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PASSION Chapter 4 Part 5

Chapter 4 Part 5

"...What's wrong? Did you fall in the bathroom and get stuck in the toilet?"

To Tae-ui's question, Tou only glared at him with fierce eyes, not answering.

His murderous entrance made him look like someone who had been beaten up somewhere and returned breathing heavily, unable to vent his anger.

"Why are you glaring at me so scary-like. ...Did you get into it with the European branch?"

When Tae-ui probed subtly, Tou's face became ...

PASSION Chapter 4 Part 4

Chapter 4 Part 4

Feeling the cold sensation fitting snugly in his hand, Tae-ui glanced at Moller. Moller, with his back turned diagonally to him, was still deeply absorbed in his puzzle.

Personal weapons were prohibited within the branch. At most they turned a blind eye to knives or non-lethal guns. Sometimes gun enthusiasts would secretly hide guns and when caught would futilely insist they were toys, but the feel in his hand was real.

Tae-ui gripped the Be...

PASSION Chapter 4 Part 3

Chapter 4 Part 3

Plop, the cigarette fell from his mouth. Tae-ui stared blankly at Shin Lu, not even noticing the cigarette falling between his feet. He clearly saw him stumbling over his words while staring at his feet, unable to meet his eyes.

"It was winter about two years after graduating high school, ah, since I skipped grades I wasn't an adult yet then, but I went with a friend to one of those places, you know, where only men gather. And then, it was my firs...

PASSION Chapter 4 Part 2

Chapter 4 Part 2

Tae-ui smiled wryly watching Tou playfully make a slashing motion across his neck with his hand while going "Snap!" That playfulness briefly erased the dark afterimages clouding his mind.

Only a few hours remained. After half a day passed, they would see those they had only heard rumors about. Though very different from anticipation, he couldn't help his heart fluttering slightly with excitement.

"Come to think of it, they said people moving...

PASSION Chapter 4 Part 1

Chapter 4 Part 1

3. Rigrow

From morning that day, a brutal atmosphere swirled in the air.

From the moment he took his first step outside his room, that stinging air was palpably felt on his skin.

After half the branch members left for the South American branch, the branch that already had too few people for the building felt empty, but the increasingly thick brutal tension prevented any feeling of quietness.

Tae-ui was somewhat put off by the rig...

Dying Mercenary's Chapter 4

Chapter 4

"I believe there's been a misunderstanding."

Kinaine responded calmly to the insulting remark. In fact, he felt no particular emotion about it. He had heard far worse countless times before.

"If you wish, I can show you my badge."

Mercenaries were ranked according to the difficulty and success rate of their requests.

Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Special Class.

Special Class was a rank that could only be obtained by mercenaries who ha...

Wind Rises in Dragon City Chapter 74

Chapter 74: A Lonely Ghost Gazing at Home

"Escaped?!" Tang Baiqing's eyes bulged: "That's impossible! He's just an idiot, how could he escape?"

"He was beaten by other suspects in detention, and when the officers took him out for medical treatment, he escaped in the chaos, even injuring three officers," Old Yang shouted through gritted teeth. "Do you know how much trouble this will cause?! This person originally didn't have much of a case, just six or seven years'...

Wind Rises in Dragon City Chapter 73

Chapter 73: Money Moves People, and Can Also Harm People

In the Xinaluo region, inside a home in the living village.

Xu Er pressed down on the young man's head: "Know why we're looking for you?"

"Big Brother, you must have the wrong person, I...!" The young man's face turned pale as he tried to explain, his eyes filled with terror.

Xu Er looked at him coldly and replied expressionlessly: "You took eight watches in total, found someone to sell seven of ...

Wind Rises in Dragon City Chapter 72

Chapter 72: Run!

In the Police Bureau Hospital, the officer guarding Daxiong went to the stairwell and dialed a number: "Hey hey, yes, yes, we have an injured suspect from our detention center. Yeah, it fell on my head, I brought him out to see a doctor, but didn't expect the hospital to be so busy. We've been waiting all evening, and no one's attending to us. Right, could you make a call for me then. Okay okay, I'll wait by the surgery department on the second floor......

Hero's Coffin Chapter 88

Chapter 88

#Part 9. 58%

His eyes flew open.

"..."

A ceiling engraved with elaborate patterns, a canopy surrounding a huge bed, a sparkling chandelier. All these unfamiliar things existed clearly in his field of vision. He regarded all this scenery awkwardly as if seeing it for the first time, then froze at the slowly approaching sense of déjà vu.

