Chapter 363 – Part 2 – Revolution

“Alright. I’ll share it.”

Heo Yoon-ji had no choice but to share the information she had gathered.

Thud-

“This is a file compiling all the information I’ve investigated so far. Please read it.”

The file folder had the organization’s name on it.

“Revolution…?”

Choi Seong-min’s eyes carefully read through the file contents.

The file contained crimes committed by the organization called Revolution and investigation details.

“Military facility terrorism, weapons depot truck hijacking, major government agency terrorism, etc. It’s a terrorist organization that harbored resentment against the government and carried out countless acts of terror. They went around stealing everything that could be considered government property, including hunter equipment and whatnot.”

“Hmm…”

Listening to Heo Yoon-ji’s supplementary explanation, it really seemed like a bad criminal group.

‘But seeing the behavior of those rotten Great Heroes, it doesn’t seem like such a bad thing.’

Since their goals were the same, the organization’s actions didn’t look so bad to him.

“You’ve investigated quite thoroughly.”

“Of course. It’s an organization I’ve been investigating for a whole 3 years.”

For an amateur organization, their track record so far was quite spectacular.

Choi Seong-min spoke without taking his eyes off the file.

“What’s the scale of the organization?”

“It’s not accurately determined yet, but I understand it’s roughly 80 people. All composed of hunters.”

’80 people? And all hunters at that?’

The scale was larger than he had thought.

But it was still too early to be surprised.

“There’s also information that there’s an S-rank hunter among the organization members.”

“S-rank…?”

“Oh, of course it’s just a rumor. It’s probably false rumors they spread to show off their power.”

Even if it was a false rumor, the information that there were many organization members was quite helpful to Choi Seong-min.

‘I did well to come find Heo Yoon-ji.’

As befitting an Investigation Department team leader, she had a wealth of useful information.

“Recently, we identified circumstances suggesting they’re connected to human trafficking and were about to investigate.”

‘Human trafficking?’

This was information Choi Seong-min wanted to know.

“Is that reliable information?”

“Yes. Among the people who were human trafficked and then released, there’s someone who saw the organization’s mark. I even recorded their testimony.”

So Revolution and human trafficking were indeed connected?

“If we had investigated a bit more, we could have found out for certain, but unfortunately at that timing the Minister blocked us from investigating…”

Heo Yoon-ji, who had been speaking with a regretful voice, glanced at Choi Seong-min.

‘Even if I say this, he probably won’t listen.’

She had hoped that Choi Seong-min would ask Song Chi-hyeon to change the Minister’s mind, but she wasn’t expecting it.

‘Seeing how he brought up military status and requested information, he’s not someone to be taken lightly.’

He didn’t seem like someone who would listen even if she asked again.

‘Even when I offered money, he said he didn’t need it. Just how should I persuade this person?’

To continue investigating Revolution, she needed Choi Seong-min’s help.

For Heo Yoon-ji, it was like her last hope.

But seeing his firm attitude, the opportunity seemed to have slipped away.

‘He’ll just take the information and leave like this…’

That’s the kind of person he was.

That’s the kind of person she thought he was.

“This was helpful. I’ll speak to the Great Hero as you requested before.”

“Ah, yes… Yes?”

It was unexpected words.

“What did you say you’d tell him?”

“About the investigation into Revolution. You said the Minister blocked it. I’ll tell the Great Hero to persuade the Minister to lift it.”

“Re, really?”

She heard what she wanted to hear, but she couldn’t help but be bewildered.

Since he had firmly refused all along, she couldn’t think he would listen.

“You, you really mean you’ll persuade the Minister?”

“Yes. But I can’t promise anything. Whether the Great Hero will listen to my request…”

“That’s fine! What’s wrong with at least trying to ask!”

At the thought that she could continue investigating the organization she had targeted for 3 years, Heo Yoon-ji was overjoyed.

“By the way, you should let go of this hand…”

“Ah…”

At those words, Heo Yoon-ji reflexively let go of his hand.

She realized belatedly.

That she had unconsciously grabbed Choi Seong-min’s hand in her joy.

“So, sorry…”

“Ah, yes. Then I’ll be going.”

Choi Seong-min left the team leader’s office, leaving behind Heo Yoon-ji with her head bowed.

A short scream echoed belatedly.

* * *

‘To learn so much information. As expected, investigation teams are investigation teams.’

Choi Seong-min smiled with satisfaction.

Heo Yoon-ji’s intelligence gathering was beyond expectations.

Moreover, she didn’t seem like a bad person.

‘At least she doesn’t look like the materialists in our department…’

He could tell from seeing that she still couldn’t give up her attachment to the organization.

