The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 88
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Chapter 88: New Seoul Chinatown (2)
New Seoul is the Empire’s largest city.
It has the highest population and is economically prosperous.
Everyone wants to live in New Seoul.
However, for criminals, New Seoul isn’t exactly a good choice.
How could the security of the Empire’s imperial capital be lax?
New Seoul is packed with investigative agencies like the Imperial Police Agency, Imperial Prosecutor’s Office, Capital Defense Command, and the Imperial Intelligence Agency.
But Chinatown is a different story altogether.
It’s darkest under the lamp, as they say?
On the surface it appears to be a bustling tourist destination, but in reality it’s a den of villains.
There’s a reason it became this way.
Initially, Chinatown was a major crime management area for the Empire’s investigative agencies.
Random inspections and mass arrests were frequently conducted.
There were even times when a third of the people walking the streets were investigators.
Chinese Imperial citizens who felt threatened joined forces.
And finally they pulled out their trump card of racial discrimination.
Why should only we Chinese be discriminated against like this?
Isn’t it sad enough that we lost our country, yet you brand us as criminals and investigate us?
Surprisingly, it was quite effective.
The Empire’s human rights groups rose up in protest.
They took to the streets advocating political correctness with slogans opposing discrimination and hatred.
Of course, it wasn’t known that those human rights groups received enormous financial support from Chinese politicians and businessmen within the Empire.
And there was one more thing.
The Emperor, who hadn’t appeared in public for several years, and the resulting power struggle among the Empresses, Princes, and Princesses.
What a perfect opportunity!
A vacuum left by the absence of absolute power.
Villain organizations within Chinatown rapidly grew in strength.
The most representative organizations were the Blooddevil League and Black Forest.
Through loan sharking, gambling, drugs, prostitution, and organ trafficking, they are massive villain organizations that divide Chinatown between themselves along with Black Forest.
Geumyonggak is one of the Blooddevil League’s legitimate businesses.
There’s a hidden office and medical facility behind the kitchen, where organ extraction and illegal transplant surgeries mainly take place.
Two Blooddevil League members in surgical gowns were having a conversation in a completely sealed room.
“What’s today’s order?”
“A set of compatible kidneys.”
“Fuck, wasn’t the client a regular person? Then why do they want compatible organs? They’re hard enough to obtain as it is.”
“This guy had a compatible liver transplant before. His ultimate goal is to replace all his organs with compatible ones.”
“Hehehe, does he think that’ll make a regular person into a compatible?”
“I heard it’s quite effective?”
While talking, they put on surgical gloves and masks.
“Let’s bring out one log. There won’t be any resistance, right?”
“The guy’s so drugged up he can’t even control his own body, what resistance? Let’s just cut open his belly and take out both kidneys.”
“Just the kidneys?”
“Yeah, just take those out and connect him to dialysis to keep him barely alive.”
Suddenly!
Flutter flutter.
Two butterflies flew into the operating room.
“What’s that?”
“Butterflies?”
“Where did those come from?”
“Catch them quickly, we’ll get contaminated.”
They were reddish butterflies.
The Blooddevil League member waved his arms trying to catch the butterflies, but.
“…Huh? Huuuuh?”
The butterfly lightly dodged and gently landed on his eyelid.
One antenna pierced straight through his eyeball.
Stab!
“Aaaah!”
Thud!
The other butterfly too.
“G-get away!”
Could he avoid it?
The blood butterfly of Honweonmusangdokryeongong 9th level.
Stab, thud.
They died on the spot.
Swoosh!
Tae-ju entered the illegal operating room together with Ilbaek.
“Come on, smell this.”
Sniff sniff.
“Meooow…”
“Normal, right? Just leave these guys alone. I wasn’t originally going to kill them, but listening to their conversation was so infuriating I killed them.”
They’re not Mages.
Not Awakened or compatible either.
Just ordinarily vicious regular villains.
“Follow me.”
“Meow!”
