chapter 29
Chapter 29: α, β, γ, δ.
“…Haa.”
A man is walking down the street.
There was some hesitation in the man’s gait, but there was a lot of energy in it.
Dubuck. Tboob.
At the end of the footsteps with strong legs, there was a loud footstep sound.
“..Ah.”
A man walking down the street suddenly straightened his tie as if he was uncomfortable.
The man, dressed in a neat suit that felt awkward, frowned and adjusted his suit.
The man was sweating because of the extremely humid June weather, but he did not take off his suit.
It was a night when the sun was sinking and the moon was rising, but the hot and heavy air did not disappear.
“..Really hot.”
The man grumbled but did not stop his feet until he arrived in front of a butcher shop.
The appearance of the butcher shop, which did not close its doors even though it was nighttime and emitted a red light from the inside, made me feel chilly even though it was a hot night.
But despite the butcher’s ominous exterior, the man continued his steps and reached the door.
Kikii Profit.
The man opened the door, and his whole body was stained red.
“Ah! Come on, fifty…!”
Hearing the sound of the door opening, the man stared silently at a woman who came running with her smiling face on.
“This is Alpha. Come in. The other executives are already waiting.”
“..I got it.”
As soon as Alpha’s face was confirmed, the woman hardened her expression and guided the man inside.
“The entry method seems to have changed since the last incident.”
As Alpha looked around as she walked, she spat out a passing word.
“Of course. The sudden invasion of Soldier Girl was so unexpected that I wasn’t prepared for it. If the boss hadn’t laid hands on the guests upstairs, it would have been huge. A change in procedure is inevitable.”
‘..Well. The last incident was really dangerous.’
Alpha began to think to herself.
‘The ‘White Detective’ was so interested that he came to the scene of the incident.
Around the time when Alpha thought about this and that and now unconsciously started moving her steps.
“I have arrived.”
The woman finally stopped in front of a red-painted door.
The woman looked at her door for a moment, muttered something of her own, and put her thumb nail to her index finger.
And then.
Push shot.
Just like that, I gave her fingernails the strength to dig into her flesh.
Blood trickled down her fingernails, which had dug into her flesh.
“..Blooming life.”
The woman muttered something in her and raised her hand with her blood streaming down.
Blood is the source of life.
If a person loses blood, he cannot sustain life.
The woman’s bloody hand drew a red circle over the door.
“Life goes everywhere.”
The blood on the door started getting redder and redder.
“I am blood.”
The woman’s hand, this time drawing a red circle, drew a line down her length.
A traveler heading anywhere for blood.
The veins that contain such blood connect all parts of the body.
“I connect the road to the most important place.”
Clap.
The door unlocked and made a loud noise.
“Let’s go in.”
The woman roughly wiped her blood-drenched hand on her clothes and twisted her doorknob open.
Kikiiik.
The door is open.
“..It’s always amazing to see. That ability.”
Alpha looked through her door with a slight admiration inwardly.
Beyond the door was the interior of a mansion too large to be in a butcher’s shop.
Vein.
An English word meaning vein, and a word that refers to her ability.
Venus is the blood vessel leading to the heart, the most important part of the human body.
Her ability was the ability to create a door to the most important place using blood as a medium.
‘..A really good ability to implement a new procedure. That’s why I was assigned to this role.’
As Alpha entered the door, she took something from her arms and threw it at the woman.
“…?”
The woman who caught something thrown by the man looked at her alpha with a puzzled expression.
“It’s a drug that accelerates recovery. It’s also a kind of drug, so use it in moderation.”
Bang.
Alpha quickly slammed the door shut, twiddling her cheekily at the back of her neck.
“Oll. As expected, Alpha. Do you take good care of the children below?”
Alpha turned her head to where she heard her voice.
Where her alpha looked, there was a woman in a red dress waving her hand gently at her alpha with her arms crossed.
“..Beta. You were here first.”
“Well, I keep my appointments on time.”
As Beta, wearing a red one-piece dress, approached, waving her loose one-piece, Alpha frowned and said in a low voice.
“Don’t hypnotize Beta. We’ll meet the boss soon and have a lot to tell you, so come back in your suit.”
“..It’s not fun, really.”
Seeing Alpha’s frown on her face, Beta sighed and stepped back.
Then, Alpha’s figure was momentarily blurred, and after a while, Beta’s appearance was changed to a neat black suit.
“By the way. Beta said you were the first to experience unfair trading with the drug family.”
“Uh. Those bastards. Ah.. She was my taste in her..”
As Beta muttered while biting her nails, Alpha, who looked at Beta in a pitiful way, spoke softly.
“Don’t kidnap people for that purpose. Do you know how much medicine was used to remove memory last time?”
“Ah. I know. I know. It’s not a sin to be in love!”
“You are guilty. You damned lesbian rapist.”
“Fact van you f*cking bastard.”
Beta raised her middle finger to Alpha, then looked around and asked.
“But what about gamma and delta?”
“..Gamma has been shutting herself away since she negotiated with the drug family, and is on her way to get a call from me. I don’t know about Delta. She’s a very active kid..”
“Ehh…”
“Ha…”
When the name Delta came up, Alpha and Beta sighed at the same time and stood there silently for a while.
“I’m here.”
The door Alpha came in opened roughly and a man entered.
He covered his eyes with black sunglasses, but even the sunglasses couldn’t cover the deep anger on his face.
