Chapter 23. Found You (1)
“What did the Poison King order to be moved, and where?”
Hyeon-yul asked the boss again.
Vvvvvt.
The cell phone vibrated.
Oh Hae-ryeon.
Only then did Hyeon-yul rember that he hadn't submitted the report.
“Ah, please wait just a mont.
It's an urgent call.”
Hyeon-yul asked for understanding and then answered the phone.
An emotion suggesting ‘What kind of stunt is this?’ showed on the boss' face.
“Yes, Mr. Team Leader.”
“…That was, indeed, a difficult mission.”
“You narrowed it down by 4.
I just secured a proposal through the boss' laptop.
Of course, it's not explicitly written as 'kidnapped children'.
It's just written like 'goods', though.”
Even villains wrote things like proposals according to format.
Being conscious of external gazes, they often mixed in company jargon as camouflage.
As Hyeon-yul reached for the laptop, a power like black smoke erged from beneath the laptop and took it away.
“Mr. Team Leader. I will hand over the laptop later.”
Hyeon-yul checked his watch.
Ji-hwan had said he needed 5 minutes to destroy this building.
It was currently the 4th minute.
Hyeon-yul seed to fall backward, then seeped into the floor.
When he popped out forward again, the location had changed.
It was the underground parking lot.
The vehicle carrying the children hadn't departed yet.
Hyeon-yul found the truck.
“Mr. Team Leader. I will continue the mission.
The kindergarten kidnapping incident is not over yet.”
“Yes. The poison is fine, but moving the captured children alone is too much for .
Support is needed.”
“No. He's a little far away.
I plan to travel together.
Since I'm still on probation.”
Of course, he planned to travel keeping so distance.
Ji-hwan clearly looked like he had no poison resistance.
“Understood. Then, may I kill the Poison King?”
“Thank you for your permission.”
Hyeon-yul bowed politely and ended the call.
He assessed the number of people around the truck.
‘Eight.’
There was no need to bother attacking them.
Hyeon-yul contacted Ji-hwan via smartwatch and touched his wireless earphone.
[Blow it up.]
The voice ssage was transmitted as text.
Hyeon-yul seeped beneath the shadow and stopped right under the truck.
He sent nurous hands made of darkness towards the truck, not just grabbing but tightly wrapping around it.
“…What the?”
The villain smoking in front of the truck reacted to the strange power.
He imdiately dropped the cigarette he was holding and moved far away.
“What is this!”
“How would I…….”
The words were cut off there.
Kuuuuung!
The sound of sothing falling onto the building was heard.
‘It’s here.’
Hyeon-yul instantly knew it was magic.
Everyone was startled by the loud noise, loud enough to be heard noisily even in the underground parking lot, and covered their ears.
Buuuuung.
Wind silently rose from below, then quickly turned into intense heat.
Cars began to bubble furiously as if everything would lt instantly upon contact.
“Aaaaaaaargh!”
Screams filled the surroundings, but they no longer reached Hyeon-yul.
Seeping into the silent darkness, all sound died away.
Knock, knock.
The sound of knocking was heard.
“Co in.”
The door opened.
As the strong sll of blood rushed in, the man sitting and smoking a cigarette turned his head.
The man wore a mask that covered only the upper part of his face.
Nurous corpses lay scattered where Hyeon-yul had walked, but ironically, not a drop of blood stained his body.
“Good day.”
Hyeon-yul greeted the Poison King, whom he had finally t.
Should I call it the aura emanating from him?
It was different from the riffraff.
“A Black Eagle?”
“That's correct.”
“Quite sothing.”
The Poison King looked quite pleased.
Hoo.
Following the long exhale of smoke, a sweet sll filled the surroundings.
Hyeon-yul slled the scent drifting through his helt and instantly knew it was poison.
“Thinking it would beco botherso, I killed them all beforehand.
If I had known you'd regret it like this, perhaps I should have left about one alive.”
“No, it's fine.
They would only have been annoying anyway.
What more would they do other than end up dying?”
The Poison King flicked ash into the ashtray and shook his crossed leg.
“So, what business brings you here?”
“What business would bring here?”
“Couldn't there be various reasons?”
The Poison King asked slyly and smiled.
Hyeon-yul wasn't curious at all about what was inside that head.
“Do you want to kill ?”
“I ca to capture you.”
“You could probably kill , though.”
“I can kill you. I want to kill you, too.”
Hyeon-yul approached and sat down.
How great would it be if I could plunge a knife into that neck right now?
“However, my Mr. Team Leader said that's not allowed.”
“That kind of composure, I quite like it.”
The Poison King couldn't stop the corners of his mouth from lifting, as if he liked Hyeon-yul.
Although a Black Eagle, strangely, the scent of his own kind emanated strongly.
Because at least the Black Eagles he knew didn't act like that.
“Have any thoughts of coming over to this side?”
Hyeon-yul felt like laughing at the Poison King’s offer.
He seed to extend his hand as if for a handshake, then, along with the mask splitting in half and falling off with a thud, the Poison King’s face was revealed.
A dagger was already gripped in Hyeon-yul’s hand.
‘Ah.’
The mont he saw the Poison King’s face, the corners of Hyeon-yul’s mouth lifted.
Because he had the helt, he could smile even bigger and brighter.
‘So I did see him.’
He finally confird just how well-connected Shin Dae-ho was.
