Possessed an Academy Security Guard

73 – 073. Win-win relationships

“Let me be direct.”

It’s cold. At that one word, Min Chaeryeong’s gaze becomes a cold dagger and flies into it. Her heart beats like crazy A thick cold sweat runs down her softly clenched hands. However, her expression is calm, and she pretends to be calm so as not to reveal the agitation and tension on this side.

I pretended to be calm and did not back down despite the pressure that squeezed my entire body. I couldn’t back down. There was no reason to back down.

After she took a deep breath to clear her voice, I spoke to her.

“I would like you to cancel the mission given to Ji Ye-won.”

“Don’t like it? Why me?”

An immediate answer. Min Chaeryeong’s sharp gaze scanned me. Her eyes were slit like a snake preying on her prey.

“That mission is between me and Yewon Ji. Do you know That he became my subordinate in return for my release.”

“I know that. But looking at what the team leader ordered her to do, it seems that she doesn’t have to be Ji Ye-won.”

“Are you dissatisfied with my judgment?”

“Yes. There can be no way.”

“Ha.”

-Agjak.

Min Chae-ryeong’s chocolate pieces crumbled between her pale pink lips. She chewed it right in front of me. She said that when stress builds up, she relieves it with sweets. So maybe her just asking a question gave her stress on her?

Maybe that’s what it means. Guessing that, she said with a snort of her own.

“Yes. Aside from being cocky, let’s see where you listen. What is our Ahn Su-ho so dissatisfied with?”

“What do you bother to ask when you know everything?”

“What… ?”

Min Chaeryeong’s expression crumpled. An unmistakably palpable liveliness creeps up behind her back.

‘…… No, now is the time to come out strong.’

She was frightened by that death for a moment, but she immediately shook her head. Even if she showed her now, she would only look down on her. At this moment, I must never look down on her.

“Isn’t that right? Do you really need to entrust Ji Ye-Won to work when you have a lot of subordinates? Besides, the surveillance of director Na Ju-yong, who is related to Kang Ha-neul? There is no need for Ji Ye-won to be involved in the mission. However, it is too commonplace to dismiss it as a coincidence. Wouldn’t that be obvious?”

I quietly revealed the emotions I had been hiding.

“I will test my reaction by putting Ji Ye-won in danger. Isn’t that what you mean?”

That emotion was anger. I put an expression of outright anger on my face. It was never smoke. In fact, I was genuinely angry at her decision and the fact that she put Ji Ye-won in danger.

I don’t know, but I wonder if I’ve built up a lot of affection for Ji Ye-won. Or maybe it was just a one-night stand that created a bond that was not there.

In my heart as I glared at Min Chaeryeong and asked that question, an anger that was burning softly like an afterglow was rising up before I knew it.

“Did you mean to test your reaction? Well?”

And at my anger, Min Chaeryeong smiled proudly.

“I never intended to do that, but if that was the intention, the operation would have been a success?”

– Kkaduk!

My teeth were grinding at that blatant ridicule. However, he tries to capture her heart. Min Chaeryeong’s intentions were as expected. If so, there must be room for trade.

I said, calming my boiling anger.

“…… My request is as I said before. Please cancel the mission given to Ji Ye-Won. I don’t want Ji Ye-won to be put in unnecessary danger.”

“Why should I?”

“Because it would be a mutually beneficial decision.”

“To ‘each other’?”

At those words, Min Chaeryeong furrowed her eyebrows. It’s like asking what’s good for you, aside from what’s good for you.

“Team manager. To be honest, do the two of us really need to be at odds like this?”

I quietly show my card to Min Chaeryeong.

“Since the last incident, we’ve only been keeping an eye on each other, so there’s no need for us to do this among ourselves. The head of the team is a good boss. I am a competent subordinate. A win-win relationship where they moderately turn a blind eye to each other’s secrets and just help and help each other. Isn’t that kind of relationship enough? Why do we need to growl at each other?”

It was an offer of truce rather than a deal. Don’t touch me either, because I won’t tease you from this side. It was, so to speak, a mutually inviolable proposition.

“… ….”

Min Chaeryeong also stared at me with a surprising expression, probably not expecting me to say so openly.