“…Welcome, Gamma.”
“Yes.”
Beta greeted the stranger, but Gamma responded coldly and leaned against the wall next to Alpha.
A cold and awkward silence flows.
‘..Did you say that? The guy who died. I remember he was pretty close with Gamma.’
Alpha thought for a moment about comforting Gamma, but she thought that it might backfire, and she soon gave up trying to comfort her.
‘..How awkward. sh*t. When is the Delta guy coming?’
Alpha and Beta. Everyone was eagerly waiting for one person.
Such an awkward time is passing by.
It’s time for Alpha and Beta to get used to this silence.
Knocked up.
The door opened again.
“Me!”
You have to take good care of it. A girl about the age of a high school student proudly entered and shouted.
“Introducing!”
The girl who had just entered shouted, but no one responded to Alpha, Beta, or Gamma.
“…What is it? Why is it such an awkward atmosphere?”
Bang.
In contrast to when they came in, the child who quietly approached closed the door and saw them, and Alpha burst into laughter without realizing it.
Beta smiled and waved her hand.
Even Gamma had a tiny smile on her face.
“Yes. Long time no see, Delta. Let’s get ready. We have to meet the boss.”
Beta smiled as she spoke. Delta started laughing again and nodded her head vigorously.
*******
“…That’s right. No matter how many times I’ve done it, I can’t get used to this job.”
Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta are all standing at the door.
“I’m nervous because it’s my first time.. I’m also excited. It’s my first time meeting a boss..”
Delta stood still and said, shaking her legs. Gamma turned and straightened Delta’s necktie.
“Yes. So if you want to keep that fluttering excitement to the end, wear a straight tie. And what did I say earlier?”
“..Never interrupt the boss.”
“Yes.”
Gamma tossed Delta’s hair with a slight smile and turned toward the door.
“And you can’t shake your legs.”
Beta looked into her hand mirror and said passingly, and Delta just stopped shaking her legs.
“..Is everyone ready?”
Alpha, who was in the lead, turned around and asked, and everyone nodded.
“..Go in.”
Alpha took a short deep breath and pushed the door open.
Ki-i-i-i-i-i-i.
The huge door opened and a huge room appeared like a door.
Jerbug. That buck that buck that buck
As soon as the door opened, Alpha immediately started walking in.
I followed him in the order of Beta, Gamma, and Delta.
Jerbug. That buck that buck that buck
Many emotions were mixed in their steps as they walked across the huge room.
Boring.
Boring.
Boredom and a bit of suppressed anger.
Excitement and anticipation.
And within these emotions was the same emotion.
Fear.
“..Boss.”
Arriving in front of a wooden desk, Alpha called the man sitting at the desk.
A man in his early thirties, who appeared to be a stout man, was sitting still, looking at the papers on his desk.
Alpha called her man, and then the man raised her head and looked at her alpha.
“Report. From number 1.”
The boss pushed the papers aside and spoke briefly.
Alpha was very nervous and moved his stiff vocal chords.
*******
“So! The deals with the drug family in my district were all unfair!”
It’s all over, even Delta’s report.
Alpha, Beta, and Gamma let out a sigh of relief.
‘..Originally, today is not the day to report. Why did you summon us so suddenly?’
“I’m sure there are people who are dissatisfied with calling it when it’s not the reporting day.”
When the boss spoke, the bodies of everyone present shook slightly.
“A new deal came in.”
The boss dragged a document lying next to him and threw it at Alpha.
The paper started to fall, but when Alpha reached out her hand, it flew toward Alpha at high speed, as if being dragged by something.
Tak.
Alpha caught the paper and looked at it and said.
“A deal to provide a new drug… D. An organization whose name you’ve never heard of.”
“Yeah. But we are in a situation where the dog-like drug family keeps giving us strange drugs, so we need an organization to provide new drugs. We decided to listen to the deal.”
Boss got up abruptly and sat down on the sofa in the center of the room.
Alpha and Beta quickly went behind the boss and stood with their hands behind their backs, but Gamma grabbed Delta by the neck as he was about to sit on the sofa, and was a bit late.
As soon as they lined up, the door opened and someone came in.
“May I let the guests in, boss?”
A subordinate in a black suit asked, and the boss nodded his head in silence.
“Let’s go in.”
The man in the black suit looked back and said, and someone came in.
Dubuck. Tboob. Tboob. Tboob.
The two men and women entered with a confident gait and immediately walked to the sofa in the center of the room.
Puffed up.
A woman reminiscent of black was standing still behind the man who was sitting on the sofa opposite the boss.
“..Yes. Is this the organization that came to provide medicines?”
The boss asked with a dagger and the man on the sofa nodded his head.
“That’s right. Butcher’s boss, Inferno. I’ve heard a lot.”
Boss, Inferno laughed and said with interest when his name was mentioned.
“I see. But I’ve never heard of your organization and name.”
“Well, it’s a new organization that was just created. But there are many drugs.”
After the man finished speaking, Inferno looked at the man without a word and then said.
“Can you tell me what the name of the organization and the name of the villain’s activities are? I need to know that much before making a deal.”
The man immediately responded to Inferno’s request.
“Ah. I’m late in introducing myself. I’m the boss of Entropy.”
The man continued with a grin.
“It’s called Obscue.”
Man, Obscue looked over at Alpha, Beta, and Gamma standing behind Inferno and said.
“I’m going to make you an offer that no one else can refuse.”