Chapter 123 – The Last Reckoning

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Park Jeong-hwan met Lee Nam-cheol.
And he told him what his younger brother Park Jeong-gyun had found out.

“So… You mean my son tried to kill me?”
“Yes, listen.”

He told Lee Nam-cheol what the puppeteer had said that Eun-ha Park had recorded.
In fact, Park Jung-hwan also met Lee Nam-cheol and was nervous while talking about this.

Who, in common sense, would like a story like this?
That the son had a plan to kill his father-to-be president and set up a puppet in his place was something that only appeared in novels.

However, puppet masters really did exist, and Lee Chul-ki created a monster in the basement of his house and performed his ritual.

Namcheol Lee listened to the recording in silence.
Even after it was over, his expression did not change at all.

Park Jung-hwan realized that the story went well.
If he had been a normal parent, he would have been furious when he heard that his son was killing him.
If you try to find fault with these recordings, you can catch them as much as you like.
But he showed no sign of it.
In other words, he did not believe in his son in the first place.
The relationship between the father and son was certainly not normal.

“Thank you.”

Lee Nam-cheol gave a brief impression.

“As if you saved my life.”
“It’s not something I did. This is what my guild members did despite my persuasion.”
“Well, you have good subordinates. Sometimes you have to do something.”
“Thank you.”
“How would you like to pay your respects?”
“Cash, please. There is still a lot of money to go into for guild expansion.”
“You are honest.”
“We are like that. If I had kept my face and worked, I would have starved to death.”
“Heh heh, is that why I like underground guild hunters?”

Namcheol Lee took out his cell phone from his arms.
And he wrote the number there.

“How about this?”
“Thank you. More than enough.”
“Then, please take good care of me in the future.”
“Yes, I will do my best.”

Lee Nam-chul got up and left the room.
Park Jung-hwan remained alone and sighed, “Whoa~~”.

There was another reason he wanted the money.
It’s because I didn’t want to buy Lee Nam-cheol’s useless suspicion.

It was the cleanest law when a proper reward was received after completing a request.
Foremost among them was, of course, getting paid.
Then there will be no gossip, and no needlessly suspicious.
Anyway, the perception that underground guild members put money first is widespread.
And that wasn’t too much of a mistake.

As he leaned back against the back of his chair, his phone vibrated.
It was a message from his subordinate.

The list sent by Park Jeong-gyun.
It was that they had secured the identity of the soul magicians inside.

They don’t need forgiveness.
These bastards did subhuman acts, and even if they were alive, they would do the same thing again.

He replied briefly.

– Take care of it.

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Lee Cheol-gi woke up after sleeping.
What he cared most about was the subterranean ritual.
At least one more woman must be secured to resurrect the monster.
If not, there would be no existence to protect the space and no way to dispose of the corpses.

He picked up his phone and looked inside it before going to the shower.
Then there was a message from his father.

As he checked it without thinking, he hardened like a stone.

– You are no longer my son. I’ve been rich for years, so I won’t take my life right away. I’ll give you a week, so by then, get your affairs in order and leave Korea. After that, I cannot be responsible for your safety.

“What’s this?”

Lee Cheol-gi’s mind flashed.
He immediately called his father.

But the connection itself didn’t work.
It was evident that he had blocked his own number.

“Fuck! What is this!”

He wondered why this had happened.

‘If…’

Could it be that his father found out about his plans?
It was a deep secret, but after all, it wasn’t necessarily so.
His own men were aware of the plan.
The guy named Dong-gil died, and there was a high possibility that the guy who sent the birds away would not be safe either.
If either of them had confided in it, there was a good chance my father would have found out.

‘I should have contacted you in advance!’

Upon learning that Irons had been breaking into his home, he should have contacted his father immediately.
But he was already too late, and to be honest, I don’t think the outcome would have changed even if he had done so.

Chulgi Lee sat down on his knees.
It was unclear what to do from now on.

