The Fighting Dog of a Ruined Organization

Jin Guo thought.

Although he’s called a mad dog, how should he lure out this dog bastard who fights thoroughly for the organization?

It can’t be something ambiguous.

If he’s a sensible guy, he wouldn’t leave the organization alone.

If he was just an ignorant and hot-tempered guy, he might fall for a simple provocation, but Woo Hyun-woo isn’t like that. Woo Hyun-woo rather provokes others to make them excited.

So to make Woo Hyun-woo rush out, we have no choice but to use something more precious than the organization as collateral.

There’s only one thing in the world more precious to Woo Hyun-woo than the organization.

“Hey you, you’re Fantasia’s fighting dog, right?”

─ I’m holding your mother hostage right now. If you want to save her, come immediately to where I call you.

* * *

It seems like a voice phishing call has come.

“My mother as a hostage?”

A call came saying they’ve taken my mother, who’s fighting painful memories in a mental hospital, as a hostage, but it doesn’t seem to be in their right mind.

Why, you ask? Because the hospital where my mother is admitted isn’t connected to any organization.

That hospital was where I was diagnosed with amnesia when I was young, and it’s famous for being dedicated solely to treating people.

I had experienced it myself too.

“Hey, I don’t know who you are, but don’t mess with my mom. I’ll let you off just this once.”

“Ah, no, really…”

What do you mean really, just.

There’s no need to listen anymore, so I pressed the end call button decisively. And just in case, I called the mental hospital. When I called, a nurse’s gentle voice was heard.

“Hello, this is Baek Hospital of the Organization-free Medical Association, always doing our best for patients. How may I help you?”

“Ah, yes. Could I check if Futaka-san, who’s hospitalized in the psychiatric ward, is doing fine?”

“What’s your relationship with the patient?”

“I’m her son.”

“For identity verification purposes, could you please provide your human registration number? Thank you~”

After completing the identity verification, the nurse asked me to wait for a moment. After about 3 minutes, the nurse’s voice was heard.

“Yes~ Patient Futaka is safely in her room.”

“Right? Some voice phishing criminal said they took my mom hostage.”

“Oh my~ There are still such scams? We always prioritize patients’ lives, so you don’t need to worry~”

“Thank you. That’s reassuring.”

With this, it’s confirmed to be voice phishing.

You stupid bastard, do you think I’d fall for something like this? If you’re going to deceive, you should do it with more plausible words.

While I was inwardly sneering, another call came. With the caller ID restricted.

“Aish, shit, they’re at it again.”

“Hyeonu, why are you like that?”

“Boss, is something wrong?”

“No, this voice phishing keeps messing around with my mom. She’s fine at the hospital.”

“Have you ever seen such a fucking bastard? Give it to me, I’ll fuck up that son of a bitch.”

“Ah, no… I’ll handle it myself.”

If I hand the phone to Polar Bear, it seems like it’ll end with just cursing. These voice phishing criminals don’t really care about being cursed at, so I should deal with them myself.

“What is it? Trying to make a mom joke again?”

“No, it’s not a mom joke. I really have your mother with me.”

“It’s not bank hours now, so you’re trying to guide me to an ATM to extract money, right?”

“No, I really have her, I’m telling you?”

“Your speech is awkward, it’s obviously voice phishing.”

“M-my speech is awkward? What the fuck are you talking about?”

“Oh~ Are you angry now? You’re quite good at cursing. As expected, even low-intelligence people are good at cursing.”

“Did you just call me low-intelligence? Me?”

“What, you don’t like being called low-intelligence? Should I call you an idiot instead?”

“You’ll regret this. I really have your mother.”

“My mom is doing your laundry by my side?”

“Why would our mom be washing your underwear!”

The voice phishing criminal’s voice got louder, seemingly angry.

Even a voice phishing criminal seems to have a mother.

I thought they did such things because they didn’t have a mother.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I thought you didn’t have a mother.”

“Our mom is in a nursing home right now!”

“A nursing home? What an unfilial son! You put her in a nursing home because it’s hard to take care of her yourself? I knew you were a degenerate from the moment you started talking about other people’s mothers!”

“Aoh! I really have your mother, you bastard!”

“Really? Then do you know which hospital my mom is in?”

“You think I don’t know? She’s hospitalized at Baek Hospital with a mental illness, fuck!”

Ha, this bastard seems to have investigated everything before calling.

Then it’s really annoying, you know?

