With moderate speed Aiden ran his car through the quiet streets of Seoul. After cruising about thirty minutes from his secluded house, he finally arrived in downtown Seoul to meet president Moon. He had to immediately ask the man's next plan after he managed to save Calistha from the masked people who broke into her house last night. But if he think about it, last night was a pretty gruesome assault. Before accepting this mission he never thought that he would infiltrate the middle of a war that was going on at Jacob's house. Moreover, last night he really did not use any weapons. He was only limited to watching Calistha from a distance, and after seeing Calistha began to tremble with fear, he immediately dragged the woman out of her chaotic house after he managed to sedate Calistha with his concoction drugs. It was a great first experience. His adrenaline pumped fast to carry out the next task from President Moon.
Arriving at President Moon's private house, Aiden immediately took out his identification card to show the two doormen. It seemed really troublesome because he had to deal with two chatty people who seemed to have been suspicious of him ever since.
“I am the current captain of the presidential guard force.”
"Is that true? Has president Moon fired Kang JinHyung?”
Aiden didn't want to be in front of the security post any longer. As soon as the black door opened, Aiden stomped on the gas pedal hard enough to produce a thin smoke that managed to make the two guards cough. Seeing that, Aiden smiled with satisfaction from his rearview mirror and immediately took his car to the parking lot that had been provided.
"You have been awaited by Mr. Moon in his study."
Aiden nodded slightly at the middle-aged man, and immediately followed his broad steps that would lead him to President Moon's room.
“Hello Aiden, how are you feeling right now?”
“You seem to have guessed that I would come soon after what happened yesterday. Was that one of your plans? Killing Jacob and his men?” guessed Aiden with a grin on his face. President Moon seemed to smile calmly in front of him while shaking his head slowly.
"No. You're wrong if you think it's me. I don't want his death at all because Jacob is one of my business colleagues. Family business, you must know that I'm not just president. But before this Jacob told me that one day there will definitely be people who mess in his house. So I deliberately hired you to protect his daughter. Is his daughter safe with you?”
"Yes, she is safe. Without the slightest injury or defect. Since she woke up from her stupor she kept crying while calling her father's name. Has Jacob really never told his daughter about his black life?”
President Moon shook his head slowly in response. He then signaled Aiden to sit on one of the cream colored sofas in his room because he was going to tell Aiden a short story.
“Even though he is a mafia, he loves his daughter very much. He didn't want his daughter to know about his black life and all the cruel things that happened in that world. For years he hid it from Calistha and he tried to set up his legal business so that one day he can live a normal life with his daughter in peace. But you know if the black world is cruel, it won't let anyone out of there that easily.”
Seeing Aiden listening intently to his story, he then continued, “That's what Jacob's been going through lately. When he wanted to leave the black world, many people opposed him. Moreover, he holds many dirty secrets belonging to important people. If Jacob came out, then they would all be in danger.
"Two months ago he started receiving terrible terrors from his rivals or from people who wanted to bring him down, I don't know either. Many things happened to him until he had serious injuries to his legs due to a car accident that occurred beyond reason. But he never told his daughter. He deliberately kept Calistha away from Seoul so that his daughter could live in peace abroad.
“But in the end he gave up and chose to bring Calistha here. He wanted to tell his daughter all the secrets he had been keeping. But from what you've said, it looks like Jacob hasn't managed to do that yet. It was likely that there were insiders working for Jacob's enemies, so he took action before all the secrets were exposed. Will you be able to protect his daughter properly and search for the precious treasure that Jacob left for his daughter? Here, everything you need is right here.”
Suddenly President Moon gave Aiden a black box full of strange engravings. With a furrowed brow the man stroked the rough surface of the black box while swaying the black box for a moment before finally giving it to Aiden.
"Give this to Calistha, Jacob told me to give this to Calistha after he died."
"What's in it?" asked Aiden curiously. He doesn't want to take dangerous risks with things that President Moon ordered without clarity like yesterday.
"I don’t know. Jacob didn't tell me. But if he were to prepare this box for his daughter, there must be something valuable in it. If you want to know, then you should give it to his daughter immediately.” President Moon replied calmly.
