93 – 093. Simultaneous Events (8)

The sharp blade cuts through the flesh.

The moment he realized that, Kang Ha-neul’s consciousness sank far below the surface of the water. There was not even a bird to resist. Suddenly, with her knees bent, her body fell toward the sky of another river.

– Plopped.

The other river, Ha-neul, who took over her body as she collapsed, looked at the mirror silently.

– Boogle. Bugle.

Soon, the face began to bubble as if boiling, and then it turned into an irregular liquid and melted away. She appeared in it as a decadent woman with droopy eyes, completely different from Kang Ha-neul.

Her name is Stephanie.

Stephanie Louis Rodriguez.

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Like Heo Seong-chan and Yu Jin-soo, he was a contractor based in a slum area, and this time he was commissioned by Na Ju-yong to kidnap Kang Ha-neul.

“… ….”

Stephanie leaned against herself and looked up at the drooping river sky. She’s not exactly that, she’s just a moment ago she cut her throat.

No blood flowed from Kang Ha-neul’s neck. Apparently, even though the blade had dug in, the wound was already sealed like closed lips, but if you look closely at the wound, you can see that the transparent medical adhesive has slightly leaked out.

The secret behind the bizarre sight was the knife that Stephanie wielded.

Her special knife that she wielded had two buttons, each of which sprayed highly concentrated anesthetic and medical glue used exclusively for superhumans. Using the special knife, Stephanie decapitated her river sky and at the same time injected anesthetic into her veins and sprayed medical glue to temporarily seal her wounds. The entire process was carried out quickly and accurately in less than 0.1 Second, when the knife touched Kang Ha-neul’s skin.

A miracle that is close to impossible indeed.

But she was a skill that Stephanie had practiced countless times and was a natural basis for success. Because she was able to do such an impossible thing casually, she was able to become a professional contractor for the first time.

Stephanie went straight into her toilet seat, holding her river sky body. Right after she sat the sleeping river sky on the toilet, she took out a radio detector with a long antenna from her bosom and scanned her river sky body from top to bottom. To find a wiretap or transmitter that you don’t know about.

-Girdle. Belt. Belt. Belt.

Stephanie took off the sneakers Kang Ha-neul was wearing at the sound of the alarm that rang right after. There was a slight tear and seal on the sole, but when I cut it open with a knife, a small chip came out. Stephanie knew at once that it was a location tracking transmitter.

‘There is no response except for the shoes. Then, the only thing planted in her body is the one transmitter in her shoe.’

As the saying goes, the only thing Min Chae-ryeong had attached to Kang Ha-neul’s body was the location tracker on her shoes. With that in mind, Stephanie immediately took the next step.

-Slowly.

The sound of clothes dragging echoed in the toilet seat. Stephanie took off all of her own clothes and also took off her river sky clothes. She then put on the clothes of the river sky and she herself then activated her psychic powers once again.

– Boogle.

Stephanie’s whole body went limp like slime and within seconds she assumed the shape of a river sky. However, upon closer inspection, her features and physique were subtly different.

“… ….”

However, unlike before, when she was disguised as a snow mass, in front of Stephanie’s eyes, there was an excellent teaching material to refer to for her disguise. Stephanie looked at every corner of Kang Ha-neul’s body, including her face, and gradually her appearance changed more closely to Kang Ha-neul’s.

So, after enough reference, Stephanie was able to mimic the appearance of her river sky to near-perfection. Even if her parents come, she won’t notice her transformation.

– Smart. Knock. Smart.

At that moment, a knock was heard from beyond the door.

Stephanie turned her head. A situation where two women who look alike are in the toilet seat. Even one of them fainted. If this scene was caught, there would be a lot of confusion.

But Stephanie opened the door casually.

“… ….”

The person on the other side of the door was a woman dressed as a janitor. Of course, she wasn’t the real cleaner. The identity of the woman was ‘K’, Stephanie’s partner. Despite being her partner, Stephanie did not know her woman’s real name. It was commonplace in this industry.

Stephanie said as K, wearing her staff cap, gestured for something.

“You can do it with words. There are no wiretapping devices around here.”

“…… Other than that?”

“One transmitter with only GPS function. It was stuck inside the shoe, so I checked it and put it back. Did you block the entrance well?”

“I just put up a sign while cleaning. I can’t guarantee that no one will come in. So let’s deal with that first.”

At K’s words, Stephanie pulled her naked Kang Ha-neul out of her toilet seat. Then, along with her own clothes, she put her river sky body in a large cleaning cart that K had brought with her.

“Who is the Watcher?”

“No one stood out in particular. At least no one was watching the bathroom entrance. Even that Chaeryeong Min can’t be openly monitored in the academy.”

“Then you’re saying that the means of surveillance is CCTV at most? Nice That’s enough so I don’t have to worry about getting caught.”

