Chapter 38: Tailing (3)

I tied the hair of the three people like a braid and dragged them to my house.

I took a moment to catch my breath in front of the front door and checked the presence inside.

As expected, there was still one person left.

I burst open the door and dragged the fainted people inside.

At that moment, the presence in the kitchen fluttered and quickly disappeared.

So she was there.

It was understandable that she would be agitated since the people who were tailing me together were captured while they were out for a while.

The small ripples that spread in her mind affected the maintenance of her skill, and she revealed her presence, even if only for a very short time.

I immediately went to the kitchen and grabbed her head.

I quickly pulled her head and lifted my knee.

Then, her nose and my knee met.

Crack!

“Aaaagh!!!”

The person who was hiding in the house fell backward, bleeding from her nose from the sudden knee kick.

The physical impact completely dispelled her stealth.

I grabbed the hair of the woman who was falling backward and slammed her to the floor with all my might.

Thud!!

And I roughly grabbed the woman’s bangs and lifted her up.

“Aigo. Your pretty face is completely smashed.”

“Agh, agh…! M-My, my, nose, nose…!”

The woman’s eyes were mixed with emotions such as embarrassment and pain, and she seemed unable to properly accept the situation that had occurred.

Complete panic state.

There was a very good treatment for this.

I grabbed the woman’s bangs to prevent them from coming loose and slammed her head on the floor again.

Thud!

“Kuheup…!”

When I lifted the woman’s head again, who was making a pathetic scream, she seemed to have fully grasped the situation.

“S-Save… Save m-“

“Who are you.”

“Yes, yes, yes…?”

“Who sent you. Is it Yeonseong?”

“…… N-No-!”

Thud!

“……. No…”

Thud! Thud!!

I repeated the series of actions whenever she lied.

After repeating it about five or six times.

“Y-Yes…! Y-Yeonseong told us to monitor you…!”

“Yeah. It would have been nice if you had said that from the beginning. Why did you keep lying? Good girl.”

Sadly, I patted the woman’s cheek, which was soaked in blood.

The woman looked at me with eyes full of fear.

I don’t go easy on women.

If you cross the line, whether you’re a woman or a man, you’ll go to the brink of death.

Besides, this woman who was hiding in the house, despicably, was watching me in front of the bathroom when I was taking a bath.

I’m sure of it because I felt a particularly strong presence in front of the bathroom door.

I didn’t feel a shred of guilt or remorse.

If this situation was in the original world, it would be four strangers monitoring a lone, vulnerable woman.

And one of them even entered the woman’s house and watched her shower.

And Yeonseong, the most prominent guild in Korea, led such an act?

If even a little of this fact spreads, at the very least, the stock price will plummet and a boycott of the guild will begin.

And.

[Meminist group. Demands male quota guarantee from world’s 6th-ranked, Korea’s 1st-ranked Yeonseong Guild…]

I recalled the article I saw when I searched for information about this world after returning.

The meminists of this world were so strong in their words and actions that it could be seen as a singularity, and their influence was also considerable.

This gender-reversed world is a world where male characters are blocked from virtual reality if they take off even a little of their clothes.

If they find out about this?

Yeonseong Guild will be bulldozed by the meminists that day and disappear from this country.

Of course, Yeonseong Guild probably didn’t think that what they did would be exposed like this.

The tailers were stealth skill Awakeners, and three hunters with decent skills were equipped with stealth artifacts.

But they just didn’t know.

The card I didn’t fully reveal.

Woman… I need a title.

Okay. Let’s call her Stealth Girl.

I coaxed Stealth Girl, who was terrified, and got a confession.

“Are there any other tailers besides you?”

“… The four of us are all.”

“Who ordered the tail?”

“Team Leader Seo of Yeonseong Guild’s information department… Going further up… The representative gave the order directly.”

“The position of things in the house has changed a little, what did you do to my house?”

“… We installed eavesdropping devices and filming artifacts in various places.”

“The purpose of the tail?”

“…… Monitoring Han Suhyeon…”

Whenever I felt like she was lying, I would slam her head on the floor.

Thud!!

“Kuhuk, sob…! S-Sorry, sorry…!”

“Again. What’s the real purpose of the tail?”

“… Monitoring Han Suhyeon’s surroundings and gathering information… Resolving it peacefully as much as possible, but if it is determined that recruitment is impossible… It doesn’t matter if the body is damaged, just make sure he can use the Inventory skill and bring him back alive…”

Pop! The truth came out.

And the truth was quite unpleasant.

It meant that they were practically going to use me as a limbless Inventory warehouse.

‘Yeonseong Guild’s representative.’

How should I fck with that bstard.

There were many ways to f*ck with him.