Aiden frowned in surprise at the black box, but in the end he took the box with him, staring intently at President Moon's face.
"What should I do after this?"
“Look for treasures that have been the target of greedy people out there. Moments ago his lawyer had just been killed by people who were suspected to be the same attacker that happened at Jacob's house, but they did not get anything from the lawyer. Currently the mastermind behind the attack is looking for his daughter to find the assets that have been owned by Jacob so far."
"What about the house?" asked Aiden as he fiddled with the black box in his hand. He twirled it once with his hand while guessing the contents of the mysterious black box in his hand.
“There's nothing in there, just a little money and useless items that have been damaged by last night's raid. You should immediately give the box to Calistha and look for all of Jacob's possessions that were bequeathed to Calistha. That woman is the key to all of Seulong's inheritance, so you really have to protect her so she doesn't become the target of people who want her father's treasure.”
"Hmm, I know. I will finish this mission as soon as possible.”
After that Aiden immediately left without paying attention to President Moon who was staring at him full of cunning. Don't know what the man was hiding, but the look in his eyes slowly began to show a hint of cunning that was so thick with various plans that began to be arranged neatly in his head.
“Luca… you need to get everything ready, he's starting to move, and there's likely to be a lot of gravel blocking our path.”
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Aiden entered his quiet home and immediately placed the black box President Moon gave him on the table. Two hours ago he had left the woman alone in his house with all the doors he had locked so she wouldn't run away to see her father. So if she wasn't desperate, she would still be in her room right now.
Brughh
Suddenly Aiden heard the sound of something falling from behind his house. With a swift movement, Aiden immediately ran to his backyard to check what was going on. His guess was that the woman was probably trying to escape by jumping from the window of her room on the second floor.
"Calistha!"
"Aaakkhh..." Calistha screamed in panic and immediately ran aimlessly to avoid Aiden. She had barely managed to get down from the window of Aiden's room which was very high on the second floor. But unfortunately Aiden actually caught her fast escape, so now she had to run away from the crazy man to quickly escape from this strange house.
"Stop! I said stop Calistha!”
“No, I want to see my father. You're a crazy psychopath, I know who you are."
"Then you should be afraid of me because I won't hesitate to hurt you," threatened Aiden furiously. He started to pull something out of his pocket and growled a little annoyed that he really had no other choice but to do this.
Srett
"Ahh...." Calistha suddenly fell to the ground holding her warm calves. Blood suddenly seeped from her leg, causing Calistha to wince in pain as she tried to pull out the small knife that had just stuck in her leg.
"I told you to stop Calistha, are you deliberately challenging me?"
"You crazy insane man, I want to get out of here!" shouted Calistha in frustration as she squeezed the wound that was bleeding down her leg. It felt like having survived the attack that took place at her house would be useless if she actually met a mentally ill man like Aiden who had a large collection of weapons in his closet. If she hadn't taken the initiative to look for a blanket in Aiden's closet, she wouldn't have known that the man had all kinds of weapons hidden behind his brown wooden cupboard.
“I am a mentally ill man because I am a sniper. If I was a normal guy, I wouldn't be able to become a sniper. Now wake up."
Roughly Aiden immediately grabbed Calistha's hand and dragged Calistha's limping steps towards his house. If he hadn't been paid to protect Calistha, he might have killed her right now, just like Hannah had died on the battlefield.
“What are you going to do to me? Why did you lock me here?”
"Sit down, you'll find out later."
“I wouldn't know if you never told me anything. You didn't even tell me your name either," said Calistha slowly at the end of her words.
All of her strength seemed to have been drained to hold back the pain that spread in her legs until now it had spread throughout her body. The man was truly indiscriminate in treating her victims. Once she fights him, then Aiden will not hesitate to use his cruelty to tame her. Even though Calistha was the one he was supposed to protect, he didn’t care.
"Bite this." Suddenly Aiden stuffed a cloth towards Calistha’s mouth which made the woman whimper, trying to get the cloth out of her mouth. But in the end, Calistha was forced to bite the white cloth because Aiden continued to force her and made her almost choke for continuing to fight.
