NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 61



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“Geumchon Station has disappeared?”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“Why did a perfectly good train station disappear?”

“That···. That···.”

Makoto Saito, the third Governor-General of Korea, who was working at the Government-General Building, grabbed the back of his neck when he heard the shocking news in the middle of the night.

“He’s back again?”

“It’s not certain yet, but···.”

“Then, it’s not that guy, it’s a new guy?!”

“······According to the words of Superintendent Miwa Wasaburo, the head of the high-level police department at the scene, the method of the crime and the motive for the actions were very similar to those of the Gyeongseong ghost seen before.”

“Then, that means he came back.”

Governor Saito sank into his chair and sighed.

“Whew… I thought things were finally going well… What is this?”

“I apologize, Your Majesty.”

“What else do you have to apologize to me for? The problem is that that crazy bastard has set foot on Joseon soil again…”

The aide repeatedly bowed his head and apologized, but Governor-General Saito was already busy thinking of ways to avoid responsibility for this incident.

‘The Army was the one that actively expressed its intention to participate in this operation, and border control is also the domain of the North Korean garrison, so if we can get along well with them, we can reduce our responsibility a little.’

As soon as Governor Saito gathered his thoughts, he picked up his pen and started writing his report.

This was because he knew that reporting such major incidents to Tokyo as soon as possible would be advantageous in getting out of the situation.

Of course, given the scale of the work, your responsibilities won’t completely disappear just because of a piece of paper like this… but it will at least reduce them to some extent.

So Governor Saito wrote an emergency report in an abbreviated form and handed it over to his aide.

“Run to the Keijo Telephone Office right away and send a telegram to the Prime Minister’s residence in Tokyo.”

“You mean to send it to the award ceremony?”

“As soon as possible, please.”

“All right!”

Since there was no direct hotline between the Government-General of Korea and Tokyo, sending a telegram was the best option.

And since the same was true for the Joseon Garrison Command in Yongsan, assuming that the Governor-General and the Yongsan Joseon Army Command received this information at the same time…

‘The Yongsan dog guys heard this news and held a meeting to come up with countermeasures in a hurry, so even if you send a telegram now, I’ll be faster!’

Meanwhile, the headquarters of the Korean Garrison Forces in Yongsan was not much different from the Government-General.

“Chief of Staff! Where is Chief of Staff Yasumitsu!”

“Oh, you called? Your Excellency the Commander.”

“This is an emergency. Call an emergency executive meeting immediately!”

“yes!”

The Korean Garrison Forces were troops stationed on the Korean Peninsula by the Empire of Japan, which had forcibly disbanded the Korean Empire’s army, to defend the Korean Peninsula. They did not even listen to orders from the army minister on the mainland or from the Governor-General of Korea, who controlled everything on the Korean Peninsula.

The only one who could control them was the commander of the Korean garrison in Yongsan.

And the commander of the Korean garrison currently guarding the entire Korean Peninsula was Lieutenant General Shinnosuke Kikuchi, who was preparing to return to his home country as his promotion was approaching.

In Joseon, the highest-ranking officer in power after the Governor-General… no, perhaps as powerful as the Governor-General, immediately gathered in one place at the order of Lieutenant General Kikuchi.

“Geumchon Station disappeared from the map.”

When they suddenly heard that a station had disappeared, everyone looked like they had been hit in the back of the head while they were sleeping.

“yes···?”

“Why did a perfectly good station disappear?”

“Are you saying that the administrative districts have been reorganized···?”

“I don’t know. I heard that the ghost of Gyeongseong or something that stirred up Gyeongseong in the past has returned to Joseon and is causing trouble.”

The officers tilted their heads at the mention of the ghost of Gyeongseong.

“The Ghost of Gyeongseong…? Ah! So you’re the author who blew off the hand of the Chief of Police of the Government-General at that time.”

“At that time, it was quite nice to see the seal captain of the Governor-General’s Office struggling.”

