Sim Gi-hwan's Demise
And Myeongwoo stared coldly at the burly men charging towards him.
He turned the combat knife in his hand reverse and gripped it, swinging it fiercely at the men rushing towards him.
Myeongwoo's blade sliced through the vital points of the men, and they were ruthlessly slaughtered by his merciless knife strikes.
"Don't be afraid!! Stab first!!"
"The opponent is just one guy!! Don't back down and fight!!"
"Yaaaak!!"
The men swung the weapons they held, trying to kill Myeongwoo.
But Myeongwoo skillfully dodged their attacks and exploited the gaps to slaughter them.
At that moment, one of the men extended a sashimi knife towards Myeongwoo's neck, but he dodged it.
Myeongwoo, avoiding the blade, sliced open his side and drove the knife into his lung, twisting it roughly.
Then he pulled the knife out of the man's lung.
Simultaneously, as he was about to swing a steel pipe at Myeongwoo, he knocked it away with his left hand and shattered his left knee with a low kick.
As the man staggered, Myeongwoo stabbed his knife multiple times into his chest and abdomen.
One man swung an axe at Myeongwoo, but he knocked away his arm and sliced his axillary artery.
Other men swung their weapons at Myeongwoo, but it was futile.
There was no one at this place who could surely defeat Myeongwoo armed.
Myeongwoo's attacks with weapons were bold and merciless, unlike when he faced Jae-hyeok before.
"Kill!! It's just one guy!!"
One man shouted, and another tried to stab Myeongwoo in the side with a sashimi knife.
Myeongwoo twisted his body slightly to avoid the blade, then drove the knife's blade into the man's eye.
"Kyuaaaak!!!"
As Myeongwoo twisted the blade roughly, blood oozed from his pierced eye.
Pulling out the blade, Myeongwoo leaned back and swung the knife at the men attacking him.
In the end, within 10 minutes, Gi-hwan's subordinates were pushed to the brink of annihilation.
When the news that Seo Myeongwoo had been taken down by a lowlife thug reached him, people in the underworld, including Gi-hwan and his subordinates, thought he had become a toothless tiger.
They had been mistaken.
They didn't know that the lowlife thug had been strong, but Seo Myeongwoo was not weak at all.
"Whew... It's been a while since my body felt this loose."
Saying that, Myeongwoo wiped the blood splattered on his face with the back of his hand and glared at Gi-hwan's subordinates with murderous eyes.
Seeing this, Gi-hwan's subordinates were gripped by fear and retreated.
The men, thinking they would die anyway, charged at Myeongwoo with the intention of carving up his body.
It didn't take long to realize how reckless that thought was.
Two men's blades flew towards Myeongwoo's neck and abdomen, but he stepped back and dodged their attacks.
Then he stabbed another man's stomach repeatedly as he charged again, pushing him into the crowd.
"Come in!! Stuff it!!"
"Die, you bastard!!"
The men tried to kill Myeongwoo who entered their midst by stabbing him with blades.
But he endured their attacks without dying.
Then, using his fists, he hit their jaws or sides to temporarily disable them,
and then drove the blade into their vital points like eyes, neck, chest, etc., to bring them down.
Other men tried to attack Myeongwoo, but he skillfully dodged and sliced their vital points.
Gi-hwan's subordinates tried to bring down Myeongwoo, but it was impossible to easily defeat the one of the strongest in Gangryonghoe.
So, Gi-hwan's subordinates and Myeongwoo intertwined and swung weapons at each other.
It looked like eels tangled in a bucket of water.
Myeongwoo mercilessly slashed the subordinates even in the complex tangle.
After a while, only three subordinates of Gi-hwan remained.
"Stop your futile struggle and step aside. If you step aside, I'll spare your lives."
"What the fuck!!"
To protect Gi-hwan, the men rushed at Myeongwoo desperately.
One man's axe flew at Myeongwoo, who stepped back to dodge it.
Then another man's knife came flying, but he knocked away the man's hand with his left hand and stabbed his abdomen at the same time.
Then he twisted the blade 90 degrees counterclockwise, pulled it out from the abdomen, and dodged the following attacks by turning his body back or sideways.
After dodging, Myeongwoo turned the knife reverse and in an instant sliced one man's neck.
The last remaining man swung a knife at Myeongwoo, but he knocked away the attack with his left hand and stabbed his abdomen and chest repeatedly with the blade.
Myeongwoo, who had wiped out Gi-hwan's subordinates, took a moment to catch his breath and moved towards the exit where Gi-hwan had gone.
Meanwhile, Gi-hwan was preparing to flee with other subordinates.
"Sir. I have gathered all the necessary items."
One of Gi-hwan's subordinates said, holding a heavy bag as if it was full of something.
But Gi-hwan was holding his phone to his ear and not saying anything.
He was chewing his lip anxiously.
"Sir?"
"Wait a moment."
'Yeong-seok... If you're alive, please pick up the phone.'
Gi-hwan was contacting Yeong-seok.
But since Yeong-seok didn't take his phone when leaving with Taemin, the phone left in his house was just vibrating.
'I don't know why he's not picking up, but I have to contact him later.'
Then Gi-hwan put his phone in his pocket and told the subordinates.
"Let's go out first."
Just as one of Gi-hwan's subordinates opened the door and went out, Myeongwoo, covered in blood, stood in front of him.
Holding a knife with blood on the blade, Myeongwoo looked at Gi-hwan and smirked.
"Hyung. Where are you going?"
Instantly, several of Gi-hwan's subordinates rushed at Myeongwoo, and he dodged one attack and stabbed his abdomen with the blade.
