Chapter 388 – Part 2 – One Email

After finishing the initiation ceremony and returning home, Ryu Jong-ik was in a good mood.

‘To think a big shot with 10 million combat power would side with us…’

He was grateful to Choi Seong-min who willingly offered to lend his strength, and also grateful to Do Eun-jeong who connected them.

‘As expected of Do Eun-jeong. The pride of our organization.’

Although her combat power wasn’t high yet, making him wonder whether to include her in operations or not, this incident resolved his worries.

‘I should have Eun-jeong participate in executive meetings too.’

Without even realizing it, Do Eun-jeong had rapidly risen from a bottom member to executive level.

It was a natural measure since a well-raised member had brought back a blessing like a lucky charm.

‘Killing the heroes and reforming this rotten society isn’t just a pipe dream anymore.’

Ryu Jong-ik looked at a photo frame on his desk.

In the picture was a little girl making a V sign with her fingers and smiling.

‘Eun-bi, are you doing well? Daddy will definitely get revenge for you, so don’t worry.’

After briefly reminiscing about memories with his daughter, Ryu Jong-ik went to bed.

* * *

When morning came, Ryu Jong-ik read news articles on his phone.

While doing so, he habitually checked his email.

This was because they had agreed to communicate with their allied Wings of Hope through email.

“Huh? What’s this?”

[Subject: For Leader Ryu Jong-ik to see]

There was an email from an unknown ID.

He thought it might be spam, but the fact that it knew his name made that unlikely.

‘What? A video file…’

There was a video in the attachments.

Ryu Jong-ik, who had been wondering whether to open it or not, downloaded the video out of curiosity.

“Th-this is…!”

Ryu Jong-ik’s eyes widened as if they would pop out after watching the video.

His hands trembled as he suddenly stood up from his seat.

The content of the video was that shocking.

‘Is this video real?’

Even after rewinding and watching it again, it was an unbelievable video.

Ryu Jong-ik immediately contacted Kang Min-chan.

“Captain. Emergency assembly. Please call the members right now.”

“What? Right now? How many should I call?”

Ryu Jong-ik’s eyes became serious.

“Everyone.”

* * *

Park Hui-jun had a bewildered expression from the morning.

He couldn’t help it since Revolution had called another emergency assembly.

“Sigh, how many times is this? Three consecutive days of emergency assemblies…”

Normally he should have been curious about what they were called for, but being called so often made him annoyed first.

“Oppa, brighten up your expression. They must have called because it’s urgent.”

His younger sister Park Jin-hee comforted her brother from beside him.

Sometimes he got annoyed like this, but he was still a perfect brother to her.

“But why are we meeting in the main conference room instead of the operations room today?”

“Who knows…?”

The reason became clear the moment they entered the main conference room.

Murmur murmur-

“Wh-what, how many people are there?”

“It looks like they called all 60 people?”

Usually for emergency assemblies, calling only executives was standard, but today they seemed to have called everyone.

‘Yesterday they called everyone because of Hunter Choi Seong-min, but what’s happening today?’

Park Hui-jun found an appropriate seat and sat down with his sister.

While waiting curiously, Ryu Jong-ik appeared.

They coincidentally made eye contact, but the look directed at him seemed somehow cold.

‘Is he in a bad mood about something?’

The stiff expression and atmosphere-setting seemed different from usual.

“Is everyone here?”

At the leader’s question, Kang Min-chan, who was beside him, nodded.

“All 62 members assembled.”

’62 people? Ah, Hunter Choi Seong-min joined yesterday, right? I should have a conversation with Hunter Choi Seong-min sometime…’

While Park Hui-jun was thinking such thoughts, Ryu Jong-ik spoke.

“You must all be curious about this sudden assembly. What I called you for.”

Ryu Jong-ik’s voice and expression were more serious than ever.

“This morning, I received an email. I don’t know who sent it. However, I couldn’t help but be shocked after seeing the video in the email.”

When Ryu Jong-ik operated his laptop, a video appeared on the beam projector.

“I called you all today because of this video. It’s not something only I should know, but something you all have the right to know.”

Murmurs could be heard from various places.

“What kind of video is it to make him like that?”

“It must be a very serious video.”

“Could it be something like a threatening video?”

