Chapter 60: 60

Act 8

Jump—

Su-hyeun, who cut off Jung Dong-yeong, jumped back to the building of Ares Guild . The Ares Guild’s awakeners who gathered because of the uproar made absent expressions . They did not know what to do with Jung Dong-yeong’s death . Hak-joon was the same . As if he still had no idea what was going on, Hak-joon had a vacant look as well .

Su-hyeun walked toward Hak-joon and said, “You can go . ”

“G-go where?” Hak-joon asked .

“You know where . Why do you ask me?” Su-hyeun said .

Hak-joon regained his bearings at Su-hyeun’s question . Then, he jumped up, turned his body, and started to run .

“You can’t go anywhere!”

“Wait a minute . You have to tell us before you go or not! What happened here?”

The people of Ares Guild blocked Hak-joon . Hak-joon was in the room with Su-hyeun and he overlooked Jung Dong-yeong’s death . They did not consider him as a member of their guild anymore .

“Move,” Su-hyeun said .

Rumble—

With the words of Su-hyeun, once again the top of the building was shaken .

“You guys won’t move?” Su-hyeun said again .

“But… that…”

The guild members of Ares Guild saw Su-hyeun’s face . They cleared the way one by one . Soon, a path was made through the people . Hak-joon made his way through them and ran in a hurry .

Chuff, chuff—

Soon, the sound of a helicopter came closer .

“Just in time,” Su-hyeun thought .

He already made a mess . So, the people from the Awakeners Accreditation Authority came now to take charge of the settlement . He scratched his head . He had made a fuss as he liked, but the problem was the settlement .

“I guess I will be scolded . ”

It was certainly a problem to ignore Kim Do-ui’s advice and move immediately . Although Ares Guild was a pawn of Dump Guild, there was a procedure he should have had followed .

“Useless,” he thought and sighed . But he still thought it was good that he had let Hak-joon go first .

***

Hak-joon pressed the accelerator pedal of his car . He drove roughly, not like usual, because he wanted to go home as soon as possible . He parked his car in a hurry when he arrived . He used the stairs, feeling that he could not wait for an elevator . He didn’t rest at all and went up about 10 floors . He could see a familiar door .

It was not like this was more movement than usual for him . But strangely, he was breathless . His heart was beating fast because of tension .

Swish—

“Wait!”

Somebody called Hak-joon . Hak-joon, who was in a hurry, reached his arm to that man . The man, who lowered his head and stood next to the elevator, immediately raised his arms . Hak-joon narrowed his eyes and reached his hand to that man’s neck .

“Who are you?” Hak-joon asked .

He was not alone . The three more people were around the man who had called him . They were all B-Rank awakeners .

Hak-joon thought . Hak-joon revealed his violent temple just in case .

“We came here because of Mr . Su-hyeun . My name is Lee Ju-ho…”

“Lee Ju-ho?” Hak-joon asked .

“Yes . You might have heard my name . I didn’t come here for bad intentions . Are you Choi Hak-joon?”

When Hak-joon nodded, Lee Ju-ho sighed and continued to say, “Su-hyeun had asked us to stay here until you came . Man . Seriously . I know what is going on but why are you so sensitive? Move this already!”

Lee Ju-ho with a tearful face slowly moved Hak-joon’s arm from his neck . Hak-joon became puzzled again . Soon after, Lee Ju-ho quickly left . It looked like Lee Ju-ho thought his role was over now . Hak-joon looked at the back of Lee Ju-ho who was descending the stairs . Hak-joon reacted pretty sensitively because he thought he was the suspicious man who walking around in front of Yun-seon’s house, but it turned out that man was just safeguarding her . The other three looked the same .

“What is this?” Hak-joon thought .

At first, he thought Su-hyeun made a fuss impulsively because he was upset . But he already had detoxified Yun-seon and paid attention to her safety . Su-hyeun moved much more carefully than Hak-joon expected . Hak-joon took his breath again to relax and headed to Yun-seon’s house .

When he pressed the doorbell, the answer came back after a while .

“Hak-joon?”

The voice came through the bell was what he often heard, but it was a little different than usual . It was bright and high-pitched unlike the usual voice, which was weak and drooping . Soon, the door opened . He could see a familiar face .

“Hak-joon!”

He didn’t mishear . It was a bright voice . It was the brightest voice he had heard in recent years .

“Are… you all healed?”

“Yes!”

It was hard to ask, but the answer came back immediately . Hak-joon was glad .

“Sigh—”

The heart that was beating hard became calm little by little . It felt like all his energy was disappearing from his body . He barely held that feeling and stepped forward . He hugged her .

“I am so glad . ” Hak-joon bit his lips tightly while he was holding Yun-seon . “I… am so glad…”

He thought there would be a lot of things to say when this moment came . But strangely, no words came to his mind . He just repeated he was glad over and over, and finally burst into tears .

***

“…So, did you finally do it?”

“Yes, I did . ”

Su-hyeun and members of Ares Guild were sandwiched between Kim Do-ui and Kang Seung-cheol . Kim Do-ui leered at awakeners of Ares Guild and looked at Su-hyeun . Su-hyeun looked very confident . Unlike other awakeners who hunched their shoulders, Su-hyeun, who was the main culprit of this situation, sat up straight .

