The Foreigner on the Periphery - Chapter 110

After capturing the wizard, Minjun started interrogation in an empty hospital room. Originally, he had planned to read the inner story of Choi Seon-ah first, but the order had been changed. She had been poisoned by a magical substance and passed out, she hadn’t yet woken up, and it seemed that it would take a similar amount of time whether she waited for Yuntus’ power to recover, or for her to come to her senses naturally. 

“Kill me…” Said the wizard in a hoarse voice. The poison in his mouth had been removed. Their face had on a ghastly expression that seemed to have given up everything. As expected, the Happy Bug didn’t work. Something had been done to the individual’s brain. 

Minjun asked. “What are you? Where did you send it?” 

“…” 

“Why did you aim for Choi Seon-ah?” 

“…”

The wizard, who had responded silently to the agent’s question, soon felt something strange. He knew instinctively that Minjun was not afraid to get blood on his hands. The man evidently had too much experience on his belt. Nevertheless, he was interrogating too peacefully. If it were him, he would have cut off a few fingers or pulled out a few teeth before starting. 

However, Minjun was standing still and showed no sign of moving. Furthermore…

‘Why are you still holding that frying pan?’ 

The questions he was being given seemed a little too worrying. Eventually, the wizard could hear it. ‘…Closer!’ 

With this, he immediately noticed a certain possibility. A bunch of useless thoughts then began to fill his mind, all lacking context. From there, logic and improbable delusions abounded. The wizard in that way pushed the important information out of his superficial consciousness. Then, Minjun clicked his tongue.

“One point for this quick bastard.”

 Those who had trained him were aware of rare and threatening abilities such as mind reading. Minjun realized that he had been careless. If he had even pretended to be tortured, he might not have noticed. The agent then asked the frying pan. ‘What do you think? Is it unreasonable in this state?’ 

=Ummm… I’m sorry, agent. This is hard as finding grain in a pool of muddy water. = 

“Carry on?” 

=There are so many miscellaneous things that it is quite difficult to pick out just the information you want.= 

‘Then what would you like to do?’ 

=It would be better to contact the actual source to increase the probability of success by even a little.= 

‘Should I tie it up in my hand?’ 

=Please stay close. The resistance and barriers that protect the mind are thick. It would be great if you could break it down.= 

Mijnjun spoke mentally once more whilst fiddling with his dagger. ‘Will torture help?’ 

= It would be better if we were to go about this together.= 

At this, Minjun approached with a frying pan. The wizard closed his eyes and appeared to be desperately preoccupied with miscellaneous thoughts.

Shh! A shadow then spread out and wrapped around the man’s neck. 

“Whoosh!” The black wave grabbed his hair and pulled him back. Then, he sat down and looked up at the ceiling. Gurgle! A shadow began to pierce in between his lips. 

“Stop!” The wizard resisted, but the power could not be overcome. The shaking shadow forced its mouth open. There then came the sound of his jaw being pulled out. 

At that moment, despair appeared in the man’s eyes. No one seeking information would pluck the subject’s jaw or cut off its tongue. Naturally, it would be more difficult for the informant to make a statement. So, it was indeed clear that his opponent had the ability to read minds. 

At that moment, while the wizard was desperately messing around in his head so that his inner self would not be discovered, Minjun raised the frying pan. He was holding the metal rim instead of the handle. From there, the wizard saw an incredible scene. Mugwort!

“Wow!” Minjun shoved the long handle of the upside-down frying pan into the wizard’s mouth. 

“Big! Whoops!” The wizard struggled, all with astonishment and disbelief evident in his eyes. However, the frying pan stuck itself in his mouth and crushed his vocal cords. The wizard was stunned. 

= Whoo! A pretty bold play…= 

Minjun answered without moving an eyebrow. “Shut up.” 

It was a matter of killing two birds with one stone, which brought the frying pan into close contact with the wizard’s brain, all while alleviating the screams that would come out during torture. It was also meant to prevent the guy from trying to chew his tongue out. Covering the mouth of the person making the statement with the handle of the frying pan, the warlock drew a dagger. 