“Ah! I remember. At that time, the faces of the Governor-General’s bastards were overshadowed, so I could see them, hahaha…”

“It was quite tolerable that the Governor-General was manipulated by a mere rascal. And yet, until the very end, he was reluctant to ask for our support.”

“It’s just a useless stubbornness. If they had bowed their heads and asked for our help first, we would have helped them on our own.”

“Yes.”

In the past, when Gyeongseong was in an uproar, the headquarters of the Joseon Garrison in Yongsan was in a position to watch from a distance, so they only heard about the ghost of Gyeongseong through rumors or reports.

That is, those who had never been hit by him.

That’s why everyone laughed at the Japanese Government-General of Korea and its police department, which almost had their souls ripped out by a single person.

Their mockery was based on the confidence that if it were them, they would have caught and dealt with such a traitor in an instant.

“But what did that guy do that caused Geumchon Station to disappear?”

“They hijacked the train, planted a bomb on it, and rushed it to Geumchon Station, where they all blew up at once.”

“······?”

However, they were brave because they did not know about the existence of the ghost of Gyeongseong. They were not brave to begin with.

“Your Majesty, I think my ears are deaf.”

“What’s the problem?”

“Your Majesty, a little while ago… you said that a spirit being called the Ghost of Gyeongseong hijacked a train, planted a bomb on it, and blew up the station by rushing it to Geumchon Station….”

“You heard correctly.”

“······.”

“oh my god.”

Everyone was speechless by the unprecedented terror.

While everyone was practicing silence with their mouths shut, one of the officers suddenly remembered something and opened his mouth urgently.

“Then, then what happened to our troops that were dispatched to Geumchon Station?!”

“What do you think would have happened?”

“S, really… annihilation…?”

“······First of all, we received a report that there are 300 missing people and 120 injured.”

“Whew… Then it looks like there were no casualties. It really was a godsend….”

Then Commander Giguchi added:

“The missing person is literally declared missing because their form has not been found.”

“That, that means···?”

“You could practically consider him dead.”

“······.”

The situation was much more serious than they had thought.

It’s not even a wartime situation, and two, not one, company-level troops have disappeared.

It wasn’t that a few percent of the troops were damaged and declared annihilated, but that they were literally annihilated, evaporating without a trace.

If this news reaches the home country, the local political circles will likely raise questions about responsibility for this incident, and if that happens, the situation will become irreversible.

“······It seems like everyone has a rough idea of ​​the current situation, so we will begin the meeting now.”

And at this meeting, the headquarters of the Korean Garrison Forces unanimously resolved to reduce the scale of the damage, negotiate with the Government-General, and cooperate beyond the positions of the Army and Navy to quickly capture the Ghost of Gyeongseong.

******

Around the time when the Japanese Government-General of Korea in Gyeongseong and the Japanese garrison in Yongsan began an invisible, underground battle.

“Miss Kim! Miss Kim! We’re in trouble! Miss Kim!”

“Mr. Chunsik is here.”

Kim Hu-dong, who lives in a luxury Western-style house a little away from the center of Gyeongseong, is visited by his former co-worker, Kim Chun-sik.

His visit to Kim Hu-dong’s house was as ordinary as a sparrow hovering over a mill, but today he seemed a little more anxious than usual.

“You came running? Why are you sweating so much… Oh my!”

“Ouch, we’re in big trouble!”

Chun-sik grabbed Kim Hu-dong’s hand, looked around a couple of times, and then hurriedly ran into the bedroom.

“What have you done! Let go of this!”

“Okay, just follow me quietly for a moment. It’s urgent!”

“I told you to put it down! I didn’t see you like that, Chunsik, but you really are a beast of a man!”

“That’s not it…. Oh no!”

Kim Hu-dong pulled out the hairpin from his hair and stabbed Chun-sik’s right arm with all his might.

Her grip was weak, so the hairpin didn’t get stuck or leave any serious injuries to Chun-sik, but she still managed to escape his grasp.

Kim Hu-dong let down his hair like a ghost and aimed the sharp part of his jade hairpin at Chun-sik.

