Possessed an Academy Security Guard

38 – 038. Luck and Luck

Good luck and bad luck are relative and organic. Ordinary things that are nothing special can come as good luck or bad luck to someone, and someone’s good luck can cause another person’s bad luck, or vice versa.

There is no such thing as being alone in this world. The world is connected in an organic texture. Events are not independent and every event is under the influence of other events.

For example, the misfortune of Ahn Su-ho, whose luck rank went down because of Ji Ye-won, is not limited to him either. His misfortune can soon become someone’s luck, and on the contrary, it can also cause someone’s misfortune.

So now.

A late night, 10 hours after Ahn Su-ho refused Ji Ye-won’s request, that is, his luck dropped by one level.

Yoo Hyeon-ho, who was captured by Min Chae-ryeong and imprisoned in the underground bunker of the safe house, was staring into the sky endlessly while tied to a restraining chair.

The room he was confined to was not originally designed as a prison facility. However, when it was decided to confine the sniper of the Dawn Team who was aiming for Ji Ye-won here, Min Chaeryeong foresaw the future and carried out extensive renovation work here.

The full body restraint chair and the infrared cameras attached to the ceiling are intimidating Yoo Hyeon-ho. Each camera was equipped with a sentry gun that used armor-piercing bullets for the monster, and it was set to rain hundreds of bullets the moment Yoo Hyun-ho got out of the designated position.

All walls and floors were plastered with shock-absorbing panels, and a trip wire connected to a pile of explosives on the left side of the room was installed in the tightly closed iron door. Only then will the entire room be caught in an explosion the moment you open the door with telekinesis.

This level was in no way inferior to that of most superhuman prisons. As if to prove this, he, a first-class wanted criminal, had been conscious and could not even dare to escape for several hours. No matter how good his telekinesis was, he couldn’t stop the bullets raining from all sides and the explosions filling the room.

However, Yoo Hyeon-ho did not give up. He constantly turned his head and searched for gaps, saying that there must be gaps even in this strict boundary.

If it was a regular prison, experts would have found and blocked such gaps in the evening, but the place where he was imprisoned was not a regular prison.

‘There is no uniformity in the equipment used in the facility. It’s probably not a regular prison facility owned by the state or the academy. It must be a facility that she personally owns, since the only one who has been revealed is the team leader.’

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Looking at the Sentry Gun attached to the ceiling or the finish on the floor, I could see some loose parts here and there. Perhaps it was a hasty renovation of a place that was not originally a prison facility. Yoo Hyeon-ho guessed so.

‘But it seems that there was a passenger.’

Yoo Hyeon-ho could see bloodstains on the floor that hadn’t been erased yet. As he guessed, this room was originally the room where the sniper of the dawn team who attacked Ji Ye-won was locked up. Only Min Chae-ryeong would know where he went after Yoo Hyeon-ho came.

– Woo woo woo woo.

At that moment, a driving sound began to be heard from the tightly closed iron door.

Soon Hyeon-ho Yoo sensed that the owner of the facility had returned. Several locks, including the trip wire, were unlocked, and Min Chaeryeong, carrying a large sports bag, appeared through the open door.

Yoo Hyeon-ho let out a fishy sneer as he looked at the almost man-sized bag to see what was in it.

“I don’t know what it is, but you brought a bari-bari. Could it be an instrument of torture? Why, since I won’t open my mouth at all, are you thinking of forcing me to open it?”

“With that, as long as you kindly cooperate with me.”

“Stop giving up. You won’t be able to get any information from me.”

For an instant, a determined light shone in Yoo Hyeon-ho’s eyes.

“Pain is familiar. Even at this age, I have suffered all sorts of harsh treatment while making enemies in the Dawning Corps. No matter what torture you do, you won’t be able to make me open my mouth.”

“Physical torture is a bad idea in this day and age. Isn’t it a world where mind-reading psychics openly exist? Why bother torture?”

“Clutter. Bluff. How could you bring here one of only three mind-readers in the country?”

Despite being caught missing one of his arms, Yoo Hyeon-ho did not lose his composure throughout. That attitude was quite unexpected, so Min Chaeryeong raised her eyebrows and gestured.

“Have you become senile from old age? In case you forgot, I’m with the National Academy Guard. And of the three mind readers you mentioned, except for one member of the Dawning Corps, the other two belong to the state. It’s easy to get their help if you make a formal request.”

“If I were formally arrested, it would be. But isn’t it?”

“What?”

Yoo Hyeon-ho pointed his chin at the camera and sentry gun hanging from the ceiling.

“Surveillance cameras are a standard used in national facilities, but the linked Sentry Gun is a model used by private security companies. Not even all of them are the same model. Perhaps they were unable to unify because they were in a hurry to find them.”

