Became a Mechromancer - Chapter 77

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Chapter 77.
The Unexpected Turn of Events (2)
Go Gyeong-taek questions Blood Soo about her purpose for entering Chiko Island.
But the response he receives is:
“Meow~.”
Blood Soo, wearing a cat mask, simply curls her hands loosely and mimics a cat with shameless audacity.
Tremble, tremble.
Go Gyeong-taek across from her suppresses his anger once more and sets down his coffee cup.
‘Not only did she abandon the commission, but she backstabbed me….’
In that instant, his index finger twitched.
“So I amused you, did I?”
Mana extending from his fingertip shoots toward her smart glasses like an awl.
Go Gyeong-taek intended to rip that ridiculous cat mask off her face first.
Spin.
Blood Soo twirls her fork once.
The fork suspended in midair wraps around the mana that had been aimed at her brow and neutralizes it.
Hmm~.
“He’s offering double payment—can you really refuse?”
The fork returns to her hand and abruptly changes direction.
Straight toward Go Gyeong-taek’s throat.
Just before contact, Go Gyeong-taek channels mana to erect a barrier in front of his neck.
Clang!
The mana barrier blocking the fork’s tip doesn’t end there.
He sharpens the barrier itself and thrusts it back toward Blood Soo’s brow.
Tap—.
Blood Soo’s finger taps the table once.
The fork, wrapped in telekinetic force, spins and wraps around the mana aimed at her brow, redirecting it. Go Gyeong-taek’s own mana now streaks toward his throat.
He hastily severs and dissipates his mana.
Across the small tea table between them, the workshop continues endlessly.
Yet.
To the eyes of passersby, the two appeared to be simply drinking coffee and eating cake.
Blood Soo, targeting only Go Gyeong-taek’s throat with her fork and telekinetic power.
Go Gyeong-taek parries her attacks while steadily escalating his intensity, as if determined to shatter her smart glasses.
Then Blood Soo deflects his final attack with the tip of her fork and opens her mouth.
“You know~, the old man sent me on a job, but then you went and diverted it, didn’t you?”
“Is that what the chairman said?”
Go Gyeong-taek laughs bitterly.
It’s truly absurd.
Normally a grandfather would cover for his grandson’s mistakes.
‘Blabbing to an assassin like that.’
No, that’s not it.
Why should I hand over the Seongmaek Blooming Pill I went through so much trouble to obtain to someone like Han San-ho!
So I held back one of them.
They said it takes several days for the Seongmaek Blooming Pill to be completely absorbed into the body.
So my plan was to hide it on Chiko Island, slip in quietly to rest, and take it discreetly.
“…Damn that Han family.”
Curse that Ghost!!
Fury and murderous intent swirled in Go Gyeong-taek’s narrowed eyes.
His fingers moved without pause.
It didn’t matter if his opponent was the world’s greatest assassin or anything else.
‘You cat of a woman!’
Go Gyeong-taek pressed her relentlessly, using both hands.
Head. Throat. Chest.
He targeted vital points without discrimination.
Each strike was heavy and brutal.
‘Did you think I was weak and submissive!’
Blood Soo could no longer afford to hold back.
The fork was set down, and in its place, a small dagger hidden at her wrist materialized in her hand.
Go Gyeong-taek’s assault grew increasingly wild and ferocious.
Heh heh.
“Why the sudden acceleration?”
You….
“Keep that up and you’ll die.”
“Oh my~ How terrifying.”
Just as both of them were drawing their power to its peak simultaneously.
“Honey, there’s a seat here.”
A middle-aged woman android passed by the edge of their table.
In an instant.
The mana and psychic force stretching straight toward each other’s vital points both shattered at once.
Oh my, oh my!
“Why is there so much static electricity?”
The middle-aged woman flinched in surprise and sat down at the adjacent seat.
Unaware that she had just crossed directly through the line of fire.
At the same moment, both of them withdrew their power.
Ahahaha.
Blood Soo laughed aloud.
She seemed quite pleased by the sight of Go Gyeong-taek wiping blood from his neck with his finger.
“I suppose this settles the debt from our last job?”
“…?”
“I just saved your life a moment ago.”
Blood Soo’s absurd accounting.
Yet Go Gyeong-taek chuckles softly.
“You’re more naive than I thought.”
“…What?”
Blood Soo sensed something amiss.
The cat hologram had vanished.
Go Gyeong-taek’s final move had shattered her smart glasses.
She immediately retrieved a spare pair and put them on.
The hologram reappeared, but Blood Soo’s voice turned glacial.
“What now?”
“…?”
“Since you’ve seen my face, you won’t be dying peacefully either.”
Puhaha!
Her threat only made Go Gyeong-taek laugh harder.
Sensing something wrong again, Blood Soo retrieved a mirror from her subspace.
A panda mask reflected in the handheld mirror.
Trembling.
Blood Soo’s shoulders shook.
She immediately opened a channel.
