Chapter 42

Chapter 42

Columbia University.

Yi-hyeon came here alone.

The snow that fell a few days ago was piled in various places of the campus not melting and the wind blowing from the Hudson River was cold. Yi-hyeon who had a few days of time first wanted to come and see this university where the father had worked as an exchange professor.

It was around sunset, though Amy pestered to be together, he said today there is work to do alone. Lee Seung-uk thought Yi-hyeon was meeting Amy and said he would remain alone in the hotel room.

Amy looked at Yi-hyeon’s expression and nodded and said let’s meet tomorrow and turned back. She noticed that Yi-hyeon’s expression was unusual. Seeing such things she is a woman who reads people’s emotions well.

5 years ago when visiting to hold the father’s funeral of course there was no spirit to look at the campus. At just twenty in this unfamiliar place what sentiment would one have felt. Moreover coming to recover the parents’ corpses.

This historic university established in 1754 has the main campus in Manhattan of New York the place with the most expensive land price in the world. At the time of establishment it would have been just wasteland beyond the Hudson River.

Yi-hyeon quietly looking around the campus today received such a feeling. A feeling that the city of Manhattan is considering this university. A feeling of respecting the university’s intellect and upholding their wisdom.

The father would surely have loved this university.

An atmosphere where the scholarship of archaeology that does not make money receives honor here, and no one ignores his intellect. He would have loved this atmosphere.

Father and mother···

How on earth did you pass away.

Around the time Yi-hyeon was immersed in thought looking at the pillars of the Low Memorial Library of the campus there was a feeling stimulating his sense. An uneasy and sticky feeling.

Yi-hyeon raised his head.

Someone came. Full of hostility toward him.

- Came!

Almost simultaneously with Yi-hyeon feeling the hostility Sion also said.

Yi-hyeon looked around. A habit from army days, if a situation occurs he examines the surrounding terrain features.

In the fierce weather there were few people around. Of course the Low Memorial Library building also has few lights. This building is managed as a historic site designated by New York City and currently the central management office and visitor center etc. are in it.

“Huu.”

Yi-hyeon habitually did breathing first. Long, slowly.

First he is in a considerably disadvantageous position. In the US there is not even one common pistol. What is a pistol. There is not even one combat knife.

But there is something prepared just in case. Precisely the Swiss military knife set commonly called MacGyver knife. A small knife with bottle cap opener. An item with awl and saw etc. hanging in a row, bought at a souvenir shop when arriving in New York just in case.

Though very unsuitable to use as a weapon, having even this is something. Yi-hyeon took out the knife from the backpack and put it in the pants pocket.

Now Yi-hyeon held a weapon!

Though the length of the blade is barely shorter than a finger, this is enough.

“How many on earth gathered···.”

Yet the exact number is not grasped. That is because the ones who seem enemies are mixed with civilians wandering sparsely.

Yi-hyeon turned his body and began to slowly walk Columbia Walk. This path is a path that divides Columbia University north and south and a place loved as a promenade of students and professors.

As expected in the cold weather and the sun setting but people are seen sparsely. There would be tourists like him and students and professors too. Of course residents living nearby too.

Eh? Come to think of it he remembered hearing that this university’s campus is attached to that famous Harlem. During the day campus police patrol frequently, but even at night?

If these guys cause an accident and bounce to Harlem it will just end as a Korean tourist unluckily murdered by Harlem gangs.

Yi-hyeon’s head cooled and the expression disappeared from the face too.

While walking Yi-hyeon who slightly looked back met eyes with one black man wearing a beanie. That guy turned his head without expression, but Yi-hyeon looked straight. The guy’s lips trembling thinly with tension.

That guy and···.

Yi-hyeon saw a man walking a little ahead of him from about 10 meters beside.

And this guy.

Now he confirmed two guys. Among them he noted the guy wearing a beanie thrusting his hand in the jumper pocket. That guy is holding a gun.

Yi-hyeon who roughly grasped the situation lowered the tension a little. He came to know that these guys’ intention is not to murder him right away but to abduct somewhere. If intention to murder they would have shot right when noticed. Then there will be no matter to use the Swiss knife.

Well, shall we continue the walk gradually.

Then a man walking from opposite Yi-hyeon met eyes. Though black the outline was upright so looked mixed. That man pushed up the horn-rimmed glasses and smiled at Yi-hyeon. The wrinkles at the eye corners look good.

Yi-hyeon also smiled facing and passed that man··· the moment it seemed,

Shit!

Yi-hyeon who turned his body as if bouncing embraced the neck of the man wearing glasses with the left arm and turned his body with a hwik. A posture facing the two he looked at in advance.

“Don’t move!”

Yi-hyeon brought his face close to the ear of the opponent whose neck he embraced and said low.

“Heup! Heup···.”

That man already stiffened his body before Yi-hyeon even spoke. This young Eastern guy seems lightly holding the neck but he cannot move the body at all.

The two men approaching facing stiffened in place. Their colleague entered the guy’s hand right in front of their eyes.

The black man wearing a beanie forcefully held the pistol in the left pocket of the top. Just raising only the wrist and shooting the guy will do.

Then, the guy still looking at Yi-hyeon’s face matching eyes with him stopped the movement.

Heup!

Cannot. Even trying hard cannot raise the muzzle. Already completely suppressed from the mind.

Yi-hyeon groped the man’s waist. A holster set to fix on the waist belt is touched, and Yi-hyeon simultaneously with releasing the button of the holster lightly held the grip of the pistol.

