NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 49
Only Krnovel
Payday – 8
After that, the robbers continued to release hostages and steadily appealed for their demands.
Some hostages had blue eyes, others were so sickly that it was questionable whether they would be able to take care of themselves, and still others were so strong that they looked like they could eat iron.
All of the hostages who were released this way had something like a note containing the robbers’ demands somewhere on their bodies…
“Just a little while ago, you asked me to prepare a plane instead of a ship, and now you are asking me to borrow the Royal Train, the exclusive train for the British royal family to ride in.”
“The requirements are becoming more and more absurd.”
“Aren’t you taking medicine inside?”
“That is quite possible.”
“······.”
The command center had no idea what was happening inside, and was only listening to the hostages’ stories, wondering how to get through this incident without any incident.
In the meantime, the white people released them after a brief investigation, but the yellow people kept them locked up until they told everything they knew.
‘It’s like a fool.’
Sasaki shook his head at the sight of such command.
No matter how much he raved about keeping all the hostages, they wouldn’t listen.
What’s even more surprising is that up until now, everything has been going according to the plan of this teacher who was moving money inside.
He predicted that the military command in the concession area would not listen to Sasaki and that the hostages would be treated differently depending on their race.
‘At this level, it wouldn’t be strange if I could see the future···. Huh, really···.’
At first, I felt fear when I saw him, but now it was more than fear; I felt awe.
A man who stands up to a huge empire with his individual body.
As a child, when I couldn’t sleep at night and cried in my mother’s arms, just like the old stories my mother would tell me with a smile, I was defeating an enormous enemy that I could never defeat with my own body.
His situation was so bleak that he could not even see the future, being pursued by the Empire of Japan. However, this teacher never lost hope.
And instead of focusing only on protecting himself, he showed that he wanted to take care of the people around him and move forward together.
This teacher’s appearance in many ways aroused fear and respect.
‘If that person were Japanese…’
On the one hand, I did think that way, but now that I think about it, it seems like a good story.
It was a story that didn’t matter whether the person who gave him a big chunk of money was Japanese or Korean, as he was trying to open up his path to success after having been stuck in a series of low-level jobs for five years.
Right now it’s just···.
‘I hope everything passes without any problems…’
With that thought in mind, I returned to the command center where they were still digging.
******
“Come here!”
“Kwaaah!”
“You go in there, you piece of shit.”
“Why am I a shithead?!”
While the outside was bustling, inside the Shanghai Bank, people were busy changing the rooms where the hostages were being held.
The robbers moved the hostages here and there at regular intervals as ordered by the teacher, preventing them from staying together and mixing them up in a haphazard manner so that no one could tell who was who.
In the meantime, some people were thrown outside, so the hostages had no idea who was left inside the bank.
“You wouldn’t even know it if robbers got in the way.”
“also···!”
While the other kids were busy managing the hostages and collecting money, I finished some simple construction work and had a cool drink of water.
“Whew… Now I can finally live.”
“I was wondering what you were doing, and this is···.”
A small space was created outside the bank vault.
It was such a small space that you wouldn’t have noticed anything strange until you looked at the blueprint.
“Put your bag here.”
“Shall we all fit in there?”
“It doesn’t matter if they don’t all go in.”
I don’t think you’ll be able to get all that cash and gold inside anyway.
It was greedy and excessive to want to take all of that and leave.
But half of that might be possible.
That’s why this space was created.
“What are your next plans?”
“Stay still.”
“John… what?”
“I’m holding on.”
“You’re holding on? Over there?”
“okay.”
With the siege outside, I couldn’t just walk away with all this money.
So what should we do then?
“We have to break through that siege?”
“Then everyone will die except me.”
“yes?”
It wasn’t that difficult for me to break through the encirclement and escape on my own.
But to get the wads of money and gold bars that were as precious as my life and the countless people involved in this operation, I needed another way.
“Rather than trying to break through the siege, we should wait until they break through it themselves.”
“Hmm… No matter how much I look at it, I don’t understand.”
“It’s okay. You’ll understand after some time.”
I looked at my men carrying duffel bags full of money and gold bars along with Seok-ju.
Even though everyone was sweating profusely in the sweltering heat, they didn’t frown or grumble even once.
After shoving everything into the last duffel bag, she looked back at me with a smile.
