Possessed an Academy Security Guard

37 – 037. A Polite Request

My heart was beating wildly. The cause of this fast and rough beating may not be only because she ran all the way to this place. My heart beat like crazy at the pressure on my chest and the tension on my shoulders.

I had no aptitude for throwing swords, but the dagger I threw flew over ten meters and successfully lodged between the succubus woman’s forehead. I was lucky.

The enemy who was pierced between the eyebrows died as it was. No matter how regenerative it may be, it cannot respond to instant death. This too was lucky.

It was a sword thrown with a gaze or a chisel. It could only be said that it was really lucky that it hit the enemy at once and even took his life.

However, that was the only thing that could be resolved with luck.

“What are you doing? Why would you kill an enemy you captured alive?”

Killers. I succeeded in silencing that poor character who realized the truth of this world. All that was left was to somehow persuade Min Chaeryeong, who was glaring at me with a cold expression.

No, persuasion is not the right word. What I was going to do from now on was explanation, not persuasion. That there was no choice but to It was an act of explaining the justification of my actions and asking for her forgiveness.

Swallow the tension into your throat along with dry saliva. Don’t be nervous speak calmly I didn’t do anything wrong There is no such thing as hugging. I kept repeating it like that.

“… The team leader judged that we were in danger.”

“Danger? I?”

I explained to Min Chaeryeong about the enemy’s blood-sucking ability. About her superior suppression ability. However, except for the fact that you can peek into the other person’s memories or thoughts.

At my words, Min Chae-ryeong shook her head as she narrowed her eyes. As if she couldn’t understand it.

“I get what you’re saying, but did you think I would be weak enough to be defeated by an enemy like this?”

“I don’t know. Because I’ve never seen the former team leader fight.”

“…… Is that so?”

Min Chae-ryeong pointed to her fallen old man with her blood flowing all over her body and tried to say something, but she immediately shook her head and smiled.

“Thank you for worrying about me. But I can’t just let go of killing someone on their own. I made it clear. The culprit in this case will use it as an informant like ‘that child’. Do you remember?”

“Yes. I remember.”

“Then why did you arbitrarily kill the criminal?”

“That… ….”

Take care of your expression. He avoided her gaze as if he was embarrassed, and at the same time smiled awkwardly. I created an attitude and atmosphere as if I was also embarrassed by this result.

“This is a mistake. I threw it at her shoulder to get it off her team leader, but she never thought it would stick in her head…….”

“A mistake?”

“Yes. Unfortunately, you don’t seem to be good at throwing swords.”

Actually, I wasn’t good at all combat skills, including throwing swords. Min Chaeryeong, who hired me, must also be well aware of that.

You might be able to suspect that I may have been hiding my skills. However, even so, doubts will cease. There is no way to check my actual skills right now, and even if I do, it doesn’t matter. It was true that the dagger’s hit was a miraculous coincidence.

“It was a mistake. I mean it’s a mistake…….”

No matter what the truth is, Min Chaeryeong will not really think it was a mistake. However, she must also know that there is no way to verify it realistically.

A silence fell between the two of us. Min Chae-ryeong’s gaze, which was looking at me, turned to the old man and then to the body of the woman who had collapsed. Min Chae-ryeong stared at the woman’s corpse for a long time. It’s like she’s weighing something.

Min Chae-ryeong, who was shaking her head by herself, spoke in a rather weak voice.

“I can’t help it if it’s a mistake. However, I will have to take responsibility for my mistake.”

If it’s a mistake, I’ll forgive you, but be sure to take responsibility. Responsibility for a mistake that blew a valuable source of information out of sight.

“…… What should I do?”

“Okay. What do you think we should do?”

“Unfortunately, there are many that come to mind, but it is difficult to judge which answer is the most correct. However, I will definitely make up for my mistakes. The way the team leader wants it most.”

“The way I want?”

At those words, Min Chaeryeong smiled meaningfully. She was obviously what she wanted. Min Chae-ryeong wanted to use that woman as her source of information, so to make up for it, I had to ask her for the corresponding ‘information’.

‘Min Chae-ryeong thinks I have an independent informant inside the Dawning. It’s difficult for her to ask her to reveal the source of the information, but she’s free to ask for useful information. Because I have knowledge of the original work.’

A list of spies from the Dawning Corps who have infiltrated major institutions and information about upcoming terrorism. Min Chae-ryeong had in her hands any amount of information that might appeal to her. Handing over a few of them would be more than enough to make up for this ‘mistake’.

