NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 55

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Episode 55. Finally Meeting

‘A pistol… is it?’

 

Han Hae-woon froze, unable to rashly turn his head.

 

“Don’t turn your head, and come to Underground Parking Level 5 F-7 when Act 1 ends.”

 

Han Hae-woon was surprised by the unexpectedly young male voice.

 

Ba-ba-bam—.

 

Just then, the music announcing the start of the musical rang loudly through the theater, and Han Hae-woon immediately turned around, but no one was there anymore.

 

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Ryu Yeon-woo’s heart pounded heavily as he went down the stairs.

 

What had appeared behind Han Hae-woon was Ryu Yeon-woo, who had pressed a car smart key against his neck to create the illusion of pointing a pistol at him.

 

“Why…? How come?”

 

Even while walking down quickly, Yeon-woo thought through countless possibilities.

 

He had definitely become more emotionally rich and accustomed to Ryu Yeon-woo’s life, unlike Jeon Su-hwan from his previous life who wouldn’t be surprised by anything, whether bombs exploded before his eyes or bullets flew at him.

 

His rapidly beating heart seemed to prove that.

 

However, the seasoned expertise of a Grade A agent acquired over 20 years hadn’t gone anywhere.

 

Yeon-woo hurried to the 5th basement level, identified escape routes for emergencies, and double-checked his hat and mask.

 

Step, step—.

 

Time passed, and from behind a pillar where Yeon-woo was hiding, he saw his target, the young man, walking toward him.

 

“Stop.”

 

At Ryu Yeon-woo’s words, Han Hae-woon stopped in place.

 

“…Are you really Team Leader Jeon Su-hwan?”

 

A slightly choked voice could be heard.

 

“When Baek Yu-hyeon arrived in Tehran, what was the name of the hotel he stayed at?”

 

An emotionless question came from behind the pillar.

 

“…It wasn’t a hotel. He went straight to the Embassy.

 

As soon as he answered, the next question immediately followed.

 

“When both the Humvee and GPS broke down, how did you get back to Yazd?”

“How would I know? You looked at the stars and went, Team Leader. You’re not Columbus or anything.”

 

Han Hae-woon hurriedly continued speaking before the next question came.

 

“But, Team Leader. I understand your suspicion, but my memory isn’t completely intact yet, you know? Fortunately, everything you’ve asked so far is stuff I still remember…”

“Last question. What did I say before I died?”

 

At the final question, Han Hae-woon smiled bitterly.

 

“…If you rot in the field too long, you’ll eventually get eaten. But I didn’t even rot that long and still got eaten.”

“Wrong.”

 

A man with a slender build walked out from behind the pillar.

 

“I said it was cold and I should wrap myself in more blankets.”

“No, wasn’t that something you said to yourself?”

 

Ryu Yeon-woo slowly walked over and extended his hand.

 

Han Hae-woon stared at that hand for a moment, then gripped it tightly.

Then tears foolishly began to flow.

 

Suddenly having other people’s memories flood back, collapsing at the drop of a hat.

Days of investigating alone with no one to lean on.

Han Hae-woon had suffered mentally, wondering if he had developed a mental illness as Baek Yu-hyeon and Han Hae-woon gradually merged.

 

“You have no idea how much I struggled to find you, former Team Leader.”

 

Yeon-woo patted Han Hae-woon’s large back.

Han Hae-woon was rather flustered by that touch.

 

“Uh…, you weren’t this kind of personality before, were you?”

 

At Han Hae-woon’s words, Yeon-woo chuckled.

 

“New wine in new wineskins, a new life should be lived anew.”

 

Then suddenly Yeon-woo’s expression hardened.

 

“But you shouldn’t have died.”

“Yes, I think so too. Unlike you, Team Leader, I’m still young and in my prime.”

 

Yeon-woo shook his head.

 

“That’s not what I mean.”

 

At Yeon-woo’s firm words, Han Hae-woon looked at him again.

Yeon-woo called Han Hae-woon by his previous life’s name, Baek Yu-hyeon, and asked.

