Climbing the Mythic Tower as a Cheating Administrator - Chapter 73

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Cheating Administrator Climbing the Mythic Tower (73)
Geum Su-ah cried out.
“The Nevada Treaty—”
“I haven’t used it. I won’t use it. There are Association people here, after all, aren’t there? Hehehehe, I told you. These bastards here including me. Obviously we won’t use it.”
But Lee Jeong-gi spoke even faster than that.
Before the Association members could even answer, he continued.
“It would be especially shocking to see Association personnel violate the Nevada Treaty. If you’re willing to risk the very discipline of the Nevada Treaty itself wavering, then go ahead and use it.”
At the same time, those holding cameras spread out to the left and right.
At this point, everyone in the space was effectively sealed off from using their Awakening Abilities.
Above all else, this attitude…….
‘As the rumors said, he’s not just some reckless fool. After all, he’s a man capable of building a mid-sized guild in South Korea and earning a Korea One-way license.’
Kim Moo-saeng was able to grasp Lee Jeong-gi’s character immediately.
Lee Jeong-gi knew.
Geum Su-ah’s movements, the Association’s movements—all of it.
Right now, when his facial scars hadn’t even fully healed, meaning when he was essentially being hunted down after being cornered by Geum Seong, this suggested he still possessed an unbroken intelligence network, didn’t it?
Moreover, he hadn’t simply given up or abandoned his position despite having obtained that information.
‘Using Awakening Abilities recklessly seems like it would put me at a disadvantage, so let’s just not use them at all from the start…… Since I’ve experienced it once, I won’t just suffer through it a second time—or rather, I’m not just refusing to suffer, I’ve brought means by which I can win.’
To possess the demonic imagination capable of flipping a situation that might have been unfavorable due to Association involvement into one advantageous for himself.
That must be what Lee Jeong-gi was.
“Hey, Geum Byeong-chul’s daughter.”
“…… Don’t call me that.”
“Heh, how bold. Whether it’s a man you fancy or someone protected by Geum Seong…… If you don’t want this bastard here to die, don’t make a move.”
At this point, Kim Moo-saeng realized he had also gathered information about himself.
If he had only learned about Geum Su-ah, only about the Association members, he would never have infiltrated this place so recklessly.
But if he’d shown such unrestrained movements in front of innocent civilians?
Wasn’t it only right to assume that Moo-saeng was also included within Lee Jeong-gi’s radar?
‘Well, my face would’ve become known from the time I beat up Lee Eun-woo, so there’s nothing strange about it…… but I never thought he’d come at me this openly.’
Kim Moo-saeng himself had no connection to the conflict between Korea One-way and Geum Seong.
But personally speaking, it was somewhat different.
He had once addicted Lee Eun-woo to something.
According to Jang Ha-guk’s account, it had ended at the level of a boss, so Lee Jeong-gi likely didn’t even know of Moo-saeng’s existence back then.
Therefore, he had expected that Moo-saeng wouldn’t get swept up in this war either……
“Everyone pull out your phones right now. All of you. If you don’t hand them over within five seconds, I’ll shoot. And by the way, this gun has bullets other than rubber rounds. Five, four, three—”
Even Lee Han-il, Lee Eun-woo’s father, had been mobilized.
Then by now, Lee Jeong-gi must know everything about Kim Moo-saeng as well.
In other words, when all the best cards that could be used in Geum Seong’s negotiations gathered in one place,
Lee Jeong-gi and Lee Han-il stepped in directly.
And they did so in such a way that they themselves had no disadvantage whatsoever, having made perfect preparations.
“Okay. I understand, so stop.”
The fact that Geum Su-ah obediently threw down her smartphone was proof of exactly that.
At this very moment, Lee Jeong-gi and Lee Han-il had completely suppressed the situation, and
“Do I…… have to do it too? I’m just a civilian—”
“Shut up. Is this guy’s woman or what? Doesn’t matter either way. You’re a hostage too. Hand over all your electronic devices that could make contact and throw them over here.”
Even Hildegard Schmidt found it difficult to overturn this situation immediately.
When Hildegard Schmidt, Kim Moo-saeng, and even the Association members obediently complied with his demand,
“Haha, hahahahaha…… I won.”
Lee Jeong-gi laughed.
* * *
It was an Association member who cautiously opened his mouth in the completely suppressed situation.
“We won’t violate the Nevada Treaty, but what about breaking Korean law? Besides, I’m American—by Korean law, your current actions are—”
“Shut it, Association guy. If you just behave, I’ll send you back soon enough.”
They couldn’t simply take this lying down.
They couldn’t use force, but they tried to leverage their backgrounds however they could……
“I am Robert Kay, liaison officer of the World Awakener Association’s East Asia Branch. A 57-floor climber, and not as weak as you might think—”
“Shut it, you pyramid. I don’t have time to talk to garbage who can only climb 57 floors.”
There was no reaching Lee Jeong-gi, whose eyes had gone wild.
That person whom Kim Moo-saeng had initially guessed must be the highest-ranking among the three from the World Awakener Association—Robert Kay.
57 floors was by no means low.
But what could anyone do in this situation?
Robert Kay’s eyes swept cautiously around the surroundings.
Geum Su-ah. And probably……. A man.
‘A person flagged by the Five-Ring Eye. Someone who holds secrets at the very apex of the Association—the kind that wouldn’t even be properly disclosed to someone of my rank.’
He hadn’t revealed exactly what purpose or reason he was looking for Kim Moo-saeng.
It meant this was a secret even someone of Robert Kay’s standing had no clearance to access.
If a person treated as that important suffered even the slightest harm?
Troublesome.
More so since dealing with someone like Lee Jeong-gi without violating the Nevada Treaty would be difficult…….
His clenched fist trembled for only a moment.