“…… Do you really think he is precious to you?”

“So. It is a story that we should stop talking about things like that.”

“Yes. I see what you mean. But why should I?”

“Well, let’s not scratch each other and make a boil-“

“In the past, I would have done as you said.”

“Yes?”

Would you have done that in the past?

I couldn’t understand the words for a moment, so when I asked again, Min Chaeryeong added in a soft voice.

“Do you remember what I said before? You said you had the confidence to control and control yourself no matter what identity you were hiding.”

Of course I remembered. I nodded my head softly, and Min Chaeryeong smiled softly.

“I thought so not too long ago. So even if you look a little suspicious, I just thought you would. I was thinking of letting it loose when I loosen it, tightening it moderately when I tighten it, and making it slowly succumb to me. However… ….”

Not anymore.

Min Chaeryeong’s eyes were shining more sharply than ever.

“At first, when you asked me for information about Ji Ye-won, I just thought that a member with excellent intelligence came in. Judging by the fact that he asked for information about the Dawning Corps, it seems that he has connections within the Dawning Corps. Then i can use it That’s why I was trying to keep it by my side.”

“I thought we made a deal in our own way… ….”

“Yes. It was a deal. I am also satisfied with the transaction itself. In fact, I got a lot of benefit from the information Ji Ye-won asked.”

Inside information from international terrorist organizations. Even simply thinking about it, it was valuable enough information, but Min Chaeryeong had the ability and connections to utilize that information 200% and 300%. The transaction must have been satisfactory to Min Chaeryeong.

“…… Were you dissatisfied with the deal?”

“No. The transaction itself was satisfactory. If there was a problem, you were the problem.”

“You mean me?”

“Yes. I just thought he was a kid with some useful intelligence, but when I kept him by his side, it wasn’t that much?”

Ji Ye-won stretched out her slender fingers one by one and traced my past.

“I thought I was simply asking for information about the traitor within the Dawn, but it turned out that it was information that was heading towards their core project.”

“Obviously, on paper, he is only an E-class superman, but in a short period of time, he has become strong enough to be used in the Special Investigation Division, and after returning, he fights with the officers of the Dawning Corps on equal terms.”

“Where is that? Not only did he seduce me into the deep shadow of a multi-skill study that even the president of this country doesn’t know about, he cheekily investigated my background and even tried to catch my weaknesses.”

“Even this time, even the S-class guild was defeated, confronting the owner monster of the double dungeon head-on and surviving…….”

“Just a useful subordinate with a lot of secrets…… Even if your actions are extraordinary, they must be extraordinary. So, in order to prepare myself, I did some background research on you.”

It was as expected. Because of Min Chaeryeong’s personality, I couldn’t possibly think of not prying after me.

“By the way, nothing came out?”

“… ….”

And this too was to be expected.

Ahn Suho is a character that the Heavenly Demon of Pleasure hastily created for my possession. If I dig behind me, where even basic human relationships are almost non-existent, let alone her background, what can she, at most, the character in her novel, find out?

‘In this world, Ahn Su-ho is just an ordinary E-class superman. Unless Chaeryeong Min shaves my hair, it is impossible for her to understand who I am.’

“So what can I do? If nothing about you comes out, you should dig around. Is not it?”

And that was the reason Min Chaeryeong touched Ji Yewon this time.

As I said before, Ahn Su-ho’s personal relationships are nil. He was, at most, a parent on a business trip abroad, but he was just an ordinary person who literally had nothing suspicious about him. Therefore, she touched Ji Ye-won in order to dig into the source of Ahn Su-ho’s secret, which did not exist. Originally, I approached Min Chae-ryeong to save Ji Ye-won.

‘Even so, there is no way that Min Chaeryeong will find out my secret. Even so, it must be strange that there is no reaction.’

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Looking at Min Chaeryeong, I made an expression of blatant displeasure.

“…… I’m sure I told you last time. If the team leader shows trust in me, I will also respond with trust. Is this the answer?”

“Yes. That’s the answer.”

It was an immediate answer. Chae-ryeong, holding her chin with one arm, lightly bit her chocolate.

