Chapter 280

Chapter 280

That night, back in his room at the Corleone mansion, Han Seo-joon dazedly recalled the events of the day.

The meeting between Corleone’s heir and the Director of the National Intelligence Agency.

At first, he wondered how the two had come to meet, but when he joined him at the table, it soon became clear why.

‘An agent planted in the orphanage tried to take him hostage'.

The director insisted that he had nothing to do with them and will not be held responsible.

Lying on the bed, Han Seo-joon remembered the first time he met the director.

‘Are you Han Seo-joon?’

The director, who had graduated first in his class at the National Intelligence Service's training center.

‘I want you to work with me on something.’

The idea was to infiltrate Corleone over the course of decades.

Because of this, Han Seo-joon had to spend a long time infiltrating.

He made up his life as a loser and lived like a bum on the streets of Corleone to make connections on the inside.

Through his connections, he worked his way up the ranks of Corleone's.

Eventually, he worked his way up to the position of personal assistant to Eugene Han Corleone, Corleone’s successor.

However, the organization didn't have high hopes for him.

They didn't think there was much to be gained from being the secretary to Corleone’s successor, with titles like "Corleone’s bastard" and "incompetent successor".

He spent a lot of time doubting himself, wondering if what he was doing was right but over the past half a year, the man he had served had begun to change.

It was as if he had become a new man.

He quickly became recognized as Corleone’s legitimate successor, and even became an Executive in the Corleone organization.

As a result, the amount of information he had access to increased.

Finally, he thought, I can do something.

[G: Let's meet sometime]

The director of the bureau, who he usually doesn’t hear from, texted him first.

Han Seo-joon sighed as he tossed his cell phone into the laundry basket.

The words the director had spoken today were still ringing in his ears.

"As the official director of the National Intelligence Agency, I'm here to tell you that we have no relationship with the person in the photo sent by Corleone Junior, and we have no relationship with Corleone Junior's injuries.

Chick, chick-!

He lit a cigarette, picking up where he left off on his undercover mission.

Whoosh.

Taking a deep breath in and out, Han Seo-joon looked down at his hand. The glittering light was wistful.

The night in Corleone gradually passed with his worries.

* * *

"I haven't seen you since the beginning of the second semester. So, how was your vacation?"

Bear Grizzly, the instructor in charge of the survival course at the Seoul Hero Academy said.

‘Today is survival class day.’

"It's a beautiful day, and the temperature is just right, so it's a great day to be outside, right?!"

As you might expect from his past survival cooking classes, where students compete in a cook-off using only ingredients found in the wild, most of his classes are outdoors, and because of this, his survival classes are quite popular with the students.

After all, there are a lot of people at the school who like to be physically active.

"......is annoying."

Not a very good class for someone like me who hates being bothered.

"Eugene, you look like you have no energy today, are you okay?"

Young-jae walks over to my slumped self and asks with concern.

I was feeling unusually unmotivated today, probably because I stayed up late gathering information, not to mention the confrontation with the director last night.

"Just do it. The class is worth it."

"Well, that's good, and if it's too much, I'll tell the instructor and we can go to the nurse's office."

"...... Do you think he'll let us go?"

You know, the guy who crushes up some nearby herbs and applies them to anyone who gets hurt in class?

I'm lucky he didn't give me a piece of grass to cheer me up.

I turn back to Bear, who is eagerly explaining what we'll be doing today.

"Today we'll be learning about tracking."

......tracking?

Did they teach tracking in survival classes?

"It's very important to follow the trail of something in the wilderness or inside a dungeon. Of course, it could be food, or it could be the trail of the person who escaped first. Now, how many of you here can use proper tracking skills?"

Several students, including myself, raised their hands in response to the instructor's question.

"Four? That's definitely more than the rest of the classes, since it's Ms. Ji-hyun's class. Anyway, the lesson I'm going to teach you today is called ‘Finding Ji-hyun'."

"""Yes!"?""

The children begin to squeal at the terrifying idea of ‘finding Ji-hyun'.

"Yes~ 6500 credits for the cake, here~!"

"Ding!"

......It turns out he's better than I thought.

No, how the hell is he going to understand that ‘dab'?

"Master?"

"Ah, yes. I'm just looking for someone at the Academy."

"Someone?"

"Our class instructor, Instructor Ji-hyun Ji. Do you have any information on her whereabouts?"

As it turns out, the best way to find someone is to ask the person in charge of information.

Hero parties aren't organized by position for nothing. If there's a way to get information, isn't it my job to take advantage of it?

"Oh, you mean Instructor Ji-hyun, of course I know."

It's like this.

"So, where is she now?"

Latte smiles at my question and points upwards.

"Upstairs."

"Huh?"

"The VIP room. She’s probably having cake there."

"Huh?"

Ji-hyun is here?

After hearing Latte's words, I immediately took out my cell phone and headed upstairs.

At the same time, the recent situation began to organize in my head.

The VIP room at Cielo Notturno was a room with all sorts of tricks for secret conversations, and it was equipped to bounce most magic.

But Ji-hyun is eating cake in the VIP room, not on the terrace on the first or second floor.

What does this mean?

It means she's sneaking in to avoid someone.

But who was she avoiding?

"......Instructor Bear Grizzly."

I pushed the VIP room door inward and saw Ji-hyun eating a cake with a fork.

"Eugene Han?"

-Snap.

Her surprised expression as she looks at me is captured on camera and I immediately text it to Instructor Bear.

His reply arrived a few moments later.

[Bear Instructor: Eugene Han. 1st place]

Apparently, no one has found Ji-hyun yet, except me.

No, maybe that was to be expected. Who would have thought that Ji-hyun would be hiding in the VIP room of a cafe?

Not the ‘boss' of the place.

"You, what did you do?"

She drops the fork she's holding and asks me in a shaky voice.

"Oh, someone asked me to find you, so I just sent a quick text to say I found you."

She frowns, like she doesn't understand what I'm talking about but soon...

"What? Who the hell would......Bear?"

"Yeah."

"Oh, shit!"

At the mention of Bear's name, she jumps to her feet, furious.

She looked around, spotted the window, and started toward it.

"If Bear comes, tell him I ran off to the left!"

With those last words, she leapt through the window.

As I watched, a moment later, the door flew open with a bang and a figure rushed into the store.

Instructor Bear approached with a harsh breath.

"Ji-hyun......where is Ji-hyun?"

"She told me to tell you she ran off to the left, and then ran off to the right."

"Really? Well done. Here's your first prize."

With that, Bear hands me the ‘human face mushrooms’ and runs to the open window.

"Hey, Ji-hyun, pay me back!"

"......ah."

So, that's why he gave us that assignment...the mystery is finally solved.

Well......I got the mushroom, so I guess I'm good.