You’re trying to play around with my mom who’s very sick mentally?

“Oh my, someone who investigated so much didn’t know I have no money? Even if you try voice phishing on someone with no money, what can you gain? Hey, hey, your mom just took my underwear.”

“Money! You bastard! I don’t need money, fuck! Let’s just see your face once, you bastard! Fuck, why do you keep messing around with our mom!”

Who’s the one who started messing around first, turning the tables like this.

“Alright, let’s meet somewhere, you bastard. Tell me the address.”

A story about meeting up with a voice phishing criminal will be drinking party material for life.

“I guess I have to show you I’m serious… Come into the Phone Cash abandoned building.”

Phone Cash?

The moment I heard the name Phone Cash, all the questions I had were resolved.

The Red-eyed Mad Dog cards that were dropped wherever I went, that alias became known during the Phone Cash massacre incident.

Then isn’t it obvious who left the Red-eyed Mad Dog cards? 100% remnants of Phone Cash. This voice phishing criminal probably is too.

The reason they’re doing this now seems to be a plan to lure me out and take the organization members hostage.

What should I do? I’m not alone anymore, you know?

“Polar Bear, can you win even if someone comes at you with a gun?”

“It depends on who’s coming at me.”

“Not the Three Major Organizations.”

“I don’t know because I’ve never fought them. When I went to provide protection services, there were never any opponents with guns…”

Then I have no choice but to tell you.

“Polar Bear, you probably haven’t killed anyone until now, but now you need to change your thinking. To protect the young miss boss, you need to be prepared to kill. Understand? Especially to win against guys with guns, you need to kill boldly.”

─ Because they’re guys who even use guns to kill people, if you leave them alive, they’ll surely come for revenge.

At my words, Polar Bear fell into thought for a moment.

Soon, as if he had made up his mind, he opened his eyes determinedly.

“Leave it to me. If anyone looks obviously like an enemy, I’ll fucking kill them like a knife. I don’t want to see my family die anymore.”

It was a bitter statement, but reassuring.

Reassuring, but I felt sorry.

Swallowing that sorry feeling, I forced myself to speak cheerfully.

“Okay, then I’ll trust you and go? The voice phishing criminal keeps asking to meet up.”

Polar Bear also shook off the heavy atmosphere and responded to that cheerfulness.

“Just fucking beat them up thoroughly, boss! No matter what happens, I’ll fucking protect this place for sure!”

Yeah, you can protect it.
Looking at the structure of this house, it’s not disadvantageous for fighting.

Even if there are multiple enemies, there’s only one door, and the windows are so small that people can’t sneak in. It means only 1:1 fights can happen.

If Polar Bear gets hurt, Eris can heal him too. How good is that? It’s the safest situation possible.

“You’re reliable! Then I’ll be going.”

“Wait a moment!”

As I was putting on my shoes to leave, Eris suddenly called out to stop me. Wondering what it was, I turned around and she showed me the candy stick she had finished eating.

“Bring candy when you come back!”

You still haven’t thrown that away?

It’s been over 3 hours since I gave it to you?

How much must she have wanted candy to be like this.

“Alright, I’ll buy hundreds of candies or something.”

If I buy from a supermarket, it won’t cost much.

At this hour only convenience stores will be open, but convenience stores will be cheaper than that candy-selling girl too.

“Yay! Hyeonu’s going to buy candy!”

“Mr. Hyun-woo, if you’re going to stop by a convenience store anyway, please buy some triangle kimbap too. We don’t have anything to eat for breakfast tomorrow.”

“No, I’m going to meet up for a fight first.”

You’re treating it like I’m going for a walk when I’m going to fight.

“That’s right! People who do things like voice phishing are surely just small fry! It means Mr. Hyun-woo can easily win if he just puts his mind to it!”

“In that sense, are you asking me to buy something for you too?”

“No! It just means I want to eat triangle kimbap that much! The nutrition itself would probably be better with regular kimbap!”

“Kimbap, huh, that would be good. I’ll buy kimbap from a 24-hour kimbap place.”

“Does that mean you want to roll me up in a blanket like kimbap and eat me?! A-a great discovery…!”

Crazy woman, she definitely talked about kimbap for this reason.

Lightly ignoring Yu Jin-ri’s nonsense, I went outside. I walked leisurely under the neon sign lights on the street.

Last time when I was like this, Mohanya appeared, but I wonder if it won’t happen this time?