"Bite and don't spat it out."
“Aaammppffff....”
Aiden roughly pulled his small knife from Calistha's calf, and immediately flushed the wound with a bottle of alcohol. Calistha who saw that was only able to bite the white cloth tightly while closing her eyes which were starting to water.
"Hold this, I'll stitch up your wound."
“Ammpff… you're not a doctor!” shouted Calistha as Aiden started taking his medical kit from the first aid kit. But the man didn't seem to care and still brought his sewing equipment in front of Calistha.
“You will bleed out if you wait for me to take you to the doctor. It's going to hurt since I'm not taking the anesthetic, so bite the cloth again."
Aiden again stuffed the white cloth into Calistha's mouth and began to prepare his special needle for sewing human skin. His experience as a sniper forced him to be able to sew up his own wounds, whatever the conditions. When on the battlefield, of course, he could not rely on doctors, or medical volunteers to help him because there were too many soldiers who needed help. Inevitably he must be able to stitch up his own wound with tools that can be found around him. In fact, he once stitched up his wound using a needle without sterilizing it with alcohol, and only burned the needle as it was because of his position in the middle of the forest, without any tools that he could use to treat the wound. Fortunately, until this moment he is still fine with all the limitations that have surrounded him.
Takk
The sound of scissors being placed roughly on the table became a sign for Calistha that her ordeal was over. At least Aiden had completed a series of processes of piercing her skin using a tiny twelve millimeter needle that felt truly hell to her. She had never before resorted to a treatment so careless, risky, and so unsterile as this. Even when she suffered abrasions from falling from her bicycle, she received very sterile treatment from her personal doctor. So if after this she experiences bad things because of being contaminated with bacteria, that damn man must be held responsible.
"It’s hurt!" said Calistha emphatically while looking at the terrible sight at her feet. The blood splatter, the rest of the alcohol spilled on the floor, and the shape of her calves that are not beautiful because of the stitches done by Aiden made Calistha suddenly become horror. She was afraid that after this she would not be able to walk smoothly because of the wounds lodged in her legs.
"You'll be fine in two to three days."
"I am not sure. So what's your name?"
"Aiden," replied the man briefly while tidying up his scattered medical equipment. After that he left Calistha alone in the living room by first locking the main door in his house so that Calistha would not try to run away from him again.
"Aiden..."
Aiden paused for a moment while waiting for Calistha to continue her words. He knew it wasn't for nothing that she called him. There must be an important matter that she wanted to tell him.
"Thank you."
Aiden just responded with a straight face as he walked away leaving Calistha without a word. The woman was probably too early to thank him when she didn't know what her fate would be after this. In the future, it is possible that Calistha will turn to hate him and give harsh swear words.
Krieett The sound of the door opening slowly made Calistha's thoughts suddenly break. The woman then looked up while giving Aiden a faint smile. "You haven't eaten since a while ago." Aiden glanced annoyed that the box of pizza he had provided for Calistha was still intact beside the woman. Even though he had been kind enough to give her proper food, Calistha was too proud to accept what other people gave her. "I’m not hungry. I want to see my father. Has my father been buried?” "He has. Follow me." With a head motion, Aiden asked Calistha to come down to the living room. He wants to talk about the mysterious box that President Moon gave him. "What is it?" "You know that box?" Calistha shook her head slightly while looking closely at the box. This was the first time she had seen a box with such intense engraving and color. "It's your father's, he wants you to open it." "My father? You met him?” C
“Aiden, lots of police lines, but why is it so quiet in there?” Calistha looks restless while looking at her house which looks dark from a distance. Right now they were lurking from afar to make sure the house was safe to come in. However, Aiden felt a little strange about the condition of Calistha's house, which seemed deserted, even though there should have been many policemen on guard to secure the things that were still left inside."We're moving now. Save this just in case. Remember the shooting lesson I taught you this afternoon.""Aiden, wa-wait."Calistha suddenly grabbed Aiden's shoulder as he was about to step out of his car. With a sharp glance Aiden gave a code to Calistha for the woman to immediately lower her hand from his shoulder.“What if something bad happened in there? My legs still hurt, I can't run fast."“Do whatever you can. If you fail, you will die,” replied Aiden flatly and immediately stepped