“Walter? Tsk, should have used a better gun.”

The man caught by Yi-hyeon, Vic was shuddering. Even being caught by such a thin (?) forearm is beyond strange to the point of terrifying, this guy guesses even only holding the grip of the gun he is wearing. Not even taking out the hand holding the gun from his waist yet.

“Hey, Joe? You are the leader of these guys right? Tell those guys not to move anymore. Unless your thing is sturdier than a bullet.”

Yi-hyeon speaking bent the direction of the right hand holding the gun and headed the muzzle toward the thing of the one holding. A threat that if something happens he will blow it away as is.

“That, stop.”

That guy whose mouth opened a bit only now spat hard in a hoarse voice.

Hearing the leader’s words the two guys stiffened as is and Yi-hyeon said low to the guy wearing a beanie.

“Hey, Joe. Take out your gun. Slowly.”

Expert!

The man wearing a beanie momentarily felt seeing Yi-hyeon’s sunken eyes.

Even if shooting the gun he is holding inside the pocket as is he cannot hit that guy covering using the leader’s body as a shield. Above all looking at those eyes no confidence arises at all.

The man wearing a beanie who saw Yi-hyeon’s sunken eyes slowly took his hand out of his pocket. Not forgetting to take the finger off the trigger too. If he is hanging the finger on the trigger that guy will immediately shoot him.

“Good. Beretta, a good gun. Slowly put it on the floor and kick with the foot. That way.”

Tuk!

The Beretta was swept by the kick and entered the grass beside.

Yi-hyeon gradually unfolded the arm he was embracing in front and straightened the upper body. The gun at that guy’s waist was already drawn.

“Well, brothers? Stand that way.”

He pointed to one side of the path with the hand holding the gun.

The three guys obediently gathered and stood to one side. Thinking again these guys are not guys who came to kill him. The armament is so and the current attitude is also mild for gangsters.

But Yi-hyeon knows. These guys are not all. There is another group. Doing as told now would also be doing so trusting the group nearby.

Yi-hyeon who slightly examined the surroundings tuk hit the guy whose gun was taken and pushed forward and approached the guys. Strangely no people were visible around but soon he knew the reason. People who were strolling in the early evening saw this ominous appearance and hurriedly avoided.

Just avoiding. Without even reporting to the police or something just slightly avoiding themselves. Originally this neighborhood is so.

Yi-hyeon did not loosen the tension. The feeling tells that there are more guys.

“You guys? Who sent and came?”

Yi-hyeon put the right hand holding the gun diagonally under the armpit and stood crooked and asked. Even while speaking the head was turning fiercely, because he was raising the senses on where the remaining guys would appear.

Of course there is no way the three in front will answer.

Then Yi-hyeon saw the eyes of the one wearing a beanie among the guys standing in front rolling. The end of the gaze is clumsily going to behind Yi-hyeon.

Yi-hyeon finally knew that the guys he was waiting for came. They would not have known that Yi-hyeon’s eyes can see even such things on the already darkened campus.

10 meters. 9 meters.

Two guys who came out turning the corner of the building slowly walked. The top and bottom athletic wear attire looks exactly like Columbia students in the dormitory came out to jog.

Cute kids!

Around the time the two guys who thrust both hands deeply in the top pockets and walked swaggering came about 3 meters behind Yi-hyeon’s back,

Yi-hyeon put the Walter pistol in the pocket and shook both hands.

Shirit shirit!

“Eh?”

“Keuk.”

The three in front staggered their heads as if shot by something and sat down as is. Yi-hyeon instantly hit the vital points such as the temples of the guys. And before the three guys even collapsed on the ground Yi-hyeon’s body bounced up to the sky.

Shiii

Yi-hyeon’s body sat down behind the two guys who were approaching late.

Hait!

Among them one guy only then came to senses and without even looking back struck the elbow. Instantly twisting the waist behind and gathering strength is not ordinary.

But Yi-hyeon without even looking at that guy’s elbow attack lightly stamped the side of the remaining guy with the edge of the hand raised.

Keuk!

Only after seeing that guy sitting down he slightly received the elbow that approached in front with the palm. Because the guy who sat down first was drawing a weapon from the pocket so suppressed first.

And this guy! Receiving it considerable strength is loaded on the elbow. The physique is physique but traces of considerable training piled are seen.

Ujik!

“Keuak!”

Yi-hyeon lightly twisted the hand and broke that guy’s elbow. Originally human bones do not break so easily but flowing and receiving the striking strength as is and with that strength tuk.

Since he returned the strength of the black with thick bones as is it would be exactly what Monk Muae said four ounces deflect a thousand catties.

Now five men are rolling on the dark Columbia Walk. Yi-hyeon tuk tuk kicked them with the foot and gathered and went to a darker place.

And quickly searched the guys’ bodies, but nothing comes out. Each only had a Blackberry feature phone.

Then there is nothing to find out.

Not even able to drag these guys somewhere and torture now.

Yi-hyeon who hesitated for a moment decided to report to the police. Though he also thought of just going because bothersome, thinking for a moment it is not such a matter.

He is an outsider after all. On this place where there are CCTVs here and there if just going later a troublesome matter may arise.

And what crime did I commit?

Not even 10 minutes after Yi-hyeon reported to the police three police cars came. Aeng aeng~

Oh quite!

Because this is the Columbia University campus they dispatched so quickly.

That way the protectors of citizens appeared like lightning and gradually an uncomfortable matter arose for Yi-hyeon.

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