384 – [7] Sunny and Shady
#384
“We have arrived.”
I looked around and found myself under a vague, old bridge.
It was a very remote place in Puerto Rico where the police could not even seriously investigate a murder case.
The people in the car cursed under their breath.
And Landin got out of the car, very nervous, even while swearing like that.
Looking ahead, company employees were waiting for them.
And in the middle of them all was Kang Xian, who had deep scars on his face that had never been there before, and whose arms were tied with bandages.
It was truly a miserable sight.
Landin swallowed hard.
I took a few steps, relying on the light coming from the car’s headlights.
Then he stopped and glanced back.
‘Isn’t it true that not everyone is convinced?’
Luckily it wasn’t.
Cartel members who followed him were also getting off.
However, it wasn’t all that daunting.
Among them were the tearful relatives of the kidnapping victims.
Landin sighed to himself that he couldn’t even guarantee their safety and looked ahead again.
Then Kang Xian made a gesture, and several more people got off the company’s anti-gravity vehicle.
However, the people who got off were somewhat unusual.
“Eup! “Errrrrr!!!”
Five people in wheelchairs.
One had something covering their head, two had their eyes out of focus, and the other two had their eyes closed.
Tragically, everyone knew who it was as soon as they saw it.
“Kyaaaaah!!! “Honey!!!”
“Huh! Babe!!!”
“You damn bastard! “Don’t release that right now!”
They were kidnapped by Kang Xian.
However, Kang Xian did not consider their cries as a big deal.
Instead, he gestured to the Nartica employees and made them draw their swords.
As if he were going to behead a person in a wheelchair at any moment.
Of course, there were screams and swear words everywhere.
There were even kidnapping victims who tried to run away out of fear that their relatives would be killed.
The good news was that the cartel members did not stop and run.
Apart from the fact that nothing like that actually happened, it also became a subject of ridicule for Kang Xian.
“He’s a member of a cartel that kills people like they’re eating, but he makes a fuss.”
“What? “Are you making a fuss?!!”
“No~ I’m just talking to myself~”
I waved my hand.
Whether or not there was an uproar at the front, Kang Xian only stared at Landin.
“Hmm, I’m in the mood to have a conversation now.”
“…… “Damn it, do you even know what you’re doing?”
“Don’t tell me. I know it all too well. So, these people were taken to a good place ‘for a while.'”
One of the people in a wheelchair.
I don’t know what happened, but Kang Xian stroked the head of the person whose focus was particularly blurry.
Landin swallowed his saliva.
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He thought that it would not be good to say nice things.
It wasn’t particularly wrong.
Just by looking at Jiang Xian’s eyes, it seemed like he had already killed several people.
“This is a warning. If you hand over all the hostages you have and give up taking over the Academy, I will treat everything that happened so far as never having happened.”
“Who is free to make something that never happened? “If I make it something that never happened, what will be left for me?”
“The safety of your friends and your guys. “If you hand over the hostages and the academy and promise not to do anything in the future, I will guarantee it.”
Kang Xian clicked her tongue as if she had heard a sound that did not occur.
I immediately shook my head.
“You’re saying something that doesn’t make sense. Even if they said they would guarantee it, it would only be a verbal contract anyway.”
What are the chances of not being stabbed after being taken hostage?
It would have been more likely that Germany would try diplomacy.
“…… “So, is there a better alternative in this situation?”
But Landin wasn’t entirely wrong.
The two sides are in a standoff.
One side was committing crimes in a ruthless manner, and the other side was committing crimes in a cartel style.
It was even a situation where there were victims because of this.
The only way to end the confrontation between the two sides was to hand over the hostages and not touch each other in the future.
And as mentioned earlier, this was an idealistic alternative that was just easier said than done.
“You know. “If everyone dies, everything will be resolved.”
When Cheonma-ri fell into unconsciousness, Kang Xian was thinking of choosing the lesser evil.
The worst thing would be for himself and Nartica to be defeated, so it was natural for him to want to choose the annihilation of the lesser evil opponent.
‘I either defeat that side, or I die.’
This was also the same for Landin.
It was a reality that became irreversible when they recognized each other as enemies and the cartel launched a terrorist attack.
“If there is no reconciliation, why did you call us here?”
“The guys who knocked my friend unconscious called me to at least see someone’s face.”
“Ha.”
I clicked my tongue as if it was absurd.
Kang Xian looked like he was wondering what the problem was.
“Of course, I also called because I was curious why they committed terrorism.”
“…… “Are you asking because you really don’t know?”
