57 Chapter 56 (1/2)
So Woo-jae looked around.
He was the best spy amongst all of the spies his group had trained. He was also extremely confident in his own abilities.
It was So Woo-jae who had been responsible for leaking out the information about the Academy's field trip.
After confirming that no one was present within the library, he flew in.
*Sususu!*
He moved nimbly, in a way that his footsteps were completely silent. He couldn't be seen as he was perfectly hidden by a tunnel he had made that ran throughout the library.
As it was the end of the working day, the library was completely silent.
He grumbled to himself.
”Damn it! Why did they suddenly bother me that I even have to deal with the library? If they hadn't given me the library to deal with, I could have left a little earlier.”
He headed towards a corner of the library, and plucked a book out.
Unfortunately, at that moment.
*Pok!*
Along with the feeling of abrupt yet severe pain, he had lost consciousness.
”What is this?”
Shim-gu gazed upon So Woo-jae, who collapsed before his feet and clicked his tongue. His eyes were suddenly drawn towards the book So Woo-jae was holding in his hands.
He immediately took the book, and opened it.
The book was entitled 'The Secret Methods of Yin and Yang for Men and Women'. It also had a sign on it, indicating that it was forbidden for students to read.
Shim-gu reflected that the particular corner of the library they were in was a part of the library that was restricted to underage students.
As he opened the book, he saw that the pages were filled with explicit drawings of undressed men and women, connected to one another with their bodies.
Any ordinary adult male would have been glued to the images, but Shim-gu's eyes pierced beyond them.
He had noticed that certain pages of the book were thicker than other pages.
It was a detail so minute that it would have gone unnoticed by most, but Shim-gu was a man who had been at the centre of intelligence warfare for fifty years!
Shim-gu was a master at noticing minute differences, and the thousands of ways that one could convey and receive information were already deeply imbued within his brain.
Shim-gu unhesitatingly picked apart the suspiciously thick page.
*Suk-*
As he had expected, within the page was yet another page.
As Shim-gu read through the page, wrinkles began to form on his forehead.
”What a sight!”
Angry words spewed out of Shim-gu's mouth.
Written on the page was detailed inside information of Hwacheon Academy.
He felt that it was impossible that So Woo-jae, the man that he had temporarily sent to sleep, was a man from Hyeonmugak or Jimilgak.
He could only feel a faint energetic trace from the man, but the faint energy he could feel was that of a swindler.
”What a scumbag, I'll chew on your bones!”
”Er, I-I apologize.”
Shim-gu turned around, as he heard an urgent cry from a man who had just entered the library.
Standing there with a paled face was none other than Shi Gong-bak, the school administrator.
”That, who is that?”
Shim-gu immediately changed his expression upon seeing that the man was Shi Gong-bak.
”I-I'm the school administrator, Shi Gong-bak. My greetings to you, Shim Jangro-nim.”
As he nervously bowed, Shim-gu scratched his cheek.
”You knew who I was?”
”Yes. It was from seeing the birthmarks behind your ear, and the Hidden Qi Stone…”
”So that's why you asked me to meet you?”
Shi Gong-bak immediately nodded his head.
”Your memory is excellent. You noticed that even though I had changed my outer appearance with the Byeonyeongsul technique.”
Shim-gu was one of the few people who was aware of Shi Gong-bak's memorization abilities.
”But why are you so late?”
”I-I apologize! Some work suddenly came up, I-I truly regret making you wait! Please don't eat my bones!”
”Huh? What do you mean?”
Shim-gu responded to Shi Gong-bak's plea.
”Well, I guess you can't do anything about having been busy owing to your position, but still. Do you really think of me as such a merciless person?”
”Sorry?”
”The person whose bones I said I would eat is this bastard here!”
Shim-gu pointed to the unconscious man before his feet.
”This fellow, do you know who he is?”
Shi Gong-bak carefully edged forward, and nodded after looking at the man.
”I know him. He's a man that works in the school canteen.”
”No wonder, I could smell food on him.”
”But why is he here?”
Shim-gu handed the book over to Shi Gong-bak at his question.
”This is what the bastard was holding.”
”...?”
Shi Gong-bak flicked through the book.
Despite his face growing red, he soon noticed that something was amiss about the book. It was the page that Shim-gu had examined.
”Th-this!”
He was taken aback at the information about the Academy written on the page, information that was known to only a select few.
For example…
The secretary of the managerial department, Yu Han-woong, embezzled public funds.
The administrator had already imprisoned that man, and is waiting until the Principal returns so that his punishment can be given.
To avoid damage from scandalous rumours, this happening has been kept secret.
Information of this nature was revealed.
Shi Gong-bak's face had instantly changed, a terrifying expression now adorning it.
”This bastard!”
”Wait a moment.”
Shim-gu immediately pressed one of So Woo-jae's blood vessels, and examined his mouth for poison.
He then slapped his cheek.
*Slap!*
As So Woo-jae regained consciousness, he discovered Shim-gu, staring at him with a vicious energy.
Shim-gu abruptly performed a martial technique on him.
It was a technique that had been improved by Byeok Ae-rin. As Shim-gu had pressed a particular pressure point on his body that would prevent him from speaking, he was unable to even cry out at the unbearable pain he was experiencing.
He had barely experienced the agony for ten seconds, but the pain was truly overwhelming.
The technique was the infamous God of Death Burning Bone technique.
As the name suggested, So Woo-jae felt like he was being burned alive, as though he was receiving personal judgement by the God of Death in hell.
As Shim-gu stopped the technique, So Woo-jae gasped in relief.
Shim-gu looked at him and asked, ”How do you feel? Was the pain bearable?”
”....”
”I won't drag my words out. If you hesitate or make up lies, you will experience what you've just experienced once more.”