Chapter 339 – Part 2 – Moving

“It’s late, why don’t you sleep here? There are plenty of rooms.”

“Ah, would that really be okay?”

“Of course. I even have subordinates who stay at my mansion permanently, so there’s no reason you can’t.”

“Thank you.”

“I’ll tell the butler, so go find him. He’ll guide you.”

“Yes, then please have a comfortable night.”

After Choi Seong-min greeted him and left, Song Chi-hyeon smiled.

‘To think Choi Seong-min’s combat power is 250,000… If I keep slacking off like this, I might get overtaken.’

This wasn’t the time to be leisurely.

He also needed to hunt quickly and reach S-rank.

‘Only then can I stand against Kwak Min-cheol.’

Song Chi-hyeon, who was casually thinking of rebellion, contacted the butler.

After giving orders to guide Choi Seong-min to a room, he fell into thought again.

But then.

Ring ring- Ring ring-

A phone call came in the early morning hours.

‘Kwak Min-cheol?’

Song Chi-hyeon tensed up unconsciously upon seeing the caller.

He could guess the reason for the call.

“Yes, I received your call…”

-Hey, come out. I’m in front of your house.

At the sudden words, Song Chi-hyeon looked out the window.

Kwak Min-cheol’s limousine was visible.

‘He really came?’

Song Chi-hyeon answered tensely.

“I’ll come down right away.”

Click-

The call ended.

‘Judging by how his voice is different from usual, he must be quite angry.’

The heavily subdued voice proved that Kwak Min-cheol was genuinely furious.

‘There’s only one reason for him to be angry.’

He must have confirmed Yang Baek-du’s death through the rankings.

‘That’s why he came all the way to my house in such a rage.’

He probably didn’t come with evidence.

He must have come based on suspicion alone.

‘Among those who could kill Yang Baek-du, I’m the most likely suspect.’

Fear crept into Song Chi-hyeon’s face.

It would be a lie to say he wasn’t afraid of Kwak Min-cheol with his 1.8 million combat power.

‘One wrong word and I might bid farewell to this world.’

Even so, Song Chi-hyeon didn’t run away but boldly went outside.

If he didn’t have this much courage, he wouldn’t have killed Yang Baek-du either.

‘I just need to act well. Just act.’

As long as there’s no evidence, consistently playing dumb would cause no problems.

‘I expected this would happen, didn’t I? As long as I don’t make mistakes, nothing will happen.’

Reassuring himself, Song Chi-hyeon went out to the yard.

As he approached the limousine, the window rolled down.

“Get in.”

At the brief command, Song Chi-hyeon nodded and got into the back seat.

“……”

“……”

Uncomfortable silence choked them.

Song Chi-hyeon couldn’t stand it and opened his mouth first.

“What brings you here at this hour…”

“Hey, Song Chi-hyeon.”

Song Chi-hyeon’s body trembled at Kwak Min-cheol’s cold gaze.

“Did you kill him?”

“What? Suddenly what…”

“You think I don’t know? You killed Yang Baek-du.”

“Yang Baek-du the Secretary… is dead?”

“Look at this bastard pretending not to know.”

Kwak Min-cheol’s killing intent was directed entirely at Song Chi-hyeon.

“Do I look like some clueless fool because I’ve been staying quiet?”

“I don’t know what you mean…”

“You’re preparing for rebellion right now, raising subordinates.”

“……”

“You think I don’t know you have other intentions?”

His heart sank, but Song Chi-hyeon desperately pretended not to know.

“Rebellion? How could that be possible?”

“Bullshit. You hate me. You want to stab me in the back day and night but can’t because you lack the power.”

‘Damn, he knows well.’

Song Chi-hyeon inwardly agreed but silently listened to Kwak Min-cheol’s words.

“The Secretary and his entire family are dead. They couldn’t have committed suicide. There’s no reason for that. So it must be murder, but who killed them? They didn’t particularly earn anyone’s resentment. Ah, there’s one person. You.”

