Episode 97. Corvus (1)
“Keugh-”
Simon put on a shameful expression and put on his clothes.
There were no symbols of Sabnak or Scarlet Knights tattoos anywhere on her body.
Of course, the process only confirmed precipitation.
Theresa was away for a while.
“Now is it?”
“You could be a member of an organization and not have a tattoo.”
“Teresa—! Don’t you trust me that much?”
Theresa’s eyes twitched at Simon’s toro.
“Of course I don’t believe it. How can I trust you?”
“Ha- Then why did you even ask me to take off my clothes?”
“I don’t know if there was solid evidence. And if the prosecutor’s office even uses grenades, it’s suspicious to anyone. You were trying to kill Soo.”
In response, Simon opened his mouth and said.
“I almost died too. It appeared to live behind the door, so am I just getting hurt?”
Kang also understood that part.
I was standing there thinking of killing myself.
Of course, it almost killed him, but whether Simon noticed it or had another method… he had read the signs of the precipitation and even avoided the pistol the moment it was fired.
“I don’t care if you’re right or not.”
“You mean it doesn’t matter if your old colleague dies like that?”
“What about a colleague! You are a freelancer! Where did you take it and paste it because you played together once?”
It became noisy between the two.
In response, Kang-soo pulled back the pistol’s loading handle.
clap-
Teresa and Simon fell silent at the sound of the steel being pulled sharply.
“…so what shall we do?”
“What, what?”
“What is it? They ask where to be buried.”
At the same time, Theresa clenched her fists.
“I really only received commissions!”
“If it’s a real request, where did you tell who you got it from?”
“That’s my credit!”
“If you can’t tell, we can’t help but think of you as Savnak.”
At that moment, Simon’s expression hardened.
“···what? Savnak? Why are you saying I’m such a bastard?”
It was an atmosphere where the playfulness that had been around from the beginning had disappeared.
He seemed genuinely angry.
“It’s because the person you delivered the dirty words from the prosecutor’s office is Savnak.”
Simon’s hardened face went pale.
In response to that, Theresa tilted her head while doing something.
“Boy. Come on?”
“···wait.”
Simon, who was in a daze, came to his senses and said.
“They’re Savnak? But Savnak is gone! I said I destroyed them myself!”
This time Theresa was taken by surprise.
It was because Savnak was also the target of revenge on her.
“What nonsense are you talking about? Savnak was destroyed by Nightwing’s Night River in Congo.”
It was a famous battle enough to be passed down as a legend in the mercenary world.
Even so, Night River’s true identity was never officially revealed.
“That’s right, I’m there too—”
For a moment, Simon met Kang-soo’s eyes and was unable to continue talking.
It was because it reminded me of the reason why I was familiar with Kangsu from earlier.
‘Knight… River?’
It wasn’t to the extent that he faced Night River once.
He almost lost his life fighting Savnak in Congo. At that time, it was Night River that appeared in front of Simon.
Of course, Kang-soo knew Simon from the moment he revealed his face.
But with Teresa by her side, she couldn’t speak.
“You mean Simon was there too?”
It wasn’t a story to be talked about loudly at the forefront.
Besides, it was embarrassing to bring it up with his own mouth, since he was almost killed by the bad guys.
“I happened to be there. At that time… I was almost killed by Savnak.”
At that time, Savnak took the lives of both women and children as if offering them to the devil.
Dozens of villages were roaring with fire, and deafening screams could be heard among them.
Simon seemed to recall the nightmare of that time.
“Then did you meet Night River there too?”
Although quiet for a while, Theresa was very interested in Night River.
However, there were many enemies as the existence of Night River became an idol in the mercenary world.
Because of that, the fewer people I knew, the better.
Kang-soo concluded like that. So he quietly walked behind Theresa and opened his eyes to Simon.
With as much negativity as possible…
“Oh, no…”
Fortunately, he seemed to understand.
“okay······?”
“Rather than that… are you going to save me? If you say Savnak, I’ll grind my teeth too. And I’ll tell you how I got the request.”
“You said something about trust earlier.”
Theresa was stunned but thought it was going well.
“I have no trust in them. And when I get back from here, I’ll turn it over first.”
Simon seemed to have accepted the request without knowing who they really were. As if he was still angry, his face was smiling lightly, but his fists were clenched tightly.
Seeing this, Kang-soo recalled the image of Simon, who cried out after seeing the dead bodies of villagers in Congo.
“say it. Where and how did you get the request…”
“…Are you saving me?”
At his question, Kang-soo met Teresa’s eyes.
Kang-soo knew that Simon was not from Savnak’s or Infectus’ side.
So he gave Teresa the power to decide what to do.
“I’m okay. Well, I wasn’t seriously hurt.”
The grenade exploded while going over the ledge, and the grenade shrapnel grazed the calf, causing only a little blood.
It was a really dangerous situation, but I didn’t want to deal with Simon.
“I can’t help it if Soo says yes. But if you want to go back later.”