His slack facial muscles st...

The Mist Side Story 6, In Heat - (f)

#Side Story, In Heat - 6

"Seung-jo."

"...Yeah."

"Sleep well."

"...You too."

After barely moving his stiffened tongue to respond, a moment later Kang Mu-heon's body relaxed softly with a long exhale. Only when the regular breathing sounds that followed began to slow and become stable did Jeong Seung-jo manage to release some of the tension in his body.

About an hour might have passed. Seung-jo realized that he was now the only one not sleepi...

The Mist Side Story 6, In Heat - (e)

#Side Story, In Heat - 5

At the strange intonation felt in those words, Seung-jo's expression became even more unpleasant.

"I'm not interested in men, so get lost."

It wasn't that there had never been guys who approached Seung-jo when he was alone. There were timid ones who spoke to him saying they wanted to be friends, and there were those who picked fights wanting to brawl out of the blue. And though not common, the type that appeared just when he was abou...

Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 1006

Chapter 1006

"No. What do you mean sending around letters like this? Making it widely known will only attract evil people around Her Highness."

"Since Jourin rarely goes out, that's fine. And it's not really 'widely' known."

The skull principal was already happy because of the debt erasure.

In that state, seeing his disciple jumping up and down made him feel even happier.

"Only family heads of houses of certain scale would have received the lette...

Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 1005

Chapter 1005

Uman was deeply moved by the mage who accepted immediately without a moment's hesitation.

Indeed, there was a reason his great elder sister Jourin had praised him highly.

'Truly an excellent mage. He clearly understands what the greater cause is.'

Crack!

Due to intense emotion, Uman's head tried to return to its original form, a dragon's head with jet-black scales.

"Oops. What a mistake!"

Though Uman quickly regained his ...

Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 1004

Chapter 1004

The skull principal sent a reassuring look at his disciple who was muttering while looking down at a stack of papers.

As he had thought before, perhaps this Wardanaz family mage's most genius talent wasn't his magic ability but his way with words.

This time too, please sweep away the empire's bureaucrats!

  *

Silvas, who worked as an examiner in the imperial finance department, was startled.

When he returned ...

PASSION Chapter 3 Part 12

Chapter 3 Part 12

"But you should have drawn lots better. Ending up staying here which will become unprecedentedly turbulent. Even with 50% probability you could have drawn a lucky lot."

"The lucky lots must have all been drawn by people like Brother Jae-ui."

"Could there be another person in the world like Jae-ui? That guy alone is enough to make the world unfair."

Tae-ui laughed at his uncle's muttering.

"Looking at it, this training doesn't se...

PASSION Chapter 3 Part 11

Chapter 3 Part 11

***

It was a Friday night of mixed joy and sorrow.

Friday evening, after regular hours ended, they drew lots as planned. To determine who would stay at the Asian branch here and who would go to other branches. As already known, those coming to the Asian branch for this joint training were people from the European branch, while those going from here would go to the South American branch.

Though Tae-ui had thought he didn't care either ...

PASSION Chapter 3 Part 10

Chapter 3 Part 10

Separate from their differing opinions, this kind of smoothly flowing conversation wasn't bad. Talking with this man was enjoyable in that sense.

Suddenly Ilay burst out laughing for some reason. His not-too-loud laughter continued briefly.

'Every time I talk with you, I think about how you really are different from Jung Jae-ui in many ways.'

"Well, I'm a different person. Have you been looking for traces of my brother in me while tal...

PASSION Chapter 3 Part 9

Chapter 3 Part 9

Suddenly the large mirror beside the desk caught his eye. His eyes met his own reflection staring back at him. His face was bright red. From his earlobes to his neckline was red. Seeing himself like that made Tae-ui even more embarrassed, and he rubbed his cheeks with hands cooled by the cold can. He had hoped his cheeks would cool, but his hands warmed up before that could happen.

Tae-ui stood there blankly holding the can before slumping down in...

PASSION Chapter 3 Part 8

Chapter 3 Part 8

Tae-ui tried to smile calmly as he spoke. Shin Lu said "Yes" and stood up to go to the side room again.

As soon as Shin Lu disappeared from view, Tae-ui silently but frantically beat his chest and thighs.

What are you doing? Want to show an ugly side in this situation when you've barely known each other a few days? Get it together, Jung Tae-ui! He's still just a kid, look at those cheeks with baby fat and the down on his ears. How can you ha...

PASSION Chapter 3 Part 7

Chapter 3 Part 7

The library on basement level 5 was always quiet. Perhaps because of that, sometimes people could be seen sleeping in corners between bookshelves with books covering their faces.

