NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 31



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Age of emotion – 3

Sasaki looked around urgently.

Hoping someone would help him.

But the people around him treated him like he didn’t exist and didn’t even pay attention to him.

“What are you looking at like that?”

“······What on earth have you done?”

“curious?”

Sasaki couldn’t see the ghost’s face clearly because it was obscured from his vision.

All that was visible on his face now was the slightly upturned corners of his mouth.

“The consulate personnel and detectives who were supposed to be there are nowhere to be seen, and even though someone is screaming at the next table, people don’t seem to care.”

“······What did you do to the others?”

“I didn’t do anything. I just coaxed him a little and sent him back to the consulate.”

The ghost said and snapped his fingers.

Then, the people who had been chatting in the cafe stopped what they were doing and turned their heads to look at Sasaki.

Sasaki felt as if the hairs on his body stood on end at the bizarre sight of the whole world standing still around him.

“This is···. W, what···?”

The ghost flicked his hand again.

Then everyone turned their heads and started talking like they did a little while ago, saying “haha” and “hoho”.

“Has Shanghai been like your living room to you all this time?”

The ghost grabbed the fork stuck in the back of Sasaki’s hand.

Then he twisted the fork.

“Ugh.”

“You must have felt like a god, sending spies here and there, watching and receiving reports on every move made by the provisional government members… Don’t you?”

“Ugh···. What···. I don’t know what that means.”

“Yeah, I guess so.”

The opponent grabbed Sasaki’s right index finger and bent it backward without hesitation.

“Ugh···!”

“From now on, you’d better not go near the French Concession, Inspector Sasaki.”

“Ugh···.”

“Killing you alone right now is not a big deal. If you chop you up into small pieces and throw them into pig food, the police in the concession area will investigate you properly and then stop.”

“Hey, you think I’ll just stay put at the consulate…?”

The corners of the opponent’s mouth went up.

He was laughing.

“If you hadn’t stayed still?”

“······There are many investigators other than me.”

“What if I kill them all?”

“······.”

“What if they burn down the consulate as well?”

“I have the Empire of Japan behind me. Stop doing stupid things, you Korean bastard…!”

Sasaki’s two eyes trembled slightly.

“What do you think the great Empire of Japan will do if you die? What do you think it will do if some Japanese people die in Shanghai?”

“······His Majesty the Emperor is a person with such kindness that he treasures even a single weed on the roadside.”

“The benevolent emperor said that the bullet missed?”

The ghost placed a pistol on the table.

“······.”

“Focus, I’m going to give you two choices now.”

“Huh, why should I follow what you say….”

Sasaki’s right middle finger was broken.

“Ugh!”

“Hey, Inspector Sasaki, what do you have to gain by provoking me for no reason? I’m trying to handle things well even though you sent people to kill me. Okay?”

“Okay. Oh, I got it.”

“What do you know?”

This time the finger next to me was broken.

Sasaki got up from his seat as if in a fit, then knelt down on the floor and clasped his hands.

But the ghost didn’t even glance at me.

“Should I just be dragged to the concession and end my life eating pig food raised in a back alley in Shanghai? Or should I just quietly return to the consulate and forget about today’s events? Okay?”

“······.”

Sasaki looked up at the ghost, holding his bleeding right hand.

He had no choice.

******

I lifted my coffee cup while watching Sasaki walking away.

Somehow, it tasted worse than what I had in Gyeongseong.

“Is it okay to leave it like that?”

A man named Bae Chi-moon, a member of Uiyoldan disguised as a Chinese person, approached me and spoke to me quietly.

“Who are you? Sasaki?”

“Yes, he might take today’s events to heart and try to retaliate against us.”

Killing him will only bring temporary relief.

Whether or not Sasaki’s body is found, from the moment he goes missing, the Japanese consulate will have a justification to stir up the French Concession under the pretext of searching for a missing person.

And even if he tried to get revenge on me…

“You’ll want revenge, but you won’t be able to do it right now.”

“Why? You must be furious after being treated like this today.”

“You’d be so angry. You’d be so angry that your head would pop open.”

That’s why Sasaki can’t retaliate.

His anger will be directed not at the person who destroyed the bastard’s right hand, but at the soldiers and detectives from the consulate who are not present.

“How can you be sure of that?”