 

“Yu-hyeon. What’s your last memory before dying?”

“Uh… I heard gunshots through the speaker, and when the team leader didn’t respond, I followed protocol to destroy the data and opened the door to escape. That’s my last memory.”

 

Hearing this, Yeon-woo stroked his masked chin and spoke.

 

“You weren’t someone who should have died. The place you were at wasn’t just any safe house. It’s a place I personally created. Even within the National Intelligence Service, fewer than ten people know that address.”

 

Han Hae-woon looked shocked as she realized something from Ryu Yeon-woo’s words.

 

“You mean…”

“Let’s move locations first.”

 

Yeon-woo looked around at the surrounding pillars and ceiling, then started walking while being conscious of the CCTV.

Han Hae-woon quietly followed behind.

 

Click—.

 

When Ryu Yeon-woo pressed the car key, lights turned on from a P Company vehicle in the corner of the parking lot.

 

“…Wow, team leader, did you get reincarnated as the youngest son of some chaebol family?”

 

At Han Hae-woon’s words, Yeon-woo looked back and chuckled.

 

“What chaebol? I’m just the eldest son of an ordinary family. Get in the car.”

 

As soon as Yeon-woo got in the car, he unplugged the black box power first.

Hae-woon, who got in after him, asked Yeon-woo.

 

“But how old were you when you got reincarnated, team leader? You look young.”

 

Yeon-woo looked at Han Hae-woon and took off his hat and mask.

 

“Oh, wow…”

 

Muttering “I’ve seen him somewhere,” she just admired his sculpted face.

 

Ryu Yeon-woo, not Jeon Su-hwan, offered a handshake again.

 

“I should introduce myself again. In this life, I’m an actor named Ryu Yeon-woo.”

“Ah! The rising star…?”

 

She remembered a fellow administrative officer at the prosecutor’s office who was obsessed with this actor, searching YouTube for him every lunch break.

 

Han Hae-woon, not Baek Yu-hyeon, also grasped Ryu Yeon-woo’s hand again and formally introduced herself.

 

“I’m prosecutor Han Hae-woon from Busan Western District Prosecutor’s Office.”

“Hmm, so it was you? Love and Hope House.”

 

Yeon-woo nodded, recalling their previous phone conversation.

 

“Haha, back then I only had fragmentary memories and couldn’t make sense of anything.”

 

Hae-woon looked closely at Yeon-woo’s face illuminated by the parking lot lighting and admired it again.

 

“Wow, did you save the country in your past life? Ah… you actually did.”

 

Han Hae-woon nodded while looking at her former team leader who had been reincarnated with a blessed face, unlike her own somewhat sharp features.

 

Hae-woon had heard about Team Leader Jeon Su-hwan’s solved cases like legends since her training days when she joined the National Intelligence Service in her past life, as several cases had been disclosed internally as educational materials.

 

Yeon-woo chuckled at Han Hae-woon’s absurd comment.

 

“You’re still the same, saying nonsensical things.”

“You’ve really changed a lot. This is the first time I’ve seen you smile, team leader.”

 

Actually, though Hae-woon didn’t know it, Yeon-woo had become much brighter than even what she was seeing now.

Rather, today he was showing more of his past personality because he was meeting someone from his Jeon Su-hwan days.

 

“By the way, what did you mean when you said your memories come and go?”

 

At Yeon-woo’s question, Han Hae-woon opened up about everything she had experienced and the memories that had surfaced.

 

After suffering alone in anguish, Han Hae-woon felt her mind becoming clearer after finally being able to speak openly to someone.

 

Yeon-woo fell into thought after listening to Han Hae-woon’s story.

 

‘Why is her case different from mine?’

 

Yeon-woo had sometimes thought that his own personality becoming brighter might be influenced by the original owner of this body, high school student Ryu Yeon-woo.

 

Although he had suffered bullying to the point of attempting suicide and had depression, according to younger sibling So-hyeon, he was just shy but was actually a brighter and kinder older brother than anyone.

