373 – [7] Fight or Surrender
#373
At some point the smile disappeared.
I laughed without a smile.
It was just that moment.
Cheonma-ri came a few steps closer.
“Anyway, what about there?”
“This is my friend. “We live together, so I guess he came out wondering what was going on.”
She looked at me with a strange expression when she said the words ‘her and her cohabitation’.
It seemed like he was jealous, but the emotions in his eyes were mixed with curiosity about how they usually live together.
“But what about baseball bats…?” ….”
“Ah, because my friend likes baseball a lot.”
The problem was that I didn’t just like it a lot, I liked it seriously.
However, since I was the one who brought out the baseball bat this time in the first place, I didn’t really have anything to say.
“It looks like he was probably having a bit of a chat in his room.”
“I see. But why are you pretending to swing it? ….”
“I guess I’m very bored. This happens often. “Even when other people are in front of me, I pretend to be bored and pretend to be bored.”
“Pattajil is like this! Like this! “This is how we do it!”
The baseball bat cracked the air.
The person in the back seat was silent at the high speed, but suddenly narrowed the crowd as if he had seen something.
“Eagles?”
“Huh? “Do you know the Eagles too?”
The club logo is clearly engraved on the baseball bat.
Except for the fact that the club itself plays baseball a little strangely, there was nothing particularly special about it.
However, it did not appear that way at all to the people inside the car.
Everyone looked at the baseball bat and their eyes fluttered.
“I know a little bit. “I’m not sure if that’s what I think.”
“It’s probably right. “This is the logo of a great group in a country.”
Gulp.
At the same time, Cheonma-ri pretended to swing the baseball bat again.
All kinds of words seemed to be rolling around in their heads: no way, no way, no way.
“…… This is a slightly different question. “What does that woman over there do on a regular basis?”
“Me? “I spend my time doing fun things.”
“You came out holding a baseball bat. “Then, do you also play baseball on a regular basis?”
“No, this guy just talks too much and doesn’t usually play baseball, and he’s not very good at it either.”
“Uh-huh! I can’t believe I only lived my mouth! This is the first time in my life I have heard such an outrageous statement. “Jiangshi, stop slandering me right now.”
What is slander?
What I just said was one of the few truths that came out at this moment.
If you’re curious, why don’t you explain that you got into trouble with the baseball team in high school?
They break things with every swing of the bat, throw surprise dead balls to keep them in check, throw flying kicks when advancing on base, and many other atrocities.
“Please ignore. “He’s really like this.”
“Ah…… “So you’re not usually good at baseball?”
“Yes, I usually hit something a little bigger and harder than a baseball.”
“He’s good at hitting and sucking on big, hard things.”
“Hey, you idiot, be quiet.”
The eyes began to shake more violently.
People sitting in the car looked at each other and shook their heads or nodded repeatedly.
It looks like the time to finish is slowly approaching.
I put both hands on the window.
The person sitting in the back seat gradually turned to the side.
Interestingly, there was a blanket covering something on the floor in the direction he was heading.
The size of the blanket was small, so part of what was covering it was sticking out.
Those were rifles and shotguns.
Actually, his stomach was too strong to reach out to the floor to touch it.
“Are you looking for something?”
“No, nothing in particular.”
“Then why are you suddenly leaving?”
“I guess it’s because the sunlight is shining. It’s a little hot, haha.”
“Is that so? “The weather forecast said the temperature today would be around 15 degrees.”
“I get very hot.”
“It seems like you get very hot like your younger brother. But my younger brother will be very upset about this.”
“Yes?”
“You hit me with the air conditioner, but now you said it’s hot again, right?”
Presumptuous interference.
It wasn’t something I would say openly to a third party.
So, the other side must have noticed what I was thinking right now.
“Huh, heh heh…” … Okay. You might certainly think so. “Do you think so too?”
“Uh…… Uh, that…… “It’s not that hot anymore, so I guess it doesn’t really matter—”
In fact, the younger brother matched the rhythm in a strange way.
As an explanation, it would have been better to just roughly agree.
“This may be off-topic, but let me say one more thing.”
“Yes? “What is it?”
From then on, the hand of the person in the back seat slowly lowered.
The driver’s hand sometimes headed toward the door pocket, a space for storing items on the car door.