“No way.”

The murmuring stopped only when Ryu Jong-ik raised his hand.

“Then let’s watch the video together.”

The video started playing.

“Oh!”

The person surprised as soon as it started was Park Hui-jun.

Because his own face was appearing from the very beginning of the video.

‘Wh-why am I in there…?’

Park Hui-jun in the video was having a conversation with someone.

[Three months ago, July 3rd at 12:30 AM. The day you first visited the human trafficking gang, right?]

[Y-yes, that’s correct.]

Park Hui-jun was nodding to someone’s question.

[Then a week later on the 10th, second visit… the 14th, 21st, 31st. And until the 8th of this month. You’ve visited the human trafficking gang a total of 12 times so far. Right?]

[Th-that’s exactly right.]

[The purpose of all 12 visits was prostitution. Correct?]

Park Hui-jun in the video nodded.

Then boos erupted from among the watching audience.

Some even sent contemptuous glances toward Park Hui-jun.

“……”

Park Hui-jun, who was watching, was just bewildered about what this whole situation was.

The video continued.

[Let’s talk about prostitution at the human trafficking gang. How was it? Was it good?]

[Haha… It must have been good since I did it.]

[Right. Looking at the records, you went almost once a week.]

[It was really ecstatic. Especially doing it by force… Ahem. I didn’t know I liked that sort of thing.]

[Keke, once you get a taste, it’s hard to escape from this scene.]

[That’s right. Hehehe.]

At the lewd laughter, Park Jin-hee, who was sitting next to him, looked at her brother.

With eyes of disbelief and horror.

It wasn’t just Park Jin-hee.

Everyone present was looking at Park Hui-jun like he was vermin.

Whether he knew this fact or not, Park Hui-jun kept his gaze fixed only on the video.

[Hitting the resisting girl while doing it was so fun. Hehe!]

[Ah, I know that feeling too. There’s a taste to making them submit, right?]

[Hehehe, as expected, you know what you’re talking about!]

Lewd talk between Park Hui-jun and a third party continued.

Words too shameful to even mention were exchanged without hesitation.

After a full 20 minutes of conversation, the video ended.

His sister Park Jin-hee trembled as if she had caught a chill.

Cold sweat even appeared on her face.

“Op-oppa… oppa…” She was so shocked that she couldn’t continue speaking.

It wasn’t just Park Jin-hee who was shocked.

Everyone who watched the video was looking at Park Hui-jun with exclamations of horror, groans, and gasps.

However, there was someone else who was flustered.

‘Wh-what the hell is all this?’

It was Park Hui-jun himself.

‘I said such things?’

The problem was that he had no memory of being filmed in the video.

“As you all saw, one of our members engaged in prostitution at a human trafficking gang. Member Park Hui-jun.”

Though Ryu Jong-ik called him, Park Hui-jun just held his head while keeping it lowered.

“Member Park Hui-jun?”

“……”

“Hey, Park Hui-jun!”

Only after shouting did Park Hui-jun raise his head.

The murmuring sounds also became quiet as mice after the one shout.

Everyone was surprised since Ryu Jong-ik, who always used respectful language, was now using informal speech and even shouting.

“Ahem, Member Park Hui-jun. You must have seen the video, right? Could you explain what happened?”

“……”

Park Hui-jun also didn’t know.

Since he had no memory of it, he couldn’t explain.

When he remained silent, Ryu Jong-ik’s expression distorted.

“Member Park Hui-jun. I told you to explain.”

“I, I…”

People’s attention focused on Park Hui-jun.

“I don’t know about this.”

Bang-!

Ryu Jong-ik irritably struck the desk.

“This isn’t something that can be solved by denying it!”

“I really don’t know. I’ve never had such a conversation!”

Park Hui-jun shouted as if he felt wronged.

It wasn’t a lie.

Since he had no memory, his feeling of injustice was real.

But people wouldn’t believe the cheap emotions of a criminal.

“There’s clear evidence, yet you’re going to act like this?”

“I don’t know, I don’t know…”

“Who was the person having the conversation in the video? An accomplice?”

“I don’t know, I don’t know…”

“Then? Are you saying you never used a human trafficking gang?”

“……”

That wasn’t true.