“… ….”

“Furthermore, the panel finishes are poor in every corner, and even those locking devices installed without standard. If you look around a little, you can easily guess that this is not a regular prison facility. Judging from the fact that I, a Level 1 wanted criminal, was confined in a private facility, it seems that I was never formally arrested. I don’t know what the purpose is, but you probably stole me in the middle. Isn’t it?”

“70 Points.”

Putting the sports bag down on the table, Chaeryeong Min muttered softly.

“It is true that this is not a regular prison facility. It’s true that I stole you away on my own. But it was wrong to expect that I wouldn’t be able to bring a mind reader here. I have a personal connection with a mind reader living abroad.”

“Even in foreign countries, the country thoroughly manages such rare talents. But how do you, the leader of the security forces, mobilize mind readers?”

“What do you think is so strange? Even a group of social misfits has people with mind reading skills.”

At those words, Yoo Hyeon-ho’s expression crumpled. Just now, Min Chae-ryeong dismissed the group she belongs to as a group of social misfits. Those were words he could never pass over as he had lived his entire life for the ideology of the Dawning Corps.

“…… Even if they brought in a mind reader, they wouldn’t be able to get any information out of me.”

“Why?”

“Because the mind reader will kill me with telekinesis the moment I see it.”

“Do you think I will let that happen? I will kill you the moment you do nonsense.”

“It doesn’t matter.”

Yoo Hyeon-ho answered in a cool manner, as if he didn’t care about his own life.

“I am already old enough to live. It’s been a long time since I overcame the fear of death. If it’s for the Dawning, I’m willing to give up this one life.”

“You are very loyal. If you don’t value your life that much, why don’t you kill yourself right now for the organization? Even if your limbs are tied, you can use telekinesis to do it, right?”

“You can throw away as much as you want to throw away, but shouldn’t you use it usefully?”

In spite of Min Chaeryeong’s obvious ridicule, Yoo Hyeon-ho calmly replied back.

“No matter how much it seems to be blocked in all directions, as long as you are alive, the chance of escaping here is not zero. As long as you don’t intend to kill me, I will continue to struggle. I will struggle, but as I said before, I am willing to give up my life for the sake of the organization.”

“If you can bring a mind reader, bring it. The moment he gets into my eyes, he will immediately kill him with telekinesis.”

“I don’t care if you kill me to stop that. Don’t be willing to die If you try to subdue me and read my thoughts without killing me, I will kill myself without hesitation.”

“You think you can’t? If you think so, you are very mistaken. A person who persists in surviving and struggles to change this absurd society, but who is willing to sacrifice even one life for the greater good. Only such a person can rise to the position of an executive in the dawning team. Even if the weight of the beliefs and resolutions held in the heart is different, it is very different from the stupid criminals.”

A fishy derision stood at the corners of Yoo Hyeon-ho’s mouth after his one-day speech. From that resolute yet confident attitude, Min Chae-ryeong intuited that his words were sincere without the slightest bluff.

I had a hunch.

“Puch.”

Min Chaeryeong’s determined sincerity was funny.

“Puhehehe!”

The attitude of the old man looking down on himself as if he had a philosophical view, not even knowing the hand this side had, was ridiculous.

“…… Why are you laughing Do I sound like a joke?”

“No, just.”

Min Chae-ryeong put her hand on top of her sports bag with an amused face.

-Wriggling.

Then, the bag trembled briefly as if convulsed.

At that moment, a look of uneasiness passed across Yoo Hyeon-ho’s face.

“So that’s what you mean, right? I explained it at length, but in the end, it means that if I’m wrong, I’ll die. Is not it?”

Min Chaeryeong smiled. A smile I’ve ever seen. It was the same serpentine smile she had had last night in her woods.

“But what can I do? If you think you can escape from me by dying, then you are very mistaken.”

-Boo Woo-wook.

The zipper of the sports bag opened, revealing the contents inside.

Park Ji-hyun, who had been put in a bag with his limbs cut off, appeared.

“…… Her.”

Yoo Hyeon-ho, seeing the contents, was at a loss for words.

His gaze trembled. A reaction of obvious agitation. The old man’s attitude of always being aloof, saying it’s leisure, is nowhere to be found, and only surprise and bewilderment that can’t be hidden sit on his face.

Park Ji-hyun’s appearance was similar to the one I saw in the forest last night. The only difference is that she has the joints of her limbs that were severed and the wounds on her forehead stitched together.

She looked like she had been cured, but it was just her corpse. Yesterday, Park Ji-hyeon was struck by a dagger thrown by Ahn Su-ho and died on the spot.