The figure appearing on her smart glasses was her backup self, Jacob.
She confronted him directly.
“Are you insane?”
-What is it?
“Why is the holo-mask a panda?!”
-….
Jacob furrowed his brow.
“What’s with that look? Want your neck broken?”
-Susan. Don’t cross the line anymore.
“What, what did you say?”
-That bastard who was sucking up to you is dead.
“Fine, just change it to a cat….”
Click.
The channel cut off before she could finish.
Go Gyeong-taek, standing across from her, made an educated guess.
‘Seems like she’s had a falling out with whoever’s on the other side of that glass.’
Though I couldn’t hear her voice, her body language and the atmosphere she radiated told me everything I needed to know.
Go Gyeong-taek looked at the panda—no, Blood Soo.
“Your technician seems to have taken quite a blow from Ghost.”
Her head snapped toward me sharply.
In one hand, a fork; in the other, a small dagger.
Whoa, whoa~.
Go Gyeong-taek raised both hands to show them.
Just listen for a moment, he seemed to say.
You and I both.
“Our goals aren’t so different, are they?”
Blood Soo took another bite of cake and flicked her fingers.
Tell her what scheme was brewing, she seemed to demand.
“What do you say we join forces?”
….
“You’re also after meeting the Ghost who’s been accessing my personal locker, aren’t you?”
Gulp.
Go Gyeong-taek swallowed a mouthful of coffee.
He feigned composure while gauging her reaction.
If she’d fallen out with the technician, she would need an ally, at least temporarily.
Blood Soo remained silent for a while before finally speaking.
“Fine.”
Thus, a brief truce.
As Go Gyeong-taek smiled, she spoke again.
“Don’t get the wrong idea. Only until we find Ghost.”
Go Gyeong-taek shrugged.
The truth was.
He already knew.
That Blood Soo, now that her face was exposed, wouldn’t end things here.
Just then, a man passing through the Corridor blurted out.
“Take your marital spats home. Everyone knows who you are.”
“My apologies.”
While Go Gyeong-taek offered a brief apology, Blood Soo shot back curtly.
“What’s it to you?”
The man said nothing more in response to her provocation and simply walked over to sit among the crowd at the other table.
Go Gyeong-taek turned his body and picked up his coffee cup again.
Then he paused.
…What’s this?
As he looked up, Blood Soo was also watching the other table, fork in hand.
If their behavior warranted such scrutiny.
‘A high-ranking hunter?’
Yet the face was unfamiliar.
Of course, Go Gyeong-taek didn’t know every hunter.
‘Still, someone of that caliber should have crossed my path at least once.’
Go Gyeong-taek’s eyes narrowed.
Now that I thought about it, the accent was oddly off too.
It was definitely Korean, but something about the pronunciation felt subtly different.
That’s when Blood Soo spoke up.
“She’s Chinese.”
Go Gyeong-taek nodded at that.
If so, not recognizing her face made perfect sense.
More than that, this woman….
‘She’s a foreigner herself, yet she picks up on things so well.’
Go Gyeong-taek thought that at least while they remained on the same side, she wasn’t a bad choice.
Of course, I’d have to watch my back.
* * *
Zhang Wei, the man who had rebuked Go Gyeong-taek moments earlier, frowned as he tried to sit down.
A single smartwatch on the table.
A holographic schematic of Chiko Island’s interior structure floated above it.
As Zhang Wei settled into his chair, he muttered under his breath.
…Damn lunatics!
“What are you doing right now?”
The man across from him chuckled softly.
“Don’t worry, nobody’s paying attention.”
Zhang Wei scanned the surroundings.
Just as his colleague said, everyone around them was absorbed in their own business.
Hmm.
He cleared his throat and added pointedly.
“Still, let’s be careful, yeah?”
A moment later.
They began exchanging words while rotating the holographic blueprint this way and that.
The man with a prosthetic eye implanted in only his left socket pointed to one side of the structural diagram.
“See this pillar here? It’s not reinforced, so even a slight impact would bring it down.”
From the fragments of conversation, they sounded like people entering Chiko Island for reinforcement work.
But the reality was different.
“The security here is the worst—impossible to breach without force.”
“Let me see that.”
At Zhang Wei’s words, the man across from him enlarged the blueprint.
The center of Chiko Island.
The security sector connected to the Dome Control Center.
“There are ten high-performance combat robots stationed here….”
Zhang Wei asked the man who had trailed off.
“You want me to handle it?”
“…This has to be breached for the pirate ship and three hundred combat robots to push through.”
“So you’re telling me to solve it by force.”
“Y-yeah, that’s right.”
Zhang Wei shook his head and asked again.
“What’s the signal to start?”
A brief silence settled over the table.
The Drug Dealer spoke again.
“The fireworks festival starts at 8 PM.”
“Okay, 8 PM… huh?”
Zhang Wei glanced casually to the side and raised his eyebrows.
Right next to the table.
Isto’s LED eyes gleamed as he stared intently at a holographic blueprint.
