Rust - Chapter 67



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RUST -67

The meeting ended in a cool tone.

Actually, if you look closely, it wasn’t even a meeting. A contract is a contract if it’s done according to the contract. If you do whatever you want, is it a contract? Maru and Ki-soon’s opinions were in agreement. Above all, it seemed like they were secretly pressuring him by knowing about the side effects of overheating, which was Maru’s weakness.

I understand why you’re being so arrogant since I treated you, but didn’t Maru do something for you? As you said yourself, if Maru hadn’t cut the entrance near Royal Marina, the damage to Hotel Charlotte would have been enormous.

Even now, if you look at the 6 boats that attacked this time, if Maru hadn’t been there, the ending credits would have rolled. What about Ms. Kim? Ms. Kim would have dealt with the small boats, but how could she stop a 30m yacht from attacking?

If Maru hadn’t rushed in and finished them off, there would have been a melee with at least 30 enemies on the ship, and it was hard to believe that Kim Yang and the two escorts would have been able to deal with 30 heavily armed men without causing any damage.

“That’s why once you catch a fool, you keep trying to catch them. Those who are there do more. More. Huh.”

Ki-soon snorted. You’ve only seen a chaebol once or twice, and they all act like that. They approach you with good intentions, but the result is often a straw in your back.

“The hotel manager’s older sister is like that too. Isn’t it a bit too much to show your true colors? To do it so openly. It would be good for the hotel to reduce the number of children from the headquarters and also reduce the influence of the headquarters in Japan, but what did we do wrong?”

Maru agreed. Just now, it really crossed the line.

“You’re good at talking, but I talked to you earlier, are you okay?”

“What if she’s a scary woman? If my friend gets mad, it’ll be like Charlotte Hotel. I trust my friend and just go for it.”

“Yes. If you can’t even say anything, it’s still uncomfortable. You have that thin bulletproof vest, wear it underneath. Now that we’re on the subject, let’s put it on. I’ll put it on too. Hmm- Ms. Kim? Ms. Kim, you should wear it too.”

“yes.”

It was Ms. Kim’s voice that sounded somewhat reserved and cautious.

Big- big.

It was Ki-sun who was trying to hold back her laughter, and Maru seemed to be about to burst into tears. And somehow, Ms. Kim, who had become somewhat shy, was just kind.

Although there was little damage, there were marks from shotguns and spearguns here and there as they dealt with the pirates who had climbed aboard. There were also quite a few bullet holes from the fight with the boats sent from the Charlotte headquarters.

It wasn’t a problem because there was a hole in it, but the problem was when they encountered a Japanese patrol ship. They could escape in the name of Hotel Charlotte, but if it was a patrol ship with the influence of the headquarters Charlotte, they would definitely try to board the ship and capture it using the bullet holes as an excuse.

The result will be a genocide ending.

“So don’t worry, I’ve taken down the jamming device.”

The self-proclaimed CEO’s older sister was proud of the mechanical equipment she had installed on one side of the cockpit. Once it was in operation, it was said that the radio would be unresponsive within a radius of 3~4km, so it was more than enough. But the problem wasn’t that it was enough. Since it was taken away, if a patrol ship touched by the headquarters came by, the jamming was turned on immediately. Doesn’t that mean you can cut or shoot without worrying?

Ki-sun was not in a good mood.

“No, sir, why on earth is he doing that? He’s just thinking about throwing you and killing you.”

No matter how much something imprints on you, it’s still like that. Isn’t this not a real person, but an invincible X-? But it’s hard to find something that has an X in front of it that’s proper. Like an X-wife (a divorced wife), or an X-tra. Could it be that they’re aiming for Extinct (extinct)? No, right?

“I’ll take the route as far away from land as possible, so know that. What if they go really far away? Even though they’re going this far away, they’re coming with a purpose, so we have to prepare for it.”

So the route was changed again.

The Charlotte headquarters attack team waiting at the port realized that they had missed the target midway when the scheduled date passed and the target did not arrive. Although they were able to track their location using a unique identification number and GPS, the information was manipulated in the middle by Hotel Charlotte, making it impossible to determine the correct location.

“If we continue like this, we’ll all be screwed.”

“We have no choice but to search the nearby waters by searching for a patrol boat.”

“We need to agree to capture and deal with it immediately when the patrol boat discovers it.”

“Fortunately, the current situation is a mess, so it’s easy to locate the patrol boat.”

