Despite Baek Geon-ho’s preparations, the White Tiger Gang was utterly devastated.
Yeon Ha-yeon stormed in at the predicted time and swept everything away, and the fact that Yeon Hyeong-gwang, who had just returned from America, joined in meant there was nothing they could do.
Baek Geon-ho, who had been defeated by the Yeonhwa organization again after last time, sank to his knees.
He looked up at Yeon Ha-yeon with disbelieving eyes and spoke in a dazed voice.
“You knew?”
Chae Yu-hwan’s plan was perfect.
He thought it was perfect, which is why he carried out this operation, but he never imagined it would be exposed in such a way.
Baek Geon-ho gritted his teeth, looking around his chaotic office and at his subordinates sprawled on the floor.
Chae Yu-hwan was still unreachable amidst all this.
‘Could it be that he sold me out to save himself?’
It was a complete misunderstanding, but from Baek Geon-ho’s perspective, it was understandable.
Yeon Ha-yeon, who had stormed into the White Tiger Gang’s headquarters, stomped on the White Tiger Gang members and said that she knew there was a mole from the White Tiger Gang hidden within her own organization.
For Baek Geon-ho, who had assumed she didn’t know and that’s why she left them alone, this was quite shocking news.
“Then why didn’t you get rid of them earlier?”
At his question, Yeon Ha-yeon bent down slightly to meet his eye level.
Then, she took off the black glove she was wearing and tapped Baek Geon-ho’s face with it, saying,
“Because he was very useful.”
She had already figured everything out and had been manipulating all information going to the mole, sending only false information.
Baek Geon-ho, mistaking it for real Yeonhwa Clan information, had picked a fight once and was thoroughly beaten last time.
Yeon Ha-yeon crouched on the messed-up floor, facing Baek Geon-ho and showing a charming smile.
Baek Geon-ho’s face turned completely pale at that smile.
“Your organization can’t succeed because you only think in such a one-dimensional way.”
After delivering a scathing remark with a smiling face, Yeon Ha-yeon told her subordinates to deal with Baek Geon-ho and left.
Then, Yeon Hyeong-gwang appeared, shaking his green hair, and with the same expression as his sister, said,
“You’d better get ready to be thoroughly crushed.”
While Yeon Hyeong-gwang took care of Baek Geon-ho, Yeon Ha-yeon, with her long black hair flowing, went outside the building.
She then stopped when she saw familiar faces walking from the end of the alley.
“Oh? Ha-yeon! What are you doing here?”
James, who greeted her warmly, grabbed Cha Hyeon-seo’s wrist, who was walking beside him, and led her forward.
Yeon Ha-yeon lightly raised her hand to greet James and Cha Hyeon-seo, who quickly approached her.
“Aaaargh!”
A man’s furious scream escaped from inside the building.
At the same time, James and Cha Hyeon-seo turned their heads to look at the building, then shifted their gaze to Yeon Ha-yeon.
“You were diligently focusing on your main job.”
“Looks like you’ve wrecked another place.”
They casually dismissed it, briefly greeted Yeon Ha-yeon, and continued on their way.
“Ha-yeon seems busy with other things these days. Is she even trying to persuade Dana to join the Blood Scent?”
When they were some distance from Yeon Ha-yeon, James turned around and looked at the building from which the scream had just come.
“Blood Scent and Onsaemiro need to settle things quickly so we can do something too.”
James and Cha Hyeon-seo were somewhat certain that Dana was the culprit who raided the gate last night.
To confirm whether it was Yeon Ha-yeon or Lee Dana, they watched the gate from a considerable distance, pretending to be passersby.
Thanks to that, they could confirm the appearance of the person coming out of the gate.
Curly light brown hair, a delicate profile, and a smaller stature than Yeon Ha-yeon.
She appeared for only a very brief moment and then vanished instantly, so they couldn’t be certain, but it was definitely not Yeon Ha-yeon.
Even when they tried to recall a few female hunter candidates who could enter the gate alone, their appearance didn’t match the person they saw.
If so, it was highly likely that the person who entered the gate last night was indeed Lee Dana.
“It seems her busy schedule is over now, so we just need to observe a little longer.”
Cha Hyeon-seo recalled Dana’s appearance from last night, answered James, and walked ahead first.
“Let’s go together!”
James quickly shouted as he followed Cha Hyeon-seo.
***
“It looks like it’s already over?”
I looked up at a building in front of me and said to the Four Heavenly Kings.
Ban Eun-hyeol’s eyes glowed, and she contacted Yeon Ha-yeon to find out her location, which allowed us to arrive immediately.
But in the meantime, it seemed the matter was concluded, as Yeon Ha-yeon and Yeon Hyeong-gwang were leisurely drinking yogurt in front of the building.
Judging by how quiet this alley was compared to other places, it seemed they had already had a proper fight.
Yeon Ha-yeon and Yeon Hyeong-gwang spotted us, waved happily, and walked towards us.
“Why did you ask where I was?”
Yeon Ha-yeon was completely clueless because Ban Eun-hyeol had only asked for her location and then immediately hung up.