Oh.
-Is this Chiko Island?
Startled, Zhang Wei hastily powered off the smartwatch on the table.
Everyone looked at Isto, unsure what to do.
One of them scanned Isto from head to toe.
What the—
“He’s just a kid.”
Another gazed down at Isto with pity.
“Must’ve had some accident at such a young age.”
Isto’s childlike voice and small frame were easy to misunderstand.
With someone so young, there was usually some tragedy—an incurable disease or an unforeseen accident.
They all looked at Isto, jumping to their own conclusions.
Then Zhang Wei waved his hand dismissively.
Go on.
“Go find your mother.”
Isto’s LED eyes blinked.
-I don’t have a mother?
“…!”
A moment of silence.
The atmosphere suddenly turned somber.
Pitter-patter.
Isto soon left his seat.
Watching Isto’s retreating figure, they snickered.
Zhang Wei.
“You’re the cruelest one here, aren’t you?”
“Shut up. …It felt off.”
Meanwhile, Isto glanced back at them briefly before shrugging.
Are they idiots?
-Where is Super Intelligence’s mother?
Just then, a text message from Cop appeared on Isto’s smartwatch.
『Hey, boss. I can’t see very well. Could you fix the camera for me?』
Isto straightened the small camera mounted on his chest and spoke curtly.
-Don’t give orders when you’re Slave Number One.
『I-I’m sorry, boss.』
Tap, tap, tap.
The moment Isto passed his seat, Go Gyeong-taek and Blood Soo were sitting at the table right beside him.
But….
Blood Soo’s figure didn’t appear on the small camera mounted on his chest.
* * *
-We will be arriving at Chiko Island shortly. Passengers, please….
An announcement echoed through the cabin.
The cabin door opened, and passengers filed out one by one.
“It’s packed again this year.”
“That’s how Chiko Island is around this time.”
Familiar words exchanged with ease.
Han San-ho’s family pressed their faces against the full-length windows of the passenger ship’s corridor, peering outside.
In the heart of the winter sea.
Within a colossal dome.
A maritime city revealed itself.
On the left side of the island, porcelain-smooth grayish-white buildings stretched low along their eaves, and above them, holographic decorative patterns and enormous zodiac animal holograms floated majestically.
“Oppa, that must be our country’s district.”
“Doesn’t it look that way to you too?”
The family’s gaze shifted to the right.
A golden dragon coiled around crimson skyscrapers.
“China certainly is flashy.”
The landscapes of two different nations were pressed against each other with a neutral zone between them.
That alone made Chiko Island sufficiently surreal.
.
.
.
Moments later.
Passengers began disembarking from the ferry docked at Chiko Island Harbor.
Han San-ho’s family mixed among the crowd and descended from the ship.
And….
The moment they crossed the entrance of the dome.
“My goodness!”
Han San-ho’s mother was the first to be astonished.
“Why is it so warm?”
Instead of the cold sea breeze from outside, warm humidity and the scent of plants rushed in.
The breath that had been visible on her lips vanished.
People who had entered through the gate began removing their coats.
『Current interior temperature: 26 degrees. Coat storage service is available after customs clearance.』
Doo-ho exhaled softly while gazing at the holographic guide slowly rotating above his head.
An island that had imprisoned summer itself, they said.
“This is really incredible.”
His family simply marveled, but Doo-ho’s eyes were drawn elsewhere.
He surveyed his surroundings using his Component Detection skill.
Beneath the floor panels, heating pipes emitted a faint warmth.
Temperature control devices hidden throughout the ceiling circulated cool air after warming it to comfortable levels.
‘Did I just walk into some massive heating system?’
As he stood in line at the immigration checkpoint, he overheard a conversation ahead.
“Hey, if I get the Lucky Pass….”
“Cut it out. I’ve come every festival and never seen anyone get it.”
“They say if you get it, they upgrade you straight to a suite room.”
“Yeah, it doesn’t happen. It’s all bullshit~.”
“The standard rooms are way too cramped. I feel like my guts are about to burst out.”
“Enough talking—just authenticate already!”
Beep. Beep.
Once the bullshit team passed through the gate.
“…what a scam.”
“Ah, come on! It could happen.”
And soon after.
Doo-ho’s family began their authentication in turn.
Beep. Beep….
Doo-na went through first, but as expected, nothing happened.
Disappointed Doo-bin gestured toward his father, who was next.
“Dad, hurry up!”
“That kid….”
The moment Doo-ho’s father, Lim Tae-sang, raised his smart watch to authenticate.
Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling—!
A cheerful bell tone echoed throughout the Immigration Hall.
“W-what? What is this?”
Boom!
Golden holographic particles exploded like fireworks, engulfing the entire Immigration Hall.
Immediately after, multicolored light fragments shimmered down upon Lim Tae-sang’s head.
Became a Macromanser
Author |
Keongang E
Published |
February 25, 2026
Publisher |
Talesyx
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