One way would be to pretend to be a victim of sexual assault and stand in front of the media, but this method was a bit uncomfortable.

In the long run, it wouldn’t be good to get involved with memi, so I excluded this method.

What kept getting in the way of devising various methods was, as expected, my current level of force.

In the old days, I would have confidently entered the front gate of Yeonseong Guild and wreaked havoc, but now I was lacking a lot in terms of force.

I used more than half of my current mana in the battle a little while ago… I felt a strong need to recover my strength faster.

But even if I train my body and grow my core, for some reason, the seal shows no signs of breaking… Tsk.

In the end, the actions I could take now were to send a gesture of reconciliation, or to belong to another group and request personal protection while simultaneously screwing over Yeonseong Guild…

Neither were appealing options.

Screw them over, and avoid worrying about the aftermath… Hmm…

… Should I just act like a crazy b*stard?

I pulled myself together.

It’s time to go back to the old days for a moment.

“Hey. What was that earlier… You said you installed a filming artifact, right?”

“Yes, yes…”

“How many did you install?”

“Th-Three.”

“Take them all out and bring them.”

Stealth Girl staggered and searched the house.

Judging by the movement, it seemed that there was one small filming artifact each in the bathroom, next to the bed, and above the kitchen.

Stealth Girl collected the eavesdropping devices and filming artifacts and handed them to me.

I destroyed all the eavesdropping devices and checked the filming artifacts.

Inside, there was a scene of me living normally in the house.

I stored two of the filming artifacts in my inventory for possible evidence.

And I started filming with the remaining artifact.

I held the filming artifact close to Stealth Girl’s face and asked a question.

“Now, look at the camera and tell me your name and age.”

“… Yes…? What…! Kuhuk! Sob…!”

Since she didn’t listen, I slammed her head on the ground again.

I can see the floor stained with Stealth Girl’s blood, and I reflect Stealth Girl’s blood-soaked face in the artifact.

“Look at the camera and tell me your name and age.”

“M-My name is Kim Doyeon… My age is 26…”

“Affiliation?”

“Y-Yeonseong Guild… Information Team…”

At that point, I showed the three fainted hunters tied up like dried pollack from a fish market, then talked to Stealth Girl again.

“Can you tell me what you did to me?”

“W-We…”

Stealth Girl confessed everything they had done, probably because she didn’t want to feel pain again.

A man holding a camera, women tied up and fainted, a woman trembling with fear, saying her name and age…

Hmm. For some reason, I keep having lewd imaginations.

After finishing the video recording of Stealth Girl’s confession, I confiscated Stealth Girl’s cell phone.

Unfortunately, there was no number for the representative, but there was Team Leader Seo.

When I asked Stealth Girl, she confessed that Team Leader Seo was the direct superior of Stealth Girl and the fainted people.

I transferred the video I filmed with the artifact to Stealth Girl’s cell phone and sent it to Team Leader Seo.

And exactly 4 minutes later, Team Leader Seo called.

Since the video was about 3 minutes and 40 seconds long, he called almost as soon as he checked the video.

“Kim Doyeon! What the hell is this…!”

“Yes. Are you Team Leader Seo?”

“… Han Suhyeon…?”

“Yes, yes. I’m Han Suhyeon, the one you were monitoring.”

“… Do you think you’ll be safe after doing this-“

“Hey. Shut up, you b*stard. Before I go find you and rip your head off.”

“……?”

At my sudden outburst, Team Leader Seo was at a loss for words like a mute who had eaten honey.

Since returning, I had been using honorifics to avoid causing trouble with words, but once I got angry, swear words came out.

Ah. Whatever. Since it’s come to this, let’s go all the way.

“You get lost. Get the representative on the phone.”

The representative’s office on the top floor of the Yeonseong Guild building.

Yeon Do-hee, the representative of Yeonseong Guild, looked at Team Leader Seo, who was standing in front of her with a mortified expression.

“… Three B-rank hunters with a B-rank stealth artifact worth 1 billion won. All of them were taken down by an Awakened specializing in covert operations…? Not by someone else, but by Han Suhyeon himself?”

The current situation was very far from Yeon Do-hee’s expectations.

At least three days to monitor Han Suhyeon and gather information about him and his surroundings.

After that, if it was determined that he could be recruited, they would contract him with a huge annual salary, or if it was determined that it was impossible… they were planning to kidnap him.

In the process, she thought that the problems that would arise would be problems with another group aiming for Han Suhyeon, but she did not think that there would be direct friction with him.

“… I’m really sorry. This is the video he sent.”

Yeon Do-hee looked at the smartphone that Team Leader Seo handed over.

And after watching the whole video, she pinched the bridge of her nose.

Things got quite complicated.