chapter 16
new job
Then Pil-woo Jang appeared from behind like a ghost.
It was Choi Si-yoon who was quite used to his novelty.
“I don’t think I’m bad.”
“what?”
He frowned as he spoke while taking the cart from Siyoon’s hand.
“The idea of putting the head of the Strategic Planning Office behind you.”
“?”
For a moment, Siyoon, wondering what he was talking about, looked up at him with a shocked face.
“You can’t just pour and drink kimchi soup, so drink it whole.”
The head of the Strategic Planning Office, a key staff member of Sungma Group, was Lee Arin’s father.
In a word, Pil-woo was engaged to A-Rin Lee, who had no feelings for him, and was talking nonsense about running the Strategic Planning Office.
“Will Iarin get engaged to me because she is crazy? Even if you say you’re crazy, it’s a cut at the head of the department.”
He was pushed out of the succession ranks, kicked out of his family as an illegitimate child, and Choi Si-yoon, who is famous for frequenting entertainment districts every day.
There was no reason for Lee Arin to see him as a man, and there was no reason for the head of the department to allow him as her engagement partner.
In the first place, Iarin had a different level of play.
Her father is the president’s closest aide. There is even a view that depending on who he supports, the weight of this fight over the successor will tilt.
Knowing that, the head of the department also spared relevant remarks as much as possible unless he was certain about the successor.
Therefore, isn’t it true that even the third son, Choi Jin-seong, does not dare to covet Lee Ah-rin and is aiming for Kim Seo-ah as if he were a chicken instead of a pheasant?
“It is now.”
Phil Woo raised his lips and said.
“But sooner or later, the young master’s location will change, right?”
“…”
“When the time comes, there is such a strategy… that’s what I’m saying.”
“Don’t talk nonsense, put this back right away. I have to go to the shooting range right now.”
“Yes? Won’t you borrow books?”
There, Siyoon smiled and said.
“Looks like you already found the answer.”
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“Why did you come so soon?”
Originally, it was Choi Si-yoon who would come only when the sun was down.
President Kang gave him a puzzled look at his appearance, who had come earlier today.
“They say they seem to have found the answer.”
“What answer?”
“It’s what makes it warp.”
“What do you want to bend… a bullet?”
When Pil-woo nodded, President Kang’s expression became stunned.
In the meantime, Si-yoon was standing on President Kang’s personal silo inside the warehouse and reloaded his pistol.
Siyoon looked down at his Magic gun and was lost in thought.
[Once you have the doll attribute, you can easily perform your intentions just by connecting the doll and magic.]
Review Iarin’s explanation once again.
[If I feel like I am manipulating a doll by connecting dozens of threads one by one, a puppeteer is more like a doll moving just by thinking about it.]
‘If Choi Si-yoon’s attribute is really a gun.’
He set the pistol down on the table in front of the gun and pointed the barrel at the target.
“What the hell are you going to do?”
“I know. I was just dragged out of my mind.”
Siyoon applied magic to the pistol. Then, along with the circuit he engraved, the gun barrel started to glow faintly.
He recalls what Iarin did to the doll and infuses it with magic.
However, it did not stop there, and continued to focus on maintaining the thread of magic, that is, the connection.
Then he let go of the pistol.
“What is he doing now?”
“well.”
Siyoon closed her eyes and slowly opened them.
He focused on his pistol.
‘With the feeling of carrying out my intentions…’
pull the trigger
Taaang-!
“…”
“…”
“…”
For a moment, silence fell between them.
Pil-woo’s eyes trembled with bewilderment.
Uncharacteristically for her, when she reached President Kang, her mouth was wide open.
“No, I just… huh?”
She doubted her eyes.
‘Did you just take your hand off the gun? I took it off, but why did the gun fire… Has the trigger of the trigger become too sensitive? No, no matter how much I touch it, it goes out. How come I didn’t do anything, but it wasn’t even a faint earthquake…’
“Have you ever awakened your telekinesis?”
“Did you have a psychic, Bocchan?”
“···no.”
Si-yoon tried to calm his trembling heart and grabbed the gun, whose muzzle had turned back due to recoil.
‘It was this.’
A tingling sensation ran down my spinal cord.
