The Baby Seizes Fortune - Chapter 52

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Episode 52

“Shh.”

Looking at Hee-jae who had followed me, I placed my finger in the center of my lips.

Pressed against the wall next to the nurse station, I was observing her movements.

It seemed right, but I needed to confirm whether she was really Ri Ji-han.

Surprisingly, she was getting thoroughly scolded by what appeared to be a senior nurse.

“Hey, are you trying to kill a patient?”

The strict-looking senior nurse was shaking her with arms crossed, the one wearing a name tag that read ‘Lee Yun-seong’.

“Did you prepare all the medications?”

“Yes…”

“What did you even do? Are the dosages correct?”

The nurse’s face stiffened again with a flinch.

“Ah… I’ll check again.”

“Not again, you should do it properly from the beginning.”

Other nurses at the station glanced at them sideways.

“Are you really going to keep doing it like this?”

“I’m sorry.”

“Sorry and that’s it? Do you think the hospital is some kind of school?”

“I’m… sorry.”

Even I, hiding and listening below the station, was getting goosebumps from this atmosphere.

Looking at nurse Lee Yun-seong who kept bowing her head repeatedly saying she was wrong, the senior nurse rolled her eyes in irritation.

“Prepare it again.”

Nurse Lee Yun-seong asked while trembling.

“Um, but where exactly was it wrong…”

But immediately a rebuke came back.

“Do I have to teach you everything one by one?”

“Ah…”

“Don’t think about going home after today. Study all the medications you administered today again and get tested by me.”

“Yes.”

“And change the sheets in room 607.”

Two nurses sitting at the station had a conversation.

“Looks like she won’t let her leave work today either.”

“The youngest always gets worked like that.”

Nurse Lee Yun-seong silently bowed her head and entered the linen storage room.

Watching her retreating figure, I felt a moment of pity before shaking my head vigorously.

‘Ri Ji-han is a legendary spy who shook the nation!’

Hee-jae whispered to me with furrowed eyebrows.

“Senior bullying junior, it’s inefficient.”

I thought that bad practices really have continued for a long time.

“Let’s follow her.”

“That nurse?”

“Yeah. I find that nurse suspicious.”

We crouched down and quietly entered the linen storage room.

Since we had taken off our shoes, there was no sound from our footsteps.

In the dark shadows, I could see Ri Ji-han’s back as she gathered sheets.

And her low voice could be heard.

“These damn South Korean bitches…”

As soon as I heard that clear muttering, I got goosebumps.

“Rather than groveling under these rat-sized bastards, a labor camp would be more comfortable. Ptui.”

I could feel murderous intent from her as she angrily pulled the sheets with thudding sounds.

‘That’s right.’

It was correct. She was indeed the spy Ri Ji-han.

“Before I get out of here, I’m going to somehow crack that damn bitch’s skull.”

Seeing her fist clenched so tightly it was trembling even in the darkness, she must be quite angry.

Hee-jae’s eyes watching her wavered.

Hee-jae immediately looked at me.

‘What’s with that woman?’

I nodded as if to say ‘See, suspicious right?’ and led Hee-jae’s hand deeper into the storage room.

So we wouldn’t run into Ri Ji-han when she left this place.

Ri Ji-han’s voice, which had been cursing a few more times, died down, and the sound of the storage door closing was heard.

“Phew.”

Only after she left the storage room did I let out the breath I had been holding.

Hee-jae stared at the door silently for a while, then whispered quietly.

“It sounds like North Korean dialect. Right?”

“Yeah. That nurse is a spy.”

“How do you know that?”

“I just know. She’s definitely a spy.”

‘From regression to even catching spies. Phew.’

By the way, in the mid-2000s, even after she was caught, she completely refused to cooperate with investigations and poured out curses about South Korea, which might have been influenced by the loss of humanity she experienced at this hospital.

“Are you going to report her as soon as we get out?”

Hee-jae asked me.

[Hidden Quest: Report the suspicious person.]

[Quest Reward: User assets increase by 100 million]

I can see the status window floating before my eyes.

According to the Quest, it would be right to report Ri Ji-han as soon as we get out of here.

100 million is a lot of money.

But…

“These damn rat bastards.”

“…!”

While I was thinking, she suddenly appeared from the darkness and grabbed Hee-jae’s neck.

I looked up at Ri Ji-han in shock. Her eyes, which had been hiding while pretending to leave the storage room, had a fierce glint in them.

“Were you sneakily hiding and eavesdropping?”

It was South Korean speech, but a clear North Korean accent hit my ears.

Hee-jae struggled painfully with his neck caught in Ri Ji-han’s strong arm.

“Urgh…!”

“Let go!”

I immediately rushed at Ri Ji-han to try to pull Hee-jae away, but she kicked me away.

“Ugh.”

