NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 47



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Payday – 6

A sudden attack.

A time when not all uniformed security guards and staff are able to come to work.

And guests with diligence like a beggar.

All of this combined to create a small number of people inside the Shanghai Bank, the largest bank in Shanghai.

The main hall is usually full of people, but it was very quiet now because it was early in the morning.

Of course, there might have been more bank employees elsewhere, but there would only have been three or four.

“If you want to live, think of the floor as your lover and put your lips on the floor.”

I subdued the hostages using a mixture of English and Japanese, and also subdued the guards and tied them up tightly.

And I didn’t forget to put a grenade in their hand just in case they were going to do something wrong with their hands.

“Teacher… No, Captain, what if a bomb goes off…?”

“That’s not a bomb.”

“No?”

Of course, this is fake.

Lately, I’ve had a lot of money to spend, so it’s been hard to get new bombs, but how could I trust them with something as dangerous as a grenade?

So I just told him a fake story.

It was quite a sight to see the expressions on the guards’ faces when I threw the safety pin in front of them, who had no way of knowing about the situation.

“What about the hostages?”

“I subdued them all.”

“Really? Then, proceed as planned.”

“yes.”

Jaehwang, the representative of the factory workers, moved quickly at my orders.

“Everyone, please stand up now.”

Who would look at that guy and think he’s the assassin who came to kill me a few weeks ago?

As expected, the effectiveness of the superconducting body was truly outstanding.

“Get up, get up, you little shits!”

“If you don’t want to have an emotional reunion with your deceased ancestors, move quickly!”

“My grandmother is quicker than you guys. Don’t move too fast!”

Jaehwang and the workers walked among the hostages with guns, rousing people to their feet.

The hostages were startled by the loud voice and the large gun pointed at them, and had no choice but to follow their words.

“Everyone stand up and take off everything except your underwear.”

“what···?”

“No, what are you talking about now?”

“How can you take off your clothes in a place like this!”

The robbers’ immediate demand to take off their clothes naturally provoked a backlash from the hostages.

“What should I do?”

“No matter what the situation, as a gentleman I would not behave in such an undignified manner…”

“What kind of gentlemen are those British guys who make a fortune selling opium to China?”

“What?! A mere robber dares to insult my country… Ugh!”

But of course, their small protests were silenced by the massive violence brought about by the robbers.

“Why don’t those snotty guys listen when you speak to them nicely?”

“It’s too harsh on an old person these days…”

Jaehwang confiscated the cane of the old man who had been questioning him without following orders for a bit, and even confiscated the candy in his pocket. Then, he hit the tadpole-like belly of the middle-aged man who had been questioning him with the butt of his gun.

The middle-aged man, who had been hit hard by the hard buttocks, sat down in place, clutching his stomach.

“Ugh···.”

“Take off your clothes properly before I beat you up and tattoo bruises all over your body.”

“······.”

After Jaehwang and the workers stripped the hostages of their clothes, they threw the suits and masks that were stuffed in the duffel bag in front of them and said a word.

“Put it on.”

“······.”

It was a situation that was completely incomprehensible, but this time the hostages had no choice but to silently follow his words.

As they changed their clothes one by one, it was no longer possible to tell who was the robber and who was the hostage.

“Captain, it’s all over.”

“Thank you for your hard work, Yamada.”

“Huh? Oh, hi!”

Jaehwang quickly answered in Japanese.

“Now tie up the hostages and move them.”

“All right.”

Jaehwang and other workers tied the hostages’ arms, blindfolded them, and dragged them away one by one.

The hostages were divided into small groups and held in various parts of the bank, including offices, bathrooms, and warehouses.

So when the surroundings were somewhat cleared up, I took Seok-ju, who had been standing silently behind me, and headed to the safe.

The Shanghai Bank vault was of enormous size, befitting the size of a huge bank. The door alone seemed thicker than five adult thighs put together.

Seok-ju knocked on the safe a couple of times, then stuck out his tongue and shook his head.

“This would be hard to penetrate even with a bomb, right?”

“Who uses such cruel methods?”

“Then how are you going to open it?”

“Go and call the bank manager.”

“ah.”

There was already a bank president hostage, so there was no need to resort to such difficult methods.

“As an honourable British gentleman, I cannot stand to be treated with such violence.”

But the bank president refused to cooperate with us.

“You’re good at cleaning up after all the dirty guys in the world, but you don’t want to cooperate with something like this… The world is really a funny place.”