“Answer trust with trust. It’s a nice word, but I’m the kind of person who can’t stand anxiety. I wanted to somehow capture your weakness. If anything, surrender and obedience are better than trust. Is not it?”

“Are you saying Yewon Ji is my weakness?”

“At least to you, he must be quite important. So maybe you came to see me from the wind in the morning? How is it, didn’t you point it out correctly?”

“No. You got it right wrong.”

‘From here.’

As I made eye contact with Min Chaeryeong, I sighed openly.

As if it was regrettable.

As if feeling sorry for him.

As if it was disappointing.

As if it was regrettable.

To make Min Chaeryeong agitate, to be puzzled, not to guess my true intentions. For the acting of this moment, all the senses of the whole body are raised.

“Team manager. Nice try, but misplaced focus.”

“…… What do you mean?”

When she said that in a cold voice, Min Chae-ryeong narrowed her eyes and asked again.

“Ji Ye-won. Yes, Yewon Ji is an important person to me. But I can’t be my weakness. If it’s to keep my secret, I can throw it away as much as I want. Perhaps her team leader intended to use her as her blackmailing material, but in order to do that, you should have held something more precious to me as her hostage.”

“… ….”

“Well, even if you wanted to, you probably had no choice. That’s because the team leader didn’t find out anything about me.”

Min Chae-ryeong gnashed her teeth at those words. That’s a good response.

“The team leader was digging behind me. Actually, I knew everything. I knew it, but I just let it go. Because I knew I wouldn’t find out anything anyway. It actually happened. Isn’t it?”

I intentionally hurt Chaeryeong Min’s pride. Considering the past relationship, it is impossible. Even when I tried to upset Min Chae-ryeong, who had nothing to do with her, she was reckless and did nothing but show off her courage.

But now it’s different. As she herself said, her subordinate, her Ansu-ho, was no longer an existence that could be caught off guard.

“The team leader, who couldn’t figure out anything, tried to find out about me through Ji Ye-won, who seemed to be related to me. And as a result…….”

The Ahn Soo-ho now in front of Min Chaeryeong was no longer the weak Ahn Su-ho of the past.

As she said, a person with unidentified strength who had connections within the Dawning Corps, tried to uncover even her weaknesses with excellent intelligence, and survived by fighting Wilhelm.

That is Ahn Soo-ho now, the person she should be wary of.

“As a result, the emotional rift between the team leader and me deepened. The result of this action is the end.”

“…… What do you want to say?”

“I already told you. Let’s go back to the old days.”

“Before?”

“Yes. Previous.”

Min Chaeryeong is a good boss. Ahn Soo-ho as her competent subordinate.

Min Chaeryeong supports An Suho, and Ahn Suho works for Min Chaeryeong. We do not touch each other’s secrets at all. A win-win relationship where you work together for profit. Let’s go back to that old relationship.

“If the team leader doesn’t want to grab me, I won’t try to bite him either.”

“…… Under.”

At that suggestion, Min Chaeryeong snorted as if she was dumbfounded. In the next moment, a life unlike anything she had before surged from her.

“Are you threatening me?”

“It’s not a threat, it’s a negotiation. But it’s nice to hear that it sounds like a threat. But now I see myself as someone who can intimidate the team leader.”

But I don’t care. I try to ignore that death that seems to cut my flesh, and desperately feign composure. Whoever shows weakness first loses. Because this place was like that.

-Agjak!

Min Chaeryeong nervously chewed the chocolate. I thought it was just a show prop to irritate my nerves, but is it really a sweet thing to relieve stress?

– Far away! Adduk!

For a long time, only the sound of chewing chocolate echoed in the team leader’s room.

“Ji Ye-won’s case… ….”

Then she finally opened her mouth.

“…… There are reasons for wanting to try you out, but really, this mission is the right one for him. On days off, I have a troublesome opponent who knows my men through and through. That’s why I wanted to entrust monitoring through an unknown person, but I thought Ji Ye-won was the right person.”

“Originally, since they are not your own subordinates, you can drive them with your limbs, right?”

“You think Ji Ye-won is going on a life-threatening mission, but it’s not that dangerous. It’s not that I’m asking you to infiltrate the inside of the lab, it’s just that I want you to look at Na Joo-yong’s dynamics. He’s still aiming for the river sky, so shouldn’t you keep a watchful eye on him anyway? Is not it?”

