Goblin Library - Chapter 191

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Chapter 191.

Lim Sung-un’s truck was pulling into a scrapyard on the Seoul Outskirts. As the truck approached, the scrapyard’s firmly sealed gate creaked open with a harsh metallic groan.
Once the vehicle entered the scrapyard, Lee Hye-eun spoke with a puzzled expression.
“There are people here?”
Beyond the window stood an elderly couple who had opened the scrapyard gate for them.
“They’re people helping us.”
“They know you?”
“Their son was hit by a drunk driver. We helped them back then.”
“How?”
“We did what we always do. A rich man’s son hit their son while drunk and got caught. These two refused any settlement and insisted on going through the legal system. The rich family tried to pressure them into settling and threatened them, but my older brother stepped in and handled it perfectly. The drunk driver went straight to Prison.”
“Ah! So this place is theirs?”
“More accurately, it’s where they work.”
“What do you mean?”
“They lost their jobs back then. The rich family pressured their employer and got them fired. So I arranged for them to work here.”
“Wait, is this place yours?”
“It belongs to Choi Tae-sik.”
“Choi Tae-sik?”
“He needs to prepare for retirement too. And honestly, it suits him perfectly—a rough scrapyard owner.”
“That does make sense.”
Lee Hye-eun, smiling as she drove, glanced at the two elderly people ahead of them.
“So there are more people like this who know about you?”
“Not many, but among those involved in cases we’ve handled, we help anyone whose livelihood is at risk—like this couple. That’s how some people come to know about us.”
“Isn’t that dangerous?”
“We’re careful about who we help. And usually, people who’ve been helped with a genuine injustice repay the favor rather than betray us.”
“That’s true.”
“Besides, they help us a lot too. Like with this scrapyard.”
The elderly couple guided the truck to one side and opened a container next to the scrap cars.
“You can park inside the container. Oh, and position it so the passenger side is against the wall—that way it’ll be easier for your sister to get out.”
As Lee Hye-eun maneuvered the truck according to Jang Ma-ru’s instructions, an admiring voice came through the earpiece.
“You drive well.”
“I’m good at everything except what I’m bad at.”
Lee Hye-eun parked with a smile and stepped out, opening the cargo bed door.
As Choi Tae-sik descended from the cargo bed, Lim Sung-un and Jang Ma-ru approached.
“We’ll leave the truck here and dispose of it once we’re done.”
“Is it safe here?”
Lee Hye-eun looked at the truck with concern. She hadn’t counted, but the cash alone in that vehicle… hundreds of billions? Possibly over a trillion won.
Leaving a truck with that much cash behind felt surreal.
“This place is safe.”
Jang Ma-ru glanced at the man bound in the cargo hold.
“Now we need to take care of that man.”
At Jang Ma-ru’s words, Lim Sung-un nodded and looked at Choi Tae-sik.
“Prepare what?”
“Here.”
Choi Tae-sik pulled out two duffel bags and dropped them with a thud.
One was noticeably lighter, while the other had considerable weight.
“How much?”
“One’s roughly 500 million won, and the other’s about 2 billion won.”
“Hey, roughly? You didn’t count it?”
“I counted roughly.”
At Choi Tae-sik’s response, Lee Hye-eun squinted and opened one of the duffel bags to begin counting the money.
“That’s enough.”
Lim Sung-un, saying there was no need to count, looked at the man.
“Bring him out.”
At Lim Sung-un’s command, Choi Tae-sik tapped the man to wake him and helped him out of the vehicle.
As the man stumbled out of the car, Choi Tae-sik closed the cargo hold door.
Lee Hye-eun reluctantly kept her gaze fixed on the cargo hold.
Jang Ma-ru took Lee Hye-eun’s hand and led her out of the container.
After closing the door, he saw the Grandfather waiting outside.
“Stack them here, please.”
“Of course.”
The Grandfather, who had climbed onto the forklift, began stacking the compressed scrapped vehicles piled nearby in front of the container.
Once the Grandfather finished his work and tidied the area, the Grandmother arrived with the car keys.
“The car is over there.”
At the Grandmother’s words, Choi Tae-sik looked at the vehicle she pointed to—a plain white sedan.
“Thank you.”
“Not at all. Thanks to the Company President, our son’s… debt was cleared.”
“I’ll come by for meat next time.”
“Please do. Our garden’s been bountiful lately.”
Listening to the Grandmother speak with a smile, Choi Tae-sik helped the man into the vehicle.
“Be careful.”
At Lim Sung-un’s words, Choi Tae-sik nodded and started the car.
As Choi Tae-sik drove off, Lee Hye-eun, boarding the team’s hideout vehicle with the others, quietly asked Jang Ma-ru.
“The son’s debt?”
At Lee Hye-eun’s question, Jang Ma-ru smacked his lips and spoke softly.
“Their son had passed away.”
“Ah…”
Lee Hye-eun let out a small sigh, then glanced at the elderly couple before bowing her head deeply in respect.
The elderly couple also bowed their heads in greeting to Lee Hye-eun.