“Then, let’s get started.” 

With that, he pierced his sword through without hesitation. The wizard pierced his thigh and screamed like a beast. However, the noise was blocked by the pan’s handle and thus couldn’t come out properly. From there, tedious work began.

*** 

Whoops! Whoa! 

A few minutes later, the frying pan vibrated. Minjun pulled the magic tool out of his mouth. The wizard had already gone half insane. “Uhhhhhhhhhhh!” 

Hwareuk! Minjun burned all the blood on his hands, and at the same time disinfected his handles. He cleaned the broken teeth and gum fragments, blood, and saliva. Then, he grabbed the part and said: “Did you just dig it all out?” 

=I don’t think there will be any more.= 

The wizard was stunned as soon as the answer had been confirmed. “What is this bastard?” 

= I know where he belongs.= 

Minjun was able to get the answer he expected. “Abrams Helper Service?”

It was a killer contractor that was said to be in full swing. Yes, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal to see what Minjun had never heard before. “Why are they trying to kidnap the daughter of a congressman? It’s not even an assassination.” ”

=Ah… Actually, it is said that this service is famous for providing excellent service in both assassination and kidnapping. However, it seems that this case was not commissioned by someone. = 

“If it was not an external request, was there an internal instruction?” 

=Yes, I believe there was a motive for that.= 

The frying pan continued to speak in a tone that did not lose its lightness. = There is another service offered by this company other than assassination and kidnapping. If the target of the request has a high social status or is a VVIP customer of the company, on the contrary, it offers a counter offer to the target.= 

‘A request to kill you came in, what should I do?’ 

The purpose had been to negotiate with the target and extort a larger amount than the original client can mobilize. Minjun snorted through his nose. “It was obvious.”

 = This is the case again. The starting point is that Kwak Do-chul had placed a quest. He told them to kill his wife = 

“No, wait. Isn’t there something wrong about this whole ordeal?”

As a result, the person who died was Kwak Do-chul, who was not killed by the assassin, but by his wife’s hands. Another thing he didn’t understand was… 

“Isn’t that the bastard who cheated on you?” 

According to Jeongpal’s explanation, it was his husband’s side that contributed to the catastrophe. And so, he didn’t know if his wife had made the request first. 

=I was guessing it was a property problem.=

“·······” Only then did Minjun understand. Choi Seon-ah’s father was a four-term lawmaker and at the same time refused to be called a nerd. If Kwak Do-chul, who provided the reason attributable to him, was separated as it was, he would be left with nothing to lose. However, what if his wife’s fame were to change right before the divorce? 

“He was a bastard that wasn’t even human.” 

=So, it is said that the company issued a counter offer to Rep. Choi Pan-seok, a request to kill one of your family members. He said that if he paid the money, he would kill his client on the contrary. No matter how tempting the offer seemed, it seemed that there was more to gain for the legislator than for Kwak Do-chul.= 

However, the information did not tell them who put in the quest or who the specific target was. “If I had told him all of that, Choi Pan-seok would not have paid the company to commission the counter-work. Knowing that, he would have set out on his own. Did you expect that and shut your mouth?” 

= Correct. With Choi Pan-seok’s power, it’s not unusual to ask Kwak Do-chul. And . . . I never imagined that my son-in-law had commissioned me to kill his daughter. He had received so many death threats before, so I thought he was one of them. It was after lawmakers confirmed their reputation and reputation through their own information network. I would have judged it was not a scam.= 

In this case, he decided to believe that everything, including the identity of the first client would be revealed after the work was completed. After he transferred the money, the “headquarters” of the helper service tried to dispatch the right killer. 

Kwak Do-chul, who was not even a talented person in the first place, was an easy target. However, there were other variables to consider here.

= The killers hired there are also classified into different ranks according to their skills and achievements. Among them, it seems that the partner-class killer showed interest in this mission.= 

However, that killer seemed unusual in many ways. = He’s quite a legendary assassin in that world? = 

At this, Minjun snorted his nose once more. From his point of view, it looked like a pitiful expression.

