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◈ The Newbie Civil Servant Hunts Villains Before Going Home ◈
Chapter 90: I Know You (2)
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Hyeonyul looked ahead.
Four people.
No problem.
Swords were already hovering around their necks.
It was Sinu's power.
"If you scream, you die."
Hyeonyul kindly informed them before plunging his dagger into the throat of the nearest one.
Their eyes widened.
It was a warning.
"I'll ask simply. Have you heard that someone infiltrated the building?"
Only then did the Villain notice what Hyeonyul was wearing.
The corner of his eye twitched.
Black Eagle.
"If you know, blink quickly. If you don't, keep your eyes open."
Hyeonyul spoke as he approached.
When the Villain blinked, Hyeonyul asked,
"You know?"
He grabbed the sword hovering around the Villain's neck.
"That fucking bird..."
Before he could finish, Hyeonyul used the sword to cut his throat.
He looked at his hand.
'...It feels nice.'
It was surprising enough to startle him.
'Should I ask for one? Would that be possible?'
Eyeing Sinu's sword, Hyeonyul stepped forward.
He tilted his head at another Villain.
The Villain was desperately forcing his eyes open, trying not to close them.
"You don't know?"
Hyeonyul took hold of the sword.
"......I-I only did what I was told."
"Is that so?"
Hyeonyul answered calmly, then used the sword to pierce his throat.
Shunk.
It went in more easily than expected.
'It really is nice.'
Hyeonyul looked at the last one.
"You don't know?"
"Go to hell, Black Eagle!"
Hyeonyul watched as the Villain's upper body moved forward.
It seemed he intended to come at him.
Hyeonyul waited quietly.
Before the man could even take a step, the sword floating around his neck drove into his throat.
Hyeonyul stared blankly at the man sprawled at his feet and spoke.
<None of these four knew there was a White Sparrow among them. It doesn't seem the information spread that far.>
Hyeonyul looked toward Nayun's position.
<No one's coming up yet. Wait there a little longer.>
<Don't I need to clear this up?>
Hyeonyul asked as he looked at the corpses.
<It's fine. There won't be a problem until the shift change.>
<Yes. Understood.>
Before leaving, Hyeonyul took out a stick and wedged it beside the door.
It was in preparation for any unforeseen situation.
<Jihwan.>
<Yes, noona.>
<I think we need to go to the control room. I checked whether we could get through by watching the CCTV positions, but it won't work. Turning them off is our best option.>
<Jihwan, do you have enough mana to open two doors?>
Sinu added.
<I can do it.>
<Good. Hyeonyul, stand in front of the wall.>
Following Sinu's instructions, Hyeonyul stood before the wall.
<Wait there.>
Sinu gave another instruction.
Hyeonyul waited for a door to appear.
After what felt like fifteen seconds, a door appeared, and Hyeonyul immediately opened it and went inside.
Swords hung at everyone's throats like bombs.
"Now you can do this comfortably."
Sinu grinned and pointed at the console.
This was apparently faster.
"Yes."
As Hyeonyul answered, he shoved the man sitting in the most important seat.
The moment he moved, the swords rushed at the Villain like a pack of dogs.
"...K-Kegh."
Even with the sound of the man dying with his throat pierced clearly audible, Hyeonyul calmly operated the console.
They needed to instill fear so that the others would not move recklessly even after they left.
They had to build it up one at a time.
It would be even better if they felt helpless.
"If you speak, you die."
Hyeonyul warned them while looking at the screen.
At those words, Sinu glanced at Hyeonyul before speaking.
He smiled faintly at the other Villains.
"If you're curious, feel free to try."
Sinu's gaze traveled until it stopped on the dead Villain.
That was Hyeonyul's way.
He had no intention of saying anything about it.
As he watched the surroundings, Sinu thought,
'I guess I should keep capturing Villains.'
"Are you going to keep capturing them?"
At the same time, Hyeonyul's question reached him.
Sinu looked at Hyeonyul in surprise.
"It would be faster to kill them. They'll only get in the way."
"I know."
"Understood."
Hyeonyul asked no more questions.
Choosing not to take the faster route must have been Sinu's decision.
After extracting every piece of information he could from the relevant CCTV footage, Hyeonyul used darkness to cut the lines inside.
"It's done."
"How about breaking it completely?"
"I did. Since we were handling it anyway, I secured the CCTV footage too. You'll be able to confirm what happened in more detail."
Hyeonyul walked to the door and locked it.
"Good job."
"It was nothing."
"No, it wasn't. Things are moving really fast."
Sinu was sincerely impressed.
It was not simply that they had one more person. The fact that the person was Hyeonyul made all the difference in speed.
It was true that Hyeonyul's lack of hesitation bothered him.
