AGENT 64

Lee Suji, who had an expression of total reluctance, and Weizhen, with a quite serious face. Both of them looked displeased with the fact that Yongnae was going out alone with Seo Soo.

In contrast, one might think Yongnae would be happy, but for some reason, he appeared indifferent as if he didn’t care much. To Yongnae, who merely nodded while silently chewing the fried noodles placed in front of him as his portion, Weizhen and Suji continued their meal while watching Yongnae’s reaction.

“Well then, I will go up and rest first.”

To the two of them, Yongnae, who finished his meal first, gave a light greeting and went up to the second floor. Standing side by side and watching that retreating back, the two of them had different thoughts.

‘Does he not like him anymore?’

He had confessed his love while glaring with such spite, so had his heart cooled down now? As expected, did he mistake his admiration for Susu as love? So thought Lee Suji, and then,

‘He’s a good actor.’

There was Weizhen, narrowing his eyes as if he were seeing through Yongnae’s ulterior motive.

No, the fact that Yongnae has no expression right now is an act?

That’s right. Right now, Yongnae was indeed acting.

Returning to his room and leaving them behind, Yongnae leaned against the door, and even though no one was watching, he covered his mouth with a clenched fist and let out a smile.

Finally, an opportunity had arisen to look at that face for a long time right by his side, without having to mind anyone else. Because the time they spent together until now had been so short, he couldn’t talk for long or look at his face for long, leaving him as thirsty as a drizzle with 1 mm of rainfall falling on parched desert land.

Tomorrow, the rainfall will probably be around 10 mm. For reference, 10 mm of rainfall is the level where one must wear rain boots.

At any rate, the reason why Yongnae acted was because he knew Suji and Weizhen were reluctant about the situation where he and Seo Soo were entangled. He could tell Lee Suji was reluctant because of the shock of A man and a man?! since he was a fool, but he couldn’t get a grasp at all on why Weizhen was like that.

Does Weizhen perhaps like Seo Soo? Of course, with that kind of beauty, it’s only natural that he could. But if that was truly the reason, Weizhen would desperately try to prevent him and Seo Soo from being alone together, so there was no telling how he might become an obstacle in the future.

Therefore, Yongnae had been acting. Pretending it wasn’t good even if he was alone with Seo Soo. Pretending to be indifferent. Praying that his acting worked well, he lifted the handgun resting on the table.

Lee Suji said he had brought it over, but judging by the weight, it didn’t seem to have a magazine inside. Sure enough, whether it was too much trouble to load the bullets for him, a box of bullets sat alone next to it as if telling him to load the 9 mm bullets into the magazine himself. It seems checking the magazine in a cool way when going out on a mission was only in the movies after all. Yongnae pulled out a chair and sat down, loading the bullets into the magazine one by one.

Meanwhile, how did Weizhen know that Yongnae was acting?

For that, one had to go back to the situation from a little while ago.

For the past few days, Weizhen had to endure an unprecedented restriction on going out because he was monitoring from both inside and outside whether anyone was contacting Kim Yongnae. Because he was watching Yongnae throughout the morning while switching shifts with Suji, he hadn’t been able to go sunrise surfing for several days. Thus, after Susu returned, he was coming back from enjoying sunrise surfing to his heart’s content for the first time in a while when he saw Susu climbing the forest path behind the annex.

Judging by the ring of the gun right now, which sounded like something a total novice would shoot, Kim Yongnae should be at the shooting range, but Susu is going there voluntarily? Weizhen immediately ran up that forest path. And there, seeing Susu teaching Kim Yongnae how to shoot in a tender pose as if hugging him from behind, he was greatly flustered and hurriedly came down the forest path.

One might wonder if seeing an unexpected side of Susu is something to be this flustered about, but to Weizhen, it was greater than any other shock.

First of all, he had grown up with Susu since childhood and watched him from the side. Weizhen, like Yongnae, had often heard that he didn’t act like a kid these days or that he was like an old soul since he was young, but Susu could not even be compared to himself.

Susu—no, Seo Soo—always had a bored face. A face that looked like he had no emotions or worries, as if he lived simply because he was born. He was always like that, no matter who he was with or who he met.

A person with no agitation of emotion. Because of that, Weizhen had admired Seo Soo all along since he was young. Thinking that this person would be a straight person without any emotional agitation for a lifetime. And that was the same even after meeting Kim Yongnae. If there was a slight difference, was it the gaze of looking at just a somewhat extraordinary civilian? Of course, it was neither more nor less than that. That hadn’t changed even now.