As Choi Tae-sik drove, he checked the time. There were still a couple of hours before seven o’clock.
Upon arriving at the Park Entrance, his destination, Choi Tae-sik reached up and removed the earphone from the Goblin Man’s ear.
“You can peel the tape off yourself, right?”
At Choi Tae-sik’s words, the Goblin Man hesitated for a moment, then moved his bound hands to remove the tape from his mouth and eyes.
Then he glanced around.
“No point looking around. This place has nothing to do with our side.”
At Choi Tae-sik’s words, the Goblin Man looked at him and spoke.
“Your skills are really impressive.”
“So are yours.”
“Of course my skills are good. I’m the best in our team when it comes to individual combat. But you were even wearing a mask.”
At the mention of the mask, Choi Tae-sik touched the mask he was wearing with his hand.
“A mask reduces your breathing capacity. If you moved like that while wearing a mask… you’re truly a monster.”
[Wow, that’s what it was?]
Following Lee Hye-eun’s exclamation, Jang Ma-ru spoke.
[I knew it. There’s no way our hyung would waste that much time on just one person. Without the mask, it would’ve been exactly ten seconds.]
[I think so too.]
Even as Lim Sung-un joined in praising him, Choi Tae-sik smacked his lips. During that fight, he had struggled quite a bit and taken many hits.
So they were trying to restore his pride.
Choi Tae-sik continued speaking to the Goblin Man.
“Here’s the plan. Before seven o’clock, get your family out as quickly as possible. Then when they arrive here by taxi, we’ll put them in the car and leave.”
“And after that?”
“There’s a place to hide. Stay there until things settle down. Then we’ll send you to Hong Kong.”
“Hong Kong? What am I supposed to do to survive there? I can’t speak foreign languages.”
“We’ll arrange for you to do personal security work.”
“Security?”
“You can’t live in Korea anyway. We’ll introduce you to people who need protection.”
At Choi Tae-sik’s words, the Goblin Man hesitated for a moment, then sighed and spoke.
“What happens to our team?”
“What do you think will happen?”
“If the company finds out I’ve disappeared and my family is gone too… they might suspect our team.”
Then the Goblin Man looked at Choi Tae-sik.
“Is there… no way to get our team out too?”
At the Goblin Man’s words, Choi Tae-sik glanced at him and spoke.
“There is a way.”
“What is it?”
“If your team members are as skilled as you, they could win even fighting a hundred gang members.”
“We could kill a hundred, but subduing them would be difficult for us too.”
Then the Goblin Man asked Choi Tae-sik a question.
“Are you telling us to fight them?”
“No, I’m telling you to hide.”
“Hide?”
“If your team members and families gather together, even if the Gang finds your location, they’d need at least a hundred men to deal with you all. And it’s not easy for a hundred Gang members to move as a group in Korea.”
Choi Tae-sik met the Goblin Man’s gaze and added,
“That’s assuming you’re not armed, of course.”
The Goblin Man nodded at Choi Tae-sik’s words. If he had even a blade in hand, he could thin their numbers one by one with each strike.
“The real problem is whether your team members will actually hide as you say, or if they’ll try to capture me after hearing the news and track down our team to recover the money.”
The Goblin Man had no response to Choi Tae-sik’s words. He thought the same thing.
Choi Tae-sik nodded as he watched the silent Goblin Man.
“So here’s what I’m thinking. You go to the Safe House with your family for now.”
“A Safe House?”