He seemed to lack the restraint any ordinary person should have.
That was something they needed to work out together, not something that had to be raised now.
Hyeonyul nodded slightly, then looked over the Villains.
He approached one who seemed relatively high-ranking and grabbed the sword aimed at his throat.
"What did you hear from upstairs?"
"Kill me, you bastard!"
Hyeonyul quietly watched the man grit his teeth and spit out the words.
Go on, if you can.
According to a book, this kind of spirit appeared with a sixty-nine percent probability when someone knew something.
It was because they instinctively recognized their own importance.
"It seems you did know."
Hyeonyul shoved the Villain.
The moment he moved, blood sprayed alongside the sword that drove deep into his throat.
His wheeled chair slid across the floor and collided with another Villain.
"N-No... Kegh!"
Before he could even continue speaking, a sword pierced his throat.
'Convenient.'
Hyeonyul watched the dying Villain.
Without needing to move his own hands, Sinu's power handled everything.
"Ah, I'm sorry. I didn't intend to kill you too."
Hyeonyul apologized belatedly and looked at the other Villains.
The Villains busily shifted their eyes as though avoiding Hyeonyul's gaze.
Sinu sensed that the atmosphere had changed from before.
Was it intentional?
If so, that was impressive in another sense.
There were many moral constraints Black Eagle could not violate.
Hyeonyul was breaking through them.
That did not mean it was simply a good thing.
There were also things they needed to be wary of.
"Are you afraid?"
Hyeonyul asked after reading Sinu's stiff expression.
Even when he had been a Villain, many people had feared him.
He had once wished the leaders of the various Villain factions would treat him that way, but they only used him.
They did not even keep a single line written in the contract.
"No."
Sinu answered honestly.
"It's only unfamiliar. We need to give you time to adjust."
"Is that so?"
Whatever that unfamiliarity meant, Hyeonyul accepted it calmly.
"That's all it is. You're holding yourself back too."
"...You knew?"
Hyeonyul's fingers stopped.
"Of course I knew. Since I know, I'm not afraid."
Sinu laughed as though dumbfounded.
The very fact that Hyeonyul was holding back meant he was watching their reactions. How could Sinu be afraid of him?
Hyeonyul was trying hard in his own way.
He had only just left the world of Villains. How could he immediately adapt?
"There's no rule saying Black Eagle can't kill Villains. You're doing fine within the bounds of the law, so what do you think we'd say?"
Still, there were few Black Eagles who could kill Villains.
The moral principles and social education they had been taught since childhood held them back.
Sinu had been the same.
Even when he wanted to kill someone, he hesitated.
Sinu held back a laugh at the sight of Hyeonyul's stilled fingers.
Had those words really shocked him that much?
As Sinu returned to watching the Villains, he was dumbfounded by the sound of one of them breathing faster.
"Ah... You didn't know we were Black Eagle?"
Despite them displaying it with their whole bodies, the Villains had failed to recognize that they were Black Eagle.
It was a truly strange experience.
<We can move now.>
A door appeared along with Nayun's message.
<You can go straight there.>
Jihwan informed them.
"We'll be back shortly. Do not move. If you move, you will die, as you can see."
Hyeonyul's warning chilled the atmosphere.
'This is pretty nice.'
Sinu experienced the Hyeonyul effect.
Honestly, how many Villains looked down on them?
Black Eagle could not kill them anyway.
It was true, but knowing that did not make it any less irritating.
"Let's go."
For some reason, Sinu was in high spirits as he headed for the door.
The moment he stepped through, he checked his surroundings.
It was a break room.
When he turned his head left, he met the startled eyes of a woman.
She nearly dropped something from her hand before barely catching it.
It looked like a snack.
"Shh."
Sinu put a finger to his lips.
The woman seemed to nod, then looked at Hyeonyul and widened her eyes in surprise again.
She seemed startled by his helmet.
Hyeonyul took out his phone and compared the photos of the four White Sparrow agents they needed to rescue.
"Is it her?"
"Yes."
At Hyeonyul's answer, Sinu suddenly raised a finger.
He tapped several places on his own body.
It might have looked like strange behavior, but it was a signal.
They could have changed their faces to disguise themselves.
The woman calmly tapped several places on her own body.
"Which team are you from?"
Sinu asked, and the woman answered.
"Team 32."
"She's one of ours."
Before moving, Sinu touched his wireless earbud.
<We can go, right?>
<More than enough.>
Nayun's answer came through.
"This way."
At Sinu's words, the woman finally looked toward the CCTV, then threw the snack she had been eating into the trash.
At the news that she no longer had to be conscious of the CCTV, even her gaze changed.
"Are the others all right?"
"For now, let's go."
Sinu did not tell her.