“The client wants the kidnapping to go undetected for at least a week. Would that be possible?”

“Ask while knowing. Imitating others is my specialty. I’m confident that I won’t be seen even for a month, not a week.”

Stephanie, who had transformed into a river sky, looked in her mirror and made various expressions. Like she’s just testing her own face.

“…… To fail at such a simple thing. Jinsoo sacrament, they are all retired now.”

Stephanie said sneeringly, thinking of two people in the same industry.

“Unlike us, you specialize in combat. In the first place, the client went to the wrong place.”

“Huh. Isn’t it the basics of this industry to succeed if you receive a request, whether it’s in your field of expertise or not? Even when he’s not good at it, he’s arrogantly trying to make up for something he’s failed at, and he’s hanging out around the client. So it’s like that.”

“That look?”

“What? I guess you haven’t heard yet?”

A fishy sneer appeared on Stephanie’s face. A smile full of malice that Kang Ha-neul would never do.

“The client said so. Heo Seong-chan said that he messed up in front of his workplace so much that he decided to kill him in order to keep his mouth shut.”

He said he looked good without knowing what he was doing, and Stephanie giggled, saying that she knew it would happen someday.

K just watched his partner like that in silence.

***

Ji Ye-won reported to Min Chae-ryeong about the relationship between Kim Seon-woo and Heo Seong-chan. It was an area that was only speculation so far, but there was nothing wrong with being careful.

After hearing her report, Min Chae-ryeong looked more closely at her river sky. But she was already a step behind. Her Kang Ha-neul had already been kidnapped, and she knew that Min Chae-ryeong was her Kang Ha-neul, so it was her Stephanie who transformed into her, not her Kang Ha-neul, who was watching.

But neither Min Chaeryeong nor Ji Yewon noticed that fact. K and Stephanie’s work was so meticulous, and since shapeshifters themselves were rare in the first place, I couldn’t think of the possibility that Kang Ha-neul might have turned into a fake.

Just like that, two days have passed since Kang Ha-neul’s abduction.

In the meantime, Ji Ye-won found a way to break into the security area of the research institute, while monitoring Heo Seong-chan’s every move through the IC chip planted in his smartphone. However, Heo Seong-chan did not escape from the Uijeongbu slum ever since that day.

Just a moment ago.

“He started moving.”

At Ji Ye-won’s words, Min Chae-ryeong over the receiver asked.

-Direction of movement?

“North. It seems that he is heading towards the meeting point he and Kim Seon-woo decided on yesterday. Kim Seon-woo also left the research center a while ago.”

-Are you saying that specific requests are made verbally? If you’re careful, you’re cautious, if you’re reckless, you’re reckless. Usually I don’t want to confront the contractor. I’d be afraid to meet a criminal who would kill people for money.

“Let’s see if you are confident.”

-See what it is. Anyway. Can you catch up with Kim Seon-woo?

“Already being followed.”

As she answered that, Ji Ye-won looked at the entrance to the research center’s parking lot. After a while, a black car with Kim Seon-woo came out onto the road.

-Brureung.

In line with that, Ji Ye-won also started the bike she was riding. Kim Seon-woo’s car started and Ji Ye-won followed suit.

Ji Ye-won’s hair fluttered in all directions in the chilly night wind.

The place Kim Seon-woo headed was the ruins of a shabby church in Yangju-si. Ji Ye-Won, who saw Kim Seon-Woo’s car pulling into the single road leading to the church located halfway up the mountain, stopped the bike.

‘Heo Seong-chan seems to be already waiting inside the church.’

Ji Ye-won, who identified the location through the transmitter planted in his smartphone, climbed the mountain trail with the bike parked nearby.

The purpose of Ji Ye-Won following Kim Seon-Woo here was, without a doubt, to eavesdrop on the conversation between Kim Seon-Woo and Heo Seong-Chan. Heo Seong-chan’s smartphone was implanted with an IC chip equipped with a wiretapping function, but it was used to wiretap calls, so it was not possible to hear the surrounding sounds.

‘At a glance, a dangerous smell emanates…….’

The words Ahn Su-ho said flashed through her mind.

Ahn Su-ho said that at any time, she puts her own safety as her top priority.

Yewon Ji said that she was going to keep the request, but she also thought that if possible, let’s do as much as we can. I don’t know if it was something else, but it was something that Kang Ha-neul was involved in, so I couldn’t pretend I didn’t know.

Because you don’t want Kang Ha-neul to go wrong? Clearly there was a reason for that.

But what made her move more than that was her thought of Ahn Su-ho. It was obvious that if something happened to Kang Ha-neul, Ahn Su-ho would suffer.

That’s why she intended to be as diligent as possible in her current mission within the reach of her abilities.

However.

“…… Uh?”

The next moment, Ji Ye-won had no choice but to stop at the suspicious feeling she felt around the cathedral.