= He worked alone for a long time and recently joined this company, but his identity has never been well known among the same killers, and more importantly, he has never failed. He is so good at transforming that he is said to be an assassin owning a thousand faces. He also leaves no traces of himself. Even Interpol is not sure if the interest is a real person or not, so it is said that they are not wanted. What is known is that he mainly uses a sword…= 

At that time, Minjun’s eyes widened. “A sword?” 

= Yes. That’s why it’s nicknamed “Blade” in that world. It’s a bit childish, though. = 

“Keep talking.” 

= I don’t think the head office can properly control this yangban. I had one more mission to entrust to Korea anyway, so I just sent them to solve both. But this author suddenly started running rampant. = 

“What else does that mean?” 

The killer, who was famous for being ruthless, but never interrupted his work, had experienced a big accident. Two, in fact. The first of them was… 

= Originally, it was said that Choi Seon-ah was not supposed to be found at the scene of the incident like that.= 

Although there were many better ways to kill Kwak Do-chul, the killer ‘manipulated’ Choi instead. She said that she was the daughter of the customer who submitted her station request and who was the target of the first request. 

It was a stupid choice. He could have picked any Orc that roamed nearby. A more fatal mistake was to leave evidence at the scene. 

=Originally, the killer’s specialty was to hide all evidence, including weapons, at the scene… but this time it failed. And the reason why Interpol has not been able to arrest him until now.=

“What is the second accident?” 

=Isn’t there a mission that the head office originally intended to entrust to that killer? That was dealing with a member of the Korean National Assembly. = 

At this, Minjun’s eyes became sharp. 

“No way?” 

= Yes, it is said that the body was found today. = 

There was a member of the National Assembly who was killed by an unregistered weapon master. He was also the target of the helper service. “Then, from their point of view, the quest was a success, right? Because he killed him. Why is that a bust?” 

= Again, the handling method was a problem. In fact, it seems to have been a very difficult task. I don’t know what the lawmaker was so worried about, but he hired several people with extraordinary abilities and kept them on guard 24 hours a day.= 

=By the way, it is said that the author of Blade had controlled the killer of the Korean branch, which should not be exposed this time. He said he was the one who served as a medium through which he and headquarters communicated. In the end, the target was killed, but the killer of the Korean branch was also killed. =

At this, the frying pan showed Minjun the figure that the wizard had in his mind, and Minjun confirmed the familiar face of a troll in the ideological group. He was an unregistered weapon master who ran a tobacco shop. 

‘Is that troll the contract company’s contact information in Korea?’ Minjun could recall the memory of the deceased. There had been two people exchanging bills and cigarettes. 

‘When I met that man, it would be correct to think that Choi Seon-ah was already being manipulated. He must have gone to the troll to contact the headquarters.’ Minjun seemed to understand why the Blade put Choi Seon-ah ahead of him instead of moving directly. 

‘The remaining question is this. Why are you suddenly doing strange things in a row? Exposing the ‘sword’ to the police, using his client’s daughter as a tool, and manipulating and killing his comrades… that’s almost madness, isn’t it?’

=So the head office said they are tracking the blade without knowing the English language. He got a team kill all of a sudden. And the reason he tried to kidnap Choi Seon-ah was because of the timing. Did he show interest in this mission right before he showed her strange behavior? = 

He decided it was no coincidence and, like Minjun, tried to dig out even the slightest clue about her from her. He had also delayed reporting the results to Rep. Choi Pan-seok, the owner of the reverse request. But when she recovered miraculously today, he planned to kidnap her. 

Minjun made a decision after a short deliberation. “I’ll have to rob those contractors.” 

However, before that, there was work to be done. “After reading Choi Seon-ah’s inner side, we’ll see if it’s really just being manipulated for no reason… or if there’s something more hidden.” 

Of course, he couldn’t torture the daughter in front of the legislator, so he planned to dig the secret out as secretly as possible. However, when Min-un returned to her room, he found that he had no choice but to revise his plan.