“… ….”

As I listened to her in silence, she continued reluctantly.

“…… Anyway, I’m saying that I didn’t give him a mission just for the purpose of trying to make you unconditionally. I won’t do anything dangerous, so can you understand?”

“Is that a command?”

“No, please. Did you? Let’s have a win-win relationship helping and helping each other.”

Min Chaeryeong said sarcastically. But this alone was a great harvest. At least that means she takes my opinion into account.

“I want Ji Ye-won’s safety to be guaranteed as much as possible. If it is difficult to cancel Ji Ye-won’s mission, I would like to at least guarantee her freedom of action.”

“So that you can run away on your own in case of emergency?”

“Exactly.”

“Isn’t that obvious? Even if I risked my life to carry out my mission, wouldn’t he listen to me?”

“You have a microchip implanted in your neck. Can the team leader detonate it arbitrarily?”

“… ….”

“I would like you to remove the microchip of Ji Ye-won before sending her on a mission. If it’s just for location tracking, there are plenty of other ways.”

Excluding Yewon Ji from dangerous missions. Then she removes the bomb planted in her neck. Originally, my purpose was for those two things. Excluding those two, there is no element that directly threatens Ji Ye-won’s life right now.

A look of conflict was evident on Chaeryeong Min’s face at my suggestion. In her mind, by now, she was freeing Ji Ye-won and making enemies with me. You must be calculating which of the two risks is greater.

Actually, even if I was hostile to Min Chaeryeong, I wouldn’t even be able to touch her hair. However, the important thing was Min Chaeryeong’s perception, not my actual ability. If Min Chae-ryeong judges me to be dangerous, this suggestion would be worth considering.

“…… It is impossible to take out a chip once planted. Because I need to prepare myself. Instead, I’ll hand you the detonation switch to remotely detonate the chip until you’re ready. There is only one controller. If I hand it over to you, there is no way for me to explode the chip arbitrarily.”

“Are you sure there is only one switch?”

“Originally, such equipment only makes one switch because of technical problems…… Even so, it wouldn’t be convincing. Can’t I just ask you to believe me?”

“You said that now… ….”

“Are you sure you didn’t? If I show trust, you will also respond with trust. Isn’t now the time to show that trust?”

Min Chaeryeong stopped me when I tried to argue with what kind of pun I was talking about.

“I made the best concession for myself? He said he would remove the chip from his neck and that he would hand over the switch to you during the preparation period. What more do you want?”

Certainly, under the premise that what she said was the truth, she tried to listen to my request as much as possible. The problem is that there is no guarantee that Min Chae-ryeong’s words are true.

‘But even if I tried to argue and ask not to lie anymore, there is no physical evidence. I have no choice but to believe Min Chae-ryeong whether she likes it or not.’

“…… Great. Remove the chip from her neck as soon as you’re ready, and until then, keep the detonator switch with me. I will be satisfied with that.”

Seeing me reluctantly nodding her head, Min Chae-ryeong smiled meaningfully. That attitude was very intrusive, but I guess I’ll have to be satisfied with the fact that I’ve made this much profit against Min Chaeryeong.

“Since I made this concession first, don’t do anything unnecessary. You know that it’s not because I can’t step on you, right?”

“Of course I know.”

If Min Chae-ryeong really mobilized everything and tried to deal with me, she would be able to deal with it right away. However, considering the risks she would take in that case and the benefits she would gain from cooperating with me, I was only temporarily bowing down to me.

‘…… If my money is revealed, that day will be the day of my ancestral rites.’

Whether it’s to deal with Min Chae-ryeong before her bottom line is revealed, or to really build up a force and power that makes her feel like a threat to her. Whatever it was, I felt like I had to come up with a plan step by step from now on.

“I’ll hand you the switch when I get off work. So the business is over now? When you’re done, go and see your work. There is an assignment assigned for the afternoon, so check it out.”

“Okay. Then, excuse me.”

With those words in mind, I left the team leader’s office.

On this day, for the first time, I gained the upper hand over Min Chaeryeong.

At least, on the surface.