Since someone was already sprawled out occupying his usual corner spot between the bookshelves where he always sat to read, Tae-ui went to crouch in the space across from it. Though there was a spacious 6-person table available, if he sat there to read books someone he kn...

PASSION Chapter 3 Part 6

Chapter 3 Part 6

"It's not easy to lose your life to such basic mistakes."

As Tou started rolling up his sleeves at the openly grinning Tae-ui, the atmosphere suddenly chilled. Confused by the sudden silence, Tou turned his gaze, and Tae-ui also looked forward.

An edited clip was playing on screen. Though edited, it was footage with just the unnecessary parts before and after cut out, with the key parts fully preserved.

There was a man in it.

His...

PASSION Chapter 3 Part 5

Chapter 3 Part 5

'How scary. So, are you going to cut ties with your precious brother?'

"How would I know? He's the one who cut ties and left first."

'Oh?'

The man's voice changed to one of interest. Tae-ui wanted to see his face once. He was surely looking at the monitor with a slow, subtle smile.

'I didn't know you were such poor brothers. I thought you got along quite well. Why, did you fight? I wouldn't have thought Jung Jae-ui would be the t...

PASSION Chapter 3 Part 4

Chapter 3 Part 4

Tae-ui shifted his gaze, pulling the book slightly away from his face. Though his reflection wasn't visible from this position, there was a large mirror hanging beside the desk.

Tae-ui got up again and went over to press his face close to the mirror. A man with a calm face stared back at him in the mirror. Though not even halfway through life, he somehow looked a bit tired.

He traced his face on the mirror. The cold winter surface touched hi...

PASSION Chapter 3 Part 3

Chapter 3 Part 3

While wiggling his fingers and debating whether to touch the crown of his head, Tae-ui quickly lowered his hand and gave up as Shin Lu raised his head. If his uncle had seen, he would have clicked his tongue at him for being gutless.

"You worked hard again today. Not much left of the regular schedule."

When Shin Lu said that with a smile, only then did Tae-ui realize how late in the afternoon it had gotten. Looking out the window, reddish cl...

PASSION Chapter 3 Part 2

Chapter 3 Part 2

"Now it's your turn to take some hits."

Speaking calmly while rolling up his sleeves, Tae-ui began striking the man with an expressionless face. Though the man quickly got up even while being hit, he took twice as many hits during that time as he had given earlier.

When the man fully stood up, Tae-ui stopped hitting him and had to listen to him shouting with a red face while massaging his forearms and thighs.

"Hey, you ignorant dirty b...

PASSION Chapter 3 Part 1

Chapter 3 Part 1

White Hands

BAM! A sharp, violent sound rang out. Then bright red blood trickled down.

"Ack!"

Alta, clutching his nose, squeezed his eyes shut for a moment, then seeing the blood flowing down his palm, glared with irritation.

"This bastard used another dirty trick!"

"Well, if you fall for it, you're the fool..."

While Alta had probably wanted Tae-ui to meet his attack head-on and engage in a test of s...

Dying Mercenary Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Seven years ago, one day, Kinaine woke up in the body of his older brother Hasan. And he watched as Hasan pretended to be him in his stolen body.

His physical form, his achievements, even his close friends. Hasan had easily taken everything away.

However, Kinaine couldn't reveal his true identity. Because whenever he tried to speak the truth, it felt as if a cold hand was squeezing his heart. As if warning that revealing the truth would stop his he...

Wind Rises in Dragon City Chapter 71

Chapter 71: Land of Chaos

In the Police Bureau Hospital, the officer guarding Daxiong made two rounds upstairs but couldn't find any familiar doctors. The corridor outside the surgery department was full of police officers from Longkou District and arrested suspects.

"Hey, brother, what's going on today? Why are there so many people in the hospital?" the officer guarding Daxiong asked the person on duty in the police office.

"Well, with New Year approaching,...

Wind Rises in Dragon City Chapter 70

Chapter 70: Leaving Detention

On the central street of Zha'nan District, Tang Baiqing bent down to get into Xu Hu's car: "What's wrong?"

"Let me show you something," Xu Hu took out his phone, pulled up a photo, and handed it to Tang Baiqing: "Does this look familiar?"

Tang Baiqing squinted at the photo on the phone: "Isn't this...?!"

"Yes," Xu Hu interrupted with a nod: "Found outside the district."

Tang Baiqing was stunned: "So you mean?"

...