NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 214

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Episode 214. Small Island

As Yeon-woo had said, the other boats still had scales and byproducts from fishing activities remaining in the crevices on deck despite being cleaned, but among them, one boat was unusually clean.

 

“How many tracking devices did we bring?”

 

Han Hae-woon immediately answered Yeon-woo’s question.

 

– We brought three.

“Then let’s attach one to this boat first. We can’t be certain with just this alone, but it seems highly likely.”

– Understood.

 

Han Hae-woon immediately gave instructions to Kim Su-hyeok.

 

Kim Su-hyeok then stripped off his clothes and pulled out a latex diving suit from the bag he was carrying.

 

It was a dry suit mainly worn for scuba diving that wouldn’t get wet when entering water, except for the hands and head.

 

Since the video that Yeon-woo and Han Hae-woon were watching was transmitted from a camera attached to Kim Su-hyeok’s clothes, the camera became fixed when he took off his clothes and set them aside.

 

Kim Su-hyeok positioned his clothes at an angle to show the harbor and changed into the dry suit.

 

– Ready. I’m going to dive.

– Confirmed. Be careful.

 

Kim Su-hyeok held a round-shaped device in his hand, stood at the harbor, and jumped into the sea.

He jumped from a cement wall about 1 meter high into the sea, creating a small splash as Kim Su-hyeok’s figure disappeared from the monitor.

 

Then some time passed.

Not long after, having completed his mission, Kim Su-hyeok climbed up the stairs at the right end of the harbor.

 

– Phew, I’ve successfully attached it to the bottom of the boat. Please confirm the signal.

 

On the map that Yeon-woo and Han Hae-woon were watching, another signal different from Kim Su-hyeok’s began blinking.

It meant the signal transmitter attached to the bottom of the boat was operating normally.

 

Unless that boat sank and capsized, they would never discover the signal transmitter on the bottom of the boat.

 

– Signal is good. Well done. You must be cold. Go back to the dormitory and rest.

– Understood.

 

***

 

The boat with the signal transmitter attached moved two days later.

 

In the meantime, Kim Su-hyeok had been looking for a boat to take out, but there was a problem with the plan.

 

Since the year before last, accidents involving tourists taking rented motorboats out to the open sea had been occurring frequently, so they had blocked motorboat rentals to outsiders.

 

On the map, the dot presumed to be their boat was heading out to the open sea, and as expected, something suspicious was that nearby boats were going to completely different places from their usual fishing routes.

 

– At that distance, it would be difficult to go out without power. It’s also far beyond the maximum flight range of the drone Kim Su-hyeok brought.

 

Yeon-woo nodded at Han Hae-woon’s words.

Non-powered vessels meant things like kayaks or small yachts without power systems.

 

It would be too much to take something like that to the open sea area marked on the map.

 

“Hmm, where can we get a boat.”

 

Yeon-woo was looking at the monitor with concern, and Han Hae-woon was searching through materials to see if there might be another way.

 

Kim Su-hyeok was also heading toward a rental company he had seen on the internet, putting it in his navigation system, wondering if there might be a place that would lend him a boat.

 

Then Yeon-woo spotted a familiar road among the passing scenery on the monitor.

 

“…Huh? Hae-woon, tell Kim Su-hyeok to make a U-turn.”

– A U-turn? Understood.

 

Then Yeon-woo immediately enlarged the map and checked the village near where Kim Su-hyeok was located.

 

“I see. This is near where Kim Su-hyeok is.”

– I’ve given the instruction. Where should he head?

 

Yeon-woo copied an address from the map and passed it to Han Hae-woon.

 

“Tell him to go to this village and see if there’s someone named ‘Kirihata.’ He might be able to help.”

– Understood. Who is this person?

“Just an old man who operates several fishing boats in that village. It’s been a long time, but I think he’s probably still living in that village. Unless he’s already dead.”

– Operating several fishing boats. In our country’s terms, he’d be like a local influential figure in a fishing village, right?

