Chapter 399 – Alchemist Hyunjoo Lee (3)

“I want to hear the rest of the story.”

At my words, Lee Hyun-joo continued the story.

“It was the first time I had ever seen the drugs he used. It was the first time I felt so helpless. Even at such a moment, I wondered how he could have made such a thing. At least it wasn’t made in Korea or Japan. Choi Mok-dong said to me as I was drooling with my face on the table. Your background investigation is over. He said he knew what would happen if he handed it over to Japan. He said he would keep it a secret if I worked with him. And he said he would keep giving me this drug. I wanted to retort the dirty bastard, I wanted to move his body, but I couldn’t. He ordered me, paralyzed, to be sent here by his men. And after that it is as you can see. I was stuck here and couldn’t even step out.”
“The guys who came earlier were talking about money. What is that?”
“Choi Mok-dong controlled the amount of drugs he gave me. I thought that if I was too drunk, my head would freeze. I couldn’t stand it alone, so I secretly asked his men to get drugs. Because of this situation, I couldn’t even find money, and in the end, I was doubly afflicted.”

The story Lee Hyun-joo confessed was a typical story, if typical.
Choi Mok-dong initially approached Hyeon-joo Lee, wondering if she could cure his child, but later realized that she was the goose that laid golden eggs.

It was obvious where the drugs Lee Hyun-joo was supplied came from.
Seonghun Baek.
He had a relationship with a South American soul mage organization, and he manipulated hunters such as Park Hye-na by supplying drugs from them.

But after he disappeared, the supply of drugs would have stopped, so what happened?
I wondered if Busan could have become a new drug supply.
Maybe the victors are at the center of it.

“Was the quality of the drug the same? Without getting worse in the middle?”
“Yeah, it just got better. No, I have to say I’m poisoned. That’s one of the things victors do. Distributing drugs.”
“If it’s distribution… You don’t do production?”
“I know that production is also done here in Busan, but at least I am not a winner. I heard rumors that there is a specialist who manufactures medicine. Hunter with a drug factory. I don’t think it will be a normal bet. In terms of alchemy, he’s at least on the same level as me. I’m addicted to that drug, so I’d say it’s my defeat.”

“Hyeonju…”

Kaori put her hand on Lee Hyun-joo’s shoulder and said.

“Do not worry. I’ll take care of everything.”

Her words were trustworthy, but I was unsure of what plans she might have.

“How?”
“I’m going to find that guy named Choi Mok-dong and kill him. And the victorious faction… I will kill them no matter how many they are. And I’m going to go to the drug maker and have a lifelong supply of medicine for Hyeonju.”
“Haaa…”

I sighed.
If it’s like Kaori, would you say it’s like Kaori?

No matter what the number is, I’m going to kill them all.
In a way, it was an easy idea.
It’s an S-class hunter and I’ve lived as an assassin, so it’s quite feasible.
However, I thought that this kind of work would leave an afterthought.
In addition, Kaori said she would go to the drug maker and have him make medicine for Lee Hyeon-joo.
It’s a tearful friendship, but of course, it’s hard to expect a happy ending in this way.

“I see.”

I didn’t disagree with Kaori’s rough plan.
It’s okay to do that for the basic direction, but you need to come up with a separate method for the details.
It was decided to solve it by bumping into it gradually.

“No, don’t do that. We’d rather run away those guys are dangerous He’s also friendly with S-class hunters. Since this is Korea, I have no choice but to go against you.”
“Didn’t you say you couldn’t run away?”
“That’s… If I somehow manage to break off the chase…”
“Trust us. The S-class hunter Choi Mok-dong talked about is Baek Sung-hoon, right?”
“Uh? How can I…”
“Don’t worry. Because he’s dead.”
“Yeah? The S-class Hunter is dead?”
“Yes, I am 100% sure, so believe me.”