In the end, Robert Kay could do nothing but resort to threats.
“Mister Lee. You’re making a mistake right now. If everyone here cooperates, you’ll be subdued in an instant—”
“Shoot.”
And Lee Jeong-gi cut him off mid-sentence.
A small beeping sound rang out——
“——Gaaahhh, uh-uh-uh-uhhhh……!”
The electrodes of the Taser Gun buried themselves in Robert Kay’s neck.
The current coursing through his body in an instant was more than sufficient to paralyze him completely.
“K-Kay! You bastard—”
“You want a taste too?”
Another Association member barely managed to support the collapsed Robert Kay, grinding his teeth, but that was all he could do.
Lee Jeong-gi doesn’t stop at words.
The man already famous among the World Awakener Association showed his true nature once more.
Geum Su-ah clenched her teeth with a sharp sound and spoke.
“……How are you just turning your back on the Association’s people like this? Even if you do recover Lee Eun-woo, you—”
“That’s not your concern. You shut your mouth and call your father on this phone. And read this exactly as written. One word out of place, one unnecessary breath, and you all die.”
Lee Jeong-gi threw an old mobile phone and a sheet of paper toward Geum Su-ah.
A phone processed to make signal tracing impossible.
A message constructed to allow only the essential information to be conveyed, making any call for help impossible.
[Dad, release Lee Eun-woo within five minutes. I’ll call again in fifteen.]
The content appeared unremarkable on the surface, but the very structure of the message made no sense.
There was no way Geum Su-ah would demand Lee Eun-woo’s release without any conditions or justification.
In effect, this message itself represented Geum Su-ah’s current situation.
Geum Su-ah frowned and picked up the mobile phone.
Lee Jeong-gi spoke again.
“Speakerphone.”
There was no way he’d fall for calling someone else and pretending.
And having clashed with him once, Geum Su-ah herself could sense it.
The bitter history that bound Geum Byeong-chul and Lee Jeong-gi together……if she attempted to put on a poor act, much less try to connect the call to someone like Yun Pyo, she’d be exposed immediately.
“Understood. Since you seem to know something about Kim Moo-saeng, I’ll let that slide, but at the very least this person is a civilian and an American, so we have to let her out—”
Geum Su-ah glanced at Hildegard Schmidt, trying to find some way out of this.
Whoever she was, she was with Kim Moo-saeng.
Naturally she couldn’t be an ordinary civilian, and she thought releasing her somehow would still help…….
Lee Jeong-gi reached into his pocket.
“Father and daughter both looking down on people like dogs, I see.”
“—I’m sorry, that’s not—”
“I told you to stop talking nonsense.”
Then he pulled out a self-defense spray.
The moment he brought it to Geum Su-ah’s face—the kind that would make anyone thrash in agony with just one spray——!
“There used to be a soft drink called ‘When Ipro Wasn’t Enough.'”
Kim Moo-saeng opened his mouth.
At such an abrupt remark, even Lee Jeong-gi paused for a moment.
A soft drink?
Why was he saying something so random all of a sudden?
What was with that strange expression?
“What the hell are you talking about? Once our son is released, I’ll personally—”
Before Lee Jeong-gi could even open his mouth properly, Lee Han-il spoke up.
His words were heavy with a deep frown.
“Ipro’s everywhere now.”
Kim Moo-saeng cut in and spoke.
Lee Jeong-gi’s plan was excellent.
It was true he’d lost to Geum Seong, but he’d seized a larger opportunity by using that defeat as a stepping stone, and his means of reversing the disadvantage were flawless.
His prediction had never been wrong.
Only one thing.
[Cackle-cackle-cackle! Do you understand what it means that seventy-three became seventy-five?! How could these barbaric maggots possibly comprehend, Kim Moo-saeng?!]
He simply could not have anticipated that the Tower’s Administrator would be in this place—that such an irregular existence would be standing right here.
It was impossible to predict illogical, anomalous situations.
“Chairman Lee, I was going to stay put because there were things I wanted to observe, but—”
This was like an act of God.
“—it doesn’t sit right with me to fire on Geum Su-ah like that. I was worried I’d have nightmares just from watching.”
“Moo-saeng…”
Geum Su-ah’s eyes widened for only a moment.
Lee Jeong-gi tilted his chin with an expression of exasperation.
“Stop wasting time. Shoot. A hole in the thigh might knock some sense into him.”
The signal to switch from rubber rounds to lethal ammunition.
Watching the figures hastily exchange their rounds.
Moo-saeng laughed.
“Geum Su-ah.”
“Yes?”
Then he spoke.
“You need to tell me exactly how Chairman Geum Byeong-chul fought this man. That’s why I’m moving right now.”
“This is hardly the time to—”
Geum Su-ah could not finish.
Moo-saeng had vanished.
The Underground Space had no wind.
In the moment everyone felt a single gust blow through—a soft, rushing sound.
“Let’s clear away the dangerous stuff first.”
Click, clatter.
Moo-saeng, now back in place, let the loaded firearms drop to the ground with a dull thud.
One thing was certain.
“W… huh?”
Geum Su-ah hadn’t seen it.
Moo-saeng’s movement.
Hildegard’s eyes were gleaming.
The Association members stood slack-jawed, unable even to react.
Lee Han-il was the same.
The oblivious ones from Korea One-way were the same.
Only one person.
“…Without an Awakening Ability… without a skill?”
Only Lee Jeong-gi grasped and analyzed what had happened.
“That was impressive. Could you see it?”
“How could I…? That shouldn’t be possible.”
He had been watching Moo-saeng.
Moo-saeng smiled widely.
“Whether it’s possible or not… take a good look.”
Whoooosh—!
Moo-saeng’s fist crashed into Lee Jeong-gi’s chest.

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