Reable smirked. His hands were holding something that looked like hazy smoke; Ji-Cheok knew what it was, because he had seen it once before.

It was a soul.

In the aftermath of the ‘battle,’ Reable was already hard at work, interrogating people.

“Yes~ You guessed correctly. They’re really persistent,” Reable said.

“They really are.”

‘SL Chemicals. It’s you again?’

“Hoohoo. Do you really have to ask?”

“You’re right.”

It was almost impossible to have this kind of large-scale military operation in Korea. In other words, it had to be a big company like SL Chemicals to be able to pull off something like this.

“Then, as per our contract, I will be taking these corpses. Mercenaries are evil people who kill others for money.”

“Go ahead. But do remove their faces first.”

“Thank you~ Arigato~ Xiexie~”

‘Well, I guess this takes care of the bodies. You evil Big Pharma… I hope you’ve learned your lesson from this. And I hope the SL Chemicals guys burn in hell~ ♥♥♥♥’

* * *

“Wha… FUCK!”

Park Il-Sung looked at the video, dumbfounded. There was a video taken from a distance, and another video taken by the body camera worn by one of the PMC employees. As he saw from these two videos, the operation to neutralize Um Ji-Cheok had ended in complete failure.

The armored vehicles were amped up with hundreds of Arcane...