“What should we… do about this?”
What do you mean, what should we do?
I looked at Byeon Gudo, who had a subtle expression on his face.
Even after discovering Yeo Hyeongse’s corpse, Byeon Gudo contacted me instead of Pi Sowon. The reason for that was simple.
“Are you saying… we should destroy the evidence?”
Ma Deokho, who had been quietly standing by, opened his mouth.
“We can’t do that.”
I said firmly.
As if that would work.
The fact that these two ‘coincidentally’ found Yeo Hyeongse just now is suspicious enough. But to destroy a suicide note at the crime scene?
If they got caught in any way, these two could be framed as the culprits.
“Why are you two even here in the first place?”
Although the reason these two were here had already appeared in the special side story, it was a question I couldn’t not ask, so I threw it out.
At that, Byeon Gudo let out a sigh and scratched the back of his head.
“It’s because of this guy.”
Meow.
Byeon Gudo pointed at Ma Deokho, who was holding the black cat.
‘Animal Communicator.’
It was Ma Deokho’s skill that had led them here.
“Actually, you know those emails I gave you before. I found out about them because of this guy, too.”
Byeon Gudo spoke in a tone that suggested he was going to lay everything bare since things had already come to this.
Ugh… I don’t want to hear the details. I strongly do not want to get involved in this.
However, the quest that arrived through this damn status window was bound to happen.
‘This is even an incident that wasn’t in the original work.’
!Status Abnormality! ‘An extra the protagonist begins to care for must die’ activated!
I grumbled about being a nameless extra, and now even the abnormal status condition had changed.
‘The protagonist begins to care’?
I furrowed my brow, recalling what Kwon Ikseong had said.
The idea that Choi Woojin has romantic interest in me isn’t very credible, but it certainly seems like he is feeling some kind of ’emotion’ towards me.
‘Why on earth…?’
And the way he keeps saying ‘this life, this life,’ it felt like he knew me in his previous life as well—
“Didn’t we confirm the circumstances of Kkamang getting into Park Seungsoo’s car last time?”
Ma Deokho said, checking on Kkamang’s condition.
Even in this situation, the cat comes first, huh.
‘His character is consistent, at least.’
“So I asked Investigator Byeon Gudo for a little favor to rescue it.”
“Was that a favor? It was a threat, wasn’t it?”
“What threat?”
“Ah, no… We’ll talk about that later!”
At my question, Byeon Gudo turned his head away with a troubled look.
But I know because I saw it in the special side story.
‘Stealing HIB supplies, taking bribes from petty criminals, etc. He has so much to get caught for, after all.’
If you really wanted to nitpick, Byeon Gudo is a person with plenty to be nitpicked about from the start.
That’s also the reason he survived in Team 5.
What other reason would there be for staying in Team 5, which had zero performance, within the HIB where rewards were much higher than the salary in the first place?
‘Because it’s lax.’
A team that isn’t dangerous but still has a moderate amount of things to pocket.
That’s what Byeon Gudo wanted.
As for Ma Deokho, the MZ investigator, he probably just wanted to leave work exactly on time.
Anyway, that’s why Ma Deokho found out about one of Byeon Gudo’s shady secrets and blackmailed him.
‘Turns out he’s a master of blackmail?’
I narrowed my eyes at Ma Deokho.
At that moment, Ma Deokho spoke.
“So Investigator Byeon Gudo became a ‘shadow’ and chased after Park Seungsoo.”
“A shadow?”
“Yeah. That’s my skill.”
Byeon Gudo answered.
“Erasing presence. Concealment. Staying out of sight.”
…A skill perfectly suited for stalking.
“You were going to say it sounds like a stalker, weren’t you?”
“…No.”
“You answered too late.”
Byeon Gudo looked at me dubiously.
He really is as sharp as a ghost.
“…So that’s how you were able to extract those emails from AC Manufacturing.”
At my response, Byeon Gudo nodded. With a slightly troubled expression.
