Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
42. Price of achieving a wish (4)
Eungwang Highschool, Silver Light (Eunhwi) Building.
A moment after it was confirmed that the service company under the Namkung Group played a trick against a student in the Eungwang District.
Hwang-ho, who was mechanically doing the work in the appearance of chairman Hwang Myeong-ho, stood up from his seat.
As Hwang-ho stepped on the pure-white marble floor and stood in the center of the chairman’s office, he started to operate his superpower wave.
At that moment.
Knock-knock.
“Chariman-nim, I’m coming in.”
Unlike usual, the secretary didn’t wait for the chairman’s permission and opened the door, coming in.
With the rattle, the door, carved with the tiger pattern, opened.
In the hands of the secretary, who hid the nervousness behind the mask-like expression, a weapon item card was hiding.
“There is no ambush. I dropped by this side, because I’m coming back right now.”
The secretary, who reacted to the sudden flow of superpower wave and Hwang-ho’s movements, relaxed.
It was because she judged a problem would occur if the superpower wave moved so much and Hwang-ho overtaxed himself when outside Korean Peninsula.
After putting the weapon item card in her pocket, the secretary bowed her head.
“Pardon me. It seems there was a problem with the communication system.”
“The return was decided hastily. Don’t worry.”
Hwang-ho finished his words and opened his power.
His hair and eyes were dyed golden and the power currents swirled.
‘He shifted the main-self here…! Is ‘Hwang Jiho’, who left overseas, still outside of the Eungwang District?’
When the secretary made such a judgment, Hwang-ho reciting with the low and thick voice of Hwang Myeong-ho was heard:
“This one is a guardian of Divine Realm. If I put my mind to it, there are no secrets in Eungwang District.”
After he finished those words, the golden circle and pressure spread out, with Hwang-ho in the center.
Paaa…!
The golden particles spread out down on the floor and covered the whole Eungwang District that wasn’t visible.
Divine Realm’s guardian, Hwang-ho.
At the times when his main self was in Eungwang District, it was possible for him to watch the entire Eungwang District’s region through his authority.
The secretary, who saw the scene of Hwang-ho opening his power as a guardian after a long time, watched it with admiration.
“… Hmm.”
Hwang-ho’s forehead crumbled, and then he looked the secretary.
The quick-witted secretary activated the hologram and prepared to organize the commands.
“Please order.”
After Hwang-ho bestowed a few orders to the secretary and she withdrew.
The alter-ego in the form of Hwang Myeong-ho sat down again and started working.
***
Before the countdown ended, the police officers exchanged glances with each other.
The police officers of the police station, who ate the country’s money for dozens of years, were only corrupt, not incompetent or stupid.
Rather, the veterans, who survived the civil complaints and investigations while protecting the beehive for a long time, seemed to have good luck and extraordinary improvisation abilities in emergency situations, such as this one.
Though it was the first time for some crazy girl to invade the police station and beat up the cop cart, they began to quietly respond.
“… Three, where are you moving your eyeballs and hands!?”
Clang!
The girl punched something with the baseball bat, causing it to fly.
A chunk of aluminum stuck in the hand of the police officer, who tried to press the emergency call button, directly connected to the local police patrol unit.
Peuk!
“Ack! Keuk…”
The identity of the aluminum chunk, which dropped and rolled on the floor with the rattling sound, was a crumpled aluminum soda can.
It was surprising that the can was crumpled to this degree, but it was even more shocking that she caused enough damage to the adult man to make him collapse with just light aluminum.
‘She is a Player…!’
‘It’s not an ordinary ability!’
Peuk! Peuuk! Clang!
Majority of the people gauged the girl’s power and completely stopped moving, but the people, who stretched out their hands towards the devices without fear, got the aluminum cans baptism as a bonus.
Claang! Clang!
“Ack!”
“Keuk!”
While the three police officers collapsed and splayed out on the floor, the man who stood close to the emergency call button was kicked out by the girl full of murderous intent and sent out to a distant place.
At the first glance, the girl appeared to behave recklessly without thought, but she moved carefully.
As such, she meticulously watched out for emergency call buttons and devices.
‘No way, did she come here knowing everything?!’
‘… all recording devices in the police station are turned off!’
In the ordinary police stations, there were dozens of recording devices installed, and operating without rest for 24 hours, filming what was going on inside.
But the recording devices on this Gwangli Police Station didn’t film the interior in the real-time.
Usually a fake video of ‘normal work’ was left in the recording devices at the Gwangli Police Station, and at the times when a civil complaint approached, the devices switched to the real-time mode.