“Okay. Seeing how confident she is, she’ll make a special pass on this ‘mistake’.”

“…… Thank you.”

Oddly, the pronunciation is accented with mistakes. Min Chaeryeong’s gaze turned to the old man, and soon a smile appeared on his lips.

“…… Fortunately The dagger you threw didn’t go through with this old man.”

-Titling!

At that moment, a system message appeared in my field of vision.

—–

[ Quest clear! ]

[ This incident, which was thought to be a case of a succubus, was the work of the dawn team to track Ji Ye-won’s whereabouts! Congratulations! You’ve done an excellent job with your first mission as a task force member! Your superiors will take notice of you, and the comrades you fought with will recognize you as a trustworthy ally! That’s great! ]

[ We provide the following rewards according to clearing the quest. Activate the Rewards tab to claim your reward and see details! ]

1) 3% Increase in expense ratio (current expense ratio 5%)

—–

There are a few places where I’m confused, but is this the end of this quest anyway?

When I thought that, the tension that had been weighing me down all along seemed to ease a little.

***

Underground bunker of the safe house.

I was reading the report of this incident that Min Chaeryeong had brought me while relying on the dim lighting.

This operation, in which Ryu Tae-hyeon was used as bait to bring down the Dawning Group, who was behind the incident, was originally planned to be carried out over several days, raiding the Dawning Group’s hideout one day a day. No one expected that the culprits behind the succubus incident would be caught in one day.

Excluding the members arrested at the hideout that was raided, a total of 17 members of the Ryeojin group were involved in the raid on Ryu Tae-hyeon yesterday.

All 16 of them except Park Ji-hyun, the only one who died, were arrested by the guards alive.

However, 15 people were officially arrested in the report.

One remaining person missing from the report. Hyun-ho Yoo was taken to the underground bunker of the safe house here before being handed over to the guards. He had no fear of finding out about it. Because Yoo Hyeon-ho was subdued by Min Chae-ryeong without any contact with the other members at the scene.

Min Chaeryeong, who delivered the report to me, was now interrogating Yoo Hyeon-ho in the panic room inside the bunker. He wasn’t without anxiety. If Park Ji-hyun told Yoo Hyeon-ho the truth of this world he found out on his own, Min Chae-ryeong might also realize the truth through him.

‘Including the ability to read minds, I’ll have to be especially wary of psychic powers that interfere with the mind in the future.’

I didn’t expect that the characters in the novel would come to realize that this world is a novel in this way.

It deserved it. In web novels, it rarely happens that the character in the novel recognizes that he or she is a character in the novel. In a web novel where moment-to-moment immersion is important, attempting to break the 4th wall is not a very good challenge.

‘If Min Chae-ryeong realized that she was a character, she could never guess how she would react.’

It was a home that made me tired just imagining it. I had no choice but to pray that Park Ji-hyun died before telling the inconvenient truth to those around me.

“…… It is an inconvenient truth.”

Suddenly, the existence of Ji Ye-won came to mind.

Based on the interrogation of Kim Seong-hak, a person presumed to be an executive-level member along with Park Ji-hyeon and Yoo Hyeon-ho, the guards found that Kim Min-ah, mentioned in Ryu Tae-hyeon’s statement, was still alive.

Whether that meant being properly alive, or really literally just being ‘alive’ was unknown, but that wasn’t the point.

‘Do I really have to tell Ji Ye-won about this… ….’

I had to say it morally. Because Kim Min-ah was special to Ji Ye-won. However, if Ji Ye-won ate her heart out after telling the truth prematurely, it was this side that would be in trouble.

If she escapes to save Kim Min-a and she dies at the hands of her Dawning Corps, she will die too.

‘No matter how much I think about it, I don’t feel the need to say it.’

If she was going to get caught out of necessity, it was best for her now to cover up her truth for a while and keep her locked up in this safe house of hers.

Thought so, I went upstairs from the underground bunker to see Ji Ye-won’s face or cheek.

“Whoa. Whoa. Whoa…….”

Ji Ye-won was in the living room on the first floor. Dressed in her gray cotton shirt and dolphin pants, she was holding her handstand with one arm in the middle of her living room, perhaps trying to train herself. No, looking closely, it wasn’t even her arm, it was a finger. Yewon Ji was sweating profusely, keeping her whole body balanced with one of her thumbs.

