174 – 174. The Enemy Within
“It’s obvious without looking at it. Did you spend it in the Winter Alliance?”
At Suho Ahn’s question, the man’s expression turned pale. However, he soon corrected his expression and asked.
“Winter alliance? I’m a Green House student right? Just look at your student ID here…….”
“What was that about?”
Ahn Soo-ho snatched the student ID from the man’s neck. Hunter and 20th degree Kim Junsu. The small ID photo on top of it definitely matched the face of the man he was sitting on.
But.
‘It’s probably a fake student ID.’
At first glance, the student ID card was indistinguishable from the real one. Although there may be differences in the details, it must be at a level that Ahn Su-ho cannot tell them apart.
However, An Su-ho had clear physical evidence that it was a system message. If the man in front of her was really an academy student, there was no way she wouldn’t be able to see the status window.
“It’s your student ID, it’s Nabal, and the important thing is that you’re not a student at our academy. It’s already all gone, why don’t you just admit it? Stop arguing unnecessarily and tirelessly.”
“… ….”
The man fell silent at Ahn Su-ho’s firm attitude. Embarrassment and resentment appearing on his face.
‘How did you find out?’
However, it was not the resentment of an innocent person, but the resentment that his thorough preparations had gone to nothing. The man could not have predicted how Ahn Su-ho had discovered his true identity.
‘My student ID is obviously fake. However, it is a fake made perfectly identical to the regular student ID from the material to the construction method. You wouldn’t know if you looked up the list, but you wouldn’t be able to tell them apart just by looking at them. But how?’
However, continuing to think about a problem you do not know does not mean that the answer will come out. Putting that aside for now, she tried to find a way out of this situation somehow.
However.
‘My body doesn’t move at all!’
The man struggled to get out of her restraints, but she was too much. It was natural. The thing that binds his limbs is the first class artifact, Primeval Silver. It was filled with Talisman’s mana, and its physical strength exceeded that of an A-class superhuman.
If you couldn’t escape by force, you would have to persuade Ahn Su-ho with words, but even that was impossible.
Ahn Su-ho was at least certain that the man in front of him was the leader of the Winter Alliance, and that he was not at least a student.
‘Damn it… ….’
The man who was searching for a way in his head finally gave up. Her man’s head, which had been filled with her strength, soon bent helplessly.
“Good idea. Wouldn’t it be better for both of us to be calmly captured rather than uselessly resisting?”
Ahn Soo-ho, sensing that resignation, gave an order to Sylvie with a grin. Then a portion of the primordial silver that fell off his right hand bound the man’s wrists behind her back like her handcuffs.
“Where is it?”
Ahn Su-ho, who raised her man’s body, patted him on the back a couple of times and said.
“I shouldn’t have come 10 minutes earlier. I don’t know what you were trying to do, but I could have finished it before I came. They say the early bird catches the worm. Is not it?”
“… ….”
“So? For what purpose did you come to our student’s room?”
The man did not answer. She couldn’t answer me lightly. In case you get caught, keep quiet about the mission and never disclose it. Because that was one of the orders he received.
“I hate to say that, right? Well, it’s not something to talk about in a place like this.”
Ahn Suho grinned at the man’s attitude. Ahn Soo-ho, who wrapped his arm around the man’s shoulder in a friendly manner, whispered in his ear.
“Then let’s move places. To the quiet and cozy interrogation room.”
***
Inside the interrogation room, one side of which is made of a magic mirror. There, the man who was captured by Ahn Su-ho a moment ago was sitting in silence.
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Looking at the man like that, Ahn Suho sneaked up to his side and asked.
“Team manager. Did I do well?”
“Okay… ….”
At that question, Min Chae-ryeong shook her head with a pained sound.
Min Chae-ryeong was in the middle of a team leader-level meeting a while ago. However, when he returned to the office after the meeting, Ahn Su-ho, who had thought he had gone back, waved his hand and asked him to come to the interrogation room.
It wasn’t long before she even asked why she didn’t go back, and it was just a moment ago that she rushed to the interrogation room when he said that she seemed to have caught the winter alliance. She let out her deep sigh.
‘Should I praise this or scold it… ….’