“······.”

“Isn’t that so?”

“······.”

“You work well with scumbags who sell things like opium on other people’s land, but when we politely ask you to open the safe, you refuse. Isn’t that a bit ridiculous?”

“······.”

The bank manager turned his head away, blushing, either in embarrassment or anger.

Maybe it’s both.

“Oh, you’re going to avoid answering? Well… you British guys are always like that.”

“······.”

Regardless of East or West, there are people who don’t listen when you speak nicely to them, and it seemed like the bank president was one of those people.

“Yeah, you’re going to come out like that?”

This time, he pulled out his pistol, put the muzzle between his eyes, and asked one last question.

“Choose, do you want to open your head now? Or do you want to open the safe door here?”

“······.”

But the bank manager still had no answer.

I don’t know if it’s because they’re brave or because they’re fearless… but either way, it seems like they’ve decided to stick to their convictions.

“If you can’t bite, don’t bark.”

“······?”

“Do you know this saying?”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

-bang.

“That’s what it means.”

The bank manager passed away in such a vain manner.

Seok-ju looked back at me in confusion as someone died in front of him.

“What, what is this?!”

“You’re just wasting time without even cooperating.”

“Ha, but···. Killing people like this···.”

“Why? The Japanese were good at killing people.”

“That and this are different… No matter what, these people are good…”

“Good? Can you call a man who launders all sorts of dirty money, like the money from selling opium to China or the money from selling Orientals like slaves, good?”

From its inception until now, the Shanghai Bank has been used as a means of invasion by imperialist powers.

So, even the bank manager wouldn’t have been able to open the vault door.

If you open this place, you will also have to take some responsibility for it.

So, they just refused to cooperate.

“Then there is no need to kill them?”

“On the other hand, there is no need to keep him alive.”

“but.”

“Leave behind some evidence.”

“Evidence?”

“Yes, it gives us the possibility that this wasn’t just a simple bank robbery, but that there was another intention involved.”

The biggest bank in Shanghai has been robbed, so the owners of the money will be looking around to find the culprit.

If that happens, we will naturally become suspects.

So, before that happens, let’s set a trap here called nationalism.

“Do it like this… and like this….”

“Ugh… What are you doing?”

“piece.”

The Chinese characters for “Bucheongmyeolyang” were written on the back of the dead bank manager’s right hand.

“Okay.”

“Would Westerners be fooled by this?”

“You wouldn’t know just by looking at this.”

But outside is Sasaki.

Since I provided the cooking ingredients, Sasaki will cook them well and make the food.

Then, Westerners who are ignorant of Eastern affairs will just beat up Chinese people for no reason.

Anyway, since the easy way was wrong, now I had no choice but to use the slightly more difficult way.

“Seokju, bring me that thing in bag number 3.”

“······.”

“Seokju, there’s no time. Bring it quickly.”

“······All right.”

Seok-ju was shocked by the sudden death of the bank president, but soon came to his senses and followed my words.

I pushed the body of the dead bank manager to a corner and then took the drill that Seok-ju had brought and installed it in the bank vault.

‘I never thought I’d end up writing it like this…’

Who would have thought that the stuff we were using in our mission just before we landed here would be used in this way?

What was even more ironic was that this was a Japanese drill.

“Koreans are stealing Westerners’ money in China with Japanese goods.”

They say that crime has become international these days, and today I finally understood that deeply.

“yes?”

“It’s nothing.”

I positioned myself appropriately and started the drill.

Then the electric drill began to make a small noise as it broke through the sturdy safe door.

Seok-ju, who saw the drill that produced such great performance with such a small sound, asked me in amazement.

“I think this is the first time I’ve seen such a nice thing since my hair grew out. Where on earth did you get such a nice thing, sir?”

“Maybe… You got it from John?”

“John? Did you save him from an American?”

“If you think about it, that’s true.”

I couldn’t believe I paid $120 for something that was being sold used on the Internet.

“As expected, the US is amazing.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

His words of admiration for Japanese goods and calling them American-made made my heart ache, but I let it go because things were going well.

About 30 minutes passed like that.

The Japanese drill, mistaken for an American one, faithfully fulfilled its role of opening the bank vault for Korean independence and ended its life.

“If you do this like this… If you do that like that….”

By fully utilizing all of the skills and knowledge accumulated over the years, the heavy safe door that had been firmly locked opened along the hole made by the drill.