“Peeing. Piying. Pheeing…….”

Meanwhile, Chae-yeon was sleeping on the sofa next to him. She seemed to be in a fairly deep sleep as she could even hear her snoring, like a balloon being blown out.

Is she aware that she is Ji Ye-won’s watchdog or not?

“Hmm.”

I thought about Ji Ye-won’s safety and water, but I gave up because she seemed to be concentrating on training.

‘Shall we have a cup of coffee?’

I left Ji Ye-won behind and headed to the kitchen.

“…… Uh?”

In my eyes, I saw white papers scattered on the kitchen table. When I checked the contents of the document, I was immediately astonished.

‘This crazy.’

The identity of the document was the report of this case. Just like the one I received from Chaeryeong Min and read in the basement.

In other words, it was not a document that was spread out like this. Because this report also contains information about Kim Min-ah.

‘That bastard at the vegetable banquet… ….’

It was obvious without looking at it. It must have been the work of that champi-like guy at Bonamana Vegetables.

Sending a resentful glance at Chae So-yeon, I quickly organized the paperwork for Ji Ye-won to see.

“That.”

At that moment, a voice came from behind.

When I turned my head, Ji Ye-Won approached and was wiping the sweat from my forehead with the hem of her T-shirt.

“Ahahahaha. Are you done training? I tried to avoid the seat because I thought it would be intrusive, but…….”

“That document.”

“Oh, it’s nothing. It’s an everyday business document. Nothing special-“

“I already saw it. It’s a report on what happened at the academy this time.”

My expression naturally crumpled at those words. Chae-yeon, that thoughtless Champi did the job. To think like that.

However, Ji Ye-won’s words were completely different from what I expected.

“Team leader Min Chaeryeong gave it to me. He told me to read it once.”

“…… Yes?”

An unconscious question. For a moment, I couldn’t understand Ji Ye-won’s words.

“You said it was an incident that the Dawning Corps set up to find me? First of all, since I am related to it, they told me to read it.”

It had to be related. No, rather, Ji Ye-won could be said to be the party to this incident.

However, disclosing that and information about her case to her is another matter. Min Chaeryeong must have known. Telling Ji Ye-won about this incident was never a good choice.

But why? Why did Min Chae-ryeong hand over the information to Ji Ye-won after the report?

She couldn’t hide her embarrassment and Ji Ye-won coldly ridiculed me when she saw me not being able to continue her words.

She said, “I thought she was a dark-hearted woman, but she was surprisingly caring. She is different from anyone who lives anywhere.”

Ji Ye-won’s gaze was stingingly pinned to me.

“…… Are you talking about me?”

“When I came to pack my equipment last night, you already knew everything then, right? That a male student named Ryu Tae-hyeon received a Talisman from Min-ah. But you didn’t even tip me?”

“Because it required security. I couldn’t speak casually.”

“What is security? I’m stuck here, and there’s no way the information will leak out.”

“…… Hearing about Kim Min-ah, I thought that Ye-won might get excited and make the wrong choice.”

“Wrong choice? Why, do you think I would escape without you guys knowing?”

Ji Ye-won smiled. Her mouth was laughing, but her eyes weren’t laughing at all. Her eyes were still cold. She remained cold and she was fixed on me all the time.

“Are you saying I’m crazy? Even if she runs away, she will be caught soon anyway because of the transmitter, and if she is found out by the Dawning guys, she will die right away?”

“… ….”

“But I wanted to. Actually, I want to run out and find Mina right now. If you get caught by the Dawning, your life is in danger? f*ck you yeah She wouldn’t know if she didn’t know Mina’s life and death, because as long as she knew that Mina was alive, she could risk her own life as much as she wanted.”

Ji Ye-won said coldly yet hotly. It’s an oxymoron, but that’s all she could say. The emotions contained in her words were hot, but the eyes that vomited out her emotions were infinitely cold.

“But I didn’t. Do you know why If I run away from here on my own, I will trample on the favor you have shown me. Even though it was a deal based on my information, in the end you guys helped me and saved my life. Especially Ahn Suho, I am especially grateful to you. Because you are the lifesaver who directly saved my life. If I act on my own to pursue my circumstances and then you get into trouble, the aftertaste isn’t very good.”

Are you considering this situation? I thought so for a moment, but immediately shook my head.

