NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 266



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NIS Agent Tears the Japanese Empire Episode 266

The sun rises above the clouds? (6)

Anti-Japanese sentiment was rife throughout the United States.

At first it was just a small candle.

It was just a small candle that would be blown out in the huge wind of the upcoming upper and lower house elections.

But somehow, the anti-Japanese sentiment that swept across the United States did not seem to subside.

No, rather, it was burning more and more fiercely as time passed.

“Kick out the Japanese who are stealing our jobs!”

“Throw them out! Throw them out!”

“Let us drive out the Japanese Empire, which is encroaching upon American capital, and take back American capital!”

“Let’s get it back! Let’s get it back!”

In various cities in the United States, people occasionally gathered in small groups and protested, demanding that the Japanese be kicked out.

“Trash in the trash can! Asians in Asia!”

Some of them waved Confederate flags and made somewhat harsh remarks.

Of course, among those who took part in these protests, there were some who immediately beat up Asians they saw on the street, but most of the Asians they beat up were Chinese.

In the first place, the Japanese people did not go out because the embassy had issued an order to be careful about their actions for the time being.

So, to some extent, they were able to avoid unnecessary anger, but this was not the case for the Chinese or Koreans.

They had no country to protect them, or at least none.

“You damn Asian! Die! Die! Die!”

So did the young man who was surrounded and beaten by Americans in a back alley outside New York.

Although he was Korean, not Japanese, he was enduring the merciless violence of Americans who did not know how to distinguish such things.

Bruises and pain spread all over the young man’s body from the violent kicks and punches.

But the young man just accepts it silently.

He didn’t fight back or even run away, he just kept getting hit.

“… … .”

And there was an old gentleman who was watching this from a distance.

He was quite tall, had a sun-baked face, and the wrinkles around his eyes from constantly grimacing as if he was dissatisfied with something told the story of his past life.

“What are you looking at like that?”

“excuse me.”

“Hello? Oh, I see someone is right. Do you know him?”

“No, but I’m drawn to that person over there because he looks like he’s Korean.”

“So?”

The doctor looked at Mr. Lee, who followed him as his bodyguard, and asked him.

“How about helping that guy out?”

“You want me to help you? How specifically?”

“Oh, you’re nitpicking again. What good would it do if you just did it right away when I asked you to?”

“Haha! That’s not true, but what if I help you and something goes wrong?”

“what?”

The teacher laughed and said to the doctor.

“It happened in Gyeongseong too… … . I’m a bit awkward at controlling my strength.”

“You say I’m clumsy?”

“Yes, I’m not the type of person who goes around killing people indiscriminately.”

“No?”

The doctor looked the teacher up and down and shook his head.

“I don’t think so… … .”

“Oh, I’m not the kind of person who goes around killing people as I please.”

“Okay, help that young man out.”

“No, I’m telling you that if I come out, those good young Americans over there will die?”

“What? Are you really going to kill me?”

“I don’t intend to kill them, but if I do anything, one or two of them will probably never see the sun rise again.”

“… … .”

The doctor shook his head as if he was shocked by the sight of this teacher talking about killing people as if he was just coming from a local bar.

“You always do that. Do you enjoy killing people like that?”

“No. I’m not that kind of a loser to enjoy this kind of stuff. You’d have to be a crazy murderer to enjoy this kind of stuff.”

“Then, if possible, wouldn’t you save that Korean without harming any Americans?”

“Haha, that’s not like you, Doctor Lee, who previously refused to defend the Stevenson case.”

At this teacher’s words, Dr. Lee’s expression turned cold, and he turned to him and said.

“Are you trying to tell me that I’m a cold-blooded, pathetic guy who has turned his back on his country and is sucking up to the United States?”

“I didn’t say anything like that.”

The doctor turned his head sharply and walked briskly towards the Korean who was being beaten and spoke.

“If you don’t want to come out, just say no.”

“I didn’t even say that.”

“In the end, that’s what it means.”

The doctor rebuked the Americans who were beating up Koreans.

“You bastards! You torment innocent people. How can you call yourself the Lord’s children after doing this!!!”

“?”

The white youths who were beating up the Korean man stopped and looked back at the neatly dressed old gentleman approaching them.

Although he was of considerable size, the traces of time that could not be hidden were enough to make the young white men look down on the old gentleman.

“What is this old man?”

“Are you Japanese too?”

“You came here to get beaten up like a monkey because you were beaten by the same monkey?”

The young men surrounded the doctor and shouted harsh words at him, but he did not give in at all and rebuked them.

“First of all, I am not Japanese, I am Korean. And secondly, the guy lying there is not Japanese, he is Korean.”

“shipbuilding……?”

“What is that?”

“Oh, I’ve heard of it. That’s Japanese territory.”

At the young man’s words, a vein appeared between the doctor’s eyebrows and his face began to turn red.

“It is true that Joseon was forcibly annexed by Japan, but their rule was illegal… … .”

“What are you saying?”

“I don’t know.”

“Let’s get hit first!”

But if you knock on the head of those young men who make a sound like a ripe watermelon, all you get in return is a fist.

-chin.

Oh, of course I didn’t even touch it with my fist.

“Oh my… … .”

Because this teacher, who had followed the doctor as his escort, grabbed the young man’s hand.

