“A chance as good as now will never come again. And it’s all thanks to you.”
Lydia sighed and took off the glasses she was wearing and placed them on the table.
“The Red Case is divided into teams for different purposes. Among them, the team worth paying attention to is the Infiltration, Operation Team, which I am leading. The watering team, the bodyguards. It’s like three Of course, there are studies that have disappeared before, and there are other little things like drugs, smuggling, gambling, etc… … .”
She took a ballpoint pen out of her arms and started explaining to me by simply drawing on a piece of paper she had brought from somewhere.
“Our kids have almost no fighting power. In terms of combat power alone, the Watering Team and the SS are overwhelming. Of course, there are other fighters, but they’re all scattered here and there, and it’s embarrassing to compare them to the previous two teams.”
“therefore?”
“In just a few months, much of this fighting power was lost. Thanks to you.”
She nodded and began to spin the pen slowly.
“The kids I lead… … Now there are only about five of me left. Even Esmeralda, the child is captive. But the watering team also lost that many people. This is the first time this has happened.”
“Still, won’t the SS be okay? Of course, I think those guys are the most dangerous.”
“So you are important.”
She added the words Thorn Cross and Big Watch on paper with a pen.
“The relationship between these two and us is the worst right now. There are things I encouraged through my kids to do that, but the conflict will deepen because of the pendant you got yesterday. That’s what all three organizations wanted.”
She continued to explain while licking her dry lips for a moment.
“So this is the basis of my plan. If you use it as a bait and leak information that it was finally intercepted from the Red Case, the two groups will attack. If you touch it from the inside, you can make two places rush at once. If that happens, the bodyguards who are always by the boss’s side will have no choice but to leave to intercept. If you attack the boss then… … .”
“I don’t want to disturb you while you’re happy, but I think I’m missing some important facts, so I’ll point it out.”
I raised my fingers and said.
“First of all, I never told them I was cooperating. Second, I don’t know who’s going to use this pendant as a bait, and finally, the third.”
“You mean you don’t believe me?”
I nodded at her words.
She looked as if she had already expected it.
“Since we both get tired of each other, let’s stop talking nonsense and go straight to the point. If you want to talk, you said that you would come directly, and that you are listening to the story as if you had expected it like this, right?”
“Well, yes.”
I didn’t really deny it.
In the first place, if she and her subordinates respond from within, I will be able to achieve my purpose more easily.
Rather, it was a situation in which it was not enough to propose from this side.
“What shall I do?”
“You have to make me believe it.”
“okay… … .”
She nodded.
In fact, I knew very well why she had this mindset for a long time, but I needed to check it out because it was just in case.
“Honestly, you can’t believe so easily that you, as an executive, will betray you, right? You should be grateful that you didn’t call anyone right now.”
“… … .”
she was silent
And after a while, he opened his mouth with a sigh.
“okay… … There is no need to hide it anymore.”
She opened her mouth in a shaky voice.
“Red Case’s executive, he’s not really human.”
“Then what, a vampire or an undead? Or is it a dragon?”
“It would be better if that was the case.”
“Then what?”
She paused for a moment.
“… Seven evil species.”
bingo.
It was as set.
In the original work, she was the only one other than the leader of the SS, who noticed that the boss of the Red Case was the Seven Evils, so she was a person in the organization who secretly tried to stop him.
Even though she was a serious criminal, helping the Seven Evils was a completely different story.
“I know how crazy my story will sound. But if you listen to my explanation a little… … .”
“believe.”
“uh?”
“I believe.”
Lydia looked lost for words for a moment.
“Come on, wait. Of course, I said it because I wanted him to believe it, but so simply… … .”
“Is that a lie?”
“No, it can’t be.”
She shook her head.
“Now, if I could come and lie to him, what good would it be to me?”
“So do I.”
He nodded roughly and turned to her.
Actually, it was because I played the original game and knew the settings, so I couldn’t say that.
“If you really want to cheat, it’s more plausible… … So, I must have said something that was reasonably convincing even though I was skeptical. It’s a seven-evil bell, so if you spit out such nonsense, who the hell is going to believe it?”
“… … .”
“And what’s the benefit of making fun of me in that way, as you said, in the current situation? If I refuse to cooperate, only you are at risk. So I just thought it was more reliable because it was such a nonsense.”
“… okay.”
She nodded calmly.
It seemed that her languid eyes seemed to be getting a little more lively.
“That’s good.”
“Rather than that, I heard that the leader of the sprinkler team is targeting me, right?”
