＜ Episode 22 ＞
There are several names for Igor.
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Murderers, butchers, corpses, human butchers, and so on.
They are nicknames that tell you exactly what kind of person Igor is, just by hearing them, but no one says such nicknames in front of Igor.
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Most of them were killed at the hands of Igor.
In any case, a nickname in the underworld had quite an important meaning, and apart from the nickname given to him by others, Igor volunteered to be a wolf himself.
From then on, Igor’s nickname became Wolf.
Of course, those who antagonized Igor were still prone to lashing out with vicious nicknames.
However, those who see Igor for the first time tilt their heads at his heinous nickname.
Igor, who has a sharp and intelligent face and always wears a well-groomed suit, is enough to fit in without awkwardness even if you take him to the office building of a huge corporation right away, so you can’t think of Igor as an underworld tycoon with a heinous nickname.
He seems to have received a good education because his actions are dignified, and his tone is not harsh, so that people who don’t know him will never believe that Igor is a man of the underworld.
Today, Igor was eating with a neat attitude, playing with a fork and knife.
“Did you get hit?”
“Yes. boss. It looks like they were wiped out last night.”
“Hmm.”
Igor, who had been slicing a steak full of blood since morning, put on a look of sadness.
“Take it away.”
“Yes!”
The men’s faces stiffened at the sight of Igor putting down his forks and knives and wiping his mouth.
Igor, who loves meat to the point of morbidity and never skips meals, only cleans up when he feels uncomfortable.
And in such a situation, blood was shed to the extent that it could be said without fail.
Took. Took. Took.
Tapping the table with his fingers, Igor, lost in thought for a moment, opened his mouth.
“ruler. let’s sort it out Ivan has something of great value in his hands. The problem is that it’s impossible to get it out of Ivan’s hands.”
Everyone nodded at Igor’s words.
It is impossible to intimidate Ivan, who has almost absolute defense against external stimulation, torture, and mental attacks.
That’s why it was locked inside while boiling, but a card that could move Ivan appeared.
In fact, finding out about Ekaterina’s existence was close to coincidence.
When he had a child he believed would never happen, Ivan used every means to hide Ekaterina’s existence, and it was so elaborate that even members of the same organization could not find it.
In fact, Ekaterina’s existence was only revealed two years after Ivan’s imprisonment, showing how meticulously Ivan handled his affairs.
The problem was outside.
It was from when Ivan’s body was used as a test subject and the personnel of the laboratory where he experimented contacted the Pushkin Mafia.
The appearance from the outside was that Igor took over the organization and Ivan lived in seclusion, so the researchers naturally thought that they would be able to meet Ivan, and Igor and the researchers, who felt something strange, had a sincere time.
After about a day or so, Igor came out of the room covered in blood, and after that, the Pushkin Mafia started digging everything about Ivan from the beginning.
Although it was said to be meticulously hidden, the existence of the Danilova couple was revealed shortly after the Pushkin mafia decided to dig up, and they were able to reach Ekaterina.
Igor was not the type to procrastinate, and he dispatched reliable subordinates to Area 56, but Ekaterina was already missing.
It’s a situation that should be angry, but Igor wasn’t disappointed.
A snake knows its way.
Wouldn’t the mafia have an advantage over the public security in finding a missing child?
While rummaging through the underworld of District 56, there was a possibility that Ekaterina might return, so he sent selected subordinates to protect the Danilova couple.
As time goes by, it will be easy to secure Ekaterina and the items from Ivan.
but.
“You don’t know who they are yet?”
“···sorry.”
“Tsk.”
That the Pushkin Mafia is not the only place where researchers made fun of.
The experiment, in which a near-immortal regenerative ability voluntarily participated, left behind encouraging results, and even after Ivan’s project was over, the researchers could not sit still.
If only Ivan’s cooperation could be obtained, further research achievements could be established, and in any case, it was a questionable research called a living body experiment, so the story flowed to those who were retarded.
In addition, after some members of the organization went missing, it was even seen that suspicious people had entered Area 56.
Igor’s mood was obviously not good because he had an unexpected rival.
I was relieved that they were trustworthy guys, but when they said they lost contact, it was clear that they must have been attacked by an unknown force.
“Did you check the location?”
“I think he was a pretty good hitman. There is no video because the CCTV is out of order, and all the cameras we installed have been destroyed. The bodies of the Danilova couple were not found.”
Kwajik!
Igor’s fingers dug into the thick table, and everyone straightened up tensely.
“… nothing happened.”
Igor, who looked like an elite office worker with a smart appearance just a moment ago, has changed his momentum.
The corners of the eyes are slit, and the back of the hand with thick veins has destructive power.
The faces of the subordinates turned white in fear as if a huge beast was opening its mouth.
