Chapter 153

Chapter 153 – Time to Clean Up #4

T-That person…!

Song Won-jin asked in a quivering voice .

“Y-You…w-who are you?”

“Eh? You don’t know? Really?”

“I-I-I don’t know!”

Oh, look at this . Tae-hyuk smiled .

Song Won-jin’s words seemed to be true . He was the chairman of Taesung Chemicals . He took the lives of Kim Tae-sung’s family and drove him to become the Bomber, yet he didn’t even know Kim Tae-sung’s face .

“How funny . Really funny . ”

Tae-hyuk brought his mouth to Song Won-jin’s ear and whispered,

“I am called the Bomber . ”

“……!”

Now Song Won-jin realized who was in front of him .

“Now do you understand why I came here?”

“…T-This is ridiculous . You can’t do anything but make bombs… H-How did you…?”

Chairman Song Won-jin seemed terribly confused . However, he started looking at one corner of the room .

“Hrmm . There must be bodyguards in the next room . You are probably expecting them to come and save you when you give a signal . ”

“K-Kuock! …You must have come here for a suicide bombing . You must have known that I was here . But this is the end . Surely you didn’t think I would come here without any preparations!”

Song Won-jin pressed the pager hidden in his pillow . Then the connecting door opened and the security guards waiting in the next room rushed out . Originally, they would’ve stayed in the same room as Song Won-jin to protect him .

However, he sent them away for a while and this happened, and now the situation was reversed . Even if the Bomber had a bomb, it would be over if he was taken out before pressing the button .

“C-Chairman-nim! Are you okay?”

Song Won-jin exclaimed,

“K-Kill this bastard!”

The elite bodyguards moved quickly . They were holding something that looked like a briefcase . In fact, the guards pressed the knob and pulled out a special gun . Song Won-jin smiled with satisfaction as gunmen suddenly appeared . The Bomber would be riddled with holes due to the bodyguards…

Tae-hyuk shrugged and used Bullet Time . He aimed his pistol and killed four bodyguards in an instant .

“H-Heok! W-What is this?”

“Isn’t the situation flowing differently from what you thought?”

“……”

For the first time, fear entered Song Won-jin’s eyes .

“Now it seems like we are ready to talk seriously . ”

“…What are you? The Bomber is clearly an ordinary human… Aaaaack! P-P-Phantom!”

Song Won-jin realized who was in front of him . He heard that Phantom had broken the Bomber out of prison . Therefore, he strengthened his security by several times . They always checked if there were bombs installed, everywhere he went .

Song Won-jin thought that Phantom broke out the Bomber because he needed the bombs, yet Phantom had come barging in here .

Tae-hyuk said with a smile,

“That reminds me, didn’t I get paid when the case involving Taesung was revealed? I was just trying to make money . Don’t blame me too much . ”

“T-That is meaningless…”

“I’m sorry . I’m a little busy . Let’s get straight to the point . Ah, don’t try to run away . ”

Tae-hyuk shot at Song Won-jin’s foot as he tried to run away .

“Kwaaaack!”

“You can keep trying to run away . But next time, I’ll shoot something between your legs, so be careful . ”

“……”

Song Won-jin nodded desperately with a white face .

“Then let’s start the fun question time . First of all, who invented the bomb?”

“……”

“Well, that isn’t very important . ”

“K-Kuhok, ugh… I-I understand! I-I will answer . I was the head of the research institute . I never gave the command…”

“That isn’t my question . ”

Song Won-jin gulped at the unexpected words .

“Don’t you have a friendship with the Yakuza who came across the water?”

“……!”

Song Won-jin was shocked .

After seeing his expression, Tae-hyuk realized that this was the last piece of the puzzle . But first, he needed to get a clear answer from Song Won-jin’s mouth .

“What are you doing with them?”

“T-That…”

Tatang!

“K-Kuaaack!” Wahh…! Kuaaaaak!”

Tae-hyuk looked at the blood splattering Song Won-jin’s crotch .

“I told you . If you don’t answer properly, then I will shoot . There is only one chance . The next time…”

“…K-Kuock . Kk…”

Song Won-jin looked at his groin bitterly . He had lost the most important part for a man .

“There is no more time to do that . ”

Tae-hyuk pointed a gun at Song Won-jin’s head . In the end, Song Won-jin couldn’t endure it anymore and shouted .

“…R-Right! The Yakuza are behind the Taesung Group!”

“It would’ve been good if you had said that sooner . What are you doing with the Yakuza?”

“T-That… I can never say it…”

“Perhaps this person threatened to kill you if you leaked such secrets?”

Tae-hyuk took off the skull mask for a brief moment and Mister Park’s face was revealed .

“M-M-Mister Park!”

Mister Park’s name emerged from the mouth of the shocked Song Won-jin .

“Tsk . I would have told you to watch your mouth . ”

“…Phantom already knows everything . ”

“Actually, it is only half-way . ”

“This, shit…”

In the end, Song Won-jin was forced to tell everything that he knew . He might die at the hands of the Yakuza, but he needed to escape from the threat in front of him first .

