Someone calling themselves 'Bride', demanding we return
'Imae'...
Yoon Taehee, who was about to summon an intelligent ghost, froze upon hearing those words come through the radio. "What? Who?" Kim Yekwon asked with a hardened expression. In contrast, Yoon Taehee immediately realized the intruder's identity from just those few words.
No way... they were definitely told to return to headquarters...
Yoon Taehee lowered his head and gripped the armrest tightly.
The plan had gone awry.
His mind raced. If Jaegyeom had come, it would be difficult to summon the intelligent ghost now. Having decided to hide the fact that he was the Byeoksadan
Leader from Jaegyeom, it would be dangerous to demonstrate controlling an intelligent ghost in front of him. Also, from what he overheard on the radio, Jaegyeom was bleeding. He worried Jaegyeom might be injured somewhere, and was concerned about he acting recklessly when he couldn't even use spiritual energy.
Thump, thump, thump…
Meanwhile, his heart started pounding like crazy.
Seeing Yoon Taehee, who had been calm until now, show such an unusual reaction, Kim Yekwon narrowed his eyes as he stared down at him.
"Did you perhaps call for some companions?"
After a moment of silence, Yoon Taehee feigned innocence.
"No, I don't know anything about this."
Kim Yekwon clicked his tongue mockingly.
"If that's the case, this is quite strange."
Kim Yekwon didn't believe Yoon Taehee's words. An intruder had come. Sensing something was amiss, he immediately radioed for security personnel to assemble.
"Ahhh! G-Get away!"
Just then, screams and shouts suddenly erupted from outside, and the hallway became very noisy. As Kim Yekwon turned to look at the doorway with a hardened expression—
Bang!
The door flew open with a loud crash. Kim Yekwon's face froze as he saw the unfamiliar intruder. An unidentified boy covered in blood stood there holding a knife. Blood was gushing from a large wound on his shoulder. It was an incredibly eerie and bizarre sight.
"..."
The moment their eyes met, a chill ran down Kim Yekwon's spine. There was a faint madness in the boy's gaze. The boy's eyes moved past Kim Yekwon to look behind him. At last, he spotted Yoon Taehee tied to the chair.
"Who are you?"
Ignoring Kim Yekwon's question, Jaegyeom stared intently at Yoon Taehee.
Yoon Taehee was sitting in the chair with a disheveled appearance. As soon as Jaegyeom saw the strange thing inserted in his arm and his limbs tied up, he felt his blood boil. He was furious at the tips of his hair.
Yoon Taehee's normally neat clothes were in disarray, and his styled hair was now messy. Upon closer look, his lip was also split.
I'll kill them.
At last, Jaegyeom turned to Kim Yekwon with murderous eyes.
"Wh-What are you all doing?! Hurry up and drag him out!"
Kim Yekwon, who had been frozen in shock at the ghastly sight, finally shouted. The security guards who had belatedly followed him in rushed to grab Jaegyeom.
"Let go, you fucking bastards. Before I kill you all."
Jaegyeom swung his knife at the guards clinging to him and kicked out with spiritual energy-infused feet while holding onto the door frame. Thwack, thwack! The guards who were kicked by the merciless, violent kicks cried out "Ugh!" and fell helplessly.
"Take the knife away first!"
Just then, one guard struck Jaegyeom's hand hard, making him drop the knife. Having lost the knife, Jaegyeom lunged at the guard as if he couldn't care less.
"You... Who do you think you are..."
Jaegyeom grabbed one guard by the collar, slammed him down, and started beating him mercilessly. The guard trembled and flailed his limbs. Looking into those eyes burning with fighting spirit, he seemed inhuman.
"Fuck, who the hell are you... to do that to him.."
If I had beaten him every time he ran his mouth, he would've been in a coffin three times over by now.
"You think I don't know how to hit? I've been holding back all this time, not hitting him. Where do you lowlifes get off... you fucking sons of bitches..."
With each broken sentence, his fist slammed into the guard's face. Jaegyeom punched relentlessly with eyes overflowing with rage, as if venting his anger. The wound on his shoulder where he had stabbed and
pulled out the knife was painful, but bearable.
His whole body was covered in blood by now, and weak spiritual energy had been flowing into his hands for a while. But it was still far from returning to its original state.
He had deliberately stabbed his shoulder with the knife, prepared for a rampage. However, even though he seemed to have lost quite a lot of blood, the paralyzed spiritual energy was recovering much more slowly than expected.
The guard in Jaegyeom's grasp had already lost consciousness. After beating the guard to a pulp, he tossed him aside like a sack.
