AGENT 61

The second floor of the mansion. Since he only used the first floor of the main building and the annex, everyone knew he was reluctant to come up here, but the expression of Seo Soo as he climbed the stairs without hesitation was as indifferent as usual.

However, if one knew him well, they would realize how significant that small agitation—more than one would think—actually was to him.

Thinking of that pervert Kim Yongnae, who wanted him with such desperate eyes, sleeping without even knowing he had arrived made him want to tease him. So, without much thought, he came straight up to where the man was staying, but as soon as he reached the second floor, he briefly regretted his actions.

“…”

Having reached the second floor, Seo Soo did not look to the left and walked straight toward the right hallway, but all his nerves were already directed toward the end of the left hallway.

A strong sense of helplessness pulling at him. And sadness. Not wanting to feel it anymore, Seo Soo went straight into Yongnae’s room as if hiding.

This place, the room in the right hallway where Yongnae was currently staying, was a room that used to be used as a guest room; unlike the third floor, which had finished modern remodeling, it still looked the same as the old furniture.

Following the taste of the former homeowner who liked antique styles, on top of the maple wood furniture and the matching wooden frame bed, a face with a purity that looked as if it had never suffered a single hardship in life was sleeping, breathing softly.

“…”

Actually, he had intended to wake him up as soon as he arrived to see his reaction, but in this eerily quiet silence, seeing him sleeping without a care, unaware that someone had entered, changed his mind.

Creak—

Seo Soo sat on the edge of the bed where Yongnae was sleeping.

He had headed to Shenzhen himself four days ago to uncover the mastermind behind the thugs who had attacked a casino while pretending to be tourists at a Macau hotel. And after finding out the name of the mastermind he had expected there, he had been in a very good mood as things seemed to be flowing exactly as he wanted. All that remained was the pleasant feeling of hunting a tiger that had been driven into a corner and become desperate.

However, something unexpected happened, making his mood strange. No, it ruined it.

Every time he received a call from Kim Yongnae, Seo Soo felt irritation gradually rising within him.

— ……What, are you doing.

How long had it been since he had heard someone ask him what he was doing. Perhaps because it was a question he hadn’t heard in so long, he seemed to have hesitated for a moment before answering.

‘What did you do today.’

— Ah, that, I tried Peking duck…

‘Yeah, what else?’

— Else… Ah, and I washed up after coming back.

The short phone calls with Kim Yongnae gave him a strange feeling. Had there ever been a time in his life when he listened to someone’s day? Conversations like those between friends or family members living ordinary lives.

Bang—!

After staring at the already lifeless corpse with indifferent eyes and firing one more shot into the wall, Seo Soo hurriedly ended the call.

A long time ago, so long ago he couldn’t even remember, there was a time when he frequently shared these kinds of normal conversations. Of course, as mentioned before, it was so long ago that there were no memories to recall.

‘I followed you to Hong Kong of my own will.’

‘To see that face one more time while alive…’

And without knowing that the call had been placed as an emergency call, he also heard Kim Yongnae’s desperation. That perverted stalker bastard. As expected, he hadn’t been kidnapped from Korea and dragged to Hong Kong, but had followed the Black Horse Gang of his own will. After claiming he could find him even from 10km away, Kim Yongnae had found him from 2,000km away, all the way from Korea to Hong Kong. It was truly nothing short of creepy.

Sigh—,

However, after hearing the contents of that call, Seo Soo had thought he wished the plane from Shenzhen to Hong Kong would depart a little earlier.

Because he wanted to go quickly and see those eyes, sparkling with anticipation, become distorted. Because he wanted to crush that mind directed so blindly toward him.

Seo Soo pulled out the Sig P320 from his inner pocket. It was the handgun Suji had said would plant a 9mm bullet in Yongnae’s forehead.

Those beautiful eyes that Yongnae praised without end lowered their eyelashes slowly and then raised them, falling into a brief deliberation. Earlier, he wanted to wake Kim Yongnae up to give him hope, and then immediately trample that hope with harsh words.

