"You pity me, but I pity you more for pitying me."
⚠️TW⚠️: Extreme violence and mentions human trafficking in this chapter, so please read with caution or skip to the next chapter.
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As Hwara leaves the building, Jisung rolls his eyes. She's not that intimidating. That guy's just a coward. Jisung quickly calls in a team he called in from NCT's Busan branch to get the girls in the van but to keep them knocked out. It's best if they wake up when they're going back to their families. Just as all the members leave to drive to Seoul, Jisung gets ready to clean up this mess.
Seo Yeongjun should be coming in soon. He should've heard the gunshots by now.
As if on cue, the man walks into the room, looking a little frazzled. His face contorts to anger after seeing that all the girls are gone and all the guards in the room are dead.
"What the hell?!" the man yells, causing Jisung to chuckle. He shouldn't be acting like a could.
Yeongjun looks at the little boy in front of him, realizing this kid is responsible for all of this. He immediately lunges after Jisung, getting ready to fight the kid. A young kid like him, however tall he is, wouldn't win against him.
Twenty seconds later, the man's stomach is under Jisung's foot.
"Seo Yeongjun, winner of the biggest ring tournament in Busan," he starts before chuckling. "Don't you think it's a little embarrassing to lose to a kid?"
He tries to fight back, but Jisung doesn't budge. He knows how to use his opponent's strength against him.
"Look, what do you want kid? Money? I've got loads of it," Yeongjun says.
Jisung just scoffs. "I'm not desperate. Now, let's get to the point. Give the locations of all six of your branches."
He tries to protest but Jisung doesn't relent. Doing some intel this morning while Hwara was exploring Busan, he had gotten information from Renjun that there are seven certain branches of Nightingale that Seo Yeongjun manages. After hearing that, he immediately started figuring out where they were. He's gotten rough locations, but he needs to be more accurate.
"Why the hell would I tell you that, Kid?" he coughs out, starting to lose energy and breath.
"Oh, I don't know. Maybe because I have men surrounding your house right now. They can kill your entire family—or worse. They can just tell them what you've been doing," Jisung says, a cold smirk plastering onto his face.
Yeongjun's blood runs cold. There's no way out of this. He could never face his family if they found out what he's been doing for money.
"Fine. I'll tell you."
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Hwara and Hoojun have been running for almost ten minutes at full speed now. Whereas the much older Hoojun can feel all of the fatigue, the girl who doesn't feel anything even though her body is probably dying is just smiling. In fact, she picks up her speed as the man turns into an alleyway.