Aiden glanced at the peaceful face of Calistha who was fast asleep beside him. The woman finally closed her eyes after crying for a long time at her father's funeral. Losing someone you love so much is hard, and it's lucky he never felt that way. He had always been used to living hard on the streets. He has no family. In fact, he forgot. He don't know, actually there was a part of his life that was missing, but he couldn't remember when and how exactly. What he remembers is his life after being found unconscious on the streets, then he wanders with the bad guys on the streets who teach him to survive. It had been a long time since he had remembered his own life like this. The piled up work and missions make him always forget his past memories. But his new mission this time actually gave his brain a chance to remember a small part of his past. And it was all because of the spoiled woman beside him. Today they have gone through many unexpected and stressful things, especially
Calistha continued to wring her fingers nervously while glancing at the silhouette of the mini market that had disappeared from her sight. She felt someone had been stalking her in the mini market. What's more, she saw that there was an old man who— ever since she entered the mini market, had been watching her movements through his dark glasses. But she thought it was all just part of her fear because of the various terrible events that had recently haunted her life. As much as possible at this time she tried to calm her mind that kept raging while holding the shopping bag containing their food tightly. "What's wrong with you?" Calistha opened her eyes wildly when Aiden suddenly grabbed her right hand and made the package she was holding just fall under her feet. With a wrinkled forehead, the man felt Calistha's cold skin tremble while occasionally glancing at Calistha's face, which looked still pale. "Are you cold?" Aiden pressed the heating button o
In the dimly lit room, President Moon was having a serious conversation with Luca. The man was a from London and had long worked with President Moon, then of course with Jacob. "Everything's been messed up since Jacob's death, do you have any plans, Mr President?" "Me? I don’t have any idea. All I can do now is order Aiden to protect Calistha while searching for Jacob's precious treasures. Right now we can't take over everything because even Jacob's lawyer doesn't even have any securities from all of his assets. So the only way to save all of Jacob's assets is to get his daughter to look for all of her father's inheritance on her own. Then what about all his assets in the United Kingdom? Is it safe?” "So far it's under control. But, began to occur turmoil in Scotland. The news of Jacob's death had been known by several people, so they began to devise a plan to take the treasures for their own personal gain. Are you sure Aiden can keep Calistha until all the r
Aiden narrowed his eyes for a moment as he studied what really happened in Bukchon village. It seems that Jacob is a very influential person in this village, so everyone is also saddened by his death. Even some people were seen crying while reciting prayers that he didn't know what the contents were. During his life he never prayed, because according to him there was no God. All of the lives that he had lived so far were completely under his control, so if anything bad happened to him, it would be purely because of his fault."Let's pray like them."Calistha immediately took a seat on a bench not far from where she was standing. She then immediately clasped her hands in front of her chest, then closed her eyes peacefully to join in praying for her father's spirit. As for Aiden, he was only a spectator among dozens of Bukchon residents who were fervently praying around him. Even now Calistha has also been dissolved in her prayers along with all the residents of Bukchon
Calistha never thought that the nightmare after her father's death would be this terrible. Surviving in the midst of the war that was going on between her and those she didn't know made Calistha feel that her life might not last long. Even now she could only cower in fear behind an iron door that towered over the backyard of her father's villa. While Aiden seemed to be far from her while continuing to point the muzzle of his deadly gun at their enemies who were quite a lot. This battle was clearly outnumbered, but she didn't have the slightest doubt about Aiden's ability to shoot their enemies because in fact the man had succeeded in overthrowing most of them, even though he had only faced it alone.The stiff bodies covered in blood slowly began to fall scattered around the dark villa courtyard in various gruesome forms. And when one of the corpses was suddenly thrown around Calistha's hiding place, the woman almost screamed hysterically before her trembling hands managed to