Swoop—
A red drawing knife was clutched between Theresa’s fingers before she knew it.
“Teresa still uses that type of knife.”
“Never mind.”
Theresa returned the knife with a flick of the wrist.
In the meantime, Kang-soo also grabbed the pistol and cleared his tense throat.
As the atmosphere subsided, Simon let out a sigh of relief and sank to the ground.
“I will live for a while now. What… thank you.”
Even so, he glanced at the river.
It was the look in his eyes that clearly recognized that Kangsu was the Night River.
But I didn’t say anything about it.
“Once they contacted us, it was an official request. We met in Istanbul and paid all the money in advance.”
With Simon’s explanation, Kang-soo was able to guess the situation.
“Istanbul? It must be to avoid leaving traces of the transaction as much as possible.”
“That’s right. It was a woman who came to the deal. I don’t know the name.”
“···female?”
“It was like a Korean. Feeling like a 40-year-old with short hair dyed brown? He was wearing sunglasses, but he had a lot of charisma. It must be a bit scary.”
In an instant, Kang-soo remembered a person.
So he took out his cell phone and showed Simon a picture of a person.
Simon answered without hesitation.
“Oh, right! This is the person!”
It was a picture of Jennifer Han that Harold had handed over to him in the past.
The river became serious when the guess came true.
It was because the traces of Jennifer Han, which had been missed while dealing with Gil Tae-yong’s gang, were caught like this.
Of course, it was difficult to catch even if he said he was going to Istanbul now.
“Was this woman alone there?”
“I came out alone. By the way, do you know someone?”
“…you can think of it as someone from the Savnak side.”
According to the situation revealed so far, Bluton Reform was the final mastermind.
However, it was difficult to trust Simon that much right away, so he told me roughly.
“Have you been notified that the request was successful? How did you decide to deliver it?”
“I said there was no need for that. Well, I stopped because it was convenient if I didn’t bother to check it… but there was a good reason for that.”
“You must have believed in your reputation.”
Simon Corbus’ nickname was ‘The Battle Crow’.
He was famous for running any lucrative errands on the battlefield. At the same time, when it came to the promised commission, he had a reputation for succeeding in any way.
Just looking at it this time.
The bathroom of the prosecutor’s office was regurgitated, and even a grenade was set off in the cleaning warehouse…
“This has been used properly.”
“What are you doing?”
Simon’s lips pouted as Theresa grumbled.
“If it was something Savnak requested, I wouldn’t have done it in the first place. I thought they were all dead, but how do you know if they are still active?”
Simon also had a deep grudge against Savnak. The clenched fist was still unopened.
Kang-soo, who saw that, took a deep breath and said.
“Honestly, the grenade was bad. What would you have done if there were people left in the warehouse besides us?”
At this, Simon’s expression became confident.
“I guess I didn’t count that too? It was lunch time, so I made all the cleaning people go to a nearby Chinese restaurant to get a bite. No one comes down to the warehouse during that time except for the cleaning people.”
“…”
It was really thorough.
Kangsu stuck out his tongue. It was to the point where I felt sorry for Gong Chi-young, who was slightly awkwardly disguised as an old woman.
“Anyway, useless…”
Theresa was the only one who kept grumbling about what she was complaining about.
Then Kang-soo nodded.
“What did the woman tell you to deliver?”
“I don’t know what it was, but it was a dirty word like Morse code.”
“Hmm?”
Simon gave a twig from a neighbor and knocked it on the floor.
Tok- tok- tok- tok- tok-
The dirty language in the bathroom was the part where I couldn’t even hear the river properly.
“Is that the end?”
“I was told to deliver it like this. I don’t know what it means.”
Kang-su thought for a moment and muttered quietly.
“To be investigated. self-destruction. shut your mouth take the guilt What to do next.”
“How do you know?”
“Do you know the dirty words they use?”
Teresa and Simone were startled. Although the mercenary unit uses its own language, it differs from unit to unit.
In severe cases, each platoon or squad within the unit was completely different.
After hearing such an obscene language, Kang-su immediately deciphered it, and it was amazing to see it.
“There is such a thing.”
Kang-soo memorized and converted all of Gong Chi-yeong’s deciphering methods to find out.
It was because it was a slightly modified version of the language used by Savnak in his messages.
“Once I get it. You can go now.”
“···huh? Is it over?”
“Do you have anything more to say?”
There seemed to be no other information other than the information about meeting Jennifer Han in Istanbul and dirty words.
But Simon made a sad expression.
“Is Teresarang and you pursuing Savnak right now?”
“···then?”
At Kang-soo’s question, Simon thought for a moment before answering.
“Can’t you join me too?”
“Why? And do you know that what you are saying may be considered suspicious?”
It was something that happened many times on the battlefield where lives came and went with a single bullet and a knife.
Faith and betrayal came and went in a split second, making everyone’s nerves stand on edge.
Anyone who knew that should never have taken it out in this situation and this timing.
Returning life of a retired S-class mercenary