 

Yeon-woo nodded at Han Hae-woon’s words.

 

“Something like that. But he owes me a debt, so if he’s still alive, we should be able to talk. I might end up on a call, so set up voice modulation in advance.”

– Yes. I’ll set it to sound like a man in his 40s.

 

When Kim Su-hyeok drove to the address Yeon-woo had given him, a quiet rural village appeared with utility poles lined up on both sides and a narrow single-lane road running through the middle.

 

Han Hae-woon tilted his head while watching that scenery.

 

– Didn’t you say he has several fishing boats? This isn’t a fishing village.

“The old man doesn’t personally take the boats out to sea. I think he said he was a seaman when he was young, but when I met him, he was someone who lent boats to other fishermen and collected rent.”

 

Yeon-woo at that time had also borrowed a small fishing boat from him and performed reconnaissance missions while pretending to film an environmental documentary.

 

After driving for a while on the peaceful and quiet road with fields spread out on both sides, they entered the village entrance and saw a fairly large white two-story house.

 

“There it is. The white two-story house.”

– He’s definitely a local influential figure.

 

Han Hae-woon nodded at the scale that was clearly incomparable to other houses at first glance.

 

Kim Su-hyeok, who received instructions from Han Hae-woon, parked his car in front of the stone wall of that house and got out.

 

Standing in front of the large reddish-brown wooden main gate made of treated wood, Kim Su-hyeok pressed the bell.

 

Bzzzz─.

 

After waiting for a moment, a response came from inside in Japanese.

 

– Who is it?

“Is this Mr. Kirahata’s residence? An old friend sent me here.”

 

Kim Su-hyeok delivered the words exactly as he had heard from Alpha Beta.

Then, instead of a response from inside, there was a moment of silence.

 

Click─.

 

The main gate simply opened without a word, and Kim Su-hyeok went inside.

After passing through the small Japanese garden and standing in front of the front door, a white-haired old man came out opening the door.

 

“···I am Kiribata Daichi, but you seem too young to be called an old friend. Who might you be?”

 

Then Kim Su-hyeok took out the smartphone from inside his jacket and held it out toward the old man.

 

“I’m not very fluent in Japanese. My friend says he would like to speak with you directly.”

 

Kiribata, who had been staring at Kim Su-hyeok who suddenly appeared with such strange words, tilted his head and took the phone.

 

“I’ve answered the phone, but who is this?”

 

Then a man’s low voice came from the other end of the phone receiver.

It was Yeon-woo with his voice modulated.

 

– Mr. Kiribata. Have you been well all this time? Is Yuta’s leg alright?

“Yuta’s leg? Who are you to know my grandson’s name···.”

 

Kiribata, who was speaking, opened his mouth wide as if something had occurred to him.

 

“Co, could you possibly be Mr. Hirokazu?”

– That’s right. It’s good to hear your healthy voice like this.

 

Yeon-woo on the other end of the phone receiver smiled awkwardly.

 

Excluding Han Hae-woon, this was the first time he had directly spoken with someone who remembered him from his past life.

Of course, what that old man remembered would be the young documentary director who covered marine pollution.

 

After that, the conversation proceeded smoothly.

 

“Kahahat. Please come in. You’re Mr. Hirokazu’s assistant? Then you’re definitely someone sent by an old friend. Yes.”

 

The old man, who had hung up the phone, laughed heartily and invited Kim Su-hyeok into the house.

 

“Then excuse me.”

 

When Kim Su-hyeok took off his shoes and entered, he saw an elegant interior that didn’t look like a house you’d find in a rural village.

 

It seemed to show that the old man named Kiribata’s wealth was definitely among the top in this area.

 

The old man offered him a seat on the sofa and sat down.

 

“So you’re saying you need a small fishing boat for coverage? Ah yes. I should give you one. If it’s Mr. Hirokazu, I should offer you my biggest boat.”

 

Kim Su-hyeok shook his head at the old man’s words.

