CLS-Chapter 413

Chapter 413:

‘How did he know?’

Wu-il simply could not understand this situation.

The Ghost Phantom Technique was what he considered his greatest skill. If he put his mind to using the Ghost Phantom Technique, he had confidence that no one under heaven could catch him.

‘How on earth?’

But now that belief was crumbling to pieces. At the hands of that lazy bum, no less.

He denied it.

First, he tried denying it.

But he couldn’t turn away from reality. That lazy bum was now looking straight at him. He could feel that gaze searching through Wu-il’s entire body from beyond the thin wooden boards of the ceiling.

Then Wei Yan-ho’s slightly mischievous voice came through.

“I know you’re not the type to do that kind of work. You seem like a rather diligent person though, so bringing a meal shouldn’t be difficult, right?”

“……”

“And you’ve been there quite a while now, so your joints must be starting to ache. It wouldn’t be bad to go out for a little walk. If you smoke, you could have a smoke on the way too.”

“……”

Wu-il’s mind began to fall into chaos.

How should he react?

How on earth…

Only then did Wu-il realize one more thing.

The identity of the massive sense of unease he had felt when observing Wei Yan-ho’s activities.

Every incident Wei Yan-ho got involved in was a massive event. But the behavior of the people around him who got caught up in those massive events was all slightly strange. It seemed like they wouldn’t act that way if they were the people he knew, yet they all acted like their minds were addled.

The reason was here.

This bastard was chaos itself.

Anyone who stayed around this bastard would end up unable to keep their wits about them, just like Wu-il. That’s why such absurd things could happen.

‘How…?’

Wu-il couldn’t decide on his next course of action.

Should he respond?

Should he flee?

Or maybe he should just bring some food?

He was prepared for every situation. Just because he was confident in himself didn’t mean he hadn’t prepared for the possibility of being discovered. He had already secured an escape route to flee without hesitation if discovered.

But even if he was discovered, he hadn’t thought he would be discovered in this manner. That’s why he couldn’t move.

‘I can’t run away.’

This was Wei Yan-ho who had seen through his existence with just a glance. How could he possibly escape from such a person? He would be caught before he could even take a single step. If not that, then his head would roll.

Wu-il still didn’t understand Wei Yan-ho.

Even if he crawled like a turtle instead of running with full power, he wouldn’t be caught by Wei Yan-ho. Wei Yan-ho’s laziness was too great to bother reaching out to catch him.

But unfortunately, Wu-il didn’t know that fact right now.

“It must be uncomfortable up there. Would you like to come down?”

“……”

Wu-il let out a deep sigh.

Right now, he had no choices available to him. But he couldn’t just play dumb and hold out here either.

Wu-il quietly turned his body and began to slowly crawl out.

“Where are you going?”

“……I can’t come down by breaking through the ceiling.”

“Ah, that’s true.”

Should he just flee like this?

The impulse arose momentarily, but Wu-il could only shake his head in the end. This distance was nothing to masters. Even if he fled with full power from now on, if Wei Yan-ho put his mind to it, he would be caught in an instant.

He was someone who had nothing to fear while hidden, but from the moment his presence was discovered, he could do nothing.

“Huu…“

Wu-il, who had escaped outside through the roof, walked into Wei Yan-ho’s room with the heart of a cow being dragged to slaughter, trudging along.

“……You didn’t bring food?”

Wu-il looked at Wei Yan-ho staring straight at him and seriously reflected on his life.

‘I should have just learned martial arts instead of doing intelligence work.’

Then he might have been able to land at least one punch on that bastard’s face.

“Are you seriously asking that?”

“Excuse me, you came to monitor me, right?”

“……Something like that.”

“Then you must have done some preliminary investigation.”

“That’s right.”

“Then you must know that I’m a lazy bum. I don’t really like saying useless things either. It drains my energy when I talk. So would I have said something I didn’t mean?”

“……”

The mask covering Wu-il’s face trembled.

What sin had he committed in his previous life that he had to have a conversation with this crazy bastard?

“Could you please bring me some food?”

Wu-il nodded.

‘Fine, I’ll go out.’

He would go outside, get as far away as possible, then run for his life. Even if he got caught in the process. He would rather be caught and die while fleeing than end up in the position of bringing this bastard food. This was a matter of human dignity.

“Understood!”

Just as Wu-il said that and was about to turn around, footsteps were heard from outside the door.

“Huk!“

“Did you cough?”

It seemed the servants who had stepped away had returned. Wei Yan-ho tilted his head slightly and said,

“Sorry, but could you bring me some food? I’m hungry.”

“I’ll prepare it right away. Please wait just a moment.”

“Yes. Thank you.”

As the footsteps receded with a pitter-patter sound, Wei Yan-ho looked back at Wu-il with a blank expression. Wu-il also silently stared back at Wei Yan-ho.

“……”

“……”

The two looked at each other in silence for a while.

“Mm.”

“Ah……”

“Eh.”

“……”

A subtle, very subtle time was passing. Wei Yan-ho opened his mouth with a face that seemed to be pondering something.

“What should we do now?”

“……”

Why are you asking me that, you crazy bastard!

If he made it back alive from here, he knew for certain what the first thing he needed to report to Zhuge Mun-in would be.