The Goblin Man, who had been quiet at the mention of a Safe House, spoke.
“What exactly are you people? If you’re using a Safe House, you’re not ordinary thieves, are you?”
Choi Tae-sik answered bluntly to the Goblin Man’s question.
“You don’t need to know that.”
Then Choi Tae-sik held out a phone.
“This is an untraceable phone, so use this for calls. Throw away all your family’s phones.”
“Understood.”
“Head to the Safe House with your family—the address is saved in the phone. Once you get there, talk to the person called Team Leader about whether you’ll hide together or if there’s another plan. And just in case, even if your Squad Leader asks to meet, don’t go. He might try to capture you.”
“The Squad Leader isn’t that kind of person.”
“The Squad Leader might not be, but a father of a family could be.”
At the word “father,” the Goblin Man fell silent. The Squad Leader has a family too. If his family could be harmed because of him, the Squad Leader might try to capture him just as Choi Tae-sik said.
“I understand.”
“There will be plenty of food at the Safe House for a while. Just stay there and don’t go anywhere else…”
Choi Tae-sik pulled out two duffel bags from the back seat and handed them to the Goblin Man.
“What’s this?”
“The smaller duffel bag is for your family to use… If the Squad Leader decides to disappear with you, the larger bag is for your team members.”
At Choi Tae-sik’s words, the Goblin Man lifted the duffel bags and looked at him with wide eyes.
From the considerable weight, he could roughly estimate the amount.
“You’re giving this much? Why?”
Instead of answering, Choi Tae-sik shook his head and said,
“There’s not much time until seven. Tell your family to come right away without packing anything.”
Then Choi Tae-sik got out of the car. As the Goblin Man also exited, Choi Tae-sik turned and ran off somewhere.
The Goblin Man watched him go with a puzzled expression, then let out an “ah” and looked back at the car.
‘He’s telling me to use this car to move.’
The Goblin Man immediately called his family on the phone. As the call connected, he climbed into the driver’s seat.
“Honey, it’s me. Are the kids asleep? Wake them up. And don’t tell anyone else—just get them dressed and come out right away. Leave the car. It’s nothing serious. Don’t worry, and if anyone asks, just tell them you’re too tired to cook so you’re taking them out to eat and then to school. Yeah. Don’t tell anyone no matter what. You need to come as fast as you can.”
After hanging up, the Goblin Man sighed and glanced at the duffel bag in the passenger seat.
He hesitated for a moment, then opened the duffel bag.

When Choi Tae-sik arrived at the Safe House, his teammates who were eating greeted him.
“You did well.”
At Lee Hye-eun’s words, Choi Tae-sik nodded and looked at Jang Ma-ru.
“Where are they?”
“They’re meeting with family right now and heading to the Safe House.”
“Have you called the team members?”
“Not yet.”
At Jang Ma-ru’s response, Choi Tae-sik checked the time.
“We have twenty minutes until seven o’clock. What about the family’s phones?”
“We destroyed them and threw them away.”
As Jang Ma-ru spoke, Choi Tae-sik nodded and was about to sit down when Lee Hye-eun said something.
“Do you know why the Squad Leader handed over such a large sum of money?”
At Lee Hye-eun’s question, Choi Tae-sik glanced at her and replied.
“He must have done it for me.”
Lee Hye-eun’s eyes widened in surprise as she asked.
“You knew?”
Choi Tae-sik nodded.

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