"Lucas! You came back sooner than I expected. How is your work? Your face looks wrinkled."Emily greeted her lover happily while looking at Luca's face that looked unfriendly. After three days the man was in Seoul to discuss with president Moon, now he is back with various problems piled on his shoulders. Don't know, everything that happened to Jacob's family actually got more complicated. Moreover, the rumors— he had to find the mastermind behind the rumors because he didn't believe in the treasure that Jacob was hiding in Cuba.“A lot of trouble was going on there, and Calistha was attacked by a group of people I didn't know. Jacob has too many enemies, so Calistha's safety is pretty much in jeopardy.""Didn't Calistha already have a bodyguard? A sniper?” Emily asked casually.She decided to get a glass of juice from the refrigerator to cool Luca's hot head due to Calistha and her family's complicated problems. No wonder Calistha felt
The little boy was about ten years old. He walked hand in hand with his parents with happy faces radiating from both of them. This vacation became a vacation that little Aiden would never forget because his parents who were always busy were finally able to take their time to travel for three days on a trip to Jeju Island. When he saw such an amazing sight, Aiden occasionally whined at his mother to ask for a photo. Or if he saw an ice cream truck in the vicinity of a tourist spot, he would nag at his father to buy him an ice cream. Aiden's life at the age of ten is still running very normally like the lives of children in general. Nothing strange, and Aiden himself never had any inkling if his beautiful life would soon be snatched away by the irresponsible people around him. “Today we will have business trip to Bukchon temple.” Mrs. Lee guided her son patiently up the steps one by one that would lead them to the great temple in Bukchon village. Aiden looked enthusiastic as he climb
Calistha and Aiden immediately met resistance from the presidential security forces when they insisted on entering to meet President Moon. Aiden who saw all his men who now turned to attack him became furious. He was then forced to fight them one by one with Calistha who seemed really wanted to kill anyone who bravely had made her life so devastated like this. And the firefight was unavoidable, they were both forced to use violent means to break through the presidential security forces to meet the cunning president Moon. "There are only a few of them, but after this a company of presidential guards will definitely come," said Aiden while looking at his victims which were lying helplessly on the floor with blood pooling everywhere. Calistha who saw that just raised her eyebrows briefly and didn't seem to care about all the corpses. To her the attack on her home was far more horrific than this. They even killed her innocent servants. She vowed to avenge all the deaths of innocent peop
Those fingers painstakingly treated the wounds lodged in Aiden's skin one by one while occasionally frowning deeply when she felt she was pressing the wounds too hard. Calistha looked so concerned about the wounds that Aiden had all over his body. The man's handsome face is now also covered with bluish bruises with torn wounds on the right cheekbone and left temple, all of which make Calistha feel very bad for the man. "Why are you just silent, don't you feel hurt?" asked Calistha in amazement. She even felt pain just by looking at the bruises that were lodged all over Aiden's body. Luckily today they are not late to go to Seoul, and this plane has a fairly complete first aid facility. “I'm used to getting wounds like this, you don't have to worry. After this I will treat your wounds as well.” Calistha suddenly remembered the stinging pain in her arms, calves, and cheeks. Earlier she had gotten a few blows from Emily, plus Emily's men had interfered in their problems. "What about
“Tsk, they seem to have anticipated a hack. They have put in layers of protection." Malfoy huffed in annoyance as he kept trying to find loopholes to get into the government's information system. The site had been denying the various accesses he had used, even though he had used even the most sophisticated methods. But Malfoy believes if the site can still be opened, it's just that he needs a little patience to infiltrate the website. "There must be another way to open it." “It is, but we have to be a little patient.” "How, can't you hack it too?" From the kitchen, Calistha suddenly came with three cans of beer and a plate of pastries to serve to Malfoy. After placing the tray containing their food, Calistha immediately took a seat across from the sofa that Aiden was sitting on while looking at the two men in front of her in turn. "After Malfoy manages to hack a government site, what are we going to do?" "We're flying to South Korea today at three in the morning?" "Why so sudd