The person in the passenger seat suddenly had a pistol in his hand.
Actually, I’m not sure whether a pistol would be more effective than a sharp prosthetic hand in this situation.
In such a scene.
I said it out loud, as if I had no intention of hiding it anymore.
“How about everyone getting off slowly?”
“Yes, yes?”
“I think it would be better to get off slowly. “I don’t think all three of you would be oblivious.”
“What is that…?” ….”
“Why did you come here now? Why did we come here? Honestly, you know everything.”
The pretense is over.
There was silence.
“If you get off now and cooperate obediently, I promise that nothing bad will happen to you three.”
“…… On the other hand, if I don’t get off, what happens then?”
“We will have to face hardships. This conversation is so pointless.”
Perhaps I could have overcome the difficult situation.
Right now, there are a thousand things that have been seen and heard at the negotiation site.
“Are you confident?”
“Not really. “It’s not something to brag about, but even so, I am the cadet who ranks first in my group in the academy.”
“Wait a minute, first place in the group…… ?!”
“…… I wonder if it’s that group. Are you referring to the rankings measured through requests issued by the Academy?”
“There are requests and duels. Of course, neither of us have ever had a major failure or major defeat.”
A career without major failures.
A record with no major defeats.
How many people are like this in the academy?
I’m embarrassed to say it with my own mouth, but even if there was competition among the group’s top performers, there would have been only a few.
“Wow, that’s amazing…” ….”
And this gap seemed to be slowly understood on the other side as well.
My pupils were dilated and my saliva was constantly being swallowed.
“By the way, this is the same for my friend.”
“There are two, two people in first place in the group…… A cadet who is good at dueling…….”
“Brother, brother, if we do this…….”
“Both of you be quiet. Because I know.”
“Didn’t you come here after hearing about it in advance? “I don’t think the higher-ups didn’t give us a single piece of information about us.”
He neither nodded nor shook his head.
It seemed like I had not received the correct information.
The hand gradually went downward faster and faster.
There was a faint sound coming from the front seat, as if a pistol was being held tightly.
“I’m just saying this just in case, even though we don’t have a shield, we can easily suppress three people with firearms.”
“To be able to suppress it like that…” … “Is there any basis?”
“Yes. “I just don’t do it because I feel like the moment I show it, everyone will become unhappy.”
“… ….”
He was able to show his superpowers right away.
But the moment it was shown, even the neighborhood bastard knew that bullets would fly.
“Damn, I didn’t expect this situation.”
They rolled their eyes this way and that, as if they were very worried.
Cheonma-ri looked at them and headed in the opposite direction.
Then I looked inside through the tinted window and knocked on the door.
“It seems like my friend is getting bored. “Go ahead and choose.”
Knock.
“As long as you cooperate, I won’t do you much harm.”
“Are you saying that small harm is inflicted?”
“It could happen if there is not proper cooperation in the middle. “If you tell us the truth, there will be no problem.”
Knock knock.
“Brother, brother. On the floor… ….”
“Wouldn’t my kitchen knife be faster than you taking up the blanket and picking up the gun on the floor?”
“… ….”
Knock knock, knock knock.
“And the two people in the front seat. “You have a pistol, but you can’t subdue even skilled Awakened people with a pistol alone.”
“Well, still! “If you have magic coal or Great Awakening bullets—”
“It would be a little better if it had magic stones added or a magic bullet. But even so, a pistol is a pistol. “What are you going to do if we avoid it or throw it away?”
Knock knock, knock, knock.
“By the way, if you start the car now, I will burst the wheels.”
“Brother! That is clearly groundless bravado! Now that it’s like this, just—”
“If you didn’t have confidence in me in the first place, wouldn’t you come out wearing a hunter watch?”
There is no back.
You can only fight or surrender.
In fact, the environment for fighting was too bad.
It was obvious that among the three people in the back seat, who seemed to have a higher status, he would choose udon if he had anything in mind.
“…… Phew.”
“This is your last chance. What would you like to do? “If you get out of the car now, I will tell the Nartica staff well.”
“I have no choice in this.”
Sigh.
“Guys, drop your guns.”
In the end, he chose to live rather than die.
You may say it was a betrayal, but they did not come here for the purpose of battle in the first place.