How amazing was her persistence in trying to arrest criminal organizations…

‘Well, if you’re told to stop an investigation you’ve been pursuing for 3 years overnight, it would be regrettable.’

He didn’t know why the Investigation Department Minister had given orders to stop, but he wasn’t worried.

‘That’s something I can find out from now on.’

Choi Seong-min entered the bathroom, confirmed no one was there, and transformed his appearance.

Squirm squirm-

Shortly after, he came out, perfectly transformed into Song Chi-hyeon.

‘Meeting the Minister isn’t difficult.’

Choi Seong-min held Song Chi-hyeon’s phone and found the Minister’s name in the contact list.

Ring ring ring-

The call was answered before the signal tone could ring three times.

Choi Seong-min spoke in Song Chi-hyeon’s voice.

“Hey, it’s me.”

* * *

‘What, what’s this?’

Investigation Department Minister Am Pil-yeon couldn’t hide his puzzlement at the call he had just received.

‘Why would Great Hero Song Chi-hyeon have business with me…?’

Song Chi-hyeon was someone he could count on one hand the number of times they had encountered each other, with virtually no interaction.

He had saved the number out of courtesy, but had never called.

Not even once.

That was natural since Am Pil-yeon was unquestionably in Kwak Min-cheol’s line.

‘I’ve talked with Great Hero Kwak Min-cheol dozens of times…’

This was the first time with Song Chi-hyeon.

That’s why the current call asking to meet was very puzzling and unfamiliar.

‘There shouldn’t be anything to talk about with me.’

Seeing that he said he’d come all the way to the Minister’s office, it seemed like important business…

But he couldn’t guess what it was.

‘He’s not suddenly going to cause trouble because I’m in Great Hero Kwak Min-cheol’s line, is he?’

The fact that Kwak Min-cheol and Song Chi-hyeon’s relationship was distant was already known.

He heard that the conflict had worsened recently with the death of Secretary Yang Baek-du.

So he couldn’t help but think he might be coming to vent his anger in the wrong place.

‘N, no… that can’t be. Surely… surely not.’

Am Pil-yeon, who had been sweating profusely, wiped his shiny forehead and head with a handkerchief.

He must have been nervous as sweat had formed in the meantime.

Of course, he was also an A-rank hunter like Song Chi-hyeon.

But his combat power was 300,000, barely making the grade.

It had been over 10 years since he last hunted, and his traits weren’t combat-related, so he couldn’t beat Song Chi-hyeon with force.

Meaning if Song Chi-hyeon set his mind to it, he wouldn’t stand a chance.

So he couldn’t help but be afraid.

‘Why is he suddenly coming? Huh? Why?’

Just when he couldn’t figure out the reason no matter how much he thought about it.

Click-

He could see Song Chi-hyeon entering the Minister’s office.

At that moment, Am Pil-yeon’s face was full of smiles.

The complaints he had been making just moments before were nowhere to be seen.

“Oh my, you’ve arrived, Great Hero! Please sit over here.”

“Mm.”

As soon as Song Chi-hyeon sat on the sofa, he smiled and asked.

“Would you like something to drink? I have Earl Grey tea and lemon tea, which one would you…”

“Never mind that, come sit here. I have something to say.”

Am Pil-yeon immediately sat across from him, grinning with a foolish smile.

He didn’t know why he had been summoned, but there was nothing bad about making a good impression.

But Song Chi-hyeon seemed to dislike that appearance.

“What’s so funny?”

“Ah, nothing.”

“Are you curious why I asked to see you?”

“There must be some reason.”

Hearing those words, Song Chi-hyeon, no, Choi Seong-min inwardly snorted.

Because he could clearly hear Am Pil-yeon’s inner thoughts.

-Wouldn’t you be curious too, you bastard? You’re asking the obvious.

If he knew about Song Chi-hyeon’s trait, he wouldn’t have said such things.

‘Fortunately, it seems Kwak Min-cheol didn’t blab about it to the Minister.’

He had been worried since he went around talking about it everywhere, but seeing that he wasn’t hiding his thoughts, it seemed he didn’t know about the trait.

‘Good. I can properly interrogate him.’

With the thought of using his trait for the first time in a while, Choi Seong-min asked.

“Minister. Do you know about an organization called Revolution?”

“Ah… you mean that terrorist organization?”

Though he tried not to show it, an uncomfortable expression could be read in the Minister’s face and thoughts.

“I heard the Minister blocked the investigation?”

-Who did he hear that from? Don’t tell me it was Team Leader Heo?

“Why did you block the investigation? I’d like to hear the reason.”

