NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 4



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There are ghosts in Gyeongseong – 3

Now that I have the Imperial Police uniform, Jongno Police Station is just like an automatic door.

It wasn’t that difficult to fool the police officers standing guard at the entrance as long as you had a uniform.

“Whew… Good work.”

“Oh, yes, thank you for your hard work.”

“uh.”

If I had only the rank of superintendent on my shoulder straps, the police officers wouldn’t be able to speak to me carelessly.

Judging from the fact that there has been no response even though so many uniforms were missing yesterday, it seems that the police officers on duty yesterday have kept their mouths shut for fear of being scolded.

‘I guess I should take care of myself as much as possible.’

If I had met the police officers I ran into yesterday inside the police station, it would have been a big problem.

So, before any unexpected events occurred, it was necessary to quickly check the progress of the Imperial Police’s investigation and estimate the general location of Dr. Kim Sang-ok.

As a bonus, it also caused confusion in their investigation.

“Ugh… ugh…”

“Stop pretending to be sick and move quickly.”

“Ugh…”

“If you’re going to work like this, take off your clothes and get out of my sight!”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”

The atmosphere inside Jongno Police Station was completely different from the outside.

Outside, several heavily armed police officers were visible, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

The inside was spinning like crazy, as if we had been dropped into the middle of a battlefield.

“Quiet! What are you trying to do now?!”

“······.”

“What big thing did I expect from you? I wanted you to go out and use your fancy Joseon connections to check if there have been any suspicious people lately! And you can’t even do something this simple?! Huh?!”

“······sorry.”

“Quiet water?”

When I heard a Korean name in a place full of Japanese people, I couldn’t help but turn my head.

“I don’t want to hear it! I’ll give you three days, exactly three days, so either catch the guy who threw the bomb at the police station or at least find out where he is! If you can’t, you’ll be screwed that day!”

“······All right.”

“Get out of my sight right now.”

I glanced at the epaulettes of the police officer with his shoulders slumped, and the insignia of a police officer’s rank caught my eye.

‘A Korean policeman…’

It was quite interesting to meet in person a Korean policeman from the Japanese colonial period whom I had only heard about in stories.

I also wondered why that person wanted to become a dog of Japan while being cursed at by his own countrymen and Japanese people.

“What are you?”

As I stood there blankly for a moment, I heard a rather unpleasant voice from the back of my head.

I turned my head slightly and saw the policeman who had just been harassing the Korean policeman was glaring at me.

“Um… Did you call me just now?”

“Then, is there anyone else here besides you…”

He was about to pour out his words while getting worked up, but when he saw the rank insignia pinned to my epaulettes, he stopped talking and coughed in vain.

“Ahem… I think it’s the first time I’ve seen your face…”

“Why do you stop talking?”

“That is…”

I smiled and approached him.

Then, he put his hand on his shoulder and asked him.

“Yes… Chief of Police Tadanobu Abe?”

“yes.”

“He asked why I called him.”

“Well. I’m meeting someone for the first time···.”

I still took his hat off.

“Huh, your rank and name don’t come out?”

“······Chief of Police, Tadanobu Abe.”

He looked at his crumpled expression and laughed again, hitting his hat.

“Chief of Police Abe Tada…”

He struck again.

“Chief of Police Abe…”

This time, I just raised my cheek.

Then Abe’s body shook and he was slammed against the wall.

“Ugh…”

Abe looked back at me, holding his cheek.

Anger and venom still burned in his eyes.

“Your rank and name.”

Of course, that wasn’t my job.

What does it matter to me if my bastard burns with venom and anger?

I just got the information I needed here, walked out the front door, and never had to see that guy again.

If we ever meet again, it’ll either be him or me who’s dead.

“The rank and name are not displayed.”

“······Who are you to be doing this?”

“You raised your voice without even knowing who I am? That’s disappointing in its own way.”

“that…”

Without listening to the answer, he placed his hand on Abe’s cheek again.

Abe’s posture collapsed after being hit once during the protest and he fell to the floor.