From that state, Myeongwoo pushed him into the room, pulled the blade out from his abdomen, turned his body, and blocked another attack with his left hand.
At the same time, he stepped on the top of the man's foot with his heel behind him, turned the knife reverse, quickly stabbed and pulled it out from his chest.
Then Myeongwoo turned his body and stabbed the man's ribs with a middle kick with his right foot.
The man whose ribs were shattered in one blow bent over in pain, staggered, and was killed by Myeongwoo's knife.
Myeongwoo now glared at the remaining Gi-hwan and charged at him.
The knife's blade pierced Gi-hwan's lung, and as his pupils dilated, a sound of air leaking from his mouth was heard.
"Heu-eo-eok..."
With the blade in Gi-hwan's lung, Myeongwoo brought his mouth close to his ear and said.
"You should have just handed him over when I asked nicely, why did you make such a useless struggle and end up like this."
Saying that, Myeongwoo slowly twisted the blade counterclockwise.
After pulling out the blade, Myeongwoo stabbed Gi-hwan's abdomen and chest multiple times to finish him off.
Gi-hwan died from the stabs without any resistance, and leaning against the wall, he staggered and fell.
Myeongwoo coldly looked at Gi-hwan's cooling body, then took out his phone from his pocket.
Then he contacted someone somewhere.
"It's me. I've taken care of Sim Gi-hwan and those guys, so come and clean it up."
The next day at noon, Seo Yeong-seok's house.
The car driven by Park Min-hyeok's subordinates, father of Jae-hyeok, and Yeong-seok stopped in front.
"But do we really have to bring all these things?"
The man in the driver's seat asked Yeong-seok sitting in the back seat.
"We'll only bring the necessary items."
"If you just leave them..."
Without answering, Yeong-seok opened the door and entered the apartment.
Holding the bag, he entered the house and put something in the bag.
Those were the cash and gold bars he had earned in three years since coming to South Korea.
'It's money I saved for the day when I can live stably with my family someday...'
Yeong-seok had saved money desperately to settle down stably with his family who would come to South Korea someday.
Even by committing crimes.
Gi-hwan also expanded his territory thanks to Yeong-seok's power, and since he knew about it, he gave him a hefty bonus.
Thanks to that, Yeong-seok could live a somewhat stable life in South Korea for three years.
Then Yeong-seok picked up the phone on his living room table and turned it on.
His phone had dozens of missed calls and messages.
They were all contacts from Gi-hwan.
Yeong-seok carefully read the messages from Gi-hwan.
[Yeong-seok, pick up the phone]
[They're looking for you at Gangryonghoe right now]
[I don't know what you did to that VVIP guy, but]
[That's why Gangryonghoe is looking for you]
[So run away]
[If you see this message, don't worry about it and run abroad for a while]
[Your younger brother at Onewon, I'll take care of him later somehow]
Yeong-seok's expression hardened after seeing the messages from Gi-hwan.
Then he hurriedly called Gi-hwan.
A moment later, someone picked up the phone.
"Seo Yeong-seok?"
"......Who is this?"
"Is it Seo Yeong-seok?"
"Answer my question first."
"......It's Seo Myeongwoo from Gangryonghoe."
Myeongwoo, the hotel manager, was sitting with one leg crossed in the hotel manager's room.
"Why do you have Sim Gi-hwan's boss's phone?"
"I killed him and took it."
"What...?"
Yeong-seok's expression became fierce, and strength entered his hand holding the phone.
"He was a scary guy. He sent me a message to come to us, but"
"Even when I stabbed him to death, he didn't call you."
"......Did you have to kill that guy too?"
"What? I heard you were close, I guess it's true. Even when his hyung was dying..."
"Answer me, you bastard who will break my skull, did you have to kill that guy too?"
Yeong-seok, enraged, unconsciously spat out the words he used in North Korea.
"Hey, the cause was you from the beginning."
"If you hadn't interfered with the VVIP's business for nothing, we wouldn't have had to kill Sim Gi-hwan."
Yeong-seok gritted his teeth and suppressed his anger, and Myeongwoo continued.
"Sim Gi-hwan died because of your wrong choice."
"It's like a kind of collective responsibility?"
Yeong-seok took a deep breath and asked Myeongwoo.
"You... What did you say your name was?"
"Yeah. But?"
Yeong-seok glared and said to Myeongwoo in a murderous voice.
"Wash your neck and wait. You will definitely die at my hands."
"Really? If you can, try it. I wonder what you can do now that you have nothing."
After saying that, Myeongwoo hung up the phone, and Yeong-seok, holding the phone with the call disconnected, stood silently in the middle of the living room.
A moment later, he took out the necessary items like things that could become money in the bag and the phone and went out.
Then Yeong-seok boarded the car stopped outside the apartment.
"Mr. Seo Yeong-seok? Are you okay?"
Yeong-seok's expression was dazed.
That was only natural because the person who had been protecting him had died trying to protect him.
Just because he was related to him.
Yeong-seok asked the man in the driver's seat in a hoarse voice.
"Sir. Can you include me in the work you're doing...?"
"What? What do you mean by that?"
"You seem to know that the purpose of the work you're doing is to bring down National Assemblyman Cha Jin-yeong and Gangryonghoe. Is that correct?"
"Yes. But why such words...?"
Yeong-seok clenched his fist and said.
"Those bastards from Gangryonghoe killed my benefactor."
"So please include me in the work you're doing."
Then Yeong-seok said with an expression mixed with anger and grief, clenching his teeth.
"Those bastards from Gangryonghoe... I will definitely kill them with my own hands."