“okay. He has now pledged to kill you.”
She meekly nodded her head in affirmation.
To be honest, there was no one more annoying than the leader of the sprinkler team.
To put it bluntly, Lee Myung-joon is ten, and if you shoot him with a gun when he is hit by his abilities, he will die without a hitch.
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Of course, I wouldn’t attack him so openly from his point of view, thinking about the future or how to escape.
In addition, if the boss of Red Case and he form a united front, in theory, no one can win.
If I had to pick an opponent I had to kill as quickly as possible, it would be that man.
“As I said before, no one knows his abilities. There are even rumors that even the boss doesn’t know.”
“That’s not what I want. I heard that you and the watering team have a bad relationship right now, but will you still be able to keep in touch?”
“right.”
“And, of course, since I have the pendant, he must be trying to kill me for at least two reasons.”
“no way… … .”
“I think I should kill him.”
Lydia’s expression changed moment by moment.
There was a smile on her face, as if it was surprising.
“So, I want you to cooperate.”
Lydia distorted her expression for the first time.
“It’s too dangerous.”
“Are you trying to kill me anyway? It’s better to attack from this side first than to wait for them to attack.”
“However… … .”
Lydia, who had been muttering with trembling, made eye contact with me and shook her head slightly.
Then, as in the first time, he asked in a quiet voice.
“What can I do?”
“If I give him a signal, then I give him information. Come find me from there.”
“and?”
“That’s it.”
I nodded.
His abilities are literally a joker card.
If you don’t know, you’ll be in big trouble, but from the moment you find out, it’s meaningless.
“If you kill him, will he be more mobile? It will increase the chances that the plan will be successful.”
“… right.”
“Okay, so I think the story is roughly settled.”
I clapped and said,
“The first thing they need to do is send me information about the Thorn Cross and the Big Watch. They say they’re already infiltrating?”
“okay. I’ll send you everything I know.”
“And the role of informant and communicator is Esmeralda Listener.”
At that, she paused for a moment.
“… The child is now captured. You wouldn’t be unaware of that, would you?”
“So, please show me your skills.”
Esmeralda Listenerger was originally supposed to play an important role in the mid-to-late part of the story.
However, because of me, she was imprisoned in the hammer of the thunderbolt at the beginning, and it was almost impossible for her to escape by herself now.
So I just thought it was necessary to let her act like the original for now.
“You must have left him alone for various reasons, didn’t you? But wouldn’t it be difficult to believe in a person who can’t take care of any of his subordinates?”
“… great.”
Lydia stood up with a firm expression on her face.
She was a rational person enough not to show that she was feeling bad.
“As he said, I will make contact through that child. Will it be okay?”
“okay. Good luck.”
“I think it would be better to ask for that luck later.”
She said to me in a voice of genuine concern.
“No one needs more luck right now than you, the leader of the watering team trying to save your life.”
With those words, she turned into the middle-aged woman who first appeared.
And before going outside, he said, ‘I see’, and looked at me.
“Why are you cooperating?”
“What?”
“Actually, I have thought of many stories to convince you. If I can’t get your cooperation, I was even thinking of stealing a pendant.”
He spat out the excuses he had been thinking about at her casually speaking out.
“Because they have grudges. Aren’t you also trying to kill him just because he’s a Seven Evil species? It’s like that.”
“… I see.”
Lydia nodded her head as if in agreement.
After she left, I was still sitting there.
It was because the main scenario quest that appeared after a long time came up in front of my eyes, along with a notification window that a singularity had appeared in the scenario.
[Main Quest]
― Sampa Battle [1]
[Explanation]
red case.
thorn cross.
Big Watch.
The conflict between these three groups is getting worse day by day.
Already, they are targeting each other’s gaps to the extent that they are engaged in small-scale warfare.
In the meantime, you have obtained a relic that all three groups want in common.
Maybe using this you can annihilate them.
[Success Condition]
― Red case.
— Thorn Cross
― Big Watch
Get a chance to target one of these three organizations.
[Reward on Success]
― The content of the scenario changes according to the flow.
― The main quest ~ Battle of the Three Pavilions [2] is in progress.
And just a while ago, another quest followed through conversation with Lydia.
Although I had seen it in the original, it was the first serial scenario I had ever seen in this world.
[Main Quest]
― Sampa Battle [2]
[Explanation]
You have identified a potentially fatal weakness for the Red Case.
And you could also connect with a helper who will respond from within to help you.