It’s good to have caught the behemoth, but in the first place, the cause of the behemoth’s intrusion was Ahn Su-ho. Thanks to him, he manages to catch the intruder hiding in the dormitory, although he disobeys the order to go home immediately.
Min Chaeryeong, who was worried, finally sighed once again. Her infinitely deep sighs represented her complicated feelings.
“…… Have you checked your identity?”
“No. Since he was arrested, he hasn’t opened his mouth at all. But the fact that she doesn’t even say her name means she must be hiding something.”
“What is the crime?”
“Impersonating current students and counterfeiting student IDs. Trespassing on the dormitory building. That’s about it for now.”
“There is no particular part that I can bet on as a detective. At least trespassing? Even if you send it to the police, there’s no way you’ll be arrested for that kind of crime…….”
“So I detained them here for now. Because once you release it, that’s it. We need to dig up as much information as possible now.”
The guards were an organization like the academy’s police, but they were not the police themselves. In the event of an incident, it has the authority to investigate the suspect at its own discretion, but in the end, it is a principle to turn it over to the police.
Ahn Soo-ho had not even contacted the police yet in order to hand over the man to the police as late as possible.
But even so, he couldn’t buy that long. Because there are so many eyes around me.
“I’d rather move that suspect to a safe house… ….”
“Say something that makes sense. Are you telling me to kidnap and confine me right now?”
“Is it difficult even for the team leader?”
“I can do it, but it’s annoying to deal with. That’s great too. I don’t know if there’s a reason to do it even if I put up with that hassle…….”
“So there is no reason for that.”
“Yes. The risk is too great compared to the return.”
Ahn Soo-ho caught the intruder in front of Ryu Tae-hyeon’s room. Accordingly, An Su-ho expected that the intruder would be the one sent to do something to harm Xiao-Mei in the Winter Alliance.
‘The problem is that there is no evidence.’
As long as they couldn’t find evidence that the man in front of them and the Winter Alliance were intertwined, they could always cut it off, even if the man was the man behind the Winter Alliance. And the fact that he can be cut at any time means that his position within the Winter Alliance is not very high.
Is there a need to kidnap and confine such a person and dig up information? As Min Chaeryeong said, the risk was too great compared to the return.
However, the man in front of you is a normal person living in the sun, unlike Yoo Hyeon-ho or Park Ji-hyeon. The risk of kidnapping and confinement is, of course, much greater.
“Team manager. Are there any confessions that are not detected in blood tests?”
“If there was such a thing, you would have gone to get it right away, right?”
“That means no. Then you have to persuade that man verbally to get information, but how the heck do you convince him? I don’t know if the crimes committed are big, but all of them are minor crimes that shouldn’t even be misdemeanors, so we can’t negotiate like a judicial transaction.”
“Why didn’t you come back after being hit by one? It would have been much more convenient.”
“I was about to regret it. If he had directly subdued it with his body, he could have been hit several times while tossing and turning. The actual cost is so good…….”
“Sylvie…… ? Oh, that one in that right hand?”
-That’s right. I’m Sylvie. For remembering thank you.
Sylvie protruded from Ahn Su-ho’s right hand and shook her senses as if to say hello. Listening to her voice seemed like a normal, peaceful day.
“It’s so frustrating.”
“Sure. It’s a bit daunting.”
In fact, the two were at a loss as to how to cook the long-awaited suspect. Min Chae-ryeong chews her lips carefully and ponders.
“…… For now, we have no choice but to press with the information we know. Then you won’t spill anything-“
-Kikiiik.
At that time, someone entered the interrogation room where there were only two people. The two people who turned their heads at the same time were immediately surprised at the same time.
“Kim Soo-hyun?”
“Captain of the guard?”
The one who entered the interrogation room was Kim Soo-hyun, the leader of the Green House security guard and Min Chaeryeong’s half-brother. He asked, looking over the shoulders of the two at the intruder.
“Team 2 leader. What is that person?”
“…… It’s a behemoth who broke into the men’s dormitory. I was just about to interrogate.”
“Did that person break into the dormitory and harm the students?”
“No. My men here overpowered you before you did anything.”
“So you were carrying a weapon? Or was there any evidence or circumstances that they planned to harm the student?”
