Chapter 25

Chapter 25

You Guys Are Dead

Uncle Cheol-gu roughly threw the snatched pistol.

“First gag the mouths so no screams leak.”

“Earlier you said you’d extract confessions······.”

“Ahem! There’s an order to everything. I’m from the KCIA.”

The Taeseong Group security guards put gags in the mouths of the unconscious guys.

“If there are handcuffs, put them on.”

“······.”

“If there are masks, put them on.”

“······.”

The Taeseong Group security guards glared at Uncle Cheol-gu with crooked postures.

“You’ve been interfering in our work since earlier. Civilians, please step aside at this point.”

“I’m not a civilian, I’m from the KCIA.”

Uncle Cheol-gu opened his wallet and showed his ID.

“Roughly consider it an internal investigation.”

The KCIA mainly roots out North Korean spies and leftist criminals, and collects information against the North and externally.

They often wielded investigation rights and prosecution rights practically by controlling the prosecution, police, and correctional institutions from behind.

Click! Click!

The security guard took out handcuffs and put them on.

An attitude with dissatisfaction and irritation showing.

Regardless.

Uncle Cheol-gu found a few more hidden jackknives and threw them.

Click, click, click click click!

When Uncle Cheol-gu began disassembling the firearm, the Taeseong security guards couldn’t hide their surprised expressions.

One of the security guards couldn’t hold back his curiosity and opened his mouth.

“The speed of disassembling the firearm is no joke. Does the KCIA also receive this kind of education separately?”

“Ah, this I learned not in the KCIA but in the military.”

“Military? Which unit were you affiliated with?”

“Special forces. Somehow I only beat armed guerrillas throughout my military life.”

Uncle Cheol-gu answered indifferently.

But the security guard asked back with a suddenly surprised expression.

“W, wait! If it’s armed guerrillas···, by any chance the class······.”

“Military academy class? Or officer commission class? When I was attending the military academy, I caused an accident and skipped about two classes.”

“Uh uh? An officer who caused a big accident and skipped two classes···, by any chance the name?”

“Park Cheol-gu.”

“Ugh! Was it the legendary hard-headed Lieutenant Colonel Bak!”

Hard-headed?

Even if he uses the Park surname, there’s no way they would casually attach such a nickname to a lieutenant colonel?

The Taeseong Group security guards immediately attached salutes.

“The person who headbutted a one-star with his forehead and sent him to the hospital because he was so annoying!”

“The legend of the army who was discharged from that day and fled to the KCIA!”

“It’s an honor to meet you!”

Respectful gazes were hot like flames.

“The strongest soldier since the founding of the army!”

“The worst natural enemy of armed guerrillas!”

“The specialist in spy searches!”

“The medal collector for catching spies!”

Even though it was clearly the first meeting, it seemed the Taeseong Group security guards’ favorability and loyalty were rising rapidly in an instant.

“By the way, you were looking for a mask earlier, right? There’s no mask, but there’s coffee-colored stockings here. Shall we put that on these bastards’ faces?”

“Lieutenant Colonel Bak, we’ll take care of these bastards!”

“There’s no need for Lieutenant Colonel Bak to take the trouble because of these petty criminal bastards!”

Uncle Cheol-gu tightly wrinkled his brow.

“No. Perhaps these bastards are not robbers but spies.”

“······Suddenly?”

“Roughly consider them spies. I’m somewhat of an expert in this area. I’m affiliated with the KCIA public security department.”

“Ah······! As expected!”

Definitely, all the titles attached to Uncle Cheol-gu seemed related to ‘spies.’

“Then these bastards are left to me?”

“Of course!”

Uncle Cheol-gu grabbed the collars of the unconscious agents and dragged them away.

He was even humming a tune, and those footsteps were very light and cheerful.

“Aoh, these damn spy bastards, why don’t they get eradicated no matter how much I beat and catch them!”

The place where Uncle Cheol-gu stopped his steps was in front of the faucet prepared for watering the garden.

Uncle opened the faucet with force.

Pressing the end of the rubber hose to increase the pressure was a bonus.

Whoosh!

The KCIA agents who suddenly received a cold water baptism on a midwinter night.

They came to their senses abruptly.

“Mmph! Mmph mmph!”

But there was a gag in the mouth, handcuffs on the hands, and the body was tightly bound.

