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The van carrying the workers stopped just before going on the road, and Ja-kyung rolled out to the side through the gap. He quickly hid in the grass and waited for the car to leave. And he got up when he was completely alone.
After wiping off the grass and twigs from his clothes, he looked back. Kang Il-hyun’s house was so far away that he couldn’t even see it anymore. He covered his face with the hat and mask he had in his pocket after turning his shoulders to loosen his body. As he walked away from the main road, he noticed a taxi he had hired in front of the convenience store.
He got in the back seat and the taxi driver turns around.
“Are you the one who called?”
“Yes. Please go here.”
The driver drove the car after confirming the address. After about an hour, the car arrived at a car center in a rural village in Gyeonggi-do. Ja-kyung walked to the car center after paying the driver. An employee who was conversing with a customer abruptly blocked Ja-kyung from approaching. The man probably thought Ja-kyung with his entire face covered appeared suspicious.
“What did you come here for?”
“I came to see the boss. If you say Han sent me, he will know.”
The employee told him to wait a moment and then went inside. Soon after, a big man appeared from within. The man was dressed in a brightly colored short-sleeved shirt, and his physique was so big that the shirt was about to burst. A man who immediately recognized Ja-kyung approached him and hugged him tightly.
“It’s been so long. Right?”
Ja-kyung tapped his arm, which wrapped around his neck. He was struggling to breathe. The boss let him go and motioned for the employee next to him to leave as well. When it was just the two of them left, Ja-kyung took off his hat and mask. Wang Lun was Wang Han’s cousin, and now owns a car center but used to be a smuggler. Ja-kyung last saw him when he was 18, and it was a 7-year reunion.
“How have you been?”
“I’m always the same. You haven’t changed at all. You haven’t changed a bit. But what’s the matter? There’s still a long way to go before the appointment.”
“I’m here to get it in advance. No, I have to say that I am only borrowing today.”
Wang Lun’s face grew slightly serious.
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s not that. There’s something else I have to deal with.”
Wang Lun simply nodded. He knew Ja-kyung wouldn’t tell him even if he asked further. He led Ja-kyung to the office’s back door. It was a warehouse where tools and other items were stored. When the boxes stacked to a person’s height were removed, an iron gate appeared.
He opened a lock the size of his fist and went inside. There was also all kinds of junk. Wang Lun bowed and picked up the yellow rug on the floor. Instead of a cement floor, there was a wooden lid under the rug.
There were several black boxes when he opened the lid. When he took it out and put it on the floor, it made a pretty heavy sound. He closed the lid after taking out three boxes in total. He pushed the first box towards Ja-kyung.
“Check it.”
There were two automatic pistols with 17 bullets each. The next box was filled with bullets, grenades, smoke grenades, and dynamite, and the last box was filled with a sniper rifle…
“What do you think? Is it enough?”
“More than enough.”
Ja-kyung touched the surface of the sniper rifle with his fingertips. This was the weapon that will be used to kill Kang Il-hyun. Usually, snipers target the limbs, heart, and head, but unlike the thigh artery or heart, the head stops breathing without realizing that he was dying.
The client wanted the heart. Kang Il-hyun, who was shot, will be out of breath for about a minute. What will he look like as he approached death? Will he be able to laugh and joke as casually as he did before? Unfortunately, Ja-kyung did not expect to see it there. Ja-kyung went inside, changed his clothes, grabbed a dagger and a pistol, and fastened a belt around his waist.
He also stuffed the bag with grenades and smoke grenades. Wang Lun takes Ja-kyung to the side of the warehouse after getting ready. As the black plastic was removed, a motorcycle appeared. It was a new Kawasaki model, and the license plate was also forged, so there was no risk of being caught.
Ja-kyung pulled the motorcycle outside. Wang Lun approached him as soon as he put on the helmet and started the engine.
“Be careful.”
Ja-kyung nodded. When he turned the handle, the engine made a grunting sound. He was thrilled to ride it again after such a long time. The tracker attached to one side was GPS-enabled. The red dot was making its way down the road.
“I will be back.”
He waved to Wang Lun and entered the road. He swerved between cars to get out of the way of traffic on a busy road. Buildings and cars vanished in the blink of an eye as the speed increased. His heart rate increased as he felt a sense of speed he hadn’t felt in a long time.
The distance from the red dot decreased gradually. As he approached the area, he came to a halt at a traffic signal in front of a distant intersection and discovered a waiting car. The white sports car appeared to be quite familiar. The car started first after the signal changed, and Ja-kyung followed closely behind.