“If I can’t do anything about the person who embarrassed me right away, but I need to let out my anger… What would I do if I saw my colleagues who made a mistake in this case?”

“Hmm… I understand.”

He and other members of the Righteous Army nodded their heads in agreement with what I said.

“I don’t know how to express my gratitude to everyone who readily agreed to my stubbornness and took action like this.”

“Oh my. Are you being unreasonable? If we think about the money this teacher gave us, we would all think twice about jumping into the fire carrying a torch.”

“Hahaha, you’re putting too much gold on my face.”

In a slightly difficult situation, Uiyeoldan came to mind.

I thought that Uiyoldan, which had some connection to the provisional government but hated it terribly, would agree with what I said.

As it was just before a large-scale operation was to be carried out, many members were gathered in Shanghai.

‘How much money have you fed me so far…’

Certainly, compared to others, the Uiyoldan were those who had been fed money and had a good reputation.

The provisional government was like a money-eating hippopotamus, sticking a straw in my wallet and sucking my money out, and although the scale was certainly large, things did change, but when I looked back, I didn’t know how much had changed, and the independence army in Manchuria was far away, so it was difficult to get proper news.

On the other hand, since Uiyoldan had some breathing room in terms of financial management, even the members’ appearances changed.

These people, who had been dried in the sun for a few days, now shine like smooth pollack, and all of their shabby weapons have been replaced with new ones.

The bombs that the Uiyoldan was trying to hide were made by the Magyars, but their power was increasing day by day, and now they were making bombs that could easily blow up a building.

“Comrade Captain always asked me to tell you that he is grateful.”

“Thank you… Don’t thank me, just tell me to finish what I was doing.”

“Haha… If possible, I would like to convey my wish that this teacher would also participate in this event.”

“Oh, that’s a bit···.”

Although Uiyeoldan was a very helpful organization, I had no intention of becoming too close to them.

No matter what, Kim Won-bong, the leader of Uiyoldan, was ultimately a person I could not control, a person who might go wild again and shoot and kill his comrades at any moment.

Although he said it was because of the spies, most of the numerous uprisings he planned ended in failure rather than success.

That is, a person who has the ability to plan and execute something, but whose ability to make it successful is questionable.

‘Even the case of Hwangok is like that right now.’

It was so easy to trust someone who was hard to trust and entrust him with such an important task.

Of course, I’m sure they investigated it separately, but that doesn’t mean the suspicions completely go away.

“I also have personal issues, so I don’t think I can help with Uiyoldan’s work.”

“Is that so? This is really… Comrade Captain will be very sorry.”

“Hehe, I guess we’ll have a chance to work together someday.”

“I hope so.”

Baechimun quietly got up from his seat and tried to take Hyunbae away with the members of Uiyoldan.

“See you later.”

“Why are you taking that guy with you?”

“Huh? Well… you’re a spy.”

He said with a grin.

He said he would handle it in a moderately back alley.

“Leave it and do your business.”

“Leave it alone…? But didn’t this kid try to kill this teacher?”

“What are you killing? Looking at the way you’re doing it, it seems like you wouldn’t even be able to kill a single baby ant in the neighborhood.”

“yes??”

Even if he was a spy, if Uiyoldan executes a member of the provisional government, the relationship between Uiyoldan and the provisional government, which was still strained, will become worst again.

If things go wrong between the two of you, it’s going to be annoying, so I’ll sort things out before that happens.

“I’ll take that guy.”

“You’re taking me with you? There’s no need to get blood on your hands, teacher…”

“It has its uses.”

That guy just hit Sasaki on the back of the head, half voluntarily and half involuntarily.

Thanks to this, Sasaki suffered unprecedented humiliation and returned to the consulate in a state of frustration.

The fact that that guy was a Japanese spy is a secret known only to me and the members of Uiyoldan here.

In short, these guys were now stateless people who could not receive protection from the provisional government or the Japanese.

Sasaki and the Black Dragons of the Consulate will want to kill these guys with fire in their eyes, but ironically, in order for these guys to survive, they need to be under the protection of the very person they were trying to kill.

“Where are you going to use these scumbags?”

“We just happened to need someone to work at the factory.”

State-of-the-art, high-performance autonomous machine tools were a welcome sight wherever they went.

It doesn’t even cost money and is cost-effective enough to make you move around quickly with just a little bit of food!

When I think about it this way, Sasaki was truly a generous tree.