 

“Since I have to take it out alone anyway, a big one would actually be inconvenient. Please give me a small boat.”

 

While thinking to himself in admiration.

 

‘How far does Alpha Beta’s network extend? To have a collaborator in such a remote rural village on an island.’

 

Meanwhile, Han Hae-woon, whom Kim Su-hyeok thought was Alpha Beta, was equally amazed by the current situation where the problem was solved through unexpected connections.

 

Han Hae-woon asked the real Alpha Beta.

 

– Team Leader. What exactly is your relationship with that old man? He’s very favorable.

“It wasn’t a big deal. When I was doing an infiltration mission there, that old man’s grandson went missing for two days and the village was in chaos, so I found him. He was on the back mountain.”

 

At that time, the old man’s ten-year-old grandson had gone missing after going to the back mountain to pick mushrooms, and when Yeon-woo found him, he was trapped in a pit and couldn’t get out.

 

As was revealed later, it was a hole dug by the Japanese forces who were resisting during the process of the US military occupying Okinawa in June 1945 during the Pacific War.

 

Han Hae-woon, who was listening to the explanation, continued speaking.

 

– Team Leader, you mainly rescue old people’s grandchildren, don’t you?

“Huh?”

– Wasn’t it the same with Baek No-ya?

 

At Han Hae-woon’s words, Yeon-woo thought about it and realized it was true.

 

Baek No-ya was also helping him now because Yeon-woo had helped his granddaughter escape to America when she was being chased by an organization during the time when Yeon-woo was in charge of the domestic part.

 

“Well, it just happened to turn out that way.”

 

After that, they persuaded the old man who insisted on lending them a big boat and received a small fishing boat instead.

 

– Are you sure it’s okay not to go and show him directly?

– It’s fine. Sir, is it alright for you to lend us the boat?

– These days everyone’s left for Tokyo and there aren’t many people left, so there are boats just sitting around. Use it as much as you want and just return the key properly later.

 

Kim Su-hyeok nodded, took the key, and left the old man’s house.

And got in the car to report.

 

– We’ll begin the reconnaissance mission in earnest tonight. Have you secured the target’s movement routes?

 

Han Hae-woon looked at the movement paths of those bastards marked on the map and nodded.

 

– Secured. I just sent the information through the secure channel, so check it.

 

Meanwhile, Yeon-woo was investigating the destination those guys had headed to.

As he dug through various historical records and cross-referenced them one by one to find discrepancies, he discovered something.

 

The more he looked into it, the more interesting the island became.

 

‘I wondered why those bastards came all the way to Okinawa to build something like this, but if this place is indeed a location for producing or storing drugs as expected, it makes some sense.’

 

First of all, this island wasn’t marked on maps. While the entire island was about the size of an elementary school playground, making it quite small, there was a separate reason why it wasn’t shown on maps.

 

“In the early 1970s, the US military base stationed in Okinawa leased several uninhabited islands from the Japanese government for experimental purposes.”

– What? Then did Baeksol enter US territory?

 

Yeon-woo shook his head at Han Hae-woon’s words.

 

“No, that can’t be right. According to the records, this unnamed small island N-17 was returned by the US military in the mid-80s and somehow ended up in the hands of a yakuza during that process.”

 

After that, through clever document manipulation, N-17 was recorded to the Maritime Self-Defense Force as an island leased by the US military, and to the US military as an island already returned to the Japanese government, thus being erased from maps.

 

According to information obtained in Berlin, Baeksol’s leadership consisted of seven members.

 

Among them, Yeon-woo and Han Hae-woon had identified a total of three individuals so far, and since ‘Hwang-geum’ was eliminated, there was a high possibility he wasn’t a major figure.

 

Then it would be correct to say they had identified two major figures so far.

 

– So Baeksol is planning something on yakuza territory…

 

Yeon-woo nodded at Han Hae-woon’s words.

There was no guarantee that all seven core members of Baeksol were Korean.

 

“It means there’s a yakuza backing them up.”

 

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