Anyway, I remained to the end at the place where Capt. Lim killed Kim who was infused into his body.

“Khuuuuuk!”

After Kim screamed, there was another scream. It was none other than Jihye Suh’s.

However, unlike Kim, who showed a mixture of pain and regrets on his face, she had a smile on her lips. Watching her smile, I could realize how long she had been tormented by Kim.

I also realized how stupid Kim was, who not only neglected her who was more valuable than any other treasure but also made her his chief enemy.

Anyway, I just spent the day like that.

At the small conference room of the Myongjin Shelter.

“If I brief you about Kitaek Yu lastly, the question is how to deceive him, who is North Korea’s second strongest man.”

“Do you think one week of rehearsal is enough to deceive him? As Kim’s close aide, he has been helping his boss for more than ten years.”

I had no choice but to express my doubts about what Director Sok said.

Then Director Sok nodded and said, “Of course, the dominant view of our guys at the Strategy Department was that it’s very hard to do so. So we considered the option of you killing him quietly. However, according to the information we have learned so far, all of Kim’s instructions were carried out by Yu. So much so that the link between Kim and North Korea would completely disappear without Yu.”

“Then any solution?”

“Well, we have to deceive him by all means.”

“Hmm…”

In the end, I had no choice but to frown slightly because what Sok said was that I had to deceive Yu by all means to take possession of North Korea without causing any problem.

“Got it, Director Sok.”

I talked with him almost 30 minutes after that, then left the Myongjin Shelter in the late evening.

Then I moved quickly to the north with Capt. Lim.

2 am.

There were several secret passages known to Yuljung Kim that could take him to North Korea, or more precisely, Pyongyang, its capital city. Since I secured the passages in advance, I had no problem entering the North Korean President’s Jusokgung, or official residence and workplace.

After that, I headed to Kim’s office inside Jusokgung through a secret passage. However, someone was already seated in Kim’s office, where the lights were off.

He was none other than Kitaek Yu.

“Welcome back! You are later than expected.”

Of course, Yu could spit out such words to Capt. Lim who was in the shape of Kim on the outside. But I instantly had a strong feeling that Yu didn’t think the other party was Kim, and I could confirm that my intuition was not wrong when I heard Yu next.

“Well, I like your body. By the way, why don’t you reveal yourself, Juyoung Hong? I guess you must have realized during the past one week that you should not kill me. Am I wrong?”

When he said that, I revealed myself and walked toward him.

Yu was so confident of what he said that I could not hide my identity any more.

Instead, I had no choice but to ask, “How did you know about me?”

“Didn’t Kim tell you that it’s me who designed the whole plan?”

“…”

Having heard Yu, I realized that Kim was Yu’s puppet, after all.

I also realized I just wasted the past seven days, after all.

“First, take a seat. We still have a long night.”

So I sat in the seat right in front of him.

Yu said, “Alright. Since you are the guests here, let me speak first. As you know, everything in North Korea is under my control. That’s why I’m running North Korea without any problem even when my boss Kim has disappeared for more than a week. But what if I disappear this time?”

“…”

Surely North Korea will collapse.

That’s why I could not carry out the simplest and surest way to kill Yu.

As if he also noticed it, Yu continued without any change in his expression.

“Can you take responsibility for the consequences after you kill me? One million or several million people will be exposed to monsters. And some commanders will be willing to attack each other, not monsters, to take over my position. Of course, if you and Myongjin join hands together, you will be able to control the situation. But you know the saying that too much is as bad as too little, right?”

To be honest, there was a lot of discussion within Myeongjin about whether to take over North Korea because there were clearly advantages and disadvantages to it. What’s more, just taking over North Korea would solve the problem once and all.

Somebody needed to manage North Korea, and it might require the Myongjin Guild to invest all their resources to manage the North.

North Korea was so large that it was impossible to compare Myongjin with it, and so many players belonged to the North, too.

However, I decided to give it a try because of the favorable circumstances.

“So what do you want to say?”

I asked him directly because he was just trying to beat around the bush.

Then he replied, “I will take over North Korea. Of course, I have no intention of ignoring the Myongjin Guild and Juyoung Hong. I am hesitant to call it a bonus payment, but I will continue to pay the compensation. If I add one more, I’m not as stupid as Kim. I don’t treat the treasure carelessly, and I don’t treat workaholics recklessly, either.”

“Well, I feel like I was even deceived by you, too.”

“Well, it depends on how you think of me.”

This was a new development that I had never expected.

So I had to think about it for a while, but concluded that I wasn’t in a bad situation.

“Good. I have no problem with that. By the way, I want you to take good care of the workaholics. Of course, I don’t mean you have to treat them like a king. That’s like a dream in this day and age. What I mean is you have to make sure those who live under your jurisdiction can make a decent living as a human being. Got it?’

I said that because at that moment I had no choice but to recall what Jihye Suh said at her last moment.

Yu replied, nodding slightly at me, “Of course, I will do so. I know that I can live like this thanks to their help. Without them North Korea would have collapsed a long time ago. May I ask you a favor instead?”

“What is it?’

“I would like to get help from the guy over there,” he said, pointing to Capt. Lim who was infused into Kim’s body.

“Sure, no problem.”

Since I knew what kind of favor he was going to ask me, I replied in the affirmative right away.

Then I talked with him for a while, then finally exited Jusokgung.

The next day.

Of course, I recorded my conversation with Yu using the Memory Bead.

Then I handed it over to Director Sok, and took my hands off the matter of North Korea.

Why? Because there were a lot of people who could deal with North Korea better than me at the Myungjin Shelter, and I was too busy to pay attention to it.

So I went back to hunting, as usual.