“Captain, it’s all done!”
“Yeah, thank you for your hard work.”
Now is the final step.
I gave my sweaty subordinates a tear gas canister and gave them a strong order.
“This is the most dangerous step in this matter.”
“······.”
“So everyone, wake up and pay attention to what I’m saying, okay?”
“yes!!!”
“good.”
I explained to my subordinates how to use the tear gas that I had used in the last mountain rescue.
“If you pull out the pin here, the ball inside will hit the detonator and detonate it. Then, smoke will come out of the hole here like crazy. Then just throw it anywhere.”
“Can I just throw it?”
“Yeah, last time I tried it, the amount of smoke coming out of that tiny can was no joke.”
I recalled the last time when, with just three tear gas canisters, they had laid to the ground a group of bandits hiding in a mountain fortress and thousands of Beiyang soldiers who had come to subdue them.
“And the gas that comes out of it is really poisonous?”
“Is that poison gas?”
“No. It’s not the kind of thing that would endanger your life… The power itself is similar.”
“yes···?”
Since they had never experienced the power of tear gas before, they all looked at me with question marks in their heads.
But there was no way I could explain it properly.
It was a pain that only those who had experienced it could understand.
No matter how much you explain it, it is a type of pain that those who have not experienced it can never understand.
“Just hold your breath from the moment you pull the pin out, and don’t breathe again until you get out.”
“Oh, I understand.”
I gave my subordinates another round of instructions and then turned to Seok-ju.
“Yes, Seokju.”
“Yes, sir.”
“This time, when the kids go out, you should sneak out and look after the kids for me.”
“Am I the one talking?”
“Yeah, if you go out and find Inspector Sasaki, he’ll take care of everything.”
Seok-ju was startled at the mention of Inspector Sasaki.
“Are you talking about the Korean hunter, Inspector Sasaki, at the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai?”
“What’s that childish nickname?”
“······That’s what the Japanese call it.”
“Uhhh… As for tastes… I don’t know about that, but if there’s no other police inspector with the last name Sasaki, then it’s probably someone you know.”
“Huh… No, how did you recruit him?”
In response to Seok-ju’s question, I raised my right hand, clenched it into a fist, and answered.
“With this.”
“······I guess I kind of understand what happened.”
“Yeah, I guess so.”
“Phew… Then I’ll see you outside.”
“Okay, see you in three days.”
“Yes, sir.”
As everyone was turning around, Jaehwang, who was the representative of the workers, asked me.
“Oh, sir! What should we do with the gun?”
“A gun? Oh, that?”
I said, waving my hands roughly.
“Just throw it away somewhere and go out naked. If you go out with a gun, you’ll be misunderstood.”
“yes!”
It wasn’t a waste since they were all fake anyway.
There was a reason why they were all fake. If you wanted to buy an expensive gun made in a foreign country far away in China, the price would go through the roof due to distribution and premiums here and there.
However, I had been supporting the provisional government and doing various things, so I had run out of liquid funds a long time ago, and so I was a bit short on money to buy guns.
But if we were to use Gyeongseong-1, which is not yet on the market, it would be no different from going around saying that we are the culprits using it for robbery.
That’s why I only bought one for myself and gave the rest to you as fakes that only copied the appearance.
‘You have to get the maximum benefit with the minimum investment.’
Isn’t this the epitome of a true entrepreneur?
Finally, I poured the oil I had prepared in advance into the safe and took a puff on the cigarette I had in my mouth.
“Ugh… Phew… Now this is the end.”
This marked the end of the cigarettes I brought from Korea.
I used to buy a whole box of cigarettes and take them with me whenever I went abroad, but after smoking them nonstop for so long, I ended up running out of cigarettes.
“Goodbye.”
With a cigarette in hand and a flick of the lighter, I said goodbye to the other half of my life.
The cigarette butt that escaped my fingertips burst into flames as it touched the oil on the floor, and the fierce flames followed the path laid on the floor and engulfed the cash and gold in the safe.
I left the multi-billion dollar fireworks behind and hid in the space I had prepared in advance.
******
-Pusheeeeee.
Suddenly, inside the Shanghai Bank, a puff of white smoke came out along with the sound of smoke escaping.
“Kuaaaah!”
“Eyes, my eyes!!!”