 

“Hmm, maybe it’s a difference in… mental strength.”

“Excuse me?”

 

To Han Hae-woon’s questioning look, Yeon-woo shared his hypothesis.

 

The original Ryu Yeon-woo’s ego had been weakened to the extreme by bullying, so when the strong ego of Jeon Su-hwan entered, it could only exert minimal influence. But in Han Hae-woon’s case, her strong ego as a prosecutor was clashing with Baek Yu-hyeon’s ego and gradually merging.

 

“Hmm, that definitely makes sense.”

 

To discuss the hypothesis and share information, Yeon-woo had no choice but to reveal some of his personal affairs.

 

While he didn’t completely trust Han Hae-woon yet, even if she went around talking about reincarnation, no one would believe her anyway.

 

“But the question is, why the two of us?”

 

At Ryu Yeon-woo’s words, Han Hae-woon answered.

 

“I think of it as, well, a calling given by God.”

“I didn’t know you were such a devout religious person?”

 

Yeon-woo slightly moved away from him in the car.

Flustered by this, Hae-woon waved his hands frantically.

 

“What? No, that’s not what I meant—I meant the ‘Heaven’ from the national anthem. You know, the heavenly spirits and all that…”

 

Yeon-woo quietly smiled while watching the flustered Hae-woon.

 

“You were just teasing me. Sigh, I can’t get used to your changed personality.”

 

Having had enough fun, Yeon-woo opened his mouth with a serious expression.

 

“The fact that we both died means there’s a very high probability that someone within the National Intelligence Service deliberately intervened.”

“Yes, and it must be someone in a high position.”

 

Yeon-woo nodded at Hae-woon’s agreement.

 

“It might not be just one person, but a faction. In my previous life, I wasn’t interested in factional fights within the National Intelligence Service, but there were still a few suspicious individuals.”

 

After Yeon-woo finished speaking, Hae-woon asked something he had been curious about.

 

“Team Leader, have you ever made a report from a public phone in Daejeon?”

“Hmm? How do you know about that?”

 

Hae-woon explained how he came to know that information.

After hearing the explanation, Yeon-woo shook his head disapprovingly.

 

“You did something very dangerous, accessing the database with old code keys.”

“I was that desperate…”

“That report was about the last mission we handled. I intended to cut ties with my previous life with that report.”

“Ah, you mean the North’s Reconnaissance General Bureau that was facilitating illegal weapons deals?”

 

Yeon-woo nodded at Hae-woon’s answer.

 

“Didn’t you say you couldn’t remember well?”

“Haha, I remember most of the Iran operation now. It appears in my dreams every day.”

“The information I obtained was a name. ‘Baeksol’. At the time, I thought it was the name of a Reconnaissance General Bureau operative, but thinking about it now, it might not have been a person’s name to begin with.”

 

Hae-woon nodded at Yeon-woo’s words and repeated the word ‘Baeksol’.

 

“I’ll start investigating from that angle.”

“The current method is too dangerous. As you know, the National Intelligence Service has eyes everywhere in this country.”

 

Yeon-woo took out a notebook from the dashboard and wrote down a man’s name and a code.

 

“You said your base is in Busan now, right? Find this person and ask for information. Since my death is classified anyway, there shouldn’t be any problem using ‘Jeon Su-hwan’s’ name.”

“Yes, understood, Team Leader.”

 

Yeon-woo chuckled at Hae-woon’s saluting response.

 

“I’m not a team leader anymore. I’m just an actor with big dreams.”

 

Then he stared at the word ‘Baeksol’ written in the notebook and continued.

 

“I have no intention of forgiving whoever used us, but you should also accept and enjoy your new life for now. Whether it’s Baek Yu-hyeon or Han Hae-woon, they’re all you in the end.”

 

Hae-woon nodded at Ryu Yeon-woo’s words and replied that he would investigate as carefully and slowly as possible.

 

And while those two were having their conversation in the Underground 5th Floor Parking Garage.

 

The entertainment section of South Korean news was plastered with Ryu Yeon-woo’s name.

 

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