Looking down at me sprawled on the ground, Ri Ji-han moved her lips.

“Quietly disposing of little rats like you is no big deal for me.”

“It sounds like North Korean dialect. Right?”

“Yeah. That nurse is a spy.”

She must have clearly heard our conversation.

“She’s definitely a spy.”

If she weren’t a spy, she might just scold us for being rude, but as a real spy, she couldn’t let even kids like us go after we discovered her identity.

“Wait. I’ll send you off together nicely.”

Is she planning to kill us?

“If you knew who that kid was, you wouldn’t say such things.”

I immediately spoke to her with sharp eyes.

“A little rat is just a little rat. What’s the difference.”

“All the hospital nurses here know about it. Are you the only one being left out, teacher?”

At my provocation, Ri Ji-han’s eyes flashed with anger.

“Ha! I was number one among all the operatives sent to South Korea. Do you think I’d get even a scratch on my heart because of those bastards?”

The provocation seemed to work, as her face turned even more red and blue with anger.

Since dragging this out longer would put Hee-jae in danger, I got to the point.

“That kid is the grandson of Tomorrow Finance Chairman Kang Un-san, a second-generation chaebol, no, third-generation.”

It was obvious that saying something like “my precious friend” wouldn’t work on a five-year-old.

My judgment that it would be better to present a realistic threat seemed to work, as her eyes flinched.

“Tomorrow Finance? I think I’ve heard of it somewhere.”

“If that kid disappears, the chairman who has tons of money will turn the country upside down! Don’t you know ‘with money comes power, without money comes trouble’?!”

I pressed on with momentum.

“If someone like you, a spy, hurt that kid, there might be a war, an actual war! Chairman Kang Un-san even knows the president personally – can you handle that?”

Ri Ji-han, who had been looking at me with a distorted face, slightly loosened her grip on his arm.

“So what you’re saying is, this brat is that big of a deal? Hmm.”

I nodded firmly.

“You have family in North Korea, right? If the country goes into chaos and the Supreme Leader gets angry, what do you think will happen to your family?”

At my words, Ri Ji-han’s eyebrows shot up sharply.

“You wicked little brat? How dare you mention our Supreme Leader?”

Her tone became more aggressive, but seeing her eyes move anxiously, it seemed I had struck a nerve.

As Ri Ji-han loosened her grip, Hee-jae fell to the floor coughing violently.

“Cough, haa, haa.”

Ri Ji-han grabbed Hee-jae by the back of his neck and pulled him up.

I could tell she was frantically thinking about the fact that the kid who discovered her identity was from a more powerful family than expected.

Should she kidnap these kids somewhere and wait for orders? Or should she let them go and play dumb, or just run away? She was in a desperate situation.

Watching her eyes change by the moment, I made my decision and spoke.

“We won’t report you.”

“….”

I crossed my arms and said.

“What would we do with the reward money for reporting a spy anyway? Hee-jae is from a chaebol family. And I’m also, well, not exactly an ordinary kid either. It would just get noisy.”

“If you’re not ordinary, then what are you…?”

“Ahem, anyway. We won’t report you. So….”

Hee-jae, still being held by the back of his neck, also spoke in a hoarse voice.

“I’ll do as Chaea says. If Chaea says not to report, I won’t.”

“Ha, don’t think about scheming together.”

In the darkness, Ri Ji-han looked at me with fierce eyes.

“I can see you’re both trying to use your heads to survive somehow.”

She didn’t seem to have immediate plans to kill us, but she also didn’t seem ready to just let us go.

Even if we were just five-year-old kids, we who knew her identity were definitely a risk factor.

‘Then how about this.’

“I’ll help your family defect from North Korea.”

Ri Ji-han’s shoulders jerked in surprise.

Since I saw her react strongly to the mention of family earlier, this approach was the right move.

“Don’t be ridiculous, how could a brat like you help with defection.”

“I have a lot of money. And he has even more.”

“No matter how desperate I am, I’m not stupid enough to believe words from little green kids like you.”

If she had the intelligence to believe a five-year-old’s offer to help at face value, she wouldn’t have become an operative in the first place, so I understood her reaction.

“And my family, compared to this inhumane and inferior South Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is much….”

“Your father has trouble walking because his legs hurt, and your mother coughs every day, right?”

“…!”

When Ri Ji-han was captured, there had been breaking news from various media outlets.

Among them, I remembered personal information about Ri Ji-han. A disabled father, a mother with lung disease.

Usually, it’s more effective to throw information like this when someone’s guard is down, rather than right at the beginning.

Just looking at Ri Ji-han’s face, she looked like she might faint from shock.

“How do you….”

“I told you I’m not an ordinary kid. Ms. Ri Ji-han.”

When I even said her name, her eyes grew even wider like saucers.

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