Tae-ju left the operating room and headed toward a room reeking heavily of demonic energy.
The stench was coming from there.
He tore off the handle of the tightly locked iron door and forced it open.
Creak!
“Hello?”
Meow?”
Yang Chung looked at the young man and cat who had suddenly barged in with bewildered eyes.
He was an executive of the Blooddevil League managing the organ trafficking and extraction organization.
“Who are you? How dare you come here?”
But as if he didn’t care about him at all.
“Look! Can you smell it? That dirty, filthy smell.”
“…Meow!”
“Those kinds of bastards are called Mages. Beat them up without mercy.”
“Meooow?”
“You can’t eat them. Disgusting, disgusting.”
“Meooooow!”
Yang Chung was dumbfounded.
At the same time, he was startled.
Suddenly calling him a Mage?
‘H-how did he know?’
Is he police, or maybe from the Imperial Intelligence Agency?
Let me capture him first and ask questions later.
Crrrack!
Crackle!
He instantly activated demonic transformation.
“I’ll kill you… Huk!”
Spot!
Before he knew it, the young man was right in front of him.
‘Wh, what?’
Grab!
His throat was caught in the man’s hand.
“Keruk!”
Yang Chung couldn’t move.
As soon as he was caught, his strength drained away.
He had clearly activated his demon transformation.
And the energy flowing into him through his throat.
“Uuuuu, why, why?”
Tae-ju was moving his poison energy to thoroughly examine the demon’s body.
The first demon found in Chinatown – would this one also have a parasite in its head?
‘…There it is.’
The fleeing parasite.
The poison energy persistently chased the insect.
Tae-ju didn’t let the parasite escape.
Since he had found it, he wanted to try burning it too.
“Kyaaaaa!”
However.
Pop!
An explosive sound from inside the demon’s head.
“Damn!”
He couldn’t control his strength properly.
Anyway, he had clearly confirmed the presence of the parasite.
Now the remaining question.
Do all demons have parasites?
‘I need to find out.’
Tae-ju took out three Seondo from the Infinite Space.
“Today’s wages.”
“Nyang!”
He gave them to Ilbaek, Ibaek, and Sambaek one by one.
“You remember the demon scent, right?”
“Yaong!”
“Then go wild to your heart’s content.”
Whoosh!
Ilisambaeyi disappeared in an instant.
Tae-ju also started moving.
* * *
Demons are generally known to occur naturally like magical beasts.
When awakened as demons, they devour Awakened Guards and ordinary awakened ones to grow stronger.
But the higher their grade becomes, the higher the probability of going insane.
Then they fall into an uncontrollable state and go berserk.
But what if there were controllable demons?
There’s no better tool than that.
Especially in villain organizations, their importance was very high.
They’re much stronger than awakened ones of the same grade, so they’re used extensively in wars between organizations, assassinations, kidnappings, and territorial takeovers.
Of course, as long as the fact that they’re demons isn’t revealed.
Ironically, Gwak Gu-yang, the boss of Black Forest, and Ho Cheong-ban, the leader of Blooddevil League, are not demons.
Just ordinary Expert-level villain awakened ones.
But they each command ten demons under them.
But how could they take demons stronger than themselves as subordinates?
There was someone who helped them.
A person called ‘Handler’ from a place called ‘Hoe’.
He taught them how to artificially create demons using a parasite called blood parasite and make them obedient.
The price was naturally money.
They had to pay 70% of their business earnings as tribute.
So what?
Black Forest and Blooddevil League, once the lowest organizations in Chinatown, had come this far all thanks to the Handler’s parasites.
At the Sky Lounge at the top of Forbidden City, the tallest building in Chinatown, Gwak Gu-yang of Black Forest and Ho Cheong-ban of Blooddevil League were meeting with the Handler from Hoe.
“…You’re telling us to clean everything up and withdraw?”
“That’s right. The situation has changed. Our Hoe is also cleaning up demons whose identities have been exposed and withdrawing from business.”
