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Report smuggling under 125(1)
May 30, 2022.
Busan Port.
2:49 AM.
Numerous containers were stacked high, forming a wall like a castle wall. There were lights, but they couldn’t fully illuminate the spaces between the containers. There were people working late into the night, like security guards, but it was inevitable that there would be blind spots compared to the bright day.
It was a good time for those who wanted to avoid the eyes of others.
Two shadows move through the darkness.
The CCTVs in every corner are useless. No, they didn’t even pretend to care about the CCTVs in the first place. They were avoiding well-lit places, but… It would probably be hard for an ordinary person to see the two figures in the shadows.
It’s so blurry that it’s like a shadow, and you can’t see it clearly even with your eyes wide open. If you let your guard down, you might even miss the person walking with you.
But the two quietly left the port.
Although it was late, there were a few cars running on the road. I avoided their gaze and crossed a few more shadowy alleys before reaching the main road.
Only then did the two take off their tightly pulled-down hats.
“It works well.”
Hong Seok-young whistled and exclaimed in a frivolous manner, unlike usual.
The weather is hot. Even though I didn’t move much, the inside of my hat was soaked with sweat. Being resistant to heat or cold doesn’t mean I don’t feel heat or cold. I brushed the hair stuck to my forehead and collected the runes stuck to the inside of my hat.
The runes that used Noah Michelle’s secondary runes were quite durable. The core runes were runes developed by Park Seo-hyun, but does Noah Michelle know? That his runes are being used to rob him?
Well, it’s not like I’ve revealed one or two of Michelle’s runes. If I had developed even one of them by now, I would know. If it’s Michelle’s personality that Hope mentioned, she might be going wild. She seems to be a very confident person in her abilities.
“Seohyun will make this later?”
“Yes. Right now….”
I tore the paper with the runes drawn on it. The magical power contained in the runes seeped into the air. Burning it would certainly destroy the evidence, but I couldn’t do that on the street, so I put it in my pocket.
“This time, Park Seo-hyun won’t make it, right?”
“Will it be registered under your name?”
“Well… I don’t know yet whether or not I should make this public, but if I do, I’ll do it under Mr. Kim’s name.”
A rune developed by witch Park Seo-hyun.
The rune, which allows you to blend in with the shadows and become extremely unnoticeable, surprisingly turned out to be more suitable for sneaking in somewhere. The environments in which it could be used were limited to begin with… .
… Was this a rune that was created to be used at times like this?
I don’t know much about the magical and scientific theories that runes work on, so I can’t explain in detail. However, if Noah Michel’s veil rune was to hide magical power, Park Seo-hyun’s rune is closer to making it invisible. It’s not an invisibility spell, but it won’t be visible on low-quality CCTV. Just in case, I referred to the CIA report and avoided the area where the cameras were.
If I had known that this rune could be used like this, I wouldn’t have taught it to the kids. For some reason, Imiseon, who came to observe the class at that time, said she was terrified. I thought she was just excited to see the new possibilities of the rune.
Hong Seok-young also shredded the rune in the same way.
“This one is really not good.”
And Hong Seok-young said in a displeased voice.
“As expected.”
“I expected it, but I still had hopes.”
Hong Seok-young suggested that we investigate the Busan Port warehouse, which he had been putting off while he was in Korea. I had been paying attention to it the whole time, so things went smoothly afterwards.
What I didn’t expect was that Hong Seok-young used the rune. I was a little surprised because I hadn’t thought of using the rune for this purpose. It was convenient, though.
Hong Seok-young was still grumbling with a frown on his face.
“It would actually be easier for us if we knew what we were looking for. It would be too much of a loss to just rely on the information from a suspicious monster.”
“Even if you say it’s a loss… .”
“What a loss! How petty those Americans are! They’ve already received the full amount of money I paid for the investigation!”
Hong Seok-young clicked his tongue.
“I’ve only suffered losses. I even have to go back to America! Do you know how expensive my labor is? This is a free ride.”
“I would have gone even if you hadn’t asked me to investigate.”
“……no!”
“No?”
“………maybe.”
Hong Seok-young’s momentum has been dampened. It’s funny how he always says things he doesn’t mean. They say it’s not easy for people to change as they get older, and it was the same this time.
I hammered the wedge in with a voice that said, “I’m speechless.”
“If you had asked me to help you clear the dungeon, I would have gone.”
“… … … … … That’s true, but.”
“When you go this time, ask about Alex Hope too.”
“Him? Why?”
“There’s a friend of Gamble’s who works here. Just ask him because he thought of it and ask him if he found out anything about monsters. It’s Hong Seok-young asking the question, so I wonder if he’ll tell me anything.”
“Americans don’t talk because they have no feelings.”
“Try to make it as big as it is.”
Hong Seok-young looked at me with a subtle expression.
“I know how I raised you, and I know how you worked.”
For some reason, it was a bad evaluation.
“Your men must have had a hard time.”
“What a struggle.”
I snorted.
“If you think things will be easy after doing things like that, you’re mistaken.”
“Are you aware that you were tough?”