“Where did you think it went?”

“First, let’s search around the Kanmon Strait and the Seto Inland Sea. Since that area is complicated, it’s hard to rule out the possibility that they went around Kyushu. We have no choice but to look around there as well.”

The Japanese Kyushu forces that had decided to go under Charlotte’s headquarters joined forces and began searching for the catamaran Maru was on.

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The long mast stretched into the sky. The large triangular sails were filled with the wind. The catamaran, riding the wind blowing from the north and running bouncing over the waves, looked like a water skipper.

“Wow, what does that sound like?”

Maru was also really surprised by this. It felt like my liver was going to burst when a large ship that was over 30m long would slightly jump over the waves.

“Even if you run like this, your actual speed won’t be that high. At best, you’ll be going back and forth at 25 knots.”

“No way. It feels like it’s flying up like this?”

“Try hitting a speed bump at 40-50 km/h in a car. It will bounce right off. Think of it as something like that.”

Ki-soon was calm and composed. Maru let out an exclamation of “Wow!” and collapsed on the sofa on the third floor. The sky filled his eyes. The autumn sky was really high and blue. Suddenly, he remembered how he had responded to the hotel manager’s words like a frog.

“Hey- Are you sure you’re okay?”

“It’s okay if it’s not okay. We’re not running away to kill people and make money. We’re running away to go back to normal life, but if we keep killing people, isn’t that contradictory? If you can, don’t kill, don’t get involved, wash your identity, and live quietly. Didn’t you say that you would do that?”

At Gi-sun’s words, Maru turned his gaze to the sails. The taut white sails made a humming sound.

“Yeah, but it’s so annoying. I suddenly wonder if it wouldn’t be better to just brush it off and leave.”

“Shouldn’t you be more careful when you have such thoughts? If you cut them off according to your temper, you’ll get hooked and overheat, take some medicine and get angry again, and overheat again. If you keep pushing like that and put in a neutralizer, can you go back to your daily life? When your purpose wavers and your means become shitty, it’s like a revolutionary army turning into a cartel. The abyss is fleeting.”

Yes, they too started out as revolutionaries, they too were revolutionaries at first, and they too just took up arms to protect their daily lives, to protect the people who were being sacrificed. Now they are a drug cartel.

“Yes, hell is a moment.”

It was a moment when a happy family was shattered, it was a moment when I realized that there had never been any love between half-siblings, and realizations are always a moment.

Maru and Gisun pondered it for a moment in silence.

Beep!

Beep!

Beep beep beep beep beep

Ki-sun, who had been savoring the silence for a moment, turned on the communicator. The self-proclaimed CEO got to the point.

[A ship moving at high speed was detected on radar.]

“You’re not coming this way, are you?”

[That’s right. Based on radar images, it appears to be a ship of about 200 to 250 tons, traveling at 27 to 28 knots. Considering its size, low speed, and the fact that it’s heading straight this way, it’s likely a Japanese patrol ship.]

“···There was no request for communication?”

[You’ll do it by closing in on the distance so that we can’t escape, right?]

“What are you going to do?”

[What would I have to think? Do as you wish. Whether you get captured or not, just keep my safety as per the contract. Isn’t that the answer you wanted? Do that.]

“Ha- Okay, I understand.”

Ki-soon grabbed her own hair and shook it.

“Ahhhhhhhhhh! I’m pissed. That girl really. She has a good aftertaste. I like it.”

Ki-sun roughly recalled his memories. If it was 200 to 250 tons, it would be a Surugi-class patrol boat, and it would be a high-speed patrol boat with three engines. The top speed would be around 40 knots or more. Damn, it was fast. The catamaran I was on right now was a yacht that was not capable of high-speed maneuvering. Instead, it had a spacious and awesome salon, lounge, and cockpit, but it was useless in the current situation.

If I get the maximum wind and run the engine at full speed, I think I can get 30 knots? I got about 27 knots, but since there’s still some distance, let’s run. I’m still moving across the open sea, so if they’re coming this way, I think they’re guys wanted by the Charlotte headquarters to catch the president’s older sister…

“Get Maruya ready to ski, and tell Kim Yang to get ready to shoot.”

There were two water skis on the yacht that Maru had blown away with the quad skis. There was one quad ski left, but it was amphibious, so it had to be saved. Maru said, hurriedly putting on his old man’s knife on his waist.