Gwak Gu-yang of Black Forest couldn’t understand at all.
He understood that the situation had changed with the revelation that The Emperor was still alive.
But cleaning up?
Wasn’t this telling them to abandon all their foundations in Chinatown and go into hiding?
“We, we need time. We have to liquidate real estate and extract hidden funds…”
The Handler licked his bright red lips with his tongue and smiled a bloody smile.
“Is Black Forest going to disobey my orders now?”
“N, no.”
And looking at Ho Cheong-ban.
“What about Blooddevil League?”
“…We’ll comply.”
Only then did the Handler show a satisfied expression.
“Just be patient a little. When things quiet down, you’ll be able to return to Chinatown.”
The ‘Hoe’ that the Handler belonged to was a secret society that had been researching demons for nearly 200 years according to their leader’s orders.
It’s a fact no one knows, but there are three types of demons.
First, demons created by system errors – Hoe calls them naturally occurring demons.
Second, demons created through artificial methods.
Created by Hoe.
Artificial demons created by researching the correlation between system errors and demon awakening.
They can even turn ordinary people into demons.
Though it costs a lot of money.
And third, people who received the leader’s grace and became true demons – called True Demons.
People only know about the first type, naturally occurring demons.
They couldn’t even imagine the existence of artificial demons and True Demons.
When it’s already difficult to identify demons themselves.
But the existence of artificial demons was almost exposed.
The cause was two demons created by Hoe – Sergei and Daigo – being captured by the Imperial Intelligence Agency.
They were planted in the Leaders Club and Hapbin Prison, a specialized detention facility for villains, respectively.
At first, they just left them alone.
Because they knew that with blood parasites in their heads, they would never reveal important information.
They also knew they would die the moment they opened their mouths.
Rather, having them embedded in the Imperial Intelligence Agency might be useful later.
But the situation changed.
The Emperor, whose life had been hanging by a thread, appeared at the victory ceremony in an even stronger form, thanks to the Vice Chairman, who was the leader’s disciple.
The existence of artificial demons might be discovered.
A Grandmaster might be able to find the blood parasites.
“Um, then where do we go?”
Ho Cheong-ban of the Blooddevil League asked the Handler.
“Go to the Archipelago.”
“Ah!”
The Archipelago – the old Japanese land that was sinking.
“It’s the best place to escape the Empire’s attention. And it’s close too.”
“Yes, I’ll immediately lead my subordinates and… Huk!”
Ho Cheong-ban was startled mid-sentence.
“Th-this is…”
The Handler asked with a curious expression.
“What’s wrong?”
“The-the blood gu of Mage Yang Chung has burst.”
“…What?”
Blood gu are divided into child gu and mother gu.
The Mages carried child gu, while Gwak Gu-yang and Ho Cheong-ban each possessed mother gu.
One mother gu controls 10 child gu.
They could also know the current status.
Even if a Mage died, the child gu wouldn’t burst.
It would just exit the body and hide underground.
‘The fact that Mage Yang Chung’s child gu burst means… either the mother gu gave an order, or someone interfered with it.’
It wasn’t from a self-destruct order.
Gwak Gu-yang and Ho Cheong-ban had done nothing.
‘Who…?’
Suddenly!
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!
A thunderous roar erupted from Chinatown.
What was happening all of a sudden?
The Handler rushed to the observation window of the Sky Lounge at the top of the Forbidden City and looked down.
The sight that met his eyes.
“Wh-what?”
A demonized Mage burst through a building wall.
It seemed to be chased by something.
Looking closely.
‘…A tiger?’
He was certain.
It was a white tiger.
A demonized Mage was being chased by an ordinary tiger, not even a Three-Headed White Tiger.
Did that even make sense?
Baekho struck down the fleeing Mage’s back with its front paw, then bit its neck.
Kwa-deu-deu-deuk!
“Cr-crazy!”
The Mage died without even being able to resist properly.
Baekho didn’t stop.
