Rust - Chapter 16



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RUST-16

The air has settled.

A heavy silence filled Manager Hong, Ms. Kim, and Maru. It was a strange standoff, with no one speaking first. Maru repeatedly gripped and pulled his pistol.

Although they said they had stopped the bleeding, Kim’s condition worsened by the minute, perhaps because the bleeding was a bit slow.

For her, the joy of being alive was food. When she ate delicious food, watched interesting things, and occasionally did something fun, she felt alive while relaxing.

But now, all I could taste was her blood in my mouth.

Whether or not Kim Yang struggled to survive, Manager Hong and Maru just stared at each other without saying a word.

‘Hey you fucking dogs I’m dying. I’m dying!’

Ms. Kim was cursing internally. How long did this standoff go on?

Maru took the magazine out of the pistol. Kim Yang fired five rounds out of the 17-round magazine, leaving 12 rounds left. There would be one round in the chamber and 11 in the magazine.

Why are you taking out the magazine? Kim Yang looked at Maru with a questioning expression.

If Maru had accepted Manager Hong’s offer and decided to stay, she would have quickly found some styptic, poured it on her arm, and then rushed straight to the company hospital.

Manager Hong also responded by sighing slightly when Maru removed the magazine from the pistol.

Before Kim Yang could even respond that she was alive, Maru glared at her. Her eyes were full of murderous intent.

‘Why? You crazy bastard. Why again? What’s with those eyes?’

The scream inside Kim Yang faded away as the floor brushed past her and whispered softly in her ear.

“What would happen if you shot Manager Hong?”

“Uh- Yes?”

Kim Yang didn’t know what expression to make. Why on earth would he shoot Manager Hong all of a sudden? Regardless, Maru walked behind Kim Yang.

Kim Yang thought of Maru holding the sashimi behind her. A creepy sensation tickled her back and neck. She glanced at the shadow reflected in the window, and it was Maru, who was really holding the sashimi and preparing to stab it at any moment.

“I will save you···.”

Manager Hong narrowed his eyes when Maru suddenly went behind Kim Yang and took out sashimi.

Regardless of what Ms. Kim and Chief Hong said, Maru put the gun with one bullet left in the chamber into Ms. Kim’s left hand and aimed it at Chief Hong.

As she held the pistol, the knife that had pierced her left shoulder blade shook. Ms. Kim was in too much pain to think about anything else.

The moment I said, “Uh-uh-,” a gun was aimed at Manager Hong.

Just as Manager Hong, whose eyes had widened, was about to say something, the tip of Maru’s knife lightly stabbed the back of Kim Yang’s neck. Kim Yang reflexively pulled the trigger.

Ppakkang-

puck!

Tick-

A hole appeared between Manager Hong’s eyebrows with a dull noise.

Even though it was only one shot in the room, Kim Yang reflexively pulled the trigger twice and was left in a daze.

Why did you do that?

why?

Why?

Why on earth are you doing this to me?

I am dead now.

It’s really all over.

He was making various and rapidly changing facial expressions.

“Now you too are being chased by the organization. If you want to survive, you have to change your identity and go overseas. Since we are both being chased, let’s go together.”

‘What a fucking punk!’

Miss Kim, who couldn’t bring herself to scream, wanted to cry.

“What are you going to do about your little brother?”

“I’ll take care of it. Don’t worry about that. Chief Hong’s death won’t be known right away, right? You’ll have at least a day to spare, so let’s treat your arm first.”

Kim Yang’s tearful expression suddenly changed at the words to treat her arm first. At least, she was free from the danger of becoming a cripple. She lived. She was able to live.

“The company-run hospital is less than 10 minutes away by car.”

“Okay, have a go.”

Kim Yang protested with a face that said, “How am I supposed to drive with these arms?”, but Maru cleanly ignored her.

“Where is the safe? Where are the medicines? Where are the relevant documents?”

“The safe is hidden under Manager Hong’s desk. It uses both iris and fingerprint recognition. Manager Hong told us to move all the medicine to the basement, so it’s there. The entrances are Workroom 4 and Warehouse 11, and the password is 0492. The data is in files on Manager Hong’s laptop.”

Maru nodded.

I thought it was a good idea to kill the snake-like Manager Hong and save Miss Kim.

“Okay, first, go to the hospital. You know it’s useless to tell the organization that I killed him, right? Your fingerprints are all over the gun, and the angle at which you clearly killed him when you were standing will all come out if you investigate. It’d be the same even if I threatened to shoot him. In my opinion, this organization would definitely kill a traitor. What do you think, Ms. Kim?”

“······.”

Miss Kim felt a little stung, but she wanted to scream at her to fuck off.

But then I thought he would say, ‘Really?’ and poke me.

“Go to the hospital quickly and come back. If you want to escape, do so. If you do, the organization will make a fuss about catching Miss Kim. If you think about it logically, would they suspect an ordinary person who has been working without thinking for two years? Or would they think you, Miss Kim, betrayed them? Who should they go after first?”

Ms. Kim really wanted to go crazy and jump around.

“If you want to live, you should go to the hospital and come back as soon as possible. At the very least, holding on to the cash in the safe or the documents that Manager Hong has will help you save your life. If you don’t think so, do whatever you want. Just hurry up and go.”

Miss Kim went to the overturned desk and looked for her car keys.

It was Ms. Kim who went out with the air of ‘I’m ruined.’

Maru looked at Manager Hong, who had a hole between his eyebrows. Manager Hong’s face, with a knife stuck in his face and a hole between his eyebrows, was literally miserable. If he had held Manager Hong’s hand, it seemed like he would never be able to escape.

What the fuck.

Maru cursed quietly and opened Manager Hong’s computer again.