‘Seo Soo, you.’

Thinking about it, he felt it might be better to just get rid of him.

Aiming the gun directly at the head of Yongnae, who was sleeping without even dreaming that such a thing was happening, Seo Soo pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Click—

However, as the slide pushed back, the bullet did not fire. It seemed that the single shot he fired at the wall earlier was the last round.

Ha— Seo Soo let out a laugh like a short sigh. Then, after looking back and forth between the gun and Yongnae for a long while as if he found it absurd, he eventually left the room just like that.

∞ ∞ ∞

Yongnae, who had taken out and put on the clothes he bought while shopping with Suji yesterday, came down to the first floor to eat lunch. Perhaps today’s lunch was a soup dish with a spicy sauce, as the pungent spicy smell drifted strongly even up to the second floor.

“Hello.”

“Good morning.”

Yongnae had come down right in time for lunch for the first time today, and perhaps because the organization members of Yiwon ate regular meals, most of them were gathered in the dining area.

However, Yongnae’s greeting was not directed at them, but toward Danny, who was tossing a wok alone in the kitchen. Danny looked even more cheerful than usual today, and as if responding to the greeting, he showed off a fire show while greeting Yongnae back.

“We have spicy beef noodles and regular beef noodles, which should I give you?”

“Um… Regular beef noodles, please.”

Yongnae was quite good at eating spicy food, but since he had never tried the spicy flavor in Hong Kong, he chose the safe option. He didn’t know if he would be going out right away today, but just in case he had to chase after the guys stealing the medicine immediately, he decided to prevent getting an upset stomach from eating something with strong seasoning.

“Please have a seat at a table.”

At the words of the benevolent-smiling Danny telling him to go sit anywhere at a table, Yongnae sat at the nearby table where the three of them—Suji, Danny, and himself—had eaten kimbap last time.

Then, while waiting, he pulled out his cell phone and searched to see if there was any news about himself currently appearing in Korea. However, there was no news, and instead, posts had been uploaded to places like community forums.

[Civil Service Exam Info] Person A, the civil servant who played a part in catching the Gucheon-si serial killer, is reportedly missing again ㅠㅠ ㄴ[Pure Evil] Then a vacancy will open up in that position lol ㄴ[Wrist Guard] I was going to say the comment above is truly a demon, but the nickname is ‘Pure Evil’ to begin with lol ㄴ[Peanut] To be honest, isn’t that Person A actually the mastermind?

Although it didn’t make the news, it seemed his disappearance had become widely known. It made sense. The sole survivor found in the house of the Gucheon-si serial killer, who had caused an uproar in South Korea, had gone missing again.

His parents were probably worrying immensely right now. At that time, the police did not give an official briefing on the fact that the ones who kidnapped him were a drug organization and not the killer; only his close family knew. This was because they said that since it had not yet been revealed what kind of causal relationship they had with the serial killer, he should not speak of it for his son’s safety.

His parents probably vaguely knew by now. That he was involved with that organization again. Thinking of his parents who would be worrying about him, Yongnae turned on his phone’s notepad and began to write various things down.

The password to his bank account and the location of the bankbook containing emergency funds. Even the password for his internet savings account. And that there was one year left for his 3-year savings, and since it was an automatic savings account with high interest, they should not cancel it until maturity. He also wrote concisely his thanks for the love they showed while raising him and locked it. When Danny came later, he had to ask him to please send this phone to his family’s arms in case something went wrong with him.

Why was he suddenly making final preparations by writing something like a will as if he were someone about to die?

Yongnae, smelling a familiar scent faintly reaching the tip of his nose from a distance, turned his head and looked at the person who was the source of it.

A man looking radiant, wearing a white shirt and ivory pants, just like the day he first saw him.

“Hi—.”

The man who, yesterday, had aimed a gun at his forehead and fired without hesitation.

“…Hello.”

It was because he did not know when Seo Soo might kill him.