This bastard was completely insane.

There was a reason why his tendencies couldn’t be predicted even after looking at his activities. How could you observe and predict when a person needs to be human-like? When everything he does is inhuman, how could you predict it?

Probably those who first encountered Wei Yan-ho got caught up trying to predict this bastard. Just like Wu-il right now.

“Hmm.“

Wei Yan-ho scratched his head vigorously.

“It’s awkward to kill you now……”

Flinch.

When the word “kill” came out of Wei Yan-ho’s mouth, Wu-il’s body shrank.

A line from the report floated up in his mind.

Unlike his usual manner, when he takes action, his methods tend to be cruel.

Leaves no loose ends.

Looking at that vacant face, it was hard to believe those words, but this bastard was unexpectedly cruel. Quite a number of people had died by this bastard’s hands so far.

Of course, the martial world was overflowing with people who had killed more than Wei Yan-ho. That fact alone wouldn’t make Wei Yan-ho particularly brutal.

The problem was that this Wei Yan-ho bastard hadn’t been active in the martial world for very long.

In that time, everything that got entangled with this bastard had gone to the afterlife without exception. Would such a bastard bat an eye at killing one more Wu-il?

Sweat trickled down Wu-il’s cheek.

“Ah, if I’d known it would be like this, I should have just beaten him up……”

“……”

“Now that we’ve exchanged words, it feels awkward to do that. Tsk tsk.“

Wei Yan-ho clicked his tongue.

‘That bastard, is he…… regretting that he can’t kill me cleanly right now?’

Should he be grateful that Wei Yan-ho had decided to spare him, or should he curse the bastard who was disappointed that he couldn’t kill him?

Wu-il couldn’t get his bearings at all.

“Uuuum.“

Wei Yan-ho scratched his head as if annoyed.

“Who sent you?”

“……”

“Won’t you tell me?”

Wu-il answered firmly.

“I’d rather you kill me.”

“No, it’s not that I want to kill you…… I just want to know who sent you.”

“……I cannot answer. I’d rather you kill me.”

“My, you really like dying.”

Wei Yan-ho shrugged his shoulders.

“Just tell me where you came from and I’ll let you go.”

“I cannot.”

“I’ll keep it to myself, just me. I won’t even tell my father. I’m just curious, you see, curious.”

“……”

“From what I can see, you’re not from the Tang Family…… Tang Family people have a distinctive atmosphere. So someone else sent you, and I’m wondering what bold fellow inserted someone like you into the Tang Family.”

He had a mouth.

Since he was human, he had a mouth attached. But there was nothing to say.

‘What am I doing right now?’

He knew very well what he should do at times like this.

Suicide.

Intelligence agents never just died. If captured by the enemy, they would inevitably be subjected to merciless torture. Due to the nature of intelligence work, they often knew information that was difficult to access, and there were many who would stop at nothing to extract that information.

You think torture is that easy?

Wei Yan-ho certainly might not be well-versed in torture. Such a young man wouldn’t have had much occasion to torture anyone.

But this was the Tang Family.

Wei Yan-ho didn’t even need to torture him personally. He just had to subdue Wu-il and hand him over to Tang Cheon-gun. Then Tang Cheon-gun would try to show Wu-il every kind of pain that existed in the world, if only to wash away the shame of having an intelligence agent infiltrate the family.

Wu-il quietly moved his tongue to push up the poison pill embedded where his molars should be.

If he just bit down hard like this, deadly poison would spread throughout his body……

“This is the Tang Family.”

“……”

“It would be nice if you could die instantly. But if you can’t, they’ll be able to detoxify it. That poison pill probably came from the Tang Family too, right?”

Wu-il’s mouth hesitated.

‘What am I supposed to do?’

Was he saying he couldn’t do this or that?

“So just tell me where you came from, okay?”

That was something he could never do.

“My, you’re really frustrating.”

Wei Yan-ho slowly raised his upper body.

“Hmm, should I just send you back then?”

He already knew that would never happen. But humans are beings who cannot help but show interest even in vain hopes.

Wu-il looked at Wei Yan-ho with trembling eyes.

“But if you go back, will you be able to live?”

The trembling stopped.

Reality began to crash down on him.

“Just sending you back so you can live would be nice, but it seems like staying intact would be difficult, wouldn’t it?”

Wei Yan-ho’s words were precisely hitting Wu-il’s reality.

An intelligence agent whose identity has been exposed has no value. They only become a hindrance.

Especially someone like Zhuge Mun-in……

He would try to eliminate Wu-il to avoid having his relationship with him discovered. Since Wei Yan-ho had already noticed him, it was impossible for him to shake off Wei Yan-ho’s pursuit and return.

“Mm, this is a dilemma.”

Wei Yan-ho, who had been lost in thought for a while, looked up as if pleased.

“Someone’s coming.”

“Eh?”

Footsteps could be heard, and then the door opened as a large feast table flew into the room.

“When you’re hungry, you can’t think well either. Let’s eat first and think about it again afterward.”

Wu-il, who had hurriedly hidden under the bed to avoid the servants’ eyes, began to tear up.

No matter how he looked at it, this was hopeless.