In the look in his eyes as he looked up at me, the venom and anger subsided and was replaced by resentment and bewilderment.

As I was arresting a policeman and beating him up so vigorously, people’s eyes turned to me.

“Who is that person?”

“I don’t know either.”

“It doesn’t seem like we’re from the West···.”

“If you look at what he’s doing, it seems right···.”

“Is it the high school level?”

“Can’t you tell by looking at that kick? Let’s just leave without making eye contact.”

Someone was being beaten up for a long time, but the other detectives and constables around them pretended not to notice, as if they didn’t want to get involved in this kind of thing.

“Shouldn’t that be stopped?”

“Leave it alone. Are the high-level guys really that picky? There must be a reason for them to act like that. If we interfere, we’ll just end up getting tired.”

“Huh? What kind of department does the higher-level department do that they do that? This. This is···”

“You say that is an absurd action?”

“yes!”

As the clueless rookie raised his voice, the detective, who had been sitting with an annoyed expression on his face, looked around and covered the officer’s mouth.

“Speak quietly!”

“Ugh, ugh… ugh!”

“We usually deal with people who are out on the street, but the high police officers and special high police officers over there are the ones who only deal with dangerous people whose faces we rarely see.”

“Who are the dangerous guys?”

“These days, we have to deal with the rioters from the North who are making a lot of noise, throwing bombs and shooting guns in the middle of Gyeongseong, or the communists/socialists/anarchists.”

“But that’s also for us···.”

“What are regular police going to do against terrorists? Arthur, Arthur, people don’t go to the butcher because they don’t know how to cut meat.”

The detective, who had been explaining this and that to the new recruit, glanced at the high-ranking department, then returned to his comfortable position and spoke to the new recruit.

“So, you too, don’t get involved with them for no reason. There’s nothing good that comes from getting involved with them for no reason.”

“I am ready to sacrifice my body for the Empire of Japan!”

“Okay, please do my part too.”

“Inspector Goto!”

“You don’t have to yell so loud, I can hear you. I can hear you.”

“Why are you so calm in a situation where the security of the empire is threatened like this?”

“The world is in chaos, so shouldn’t my heart be at peace?”

“Your Majesty!”

When the fresh-faced policeman was chopping up the rotten gonzo of the police chief.

The chief of police of the high school was also being crushed in my hands.

“Stand up.”

“!”

“Sit down.”

“······.”

“Get up again.”

“!!”

“Huh? It’s slowing down.”

The chief of police, who was tired of my unexpected behavior, gasped for breath and started questioning me.

“No matter how much I did wrong, isn’t this too much?! I don’t know who you are, but if a mere superintendent is treating a high-ranking detective like this…”

Well, it was natural for him to be upset, since he was beaten and beaten up like a yellow dog on Boknal by a person he had just met.

“From Inspector Masao Sato, who was transferred to the higher division of Jongno Police Station today.”

So I created a situation where he couldn’t get angry.

“······.”

“Any questions?”

“I haven’t heard anything about any new staff being assigned to our department. What do you mean?”

“You should ask the Ministry of the Interior officials on the mainland, but for now, I think it would be best to reform your rotten nature from the ground up.”

“This, this is an act of violence by those in power!”

“That’s a big hit.”

He beat up a high-ranking detective again.

At the same time, he took in all the important information, including the status of the investigation hanging on the board on the wall and pinned on the Gyeongseong map, without fail.

It was my first time beating up someone to get information, but that didn’t mean I would leak valuable information that was already spread around.

“Eww!”

“Hey, block it? Block it? This isn’t your arm, is it? This isn’t your hand!”

He quickly beat up the high-level detective and accurately classified the various pieces of information that were plentiful in his eyes and forced them into his head.

‘It seems like they still don’t know that it was Kim Sang-ok who threw the bomb at Jongno Police Station… Since the culprit hasn’t been identified yet, they’re just stirring things up as they please.’

The thought that there was a group that kept tight control over everything in Gyeongseong made me feel so tense that it felt futile.

‘Hmm… Well, it’s natural that it would be at this level since it was before investigative techniques were developed like they are today.’

