Chapter 90 – Blackmail (5)
Blackmail (5)
Thud- thud-
A small echo echoes through the quiet lobby.
Lee Yoo-jin smiled at the gaze that was getting closer and swung around.
Took-! Took-!
An iron pipe that strikes the thigh in a steady rhythm like the second hand of a clock.
Ten men and women lined up behind the man holding the pipe.
“Hello, manager.”
The footsteps stopped at the end of the echo that echoed louder in the library lobby.
A gentle greeting sent first while keeping each other at close range.
Gently—Lee Yu-jin, who lowered her lightly shaken hand, smiled brightly and pointed a finger at the director’s back.
“Then—is that the entrance door?”
A slender finger tapped on the door of the inner stairway behind the curator and the men and women lined up.
“…”
The curator, who continued to look at them with an expression that did not know what was inside, changed his expression for the first time.
A faint line, not sure if it was a small laugh or a nonsense laugh.
Took-! Took-!
Even in the midst of this, the men and women lined up behind the curator shook slightly, following the tapping that flowed in a certain rhythm.
A table placed in the middle of the men and women who are slowly opening the space and facing each other.
Thud-!
“… Hmm-.”
Lee Yu-jin let out a strange laugh as she watched the director’s subordinates set down tables and chairs.
Three chairs at a round table.
An improvised negotiation table set up in the lobby, not inside the library.
Lee Yu-jin smiled even more strongly, thinking that this table was the director’s last entanglement.
The last pride of a very young man and pretending to be strong.
Awesome!
Lee Yoo-jin sat down at the prepared table, frowning at the enema who was still nailed to her original seat.
Awesome!
After confirming that Jang Deok-gu, who was sitting with him, was staring blankly at the women standing behind the director, she gazed at her in front with a more relaxed smile.
Jerk-! Jerk-!
The director’s footsteps confirmed that Lee Yu-jin and Jang Deok-gu were seated at the negotiating table.
He escaped from the crowd of men and women and came to the table alone and took a seat across from Lee Yu-jin and Jang Deok-gu.
Thud-!
Then, as if tossing it lightly, a gray metal pipe was placed on the table.
“… Pooh-“
In the end, Lee Yu-jin couldn’t help but stare at the metal pipe and the enema on the table.
An iron pipe with indelible dark red bloodstains at the end and a director looking at them with a characteristic expressionless expression.
“… Hmmm—does it confuse you a little whether you’re grasping the situation well or not?”
The upper body leaning slightly while resting the chin on the calyx with both hands.
Lee Yu-jin looked at the director’s eyes, who had come a little closer, and calmly calmed her eyes as she drew lines.
“If this happens, then we’ll lose a little bit of the will to talk to you, right?”
Took-!
Lee Yu-jin released her hand from holding her calyx and flicked her middle finger lightly.
Slurry—the metal pipe on the table sliding gently towards the enema.
Afterwards, Lee Yu-jin, who leaned back more comfortably in her chair, frowned at her enema.
“Even if the venue is decided by our director, it wouldn’t make much sense for only those kids to listen to this important conversation—?”
Lee Yoo-jin, who pointed to the men and women still lined up behind her, shrugged her shoulders with her eyebrows, and continued her words.
“And this is everyone’s problem here in the library. So, wouldn’t it be right that everyone who can hear the conversation should listen to this conversation?”
Furthermore-
A mischievous smile lingers around Lee Yu-jin’s mouth as he drags out his words for a long time.
“Because I am a woman who is interested in something. You don’t have the strength to talk because there are few people?”
“…”
The director, who was listening to Lee Yu-jin quietly again, smiled.
Awesome profit!
Lee Yu-jin opened her inner stairway door and checked the back of the library Camp One, who disappeared, and she responded with a smile.
“By the way, a customer came here, and the service is really bad. Even if you don’t know about coffee, isn’t it basic etiquette to serve you at least water?”
As soon as Lee Yu-jin’s grumbling was over, a plastic bottle of mineral water and a paper cup were placed crudely on her table.
“… Come~.”
Lee Yu-jin put down the water bottle and the paper cup, and she stepped back.
Lee Yoo-jin gently holds the bottled water that has flowed into the paper cup into her mouth.
Sap-!
At that moment, the wind evoked by the enema’s palm whipped around her lightly as if to drive away flying insects from her.