“What the hell are you doing, barging in all of a sudden!”

“Ah… I did that because I had something to say!”

“You can say whatever you want to say here!”

“······That’s not something you should say in such an open space!”

Kim Hu-dong laughed at Chun-sik’s excuse.

“If you can’t say something in front of others, it’s even worse if you say it in a secret place.”

“Hmm···. But···. This···.”

“What do you want to say? Say it here.”

“That···. That···. Oh my god!”

Chunsik kept looking around with an anxious look on his face.

He looked anxious, as if someone was watching him.

“What are you looking for? Tell me quickly.”

“I’ll tell you! Wait a minute, I’ll tell you.”

Chunsik looked around like that for a long time.

He didn’t just turn his head and glance around a few times, he also checked the walls around the house, opened the lids of the kimchi jars on the kimchi storage stand to look inside, and even looked into the back room.

“Phew···.”

“What on earth are you talking about, searching through other people’s homes?”

“That’s it···”

Chunsik hesitated and opened his mouth with difficulty.

“That···. Mr. Kim, Mr. President···. So, do you remember the president of Gwangyang General Trading Company?”

“Boss? Of course I remember. If it weren’t for you, how could our family of three have lived comfortably in this nice house?”

“That’s right… Thanks to him, I am able to live comfortably in Gyeongseong….”

“But why are you suddenly talking about him?”

“That is… Last time, the CEO closed the company and disappeared without a word, right?”

At the time, Kim Hu-dong was shocked to learn that the company had gone bankrupt overnight.

Even at that time, I was shocked to hear that a big fight had broken out around the company and that someone had died.

It was a job I had barely managed to get with uncommonly good conditions, but the company went bankrupt before I could even start working there in earnest.

The newspaper reported that there was a clash between organized crime groups targeting the surrounding commercial districts and the police, so Kim Hu-dong had thought that the president involved in the incident had folded the company and left Gyeongseong.

“Isn’t that so?”

“But that’s actually···.”

“It’s not that I closed down the company because others pushed me to, I was just taking refuge in Shanghai for a while.”

“?”

“?!”

At that moment, the door to the love room opened and an uninvited guest popped out of her house.

The man, who looked like a grim reaper wearing a black fedora, a black long coat, and a black suit, had broad shoulders and a sturdy appearance that reminded me of a brown bear.

His appearance alone was scary, but what was even scarier was that half of his face was hidden by his fedora.

Chunsik instinctively pushed Kim Hu-dong behind him and took out the pistol he usually carried in his chest, aiming it at the opponent.

No matter how bear-like a person may be, in front of a gun he is nothing more than a creature made of skin.

“Mr. Chunsik…? What kind of gun is this…?”

“I don’t have time to explain. Just stay behind me!”

Chunsik shouted at his opponent with great nervousness.

“Who, who are you!”

“Someone you know.”

“What, what did you say?”

“Long time no see, Woojin!”

The opponent lifted the end of his hat slightly with his thumb and showed his face.

“Hey, boss!”

“president?!”

“It’s been a while, Mr. Kim. How have you been?”

“I’ve been doing well thanks to you, boss… When did you come to Gyeongseong?”

“I came this morning.”

“In the morning…? So you were hiding in the love room since morning?”

He smiled awkwardly in response to Kim Hu-dong’s question.

“Um… It just so happened that way.”

“What is that···?”

“I guess this is how it turned out, because I let myself go with the flow of the world, hahaha! Isn’t that right? Woojin… no, Chunsik!”

“Ah, yes···. That’s how it is as you live···.”

Chunsik smiled awkwardly and hid the gun back in his arms.

Kim Hu-dong, unaware of the situation, looked confused, holding his cheeks with both hands.

“What is going on···.”

The president of Gwangyang General Trading Company put his hand on Kim Hu-dong’s shoulder and calmed her down.

“You don’t have to try to understand us. If you try to understand us, only our Kim will be in danger.”

“yes···?”

“Well, that’s the kind of person I am.”

“yes???”