“Quickly get on the ship! Come on! Don't look back, quickly leave this village!” Priest Seulwo shouted loudly at the few remaining Bukchon villagers. Most of those who boarded the ship were women and children. The men of Bukchon chose to live in the village of Bukchon which was about to be destroyed by president Moon. He had sent some heavy equipment to level the village of Bukchon and removed all the buildings standing on it. “Where are we going? What if they follow us?” “They will not follow us because they have got what they want. We will go to Seoul and find some help.” Priest Seulwo replied firmly and immediately ordered his men to run the ship, away from the village of Bukchon which had been ravaged by miserly rulers. Priest Seulwo had always believed that Jacob's death would have such a devastating impact. He saw many rebellions that occurred after Jacob's death, and his daughter was also reported missing after being hunted by more than a dozen people who wanted all of his
Emily clenched her fists tightly as she cursed over and over at today's humiliating failure. She thought Calistha was a weak woman who couldn't possibly be able to fight her. But it turns out that all this time she had been tricked by Calistha who always pretended to be weak in front of everyone. “Luca is awake.” Emily immediately turned to her men and nodded in understanding. It's okay she failed to kill Calistha today. She still has other plans to destroy the woman. And one of her plans was to use Luca as bait to pull Calistha out of her hiding place. "Honey, how are you today?" Emily smiled gently at Luca who was staring at her blankly. There was no warmth in his eyes. He looked like a weak and empty wooden puppet. "My name is Emily, don't you remember me, babe?" She asked in a soft, lilting voice. Luca then shook his head in response, and he turned his eyes back to the hospital window which was showing a view of the thousands of trees planted in the back garden. "It's okay
Calistha breathed heavily as she followed Aiden's broad steps as he walked into his house. After they managed to deliver Luciana safely to her orphanage and made sure to give the little girl a tight guard while the criminals who kidnapped her were still out there, Aiden hadn't made the slightest sound in front of her. Even when Malfoy was talking to him, Aiden just responded coldly without giving any comment to every word Malfoy said when they talked about Luciana's safety. Calistha felt a little bad for making the atmosphere between them so unpleasant like this. She felt sorry for Aiden of course. She had been manipulating him all along. And unfortunately she didn't know how to act in front of him after this. But if she wanted to defend herself, she might find Aiden weird for being too much. Hadn't the man been paid to look after her? He shouldn't have gotten so angry with the truth she had been hiding for so long. She was just making sure her position was safe with Aiden. At this t
Calistha got out of Malfoy's jeep while smoothing the strands of her hair that were blowing in the wind to cover her eyes. They finally arrived at Ilderton after circling for quite a while looking for clues to Luciana's whereabouts. At first glance Calistha felt strange with Malfoy. The man said that he was just an ordinary young man who had never had anything to do with her father. But when she met Malfoy this morning, all her trust in him fell. She couldn't believe that Malfoy was just an ordinary boy because he seemed to be hiding something from her. And again, how did Malfoy find the whereabouts of Aiden's house? Even though she believes that the existence of Aiden's house is very difficult for people to find. Aiden's house has always looked like an empty, gloomy and haunted house. Malfoy couldn't have found her so quickly, unless Malfoy wasn't an ordinary boy, as he had been telling her all along. “They hid Luciana inside.” Calistha stared at Malfoy in silence and just followed
The little girl struggled and cried loudly in front of two well-built men who had been looking furious because of the little girl's loud voice. They then took a cloth and started gagging the pale lips of the little girl who had been crying all night without stopping. "You should be quiet and not hurt our ears, this is the result if you keep crying non-stop." Luciana inched backwards, but her hands and feet that were bound to the wooden chair made her movements seem useless. She wanted to go home and be back with her friends. She wanted her brave uncle to come save her. Saving her was like the fairy tales of the princesses that she had often read. The two men were like the monsters that had sometimes been present in her dreams, on the night when she suddenly missed her mother. Luciana sobbed softly behind the cloth covering her mouth. As a girl who is still very innocent, she has been faced with the cruelty of the world that has succeeded in taking her mother. Blame God who ordained