“……”

“The Secretary told me before. That you provoked him by bringing up his children. That you had an argument. At that time, when I heard about it, I called you and gave you a lecture. Told you to stop bothering the Secretary. Remember?”

“I remember.”

“Do you know what your expression was like then? You were angry but enduring because of me. That kind of face.”

“……”

“Right, you must have been angry. You wanted revenge on me. You probably wanted to kill that damn Secretary too.”

Kwak Min-cheol’s trembling anger pointed at Song Chi-hyeon like an awl.

“But to actually kill the Secretary because of that? You crazy bastard. Are you in your right mind?”

“I’m telling you it wasn’t me…”

Unable to contain his anger, Kwak Min-cheol punched the car window.

Crack-!

The bulletproof glass shattered pathetically.

“Damn! You want me to believe that? When I clearly know you’re sharpening your knife behind my back to betray me?”

“……”

Despite Kwak Min-cheol’s threats, Song Chi-hyeon maintained a calm expression.

‘He’s testing me right now. There’s nothing to be scared of.’

Though he couldn’t read his thoughts since he was controlling them, Song Chi-hyeon knew.

That there was no evidence.

That he was just trying to get a confession based on suspicion alone.

‘If I show even the slightest sign of agreement, it’s over.’

Knowing this fact, Song Chi-hyeon desperately shook off his fear.

If he succumbed to fear and confessed, he might really lose his life.

Kwak Min-cheol, who had been glaring at Song Chi-hyeon while breathing heavily, raised his fist.

He was thinking of beating a confession out of him right here.

“Huu…”

But he changed his mind and quietly lowered his fist.

Because he knew that beating him without evidence wouldn’t solve anything.

“You bastard, I’m letting it slide today, but just wait and see. I’ll definitely find evidence.”

“……”

“If there’s any evidence you haven’t cleaned up, you better deal with it now. If evidence that you killed the Secretary is ever found…”

Kwak Min-cheol’s eyes gleamed ominously.

“I’ll expose your evil deeds to the world and cut off your head in front of all the people.”

“……”

“Remember this. I never forgive crawling dogs that try to climb up.”

Kwak Min-cheol waved his hand as if telling him to get lost.

Song Chi-hyeon silently bowed his head and got out of the limousine.

Vroooom-

Watching the departing limousine, Song Chi-hyeon bit his lips.

* * *

From dawn until the morning sun rose, Song Chi-hyeon couldn’t fall asleep.

‘Kwak Min-cheol is convinced I’m the culprit.’

Though it was just suspicion, being pointed out as the culprit was indeed burdensome.

‘Now he’ll start investigating me and my surroundings in earnest.’

Kwak Min-cheol’s words about dealing with evidence if there was any came to mind.

It was a kind of declaration of war, saying go ahead and try.

‘I don’t have time to sit around. I need to quickly erase evidence as Kwak Min-cheol said.’

Though he had erased most evidence, he couldn’t say it was perfectly erased.

‘Team Crush. Those guys are still remaining.’

They were the only ones who witnessed Yang Jo-young and Choi Seong-min going out together.

‘If I just eliminate those guys, there won’t be any problems.’

However, he couldn’t completely ignore Choi Seong-min’s opinion about erasing memories.

Though Song Chi-hyeon had decided to erase those guys’ memories along with his subordinates’ as a way of keeping their mouths shut…

‘Why the hell can’t I contact that bastard Oh Gwang-taek?’

Somehow he couldn’t reach the guy who erases memories.

Even after 12 days of sending texts and making calls, there was no response.

‘Is he busy chasing women somewhere again?’

He knew that contacting Oh Gwang-taek, who had wanderlust, wasn’t easy, but he didn’t know it would be this difficult.

‘What is he doing and where, when time is of the essence? It’s come to the point where Kwak Min-cheol is moving, damn it!’

Song Chi-hyeon wanted to quickly call Oh Gwang-taek to erase memories.

If possible, he wanted to take action before Yang Baek-du’s death was revealed.

