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Home visit (4)
When you live in the hunter society, there are stories you cannot help but hear even if you don’t want to hear them. The story about Hong Seok-young’s dead son was one of them.
Well, I could often hear stories about my father’s son, Hong Se-woon, before that. Because malicious rumors always follow celebrities. The tragic death of his only son would have been an attractive story to those who could not see others doing well. Enough to secretly whisper in a child’s ear.
But I am also my father’s wife… She had barely heard anything about Boone. Maybe it was because it was before my father became as famous as he is now. There were photos left at home, but that’s all I know. He was the same age as his father and came from the same orphanage.
As such, the sudden appearance of my father’s brother-in-law was quite disconcerting to me. Even if he got caught up in an unfortunate incident and died.
However, Lee Mi-seon must have already known this, so she did not react other than being surprised when she belatedly found out why Hong Seok-young was doing this.
If you think about it the other way around, what else could shake Hong Seok-young like this other than his family? No, it’s actually more scary.
“however… .”
The rampaging magic power itself has subsided, but that doesn’t mean peace.
Hong Seok-young still looked at Gamble and Hope with sharp eyes.
“We don’t know!”
Gamble said quickly.
“You said you did it for money?”
“I thought you were talking about grave robberies! that… “I don’t trade that!”
“okay?”
Hong Seok-young tilted his head.
“Unlike the doctor, he seems to know something.”
“yes? Uh, huh? Shanshan?”
“huh? Oh, I didn’t do it. Same goes for Sandra. That’s bad. “I know that much.”
“I know, but you can do it without hesitation, right?”
“Hmm.”
Hope hesitated for a moment.
“I should say no here… . “It’s already too late, right?”
“You’re late.”
Hong Seok-young laughed sharply. Hope also smiled with a similar face. As if she would bite the back of her opponent’s neck at any moment.
In the end, I came forward.
“Please stop.”
I widened my eyes at Hong Seok-young.
“Don’t just scratch again. “The story doesn’t progress.”
“Hmm.”
“… “Like Hope said, we’re here to talk.”
Hong Seok-young, who had stubbornly kept his mouth shut, slowly nodded.
I took my eyes off Hong Seok-young. Hope grinned as if he had won, but became quiet after Gamble poked him in the side.
We shouldn’t leave it to those two who seem closer to animals than humans.
I asked Gamble, who was still human.
“What do you mean by grave robbing?”
Gamble glanced closely at Hong Seok-young and then answered.
“… “Because I need funds.”
“funds?”
“Starting a company requires a lot of money… . Moreover, I have to run the foundation.”
According to my research, I grew up in a fairly wealthy family, although not a wealthy person like Hope or Gamble. She is the son of a famous guild master in Australia and the daughter of a famous magical engineer.
… Well, you can’t do anything suspicious with your parents’ money. I understood that Gamble was trying to create a more illegal route to secure funds.
“But grave robbing?”
“just… Well, a few from historical places that people don’t often go to. “Because there are people who like that kind of thing.”
Gamble said in a voice that almost made him crawl.
“Only grave robbing?”
“… … .”
Gamble closed his eyes tightly.
“Actually, I stole a lot of other things too!”
“What if it’s something else?”
“Hide things like guns that were being trafficked and not give them back until you get paid, uh. They say they’ll report it if I don’t pay them… .”
Gamble trembled and explained where the courage that had protected Hope without losing to Hong Seok-young had gone.
“I did a lot of good things!”
“For example?”
“Recovering stolen items! “I only took the reward money, that is.”
“Who stole it?”
“… Shanshan?”
“… … .”
“… … .”
“But it was a drug!”
“Did you give it back to me after receiving the reward?”
“… “I reported it and received the reward.”
“… … .”
“… … .”
I don’t know whether to call this barely moral or worse.
I don’t know what he meant by our silence, but Gamble seemed to have taken it in a worse sense.
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Gamble bit his lip and then opened his mouth.
“If you say you won’t report it, I can show you the evidence.”
“… … .”
“Well, it can’t go any further than that…” . “I don’t want to go to jail.”
“Do you have any awareness that such behavior is worth doing?”
“… … “If there is no evidence, you are not guilty!”
“What are you saying?”
I pressed my temples.
“That’s enough. that… Was the fundraising activity done in the name of the Ark?”
“The one who actually moved was Shanshan… .”
“It’s ambiguous.”
Hope joined in instead of Gamble, who was smiling awkwardly with red cheeks.
“hmm. good. “I wasn’t planning on telling you this, but it doesn’t matter if you were looking there.”
Hope muttered softly and raised her head.
“How much do you guys know about the Ark now?”
* * *
ark.
The Ark.
Even though the name definitely smells like a pseudo-religion, surprisingly, it is not a religious group. In East Asia, including Korea, they collect money from members by citing unheard of pseudo-science to maintain power, but it is still not a religion.