Lee Yoo-jin quietly gazed in front of her, feeling the wind tickling her bangs.
Took-!
The enema lightly brushed off something on her palm.
Lee Yoo-jin lifted the paper cup she was holding a little higher as if to hide a deepening smile as she watched the corpse of a bug falling from his palm.
Awesome profit!
After a short wait, the door to the inner stair opens again.
Lee Yu-jin widened her eyes in a daze as she watched the endless procession through the door.
Thud- thud-
After the sound of footsteps echoing in the lobby for a while, the lobby calmed down again.
Lee Yoo-jin smiled as she wielded the remaining camp members, much more than she thought.
The library’s campers tightly surround the negotiating table, as if reminiscent of jurors.
“I guess you picked a very good ability, Director? Or is it resourceful?”
The Librarian didn’t react to anything other than driving out the bugs for a while.
Lee Yu-jin sent him a bashish-bright smile, then placed her hand on her chest with her pitiful expression.
“Compared to the director, our abilities are so inferior that we have to go through an uncomfortable process that we don’t even want to do.”
Her voice was a little too loud to whisper to one director.
Continuing to arm herself with her leisurely smile, Lee Yu-jin raised her voice even louder.
“It’s poison. The reason why your camp members have been collapsing like sick chickens.”
A bit of a sudden reveal of her special ability.
Lee Yu-jin nodded her head with a small smile at the corner of the director’s slightly narrowing eyes.
“Know. It must have been very suspicious to see him suddenly open his hand. But—isn’t that what matters to us right now?”
“Just as how a person dies is more important than how they die, isn’t it more important how poison was poisoned than whether they were poisoned?”
Tok-!
Lee Yoo-jin’s fingers stabbed the air as if tapping an enema a little far away.
“Of course I won’t tell you about that, but-“
Frowning – Lee Yu-jin, who wrinkled the back of her nose again, smiled broadly and swung her around the table.
“Some of you already have a small amount of poison dormant in your body that may cause an onset in a few days.”
“Well— you guys already know that from seeing your friends around you get seizures, but that’s a really painful poison—”
“Pain in which a person does not even have time to cry and stabs his whole body with thorns without rest. I couldn’t even cry like that, so I twisted my whole body, and in an instant, I squealed!”
Lee Yoo-jin jerked her neck – to her side, making a funny noise at her campmates who were looking at him.
Hundreds of pupils staring at him very quietly in a moment of distorted vision.
“Of course—I didn’t say this just to make fun of you guys. If there is poison, there must be an antidote.”
I am-
Took.
With her coy smile, she placed her hand on her own chest and met their eyes.
“I want to sell you the antidote.”
The end point of such a silent eye contact.
Lee Yoo-jin looked at her enema and spoke very softly.
“Honestly, we have consciences too, we don’t want anything too big.”
Lee Yu-jin was very coy, yet she whispered at a volume that everyone could hear.
“Just enough food for the two of us and two rooms to rest in?”
A weight too light to compare with the lives of campers.
“Besides, we have no intention of continuing to receive free food like the insectivores. From now on, the two of us will do our best to contribute to what you guys are doing. From now on, we will become a family member who eats the same meal, right?”
Lee Yu-jin made the already light weight even lighter.
Following her words, the weight tilted to the extreme.
“Still, for our safety, the camp members are sorry, but I will leave it poisoned as it is.”
“Of course, we plan to take responsibility and distribute the antidote on time so that the poisoned camp members do not die.”
Another weight she had secretly attached to her own weight in her name for her safety catch.
The director or a handful of people might have noticed the weight of the hidden weights, but it really didn’t matter that much.
Most of those listening to him right now are looking at the scales at a very extreme tipping point.
Perhaps her own leader, who is trading her own life on the raised scales before her.
“… How is it?”
This was the reason she created a stage called the negotiating table for everyone to look at.
“A pretty bad suggestion, isn’t it?”
She turns into a tool for not only her, but all the camp members in this position to pressure him.
“If you think about it, it’s just a deal to eat two people with special abilities for free with simple food and shelter, right?”
He was the first to respond to the whispers that continued to gently tickle the enema.
Moving the upper body that was comfortably leaning back on the chair, he raised his hand on the table.