She might lose her composure because they were on the same team.
The woman asked no more questions and followed where Sinu pointed.
<We've arrived. I'll open a separate door to noona's side.>
At Jihwan's message, Sinu asked,
<Is your mana all right?>
But no answer came.
Nor did a new door open.
Sinu poked his head toward the door that had not yet closed.
Jihwan was standing there blankly.
"...Could you shake him a little?"
Sinu asked the White Sparrow agent who had just entered.
The White Sparrow agent shook the blankly staring Jihwan.
After shaking him several times, Jihwan finally came to his senses.
"...Did it happen again?"
"That's fine, don't worry about it. More importantly, is your mana all right?"
Sinu asked because he was more concerned about Jihwan than what had just happened.
"I'm fine."
Jihwan nodded.
"Then I'll wait beside you for a while."
Sinu went inside and beckoned for Hyeonyul to follow.
Hyeonyul looked behind him.
The door leading to the control room had disappeared.
'I should check once before we go.'
It bothered him because he had never left Villains alive without killing them.
He followed Sinu inside.
<Aside from the captured White Sparrow, two people's routes have changed.>
Nayun's message immediately appeared.
<One had been sitting at their desk working, but they're heading to the break room now. The other had been cleaning the hallway, but they're moving toward the restroom. This break room is different from the one we visited earlier.>
"The targets are moving to different places at the same time."
Sinu rubbed his chin.
He looked at Jihwan's condition.
Jihwan occasionally went blank, but it had been happening more quickly today.
It was probably because of the building's size.
'Is he really okay?'
He was worried.
When Jihwan smiled, Sinu smiled too and turned his gaze to Hyeonyul.
"We should probably split up. What do you think?"
"That's fine."
"Are you really sure?"
"Yes. I'm fine."
After hearing his answer, Sinu walked over to Jihwan and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Can you open two places at once right now?"
"I can. Ah, I'm really sorry, but if I go blank, could you shake me like before?"
Jihwan asked the White Sparrow agent midway through speaking, looking embarrassed.
"All right."
Understanding what was happening, the White Sparrow agent nodded.
"You can relax a little now, bro."
When Jihwan spoke with a smile, Hyeonyul looked at Sinu and Jihwan.
Only now did he understand why they had not considered sending Jihwan in from the start, and why he had not gone in alone last time either.
'It happens more often than I thought?'
Hyeonyul remembered this new detail.
While quietly waiting for the next instructions, he pretended to look around and turned his back to avoid their eyes.
One of his eyes melted away and moved toward the control room.
He had warned them, but it still bothered him because he had not killed them.
'This is inconvenient.'
Hyeonyul learned something new.
The eye swimming through the darkness stopped at the control room.
He looked down from above.
Everyone was unable to move, filled only with fear.
Even seeing it again, Sinu's ability was a good one.
'They're doing fine here.'
After returning his eye, Hyeonyul looked at Sinu and Jihwan.
Since Nayun's instructions had not yet arrived, they were waiting too.
Hyeonyul pretended to walk.
An ear inside his helmet melted and flowed downward.
Following Nayun's earlier words, several locations had appeared on the map in Jihwan's palm.
Remembering those marked locations, Hyeonyul moved his ear.
The basement.
At a glance, that was the place.
It was also the most suitable place to interrogate someone.
After sending his ear into the basement, Hyeonyul followed the sounds.
He heard breathing.
It was incredibly rapid, as if the person might stop breathing at any moment.
"Talk, you bastard!"
"...Huff, gasp."
"Who are you? Who sent you?"
"...N-No. No..."
That faint voice seemed to belong to a White Sparrow agent.
They seemed to be in worse condition than Nayun had seen.
Wouldn't a few more hits make them stop breathing?
"What do you mean, no? Did you think I wouldn't notice you secretly stealing information?"
Thwack!
"...Kegh."
A groan followed the sound of a blow.
'They're only hitting them?'
Hyeonyul found that strange.
Why were they being so kind?
Soon, he heard a door open.
After the sound of a Villain swallowing a breath, a soft rush of wind followed.
"......Welcome!"
'They're high-ranking.'
"Boss!"
At the word "boss," Hyeonyul quickly raised his gaze slightly.
'...The boss came.'
The corners of his mouth nearly rose.
They had come here personally.
<Wait.>
Nayun reacted as well.
<Someone came to the White Sparrow agent I told you had been captured. The atmosphere is different.>
<How is it different?>
Sinu asked.
<I think we should change the order.>
Hyeonyul spoke.
<I'll go. Baek Sinu, please urgently rescue the other two.>
At the sudden words, Sinu and Jihwan looked at Hyeonyul.
But Hyeonyul had no intention of yielding.
His throat was Hyeonyul's.
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