But he still couldn’t make contact.

It wasn’t that he deliberately didn’t call, but that he couldn’t call.

‘In that case, there’s only one option.’

Song Chi-hyeon’s eyes flashed with killing intent.

‘Kill Team Crush.’

If he couldn’t erase memories right away, eliminating them as originally planned was the best option.

‘Normally I would have Choi Seong-min do it, but… he’d probably be reluctant. Since they’ve been intimate and all.’

Though he didn’t show it, Song Chi-hyeon knew.

The reason Choi Seong-min had opposed eliminating Team Crush when he suggested it.

‘Do Eun-jeong, was it? It must be hard to kill her since he’s taken a liking to that woman.’

Song Chi-hyeon remembered.

Two months ago, when he went out to investigate in disguise, Choi Seong-min was heading home with Do Eun-jeong.

‘The purpose was obvious. When I read Choi Seong-min’s thoughts at that time too.’

Since they apparently sparked something then, it would be difficult for Choi Seong-min to kill her.

‘Therefore…’

Song Chi-hyeon changed into items from his equipment window.

Tssss-

When he equipped the gear, a hood covered his face.

It was assassination attire.

‘I’ll move personally.’

He planned to assassinate Team Crush himself, keeping it secret from Choi Seong-min.

Including that woman Do Eun-jeong.

‘I wanted to handle it at night if possible, but it can’t be helped. Time is of the essence.’

With such thoughts, he was about to leave the room.

Knock knock-

With a knock, the butler opened the door and entered.

“Are you awake? Great Hero… Ah, were you about to go out?”

“Yes. I have urgent business to handle.”

“I understand. Then have a safe trip…”

“Wait.”

Song Chi-hyeon stopped the butler who was about to turn around and looked at the tray he was holding.

On the tray was a cup containing pear juice.

“I should drink what you brought before going.”

Saying this, Song Chi-hyeon drank the pear juice in one gulp.

* * *

[Target has been poisoned with Covert Neurotoxin.]

[Target’s all stats decreased by 10%.]

[Target cannot notice their stat decrease.]

[Time remaining until detoxification: 35 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds]

A welcome message appeared.

It was obvious who the target was.

‘Song Chi-hyeon drank the pear juice.’

The person who put poison in the pear juice was none other than Choi Seong-min.

‘I did well to learn about his routine.’

Choi Seong-min, who had spent the night at Song Chi-hyeon’s mansion, got to work early in the morning.

The work was easy.

He just had to put poison in the pot containing pre-boiled pear juice in the kitchen.

The result was the message that appeared now.

‘I never thought poisoning him would be this easy.’

The habit of drinking pear juice every morning for health actually harmed his health.

‘Now I just need to assassinate him within 36 hours.’

With a surprise attack from Choi Seong-min with 250,000 combat power, even Song Chi-hyeon wouldn’t be able to do anything.

It would be easy to kill him when he’s sleeping or when he’s off guard.

That’s when it happened.

Click-

Song Chi-hyeon’s room door opened.

Choi Seong-min, who had been monitoring from the end of the corridor, peeked his head in and then carefully pulled it back out.

He could see two people coming out of the room.

One was the butler and one was wearing a hood.

‘The person wearing the hood is Song Chi-hyeon.’

He was certain because he had placed an assassination mark before sleeping.

‘Where is he going in the morning that he’s hiding his appearance like that?’

The puzzlement soon disappeared.

‘I’ll know if I tail him.’

It was a work day at the Association, but that didn’t matter much.

‘Anyway, I have to kill him within 36 hours. In such circumstances, I don’t have the luxury to worry about going to work.’

Right now, tailing Song Chi-hyeon and looking for opportunities was much more valuable than going to work.

Choi Seong-min, who had covered his face with a prepared hat and mask, started walking.

He planned to follow at a comfortable distance so the tail wouldn’t be detected.

Since he had placed a mark anyway, he could track the location even with his eyes closed.

He would never lose track of him.