Vigilante | knj • jjk • kth

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| Chapter Thirty-eight |
[35k+ words]

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Chuffs of a helicopter were still far from them as brute grunts echoed in empty, dark floors of the infiltrated skyscraper. People were running out of the building in panic, far below the blinking red lights atop the tower. A swarm of clicking reporters was on their way. Clouds drifted slowly as winds howled.

Agents, vigilantes and criminals continued to fight fiercely as the city began to wake up in the night.

Considering the scale of the started chaos with multiple investigations and objectives at once, it was a given that Yeouido Island wasn't the only part of Seoul that was frenetic.

Yeonjun and Soobin went downstairs and only stood inside the lobby after they accompanied their seniors to the archive room. They only watched the commotion in front of the NIS building from inside and refrained from speaking about the crumpled note they picked up just yet. The swarm of reporters with bright cameras wasn't really something anyone would stare at. They noticed the car lot getting louder. A few dark vans and an ambulance were arriving.

They saw one of their colleagues rush through the glass doors with his unkempt hair, groaning loudly, "This is driving me nuts, actually!"

Another joined while looking over her shoulder where several of their agents were still struggling to make their way in, "That's what I'm saying. But at least we still have the blood sample, right?"

"What's that about?" Yeonjun whispered, squinting at two agents in the distance.

"The situation outside is getting a messier too. Let's help our seniors keep away the crowd by the gates too while we're at it." Soobin sighed and they both began to run over to their colleagues.

"Our futures are getting darker, the way this case is going is so unpredictable I swear —"

"Namoo-hyung, Bora-noona!" shouted Soobin first, getting their attention. "What's going on?"

"Who are they bringing in?" Yeonjun squinted, looking outside. Someone was being transferred from the dark van to the medic side, "Someone died?"

"Simply put," started the woman because her colleague seemed too worried about his job to explain, sounding pretty exhausted herself anyway, "two of our catch and info sources just died. One died because of — uhh, your boss and Hyungsik's torturing behind the scenes, I guess? But we're speculating that the one who got away was the one who killed Lee Jongsuk."