He is a legendary prison guard. - Chapter 17 Inspection Bureau

Episode 17: Inspection Bureau

10th floor of the Korea Hunter Association building.

An ordinary hunter would hardly ever visit this place.

That’s because the Korean Hunter Association’s inspection bureau was located on the 10th floor.

When a report or incident occurred regarding a problem with a guild or hunter, the department that investigated was the Inspection Bureau.

Therefore, the staff of the Inspection Bureau consisted of people who were either capable hunters or people who were not hunters but were talented in other areas.

Now, members of the Black Tiger Guild, Si-hyeon, and Eun-hye were brought here for investigation.

It was a case where two hunters died, and it was no ordinary murder case.

Being investigated as a witness was inevitable.

“What was discussed here must not be shared outside.”

Contrary to the image of the Inspection Bureau, a male employee with a comfortable appearance entered the investigation room and first said so.

Sihyeon was alone in the interrogation room.

Other people seemed to be being investigated separately in different investigation rooms.

A man sat across from me.

A laptop was placed in front of him. It seemed like a report was being written about that.

“You are Hunter Lee Si-hyeon, right? I heard you will be participating in the raid today as a pinch hitter for a guild member.”

“yes.”

“Your occupation is prison guard.”

“…That’s right.”

The corner of Sihyeon’s mouth twitched subtly, as if uncomfortable.

It was because I thought that working two jobs might become known.

Of course, at first it was only a pay cut, but the problem was that all the reviews and promotion plans I had accumulated were lost.

The man looked at Sihyeon’s expression, smiled, and said it in a tone of understanding.

“Oh, don’t worry. I also work in the public service, and the salary for a low-level civil servant is obvious. There are also people here who work two jobs on the weekends. I won’t report anything, so please faithfully focus on the investigation.”

Of course, Sihyeon knew well that there was no way they would be similar, even though they were in the same public office.

It was a well-known fact that specially hired skilled hunters, even if they were employees of the Hunter Association and not members of the guild, received at least as much money as the guild. Otherwise, we would not have been able to attract such talented people.

Still, it was something I was thankful for.

“thank you.”

Sihyeon’s complexion cleared up again.

“First, please tell me step by step what you witnessed.”

“yes.”

Sihyeon slowly began to explain what happened at the gate.

Of course, I left out all the skills and facts I found out with the help of Poahim. I only talked about the sights I saw with my own eyes.

The man listened intently to the explanation and quickly tapped the keyboard of his laptop.

When Sihyeon finished talking, the man opened his mouth.

“I know roughly what the flow is.”

I checked other people’s statements outside and came in, but there was nothing particularly different.

It seemed certain that everyone had witnessed a similar scene.

Still, the man asked a formal question.

“I need to check a few things.”

“yes.”

“Are you sure that the woman in the cat mask appeared inside the gate before she captured the boss monster?”

“She caught the boss of the gate herself, so there can be no mistake.”

Sihyeon answered firmly, but this time he asked a question.

“But is it possible for someone to come in through a closed gate? I’ve never heard of such a thing. I was too distracted at the time to pay much attention to it, but when I thought about it later, it was really absurd.”

“hmm.”

The man looked a little troubled.

Then, after some thought about how to say it, he spoke.

“I was going to explain it to you already, but could you please sign and stamp this first?”

The man took a document out of a document bag on a shelf on one side of the interrogation room and placed it in front of Sihyeon.

“This?”

“Let’s read it.”

Sihyeon turned his gaze to the document.

I looked at the contents and found that it was a memorandum of confidentiality.

The message was that secrets should never be revealed to the outside world and that doing so could result in significant disadvantages.

“Huh, this is my first time seeing something like this in my life. It’s a bit scary.”

“Haha, really? I’m not sure, but isn’t there something like an obligation to keep secrets in prison? I think I heard that you shouldn’t reveal anything that happens inside the prison.”

“I heard there was something like that, but it has a different weight, completely.”

“I guess security here is a bit important. Hunter, you’ve heard of this too, right? Awakened terrorist incidents happen often.”