Damage to the dungeon where Kang Tae-woo was active… Is it a children’s group? It’s the same there too. Although the breath of the Ark has reached and there are some suspicious corners, there are also quite a few people who have received help from that group. And from various classes of society.
This is not to say that Ark is a surprisingly good group. That means they are a vicious group.
It instills in those involved the belief that they are doing the right thing. I don’t know how it will end. Without even knowing what they were really participating in.
If you think about it that way, wouldn’t it be closer to a multi-level organization than a pseudo-group? No, it’s a pyramid scheme, already.
My biological parents said that the purpose of their research was to lead humanity to a better place.
“Oh yeah. There are kids like that too. These are the lab kids, right? Noah said that it would be annoying if the words got mixed up for no reason, so he just said that. “He said that there was no need to mess with him because he was taking care of misunderstandings and doing his best.”
Did they know that what they thought was research that would lead to the evolution of humanity was actually a crazy woman’s intention to take out the monsters in the dungeon? The face of my biological parents who died a long time ago… I tried to remember, but I couldn’t remember. Because it’s so old. It’s not someone I met often enough to remember in the first place.
“Noah looks calm, but he’s not good at sitting still. So I left that research to them. If it works out, good, or not? Originally, it was different there… Sandra, where did you say?”
“I heard you came from a pharmaceutical company. The name… .”
“Atlas?”
“uh. i know?”
“I beg your pardon?!”
“I was a founding member there, but not now. It’s been a while since it came out. “It was difficult to find information at the time because it was a long time ago, but considering that it was an internal problem, I think it must have fallen into the ark at that time.”
The time zone is a little… Isn’t it strange?
No matter how much of a genius Noah Michel was, and no matter what he claims, it is difficult for him to escape the constraints of age as long as he is human. The departure of founding members from Atlas Pharmaceuticals… .
It was quite a long time ago. Before I was even born. When I wondered if my brother was made in a dangerous way.
Even before Noah Michel awakened as a wizard.
… Has it swallowed up existing pseudo-groups? That makes more sense. My biological parents were also fooled by the archmage’s coaxing, no. They may have thought that they were using it.
Even people who consider themselves smart don’t always do really smart things.
“Ah, but Noah was more assertive than I thought, so it was annoying. Isn’t that ultimately to blame for blowing it up this time? Because Noah likes well-behaved kids who listen to him!”
Noah Michel’s image in me is getting worse.
Still, in the past, I was viewed favorably as a wizard who gave generously. Now that you think about it, why did Michelle bother to create runes and make it known? To gain influence?
“There is that too. If something happens, you run to Noah. “It seems like a lot of information can be obtained that way.”
It must be said that there is no place in Europe, including France, that Noah Michel’s influence does not reach.
“Anyway, on the American side, Noah… They expanded their influence using somewhat harsh methods. In the process, my face… face? It’s not. I hid my face well though. “How exactly did the rumor get out that I was the boss?”
“I’m not old. I can’t tell if it’s a woman or a man. “Crumple up your car like a piece of tissue paper.”
“It’s okay if my face isn’t known. Because if she dyes her hair, people won’t recognize her again. Is it time for her to change… .”
“pink! Next time, make it pink!!”
“no. America is closer to Noah’s limbs. It’s not that I didn’t move because Noah asked me to, but I don’t do anything that’s annoying or disgusting. “What do you use human corpses for?”
“then?”
“To explain this, I need to know the structure of the ark.”
The ark is a point structure.
This is a fact you already know. Ark, which is mainly active in East Asia centered around Korea, and Ark, which is active in North and South America, including the black market in South America, can be considered two completely different organizations.
As we suspected, money earned illegally in South America was used to fund Noah Michel’s research.
“But here, a huge amount of repayment is collected, but the share that falls to you is small, right? “Then what happens?”
“They will be dissatisfied.”
“that’s right. So it’s a mess there right now. that… Brother-in-law? “It must have happened in that situation that happened there.”
“In my opinion, the size of the organization has become too large for Noah Michel to handle.”
“Even if you are an archmage, managing people is a different matter… .”
“On the contrary, since he is an archmage, he may not be able to do so.”
The internal situation heard from the mouth of an insider of the Ark… It was unexpectedly crazy.
If, as Gamble said, Noah Michel is not talented in organizational management, the Ark may collapse on its own before we can do anything. Did you really want to do that? Well, it may not have collapsed, but the scale may have been reduced. So much so that his father mistakenly thought he had eradicated the entire Ark.
That’s why Gamble could have lasted for nearly twenty years… .
“Anyway, Henry is the one who is most dissatisfied here.”
New name.
“Henry?”
“If Semi is Noah’s right little toe, then this is about the same as Noah’s left little toe.”
“… “Not the left arm and the right arm?”
“He’s not that important.”
Hope spoke mercilessly.
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