***

Same time. Inside the ruins of the cathedral.

Entering the half-collapsed entrance, Kim Seon-woo found two contractors already waiting inside the church.

Heo Seong-chan. And Yoo Jin-soo.

Earlier, he requested the kidnapping of Kang Ha-neul, but those who failed.

Kim Seon-woo contacted them again for some reason a while ago. As a result, the three faced each other in a shabby cathedral where no one came.

“…… I never thought we would see each other again.”

It was Yu Jin-soo who said that. At his words, Heo Sung-chan nodded his head vigorously.

“The client said he has a new quest for us, but I think it’s probably related to a quest we couldn’t complete before. Am I right?”

“…… You can do that.”

Kim Seon-woo, who answered while looking around unnaturally, scanned the faces of the two.

“…… It looks like the two people I met before are right.”

“Did you think someone else would come to the junction? You know that some other contractors get jobs that way, but we don’t.”

“That’s right. But I needed to be sure.”

After saying that, Kim Seon-woo sneakily looked at the door he entered. Yu Jin-soo, who felt unnatural at that appearance, asked a sneak peek.

“Need to check…… You mean?”

“Yes. I spent a lot of money, but if I see the wrong person, it’s just like wasting money.”

Significant words that make sense but don’t seem to work. The moment Yoo Jin-soo lowered his stance due to the rising anxiety, Heo Seong-chan, who had been silent all this time, spoke in a low voice.

“Hex.”

Heo Seong-chan, who was sitting on the podium, stood up. As he threw off the overcoat he was wearing, thick veins sprouted from the muscles of his arms exposed beneath his sleeveless shirt.

“I think we were fooled properly?”

“Sacrament, what is that-“

“Hey, researcher bro! If you’re going to hire cleaners, you should’ve hired someone with some skills! They can’t even properly hide the life they emit! The nape of my neck was tingling from a while ago!”

“Whoops.”

At those words, Kim Seon-woo let out an exclamation as if he was interested.

“I don’t believe in vague concepts like living, but I guess you have a pretty good sense. I figured it out too.”

-Wow!

As soon as Kim Seon-wu snapped his fingers, sturdy men burst into the church, breaking windows from all sides. They were the cleaners hired by Kim Seon-woo to take care of Heo Seong-chan and Yu Jin-soo.

“That’s too much, really! Killing people just because they failed one request? Why, did you think we would go around bragging about the request you guys did?!”

“I can’t believe that. Uijeongbu contractors are heavy-mouthed. It’s a fact everyone knows.”

“…… Why would someone who knows that even hire a cleaner to kill us?”

“Are you asking because you don’t know that?”

In response to Yoo Jin-soo’s question, Kim Seon-woo pointed to Heo Seong-chan.

“Your partner kept messing around the lab and being annoying. Then, if I get caught by the police for no reason, things become a nuisance.”

“…… Sacrament.”

“Sah, I wanted to apologize, so I said I would meet you, but you didn’t meet me! I am not wrong!”

Heo Seong-chan sighed in anger and shook his head, saying that he knew Jin-soo Yoo would end up like this.

“Sheesh. Aren’t they trying to kill us for such a trivial reason? Why don’t you ask Stephanie the prostitute for the request I failed? I don’t have a favorite spot for everyone!”

“I don’t know what kind of relationship you have with that woman, but unlike you, she is very competent. Because you guys had already succeeded in kidnapping Kang Ha-neul two days ago.”

“If you asked me again, you would have succeeded!?”

“When I say that an empty cart is noisy, that’s what I mean.”

“That son of a b*tch!”

“Sacrament. Don’t get excited. It is deliberately provocative.”

Yoo Jin-soo looked around while calming Heo Seong-chan, who was about to jump out at any moment.

The number of cleaners surrounding the two is 12 in total.

Jinsu Yoo didn’t have the skill to figure out the other person’s capabilities just by looking at them. However, even if they pretended to be well-groomed, it didn’t seem like they were at least the level of bullies in the neighborhood.

A line of cold sweat ran down the forehead of the tense Yu Jin-soo.

“…… Hey. Researcher bro.”

On the other hand, Heo Seong-chan showed no sign of nervousness at all. His two blazing eyes were fixed on Kim Seon-woo, who was smiling straight ahead and relaxed.

“Wait there quietly. I’ll cut all these bastards off and I’ll take care of you too!”

“Will you wait here quietly because I am crazy? Risk it.”

After saying that, Kim Seon-woo turned his body around. Opening the door of the shabby church, he looked back at the two and added sneeringly.

“I’ll be burning a cigarette outside, so let’s fight.”

With those words, Kim Seon-woo left the cathedral. At the same time, twelve shadows attacked Seongchan Heo and Jinsu Yoo.

A shrill roar echoed from the deserted mountainside.

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