When Eun Ba-da told her what we had deduced, she clapped as if impressed, nodded her head, and pointed to the building behind her.
“That’s right. This is the headquarters of the organization where the mole was planted. We just swept it clean and came out.”
“And I just came down after dealing with the boss!”
Yeon Hyeong-gwang brightly exclaimed, following Yeon Ha-yeon’s words.
He looked excessively cheerful for someone who had just dealt with an organization’s boss.
It was at this moment that I thought, ‘Siblings are indeed siblings.’
“Oh, but Baek Geon-ho was saying something strange. He mentioned Iljin Sanggo. Does that ring a bell, Boss?”
“Iljin Sanggo?”
Yeon Ha-yeon tilted her head at Yeon Hyeong-gwang’s words and asked again.
Yeon Hyeong-gwang then told us what he had heard.
He said he couldn’t properly understand it because Baek Geon-ho was rambling in anger, so it was truly difficult to grasp what he was talking about.
At that moment, Eun Ba-da, who understood Baek Geon-ho’s rambling words perfectly, stepped forward and clearly organized the situation.
“So, Chae Yu-hwan from Iljin Sanggo is the main culprit who orchestrated this whole thing, right?”
“What?!”
“Why would he do something like that?”
Before the surprised Han Ji-bin could say anything, Ban Eun-hyeol took a step forward and asked.
She was flustered when the name of someone who rarely had dealings with Yeon Ha-yeon came up.
Then, a scene flashed through my mind.
I patted Ban Eun-hyeol’s shoulder and said,
“Wasn’t that the guy who kidnapped me at the construction site last time? Looks like he dreamed of getting revenge after getting beaten up by Ha-yeon.”
“Ah, so that’s how it was.”
My friends, who roughly understood what had happened, all radiated a menacing aura.
Ban Eun-hyeol looked ready to storm into Iljin Sanggo immediately and drag Chae Yu-hwan out by the collar.
“He probably won’t be at school if you go now.”
“Right. Iljin Sanggo would have already finished school.”
When I said something to calm Ban Eun-hyeol down, Eun Ba-da chimed in.
“Let’s deal with Chae Yu-hwan ourselves.”
Being kidnapped twice by the same person after being possessed was starting to get on my nerves.
After my friends heard my voice, which was low with anger, they agreed, and we discussed how to deal with Chae Yu-hwan.
“What? When did I get so many calls?”
Chae Yu-hwan slowly descended from the school rooftop and walked across the empty playground of Iljin Sanggo.
With a school bag in one hand, he checked his phone with the other and frowned at the numerous missed call notifications.
He had put his phone on silent to get some sleep, so he hadn’t known calls were coming in.
He confirmed that all the numbers on the list were from the White Tiger Gang and called Baek Geon-ho.
However, only a dial tone went through; Baek Geon-ho didn’t answer.
Chae Yu-hwan checked the messages Baek Geon-ho had sent, one by one.
[How dare you betray me?]
[You messed with the wrong person.]
[Aren’t you going to answer the phone?]
“What is this talking about?”
He couldn’t understand any of it.
Betrayal out of nowhere.
Why were they suddenly misunderstanding him as having betrayed them?
Chae Yu-hwan decided to call one of his gang members to figure out the situation.
The other person answered quickly before the signal even rang twice.
“Hey, did you get any calls from the White Tiger Gang?”
“No? I don’t have their number.”
“Oh, was that it? Alright. Hang up for now.”
Chae Yu-hwan hung up the phone and left the school gate with an uneasy feeling.
Perhaps because it was winter, the sun set quickly, and it was already dark.
He was walking in the middle of a street lit by various lights when, with an astonishing intuition, he quickly ducked into a nearby cafe.
He had felt a murderous aura behind him, and sure enough, a man who looked like a White Tiger Gang member, clearly severely injured, was looking around.
Chae Yu-hwan could tell that something had happened without his knowledge.
It seemed the gang member who saw him was looking for him, and if he went out like this, it wouldn’t end well.
“One iced latte, please.”
He sat in a corner of the cafe, out of sight from outside, planning to kill some time before going home.
He had just finished ordering and was looking around the cafe for a seat.
A murmuring sound came from the entrance.
He wondered if a gang member had entered the cafe, but it was a murmur filled with excitement, as if someone famous had appeared.
When Chae Yu-hwan, curious about who had arrived, turned his gaze towards the entrance, his eyes met the man who was leading the group into the cafe.
‘It’s the Four Heavenly Kings?’
The man whose eyes met his was Ban Eun-hyeol.
Behind him, Yeon Ha-yeon and Lee Dana, whom he had kidnapped once before, were also visible.
How unlucky to run into them here.
He thought of it only as a minor inconvenience, but just as he was about to move to a corner seat, a large body blocked his path.
“What?”
Chae Yu-hwan frowned and raised his head, feeling a sudden chill down his spine.
Ban Eun-hyeol, who had stopped him, had a murderous look he had never seen before.
Behind him, the aura of Yeon Ha-yeon, the Four Heavenly Kings, and Lee Dana was no different.
Chae Yu-hwan unconsciously took a step back.