in a terrible state because of the noisy Jongno Police Station incident last night.

He was thrown by the last explosion and his left arm and right leg were broken.

There were more than a few scratches and bruises here and there from trying to shake off the police officers who followed them.

‘Ugh. I thought the bomb wouldn’t have much power, but that was a mistake.’

The Uiyeoldan I remember was a group that failed more important uprisings because they couldn’t get the right bombs or was discovered in advance by spies within the group.

That’s why I unknowingly regarded them as amateurs, but my thoughts changed after seeing the bomb that destroyed Jongno Police Station yesterday.

‘There is a real bomb expert in the Uiyoldan.’

The power of the bomb made by Uiyoldan was extraordinary.

Although the gunpowder in the armory caused a chain reaction of explosions, the Jongno Police Station was split in two by a single explosion.

This is a completely different level of power from the grenade thrown by Mr. Kim Sang-ok last time, which only destroyed a small part of the wall and broke a window.

‘I need to get some rest and then go straight to Shanghai.’

The bomb’s power was sufficient.

If you use this well, blowing up the Government-General of Korea building is not a big deal.

The problem is···.

‘The key would be to detonate all those bombs at once and get out…’

Jongno Police Station is not a very large building, so I was able to do it by myself, but the Government-General of Korea building boasted a scale that was different from that of a police station.

Most bombs of that era had a delay fuse, meaning they would explode after a certain amount of time had passed, or they were triggered by some other means.

If it were modern times, the problem could have been solved by simply connecting an old-fashioned cell phone to explosives and making a call, but this was not a place where one could work so comfortably.

‘It’ll be hard to do it alone.’

Just as the saying goes that even a blank sheet of paper is better when held together, I couldn’t blow up the Government-General building alone.

In other words, the story is that help is needed.

‘Should I reach out to the Uiyoldan? Or to the Provisional Government?’

I thought about that too, but then shook my head.

‘They don’t fully trust me yet. And I can’t fully trust them either.’

The spirit of sacrifice of independence activists who devoted their lives to the independence movement is noble, but unfortunately, as always, there were spies in the groups they belonged to.

If we blindly join hands with them without even knowing exactly how many of these cockroach-like spies exist, there’s no telling what might happen.

If you can’t get help from others, there’s only one way.

‘Hmm… For now, should I raise a few kids that I can trust and entrust with work?’

It was difficult to do it alone, and I felt awkward getting help from others, so in the end I had no choice but to create an organization like Uiyoldan or the Korean Patriotic Corps.

“The disinfection is done.”

“Thank you again and again.”

“you’re welcome.”

She applied some medicine to my wound, bandaged it, and left the office.

I checked that the sound of her footsteps was getting farther and farther away, and then I took out the documents I had taken from the police station yesterday from the secret safe hidden behind the desk drawer.

“Black Dragon Society.”

After looking over the documents yesterday and today.

This was a document containing information about the internal financial operations of the Black Dragon Society.

This alone didn’t tell us exactly what kind of group they were, but judging by the considerable amount of money they were dealing with, it was clear that they had considerable influence within Japan.

‘If you look at the management of the funds… It seems like they call in unemployed ronin from all over Japan, make them do small tasks, and give them pocket money.’

The problem is that most of the people supporting this group are well-known both inside and outside Japan.

It was hard to understand why these celebrities would support people who looked like yakuza at best.

‘With the support of celebrities, he gathers ronin and treats them like servants…’

I just took a quick look, and the stench was already starting to build.

‘Black Dragon Society… I think we need to investigate this place too.’

One way or another, I have a lot of work to do.

I had to travel around the country to select and train employees to work under me, and stop by Shanghai to build new relationships there.

In the meantime, I had to investigate the Black Dragon Society… I felt like even two bodies wouldn’t be enough.

“If there’s one thing that’s fortunate….”

Beyond the office window, I could see Jongno Police Station with black smoke rising.

“First, I need to rest for a bit and recover.”

For the time being, I plan to stay low, rest comfortably, and research information about the Black Dragon Society.

“Ugh···.”

I dragged my uncomfortable body down to the basement.

Kim Hu-dong had been out of work for a long time, so he had nothing to worry about.

“You’re a little late.”

“Ugh… I was tending to my wounds so it’s too late.”

In the dark basement, where there was only one small light because the electricity hadn’t been properly brought in yet, Chunsik was waiting for me while reading the newspaper.

Next to Chunsik, there was a person tied up with a sack over his face.

“The tail didn’t stick, did it?”

“Yes, who cares about rickshaw pullers?”

“Well done. Thanks to you, I was able to save myself some trouble.”