Naru’s appearance in the automatically stopped video was unfamiliar. Why was her crying appearance so unfamiliar? Maru turned off the video and compressed several files on the desktop and transferred them to a USB.

‘There’s no chance that anything serious will happen to Naru within an hour or two anyway.’

So it was right to move as I thought.

‘Check the safe first, then the Naru in Workshop 4, and finally the warehouse in the basement of Workshop 4.’

When I unlocked the safe on the desk floor, there was a doorway leading down to the stairs. When I opened the safe door all the way, I heard a clicking sound. The inside of the safe was about 5 pyeong in size.

The floor was dizzying. I couldn’t get a sense of the scale of the company that Manager Hong had mentioned. Cash filled the walls. Bundles of money wrapped in plastic were stacked in a T shape. There were yen, dollars, won, yuan, euros, and even British pounds.

“under- ”

A sigh and a curse came out at the same time. There were bundles of 50,000 won bills in the trunk of Baek’s Benz, and here were piles of money from all over the world. Do all drug-selling organizations have this much cash? The Japanese yakuza had a lot of money, but here it seemed to have even more.

Maru saw that there was quite a bit of cash piled up, but honestly, he was scared.

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Ms. Kim was rushed to a hospital that was 10 minutes away, within 5 minutes. Since it was a hospital affiliated with the company, when Ms. Kim went into the emergency room, she was immediately treated and asked to explain what had happened.

‘What kind of situation report is this? I almost died.’

The doctor spoke to Ms. Kim while stitching up her right arm under local anesthesia.

“You know that for a surgery this big, you’d normally be under general anesthesia, right? I can ask for local anesthesia, but you shouldn’t move even if it feels strange or you feel pain. By the way, how did this happen?”

Kim Yang rolled his eyes. Even if his right arm was shattered, there was no way to explain the brilliant sashimi stuck on his left back. It was also a bit odd to say that his karma had been attacked.

‘How can you say that a monster like that came in and killed me by itself?’

Manager Hong was also in a state of shock at the moment. At that moment, a light went on in Ms. Kim’s head. Manager Hong must have definitely reported the incident with Maru. Since the drug was used on Maru’s mother and younger sibling, the company must also know what was going on.

“I almost died trying to see what the newbies were capable of.”

“Haha- Manager Hong was bragging about this new recruit and telling us to look forward to him. But looking at his scars, he really does seem like a dirty guy.”

“It’s dirty?”

“Yes. Well, I still don’t know much about human anatomy, so there were a few mistakes, but the wound was really dirty. There’s no other way to describe how a novice who doesn’t know anything could have made such a wound except by using a knife really dirty.”

Ms. Kim was strong.

“Then will the aftereffects be severe?”

After the wound heals, do you get tremors? Well, I twisted the sashimi and cracked the bone, so maybe it was broken or shattered? Even though I was anesthetized, my right arm felt throbbing.

“Well. The parts that are currently problematic are blood vessels, nerves, and bones. The blood vessels were really lucky. We saved them as much as possible. Some were a bit dangerous, but we were able to put out the fire. I was worried about the nerves, but fortunately, they weren’t severed. I guess we’ll have to watch the progress while rehabilitating. The bones weren’t broken, but there were a lot of wounds from the knife wound. There was a lot of bleeding around them.”

“How long will the treatment take?”

I had to escape as soon as I received treatment. It was dangerous if rehabilitation took a long time.

“Um… First, the stitches will be removed in two weeks, and any rehabilitation or bone-related issues will be reassessed after the stitches are removed.”

Ah- I’m screwed. The doctor, seeing Ms. Kim’s expression, said that it was the same when something happened at the company.

“Now, try lying on your back.”

Ms. Kim rolled over with a groan. Her head and the left upper half of her body were slightly protruding from the operating table due to the blade sticking out in front.

“You must not move.”

The doctor was amazed at the sight of the sashimi stuck in Kim Yang’s back. The knife piercing through the shoulder blade as smoothly as a Choco Pie was something you would only see in comics or movies.

If you look at the X-ray, it was a really clean penetration. If it had gone a little lower or sideways, it would have torn the upper part of the lung, which would have been a really serious injury.

Fortunately, his lungs were intact and no major blood vessels were damaged, but it will take some time for his bones to heal.

“This is fortunate too. The lungs, blood vessels, and nerves were not seriously injured. However, it seems that the severed bone will take some time to heal. It seems that the medication will have to be taken for a long time.”

“I have to go to the karma center.”

“Wouldn’t it be better to stay hospitalized and rest for a few days?”

“At the very least, I need to hand over the work. There are many things I need to do myself, and Manager Hong has done a lot of work while working, so I’m not in a position to feel comfortable while hospitalized.”

The doctor nodded. He had seen quite a few people with amputated fingers, limbs, and holes in their bodies. He had also seen employees who had performed finger reattachment surgeries return to work the same day.

“I will give you a two-week supply of medicine.”

“Please give me more. I don’t know what will happen.”

The doctor changed the prescription to a one-month supply with a hmm.

“Your right hand will swell a lot. Your left hand will also swell quite a bit because of the bone injury. The swelling will almost completely go down by the time the stitches are removed, so you don’t have to worry about the swelling. If Manager Hong is determined to do this, there may be a situation where he has to go on a business trip to the provinces or overseas, so I’ll give you a Korean and English version of the medical certificate. Take them with you.”

“thank you.”

Ms. Kim bowed her head deeply in greeting. The doctor narrowed his eyes at her warm greeting.

“But… Our company’s ace, Ms. Kim, was injured to this extent, but I guess the new employee is okay?”

Kim nodded without realizing it at the doctor’s question that came in.

It’s a matter of the account.