“?”

The young man tried to pull his hand away, but the more he exerted force, the more his opponent exerted force in his grip, squeezing his hand violently.

“Eww!”

The young man’s posture naturally collapsed and he fell to his knees on the floor in agony as his hand was crushed.

After subduing that guy, the teacher looked back at the young men and asked.

“The person standing before you now is a diplomat from the government of the Republic of Korea.”

“Oh, a diplomat?”

“No, why is someone like that here… … ?”

The white youths stepped back in confusion at the word diplomat.

Then the young man who had been kneeling on the floor shouted at them and said:

“What are you all doing? Don’t run away like a coward!”

The young men who were about to run away stopped at the words of the man who seemed to be the leader, and then approached the teacher again.

“I knew this would happen.”

The young men picked up small pocket knives from their bosoms, empty bottles and metal pipes lying around, and stood in front of the teacher.

After seeing their appearance, the teacher sighed and sent Dr. Lee behind him.

“That’s why I always say that people die in everything I do.”

“That’s a bit much of a joke. But you’re not the kind of person who would abandon your own people.”

The teacher smiled at the doctor’s words.

“That’s true, too.”

Then he picked up the trash can lid next to him like a shield, swung it around a few times, and spoke to the doctor.

“It’ll be over soon, so please check if the guy who collapsed over there is okay.”

“Okay.”

As soon as the teacher finished speaking, he threw the trash can lid.

The trash can lid flew off quickly and hit a white young man in the face.

* * *

After a while.

The teacher walked down the alley, wiping the blood on his coat with a handkerchief, leaving behind white youths rolling around on the street with their bodies smashed in one or two places.

“Is it over already?”

“Yeah, whatever.”

“Did you kill him?”

“No. I just beat them up enough to make them ache for a few days.”

“Well done.”

The doctor looked around at the Korean who had been beaten up and was covered in wounds here and there, then turned to Mr. Lee, who was lighting a cigarette in his mouth.

“How do you feel when you see with your own eyes innocent people getting hurt and dying because of your actions?”

“It’s good to have something to talk about.”

“what?”

“If we create an article that differentiates between Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese in American society, our newspapers will sell well.”

“what?!”

Although the doctor’s face turned red and blue, the teacher paid no attention and continued talking.

“And this newspaper article will instill in Americans the perception that Koreans and Japanese are different.”

“… … .”

“In this situation, the second volume of [The Pacific War], which had been quiet for a long time, is being released to great acclaim.”

“… … .”

The doctor’s face hardened at the teacher’s words.

“There is blood flowing every time you walk.”

“Isn’t it about making the enemy bleed on the enemy’s land?”

“Enemy… …. So is the United States an enemy of Korea?”

In response to the doctor’s question, the teacher smiled as if asking why he was asking such a thing and lit a cigarette.

“You’re not my ally.”

“Huh… … . So everyone who isn’t an ally is an enemy?”

“It’s not like that. If I had to make a metaphor… … . It’s like a tool of some kind.”

“Tool? A tool?”

“Yes, it is a tool to make Joseon independent.”

The doctor shook his head and examined the condition of the collapsed young man again.

He had been beaten so badly that his skin was covered in bruises and his fingers were dangling as if they had been broken.

“I think we should take you to the hospital.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

The teacher threw the cigarette he was holding in his mouth on the ground and turned in the opposite direction from Dr. Lee, who was supporting the patient.

Then the doctor asked him,

“Are you not planning on coming?”

“Yes, something happened a little while ago.”

“Huh, right… … . I hate annoying things. Is that it?”

“Haha, that’s not it. Doctor, you’ve been seeing me all this time, and you still don’t know me?”

“I’ve been watching closely, so this is what it is.”

The doctor grumbled as he supported the young man and went to the hospital.

The teacher, who had been watching the scene with a smile, suddenly lost the smile on his face and turned his head to look at the deserted street.

People eating on the outdoor terrace or chatting over a cup of coffee, a boy selling newspapers on the street, and even people sitting on benches reading newspapers… … .

It looked no different from any other street.

However, it was very interesting that there were no women or children among them.

The newsboy had a jutted neck and dark beard for a boy, the people eating were half-eaten, and the person on the bench had been looking at the same page for minutes.

And the coffee drinker.

Those people just kept repeating the same story without even touching the coffee until it got cold.

“Hiya… Our Dr. Lee has also become a popular guy.”

The teacher who said that stretched his body slightly and pondered their identities.

‘If there is a person or group that can monitor Syngman Rhee… … . it would be the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Then they must be the monitors sent by Hoover.’

Hoover seemed to be suspicious of Syngman Rhee.

It was a truly unfortunate event for the doctor, but on the other hand, it was a happy event for the teacher.

The more Hoover stumbles, the wider his sphere of action will become.

‘But it will happen sooner or later.’

The fact that he had already started digging into this doctor’s background meant that he had some idea about me.

Well, I wasn’t too worried though.

‘If a problem arises, just disappear.’

The teacher smiled as he thought about it.

Then he walked up to a person sitting on a bench reading a newspaper and asked him.

“Excuse me, may I borrow a light?”

“… … ?”

He put down the newspaper and showed his face, embarrassed by the sudden question.

and

-puck!

A fist flew into his face.