“Yes, I know. Not long ago in France…”

Sihyeon nodded.

Of course I know.

We no longer live in an era where terrorist attacks are carried out only with bombs or guns.

A few months ago, there was a major incident in which an Arab awakenee committed murder against employees of a French newspaper who had posted cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad. It was said that more than 10 people were killed and more than 20 were injured.

Most of the incidents occurred related to Islamic fundamentalism, which caused foreign countries’ views on Islam to worsen.

So, even among the same awakened people, the public’s perspective was clearly different in the West and the Middle East.

“But the woman named Nameless whom the hunters saw this time is not at that level.”

“yes?”

“If you want, you can just blow up the Blue House, the National Assembly, and everything else. A country’s system will simply collapse. You can tell where the missile came from, right? But there’s a high possibility that we don’t even know which country carried out this kind of terrorism. “Now you know how dangerous it is, right?”

“Ah yes.”

As I explained it like that, I realized once again how dangerous an S-class awakened person is.

For no reason, most countries do not allow S-class members to belong to guilds, and they are not specifically managed by the state.

In short, it is treated as a tactical nuclear weapon.

“So, the National Intelligence Service and the Hunter Association Intelligence Bureau cooperate to carefully observe every move of a known S-class awakened person from another country. However, this woman, named Nameless, is not on the list. The fact that a female S-class awakened person has been in the country for half a year is not in itself. If there wasn’t one, you would have been notified right away.”

“okay.”

It meant that he was an S-class awakened person secretly hidden in another country.

I don’t know, but the information war between countries surrounding S-class awekeners seemed to be fierce.

“But I guess she’s at that level.”

Even though he clearly knew that she was the silent arch-mage Hyris, Sihyeon secretly started crying.

The man said it with a bitter smile.

“Do you know how she got inside the closed gate?”

“Really? Do you know? But why are you asking if you are sure that you entered the closed gate earlier?”

“That’s just a formal question. In fact, wasn’t there a Hunter Association employee at the entrance to the gate? That employee was the first to see her and report her. The employee said she just ignorantly broke through the closed gate with force. Ah, “not by force, but by magic.”

“…What? Is that possible?”

“This is my first time learning this too.”

Si-Hyeon made a puzzled expression.

Are you human?

Isn’t that woman not a human, a dragon, or something?

“So, please be sure to keep this secret. We, too, are going crazy because of the monster that suddenly appeared. Please keep in mind that if you break the memorandum, you will be at a huge disadvantage.”

As he said that, the man slightly slit his throat.

Sihyeon didn’t take it as a joke because it didn’t seem like a joke.

◈ ◈ ◈

“Please educate your son properly.”

It was Lin Xue’s voice.

She must have just finished taking a shower with only a towel wrapped around her body, and she was talking on the phone while holding a cell phone in one hand.

With his other hand, he took out a thin, white menthol-flavored cigarette and asked.

Phew.

She lit it, and smoke came out.

I have nothing to say. I definitely warned you very strongly, but I never thought you would go that far and do something like that.

“You seem to be treating him so carelessly because he is your only son. I tried to kill him, but if you want to see him for a long time, you need to educate him well.”

-… .

“And I don’t do what you said earlier. I said I came here to have fun, right?”

There was almost no one in China who could refuse the man’s instructions.

However, Lin Shue was one of those few.

“Killing Ryu Geon-woo… If there is a diplomatic problem, just do as usual and lead the country to boycott hard. Even though it looks petty while singing the song ‘Great country, great country’.”

Ryu Geon-woo was an S-class awakened person and also the president of the Hunter Association of Korea.

-Uhm.

The man felt uncomfortable, but he held back.

An ordinary S-class student would not have endured this much.

But not all S-class students are the same.

Even the 8th-grade wizards were S-class, but she was in the 9th grade.

This is not an opponent that can be suppressed with power.

“I will send you home tomorrow, so you know that. I am going to the Maldives for some relaxation, so don’t come looking for me.”