On Jae-ol: The Korean Mafia

7. Childlike innocence

*The names of characters, groups, and regions appearing in the story are not related to reality.

서은광

"Let's go in now."

Children breaking into the building, each from a different location.

The children, divided into three teams, lightly climb onto the roofs, walls, and windows of tall buildings.

Eun-kwang's voice comes out from the communication device plugged into the children's ears.

서은광

¶"It's five floors, including the basement."

서은광

¶"Hyunsik and I are entering the basement."

Next, Changseop's voice is heard.

이창섭

¶"We have reached the rooftop."

이민혁

¶"Then we'll go to the middle floor."

서은광

¶"Yeah. Tell me as soon as you find it."

Eun-kwang and Hyeon-sik arrive at the basement.

It was a place with a musty air that seemed to have not been exposed to outside air for a long time.

There were no lights to turn on, no windows.

임현식

"Ugh... It looks like someone is about to die."

서은광

"Yeah. What are you doing..."

서은광

"Let's take a quick look around."

임현식

"What's that sloshing around on the floor? Is it water?"

서은광

“Because it’s underground, water might collect there.”

Thump_

Something tripped up Hyunsik's foot.

임현식

"What's tripping you up?"

Hyunsik picks up something that is caught on his foot.

When the object was illuminated with the GPS light, its shape was revealed.

임현식

"skull..."

For a moment, both of their bodies froze.

서은광

"You must not scream."

임현식

"huh..."

Hyunsik quietly puts his skull down.

임현식

"Then what's rustling underneath here..."

서은광

"I've been smelling a lot of blood lately."

임현식

"Let's find it quickly and go out."

서은광

"okay."

Minhyuk and Peniel were wandering around the middle floor.

이민혁

"Are you going to stay here?"

As I pulled the large iron door, a musty smell and groans came from inside.

프니엘

"What are you talking about?"

이민혁

"Follow me closely."

A strange silence spread over Minhyuk as he entered the room first.

bang!

At that moment, there was a sound of something hitting the iron bars to Minhyuk's left.

"Please save me!!! Who is there?! Please save me!!"

Minhyuk was surprised and took a step back towards the opposite wall, but that place was also not a wall but an iron bar.

Just then the lights came on and only then did the two realize where they were.

People locked in the iron bars on both sides were screaming in a state of madness.

프니엘

"Brother... let's go out quickly."

But Minhyuk didn't respond to Peniel's words.

프니엘

"brother...?"

프니엘

"brother!"

이민혁

"uh?"

프니엘

"Let's go out quickly."

이민혁

"Uh. Okay..."

Changseop and Sungjae enter the rooftop.

이창섭

"I don't think there's anything on the rooftop."

이창섭

"Let's go down."

But there was no answer to Changseop's words.

이창섭

"Yook Sungjae?"

Changseop turned his head to where Seongjae was standing and was startled.

육성재

"Ugh_eup_"

There stood a thug who had his mouth covered and a gun pointed at Seongjae's head.

"Don't move. If you move, I'll shoot."

Seongjae was trembling with fear for the first time in his life and was looking at Changseop with tear-filled eyes.

육성재

'Save me, hyung...'

이창섭

"Quod homo usquam te mittere non potest." [Sungjae, that guy can't shoot you anyway.]

It was Latin that the two of them studied separately.

이창섭

"Spectat ut sclopetum teneat et numquam figit." [You look like you're holding a gun, so you can never shoot.]

"What are you saying?! Do you want to die?!!"

이창섭

"You cure, relinque." [Don't worry, just turn left.]

이창섭

"I trust you, Sungjae. It'll be okay." "Trust me, Sungjae. It'll be okay."

이창섭

bang_!

As Sungjae, who understood Changseop's words, stepped to the left, Changseop immediately shot the assailant with a gun and knocked him down.

Shooting guns was something I did all the time, but this was my first time shooting an actual person.

이창섭

"Seongjae. Are you okay?"

육성재

"Yeah... let's go quickly... quickly."

이창섭

"I'll go first."

이창섭

"Follow me slowly."

Changseop went downstairs in place of Sungjae, who was so shocked that he lost all strength.

The lower floor was just an ordinary warehouse.

But what was inside was anything but ordinary.

Unlike other places, there was a soft light on, so Changseop could see what was inside.

이창섭

"Seongjae, wait here for a moment."

이창섭

"I'll take a quick look around and come out."

이창섭

"I'm trying to calm down a bit."

육성재

"huh..."

Inside the warehouse that Changseop saw, there were people lying around like animals, high on drugs.

And a man tied up in between.

It was the man I saw in the picture.

이창섭

¶"I found it."