I see. You’re trying to unsettle yourself by showing me the corpse of a colleague. Yoo Hyeon-ho guessed so.

“…… Ugh.”

Until a low moan escaped Park Ji-hyun’s mouth.

“…… What is this?”

“Now, open your eyes. Is your colleague in front?”

Min Chaeryeong lifted Park Jihyun’s body. Then, those two eyes that had been closed were weakly opened.

“Ugh, ah?”

Just woke up from sleep and a deeply locked voice leaked out of his mouth.

Yoo Hyeon-ho’s gaze scanned Park Ji-hyeon’s body. Her whole body was only the upper half of her body, with both of her legs cut off, but anyway, she carefully examined her appearance.

Two half-open eyes. Her eyes were endlessly cloudy, but she was looking at herself clearly.

The weakly opened mouth was also weak, but it was certainly breathing out warm breath.

Her shoulders rose and fell lightly with her breathing, as if to signal that she was alive, and her exposed skin was clearly red.

Yoo Hyeon-ho recognized at once what those elements meant. He noticed, but taking it easy was another matter.

“I can’t. Must have died But how…….”

In a world where all sorts of psychic powers prevail, there is no way to bring the dead back to life. That was common sense he knew.

“I told you. Even death won’t be able to run away from me.”

However, Min Chaeryeong denied that common sense.

“There are many talented subordinates under me. The odds of success are low, but a freshly dead corpse can be revived somehow. In the process, if you do a little ‘work’, you can make a puppet that obeys my words. In this case, the brain damage was so severe that he became an idiot, but the resuscitation was successful, so restoring brain function is no task. So… ….”

Min Chaeryeong’s gaze scanned Yoo Hyeon-ho. Like a snake’s tongue detecting its prey.

“Even if you turn your brain into mush with telekinesis, it’s useless. You know what I mean?”

“This can’t be… ….”

“It’s possible and you’ve been successful like this, so do you still doubt it?”

She was Min Chae-ryeong who spoke confidently, but in fact, Park Ji-hyun’s resuscitation this time was a risky gamble even for her.

Originally, the resuscitation itself is quite impossible. Limited to freshly dead corpses, the probability of success is at most less than 10%, assuming that the upper body of the corpse is intact. Even in the case of Park Ji-hyun, other damages including brain damage were serious, so the probability of success was only 2%.

‘I was really lucky.’

Park Ji-hyun’s resuscitation was successful because she was lucky. But is that luck really her own luck?

As I said before, the world is connected in an organic way. Events are not independent, and every event is under the influence of other events to a greater or lesser extent.

On this day, the influence of the lucky rank that fell because of Ji Ye-won was directed not to Ahn Su-ho but to Min Chae-ryeong. Instead of direct misfortune befalling him, she indirectly caused misfortune to Ahn Su-ho by unexpected luck acting on Min Chae-ryeong.

An incident in which Park Ji-hyun’s resuscitation was successful. It served as luck to Min Chae-ryeong and misfortune to Ahn Su-ho.

Although it was an incomplete resuscitation, it was not that there was no way to treat brain function as long as he survived anyway. If she can restore normal brain function, she too will be a great source of information and long-term horse for Min Chae-ryeong. That’s why she was lucky for Min Chae-ryeong.

Meanwhile, since Park Ji-hyun is revived, the uncomfortable truth of this world that she tried to hide by killing her Ahn Su-ho is likely to rise to the surface again. It was never a high possibility, but it was unfortunate enough for Ahn Su-ho that the possibility that he had definitely reduced to 0 with Murder and Extermination had reappeared.

As such, the world’s affairs are connected in an organic way, and on this day, Ahn Su-ho’s misfortune turned around and turned to Min Chae-ryeong’s luck, and then to his own misfortune.

Then, how will that good fortune and bad luck come to Yoo Hyeon-ho, the third person?

“Now, you understand? That there is no way to escape.”

Watching Min Chae-ryeong lift the body of Park Ji-hyeon, who had lost her senses, Yoo Hyeon-ho felt her eyes go dark.

If it’s torture, you can endure it.

Even if you bring in a mind-reader, your mind may not be read if you hit the ball.

Even so, if that didn’t work, if there really was no way, he was even prepared to end his own life.

However, even death was not an obstacle to the woman in front of him. I tried hard to deny it, but the presence of Park Ji-hyun, who was brought back to life, reminded me of the cold reality.

“So don’t be tired of each other, and cooperate with me. Huh? Please.”

It was just a request in words, but it was no different from a threat. Yoo Hyeon-ho’s eyes, which had lost their resolve from a while ago, were stained with a muddy look. Soon, he lowered his head helplessly.