Ji Ye-won did not give up. Rather, her words now were closer to her sentence. A sentence formally delivered to me who owed my life.

“So I was going to ask you face to face like this when you come back.”

“I… ….”

“I’m not asking you to find Mina. You just need to get me out of here now. I will pass on all the information I know. I’ll take care of finding Minah. I promise I won’t do you any harm.”

So, please.

The moment she added that, a system message appeared in her field of vision.

—–

[ Green House student Ji Ye-won has asked you for a ‘polite request’! ]

Due to the effect of [, If you refuse this polite request, your Luck Rank will drop by 1 stage for a certain period of time! ]

—–

“…… You may die if you leave this safe house.”

I withheld a direct answer to the system’s penalty notice. However, Yewon Ji did not show any momentum to back down, and she continued to press me even more.

“I told you. They said they were prepared to risk their lives. Because Mina is so precious to me.”

“This is not a question I can answer.”

“I know. But I’m asking you nonetheless. I’m risking my life that you saved, so I really wanted to ask for your permission.”

“What would you do if I gave you permission?”

“I will immediately ask Min Chaeryeong to let me go. If she refuses, then she will force herself to run away.”

“If I object…….”

“You will know that when you go there.”

If I object, I will remain silent in this safe house. I hoped for such an answer, but Ji Ye-won’s will seemed firm.

“Please. Tell me what you think with all your heart, not obvious lip-smacking words.”

-Titling!

—–

[ Green House student Ji Ye-won has repeatedly asked you for a ‘polite request’! ]

Due to the effect of [, If you refuse this polite request, your Luck Rank will drop by 1 stage for a certain period of time! ]

—–

A message that popped up again. Along with a request to turn a blind eye to running away from this place, a polite request not to speak lies.

It would be impossible to delay an answer any longer. If so, it would be right to tell her the truth at least as she said. Because I can’t let my luck rank drop by 2 steps.

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. Soon, her eyes opened again, and she met Ji Ye-won for a moment, then avoided her gaze.

From now on, it was better to say it without eye contact. It would be much more effective to talk while avoiding eye contact than to convey modest emotions with your eyes.

“…… I don’t want to get Yewon out of here.”

“Why?”

“I don’t want Yewon to die.”

I said that while gently avoiding Ji Ye-won’s eyes, with a mocking sadness in her voice. Although the emotions contained in it may have been fabricated, I can confidently say that the meaning contained was sincere without a single lie.

“Why? It’s been a while since we met. Whether I die or not, what does it matter to you…….”

“That… ….”

Because if you die, I die too. To tell the truth, yes, but I can’t reveal the circumstances.

How can it be recognized as sincere, not false, by the system even while hiding the truth? In addition, how can I stimulate her conscience, guilt, and sense of debt? I measured the point with my mouth shut and then spoke weakly.

“It’s been a while since we met, but I think it will be very painful if Yewon dies.”

He said that with a complicated expression. Don’t lie However, I intentionally hide the truth from her, and induce her to have a sense of debt to me as much as possible.

“It would be painful… ….”

“Yes. You will suffer. A lot.”

That must be painful. Because death is painful.

“………… Okay.”

-Titling!

—–

[ You have refused the polite request of ‘Ji Ye-won’, a student at the academy! ]

Due to the effect of [Skill: Academy Guard, your luck rank will drop from C to D for 24 hours! ]

—–

A message popped up at the same time as Yewon Ji answered. At the phrase ‘I was rejected once’, I called for joy in my heart. At least, I somehow managed to avoid the 2 rank drop.

“…… It will be very painful. That’s it.”

With Ji Ye-Won muttering like that with a confused expression in front of her, I was estimating the effect of the lowered Luck Rank rather than counting Ji Ye-Won’s feelings.

I felt a bit disgusted with myself, but it was something I couldn’t help.

‘…… Even if your luck rank drops, the effect won’t come right away. At least Ji Ye-won won’t escape tonight. Ji Ye-won has a sense of debt to me.’

This is a fictional world. No matter how real they looked, everything was essentially nothing more than a lump of text written down by the Heavenly Demon of Pleasure. Nothing could compare to my own comfort and my goal of returning to the original world.

Yes. Anything.

‘If I stimulate that sense of debt well, I think we can keep Ji Ye-won tied up here… ….’

That’s why I was able to feel little remorse for taking advantage of Ji Ye-won’s feelings.

I was able to ignore even the slightest sense of guilt.