4. Detective Invasion (Side Story) (1)
Side story 1. Jeong-sang, who wants something
Inside a shabby house somewhere in a back alley.
The information merchant tapped the desk with a bored expression.
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Originally, I couldn’t be this bored. This is an information life where you have to spend all day collecting information, updating old information, and cross-checking.
But I didn’t feel like it today.
More precisely, it has lost its meaning.
Because of that man, Siwoo, who is like a dark place of information.
“I need to know where I am and what I am doing…”
It’s already been 15 days since I met Siwoo. Meanwhile, the information merchant has been making constant efforts to find out Si-woo’s whereabouts.
But there was nothing to know about him. Where he came from, what abilities he has, and even what he is doing now.
Still, it was possible to roughly infer his whereabouts through changes in other information. If you heard news that a junket office was destroyed or that a gambling house went bankrupt overnight, it was definitely related to Siwoo.
And while following Si-woo’s movements, she came to one conclusion.
There is no point in working now.
What would be the use of gathering information in the face of a monster that wipes out underworld organizations without skipping a single day? These are pieces of information that will end up as scraps of paper the next day anyway.
So Jeong Bo-sang stayed at home last night.
“Aww… Really. There are no customers these days…”
The information merchant fell down on his desk, crying. The way he was complaining seemed pitiful.
But that didn’t mean there weren’t people looking for information.
Because the people in the underworld each had eyes and ears, and felt that an unbearable disaster was wiping out the underworld. In fact, there were more people looking for information than ever.
The problem is that she cannot provide them with the information they want. Because she didn’t know anything about Siwoo.
Therefore, although they came to visit the information dealer, they did not become customers. Those who looked for her only found out one thing.
The fact that if you don’t lie down now, you will die.
‘… ‘I am no exception.’
The information merchant lay face down on his desk and sighed.
Now that the underworld’s tectonic changes are continuing, there are more than one person who wants to become the new loser. The same was true in the information industry.
Now, all existing information is useless. There are people who say they will become the new intelligence dealers in this region.
A true first-class woman would destroy all of her rivals in this chaos and gain her dominant position, but she was not willing to take that much of a risk. So she has no choice but to remain quiet and take a wait-and-see approach in this era of overcrowding information vendors.
But the fact that she surrendered itself was unfair to her, so she raised her body and screamed.
“They said they would come again next time! But why aren’t you coming?!”
If Si-woo comes just one more time, she can blow away all the new intelligence dealers like flies, so why doesn’t she come?
She just banged her palm on her desk, blaming Siwoo for no reason.All.
At that time, the door burst open. Her eyes darted around.
The man she was waiting for was standing there.
“Hey… Have you moved yet? “The house is still in a sh*tty state.”
She smiled brightly when she saw Si-woo coming in with a fuss, but soon her expression changed to a blank expression. She said she welcomed him because she didn’t want to make it obvious.
Siwoo didn’t seem to notice and continued to criticize her by saying that the house was a mess. Siwoo’s eyes were very indifferent as he scanned here and there.
Now that Siwoo had turned her attention, she asked in a trembling voice.
“Why did you come here?”
“Why did you come? “You said I was coming again last time, right?”
“… !”
She felt the joy that took her breath away.
Of course she thought she’d forgotten, that it was just a formal greeting, but she was glad she still remembered it.
Her voice trembled slightly.
“So are you here to buy information today?”
“No? Are you just here to hang out? “I was wondering what I was doing for a living.”
“Huh…”
Her heart rate soared.
In the end, she said she came because she wanted to see her, not on any business.
I was so happy about that.
“That… “So, what are you going to do today?”
Her wet voice filled the room. A hot, yearning voice was longing for Siwoo, as if it was expecting something from her.
She fretted and unconsciously rubbed her thighs. Her body temperature did not go down at all. Instead, she seemed to keep going up.
Her head throbbed as if she had been anesthetized, and her heart pounded as if it was beating all over her body. So much so that it was difficult for her to even sit properly.
Siwoo said calmly, whether he was aware of her condition or not.
“Huh? I don’t have anything else to do? I just came today because Isabelle said she had something else to do…”
“… Isabel?”
The information merchant asked with a straight face. The lowering voice contained deep disappointment.
However, Siwoo responded as if he could not read the changed atmosphere at all.
“Uh. I became Isabelle’s squire. So these days, I’m busy learning to become an Auror. “We are also cleaning up the underworld together.”
“No wonder…”
Information Sang sighed deeply and leaned against her backrest. Regardless of the regret felt, the information worker naturally gathered the information.
Well, the only person who can disintegrate organizations that quickly is the Auror Master.
In that case, she must say that it is Isabel who actually destroys the underworld, and that it is Si-woo who is in full charge of information and plans.
Valuable information that can eliminate all emerging intelligence merchants under its wing. However, even though he knew that information, his expression did not improve.
Si-woo said only what she had to say until the end.
“Anyway, I’m glad you look fine. Then I went-“
“For a moment!”
The intelligence merchant hurriedly stopped Si-woo, who was about to turn around and leave.
She asked, her voice slightly shaking as she caught her breath.
“What is your name?”
Then her Siwoo answered with his back turned to her.
“Siwoo. You?”
＜Br＞ “I am…”
The information merchant was worried. Should I use a pseudonym, a title, or my real name?
But what to say in this exciting moment was decided from the beginning.
