NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 58



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Spring Cleaning – 2

It was a bit of a hassle to catch up with Kim Won-bong and his party across the Korean Peninsula from Incheon, like salmon returning to their homeland by swimming upstream during the spawning season.

As soon as I crossed the ocean, I had to change trains and head north. In the meantime, I had to go through security checks and a simple background check… It was only natural that the stress that had built up over time was immense.

That’s why I’ve become a bit more cruel than usual this time.

Okay, I admit it!

“······.”

“Are you awake?”

“······.”

Today, too, Detective Kim Deok-gi, a Korean police officer of the Empire of Japan who devoted himself day and night to the Japanese Empire, opened his eyes and regained consciousness.

But, with his eyes half-open, he looked like he would fall over if you touched him even a little bit.

“Ugh···.”

“Are you coming to your senses? Blink if you can hear me.”

“Ughh …

Even to my question, Detective Kim Deok-gi didn’t show any reaction other than his eyes still trembling and groaning in pain.

It was truly a strange thing.

‘I think I adjusted my strength properly···.’

It was clear that the power control was certain.

If I had struck down my opponent with the intention of killing him, this guy in front of me would have died on the spot without even being able to fight back.

All I could do now was promise myself that from now on I would aim somewhere other than the head.

‘I can’t just grab this and hit it…’

Still, since he had finally come to his senses, Kim Deok-gi could be said to be sane compared to the other two.

No matter how much I shook the Ok-gyeong next to me and poured water on my face, I didn’t think she’d wake up, and next to her, Jae-jin Kim was bleeding from his nose so much that I couldn’t even think about waking him up.

“I’m going to go back.”

I told Kim Won-bong that I would take care of everything, but this is how things turned out.

‘Sigh… I should have controlled my strength a little more.’

They say that the moment you regret something is the soonest, but unfortunately, now doesn’t seem to be the time for that saying to apply.

“We’ll be at Geumchon Station soon. What are we going to do now? As soon as we get to the station, the troops will pour into the carriages and arrest us all.”

“I guess so.”

The two people who could have stopped it were one in pain and the other drugged and reeling, so it was a situation where nothing could be done.

“hmm···.”

“I told you to do it yourself.”

“Yes, it was.”

“Then, there must be some way?”

Kim Won-bong once again poured salt on the painful wound.

Although he didn’t seem to know that.

“It was there.”

I had the perfect plan too.

How beautiful is the back of someone who knows when to leave… Ah, that’s not it… Anyway, there was something that could be called a plan.

“I was planning to pressure Detective Kim Deok-gi and Inspector Hwang Ok here into cooperating… Ugh, things didn’t go as planned.”

If things in the world went as planned, there would be no war or conflict in this world.

The important thing is an unwavering spirit… and! a spare plan that can be used even if things go wrong.

“Plan A failed, so we have to go to Plan B.”

“I guess there is another way.”

“sure.”

I opened the train door quietly.

Then he looked back at Kim Won-bong and said a word.

“The train will slow down a bit when it turns the corner. So if you wait for that moment and jump off, you can escape safely.”

“You want to escape? Then what are we going to do with all the bombs and weapons? Are we going to let the Japanese police take them away?”

“hmm···.”

Honestly, that wasn’t my area of ​​expertise.

It would have been a shame if the Uiyoldan’s bombs and guns had fallen into the hands of the Japanese police, but since they weren’t my property anyway, that was the end of it.

Rather, it was a good thing for me because if it fell into their hands, it would cause a major setback to the Uiyoldan’s operation to assassinate Governor Saito.

‘No, is that a good thing…?’

Although I felt uneasy, I had come to prevent the assassination of Governor Saito by the Uiyoldan.

Because Governor-General Saito is the one who will hold a petition for me and dance with a sword in Japanese politics.

Of course, I haven’t asked the other person what he or she wants yet.

However, if I tell him my true feelings, Governor Saito will surely be moved by my sincerity and shed tears of repentance.

‘If that doesn’t work out, we can just hang his wife at Gwanghwamun and negotiate. If he tells us to go to the public office, he’ll at least sit down at the negotiating table.’

Through thorough preliminary investigation, we have already confirmed that Governor-General Saito is a moderate within the military, and that his liberal tendencies are heavily influenced by American products, and that his wife is currently in Gyeongseong.

In addition, Saito had a rather uneasy view of the military, which was now running wild, and as a result, he was killed in a coup by the Imperial Path Officers’ Corps a few years later.

In other words, at that time, he was a fairly normal person ‘for a Japanese person’.

‘He has the ability and the vision, so what is this…?’

Governor-General Saito was also the one who was sent to protect the Japanese Empire’s colonies that were in crisis after the March 1st Movement and suppressed and divided Joseon for nearly 10 years.

Unlike other governors-general who had tried various things but ended up just making mistakes repeatedly and incurred the people’s backlash, or who were blinded by immediate profits and focused on sucking up money, Saito divided the people by importing advanced(?) colonial management methods from Britain and America.

As a result, during Governor-General Saito’s reign, the independence movement on the Korean peninsula declined to a level close to extinction, and the independence movement overseas also faced a crisis.

‘So, the Uiyoldan, the provisional government, the independence army, they’re all determined to take Saito’s head off.’

Unfortunately, however, all attempts to assassinate these independence activists ended in failure.

But the funny thing is that Governor-General Saito, who had avoided all assassination attempts, returned to Japan and was beaten to death by fellow Japanese soldiers, many of whom were much lower in rank than him.