‘It was something like this.’
It was then.
A familiar phrase popped up before his eyes.
[Hidden Achievement ‘Hero’s True Value’ has been achieved!]
[achievement rate 6/121]
[A unique attribute is given as a reward for achieving a hidden achievement.]
[You have acquired the characteristic ‘Wanted’!]
● Attribute ‘Wanted’
– Rating: Hero
– Guns and bullets are unified. Those who possess the gun attribute are also given the bullet attribute. Also, when mana is exercised through bullets, communication delay time is reduced and accuracy is increased.
He gripped the gun properly and aimed at a target 10 meters away.
“Pilwoo.”
“Yes? Yes.”
“Put anything in your way that could be an obstacle. Because even a barrier is good.”
Pil-woo, who swallowed his saliva there, went over to the saro and hit the magic barrier and retreated.
The target is the target behind the barrier.
The magic power flowing into the pistol leads to the loaded bullet.
Siyoon closed her eyes.
‘Like I just did.’
And beyond infusing magic into the bullet, he connects himself with the bullet. And focus on that connection.
Siyoon took a small breath.
‘From the prepared shooter…’
he opened his eyes
‘Open fire.’
Pull the trigger.
Taaang-!
A bullet casing that is ejected at the same time as the slide is violently reclined.
In an instant, a gunshot pierced Saro and brushed his ears.
“…”
Siyoon confirmed the target illuminated by the monitor.
A bullet hole drilled right in the center.
And he turned his head back to Saro. It was to check the magic barrier made by Pil-woo.
“······crazy.”
President Kang, who saw that, spat out curses without even realizing it.
The magic barrier remained in place, undisturbed in the slightest.
“…”
No one said anything, but there was only one conclusion that could be reached.
The bullet was bent.
The fact soon came to them with a shudder.
Shiyoon returns.
He smiled at the two people watching him.
“her···.”
President Kang, who sat down as if his legs were weak, swallowed a laugh.
‘I’m sure.’
Her business partner is the core of a storm that will bring about great change, whether people like it or not.
‘Now at least I won’t be bored.’
The corners of President Kang’s mouth went up involuntarily.
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After that, Siyun solved several more wanted cases, but the city was still quiet.
Of course, there were rumors that ‘they pierced the magic with a gun’ circulated in the streets, but few people believed them seriously yet.
Most of them are treated as some sort of urban legend or ghost story.
In fact, this was what he also expected.
It was because the wall of common sense that people think of is quite thick, so it’s not that easy to break.
Siyoon went down the stairs at the back of the mall and rang the familiar old bell.
Then the camera’s lens rotated to check his face and open the door.
Siyoon was getting used to this gloomy coffee bar as he had been going there for several days.
“Have you come?”
The old man greeted him without looking back.
Right now, it seemed that there were no guests except him.
But instead, Ara Kim leaned against the bar stand, fiddling with her tablet and sipping coffee.
“Ah, welcome~.”
When she saw him, she waved her hand with a lively smile.
Siyoon, who is starting to get used to it now, nodded and sat down on the other side of the table.
“You can sit next to me.”
“Are you not working today?”
“Don’t you know the guest? Today is a regular holiday. Oh, but no worries! Our basement coffee shop is open 24/7!”
At this point, the tension was truly shocking. When you think of her personality, it’s almost a mystery where that kind of energy comes from.
There, the old man made a noise and corrected it.
“It’s not 365 days, it’s not 24 hours.”
“Ah, installment plan~. It means to fight with that momentum~.”
“Tsk tsk, the one and only granddaughter is full of thoughts of taking care of this old woman all day long. Eh.”
“…”
Shiyoon thought to himself.
‘How long do we have to watch this funny family game?’
Shaking his head, he asked.
“So is something going on?”
“Well?”
“Something feels a bit messy.”
“Ah~ that’s what I mean.”
“Araya.”
“But installment, it’s a pity to miss this. And I heard that this guest is very good at finding people? Yesterday, they said they caught only two wanted men in one day.”
“Still, there is an order and timing in work. For a guy who just came in not long ago, this is…”
“The skit ends there.”
Shiyoon interrupted their conversation.
