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Kang-gyun Kim exclaimed in fury.
“Did you get a report?”
“Yes. Someone reported it anonymously… .”
“These bastards.”
An unidentified organization that attacked Jo Young-chan and confirmed that he was a hunter.
It was clear that the organization had reported Young-chan Cho.
“What is Kim Woong doing? Does it make sense to take a person who has only registered for one day, no matter how Shingo, right away?!”
“President, if you calm down a little… .”
“Am I really what I look like now!?”
Kim Kang-gyun said as he untied his tie roughly.
“Tell me to release you right now! After all, there is no proper way to check the skill, isn’t it enough if it rains? Hurry up before you get the attention of the opposition or other people like this!”
Then Jo Man-cheol sighed and said.
“Hey, President… that is… .”
* * *
“Honestly, tell me everything.”
At Kim Woong’s words, Jo Young-chan said with a determined expression.
“I have no skills. Does it make sense to say that you have a skill even though you haven’t awakened in the first place?”
“okay? Then there’s nothing you can do. You just have to stay here.”
Jo Young-chan was brought to the National Hunter Headquarters.
“What the hell is this doing? No matter how much you receive a report, do you push and detain people like this without evidence? This is human rights abuse! Human Rights Violation! As a youth member of the ruling party, I will never condone this incident!!”
At Jo Young-chan’s words, Kim Woong said with a calm expression.
“I am just moving legally according to the established procedures.”
“… What does that mean? Is it legal to detain people like this without evidence?”
“Yes. Because that is a key provision of the Skill Registration Act promoted by President Kim Kang-gyun.”
It is impossible to prove a skill unless the hunter directly casts it.
Therefore, the regulatory plan that Kang-gyun Kim came up with after much deliberation was to define skills as dangerous goods equivalent to illegal weapons that can be used by unspecified people, and to make it possible to detain for a considerable period of time regardless of evidence upon receiving a report.
A method of suppressing the hunter from tax evasion to other crimes for the reason of the investigation while continuing to detain him.
At the same time, there was also the intention of inducing a report between the hunters to separate them.
Regulations that are consistent with what the government is doing against guilds now.
However, it was a regulation that did not work properly because it was a government that had lost its grip on the guilds’ offensive. As the guilds were driven to the defense by the prominentness of the Hanmoo guild this time, the government has used it to pressure many hunters.
“Hey, that’s absurd… .”
“Many hunters passed through this place due to that regulation.”
All the regulations and systems introduced to pressure the hunter, this time inversely, become Kim Kang-gyun’s shackles.
“Until there is evidence that Jo Young-chan doesn’t have the skills, he won’t be able to step out of here for the time being. Hunters who may have dangerous skills can be a potential danger to the people.”
Jo Young-chan said with a puzzled expression.
“Proof that you don’t have the skills? There can be no such thing!?”
“I don’t know about that, and since I received a report, I’m just investigating.”
“Who the hell reported it?”
“I don’t know that either. It was an anonymous report.”
If applied to the general public, it was a nonsensical measure that would cause a public outcry, but the regulations were created due to the antipathy towards hunters and guilds and the will of Kim Kang-gyun that control measures are absolutely necessary.
It was Cho Young-chan who clearly realized how inhumane this was by experiencing it firsthand.
“So, please tell me sooner rather than later.”
“… I am the nephew of Chief Secretary Jo Man-cheol. You know that?”
“I know. But there is no sanctuary in the Hunter Regulations. so… .”
Kim Woong got up from his seat and said.
“I want to tell you that, at any rate, quick notification is a way to save time.”
* * *
Ja-Seung-Ja Park.
I tie myself up with the rope I made myself.
Is there any other idiom that better describes the current situation?
Even though he was ordered by Yoon Sang-deok, his opponent was Kim Woong, who was inflexible.
I would like to take it out right away, but if that happens, the guilds will come up with controversy over preferential treatment and cause a commotion.
The measures taken to pressure the hunter conversely cripple Kim Kang-gyun.
“Good job.”
Yoon Sang-deok laughed at my words and said.
“I was just doing what you asked me to do. haha.”
“Do you think he will open his mouth anyway?”
“It seemed to me that he would never open his mouth.”
“Hmm.”
Although he succeeded in detaining him, he is not Cho Young-chan who opens his mouth to the extent of investigating a crime such as tax evasion.
Because you are well aware that opening one’s mouth means the downfall of one’s family.
“I should have caught the evidence before I was released.”
Kim Woong listened to Yoon Sang-deok and detained him, which meant he had endured a lot.
But will Kim Woong use radical means to make Jo Young-chan open his mouth?
“Are you going to threaten me then?”
“Threat?”
“I didn’t accept the president’s proposal because I wanted to be successful in the end anyway. Besides, from what I heard, there seems to be quite a bit of family love.”
Yoon Sang-deok raised the corners of his mouth and said.
“I would not keep my mouth shut, even when the lives of my parents were at stake for nothing.”
“Hmm.”
He threatens Jo Young-chan’s parents and Jo Man-cheol’s older brother.
“Are you going to kidnap me and threaten me?”