“… That’s not what I meant.”
“Thank goodness I didn’t raise you to be that spoiled.”
“… … .”
If I continue the conversation any further, I will only be at a disadvantage and feel frustrated.
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I quickly changed the subject.
No, it would be more accurate to say that we are back on topic.
“Anyway, it seems like it would be difficult to find anything more at the port right now. If Henry Lehmann had any intentions, he wouldn’t be openly active in Korea at this time.”
“Should I have moved as soon as I got the information here?”
It’s not that I didn’t think about it, but I shook my head.
“No. I don’t know exactly when Tati’s information was. I can tell just by looking at her passport. How many years ago was it?”
“Hmm.”
“It was around the same time that I last saw my brother. It’s at least two years old. It wouldn’t have made much of a difference. The research lab I was in was also closed down much earlier than I knew…”
“This information is already out of date?”
“If you think about it calmly, yes.”
Hong Seok-young did not object to what I said.
“It might be better to track Stephen Fowler’s movements. Not all of the other guys entered the country so confidently….”
“Still, some of them had passports.”
“It was a regular passport. It’s proof that they have brains.”
“Illegal Awakening… It’ll be hard to track them down here by ourselves.”
“You’re Henry Lehman’s subordinate. You leave everything to the US. Why should we step forward and do everything? We have so much work to do right now that it’s killing us.”
“Is your work going well, teacher?”
Hong Seok-young chuckled. This doesn’t fit well… .
… I have nothing to say.
I don’t think being a teacher is my calling, but I still feel proud when I see myself growing little by little.
I don’t know what criteria Hong Seok-young used to pick them up or where he picked them up, but since they are such gentle guys, there were never any cases where he really got upset.
There wouldn’t have been…
Was it there?
I don’t know. Memories of the past tend to be embellished.
“Then what should we do?”
Hong Seok-young asked me right away. Hong Seok-young was looking at the dock we had just left.
Dark night. As the weather gradually starts to get warmer, a warm breeze blows even in the early morning. The salty smell of the sea seeps in.
Time flies. It’s already been over a year since we arrived here. The search for the ark is going slowly. Noah Michelle and Urina are definitely aware of each other, but they are in a position where they can’t openly touch each other. Considering the social position and physical distance.
It’s true that Noah Michelle was chasing Wooi-rok, so I was able to find out who the culprit was. If it weren’t for that, Kim Chae-min wouldn’t have been able to figure it out. Noah Michelle probably doesn’t even know that he was caught.
So we can’t take revenge either. Even if we did, it would just be like stirring things up for no reason. Kim Chae-min seemed very upset about that… but what can we do? It’s dangerous just because Woo I-rok is the target. We didn’t want to increase Noah Michelle’s target here.
“Go to the warehouse that Atlas uses?”
It is obvious that Henry Lehman is on a different path from Noah Michel. I don’t know what they actually call themselves, but since Lehman’s relationship with the old Atlas has become clear, I decided to distinguish ‘Lehman and his friends’ as Atlas. It is also easier to understand this way.
I asked Hong Seok-young back.
“What do you think would be better?”
“Are you asking me?”
“You’ve done this more than I have.”
“Hmm, hmm. Right.”
Hong Seok-young strangely straightened his shoulders.
Why on earth? Why are you so happy about this?
I couldn’t understand it at all, but it wasn’t hard to please him. Yes, he was a simple person who was happy with just one word like that… It’s pitiful.
“It’s better to listen to the experts.”
“Ahem. Right. Didn’t our American friends work hard and find out the warehouse that Atlas uses in Korea?”
“Yes. It’s usually used to smuggle drugs and such.”
“But like we just said, Lehmann would be careful in times like these, right?”
“If you have a head, then yes.”
Hong Seok-young nodded.
“So I guess they’ve prepared for the possibility of someone breaking in. Normally, the CIA or I don’t do anything big in these situations.”
“What if I say I’m going to do something?”
“I’m saying that I don’t do anything that would make it to the news. Whether it’s arrest or anything. Violence inevitably follows the crimes of the Awakened, but isn’t it easy to talk about that? If you do something wrong, even the ones you catch could be released depending on public opinion.”
I hesitated for a moment at that, but then I agreed. The reaction to the violence of the Awakened, then and now, is not good. In my original time period, there were no dungeon breaks, so it was less severe, but in this era, there were frequent cases of people being sued for saving someone from a monster.
Without going too far, just think about what must have happened in Myeongdong… .
“So, they only prepared for the Awakened and didn’t prepare anything else.”
“Anything else?”
“Yeah. Are there any public telephones these days?”
“Payphone?”
“… Ah. You’re not from the public phone generation. Tsk. I guess I’ll have to ask this hunter for this.”
“What are you going to do?”
Hong Seok-young put the hat he had taken the rune off of back on his head. The brim of his hat was cast in a dark shadow because he was standing under a streetlight.
But the lower jaw is clearly visible in the bright light. Hong Seok-young smiled like a villain in a movie. It was a confident face.
“Let’s report this to the police for smuggling.”
Fantasy, contemporary,