52 Episode 52 - Gwangmyeong City, Part II (2/2)
Kim Tae-hoon.
He appeared.
4.
Kim Tae-hoon knew the psychology of a criminal group better than anyone else.
They were like cockroaches.
When an individual is threatened, the threatened individual heads to the hideout and begins a plot to survive. Therefore, it was not very effective to deal with what you first see when you clean up a criminal group.
Kim also knew what he had to do to get what he wanted from criminals.
”Answer the question.”
”Go nuts, you son of a bitch, just kill me!”
Ptui! Lee, who was holding both arms high above him, not one arm, spat at Kim Tae-hoon before him defiantly. The spit touched Kim's cheek.
Kim wiped the spit lightly. After wiping the spit, he closed his mouth tightly. Then he also spat on Lee Ji-seop. Ptui!
However, what Kim spat was different from Lee's spit. It was not saliva, but a small fireball. So the fire that Kim spat stuck to Lee's cheek.
”Aaaaaaargh!”
The pain of his skin melting through drew a huge scream from Lee's mouth, and shook the teachers' room. The fire did not go out. It was gradually expanding its area by nibbling away Lee's skin.
”Aaargh, Aaaaaaargh! Aaaaaaargh!” At this burning pain, Lee's bloody poisonous eyes filled with fear quickly.
The fire extinguisher Kim brought from the corner of the teachers' room saved Lee. The extinguishing powder coated Lee's face.
”Koff, koff-” Lee gasped in the extinguishing powder. Kim stood in front of Lee with the fire extinguisher.
”Forty-seven. It is the number of your men who were deployed here, and the number I removed.”
Lee laughed at the remark.
”Don't talk rubbish, just kill me, if you don't want to get spit on again.”
Ptui! At that moment, Kim once again spat at Lee. The saliva touched Lee's eyelids, which were stained with the extinguishing powder.
”Aaaaaaargh!” In this sudden situation, Lee recalled the pain he had suffered a moment ago, and now he was screaming, imagining his eyes burning.
But there was no pain. Kim's spit was normal saliva.
”If you don't want to get spit on again, keep in mind what I say. When I ask a question, if I don't get an answer in three seconds, if you roll your eyes for three seconds, or if your answer is different for the same question, I'll spit on your eyes.”
Lee could no longer muster any malice in his words.
He, who had a keen intuition, knew that Kim would not let him live; the man in front of him had no intention of sparing him.
And he realized why Kim had mentioned the number of his men. Forty-seven.
Some of them were guards who monitored the basement. They were guarding the place where the bodies of Lee had dumped after playing with them were collected. Of course, he'd seen the bodies there.
”What happened in Gwangmyeong City three days ago?”
”Nothing-”
So at this moment, Lee adjusted himself to this situation.
”I'm sure something happened in Gwangmyeong City three days ago.”
”Nothing really happened. It was rather quiet. I couldn't see the monsters either!”
”So what happened about fifteen days ago?”
”That's-” Lee looked as if he had been stabbed.
On the other hand, Kim counted calmly. ”One, two-”
”Special forces. Special forces entered Gwangmyeongsageori Station. That's all I know.”
”Time? Day or night?”
”Night, late night…”
”How many?”
”I don't know, but I think there were more than ten people-”
”What happened after that?”
”Monsters suddenly began to move, and the monsters have been greatly reduced in town-”
At that moment, a revolver slowly began to float into the air, owned by a member of the Messiah who now had a hole in his head. Lee Ji-seop had started using his own Telekinesis.
'You're dead.'
That's why he complied with the attitude.
Now he knew that Kim would not spare him, and he had to kill Kim to live. Of course, the moment he grabbed the gun and pointed it at Kim, he tried to pull the trigger without hesitation.
Ptui! However, Kim's saliva reached Lee's left eye more quickly than the bullet did.
And this time, the saliva had color. The fire which the Flame-spewing Crocodile had vomited began to boil Lee's left eye.
”Aaaaaaargh!”
Lee screamed in a panic as the world turned black with his left eye burning. Of course, the revolver he was trying to use with his Telekinesis fell to the floor.
Kim spoke to Lee without spraying the fire extinguisher this time. ”I'm not going to let you live, as you've noticed. But I don't even think I'll kill you nicely. So from now on, all you have to do is beg me to kill you nicely. I don't have to explain what I'm saying because you're quick-witted.”
”Aaaaaaargh!”
”Then let me continue with the questions.”
Kim was a man who understood the psychology of criminals better than anyone else.
5.
Late night.
Kim was looking at exit No. 4 of Gwangmyeongsageori Station.
'Special forces entered Gwangmyeongsageori Station.'
The information he'd obtained was pretty good.
'That's why the green-grade monster near Cheolsan Station suddenly came towards Gwangmyeongsageori Station.'
It was a very good piece of information that organized the information in his mind.
'If they come to Gwangmyeongsageori Station from Cheolsan Station, they would end up in Bucheon. In the process, the monsters below yellow-grade were naturally pushed toward Bucheon.'
Of course, the information did not clear all his doubts.
'The purpose of the special forces is unknown. It was not a rescue team. A rescue team has no reason to act like that.'
Therefore, Kim had to guess again.
'Their purpose was to hunt monsters. What they entered Gwangmyeongsageori Station without hesitation meant that they knew there was a green-grade monster inside in it. Of course, there was a weapon to kill the green-grade monster.'
Special forces came to Gwangmyeong City, and they entered Gwangmyeongsageori Station to kill a green-grade monster. The green-grade monster disappeared from the detection of the Daedongyeojido three days ago.
'More than ten days.'
It was unlikely that they would have fought in a subway station for more than ten days.
Common sense suggested that it was highly likely that they failed. The green-grade monster was alive up to three days ago.
In Kim's view, they could not kill a green-grade monster with just a relic. They should have included at least four to five hunters, who had the same level of power of Kim. No matter how powerful a weapon was, it was no use by itself. When there was a man who could handle it, it would be a real weapon.
'This is the hunting.'
Here, Kim focused on that it was not just a battle, but a hunt.
'Even if the green-grade monster had killed all the special forces entered, it could have been fatally wounded.'
Usually, the battle was divided between the winner and the loser, but the hunting sometimes doesn't finish between the winner and the loser.
'If the fatal injury got worse, the prey that ate the hunters would die of the fatal injury in the process.'
At that moment, after thinking about it, Kim entered Gwangmyeongsageori Station.