Hyunjoo Lee stared at me.
He looked like he wanted to say something more, but he didn’t know how to ask.
Anyway, I had to find a way to get out of here.
Drugs will not function as tracking devices.
I once treated a Hunter who was in the same situation.
Recently, two people.
What was planted in Lee Hyeon-joo could not be more powerful than what was planted in Fiona or Seul-gi Lee.
Even Choi Mok-dong, who is said to be the leader of the Victory faction, will not have the ability to surpass Lexi.

I decided to ask someone who knows this world well to find out about the victorious faction.
I took out her cell phone and found her Lim Seol-bin’s number and called her.

– Hi Hunter, how are you?
“Yes, how are you? Are the other members doing well?”
– There are kids whining that Hunter misses them, but it’s not something I can do.
“I called because I wanted to ask something.”
– Yes, ask anything.
“Do you know that Busan is a victorious group?”
– I know. There was no direct interaction with our guild, but it is a famous guild in Busan. On our side, we tend to clearly distinguish areas. We don’t get involved in things on the Busan side, and they don’t look beyond Seoul. However, we keep each other in check and always keep our senses on edge. Because unspoken rules can always be broken.
“I contacted you to see if you knew anything. That guild and I got into a bad relationship.”
– Oh, really? Just tell me and I’ll take the kids to Busan. These are the guys who came out of the boat.
“There is nothing to do with that. I want to solve it as quietly as possible.”
– Okay… Would it be okay if I contact you after talking with the members?
“Yes, of course.”

“Who did you contact?”

When I hung up the phone, Kaori asked.

“There are people who know this well. He said he would find out and contact me.”
“Yeah…”

Kaori’s expression darkened slightly.
Perhaps it was because she heard a woman’s voice on the phone.
She seemed to know what Kaori was thinking, even if she didn’t express it.

She’s a woman who doesn’t do much if she’s simply jealous.
At least she doesn’t show it on her face.
But she seemed to think that her wish was to work it out on our own instead of asking other women for help.
She seemed to wonder if she needed to, when she was capable enough of it.

Anyway, Kaori’s rule-of-thumb method had obvious limitations.
Rather than explaining it, I decided to wait for Lim Seol-bin to contact me.

The call came much sooner than expected.
However, it was Cha Hyeon-joo, not Lim Seol-bin, who called this time.

– Hunter. This is Cha Hyun-joo.
“Yeah, are you doing well?”
– Yes, except for the absence of Hunter, everything is fine. All of the members have a lot of work to do due to guild management, so I think each of them will be busy for the time being. But I think we will be able to deliver good news soon.

I thought that the fact that the Black Rose members were busy was due to the problem of occupying the guild leader position of the guild they belonged to.
I’ve done some groundwork for that, but to officially become a guild leader, I’ll need to go through my own process.
Anyway, since this issue had been shared before, I wasn’t too worried.

– I heard you asked your sister about the Victory faction.
“Yes.”
– I am personally acquainted with the sub-head of the organization.
“A dock boss?”

The victorious faction was originally a case in which a violent organization became a guild.
Traces of that could be found in the words of Cha Hyeon-joo.
Because I said it was the sub-head, not the deputy guild leader.

– That woman was in the same guild as me. She was close like a sister. She doesn’t remember what happened, but Mokdong Choi came up to Seoul and had a drink with us. At that time, Mokdong Choi fell in love with my sister at first sight. I remember that there was a good atmosphere between the two. In the end, the older sister followed Mok-dong Choi to Busan. There was probably some trouble between the guilds, and I know that Choi Mok-dong made a lot of concessions through that incident. Her condition was that she take her sister with her. It seemed that the relationship between the two had developed into a male-female relationship, so we didn’t want to pretend to be Seungri and I said okay. After that, the two of them got married, and the older sister became the vice president of the Victory faction. But the important thing is that her older sister hates Choi Mok-dong. He always complained to me that he couldn’t get a divorce because he was obsessed with her pawn. She said that cheating is standard, and that she always treated herself like an emperor and everyone around her like a slave, so she didn’t want to look at her.
“Do you have a son between the two of you?”
– Son… No. I heard that Choi Mok-dong is taking care of the children he had an affair with even though they are not his biological children. He even said that he only cared terribly for his children.