NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 2



Only Krnovel

There are ghosts in Gyeongseong – 1

A cafe in Vladivostok, Russian Federation.

It’s already been three days since I’ve been sitting here, drinking tasteless coffee and waiting for them.

-Tiring.

[Bowwithratives are available this time, and if possible, you can come back to evidence.

It was an instruction from the overseas manager.

“There’s no news from the guy who said he’d come, and the people above are yelling at me to hurry up and get results… Oh my life~”

As I stretched for a moment, a shaky employee brought me a coffee pot and asked.

[Would you like some more coffee?]

“Just one more drink, please. If you’re going to make it stronger, add a few more shots.”

[I will do that for you.]

The staff was friendly, but the coffee wasn’t that great.

I was starting to feel dizzy after drinking several cups of coffee that tasted so bad it felt like it was washed-up rag water rather than coffee.

“They can’t even fight a war~ They can’t even make coffee~ Why are the Russians not good at anything?”

It was quite embarrassing to drink coffee that had a strange, bitter taste.

I felt like buying some soda from a nearby mart and just cleaning my mouth.

“Use it···.”

As I took a few sips of coffee with that expression on my face, a familiar vehicle came rolling in from afar.

He took out his cell phone, took a picture of the car, and reported it to his superiors.

– I’m entering the vehicle, can you check?

– Just wait a minute.

My mouth feels like it’s on fire as I watch that black van approaching from afar.

He gradually built up the tension and prepared to strike at any moment.

Of course, there was no way that the higher-ups would send me alone into this den of evil swarming with the Secret Service and the Russian mafia, but I felt relieved.

– Confirmation complete. It’s the security guards.

– Should I chase after you?

– Just check the time of entering and exiting the building…

The order was cut off in an ambiguous place.

It seemed like there was some problem there too.

– If you see the security guards getting out of the car, can you go inside and get their voice?

– Follow the voice… Are you telling me to go in?

– Yeah, go in and if you hear anything about supernotes (counterfeit money), follow them.

– Alone?

– If you call support now, it will take thirty minutes.

In thirty minutes, there was a high chance that the guards would have left.

If they pack up their stuff and leave, my hiding will have been in vain.

“Ha, shit… I’m so lucky.”

I was busy fiddling with my fingers.

– Enter.

– Take care.

– If I don’t hear from you in ten minutes, you’re dead, so please destroy the safe house and all related documents.

– Okay, let’s do it according to procedure.

He put some bills on the table and got up.

“Whew… Let’s finish this quickly.”

I watched the black van slowly and steadily drive into the building’s garage, and I followed it into the dark alley, carrying my bag.

******

“What about the stuff?”

“Money first.”

“You are very suspicious.”

“You little punk… Are you being too sly? If there’s no suspicion between the two, that’s stranger. So stop talking nonsense and open your bag first.”

I managed to sneak into the unorganized interior, which was littered with items like a garbage dump, and set up shop in the room next to where the transactions were taking place.

Now, all I had to do was quietly drill a hole in the wall and eavesdrop on the conversations in the next room… but things were going in an unexpected way.

“Use it…”

“Why? Is there a problem?”

“There is a problem.”

“What is that…”

– Bang!

A gunshot rang out from the next room.

“???”

Even before the hole was drilled, the room next door was noisy.

For now, I put the recording aside and put my ear against the wall to sharpen my senses and focus on the sounds coming from the room next door.

“What, what is this?”

“Can’t you tell just by looking? There was no such thing as medicine in the first place.”

– Bang!

Once again, gunshots rang out.

And then the surroundings became silent, and then voices were heard again.

“Get the money first.”

“yes.”

I could hear the sound of something being moved diligently in the next room.

I thought about rushing to the scene right away, but if I rushed to the scene wrongly, my life would be in danger.

‘I haven’t even gotten the recording yet…’

I had that thought, but soon shook my head.

In a situation like this, it was important to stay alive and spread the news, even if it meant recording.

“for a moment.”

Just then, a voice was heard again from the next room.

“Why are you like that, Comrade Leader?”

“hmm…”

There was a sound of footsteps next to me.

The sound got closer and closer, then suddenly stopped in front of the wall.

There was no sound from the other side, but I picked up a tool quietly without making a sound.

If anything, I was thinking of just chopping off his head.

“I guess it was my wish.”

Then the sound of footsteps grew distant again.

But I wasn’t relieved.

‘Fuck, I’m caught.’

I don’t know where they felt something strange in the first place, but if they felt something strange, they would have come here right away to investigate.

So I had to get out of here as quickly as possible.

‘Drill, listening device, bag.’

I had to leave as few traces as possible.

I left behind the things that didn’t look special and fit in with the room that was like a trash can, and quickly packed only the things that I really needed.

“Comrade Leader! I think I’ve got everything.”

“Okay, thank you for your hard work! Let’s get out now.”

“Yes, would it be okay if I took care of something in front of you for a bit before that?”

“Hurry up and come back.”

The sound of footsteps was dizzying.

That’s a bait to trick me.

The truth is…

‘here!’

I just kicked the door open.

The heavy wooden door fell forward as the hinges, which were already flimsy, broke.

“Ugh!”

It was a winner.

The security agent standing outside the door was crushed by the fallen door and fell to the floor.

What’s more, this guy was holding a briefcase I had never seen before, and it seemed to contain items related to the Supernote that had been stolen earlier.