“No, I don’t know.”
“Because you fucked us up and blocked our path. Are your questions resolved now?”
“No. “Not really.”
Kang Xian took a few steps forward.
Landin noticed hatred mixed with each step.
“How on earth did we screw up that side and block their path? “I don’t understand anything.”
“Even if it’s just about the warehouse right now—”
“If you were renting a warehouse, you could have renewed the contract. “If the ‘legal’ items were still in the warehouse, you could just fill out a request form.”
“… ….”
“Oh, you were offended that we arbitrarily disposed of somewhat useless and illegal items?”
Why are you so shameless when it comes to distributing illegal goods?
Kang Xian sent her words with such inner meaning to her partner.
“…… Ha, even if you leave out the stuff-related issues! “Don’t you know that our people were seriously injured during the confrontation at the warehouse because of you?”
“I’m sorry, but you weren’t the only one who got hurt that time. “Our people were also injured a lot due to their actions and failures.”
The injuries are the same whether on one side or the other.
I had no right to say anything.
“Moreover, wasn’t it you who rushed in first? “According to the Nartica employees who came first, that’s true.”
“Isn’t that what happened in the first place because you illegally occupied the warehouse? “It is up to you to provide the root cause!”
Occupation is a legal transfer.
Jang Xian shook his head.
“If you criticize me like that, do you know where our bad relationship started?”
“Of course, when you attacked the warehouse—”
“No, it was much earlier than that.”
“Before?”
He looks like he doesn’t understand anything.
In Landin’s memory, he had never been involved with Nartica before the warehouse incident.
When Kang Xian saw that attitude, he shook his head as if he was foolish.
She then held out her hand to the bodyguard and he received a hat.
There was a logo clearly emblazoned on the hat.
When I proudly wrote that in front of Landin, Landin froze for a moment.
“Hey, Eagles?!”
“Do you want to know now?”
“Oh, you son of a bitch! “You were the one who decided to do this to us in the first place.”
“That would be great. But sadly, it was your subordinates who started the fight with me first.”
The starting point of a bad relationship.
On the other hand, it is a somewhat separate incident from the warehouse incident.
It seems like a case where Kang Xian attacked an innocent gang base.
There were many things that Kang Xian almost suffered if he just looked at it like that.
“Two years ago, I tried to buy something on the black market. The things I was trying to buy at that time were just food ingredients. “It wasn’t a particularly illegal item.”
“…… Then why a gang stronghold?”
“But as soon as I entered the black market, someone started pickpocketing me. Isn’t that right, Secretary Ayaka?”
“Yes, I was a stray cat at the time, and under orders from a certain gang, I tried to pickpocket the boss.”
Landin’s expression changed significantly.
He seemed shocked that the secretary was a pickpocket.
“And…… When our boss came out after shopping. He also cooperated with the gang in making threats related to Hunter Watch.”
“Do you know which cartel that gang belonged to at the time? “It’s your cartel.”
“Ah…… Ah… ….”
“So my colleagues and I robbed the gang’s stronghold in self-defense.”
An incident that just made people hate the Eagles.
It was the moment when the truth of the incident was finally revealed publicly.
Landin’s body trembled.
He thought it was 100% the enemy’s fault, but it wasn’t partly our fault.
‘Fuck, this continues like this…’ … ?!’
It was because the black market incident and this incident were connected.
It was like a natural disaster. If you think about it, similar things happened after that.
“No way! “It was stolen after that!”
“I was so embarrassed that I shook it off one more time. Well, it wasn’t as delicious as before.”
Landin’s expression gradually became distorted.
The gaze of a good person who saw a villain who could only appear in his dreams turned to Kang Xian.
“This kind of bastard!!! “If the Lord knew about this, he would send you to hell!”
“That could be possible. But you won’t end up in a very good place either.”
“What, what?!”
“That is correct. “Heir to a drug cartel, involvement in gang operations, and even carrying out terrorism.”
If we were to consider only the immediate crime and karma, that side was overwhelming.
It was questionable whether he really had the right to say anything to Kang Xian since he was truly a person living in the shadows.
“If you think about it like that, I don’t think it’s worth telling that person to go to hell.”
“Such a damn bastard—”
“Anyway, I am a person who works in Yangji.”
To put it another way, he was criticizing them for making a living by working in the shadows.
Because the rate of crime is higher in shaded areas than in sunny areas, I was once again saying that you are more likely to end up in hell than I am.
It was a kind of double insult.
Especially if you are a religious person.