That madman somehow raided the Gwangli Police Station, while being ignored by the alarms that rang when a person approached the outside wall around the police station.
In other words, not even one cut of records of this girl’s rampage would remain.
“I said to just take out the fucker who messed in my area before, remember? Do you want to go together? Looks like all pigs[1] are on the same side. Are you that loyal to his dick?”
The police officers got a hint.
The girl was searching for the ‘fucker who messed in my area before’.
It was the senior inspector Kim, the Gwangli Police Station’s captain, who possessed Player’s capabilities.
Senior inspector Kim, who was born a Player and graduated from the police academy, was still young and relieved his stress by taking on dirty jobs like cheating the students.
In the past, there were many cases where one was immediately assigned as a police station captain after graduating the police academy, but nowadays, one would usually do a cycle of patrol work, maintaining social stability and investigations.
The fact that despite that and senior inspector Kim having many nasty corners, he was appointed as a captain of Gwangli Police Station meant that he didn’t have an ordinary backer.
“I’m counting again. Three seconds remain, right? Three, two…”
The girl, who already crashed the hands of many police officers, spoke.
It was impossible for them to request help, to overpower the girl with obvious ability gap between them, but that said, it was also impossible for them to hand over senior inspector Kim who had the highest position among them.
At that moment.
Peuk!
“… Uh?”
The junior police officer, who was raising both of his hands and sweating profusely as if he was at the gunpoint, was thrust forward.
As the junior officer, who lost his balance and almost rolled because someone kicked him from behind, looked back, he saw the senior officer with who he was talking with before the girl came.
He left a clear footprint on the police uniform that the junior officer was wearing.
“It’s that fucker, master-nim.” [2]
When the senior, who kicked the junior officer, spoke like this, the girl stopped the countdown straight away.
“Is that really him?”
The girl pointed at the junior officer, who was holding up both of his hands in an awkward pose just like before, with the nailed baseball bat.
But they only exchanged glances and no one replied.
“I asked if it’s really him!?”
Clang!
When the girl pinned the baseball bat to the ground in a threatening pose, everyone nodded their heads, while mumbling ‘It seems that he was off-duty before, master-nim’, ‘The youngest got out of line… our apologies, master-nim!’.
The face of the junior officer, who suddenly became a scapegoat, turned pale, but he couldn’t rebut and just trembled.
The junior officer, who was at the very bottom of the gangster social hierarchy, could do nothing but fear the unreasonable violence he would soon experience.
The girl, who listened to everyone’s words, raised her baseball bat high.
Peeuk!
“Keeuk!”
The girl moved like lightning and hit the head of the senior officer, who sacrificed the junior officer as a scapegoat.
Foam bubbled in the mouth of the police officer, who sold the subordinate without any fault and let his guard down, and he fainted on the spot.
“Are you trying to go together, because you’re selling drugs somewhere? It already looked like all gangster fuckers were bowing to that fucker, but you’re trying to throw me some clumsy nobody? I asked who made a mess before?!”
No one opened their mouth.
The gaze of the girl, who slowly examined the surrounding, landed on the two Roses of Sharon[3] and the highest ranking senior inspector Kim.
The girl spoke with confidence.
“Ah, you would be the highest ranking fucker, huh?”
When she delivered the statement, which was no different from a death sentence with a robotic voice, senior inspector Kim materialized a superpower gun from the item card.
When senior inspector Kim gathered the superpower wave and was about to fire the gun towards the girl.
“Damn it! Aaack!”
Ting!
Claaang!
Before he could shoot at all, the girl swung her baseball bat towards the superpower gun barrel, and the gun exploded.
As the gun barrel of the superpower gun made from the otherworldly metal bent and crooked like a piece of jeot[4], it seemed that as expected, the baseball bat of the girl was also from the otherworld metal.
“Ack, aaack…!”
Senior inspector Kim, who grasped his bloodied hand, injured in the aftermath of the superpower gun’s explosion, screamed.
“Kill, that, I said kill that bitch!”
The people, who got the hint before, pounced on the girl at senior inspector Kim’s words.
The hierarchy was hierarchy, but it was because each one of them was a bit involved in the nasty events that happened around Eungwang Brilliant Light Children’s Home assumed to be the girl’s area.
There were no people, who didn’t accept entertainment money from the director Choe of the Namkung Group, who was one of the backers.
At the thought that it could turn dangerous if that girl wasn’t eliminated right now, the people moved in desperation.
But.
