Ryu Jaekwan remembered clearly.
The mountain lodge where serial murders took place.
The person who, even while caught up in that horrific disaster, found the clue that could stop the killings and tried to save even the evil people who were the root cause of it all.
The owner of the Silver Heart.
-You secretly hid the people away and staged the scene to make it look like they were dead, right?
-I thought that if I did that, even the killer would panic and stop moving for a while.
And also the devotion and sacrifice he had shown at the bizarre nightmare-school called Segwang Industrial High School.
-I did obtain the name tag, but it’s not in my hands right now.
-I left it with the person who was still alive in the classroom.
Giving up a lifeline to someone else in an extreme situation was not something just anyone could do.
Those choices had been so upright that even Ryu Jaekwan, who had seen every kind of human being at the Agency, had been left speechless.
Of course, at the same time… he had also learned the thunderbolt-like truth that the ‘owner of the Silver Heart’ was not an innocent civilian.
-…Roe Deer?
A man used like a tool by an immoral, insane pharmaceutical company.
A foolish, selfish office worker, enthralled like a cultist by the absurd reward called a Wish Ticket.
That was Kim Soleum.
The fact that they had even given a temporary agent badge to a person like that was enough to make his blood run cold.
He definitely had thought that.
And yet….
-You two. Leave me behind.
“……”
Sometimes, a person’s actions told you more than the information attached to them ever could.
A man who, even with a hole through his stomach, had tried to make sure his teammate and the agent traveling with him were safe first.
‘Kim Soleum.’
That very man was now standing beyond the glass.
Having applied for the…