“Aren’t you waiting for me anyway? I’ll see and decide whether or not to take on the job, so why don’t you just show it to me?”
Anyway, I didn’t intend to go on a job quest to catch wanted people forever.
It was nothing more than a process to build trust.
If the opportunity to take on a bigger task was given quickly, there was enough reason to consider it even if it took a little risk.
Time wasn’t really on his side.
“Kuhm.”
“···lol.”
The old man cleared his throat and Ara Kim let out a shy laugh.
“Did you hear it too?”
Then, moving her buttocks and filling up the space she had been away from, she showed Siyoon the tablet pc and said,
“Does the customer know that it is a lesser panda?”
buy lesser
This was a collective term for unidentified hackers who used the red panda as their emblem.
By the time he appeared in earnest in the main quest, he was already a person who appeared to be working under the third son Choi Jin-seong.
However, according to what is revealed through the side quests around him, he is hiding a considerable story, but at least it was clear that he was not working for Choi Jin-seong because it was good.
“Aren’t you a famous hacker?”
“As expected, you know~. But heck. That lesser panda, well, must have touched something that shouldn’t be touched.”
“Did you touch something you shouldn’t touch?”
He asked, and this time the old man answered, putting down the coffee cup he was polishing.
“…we don’t know the details. What is certain is that Lesser Panda was recently hired by a newly established private security company called ‘White Flame’, and received a certain request from there.”
‘White Flame?’
When an unexpected mission appeared, Siyoon frowned.
Because the security company with the childish name of White Flame was founded independently by Kim Seo-ah, with the help of Lee A-rin, from her father, and specialized in monster missions.
‘At this time, it’s just when the White Flame was created.’
When playing as the savior ‘Arin Lee’, since Arin Lee is Kim Seo Ah’s friend and also an outside director of White Flame, it was inevitable that they would get involved several times.
However, I remembered that there was no quest related to the lesser panda among them.
‘Is this a quest added to the expansion pack? or not···.’
“The problem is, I don’t know what the request was, but the lesser panda who was carrying out the request, as well as his family, went missing.”
“missing? Are you saying you were kidnapped?”
The old man clicked his tongue lightly.
“So that’s scary. It’s not an ordinary skill to identify a hacker whose identity or whereabouts have never been revealed so far and kidnap his family. It’s absolutely not something that some idiot has made up.”
Ara Kim intervened and took the old man’s words.
“Anyway, I don’t know why in such a situation, but White Flame is ignoring the situation~. Instead, the request was uploaded to the Black Network anonymously. But anyone can see this.”
“It’s a white flame.”
“Ding dong dang~!”
Siyoon sighed slightly.
‘The reason why the White Flames can’t move directly is because they must never admit that they were involved in this incident.’
Apparently, Kim Seo-ah hired a lesser panda to dig behind something that shouldn’t be dug up.
‘What the hell?’
What came to mind at that moment was Choi Jin-seong, who was being discussed as Kim Seo-ah’s fiancee.
‘no way···.’
The relationship he remembers between Kim Seo-ah and Choi Jin-seong was one in which Choi Jin-seong took the lead and Kim Seo-ah silently obeyed and followed.
From the time the engagement became visible, Choi Jin-seong just did everything he wanted to do, and Kim Seo-ah, despite her outstanding appearance, was not popular with users.
‘But what if Kim Seo-ah has actually been resisting behind the scenes?’
As Gangdong-gu is geographically attached, it was intertwined with Hanam City in a very complicated relationship of interest.
At that time, Kim Seo-ah, the daughter of the president of Gangdong Management Construction, could not have openly rebelled against Choi Jin-seong, who ruled Hanam City.
Not only that.
‘It could be that the lesser panda came to work for Choi Jin-seong because of this.’
The probability was sufficient.
It is not an ordinary thing to steal the royal family’s back in an illegal way.
It was impossible to rule out the possibility that the lesser panda, who was caught as a weakness, succumbed to Choi Jin-seong.
‘In addition, they said that the family was kidnapped.’
The Choi Jin-seong he knew was a human being who could hold the lesser panda’s family hostage.
‘If I can solve this problem well…’
Perhaps he could steal a troublesome hand called Lesser Panda from Choi Jin-seong.