“Ugh! I can’t see! I can’t see!!!”
“Kuaaaaah! Mother!!! Father!!! Kuaaaaah!!!”
And then a crowd of people wearing clown masks and wearing suits just like the robbers poured out.
The soldiers controlling the perimeter hurriedly tried to stop them, but they too inhaled the smoke that was escaping with the crowd and began to roll on the ground, clutching their throats as if in a fit.
“Kuaaaaaaah!!!”
“What is this···.”
“Is it poison gas? Gas! Gas! Gas!”
“Gas? Gas! Gas! Gas! Gas!”
“It’s poison gas! Get your gas mask!”
“You don’t have a gas mask?”
“Wipe it with a handkerchief soaked in water!”
The command center was also flustered by the sudden chemical, biological, and radiological situation.
“Suddenly poison gas?”
“Where did the robbers get the poison gas?!”
“What’s important now is not that, but aren’t those robbers running away over there?”
“Oh, that’s right! We have to catch them quickly! If that doesn’t work, we’ll consider killing them all···.”
“Look! They’re just hostages. They’re not bank robbers!”
Sasaki calmed down the command staff who were about to shoot without distinguishing between robbers and hostages.
“Don’t you know that the loach might escape?!”
“If we shoot them all now, who will take care of the aftermath?”
“Hmm···.”
“that···.”
When Sasaki brought up the issue of responsibility, the officers in command had no choice but to keep their mouths shut.
Because among the people gathered here, not only was there no one who could take responsibility for this incident, but no one wanted to take responsibility for this mess.
If someone was to be held responsible, it should not be high-ranking personnel like themselves, but a local who was well-versed in the political situation in the East.
“I heard the robbers are fluent in Japanese···.”
“There’s another Asian there… Ahem….”
Without a word, the two officers, one British and one French, placed the blame on Sasaki.
But Sasaki didn’t just back down.
“If you look at it that way, the Shanghai Bank over there was founded by the British, so shouldn’t the British be responsible for this mess?”
“What does the fact that it was founded by the British have to do with me taking responsibility for this?”
“So, what does their speaking Japanese have to do with me taking responsibility for this matter?”
“Well… Asians are weak in foreign languages other than their own, so if they speak Japanese, it’s likely because they’re Japanese.”
“By that logic, I’m alternating between French and English, so I’m half British and half French.”
The British officer remained silent in response to Sasaki’s rebuttal.
“You had a good time, Stuart?”
“The same goes for Captain Henri. Judging from the testimonies of those around you, the robbers seem to have come from the French Concession. Why do you pretend not to know this?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“You’ve been sitting here all day, so you wouldn’t know.”
“What are you saying now···”
“Okay!”
Sasaki got up from his seat, slamming the table.
“You have asked me to take responsibility for this situation, so from now on, the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai will be in charge of the hostage management related to this incident.”
“If you do that···.”
“So you too must take responsibility. From now on, if you cause even the slightest harm to the hostages, our Japanese Consulate General will never sit idly by and watch this happen.”
“???”
“Does that make sense?!”
Naturally, Stewart and Henry objected.
But Sasaki spoke with the same expression he had when he locked up the Korean in the room and interrogated him.
“Although it is true that the British Empire and the French Republic were more powerful than our Empire of Japan, I hope you will not forget that this is Shanghai, which is close to Japan.”
“what?!”
“Are you going to try it now?”
“You only have one life. Please remember this well and be careful about your future actions. After all, for the two of you, Shanghai is not the final destination, but rather a transit point.”
“······.”
“Think carefully.”
With those words, Sasaki left the command post.
But the view outside the command post was very different from what was reported inside.
“Kuaaaaak! Tennoheika! Sootokugaka! Dasuketeku dasai! Kuaaaaak!!!”
“My eyes… My eyes!!! My eyes are so sore!!!”
“Kwaaah!!! My face!!! My face!!!”
People from all over the world, covered in thick clouds of white smoke, were rolling around on the floor, making a lot of noise.
“Huh… This isn’t poison gas?”
Sasaki wet the mask he had prepared in advance.
Then he went out to command the scene.
“Everyone, wet your handkerchiefs with water and keep the smoke from entering your mouth or nose! And arrest the suspects lying on the ground. Hurry up!”
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