Peeuk! Waan-jang! Clang!
“Keeuk!”
“Aaack!”
The scene of one-sided violence unfolded.
The people, beaten up by the girl, screamed everywhere.
There were also people who loaded the live ammunition and fired or used tasers, according to the code of conduct to survive or something, but they were overpowered in an instant.
The girl blocked the bullets with the baseball bat she was holding, and even when she was hit squarely by the tasers, she moved unaffected and swung her bat.
The girl swung her baseball bat with the side with the rusty nail at the weak spots of the people, who attempted to attack her in particular.
Majority of them couldn’t even let out a scream and fainted on the spot.
The girl spat out towards the few people, who crawled on the floor, begging for mercy:
“If you fuck around our area in the future, you’re dead.”
The 10 minutes didn’t even pass when the girl, who crushed the police station, dragged her dripping with blood baseball bat and came out.
‘Kiiiek’, a strange sound of friction was heard.
“Uncle-ssi, live a kinder life. Because then you won’t get beaten up.”
In the chaos, the junior officer, who lost the strength in his legs and sunk down, mindlessly nodded his head towards the girl.
The girl, who destroyed everyone in the Gwangli Police Station except for the junior officer, slowly and leisurely disappeared outside.
* * *
Inside the air shuttle heading towards the Eungwang District.
I asked about something I couldn’t confirm on the airport.
“You said ‘It seems that we’re not the only ones moving’, what was that sound?”
“I designated my main self as ‘Hwang Myeong-ho’, who is inside Silver Light (Eunhwi) Building a moment ago. And used the authority of the Divine Realm’s guardian in the Eungwang District.”
The authority of Divine Realm’s guardian?
He spoke without a specific description, but I could recall nothing but one ability Hwang Jiho could use in this situation.
‘Is it that thing he used during April Fool’s Day?!’
April Fool’s Day, when Eun-ho’s descendants were rescued.
Hwang Jiho surrounded by the golden particles, saw everything in the Eungwang District.
As we hadn’t arrived yet in Eungwang District yet, I guess he switched his alter-ego in the Eungwang District to the main-self and activated the ability.
“Are you talking about that ability you used during the April Fool’s Day?”
“Yeah. I discovered something I’m concerned about with that authority.”
Hwang Jiho operated the device and opened a hologram in front of me.
In the hologram was a picture of the child with long, flowing down hair, dyed with well blending gradient of ash pink and cherry pink.
‘This child…’
The girl in the picture was a child I knew.
As in the game, she was an NPC who attended the school with Han Yi, when in the 1st year class 0 there was no one but Han Yi remaining after the 2nd semester, there was no way I could forget her.
‘It seems that in the game her hair was black, though.’
Even so, the name matched the one I knew.
I saw the four letter name written under the photo that didn’t match at all with the bright color hair and looks, ‘Dokgo Miro’[5].
Hwang Jiho spoke with sparkling eyes.
“This student named Dokgo Miro is one of the 1st year class 0’s people who refuse to attend school. And a moment ago she raided one of the police stations in the Eungwang District. As I checked the report of the subordinate who was dispatched around the area, it seems she escaped after safely succeeding in overpowering the police station, eh?”
*~*~*
[1] pigs — in korean derogatory term for cops would be something like ‘fucking birds’. Also, I’m translating the next sentence very loosely, because she seems to be using slang (unless I’m stupid which is probable), so I’m only vaguely understanding what she is saying…
[2] “It’s that fucker, master-nim.” — He uses a formal tone, and the master-nim stands here for the ‘teacher-nim’, which can be also used to politely refer to a stranger. In English it would be equivalent to miss, ma’am, sir. (But I thought it’s much funnier if they call her master-nim).
[3] Roses of Sharon — Hibiscus syriacus, it’s the national flower of Korea and can be found on many official insignia, including the police insignia.
[4] yeot — a type of taffy cookie (hwangwa) made out of starch (from rice, potatoes, corn, etc).
[5] Dokgo Miro — Like all MTL’s readers know well, her name is indeed not very bright. 독 (Dok) means poison, 독고 (dokgo) is a drum that kills anyone who hears it, and colloquially it refers to Buddhism eliminating people’s suffering and evil. Miro means maze or confusion. But her real name, based on hanja, is pretty. Miro would mean ‘beautiful dew (or tears)’.
Translator’s note: Oh, I see. Hwang-ho also said “This one is a guardian of Divine Realm. If I put my mind to it, there are no secrets in Eungwang District.” when using that power before, so it seems to be a spell/password, huh?
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