Jaegyeom looked around with fierce eyes. There had only been three or four guards earlier, but now their numbers had greatly increased as more arrived in response to Kim Yekwon's call. This meant he would have to take down over twenty people to reach Yoon Taehee. He was irritated that these worthless scumbags were blocking his way.
Killing them all wouldn't be enough, but dealing with them one by one would be a waste of time. Moreover, the Yoon Taehee that Jaegyeom saw now looked like he was dying. Of course, Yoon Taehee had only been slapped a few times, but jaegyeom had no way of knowing that, and he grew increasingly anxious.
The guards hesitated, neither daring to approach nor retreat, seemingly afraid of Jaegyeom. At that moment, Jaegyeom reached into his suit jacket with an expressionless face. The guards instinctively sensed danger and stepped back, thinking he might be pulling out another weapon. One brave guard took out a gas gun and shouted:
"D-Drop your weapon and s-step back! This is your final warning!"
Ignoring the guard's warning, Jaegyeom pulled something out of his jacket.
"Wh-What is that..?"
The guards exchanged glances as they identified the object. What Jaegyeom had taken out was not a weapon. It was far too small and cute to be called a
weapon.
"Is that... a slingshot?"
What Jaegyeom held was a slingshot that a child had dropped at the event venue. The guards wore confused expressions at the unexpected item while Jaegyeom aimed the slingshot at the guards. As the guards flinched and stepped back—
He pulled the slingshot taut with his archery skills, aiming at Kim Yekwon.
Whoosh—
Something shot out of the slingshot, cutting through the air at lightning speed. Kim Yekwon instinctively raised both arms to cover his head. The unidentified object hit him precisely near his temple before falling to the ground. It was a direct hit, but perhaps due to the long distance, it didn't seem to hurt much. Kim Yekwon, who had been frozen stiff, picked up the fallen object.
"What is this?"
Kim Yekwon examined the object that had flown at him closely. The round, flat object was small and shone silver. A nearby guard gulped before tilting his head and speaking.
"It looks like... a mercury battery?"
At that moment, Yoon Taehee's eyes, hidden under the cloth, slowly widened.
"Hey, Yoon—!"
Just then, Jaegyeom started to call out to Yoon Taehee in a loud voice, but belatedly caught himself and swallowed his words. If he called out the name, these bastards who he'd tear apart later might come looking to torment him again, so he needed to keep the name hidden as much as possible.
"Hev. you shi— Imae—!"
Jaegyeom shouted again after correcting the form of address.
"It's June 27th today, you shithead—!"
Yoon Taehee jerked his head up with a start. With his vision blocked, he was assessing the situation solely based on the sounds he could hear. Yoon Taehee, who had been stunned at Jaegyeom's shout, soon lowered his head and bit his lip hard.
If you can't come, just shoot—wasn't that what he said before?
Instantly grasping the meaning behind Jaegyeom's words, Yoon Taehee finally couldn't hold back his laughter and chuckled while his shoulders shook. Kim Yekwon asked:
"Why are you suddenly laughing?"
"Right. Actually, that was a lie."
"...What do you mean?"
"That person, I know him."
Yoon Taehee confessed the truth and continued:
"Let me introduce you. An incredibly sexy sniper."
What? As Kim Yekwon slightly furrowed his brow-
"Did you hear? He said it's June 27th today."
"..So what?"
"Don't you know what day it is?"
After chuckling quietly for a while, Yoon Taehee muttered as if sighing.
The 22nd day of the 6th month of the year of Gyemi...
"Yoon Taehee terminates the silver wheel's time limit."
BOOM——!
The mercury battery in Kim Yekwon's hand exploded.
The fluorescent lights and windows shattered all at once as the ceiling collapsed. A massive explosion occurred.
The true identity of the mercury battery was a 'silver battery.
Earlier, it was something Jaegyeom had grabbed from the console box in the sedan.
Remembering how Yoon Taehee had taken radio pins and silver batteries from the console box when they went to retrieve a possessed ring at a party once, jaegyeom came up with an ingenious plan. If he couldn't use spiritual energy right now, why not use spiritual energy that had been collected separately in advance?
Jaegyeom, who had been buried under the building debris, groaned as he staggered to his feet.
"Wh-What is this..."
The surroundings were in complete chaos. When the silver battery exploded, half the building had been blown away. The destructive power was beyond imagination. By coincidence, the silver battery Jaegyeom had picked up was the strongest one among Yoon Taehee's silver batteries, condensed with tremendous spiritual energy and possessing lethal force.
Jaegyeom's face turned pale.