“I didn’t have a weapon. But a superman’s entire body is a weapon. Besides, it is quite predictable that the person who forged his student ID and broke into the dormitory was plotting something suspicious-“
“In other words, to sum up, the crimes that the suspect is currently believed to have committed are minor crimes such as trespassing into a dormitory and counterfeiting a student ID. In addition, there is no clear evidence for the purpose of breaking into the dormitory or the plot, so the suspect was temporarily detained here for interrogation. Something like this.”
Ahn Soo-ho felt a sense of incongruity in the attitude of Kim Soo-hyun, who cut off Min Chae-ryeong’s words in the middle and organized the situation. The situation was as if Kim Soo-hyun was demanding a situation report from Min Chae-ryeong, but when he actually listened to what he said, it seemed as if he had already figured out the situation and came here.
“…… What do you want to say?”
And Min Chaeryeong also felt a sense of incongruity. Kim Soo-hyun paused at her question, and then she said calmly.
“Student ID counterfeiting and trespassing are definitely crimes. However, it seems to me that the two of them are overly sensitive to minor crimes.”
“…… What?”
“Isn’t it a minor crime that will end in a court order or non-prosecution after an appropriate investigation even if it is handed over to the police anyway? So, instead of wasting time needlessly, I wonder if it would be better to just give them enough attention and let them go.”
The expressions of the two people froze coldly at Kim Soo-hyun’s words. Especially in the case of Min Chae-ryeong, she shook her head in disbelief and asked him back.
“Are you serious about that? This man is a trespasser. That’s a criminal who broke into the dormitory where the students live!”
“However, there was no actual damage. Because it ended in an attempt due to the early suppression of Ahn Soo-ho. I don’t know if he really wanted to commit a crime.”
“That’s why you said you were going to investigate that right now-“
“It doesn’t seem like a big deal anyway, but I’m telling you not to do more work amidst the noise inside and outside.”
Kim Soo-hyun approached her and placed her hand on Min Chae-ryeong’s shoulder.
“Aren’t you busy preparing for the upcoming festival? Besides, team leader 2 is even more busy because of the member of the vegetable association and the member of the team next to him, Suho Ahn. Rather than spending time and effort on such trivial happenings, why not take a little break?”
“Kim Soo-hyun. That’s my problem. You don’t have to worry about-“
“Min Chaeryeong.”
Kim Soo-hyun’s voice chilled. Min Chae-ryeong is taken aback and surprised by the sudden change in attitude.
“It is not a story between brothers and sisters. This is an order given by Kim Soo-hyun, the head of the security team, to Min Chae-ryeong, the team leader of the Special Countermeasures Division and Team 2. But are you saying you’re going to disobey your boss’s orders now?”
-Taat!
Min Chaeryeong nervously cut off Kim Soo-hyun’s hand. Anger, annoyance, and questioning emotions come to her face.
“…… Why are you not like you? Normally, even the smallest crimes were caught with the lights on.”
“I have always acted for the peace of the academy, and that is true even now. If you understand, release it immediately.”
“I have to explain it so that they can understand it! It is only after investigating whether that suspect tried to steal something from the dormitory or tried to kill someone. If you ask me to release it with some nonsensical logic, do you think I’ll agree and say, ‘Yes, I have to release it, Captain of the Guard’?!”
“I don’t understand the boss’s orders. You follow.”
A cold reply to the passionate cry. The question on Min Chae-ryeong’s face deepened in response.
“…… Are you really serious? Why the hell are you like this today…… ?”
Because he knew very well what kind of a man Kim Soo-hyun was, Chaeryeong Min could not understand his behavior at all. However, Kim Soo-hyun did not answer Min Chae-ryeong’s question and just looked at her quietly.
But right after.
“Wait. I hope you…….”
The question on Min Chaeryeong’s face soon turns into embarrassment and disbelief. With her eyes quivering, which is rare for her, she asks Kim Soo-hyun with the feeling that Min Chae-ryeong can’t possibly do that.
“…… Could it be that Seong Yu-jin made it? Seong Yu-jin asked you to release that man. So now she’s telling us to release that man…… ?”
Isn’t it? She added, and Min Chae-ryeong urges him to answer. However, Kim Soo-hyun only looks at her with her still cold expression.
How long has it been?
After a short silence, Kim Soo-hyun finally opened his mouth.