Tok- tok- tok-
And the fingers tapping the table as quietly as the iron pipes that used to tap your thighs.
Tok- tok- tok-
The index finger that tapped the table with a soft rhythm like the second hand of a clock—
Tok- tok-.
It slowly stopped with a small shrug of laughter.
“It’s a threat.”
A low voice emanated from the director who opened his mouth for the first time.
“No, it’s not a threat, strictly speaking it’s a bit sudden deal—”
“Is there a need to play with people who know everything?”
Her manager interrupted Lee Yoo-jin and made eye contact with her gently.
“Now you are threatening me with the lives of my campmates hostage.”
His voice was strangely calm, without growl or anger.
“… The lives of campers?”
However, Lee Yoo-jin casually tilted her head with a deeper smile.
“Why do you think only the camp members’ lives are hostages?”
Ugh-!
A purple liquid flowed down her hand on the table.
Pop – pop –
Chiyiyiik-!
Through the smoke of the liquid, which blew out a small hole as soon as it touched her table, she smiled strangely at her enema.
“… Maybe you are already addicted too?”
Tok-!
His fingers tapped the table again in response to Lee Yu-jin’s strange smile.
“It’s a threat. A little immature menace.”
As if imitating Lee Yu-jin, her enema, who had a strange smile on her face, narrowed her eyes and asked her.
“Why are you making such immature threats to confuse people?”
A slightly slanted face, as if really curious.
Soon, a hand that had been knocking on the table came up in front of his face with a strange smile.
“Of the three things necessary for intimidation, you only kept two.”
Fingers that fold from three outstretched fingers to two.
“I think there are a total of three elements required for intimidation.”
The fingers stretched into three again—
“First of all, first.”
Quietly return to one
“You should observe the opponent you are going to intimidate. Who is the opponent, what weaknesses do they have, and can I exploit those weaknesses, etc.”
And second.
A second finger extended to the girls who are flustered by the sudden situation.
“I will have to face someone who will threaten me like that. Well, whether it’s a letter, a voice message, or a video, I’ll have to let the other person know about my threat. In that sense, it was very bold to come out directly.”
A faint smile lingers on his lips as if he were praising them.
“It is a great advantage to meet face to face. You can respond to variables in real time and put very meaningful pressure on your opponent.”
So-
“If you can get a lot out of success, then of course you have to take the risk of failure.”
A conversation that takes an increasingly strange direction.
Lee Yoo-jin’s eyes narrowed as she looked at the director.
“Finally the third.”
However, in response to Lee Yu-jin’s reaction, the director spread the third finger casually.
He whispered softly at her, waving her three fingers at them.
“Do you know what the third component of intimidation is?”
Bang-!
A roaring sound suddenly echoed without any time to react.
Numerous objects reflected in the eyes of Jang Deok-gu, who tried to activate this ability in an unusual atmosphere.
Jang Deok-gu slowly opened his eyes wide, looking at the table floating in the sky and the bottled water scattering in all directions while lying face down.
Poo-! Pooh-! Poo-!
Then the sound of something breaking in his ear.
Jang Deok-gu felt the hot liquid wet his right cheek.
Drizzle― The chilling sensation of getting goosebumps on its own in the heat of the slowly flowing liquid.
Iron flip-!
Something that fell at his feet before he even realized what had happened.
A corpse with a sunken head enters Jang Deok-gu’s big eyes.
A very familiar face with eyes that I hadn’t even noticed and an open mouth.
“… You weren’t the only one who needed the stage, Venom.”
Deokgu Jang’s body trembled by itself at the very quiet voice.
“…”
A mouth that doesn’t open easily even if you try to say something, and a fixed gaze on Lee Yu-jin’s corpse.
Took-!
Something pulled Jang Deok-gu’s cheek as he looked at Lee Yu-jin, who had collapsed at his feet.
A lump of iron covered with a hot liquid that was hotter than the liquid that had already flooded his cheeks, as if it had been heated by fire.
“Hey, a bug-related superpower.”
Jang Deok-gu quietly turned his head, following the lead of the lump of iron.
A face entered his field of view as he turned his head.
A creepy face looking at itself with a face dripping with blood just like his own face.
He looked at himself and asked quietly.
He smiled very lightly.
Observation, meeting.
And-
“Do you want to die?”
Threat.