There was a bit of other interesting information, but nothing about Kim Sang-ok.

I wanted to search the chief’s office or the police chief’s office, but I thought it would be bad if I moved that way and left behind even a trace, so it was right to stop here.

“Heh heh…”

“Did you say Abe? I remember your name.”

“······.”

“Tsk.”

He turned around, acting like an unlucky superior until the end.

Then he threw away the baton he was holding in his hand and tried to leave the police station.

But then, instead, the police station door opened and I came face to face with a familiar face.

“hmm?”

“?”

A small body that seemed to be two or three heads taller than me, and a face with a unique stubbornness that could be seen through its sharp eyebrows.

It was a face I had seen a few days ago.

“You are Inspector Miwa.”

“Who are you to block my way?”

I continued acting calmly.

“My name is Inspector Masao Sato, who has recently been transferred to the Jongno Police Station’s Advanced Division.”

“Kyungbubo? Isn’t there already a seat there?”

Inspector Miwa turned to the detective behind her and passed the answer on to him.

Then the detective replied in confusion.

“This is the first time I’ve heard of this story.”

“Hmm… really?”

Inspector Miwa turned her head again, looked up and down, and then started circling around, scanning me here and there.

“Inspector Sato.”

“Yes, sir.”

“I’m sorry to say this to you, but we have never asked our superiors for additional manpower.”

“Is that so?”

“That’s right.”

“There seems to have been a mistake somewhere.”

“I see. I must be mistaken.”

Miwa and Inspector looked at me with a cautious expression, but I smiled calmly.

Acting calm and beating around the bush was one of my strengths.

“I guess I’ll have to ask my home country first.”

“As much as you want.”

No matter how fast and convenient the telegram was, it would take at least two days for the Miwa Inspection Department to inquire about something in the home country and receive a response.

And two days later, if you feel something strange and try to catch me, I’ll just run away.

That’s why I could be confident.

As long as you don’t get caught, it won’t be a problem.

“Okay, I’ll take care of you for now.”

Inspector Miwa turned her head and passed me by as if she was not interested in me.

Of course, even though he said that, I could see that he was secretly trying to restrain me.

Just then, as I was leisurely leaving Jongno Police Station.

Inspector Miwa’s voice was heard from behind.

“The perpetrator of the Jongno Police Station terrorist incident is a member of Uiyoldan named Kim Sang-ok.”

“?!”

He stopped walking and looked back, and the other detectives were also looking at him in shock at Inspector Miwa’s words.

But that wasn’t the end of Miwa’s words.

“According to the information my informant gave me… Kim Sang-ok is currently hiding in Gyeongseong at the home of a man named Ko Bong-geun.”

“?!”

Miwa even knew Kim Sang-ok’s location.

And that too in great detail.

‘But… how?’

I’ve been wandering around for a few days, but this was information I couldn’t find.

However, Miwa found out Kim Sang-ok’s location in an instant, even though she invested about the same amount of time as me.

This meant one thing.

‘Spy… damn it! I got caught.’

There was no time now.

If this news spreads to Jongno Police Station, the police will rush in to arrest him.

Then, Dr. Kim Sang-ok’s death is unavoidable.

I had to let Kim Sang-ok know about this fact at least once.

Before I become helpless.

“Inspector Sato, where are you going in such a hurry?”

But Inspector Miwa grabbed my ankle.

“I thought I’d go outside and get some fresh air to calm down a bit.”

“I don’t have the luxury of doing that right now. I’m sorry to say this to you, but you need to take part in this arrest operation, too.”

Miwa Kyungbu’s deep, cold eyes were looking at me as if trying to pierce through me.

I was anxious, but I couldn’t show my impatience here.

“Arrested… I’m a lucky guy.”

“Lucky guy…?”

“It means a lucky man. How great is it that he will achieve great things as soon as he arrives?”

“I see.”

Inspector Miwa withdrew her attention again and turned her attention to the higher-level detectives.

But the back of his head was still looking at me with a suspicious gaze.

‘I guess I’ll have to change my strategy a bit.’