“Meow meow~”

“What the fuck?”

They say even a tiger comes when you talk about it, did it really come? Are you pretending to be a cat or something?

“But it’s not here?”

I looked around in surprise, but Mohanya wasn’t there. Even the drunk people walking on the street were just staggering around normally.

Then what was that sound I just heard?

As I was looking around in confusion, inside a bar with its door open, an animation of Heroic Mohanya was playing.

To be startled because of the meowing in the animation, is this perhaps foreshadowing? It’s too scary.

Still, it’s fortunate that Mohanya didn’t appear. The opponent I’m meeting this time seems to be really small fry among small fry.

I entered the Phone Cash building walking leisurely, and it was dark. Isn’t this voice phishing bastard afraid of the dark? Even if it’s an abandoned building, he should have turned on some lights.

As I was thinking that, the lights came on. The bastard, wanting to look cool in his own way, was by the switch. It’s really funny how he’s gritting his teeth pretending not to be angry.

Is there a title above his head? There isn’t.

If he doesn’t even have a title, he’s really a fucking idiot. What the hell did he rely on to act tough?

As I was wondering incomprehensibly, I saw the snake-shaped badge pinned on his chest.

Carpe Diem.

The moment I saw the Carpe Diem badge, I felt like my body froze.

No way, no way it wasn’t just remnants of Phone Cash.

Was it Carpe Diem pretending to be remnants of Phone Cash?

Then what’s real and what’s fake?

Is it also fake that my mom is safe at Baek Hospital?

If it’s Carpe Diem, they’re the type who could really take hostages─

All sorts of thoughts come and go, and my mouth goes dry. Seeing me like this, the guy laughed.

“Oh? It seems you’re surprised to see my badge. That’s right, it was thanks to us that your mother got a mental illness too.”

My stomach churns.

I left it to Polar Bear thinking they were remnants of Phone Cash, but if it’s like this, all the organization members might be in danger.

But calm down.

We haven’t done anything wrong to Carpe Diem.

It means there’s no justification.

To put it bluntly, Chun-sik said he killed his mother because the ramen she made was bad. You need at least an excuse like that to kill in this world.

So let’s probe.

“Why are you doing this to us…?”

“Why? Because you messed with our Carpe Diem first.”

“What?”

I felt a surge of anger.

When did I ever mess with Carpe Diem first? Carpe Diem was the one who smashed the PC room first, and Carpe Diem was the one who shined a scope laser at me when I came to buy a tie.

We were the ones who were provoked. If anything, we have a reasonable justification to attack Carpe Diem.

“When did I ever mess with you first?”

“Phone Cash, and Seung-chang.”

“Huh?”

Why are those bastards’ names coming up?

“They were my subordinate moneylenders that you killed.”

“Moneylenders?”

“That’s right!”

The guy said, smiling confidently.

“I am Jin Guo Psycho, the president of the moneylending company Money Monster. All my subordinate moneylenders lent money to Fantasia, so I thought I needed to eliminate you and made a plan.”

“Psycho…”

As far as I know, the bastards who use the surname Psycho in Carpe Diem are the lowest of the low.

They’re bastards who go around calling themselves Carpe Diem even though Carpe Diem doesn’t even acknowledge them.

“Ah, fuck, you scared me, you bastard.”

“Uh, what?”

When my attitude suddenly changed, Jin Guo or Jin Nara or whatever made a confused sound, his head bobbing up and down.

“You said Psycho with your own mouth, you bastard. You’re fucking weak, aren’t you?”

“Ah.”

It seems this bastard thought I wouldn’t know the meaning of Psycho. Or maybe he just said his full name unthinkingly.

Either way, he’s definitely an idiot.

“Yeah, I’m weak. So what? Now I just need to deal with you guys, clear the debt, and then get promoted.”

He’s gritting his teeth pretending not to be surprised.

It’s practically the same as having all his cards exposed.

“Debt? You said it well. All those bastards were your underlings, right? I’m going to fuck you up and take all the money, you bastard.”

“Do you think you can fuck me up? By now, my subordinates should have taken all your organization members hostage?”

“Your subordinates took our organization members hostage… When did you last collect information about our organization?”

“Yesterday.”

“Yesterday, huh, then this should be interesting.”

“What’s interesting? Are you so happy that your organization members are taken hostage?”

As Jin Guo asked in confusion, I shrugged my shoulders leisurely.

“No, just.”

─ Polar Bear will tear people apart.