How will Ahn Su-ho’s bad luck and Min Chae-ryeong’s luck come to him?

Actually, it was a non-discussion issue.

By the time Min Chae-ryeong caught him, his luck was already running out.

“I hope you think carefully.”

Min Chae-ryeong’s soft voice resonated low in her room.

***

A week later.

I’ll give you a chance to make up for my last mistake. At the call of Min Chaeryeong, who put those words first, Ahn Soo-ho headed to the team leader’s office alone in the late afternoon when everyone else had left work.

Make up for the mistake of killing Park Ji-hyun.

Ahn Su-ho roughly guessed what Min Chaeryeong would ask for as compensation. What Min Chae-ryeong lost with the death of Park Ji-hyeon was her informant of the Dawning Corps, and he himself was appointed by her in anticipation of the role of her informant.

Ahn Soo-ho slowly brushed away his tense chest.

Thanks to his knowledge of the original work, he had various information in his hands that the general public could never know, but there was no way to know the contents that did not appear in the original work. If Min Chae-ryeong asks him to act as her informant for a part that does not appear in the original work, she will be quite sweaty.

However, I did not regret my previous choice. Park Ji-hyun, at any cost, he had to be killed on the spot. That thought hadn’t changed until two days later.

“I will go in.”

When he finally entered the team leader’s office, Chaeryeong Min was waiting for him in a dim office with the sunset behind him.

‘Why is it called every evening?’

It was around the same time in the evening when the succubus case was called. Even then, Min Chaeryeong was waiting for him in the office with the lights off.

Anyway, why doesn’t the light turn on even though it’s dark? Is it simply a good sunset, or is it Min Chaeryeong’s way of directing the atmosphere?

While thinking nonsensical thoughts, Min Chaeryeong opened her mouth.

“Ahn Soo-ho. Obviously it was for me For the last mistake, I will definitely make up for it in any way I want.”

“Yes. I must have said that.”

“I hope you meant it. This job is pretty tricky.”

Ahn Suho swallowed his dry saliva. It was clear that Min Chae-ryeong’s words would be difficult enough to come out of her mouth.

What exactly is Min Chaeryeong trying to make herself do? A thousand possibilities flashed through Ahn Su-ho’s mind. Some seemed like I could do it, and some I just couldn’t figure out how to do.

A tense moment. Min Chae-ryeong, who was rummaging through the documents, opened her mouth.

“This incident is related to a freshman who entered this year.”

Ahn Suho’s head rotated rapidly. Are you trying to dig into the back of any freshman? Or an interpersonal security mission? Maybe it’s because she noticed a spy from the Dawning who infiltrated as a freshman. Obviously, in the original work, there were two or three spies with the status of a freshman, Ahn Su-ho thought so.

“That freshman class was one and a half. He is in the same class as Taehyung Ryu.”

At that, his nerves were sharpened. Class 1, which Ryu Tae-hyun belongs to, was the class that was dealt with the most in the original work. A place that becomes the center of all sorts of events, including not only the heroine but also the heroine’s rivals and some villains to face later.

If it is related to that first minute and a half, it must be related to the original work. Watching Min Chae-ryeong sigh with a strange expression, Ahn Su-ho clenched her fists.

“Anyway, there was a freshman named Kang Ha-neul in that first class? But he said he submitted these documents to the administrative office yesterday?”

Min Chaeryeong handed over a document to Ahn Suho.

It was a letter of resignation.

“…… Letter of resignation?”

“Yes. On the first day of the semester, the professor in charge filed a case saying that he was missing, but he showed up yesterday and said he would drop out?”

At those words, Ahn Soo-ho’s head was stained with confusion.

The dropping out of the 1st class was something that was not in the original story.

The case received by the professor in charge Min Chaeryeong said. Come to think of it, on the day he heard about the succubus incident, Do So-young visited the special task force and administrative office, he recalled the old memory. It was also something that did not exist in the original story.

And most of all, the student’s name is Kang Ha-neul.

‘It must have been a minor role that was broken and blacked out after being beaten by midwinter?’

Why would such a student suddenly apply for withdrawal? I had a question like that, but there was a question that had to be solved first.

“I-I understand that this student is about to drop out. But why do you do this to me-”

“Stop it.”

“Yes?”

“Stop Kang Ha-neul dropping out. Whatever the means, be sure to block it. If you succeed, I’ll turn a blind eye to the ‘mistake’ you made last time.”

“…… Yes?”

Ahn Su-ho’s expression froze at the completely unexpected request.

“Why? Are you doing anything?”

Or not, Min Chaeryeong just smiled mischievously.