-Kugu Palace.

When the tightly locked bank vault was opened, inside was a huge mountain of gold, the sweat of Westerners selling opium to China and the blood and tears of Chinese people.

Seok-ju was so shocked by the enormous amount of money he had never seen before that he froze.

“What, what is all this?”

“What could it be, money?”

“All this is money?!”

“There will also be bonds mixed in.”

Of course, there were other things mixed in besides bonds.

For example, here is a document with the lion emblem of the British MI6 on it.

“Teacher, what is that that you are handling so carefully?”

“I don’t know, I just took it because it seemed important.”

In addition, it also contained information that would make high-ranking officials overseas lose sleep at night because they were curious about the past when they opened their eyes in the morning.

“Seok-ju, for now, just take out the documents here and put them in your bag.”

“Not the money, but the documents?”

“Yeah, that thing is just so bulky that you can’t carry much.”

Although I had brought quite a few duffel bags, the amount of cash and precious metals that were sleeping in the vault of the Shanghai Bank was not something that could be taken away in just a few duffel bags.

“This time, wasn’t it decided to take only as much as Chao Kun’s election funds?”

“The money doesn’t have a name tag on it, and the bank won’t refuse to give us the money just because we take that much from here.”

“Oh, I see.”

If he really wanted to steal only Chao Kun’s money, he would have just caught me and attacked the cash transport truck that was transporting the money on the day the bastard’s cash was moving.

However, since it was directly connected to the Beiyang warlords, it was much more dangerous, and the profits were not great compared to the effort put in, so he gave up and jumped into banking himself.

And now that the bank vault door was open, there wasn’t much time left.

“75 seconds···.”

It’s been 75 seconds since the vault door opened.

The Royal Marines arrived exactly 90 seconds ago, so they should be near the bank by now.

“Seokju.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Go and guard the entrance with the hostage-watching guys, and make sure they say a welcoming word to anyone who comes in.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Seok-ju checked the magazine one last time and ran out of the safe.

In the meantime, I was checking my personal safe to see if there was anything else I could take.

“What is this, it’s so stiff···!”

Around the time I had opened a few personal safes like that.

A sad-faced golden toad suddenly poked its head out while stepping on a stack of papers.

“Look at this?”

One interesting thing is that the documents inside had the Ihwamun, the national emblem of the Korean Empire and the symbol of the Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire’s imperial family, stamped on them.

The contents of the document were nothing special.

It looked like a sort of agreement where the owner of the money would compare his credentials with this document and not give out the money if the shape of the seal did not match.

“This is the Korean Empire···.”

Looking at the sad-faced golden toad, it was quite heavy and when pressed lightly with the hand, the finger sank into it like tofu, so it seemed to be made of high-purity gold and would be quite expensive.

The important thing is that the golden toad here is not just one.

When I opened another safe, I found a similar golden toad inside.

At this point, one question arose.

“Who put this here?”

But if you think about it, the answer was simple.

“Ahhh… Your Majesty the Grand Emperor Gojong, is it you again?”

As far as I know, there is only one person in the royal family who would do something like this.

In many ways, he was a man of strong patriotism, possessiveness, and never wanted his belongings to be taken away by others… He could be called a true Joseon monarch in many ways.

“Your Majesty the Grand Emperor Gojong… Even after death, Your Majesty continues to strive for Korea’s independence.”

Who else but Emperor Gojong would have stashed such a huge amount of slush funds in overseas banks?

All of these were jewels created with the blood, sweat, and tears of the Joseon people.

“I will use this money for good purposes.”

If we leave it like this, the Japanese government or some greedy mad capitalist will probably take the money.

So, if I take care of it and use it for Korea’s independence, wouldn’t our greedy Emperor Gojong be happy about it?

If the bed is a bit shaky, I’m willing to put a flower on the grave later.

“Okay, let’s take a look at something else!”

The unexpected windfall gave me a little boost of energy.

I hope you just take care of it like this, no more, no less.

Humming a tune, I opened the safe next to me. This time, it contained securities with the Black Dragon emblem and various types of bonds.

“Wow… The Black Dragon Society’s form is crazy.”

The newly emerged sponsor involuntarily donated an enormous amount of money that Gojong could not match.

It seemed as if the whole world was hoping for Korea’s independence.

“I will use this money for good purposes.”

No one was listening, but as he said that, he poured everything into his bag.

I already felt rich.