Kim Hu-dong still had a look of disbelief on his face, but he vaguely noticed that she was at least doing this.

‘You don’t seem like an ordinary person…’

She was a highly educated person, which was rare in this Joseon land.

That’s why I had heard to some extent about the people who were like her, the Bulyeongseonins who were causing a stir in the world by saying they would fight for independence.

She didn’t even know exactly what those people did.

But now that I’m reunited with the CEO like this, I realize.

He was saying that the person in front of him was a traitor who was being driven around so viciously by the Governor-General.

“Whew… I feel like I’ve been caught in a trap.”

“The fun of life is that it becomes complicated and intertwined with unexpected situations.”

“Why is my life never smooth sailing?”

Kim Hu-dong had no interest in things like the independence movement, but before he knew it, he was at the center of it.

If things went wrong, it would affect not only himself but also his precious children.

Thinking about it like that gave me a headache.

“Life is supposed to be a bit twisted, but when you look back, you’ll be happy.”

The former president just laughed, not knowing whether he knew what she was thinking or not.

“You might as well not come back…”

“Oh, I feel a little sad when you say that, Miss Kim.”

“Yeah, it was just a monologue. I’m sorry if it sounded that way, boss.”

“Haha, it’s okay! If it’s our Kim Yang, she can do that.”

Although he had no interest in things like the independence movement, seeing it in front of him like this sparked a small curiosity in Kim Yang’s heart.

It wasn’t anything grand, it was just about what kind of person the person in front of you was.

‘Come to think of it, I always called you ‘Boss’, but I didn’t even know your name?’

She didn’t know anything about him.

I didn’t know anything about him, from his name and family history to his likes and dislikes, and even his age.

That’s why I naturally became curious about him.

Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean a rational emotion, but rather closer to pure academic passion.

But I couldn’t ask him directly because I was embarrassed and scared, so I just quietly deduced it to myself.

‘I think it’s related to what happened around the company on the day the CEO left···.’

The thoughts naturally continued on and on.

‘The police said it was a fight between gangsters, but… people said that the Ghost of Gyeongseong judged the Chief of Police of the Government-General.’

During the few months that the president was gone, the so-called Gyeongseong Ghost had also been less active.

A few copycats were caught, but they were just young people who followed him.

‘Then, is the boss by any chance···?’

Kim Hu-dong looked up at the president.

Then he smiled broadly and asked her.

“Do you have anything to say?”

“Oh, no.”

Kim Hu-dong shook his head.

Because he looked too good to be a ghost of Gyeongseong.

The ghost of Gyeongseong she knew was a cruel, ruthless, heartless murderer and a brutal terrorist.

‘Well… there’s no way the boss would do that.’

It seemed that he had run away because things at the company had gone wrong for some reason.

“Now that the boss is back, I guess I’ll have to show off my skills for the first time in a while.”

She put aside her useless thoughts and decided to treat her benefactor whom she hadn’t seen in a long time to some food.

“Huh? No need for that, Miss Kim. I have an appointment so I have to go out now.”

“Hey, is this a promise?”

“huh.”

“Then why did you come to our house···?”

“Oh, I won’t be in Gyeongseong for long, so I came here to see Chunshik and Kim Yang for the first time in a while.”

“Ah···. Yes···.”

After saying that, he put his hat back on and went out the front door.

“Okay, see you later!”

Then he disappeared into the crowd of people on the street.

It was clearly right before my eyes, but it disappeared in an instant.

Just like a ghost.

‘No, then why did you come?’

He left behind only unanswered questions in the hearts of Kim Hu-dong and Kim Chun-sik.

And the love room he left was filled with treasures of unknown origin.

“Three, my goodness… What is all this?!”

“Wow···. Gold, silver···. What is all this···.”

There is just one strange thing.

“There’s a name written on the ring?”

“What’s your name? What’s your name?”

“Well… It says Kim… Deokgi…?”

“Is that the boss’s name?”

“Maybe so.”

“Wow… It’s been a while since the boss gave me a precious gift.”