It wasn’t easy to open the eyes because of the stockings that he didn’t even know when they were put on.

It was already night, and here the shade of the garden trees was too deep.

So it was even more eerie. It felt like being dragged to the KCIA underground torture room.

“Do you even know who you touched right now?”

“Mmph mmph!”

“Even while climbing the wall, you felt something was strange, right?”

“Mmph!”

“Why are there so many people guarding the house, why is this wall so high, who on earth is the bastard saying these things. You don’t know anything at all, right?”

“······!”

“Still, somehow it seems you’ll know just this one thing.”

Uncle Cheol-gu grinned.

“You guys, properly X’ed?”

Whether Uncle Cheol-gu’s threat worked, the desperate struggling stopped abruptly.

“Want to die without a mouse or bird knowing for attempted assassination of an important figure?”

“Mmph mmph!”

The bastards desperately shook their heads.

“Your disposal······ let’s think again after beating you first.”

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

It was the sound of foreheads cracking.

Crack! Crunch! Snap!

Even though he only slapped the cheeks with his palm.

For some reason, the sound of flesh bursting and bones breaking was heard as a bonus.

* * *

I cut off the field of view sharing with the underworld messenger.

Uncle Cheol-gu was beating so skillfully and satisfyingly that my insides felt refreshed.

A skill that even nationwide gangsters would yield one hand to.

If it’s the skill that beat armed guerrillas and even received medals, nothing more needs to be said.

‘He properly repaid even the debt of being slapped on the cheek and pushed into the water tub with interest. The vicious hand that beats refreshingly! As expected, I like it!’

Leave the intruders to Uncle Cheol-gu.

I held a fire poker and rummaged through the bonfire.

“Oh, it’s well cooked.”

Potatoes and sweet potatoes with steam rising.

Snacks to share with the security guards and Uncle Cheol-gu who worked hard catching thieves today.

Wanting to give something to people who worked hard is human nature!

“Uncles, you worked hard in the cold! Come here and have some snacks!”

Of course, the accompanying drinks too.

The Taeseong Group security guards blinked both eyes.

“1947 White Marlin red wine?”

“There’s also 1959 Lafite Gourk red wine!”

“H, how much is this wine?”

I smiled brightly.

“Anyway, once it goes into the stomach, it’s all the same. Since we’re drinking, we should drink good ones.”

“No, Young Master. The young master might not know well yet because you’re still young, but if you carelessly give out things like this, you’ll be greatly troubled later.”

“I’m giving my own alcohol to my own people, who is going to say something to me?”

This is alcohol that was in the wine cellar of the air-raid shelter in our house basement.

As expected of a well-made basement, the wine storage condition was very good.

“These are people who worked hard outside all night on this cold winter night, I should treat them to this much. Just tasting one glass each so you don’t get drunk?”

The Taeseong Group security guards smacked their lips and nodded.

I brought out the punch bowl I brought from the kitchen.

“Instead, since wine glasses seem regrettable, I chose a bit bigger glasses.”

“······!”

Instantly, thunderous applause poured out.

There’s no need to make such a moved expression.

Oops, I forgot the wine opener. Can’t be helped.

I picked up a jackknife that was roughly rolling on the garden floor.

“Young Master, put that down! It’s a dangerous object!”

Pop!

I simply pulled the cork.

It was a technique learned at the pawnshop.

Again, I pick safes well, pick doors well, and pick bottle caps very well.

This red wine or so, I can pick it in one go even without a wine opener!

“······!”

This time, not only applause but even whistles were blown.

The Taeseong Group security guards were already looking at me like a cute animal.

This kind of gaze is awkward. Because I’m not adapting at all.

I decided to casually change the topic.

“I can also pick handcuffs. Shall I pick those too?”

“······.”

Why are you looking more and more like watching a strange animal.

As expected, when a drinking party starts, it’s proper for children to step aside.

I politely did a navel bow.

“Thank you so much for protecting our Mom and me. Thank you.”

The Taeseong Group security guards smiled brightly.

“What. We just did what we should do.”

“It’s really fortunate that the young master wasn’t hurt.”

“Young Master, you shouldn’t keep coming out here when it’s cold. You’ll catch a cold.”

“I’ll peel one roasted sweet potato for you. I’ll also pick a moderately well-cooked roasted potato and give it to you.”