“With the Bowie knife out, the only long-bladed sword left is the old man’s knife. If that goes out too, then the only other long-bladed swords left are daggers and Chinese knives.”

“No, are you talking about a knife in this situation? Shoot, shoot! What are you doing with a gun? We have so many guns.”

Maru looked gloomy at Ki-sun’s words.

How can you trust a gun? It’s pointless if they’re wearing bulletproof vests, and if you try to do a headshot and make eye contact, it sucks, and you have to confirm they’re dead and kill them, and it leaves a bad aftertaste in many ways.

The stopping power is weak, and to achieve decent stopping power, you need to use a .45 caliber. Most of the time, the magazine capacity is ruined. When Maru muttered, Kim Yang answered when he came.

“I like Glock. Glock also has a .45 caliber. Yeah. Glock .41 holds 13 rounds.”

Maru nodded to Kim Yang’s words with a somewhat uneasy expression.

“Do we have that?”

“Yes. We have that too. We have a 9mm submachine gun and bullets.”

“Yeah. You know that tactical vest and the style I wear? I’ll just give you a rough fit. You take your place in the cockpit and prepare to snipe.”

“yes-”

Maru shook his head.

“I really can’t get used to it. It’s even more like seeing the old ferry.”

“Phew-hew- Yeah, that’s true. It’s even more so because I’m being gentle. It also feels a bit bold, and is that feeling called foolishness?”

“Okay. What should we do? If the patrol ship approaches this side, we should consider it a loss. Even if I go in and cause trouble, if they hit this place with a 20mm or 40mm Vulcan, it’s over. It would be best to follow them like last time, render them inoperable, and then run away. Once I take it, the ending is to go up.”

It was meaningless if the floor went up. It wasn’t funny if we all came together with the mindset of ‘let’s not kill anyone if possible’ and then got on a killing spree not even a day later.

“Ms. Kim said she knows how to handle bombs. Why not attach a bomb to a life tube, throw it into the buoy, and jump?”

“If possible, that would be the best method···.”

Ki-soon frowned as if something had occurred to him. If it were a screw method, it would be effective, but what about water jet propulsion?

“If it’s a waterjet propulsion system, it’s fucked up.”

Three engines. High-speed propulsion. And was it a water jet? A Japanese high-speed patrol boat? Kisun found the female president through the communicator.

“By any chance, do you know what propulsion method Japanese high-speed patrol boats use? Is it a screw or a water jet?”

[I know that 200~250 ton high-speed patrol boats are water jets.]

“Ah- thank you.”

[What? Since it’s a water jet, it won’t be of much use even if you throw something clumsily at the back. I think the best thing to do is to board and clean it up. This is just my opinion.]

Stop-

It was CEO Shim who said what he wanted to say and hung up.

“Ugh- This boss is seriously hot. What should I do?”

“What should I do? I have to keep throwing it. I think it’ll be hard for me to do it alone, so the boss’s bodyguard and I can try throwing two each, about four times. If that doesn’t work, then there’s nothing we can do.”

If you go alone, the firepower will be concentrated. It would be better to go with at least two people, but Kim Yang’s right arm and sniping were much more effective.

“So you want me to send you a bodyguard with optical concealment equipment?”

“That’s the most effective way.”

The plan is for Maru and his bodyguards to approach the back of a high-speed patrol boat on water skis equipped with optical concealment equipment on the front, and throw C4 bombs made by Kim Yang at the back and the 20mm Vulcan battery, destroying its mobility and attack power.

“Isn’t there a more effective way?”

The president spoke while glancing at the floor. Ki-sun objected in a low voice.

“People are not just weapons. People can make really stupid mistakes. And in a situation like this, mistakes mean death. Is there really any reason for people to run wild in the field in this situation? I think it’s reasonable to use it first if you can avoid danger as much as possible and use a slightly safer method.”

The self-proclaimed CEO Shim looked at Ki-sun with a ‘whoa-‘ expression. It wasn’t a particularly pleasant expression, but it was an expression of understanding.

“Okay, okay. But please understand this. If my bodyguard leaves my side now, it means I am taking a risk. And if I provide you with optical cloaking equipment, it means I am taking a risk. I hope you remember that I am doing you a favor this time.”

Moments later, two water skiers equipped with optical concealment equipment cut through the waves, accompanied by a swaying sensation.

Wooooow-

In the space where the waves had been rippling for a moment, only white, split waves remained. And in the distance, a high-speed patrol boat was picking up speed.