If you go abroad…
There is only one way to save his life, but if that happens, he will be treated like a beggar.
There are puppeteers abroad, and they always want to unite.
The reason is that the higher the number of rituals, the better.
However, if he enters a foreign organization, his status will be infinitely lowered.
He had no confidence to endure such humiliation.
Because his own life was ever more than a gold spoon, it was a diamond spoon.
He never had a single second of experiencing the bottom life.

It was at a time when he couldn’t quite figure out what to do.
Suddenly there was a loud noise from the front door.

Bang!

The sound of something hitting the door.

He hurried to his window and looked out.

There were four or five men and women gathered there.
A man was standing at the front and knocking on the door. It was the Iron Hunter he had seen before.

“These bastards…”

Lee Cheol-gi bit his molars.
But he couldn’t fight them on his own.
Isn’t that Iron Guild’s hunter the one who killed the monster he created?

He was already too late to run away.

He quickly went to the basement.
He seemed to be able to find a way to survive if he hid there and contacted his men for some time.

He quickly descended into the basement.

Still there were a body and two women hanging from the ceiling.

The hanging women seemed to have come to their senses and were muttering, “Save, save…” And “Get some water…”.

“Shut up! Fuck bitches!”

As he screamed and looked at the women, an idea came to him.

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Park Jung-kyun, Park Eun-ha, Kim Hae-na, and Han Yeon-joo went to Lee Chul-ki’s villa.
All of Lee Chul-gi’s puppeteer’s subordinates were captured.
Iron is also a fairly large guild, so it was a quick move to move in guild units.

There was no corner left for Chulgi Lee to lean on.
I would have drawn a line with him after hearing the circumstances of Lee Nam Railway.

We came here after learning that Lee Cheol-ki was at the villa, and Park Jeong-gyun stepped in and broke down the front door.

Bang!

With a few kicks, the door blew through the lock.
We went inside

There were signs that there had been people in the house a little while ago, but no one was visible.

“It must be in the basement.”

Park Jung-kyun sneered and said.
He was right, so we headed to the cellar together.

I asked Kim Hae-na who was with us.

“Are you okay?”

She has been with Lee Chul-ki since childhood.
Even if Lee Chul-ki was a villain who shouldn’t exist in the world, it was clear that her heart would be complicated.

“Yes… I have already decided. I must break this string of evil with my own hands. I want to see the end of him with my own eyes.”

Her face was dark, unlike her usual, but she seemed determined as much as her determination.

Park Jung-gyun opened the way down to the basement in a unique way.
At the bottom of the large painting, I brought the knife I took out of my inventory there.

I knew that such a tool existed.
However, I had never seen anyone using this among the hunters in the sun.

Rumble-

The secret device was unlocked and the way down to the basement was opened.

We went down the stairs together.

A gloomy atmosphere and the stinging smell of rotting corpses.
Various rituals were performed here, including group sexual acts.

I wondered how humans could have sex in a place like this.
Before lust, you must first feel disgust.

‘They’re not normally normal.’

If I had a normal way of thinking in the first place, I wouldn’t have fallen into this path.
Besides, didn’t Kim Hae-na say that if she used her doll’s liquor for a long time, her soul would be taken from her there?
It was clear that everything was not normal.

Someone screamed in front of us as we went downstairs.

“Stop!”

He was Lee Cheol-gi.

He wasn’t alone here.
Two women were hanging from chains hanging from the ceiling, and a woman was lying on the floor, and she seemed to have already died.

“I’ll kill these bitches if you come any closer!”

Lee Cheol-gi pointed a knife at the woman’s neck hanging from the ceiling and said,

This is probably the last resort.
But it was true that what he was doing was holding us back.
Because if you move carelessly, he will really kill the woman.
He was a man who took things like murder very easily.

A few seconds to do so,
Suddenly Lee Cheol-gi shouted “Kk!” He groaned and dropped his sword.
He wrapped himself around his neck and fell to the floor.