He didn’t know the video was taken and couldn’t remember who he had that conversation with, but…

The content of the conversation was undeniably true.

It was such a clear fact that even Park Hui-jun, who claimed to have no memory, had to acknowledge it.

“This time you’re not denying it. Member Park Hui-jun.”

“……”

“Is it true that you used a human trafficking gang? Is everything in the video conversation true?”

“……”

Park Hui-jun, who had been repeating “I don’t know” like a parrot until just before, fell silent.

‘Should I deny it? The only evidence is that video. I don’t remember the video, so I don’t know if a video I don’t remember can be evidence, but anyway, it would be better to avoid this difficult situation…’

At the moment he was contemplating, Park Hui-jun’s eyes moved to the side.

His sister Park Jin-hee was looking at him with teary eyes.

“Oppa… tell me the truth. Don’t lie in front of me.”

“……”

“Did you really go to a human trafficking gang and pay money to do such things…?”

At his sister’s plea, Park Hui-jun couldn’t bring himself to lie.

“Uh…”

“You’re crazy, you’re crazy!”

Park Jin-hee burst out in anger and hit Park Hui-jun’s forearm.

“Are you insane, oppa? The people there are people who were forcibly captured like me! And oppa, you did that to such people…!”

“…I’m sorry.”

“Is this something that can be solved with sorry? And you should apologize to those people, not to me!”

Since he was the brother she trusted more than anyone, the betrayal Park Jin-hee felt was indescribable.

“I trusted oppa! How could you do such things? Looking at the video, you even went and did those things on the day I was kidnapped? Are you really insane? Sob sob…!”

Park Jin-hee finally burst into tears.

Park Hui-jun had nothing to say.

He could only keep his head deeply bowed in shame.

When Park Jin-hee cried and the conversation stopped briefly, Ryu Jong-ik intervened.

“Member Park Hui-jun. Who was the person having the conversation in the video? How did you learn about the human trafficking gang?”

“I don’t know.”

“Hah… playing dumb to the end…”

Killing intent leaked from Ryu Jong-ik’s eyes.

Even someone as gentle as him had limits to his patience.

“Fine. Let’s see how long you’ll keep lying.”

Ryu Jong-ik turned his gaze to the members.

“Everyone. Park Hui-jun committed the shameless act of sexually assaulting citizens kidnapped by a human trafficking gang. This is an act that goes against the organization’s goal of reforming the country and improving citizens’ lives. From this moment, I will expel Park Hui-jun from the organization and place him under special management. Captain Kang Min-chan.”

“Yes.”

“Please lock that person in a room without windows and find out if there’s anyone behind him.”

“Understood.”

Kang Min-chan dragged away the dazed Park Hui-jun.

Park Jin-hee only glared at her brother with resentful eyes and didn’t even think of stopping him.

Choi Seong-min, who was watching that scene from afar, suppressed his inner laughter.

‘He’s probably thinking of torturing him to find out something, but nothing will come out. I erased everything.’

Choi Seong-min had erased Park Hui-jun’s memories after filming the video yesterday.

Not only the memory of meeting him, but also all memories of Christopher.

Then he edited the video so that his name or Melvin’s name wouldn’t come up and sent it to Ryu Jong-ik’s email.

‘If Park Hui-jun talks about Christopher, it would be troublesome for me instead.’

If they found out that the person who introduced him to the human trafficking gang was the leader of Wings of Hope, the alliance would be broken.

Then the excuse to meet Christopher would disappear.

He wouldn’t be able to assassinate him as desired.

‘That can’t happen.’

That’s why he erased all memories involving himself and Christopher.

No matter how much they tortured him, Park Hui-jun wouldn’t mention Choi Seong-min’s or Melvin’s name.

‘This way, Christopher’s plan to use Park Hui-jun is also ruined.’

By exposing Park Hui-jun’s crimes first, he had blocked variables.

Christopher would probably be flustered, though he didn’t know for sure.

‘Hurry up and show yourself, Christopher. Stop thinking about using petty tricks.’

Choi Seong-min wanted to meet Christopher as soon as possible.

Not to have a conversation when they met.

‘I have to kill him. Without anyone knowing.’

No one saw the killing intent flowing from Choi Seong-min’s eyes.