“…Yes . We are doing research for the Yakuza . ”

“What research?”

“The Yakuza call it Psychotropic Incense . It is a special fragrance with a brainwashing effect . ”

“Do you know the raw material that it is made out of?”

“I know that it isn’t a normal material . ”

“Shouldn’t you know since you are doing research on it?”

“……”

Song Won-jin didn’t say anything for a while . He knew what the Taesung Group was doing to make money . The moment he expressed this, his life would be like a fire in front of the wind . Even if he escaped from Phantom, he would die at the hands of the Yakuza .

“Then what is the relationship between the Psychotropic Incense and the virus killing event?”

Song Won-jin opened his mouth with a troubled expression . He would’ve never said this if a gun wasn’t pointed at his head .

“It is very hard to make the Psychotropic Incense . However, it is possible to increase the Psychotropic Incense if there is the T-1 virus, and it can even be spread through the air . ”

“Whoa . Wait a minute . Then you can enslave the whole country using the Psychotropic Incense?”

“T-That’s correct . Of course, it is still in the research stage, but once it is completed, we can sell Taesung Group products more efficiently than anyone else . When that happens, we will be the largest group in the country… No, the world’s greatest…”

Tae-hyuk smiled .

This was why they were studying something like the Psychotropic Incense . It seemed like he didn’t know how dangerous the Psychotropic Incense was .

‘When I was in the Death Circus, it only clouded people’s judgment . But it is evolving gradually through research . ’

Then Mister Park would borrow the name of his twin brother to enter the political world . Something would go wrong and he would be killed . A young guard in his 20s got involved without knowing anything . That young man would unfairly go to prison for 10 years, only to receive the death penalty .

The whole thing hadn’t begun yet, but Tae-hyuk knew what would happen .

“Really? Then who ordered that the Bomber’s family be used as an experiment?”

Tae-hyuk wanted to know who had turned him into a scapegoat . The person giving both orders was likely to be the same .

“That, I really don’t know! The Yakuza are in charge of the research institute…”

Tae-hyuk smirked . Yes, that was the case .

“But weren’t you the one who ordered it to be kept as secret as possible? Then aren’t you responsible?”

“……”

“Well, you answered my questions, so I’ll finish it here . ”

“T-This is the end? R-Really?”

“Ah . I have one last thing to ask . Where did the institute move to?”

“T-That…”

Song Won-jin eyes’s shook but there was suddenly a gunshot from somewhere .

Tatang!

“K-Keok…”

“H-How dare you betray Oyabun! Hooray Yamaguchi!”

One of the bodyguards was still alive . His trembling hands held the briefcase as blood poured from his mouth . The deep smell of death filled the room .

Tae-hyuk licked his lips .

“Sheesh . I didn’t get to hear the most important thing . Well, it doesn’t really matter . ”

Without looking back, he shot the bodyguard with the pistol .

“I’m sorry but I already know the location of the institute . ”

Hawk Eyes allowed him to see the status window of the opponent, and briefly displayed the person’s current psychological state . As soon as Tae-hyuk mentioned the institute, Song Won-jin had recalled the location . Naturally, the location of the research institute was marked on the Demon Revealing Mirror .

“Ku, kukukuk… Goodbye Song Won-jin . Don’t worry, your friends will follow you soon . ”

Tae-hyuk said with a laugh .

As he rose from his seat, he saw something in the mirror covering one entire wall of the hotel room .

“……?”

The place where the eyeballs were supposed to be was a hollow space . The mouth was ripped from ear to ear and something red dripped whenever he laughed .

Something looked at Tae-hyuk and laughed,

Tae-hyuk realized who it was .

“What, it is me . ”

He shook his head a few times and the reflection in the mirror became Tae-hyuk’s original image . He had to be tired .

Maybe he used the crime skills too much, but he couldn’t rest just yet .

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Tae-hyuk looked at the research institute in front of him . It was considerably large since it was attached to a university . On the street, researchers wearing white gloves were talking together happily .

‘The atmosphere isn’t bad . Now, this place…’

As Tae-hyuk got out of the taxi, somebody followed him . They took his hand and said,

“Tae-hyuk, this is the Wolsang Institute . Starting from next year, Noona has decided to attend the university attached to it . ”

“Well, it isn’t bad . ”

Tae-hyuk smiled at Ha-ran .

However, he suddenly lost his appetite .

‘Noona suddenly said that she wants to go to this university . ’

Originally, he was planning to go to another research institute . Suddenly, Ha-ran said that the director of the Wolsang Institute wanted to talk to him . He had planned to refuse and strike the Taesung Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry, but something strange lingered in his mind .

It was like a premonition . In order to find out what it was, he decided to meet the director of the Wolsang Institute .

‘Fortunately, I removed all witnesses, so the Taesung research institute won’t be removed again any time soon . ’

Ha-ran pulled Tae-hyuk’s hand and cried out,

“Now, let’s go!”

Her footsteps were very light at the thought of this being her university life from next year . Tae-hyuk laughed as he touched something in his pocket . He had forgotten for a while, but that smile…

Eh? What was it?