-Shit, what should I do?

Just from seeing sweat forming on Am Pil-yeon’s forehead, you could tell he was flustered.

“It, it’s nothing special.”

“Why did you block the investigation?”

“Even investigating didn’t make any real progress, so I just gave up…”

“Minister.”

“Yes?”

Killing intent seeped from Choi Seong-min’s eyes.

“Do you think I came here to listen to lies?”

“Hii, hiik!”

The frightened Minister trembled like an aspen tree.

‘This won’t work for interrogation.’

Choi Seong-min placed his hand on the Minister’s head.

Thud-

“Wha, what are you doing? Putting your hand on my head. No matter if you’re a Great Hero, this is unpleasant!”

“Stay still. I’m unpleasant too.”

Choi Seong-min, who had placed his hand on the shiny head, ordered him to stay still.

The Minister’s face turned red and blue from shame, but he didn’t resist.

Because Choi Seong-min was openly emanating killing intent.

‘It would be faster to look at memories than interrogate him.’

After 10 seconds passed, the Minister’s memory images appeared.

He rummaged through the images to find out why the Minister had blocked the investigation.

After repeatedly going through the past like that.

‘So that’s what it was.’

Choi Seong-min was able to find out the reason.

‘This bastard was a customer of the human trafficking gang.’

It turned out the Minister had been satisfying his desires through the human trafficking gang.

It wasn’t just once.

He had been consistently using prostitution for a very long time.

Continuously since he switched to Kwak Min-cheol’s line.

‘This bastard was covering for Kwak Min-cheol while being in the Investigation Department.’

While pretending otherwise, he was helping Kwak Min-cheol behind the scenes.

He even destroyed evidence so that Kwak Min-cheol’s human trafficking gang wouldn’t get caught.

No one knew.

Even Team Leader Heo Yoon-ji didn’t know.

Then his tail got caught because of Revolution, which Heo Yoon-ji was investigating.

One of Revolution’s organization members had used prostitution through the human trafficking gang.

So it was natural logic that Heo Yoon-ji would investigate the human trafficking gang.

‘Heo Yoon-ji thought Revolution was also handling human trafficking…’

The reality wasn’t that.

‘Revolution wasn’t involved in or dealing with the human trafficking gang.’

Just one organization member had gone astray.

They were completely innocent, but Heo Yoon-ji thought they were deeply connected and continued the investigation.

The Minister in the memories was flustered.

Because his subordinate was tightening his own noose.

‘So that’s why the Minister blocked the investigation. He was afraid his prostitution activities would be exposed.’

It wasn’t just the Minister.

Kwak Min-cheol was behind it, and he had also agreed to it.

The investigation was blocked in an instant.

Heo Yoon-ji protested, but it was useless.

Rather, using her protest as an excuse, they didn’t promote her status.

This was why Heo Yoon-ji hadn’t been able to gain military status until now.

Unfair treatment.

It was retaliation for nearly having their tail caught.

‘Petty and dirty bastards.’

After blocking the investigation like that, the Minister continued to visit the human trafficking gang to satisfy his desires.

‘I did well to look at the memories. Thanks to that, I learned the location of a new human trafficking gang.’

I also learned that Revolution had no relationship with the human trafficking gang.

‘Should I tell Heo Yoon-ji to clear up the misunderstanding?’

Choi Seong-min quickly changed his mind.

‘It would be useless to tell her.’

Because there was no way to prove that Revolution was innocent.

‘I’ve seen all the memories worth looking at.’

Now it was time to erase the Minister’s memory.

‘I’d like to kill the Minister, but it’s too dangerous.’

It was dangerous to commit murder inside the association.

There were many eyes watching, and it would only arouse unnecessary suspicion.

Looking at the memories, his trait was also E-grade, so it wasn’t very appealing.

‘Instead, I’ll erase other memories.’

Originally he planned to only erase the memory of seeing Song Chi-hyeon.

‘I’ll erase all the languages you’ve learned so far.’

He decided to mess with language-related memories as punishment.

His will was immediately manifested, and images related to language were deleted wholesale.

‘With this, he’ll become an old mute who can’t even speak.’

At best, he’d only be able to babble.

After finishing the memory deletion, he removed his hand from his head.

Leaving the dazed Minister behind, he left the Minister’s office.

Since he had also erased the memory of his visit, no one would know how he lost his ability to speak.

Walking leisurely down the corridor like that.

‘Hm?’

A familiar face was walking from the opposite direction.

‘Why is that guy here…?’

Choi Seong-min began to tense up inwardly.

Katsuramoto Kogo.

Their eyes met.