That face, he rembered it clearly.
He didn't know if it was a side effect of poison, but how could he easily forget the sight of boils swelling on the face?
The Poison King’s expression, looking at Hyeon-yul, quickly hardened.
He beca savage, as if he would kill Hyeon-yul right away.
“I was curious about what kind of face was beyond that, so I committed a discourtesy.
By the way, why do you hide such a wonderfully villainous face?”
Hyeon-yul smiled, and the Poison King’s fist clenched.
The disappearance of the smile ant he had lost his composure.
“If you find it unpleasant, you can try it too.
If you can, that is.”
Hyeon-yul provoked the Poison King.
He had strong confidence that nothing could reach him.
“You have so insolent tricks.”
Along with the Poison King’s words, the place his hand had touched slowly lted and disappeared.
As dark red poison dripped from his hand, even the hard floor lted away instantly.
‘Such a potent poison.’
Hyeon-yul thought lightly.
Anyone without poison resistance would be busy dying just breathing here, no, even holding their breath, as it seeped through the skin.
It just wasn't him.
“What were you planning to do with the test subjects?”
Hyeon-yul brought up the tedious question.
There was no expectation he would answer.
Nevertheless, Hyeon-yul had to.
He wanted to know everything: who experinted on him, for what purpose, and who he was in the past.
Ah, seems there’s a misunderstanding.
I washed my hands of that side long ago.
No one could withstand the poison anyway.
It's no fun, right?
The Poison King’s eyes curved.
“However, you had a truck full of children, which contradicts your words, doesn't it?”
Opening the rescued truck, as expected, it was full of children asleep from drugs.
The friend Se-rin ntioned might have been there, but it wasn't the ti to check.
He left them with Ji-hwan and ca here.
The children were protected, and he had to capture the Poison King who kidnapped them.
“Ah, you saw that?”
The Poison King asked as if it were nothing.
“Wouldn't I have co because I saw it?”
“Because it makes money.”
The Poison King laughed loudly.
What could be so amusing?
“How about you beco honest too?”
“About what?”
“They say over billions co in per child, so naturally, you have to catch and deliver them, right? Isn't that so?”
“That's why you are being captured today.
We can't let beasts roam the streets, can we?”
“It's an honor. There could be no greater complint for than that.”
The Poison King stood up from his seat and looked at Hyeon-yul.
He looked as if pondering how to kill that bastard.
“But it's truly regrettable.
Because the one who complinted disappears today.”
Hyeon-yul laughed at those words.
Would the howling of a toothless beast really be scary?
The sound of sothing simring was heard from below.
Viscous poison flowed like a river from the Poison King’s legs, lting the chair and sofa.
The highly toxic gas rising each ti objects lted approached nacingly, but it was rely a potent sll.
The poison couldn't even lt Hyeon-yul’s shoes.
“Is it painful? Can't even speak?”
‘…What is he doing?’
Hyeon-yul narrowed his eyes.
It was an action that normally would have worked, but in Hyeon-yul’s eyes, it was rely like dancing.
To think he rose to the level of a big shot with no strength, relying solely on poison.
‘At this rate, I could beco a big-shot villain too.’
Hyeon-yul scoffed.
“It's disappointing.”
No sooner had Hyeon-yul tossed out the words than he appeared in front of the Poison King.
Faint smoke swirled around Hyeon-yul’s body.
He reached out and grabbed the Poison King’s neck.
Squeeeeze.
“……?”
The Poison King couldn't handle the surging force and was pushed back to the wall.
Thump.
Quite a loud sound was heard.
“To think trash like this is a big shot.”
Along with irritation, Hyeon-yul plunged the dagger into the Poison King’s shoulder.
Liquid-like blood flowed out, lting the floor.
“……You, why aren’t you dead?”
The Poison King swallowed the rising scream and asked.
“Why wouldn't I die?”
“You… what are you?”
The Poison King wavered.
His poison could lt people.
The power to kill hundreds of people in 3 seconds with just the sll also existed.
Was that all?
This poison, seemingly coating his entire skin, was a deadly poison that caused death to anything just by touching it.
Not only did he withstand this, but he even grabbed his neck.
The sight surrounding him, dangling precariously in the air, was incredibly humiliating.
“What are you…!”
The Poison King denied reality.
Soone impervious to his poison.
How could such a person exist?
“Were you that greedy for Shin Dae-ho's power base?”
“……”
At Hyeon-yul’s words, the Poison King suddenly stopped resisting and grinned.
“…So it was you.”
“I appreciate the offer, but it seems I cannot join your company.
As I've already found employnt.”
Hyeon-yul raised the corners of his mouth.
“You… made the worst choice.”
To think the place you chose after careful consideration is the Empire's dog.
“Whether it's the worst or not is for to judge.
For now, you just need to quietly pass out.”
As Hyeon-yul tightened his grip on the neck, the Poison King grabbed Hyeon-yul’s hand.
“Do you know why the Black Eagle was created……?”
Before the Poison King could finish his sentence, Hyeon-yul drove the dagger into the back of the man's hand as if stuffing it in.
Stab!
“Where do you think you're grabbing ?
Filthily, at that.”
He was more irritated by the fact that he had touched him than by why the Black Eagle was created.
Didn't he just say with his own mouth that it was a dirty hand that had experience creating test subjects?
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