“This is a case that you may have to be punished severely . Ares Guild is a guild treated as a semi-large guild, and you killed the guild master of such guild,” Kim Do-ui said .

“I know,” Su-hyeun calmly said .

“If you knew, why did you do this?”

“I can’t just overlook that they made more victims . ”

Kim Do-ui realized why he had such a dignified attitude from his answer . He was thinking there was nothing wrong with what he had done . To Su-hyeun, Jung Dong-yeong was an obvious criminal . He thought he would make more crimes if he just waited and did nothing . The most representative cases were Hak-joon and Yun-seon . Su-hyeun did not regret having acted to Jung Dong-yeong at all .

“Well, don’t push him too hard . I bet you knew Ares Guild did illegal things here and there,” Kang Seung-cheol said to Kim Do-ui .

“Well…”

“It was just not revealed yet because they spent their money everywhere and lobbied a lot . But it was true that Ares Guild was closer to a criminal guild . Well, and if Dump Guild was related here, it is not something we can just overlook, even though they used billions of dollars . ”

Kim Do-ui groaned . It was as what Kang Seung-cheol said . Ares Guild was a vicious guild that had long been committing large and small crimes . From the beginning, the guild master Jung Dong-yeong was from the notorious gang . So, it was natural that the tendency of the guild had followed him .

The reason why Ares Guild had not been punished so far was because of the bribe of the guild master, Jung Dong-yeong . The money was sent to the top of the audits, so surveillance was not done properly . In addition, he did not commit serious crimes that crossed the line . So, the Authority did not touch Jung Dong-yeong and Ares Guild .

“If we think about right and wrong… Jung Dong-yeong had a problem in the first place . There will be no problem if we consider this as an accident caused by a dispute between awakeners,” Kang Seung-cheol said .

“Well, that is not wrong, but…”

“And besides, as this man said, if Jung Dong-yeong was related to Dump Guild, we should give him a prize or something . And…” Kang Seung-cheol whispered at Kim Do-ui’s ear, “the director said just put this to bed . ”

“Did he really say that? What happened?”

“I don’t know . ” Kang Seung-cheol shrugged .

Kim Do-ui nodded . He was actually a little worried that Su-hyeun might fall out with the Authority . So, he thought this was a fortune . One way or another, Kim Do-ui agreed that Ares Guild was a social evil .

“Okay . Then, let’s investigate more at first,” Kim Do-ui said .

“Good idea,” Kang Seung-cheol agreed .

Kang Seung-cheol began to like Kim Do-ui for the first time . They had been conflicted in every case . It was the first time that they agreed on something .

“Then, I will leave now,” Su-hyeun said .

“How can you be so calm like that? Huh?”

Kim Do-ui made a confused face at Su-hyeun . Su-hyeun could be accused of a crime by the case progress but he acted like that would never happen . At Kim Do-ui’s question, Su-hyeun shrugged his shoulders and left . Kim Do-ui sighed as he watched Su-hyeun being far away .

he thought .

He had met many awakeners for a long time . But from their first meeting, Su-hyeun gave him a strange feeling . He saved the citizens, even revealing his identity that he had hidden so far . He also revealed his ability as a new S-Rank . Not just that, but this time he killed Jung Dong-yeong and punished Ares Guild for commiting so many crimes .

he thought .

It was like what Kang Seung-cheol had said . The fighting between awakeners was something like extraterritoriality . If it was not a crime like a purposeless murder, under a valid reason, a murder was somewhat accepted . Moreover, if it was about a malicious awakener like Jung Dong-yeong, it was quite understandable . The pawn of Dump Guild was without a doubt .

“Even if not that… Government can’t touch S-Rank awakener these days . ”

The S-Rank awakeners were directly related to the force level of the country . He had a justifiable cause, and he was attracting attention to S-Rank awakeners . He was like a tycoon that was hard to touch .

“Well, in the only case, if he is really S-Rank…”

Soon, there would be a reexamination . The treatment of Su-hyeun would be decided as the relationship between Dump Guild and Jung Dong-yeong as well as the new rank he would get .

***

It was the way back home . Su-hyeun was relieved . It was true that he did the things somewhat in a fit of anger . Of course, he was confident that it would not be the worst situation in various circumstances . In the future that he remembered, when Hak-joon killed Jung Dong-yeong, he was pronounced innocent . So, he thought he could manage somehow .

He expected the fact that he had saved the people of Anyang would help him avoid the worst situation . Of course, that would be the matter when people failed to find a relationship between Jung Dong-yeong and Dump Guild . If they found it, then it would be another achievement for Su-hyeun .

“The problem is it won’t be easy to find it . ”

It was clear that Ares Guild had a relationship with Dump Guild . But the problem was with only that information, it would be still hard to find the root of Dump Guild . Even if the Authority started to do investigate, they would hide more . In particular, Dump Guild was not active in Korea yet .

“To find them…” Su-hyeun, who was walking on the street, looked over the top of the far away building . “I guess throwing bait is the best . ”

And the bait was the accident just had happened in the Ares Guild building . He took away his eyes and walked again .

He headed to a narrow alley . He felt a gaze looking at him from afar . Not long after, the gaze lost direction and purpose because once Su-hyeun entered the alley, he disappeared .