NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 41



Only Krnovel

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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is a country with the grand name of the world’s first socialist republic.

Naturally, Western countries, including Europe, felt anxious and fearful of the sudden appearance of a gigantic evil empire (at least from their perspective) and kept it in check.

Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union and the Red Jesus respected by all the Reds around the world, took up arms to protect the lambs being plowed from the factories and fields, as imperialist powers attempted to destroy the people’s paradise (so-called) from all sides.

In this way, the Cheka, the predecessor of the KGB, the Soviet Union’s intelligence agency that brought terror to the free world during the Cold War, was created.

They had built up a formidable reputation, rivaling that of the infamous KGB, and during the Russian Civil War, they supported Lenin and the Bolsheviks from behind the scenes, blocking all sorts of operations against them and, conversely, carrying out terrorism and assassinations against the opposing side, contributing greatly to the victory of the Red Army.

They were also the ones who helped Lenin, whose position was still unstable, to establish the Soviet Union safely.

After the Soviet Union fully took hold, it was reorganized under the Ministry of Internal Affairs and became more politically police-oriented, but it was still a group that could not be ignored.

They plotted and killed Boris Savinkov, a right-wing anti-Bolshevik who had fled to Britain after the defeat of the Whites and continued the anti-Bolshevik struggle with the support of the British government.

And it was such a fearsome organization that it captured and executed Sydney Riley, the legendary spy of the British intelligence agency MI6, famous for 007 and the inspiration for James Bond.

A spy from the Soviet intelligence agency with such a fearsome reputation is right before my eyes.

“I don’t know how you like tea.”

She didn’t even touch the car, and focused on my every action.

It was like a student fidgeting on the day his report card came out because he didn’t check his mailbox first.

Of course, it would be embarrassing for an Asian to meet for the first time and come into contact with a manual that only they know.

“Tea doesn’t taste good when it gets cold. Drink it while it’s still warm.”

“······Lubyanka.”

“yes?”

She tried to say something with a slightly hesitant expression, but then stammered.

“I heard there’s a place called Lubyanka Square in Moscow. It’s so big and beautiful… Have you ever been there?”

“Oh, it’s Lubyanka.”

I guess he tried to muddle through, but his intention was too obvious.

“Lubyanka Square… I remember stopping by once to meet an insurance agent.”

“It’s an insurance company.”

“Yes, I met a man named Artuzov there, and he was a very kind person.”

“Artuzov···?”

“Do you know him?”

“No···. It’s the first time I’ve heard that name···.”

Her face was filled with confusion as the name of her superior, shrouded in mystery, came out of my mouth.

“Your complexion is pale… Are you uncomfortable in your seat?”

“No. My skin is naturally pale, so I often hear that misunderstanding.”

Although he was trying to hide it, he was already so consumed by confusion that he couldn’t properly control his facial expressions.

Her long, ox-like eyelashes trembled like dry branches, and her large, clear, blue eyes rippled like a lake into which a stone had been thrown.

“Do you happen to know anyone···?”

“······No, I really don’t know that person.”

“That’s good to hear. I heard that he was hit by a carriage driving down the street a few days ago and died.”

“······yes?”

Her confused face turned to astonishment.

“By the way, I was the one driving that carriage.”

Of course, this is a lie.

My visit to Lubyanka was not in this era, but in the present, a time that has now become the future, and I had never met a man named Artur.

“Oh, I see···.”

She reached into her bag.

I smiled and placed the small Derringer pistol I had taken from her bag on the table.

“I see you’re looking for this.”

“······.”

“sleep.”

I thrust the pistol in front of her.

“What are you doing now···?”

“I just wanted to see what the commies were capable of.”

“······.”

She quickly reached for the gun and pulled the trigger.

-Tick. Tick tick.

Of course, the gun didn’t work.

I dropped the bullet that should have been in the gun in front of her, who was flustered.

“You died a little while ago.”

“······.”

“No, since his identity has been revealed, he is already dead socially?”

“······.”

She didn’t answer.

It seemed like he was quietly watching me and plotting a way out of here.

“There are a lot of Shandong troops around here. And there aren’t many Westerners around here, so a foreigner like you walking around would be noticeable.”

“Huh… I guess so.”

She leaned back in her chair, crossing her arms with a light sigh.

“Tsk… I knew it would happen someday, but I didn’t know it would end up like this.”

“Don’t spies always get into trouble in unexpected situations and with unexpected accidents?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

She reached into her bag and took out a long pipe and a cigarette.

Then he put the water spoon in his mouth and thrust the end into me.

“Can you lend me a light?”

“As much as you want.”

I also smiled and put my hands in my pockets.

Then he pulled out a pistol that Tian Zhongwei’s soldiers had not found and aimed it at her.

“Can I stick it on like this?”

“······You are being very playful.”

“So, you’re trying to kill me with that? Are you trying to trick me or something?”

“How about that···.”

At the end of her long beak was an object with a very small stinger. The poison on the stinger was not enough to kill a person instantly, but it was enough to make the body stiffen for a moment.

It wasn’t immediately life-threatening, but it was dangerous enough to that extent.

The problem was that a situation arose in which I couldn’t control my body properly.

“Do you think I’ve seen something like this once or twice?”

“······You’re sharp.”