“In that case, you might get more attention. Leave it as a last resort. But I like the intimidation itself.”
He threatens Jo Young-chan to open his mouth.
However, it is far more effective to offer a suitable reward as well than to just threaten it.
Besides, my ultimate goal is not to destroy everyone, so I need to adjust the water level appropriately.
I thought for a moment, then looked at Yoon Sang-deok and said.
“The Blue House is not an idiot, so it must have defended itself. So let’s do it this way.”
* * *
“ha.”
Jo Young-chan sighed and said in the detained room.
“driving me crazy.”
No matter how regulated, the law cannot prevent people like lawyers from visiting.
Jo Man-cheol delivered several messages to Cho Young-chan through his lawyer.
They’ll be released in a few weeks anyway, so stay silent until then.
I’ve also made my parents evacuate to a safe place, so it’s safe to say.
“… Let’s hold on.”
Still, it was not without hope.
Whether it was the power of his uncle or the power of the president, Jo Young-chan was placed in a room with no CCTV and, no matter how regulated, he could not bind people without evidence indefinitely, so he would be released one day.
You just have to hold on until then.
So Young-chan Jo thought.
But at that moment.
“Jo Young-chan.”
“Hey!!!”
A mechanical voice resounded in an empty room.
“Who are you?!”
At that moment, an invisible hand covered Jo Young-chan’s mouth and said.
“quietly. If you don’t want to die.”
“Hib.”
“Let’s check this out.”
Then, suddenly, a picture appeared from the air and fell on Jo Young-chan’s face.
Jo Young-chan’s pupils shook violently when he saw the photo that had fallen on his face.
“Parents, right?”
When the invisible hand opened Jo Young-chan’s mouth, Jo Young-chan said in an urgent voice.
“Hey, where did this picture come from!”
In the photo handed over by an unidentified person, Jo Young-chan’s parents were pictured sleeping peacefully.
“I filmed it myself.”
“No, that’s absurd!! It must have been moved to a safe place… I was told that a bodyguard was also deployed!!!”
“It means nothing to me.”
It was then that Jo Young-chan realized.
This unidentified person is a blackmailer with a knife in the pillows of government officials, and the organization he belongs to is the organization that Jo Man-cheol was wary of and attacked him.
“you you… .”
“Now that I have guessed it, the story will be comfortable. I want two things. The first is to keep the fact that I came here a secret. If you do, I won’t guarantee your parents’ safety. Second, tell Kim Woong everything you know.
“Wow, what a story!”
“Terrorism and skill.”
“I, I have no skills like that!!”
Jo Young-chan desperately shook his head and thought.
‘You don’t know if this picture was taken recently or what. Let’s buy some time Take your time and then… .’
However, no matter how long he waited, the unidentified voice did not respond at all.
“Are you there?”
Jo Young-chan carefully summoned an unknown person.
“I must have misunderstood something… I really have no skills! It really is!”
Jo Young-chan’s shouts just filled the room empty.
“excuse me!?”
Jo Young-chan hurriedly ran through the room to find the person, but the person had already disappeared.
Jo Young-chan shouted with a pale expression.
“Wait a minute! Come talk to me!!”
* * *
next day.
Although Jo Young-chan was under investigation, he suffered from endless conflicts.
‘Are you going to try to hurt your parents because I didn’t listen? no. If that was the case, my uncle would have told me everything. Damn it, damn it!!’
The opponent is a person who freely goes in and out of the Hanmu Guild, the government’s greatest power, and the Hunter headquarters, where hundreds of hunters reside.
At that time, I was wandering around the room, suffering from anxiety that I could not tell anyone.
“This is the second picture.”
I was surprised at first, but now I’m more than happy to hear that voice.
“Oh, my parents!”
“Check it out for yourself.”
And a picture reborn from the air.
Jo Young-chan, who accepted the photo, sighed in relief and said.
“ha.”
Fortunately, this photo, like the first one, was only taken with the parents sleeping.
However.
“… knife?”
A knife is placed next to the sleeping parents.
“I won’t talk long. Only 4 days to go. If you don’t reveal all the facts within four days, I will use my last resort.”
Jo Young-chan hurriedly said it was the last resort.
“Teacher, I think you have misunderstood, but I really don’t have the skills. It’s real!!”
“If you don’t, you will lose your parents.”
“Why the hell are you doing this to me? Yes!?”
If you speak up, you will lose everything as a politician and turn Jo Man-cheol and Kim Kang-gyun as enemies.
But if you don’t speak up, your parents’ lives may be in danger.
“Tell me again. Four days.”
Then again, an unidentified person who is silent.
“Wait, wait, listen to my story!!!”
Jo Young-chan, feeling that he had disappeared again, sat down and said.
“please… Jeba Al… .”
* * *
The threat of forcing Jo Young-chan to choose between his parents or his downfall continues.
“Your parents don’t seem to matter.”
“No! Because I have no real skills!”
“Tomorrow is the last day I can look after you.”
“Not really! really!!! Trust me just once. Yes?”
Despite Jo Young-chan’s plea, an unknown person answered without heeding it.