However, while his expression was the same as usual, there was a change in his actions. He, who was generous but not merciful, was showing just a little more mercy specifically to Kim Yongnae.

‘Shall I eliminate the researcher just like this too?’

‘No.’

‘Leave him be?’

‘Yeah. It’s pitiful.’

When leaving the fainted Kim Yongnae at the Gucheon-si killer’s house, it was actually an opportunity to disguise Kim Yongnae as a victim and get rid of him.

Because Kim Yongnae was smarter than expected, he might have already found out many clues about the organization. And since he could have told the police all those detailed contents, it might have been better to eliminate him right there.

However, at that time, Seo Soo said Kim Yongnae was pitiful and told him to leave him alone. At that time, I thought that was possible. Kim Yongnae was someone who worked as hard as if it were his own business just because he was told he’d be given money, so wouldn’t it be too much like a thug to just kill him?

And just as he was living with Kim Yongnae forgotten from his memory, news quickly reached him that the Black Horse Gang had smuggled into Hong Kong Port with a civilian.

Since the Black Horse Gang had been through something, it wouldn’t be strange for them to come for revenge, but I wondered what kind of civilian they had brought. However, seeing Lee Suji laughing loudly while saying he saw the Mister at the club that day, I immediately furrowed my brow.

At that time, I thought Kim Yongnae’s obsession toward Seo Soo felt a bit like madness, but to go so far as to smuggle himself in following the Black Horse Gang…….

‘The Mister like, took off his pants and put on a show in front of Susu and ran out of the club without even wearing underwear?’

‘What kind of nonsense is that?’

‘But, Susu seems a bit angry. He attached a kid to the Mister.’

But I thought Kim Yongnae’s obsession would end here. The fact that Seo Soo attached a person behind someone meant that person could absolutely not live.

When Seo Soo intends to definitely kill someone, he checks every single move of that person as a final mercy. To create a reason not to kill them. However, those whom Seo Soo had attached people to have all died until now. Because the more he dug, the more there was no reason not to kill them.

‘The contact came at the same time. They say it finally caught fire.’

On the day the warehouse caught fire, contact came from the two organization members Seo Soo had attached. That Lee Geon-hwa, who had been working on the warehouse since last night, set fire to the warehouse as expected to kill the Black Horse Gang and Kim Yongnae. And that a fire broke out in the warehouse where Kim Yongnae’s party, who came to Ma Wan Village to meet with Lee Geon-hwa, had entered. Receiving such simultaneous reports, I relayed them exactly as they were to Seo Soo who was beside me. While doing so, Weizhen naturally waited for Seo Soo’s reaction, which would be an indifferent reply that one guy got eliminated on his own. However, what returned was,

‘………’

Silence.

His lowered eyes looked forward, and then he lowered them again in a silence that seemed like he was thinking for a moment. That meant only one thing.

Seo Soo does not wish for Kim Yongnae’s death right now.

‘…Shall I tell them to stop it?’

Could it be that there is an appropriate time for Kim Yongnae to die? Seo Soo had a plan for everything since a long time ago. So Kim Yongnae might also have to die at the appropriate time after fulfilling his usefulness.

‘No. Leave it.’

However, the feeling that it wasn’t something like that began to arise from this point.

— While I’m in Shenzhen, monitor whether there is any contact with Kim Yongnae.

‘If there’s contact, shall I shoot to kill?’

— ……….

‘…Shall I report first?’

— No. Shoot to kill.

‘……Okay.’

In the end, it was that he would stand by and watch Kim Yongnae’s death, but as that silence grew longer, Weizhen only became increasingly anxious. Because Seo Soo, who had been as straight as a bamboo without ever being agitated, showed a small but definitely agitated appearance. Because I wondered if this small shaking might not become larger later.

Therefore, Weizhen had been on edge lately. Whether the daughter of a conglomerate family that anyone would know approached, or a beautiful celebrity who made even Weizhen’s cheeks flush approached, Seo Soo was indifferent without interest; just what point of that perverted official, who has no flexibility and only smells things well, was making Seo Soo agitated?

Anyway, Weizhen, who had come down the forest path first like that, had complex feelings about whether he had witnessed incorrectly or if there was a 1% chance he had mistaken someone else for Seo Soo, even though it was 99% certainly Seo Soo, since he was someone who had never acted like that even as a performance; but in the moment he saw Kim Yongnae’s eyes moving quickly as if searching for someone with anticipation while entering the dining room, he was certain.

That person earlier was indeed Seo Soo. It was true those two were striking a tender pose. Something is going on between those two right now, but they are pretending not to on purpose.

Kim Yongnae is acting right now. I could tell.