Although it is rare to see such items these days, in modern times there were so many similar items that it was easy to spot them, so it was not difficult to recognize them.

There···.

“Who would ask for a light for a cigarette while their hands are shaking like that?”

“Oh, I see.”

Her hands were shaking slightly, perhaps because it was her first time in this situation.

“······What are you going to do with me now?”

“I haven’t thought about it deeply yet.”

“Then, think about it and answer.”

With trembling hands, she took the cigarette out of the pipe and put it in her mouth.

Then he took out the matchbox, but there was not a single match in it.

“Ha, things aren’t going well so this is what I’m doing···.”

“I should have bought matches in advance.”

“······.”

I put the gun to her cigarette.

Then her eyes widened and she threw her head back in surprise.

“Hey, what are you doing right now?!”

“Why? You asked me to light it.”

“I never asked you to use a gun to do it!”

She blushed and got angry, perhaps embarrassed by the surprise she had shown a moment ago.

“If you don’t like it, there’s nothing I can do.”

He took a cigarette out of his pocket and put it in his mouth.

And just like he had done to her a moment ago, he put the gun to the cigarette and pulled the trigger.

She looked at me with a face that seemed to be amazed at my behavior.

-Wow.

But contrary to her expectations, only a blue flame came out of the gun’s muzzle.

“······?”

“Ugh… Phew.”

I lit a cigarette, savoring the unique, rotting taste of cloud cookies.

“Isn’t that a pistol?”

“A pistol? A lighter?”

“A lighter···?”

It was an item I got by picking it out while spending time near the cafe before the final mission.

This item cost a whopping 1,500 rubles.

She looked at me like I’d been hit in the head with a baseball bat.

“Even though my face is one that you fall for more the more you look at it, it’s embarrassing to stare at it like that.”

“······Who are you?”

“The communists are people who don’t know even if they wake up dead.”

He put out the cigarette he was holding in his mouth by pressing it against the table.

And the smile disappeared from his face.

“Miss Vanya, I’m going to ask you some questions now. You don’t have to tell me the truth, but you have to answer.”

“······.”

“If you keep your mouth shut like this, you might end up in a bit of pain. I’ve already given a few people a one-way ticket to the afterlife like this in Gyeongseong. Did you hear about our Miss Vanya?”

The word Gyeongseong elicited a response from her.

“Wait a minute… Were you in Gyeongseong?”

“Yeah, all the guys who ignored me back there···.”

“Then, do you know the ghost of Gyeongseong…? No, are you related to that person?”

“?”

An unexpected name came out of her mouth.

“ghost?”

“Yes, the ghost of Gyeongseong.”

The fact that the name Ghost came out of her mouth also meant that the Soviets knew the name too.

It wasn’t strange, since they had been interested in expanding their influence toward Japan and China for a long time and had sources in Asia.

But understanding it and actually hearing it are slightly different experiences.

“Hmm… I’m a little curious as to how our Miss Vanya knows that name.”

I picked up a pistol-shaped lighter and held the muzzle right in front of her eyes.

“If you get a scratch on your pretty face, Lady Lucy will be really upset, right?”

“······Please put this away so I can tell you everything.”

“Listen to what Miss Vanya has to say and judge for yourself.”

******

The story I heard from her mouth was a very interesting one.

The high-ranking officials in Lubyanka and Moscow seemed to have taken an interest in me after hearing about my activities in Gyeongseong and Shanghai.

In particular, he seemed to have judged him useful, seeing that he was on a personal friendly basis with Kim Won-bong, who was classified as a socialist, and that he was maintaining a close cooperative relationship with the Uiyoldan, a proletarian armed struggle group.

I came to you at a time when the high-ranking officials in Moscow were already considering ways to reduce the pressure on the Japanese border due to the recent Japanese invasion of Siberia.

There were only a handful of spies who could achieve maximum results with minimal support.

That’s why the Soviet Union also seemed to be interested in me and was thinking of converting me to their side.

So the Soviet upper echelons were planning to use Vanya, who was in China, to lure me with a beauty line… But then the train heading to Shanghai was hijacked by thieves.

I thought things were going to get messed up, but then I showed up.

That was her explanation.

“Should I believe that?”

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe it.”

“Does it matter? If what our Vanya says is a lie, I will kill you here.”

This is serious.

Anyway, the Soviets were after me, so I only had two choices.

Either cooperate with them or just cut off their tails and disappear from this world.

“I hate it when people follow me around.”

She must have read my true feelings, but her haughty attitude disappeared and she desperately tried to persuade me.

“Wait a minute… Wait a minute! Then tell me how I can earn your trust!”

“Um… You said you’d buy my trust….”

A spy was someone who could not be trusted and should not be trusted.

You gain trust from such a person…

It was a contradictory yet interesting statement.

Now she’s giving me a blank check.

“Should I understand this to mean that our Miss Vanya would do anything for me?”

“For now… I’ll say that.”

“good.”

I smiled again and helped her up.

Then he straightened her slightly disheveled clothes and dusted off the hat that had fallen to the floor, and put it on her.

“My lady, then shall we discuss your and my personal business?”

“······.”

“What are you looking at? Tell me everything you know that you can tell me right now.”

If I’m going to eat it anyway, I plan to scrape it all the way to the bottom.