Uncle Cheol-gu walked over swaggering with a greatly refreshed expression.

“I came embracing a dream. I came~♬ Move aside all sadness and pain~♬”

Somehow it seemed like a ten-year-old indigestion had gone down.

The death countdown that had been sparkling above Uncle Cheol-gu’s head also disappeared.

‘Did Uncle Cheol-gu almost die because of those bastards for real?’

These damned guys!

Honestly, if it was up to my heart, I want to throw those bastards into the back mountain and abandon them.

Since they were thoroughly beaten and even hit with cold water, they won’t be able to avoid freezing to death.

But this isn’t the back-alley world either, and there are many watching eyes.

“Ooooh! I was hungry anyway! Roasted sweet potato! Roasted potato! But no roasted chestnuts?”

The person who ate enormously like a possessed beggar for dinner earlier, and even finished a whole bag of fried hardtack!

I whispered softly into Uncle Cheol-gu’s ear.

“Uncle, how should we handle those bastards?”

“Umm!”

“Don’t even dream of letting those bastards who charged in carrying guns sleep at our house.”

I said while folding my fingers one by one.

“The street, Seoul Station, park bench, police station. Or the back mountain!”

“Ooooh! You’re a genius! As expected, smart! An excellent solution! Uwahaha!”

As expected, Uncle Cheol-gu was also the back mountain!

“As expected, in winter, there’s no place like the police station detention center that throws a blanket so your mouth doesn’t turn! Uwahaha!”

Uncle Cheol-gu put his hands under my armpits and spun me around whoosh whoosh.

“Uwaaat!”

This damned child’s body!

What’s so fun about this!

* * *

Chairman Cha listened to Secretary Kim’s report in the study of his residence.

A very tired complexion was evident.

It was because of the emergency affiliate presidents and executives meeting convened in the afternoon.

Reports continued from each affiliate, and the question and answer time lengthened.

The more it did, Chairman Cha’s voice had also risen.

“Everyone only says there’s no problem with one mouth! There are so many things they say they’ll do, but there’s no one who carefully prepared the aftermath! It only sounds like it’ll somehow work out if we do it roughly?”

That was the reason Chairman Cha was still fuming.

“Why does everyone only say there’s nothing to worry about like parrots! Yet when you ask about performance, they say sorry and have no face!”

The more I thought, the more heated I got.

“These guys aren’t doing the business they’re supposed to properly! Already only watching the mood of who to attach a line to! I’m not dead yet! These damned guys!”

Chairman Cha gulped down the ice water that Secretary Kim brought instead of the hot honey water that his wife brought.

Thud!

“Secretary Kim.”

“Yes.”

“I intend to definitely win this Subway Line 2 construction no matter what.”

“You will.”

“A major construction with an expected bidding price of 180 billion alone! A minimum construction period of 5 years! An important national facility requiring world-class civil engineering technology! The history of South Korea that Seoul citizens will recall every time they commute!”

Thump!

Chairman Cha clenched both fists tightly.

“I want to write that history in Taeseong’s name.”

“Of course it will be so.”

“Since U-gwang distributed bribes without distinguishing high-ranking public officials, media, and politicians, our Taeseong can’t stay still either.”

On Chairman Cha’s desk, there was one document folder written with a black cover.

The title on the cover was <​Report on U-gwang Construction’s Slush Funds>.

Top-secret internal data of the KCIA that the seven-year-old grandson handed over.

“Even if U-gwang distributed bribes, the harvest should be reaped by Taeseong.”

It was a weapon that the young grandson he met for the first time brought calling it a bribe saying please take care of it well.

How can that commendability be fully expressed in words.

So from now on, this grandfather will step up and properly slice!

“Let’s feed those guys listed here one shot each. Secretly, quietly, but eerily. You know well how to threaten, right?”

“Of course. I’ll move without traces and turn the arrow of anger toward U-gwang.”

“Good. Less than a month left until the subway construction bidding. Do you need more personnel reinforcement?”

“No problem. I plan to release back-alley fixers and temporarily hire cleaners.”

“Good. Then what about the Japanese guys that the president of U-gwang Construction called in this time?”

Secretary Kim flashed a cold gaze beyond his silver-framed glasses.

“Since we need to obtain advanced civil engineering technology regarding underground tunnels, I’ll have to meet those guys directly.”