If he looked closely, he could see that it was Choi Ki-tae’s car with the tracker he had previously attached. As it gets closer to the driver’s side, the window rolled down. A face appeared and screamed for him to go away. It was not Choi Ki-tae. The rough man shouted angrily.
Ja-kyung simply jumped out and blocked the front car, as if it were about to collide. The stunning sports car slipped and left skid marks. Ja-kyung turned around and waved his middle finger. The enraged sports car roared and began chasing him.
***
“What’s going on?”
The secretary made a troubled face as he reported that a guest had arrived, and Il-hyun now seemed to understand why. Kim Seon-young, who had been looking down at the nameplate that say Managing Director Kang Il-hyun, slowly turned around. In comparison to what he saw at home, her makeup was darker and her clothes were fancier. She sat on the sofa, and Il-hyun took off his jacket and summoned the secretary to bring her tea.
“No tea. We’re not on such friendly terms that we’d drink tea, are we?”
“Okay, then. Get to the point.”
“What are you doing?”
“Explain so I can understand.”
“Why are you touching President Choi? Don’t you know who that person is?”
Il-hyun took out a cigarette from his silver case. He turned on the light and sat back on the sofa. President Choi admitted that he sent the money because Kim Seon-young requested it. He didn’t know why; he just did it because he was asked to.
There was no evidence to back up the claim because the people who received the money had left. But, since Tae-soo had sent their man, it was only a matter of time before they caught them. Il-hyun planned to rip off their limbs and kill them if they were caught.
“What do you think, mother?”
“What?”
“Don’t hate me too much. I like you mother.”
Seon-young was dumbfounded as she looked at him. Then he sneered. Unsurprisingly, what Kang Il-hyun said next was very spiteful.
“You’re greedy, cunning, and have a lot of similarities to me. You also like the color green. I would have loved you more if Mother had removed Seok-joo.”
A vein appeared on the back of her clutch-holding hand.
“Is that what you want to say to an adult?”
“I’m sorry if it made you feel bad. I apologize.”
“You’re good at apologizing even when you don’t even want to.”
After rubbing off the cigarette, Il-hyun smiled and leaned on the sofa with his arms crossed. He wished to be loved by her when he was a child. He had no recollection of being loved by his mother, so he attempted to score some points for his stepmother, who appeared unexpectedly, but her response was cold.
He wasn’t upset in any way. That was how the world works. From her point of view, children without a drop of her blood could not be loved. Furthermore, even when he was young, Il-hyun was not the type of person who could be loved.
His method of attracting attention was also bizarre, and Chairman Kang considered taking his son to a psychiatrist numerous times. It was no surprise that he would have exempted Il-hyun from military service as well. Mental and physical disorders. The excuse was mental and physical disorders, but Chairman Kang might have been worried that Il-hyun would join the army and start shooting people.
“I will give you a chance. If you’re not going to be able to handle it perfectly, tell the truth now.”
“I don’t understand what you mean.”
“Don’t do this. If I found out, how are you going to handle it?”
Seon-young chuckled. She then instructed him to look for it anywhere he could. Perhaps Il-hyun will find no evidence of the incident anywhere in the world. She found them this morning and removed all of them. Furthermore, the news that Zhang Yi An had been attacked had also been leaked to Hong Kong.
Seon-young stood up from her seat, and Il-hyun raised his head and stared intently at her.
“Mother. What were our house rules?”
Kim Seon-young was silent.
“The family does not harm each other under any circumstances.”
Upon hearing this, Kim Seon-young snorted.
“Did you do that to Seok-joo?”
Il-hyun’s face had lost its smile.
“However, the injured party’s disposition is carried out according to the victim’s judgment and decision, and no other family members are involved.”
Seon-young was unapologetic.
“Does that mean it’s okay if I kill you?”
“No. It means even if I die, Seok-joo has to be the one who kills me.”
“Don’t play with words. No matter what you say, I have no idea.”
Kim Seon-young smiled leisurely, but when she saw Kang Il-hyun, who was so casual, she became increasingly anxious. Kang Il-hyun had a history of bullying others since he was a child. It was the same when he grew up, so she was filled with rage every time he looked at him.
She needs to use everything she has to bring him down before he bites her neck off. On the day he succeeded and climbed to the top, she and her son Kang Seok-joo would be the first to be killed.