If we had come to fight, we would have come with more men and better armament.
It looked like they had just prepared for spying, and since they were neither equipped nor mentally prepared, there was no other option than surrender.
“Yes, yes?! Older brother!”
“Anyway, we are just ordinary people. Even if you confront Hunter with a gun, you will only get chopped down. Moreover, there were orders to refrain from conflict.”
“Well, still! This is betrayal! “The organization won’t leave traitors alone!”
“But I can’t die right here. I wonder if there was proper support. “That doesn’t exist either.”
“Whoa, little brother. If you know that your life is important, just get off. “Don’t cut off your arms and whine like last time.”
The person sitting in the driver’s seat got out first.
The person in the back seat was next, and the person in the passenger seat was the last.
They handed me the pistol helplessly.
I looked back at them, holding the pistol instead of the kitchen knife.
“…… “Well, I’m sorry for spying on you for the past few days.”
“It could not have been helped because it was ordered from above. I understand.”
“And that…” … I’m asking just in case…….”
“I have no intention of killing you, so don’t worry. “There is no benefit to us by doing that anyway.”
“…… “Thank you.”
I closed all the car doors and asked the three people to stand facing the car.
Meanwhile, Cheonma-ri returned home and urgently called the Nartica employees.
Nartica employees came to visit us a few minutes later.
In fact, they felt secretive and bowed their heads loudly as soon as they saw me.
“””Hello, Chief Hunter!”””
“No, you shouldn’t greet me like that.”
In this situation, don’t say hello to me or Cheonma-ri like you usually do.
I wonder why they are so condescending to someone who was only in a temporary position to begin with.
Anyway, even if it looks good, the return won’t be that big.
Because of this, I refused to greet them warmly.
“””Chief Hunter, I’m sorry!”””
“Ah.”
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* * *
Starting with such an awkward meeting, everyone headed to the Puerto Rico branch.
While Cheonma-ri was making phone calls to the head office, I was there telling the field workers a few things.
This is roughly information about the current situation and what to expect.
“Ah…… All right! “We will prepare countermeasures to protect the mansion within two days.”
“Two days is too late, and I hope you can come up with a temporary response by tomorrow.”
I did it once, so why not do it twice?
I didn’t know what would happen if I didn’t strengthen the security of the mansion.
“And those who have been captured now… ….”
“Don’t be too strong. “These are the people who knew there was no hope anyway and immediately surrendered.”
Instead, I had no intention of just holding on.
I made it clear what I needed to get from the peeping gang members.
“Who exactly gave the instructions? For what purpose was the instruction given? How much information was passed on to higher-ups? Do you have any future plans? If you don’t know, is there anything you can guess? “Is this enough?”
“If you need more information, you can add it at will. However, right now, I don’t think there’s much more to be achieved than that.”
They were the last ones anyway.
The information that I knew was probably insignificant, and there was a high possibility that I knew it in a distorted form.
“I understand. Then we can send them to Nartica’s Chinese branch later—”
“Please don’t send me there this time. “I think it would be better to keep them underground for now, but return them home when they are no longer needed.”
With this, I have kept my promise.
Of course, not even I could know ‘when’ the need would no longer be.
Still, it would be several times better treatment than being picked off by the Chinese branch.
However, one of the employees who was listening to me looked somewhat surprised.
Cheonma-ri seemed perplexed that the instructions were different from what he usually gave.
“Sorry, but I’m not a thousand birds.”
“Oh, oops, sorry!”
“And don’t worry, I will tell Cheonmari about this matter separately.”
“Ah…… Thank you!”
I was not a crazy regressor.
I was just a stranger with one more coin in my hand.
And as I was thinking about one coin like that, something a little different came to mind.
It was none other than Cheonma-ri and other acquaintances.
“Shannon, Sister Sua, Ines.”
Shannon is at home, so her safety will be assured.
Soo-ah is a person who won’t have any problems alone, but…… Still, it would be right to convey some caution.
The real problem was Ines.
Even though we lived separately and grew up, there were still a few things that got in the way.
“I don’t think she would like to give him a bodyguard, so what should she do with him…? ….”
A little over two years until the start of the Gray Zone game.
I couldn’t lose the main character now.
A way to protect was needed.
Luckily, as I was thinking about it, a few things came to mind.