“If not, stop with that. I don’t know.”
“Why the hell are you doing that?! Neither is my choice!!”
Finally, to some extent, Jo Young-chan’s true feelings were revealed.
“… … .”
Jo Young-chan said urgently.
“Come on, wait a minute. Don’t go, let me tell you my story… .”
“Okay, I admit it. The choices were harsh.”
Jo Young-chan smiled brightly and said.
“Do you believe me now?”
“If everything is difficult, tell me at least one. then let me pass It is the last generosity I can give.”
At that, Jo Young-chan said with a desperate expression.
“What’s the sting of that!! The result is the same!!”
“different. I told you to reveal your skills, but I never asked you to acknowledge terrorism.”
Then Jo Young-chan, startled, began to quarrel.
‘The mere fact that the nephew of the chief of staff who had just awakened had a skill used in terrorism would create a mess.’
This is sufficient grounds for a reasonable suspicion that Cho Young-chan was a terrorist.
Therefore, it was clear that the moment he said this, Kang-gyun Kim would face a considerable headwind.
But acknowledging terrorism and matching it by coincidence are different laws.
At least, there is ample room for the Kim Kang-gyun government to object.
Jo Young-chan, who was hesitant, said.
“Can’t we just discuss it with my uncle once?”
“If you don’t want to see your parents again, you can do that.”
“Ugh.”
“Instead, it’s nothing to say in return, but I promise you one thing. I will take full responsibility for the safety of you and your parents.”
“safety? Are you threatening me with your parents?”
“Are we really the only ones after you? Do you really think so?”
At that, Jo Young-chan said with a puzzled expression.
“Hey, what… .”
“The guilds and the opposition parties that have been deprived of power, etc. I promise to protect you from all that. even.”
An unidentified person spoke in a meaningful voice.
“From the President.”
“Daddy, President?”
“Is the hiding place in the dungeon really made for you, or was it made to erase the existence of you? Weaknesses are easier to eliminate than to hide. And dungeons are a better place to do that than anywhere else.”
“No, that’s absurd! My uncle is the Chief of Staff to the President!!”
“I was just talking about what if. It is up to you to believe or not to believe.”
“shit… shit!!”
Jo Young-chan, who had been thinking for a while, said.
“… How do I believe it? Is there any guarantee that it will be over with this one time?”
“What does that mean? You no longer have a choice. Trust me, at least I won’t lie.”
In the end, Jo Young-chan closed his eyes tightly and said.
“me… I… .”
* * *
As usual, Kim Woong headed to the investigation room.
Kim Woong looked at Jo Young-chan, who was sitting in the investigation room, and said.
“Now, how about speaking slowly?”
“… … .”
“Are you going to say nothing today?”
At Kim Woong’s words, Jo Young-chan let out a long sigh and said.
“Whew… Report unregistered skill, that’s great. I don’t know who it is.”
“What do you mean?”
Jo Young-chan nodded and said.
“you’re right. I have the skills.”
At Jo Young-chan’s recognition, Kim Woong’s expression hardened in an instant.
“Skill… Is there?”
Jo Young-chan was detained in disbelief in Yoon Sang-deok’s words.
However, like other hunters, even if they try to get involved with other crimes, Kim Kang-gyun and Jo Man-cheol continue to intervene, so I was frustrated with the feeling that it would end after just wasting time.
Kim Woong said in an urgent voice.
“Do you have any skills? What skill is it?”
“I’ll show you.”
Jo Young-chan got up slowly from his seat.
“Look.”
And in an instant, it’s not like I’m teleporting to a location 1m away.
“This is it.”
“Te, teleport.”
“Ah, Guild Leader Kim Woong also has this, right? In fact, it was a skill stone that we had already saved in our family. Then when I woke up, I learned it for emergency self-defense. I was going to report it right away, but I wonder who knew about it and reported it… .”
Jo Young-chan, who had promised to tell and devised a plausible story alone all night, spit it out like an excuse.
However, Jo Young-chan’s words did not reach Kim Woong’s head at all.
Because Kim Woong’s head was already filled with the image of Yoon Sang-deok, who boasted that Cho Young-chan was a terrorist with skills and that Kim Kang-gyun was the one who ordered it.
“Anyway, now that the skill has been revealed, please release it.”
Then, as Woong Kim clenched his fist on the table, the pressure made the table made of thick wood shake and crack in an instant.
Jo Young-chan, surprised, said.
“Uh, huh?”
“Tele… port… .”
Jo Young-chan said urgently.
“ah! I think you’re misunderstanding something, but it’s something I’ve learned really recently!”
If Yoon Sang-deok hadn’t told me in advance, Kim Woong would have thought it was a very suspicious situation.
However, for Jo Young-chan’s words to be true, Yoon Sang-deok predicted the future that Jo Young-chan would acquire a teleport skill stone after registering.
As the scales in his head sharply tilted toward the truth of what Yoon Sang-deok said, Kim Woong could not control his anger.
Kim Woong said, looking at Jo Young-chan with bloodshot eyes.
“From now on, explain everything in detail. From start to finish, without missing a single Tossi.”