“Lila. “Call me Leela.”
At those words, Siwoo just turned his head slightly and smiled.
Looking at her profile, Lila felt her heart pounding.
“Lila? That’s a pretty name. See you again.”
“Yes, thank you… No, not this, just stay together for a moment-“
Bang-
Lila smiled helplessly as she watched Si-woo open her door roughly and leave.
She went out, confirmed that Si-woo was completely gone, and sank helplessly in her chair.
“You idiot… They said they would do it again…”
She looked at the bodyguard with a somber expression.
“Rosaria. Should we move?”
“If you’re moving, where are you going…” … ?”
“Near where Si-woo is.”
“Didn’t I say that I shouldn’t meet people often?”
“That’s right. It won’t work…”
Do I have to wait for him here for the rest of my life?
Lila thought so and buried her face in her desk.
The still vivid memory of her from fifteen days ago soothed her a little.
Side story 1. Jeongbo-sang who wants something – END
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Side story 2. Strange spirits somewhere
It’s been a month since I started learning Auror skills from Isabelle.
Recently, Siwoo had a problem.
It wasn’t related to the main story going forward, nor was it related to Siwoo himself.
It was because of the spirits.
It may have been a while since I summoned the spirits, but the spirits were now able to form their own selves and speak. I can barely speak words to gnomes and Ignis, but I have already reached the level of fluency with the sylphs and undines I often summoned to spend the summer.
But the content of that conversation was the problem.
“Dad! When are we going to do waterboarding again?”
Undine asked with a bright smile. Upon hearing that, Siwoo touched his forehead as if he was troubled.
I could understand being given the title ‘Dad’. The spirits gained a sense of identity thanks to Si-woo, so in a way, Si-woo could become like his parents.
But waterboarding…
No matter how much I thought about it, these were not words that would come out of the spirit’s mouth.
Siwoo calmly recalled his memories as to why Undine was like this.
It all started with clearing out the underworld.
While clearing out the underworld with Isabel, there were many situations where torture was necessary, and it was around that time that Undine began to withdraw her words.
Undine had no aversion to causing pain to others. Like a child happily ripping off a dragonfly’s wings, Undine giggled and blocked the member’s pores.
But he asked why he should do this.
At that time, Siu and Undine had this conversation.
‘Why do we have to waterboard? ‘That’s to make them tell the truth.’
‘Truth?’
‘Huh. Truth. LieDoing things is bad, but speaking honestly is good, right? So we are making this person good.’
‘I see… ‘Then can we do this to all people who lie?’
‘No. That’s not allowed.’
‘Why?’
‘It’s okay for people who normally live good lives to lie a little. Because I did a lot of good things. However, people who usually live badly should not lie any more. So, they only water torture people who usually lead bad lives like this. Got it?’
‘Huh! Okay!’
Siwoo recalled the entire conversation and sighed.
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In the end, it was Siwoo’s own fault.
I just tried to rationalize it because I thought people wouldn’t like waterboarding, but Undine seemed to be into the role of making bad people good, so she sang a waterboarding song from that day on.
There was nothing bad about Siwoo, but I couldn’t help but feel skeptical about whether this was a proper spirit.
Moreover, Undine wasn’t the only thing that disturbed Siwoo.
Sylph, who was watching Siwoo from the side, asked.
“Dad. It’s hard? Should I give you drugs?”
“It’s okay. I don’t do drugs. And you don’t have any drugs now…”
The situation for Sylphs and Undines was similar.
It was when we were clearing out the underworld. Usually, Isabel would clean up the underworld, but there were times when Isabel had other things to do or there were places where it was difficult for Isabel to come, and in those cases, Si-woo stepped in and took care of it.
Siu was much weaker than Isabel, so he fought by making good use of the terrain. Among them were drugs.
It was rare for an underworld organization to have no one who had ever touched drugs, so whenever Si-Woo saw a pile of drug powder, he put it to good use. If you give the stimulant the right amount of stimulant and the tranquilizer the right amount of sedative to the opponent, you will have an advantage in battle.
The problem started when Sylph saw people taking drugs and being happy.
From that day on, Sylph started looking for drugs as if he wanted to make people happier. In bad times, he would search for drugs that even Siwoo couldn’t find and spray them all over the place.
Especially when she brought a medicine that looked like a small girl and said in a childlike voice, ‘Dad, look at this~’…
It was a truly mind-boggling moment.
While Siu was reminiscing about the past, Undine and Sylph bickered.
“A fool who doesn’t even know if there are drugs or not.”
“Profit… “I’ll come get the drugs in 30 minutes!”
“There are no drugs here? And Dad said he doesn’t do drugs.”
“Hueng-“
“You’re all in…”
Siwoo calmed down the two spirits that were disturbing his mind and body and sent them away. Finally, silence came. Siwoo calmly continued to worry.
His real concern was not that undines and sylphs were abnormal.
The gnomes and Ignis were normal.
In the future, there will be a lot of work to summon spirits together, so wouldn’t it be strange if a sense of disharmony were created between the spirits?
Siwoo continued to worry about what to do, and eventually came up with an answer that made Columbus cry.
‘Okay. If discomfort is the problem, you can just make everything abnormal, right?’
Siwoo was impressed by his genius idea and began to plan his plan.
Where is the sound of Spirit Siwoo crying?It seemed like I could hear a line.
Side story 2. Strange spirits somewhere – END