“Catch that bastard!”

“Catch him!”

I packed my bag and ran.

Gunshots were heard from behind, but at this distance it was difficult to hit them even if I bent down just a little.

I tried to shake off the guards by going around and around the winding alleys, but they stubbornly followed me, probably because their lives were at stake.

“What are you doing?”

“But if you shoot outside…”

“Use it…”

As I exited onto the street, the security guards stopped following me.

Even if they are wild and unruly guys, they wouldn’t follow me to a place with so many people…

– Squeak! Thud!

“Tsk… I’m done. Let’s go back.”

“How about that?”

“No problem, let’s go.”

In the distance, I could see the black van carrying the bodyguards moving away.

Judging by my body not moving properly and my consciousness fading away, it seemed like a drunken Russian had hit me while driving recklessly.

[Hey, hey! Hey, hey, Asian gentleman?! Are you okay?!]

“P357TM…”

[yes?]

“······P357TM.”

Even at the moment when consciousness began to fade, he recited the license plate number of the vehicle the security guards were riding in.

I hope that at least one person around me will remember.

If even one of them remembers what I said, it will be easier for the agents who come after me to chase after those guys.

“P······ 357······ T······ M······.”

Those were my last words.

******

Another quiet afternoon in Gyeongseong.

I was wasting time at a tea house with nothing to do.

“Use it…”

“Why? The soup doesn’t taste good at all.”

“The soup that Madam makes is always delicious.”

The thought of killing time by smoking a cigarette made me think of the old days.

“Oh my~ Thank you for even just saying that.”

Madame put down a simple bowl in front of me and naturally sat down next to me.

“Hey, come on, Madam. Do I look like the kind of person who would go around lying about things like this?”

“That’s not true… Phew… Why have all the flies been flying around for days now, not to mention the customers? I can’t even hear compliments.”

“That’s why I like it here, it’s quiet.”

“Are you adding fuel to the fire now?”

“There would be more people in a burning house than here.”

“See…”

I got hit with a plate for talking nonsense, but it didn’t hurt that much.

“You look so handsome, but why do you spend all day at a teahouse, begging for money?”

“What is a beggar?”

“It means that they act like beggars who shave their heads and wander the streets begging for money.”

“You’re not saying that because you saw monks going around asking for alms, are you?”

“What is a monk doing…? It’s no different from a beggar going around begging.”

At Madam’s words, he put out his cigarette and lifted his coffee cup.

“I’m not a monk, and I didn’t come here to beg for money from you, Madam. I’ve been responsible for all the sales of this store for the past few days, right?”

“Huh, then what do you do? You just keep throwing flies around every day.”

“But is it easy to open such a neat store on Gyeongseong-daero?”

“Even so, it’s no different for you and me to just mumble around aimlessly.”

That’s right.

I closed my eyes after being hit by a car, and when I opened them, I was in the middle of a neighborhood I had never seen before.

At first, I was so embarrassed when I was lying down on the street… I almost lost my voice if an old scholar passing by hadn’t woken me up.

“Ugh… I have to do something.”

“Are you trying to find a job?”

“It can’t stay like this forever.”

Luckily, when I opened my eyes again, I had the equipment I had with me until the last moment, as well as the things I had stolen from the guards in my bag.

If I hadn’t had this, I would have been shivering on the street.

‘My laptop was hit by a car and destroyed… but everything else is still fine.’

After falling into Gyeongseong, I looked around to see exactly what situation I was in.

That was also the reason why I spent several days sitting in this quiet, deserted teahouse, staring blankly at the newspaper or reading a book.

The conclusion reached is one.

“Taisho 12th year.”

“Why the sudden change in era name?”

“Um… I’m calculating the date.”

“It’s pointless.”

In the short term, it is 4256 years old, and in the Western calendar… it is 1923.

These newspapers all write dates in Japanese era names or short era names, so it’s hard to know the correct date.

When I went to exchange the money that the security guards had embezzled, if I hadn’t glanced at the date, I would have been confused as to what year it was.

“hmm…”

Let’s gather this evidence.

I guess I’ve fallen into the past.

If my colleagues had heard this, they would have said that I was reading another strange novel, but that is the reality.

“What should I do now…”

The real problem wasn’t that I fell into the past.

What could I do here right now?

There was no shortage of funds, as the North Korean bastards had created a supernote through their own hard work, and they had also set up a base in a secluded mansion on the outskirts of Gyeongseong.

In addition, this is the time when the Japanese are throwing off the restraints that were holding them back and running wild, and in the North, the original communists are beating up the Russians who can’t even fight a war and trying to seize Russian hegemony.

In a few years, the dark clouds of the Great Depression will gather in the United States… and the world will be engulfed in the madness of fascism and the red wave of socialism.

What can an individual or a country do in the midst of these swirling waves?

I was thinking about that now.

“Why are you sitting around worrying so much when you’re just doing what you’re good at?”

“hmm!”

It was indeed a wise answer.

“Madam, what can I do well?”

“Why are you asking me that? You should know better than that.”

“That’s true.”

What I’m good at.

What is that?

The answer was surprisingly simple.

“bomb.”

“Is it a bomb?”

“huh.”

“Would you like to drink?”

“I need a drink too.”

“?”

In the distance, I could see the Government-General of Korea standing tall on the good hill of Gyeongseong.

It was a building that didn’t exist when I lived there.

“Should we get that out of the way first?”