What is even more interesting is that, even though such a person served as Prime Minister, the Japanese Empire was a place where trivial problems such as the unilateral withdrawal of the League of Nations by diplomats or the unilateral occupation of foreign territories by the military occurred on a daily basis, running wild and running wild.

The Japanese Empire today is a country that has killed all those who can think about tomorrow and is filled with people who only live for today.

So, if I can stir up Governor-General Saito’s patriotism and make him dance with his sword, the Japanese will send Saito to the afterlife without me having to get my hands dirty…!

“Yeah, that’s it.”

“what?”

“ah.”

It seemed like he was a little too lost in thought for a moment.

“Where did we just talk about…?”

“You were delighted to see the bombs and guns of the Uiyoldan fall into the hands of the Japanese police.”

“Oh, that’s right.”

From my perspective, it didn’t matter if the Japanese police took it and kept it in the evidence lockers of various police stations in Gyeongseong, so I could take it out and use it whenever necessary.

But I couldn’t tell that to Kim Won-bong straight away, so I adjusted my words.

“But it’s impossible to get out of here with all that stuff. So for now, at least get out with your body to prepare for the future.”

But Kim Won-bong shook his head at my suggestion to plan for the future.

“No, the plan will proceed as is.”

“Hmm… Are you planning to kill all the members?”

“They say a wise rabbit digs three holes.”

“······Are you at odds with the land? Why on earth do you dig so many holes?”

Kim Won-bong was a man who never gave up and was more thorough than I had thought.

“I heard you robbed the Shanghai Bank?”

“This is a poem from the golden age, but···.”

“This is probably the first time you’ve heard of it.”

“That’s what they call it.”

Kim Won-bong pulled up the scarf around his neck and covered his mouth and nose with it.

And then, as he pulled out a pistol from his bosom, a train robber like you would see in Manchuria appeared before my eyes.

“This incident will probably not be much different from the Shanghai bank robbery you committed.”

“Are you thinking of crashing the train?”

Kim Won-bong answered with a silent smile.

“This is driving me crazy.”

******

In the engine room of the Gyeongui Line train heading to Gyeongseong, the engineer and two assistants took turns pushing coal into the engine again today.

“Whoa… It’s hot! It’s hot.”

“That’s true… On a day like this, if I could just eat a refreshing shaved ice, I wouldn’t have any more wishes….”

The engineer smiled and said something to his assistants who had been working all day, sweating profusely under the hot fire.

“Bingsu is out of the question, but when we get to Gyeongseong, I’ll bring you some ice water.”

“Really?”

“Wow… Where do you get that precious ice?”

“This time, His Excellency the Governor-General brought several freezers to the Korean Peninsula for testing purposes, and they have been installed at Gyeongseong Station as well.”

“and!”

“Long live His Excellency the Governor!”

The engineer looked happily at his assistants who were cheering for a small happiness.

“Well, so don’t slack off and do your best until the end.”

“Yes! Just leave it to me!”

At that moment, the two assistants, who had regained their energy at the mention of ice water, began digging with renewed strength.

“Huh? What is that···?”

The engineer looked back and saw a flag indicating an emergency stop raised beyond the rearview mirror.

“Stop?”

There was a flag raised indicating an emergency stop.

The driver calmly stopped the train, although he was flustered by the sudden stop request.

With each movement of his hand, the engine’s speed decreased, until it finally came to a complete stop on the side of the road.

“Why did you tell the train to stop in this empty valley?”

“Is there a fire behind you?”

“Hmm… I don’t know.”

The engineer got out of the locomotive, buttoning up his uniform that was disheveled in the heat, putting on the hat he had taken off, and so on.

“I’ll be back in a bit, so you guys rest here for a bit.”

“Yes, have a nice day.”

“Ahem.”

The engineer cleared his throat and went to the back of the train.

The two engineers’ assistants, left alone, put down their shovels for a moment and cooled off in the cool breeze.

But even though a long time had passed, long enough for the sweat that had soaked their bodies to dry, the engineer who had gone behind had not returned.

“It’s taking a long time.”

“Is there a problem?”

“Leave it. If something really bad had happened, you would have come running out of breath and told me to run away right away.”

“Hahaha, that’s true.”

As the two spent more time chatting like that, they heard footsteps from afar.

“I guess you’re coming.”

“Ugh, ugh… Twist! You’re just going to keep digging like crazy again.”

The two got up from their seats, stretching their bodies slightly.

And then we greeted the engineer···.

“?”

“Who, who···?”

In front of the two stood people with their faces covered with hoods or scarves.

They had guns in their hands.

This means only one thing.

“Hey, train robbers?!”

“There are train robbers in Joseon too?! I thought that only happened in Manchuria!!!”

The assistants panicked and picked up their shovels, but the robbers aimed their guns without blinking.

And among them, a masked man with only eye and mouth holes opened stepped forward, aimed a pistol with one hand, and held out the other hand to his assistants.

“Hello. We are train robbers. Please hand over the train to us. Thank you.”

“?”

The engineer’s assistants looked at each other after hearing the masked man’s awkward Japanese.

“What are you saying?”

“I think it’s called a robbery…?”

Then I looked back at the masked man.

I rubbed my eyes a few times.

But the masked person in front of my eyes did not disappear.

“I wonder if it’s real?”

“What should I do?”

Another robber who was watching this from the side slapped the cheek of the assistant who was blankly looking at him.

“From now on, this train is ours. We’ve taken over!”

Then the masked man behind him also said something.

“Okay, get out now!”