“What about the child?”
The lowered voice sounded like an animal growling.
“The parrot organization is being pursued.”
“I like that.”
If a child goes missing or runs away, in all likelihood it has something to do with a beekeeper’s organization.
Although it could have been sold as a test subject somewhere because it was really unlucky.
The child’s whereabouts will be revealed if he pursues it persistently, and Igor seems to have calmed down a little since he seems to have found the right direction.
“Tell them to hurry up.”
“Yes! boss!”
“Search all means of transportation leading to Area 56. Obtain access records. There will definitely be people who get caught.”
“Yes!”
Igor looked over at his subordinates who were nervously answering and continued.
“Did you check the hitman’s impression?”
“…The drug dealers on the street seem to have seen it, but strangely I can’t remember the face.”
“…Is it a perception-disrupting device?”
It’s not that there aren’t devices that interfere with facial recognition, but they’re quite expensive and they’re not something to be carried carelessly.
Igor’s expression hardened at the thought that his opponent might be quite a big man.
In truth, it was just a subtle manipulation of the temperature around the face to blur the impression, but Igor and his men had no idea.
“···great.”
Igor stood up from his seat.
“The opponents could be pretty great guys. But who are we?”
“This is the Pushkin Mafia!”
“yes. We are going to rule Area 53, and we are the organization that will take over Luna’s night! It’s getting your hands on something that will shorten the process! Concentrate the power of the organization!”
“Yes! boss!”
The Pushkin Mafia, who had been secretly moving under the surface, woke up.
***
After getting off the bloody armed taxi and entering the hotel, John immediately lay down on the bed.
After a good night’s sleep, John ordered a high-protein meal from room service and recalled the facts he had learned the night before.
‘It was a year and a half ago that the Danilova couple had a different mind. It’s been six months since I lost contact with Ivan. Should I say that I’ve endured for a long time?’
It was a short time, but I was able to talk honestly with the Danilova couple, and I had a pretty friendly time with the gang member who made me disabled.
It was because John had medicines that could be used for those who lost limbs and were mentally driven, and the members of the organization, who reached the end of the sky in a good mood, treated John like a lifelong friend.
Quite useful information was obtained, and John was clearly aware that this was a formidable task.
“…the calculation is not right.”
The down payment Ivan had put into his hand was quite large, and considering Ivan’s answer after securing Ekaterina, John judged that so.
“Assuming it’s the Pushkin Mafia.”
I expected that the Pushkin mafia would catch up because of the story I heard from the intelligence officer.
But according to the stories I heard from members of the organization, there are other people following them besides them.
But that’s why I thought that the price Ivan would pay would not be worth it.
If Ivan’s research results were so great, it would have attracted not only the Pushkin mafia but also other forces.
“I can’t.”
I even thought of giving up my job, but if you weigh that part, it would be foolish to give up.
“Let’s sort it out.”
John pulled out a notebook and took notes on a notepad to organize his thoughts.
“Ekaterina ran away 1 year and 6 months ago. He must have sensed something strange about the Danilova couple. It didn’t seem like he was the type to treat children kindly.”
Ekaterina’s disappearance was entirely at the child’s own discretion.
It is the child who is sensitive to the emotions of adults, and if the judgment is made that such a child is hiding, it becomes a story that the Danilova couple are not good guardians, even though the child is also a child.
“Frightened by that, the Danilova couple sold the house and hid.”
After Ekaterina disappears, the panic-stricken Danilovas sell their house and hide in the outskirts of Area 56.
The reason he didn’t run away from Area 56 must have been because of the hope that he could find Ekaterina.
“But the Pushkin mafia came.”
In the hands of the mafia, the Danilova couple had no choice but to tell everything they knew, and Ekaterina’s existence was revealed.
It was John who visited the next day.
Since they had already surrendered once, the Danilova couple confided everything to John without hiding anything, and in return, John did not lay a hand on the Danilova couple.
By now you should be running out of Area 56 and into another area.
“A place for a runaway child to go…”
Tapping on his notebook with a ballpoint pen, John organized his thoughts.
“It’s an organization that’s a parody of Bonamana… I don’t think a kid strong enough to run away alone would be in a place like that.”
He is the descendant of the blood of an outstanding man named Ivan, who devoted himself to the underworld in his youth and created his own district.
It was hard to believe that the child who avoided the body with a bold decision uncharacteristic of a child would show a normal course of action.
At least John’s hunch said so.
John, who was lost in thought for a moment and tapped his ballpoint pen, wrote down a single word.
“I guess we should start here.”
John stared at the words he had written in his notebook, then stood up.
Hoping his hunch wasn’t wrong, John took another look at the word ‘school’ he had written in his notebook, and soon put the notebook into his bosom.
＜ Episode 22 ＞ End