Of course he’d be troubled.
Hearing about Byeon Gudo’s skill, it was highly likely that all the methods he used to tail Park Seungsoo were illegal routes.
Starting from trespassing to unauthorized use of personal information.
That’s why he probably tipped me off with that suspicious excuse of ‘I sent the email to the wrong person.’
Then, Byeon Gudo spoke with a strange expression.
“But you didn’t tell anyone that I leaked the emails? It seemed like Team Leader Kwon, Unit Chief Hong, and even Team Leader Pi didn’t know?”
“Pardon?”
I answered as if it were obvious.
“Didn’t you give them to me thinking I wouldn’t tell on you?”
Protecting an informant’s identity is a basic rule for an investigator in the first place.
At my response, Byeon Gudo was momentarily at a loss for words.
He seemed to think about something for a moment, and then this popped up above his head.
Byeon Gudo’s Affection increases by 5.
…Is this method of building affection as effective as playing Go-Stop?
What exactly did I do?
I’ve been thinking this since last time, but now I really don’t know how I’m building affection.
“You have a character that weirdly mixes Team Leader Pi and Team Leader Kwon.”
As soon as Byeon Gudo finished speaking, dazzling headlights shone from afar.
And the car with those headlights rushed towards us like crazy—
“Whoa, whoa, whoa!”
It approached as if to hit the three of us and screeched to a halt.
Soon, the car door opened, and Pi Sowon stepped out of the car with a fiercely pissed-off expression.
“Hey, you Byeon Gudo bastard! You perverted b*stard! If something like this happens, you should call the forensics team first! You f*ck~!”
It was the active state of Pi Sowon that I hadn’t seen in a very long time since the Bus 316 incident.
Watching Byeon Gudo getting beaten up, I looked at Ma Deokho.
Ma Deokho gently covered the cat’s eyes and said.
“…I absolutely loathe getting into troublesome situations.”
I bet you do.
So that’s why you called Team Leader Pi right away.
While Byeon Gudo was being chased by Pi Sowon next to him, Ma Deokho calmly spoke while holding ‘Kkamang’.
“It seems Kkamang got into the engine of Park Seungsoo’s car. And we found out after finding Kkamang.”
Ma Deokho pointed at Yeo Hyeongse’s corpse and said.
“Investigator Yeo received the bomb from Park Seungsoo. The XT-9000.”
“What? XT-9000?”
Pi Sowon reacted to Ma Deokho’s words while still grabbing Byeon Gudo by the collar.
Pi Sowon looked as if she would revive the already dead Yeo Hyeongse just to kill him again at any moment.
The XT-9000 was the bomb that Seo Gilsu had been wearing.
So in short…
“You’re saying Investigator Yeo Hyeongse even delivered the bomb.”
The strength drained from Pi Sowon’s hand.
Byeon Gudo let out a groan as he slumped to the ground, but instead of reacting, Pi Sowon furrowed her brow.
She soon accepted the suicide note Ma Deokho held out, wearing gloves she took out of her pocket.
Pi Sowon let out a sigh and then activated her smartwatch.
“Forensics team, right. Requesting dispatch. Location is under Ganghwa Bridge…”
This was Pi Sowon’s choice.
Whether there’s a possibility the suicide note was forged or whatever, doing things by the book first.
While everyone was sighing at the obvious choice, a window popped up before my eyes again.
Surprisingly, it was another damn quest. This time, it wasn’t a ‘Special’ quest, but just a regular quest.
As expected, it was what I saw in the special side story.
Quest ‘Clear Kwon Ikseong’s False Charge (B)’
-Time Limit: 7 days
-Reward: 8,000 Gold
-Penalty upon failure: Death by drowning
And while trying to clear this quest, the ‘Lee Yuji’ in the special side story dies.
‘Haha.’
Death by drowning or death by falling.
Which one would be better…
That’s not it!
Argh!
It seemed like the days of being a nameless extra might have been better.
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