‘You gave me money, workers, and a reason to do it, and you even relieved my stress…!’

Sasaki’s kindness naturally drew exclamations of admiration, but the members of Uiyoldan, who had no way of knowing about this, just stuck their feet out of their mouths and grumbled.

“Huh. If it were me, I think I’d be unable to live without that ticklish feeling in the back of my head.”

“If you keep doing this kind of thing, you’ll eventually get used to it.”

“I hope so.”

This time, Sasaki got hit hard, so he’ll quietly lick his wounds for about three days and just wait for an opportunity to get revenge on me.

If it were anyone else, I would say, “What are you going to do for three days?” But I have information about the Black Dragon Society behind Sasaki in my hands.

And it wasn’t just some trivial information about a few names, it was information about their main source of funding.

“Oh, did you bring the stuff?”

“Of course.”

The dispatcher took a few small boxes out of his bag and handed them to me.

“Wow… I thought it wouldn’t work out when you said you were preparing a plan, but I didn’t expect you to give it to me so readily….”

“Hahaha! If this teacher needs something, shouldn’t we make something that doesn’t exist and give it to him?”

“Thank you for your words.”

I paid them so much money that I thought this was my right.

“But where do you plan to use this?”

“Um… fireworks?”

“???”

******

A quiet dock on the outskirts of Shanghai.

This place was quite far from the port where ships docked along the Huangpu River that runs through Shanghai, and also quite far from residential areas, so it was a sparsely populated place.

However, in this warehouse, there were always workers carrying something every day, and police officers who were either watching them or protecting them.

There were even unidentified people armed with rifles here and there guarding the place, so it was a suspicious place to anyone who saw it.

“Yamada. Hey Yamada!”

And Private Hayashi of the Japanese Army, who was on guard duty in this suspicious location, was wandering around looking for a subordinate who had disappeared while he had briefly gone to the bathroom.

“Where the hell did this guy go?”

The guy who was clearly working fine until he went to the bathroom disappeared.

I looked around to see if he was sleeping somewhere, but I couldn’t find him anywhere in the warehouse.

I even looked for a nearby restroom just in case, but Yamada was nowhere to be found.

“This kid… Where the hell is he hiding? If I find him, he’ll just be shot with a military truncheon…”

A drop of strange liquid fell on Hayashi’s face as he walked around the warehouse with a very angry expression.

“Oh my god… What is it?!”

Hayashi looked up in annoyance as something strange, like water, fell on him, adding to the already irritating situation.

Then, there was Yamada, whom he had been searching for so long.

However, it wasn’t the Yamada he remembered.

“Hey, Yamada?!”

Private Hayashi lifted the gas lamp to check Yamada’s condition.

And then my eyes met with the one hiding in the ceiling.

“uh?”

This was Hayashi’s last will and testament.

Hayashi fell to the floor, bleeding, without even knowing what was happening to him.

And then, the pitch-black figure that had come down to the floor kicked Hayashi, who was out of breath, and picked up his gas lamp to check his condition.

“Army? Wow, they really do all sorts of things… Bringing the army to another country’s land is a really good thing.”

Then he retrieved the dagger that was stuck in Hayashi’s forehead, put it back in its sheath, and turned his gaze into the warehouse.

There were wooden crates and sacks piled high up to the ceiling.

He opened the lid of the box next to him and checked its contents, and inside was a familiar object.

“Whew… What a bunch of horrible people in the world.”

It was opium.

It was opium for commercial use, not for medical use.

The Black Dragon Society used opium sales to China as a source of income for themselves.

Even mobilizing the military.

“They are seriously crazy.”

Since there were more than one or two places to visit today, I stopped admiring things here and there and installed the explosives I had brought in advance here and there.

Then he untied the shoelaces of the two soldiers who had been sent up to the Lord in advance, tied them into a long knot, connected them to a gas lamp, and tied opium bags to the ends.

Finally, the bottom of the opium sack was torn open, allowing the opium powder inside to fall little by little to the floor.

“Phew···.”

This completes the preparations.

If we just wait a little longer, the fireworks display we saw in Gyeongseong will take place in Shanghai as well.

If possible, I would have liked to leave some kind of sign so that others could recognize it, but unfortunately, I don’t have that talent.

All they did was carve a small scabbard into the wall.

[I hope you prosper ^^.]