Help her prepare ahead of time for the collapse of the Red Case.
[Success Condition]
― Help Lydia prepare ahead of time for the collapse of the Red Case.
1) Kill one executive-level figure in the Red Case.
2) Get at least two of the Red Case’s main antagonists to declare war on them.
3) Create chaos inside the red case.
[Success Reward]
― The main quest ~ Battle of the Three Waves [3] is in progress.
“… … .”
Looking at it, I couldn’t help but keep my mouth shut.
There were so many things to be prepared for, even if I could only estimate it roughly.
And there was only Jin Ye-seul who could help me prepare for it.
‘I’ll have to talk tomorrow.’
I got up with that thought.
With the thought that for some reason today, things that require a lot of thought seem to explode one after another.
* * *
The next day, Jin Ye-seul did not come to class until morning.
When I sent a sneak peek, I got a reply saying that I would be back in the afternoon.
Then I replied that we should meet then, and after a while, the reply came back.
This time, I didn’t check it because it was a text with an attached file.
It was probably because Han Soo-young and Choi Hyun-woo were sitting right next to me right now.
And they were both talking to other students.
Before I knew it, the two of them became the center of the class.
It was always quiet around me, sandwiched between the two of them.
… Anyway, I had no intention of checking the text message of Jin Ye-seul that might be some kind of picture in the gap.
Especially considering that the photos she had sent me before were of her posing in a party dress.
In the meantime, I could see a girl next to me clinging to Han Soo-young with a pleading voice.
“Hey, Sooyoung. Shall we go out to a meeting together? I just have to sit there and give it to you, okay?”
“I don’t like that… … .”
“Just sit there! You don’t have to choose anyone!”
“Okay, we’ll shoot rice and dessert too!”
“Um, that’s actually… … .”
Han Soo-young laughed as if in trouble at the continued request.
Then, suddenly, she tapped me and Hyun-woo Choi’s shoulder.
“They know better, why am I not going out?”
“Uh, why?”
At the girl’s question, Han Soo-young grinned and smiled.
Her gaze was clearly directed towards me and Choi Hyun-woo, but I could instinctively notice that she was looking this way.
“Well, actually, I’ve been dating someone for a while.”
At those words, some of the female students made screeching noises.
It was also noticeable that some of the male students who pretended not to be but listened to them were discouraged.
“And yesterday when I confessed… … that.”
“Did you kiss me?”
Han Soo-young nodded slightly at someone’s urgent question.
Amid the screams that erupted once more, she opened her mouth as if telling a saga.
“But it’s just that you’re following me like you like it, so that person hasn’t been able to give me a proper answer all this time. So, while I was thinking about giving up, I found out that he was actually me… … .”
“Wait, did you confess to Sooyoung? Isn’t that one?”
“yes. I fell in love first and kept confessing. But I keep taking it off. If something is wrong.”
At those words, a loud noise erupted again.
At this point, I could see that most of the class was paying attention to this.
“But when I looked at it yesterday, it looked like it was half way over. If you push it just like this, it will be captured immediately.”
“Great… … .”
“Who are you, huh? Are you older? Or are you the same age as us?”
Instead of answering them, Han Soo-young asked me and Choi Hyun-woo.
“right? Do you even think so?”
Choi Hyun-woo quickly nodded at her question.
“That, then. I always support you with Sooyoung.”
Looking at Choi Hyun-woo, who implicitly showed that he would take Han Soo-young’s side instead of me, Han Soo-young smiled bitterly.
“Are you Jihyuk?”
Han Soo-young looked at this side with a smile.
“Are you going to support me too? We are friends.”
“right… … .”
I nodded.
How on earth can you get away with it in this situation?
“Of course I support you. We are friends.”
“Ugh… … .”
Han Soo-young nodded slowly with a satisfied expression.
Then he muttered quietly.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can go to the meeting. Will everyone understand?”
Han Soo-young, who glanced at this side with a glance, smiled brightly at the girls who were looking at her.
“That person is a bit of a loach, so if you miss it, you’re sure to run away again. So when there is any reaction, I plan to hold it firmly.”
I won’t miss what’s in my hands.
never.
She added asserted.
“You even kissed me and then missed it, because if that happens, I feel like I won’t be able to stand still, even if it’s unfair.”
“… … .”
Choi Hyun-woo was just making a sad expression on his face.
I felt a sense of unity and betrayal at the sight of him who couldn’t even look at me for fear of being caught.
Boo Woong.
My phone was ringing, but I couldn’t even think of answering it.