It leaped away and rushed toward a human Awakened Guard who was fleeing.
“Keu-reu-reong!”
Whoosh! It flew and bit his head.
Kwa-jik! Ppa-deuk!
The head was torn off, and simultaneously the human transformed into a demon.
‘…Ah!’
He had definitely been in human form.
He hadn’t even transformed into a demon.
There were many other humans fleeing, but somehow it knew to attack only the Mages.
How was that possible?
Did that mean the tiger could distinguish Mages?
“Keu-reu-reu-reu-reu-reung!”
The tiger was going wild.
Mages transforming into demons here and there.
It wasn’t to fight.
It was to escape.
But they couldn’t get far.
The tiger was much faster.
The Handler was dumbfounded.
He wasn’t even sure if what he was seeing was real.
“Uh…”
That’s when it happened.
Thud-thud.
The sound of two people collapsing was heard in succession.
The Handler slowly turned his head.
Gwak Gu-yang and Ho Cheong-ban had collapsed unconscious.
And a man in a tracksuit who had appeared without any presence.
He spoke with a curious expression.
“I didn’t know it would be this amazing.”
“…”
“I came here following the stench of incredibly strong demonic energy, you know? But these two aren’t Mages.”
Tae-ju continued with a bright smile.
“Then it’s only you, isn’t it?”
Tae-ju slowly approached.
“I’m not qualified to say this, but… isn’t it really strange? You don’t even have an awakening mark, so how are you a Mage?”
Swish!
The Willow Leaf Flying Knife appeared in his hand.
“I’m going to find that out now.”
As soon as he finished speaking.
Swoosh!
The Handler threw himself at the Sky Lounge’s observation glass window.
Crash!
“Tsk, running away won’t help.”
Tae-ju also launched his body.
* * *
The Immortal Realm.
Even the Swordsman who had been building roads appeared at the construction site upon hearing the commotion.
“What?”
“Nothing!”
The Swordsman’s expression showed disappointment.
“Next delivery?”
“I don’t know either!”
Danggumak said soothingly.
“Come here and wet your throat before you go.”
Ju-seon began making somaek.
About 40 somaek glasses were placed on the wooden table made by the Great Tree Immortal.
Deu-reu-reu-reu-reuk!
A green soju bottle glided over them, pouring the same amount of soju into each glass.
Taebaeok Seonin smiled with satisfaction.
“As I’ve told you countless times, somaek is all about the ratio. The taste of the drink changes according to the ratio. You have to pour it according to this marking here to achieve the truly golden ratio.”
Danggumak snorted inwardly.
What ratio, when he’s doing it for the first time himself?
Finally, Taebaeok Seonin picked up the beer bottle.
The brand was ‘Chaos’.
A beer that truly shines when consumed as somaek.
He had already chilled it to just before freezing using ice techniques.
“Swordsman, please make a hole in this cap.”
“Not just opening it normally?”
“Tsk tsk, haven’t you watched dramas? There’s a latest method for making somaek.”
Latest, my foot.
Even this somaek-making technique was a 300-year-old culture on Earth.
Anyway, Taebaeok Seonin covered the small hole in the beer bottle with his finger and shook it vigorously. Then he removed his finger above the somaek glasses.
Hiss, hissss!
The glasses filled with white foam.
“Ooooh!”
“I saw this in a drama.”
“As expected of Ju-seon.”
“…Isn’t there too much foam?”
“Beer is meant to be enjoyed for its foam!”
“Is that so?”
“Come, let’s drink.”
Without hesitation, the immortals reached out, grabbed their glasses, and downed them in one gulp.
“Ahh!”
“Kyah!”
“So refreshing!”
“Haah!”
.
.
.
Now for the snacks.
The other table was spread with seasoned chicken.
“I want drumsticks.”
“Me too.”
“Me too.”
“Then I’ll take wings…”
“Traitors should eat the dry meat. Or eat the necks!”
It was the first chicken and beer feast held in the Immortal Realm.
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